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The 5Cs must recognize diversity of ability and provide better ac cessibility in order to be a more inclusive environment, writes Max Zonana
After over a year of mandated weekly COVID-19 testing, most students, faculty and staff across the 5Cs will no longer be required to test weekly.
Amid a week of sweltering temperatures that exceeded 100°F, students, faculty and staff at the Claremont Colleges were left to grapple with how to best beat the heat. Some stu dents had it especially tough — not all dorm rooms are equipped with air conditioning units at the 5Cs.
NANAKO NODA • tHe StUDeNt LIFe Most vaccinated students, faculty and staff will no longer be required to test regularly.
On Sept. 12, Pomona College’s Dean of Students, Avis Hinkson, announced the official suspension of mandatory testing in an email ad dressed to Pomona’s student body.
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There will still be instances, however, in which students, faculty and staff will be required to test for COVID-19, according to Hinkson.
Weekly COVID-19 testing no longer required at the 5Cs
Nine out of 14 residence halls at Pomona still do not have AC.
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“People simply didn’t have the luxury of going to the polls during the height of the pandemic,” Kapur said.The differences became more pronounced as Trump “argued that the election was stolen without any evidence, continuing to press that claim despite the rejection of his legal challenges in the courts and disagreement by members of his
Some Pomona students resorted to sleeping on bare mattresses on the floor provided by Pomona’s administration.
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for a variety of reasons, including spiking on-campus case rates.
In addition, Hinkson stated that if fewer than 15 percent of Pomona’s student body tests on a given week, random samples of students will be required to test, which would be communicated through email.
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Robinson told TSL via email that adding individual AC units for each dorm room would “ex ceed the capacity of [their] elec trical“Withinfrastructure.”ourresidence halls built over the span of more than a century, installing central air con ditioning in all locations would be quite costly and complex,” RobinsonRobinsonsaid.did not respond to TSL’s specific questions about Pomona’s future AC plans.
Seeking to uncover a more analytical view of the events, the panelists started by outlining the political context directly preced ing the insurrection.
There’s no need to put those saliva tests away forever, though. According to Hinkson, required testing could return at any moment
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supplementing what faculty do with students in our work — for and with you. My scholarly research on empathy has persuaded me that we all learn better and are more likely to thrive in an atmosphere of genuine care. I bring that spirit to my work.
Despite the marked end of mandatory weekly testing for most of the vaccinated 5C com munity, Hinkson stressed the importance of continued vigi lance, adding that students are “strongly encouraged” to contin ue testing and masking indoors.
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The New York Times’ White House correspondent Michael Shear CM ’90 and NBC News’ senior national political reporter Sahil Kapur CM ’09 gave 5C students a personal perspective on what it was like to witness the Jan. 6 insurrection from the lens of aHeldreporter.atCMC’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum and sponsored by the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World, the talk was moderated by Elise Viebeck CM ’10, a former journalist with The Washington Post.
in Pomona musical groups will also be required to test on a regular basis, she said.
“It’s disappointing and frustrat ing that the college has experienced heatwaves in the past and knows to anticipate them, yet their tactics, I would argue, are far from cre ative,” Thea Barovick PO ’23 said.
Faculty and staff will also be able to get free COVID-19 tests at the nearby Hamilton HealthBox Clinic located on 8th Street.
“In the future, I would hope that instead of taking the time to speak to outside press organizations, Dean Hinkson would speak to students about how they’re doing. Because, I can tell you, from my experience, I’m not doing well.”
Pomona, CMC students struggle amid last week’s heat wave without AC
Students will be required to test when returning after travel periods, such as breaks in the academic calendar.
To Shear, in the pre-Donald Trump era, “politics had a cadence that one could get used to; you can kind of understand the boundaries in which politics exists.” During the Trump administration, though, he found himself “exhausted by the craziness” of it all.
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Viebeck said that from the very beginning of the Trump adminis tration, things were different. He recalled an incident in which a car was set on fire during the former president’s inauguration.
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“While much of the national guidance has shifted to focus on individual responsibility, we want to stress the importance of considering our entire commu nity as each of us makes choices regarding testing and other safety measures,” Hinkson said in the email.
Having officially assumed the role of Scripps College’s 10th pres ident in July, Suzanne Keen sat down with TSL to discuss how her first two months have gone, what brought her to the college and how her background will inform her future plans.
bat the heatwave that happened in September 2017, when TSL reported that over 800 Pomona students did not have AC.
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After a two-year hiatus, students were back to swimming, making friends and spending time in nature during Pomona College’s annual Orientation Adventure for first-year students. Read more on page 4.
Meanwhile, Pomona Dean of Students Avis Hinkson spoke to Inside HigherEd about the heat wave on Sept. 7. “We know that it may be a short amount of time, but it’s an intense amount of time, so how can we be responsive to students’ needs and be as creative as we See on
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PO ’26. Read more on page 7.
Suzanne Keen is leading Scripps College as its 10th president.
Stella Favaro PO ’23 said she hasn’t slept in her room in Clark V Residence Hall for seven nights
In a Sept. 6 email, Robert Robinson, Pomona College’s dean of facilities and campus services, sent an email to stu dents with the college’s plans to deal with the heat wave.
Free testing will still be available at Tranquada Student Services Center and at various vending machines across the 5Cs for students who want to or are required to test.
Keen: Leading Scripps College is an extraordi nary opportunity for a feminist scholar and educator. Honoring the memory of my mother, who was a Pembroke College graduate, inspired me at the beginning. She loved studying at a women’s college where she had leadership roles back in the 1950s and where she had full access to a coedu cational experience at Brown University.Scripps offers gender-diverse students the best of both worlds — a woman-centered education in a coeducational consortium. That’s really special. It’s been a whirl
Kapur also noted the 2020 U.S. presidential election was “unusual because of the massive expansion of mail-in and other means of polling.”
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Unvaccinated students are re quired to keep testing biweekly, and those with COVID-19 symptoms are required to test within 48 hours of the onset of those symptoms, Hinkson said in the email. Mean while, faculty and staff who are not vaccinated will still be required to testStudentsweekly.
possibly can?” Hinkson told Inside HigherEd. “The various cooling stations and cots [were] really our effort to think outside of the box and provide some opportunities for students to find a cool space on Despitecampus.”the college’s intention to create innovative solutions, some students said they were upset with Pomona’s response.
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Citing lower cases in Los Angeles County and stable infection rates on campus, Hinkson said the decision was made in agreement with the college’s 5C counterparts which included university-wide COVID-19 planning groups and medical advi sors from all schools.
Robinson’s message said that the college would provide temporary cooling systems, cots in lounge areas and water sta tions throughout main campus walkways, among other relief measures.Pomona had previously em ployed the same tactics to com
“A lot of the workers are POC, they’re often overlooked, they’re taken advantage of and the insti tution benefits off of their labor,” Yuan said. “The fact that [Pomona is] lowballing them is embarrass ing for the institution and it’s just completely disrespectful to the workers.”Pomona College spokesperson Mark Kendall declined to answer questions on Monday evening re garding the contract negotiation meetings, as they are ongoing.
sciousness and inclusive community, and it’s one of my favorite spots on campus.”TheMotley networking manager
CMC’s North Quad dorms still do not have AC, making it the only other college at the 5Cs to house
A Motley tradition, the open ing night featured specialty drinks, live music and goods from student vendors. Students lined up for featured drinks including the Nicki Minatcha, a matcha latte with marshmallow syrup; the ‘Timotea Chalamet,’ an iced green tea beverage; the Kanye Aka Yeezus, a caramel and mocha latte; and a Cheri-cano, an icedStudentsamericano.were happy to be back at the Motley after its sum mer closure, flocking to the event in gowns, jeans, suits and sneak ers, inspired by the Met Gala.
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“Es algo tan surreal que todo el mundo esté aquí apoyándonos — significa tanto para nosotros como trabajadores”, Ocampo compartió con los participantes de la mani festación. “Nos esforzamos muchísi mo al cocinar sus comidas. Lo úni co que pedimos es que la dirección reconozca esto y que nos vean como los trabajadores cualificados que somos, y no nos hagan sentir como trabajadores ‘sin formación’”.
Scripps College’s adored Mot ley Coffeehouse welcomed Cla remont Colleges students back with a red carpet for its Mot-Galathemed opening night celebration on Thursday.“Ithought the theme was re ally sweet,” Motley barista Mia Fenyak SC ’25 said. “There’s not a lot of chances to dress up and go hang out with friends like this, so I thought that was awesome.”
