Val Nguyen
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Opinions
Opinion: Not everything needs a therapy buzzword
We have become fluent in the vocabulary of mental health, using the language as armor against the vulnerability that relationships require. Through "therapy speak,"...
Culture
Armenian artists and writers discuss diaspora perspectives during ‘The Politics and Poetics of Memory’
OXY ARTS hosted a conversation titled “The Politics and Poetics of Memory” April 1 co-presented by the Occidental College Armenian Students Association. According to OXY...
Campus News
Professor Warren Montag reflects on 40-year teaching career
In Fall 1987, Warren Montag arrived at Occidental College for a part-time position in the English department. He stepped into a full-time position when...
Opinions
Opinion: The letter of the law is betraying its spirit
America prides itself on the rule of law. But what happens when those in power cling to the letter of the law at the...
Opinions
Opinion: Academia’s new frontier is politicized isolation
May 9, Senator Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released a white paper documenting proposals for changes to the National Institutes...
Opinions
Opinion: There is no unconditional love
For the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “unconditional” is defined as “not conditional or limited.” For my mother, unconditional love is not the absence of conditions, but the weight...
Opinions
Opinion: AI and the shift in intellectual labor
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we perceive intellectual labor, shifting the focus from process to product, and from effort to optimization. The...
Opinions
Opinion: WEIRD is a weird term
WEIRD is an acronym that stands for a specific demographic that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. Everywhere, and especially in academia, the...


