To most people the faculty seems diverse enough, but a closer historical look reveals startling facts. About a decade ago, the college didn't just hire faculty of color; an extraordinary culture of diversity was proactively nurtured by the administration and Occidental developed a reputation as a premier college for challenging injustice. Many professors who have been here longer than the...

Fueled by solid hitting performances and bullpen relief, the Occidental College baseball team was able to pick up two big wins over conference foe Redlands University this past weekend, overcoming the Bulldogs 2-1 in the series. With the victories, the Tigers hit the 20-win mark and now sit just four wins away from eclipsing last year's record-setting win total. The...

Occidental hired sexual assault policy consultants Gina Smith and Leslie Gomez for outside review of college policies in light of the recent misconduct debate. Smith and Gomez made their first set of visits to campus on April 3 and 4. According to President Jonathan Veitch, Smith and Gomez plan to analyze Occidental’s current policies and assess previous cases of assault...

If any Occidental students logged onto their Facebook accounts over the last week, they may have noticed a trend of pink-and-red equal signs flooding their news feeds. According to Facebook, the original Human Rights Campaign image was shared over 70,000 times last week – the majority of which we can safely assume were shared by students and young adults. The...

The recent investigation of John Sweet was not the first time the former athletics trainer has been involved in allegations of sexual misconduct, according to a former student-athlete and Athletic Director Jaime Hoffman. Former Occidental athlete Emily Niklaus '11, along with at least one other student athlete, accused Sweet of making sexually inappropriate remarks in 2009.“When he asked me what...

For Occidental shortstop and captain Logan Allen (senior), personal stats and records take a backseat to the team. According to Allen, the most exciting part of his four-year Tiger baseball career has been turning a squad undergoing a long rebuilding period into a winning program that sits just four wins away from eclipsing last year's record-setting mark of 23 victories....

Women's Water Polo (7-17 overall, 1-3 SCIAC) Women's water polo finished off the first half of its conference schedule with a match-up against Whittier on Saturday. Despite the Tigers' strong effort in their duel against the Poets, the team could not find the offensive power needed to overcome the 9-6 deficit. The loss extends the squad's conference streak to three...

The Occidental College men's tennis team started its conference season on Friday, entering on a three-game winning streak and continuing the trend with an 8-1 victory over Caltech. From the outset, their schedule has been grueling as the squad faced 10 matches in 13 days from March 17 to March 29. The men were successful last season in breaking the...

The Occidental College men’s and women’s golf teams had to scratch their way to the finish, but in the end, both teams completed SCIAC #2 with strong individual performances. The Tigers joined the rest of the SCIAC teams for the final tournament of the year before heading to the conference championship at the end of April. The tournament, hosted by...

The NCAA tournament, aside from being the most exciting college sporting event in America, is also a reminder of just how lucrative college basketball often is for Division I universities. This March and April, as the tournament has brought college basketball to the forefront of media coverage, there have been various red flags set off by the flawed nature of...