Inside the Eagle Rock Brewery Public House, tables full of 20-somethings sipped on beer and wine while sampling items from the restaurant's menu, which offers more than typical pub grub. The selection will certainly surprise patrons expecting typical brewery fair of burgers, fries, fish and chips or chicken wings. The original Eagle Rock Brewery opened in 2009, but the owners...

A group of eight followed Occidental alumnus Carlos Aguilar '98 down Colorado Boulevard during the April 19 soft launch of his food tour company, Fun Belly. The party made six stops on their three-hour tour, including one at Little Beast for a sampling of American comfort food and one at Four Cafe for their organic options. Between dishes, Aguilar entertained...

It has been a few weeks since former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke began his new job as a blogger at Citadel, a hedge fund. Since leaving his government post in 2014, he has spent most of his time writing a memoir and contributing to the Brookings Institute, a Washington think tank. Before entering government work, he worked in education;...

As I write my final article, I rub my hand against the patchy beard that I started growing for Movember—my first opportunity to grow a patchy beard and get away with it. I live off campus next to the house where I took my first college shot: Sailor Jerry spiced rum, chased with a sip of pulp-free Tropicana orange juice....

According to Occidental’s website, the Core Program is the “backbone” of an Occidental education. Such a backbone needs to be supportive, sustainable and resilient for the structure it serves. Yet the Cultural Studies Program (CSP), which is an integral part of the Core Program for first-year students, does not live up to these standards. The CSP courses, according to the...

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will speak at the Occidental class of 2015's commencement May 17. As head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Johnson ultimately bears responsibility for his department's brazen disregard for the United States Constitution. By choosing him as this year's commencement speaker, the college is directly supporting the illegal affront against innocent Americans by...

Dear Occidental community members,With the opening of the ASOC ballot today, you will have the opportunity to vote on a constitutional amendment that would give the Occidental Weekly a larger operating budget. Specifically, the Weekly would be allocated an additional 2 percent of all student body fees, or around $11,000. Our organization is in the process of expanding next semester,...

To the students of Occidental,As reported in Emily Shugerman's article April 14, 2015, ten Senators voted to impeach ASOC President Christopher Weeks without the knowledge or consent of the student body. Though President Weeks was impeached, it was the ten Senators who displayed ineffective leadership. This letter is not to condone nor denounce the decision to impeach Weeks, it is...

A proposed constitutional amendment requiring a campus-wide vote to approve student body fee changes will appear on Friday's Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) election ballot. The petition to add the amendment had 667 student signatures as of Monday night, fulfilling the 600 signature minimum necessary to put it on the ballot. The petition, which was emailed out to the...

Residential Education (ResEd) recently added a question to the Roommate Questionnaire, sent to next year's incoming first-years, in order to accommodate roommate preferences related to gender and sexual identity. The question asks: “Do you identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer, asexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex, or as a committed ally? If you are comfortable being ‘out’ on this form, this is...