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Celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. By Jasmine Russell ‘17 Staff Writer
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ach year, the Claremont University Consortium hosts an annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture and Dinner. From members of the Black Panther Party to artists from RISE Arts Collective, the Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA) presents to the seven colleges important contemporary black leaders to remember and reflect on Martin Luther King, Jr. and his legacy. This year, on Thursday Jan. 29, the OBSA brought Dr. Marc Lamont Hill to Scripps College’s Garrison Theater to present the keynote address “Youth Activism in Post-Ferguson America.” Amy Marcus-Newhall, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty of Scripps College, initiated the Commemorative Lecture by welcoming Dr. Hill to campus. Denise Hayes, Vice President for Student Affairs at the Claremont University Consortium, followed by introducing Dr. Hill and his many accomplishments as an award-winning journalist, an African American Studies professor at Morehouse College, and a renowned activist with three published books, three edited books, two manuscripts
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill. Photo courtsey of Morehouse College
in the works and the classification of “one of the leading intellectual voices in the country.” Dr. Hill began his speech with some humor, but eventually settled in to discuss Michael Brown, Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK), and how Obama-era America is not post racial. “Obama’s presidency in the White House allows us to kind of obscure the messages of Ferguson, because we can still hold onto the idea that America has the capacity to be good on the racial front, that America has the capacity to usher
in a new moment, that a black guy can be voted president not once but twice,” Hill said. “It suggests that we live in a country that doesn’t just grow old but also grows up. Until you keep going, until you keep digging, until you keep searching, until you continue to rummage through history and deepen your analysis, you realize that we have not moved into a new moment purely because we have a black body serving as the Business Manager for the same capitalist, white supremacist, homophobic [corporation].”
He continued to explain how activists should unite across movements to combat the injustice they’re all working against separately. “There’s a connection,” Hill said. “We have to make these connections. It makes us stronger, it makes us smarter, it makes us better, but it also gets the work done.” Connecting this idea back to Martin Luther King, Jr., “King met with anti-war activists, [...] Chicano activists, [...] sanitation workers in Chicago, [...] negro preachers,” Hill said. “He listened to them. [...] He understood that a movement was only as good as the people in it, and the movements to which it was connected.” Hill also talked about the role of the young in creating social change. “That was King’s legacy: to get us to listen to each other, but also to get us to listen to young people,” Hill said. “Revolutions ain’t led by old folk. They’re led by young people who have a vision and a passion and the energy to make this thing different.” Offering advice for youth activists, Hill said, “But the young folk have to remember that you can’t wait for permission to take this thing over. Y’all gotta take this thing. That’s what we saw in Ferguson. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
Barbara Bush to be the new speaker for malott Public Affairs Program By Joelle Leib ‘17 Staff Writer
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n March 24, Barbara Pierce Bush will give a lecture entitled “Confronting Today’s Global Health Challenges” at Garrison Theater as part of the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program, which seeks to bring speakers to campus who offer opinions not commonly found at Scripps. Barbara Bush, daughter of the 43rd President, George W. Bush, co-founded and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Global Health Corps. The Global Health Corps is an organization that strives to bring healthcare to the most underserved regions by matching
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qualified leaders with non-profit organizations that promote global health equity. The Echoing Green foundation named it one of the 14 most innovative worldwide startups and Newsweek and Glamour Magazine have honored Bush as one of the most influential female entrepreneurs in 2011 and 2013, respectively. After the Malott Program disinvited George Will as its 2015 speaker, Bush was a “natural” choice for the new speaker committee, according to Scripps President Lori Bettison-Varga. “She is a confident, courageous and hopeful woman who has initiated important changes on a global level,” President Bettison-Varga said regarding the
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I Am That Girl introduces new student speaker series.
committee’s decision. President Bettison-Varga believes that Ms. Bush will significantly contribute to dialogue on campus by emphasizing the important and complex issue of global access to quality healthcare, a subject not too
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Meet a member of the Claremont Equestrian team!
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often discussed at Scripps. “She will comment on the challenges, policies and civic engagement opportunities in a series of discussions and presentations with students, faculty, CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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Student speakers at the motley discuss “where do we go from here?” By Sophia Rosenthal ‘17 Staff Writer
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he Motley Coffeehouse is crowded with people, but there are neither the usual stacks of textbooks nor mugs of London Fog in sight. Instead, the chairs are turned toward the stage and a PowerPoint presentation lights up the venue. The Student Speaker Event at the Motley on Jan. 30 featured 11 different presentations by students, each focusing on a different topic, and all addressing the question “Where do we go from here?” The event, sponsored by the Scripps College chapter of I Am That Girl, Scripps Residential Life and the Intercollegiate Feminist Union, was created by Laurel Schwartz ‘15 and Helenka Mietka ‘15 after entering the TedXClaremont Colleges student speaker competition. “We weren’t selected to give our talks and really wanted to create a venue to share our stories with the community,” Schwartz said. “In academia it’s so easy to get caught up in class work. We write things, turn them in and get a grade. But, I think it’s so important to share what we’re working on with our peers and engage in discussion--that’s how we learn.” Both participants themselves, Schwartz spoke about girls and the media, or “what filmmakers can learn from girls,” while Mietka dismantled the silence around female pleasure and the word “vulva.” “We chose [“Where do we go from here?”] because it’s one thing to acknowledge problems, but there’s a whole deeper layer of analysis when you can actually present a possible solution” Schwartz said. Each speaker presented for approximately seven minutes on topics ranging from performances of Shakespeare in prisons (Olivia Buntaine ‘15) to society’s obsession with vampires (Veronica Mark ‘18). Louie Lemus-Mogrovejo (PO ‘15) addressed “Care and agency in autistic media representation,” Alex Washburn (‘15) explained why pizza is the most effective teaching metaphor in sex education, Claire Hirschberg (‘15) described “Gender Responsive Incarceration” in California, and Kaela Nurmi (‘15) reflected on the experience of being a female athlete at Scripps. “I’ve always been passionate about food justice and the intersection between environment, health and animal justice,” Isabella Levin (‘17), whose presentation, “Mindfulness: Food for Life,” addressed conscious eating and the ecological impact of how we source our food, said. In regards to the question “where do we go from here?” Levin said, “The way I constructed the talk is very open-ended... Where we go from here is anywhere we can go as long as we’re thinking
Top: Claire Hirschberg (‘15) addresses gender responsive incarceration. Photos by Taylor Haas ‘18.
about the implications that our actions have.” The scope of the event extended beyond the borders of Claremont by featuring two out-ofstate speakers who are both chapter leaders of I Am That Girl at their respective institutions. Alli Lindenberg, who spoke about connection and social media, attends Elon University and Monica Heisler, who discussed finding genuine passions and interests, attends Northern Arizona University. “[The event] was exactly what I dreamed it would be and so much more,” Schwartz said. “It was absolutely breathtaking to see the Motley literally
full to capacity with students and community members.” “It was very empowering,” Leanna Namovic (‘17), who attended the event, said. “It was really just amazing to hear all of the things that people are passionate about that I had never even really thought about.” “I really hope this continues in the years to come,” Schwartz said. With the overwhelmingly positive response, it is quite possible we have seen the first of many student speaker events at the Claremont Colleges.
