From open mic nights to performing at parties to Apollo Night, Occidental musicians have taken the spotlight. Students are starting to take advantage of opportunities and resources around campus not only to perform their music but also to professionally record it at a studio and broadcast it through a radio station. The Black Student Alliance (BSA) presented Apollo Night, a...

Over tacos and flan, Occidental students returning from a myriad of unique experiences abroad enthusiastically told stories of their travels at the “welcome back” banquet hosted by the International Programs Office (IPO). Energy radiated off the walls. Many junior year returnees seemed to still be in the “honeymoon period”-- their hearts and minds were still partially in the country they’d...

Some professors use Los Angeles as a classroom, others the world. Some take their students to the Hollywood sign or the Getty. Others choose to expand their classroom to the global stage, showing their students the towering minarets of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia and the ruins of Ephesus. Professor Kristi Upson-Saia of the Religion...

At Occidental College, there are two types of people: those with work study, and those without. Without a work award, students are allowed to work up to 15 hours a week (barring special circumstances) and earn up to $3,300 during the academic year. With a work award, however, a student can only be awarded a maximum of $3,100 in work...