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Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Everything changes and nothing remains still
When I was little, I had extremely strict rules and expectations for my future: be a computer engineer like my father, start a nonprofit...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Ask yourself, why not?
Every morning before middle school, my mom would say to me: “Be kind, be courageous and don’t mumble.” Much of my college experience has...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: A love letter to shared spaces
I grew up an only child, and it is safe to say that I came to college with a fear of shared spaces — communal bathrooms,...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: An obvious metaphor between the moon mission and college
There’s a scene in Samantha Harvey’s 2023 book "Orbital" in which an astronaut on the International Space Station tells his daughter that progress is beautiful....
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John and Jerry’s jinx: an autopsy of the worst owners in sports
John Fisher and the Athletics When it comes to the world of Major League Baseball, it’s common to see fan disdain heaped upon team owners...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: Against the Masking Ban
At the end of the summer, Occidental students received a routine email that should have been startling to anyone with even a cursory knowledge...
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Opinion: Do you think Trump is a madman? That’s exactly what he wants
As the world watches, the president of the United States threatens allies with military action, slams the world with tariffs and cozies up to America’s enemies. It's been...
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Opinion: MAHA is RFK’s unprecedented assault on American medicine
It’s no exaggeration to say that the second Trump administration may be the most transformative regime America has ever experienced. From gutting federal government...
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Opinion: Escape learned helplessness, find a “will to meaning”
In his 1946 book “Man’s Search for Meaning,” neurosurgeon and psychologist Victor Frankl details his experience as a Holocaust survivor. We follow Frankl through...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: War is the antithesis of community
Tell me what is a better reflection of sanity — the poise of “Strike Package” Tom Stritikus as his crowning moment was under siege,...
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Opinion: First, they came for the green card holders
Within a couple weeks of my first piece on the brazen authoritarian shift we’re witnessing in our government, the disappearance and detention of green card and...
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Lessons Learned: How to find yourself in the spaces left behind
When you first arrive at college, there’s a sense that it’s someone else’s college. It’s uncomfortable, being let into someone else’s space, the lives...
