This week has been an important and busy one for the Occidental men's golf team, as the Tigers played four 18-hole rounds in four days against top-quality opponents. The Tigers opened their week hosting and winning the Occidental Colllege Challenge this past Saturday at Oak Valley Golf Course, taking down Macalester College (MN) and Pomona-Pitzer with a team score of...

For the first time since starting InternLA/PDX, Occidental's Career Development Center (CDC) has decided that former participants may not apply for a second internship in the program within the same city. A number of InternLA alumni, myself included, were surprised and disappointed to hear this news. It cannot be denied that earning $3,900 at an undergraduate internship in ones' field...

Steven van Deventer Steven van Deventer (senior) finished strong at the NCAA Division III Championships, placing second overall in the 200-yard breaststroke and 5th in the 100-yard breaststroke. Though he claimed the national champion title for 200 breast in 2013 and 2014, van Deventer nevertheless swam an impressive 1:58.84 in this year's event. Van Deventer said he was happy with...

The women’s golf team may be small, but their membership spans the globe. The four players on the Tiger team come from around the world: Kara Alam (sophomore) is from Pakistan, Hana Mizuno (junior) is from Japan, Kristin Oberiano (junior) is from Guam, and Ella Inman (junior) is from Michigan. After playing together for two years, however, the team has...

The Occidental women’s softball team (5-17 overall, 2-10 SCIAC) played a pair of double-headers this weekend falling 11-1 and 4-3 to Pomona-Pitzer and 13-1 and 7-1 against Williams College. The Tigers played aggressive defense against the Sagehens, only to be plagued by a series of walks in the top of the second. Down 2-0 in the top of the second...

Former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland retired last week after a promising rookie season, citing his fears of long-term health problems that could be brought on by head injuries. Borland gave up a likely lucrative career in the NFL, in the process alerting the football-watching public to the biggest issue it does not want to confront. The elephant in...

The newly-formed Occidental Barbell Club is off to a strong start. On March 20, a group of students congregated outside Alumni Gymnasium—the facility in which non-varsity athletes are usually confined—in anticipation of their first lifting session in the varsity weight room. Nine members of the club descended to the basement floor of Athletics and dispersed in the spacious room filled...

Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) Senate approved a constitutional amendment March 16 to establish a vice president of sustainability position, passing the measure by a 9-0 vote with one abstention. The duties of the new position include meeting regularly with Occidental’s sustainability coordinator, initiating contact with other sustainability-oriented organizations on campus and acting as a liaison between Sustainability Fund...

The Occidental Facilities Management Department will implement plumbing, ventilation and other structural renovations to the Norris Chemistry laboratories as early as this spring, according to Chemistry Professor Michael Hill. Occidental’s Assistant Director of Energy Services Michelle Hill said that the renovations will ramp up after the school year ends and are expected to last into the 2015-16 academic year. The...

United States. Four California residents filed lawsuits Thursday against wine brands Franzia, Mogen David and Almaden at the Los Angeles Superior Court. Although U. S. law does not require wine companies to monitor the arsenic level of their products, the complaint alleged that the brands’ wines have 500 percent more arsenic than is safe for consumption. The complainants said they...