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65-618: TNI was founded in 1974 in Amsterdam by Eqbal Ahmad , who was the organization's first director. Initially it operated as an international arm of the Institute for Policy Studies . In 1976 the director of the institute ( Orlando Letelier ) was assassinated by the Chilean secret police as ordered by Augusto Pinochet . Pauline Tiffen is chair of the supervisory board of the TNI. The activist Susan George

130-597: A Rotary Fellow . In 1958, he went to Princeton University , where he studied political science and Middle Eastern history until earning his PhD in 1965. During his time at Princeton, Ahmad travelled to Tunisia and Algeria as part of his doctoral dissertation. In Algiers , he supported the revolution , leading to his subsequent arrest in France. Ahmad went on to teach at the University of Illinois and at Cornell University until 1968. During this time, Ahmad also became

195-561: A liberal arts college named after Ibn Khaldun in Islamabad . Ahmad was one of the most prominent left-wing academics in both Pakistan and the United States. His legacy is that of strong opposition to militarism, bureaucracy, nuclear arms and ideological rigidity, while a strong supporter of democracy and self-determination. Even though a little-known figure within Pakistan, Ahmad bestowed

260-546: A 9:1 student–faculty ratio . The average class size is 18 students and most students take four classes per semester. the most popular majors, based on 2021 graduates, were Econometrics & Quantitative Economics (46), Psychology (38), Biology/Biological Sciences (37), Political Science & Government (34), Environmental Studies (31), International Relations and Affairs (31). Since 1908, Occidental has graduated ten Rhodes Scholars . In U.S. News & World Report's 2023 rankings of American liberal arts colleges, Occidental

325-483: A Pakistani in a challenging time. [Ahmad was] perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of the post-war world, especially in the dynamics between the West and the post-colonial states of Asia and Africa. In a review of The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad , Keally McBride praises "his uncanny sense of human nature, and his encyclopedic knowledge of world history". Kabir Babar wrote that "to study him

390-730: A fellow at the University of Chicago and the Adlai Stevenson Institute in Chicago. In 1971, Eqbal Ahmad was indicted as one of the Harrisburg Seven as a result of his activism against the Vietnam War alongside the anti-war Catholic priest Philip Berrigan , Berrigan's future wife, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, and four other Catholic pacifists , on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger . After fifty-nine hours of deliberations,

455-525: A new 24-hour, 7-days-a-week telephone hotline. The school also created a permanent Sexual Misconduct Advisory Board made up of students, faculty, and staff. Two years later, the investigation was concluded with the Office of Civil Rights finding that "the preponderance of the evidence does not support a conclusion that the College violated Title IX, except with respect to the issue of promptness in several cases during

520-518: A new mission statement that is still used today. Also, Slaughter led the college's community outreach expansion with the creation of the Center for Volunteerism and Community Service, the predecessor for the current Center for Community Based Learning. In November 1990, the college rededicated the campus' main chapel as the Herrick Memorial Chapel and Interfaith Center. The school also took down

585-464: A non-sectarian, non-denominational institution. The small size of the 15-acre (6.1 ha) campus and the disruption caused by frequent freight trains pushed the college's trustees to find a new location. In 1912, the school began construction of a new campus located in Los Angeles' Eagle Rock neighborhood. The Eagle Rock campus was designed by noted California architect Myron Hunt , also known as

650-461: A prominent fellow of the anti-war Institute for Policy Studies . His vocal support of Palestinian rights during the 1967 war led to his isolation within the academic community, causing him to leave Cornell. From 1968 to 1972, he worked as a fellow at the University of Chicago . During this time, Ahmad became a strong activist against the Vietnam War , which lead to his being charged as part of

715-781: A strong legacy within intellectual circles both in and outside the country. From 1960 to 1963, Ahmad lived in North Africa, working primarily in Algeria , where he joined the National Liberation Front and worked with Frantz Fanon and some Algerian nationalists who were fighting a war of liberation against the French in Algeria. He was offered an opportunity to join the first independent Algerian government, but refused in favour of life as an independent intellectual. Instead, he returned to

