Jacob Whitney

May 7, 2024 | theoccidentalnews.com | Jacob Whitney

May 7, Occidental president Harry J. Elam Jr. announced via email to the college community that the administration reached an agreement with Occidental Students for Justice in Palestine (Oxy SJP), Occidental National Jewish Voices for Peace (Oxy JVP) and other organizations to end their eight-day encampment supporting Palestine on the Academic Quad by May 10.

Mar 13, 2024 | hbr.org | Mark C. Bolino |Jacob Whitney |Sarah Henry

Researchers recently reviewed 69 articles focused on the management implications of the Covid-19 pandemic that were published between March 2020 and July 2023 in top journals in management and applied psychology. The review highlights the numerous ways in which employees, teams, leaders, organizations, and societies were impacted and offers lessons for managing through future pandemics or other events of mass disruption.

Feb 28, 2024 | theoccidentalnews.com | Jacob Whitney

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian president Vladimir Putin, Feb. 6, 2024, claiming his goal was to get Putin’s side of the story. Unlike Putin, I won’t mince words. This endeavor and its aftermath were a sad and worrisome attempt at trying to sell a victim complexto the populations of NATO member countries. Putin’s RantCarlson asked his first question: why did Russia invade Ukraine?

Feb 7, 2024 | theoccidentalnews.com | Jacob Whitney

Occidental’s baseball team notched a 13-10 win in a scrimmage against Biola University on Jan 27. According to co-captain Declan Sklut (senior), the team sees this match as the beginning of a comeback from their previous season, when they notched 5 wins against 30 losses. “We were riddled by a lot of injuries last year, which definitely hurt team morale, and then there was some difficulty trying to form the team culturewe wanted coming back from COVID,” Sklut said.