As temperatures rose, Holly Shankle CMC ’25 and her room mate left their room on Sept. 4 and slept elsewhere for the next six Originally,nights. Shankle said, they crashed on the couches of friends at the CMC senior apart ments. They said they didn’t want to take advantage of their friends’ kindness for too long, though, and sleeping in lounges felt too Shanklepublic.got in touch with Graves, who still had a room available in Berger Hall, where Shankle and her roommate slept for the rest of the week.
“All we’re asking for is just to be able to survive and live in Los An geles County,” Archer told students during the rally. “We’re just trying to be able to survive and buy houses to not have to live 30-40 miles away.”
Monday Evening, a live student band that was welcomed by an excited crowd.
“I think everyone kind of left that room being like, ‘Well, we can’t ne gotiate when there’s such a big gap between what we are asking for and what they offer,’” Wong said. “There’s no meeting in the middle with 80 cents versus [$9.40]. That’s just a Mariejoke.”Ocampo, who has worked as a caterer and baker at Pomona for the past eight years, gave an emo tional speech to the crowd, pausing to wipe tears from her eyes.
in a row. She said her friends with AC had their couches booked out nights in advance, making it dif ficult to find somewhere to sleep at times.“Obviously, in the long term, Pomona really has to come to terms with the fact that with a changing climate, this isn’t a sus tainable approach to heat waves,” Favaro said. “And really the onus is on Pomona to come up with a solution to the heat waves that are just going to become more frequent and get longer. They can’t just keep doing this.”
5C students enjoy the opening night of Motley Coffeehouse with live entertainment and specialty drinks.
“We believe it is better not to comment directly on terms and content of the discussions while the process is underway. We deep ly appreciate the dedication and talent of the dining and catering team,” he said via email. “As an institution of higher learning, we strive to provide excellent wages paired with a highly competitive benefits program to support din ing and catering employees.”
“It felt disrespectful, just kind of like ‘suck it up and deal with it,’” she Eileensaid.Kim PO ’24, who lives in a double in Wig Hall without AC, created a survey to gather data on how the heatwave is “affecting [students’] daily lives and how students think Pomona is handling theHersituation.”survey is similar to a 2017 survey conducted by the Asso ciated Students of Claremont McKenna College, which looked at students displaced during the heatwave because their dorms didn’t have AC.
organizer for the Claremont Stu dent Worker Alliance, introduced each speaker at the rally.
“It was weird, but in the end, I did choose to live in North Quad,” Shankle said. “And ob viously no one can predict that hot of a heat wave, so it was doable, especially [since it was] the first couple weeks of school, and we weren’t overloaded with work yet.”
The student-run coffeehouse in Scripps’ Seal Court showcases sustainably-sourced coffee, tea, pastries and other snacks. A 5C favorite, the coffeehouse has been a space students such as Hannah Downing SC ‘23 frequently use for spending time with friends and studying.“Imiss this place,” Downing said. “It’s a special place. It’s culti vated its own culture of social con
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students in dorms without air-conditioning.Inresponseto last week’s heatwave, CMC’s Dean of Stu dents Dianna Graves CM ’98 emailed CMC students about possible sleeping situations during the heatwave, including sleeping bags and air mattresses for sleeping in spaces with AC along with the possibility to stay in empty, air-conditioned dorm rooms.
“Nosotros creemos que es mejor no comentar directamente sobre los términos y el contenido mientras que las discusiones están en proce so. Apreciamos profundamente la dedicación y el talento de los traba jadores de las cafeterías”, compartió en un correo electrónico. “Como una institución de educación superior, nos esforzamos para proveer salari os excelentes junto con un programa de beneficios altamente competitivo para apoyar al equipo de cocina en Pomona”.
Following speeches given by both workers and students, the rally marched from Frary Dining Hall to Frank Dining Hall before finishing up at the Smith Campus Center.Angel Yuan PO ’25 and Uma Kaler PO ’25 marched side by side in support of worker’s rights.
“Each and every single day, the workers here put food on our plates,” he said in his speech. “Yet they have to go home and not know if they can make ends meet for their own family. [...] “We’re not doing this because we’re students and they’re workers. We’re doing this because, at the end of the day, our fights are all connected.”
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Francisco Villaseñor PO ’25, un organizador de la Alianza entre los estudiantes y trabajadores de Cla remont (CSWA), presentó a cada persona que habló durante la man ifestación.“Cada día, los trabajadores nos alimentan”, dijo en su discurso. “No obstante, ellos se van a sus casas sin saber si pueden sustentar a sus pro pias familias. [...] “ Estamos hacien do esto, porque al final del día, todas nuestras peleas están conectadas.”
Hundreds rally on Labor Day calling for raises for Pomona dining workers
Cientos se reunieron en una protesta durante el día del traba jo, buscando aumentos salariales para los trabajadores de cocina de Pomona
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The Motley Coffeehouse’s last opening night celebration took place on April 8, 2022. Prior to that opening, the Motley Coffeehouse had been closed since Fall 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns.
La manifestación ocurrió en respuesta a una junta previa entre representantes del sindicato de los trabajadores de cocina en Pomona
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Favaro expressed disappoint ment in the “cots” near her that were offered by the college — which she described as “a stack of bare mattresses wrapped in plastic in the corner of Walker Lounge.”
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Wong trabaja con el represen tante del sindicato del personal de cocina de Pomona UNITE HERE Local 11, quien también representa el recién formado sindicato de Pitzer College.“Creo que todos se fueron de la junta pensando, ‘Bueno, no podem os negociar cuando hay un mar de diferencia entre lo que pedimos y lo que nos ofrecen’”, dijo Wong. “No hay un punto medio entre 80 centa vos y [$9.40 dólares]. Es una burla”.
Después de los discursos impar tidos por los trabajadores y los es tudiantes, la marcha continuó hacia el comedor Frank y terminaron en el Smith Campus Center.
El vocero de Pomona College, Mark Kendall, no contestó pregun tas sobre la renegociación del con trato en la tarde del lunes 5 de septi embre ya que sigue en proceso.
“Honestly, just being back at the Motley is great. I missed it dearly,” Soha Bapat SC ’25 said. “I liked seeing everyone’s outfits. It’s interesting how everyone kind of took the theme in their own way.” This reopening showcased
However, the space has not yet returned to its former self, lacking its staple student events and lively convivial Motley atmosphere as the pandemic put most events on pause. Brice is hopeful that the return to events will bring students together after its long-time closure due to the pandemic.“It’sgoing to be a space to rebuild a community that was almost lost over the past few years,” Brice said.
Marie Ocampo and other Pomona College dining hall staff and labor organizers listen to their colleagues and supporters give speeches at Monday’s rally in support of wage raises.
“It’s just the most magical place and I truly love it, so it feels really good to see the community come to gether for the first time, at least at the Motley, since COVID,” Fenyak said.
“It’s a significant gig,” Monday Evening’s drummer Jeremy Martin PO ’25 said. “I like when we get to play for events that are for the whole community … to sort of be there and be a part of the 5C community.”Theopening night was delayed by half an hour due to a fire alarm being set off, according to Motley Community Engagement Man ager Nayla Dayal SC ’25. Despite the setback, the Motley opening continued as planned once the fire alarms’ rings ceased.
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Natasha Wong PZ ’23 who was present at the meeting told TSL that HR’s counteroffer was “a huge slap in the face.” She said managers at Pomona told workers that raises were not allocated in this year’s bud get.Wong works with Pomona din ing hall workers’ union representa tive UNITE HERE Local 11, which also represents the newly formed Pitzer College workers union.
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triple digits, some Pomona and CMC students without AC had to rely on air-conditioned common rooms for refuge.
Avalon Brice SC ’24 described the coffee shop as “the heart of Scripps, especially for students.” To Brice, the Motley “is such a diverse and inclusiveHistorically,space.”the space has been used for cultural and political events, such as the Motley Valentine’s Day Drag Show and the Taskforce for Immigration and Refugee Rights event back in spring 2020.
But during the meeting, managers counter-offered the workers’ request with a $2.40 raise over the next three years, Archer told TSL via message.
