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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....

Women’s Volleyball Set to Bump into First Place

Author: Julie Xu After defeating the University of La Verne for the first time since 2001, women's volleyball has proven that it is the team to...

Search for Endowed DWA Chair Begins

Author: Erik Parker, Torch Staff The Diplomacy and World Affairs (DWA) department has not yet made progress on its search for a new administrative chair,...

Examining the Obsession With Video Games

Author: Brett Fujioka Video games. They seem to be the activity of choice at college aside from intercourse, smoking, and drinking. Girlfriends are constantly vexed...

Prizes, Judges a First at Fifth Annual Oxy Film Festival

Author: Ben Dalgetty Oxy's Fifth Annual Film Festival opened before a nearly full room in Johnson 200 with a crowd of students, faculty and guests Wednesday,...

Flood Damages 21,000 Library Books

Author: Anahid Yahjian Campus Safety reported that a leak from the Mary Norton Clapp Library air conditioning system flooded several tiers and damaged tens of thousands...

I Want My Arab MTV

Author: Brett Fujioka I remember scoffing at Saudi Arabia when it declared a fatwa (Islamic ruling) against Pokémon under the delusion that it was a part...

Right Where They Left Off

Author: Soo Jin Kim It should be another great season for Occidental Men's Basketball and the team is enthusiastic about their changes. "We are progressing every...

OxyEngage Explores SoCal

Author: Hillary Holmes Before Oxy students began packing or thinking about coming back to school, many first-year students were already on campus ready to participate in...