History professor Lynn Dumenil and Art History and Visual Arts (AHVA) professor Louise Yuhas will retire this semester after 22 and 36 years at Occidental, respectively. Students, department chairs and fellow professors noted that Dumenil and Yuhas made significant marks in their departments, helping to add new academic focuses and providing guidance for students and other faculty. Louise YuhasYuhas began...

Sexual assault policy consultants Gina Smith and Leslie Gomez returned to campus last week to speak with members of the Occidental community. Along with several private meetings with specific groups, Smith and Gomez's visit included one open meeting for faculty and two for students. The consultants used the meetings to briefly explain their role within the school, their approach and...

The March 21 town hall was a valuable forum for the ongoing discussion on sexual assault. Many students stood in front of Thorne, cried, were angry and tried to bring change. Afterwards, students were invited to multiple debriefing sessions for reflection. But after that day, the discussion fell short; there were no longer forums for reflection, just debate, on campus....

For over a year Occidental has been at the forefront of a large national conversation surrounding sexual assault, but it was not until this semester that the issue reached fever pitch. That should come as no surprise to the students and survivors who are enduring great adversity to tell their stories. Nor should it come as a surprise to an...

Nothing exemplifies the concept of a viral video quite like "Kony 2012". A friend of mine described the discussion surrounding Invisible Children's short video as a very "Internet-y" chain of events. He was referring to the evolution of the conversation's discourse: It started when a video was posted on YouTube – in this case, it was the Kony 2012 campaign...

It’s no secret that Jonathan Veitch was named Occidental’s newest president in 2009 to return political and philosophical integrity to the school. After all, he has been the college’s fifth president in the last decade. Formely dean of an equally progressive school, Eugene Lang College, the native Angelino – the first in Occidental’s history – returned to his home city...

Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three and injuring more than 260. The two suspects are brothers, ethnic Chechens and had lived in the U. S. legally for almost ten years. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a firefight with police four days after the bombings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is hospitalized...

I’m going to buy a suit soon. I think I want an American one in soft grey but I have a friend who keeps offering me crazy deals on imported Italian labels, and I think I might have to indulge him. I just found out how high my loans are, and I’m starting to realize that maybe post-graduation life won’t...

Scores of alumni, trustees and local citizens trekked to the base of Mount Fiji last Saturday afternoon for the dedication of the newly installed solar array system, which has already reduced the college's energy use by 23 percent in its first month. The ceremony focused on the social and political impact of the array, and was followed by a reception...

Thirty-four Occidental faculty members added their names and complaints to a letter sent to the leaders of the Information and Technology Services (ITS). The completed letter lists insufficient maintenance and repairs, poor training of student workers and the lack of an administrative effort to rectify any technological problems as major impediments to efficiency in the classroom. The original letter was...