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...

The women's basketball team is training under interim head coach and Assistant Director of Athletics Anahit "Heat" Aladzhanyan, who looks to fill the big shoes left behind after the departure of Heidi VanDerveer. Even just a few weeks in, players have felt the change and responded to the new program formulated by a coach who has assisted both the Occidental...

After a tightly scheduled regular season for the Occidental Women's Volleyball team, the Tigers now head into to the SCIAC Tournament to compete for the conference championship crown after a rout of Redlands University on Oct. 27. The women found their way into the SCIAC playoffs with a win that was all about timing. The team came into the game...

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...

Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) a student-run group on Occidental’s campus, is taking advantage of Breast Cancer Awareness month to jump-start their cancer awareness initiatives. From guest speakers to blood drives, CAC hopes to educate and motivate the student population even after the month of October ends. The student organization CAC, an affiliate of the American Cancer Society, is the only...

Pre-race strategy paid off enormously for the cross country team in its first SCIAC multi-dual meet. Both the men's and women's teams had success and found their footing on the trail, while steep competition from Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) and Pomona-Pitzer challenged them throughout the difficult course. The men's team finished fourth overall, while the women finished third, trailing Pomona-Pitzer by only...

The Core Program will soon be getting a makeover after Occidental received the $750,000 Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant. The grant will go towards adding two distribution requirements to the Core Program while also making it more interdisciplinary. The proposed changes are awaiting a vote from faculty. President Jonathan Veitch, Dean Jorge Gonzalez and Chair of the Core Program Professor John...

More than most other organizations in Los Angeles, Scientologists are persistent in their cause. No visit to Old Town Pasadena would be complete without being approached by one of their black-clad representatives. In a further attempt to propagate their cause, they established an anti-psychiatry museum, dramatically called "Psychiatry: an Industry of Death," located in West Hollywood. Started by the Citizens...

This past Saturday, Occidental students clothed in every animal print imaginable packed into the former Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) house. It was sweaty and crowded, but the energy in the room was undeniable. On top of a makeshift stage, sophomore Jordan Whaley (stage name Dienasty) stood, microphone in hand, words flying out of his mouth as he rapped effortlessly over...

Informal Recruitment, the period in which Occidental's Greek organizations recruit new members for the fall semester, will proceed with participation from only three organizations this year. This is a decrease from the six that usually participate in the process. Only Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta), Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), and Zeta Tau Zeta (Zeta) will be recruiting new members. Alpha Lambda...