The ferris wheel on campus last spring will return to the quad once again for Founders Day on April 20 as the college wraps up its celebration of Occidental’s 125th year with another carnival and other, more academic activities. According to President Jonathan Veitch, the purpose of this year’s Founder’s Day is to recognize Occidental’s long history and show appreciation...

Students may pay higher student fees next year as part of an Associated Students of Occidental (ASOC) senate proposal to raise the fees in order to better fund student activities on campus. The proposal, enabled by the passage of an amendment to the ASOC Constitution last year that allows ASOC student body fees to be raised at the discretion of...

Headlines fumed over the slowing job creation rate after the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released the March 2013 jobs report, and political pundits spun the news every which way. Optimists expected 192,000 jobs to be created in March, but the stunted economy only produced 88,000. There are several hypotheses attempting to explain the slowed job creation rate. One...

Amina Tyler is biding her time, waiting in a family home. She has remained out of the public eye since members of her family found and kidnapped her in a cafe in Tunis. She's hiding in fear for her personal safety – she suspects police will rape her if found. She wants to move away from her home country, Tunisia....

The building, painted a nondescript beige, takes up an entire street corner. It is desolate, a monotonous façade which stealthily hides the wonders that lie within. A large marquee broadcasts the perpetual weekly special – Mariachi Chicken. Welcome to Pat and Lorraine’s Diner. Pat and Lorraine's has stood in this spot so long that its exact date of inception has...

The word "marathon" dates back to 490 B. C. Legend has it that after the Athenians trumped the Persian army following the Battle of Marathon, the Athenians sent a messenger, Pheidippides, to inform the citizens of Athens about their recent triumph. According to Plutarch, Pheidippides ran nonstop from Marathon to Athens, burst through the Athenian assembly and pronounced to his...

Occidental's once-defunct subversive magazine "The Fang" is returning to campus to take a bite into the literary arts world. Under the guide of senior Editors-in-Chief Gabriel Mathews, Ben Tuthill, Justin Berner and Landon Koenig-Muenster, "The Fang" is set to dig up counterculture sentiments and elicit conversation. "We all came together because we felt a palpable need for something that would...

"Always keep your shoulders poppin'." That’s the one thing Ben Toney (junior) wanted Occidental students to take away from last Thursday’s hip-hop workshop. Why is it we need to always do this? Toney didn’t quite say. What he did do, though, was train the ten or so students who participated in the workshop how to create unique style and content...

The sonorous voice of Roger Guenveur Smith in his one-person show summoned Rodney King back to life last Tuesday in Herrick Chapel. Smith's "Rodney King" depicted King's life before and after his violent beating by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1992. During this performance, the tragedy of his beating was palpable. With a rolling voice and the ability to...

You know when all of your friends go out together and have an amazing time and take lots of pictures and develop a whole series of inside jokes and get matching tattoos and become really, really close, but they forget to invite you because they’re all thoughtless assholes? That’s kind of how I feel about Northern Grade. Northern Grade is...