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… ’16 recalls being “charmed by bucolic scenes of Oxy faculty walking and talking with students—an image of Professor Ford … for homework and complete their assignments, labs, and tests in class] was also a great way to give students the … a sophisticated grasp of rigorous, theoretical academic material but they also exhibit a fervent commitment to …
… students who apply and eventually choose Oxy, so that always makes it difficult to characterize a class,” says Vince … part to how Occidental’s community is defined.” The latest additions to that welcoming community include a dune … experience in her native Serbia included somewhat different material. “I was in plays that dealt with important social …
… Garcia is one first-year student who already knows her way around the Oxy campus. “I grew up on the border of Eagle … we would sit down on the grass and have lunch. Oxy has always been part of my life.” As her graduation from Eagle … a recommendation. Let’s say a student cheated on a test. They’ll probably do a work crew, like helping out the …
… “This was how naive I was about the pandemic,” Woody Studenmund says. “I was … class as we could.” As generations of Oxy students will attest, there’s no substitute for the real Woody. Over the … even cast as an extra in the Disney movie The World’s Greatest Athlete , which filmed its track sequences at Cal State …
… In the beginning, there was Pong. Half a century ago, Sunnyvale-based Atari Corp. … major from Minneapolis. “If you look at what kids are watching right now, they’re watching sports, sure. But a lot of them are also watching …
… Administrative Center has been at the nexus of student protest at Occidental. As Andrew Rolle '43 recounts in his … Offends Me,' and 'Dedicate People, Not Buildings.' The goal was to voice campus unrest and demand more decision-making … thriving; we are surviving day by day." Among the onlookers was President Jonathan Veitch, who was invited to address …
… she explains. For an economics class at Oxy, the assignment was to do a report on the differences between what people do … camera in hand, she chronicled a day in the life of a sewage worker and a CEO, shooting in manholes and high-rises … all on my iPhone now.” She returned to New York, edited the material together, and submitted it to Current TV “because …
… for Isaac Hale ’11 (assistant professor, politics), it was a return to familiar terrain. “The campus feels very … and community while taking on rigorous and challenging material. Outside the classroom, the students bring an … performed by their headbanging fans; and studying the latest innovations in verse-chorus structure by Lady Gaga and …
… Luther King Jr.’s visit to Occidental in 1967). Friezer was joined by son Henk in his work in 1968, and the two … as a staff nurse, Ruby Rich Burgar ’55 began her studies toward a biology degree. She was soon promoted to head nurse, … Jennings visited Universal Studios in 1951 to conduct an IQ test of Bonzo, the “world’s smartest chimp” and star of …
… the naming of Dennis Chinn '66, co-captain (with Jim Wanless '66) of Jim Mora '57's SCIAC championship football team of 1965. He was named the Bill Anderson Award winner (MVP), co-Best … I read with some disquiet in Occidental about Oxy's latest crusade to rescue the athletic teams, particularly the …