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Culture
Outside Occidental: “Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure” exhibit
The bright colors of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings harmonize with the lingering melodies of Nat King Cole and Jay Z in The Grand LA’s new...
Opinions
Opinion: Corporate activism is the worst kind of activism
I recently stumbled upon something pretty enraging in the New York Times. It was a “paid post,” which is essentially an advertisement in article...
Opinions
Opinion: I’d like to thank the Academy for the new Best Picture diversity requirements. Let’s take them further.
The Oscars are finally requiring nominees for the Best Picture award to have inclusive and diverse casts and crew, but these standards don't go...
Campus News
For Chris Arguedas, interim head of the ICC, personal experience informs passion for student advocacy
Chris Arguedas assumed the title of interim head of the Intercultural Community Center (ICC) in summer 2019, transitioning from his former position as a...
Culture
Occidental’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter brings Kimberlé Crenshaw to campus as the 2019 Reunitz Lecture
The Occidental College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa brought Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Columbia University,...
Culture
“Art and Activism” hosts local artists panel and social justice organizations
Four artists of different disciplines, Deidra "Krucial" Cooper, Lynnée Denise, Kohshin Finley and Keith Wallace, spoke during Oxy's "Art and Activism" event in Bird Studio April 4. The...
Opinions
Armenian women show that feminism is more than a t-shirt
Feminism is more than raising a poster with a feminist slogan and more than a t-shirt that says “feminist." Feminism is about women breaking...