CP&R offers a variety of resources to scripps students By Erin Matheson ‘18 Staff Writer
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ested in the heart of Seal Court is Scripps’ Office of Career Planning & Resources (CP&R). The CP&R office helps students with resumes, applications and career searches. Seminars are held frequently, during which career consultants give speeches on a range of topics. Just this past month, the consultants were helping students with Scripps summer internship grants for summer 2015. For those still on the hunt for a summer job or internship, there are many helpful resources provided by CR&R. The first step towards applying for any grant, internship or job is to create a resume. CP&R has drop-in hours weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. during which a career consultant can help with job and internship search coaching, including help with resumes, cover letters, interviews, follow-up,
networking and salary negotiation. A meeting can also be scheduled over the phone or by going to the office. ClaremontConnect is a great online resource for Claremont College students searching for a job — especially if looking for a job or internship in California. ClaremontConnect can be accessed through the CP&R website where an account is necessary to log on. Creating an account is simple, and once on ClaremontConnect, one can see many opportunities posted by employers that are specifically targeted for students of the Claremont Colleges. Through an advanced search, a filter can be placed on industry, position, job function and proximity from a certain zip code found across the country. Nationwide Internship Consortium and Liberal Arts Career Networking are two other databases that are similar and can be accessed, once logged onto ClaremontConnect.
Another online resources is Life Connections. To access this, log in to the Scripps Academic Portal using your Novell username and password. Click on the student tab and scroll down to Career Planning & Resources and search by career field, geographic area, major, graduate school or other options offered. On Life Connections, one can connect by email with Scripps alumnae working in a certain field or location. Networking sample emails can be found in the 2014-2015 Career Services Guide. The application process for jobs and internships is stressful, but after attending the summer internship grant information session and having personal meetings, CP&R proves to set Scripps students up to succeed with a multitude of tools and a helpful pair of eyes.
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rofessor Kitty Maryatt knows a thing or two about books. Since 1986, Maryatt has run the Scripps College Press from a back room of Lang. Hired to rescue a dying component of the Scripps experience, Maryatt was tasked with somehow getting enough funds to save the press. Already there existed a class in which students were to learn how to make their own books, producing enough copies for themselves and a few friends. However, this course offered no formal instruction in metal typesetting, nor in other important components of printing. Frustrated by the fruitlessness of a class in which each student made only about ten copies of his or her individual book, Maryatt decided to redesign the curriculum. “I thought that I would change the class,” she remembered in a recent interview. “I would have everybody work together on one book, which we would then sell, and then the Scripps College Press name would get out in the world.” Her plan worked extremely well. The first class made about forty books from a small budget and sold them all for a profit. This profit was then used to buy materials for the next year’s book and so on, until Maryatt had built the program into what it is today. Today, Maryatt holds court over a class called “Typography and the Book Arts,” the modern descendant of the course she inherited in 1986. Each semester, the class works together to produce an artist book on a theme preselected by Maryatt. Students produce their own text and images and then decide how best to represent their theme in the book’s structure, type and coloring. Over the course of the semester, Maryatt teaches her class how to use the printing press, hand set metal type, bind a typical codex book and work as a team to produce a professional-level artist book, which is then sent to standing buyers in major cities across the country. Students are expected to spend about nine hours a week on the book as it is being produced, with about six weeks dedicated solely to printing. Printing is done, of course, on the Scripps College Press. The press came to be in 1941 when, as their class gift, the graduating seniors of Scripps bestowed the college with both that and the funds for the design of Scripps College Oldstyle Typeface, Scripps’ own personalized font, designed by Frederic W. Goudy. Since Maryatt began, the press has produced almost
sixty artist books, all of which reside in Denison Library. When asked which was her favorite, however, Maryatt simply laughed. “If I had made only one book, it would be my favorite,” she explained, “but we have made 58 of them. Of course, some have been more rewarding than others because of either the subject or because of how the students came together to produce [them].” One of the two books that Maryatt thought most impressive by these standards was a book created in 2004, entitled “Beorum II.” The students’ mission was to reproduce a page of the famed Gutenberg Bible, the first work to be produced by printing in the West. One page of the original work resides in the Rare Books Room of Denison Library, so students studied it, and, after buying a half-font of metal type for $5,000, created a replica on the press. The theme of the book became “risk,” springing from the number of risks Gutenberg took on when he created his own technologies. The other book, based on a theme of spices, led the class to investigate how spices traveled from east to west along the Silk Road. Research led to the Dun Huang scrolls, dating from the tenth century, one of which was actually in Denison as well. Late in the semester, an expert on the Dun Huang caves was scheduled to come from England to the 5Cs to speak. The typography class decided to ask her if she would come speak to them as well and possibly verify the Denison Dun Huang scroll. She did so happily, and then announced its legitimacy at her lecture, adding the Denison scroll to an international census that existed. “These kinds of things happen in our books,” Maryatt said. “Not all the time. But they’re just so unbelievably wonderfully educational experiences that we have by making these books.” Not only are they academically educational, Maryatt says, the books often teach students about their own abilities and creativity. Maryatt teaches her students not to worry about the result too much, as the point of the exercise is learning all of the skills used in bookmaking. When asked what she would tell students who wanted to know more about the process, she responded, “At the end of the day, you never know whether a book will be well-received. All you can do is do your research, write something that you think is important, make images that enhance the text, and produce it as well as a human being can do when all the students are beginners. With all the technology, it can be very daunting. But they learn fast because they’re smart here, and I’m very lucky to work with them.”
