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’
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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...
Opinions
An exotic beauty? No, simply westernized and objectified
Barbies were banned from my house when I was growing up. “It’s just a doll,” I pleaded on my seventh birthday as I clutched the...
Opinions
Palestine, Israel: defend the people without power or rights
As an American-born Israeli, I always sense questions forming in people's heads when the Arab/Israeli conflict comes up. “Why don’t you do more to...
2017 Top Articles
Bouncer culture and queerness: The problem with the door
Several weeks ago, I made my way to York Boulevard for a night of Thursday bar-hopping. As usual, the Occidental crowd started at Block...
Editorial
Burning down the house: Voting down the ballot
From B-list celebrities to professional athletes, it seems everyone with a soapbox encourages the American populous to register to vote. And yet, while we...
Opinions
The NSA knows what you did last night
To tag, or not to tag? That is the question many of us face each weekend, phones and snap stories brimming with last night’s...
2017 Top Articles
An open letter to the first Occidental student who made me feel white
I would like to extend a sincere thank you to the Occidental student who first made me feel white. Thank you for a moment you...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: On abortion
The issue of late-term abortion is one that can make even those who identify as pro-choice uncomfortable. This discomfort is understandable; the rhetoric surrounding...
Editorial
Letter from the editor: Dislike both candidates? Then vote for Hillary
There are good reasons to dislike — even hate — this year’s Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. But voting for a third party candidate,...
