Fresh off the successful event Pandemic, the Occidental Programming Board kept the momentum going with a 5K run this past Sunday. The 5K is a new kind of event for the Board: it is a charitable run benefiting the Make-A-Wish foundation. Programming Board Manager Redd Barua-Norton (senior) and event planner Keane Tarrosa (sophomore) started working on the run at the...

When an individual attends class, he or she most likely expects to see a professor lecturing, donned in work-appropriate apparel as they should be, and students dressed in similarly decent attire while in the presence of a distinguished academic. Instead, many students seem to choose the wrong kind of clothing to wear in a classroom or any academic vicinity for...

Students should be on the lookout for mustaches cropping up on campus this month because Movember is once again coming to Occidental. MoBros, or participants in Movember, will be growing out their mustaches throughout "No Shave November" to raise awareness for men's health, specifically for prostate and testicular cancer. Phi Kappa Psi (Phi Psi) organizes this month-long extravaganza, but everyone...

Occidental hosted Dr. Mark Sawyer, the final speaker for the college's 2012 election series, to serve as the last informational presentation before the election. The Politics Department organized the speaker series as a part of election programming to help educate and inform students about the different issues that are important this election year. Sawyer, a Professor of African-American Studies and...

Occidental College honored Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence Awareness Month with a Peace over Violence speaker informing students of her experiences with domestic issues. To further awareness, Project SAFE will be sponsoring the Red Flag Campaign next week by placing red flags around campus with warning signs and facts about how to have a healthy relationship. Project SAFE also hosted...

Occidental, the college without a business department, is attempting to bring business to campus in a new way. But a new club on campus, Oxypreneurship, intends to approach the idea in an entirely new way. Having started as a discussion among faculty members, the club will have four main functions: invite speakers to campus, plan 48-hour task force events, offer...

The Dranzen chapter at Occidental received the Silver Torch Award at the 2012 Mortar Board National Convention held in Chicago last July. The award is an honor bestowed to chapters that maintain excellence in scholarship, leadership and service. The requirements to receive the Silver Torch Award are outlined on the Mortar Board's official website. In essence, chapters must meet all...

The room draw process is slightly different this year due to the results of a student poll distributed by Residential Education and Housing Services (REHS). REHS released a survey on Oct. 8 asking students what they wanted the room draw process to look like this coming spring. Following the lead of the majority of respondents, REHS did not change the...

Occidental's student senators will soon become a fixture in the Green Bean, the campus coffee shop and popular hangout spot. Economics major and student senator Sid Saravat's (sophomore) set up regular office hours in the Green Bean for the student representatives as part of his personal project. The goal for the project is to make the Occidental community more aware...

After alcohol and hazing violations landed both Phi Kappa Psi and Delta Omicron Tau on probation, the Occidental College administration revised the policies on hazing and sexual misconduct. In presentations to the Greek community on campus at their chapter meetings, Devon MacIver and the Office of Student Life (OSL) have been working on making these policies known. MacIver has been...