“It is so surreal that everybody’s here in support of us — it means so much to us as workers,” Ocampo told attendees of the rally. “We put a lot of thought and effort in how we cook your meals. All we’re asking for is that management recognizes that and that they see that we are very skilled workers and not ‘un skilled’ in the way that they make us feel.”Francisco Villaseñor PO ’25, an
Café 47 worker Aaron Archer said that workers are asking for a $28 min imum wage with a raise of $9.40 over the next year.
We started off with a little bit of a fire alarm situation — Mallott set off some toast,” Dayal said. “It’s been a really fun experience getting [the reopening] together … The Motley team has been working really hard to reopen, and they’re an incredible team.”
Marie Ocampo, quien ha traba jado como panadera en la cocina de Pomona por los últimos ocho años, dio un discurso emocional al públi co, limpiando lágrimas de su rostro.
Despite 103° weather this Labor Day afternoon, hundreds of Cla remont College students, Pomona College dining hall workers and local labor organizers showed up to a rally outside Frary Dining Hall in support of raising wages for Pomona kitchen staff.The rally followed a recent con tract negotiation meeting between representatives from Pomona’s din ing hall workers union and members of Pomona’s Human Resources team, which ended in what some meeting attendees described as a “lowball” offer from Pomona College.
A pesar del calor durante el Día del Trabajo, trabajadores de las cafeterías de Pomona College, cientos de estudiantes de los Cla remont Colleges y organizadores sindicales de la región participa ron en una manifestación afuera del comedor estudiantil Frary, mostrando su apoyo en un au mento salarial para el personal de cocina de Pomona.
To Shankle, although the situation was not one she ex pected, she said it was still manageable to her.
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y miembros del departamento de recursos humanos de la universi dad, buscando negociar su contra to para los próximos años. Según compartieron algunas de las personas presentes, la junta terminó con una oferta de aumen to salarial “muy baja” por parte de PomonaAaronCollege.Archer, quien trabaja para Café 47, dijo que los traba jadores exigen un salario digno mínimo de $28, lo que significa un aumento de $9.40 para este año queSinviene.embargo, durante la junta los gerentes ofrecieron una con traoferta de $2.40 dólares durante los próximos tres años, Archer le dijo a TSL a través de un mensaje SMS.“Lo único que pedimos es pod er sobrevivir y cubrir los gastos de vivienda en el condado de Los Ángeles”, Archer dijo durante la marcha. “Solo estamos tratando de vivir y comprar casas que no nos queden a 40-60 kilómetros de dondeNatashatrabajamos”.Wong PZ ’23 estuvo presente durante la junta con los directores de recursos humanos y mencionó que para ella, la contrao ferta fue “una bofetada”. Dijo que los gerentes de Pomona le dijeron a los trabajadores que los aumentos
Throughout the Trump presi dency, Shear sensed that the media was “always a step behind.”
While Shear was not there per sonally, he said that one of the photographers he regularly worked with was assaulted and their press pass was stolen.
After a series of incidents involving harassment and bul lying during the spring 2022 se mester, Pitzer College’s Listserv Student-Talk is back — along with some modifications from Pitzer Student Senate’s executive board.Ina Sept. 5 email addressed to the Pitzer student body re garding the open mailing list’s regular reactivation after the summer, Student Body Presi dent Michelle Muturi PZ ’23 an nounced that students interested in joining Student-Talk will now have to opt in via email.
Any student who violates Student Talk’s new guidelines more than three times may be removed for the remainder of the semester, Muturi said.
Of the three panelists, only Ka pur was in Washington, D.C. on the morning of Jan. 6.
On trying to leave NBC News’ Washington bureau headquarters, Kapur recounted that “my doorman wouldn’t let me leave because there was violence in the street,” but he eventually made it out of the build ing. After leaving, though, he said he was instructed by his editors to “escape” downtown D.C.
Viebeck — who helped author the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service-winning Washington Post piece entitled “The Attack,” which covered the insurrection in detail — noted that the “security system didn’t work against domestic terrorism.”“Ifthe people who planned [the insurrection] were different people, if they looked different, would there have been more preparation?” Kapur said.
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had to request to opt out.
Warshaw said that college ad ministration had previously told him that shuttles would arrive ev ery 15 minutes, but he said there have been days where shuttles ar rive every half an hour.
Following the panelists’ discus sion, students interacted with the journalists during a Q&A section during which they asked the pan elists questions about developing sources and the role of journalism in a hyperpolarized political en vironment.
“The main issue is that the shuttle service isn’t always reli able,” Warshaw said. “In [Pomo na’s] emails, they said shuttles come every fifteen minutes … but that language is deceiving.”
“I may write hit pieces, but I want to represent [my subjects] fairly,” Kapur said. “Everyone in the story should have a chance to comment; no one in your story should ever be surprised about what you Delvingwrite.”more into the fair representation of sources, Vi beck further commented on how hyperpolarization has mistaken the press to be biased rather than objective.“Noone wants to write a report for an echo chamber,” Vibeck said. “People on the left think that jour nalists are heroes — they’re not the
Students would use the List serv for everything from borrow ing tape to learning about classes to community organizing.
“[Inrecently.myfirst few weeks at Pitzer] I had never heard of it and had never heard anyone speaking about it, so I guess that’s not a good sign,” Gold fein
“We wouldn’t make these changes if they were not request ed,” Muturi said. “Not everyone wants to be [on the platform]. A lot of students mentioned that the emails were taking up a lot of storage space or just crowding theirButinbox.”toAna Hernandez PZ ’25, the changes to Student-Talk came as a shock. She told TSL that the changes to the platform didn’t seem like the most effective way to reduce conflict between students.
Toother.”Hernandez, Student-Talk is an important part of Pitzer’s student culture, and she said she worried the changes to the Listserv could reduce the benefits of the “Student-Talkplatform.isabig part of the campus community here. It’s our way of communicating with everybody else,” Hernan dez said. “Having people opt-in on student talk really decreases not only the amount of people on student talk, but also a bit of its purpose. If you can’t reach the entire campus community, then it’s not the same.”
With the 5Cs still dealing with a housing crisis, students have been placed in off-cam pus housing for the second year in a row leaving some to figure out how to adjust to life outside their respective colleges’ residential commu nities.Currently, the colleges use different off-campus complex es to house students. Pomo na College students that live off-campus are based in Oa sis Apartments, while Scripps College students live at the Claremont Collegiate Apart ments.Adriana di Bartolo-Beck man, assistant vice president for student affairs at Scripps, told TSL via email that Scripps, among other higher education institutions, experi enced fluctuations in housing demand that created the hous ing crunch in the first place. Di Bartolo-Beckman cited the pandemic as one cause among several“Factorsothers.affecting the re duced campus housing sup ply include: lower-than-usual study abroad enrollment, more seniors enrolled in a ninth se mester and a significant in crease in requests for singles through the accommodations process,” Bartolo-Beckman toldAccordingTSL. to Bartolo-Beck man, several post-pandemic complications have reduced the supply of campus resi dential spaces for Scripps stu dents.“Shifts in continuing stu dents’ preferences and behav iors, coupled with the ongoing need to de-densify residence halls to lower COVID-19 risks,
In previous years, Stu dent-Talk was a largely unregu lated forum for the entire Pitzer student body that students were automatically added to upon ma triculation. Those who did not want to be part of the Listserv
Amelia Lewis SC ’25, who re sides in the CCA complex, said that one of the major challenges of living there was a lack of social connection.“Ifeellike I’m less accessible and my friends are less accessible just because we’re in such dif ferent spaces,” Lewis said. “And there isn’t a ton of dorm commu nity in IssuesCCA.”of accessibility and clear communication from school administrations also continued to impact the lives of Pomona stu dents living off-campus.
Kapur said that prior to the insur rection, he had “spent hours upon hours, nights upon nights” in the Capitol building, and it “represents the most stability I had in my life.”
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“I have interest in it, but at the same time I’m not in vested in it,” Goldfein said. “If it didn’t exist, I probably wouldn’t mind.”
have complicated efforts to ac curately project post-pandemic housing needs,” Bartolo-Beck manSomesaid.students at Scripps and Pomona said they felt the colleges could have handled the need for off-campus housing differently.
Analyzing the event in the after math, the journalists said they were
Students interested in join ing will also have to read and agree to community guidelines developed by the executive board to combat “harassment or doxing,” Muturi told students in the“[Student-Talkemail. is meant to be] a forum where we can all connect and exercise our free dom of speech,” Muturi said. “Unfortunately, certain uses of Student-Talk have escalated into a problem within our communi ty, which has led to our decision to reimagine how we will be able to interact with Student-Talk and change it as a media platform.”
