With a current record of 6-0, the Occidental baseball team is already off to its best start in the last decade. Though the 2013 baseball season is just underway, the Tiger squad is already demonstrating potential to be better than last year's team that posted a 23-16 (18-10 SCIAC) record, compiling their best overall finish since the 1982 season, the...

At Occidental College, there are two types of people: those with work study, and those without. Without a work award, students are allowed to work up to 15 hours a week (barring special circumstances) and earn up to $3,300 during the academic year. With a work award, however, a student can only be awarded a maximum of $3,100 in work...

Occidental successfully opposed a legal motion filed by persistent birther Orly Taitz to compel the college to release President Barack Obama’s college records, including his application. Birthers such as Taitz believe that President Obama has a fake birth certificate and was not born in the United States, thus making him an illegitimate president. The judge soundly rejected Taitz’s argument, decreeing...

Occidental’s fall academic calendar may be acceptable for students from California, but it thoroughly fails students from the east coast or Hawaii . Next year, the college should make the change it has surely pondered for a while now by cancelling Fall Break and making Thanksgiving a week long. Students within a few hour's drive of home may balk, arguing...

Violent crimes in Eagle Rock have risen significantly during the month of November, according to the LA Times. There were four violent crimes and 15 property crimes in the area during the week of Nov. 4-10, a contrast to the average of 0.7 violent crimes and 12.5 property crimes per week during the past three months. Occidental was indirectly involved...

After America and Occidental College learned the results of the 2012 presidential election, the 32 students enrolled in Campaign Semester returned to Los Angeles to finish the last few weeks of the semester in an intensive seminar reflecting on and comparing their experiences. Urban and Environmental Policy professor Peter Dreier and politics professor Regina Freer lead the class and help...

The first-ever Occidental College Great Strides Charity Fashion Show kicked off in a flurry of silky fabrics and well-pressed khakis. The show is a continuation of the Programming Board's charitable work with proceeds from ticket sales going to Occidental's Great Strides program. Male volunteers modeled looks by Brooks Brothers while volunteer female Occidental student models strutted looks by Carmen Couture...

President Jonathan Veitch and other school administrators have agreed to relook at the Sexual Misconduct Policy and make changes after the Occidental Sexual Assault Coalition's (OSAC) demanded the administration make major adjustments to the policy. The OSAC presented 12 changes to the administration, which were first sent to the Dean Barbara Avery and Dean Erica O'Neal Howard. The Deans accepted...

Surrounded by boxes of cupcake mix and blasting a playlist of Beyoncé and Ghanaian music, the members of Cupcakes for Children began their first official meeting in the Norris common room. As part of a newly formed club on campus, members will bake cupcakes and sell them as a fundraising project in order to provide electricity to a Ghanaian orphanage....

The registration process ran more smoothly than in years past again last week as college officials continue to tinker with their new strategy of splitting up registration times to take pressure of college servers.. Online servers that provide the platform for students to register electronically did not crash as they have in years past, but did slow down with heavy...