If my life was a video game—and sometimes I think it really is—different vacations would be the add-on packs to my main game. In this life-game hybrid of mine, the most recent add-on, or downloadable content (DLC), "Adventures in San Francisco," would cover all of my spring break shenanigans—hot tubbing, reading comics and playing a ton of "Fallout 3 Game...

From 1933 until the end of World War II, the Nazi Party of Germany committed art theft on a massive scale, stealing over 650,000 works throughout Europe. It was the greatest art theft in history and a devastating blow to Europe's cultural heritage. But in the latest series of attacks on ancient artifacts, the Islamic State (ISIS) has one-upped Nazi...

Kelly Wourms (senior) is putting his classroom education in Media Arts and Culture to work in the real world under his stage name, Terrys Tacos. As a music video director and photographer for the Seattle-based music collective THRAXXHOUSE, Wourms got the opportunity to document the group's founding members, Key Nyata and Mackned as they represented the 40-plus member conglomerate at...

Beebe Finch SandersThe Occidental women's lacrosse team took to the road last week and earned two victories in Colorado. Co-captain and midfielder Beebe Finch Sanders (senior) led the Tigers to wins in both of their games—a 10-8 win against Haverford College on Tuesday and 13-11 on Friday against Colorado College. With three goals and five draw controls against Haverford and...

During what has been an undeniably wild NFL offseason, paying particular attention to the guaranteed value of player contracts being given out around the league highlights the relative failure of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). After the NFL lockout of 2011, during which the NFLPA won the small victory of $1 billion in benefits for its retired players,...

Despite the fact that Spring Break is over, the beaches in Los Angeles remain a great escape from the daily stresses of student life. When finals work picks up and the Occidental campus starts feeling too small, the best thing to do is pack up, grab some friends—and maybe a volleyball—and hit the nearest beaches. But with such a wide...

"The Hunting Ground," a documentary released in Los Angeles theaters Feb. 27, explores the college sexual assault epidemic throughout the United States. Occidental is one of the campuses highlighted in the film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 23. The documentary tells the story of Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, students at the University of North Carolina at...

This semester, an unprecedented 40 students rushed Alpha Chi Sigma (AXE), the Occidental chapter of the national chemistry fraternity. Only about 11 students rushed per semester over the past calendar year, AXE Master Alchemist Preston Lee (senior) said. Lee attributes the large jump in potential new members to the tight-knit scientific community at Occidental. "You know how in freshman year...

The economics department hired Jesse Mora as a tenure-track professor following a comprehensive search and selection process in late January. Mora, currently a doctoral student of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will start at Occidental in the fall. "Jesse was far and away our first choice out of over 200 applicants, so we're delighted that he accepted...

A team of 10 students spent their spring break in Managua, Nicaragua, doing construction work at a safe house for young girls and painting a local elementary school. The service trip was organized by Greta Jarvis (senior) in partnership with Forward Edge International, a Christian relief and missions organization based in Vancouver, Wash. The students stayed for eight days in...