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Changing the Climate

September 4, 2024

Emboldened by a proactive student body, ɫ�� doubles down on its commitment to a more sustainable campus

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Occidental magazine brings you campus news, in-depth features, and profiles of exceptional alumni. For the 2024-25 academic year, the magazine will publish two print and digital issues (Fall 2024 and Spring 2025) and two digital-only issues (Summer 2024 and Winter 2025).

Profiles

Apple vice president of marketing communications Tor Myhren ’94 has “the best job in the world.” (He just can’t talk much about it.)

Profiles

Employment lawyer turned mediator, author, and keynote speaker Pat Gillette ’73 helps women and businesses find common ground through uncommon solutions

Faculty

Whether the topic is research or career options or life itself, meaningful interaction between students and professors is a vital component of the ɫ�� journey. Four graduating seniors and...

Student Life

Capping a celebration of women in leadership at Commencement, Sara El-Amine ’07 gets to the heart, hands, and brains of the ɫ�� experience

Athletics

Generations of ɫ�� alumni rallied to save Tigers football from extinction. Now the hard work continues

Academics

To build a future "founded on fairness," Israeli and Palestinian self-determination need to move hand in hand, according to Kemp Lecturer Tal Becker

Athletics

ɫ��’s men’s and women’s track teams cap another spring campaign with four All-American honorees and their 31st consecutive trip to the nationals

Athletics

Spring sports standouts in lacrosse and baseball

Academics

A new major and minor in Black studies, a new photograph for the Huntington Library, and a top honor for teacher Jennifer Tróchez MacLean ’91

Arts

New books and research from ɫ�� alumni and faculty

Student Life

We're in Good Hands With the Class of 2018

Alumni Engagement

Vietnam memories, Professor Dale Wright, and an education in coed housing in the 1960s

Faculty

From Shakespeare to statistics to literature to dance, John Bouchard and Alan Knoerr shared their passions with the ɫ�� community

Arts

Catherine Haight ’98 balances a thriving Hollywood career as a TV and film editor with a commitment to empowering women and children in Congo

Profiles

Half a century after their time in Vietnam, a dozen alumni share their war stories—the camaraderie, the challenges, and how their ɫ�� education readied them for combat