Occidental College's 17th president, Tom Stritikus, in April 2024.
Introducing Tom Stritikus
Occidental’s president-elect is a first-generation college graduate and a firm believer in the transformative power of a liberal arts education
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Occidental Magazine

Occidental magazine brings you campus news, in-depth features, and profiles of exceptional alumni. For the 2023-24 academic year, the magazine will publish two print and digital issues (Fall 2023 and Spring 2024) and two digital-only issues (Summer 2023 and Winter 2024). 

Spring15Mag_Ebola
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...
Winter15_Somabar
Dylan Purcell-Lowe '12 taps into the Oxy network to kickstart the ultimate home bartending device
Winter15_Greenlight
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
Winter15_OxyTalk
Seniors Julia Kingsley and Tsering Lama didn't see eye to eye on divestment until a study abroad program on climate change brought them together
Winter15_Emancipation2
Professor Nell Irvin Painter on emancipation, Commencement speaker (and Homeland Security Chief) Jeh Johnson, President Barack Obama '83 on Clancy's cuisine, and Oxy's Fulbright...
An external review of Occidental's Title IX policies and procedures produces new recommendations while renewing existing frustrations
Sustainability
A student-led campaign to divest the College of fossil-fuel investments raises questions about institutional priorities and practices
Winter15_Letters
Alumni Engagement
Reactions across the spectrum to "The Sit-In of '69." Also: President Veitch questions, Grant Dunlap '46 remembered, and Joanna Gleason '72 applauded
Blood, Sweat, and Cheers
Winter15_Keil
Carrying the baton in the tradition of her Oxy mentor, Howard Swan, Joyce Keil '64 shares the music of the Ragazzi Boys Chorus with the world
With 21 sports to support and limited means to do so, Oxy gets selective in its approach to reviving its fortunes
Winter15_sports
Coach Rob Bartlett builds on the Tigers' storied track and field history—and hopes to usher in a new era of competitiveness for Oxy athletics
Winter15_Success
As Oxy's Career Development Center prepares to expand its footprint on campus, eight young alumni share the lessons they learned forging their own career paths
Fact and figures pertaining to all things Oxy

Features

Theater and Performance Studies faculty and staff in April 2024.
Academics
Resetting the Stage
As its second century dawns, Oxy’s Theater and Performance Studies Department remixes the curriculum with a blend of theory and practice
Occidental College's 17th president, Tom Stritikus, in April 2024.
Profiles
Introducing Tom Stritikus
Occidental’s president-elect is a first-generation college graduate and a firm believer in the transformative power of a liberal arts education
Vidiots reopened for business in June 2023 at the former home of the Eagle Theatre,
Los Angeles
Neighborhood Watch
Eagle Rock and Highland Park have become magnets for new businesses, including the resurrected Eagle Theatre (now home to Vidiots). What’s changed—and what’s still in fashion?
Los Angeles
Hats Off to Patt!
Patt Morrison ’74 shares a curated collection of books with Special Collections—and 50 years of words and wisdom in conversation with Larry Mantle

First Word

From the Quad

Occidental’s women's basketball team after winning the 2024 SCIAC Post­season Tournament championship.
Athletics
Bringing the Heat
Playing through injuries, fatigue, and in front of opposing crowds, Oxy’s ‘relentless’ women’s hoops team wins its way into the NCAA tourney
Coach Rod Lafaurie and members of the 2023 men's soccer team
Athletics
Kicking and Dreaming
From its first SCIAC championship to a berth in the Sweet 16, Oxy men’s soccer soared to new heights this season. But Coach Rod Lafaurie and his players are hungry for more

Mixed Media

More Mixed Media
Author Susan Coll '81, photographed at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
Arts
Mixed Media
Susan Coll ’81’s latest comic novel, Professor Amy Lyford’s examination of the art and life of Dorothea Tanning, and more

Oxy Talk

More Oxy Talk
Spectators view the OCLAA oral history gallery in the Academic Commons in February 2024.
Academics
Voices of OCLAA
Realizing a long-standing goal of Occidental’s Latino Alumni Association, two dozen alumni share their stories with students for an oral history project
Professor of History Emeritus Wellington Chan
Academics
One for the History Books
An estate commitment from Gary Kaplan ’71 honors Professor Emeritus Wellington Chan—whom he helped bring to Occidental more than 50 years ago

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