Today, Honor Board will vote to determine if Diversity and Equity Board Initiative (DEBI) merits an additional student body fee of $7, a debate that has rocked Occidental’s campus in recent weeks. Supporters of DEBI are right to be outraged when Honor Board does not approve of a small student body fee. Even coming from a very modest annual family...

Amid the usual traffic of students grabbing their nightly pizza slices, more than 100 students gathered around a stage in the Cooler on April 9 and 10 to watch the third annual Hyper Xpressions showcase. The student dance company performs at various Occidental events throughout the year, including basketball half times and charity events. Members view the annual showcase as...

Sometimes a whisper demands more attention than a scream. When writer Claudia Rankine read sections from her latest book, "Citizen: An American Lyric," at Occidental April 7, she spoke quietly yet commanded the room. Her work functions in a similar way; it alerts the reader to the racist acts and words perpetrated around them in a calm and insistent tone....

With the rise of the Information Age and the development of digital technologies, the art world has been slow to the uptake. The art industry's apathetic efforts within the cyber sphere is surprising; an online audience has the potential to be a thousand times larger than the crowd that visits museums in person, and a large social media following is...

On April 18 and 19, the LA Times will host its 20th annual Festival of Books at the University of Southern California. The free event is a mammoth gathering of literature enthusiasts, and deciding where to go and who to hear speak can be daunting. For those who want to soak up LA cultureTourists and California veterans alike love to...

Wedged between a daunting college admission process and the post-grad job search, current students find themselves faced with the task of hunting for internships. In a tougher job market, work experience can give applicants an edge over their peers for coveted positions. Over the past few decades, however, finding an internship seems to have become just as competitive as finding...

"Submission" as a word has gained a pretty nasty connotation. It smells of hidden abuse, of extortion, of tyranny, threats to liberty and freedom, and humiliation. When someone uses the word "submit," it calls to memory scenes from films or from history, when tyrants or others in power command those below them to submit—to bow down, to give up, and...

Beebe Finch Sanders Beebe Finch Sanders scored five goals on Saturday, powering women’s lacrosse to a 16-12 win at Redlands. The senior midfielder also scooped up four ground balls and won six draw controls in the contest. A two time All-SCIAC selection and four-year starter, co-captain Finch Sanders has been a standout lacrosse player since she arrived at Occidental. Her...

The Occidental men's track team improved its SCIAC dual-meet record to 7-1 Saturday, sweeping La Verne (84-78), Pomona-Pitzer (107-50) and Redlands (98-64) at SCIAC Multi Dual 3. On the track, 400-meter hurdler Jesse Wong (senior) broke both his season time and the SCIAC-best mark with a time of 54.48, surging to the finish in the last 100 meters to win...

Returning to call Dodgers games for a 66th straight season, Vin Scully makes watching baseball a truly unique experience in this era of sports broadcasts. Scully, who has announced Dodgers games since the team's days in Brooklyn, still calls the games solo and with a tact that is unparalleled in today's landscape of overproduced, busy and loud baseball broadcasts. Despite...