Engaging in honest conversations about sexual violence and accountability is an unavoidably brutal process. It requires a community to acknowledge that sexual assault is an act of physical oppression carried out by its members against one another, and furthermore it asks that we invest a tremendous amount of energy in re-thinking our norms regarding sex, privilege and respect. Instead of...

Illuminated by the rainbow lights of lasers, KOXY presented a sizzlingly successful concert on Friday in Sycamore Glen, featuring !!! (pronounced "Chk Chk Chk" or "Pow Pow Pow"), Vice Cooler and student band Warmm. Much of the 175-person crowd was dancing throughout the entire show, and a formidable mosh pit formed with the unrelenting rhythmic onslaught. The energetic and undeniably...

The time had come. It was winter break. I had five weeks of nothing to do in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, and I was ready to commit myself wholeheartedly to the denimhead lifestyle. For one entire month I would wear the same pair of jeans every single day. I was willing to sacrifice everything: family, friends, reputation, comfort. If I...

The Polaroid pictures on display at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex very well could be a collection of police mug shots, a display for the local Sears Portrait Studio or a compilation of candid family pictures. They are none of the above. These images are the unique works of Andy Warhol as he captures people, objects and obscure commonalities using...

Early on a Saturday evening in Pasadena, the sound of smooth jazz could be heard from just outside the doors of Century Books. Upon entry, one is greeted with a feeling of warmth that comes not only from the gas fireplace in the corner but from the environment itself. Century's wall to wall stacks of books old and new seem...

In celebration of the culture of cycling and its relationship to art, the opening night of the Occidental and North East Los Angeles (N. E. L. A.) Bicycle Art Show brought together members of Los Angeles's bicycling communities and Occidental students. A variety of attendees bustled through the Weingart Gallery and Patio, beckoned to explore the connection between bicycles and...

Friends, Sexual assault is a serious issue on college and university campuses. It is probably the singlemost under-reported issue in higher education. We--and by we, I mean all of us--must do something about it. It is incumbent on Occidental; it is incumbent on each of us. As nearly everyone knows by now, a report of sexual assault was made a...

Occidental faculty voted to support a measure, proposed by Occidental UEP and politics Professor Peter Dreier, to ask the college Board of Trustees to divest college funds from companies that manufacture military-style assault weapons or high-capacity ammunition magazines sold to the general public. The faculty voted in favor of the measure 62 to eight, with eight abstaining. President Veitch indicated...

The Eagle Rock home where Matt Damon and Occidental College alumnus Ben Affleck penned their critically acclaimed movie "Good Will Hunting" is under consideration by the Cultural Heritage Commission for historical preservation. The classical architecture of the home however, not its cinematic history, is what caught the Commission's eye. Recognition as a historic-cultural monument affords the structure special privileges and...

ITS sent out an email to selected students to take a survey regarding library and other technological services. Clearly they have never tried to use the Internet at 10 p.m. when it is at its highest usage, when it moves slower than a slug crossing an entire swamp. Because if they had, in fact, used the Internet during that time,...