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780-697: A teacher and a writer from New York and they had one daughter, Dohra. Since his death, a memorial lecture series has been established at Hampshire College in his honour. Speakers have included Kofi Annan , Edward Said , Noam Chomsky , and Arundhati Roy . Ahmad was admired as "an intellectual unintimidated by power or authority". He collaborated with such left-wing journalists, activists, and thinkers as Chomsky, Said, Howard Zinn , Ibrahim Abu-Lughod , Richard Falk , Fredric Jameson , Alexander Cockburn and Daniel Berrigan . Ahmad influenced several left-leaning activists including Chomsky, Zinn, Abu-Lughod, Richard Falk , Pervez Hoodbhoy , Cockburn, Said and Roy. Ahmad

845-569: A time when the only other chapters in California were at Stanford , UC Berkeley , and Pomona . English novelist Aldous Huxley , who had spoken at Occidental's convocation ceremony in the then-new Thorne Hall in 1938, lampooned President Remsen Bird as Dr. Herbert Mulge of Tarzana College in his 1939 novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan . Huxley was never again invited back to campus. During World War II , many students left Occidental to fight in

910-522: A village in Bihar, where Islamic Sufi admiration among the public united Hindus and Muslims. Simple and unpretentious, 'they preached by example', living 'by service and by setting an example of treating people equally without discrimination'. The Sufis appealed to the most oppressed, offering 'social mobility, as well as dignity and equality to the poor'. Sufis regarded the idea of nationalism as an anti-Islamic ideology that 'proceeds to create boundaries where Islam

975-515: A weekly column, for Dawn , Pakistan's oldest English-language newspaper. He continued to promote social democracy for Muslim countries like in the Scandinavian countries to prevent extremism, poverty and injustice in those countries. Eqbal Ahmad was the founding chancellor of the then newly established Textile Institute of Pakistan , a textile-oriented science, design and business-degree-awarding institute. The institute professes to be driven by

1040-774: A year later with 27 male and 13 female students, and tuition of $ 50 a year. In 1896, the Boyle Heights building was destroyed by fire. The college temporarily relocated to the old St. Vincent's College campus on Hill Street before a new site was selected in Highland Park in 1898. Eventually, the college erected three main buildings: the Academy Building, the Stimson Library, and the Hall of Arts and Letters (the Hall still stands today, converted to apartments). The Highland Park site

1105-470: Is a faith without national boundaries. Eqbal Ahmad describes himself as a 'harshly secular' person and an 'internationalist' but he was quick to praise elements of religious thought and practice that he found admirable among the Islamic Sufis. Eqbal Ahmad saw Islam as concerned, above all, with the welfare of common people. Eqbal's leftism was his humanity and this only reinforced the pride he took in being

1170-642: Is a founding member of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and its 20 varsity sports teams compete in NCAA Division III . The college's curriculum emphasizes diversity, global literacy, and civic engagement. Notable alumni include President Barack Obama , a Cabinet member, several members of the United States Congress , CEOs of notable companies, 10 Rhodes Scholars , and recipients of

1235-571: Is credited for his insight into Islamic terrorism ; he publicly criticised global support for the Islamic fundamentalist groups in Afghanistan. Noam Chomsky in an article, after Ahmad's death in 1999, described Ahmad as a "treasured friend, trusted comrade, counsellor and teacher" and said that Ahmad describes with warmth and feeling the Islamic Sufi tradition that he remembers from his childhood in

1300-458: Is one of the five schools that founded the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) in 1915 and is currently a member of the SCIAC and NCAA Division III . Occidental features 21 varsity sports teams and a program of club sports and intramural competition. Approximately 25 percent of the student body participates in a varsity sports program. During the 2006–2007 athletic season,

1365-542: Is president of the TNI. The members of the institute are involved in the civil society and the associative life of their respective countries. Based in Amsterdam , the permanent team of TNI consisted of twenty nine people in 2021. The TNI publishes research papers, books and organises seminars and debates. Its members include activists, researchers, writers, scholars , journalists and documentary makers. The organisation has specific interest sections called "programs". These are

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1430-563: Is to be exposed to the rare phenomenon of academic rigour coupled to a will to act." Shahid Alam of Monthly Review wrote that "Ahmad provided the most articulate, analytical, and passionate voice from the third world since Frantz Fanon . Almost certainly, he is also the most astute political thinker the Islamic world produced in the twentieth century." He was a left-wing secularist, known for his lifelong denunciation and critiques of Western imperialism. Amitava Kumar argued, "As much as Said, he

