Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon announced a campus-wide ban on hard alcohol Jan. 29 in response to recent scrutiny surrounding the school's infamous drinking culture. The ban is one component of a larger movement called "Move Dartmouth Forward," (MDF) the purpose of which, according to the Office of the President, is "to put Dartmouth at the forefront in creating higher...

We’ve all felt like Cooler salmon: overlooked, scoffed at, irrelevant. Maybe it’s karma? We treat each other like packets of Justin’s nut butters, squeezing and twisting until every bit of our insides is completely sucked out. Occasionally we'll stumble upon a full carton of Ben & Jerry’s that we’ll hold onto for a while, but largely, we’re surrounded by large...

With women in positions like the president of the Federal Reserve and chief technology officer of the United States, one could claim that American society has accepted female leaders in math and science. Unfortunately, recent research proves otherwise. According to a 2014 report from the National Student Clearinghouse, the share of women receiving bachelor’s degrees in these fields has actually...

The universal translator from "Star Trek," the babelfish from "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" and a real human interpreter are a few of the things to which the Skype Translator has been compared. Released to a limited amount of users in December as a prototype, it provides instant audio translation between English and Spanish and text translation between over...

The proposal of a merit pay scheme for Occidental professors sparked debate at the annual faculty retreat Jan. 15 and inspired the creation of a new task force. The idea of giving raises to tenured and tenure-track professors based on individual merit—a combination of excellence in teaching, publication and service to the college—is controversial at Occidental, where they are generally...

Members of the Occidental community and professional architects, writers and art curators gathered in Choi Auditorium Thursday to attend the kick-off event of the Third Los Angeles project—an exploration of the cultural, political and structural changes influencing LA's evolution. Developed by Urban and Environmental Policy (UEP) Professor Christopher Hawthorne, the project encompasses five free events, including lectures and discussions, that...

Victor Narro, project director for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Downtown Labor Center, gave a talk Thursday titled "Spirituality, Self-Care, and Social Justice Activism." The event in Lower Herrick was the first of a three-part mindfulness series at Occidental, hosted by Politics Professor Thalia Gonzalez. In his talk, Narro aimed to provide attendees with a set of tools...

Occidental’s Communications, Marketing, & Community Relations department is in the preliminary phase of a conceptual and visual makeover of the college's image to bolster its reputation in the collegiate community and the general population.“We don’t really trumpet ourselves all that much,” Brett Schraeder, Occidental’s vice president for strategic initiatives, marketing and communications, said. “We have to be a little bit...

Vivid shots of the rust-colored ruins of Jewish-Moroccan villages lit up Choi Auditorium Tuesday, Feb. 10 as students gathered to view the documentary "They Were Promised the Sea." The barren images reinforced the emptiness pervading the film's environment and the loss of Morocco’s Jews, who answered the Zionists' call to return to Israel en masse. The documentary follows the story...

Easily overlooked at the busy intersection of Hollywood and Vermont in Los Feliz, architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House is a hidden gem within Los Angeles. Located atop Olive Hill in Barnsdall Art Park, the anonymity of the space works for the Wright House, as residents of Los Angeles often visit to seek refuge from the city below. But this...