It was nothing but clear skies and warm sunshine on Bill Henry Track this past Friday and Saturday when Cal Lutheran hosted the track and field SCIAC Championship meet. Occidental finished sixth overall, boasting some notable individual performances along the way. Charlie Sauter (senior) came in second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase behind a Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) senior. Sauter’s time for the...

After earning a bye in the first round of the SCIAC tournament, the women's lacrosse team suffered an unexpected loss to Chapman on Saturday. Having won the SCIAC last season, the Tigers had high expectations going into this year's tournament but did not allow themselves to become complacent down the stretch. According to Haley Gandsey (senior), there have always been...

The Bike Share program, which has been one of the Sustainability Fund's fastest-growing investments, installed a new repair unit this year with the help of the Sustainability Fund. The free on-campus bike share program provides a sustainable means of transportation on campus and has been increasing in capacity in the last few years The expansion of the program has been...

A man with a curled ginger mustache, bandana around his neck and brown wool hat atop his head holds onto his bike and surfs the ebb and flow of the L. A. Metro train. Everyone else in his car sits. At the 23rd Street Expo-Line stop, he walks his bike out of the Metro, pauses, turns his bike lights on...

"The East" might be a movie about spies. Writer and actress Brit Marling plays Sarah Moss, a secret agent who goes undercover to foil the terrorist plots or “jams” of an environmental anarchist collective called the East before they force CEOs to skinny-dip in lethal lakes polluted by their own plants or give pharmaceutical employees a literal taste of their...

Ryan Lochte has added a new title to his long list of accomplishments: reality TV star. E! Network picked up filming the interview-challenged athlete in an effort to fill the time space where Kardashian shenanigans would usually appear. Though Lochte may not do well with words, watching him prank his brother, go on painfully awkward dates, hang out with his...

Flower headbands, fringe tank tops, face paint and even an animal costume took over Thorne Patio last Saturday night for Occidental's last dance of the year, Full Moon. Programming Board decided to try something different with the dance, releasing information about the event piece by piece and not posting the full details of the dance in advance. By writing statements...

Georgia, United States. Wilcox County High School in rural Georgia just hosted its first integrated prom in school history. Until this year, separate white and black proms were held for the school of 380 students. A roughly even number of black and white students make up the demographics of the school. A group of four female students pursued the idea,...

Students are making plans to start a chapter of Active Minds, an organization dedicated to mental health awareness, at Occidental next year. Dana Rust (first-year) and psychology major Mikayla Branz (sophomore) reinvigorated the group in order to provide Occidental students access to resources, information and exposure to mental health care while at school. Active Minds is a national non-profit organization...

With an increased number of seniors living on campus and a growing student body, several students left room draw this year without a room for next semester. "I had room draw number 478, and was told that worst case there were always singles in Stearns left over ... When they got to my number, all that was left was forced...