Her concerns aren’t un founded.First-year Eitan Goldfein missed the email from Pitzer telling students to opt in and wasn’t aware of Student-Talk until
disappointed in the lack of pre emptive action from the govern ment despite evidence of planning on the part of the insurrectionists.
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“This was like war,” Viebeck said.Looking back on the insurrection, on a personal level, the panelists said they were “deeply disturbed.”
“After changing beats and states numerous times, I always felt safe in that building,” Kapur said.
CMC alumni journalists Sahil Kupar ’09, Michael Shear ’90 and Elise Viebeck ’09 discussed what it was like to cover the Jan. 6 insurrection in a Tuesday panel.
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After the event, Shear talked to TSL about his time writing for The Collage, a now-defunct newspaper for the Claremont Colleges. Shear said that Bill Keller PO ’70, who went on to hire Shear at the New York Times, had written for the very sameShearnewspaper.notedthat he was a huge fan of student journalism and said he did an independent study on Su preme Court cases covering student journalists.“Ihopeit continues to thrive and that people choose to go into the profession,” Shear said.
“There was just a kind of expec tation among the press who had worked with presidential admin istrations that, of course, the White House wouldn’t want the Capitol to be overrun,” Shear said.
However,said. after eventually hearing about it from a few friends, Goldfein decided to opt-in.Although Goldfein is now part of the Listserv, he said he wasn’t completely sure what to make of the platform.
Isaac Warshaw PO ’25, who lives in Oasis, voiced issues con cerning the transportation to and from off-campus housing.
“People are going to fight inside of Student-Talk and outside of Student-Talk,” Her nandez said. “Student-Talk is not what makes people bully each
Pomona did not immediately respond to TSL’s request for com ment.In an April email sent to stu dents about this year’s room draw, Dean Josh Eisenberg said Pomo na expected to lease off-campus rooms in Oasis only for the Fall 2022 semester, with the hopes that more juniors will study abroad in the spring, opening up on-cam pus rooms for those currently liv ing off-campus.
heroes for the left.”
“By opting in, by actively choosing [to be involved], I hope students are more mindful about their role,” Muturi said.
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But, as Muturi referenced in her email, the unmoderated List serv also had some cases of al leged harassment and bullying, which led to conflict between students.Lastyear, some students got into online altercations over personal and political matters, including disputes about Mc Connell’s dining hall staff or the school’s alleged Title IX violations.Muturi told TSL in an inter view that she hopes requiring students to opt in will help mit igate some of the platform’s more hostile conversations.
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“I didn’t even want to watch the counting of a vote; I considered it a rote formality,” Kapur said.
Shear also said that he “texted [Mark] Meadows [the White House Chief of Staff at the time] to ask if the President was going to speak and get out there and stop the rally,” a text which has become publicly available due to the Jan. 6 Commit tee’sViebeckinvestigations.addedthat she thought it was interesting watching the major news channel coverage transition from wide shots of the Capitol building to closeups of the inside, stating that “photographers were in the fray, using war zone training to accommodate this situation.”
The Oasis KGI Commons now houses some Pomona College students.
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Past incidents on the platform weren’t the executive board’s only considerations, though. After speaking with students, Muturi said the Executive Board found that some students didn’t want to be on the email Listserv.
“Camping and [the] outdoors especially makes it a lot of fun … because you’re forced to stay in the same place, and you don’t really have anywhere else to go,” Kothari said. “You have to interact with each other, and you have to become friends. We had a few people who were initially hesitant, but then, towards the end, everyone started getting along really well, and it was good to see.”
likeKothari’sthat.” favorite memory from leading OA was visiting an inflatable obstacle course on the lake during the second day of his “Alltrip.of us were just on the obstacle course playing tag with a bunch of 8-year-olds, and the groups were intermingling and already with the kids, and none of us really wanted to go on the hike anymore,” Kothari said. “So, all the leaders just made a call to just let them stay at the lake. It was just so much fun all day.”Saligumba’s time at the inflatable obstacle course was also her favorite part of the trip.
“I really enjoyed actually being here two weeks early and being able to help out,” he said. “It kind of felt like I was a part of Pomona [and] helping people get to know it. They would always ask us about classes, and what the social scene is like, whether there’s any social pressure and things
After getting to spend time at Dogwood, though, he thinks it was more enjoyable than it would have been if he had been a first-year.“Ifyou’re a [first-year], you’re kind of scared and nervous about making friends,
Needless to say, when the instrumental for “Just Dance” started in Dodger Stadium and Gaga demanded the crowd to “put your fucking hands up,” mine shot into the air. When she said “now scream!” — you better believe I did.
TSL: What is something you’ve worked on in the past that you hope to expand on while at Scripps?SK: I am an English professor, a friend of the arts and the inter disciplinary humanities. Those commitments will remain. But, in two different small liberal arts colleges, Washington and Lee University and Hamilton College, I have raised funds for faculty positions, student research and improved facilities in the sciences.
I have already met with a group of people who are pur suing sustainability initiatives here at Scripps. I am committed to that practical work.
This year’s OA trips marked a return to the first-year rite of passage — a staple in Pomona’s orientation week — as the program wasn’t offered the past two prior years due to COVID-19.
her fondest memory of the trip at KSPC’s radio headquarters, where she gt6ot to meet the staff.
Saini, on the other hand, had
“I didn’t expect it, really,” Saini said. “KSPC wasn’t my first choice for OA, but I was pleasantly surprised with all the stuff I Anotherlearned.”first-year, Frankie Komar PO ’26, spent her trip at Malibu Creek’s campground. She also thought her trip was “a wonderful experience.”
“Most of them are students, and they’re really dedicated to the organization, which I thought was really interesting,” SainiSaini,said.Saligumba and Komar all are happy about the OA trips they chose, mainly because of the friends they made. Kothari also noticed that this year’s OA trips were “effective” at creating interpersonal connections.
The Joint Science Department and the Nucleus building really demand that I make an extra effort to support STEM education on be half of the many Scripps students, now and in the future, who are interested in science.
Clad in assless chaps, lots of leather and neon pink and green, 52,000 Little Monsters filtered into Dodger Stadium this past Saturday. After an hour and a half, the stadium lights shut off and a stage began to glow. Six screens flashed futuristic, otherworldly visuals that could barely be made out: space, a planet, burning, smoke. Then, from the ashes, a transformer-esque being emerged. Mother Monster had returned to Los Angeles.
The emotional attachment I have to Lady Gaga’s songs is different, since it evokes memories of childhood that now seem so distant. As my memories become fainter and my life changes, at times I feel that my elementary school self was a completely different person. But in Dodger Stadium, I was at the New Year’s wedding, I was playing “Just Dance” and I was my 20-year-old self, all at once.
The other half participated in one of seven off-campus orientation trips, which, except for the YMCA Camp Arbolado trip, provided tents for students to sleep in. Students at YMCA Camp Arbolado stayed in cabins and shared the campground with Pitzer College students.
Pomona College offered eight different Orientation Adventure experiences for first-year students during orientation week.
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“Poker Face” proceeded to have a great year, finishing at number two on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 Singles. 2009 also went splendidly for me, as evidenced by a first-grade journal entry of mine which read: “My favort subgits are math and englis. But most of all I love everything! The thing I like best of all in my life is dansing. My fvorrit! School is fun! I have exsiding thins in my life at shool. Wow!”
Experiencing a song like that live — one that I’ve listened to so many times and have so many memories with — never gets old. When I saw Lorde perform “Ribs” live this summer, I cried because I instantly remembered all the days in spring of 2020 spent mourning the end of high school that never was.
Hannah Weaver SC ’24 is from Seattle, WA, where listening to “Rain On Me” is always appropriate.
TSL: Recently, Scripps and other 5C students have pushed for institutional divestment from fossil fuels. How do you plan on addressing these concerns?SK:You may know that my scholarship is on narrative empathy. I am very interested in how we can cultivate not just empathy but also pro-social ac tion on behalf of others impact ed by the climate crisis. That includes discovering strategies for evoking empathy for the injured earth and atmosphere.
