18 Facts About Occidental College

Occidental College is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California.

Occidental College is a founding member of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and its 20 varsity sports teams compete in NCAA Division III.

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.

Occidental College structured the campus in a Mediterranean style, with covered walkways and tile roofs.

In 1979, Occidental College installed Water Forms II, a kinetic fountain designed by professor George Baker.

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Occidental College was ranked as the sixth "Most Beautiful" campus by Newsweek in 2012.

Students at Occidental College can take courses at the California Institute of Technology in nearby Pasadena free of charge.

Art majors at Occidental College can take courses at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, one of the country's top-ranked art schools.

Occidental College has various student-run clubs, organizations and ventures such as the Green Bean Coffee Lounge, organic garden, and the student-managed bike sharing and repairing program.

In 2010, Occidental College launched a TV station called CatAList, launched by then-students Daniel Watson and Raffy Cortina; Cortina was the first Occidental student to be awarded with a Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his short Bottled Up.

Occidental College has a fall and a spring Greek recruiting period; first year students are first eligible to participate in Greek recruitment during the spring of their first year.

Occidental College has two cultural Greek organizations: Kappa Alpha Psi and Sigma Lambda Gamma.

Occidental College is one of the five schools that founded the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 1915 and is currently a member of the SCIAC and NCAA Division III.

In 2017, Occidental College cancelled the remainder of its football season due to lack of healthy players, as few as 30 in some cases.

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.

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 and CFL player Justin Goltz .

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.

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, filmmaker and actor Cooper Raiff, producer Todd Garner, and actress Emily Osment.