Facebook announced on March 25 that they are acquiring Oculus Virtual Reality Inc. in the second quarter of the fiscal year. The partnership between a platform and social media source could change our technological world. Oculus' headset has won over the gaming community. Their latest iteration, the "Crystal Cove," tracks the movement of the user's head, allowing him or her...

When Programming Board announced that they would be bringing in Talib Kweli as the headline artist for SpringFest on April 12, my initial reaction was to throw up a Tiger Woods-style fist pump in the middle of the Marketplace and excitedly text my mom and younger brother about the good news. Talib Kweli has long been one of my favorite...

Just three blocks from Occidental, wedged next to Yellow Liquor on the corner of Eagle Rock Boulevard and Ridgeview Avenue, is Max City BBQ, the newest Eagle Rock gastronomic venture. The corner café is hardly a dive; it boasts a bar lined with Ranunculus flower bouquets and over-sized glass jars filled with lemonade and iced tea. Part of the rear...

Late at night, curled in bed and delaying sleep or avoiding work, many Occidental students scroll through the shocking and frequently humorous "Oxy Confessions," available via Facebook for evening entertainment. "Oxy Confessions" became part of the Occidental College experience in late October, publishing "confessions" that anyone can submit anonymously through a Google Form. This page may be a tool for...

It is a Friday night, and I go to bed relatively late. Expecting to sleep until the late morning, I am surprised to be woken up before 9 a.m. to music neither my roommates nor typically I listen to. Confused at first, I slowly realize the pop music is coming from the baseball team's pre-game warmup for its 11 a.m....

Two’s a coincidence; three’s a trend. That’s why the Occidental swimming and diving program proved to the Division-III nation that qualifying three athletes for the NCAA National Championships in Indianapolis — swimmers Steven van Deventer (junior) and Caroline Chang (senior) and diver Jessica Robson (senior) — was no fluke. By the competition’s end, van Deventer had claimed his second straight...

The Campus Safety Department has introduced dispatch controllers to its personnel on a trial basis as part of an ongoing effort to make Campus Safety more efficient and allow officers to focus more on patrolling duties. G4S Secure Solutions, a security contracting agency, currently supplies the dispatchers, who answer and field all calls to the department. The officers either address...

One of the benefits of a small, liberal arts college is that students and professors have the opportunity to get to know each other beyond basic facial recognition in a large lecture hall. Many Occidental students take advantage of their small class sizes and meet with their professors in one-on-one settings on a weekly basis, developing individual connections with them....

Improvement was the word of the day for the Occidental track and field programs on Saturday at SCIAC Multi-Dual 2, as numerous Tigers dropped time in track events and added distance in the field by significant margins. The performances led to a men’s sweep over the Caltech Beavers and the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens and a split for the women, who defeated...

Political organizer and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta spoke in Thorne Hall on Tuesday to discuss the importance of education in combating social injustice. Huerta is well-known for her activism for farmworkers' rights and women's rights. La Raza Coalition member and Urban and Environmental Policy and Latino/a and Latin American Studies double major Bianca Cervantes (senior) and Diplomacy and World...