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Occidental community reacts to the rise in anti-Asian violence and hate
Anger. Sadness. Frustration. Fear. These are the emotions that members of the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community at Occidental have expressed in the...
Students weather winter storms in Texas
Snowfall began in Texas Feb. 15, marking the start of a winter storm that caused a statewide crisis. Texans faced harsh weather conditions without...
Bored to chef: Students cook their way through quarantine
As the world came to a halt last March, Occidental students were sent home. No longer able to rely on the Marketplace for daily meals...
Letter from my bucket list
Feb. 3, 2015, my 15-year-old self listed 17 of her wildest dreams in her black “Live, Laugh Love” journal. The first item on my...
ERNC asks City to reopen Banbury/York Hill public stairway
Locked gates close off the approximately 100-step public stairway from Banbury Place to York Hill Place in Eagle Rock. The absence of this stairway...
Runners should judge the athlete, not the shoe
The world of running is on fire. Since 2019, an unprecedented 21 world records have been broken. Eliud Kipchoge redefined the limits of human...
Juvenal Cortes, professor named in LA Times Qatari Sheikh reporting, resigned at end of...
Occidental Diplomacy & World Affairs (DWA) professor Juvenal Cortes resigned from his teaching position at the end of Fall 2020, according to Jim Tranquada,...
Opinion: We must take #FreeBritney seriously before it is too late
I remember one day my mom called me over to her desk to show me something. I approached her blue Apple Macintosh and saw...
Opinion: Lessons in accessibility from a year of online learning
If you asked me what Zoom was this time last year, I would have had no idea what you were talking about. When President...