Ella Fornari
April 30, 2013
A man with a curled ginger mustache, bandana around his neck and brown wool hat atop his head holds onto his bike and surfs the ebb and flow of the L.A. Metro train. Everyone else in his car sits. At the 23rd Street Expo-Line stop, he walks his bike out of the Metro, pauses, turns his bike lights on... Read more »
Lucy Feickert
April 23, 2013
Benjamin Finser Economics major Benjamin Finser (senior) will be leaving sunny Los Angeles for Chicago after graduation where he has a job as an analyst at Kabouter Management. Kabouter Management is a small international investment fund that invests in undiscovered companies in long term growth industries... Read more »
Ryan Strong
April 16, 2013
Students may pay higher student fees next year as part of an Associated Students of Occidental (ASOC) senate proposal to raise the fees in order to better fund student activities on campus. The proposal, enabled by the passage of an amendment to the ASOC Constitution last year that allows ASOC student... Read more »
Arielle Laub
April 16, 2013
The building, painted a nondescript beige, takes up an entire street corner. It is desolate, a monotonous façade which stealthily hides the wonders that lie within. A large marquee broadcasts the perpetual weekly special – Mariachi Chicken. Welcome to Pat and Lorraine’s Diner. Pat and Lorraine’s... Read more »
Ryan Graff
April 9, 2013
“Because I’m better looking,” Jeff Thiel said as he comes out of the kitchen, tying his stained and faded black apron securely around his barrel-like midsection. Thiel references how the staff and patrons of The Capri Italian Restaurant tell him and his identical twin, Jim, apart. As Jim — younger... Read more »
Tess Langan
April 9, 2013
Most of us know the library as more than the stacks, computers, quiet floor and occasional errant Cheetos wrappers that constitute it. There are scribbles etched into desks as urgent and existential as those a high-security prisoner might write. Kisses and farts wedge between the stacks, silent as unopened... Read more »
Lena Smith
April 2, 2013
Only in the city of Angels can a trip on the bus make a rider feel both right at home and mildly out of place. The bus, like most public forms of transportation, is much cheaper than driving, and saves the commuter valuable time from making endless circles looking for parking. Take heed, though, as bus... Read more »
Mallory Fencil
April 2, 2013
Ellen Daigle, then a nurse, envisioned herself spending more time with her children and made the tough decision to leave her career behind and pursue her dream of starting a business. Daigle set out to find a new career and went back to college to take classes to explore her artistic aspirations. “I... Read more »
Taylor-Anne Esparza
March 27, 2013
Over the course of about 45 years at Occidental College, Richard Shive ’61 witnessed many people, programs and interests come and go. He heard parents refer to Occidental as a communist institution, was present when the college installed its first printer in the library and saw the inauguration... Read more »
Ryan Strong
March 20, 2013
In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama made his bluntest call yet for colleges around the country to control the skyrocketing costs of higher education and not to consider his improved student aid program as a license to continue raising administrative costs. “Taxpayers... Read more »
