Air Force veteran Aaron Hammonds (sophomore) will lead a presentation on the history of military veterans at Occidental on Veteran's Day. His presentation, "60 years of Service: A conversation with Oxy's Veterans Past and Present," will take place at 11:30 a.m. in Choi Auditorium. The presentation will be broken up into three sections. First Hammonds will present on Occidental's history...

Students and faculty brought their grievances to the table at Tuesday's town hall meeting to discuss the long-awaited Pepper Hamilton report. President Jonathan Veitch and Title IX Coordinator Ruth Jones led the meeting while Loyal Marymount Law School professor Laurie Levenson moderated. "The goal today is to really talk about the implications of the report," Veitch said. "It is a...

The number of Africans migrating to Europe this year by boat has already passed 100,000. This number eclipses the past record for migrants in a year—62,000 in 2011. Italy, the most popular destination for migrants, has developed refugee camps and has dedicated rescue forces to oversee the dangerous journey. However, authorities remain overwhelmed in the wake of thousands of illegal...

For most students, the on-campus living experience begins with an email from Residential Education and Housing Services (REHS) the summer before their first year at Occidental. Apprehensive about the unknown experiences that await them, students immediately start scouring Facebook for their first college roommate. They wade through waves of posts on the incoming class Facebook page to see who has...

The ongoing campus dialogue on diversity and equity came to a head last week after two members of the Phi Kappa Psi (Phi Psi) fraternity posted an event on Facebook making light of recent global tragedies. The event, titled “End of the World Party: ISIS, Ebola, & Malaysian Airlines,” was quickly removed from the social media site, but not before...

President Jonathan Veitch announced the creation of the Campus Committee on Sexual Responsibility and Misconduct (CCSRM) Oct. 24, days before releasing the Pepper Hamilton report on Occidental's sexual assault policies. Veitch charged the committee with several tasks, including reviewing the college’s sexual assault policy, engaging in community outreach and providing feedback on educational programming. Members of the 13-person committee were...

Roughly 1 percent of Occidental's endowment—$3.5 million—will go towards funding campus sustainability projects, thanks to a measure approved by the board of trustees in October. Occidental’s Sustainability Committee created the newly-funded Green Revolving Fund (GRF) in order to make campus greening initiatives more economically feasible for the college, according to Sustainability Coordinator Emma Sorrell. The GRF will provide loans for...

The board of trustees approved a measure to allocate last year's $1.3 million budget surplus to maintenance and repairs, according to Vice President of Finance and Planning Amos Himmelstein. The surplus resulted from both savings in some areas and increased revenue in others, Himmelstein noted. Vacancies in administrative positions, decreased spending on faculty salaries and revenue from "auxiliaries"—proceeds from Campus...

Professors invited journalist Chris Goffard, poet and author Sarah Manguso and screenwriter Hilly Hicks, Jr. to campus last Tuesday to celebrate the launch of the interdisciplinary writing minor. The event marks the culmination of a four-year effort by Writing & Rhetoric Professors Julie Prebel and Thomas Burkdall, English professors Martha Ronk and John Swift, theater professor Laurel Meade and Media...

Employees of the Eagle Rock Brewery are preparing themselves for their fourth conditional use permit (CUP) hearing in five years, set for Nov. 6, which will determine the extent of time they are permitted to do business. The City of Los Angeles requires all new breweries to obtain a CUP before opening their doors and renew it again every ten...