1495-547: The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Kristina Kvien , Dartmouth Professor Steve Swayne , and civil rights activist and initiator of " We Shall Overcome " Guy Carawan . Notable alumni who did not graduate from Occidental include the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama , former First Lady of Colorado Dottie Lamm , Academy Award –winning actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck , actor Luke Wilson , actor Nicholas Braun , filmmaker and actor Cooper Raiff , producer Todd Garner , and actress Emily Osment . Notable faculty members include

1560-613: The Forman Christian College . After graduating, he worked briefly as an army officer and was wounded in the First Kashmir War in 1948. He participated in the Algerian Revolution , then studied the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism, becoming an early opponent of the war upon his return to the U.S. in the mid-1960s. While highly regarded in radical circles of South Asia and left-wing circles more generally, Ahmad

1625-700: The Harrisburg Seven in January 1971. After the trial Ahmad was acquitted of all charges in 1972. He moved to Amsterdam in 1973. In 1974, he founded and directed the Transnational Institute , until 1975. In 1982, he moved back to the United States and joined the Hampshire College as a tenured professor and taught there until becoming Professor Emeritus in 1997. In 1990, he began splitting his time between Islamabad and Amherst and also began writing for Dawn , and worked unsuccessfully to establish

1690-607: The Presbyterian Church , it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast of the United States. Occidental's current 120-acre (49 ha) campus is located in Eagle Rock , Los Angeles, and was designed by architect Myron Hunt . Due to its proximity to Hollywood and its architecture, the campus is frequently used as a filming location for film and television productions. Occidental

1755-612: The Pulitzer Prize , Academy Award , BAFTA Award , Tony Award and Emmy Award . Occidental College was founded on April 20, 1887, by a group of Presbyterian clergy, missionaries, and laymen, including James George Bell , Lyman Stewart , and Thomas Bard . The cornerstone of the school's first building was laid in September 1887 in the Boyle Heights now East Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Angeles. The college's first term began

1820-426: The U.S. Department of Education named Occidental College as one of 55 higher education institutions under investigation "for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment." In response to student and faculty outcry the college adopted a new interim sexual misconduct policy, hired a former assistant district attorney as a full-time, independent Title IX coordinator, and added

1885-472: The 1960s and 1970s, and again since 2000. It originally operated on the frequency 104.7 in and around campus from 1968 to 2009, but switched to only being available by webstream in 2009. KOXY sponsors several on-campus events. In 2010, students launched a TV station called CatAList; The station produces 20–30 minutes of student-run content weekly. Occidental College's Greek Council consists of roughly eight members, both sororites and fraternities. Occidental

1950-530: The 2012-13 school years." President Barack Obama attended Occidental for two years prior to transferring to Columbia University . In 2015, " birthers " falsely claimed that Obama's Occidental College transcript revealed he received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia after the resurgence of a fake news story from 2009. In July 2020, Harry J. Elam, Jr., formerly vice provost for undergraduate education and Drama professor at Stanford University , became Occidental's 16th president. In August 2023, it

2015-546: The Indian state of Bihar . When he was a young boy, his father was murdered over a land dispute in his presence by a hindu group. During the partition of India in 1947, he and his elder brother migrated to Pakistan on foot. Eqbal Ahmad graduated from Forman Christian College in Lahore , Pakistan, in 1951 with a degree in economics. After serving briefly as an army officer, he enrolled at Occidental College in California in 1957, as

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2080-557: The Multicultural Hall in Pauley (open to all years), all-women housing (Berkus House, named after alumnus Dave Berkus ), Food Justice house, and several communities that support and uplift the experiences of students of color and LGBTQIA students. The campus newspaper is The Occidental , an independent, student-run publication. It has been published continuously since 1893. KOXY is a student-run campus radio station , in operation in

2145-676: The Muslim world in particular was notable for its critical vigilance and integrity, its resistance to received wisdom." Irfan Husain wrote in Dawn that Ahmad was too biased in favor of the Palestinians in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but also stated, "Perhaps his most precious gift was his ability to listen to others in a way most of us don't: he would pay young students the same courtesy of carefully following their argument that he would extend to

