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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).

A Father's Namesake and Â鶹ƵµÀLegacy
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Record-makers, record-breakers, award-winners, and Tor
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As a Department of Education investigation commences, Â鶹ƵµÀreinforces its efforts to address sexual misconduct
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Members of Oxy's biggest graduating class—"America's most conspicuous minority," in the words of speaker Andrew Delbanco—commence the next stage of their lives
HGTV designer wannabes take on the SAE and Alpha houses; a documentary details the grueling and mysterious Master Sommelier Diploma Examination; and Annette Bening headlines a list of coming...
Herschel Cobb '65's memoir of his legendary grandfather, Ty Cobb, reveals a side that few people ever saw—loving nurturer
Readers weigh in on sexual misconduct and Oxy's endowment
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Catherine An '02 never set out to join her parents and sisters as a restaurateur, but the chance to create her own niche proved as irresistible as Mama's garlic noodles
Entrepreneurs Richard Highsmith '10 and Noah Applebome '10 charge into the burgeoning solar backpack market with affordable, portable power. Can BirkSun elbow its way to the mountaintop?
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Art director Andrea C. Uva '02 tackles tiny canvases in designing book jackets for e-readability
Oxy's signature buildings bear the stamp of architect Myron Hunt—but it took a landscape architect from the East to make the campus complete
Technically, he got a medal, not the world's most recognized trophy. Still, Raffy Cortina '13 made Â鶹ƵµÀhistory by winning top honors at the Student Academy Awards with his short Bottled Up
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In 1987, residents of Newcomb Hall pulled what some consider to be the greatest Â鶹ƵµÀprank ever. Rob Cunningham '88 spills all
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A documentary filmmaker, a Commencement speaker, a basketball standout, and a coach named "Heat"
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College dropout, screenwriter, and novelist Benedict Freedman (1919-2012) went back to school in his late 40s en route to Oxy

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