Student Life

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Find out more about Campaign Semester 2022!  Students work on a campaign in a swing state from mid-August through election day. Then return to campus for the academic component of the program.  

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Find out more about Homecoming and Family Weekend 2021 here.

The Spirit Car Parade will take place on Saturday, October 23 as part of Oswlad's Homecoming Celebration on the Quad. Prizes include $500 for the best overall car and $100 for each category which include MOST OXY SPIRIT, MOST CREATIVE, MOST DETAILED, FUNNIEST, LEAST LIKELY TO MAKE IT THROUGH THE QUAD!

If you would like to participate in the parade, please register here.

Spend the day on our campus discovering what makes Occidental such a unique community. Prospective students and their families are invited to tour campus, attend student and faculty-led discussions and learn what it means to be an Oxy Tiger! Whether you want to hear more about our admission and financial aid processes or find out about our distinct relationship to Los Angeles, Explore Occidental is your opportunity to engage with all aspects of student life here at Oxy.

Born in Russia, Alya studied music and dance as a child and never lost her passion for the arts. As a young woman, she pursued a career in journalism, earning a degree from Moscow State University, and worked as a correspondent for Russia’s leading network, Ria Novosti, covering several of the biggest stories of the day, including the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000 and the Beslan school siege in 2004.

Farhoud Meybodi is an award-winning writer, director, and executive producer focused on storytelling projects that inspire social change. Over the past decade, he has collaborated on a variety of television and digital projects that have been seen over two billion times, raised millions of dollars for terminal illness research, and even helped overturn an unjust Presidential Executive Order. At his core, Farhoud believes in the power of mainstream storytelling to entertain and help heal the political-social divide of the present day.

Serita Fontanesi, MSW, is an activist for Black women and femmes, by assisting systems, organizations, and individuals in making subtle changes that have big impact, so that the can thrive in a more holistic and culturally competent way. Healing generational wounds caused by centuries of systemic injustices requires change on an individual and macro level in order to create a new, more supportive path forward. Through the use of practical and energetic tools, Serita disrupts old ways of thinking that no longer serve the highest good, creating space for more productive practices.