Keilani Bonis-Ericksen: Keilani Bonis-Ericksen (senior) won 6-1, 6-3 at number one singles against UC-Santa Cruz, and won number one doubles 8-4 with partner Samantha Farrell in the same match. The two also clinched a 9-8 victory in their match against Pacific University, 9-8. "I was very exhausted coming into my match against Pacific, having played a total of seven matches...

When I was 12, I participated in a one-day intensive theater camp where we sang abridged versions of the songs from the musical "Rent." I’ve grown to more or less hate musicals and have thus blocked out most memories of my middle school show-tunes-and-face-paint days. Still, I’ll always remember something the director said as he tried to teach us the...

College traditionally exists as a period of time filled with enriched opportunities to foster one’s interests and cultivate intellectual growth. As Occidental students, while we collectively relish in our rather liberal interests, we typically have an unspoken set of political and social norms deemed morally acceptable to voice freely. We’re progressively aware, socially active and politically engaged. But it is...

Stepping into Occidental's Human Resources (HR) offices is akin to stopping at a favorite aunt’s house: peals of laughter, a warm atmosphere and the smell of cleanliness and organizational folders await. The woman leading the office, Danita Maxwell, was hired last June as director of HR.“I want to be like her — competent, organized, kind, yet not a pushover at...

Occidental was designated a Tree Campus USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation Feb. 2, following the college’s establishment of an official tree management plan and team, according to Biology Professor Gretchen North. Currently, there are over 2,500 trees on campus, Sustainability Coordinator Jenny Low said. In light of the compounding environmental stresses of the recent Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer...

Members of the newly formed Occidental College Republicans Club (OCRC) met for the first time March 20 with seven members in attendance. OCRC — which is the first Republican club on campus since 2008 — was formed to encourage political discourse including conservative viewpoints at Occidental, according to OCRC President and co-founder Alan Bliss (first year). Bliss thought that reestablishing...

Occidental's first ever BioBlitz, an all-day event Saturday, will give community members the opportunity to record and identify various living species on campus. Their efforts will contribute to a database that will give biology students and faculty interested in on-campus research baseline data about Occidental's biodiversity. The biology department, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Liberal Arts (CDLA), is...

As a female geek, I have sadly encountered my fair share of misogynistic comments. A year ago, Ain't It Cool News published an article on Stan Lee’s Comikaze that featured photos of myself in costume, among other convention photos. Despite being dressed as feminist comic book icon and my personal patron saint, Wonder Woman, I was simultaneously called “succulent” and...

Nicole Castro Women’s Tennis What do you find so rewarding about tennis? I think it’s a really personal achievement. Besides playing on a team, winning as an individual player is really beneficial. It's helped me understand that a lot of the work I have to do is dependent on me and not on other people. Do you have any other...

In a glass case about 2 feet high, rows and rows of small monochrome birds lie with their beaks pointing skyward. Feathers shift from light gray on the belly to smooth dark gray contour feathers on the wings of each body, and two tags dangle from their spindly legs. This glass case, however, stands alone from the rest of the...