One particular memory comes to mind. On New Year’s Eve in 2009, at six years old, I was dancing it up at a family wedding. There was this song that had just come out that rocked my world, and I so desperately wanted it to be played. My cousin, who was an even bigger Lady Gaga fan, agreed wholeheartedly. Together, we marched up to the DJ booth and requested it. A few minutes later and the dance floor was flooded with a robotic “mum mum mum mah.” My cousin, the crowd and I went wild.
SK: In the short term, I am striving to get to know the people, places, customs and traditions of Scripps. Practically, my very first task is shepherding the col lege through its reaffirmation of accreditation, a review process that vouches for Scripps’ stellar reputation with its peers and guarantees our access to federal funding, which is vitally import ant, especially to students with federal grants for scholarship as part of their financial aid.
I can also appreciate the love fans feel for “Chromatica,” though. I can already tell that when “Stupid Love” or “Babylon” comes on 10 years in the future, I will reminisce about my college days and the time I saw them performed live at Dodger Stadium. I will remember the young girl sitting with her mom in front of me and wonder if, someday, she too will say she grew up on Gaga.
She started up on a platform, confined inside of a mirrored pod, using just her voice and face to perform some of her earliest hits. That was just Act I. In the four acts that followed, Gaga’s versatility never ceased to impress me. One minute she was strapped to a spinning board, the next she was playing
and this [trip] is just two days into orientation,” Kothari said. “But, I think it was cool to have it from the other side where you’re the one showing them, and it’s a really different experience. I’m already comfortable in my Pomona life, and it was nice to show them.”
small liberal arts colleges has demanded that I keep learning, growing and changing.
In the latter half of the show, Gaga played more from her more recent albums, especially “Chromatica,” -- (for which the tour is named). These albums were less commercially successful than her first two, but still were positively received by critics and fans.Now is the time where I must admit that I’m not a die-hard Little Monster. I didn’t listen to much of “Joanne” and I didn’t like “Chromatica” nearly as much as her first two albums. I think that’s because it’s difficult to separate the nostalgia I have associated with certain songs.
In the same year, “Just Dance” went on to inspire Ubisoft’s hit video game, and subsequently my own love for dancing. I don’t think much in my life will top playing “Just Dance” on “Just Dance,” sweating profusely to get all
Back from a two-year break, Pomona’s Orientation Adventure lets students bond, create memories
Maybe it doesn’t matter. If the nostalgia clouds my judgment, so be it. Music matters because of how it makes us feel, and Gaga’s early music makes me feel like a kid again.
TSL: What are your short-term and long-term goals?
“Everyone was screaming as if we were reliving our childhood,” Saligumba said. ”And seeing people that I’ve only met for 24 hours pushing each other off [the obstacle course], and treating each other as if we were childhood best friends was really refreshing after coming to Pomona.”
After a two-year hiatus, students were back to swimming, making friends and spending time in nature during Pomona College’s annual Orientation Adventure for first-year students’ first week at college.
“My OA leaders were … the best people ever,” Saligumba said. “Kabir [Kothari] said that on his gap semester, he hiked Mount Kilimanjaro, and that was when I knew, ‘OK, I’m in goodOAhands.’”leaderKabir Kothari PO ’24 did not get to participate in an OA trip of his own because his first year was completely remote due to COVID-19. Not wanting to miss out, he signed up to be a leader as a way to experience OA in some form.
the piano and belting for her life — all without missing a beat or note.
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Like Komar, Jazelle Saligumba PO ’26 got to stay in the wilderness on her offcampus OA trip to Dogwood campground. She enjoyed her experience, especially because of her OA leaders.
Is “LoveGame” really that iconic, or is it just because I danced to it at my friend’s birthday party in first grade with her cool older sister? Is “Born This Way” a oncein-a-decade queer anthem or is “Rain On Me” just as good?
With OA trips kicking off Aug. 22, the three-day excursions included day trips to the beach alongside longer ventures to campgrounds across Southern California.Thisyear, on-campus trips were offered for the first time; in previous years, trips were a day longer and took place exclusively off-campus.Abouthalf of the students participated in one of eight oncampus orientation trips offered this year, which all included oncampus nighttime activities and culminated in a day at the beach.
The show itself was, to quote Gaga, “brilliant, incredible [and] amazing…” It had the best production value out of any concert I’ve been to — a feast for all the senses. Even from up in the nosebleeds, I felt the heat from the 20-foot-tall flames.
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Leading a college that of fers gender-diverse students a woman-centered education means being committed to lis tening, learning and growing in my understanding of each new generation of students. Three decades of empathetic practice in my teaching has pre pared me to continue growing and adapting in response to those changing generations of students.
Now on her seventh fullscale international tour, Mother Monster, aka Lady Gaga, has had a whirlwind of a career. I, like many others my age, grew up watching it unfold. From “The Fame” to “Chromatica” to a successful acting career, her versatility has amazed me. Although I do like some of her more recent work, especially “Rain On Me,” I find myself attached to her first two albums. That Saturday, the memories came flooding back as Gaga took the audience on a journey of hit after hit.
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TSL: How do you anticipate your past experiences will help you lead a historically women’s college?SK: I am a feminist scholar. For example, for six years I served as the co-editor of an Oxford Univer sity Press journal, Contemporary Women’s Writing. However, my experience as an educator in
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Our Thematic Pathway for Re affirmation emphasizes two things I care a lot about: inclusive student success and innovative learning organization.Inthelong term, I hope to improve access and affordability of Scripps, to make this wonder ful opportunity more available to talented students without considering [their] parents’ abil ity to pay. I hope to ensure that regardless of their intersectional identities, including aspects of themselves [they] may not show on the outside, Scripps students feel welcomed, supported and included, as well as academically challenged!
“We spent a lot of time playing group games and hiking,” Komar said. “We also swam in some cool spots and cooked together. It was a great way for me to make friends and decompress before
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Simran Saini PO ’26 participated in one of the nearcampus trips, which she said was “really fun.” A visit to the 5Cs’ student-led radio station KSPC preceded a trip to Newport Beach as well as Spotify’s Los Angeles headquarters.
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Before going on his trip, he learned about the food his group would cook and where he would take the students. He also participated in CPR training, first aid training and Title IX Kotharitraining.enjoyed being a leader in his group, specifically because it allowed him to arrive on-campus early and “orient [students] on a personal level.”
The Board of Trustees con trols Scripps’ investments through its endowment man agement. I have yet to attend a Board of Trustees meeting, but I will get that chance soon. I am looking forward to learning more about the nature and pro portions of the endowment’s fossil fuel investments, if there areInany.the meantime, I am inter ested in the ongoing conversa tion about Scripps’ pursuit of achieving carbon neutrality, ideally without having to rely primarily on purchased offsets. The scale of the problem and the rapidity with which the planet has been hitting dire milestones can be discourag ing. I hope that we can take heart as we employ a multipronged approach to climate justice. Advocacy is important and so is commitment to con servation. In my two months in California, I have become a careful collector of sink and shower gray water, which I use on the plants that are drooping in the dry heat.
portrayal as Barbara Ralph on the breakout hit “Abbott Elementary.” Ralph gave a rousing speech that brought the audience to a standing ovation, celebrating both her win and the impact of a decades long career. Brett Goldstein won the award’s counterpart for his work as Roy Kent in the second season of “Ted Lasso.”
The night started out with an opening musical sequence from host Kenan Thompson that ultimately fell flat in its attempt to spoof a series of classic TV shows by parodying their theme songs. After somewhat of a rocky start, Thompson gave the stage to Oprah Winfrey, who came out to present the first award of the night for Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. In one of the more stacked categories of the night with Andrew Garfield, Colin Firth and Oscar Isaac, the award went to Michael Keaton for his work on “Dopesick.”HannahEinbinder and Jean Smart from HBO’s “Hacks” came out next to present the award for Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie to Murray Bartlett of “The White Lotus,” the first of many for the Hawaiian-set series. Kenan Thompson officially opened the night as host after the first commercial break, with a monologue that warranted some laughs and began the ceremony
on a better note than the musical number.“The White Lotus” was one of the dramas on everyone’s radar on Monday night, along with the third season of “Succession” and the final seasons of “Ozark,” “Yellowjackets” and “Better Call Saul.” After Bartlett’s win, Matthew Macfadyen — Tom Wambsgans in “Succession” — won for Supporting Actor in a Drama series, a win I was hopefully anticipating after his incredible and memorable performance in the third season.
Here’s what you missed at the 74th Emmy Awards
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She credits her art professors at Pitzer and fellow peers for allowing her to realize that a piece can elicit a variety of emotions and can engage the imagination of others, even as a passerby.