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Athlete profile: Deena Woloshin
scripps college ‘18 Horse: Dylan Claremont Equestrian Team Photo courtsey of Claremont Equestrian Team
By Sydney Sibelius ‘18 Staff Writer
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he Claremont Equestrian Team is composed of students from all of the five Claremont Colleges and requires no previous background in riding. The team ranges from individuals who have never ridden before to those who have been riding for most of their lives. Each member takes weekly lessons from the team’s trainer and has the opportunity to compete on the show team for the duration of the school year. The horse shows are hosted by various teams from other colleges and are put on by the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association. Competitions consist of Flat classes and Over Fences classes. Flat rounds consist of a combination of walking, trotting or cantering and Over Fences requires participants to jump fences of a certain height. The team competes in seven or eight shows per school year, located anywhere from San Diego to Arizona. Scripps first year Deena Woloshin arrived on the team at the start of the 2014 season with years of experience behind her. How did you get involved with riding and showing? When I was five, I lived in London right next to Hyde Park, and they had barns and cobblestone streets. When I turned six, I was kind of upset because we had just moved, and I was a kindergartener, and so for my sixth birthday my
parents got me a package of horse riding lessons at one of these little barns. And I just stuck with it. What do you do with horses now? What does being on the equestrian team mean? I was only looking at colleges with equestrian teams, so at home I have my team, but when I came here I started riding with the trainer for the show team. We have team dinners which are really nice, and the show team has two types of competitions. There is flat where you go around the ring and you are judged based on how your position is and how you [look] with the horse. Then there is another section of jumping where you have a course that you have to memorize, and you are judged based on how well it is performed, based on the horse and how you are riding. What type of riding do you do with your team at home? At home, I do a type of riding called eventing which is a three-phase event. It is dressage, which is a type of flat work, and then cross country, which is basically a cross country running course except on horseback with much bigger obstacles and is really fun. Then there is show jumping which is probably what most people know about horseback riding. You are in a ring with jumps, and you are timed, and you have to get through the course as fast as possible without knocking anything down or falling off or missing a jump. I compete with a separate team at home for that. What is your favorite part about being involved with an equestrian team?
I feel like equestrian people, horse people in general whether you are a cowgirl or a jumper or just work on a farm, are different types of people. You always have something to talk about, and having that community at school is something really important. What is the best part about being on the Claremont Equestrian Team? The girls are really nice, you get to meet people from different schools, and it is a good way to do that. Whether people are competing or riding for fun, you get to meet a different group of people who you might not otherwise meet. We also get to travel for competitions, which is really fun. You get to meet different people at the shows and see where different people ride. It’s an experience! What are you most excited for during the remainder of the year? We are going to Arizona for a competition, and I have never been to Arizona before. The weather will be really nice, and it will be cool to actually go somewhere that is a trek. It will be good bonding and riding, and definitely an experience. The team’s next show is in Gilbert, Arizona from Feb. 6 to 8.
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Curiosity and Manifest Destiny
By Isobel Whitcomb ‘17 Current Events Columnist
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or the past year, NASA’s latest Mars rover has been trekking steadily across Mars, taking samples and images from the landscape. The feat is eliciting a surge in excitement surrounding the possibility of ancient life on Mars. According to the New
York Times, the data presented so far seems to support the idea of a Mars that once looked a lot like a prehistoric Earth. One scientist on the Curiosity team even imagines that the planet once had running water and an atmosphere with a blue sky and puffy clouds. While many scientists speculate about the possibility of ancient life, others are taking the dialogue about Mars one step further. The new question asked is this: Could Mars support human life now? Some of the time, the question is asked in speculation. Other times, the people talking about the possibility of colonies on Mars are completely earnest. Internet commenters suggest that more money needs to be put into research of Mars because of the possibility for human settlement. Even more extreme is the Dutch organization Mars One, which plans to send four people on a one way trip to Mars by the year 2025.
While there is no question that the suggestion of an Earth-like Mars is exciting, I find the tendency to immediately contemplate colonization disturbing. To me, it echoes the sentiments of colonization efforts not so long ago and their disastrous implications for indigenous peoples and the environment. Perhaps my argument seems ridiculous. So far, Curiosity cannot find any organic compounds, let alone any tall blue people to exploit. Overall, Mars doesn’t have much to destroy. I can’t argue with this fact. However, it’s the sentiment hidden behind the desire to colonize that I find particularly disturbing. There have been two key underlying assumptions in every Western attempt to expand and colonize. The first is that expansion is a right. The second is that what we have is not enough. These two ideas are just as present in the modern Western consciousness as they were
who do you think you are? By Sophie Fahey ‘17 Staff Writer
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he Humanities Institute asks the question “who do you think you are?” in its Spring 2015 program, Concepts of Self. Through a series of lectures and workshops, students enrolled in the Institute (as well as others who wish to attend lectures) will examine what “self” really means and how it affects our daily lives. Every semester, the Humanities Institute puts on a program based around a theme or idea. This semester’s program on selfhood will “peer through a multidisciplinary, multimedia, multicultural kaleidoscope in order to observe this concept in theory, fiction, religion, politics, film, other media and in its ‘natural habitat’ within” (Humanities Institute website). “There is new, exciting, and very interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary work being done on the self, so I thought it’d be perfect for interdisciplinMLK CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
This was a movement lead by young people that said ‘we want something different.’” Hill ended his speech by discussing the loneliness of working as an organizer, connecting that loneliness to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy and quoting the famous rapper Drake. “The legacy of King is to say ‘I don’t care about community,’ ‘I don’t care about consensus’ when it comes to the truth,” Hill said. “My only allegiance is to the truth. My only allegiance is to justice. My only allegiance is to the people. I don’t need nobody else, ‘cause as a great philosopher once said, ‘the homie said, ‘Hov, there ain’t many of us.’” This incited the audience to a standing ovation for Dr. Hill, and after the roaring calmed, the speaker took a few quick questions from the audience before he had to rush to catch his plane. One student asked Dr. Hill “How can I become a leader and step up in my community?” To this, Hill responded that one should organize and find something to work toward, even if one isn’t in the front of the movement, and even if what they’re doing seems small. “Leadership means wrestling with the self: How do I find some sense of advancement and progress of the self?” Hill
when Manifest Destiny motivated white settlers to push west. No, there does not seem to be much on Mars to exploit or destroy. However, this does not mean that the planet is ours to claim. As humans become more aware of the consequences of colonialism, I believe it is our duty to make different decisions in the future, so as not to perpetuate a colonial mindset. As a scientist, I am conflicted about current efforts to explore other parts of our solar system. I think curiosity is vital, and that research often brings about discoveries that aid science in unexpected ways. However, there are also so many unanswered questions here on Earth. How will we wean ourselves off of fossil fuels? Who is being harmed by climate change? And most importantly, how do we still operate from a colonial mindset? Right now, these questions are all more pressing than the question of whether Mars can support life.
