Plate to belly, belly to mind, mind to community. Each October, the coalition of student groups behind Food Justice Month coordinate programming to show just how far the nourishing power of food can reach. The groups, spanning Campus Dining, Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, Veg Club and community partners like Food Forward, a Pasadena-based organization that harvests excess fruit from...

The Grambling State University Tigers football team did something unprecedented last Saturday by choosing to boycott and forfeit its participation in Jackson State's homecoming game. The boycott came in the wake of complaints about the conditions of the squad's facilities and perceived institutional mistreatment. With this major showing of solidarity, the issue of players' rights in college sports has been...

California Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 274 on Sept. 27, allowing courts to recognize more than two legal parents for a child. Brown’s choice to sign legislation that provides equal protections for children with all kinds of families supports the complexities of the modern household, taking a step in the right direction by rejecting the dominant notion of the...

Any student at Occidental who considers themselves social has probably noticed that Campus Safety has substantially tightened its regulation of off-campus activity, causing a visible shift in weekend get-togethers and events. The recent uptick in students residing off-campus being put on probation may cause some to ask why Occidental students continue to host parties. The current policies in place make...

In spite of Occidental's purported commitment to global and intercultural studies, Occidental is part of the majority of complacent institutions with under-prioritized foreign language programs. While commitment to maintaining quality foreign language programs is wavering across the nation, Occidental's students must be held to higher standards of language proficiency, and the college must provide the support necessary for them to...

The Occidental Undergraduate Law Review (OULR), scheduled to appear in spring or summer of 2014, will be a published journal in which students can present their own analysis of issues related to the law. Though not an official club at Occidental College, the OULR will be primarily student run. Politics major Trace Larabee (junior), the journal’s chief officer, plans to...

The Academic Commons is currently phasing out books as part of a process to reduce outdated, underused print materials. The Academic Commons is developing a diverse collection and has revitalization plans to create new multifunctional work spaces that reflect the needs of an intellectual community in the digital age. “We try to give the books as many chances to have...

Madrid. A job opening for gallery attendants was recently posted by the Prado Museum in Central Madrid, Spain's national museum considered to house one of the finest collections of European art in the world. The posting resulted in 18,700 applicants applying for 11 openings. With Spain's overall unemployment rate hovering around 26 percent, the prospects are bleak for the 18,689...

From Friday night’s Athletics parade and Hall of Fame induction ceremony to the highly anticipated Tigers football game on Saturday, students, family, faculty and alumni were able to join together in celebrating everything that Occidental stands for during this weekend’s homecoming festivities. Homecoming action began earlier than usual this year, commencing with a car parade for the various varsity teams...

New public health and neuroscience programs prompted by student and faculty interest are undergoing the proposal process to become minors. The education department is restructuring the current education minor to focus more on urban education. "Since there's already a lot of curriculum around public health it's just a natural minor to develop, and the same is true for both the...