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… By Peter Gilstrap The track wakes up early. As the sun inches toward a dazzling blue … Tractors plow stretches of tobacco-brown turf. And the smell of coffee, cigars, and horse manure perfumes the air as … respective seasons at Santa Anita and Del Mar to the south, near his hometown of Vista, where playing the ponies was an …
… Seligmann Theo Ellis Novotny Mai Linh Wong Carolina Arap Hometown: São Paulo, Brazil and New York, NY Majors: theater, … Literature and Culture (Ancient Greek concentration) What was your motivation to major in theater? As someone who is pursuing acting professionally, majoring in theater was a no-brainer. I was attracted to the program at Oxy …
… read “John Slaughter Cigar and Conversation Bench” to commemorate his retirement in 1999. As students headed back to … with students.” Slaughter’s affection for his students was reciprocated. “ President Slaughter was the man,” … in August 1988. But the Topeka, Kansas, native—coming off a nearly six-year stint as chancellor of the University of …
… California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli M. Evans served as … “I’m pinching myself sitting next to you.”) Much of the nearly 90-minute conversation focused on the justices’ … their paths to the bench, and the challenges and rewards of judicial service. A recurring theme was the …
… York on Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 with a mix of excitement and anxiety over what the future holds for them. … and figure out how New York’s notoriously confusing subway system works. On our first day, we were greeted by the … Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)) …
… students, faculty and alumni in Thorne Hall. “Not much in Washington is driven by philosophy or principle now. We may … on, if you are contrary on those, you will have a hard time.” It’s possible to make a principled argument against … Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman who was the target of a near-fatal assassination attempt in 2011, returned to the …
… In the summer of 1960, Omar Paxson ’48, Sally Norton, and John Ingle … theater company on the Occidental College campus. It was a leap of faith on a Depression-era budget, fueled by … and Sally’s son, we grew up in that world— two shy, awkward kids who found a friendly place to fit in among quirky …
… culture, including Tokyo Underworld , You Gotta Have Wa and The Samurai way of Baseball . Among attendees included Deputy Consul … in Los Angeles, and Bill Ireton. Ireton is a Japanese-American media executive whose son Will attended Occidental …
… Francesca Romero Renn Stearns Hannah Christensen Francesca Romero Hometown: Walnut Creek, CA Major: DWA; minors : politics, Latino/a and Latin American Studies … Meet some of our Diplomacy and World Affairs (DWA) majors. … Meet Our Majors …
… Dear Members of the Oxy Community: I am delighted to announce … selected as the Community Book for the 2022-2023 year. An award-winning novel published in 2019, Your House Will Pay is … 300 pages, Cha weaves a compelling story about the many ways this traumatic event affects both families involved in …