Samuel Stekol: If it were possible to have Samuel Stekol (senior) on a fantasy football team, his 245 yards on 13 receptions and three touchdowns against La Verne on Saturday would have tallied a whopping 42.50 fantasy points. Despite missing one of the Tigers' three games so far this season, Stekol still ranks first in the SCIAC in both receptions...

On the fourth of July, nearly 1,000 fans made their way to Kokernot Field in West Texas to see the Alpine Cowboys play. In the town of Alpine, population 5,500, a crowd of 1,000 people is sizable. That night was the highlight of the baseball season for alumni Riley Smith '14 and Scott Hong '14, who played for the Alpine...

Occidental women's cross country runner Grace Bender (senior) is one with the forces of nature. When she is not dominating the running trails—as she did at the Stanford Invitational on Sept. 27, with a lifetime best time of 24:19 in the 6k—she is promoting environmental sustainability on campus. Bender's long journey in running began in middle school, after her mom...

On Friday, Landon Donovan will suit up for the United States men's national soccer team for the 157th and final time in a friendly with Ecuador. Retiring at just 32 years old, and as arguably the best American soccer player of all time, the story of Donovan's career is inseparable from the rise of soccer in the United States. The...

The number of reported sex offenses around Occidental increased between 2011 and 2013 while drug violations fell over the same period, according to this year’s Annual Fire, Safety and Security Report (AFSSR). An unprecedented number of administrators and staff from around campus collaborated on the report, which provides an overview of both on- and off-campus crimes from the past three...

In response to the record number of students participating in Spring and Fall 2014 Greek recruitment, Occidental’s Greek Council has invited the cultural sorority Delta Sigma Theta to Occidental and will choose a new social fraternity to invite as well. According to Assistant Director of Student Life, Student Activities and Greek Life Diego Silva, the Greek Council is also considering...

Spring 2015 is the last semester that Occidental's Intergroup Dialogue Program (IDP), in which students discuss controversial social issues in peer-led classes, will be offered for credit. Psychology Professor and founder of IDP Jaclyn Rodriguez cited the decline in departmental and institutional support as reasons for the end of the program. Rodriguez's choice, though disappointing to some, is supported by...

Sophomore Ashkan Mortazavi recently created the Inter-Philanthropy Network (IPN) to unite the philanthropic efforts of student groups across campus. The group, started after the success of last year's "Date Night Done Well" event, will work in conjunction with this year's Cultural Studies Program (CSP) theme of emancipation. "IPN is really just now kicking off the ground," Mortazavi said. "The whole...

Fossil Free Occidental, an activist group consisting of Occidental students, faculty and other community members, recently launched a campaign to pressure the board of trustees to divest from 200 of the world's largest fossil fuel companies that extract, refine or distribute oil, coal or gas for energy. The campaign officially launched at the People’s Climate March Los Angeles on Sept....

Haiti. Former President Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier died Saturday at the age of 63 due to a heart attack. He was pronounced dead by Haiti’s health minister in the capital Port-au-Prince. Duvalier became president in 1971 at the age of 19, when his father Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier passed on the title to his son and claimed he would be...