Tag: racism
In order to move forward, we need to look back
My junior year of high school, I played on an all-white varsity soccer team at a local inner-city school. Midway through our season, a...
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...
Letter to the editor: Blackface scandal should not overshadow campus activism
Dear Editor, I am writing about the March 8 article in the The Occidental on the photograph of students in blackface in the 1984 college...
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,...
UPDATE: Donor Barry Crosthwaite ’80, Bill Davis ’80 among five alumni...
In a photograph printed in a 1980 edition of La Encina, Occidental College’s yearbook, donor Barry Crosthwaite ’80 is pictured in front of the...
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...
Let’s stir the pot: Stop writing students up for weed
One of the appeals of California is its marijuana market. From high-end dispensaries to delivery services, there is no shortage of weed here. Marijuana use...
Showing up for black lives part III
At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, Occidental's Diversity and Equity Board (DEB), the Occidental Black Student Alliance (BSA), Oxy-AWARE, Los Compadres, Asian Pacific Americans...