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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....
2011
Don’t think it doesn’t happen here
Author: Andrea Kippur Occidental takes pride in having students of a higher caliber then the rest of the academic world, so why don't we hold students...
2012
Confronting power, privilege, race through intergroup dialogue
Author: Damien Mendieta The psychology department's Intergroup Dialogue course on race and ethnicity offers students the rare opportunity to leave their comfort zone and hold open...
2011
Steve Jobs is a Genius, Not Generous
Author: Alex Zeldin Steve Jobs was a genius. Search Google News for Steve Jobs and that sentence will appear in some form in nearly every article....
2012
Debates to test strength of ideas
Author: Lucy Feickert It's time for President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney to end their attack ads and face issues important to American citizens. Tonight's presidential debate...
2012
Too many ‘I’s in initiative
Author: Benjamin DeLuca It is all too easy for voters to lose focus on the state ballot measures, especially when all eyes are on the presidential...
2012
Editorial: Lengthen Thanksgiving Break
Author: Occidental’s
fall academic calendar may be acceptable for students from California, but it thoroughly
fails students from the east coast or Hawaii . Next year, the...
2013
21st century high-speed Internet a necessity, not a luxury
Author: ITS sent out an email to selected students to take a survey regarding library and other technological services. Clearly they have never tried to...
2013
Trade policy reform needed to curtail Mexican immigration
Author: Emma Lodes A peasant woman in Oaxaca, Mexico bends over her colorful, intricate weaving. Dusk falls over the small, deserted cornfield, empty since her husband...
