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‘She wanted more’: Olivia Haga’s soccer journey beyond Oxy

Olivia Haga ‘23 played for the Occidental women’s soccer team and has played professionally overseas since graduating. Haga said her path to the pros...

MAC department partners with Vidiots to screen ‘Nightcrawlers’

Occidental College's Media Arts & Culture (MAC) professor John Trafton and the video store and movie theater Vidiots partnered to give a screening of the...

California SB 98 requires notification of immigration enforcement presence on college campuses

Senate Bill 98 (SB 98) also known as the Sending Alerts to Families in Education (SAFE) Act, was signed into law Sept. 20. The law...

Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council votes to redraft letter opposing development of Eagle Rock Plaza Home Depot

The Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council (ERNC) voted to redraft a letter expressing opposition to building a Home Depot in the Eagle Rock Plaza, during a meeting Oct....

Jessie Durrett (sophomore, DWA)

Author:  Every Oxy student should consider applying to be a student representative for the Board of Trustees' Committees, the Deans' Advisory Board or the Campus...

Students Support Democratic Candidate in Gubernatorial Race

Author: Caroline Osborne Five weeks away from election day, Democrat Jerry Brown holds a five percent lead over Republican Meg Whitman for the position of Governor...

Gay Suicides Represent Ingrained Issues of Intolerant Society

Author: Michelle Park On Sept. 22, Tyler Clementi, a freshman from Rutgers University, jumped off Washington Bridge after his friend and roommate allegedly broadcast him having...

Classic End to Spring Theater Season

Author: Christina LeBlanc With the end of the academic year swiftly approaching, Occidental's theater department has had no time to rest. This past weekend, the Occidental...

Econ Professor Takes Students on his “Journey Through Time”

Author: Erik Parker, Torch Staff Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, Giorgio Secondi was featured on Tuesday, April 15 at a Last...

Oxy Breaks Records at Undergrad Research Conference

Author: Sommer Hamilton This year, the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) invited more students from Occidental than from Harvard, Caltech, USC, UCLA and Berkeley combined....

Whomped by Comps

Author: Henry Meier During the first three years of a typical Oxy student's career, senior comps is one of those mystical tales you hear about but...

A Seller’s Market

Author: Tyler Kearn In the chip corner in the Cooler, two prices were facing me for the green bag of Salsa Verde Doritos I desired. One...