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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....

‘They want to win’: Franklin High Rocket League advances to nationals

The Rocket League esports team at Benjamin Franklin High School has advanced to nationals at the Scholastic Esports Tournament. The National Esports Collegiate Conference (NECC) is one of the sponsors of the event....

Piracy Cannot be Stopped

Author: Ben Dalgetty   We are all pirates. Whether it was copying a friend's CD, recording something from TV or the radio and sharing it or downloading...

A Charitable Proposal

Author: Spenser Smith To Oxy students who have been here for more than a year this may sound familiar: a group of students has approached the...

More Than Just a Moment of Silence is Respectful

Author: Shoshone Johnson If you have friends or family who attend or are employed by Virginia Tech, this article is dedicated to you. While recognizing that...

Candy: Food for the Soul

Author: Eric Jensen, Managing Editor Your mother is a liar. She may have birthed you, fed you and wiped your teeny, tiny nose when you were...

Elizabeth Cutler (junior, Politics)

Author:  Last week's Oxy Weekly featured an article that I wrote about the current challenges facing the Women's and Gender Studies department. I urge students,...

True Beauty Lies in Oscar Stories, Not the Dresses

Author: Audrey Lamsam When I was little, I used to think that the Oscars ceremony was all about who wore the prettiest dress, who wore the...

Alex Graves (junior, Politics)

Author:  What's in the water these days? My first two years at Oxy I only saw a few fights at parties. This semester, though, it...

Mitchell J. Cde Baca

Author:  Mitchell J. Cde Baca, "Mitch," is a junior Economics major from Millbrae, California. He is currently the Editor in Chief at The Occidental Weekly. In his...