From uplifting inner-city scholars in South Central L.A. to prison moms in Colorado to a Monterey Park community in need, ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ alumni embrace the College's mission
Occidental Magazine
Occidental magazine brings you campus news, in-depth features, and profiles of exceptional alumni. For the 2025-26 academic year, the magazine will publish one digital-only issue (Summer 2025) and two print and digital issues (Fall 2025 and Spring 2026).
A campus-wide focus on water may have Âcompelled a few ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ students to break the rules in a competition between residence halls. But it's also provoked a serious conversation about Earth's...
A combination of economic, demographic, and social factors precipitated ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ's endowment woes throughout the 1990s. Now the balance sheet is far better—but the College has a long way to go to...
Acclaimed and unsettling, Blackfish is a high-water mark for documentary filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite '93. What does its success bode for her career—and what will the fallout be for...
With a resume as a playwright, director, actor, and professor, the late Omar Paxson '48 created enough memories to sell out a lifetime of Summer Drama Festivals. Still, his greatest legacy...
From singing in a Motown girl group to writing banter for Britney Spears, Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon '97 knows the fringes of the pop-culture circuit. With TV's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," she...
Having survived her share of video corpses, Angela Kang '98 finds her footing as a writer/producer on TV's hottest series, AMC's "The Walking Dead"
Richard Andrews '71 connects visionary artists such as James Turrell—a Pomona graduate—with the means to make transformative art a reality
A closer look at the eight ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ greats—four living, four deceased—who were inducted into the 2013 Athletics Hall of Fame
When the 1963 ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ baseball team took the field against intercity rival USC, a casual fan would have predicted a Trojan blowout. But Coach Grant Dunlap '46 had a not-so-secret weapon on the...
David Wigglesworth '50 M'53 and Keegan McChesney '16 forge an unlikely friendship in Seattle—thanks to a decal
