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… at Oxy had shown a photo of that very mural, painted on a wall of the indigenous school she was visiting, in a classroom lesson on the Zapatista … still at the start of my career with this really long data set, so I’ll have so many potential projects that my …
… students approach the pool at Oshun Swim School in Renton, Wash., it’s not unusual for pulses to quicken and for breath to catch. This is no ordinary fear of water for the dozen assembled African American women. “There … doing—having that strong sense of identity.” Francis was set on enrolling at an East Coast college when she …
… first such gathering since the College announced it was discontinuing the program nearly two years earlier. “The event was a first step in our efforts to demonstrate that we do … that legacy to fall away even though the program has sunsetted.” In conversation with Jeff Goldstein ’86, Coach Dale …
… It was an ambitious gambit from the beginning: the creation of … large, and define the skills and qualities of mind that we want our students to possess when they graduate," Veitch … every non-academic department, and now have some resources set aside to serve as a downpayment on the future. One of …
… road to Occidental started in 1972, when the Uganda native was expelled from his country with 60,000 other residents of Asian descent. The order by then-President Idi Amin was fueled by claims that Ugandan Asians, including … with governments or forging their own path. It's a mindset he's wasted no time imparting to his students. "What I'm …
… Peyton Manning's old team, the Indianapolis Colts, Bednark was on the sidelines of Mile High Stadium as the official … DJ—the culmination of a longtime dream. "That first game was like nothing I've ever experienced in my life," he says. … unlike what I had grown up around in Boulder. "Oxy's urban setting, academic reputation, and commitment to a …
… but he gets recognized fairly often. Sometimes people will walk up to him with a cellphone without saying a word, take a selfie, and walk away. Not long ago in Target, a young woman approached … tour of the house," Ballinger says. "My 6-year-old son will set up shots, and he'll walk away and pretend to walk into …
… principles guiding all of our financial decisions going forward. For all of us, it is paramount to address this … will need for our future. With this all in mind, the first set of budget decisions we made sought to reduce services … announcement. Still, in the service of transparency we wanted to share with you our strategy for instituting …
… With the early phases of COVID-19 vaccinations underway across the country, we know students, staff and faculty … Occidental College will follow the standards and processes set by the State of California. Los Angeles County is … tiredness, and headache. These side effects usually go away in a few days. The currently available vaccines are …
… planning process for the College is about to get under way—and there is the immediate task at hand of assimilating … American civil rights struggles of the 1960s. “I guess this was fate,” says Baptiste, son of Nila Epstein ’73 and the … at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta. She hasn’t settled on a major, she says, because “I like too many …