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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....

Golf’s Pressure Cooker

Author: Chris Nelson Last weekend was the PGA Tour's Qualifying Tournament, better known as Q-school. In Q-school, 160 golfers play six grueling rounds and the top...

Mexico, US Soccer Rivalry Takes One Step Further

Author: Gerry Maravilla As far as sports rivalries go, it would be a stretch to find one bigger than the rivalry between the United States and...

Lineage Dance Brings Strength, Grace to Breast Cancer Survivors

Author: Teresa Eilers In recognition that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Lineage Dance Company presented their Healing Blue: Dancing for a Cure performance this...

Ben Herrington-Gilmore (junior, DWA)

Author:  The recent incidents of anti-gay bigotry on and off campus are absolutely unacceptable. Occidental is not exempt from the harrowing national trend of suicides...

President Obama Still Hasn’t Rectified Bush’s Greatest Crimes

Author: Dean DeChiaro A few weeks ago, political scientist and presidential scholar Dr. David Adler spoke to Oxy students about something many Americans don't even realize...

A Modern Mikado

Author: Richie DeMaria Alan Freeman, director of Oxy's upcoming rendition of The Mikado, doesn't expect fans of the original to embrace his contemporary interpretation."They'll hate it,"...

A Penny for Thoughts on Charity

Author: Michelle Park Carlos Slim Helu, Forbes Magazine's Richest Man since 2007, spoke at the September 2010 Sydney Conference and left those in attendance with an...

Oxy’s New EMS Program Begins Training

Author: Linni Kral "The beer is gone," clips a voice on Campus Safety officer Joe Novak's radio. It is 1 a.m. on a Saturday night and...