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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).

When Guy Carawan '49 returned to campus in 2003 after more than half a century away, he had changed the world through the power of song. Professor Peter Dreier remembers the folk musician...

ɫ��'s purchase of a retail space in Highland Park creates an opportunity to raise its local visibility

Bob and Omar: Masters of Lifelong Learning

Whether it's replacing pipes, roofs, boilers, or cooling systems, there's nothing sexy about deferred maintenance. But proactive measures now can save a mountain of heartache later

Alumni Engagement

Overlooked athletes from a century of SCIAC, and other reactions to ɫ��'s plans to revive athletics

Lessons of the Third L.A.

With Gerald Washington '04 in the role of corporate matchmaker, Steve Harvey's global visibility is spreading faster than kudzu. And Washington's personal journey from financial ruin to the...

One of ɫ��'s most decorated and beloved faculty is calling it a career after 22 years in the chemistry department. But Phoebe Dea isn't packing up her things just yet

Faculty

Professor Bob Gottlieb was a champion of environmental and social justice causes long before they became fashionable. Students and colleagues celebrate his influence and impact

Psychotherapist Julia Postolov Kantor '96 began a love affair with French music through ɫ��'s study abroad program. Now she's the toast of Francophiles on L.A.'s cabaret scene

Associate professor Mary Beth Heffernan saw a problem with Ebola care in Africa—personal protection equipment suits that made the medical workers wearing them appear frightening and...

Dylan Purcell-Lowe '12 taps into the ɫ�� network to kickstart the ultimate home bartending device

Arts

Independent filmmaker Julien Lasseur '11 had never heard of Project Greenlight before his girlfriend told him about the contest. But a smart superhero parody took him into the top 10

Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne brings the city's future into focus in a series of public talks