Val Nguyen

8 Articles

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,"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...