Opinions
Opinions
Opinion: Wellness was never meant to be an achievement
I’ve started to wonder how much I actually know about my body. When I exercise, I can see my heart rate, calories burned and how...
Opinions
Opinion: Amidst recent backlash, MSI is more important than ever
I came to Occidental, thousands of miles away from my home in Virginia, completely unfamiliar with my surroundings but eager to learn. Participating in...
Opinions
Opinion: The Sparkletts plant sits vacant. Here’s what to do.
During my second week at Occidental, I had to get my medication from the CVS on York Boulevard. As I was heading home, I...
Opinions
Opinion: Write for your inner child
There is a scene in the 2010 animated Walt Disney movie “Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue” where Lizzy, a young human girl, works on...
Opinions
The necessity of having fun in a volatile world
The People of Color (POC) Spring Formal last Friday night was a necessary brief distraction from the dystopian nightmare that is our current political...
Opinions
Sinking America: neoliberalism embodied on a college campus
The ship is sinking. Say it with me. The ship is sinking.
The argument goes like this: people are stuck in the hull of a...
Editorial
Letter From the editor: Jane Drinkard
Occidental Students, Faculty and Staff, According to President Donald J. Trump, we at the Occidental Weekly — as part of “the media” — are “the...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: Rhonda Brown, CDO
Feb. 1 marked my one-year anniversary at Occidental. I’ve always found that an anniversary is a good time to be retrospective, and as I...
Editorial
Editorial: A look at journalistic ethics
In the haze following the 2016 presidential election, there has been a crackdown on fake news and a very justified air of frustration toward...
Opinions
A child labors in Santa’s sweatshop
As I struggle to light a cigarette with my shaky, frozen hands on a bench in Boston, surrounded by the cheers of my gleeful...
Opinions
10 months of recovery: my struggle with post-concussion syndrome
Early one morning last February I turned over in my sleep, and rolled off the side of my lofted bunk, my head colliding with...
Opinions
Letter from the editor: The remedy to broken trust is the benefit of the doubt
We have to stop with this “ignorant till proven woke” philosophy that is pervasive across college campuses. It’s petty, pompous and unproductive. We have...
