There is an unexpected love affair going on in Silicon Valley. As tech titans like Google, Facebook and Apple jockey for supremacy in the ever-changing digital age, they have partnered with the most eminent architects of our time to reinvent the world in which we work and live. Google recently commissioned world-renowned European architects Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels to...

Students often assume the history they learn about through museums, textbooks or historians is an accurate and truthful narrative. Filmmaker Jesse Lerner challenges this assumption in his film, "Ruins: A Fake Documentary," which he screened to a large crowd of students and professors in Choi auditorium March 5. Before the film began, he primed the audience with a warning. “Beware....

While the word "opera" may bring to mind classical orchestral scores and Italian ballads, the Pacific Opera Project (POP) has reimagined one of Mozart's most famous operas in an entirely unique way—as a Star Trek episode. A group of students and faculty gathered in Bird Studio in Booth Hall March 5 to watch a preview of POP's production. POP's adaptation...

Students and faculty gathered in Mosher 1 Wednesday for a screening of the film "Con Job: Stories of Adjunct & Contingent Labor" and a subsequent panel discussion on the inequities faced by adjunct faculty at Occidental. The event was part of a two-day teach-in to commemorate National Adjunct Walkout Day. Approximately 20 students and several faculty members attended the event,...

Telefund student callers began to phone first-years, sophomores and juniors Monday asking for gifts to the Annual Fund. This marks a change from past policy, in which the callers only contacted parents, alumni and current seniors. Director of the Oxy Annual Fund Suzy LaCroix explained that the decision is an effort by the college to motivate students to engage with...

The Kappa Alpha Psi (Kappa) fraternity hosted The Klimax, the first after-party for Apollo Night, Friday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. The event was planned in cooperation with Black Student Alliance (BSA) for the conclusion of Black History Month. Kappa is a predominantly Black fraternity, founded in 1911 as part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council. The Occidental chapter began...

The men's and women's basketball teams concluded their seasons with back-to-back games Feb. 24 in Rush Gymnasium, both losing to Cal Lutheran (Cal Lu). On senior night though, the scoreboard did not tell the complete story of the women's game. In the first game, Stefanie Young (senior), celebrating her 22nd birthday, scored 22 points. Despite reaching her single-game best, the...

Society often stereotypes football players as inconsiderate jocks, yet a group of Occidental College football players are flouting this label through their work with Great Strides, a club on campus that serves as an after-school program for Garvanza Elementary School. Every Friday, students from the club visit with children from fourth to sixth grade every Friday to teach them healthy...

Chloe Hoeber Athletics is an important part of first-year Chloe Hoeber’s family, and though she didn’t plan on running track in college, she could not pass up an opportunity to join the Occidental tack and field team as a high jumper.“I thought, 'why not?' because I wasn’t really done with high jump yet,” Hoeber said. “I know that I can...

Josh DancuDespite his team's loss to Cal Lutheran's nationally ranked tennis team, Josh Dancu pulled off an impressive 3 set win (6-3, 4-6, 10-8) in his singles match Saturday. Dancu defeated Cal Lutheran’s top seed Moises Cardenas, who was ranked 14th in the nation among Division III tennis players at the end of last season. While the Tigers have struggled...