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ary study,” said Program Director Yuval Avnur. “Some of the work is really breaking new ground rather than merely crossing disciplinary boundaries.” The program will begin with back to back lectures on Feb. 6. Visiting speakers Peggy Phelan and Nancy Chodorow will be speaking from 2:306 p.m. in Boone Recital Hall. Peggy Phelan’s talk is titled “Selfies: The Past and Future of Photographic Self-Portraits” and, according to the website, will discuss “the future of the self-portrait in the age of performance.” “Nancy Chodorow’s talk argues for a new field of study, ‘Individuology,’ and will have lots to say about the way the self does (or doesn’t) figure into fields like sociology and anthropology, all from a psychoanalytic and feminist perspective,” said Avnur. Avnur has tried to create a program that will interest the entire Scripps community. He hopes that the interdisciplinary nature of the field and
the variety of lectures and workshops that make up the program will create an interesting examination of the self. The Varieties of Self Conference on March 6 and 7 “focuses on the self as it is conceived in cultures and traditions that may not be so familiar to most of our students” said Avnur. The conference will feature six speakers, some of whom focus on the self in Confucian and Buddhist traditions. “There is important, and even foundational work on the self that is not often encountered in the West and in our curriculum, and I wanted an opportunity to bring in people who can expose us to that,” said Avnur. Members of the community can attend lectures and workshops starting on Feb. 6 and ending on April 30 with “A Self for Others: Concepts of Self in Benevolent and Beneficent Action.” The full program and event list can be found on the Humanities Institute website.
said. “This right here doesn’t matter if we leave here and do nothing. [...] The biggest problem in the world today is that there are too many people who don’t do anything.” Hill continued to advise future leaders to practice self-care. “This work is so killing, if you allow it to be,” Hill said. “But we can’t. The victory isn’t in a conviction. The victory is in the work itself, and the joy comes in struggling together. [...] Love yourselves. There’s nothing more revolutionary.” After the event concluded, a handful of Scripps students gathered in the living room of the Scripps Community of Resources and Empowerment (S.C.O.R.E.) building to “debrief.” Some students found Dr. Hill’s humor heartening: “He tied together a lot of things that I have thought about, and I’m sure a lot of other people have thought about, and he talked about the sort of work that needs to be done with a really great and engaging sense of humor,” said Jessica Ng (‘15). “I found it really inspiring, especially that you can continue to do work against oppression and still laugh.” Other students felt relieved by Dr. Hill’s message of unification: “It made me feel very energized about activism,” said Anna Cechony (‘17). “It reminded me that I don’t have to cure racism, sexism, ableism, cissexism and all the other ‘isms’ all by myself or all at once.”
Some members of Claremont faculty, staff and administration also enjoyed the event. “I thought Dr. Hill’s remarks were electric last night,” said Sam Haynes, the Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Activities at Scripps College, on Friday morning. “He is truly a speaker who connects and resonates very well with college students and young people across the country. His message of getting involved and not being afraid to do it alone spoke to all emerging student leaders no matter what one’s call might be.” Haynes, as a representative on the planning committee for the event, also expressed relief that the event went well. “I was particularly concerned about the lecture being something Scripps students could relate to, and based on the high numbers of Scripps students in attendance last night, my concerns were put to ease. Dr. Hill was a great pick for this year’s MLK Commemorative Lecture.” He attributed this success to the help he received from other Claremont representatives and offices: “I must note, when it all came together, I share in the success of [the] lecture with the MLK Committee, the Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA), and the Scripps community.” If you would like the transcript or the recording of this event, please contact Jasmine Russell at JRussell3819@scrippscollege.edu.
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101000101010100001111001010 Demand for computer science classes 100011101010001100101000111 A 001110001001000111100000001 011101111001111010001010101 000011110010101000111010100 011001010001110011100010010 001111000000010111011110011 101000101010100001111001010 100011101010001100101000111 001110001001000111100000001 011101101000101010100001111 Scripps Students’ Thoughts 001010100011101010001100101 000111001110001001000111100 000001011101111001111010001 010101000011110010101000111 010100011001010001110011100 010010001111000000010111011 110011101000101010100001111 001010100011101010001100101 000111001110001001000111100 000001011101101000101010100 0011110010101000111010100011 By Taylor Galla ‘18 Staff Writer cross the 5Cs, the growing popularity of Harvey Mudd College’s innovative and accessible computer science classes has lead to increased difficulty for students from schools that lack computer science programs to take the classes they need for their majors, minors and general interest in the subject. This is due to Mudd’s computer science department lacking the faculty and resources to teach all the classes that are needed with the onslaught of interest. With an increase in the number of jobs in the technological field, which largely utilizes the skills taught to computer science majors, more and more people are focusing on gaining that skillset. The resources available at the 5Cs, however, are having trouble keeping up. The teaching faculty for computer science majors across the whole 5Cs consists of Harvey Mudd’s computer science program, equipped with thirteen faculty members, and Pomona College’s staff of professors. According to Ran LibeskindHadas, Chair of the computer science department at Mudd, Pomona’s classes tend to be smaller than Mudd’s classes, making them harder to get into. The two programs are independent from one another but have lots of overlap as well. This makes Mudd the go-to school for computer science majors from all the other schools. Along with the computer science majors within Mudd’s own student population, the demand is far exceeding what Mudd’s computer science department can accomodate. According to Amy Marcus-Newhall, Scripps’ Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Harvey Mudd had around 100 enrollments in HMC computer science courses from the other
Claremont Colleges in 2010-2011. By 2012-13, they had 288. By 2013-14, they had 553. The majority of these enrollments are in CS 5, the introductory course. According to Libeskind-Hadas, other 5C schools, including Scripps made computer science an option for an off-campus major without consulting the faculty at Mudd. This left the computer science department with a larger demand for their classes than for which they were prepared. The overwhelming demand for Mudd’s computer science courses, and CS 5 specifically, comes from much more than just lack of resources. In the fall of 2006, Mudd’s computer science department decided to re-invent its introductory course to make it more open to students of various levels of background in computer science. Prior to this revision, the course had been rudimentary and more appealing for those with prior computer science experience. As a result, it was found that often students with less experience were intimidated by other students who knew much of the information already-creating an uninviting classroom environment. Realizing this and wanting to make the subject more accessible, Mudd’s computer science department re-constructedthe course, putting more power into the hands of the students in terms of options for projects and not mixing students of varying levels of experience, in an attempt to eliminate the intimidation factor. This revolutionized the program and interest skyrocketed, especially amongst women. Prior to this reinvention, nationally, an average of 15 per cent of undergraduate computer science majors were women. Harvey Mudd followed this pattern as expected with 14 per cent of undergrad
computer science majors being female. However, after the introduction of the new course in 2006, 47 per cent of Mudd’s undergraduate computer science majors were female, placing it high above the national average. This caused an immense interest in Mudd’s methods and course content among schools across the country who wanted raise their numbers as well. “The Academic Deans Committee (ADC; includes the Deans from all seven Claremont Institutions) discussed, and continue to discuss, the significant rise in computer science interest and how best to accommodate this,” MarcusNewhall explains. “A working group of faculty and administrators continues to monitor and work on the increasing interest and demand in computer science and how best to address it.” As this field has grown immensely over the past decade and continues to grow at an increasingly fast pace, the need for students with computer science knowledge and interest in the subject as a whole continues to increase. Marcus-Newhall explained that in order to keep up with the demand and accommodate the growing number of women interested in the subject, the academic deans across all the 5Cs are seeking to find a consortial solution to the problem, and that the immense difficulty with enrolling that students dealt with this year “shouldn’t be seen as a permanent situation.” The popularity of computer science majors, minors and programs has grown immensely over the past few years, making the growing need for more faculty and resources clear. With the growing popularity of this field and progress being made in this field the Claremont Consortium needs to adapt to the growing demands being placed on the departments currently in place.
