Burkina Faso. General Honore Traore announced the creation of a 12-month transitional government in the West African country of Burkina Faso. The interim government was established in response to an incident last week in which thousands of protesters invaded and burned downed the parliament building in the capital city of Ouagadougou. Former President Blaise Compaore agreed to dissolve his government...

“In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” That is, at least according to Cady Heron in the 2004 cult-classic Mean Girls. Halloween has...

Despite Occidental's high tuition, relatively low endowment and the growing income gap within the institution, President Jonathan Veitch's 2011 salary was in the 79th percentile for the presidents of 550 private colleges surveyed, according to a survey conducted by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Though salaries have yet to be set for next year, the college needs to consider pay...

Last week, the Occidental community saw how far we still are from understanding racial equality on campus. An attempt by two Occidental students to host an “End of the World” party, playing off of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, ISIS-related violence in the Middle East and the Malaysian Airlines incidents, resulted in immediate and overwhelming condemnation from both students...

We see it every day; it is displayed on the Occidental website as well as on the back of every student and staff ID card—the college’s mission statement. The statement refers to an "increasingly complex, interdependent and pluralistic world” that graduates will eventually face. In recent years, this world has been shaped by a more selective system of higher education,...

Underage binge drinking has become a national epidemic. According to the Center for Disease Control, 90 percent of underage drinking qualifies as binge drinking, defined by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as four drinks in two hours for women and five drinks in two hours for men. The rash of alcohol poisonings at Occidental last year, and...

Coming into Saturday's regular season finale against La Verne, the members of the Occidental men's soccer team (13–5–1 overall; 10–5–1 SCIAC) knew that—for the first time in the history of the program—the senior game would not be their last meaningful match. Instead, they will continue into the postseason after clinching a SCIAC playoff spot last week in a 3-1 win...

Julie Khil & Michaela Tsuha: Michaela Tsuha (junior) and Julie Khil (sophomore) teamed up to score Occidental women's soccer's lone goal in their final match of the season Saturday. The Tigers lost 2-1 to Redlands and fell one game short of the postseason. Midfielder Tsuha found Khil, an attacker, in the 51st minute to even the score after the Bulldogs...

Taryn Ng (senior) is a four-year starting defender and three-year captain for Occidental's women's soccer team, but she almost never suited up for the Tigers in the first place. Her belated decision to join the team is one that has so vastly shaped her college experience that she has trouble imagining life without it. Now, Ng recalls her first college...

For the 11th straight season, Occidental football (5–2 overall, 4–1 SCIAC) kept the coveted drum from Pomona-Pitzer at Saturday night's rivalry game win. The Tigers clinched a 41-17 victory in their last home game of the season and went out with guns blazing, shutting out the Sagehens the entire second half. Although it was not the last game of the...