Last Friday, in a concert hall not very far away, a medley of Star Wars music blasted out of Thorne Hall. The program cover playfully mimicked the iconic credits crawl of the film series, complimenting the epic, universally recognized tunes which closed out the performance by the Caltech-Occidental Concert Band. The Caltech-Occidental Concert Band brings together musicians from the student...

Earlier this month, comments made by several notable women’s rights activists diminished women to a group of politically unconcerned citizens by encouraging them to only support the presidential candidate whose gender matches their own. First came Madeleine Albright’s hyperbolic statements during a rally for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. The first female Secretary of State took to the microphone to...

On Feb. 6, after 77 minutes of gameplay, over 10,000 Liverpool Football Club (FC) supporters walked out of the team's match against Sunderland AFC at Anfield, Liverpool's home ground. Supporters were making a stand against the recent ticket price hikes from Fenway Sports Group (FSG), the club's American ownership organization. FSG increased standard ticket prices from £45 to £77 (roughly...

Several companies are challenging traditional cable news stations and video outlets for the coveted role among millennials as the go-to source for video-based news and information. These companies, like NowThis and AJ+ stray from the traditional format of video journalism that invests heavily in drawing viewers to the company's website or cable channel. Instead, they bring their content directly to...

Our generation’s intimate connection with social and mass media makes threats against global humanity visible in a way that was never before attainable. Social and mass media have become a way to catalog the world’s injustices in the name of our own awareness. However, we fail to thoroughly interrogate our positions in sharing and consuming this content. From 9/11 to...

Theater Professor Laural Meade sits alone in the lamdas of Occidental’s Keck Theater, watching a cast of student actors rehearse the play “Tell Me I’m Beautiful,” written by Nikki Resendez (senior). “Just a teaching point here — actors, I don’t see you taking notes,” Meade said. “You should be writing all of this down. You’ll thank yourself a week from...

First-year students Diamond Coleman and Taylor Fuller are working to establish a chapter of the historically Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA) at Occidental. AKA, part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), started at Howard University in Washington, D. C. Collectively, the NPHC, a group of historically Black sororities and fraternities, is referred to as "The Divine Nine." The...

The Coalition at Oxy for Diversity and Equity (C. O. D. E.) presented a list of eight demands of the administration and Campus Safety to Dean of Students Barbara Avery Friday afternoon. C. O. D. E.’s demands are in response to the Sept. 5 arrest of a man of color outside the Green Bean. The demands the student group outlined...

Oxy United for Black Liberation is demanding President Jonathan Veitch’s immediate resignation, claiming that he mishandled issues of diversity and sexual assault on campus. The group, led by members of Black Student Alliance (BSA) and Coalition at Oxy for Diversity and Equity (CODE), began occupying the Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center (AGC) Monday to pressure the administration to meet a...

The only things less fruitful than hookup culture at Occidental are campus smoothies. Green Bean or Cooler, smoothies here come from a box and have less produce than a Double-Double (even if it's Protein Style). If you want a good, real smoothie — green apple and kale, cocoa powder and peanut butter, anything with frozen mango — you have to...