In May, Cherena Walker will begin work as Occidental’s first associate vice president and executive director for Career Services, Dean of the College Jorge Gonzalez announced in a campuswide email March 28. The position will be mostly “external facing,” Director of Career Services Valerie Savior said. Rather than regularly meeting with students to provide career counseling, Walker will pursue relationships...

At Friday’s Experience Oxy Admitted Students Day, about 150 student activists wearing black filled the stands of Rush Gym during the lunch for admitted students and their families. Some held posters with black and white photographs from Oxy United for Black Liberation’s occupation of the Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center (AGC) in November. In the front, student activists held a...

Rhonda Brown, Occidental’s first chief diversity officer (CDO) and vice president for equity and inclusion, formally introduced herself to the community in a meeting Tuesday in Choi Auditorium. In addition, she reviewed the administration’s progress on meeting Oxy United for Black Liberation's 14 demands issued last semester. About 50 people — including administrators, faculty, staff and about 15 students —...

In a glass case about 2 feet high, rows and rows of small monochrome birds lie with their beaks pointing skyward. Feathers shift from light gray on the belly to smooth dark gray contour feathers on the wings of each body, and two tags dangle from their spindly legs. This glass case, however, stands alone from the rest of the...

Around 2:30 a.m. Lidia Delgado, 40, left her home in Highland Park to make the 115-mile drive north to Bakersfield, where her estranged husband, three children and preschool business are located. By 4:30 a.m., she was driving back south, confused and in disbelief. Emergency services had just called to inform her that her house was on fire. On Dec. 30,...

Devon DeRaad*In the final game of the three game series against Chapman University Saturday, outfielder and pitcher Devon DeRaad (junior) went 2 for 3 with a home run, two RBIs and three runs scored in the team's commanding 14–4 victory. "Our team finally believed that we deserved to be on the field with a team like Chapman in the third...

With Occidental’s adoption of a preferred name and gender policy, students can now change their names and genders on internal Occidental records such as class rosters, student directory listings, course evaluations and clearance forms, a campus-wide email signed by Acting Dean of Students Erica O’Neal Howard and Title IX Coordinator Ruth Jones announced Thursday. To make these changes, students fill...

Oxy United for Black Liberation is demanding President Jonathan Veitch’s immediate resignation, claiming that he mishandled issues of diversity and sexual assault on campus. The group, led by members of Black Student Alliance (BSA) and Coalition at Oxy for Diversity and Equity (CODE), began occupying the Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center (AGC) Monday to pressure the administration to meet a...

Faculty members discussed the reform of the Cultural Studies Program (CSP) and the creation of a Black studies program at a full-day retreat Jan. 19, the day previously scheduled as the first day of classes. Although intended solely for the faculty, student activists led by Oxy United for Black Liberation and the Coalition at Oxy for Diversity and Equity entered...

Students, faculty and staff convened in Choi Auditorium Thursday at noon to ask President Jonathan Veitch and other administrators questions about diversity and racism at Occidental, as well as actions the administration will take to address the demands made by student activist group Oxy United for Black Liberation. Questions primarily centered on Veitch’s assessment of diversity at the college, mechanisms...