“I don’t think that Scripps students should wait until the administration makes room and classes available for CS [computer science] majors. I believe that the future of CS at Scripps lies in our ability to teach ourselves through free online courses such as Code Academy and Khan Academy. There have been Code Literacy workshops at Scripps in the past and I hope that we continue these valuable free informational sessions to better prepare ourselves for a career after Scripps.” Sarah Chung ‘15 (Economics & Music Double Major) Co-President of the Scripps Women in Finance, Accounting, and Consulting club at Scripps, CoPresident of Scripps Women in Technology
“In regards to CS courses at the Claremont Colleges, I think that Mudd is stretched thin as it is and can barely accommodate its own students in CS. Overall, I think Keck or Scripps seriously needs to consider making their own CS department. We have such a large pool of talent here and Scripps needs to take the lead in developing a strong CS department to help combat the gender discrepancy in the tech industry. The tech industry needs women like us, but we also need to learn the practical skills that are vital for a career in tech.” Alicen Lewis ‘15 (Digital Media Studies Major and Psychology Minor) Founder and Co-President of Scripps Women in Technology
6 February, 2015 • The Scripps Voice • Volume XVIII • Issue Six
the Scripps college psychology Department Presents
The Marion Jane Girard Lecture
It’s not easy being green: Understanding how and why we make decisions that impact the environment Elke U. Weber
earth institute Professor Professor of psychology & economics columbia university “Every day individuals, households, and organizations make a large number of decisions that impact the environment in intentional or unintentional ways. Such decisions involve risk, uncertainty, long time-horizons, and distributed responsibility, and I will examine the cognitive and motivational barriers in place that often prevent us from making such decisions wisely. Fortunately there are some solutions. Those involve taking advantage of the ways in which people make decisions and to acquire, represent, and process information that go beyond rational deliberation and choice. We will see that a better understanding of the abundance of goals that motivate people’s choices and of the ways in which they arrive at their decisions provides entry points to the design of decision environments that help people, households, and organizations make decisions with which they will be more satisfied in the long run.” The Lectureship was established by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Girard in 1968, in memory of Marion Jane Girard, Mr. Girard’s Mother, for the purpose of annually bringing a distinguished personage in the field of psychology, psychiatry, or mental health to Scripps College to present a lecture or series of lectures in his or her field and to conduct seminars and discussion groups with students and faculty on the general subject matter of said lecture or lectures. It is intended that the ward of each annual Lectureship would result in the publication of a paper written by the designated Lecturer relating to the subject matter of his or her lecture and/or lectures.
Monday, February 16 // 7:30 pm // Balch auditorium at Scripps College For More Information Visit www.scrippscollege.edu/events/speakers/elke-weber
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making more than books in core iii By Jocelyn Gardner ‘17 Mental Health Columnist On Jan. 28, the Core III and Typography students of Professor Kitty Maryatt of Scripps College held a closing reception for their artist book exhibit in the art office Gallery 112 in Lang. The exhibit displayed the Core III class’ individually-crafted, social justice-oriented artist books as well as the most recent and past Typography class books. Visitors mingled among the books, which are highly interactive and unique forms of art, and listened to students from both classes discuss their work. Students described feeling proud of their work and fulfilled in talking about the messages and construction of their books and answering questions. “It’s one thing to talk about something you’re interested in,” said Core III student Lauren Cupp (SCR, ‘17), “and another to show someone a tangible object you made, instead of temporary ideas you don’t get to touch...it’s personal.” For Core III: The Artist Book as an
Agent of Social Change, part of the final project was to create an artist book advocating for social change in a certain topic. Some topics included Title IX and sexual assault on the 5C campuses, electronics usage, privacy, illegal poaching and
mental illness. Every part of the books, including choices in size, layout, construction, paper, font, illustration, text, etc., was deliberate and promoted the message, as the students observed with the artist books they chose for the Clark
Humanities Museum exhibit. For example, something as simple as negative space on a large page could make a reader not only read about isolation, but feel, sense and become a part of it. In the Core III class, students learned about the origin of book forms and studied artist books from Denison Library, paying particular attention to those with social justice messages. They chose books created by College Book Arts Association members, wrote about them for the catalog, filmed a DVD in which they demonstrated the books and spoke about their content and arranged them into the exhibit in the Clark Humanities Museum. There was also an exhibit reception hosted here by the students on Feb. 4. In contrast to the Core III students’ books, the Typography class’ books are not individual, single copies. Rather, the students worked together to create many copies of a book. Last semester’s class crafted Non Sense, which explored the CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
Mindful language promotes peace of mind
By Jocelyn Gardner ‘17 Mental Health Columnist I have been thinking about writing this article for quite some time: I want to address an issue that has only become more apparent to me with time and experience. In my Oct. 2 article about stigma I wrote, “...we are often not aware of the deeper lurking problems such as media portrayal and careless language.” This is one way of stating an issue that I like to refer to as collective mindfulness. In this community, we are very aware that the media, capitalism and consumerism can lead to dangerous promotion of certain ideals and widespread circulation of stigmatizing information. Just look at the advertising industry, which in many different senses manipulates feelings of want or need. Certain images, identities, and ways of life are promoted or put down. We know such ideas set forth are bad, but we still somehow take part in their circulation -- it seems there is no escape when harmful ideas (such as binary-enforcing and misogynistic gender roles) are inextricably woven
into culture. But here’s the catch: just because the media shows it, just because the corporations sell it, just because you didn’t know any better doesn’t mean that this thought pattern isn’t harmful. We hear this kind of language in discussions of microaggression in other social justice areas. Unfortunately, ignorance does not factor in to whether your words and actions may cause damage. What you don’t know can, in fact, hurt you. Again, I find myself running into an idea I’ve already referenced in other articles. You never know what someone is currently going through or has experienced. It takes seconds and a small amount of effort to be mindful, to think critically about the kinds of things you say and do, while it may take an enormous amount of time and willpower for a person to recover from a trigger. (Another issue I brought up in that Oct. 2 article!) Many people in recovery from trauma, addiction and eating disorders, to name a few examples, are bombarded with triggers everywhere. As a college community that seems to be committed to making groups of people and individuals feel as safe as possible, we do consider the effect our campus culture has on people. However, the problem persists. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that preventative measures are explicitly taken in most areas, but generally people do not tend to knowingly add to the problem. By being passive, even inadvertently, you allow, even encourage, a violent system to persist. Perhaps taking measures to be mindful of those who might need you to is inconvenient, but this concept applies to mindfulness of any difference. People who are different do not exist to inconvenience you, and by the same token, your life isn’t about them. I’m not advocating for
