Silent Solidarity, a program designed to help students understand the experience of marginalized social groups, will be offered to Occidental students for the first time on Mar. 28. Participants in the program take on an assigned identity and refrain from all forms of communication, including social media and texting, from 9 a.m. until a debriefing session at 5 p.m. in...

Arabic students at Occidental are expressing frustration with the lack of advanced Arabic classes the department offers, limited by low student enrollment and a lack of cooperation by other institutions in the area. While the Spanish and French studies department houses the Arabic program and offers advanced Arabic (300 level), they are not able to offer the course every year,...

Azealia Banks is not headlining SpringFest tomorrow. Booking Macklemore does not mean Programming Board hates minorities. And despite a few participants dressed in a questionable fashion, Occidental's own rendition of the now-famous Harlem Shake internet meme does not signify the college’s condonation of intolerance. Our most influential voices on the issues of race, ethnicity and diversity always tend to be...

Recently, Occidental College’s Campus Dining Department realized it had a problem. Student surveys put Occidental food on the low end of a “value" metric compared to other institutions. Most people would confront a problem like this in a very common sense way: they would work to reduce wasteful overhead, try to lower the amount of meal plan money that gets...

Despite the lofty expectations for a team featuring four bonafide stars in the starting lineup, the Lakers are mired in mediocrity. Sitting under .500 and in ninth place in the Western Conference, the Lakers' squad of skilled but aging players now find themselves looking up at younger teams like Houston, Denver and Golden State. The common perception is that the...

Kevin Liu Tiger Woods serves as a role model for golfer Kevin Liu in more ways than one. "I've always tried to model my game after Tiger Woods because he's been so dominant throughout his career," Liu said. "He also showed that golfers can get tons of ladies, which is something I hope to emulate too." Although Kevin Liu only...

Baseball (10-2 overall, 4-2 SCIAC)The baseball team won 6-5 in extra innings on Friday against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS). The game remained close until the end; both teams were tied at 5-5 in the ninth inning. Logan Allen (senior) made two defensive plays in the bottom of the ninth to prevent CMS from scoring then proceeded to hit a double, which helped...

Live Arts Los Angeles Live Arts Los Angeles (LALA) offers a variety of dance and workout classes that Occidental students can attend. Some styles include ballet, hip-hop, contemporary and African dance. LALA also offers yoga, pilates, zumba and stretch classes. Senior Timothy Chang, who teaches a Jazz Funk class at LALA, likes the small and intimate setting offered at LALA....

Student-taught classes could appear in the Occidental course catalog as early as Fall 2013 as part of the proposed Experimental College of Occidental (ExCO). Vice President of Academic Affairs and economics and politics major Nick McHugh (sophomore) is spearheading the effort, which seeks to provide an alternative to the traditional notion of course-taker and course-giver, according to the proposal to...

Amidst a tumultuous time for Occidental Athletics, Doug Semones comes in as the new head football coach to provide some stability for the department and for a team that has had three different head coaches in as many years. "[The players] need someone that is going to be here and be their leader and be a figurehead for the program...