Tag: Occidental College
Occidental’s architecture and the creation of an experience
“Your architectural environment affects you more than you think, or more than you assume,” professor Eric Frank, chair of the art history department said. From...
Letter to the editor: The jig is up, Oxy will always...
Through engaging advocacy around the recent resurfacing of blackface and eugenics, I have been reminded of the College’s ongoing love affair with antiblackness. Occidental...
Former college employee sues Occidental for gender discrimination, whistleblower retaliation
Samantha Bonar, former assistant director of Occidental College’s Office of Marketing & Communications, filed a lawsuit Feb. 19 against the college, Director of Communications...
Before you wake up at Occidental
Before sunrise, before the birds wake up, before people sprawl on the grass in front of the fountain or students struggle to stay awake...
Women’s golf hitting it off with a solid start
The Occidental women’s golf team is a month out from the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) championships. After playing a record-breaking fall season,...
February showers bring many flowers to campus
According to biology professor Beth Braker, "super bloom" is not a technical term at all, but that does not keep her from using the...
Should Oxy rescind an honorary degree to a racist recipient?
In his book “Applied Eugenics,” written in 1918, Paul Popenoe wrote: “No matter how much one may admire some of the Negro's individual traits,...
Donor and former trustee Jennifer Townsend Crosthwaite among three alumnae in...
Update: A second photograph, printed in a 1980 edition of La Encina, depicts donor Barry Crosthwaite ’80 and four other alumni with the caption...
Cindy Dong and Tyler Webb race ahead of the pack for...
Cindy Dong Cindy Dong (first year) qualified for the NCAA National Championship swim meet in two events during the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship...
Men’s basketball falls short of SCIAC championship
Occidental men's basketball team lost out on claiming a Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) championship and an NCAA tournament bid after losing 68–45...