what people often attack as “overlypolitically-correctness” to the point of censorship. Some language and topics make people uncomfortable, but there is a monumental difference between discomfort and danger. A theme that comes up often in Scripps discussions in and out of class is identity. My perception (and personal belief) is that assigning an identity to a person, or in any way attacking or trivializing a person’s self-defined identity, is violent. This extends to mental health. Would you think the same way about issues of race or gender? If your language makes people feel attacked based on some part of their identities, wouldn’t you want to change it? Mental health isn’t about “feelings;” depression isn’t about being “sad;” addiction isn’t as simple as “wanting” or “needing” something. In recovery, people have to try to change their integrated thought patterns and tendencies, which become somewhat automatic and involuntary,which becomes threatening in recovery, as even certain thoughts themselves act as triggers and continue this cycle. And this runs much deeper than “feelings” or just “habits.” People who experience certain things may not appreciate being branded as a single aspect of their life or as a victim, either. Your words matter. Being mindful extends beyond the obvious ideas of not using certain words such as “insane” as a casual descriptor, not incorrectly applying terms (“I am so OCD! My notes have to be so neat”) and not joking about serious matters such as sexual assault or suicide. College culture is ripe with triggers that seem commonplace and harmless to most people. Consider eating disorders and disordered eating recovery-- just think for a minute about where those triggers may be. People recovering
are subjected to so much adverse information on not only a daily, but an hourly basis. Examples include the ever-present discussion of weight and appearance, use of “fat” constantly, negatively and derisively, talk of having to make up for eating a certain thing or earning the right to eat it, obsessions with dieting and exercise, etc. These are only a few examples, and everyone is different, which brings me to an important point. You cannot cover everything; there is no way to possibly know everyone’s triggers and avoid them. “So why bother?” you may ask. This is a common argument I have seen, but you can apply it to many other areas-- if you can’t prevent all murder, what’s the point of trying? To this, I ask, when did individual people’s peace of mind become insignificant? And being mindful covers many of the more common triggers, so why sacrifice collective mindfulness as prevention altogether based on the cases that can’t always be reached? You’ll find that individuals tend to matter more when you think about them as separate people rather than as an entity in some vague, amorphous “other” group. If a friend is grieving over a loved one’s death, you certainly would try to be more sensitive. You probably wouldn’t shame a victim of a shooting for being triggered by kids playing with Nerf guns. So, what makes other triggers different? Why are some triggers brushed off and trivialized, especially in relation to other factors such as gender and race? You don’t need to know the feeling or fully be able to place yourself in someone else’s shoes. Respect the fact that everyone is different –not weaker-and that there are some things that are pretty damn scary that you might not understand. Call it “sensitive.” I dare you.
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Tips to Body Positivity: loving your body By Evelyn Gonzalez ‘18 Feminism Columnist & Assistant Editor-in-Chief Bodies are inherently diverse and unique. Unfortunately, it seems that mainstream media refuses to acknowledge how our differences need to be addressed. We are not carbon copies of one another and I assure you we are not and cannot all be white, thin and able-bodied. We are not born to mold ourselves into these very limited categories and we should not be made to feel as though we have to. Media has had the power to perpertrate and influence the ways in which we process what is acceptable within ourselves and those around us. Whether consciously or unconsciously, we internalize these images and as a result start to apply them to our own perceptions about ourselves. This leads to damaging ideas about our own bodies. One way to combat these ideas has sprung up with the emergence of the body positive movement that, while still in its early stages, has been a running start towards more positive and inclusive interpretations of body image. The body positive movement recognizes that beauty does not exist as a binary or a hierarchy. It isn’t just fat or skinny, as we often like to categorize it. Although there is still a bit of work to do within this movement to create an all-embracing space, I believe that the body positivity movement is starting to work within the structures of ability, race and gender to change how these often oppressive states start to affect how we see ourselves and those around us in terms of beauty. When we address the aforementioned structures, it will be easier for this movement to become intersectional, and to thereby create a safe place in which to talk about the issues we face daily. The body positive movement allows those people who have been made to feel insignificant and unwanted by society’s presentations of beauty to start to feel comfortable and confident with who they are. Here are five simple simple tips to get you started:
1. Remember that loving yourself is a learning process. It is not going to come easily. There are going to be days in which you just do not have the energy to combat all the negativity that comes your way, and that is okay. We are all going to be different in terms of how we start to address our negative body perceptions. What matters is that we choose to engage with what body positivity means to us, and that we work towards that goal for ourselves. 2. Refuse to let yourself be defined by anyone else’s standards. You are in control and you get to decide what is going to define you. Do not let yourself fall prey to the idea that there is only one standard definition of beauty that has value. One way to help yourself move away from society’s definition of beauty is to go on a media diet. Try to avoid the constant onslaught of manipulative images and articles. Ignore diet ads, advertisements and commercials that try to instill a sense of guilt and worthlessness about your body. Living without these images for a while is going to make the process of crafting a positive image of yourself a lot easier. 3. Stop comparing yourself to others. Our society has this obsession with presenting image as a competition. Do not place your self worth on other people. While it’s often nice to be surrounded by those who support you, being able to boost your own self-esteem is the key to a more confident you. Encourage yourself and those around you to see that worth lies in areas other than image by emphasizing equally (and perhaps far more) important attributes like intelligence, humor or kindness. 4. Fake it ‘til you make it. It’s very important to make body positivity a daily occurrence. As much as I wish that self love could be something instantaneous, I know how difficult it can be to reverse everything we learned about beauty and body image. Taking it day by day is a useful tool that is going to rewire any detrimental attitudes. Start with affirmations in front of the mirror. Tell yourself how great you’re looking today and how good you feel about yourself. While you may not believe it now, soon enough you’ll find that it’ll come naturally and it’ll start to feel genuine. 5. Do not accept your flaws; embrace them. The idea that you have flaws is perfectly normal. No one is perfect, after all, but that does not mean you have to hate yourself for it. Start by creating a healthy relationship with your body and embracing all the parts of yourself that make you you.
