Price: MSRP: $40.00 System: Nintendo 3DS/2DSPokémon, or "pocket monsters" – the fad that has continued for decades – now has a new iteration: "Pokémon X and Y." Fans of the series can now log countless hours into the new generation of the famous handheld game. For those new to Pokémon, "Pokémon X and Y" is the perfect way to jump...

Amid calls to push Occidental toward a more sustainable future, students in the Urban and Environmental Policy (UEP) department have spearheaded the school's first campus-wide conservation challenge. The competition pits residence halls against each other to see which hall can reduce its water and energy consumption the most. Efforts to implement the event came about after UEP major Lila Singer-Berk...

Oxypreneurship presented the first "Ideas in Action: A Forum for Empowered Students" event last Wednesday, Oct. 23. Six students shared insight from their academic and professional journeys thus far with their peers in an attempt to open up student-to-student dialogue about their passions, goals and sources of inspiration. "Not only was it just organized by the students for the students,...

Mexico City. The 17th International Clown Convention was held last week in Mexico City and included brightly dressed clowns and a 15-minute "laugh-a-thon" for peace in Mexico. The recent murder of a former cartel leader in northwestern Mexico by men dressed in clown costumes was one of the issues that came up at the convention. A leader of the clown...

Occidental Student Life has established a year-long moratorium on all school-wide dances following the hospitalization of six students at the annual Toga dance this past Saturday, Oct. 26. "We can’t continue to have these events if we’re constantly calling 911," Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Student Life Tamara Rice said. Toga, which had between 800 and 1000 guests...

As students flooded lower campus for Occidental's annual Toga dance, a ruptured pipe inundated upper campus with water. The flooding left multiple residence halls without water and damaged the vivarium of the Bioscience building. According to an email from Director of Communications Jim Tranquada, the flooding began around 12 a.m. Sunday when a 6-inch steel water main running between the...

Football (3-3 overall, 2-2 SCIAC) Coming off of a homecoming loss to Chapman, the Occidental football team (3-3 overall, 2-2 SCIAC) redeemed itself against four-time defending conference champion Cal Lutheran on Saturday with a 44-34 victory. “It’s a huge win against one of the best teams in the SCIAC,” head coach Doug Semones said. “We finally put a complete game...

Twenty-seven clubs have been removed from the Office of Student Life (OSL)’s list of recognized student organizations this semester due to missed training sessions on sexual assault and hazing awareness. These clubs are also not able to request funding from Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC). Out of the 27 clubs that are no longer recognized by OSL, very few...

The I-5 North runs through hundreds of miles of flat farm land. The uniform green of monocrop farms dot a parched landscape that is so devoid of water it looks like a modern day dustbowl. But an hour west of the interstate, off of highway 41, is Paso Robles, where traditional, sustainable agriculture still thrives. In the midst of vineyards...

Occidental College has a problem coping with the wilder spirits of its students. As is the case every semester, this fall the off-campus community has incurred all manner of noise ordinance, alcohol, guest and other policy violations. It is indicative of the incorrigible nature of our off-campus students. Clearly, they can not be reasoned with. I propose the college should...