Fan favorite Jennifer Coolidge won for Supporting Actress in a Limited Series for “White Lotus,” and Amanda Seyfried won for Lead Actress for her performance as Elizabeth Holmes in “The Dropout.” Mike White, creator of “The White Lotus,” won consecutive awards for directing and writing for a limited series. Quinta Brunson won for Writing in a Comedy Series for “Abbott Elementary,” an exciting and wonderful win, hindered slightly by Jimmy Kimmel lying on the stage while she gave her speech, in an awkward, almost disrespectful joke.As the night entered its last hour, the biggest awards of the night started with Jason Sudeikis winning for Lead Actor in a Comedy series for “Ted Lasso.”
“I would often create these little paper dolls and characters that would go along with them,” Cohen said. “Almost like worldbuilding, I was always excited when I could picture something in my head and then create it so other people could see it as well.”By including elements of surrealism, Cohen depicts the naturally intersecting with the supernatural. As she created the mural, she wanted to depict the abstract feeling of being connected to a larger ecosystem of life around her.
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Cohen related this idea to her upbringing, recalling that her childhood was spent in the woods outside her house, trying to mimic the beauty she witnessed in flowers, trees and animals.
Ushering in the comedy portion of the night, Sheryl Lee Ralph won the award for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her
However, there is still a chance that Seehorn and Bob Odenkirk will get nominated next year for their phenomenal work in the show’s final episodes.
“We know how to create things based on the way our brain takes in color, information and emotion,” Cohen said. “Art is just such a direct reflection of what’s going on inside of our minds, which I just think is reallyHercool.”art blurs the line between the real and unreal, with a focus on animals and the natural world. Cohen’s priority is building the world she sees in her dreams. She considers her dream life an active source of inspiration for her art and integrates the themes that often come up as a result.
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collect nominations, and hopefully awards, next year — came out to present the award for Directing for a Drama Series to Hong Donghyuk for “Squid Game.” Zendaya won the award for Lead Actress in a Drama Series, her second Emmy for her work as Rue Bennett in “Euphoria.”JeanSmart returned to the stage to accept her award for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for “Hacks.” Jesse Armstrong accepted the award for Writing in a Drama Series for “Succession,” the second award the highly anticipated series had won so far. In the highly competitive Lead Actor in a Drama Series category, Lee Jung-jae won for “Squid Game.” While I never saw “Squid Game,” I was pulling for Bob Odenkirk’s performance in the first part of the last season of “Better Call Saul,” or Adam Scott in “Severance.”Basedon the track record throughout the night, it was no surprise when “The White Lotus” won for Outstanding Limited Series. The next two categories were more edge of your seat moments, as it felt more of a toss up for Outstanding Comedy Series and Drama Series. “Ted Lasso” won for comedy series, beating out
On Monday night, the 74th Emmy Awards premiered on NBC, celebrating the best of television from the past year in a night full of surprises, upsets and emotional and awkward moments.
“I would always make art,” Cohen said. “But I was never really confident about it and I never really saw the value in sharing it.”
Cohen was drawn to creating a mural after taking a Pitzer mural painting class that partnered with a women’s residential treatment program called Prototypes. The objective of the class was to create a collaborative mural with the residents; however, this experience was cut short due to COVID-19. Nonetheless, Cohen was still able to appreciate how engaged everyone could be about a piece of art and the variety of things the mural represented to different people. This experience inspired her to create “The Gray Ghost” in mural form on Pitzer’s campus.
The stars of “The Bear,” Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White — who will no doubt be back to
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She wants to incorporate more of these seemingly inexplicable feelings into her art in hopes that others will see parts of themselves in her work.
newcomer “Abbott Elementary,” one of my personal favorites. It is clearly just the beginning for “Abbott,” as its popularity and excellence prove that it will hopefully have a long standing residency in the comedy categories.“Succession” won for Outstanding Drama Series, which didn’t feel surprising given the show’s success, but given the lack of awards throughout the night compared to previous years, the category as a whole felt more up in theTheair. entire ceremony overall felt standard, with some great speeches, incredible wins and upsets. With the exception of “The White Lotus,” there didn’t seem to be one show that had a clear sweep of the categories. In a landscape of incredible TV, it is no surprise that there was a lot to root for. The night’s nominees, winners or otherwise, deserved a celebration of their incredible contributions to the year’s television.
In the first award for Netflix’s “Ozark,” Julia Garner took home the award for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. The category was similarly stacked to many other categories in the ceremony, but I was still pulling for Rhea Seehorn to get recognized for her stunning performance as Kim Wexler in the first half of the last season of “Better Call Saul.”
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Claire DuMont SC ’23 is one of TSL’s TV columnists. She always cries during award shows. She is currently watching the third season of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” and awaiting the return of “Abbott Elementary.”
To see more of Cohen’s work, follow her on Instagram @artfromes.
“Succession” took home the Outstanding Drama Series award at the 74th Emmy Awards this past Monday.
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‘If we can imagine it, then we can create it’: Inside Pitzer student Esther Cohen’s ethereal world
The piece started as a smaller scale drawing, which was inspired by a book about the concept of biocentrism she picked up on the side of the street in New York. Biocentrism is the belief that all creatures on Earth deserve equal moral consideration, especially in relation to the natural world. As soon as she began reading it, Cohen was moved by its ideas of interconnectedness.
such as Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna have served as her inspirations with their abstractions of feminine experiences.“Theywere depicting way more complex experiences because they were so personal and because they were simultaneously being marginalized by the male surrealists,” Cohen said.
Cohen’s philosophy is deeply interconnected with both the natural world and the abstract landscape of human nature and desire.She sees creating art as a vessel for portraying the depth of the human psyche: “If we can imagine it, then we can create it,” Cohen said. She has her sights set on creating her own installation for her senior seminar to allow others to experience the rich inner world she has spent her whole life creating.
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dreams about wild animals recently … I keep having dreams about wolves and bears, so I’ve been painting bears a lot in my work,” Cohen said. She interprets this theme of wild animals as a call to get in touch with her own internal voice, inspired by how intuitive yet untamed they are.
Some of the most emblematic imSome of the most emblematic images of Pitzer College are the murals that dot the walls across campus, which assert the creativity of Pitzer students as they pass through the institution. It’s easy to only look at them as eye candy; however, the factors that inspire this communal form of art go deeper than the painted surface.Last semester, Esther Cohen PZ ’24 painted a mural just outside of Mead Hall titled “The Gray Ghost.” Also adept at crochet, oil painting and mixed media collage, Cohen has tried her hand at much more than painting before creating this mural. She has been creating and mastering these various media for many years, but it wasn’t until she arrived at college that she finally felt she could share them.
Cohen credits interpreting her dream life as a way of bridging the gap between realism and surrealism in her work. She credits a class on Latin American avant garde for introducing her to the world of surrealism. Artists
seemed to fizzle out. The proj ect resulted in a victorious ‘A’ and a foundation to make their hypothetical project into a real ity.They spent the spring and summer of 2022 building off of their foundation with bud get presentations and meetings with administration in prepa ration for opening their space to students. This time allowed Cherney and Malone to realize the lack of space and support on campus needed for people with eating disorders.
Due to these discrepancies, Malone said she hopes to reach out to Monsour Counseling and Psychological Services, which services the 7Cs, and work with them on guided discussions to provide a professional expe rience for students. Working with administration yet still re maining a separate group can allow students to openly discuss their experiences. Cherney and Malone acknowledged that these types of discussions can be trig gering and scary, but they want it to be a safe environment that caters to their members.
“Wearise.are trying to be as politi cally active as possible in creat ing change,” Cherney said. Using activism as a way to create this change can allow them to have the conversations necessary when breaking down the stigmas, trig gers and fears surrounding these discussions.Malonealso said that “there are a lot of us that have been dispro portionately influenced by [eating disorders], but specifically because Scripps is such a queer space, that is also a targeted community.”
To provide some non-spoiler context, “Nope” is a sci-fi horror film that takes place on a horse ranch owned by two siblings. Their horse-training business isn’t doing so well, but one day, they see a UFO on the ranch: an opportunity for profit. That is, if they don’t get eaten first.
