Despite chilly temperatures and sporadic rain showers, the Occidental men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams took to the pool Saturday, overtaking Whittier in the final dual meet before next week's SCIAC Championships. The Tigers brought home wins on both the men’s and women’s sides, delivering 168-117 and 160-88 victories, respectively. This competition marked the last home meet in Taylor...

On Jan 16, the NCAA restored 112 wins to the record of the Penn State University football program. One hundred and eleven of those wins belonged to former coach Joe Paterno, whose wins were stripped as part of the punishment stemming from the child molestation and sexual abuse scandal surrounding Paterno's former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Paterno allegedly looked the...

It is the eve of men’s bid night at the University of Virginia (UVA), and Greek Row is unusually quiet. On most weekend nights “Rugby Road” is teeming with women dressed in brightly colored themed party attire, pouring into a wide array of noisy fraternity houses. Yet on one of UVA’s largest party nights of the year, sorority women are...

I am probably not Charlie Hebdo. I have never been sued by the Grand Mosque of Paris for depicting Muhammad with a bomb tucked underneath his turban. My writing has never included grotesque portrayals of an Islamic prophet that profit from violence. But I am a human being who needs laughter—who craves a type of comedy that envelopes irrationality in...

NO MORE, an anti-domestic violence coalition, created a chilling, 30-second commercial that aired during the 2015 Super Bowl in partnership with Grey Group, a global advertising agency. The commercial featured panning shots of a home physically upturned by domestic violence, accompanied by an audio recording of a female victim calling 9-1-1. The female victim, unable to tell the 9-1-1 respondent...

As I turned to my keyboard to start writing this letter, the clock slowly started to tick past 3 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. No, I am not an insomniac, despite what the number of hours I sleep may imply. Tonight is just another night in the never-ending roller coaster that is the news cycle, and as the saying goes,...

In a 4-3 decision Tuesday, Honor Board struck down a component in the Diversity and Equity Board Initiative (DEBI) that would raise student body fees by $10. The proposal, if passed by the student body, would authorize the creation of the Diversity and Equity Board (DEB), an independent branch of the Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) that would develop...

Pop-up dining event makes brunch a culinary adventure Instead of my regular weekend dose of Marketplace tater tots and eggs, on Nov. 23 I was treated to the culinary masterpieces of local chef Becky Reams at Bang Bang Brunch in downtown Los Angeles. This event certainly puts a spin on the traditional brunch experience. Not only is the meal held...

On Monday Nov. 10, members of the Occidental women's water polo team entered the women's aquatics locker room in the early morning to find trails of ants leading to discarded food in the sinks, bloody tape left in the showers and writing on one of the walls. In black face paint was written the words "squad, squad, gay." The nature...

Two seven-figure donations made in November to the college's athletic department have ignited a final push toward the construction of a new aquatics facility and two additional tennis courts at Occidental. Barry Crosthwaite '80 and Jennifer Townsend Crosthwaite '84 will provide $1.5 million to finance the proposed Ranier De Mandel Aquatic Center, and Ian McKinnon '89 and Sonnett McKinnon will...