2210-1010: The Occidental Men's Basketball Team reached the SCIAC championship game, ultimately losing to Pomona Pitzer in the Tournament Championship game. Famous Occidental College Tigers include NFL coach Jim E. Mora , former American Football League Most Valuable Player and politician Jack Kemp , former NFL player Vance Mueller , 2011 U.S. Senior Open Champion Olin Browne , CFL Quarterback Bryan James Scott ( Edmonton Football Team ) and CFL player Justin Goltz ( Winnipeg Blue Bombers ). Notable graduates of Occidental College include filmmaker Terry Gilliam , football player and politician Jack Kemp , pioneering African-American physicist and inventor George Edward Alcorn Jr. , former New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts head coach Jim E. Mora , co-inventor of

2275-530: The Subcontinent. His analyses of the major political events and trends of the 20th century were noted for their astuteness and predictive power." Edward Said listed Ahmad as one of the two most important influences on his intellectual development, praising the latter's writings on South Asia especially as informative. Eqbal Ahmad was born in the village of Irki in the Gaya District (now Magadh Division ) of

2340-491: The Tigers cross country , American football and basketball teams were Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champions. In 2014, diver Jessica Robson set the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference records for both 1m and 3m diving. The school's Blackshirts Rugby union team was also league champion for the first time in five years. In 2011, Jeremy Castro ('99) and Patrick Guthrie ('86) steered

2405-608: The Tigers have played both the Sagehens and the Poets over 100 times. In 1982, the Occidental College football team had the rare opportunity for national prominence when, due to the 1982 National Football League strike , their game with San Diego was broadcast on national television. In 2017, Occidental cancelled the remainder of its football season due to lack of healthy players, as few as 30 in some cases. The team forfeited two games and

2470-692: The Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 1982, Ahmad joined the faculty at Hampshire College , in Amherst, Massachusetts , a progressive school which was the first college in the nation to divest from South Africa. There, he taught world politics and political science. In the early 1990s, Ahmad was granted a parcel of land in Pakistan by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif 's government, to build an independent, alternative university, named Khaldunia University. Upon his retirement from Hampshire in 1997, he settled permanently in Pakistan, where he continued to write

2535-522: The United States. Eqbal Ahmad was fluent in Urdu , English, Persian and Arabic . When he returned to the United States, Eqbal Ahmad taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1964–65) and Cornell University in the school of Labour Relations (1965–68). Palestinian right of return Palestinian rights during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war 1967 war lead to his isolation within the academic community, causing him to leave Cornell. From 1968 to 1972, he worked as

2600-433: The board later dropped the proposal. Two weeks after Booker T. Washington came to visit Occidental, on March 27, 1914, Swan, Fowler, and Johnson Halls were dedicated at its new Eagle Rock campus. Patterson Field, today one of the oldest collegiate sports stadiums in Los Angeles, was opened in 1916. In April 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I, the college formed a Students Army Training Corps to aid

2665-556: The children of alumni in admissions. At the beginning of every school year, freshmen participate in convocation , a formal ceremony welcoming new students to the college in which the faculty wear their full academic regalia and students don robes. Founders Day is celebrated annually at the school on April 20, the day in 1887 when Occidental's incorporation papers were officially signed by the California Secretary of State. There are also themed-living communities which consist of

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2730-429: The class of 2020 acceptance rate being 37.3%. Of those admitted submitting such data, 52% were in the top 10% of their high school class. The SAT 25th - 75th percentile scores were 1810–2120. Of those admitted to the class of 2020, 50% identified as persons of color, and 13% of those admitted were international students. In 2023, it was announced by President Harry Elam that Occidental eliminated legacy preferences to

2795-434: The crosses in the chapel in an attempt to "broaden Occidental's appeal among non-Christian students." In July 2006, Susan Westerberg Prager became Occidental's first female president. She left her position in 2007. Robert Skotheim served as interim president. In July 2009, Jonathan Veitch became Occidental's 15th president, and the first native Angeleno president. The college received national scrutiny in 2014 when

2860-520: The fields the organisation currently focuses on. The program analyses worldwide trends on drugs-policies and promotes a pragmatic approach to drugs based on damage-control. It has written on countries in Latin America and Southeast Asia . Ricardo Soberón , a lawyer, academic, writer and consultant for Peru's governmental policies on drugs, has carried out research for TNI. The public alternatives program publishes research and organises events on

2925-514: The following topics Publications Eqbal Ahmad Eqbal Ahmad (1933 – 11 May 1999) was a Pakistani political scientist , writer and academic known for his anti-war activism , his support for resistance movements globally and academic contributions to the study of the Near East . Born in Bihar , British India , Ahmad migrated to Pakistan as a child and went on to study economics at