“Nope” proclaims itself as a critique on exploiting the spectacle, but then uses the format of a blockbuster movie, with big name actors, impressive special effects and extensive marketing to do so. With its emphasis on larger meanings at the expense of clarity, “Nope” ventures into the territory of art house films. This is a perfectly acceptable aim for a piece of art, but a bit too hard-to-digest for the quick consumption model of a standard box-office horror film.
Expressing that they are strongly advocating for Scripps to have a safe environment for these discussions, Malone continued to add that “surrounding colleges hopefully will get involved too,” in an attempt to bring awareness and support to students across all campuses.Cherney and Malone have worked hard over the last year to open this space for students. As a welcoming environment to all identities, they are excited to build a community and generate sup port for it. Through active, open and safe discussions, they hope to create an atmosphere of change that allows students to talk about their experiences in a collaborative manner.
Not every question has to be answered in a movie, but the audience has to be given something. Adequate reasoning for one or two of these questions, perhaps, in order to give the viewer a good show.
Flawless aesthetics and chilling murder scene aside, ultimately, the movie’s blend of art house ideals in a commercial package came across as confusing for the movie-goer expecting the climactic experience that is “Get Out.”
After a quick bow, he walks to the podium and leans into the mic. “Can you hear me OK? No? OK, now, now?” His soft voice blankets the room. “I get louder as I get braver,” he says, smiling shyly and laughing with the audience.It’sa sold-out event, and, despite the rain, the room is full. Without much preamble, he cracks open a jacket-less copy of his recently released poetry collection, “Time is a Mother,” and begins to read. His beautifully gentle, lilting voice is given fresh energy and resonance as he begins reading “Beautiful Short Loser,” one of the longer poems in the book.“Where I’m from it’s only midnight for a second / & the trees are like grandfathers laughing in the rain.” As the remainder of the poem spills out across the rows of full benches, the packed room, minutes ago filled with the chorus of hundreds of cheers, is hushed into a reverent silence.
Don’t get me wrong, I was absolutely entranced by the visuals of this movie. Even if major plot points failed to deliver gratification, the skillful contrast of old and new — flashes of neon in the dust of the desert, Keke Palmer’s stunning retro outfits and her character’s badass attitude, a UFO on a horse ranch — were welcome points of diversion.
To say Ocean Vuong has had a meteoric rise in the last several years would be something of an understatement. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he moved to the United States as a young boy with his mother, Rose. The two settled in the small town of Hartford, Connecticut, where his mother worked at a nail salon for twentyfive years, supporting them both. Reflecting on that season of his life, Vuong recalled in an interview that he wasn’t able to fluidly read books in English until he was eleven — but that hasn’t stopped him Beginningsince.with his breakout poetry collection, “Night Sky With Exit Wounds,” which won a slew of literary awards in 2016,
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On occasion, I like a film with a nice vague ending — one that leads to endless debates and theories that make you feel smarter than you are. Indeed, this was my feeling right out of the theater after watching “Nope.”
It is this careful observation, combined with an equally stunning mastery of language, that gives Vuong’s writing its physical and emotional power. At only one hundred and twentyeight pages, he is able to explore a truly mind-bending range of concepts.However, as with nearly all his work, one subject presides over themWhileall. the novel “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” focuses on the intimate relationship between mother and son, Vuong’s most recent poetry collection grapples with grief in the wake of herRosepassing.Vuong passed away in 2019 after being diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer at the age of fifty-one. “Time is a Mother” is, in many ways, a tribute to her. While she was never able to read one of his poems, she did attend a reading of his in Hartford before her tragic death, seeing how his words affected people.
name Body Activism — a form of healing, in which open conversa tions can change the way people view their bodies and lead to an empowering experience. Malone and Cherney want to give club members the opportunity to expe rience growth while being aware of the difficult conversations that can
Now, they are excitedly launching Body Activism Club to provide a space that had been previously lacking on campus, in a slightly reworked version of their original project. When initially presenting their project in the fall of 2021, Malone and Cherney titled their presenta tion Body Positivity, Neutrality and Activism but received con structive feedback on these wellknownRecently,phrases.“body positivity” has become an extremely co-opt ed phrase. It appears to be a good concept, but realistically, it is difficult to look at one’s body in a positive manner all the time. Instead, body neutrality signi fies the importance of one’s body and of being comfortable in your body.Having been coined by in fluencers and companies, these phrases have become tangible objects that people are trying to sell.Malone said, “[these terms have] been poisoned by white ness, consumerism, capitalism, [...] and yet another thing to fix yourself with. We didn’t really want that to be our message.”
I am sure that Jordan Peele, in all of his creative genius, did include all of these, and he intended to provoke all of the subsequent debates, as his previous movies certainly accomplished. But I couldn’t deny it; I left “Nope” feeling the same way I left its Wikipedia page: half-satisfied.
One of the collection’s final poems, titled “Dear Rose,” is another sprawling letter from son to mother: the deeply touching farewell of a child-become-adult saying, ‘goodbye, I love you, we made it.’
“Knock ‘em dead, big guy. Go in there / guns blazing, buddy. You crushed / at the show. No, it was a blowout. No, / a massacre…” It goes on. Each line is a slap in the face, a stinging reminder of the violence that hovers and infects even the common space of our everyday conversations.
Ocean Vuong on grief and the violence of the English language
Taking the stage for a reading at Sixth & I in Washington, D.C., Ocean Vuong is met with a roar of applause. He cuts a thin, slender figure on the otherwise empty stage, waving at the still-cheering crowd.
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Attendance is not mandatory; Malone said, “you can show up if you really want to be active in it, [or] you can show up if you real ly need this space that day.” They are hoping to use this club as a space for healing, growth and support for all students that ad dresses difficult, but real, conver sations.
And, I must admit, the image of a bloodthirsty chimpanzee has really stuck with me this past week -- the sign of a good horror film.
It’s club fair season across the 5Cs, and students have been excited to see both old and new faces at the fair. As students were wandering the tables and joining emailing lists, they no ticed a new club on the roster: Body Activism Club.
Scene it: But did I understand it? ‘Nope’
As much as it pains me to say it, it turns out there is such a thing as too much ambiguity for a mainstream movie.
“Explain it to me!” demanded one friend, while another scoured the web for the significance of a shoe eerily standing upright amidst a murder. We turned to the movie’s Wikipedia page, seeking guidance from the Internet’s best critics. However, even they were inconclusive, spearfishing themes in the hopes of latching onto something concrete. Spectacle. Exploitation. Racism. Biblical allusions. Capitalism.
However, the plot gives rise to question after question to the point of distraction. The mystery kept building, but there was never the release of explanation; the movie ended on a plateau of unanswered problems.Whya UFO on that ranch, and why does it not like eye contact? Why include the Gordy subplot in this story? Why was the shoe left standing upright? Why put Barbie Ferreira in a movie and only give her five lines? Just kidding, I know the answer to that one — I was just hoping they would use her for more than her star power.
Vuong has established himself as one of the brightest and most startling new voices in American literature.Threeyears later, his highly anticipated autobiographical novel, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” once again revealed the stunning imagery and searing depth of emotion that he is capable of on the page. The book is written in the form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. It slowly unfolds his coming-of-age story, woven tightly within their deeply complex but equally loving relationship. In the novel, as well as in his poetry and essays, the character of Vuong’s mother is woven throughout: as a scarred survivor of war, a fiercely protective parent and a deeply loving mother.
little lamp and my laptop, it was perfect.”That same year, at only thirty years old, he received a MacArthur “genius” grant for his distinctive contribution as “a vital new literary voice demonstrating mastery of multiple poetic registers while addressing the effects of intergenerational trauma, the refugee experience and the complexities of identity and desire.”Hewrites with such breadth — spanning poetry, fiction, and essays — yet brings the same quietly beautiful and heartbreaking atmosphere to each. He also possesses a keen, perceptive gaze, mining his adopted language, uncovering the subtle things it says about those who speak it.
It is nothing short of one of the most beautiful things I have everLikeread.many of the stories undergirding Vuong’s blossoming literary career, his first novel was written in what is best described as unusual circumstances. In an interview shortly after the book’s release, he describes living in an apartment in New York City with noisy roommates and seeking refuge and silence in his closet in order to write.“Iknow, for a gay writer, the irony is not lost on me,” he laughs. “But I thought, ‘I’m gonna go in there, and reclaim that place’ and you know, it was beautiful. You go in there and what once was a prison for me, I turned into a portal to write this book. I went in there with a
Ryan Lillestrand PZ ’23 is a book columnist for TSL. For those interested in exploring Ocean Vuong’s work, his 2014 essay “The Weight of Our Living” in The Rumpus is moving, graceful and damn near perfect.
