Society often stereotypes football players as inconsiderate jocks, yet a group of Occidental College football players are flouting this label through their work with Great Strides, a club on campus that serves as an after-school program for Garvanza Elementary School. Every Friday, students from the club visit with children from fourth to sixth grade every Friday to teach them healthy...

Chloe Hoeber Athletics is an important part of first-year Chloe Hoeber’s family, and though she didn’t plan on running track in college, she could not pass up an opportunity to join the Occidental tack and field team as a high jumper.“I thought, 'why not?' because I wasn’t really done with high jump yet,” Hoeber said. “I know that I can...

Josh DancuDespite his team's loss to Cal Lutheran's nationally ranked tennis team, Josh Dancu pulled off an impressive 3 set win (6-3, 4-6, 10-8) in his singles match Saturday. Dancu defeated Cal Lutheran’s top seed Moises Cardenas, who was ranked 14th in the nation among Division III tennis players at the end of last season. While the Tigers have struggled...

Adjunct professors save colleges money. The administration's incentive for opting for more adjunct professors is clear. Less clear is where these saved costs are ultimately going, and why this alternate destination proves more beneficial for students in the long run than full-time professors. According to the Occidental Human Resources Department, 46 percent of Occidental faculty were not tenured/tenure-track faculty (T3)...

In the circus camp we call college, liberal political stances are like “innie” belly buttons. Most people have them, and upon finding an “outie,” the first reaction is to poke it. Often, my entire class agrees on a view and one kid alludes to potentially disagreeing and gets clobbered with words like “hateful,” “small-minded” and “ignorant.” I don’t think we...

“Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man In America?” read a 2008 New York Times headline. Pure inquisitive headlining for the time has turned into an eerie foreshadowing of the past few weeks’ news events. The mere announcement of Stewart’s departure from "The Daily Show" sent audiences into a mass panic, parent company Viacom’s stock down $350 million and the...

The Oscars were pretty white this year. All 20 of the acting nominees—leading and supporting, male and female—were white, and "Selma" was notably snubbed from almost all major categories—even Best Director. Ava DuVernay, the film's director, would have been the first woman of color to be nominated in the category. And yes, she really, really deserved it. DuVernay's absence from...

A new Residential Education and Housing Services (REHS) policy now requires resident advisors (RAs) to perform all three evening weekend rounds of residence halls in pairs, according to a Feb. 20 email from Associate Director for Residential Education Juls White to RAs. White hopes the change will make RAs more comfortable performing this job, which involves walking through and checking...

Along York Boulevard's bustling stretch of assorted storefronts and twinkle-lit eateries, there are two doors, freshly painted in vibrant pink and blue. The doors mark the entrance to co-LAb gallery, Highland Park's latest addition to the community's burgeoning art scene and a space that is turning the gallery concept on its head. co-LAb gallery was founded in 2010 by owner...

A ceramic eagle flies over a bed of puppies, a floral vase and a miniature watering can. On the next wall, a finely sculpted cupid-like figure in a basket slides off a mountain of ceramic slime. Across the gallery, an enormous, towering wave composed of paintings envelops the room. Amidst these pieces, visitors are completely transported into the imagination of...