2990-1210: The hard disk drive William Goddard , psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Roland Griffiths , federal judge Jacqueline Nguyen , academic, film executive and novelist August Coppola , historian and chancellor of the California State University system Glenn Dumke , former Lieutenant Governor of California Robert Finch , adventurer and writer Homer Lea , poet Robinson Jeffers , librarian and writer Lawrence Clark Powell , entertainment journalist Sam Rubin , Tony Award -winning actress Joanna Gleason , civil rights activist Ernesto Galarza , television director Jesus Salvador Trevino , voice actress and internet personality Ashly Burch , entertainment executive John Branca , political scientist Eqbal Ahmad , journalist and current dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Steve Coll , actor and writer George Nader , veteran executive at Walt Disney Imagineering Joe Rohde , former CEO of Warner Music Group Stephen Cooper , President of Catholic University of America Peter Kilpatrick , Ambassador to Armenia and former chargé d'affaires to Ukraine during

3055-543: The jury declared a mistrial and Ahmad was acquitted of all charges in 1972. During these years, he became known as one of the earliest and most vocal opponents of American policies in Vietnam and Cambodia . Eqbal Ahmad's friend, author Stuart Schaar suggested in a book on Eqbal Ahmad that he had warned the US against attacking Iraq in 1990. He had correctly predicted that Saddam's fall would bring in sectarian violence and chaos in

3120-513: The only time Occidental has produced two Rhodes Scholars in a single year. Paden and Segal were among the ten Occidental students who participated in Crossroads Africa that year, a forerunner to the Peace Corps that later became a national program. In 1969, 42 students were suspended for peacefully protesting military recruiting on campus. One year later, faculty voted to suspend classes in

3185-625: The planner of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) campus and as designer of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery and the Rose Bowl . That same year, Occidental President John Willis Baer announced the trustees' decision to convert Occidental College into an all-men's institution. The plans were met with widespread backlash from students and faculty who protested the change. The community outcry garnered national headlines and

3250-500: The region. Eqbal Ahmad had also interviewed Osama bin Laden in Peshawar in 1986. In the early 1990s, he had predicted that considering the ideology of Osama Bin Laden, he would eventually turn against his then allies US and Pakistan. From 1972 to 1982, Ahmad was Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies . From 1973 to 1975, he served as the first director of its overseas affiliate,

3315-518: The rich and powerful." Muhammad Idrees Ahmad wrote in 2016, "He accurately predicted the consequences of western recklessness in Afghanistan, and his warnings on US intervention in Iraq would prove prophetic." Occidental College Occidental College (informally Oxy ) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California . Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of

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3380-469: The school opened its first two co-ed dormitories , and two more followed a year later. In 1988, John Brooks Slaughter , formerly Chancellor of the University of Maryland , became Occidental's first black president. Building on faculty and student advocacy and a series of grants the college had received previously to increase the diversity of the Occidental student body, Slaughter led the process of creating

3445-837: The squad to a NSCRO final, falling to Longwood University 36–27 in Virginia Beach , Virginia . In addition the college has a dance team that also performs at every home football and basketball game. Occidental athletics date back to 1894, when the college helped organize the first intercollegiate athletic competition in Southern California. Since then, Oxy has produced more than a dozen Olympians, world-record holders, and national champions, including 1935 national girls' tennis champion Pat Henry Yeomans '38, two-time diving gold medalist Sammy Lee '43, and pole vault silver medalist Bob Gutowski '57. Occidental has long-standing football rivalries with Pomona College and Whittier College ;

3510-449: The values Eqbal Ahmad stood for and awards its most prestigious honour, the Dr. Eqbal Ahmed Achievement Award , to one graduate unanimously deemed by the faculty as reflective of Eqbal Ahmad's values at its annual convocation. Eqbal Ahmad died of heart failure on 11 May 1999 at an Islamabad hospital in Pakistan, where he was being treated for colon cancer . He had married Julie Diamond in 1969,

3575-545: The wake of the Kent State shootings and America's invasion of Cambodia. Subsequently, Oxy students wrote 7,000 letters to Washington D.C., protesting U.S. involvement in the war in Southeast Asia. Occidental launched one of the country's first Upward Bound programs in 1966, aimed at increasing the number of low-income, underrepresented high school students who become the first in their family to go to college. Also in 1969,

