The men’s water polo team (3-18 overall, 1-7 SCIAC) rang in Senior Day Saturday with a hard-fought game against Redlands, falling to the Bulldogs 17-8. “They are a good team with a lot of shooters,” Hank Franscioni (senior) said. “They just outnumbered us.” Occidental started off with a strong first quarter, holding Redlands to four points. Paul Bergevin (junior) found...

When taking in a sunset from Fiji Hill, it's hard not to appreciate a little bit of Los Angeles’ smog. The golden sunlight, breaking through afternoon rush-hour fumes, paints the sky pastel, inspiring a proliferation of no-filter Instagrams — #ouchmylungs. While atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases may be reaching dramatic new levels, regional air quality in the U. S. and...

For Josh Needleman (senior), water polo is life. He had his first taste of polo after getting cut from his high school swim team. Growing up in Florida, Needleman had ample time in and around the water, but his first year with a club polo team did not sell him on the sport. “I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t something...

A recent study predicting a 99.9 percent chance of a major earthquake in Southern California has Angelenos shaking — some shaking their heads — at the risk of the next great quake. The study, authored by NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scientist Andrea Donnellan and colleagues, predicts a 5.0 or larger earthquake within the 60-mile radius of the 2014 earthquake on the...

Devin Bullock Claremont-Mudd-Scripps executed a miraculous comeback late in the fourth quarter Saturday, narrowly edging the Tigers (3-3 overall, 2-2 SCIAC) 45-42. However, wide-receiver Devin Bullock (senior) was impressive in defeat, with 11 catches for 188 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Tigers. “As a leader on the offense I knew that I was going to have to have...

The Occidental men’s water polo team (2-12 overall, 0-1 SCIAC) fell 12-4 to Pomona-Pitzer Saturday in the first home competition of the year at Taylor Pool. The matchup started conference play for the Tigers, who had come off a series of tough games and tournaments against numerous ranked teams from across the country. Their competitive season began in early September...

Aquatics fans will see a new face poolside as head coach Christopher Lee takes charge of the Tigers’ men’s and women’s water polo teams. Lee replaces former head coach Larry Zubrin, who departed after nearly 12 years with the Occidental programs. Lee brings with him considerable experience both at the collegiate and national club level, with stints coaching the University...

President Barack Obama’s recent trip to Alaska has been condemned by critics as a media stunt, a cover-up to assuage Alaskans for setting aside federally-protected land as wildlife reserve and an empty-suit effort to contribute sound bites on an issue without enacting substantive policy change. But critics fail to see that Obama’s tour of Alaska transcended politics; at its core,...

“In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair, you know what this is? It’s a snowball. And it’s just from outside here. So it’s very, very cold out. Very unseasonal. So here, Mr. President, catch this.” And there it was. In the middle of his speech,...

The photographs are haunting both in what they depict and what they predict: Low-lying slums inundated by water, the destruction of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward following Hurricane Katrina, the impending peril of a tsunami impacting Southern California. The Annenberg Space for Photography’s current installation, "Sink or Swim: Designing for A Sea Change," explores the reality of sea level rise...