The body positive movement is not going to succeed unless we make a constant effort to eradicate feelings of inadequacy within ourselves and others. It’s up to us as individuals to create an environment in which self-love can flourish. It’ll take time to reach a state in which we can all feel confident in who we are.
Let us start At the very Beginning: Your guide to Campus health Anonymous Sex Positive Health Columnist
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or the first of my many no-judgement, sex-positive pieces I thought I’d start with the basics of sexual health resources on campus. It’s important to know where everything is and what services are provided so that you can be safe and in control of your body. There are many places you can go for these services, including Student Health Services, which is located in the Tranquada building, across from the Honnold Mudd library. In terms of services for women, Student Health does breast examinations and pap smears, which are recommended for women over 21 or within three years of starting intercourse. Birth control methods like the pill, Nuvaring and diaphragms are also available at the health center. If you are a sexually active person, getting tested for STD’s and STI’s is the responsible thing to do, for both you and your partner(s). The health center provides STD and STI testing. The Health Education Outreach (HEO), which is located in the same building and floor as the Health Center, does free HIV testing on Wednesdays from 11am1pm. It’s confidential and only takes about 20 minutes, and the best part is that it doesn’t require needles! The Queer Resource Center also does HIV testing on the first Friday of every month from 1:30pm-3:30pm. I highly recommend that everybody gets tested; knowledge is power, people! In case you need it, Pomona has a vending machine with Plan B and other safer sex supplies open to students at all the colleges. It is located in the Wellness Room on the second floor of Walker Hall Lounge. Plan B costs 20 dollars, the same as at the Health Center, so this is a good option if you want more privacy and don’t feel comfortable going to the Health Center. The HEO provides free, confidential pregnancy testing and has free condoms, dental dams and other supplies that are open to all students. There are also trained Peer Health Educators at the HEO at all times in case you have any questions or just need to talk to someone. Take advantage of these resources; they are there to be used by students. I know too many people who still buy their condoms and lube at Target; enjoy the never-ending, free sex supplies while they last.
Useful Contact Information: Health Education Outreach: 909-607-3602 Student Health: 909-621-8222
6 Februrary, 2015 • The Scripps Voice • Volume XVIII • Issue Six
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the first year experience
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By Melanie Biles ‘18 Design Editor
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oming back from break is hard, but for some reason it wasn’t too bad this time. It could be that we finally have access to Pitzer brunch again, or maybe the freedom to leave on a weeknight without having to undergo a CIA-level investigation from our parents. It could be that we were all tired of sleeping in rooms by ourselves and eating homemade meals, though that seems unlikely. In my opinion, the best part of coming back is how everyone has reacted to the weather. In the first sunny days back on campus, Midwesterners and Northeasterners were seen crying on Jaqua as they grabbed handfuls of green grass and held it up in the light of the 80ºF afternoon sun, continually questioning how something so beautiful could
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exist. A few feet away, those from Southern California loudly complained, “This is nice, but it was SO much warmer where I’m from.” Returning to campus was an adventure. Walking back into my room after an entire month away, with all of my roommates lugging in bags and boxes and stuffing clothes into drawers that really could not contain them brought immediate flashbacks to move-in day back in August. Some notable differences were that we now knew where the front door of our hall was, the afternoon air was at a temperature that could not have easily fried eggs, and, as one of my roommates noted, we could be openly rude to each other on the first day. Lovingly, of course. With the new semester has come a lot of adjustments. Some have been sad, like the
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death of Pitzer’s Mediterranean Wrap Wednesdays, which my roommates and I still mourn weekly. Southwestern wraps are simply not the same. Others have been confusing, like having everyone come back from abroad (“She lives here? In this hall? I’ve literally never seen her before”). For the most part, however, spring semester has brought positive changes. We’re done with Core 1, for example, and never have to think about Foucault again (probably). Because Writing 50 is over, we actually got to have complete choice in three of our classes this semester, which felt like an unprecedented act of liberation. New classes are, in themselves, an entire adventure. Even after weeks of attending and going in for office hours at the same rooms, I still get lost on the way to some of my classes. (Why do we need
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to have so many similar-looking hallways at Steele? I promise it doesn’t add anything to the experience. We could at least paint them differently. I’m a big fan of color-coding.) And so it begins. I expect that this semester will bring all sorts of surprises in all sorts of ways. There will be a lot of Parks and Recreation (and probably a lot of crying about Parks and Recreation ending), a lot of working hard on assignments I won’t remember by next semester, and a lot of making memories with friends both new and old. Maybe I’ll even meet people from other campuses this semester, but that’s a story for another time. For now, all I have to say is welcome back! I can’t wait to see what the semester will hold for us.
