Starting this semester, students will no longer be required to provide a note from Emmons Health Center to be excused from class due to a minor or moderate illness. Although the Dean of Students Office will alert professors of absences due to severe illnesses, it will be the responsibility of the student to directly communicate with professors about more minor...

Occidental has restarted conversations about integrating and adding more offices into the ground floor of the library as part of a vision to turn the Academic Commons into a 21st century learning environment. Administrators propose moving the Advising Center, Center for Community Based Learning, Center for Teaching Excellence and the Undergraduate Research Center into the Academic Commons by the summer...

The Blyth Fund, Occidental's student-run investment group, is running a virtual stock competition open to all students in an effort to spread awareness on campus. The competition, which closes to entrants on Feb. 15, gives students $100,000 in virtual money and challenges them to invest it as profitably as they can. The contestant with the highest profit at the end...

Jesus had one of the most controversial celebrity marriages of all time. Just 100 years after the death of Christ, Christian theologians did not agree on whether or not Jesus was, in fact, a married man. Last Thursday, former Occidental Religious Studies professor Dr. Karen King gave a lecture in Keck Theatre about her research of ancient apocryphal scripture in...

Situated on a majestic hill in Century City, the elegant structure of the Annenberg Space for Photography could very well be a portal into another world. That is the case with their latest exhibit entitled “No Strangers." An exposé of the plight of Indigenous groups around the globe, the display includes the work of more than a dozen photographers across...

These are dark times. We made it through the Mayan Apocalypse more or less unscathed, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t entered a bleak new era of human history. The end may be less imminent than it was a month ago, but already there are signs that something bad is coming. We can ignore those signs like we always do,...

After ending their season three years ago with a 2-11 record, the Occidental Men’s Lacrosse Team knew something had to change. But, change came during that offseason when they brought in a new coach, Steven Luna, who since then has helped to provide stability. Last season after building up the roster, the program reached a new high, going 8-3 before...

In dealing with the scourge of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), baseball and football have taken two completely different paths, showing that the philosophy of rooting out PEDs in American sports is incoherent. When the Baltimore Ravens' Ray Lewis was tied to the use of a banned substance the week leading up to the Super Bowl, Lewis downplayed the story. Days...

While the use of social networking in college recruiting was once limited to NCAA Division I and II collegiate athletics, the NCAA passed a motion at its annual convention last month to bring Division III sports into the mix. The recruiting process for high school athletes has changed drastically in recent years courtesy of the advents of social networking sites...

Headed to a disciplinary meeting, or the hospital, is not the best way to start the semester, according to Associate Dean of Residential Education and Housing Services (REHS) Tim Chang. But arriving on campus late at night, tired, jet lagged and obliged to get up and go to class at eight the next morning while all your belongings are still...