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First-Years Tyler Na-Nakornpanom and Kara Overnell shine as athletes of the...

Tyler Na-Nakornpanom: Newcomer Tyler Na-Nakornpanom had an electric start to his Occidental soccer career during last Thursday’s game against Bethesda University. The first-year forward contributed two goals, helping the Tigers secure a 3-0...

First-year student-athletes find a home on and off the field

A year ago, in Colorado, Chase Miller (first year) got up early every day to practice basketball before classes, and after a seven-and-a-half hour...

Campus takes unprecedented actions to power through heat wave

Southern California faced a record-breaking heat wave at the beginning of the school year, with temperatures as high as 108. With six out of 13 dorms not having...

Opinion: The Multicultural Summer Institute, the beginning of my college experience

Receiving an email that I would be traveling 2,000 miles away from home to Oxy’s Multicultural Summer Institute (MSI) seemed scary at first: I had to...

Lessons Learned: How to say ‘yes’ when you want to say...

My eye color and eye for photography are not the only things my father passed down to me. He also instilled in my growing...

A look at the first-year writing portfolio

First-year students submitted their writing portfolios March 14, in order to fulfill the first half of Occidental’s two-stage writing requirement. While the writing requirement has...

Occidental welcomes jiujitsu world champion Mario Alvarado to its first-year class

Before enrolling at Occidental on the pre-med track, Mario Alvarado (first year) competed in over 100 jiujitsu tournaments and earned the title of a world champion...

Women’s and men’s basketball teams each start their seasons with a...

The Occidental women's and men's basketball teams both prevailed in their first games of the season last week, with the women's team picking up...

Class of 2024 concludes an unconventional first year online

Citing LA county guidance, Occidental has been in a remote learning structure for the entirety of the 2020-2021 academic school year. As a result,...

New first-stage writing requirements give students new agency

This year, the Occidental College writing department and core program rolled out new first-stage writing requirements for first year and transfer students. According to...