3640-403: The war effort. Under Occidental President Remsen Bird, the school opened a series of new Hunt-designed buildings, including Clapp Library (1924), Hillside Theatre and a women's dormitory (Orr Hall) in 1925, Alumni Gymnasium (1926), the Freeman Student Union (1928) and a music and speech building (1929). The Delta of California chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established at Occidental in 1926, at

3705-600: The war. In July 1943, the U.S. Navy established a Navy V-12 officer training program on campus that produced hundreds of graduates before it was disbanded in 1945 at the end of the war. Occidental President Remsen Bird worked behind the scenes to help Oxy students of Japanese descent continue their education despite mandatory evacuation orders; his letters are included in the Japanese American Relocation Collection in Clapp Library. After having its first Rhodes Scholar , Clarence Spaulding, named in 1908, Oxy seniors John Paden and Aaron Segal were awarded Rhodes Scholarships in 1958,

3770-438: Was a controversial figure. According to Pervez Hoodbhoy , warrants of arrest and death sentences were put on him during successive martial law governments in Pakistan. Although he was indicted in 1971 on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger (who was then President Nixon's National Security Advisor), the case was eventually dismissed. Kabir Babar called Ahmad "one of the most outstanding thinkers ever to originate from

3835-439: Was a mentor to a generation of thinkers, mostly South Asian [...] notable for "not only the power but also the wide range of his sympathies [...] He was a committed engineer of emancipation, building imaginative roads, linking issues across continents." He found some aspects of Ahmad's analysis less relevant in the 21st century but still praised "his commitment to resolving political problems through diplomacy, not war. His writing on

3900-420: Was also bisected by the tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad, and was the site of two presidential visits, first by William Howard Taft in 1909 and subsequently by Theodore Roosevelt in 1911. In 1909, the Pomona College Board of Trustees suggested a merger between Pomona and Occidental, but the proposal came to nothing. The following year, the college severed formal ties with the Presbyterian Church and became

3965-436: Was announced that he will retire in 2024 for health-related reasons. On March 26, 2024, it was announced that Tom Stritikus , late of Fort Lewis College , will become Occidental's president effective July 1. Architect Myron Hunt created the original campus master plan for Occidental's Eagle Rock campus in 1911. He structured the campus in a Mediterranean style , with covered walkways and tile roofs. The campus landscape

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4030-461: Was designed and developed by Beatrix Farrand in the late 1930s. All of the 19 buildings designed by Hunt remain in use today. The campus is noted for the outdoor Remsen Bird Amphitheater, where between 1960 and 1996 plays and musicals were performed in the summer. Financial cutbacks caused the theater department to end the summer festival programs. Since 1996 the Occidental Children's Theater has performed there each summer. Occidental College

4095-422: Was outscored in the other three 170–19. The Tigers played nine games in 2019, finishing with a 1–8 record. It was the final season for the Tigers football team. The school dropped football in 2020. In 2011, Occidental College lost a basketball game to Caltech with a score of 46 to 45 giving the Caltech Beavers their first conference win in 26 years and putting an end to their 310-game losing streak. In 2019,

4160-500: Was ranked as the sixth "Most Beautiful" campus by Newsweek in 2012. The campus is home to a 1-megawatt ground-mounted solar array , which is the largest hillside array on an American college campus and the largest of its kind in Los Angeles. The 4,886-panel installation was completed in Spring 2013 and inaugurated on the school's 126-year anniversary. There are 40 majors offered on campus (and nine minor-only programs, including Public Health, Linguistics, and Classical Studies) and

4225-786: Was tied for 35th overall, 26th in "Top Performers in Social Mobility," 68th for "Best Value," and tied at 112th for "Economics." The 2017 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges gave Occidental four-star ratings (out of five) in academics and quality of life. Princeton Review 's The Best 381 Colleges 2017 Edition gave Occidental ratings of 91 (out of 100) in academics and quality of life and 95 in financial aid. In Forbes ' 2019 ranking of America's Top Colleges, Occidental ranks 102nd out of 650 liberal arts colleges, universities and service academies. Kiplinger's "Best College Values 2019" rankings places Occidental 58th among 149 liberal arts colleges. Fall Admission Statistics U.S. News deemed Occidental's admissions "more selective," with

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