A hearing date has been scheduled for the on-going John Doe vs. Occidental College civil suit, in which an anonymous 18-year-old male student — who has withheld his real name in order to protect his privacy — is suing the college after being expelled for sexual assault in 2013. Judge Luis A. Lavin has set the hearing for January 22,...

The Occidental women’s lacrosse team (12-5 overall, 9-3 SCIAC) entered postseason play last week in a three-way tie with the Redlands and Pomona-Pitzer. The Tigers were denied a first-round bye in the SCIAC Championship Tournament because the Bulldogs and the Sagehens secured the largest goal differentials among the three teams during the regular season. Despite the bad break, the black...

Tiger Golf teams underway at SCIAC Championships Both Occidental golf teams were in action at SCIAC Championships at Oak Valley Golf Club at the time of publication. Through two of the event’s three rounds, the men’s side sat in sixth place ahead of both Whittier and Pomona-Pitzer at 66-over par and 60 strokes back of leader Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS). Individually, Colton...

Strutting across the turf to the beat of house music blasting from his headphones, Occidental men’s rugby captain Barnaby Audsley (senior) mentally prepared for the final game of the rugby 7s National Championship qualifying round against Sonoma State. At the sound of the referee’s whistle, Audsley positioned himself among his six teammates and surveyed the field and his opponents. Audsley...

When asked about their favorite sports memory, nearly any athlete — professional, collegiate or even Little League — will recount their moment in the sun: a 3-point shot made as the buzzer sounds or a game-winning touchdown against a rival. But for Occidental baseball pitching coach Jacob Blodgett ‘12, this memory is a little different. In lieu of a personal...

Feminism in Sports: Part 2 of 2Women in sports are regarded, all around, as inferior to their male counterparts. Female athletes cannot play as well as men, and female fans cannot know as much — at least that’s the view that I explored in last week’s column. These perceptions have persisted since the invention of sport. As sports become more...

The Occidental baseball team (18-20 overall, 14-13 SCIAC) entered SCIAC pool play Saturday competing with La Verne (18-20 overall, 14-13 SCIAC) and Redlands (15-22 overall, 14-13 SCIAC) for the fourth-and -final league playoff spot. The squad responded to the pressure positively by winning two of its three weekend contests. The Tigers split a home doubleheader Saturday, defeating Caltech (1-32 overall,...

There is a science and an art to coaching. For track and field and cross country assistant coach Tyler Yamaguchi, the science is in designing performance-maximizing workouts that maintain a balance between intensity and rest. “But then there’s the art,” Yamaguchi said. “Part of my job is getting people to believe in themselves, believe in their abilities, believe that the...

Feminism in Sports: Part 1 of 2In her on-campus talk “Women in the Locker Room,” New York Times (NYT) sports reporter Karen Crouse compared her job to an anthropologist researching a bunch of patriarchal tribes. Reporting on sports, I have noticed much of the same. Despite taking part in athletics, I feel like an outsider to the world of sports....

After winning two straight series, the Occidental baseball team (16-19 overall, 12-12 SCIAC) suffered a setback over the weekend against Pomona-Pitzer (15-20 overall, 11-13 SCIAC). The Sagehens swept the Tigers in dominant fashion by scores of 12-0 (7 innings), 6-2 and 14-4. But the Tigers remain in the hunt for the fourth-and final playoff spot along with Pomona-Pitzer, Redlands (13-21...