The Title IX Office and Office of Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning (IRAP) released an analysis of the results of the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) Sexual Assault Climate Survey at a town hall meeting Thursday. Most prominently, the analysis contains comparison data from 54 peer institutions. According to IRAP, Occidental's survey yielded a response rate of 31 percent...

A basement hallway of the Norris Chemistry Building is lined with peculiar caution signs about Occidental’s multi-million dollar nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. The Moore Laboratory acts as a scientific cemetery for the world’s largest Mexican bird collection. A room in Hameetman Science Center designed to have virtually zero magnetic field houses a cryogenic magnetometer and thermal demagnetizers. After two years...

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...

The Occidental women's soccer team (2-4-0 overall, 1-1-0 SCIAC) picked up its first win in SCIAC play by defeating Chapman University 4-1 at home. Midfielders Kylie Takafuji (junior), Alana Hillman (sophomore), Michaela Tsuha (senior) and forward Camille Shrager (sophomore) each scored in a game controlled by the Tigers right from the start. In the first half, Takafuji and Hillman both...

The Student Wellness Advisory Council (SWAC) is circulating a petition to make Occidental's campus tobacco-free in an effort to improve the health of the community. The petition proposes all of Occidental campus grounds become 100 percent smoke- and tobacco-free. If a student, faculty, staff or community member would like to smoke, they will have to do so off campus. Members...

Deep below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, 100 miles off the coast of Chile, lies a monstrous, 6,000 km-long gouge in the sea floor called the Atacama Trench. It delineates an active tectonic plate boundary: a fault line between the South American plate and the subducting Nazca plate, which slides under continental South America at 65–80 millimeters a year....

Following nine years of success with its Values and Vocations Fellowship, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (ORSL) is rolling out a new opportunity for students: the Social Justice Interfaith Practitioners Program. Although it follows a similar model to the Values and Vocations Fellowship — which considers the intersection of social justice and spirituality — this program is distinct...

The Intercultural Community Center (ICC) is introducing two new initiatives this month — the Black Male Collective and the Men of Color Program — that aim to provide men of color at Occidental with additional resources and support networks to thrive both on- and off-campus. “These initiatives are trying to support a target population that has experienced a combination of...

Members of four branches of the Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) are in the process of reviewing a proposal for a new constitution created this summer. The proposal deviates from the current constitution most significantly in sections outlining the process for removing elected officers, the method in which student fee increases are evaluated and the inclusion of the Diversity...

Walking through the cavernous entrance of Downtown's new and long-awaited contemporary art museum, The Broad, is an exhibition experience like none other. The building itself is a work of art, and within it lie some of the greatest pieces of our time. Over 250 pieces are on display from over 60 artists, including some of the most renowned names in...