*** TRIGGER WARNING, SEXUAL ASSAULT/MENTAL ILLNESS ***One night, during the late days of my freshman year, I was enjoying a familiar post-party kickback with a friend of mine. We were lounging on his bed, chatting idly and listening to music as the lingering effects of our Natty Lite buzz ebbed away into sleepy 3 a.m. sobriety. My friend changed the...

Liberal arts colleges are elite. They are beautiful, tony, progressive, expensive — seemingly inaccessible. For many students, spending a sum equivalent to the price of a small home on college tuition and fees is a rite of passage. For others, it is an unimaginable feat reserved for the privileged few — an education for the wealthy, endowing useless degrees upon...

Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, the echo of live piano and accordion in Keck Theater paired with elaborate cobblestone buildings, ostentatious Victorian costumes and stage makeup transport the audience two centuries into the past for three hours of Elizabethan drama. Shakespeare’s "Measure for Measure", directed by theater department chair John Bouchard, opened in Keck Theater April 15. The play...

Considering York Park has more chess boards than shrubbery and the trail through Eagle Rock Canyon is much shorter than anticipated (no more than a mile, in fact), Occidental students may find themselves seeking greener pastures — literally. And when the miniature forest adjacent to the Cooler proves insufficient, escapes into nature exist mere minutes from campus. With the help...

Project S. A. F. E.'s Take Back the Week (TBTW) featured events April 11–15 ranging from a film screening to a speak out. Throughout last week, Project S. A. F. E. staff members spoke with students during lunch on the quad and handed out "Take Back the Night" T-shirts. Students were able to write messages to survivors at Project S....

Occidental students, faculty and administration gathered April 12 for a town hall regarding the revised discrimination, harassment and retaliation (DHR) policy. The town hall was led by DHR revision coordinators Erica O’Neal Howard, interim dean of students; Ella Turenne, assistant dean for community engagement; Ruth Jones, Title IX coordinator; and Leora Freedman, college general counsel. Howard opened the town hall...

In May, Cherena Walker will begin work as Occidental’s first associate vice president and executive director for Career Services, Dean of the College Jorge Gonzalez announced in a campuswide email March 28. The position will be mostly “external facing,” Director of Career Services Valerie Savior said. Rather than regularly meeting with students to provide career counseling, Walker will pursue relationships...

Occidental students joined a nationwide rally in downtown Los Angeles Thursday to support the Fight for $15 campaign. Students were led by Coalition at Oxy for Diversity and Equity (CODE) core member Abhilasha Bhola (senior) and La Raza Coalition President Karen Romero Estrada (senior). According to a post April 10 on the CODE: Oxy Facebook page regarding the Oxy Students...

Like much of the geology around Los Angeles and Southern California, the geologic systems underneath Occidental College and Eagle Rock have been widely studied. As discussed in a previous column, the majority of the Los Angeles basin consists primarily of consolidated sedimentary units. In the Eagle Rock and Highland Park areas, these sedimentary rocks consist of the Topanga, Puente and...

In the fall of her sophomore year, Hannah* was enjoying another weekend night out with her friends when she came across a cute girl at an off-campus party. The two hit it off, and after some light banter, Hannah found herself on a couch, tongue deep in the mouth of a girl whose enthusiasm for this turn of events was...