Mud is love and love is mud: Interconnecting themes in Jeff Nichols’s “Mud”
By Elizabeth Lee ‘16 Copy Editor & Film Columnist
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eff Nichols’s “Mud” (2012) may as well be called “Love” for how interchangeably murky and ugly the film seems to present the two concepts. It is so easy when it comes to love to be sloppily sentimental and trivial, as is evident by many a romcom as well as by how dangerously close even this film gets to that. And yet love remains one of our most powerful driving forces and precious aspirations as well as complicated and painful enigmas. What makes “Mud” a perhaps more compelling account is that it is not a love story but rather a story about love in its various profound and less-thanpretty forms. Fourteen-year-old Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and his friend Neckbone come across a boat stuck in a tree when they meet a mysterious man by
the name of Mud, played by a grimy yet sincere Matthew McConaughey, hiding out on a tiny island. Mud offers the boys the boat in exchange for helping him get food, to which they agree until they realize he is a wanted criminal. When Mud explains that he is waiting for his girlfriend Juniper (Reese Witherspoon) to arrive so they can run away together, Ellis is touched and agrees to help Mud repair the boat to escape. Seeking an escape from his parents’ nasty divorce as well as hope for his own crush on an older, high school girl, Ellis chooses to trust Mud and the idea he seems to embody of love itself. Instead, Ellis finds it to be something far more bleak. It is the sense of safety and home of his family’s river houseboat threatened by divorce. It is the tree boat that feels like a special place belonging just to them but that as something the boys just found is occupied by another stranger. It is the disillusionment of first love revealed to be naive,
shallow, and jealous. It is the not-sounconditional relationship between Mud and Tom (Sam Shepard), an old father figure who refuses to help Mud in his pursuit of Juniper. It is the betrayal of an idea when Ellis’s trust in Mud and his love for Juniper leads him to become a thief. It is
“But, I love you,” he tells her. And so often we feel that that should be enough on its own, that love is an end in itself. As easy as it is to be sentimental and naive about love, the film’s ending leads us to believe that it becomes just as easy and perhaps even safer to be cynical about it. To dismiss it as not real or valuable or useful. But it flows along, changing constantly over time, not only causing but healing wounds and helping us learn or grow. Often, it exists somewhere in the middle of the spectrum of ugly and painful to beautiful and magical, moving back and forth between the two. Mud, in this case, refers to not just Photo Courtesy of The Critical Movie Critics the dirt at the the perfect and grandiose dream of bottom of a river but a man driven romance overpowering all else that to protect those he loves. It is not shatters with the realization that a constant state of one or the other love can be unrequited, destructive, but a drive, which we must choose manipulative, unfulfilling, and how to act upon and use. painful. When Ellis’s crush declares in front You can find all movies of all her friends that she is not his reviewed here on Netflix girlfriend, he pauses, dumbstruck.
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Saving green and staying green
By Natalie Camrud ‘17 Fashion Columnist
Emily Armstrong ‘17
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From: Lexington, Kentucky Major: Politics and International Relations
MAKING MORE THAN BOOKS IN CORE III CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 theme of silence, the topic for that semester’s Humanities Institute, in terms of the five senses. Books from previous years, including 1988, 1991, 2003 and 2010, were also on display on the Typography side of the exhibit. Professor Maryatt said the exhibit allows viewers to “get a new viewpoint of what artist books are” and to experience the “different personas” of the classes’ group books and students’ individual books. The artist books do not always cohere to the image that comes to mind with the word “book.” Typically, people might think of the kind of books they would read in classes. These take the codex form, which consists of sheets of paper bound at one end, as opposed to accordion-fold books, scrolls, tablets or other forms. The books in both exhibits may take that form, while others have intricate and highly interactive parts. Readers must pull, untie, unlatch, flip or remove parts at times to experience the content. The Core III class is offered every Fall to
Photos by Natalie Camrud ‘17.
Look Two: Name: Abigail Daum Year: Sophomore Outfit: Abby is going with the flow, pun totally intended, with a loose, soft cardigan and a flowy maxi skirt to go with it. It’s a great outfit for the 70 degree winters we have to suffer through over here. Her cardigan and skirt were both purchased at Goodwill.
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Look One: Name: Mallory Mackey Year: Sophomore Outfit: Sleek black shirt paired with vintage overalls and iconic black booties. Mallory got her overalls at Dee-Lux, which is conveniently located in the Claremont village. They have vintage and new items and they also buy clothes, so you can sell your stuff and get either store credit or cash.
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015 has arrived, and with it, an onslaught of classes, essays and deadlines. This is around the time that people’s New Year’s resolutions tend to wear off. However, I think it’s important to hang on to some resolutions, like being confident and unashamedly yourself in all aspects of your life, including your fashion choices. My theme this issue is environmentally-friendly fashion. I am featuring two students who are wearing used clothing to show that thrifting can be just as great as, if not better than, going to Topshop or Forever 21. If you are into both the environment and fashion like I am, it can be a real struggle to balance the love of clothes with the fact that one new pair of jeans takes 1,500 gallons of water to be produced. So when in doubt, thrift; you will find unique items and not feel guilty about the impact on the environment or on your wallet.
sophomores, and the Typography class, Art 135: Typography and the Book Arts, is offered every semester at Scripps and is open to students of the other four colleges as well. BARBARA BUSH IS SPEAKING AT SCRIPPS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
staff and members of the public,” she said. The Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program is known for bringing conservative speakers to campus, including last year’s speaker, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan. Although Ms. Bush, with her extensive social work and public support for liberal causes, such as gay marriage, appears to be an odd fit for the program, President Bettison-Varga believes that “her experience as a member of the first family gives her a unique perspective on 21st century political conservatism.” President Bettison-Varga said she views Ms. Bush’s leftist tendencies as an asset that will allow her to better identify with the questions and concerns of Scripps students. President Bettison-Varga also reported that the Scripps community has positively received Ms. Bush’s speaking invitation.
What do you do for fun at the Claremont Colleges? I am part of an informal Kentucky mentoring program, also known as KMP. We do activities together such as Kentucky Thanksgiving, running, watching basketball and rapping. I also write for the Golden Antlers and am part of EDGI (Exploring Development and Global Inequality). What is it like working for the Golden Antlers? You get to meet some pretty wacky people and collaborate with them. It’s pretty exciting to see all these great ideas come together and come up with something pretty cool. What did you do last summer? I lived alone in my Grandma’s house. That’s it? Well I also interned at a think tank in Washington D.C. with the Women in Public Service Project. The initiative was to get more women to run for office. It was a great opportunity, and I largely have Scripps to thank for it because the initiative really wanted an intern from a women’s college. But living in my Grandma’s house allowed me to grow most as a person because by the end of the summer I felt like I was 80. Word on the street is that you took a gap year. Tell me about it. I spent three months in Indonesia and then the rest of the year I spent at home, where I worked at Billy’s BarB-Q and Fresh Market. At Billy’s, every employee had a foot long beard and I felt pressured to grow one. It was also great smelling like BBQ for nine months straight. I wanted to eat myself. What did you do over winter break? I went on a father-daughter bar crawl. It was a great bonding experience. Who is the most influential person in your life? Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation because of his love for meat and woodworking. He’s also my spirit animal. What is your favorite class so far this semester? Political Economy of Development with Pierre Englebert at Pomona. It’s a really interesting class about understanding the foreign aid industry and making sense of the income and growth differences around the world. I would like to end up in a career in the development field. What is your favorite Motley drink? The ones at the end of the night that are free.
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Photos by Tyra Abraham ‘18
The 71st Scripps College Ceramics Annual, curated by Professor Julia HaftCandell, has proven to be perhaps the best show yet. With a variety of styles and artists on display, the pieces blended seamlessly together. The show will be on campus at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery until April 5.
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