On Jan 16, the NCAA restored 112 wins to the record of the Penn State University football program. One hundred and eleven of those wins belonged to former coach Joe Paterno, whose wins were stripped as part of the punishment stemming from the child molestation and sexual abuse scandal surrounding Paterno's former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Paterno allegedly looked the...

Michael Wells is a man with many titles. He serves as Occidental's Sports Information Director, assistant athletic director and an assistant basketball coach. He oversees almost every game Occidental plays, hosts and organizes the Annual Roy Dennis Senior Scholar-Athlete Banquet and the Occidental College Athletics Hall of Fame and manages Sports Facilities Rentals and External Relations. Wells's colleagues have high...

The Occidental women's basketball team fell to No. 12 University of St. Thomas (Minn.) in its first home game of the season. A strong second half was not enough to help the team catch up to the Tommies, who maintained a significant lead on the Tigers throughout the game and closed out a 64-49 victory. The game began with the...

The release of the long awaited Pepper Hamilton report—a 130-page diagnosis of sexual assault policy—practices and debate at Occidental, has generated backlash from faculty, who claim the report is biased and fails to provide adequate policy recommendations. Attorneys Gina Smith and Lisa Gomez were tasked in March 2013 to provide an assessment of Occidental's sexual assault policies, procedures and responses....

Students and faculty brought their grievances to the table at Tuesday's town hall meeting to discuss the long-awaited Pepper Hamilton report. President Jonathan Veitch and Title IX Coordinator Ruth Jones led the meeting while Loyal Marymount Law School professor Laurie Levenson moderated. "The goal today is to really talk about the implications of the report," Veitch said. "It is a...

“In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” That is, at least according to Cady Heron in the 2004 cult-classic Mean Girls. Halloween has...

There is a reason Senior Comprehensives Projects (comps) are bemoaned and dreaded: they are so much more work than expected. While students can debate whether their major’s paper, presentations or test is the most difficult assignment, senior comps across the board are nerve-wracking, time-consuming, overwhelming and under-valued projects. Any senior seminar class should to be counted as eight credit hours,...

While Occidental students may be too old to trick-or-treat this Halloween, amusement parks and hayrides are an age-appropriate alternative only a short drive from campus. Our writers mustered up the courage to visit Universal Studios, Six Flags, the Haunted Hayride and Knott’s Berry Farm to give their fellow students the low-down on nearby Halloween attractions. Universal Studios Halloween Horror NightHalloween...

On a late Friday night as I walked to the cooler, I came upon an unwanted sight. No, not an opossum. Nope, not a raccoon either. Instead, I saw a can of beer poorly hidden under some shrubbery, at least 10 brown napkins strewn about the side terrace, two used paper plates, a cellophane lump once wrapped around a cookie...

The number of reported sex offenses around Occidental increased between 2011 and 2013 while drug violations fell over the same period, according to this year’s Annual Fire, Safety and Security Report (AFSSR). An unprecedented number of administrators and staff from around campus collaborated on the report, which provides an overview of both on- and off-campus crimes from the past three...