Tag: Yearbook
La Encina continues to capture the college’s student life despite the...
La Encina, Occidental’s student-run yearbook, has not been immune to the challenges of a remote academic year, according to Liz Spiller (junior), the yearbook’s...
Archiving the “blood, sweat and tears” of the Womxn’s Rugby Team
Last spring, Hope Fowler (senior) went to Special Collections hoping to find old documents and photos to archive the history of the Occidental womxn's rugby team. She found one...
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...
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...