Opinions
Opinions
Opinion: Be yourself for Halloween
The first time Halloween rolled around after I started college, I found myself without a costume. I was two months into my very first...
Opinions
Opinion: The ugly truth of Korean beauty standards
Looking back at my life growing up in Seoul, I noticed how quietly misogyny started seeping into everyday life in the form of beauty...
Opinions
Opinion: It’s okay to be ‘Deathly Afraid’
Levi Lee -
It’s the spookiest time of the year, and everyone is gearing up for the season’s festivities. Back home, I never really celebrated Halloween, but...
Opinions
Opinion: The Cornell Daily Sun demonstrates the power of student voices
This article includes discussion of sexual assault. Sept. 21 the Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University’s independent daily student newspaper, published an editorial revealing the names that became...
2017 Top Articles
Facing loss and grief in college: Let’s talk about death, baby
I remember vividly the first time I saw the rings on the inside of a tree. We took a field trip to Central Park...
Opinions
Talk about what you know, not the experiences of the working class
I cannot tell you how many classes I have sat in on, or how many conversations I have had, where the discussion centers on...
Editorial
Editorial: Campus Safety and the student body
We call upon Campus Safety to be more transparent in its actions. We also call upon students to be more vigilant and communicative with...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: ASOC President
My name is Paul Charbonneau, and aside from being the guy from whom you have trained your brain to ignore emails (check them out,...
Opinions
Grieving, panicking, we turn to history
In the aftermath of a devastating, confusing year, there is a foreboding atmosphere on Occidental's campus. Some of us are grieving Trump’s election noisily,...
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...