Rorye Jones PO ’22 gaslit herself into thinking she was part of the Roy family after she was spiritually wrecked from watching “Succession” in two weeks while in New York, and spent the rest of her time there aggressively staring down every suited pedestrian (there were a lot) in search of Matthew Macfadyen. She writes for TSL’s TV and film columns.
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LItErArY WANDErINGs
RORYE JONES
CW: Eating disorders
In a first semester politics class last year, Kahtya Cherney SC ’25 and Casey Malone SC ’24 worked together on a proj ect which asked them to create a hypothetical movement for the“Wecampuses.weretrying to talk back and forth about ideas, and we decided to cover body uatingandcampus,aneredThroughatfeltneyity/positivity/activism,”neutralChersaid.Thistypeofenvironmentlackingintheirexperiencesthe5Csinthelastfewyears.research,theydiscovthatpreviouslytherewasEatingDisorderAllianceonbutduetoCOVID-19mostofthemembersgradin2020,themomentum
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‘A collective space for group healing’: Scripps Body Activism Club puts students’ experiences first
“This [group] needs to be a student-run organization be cause this is a very prevalent issue that [...] admin has done next to nothing about,” Cher ney said. “There is counseling available, but to get a counselor we are on week-long waitlists, and that is not the method of healing for every person, and so there are really limited re sources for people available.”
Additionally, by attending a workshop in nonviolent commu nications, Malone prepared for the types of conversations they would be having to ensure they are ready to properly facilitate each meeting so that, as Malone said, they can create “a collective space for group healing.”
Thus, they settled on the
To get involved with the club, look for signage throughout the campuses with a QR code to join the mailing list to see meeting times and events.
Daniel Kaluuya stars in “Nope,” a film about a ranch visited by a mysterious UFO.
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Perhaps his most stark observation is the violence that reigns so pervasively in English. In a poem titled “Old Glory,” Vuong pours over the reader in a relentless, wincing flood.
Every day I am reminded that certain parts of Pomona’s campus
I hope that all admissions staff across the 5Cs recognize the im portance of qualified disabled stu dents’ inclusion as they continue to make classes more diverse. I hope the new Institute for Inclu sive Excellence at Pomona pushes for the inclusivity of disabled stu dents. I hope the wheelchair users of the class of ’27 and beyond do not have to experience the same feelings as me.
This might be the new nor mal, seeing as the trajectory of our planet is heading towards an unlivable one. Climate scien tists are attributing frequent heat waves and higher intensities to human-induced climate change. To answer Townes’ question in 2022, this truly might be the new normal if we do not make collec tive efforts to see a more sustain
ZEEAN FIRMEZA
In an uncanny manner, Pomo na this year responded the same way they did in the past. On Aug. 31, Dean Josh Eisenberg sent an email saying that Pomona placed ten mattresses in Harwood, Smi ley and Wig and 20 mattresses in Walker Lounge. Misters and sev eral water stations were installed across the campus. There were
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If this is our new normal, the Claremont Colleges must be proactive and intentional with the heat wave — particularly the installation of air conditioning systems and other measures.
If p omona truly cared about its students’ health, the college would try to make ends met and renovate their dorms, writes Firmeza p O ‘26.
I’m not alone. My peers felt the same way.
were not built for me. For in stance, people sometimes have to kindly move their chairs so I can get to my desk. I greatly appreci ate the help, but I should be able to move freely throughout the class as my peers do. I should be able to visit my friends and most of my hallmates who live down a few stairs; I can walk some, but it means that if I have a friend living in the next dorm over, I have to walk to it, which is very fatiguing. Elevators are not fea sible for every dorm, but those short flights of stairs on many first floors should be ramped.
This is not a hit piece; I am truly happy here, meeting great people and having everything I need. I think the 5Cs are acces sible campuses and have the po tential to educate and host many wheelchair students, not just a few every year who then feel lonely in their struggles. In an assessment of wheelchair-friend ly colleges, the top 20 colleges were found to have a connection between the number of wheel chair users and the colleges’ in clusivity.Iknow small liberal arts schools do not have the same
also cooling systems in some lounges.Townes, in the previous TSL article, asked a poignant ques tion that foreshadowed a loom ing future: “The way we talked about this is, ‘Is this like a new normal? Should we anticipate this each fall?’”
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Max Zonana PO ’26 is from Moun tain View, California. He has mild quadriplegic cerebral palsy.
My phone lit up, and I read the text message that popped up: “Who’s holding down the fort?”
able, cooler future.
It’s getting (way too) hot in here, Pomona
If p omona College wants to pride itself on diversity, it must provide better access for people of all abilities, writes m ax Zonana p O ’26.
If Pomona College prides it self in quality education, this also means caring for students’ well ness and listening to suggestions. You can dismiss student concerns, but you cannot dismiss the inevi table: the planet is dying, and we are experiencing the brunt of it in this heatwave. And there’s more to come.
It would have been great to connect face to face with people who have similar challenges as me. Having a disability in college comes with extra weekly work, such as getting new accommoda tions. Having this extra work is inevitable and is no one’s fault, but I wished there was someone there to mentor me about how you manage the extra hours your dis ability takes with a complete set of classes. I have joined the DIS COVR Discord server and have not seen messages on it that I can apply to my challenges, confirm ing my feeling of aloneness in my disability.Furthermore, in an orientation session, the Pomona presenter said we were the most diverse Po mona class ever. However, there was nothing said about how dis ability factored into our class pro file.
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I stand out but I’m still alone. Every time I walk to class or the dining hall, I stick out — not be cause I use something motorized to get around but because I use a wheelchair.Ihave seen very few other wheelchair users across the 5Cs. Everyone has been extremely kind to me, and Pomona has given me great accommodations for me to succeed, but I still feel like an ab normality here.
Pomona College’s response to the heat wave presents a deeper issue than students creating forts in living rooms, though. Students are paying for rooms they can’t even sleep in because of the suffo cating heat at Unfortunately,night.this is not the first time 5C students have experi enced this. A brutal heat wave hit Claremont around the same time in 2014. Across the 5Cs, responses were similar: the colleges estab lished water stations, placed cots and mattresses in air-conditioned lounges and provided sugges tions to students. Ricardo Townes, the Dean of Campus Life at Pomo na then, stated that they would in stall ceiling fans in halls and have optional air conditioning for those who need it.
Wheelchair users deserve more at the 5Cs
he Thewrote.problem with citing the cost of large-scale renovations as a hurdle is that Pomona College’s endowment value as of the sum mer of 2021 was 3 billion dollars. This year, the cost of tuition with room and board — not accounting for personal or medical fees — is $78,176. Given how much stu dents pay, and that Pomona just rebuilt its gym for over 50 million dollars, surely Pomona can afford at least to install AC in our rooms.
Students in all dorms are all paying the same room and board money. It is only by luck — or medical accommodation — that a student has air condition ing. As much as the colleges take pride in inclusivity, this is not in clusive. We aren’t even sleeping in the rooms we paid for but in a public space. There weren’t even enough cots for students, as there were hundreds of students without AC who were affected
I walk around in a green wheel chair that everyone recognizes from far away. People who never met me know my name. I stood out back home too, but I hoped that I would not feel as different here because of the emphasis on diversity at the 5Cs. I want to be known for the person I am, not for myPartdisability.ofwhy I feel alone is be cause I do not think we recognize our diversity of ability. For exam ple, Pomona had an identity group open house during orientation that, according to the schedule, did not include DISCOVR, the dis ability group. So instead of going with my friends to connect with people with similar identities, I felt isolated in my dorm room.
friends’ dorm rooms.
“Yeah, I’m holding it down,” one of my friends replied. This fort is not your typical one. It’s not designed for protec tion. No. This is the TV room in Harwood lounge. Instead of pro tecting my friends and I, this fort protects us from the sweltering heat wave that swept California last week. When we found out that the tiny room had air condi tioning, we claimed it as our “fort” because we have been sleeping in this room for one week. Everyone wants the room, so someone has to “hold down” the fort.
Assistant Vice President Robert Robinson’s next point as to why older residence halls cannot have AC units installed is that they do not have the electrical capacity to handle it, which can lead to con sequences like electrical fires. I want to call attention to the fact that Lyon was built in 1990 and, according to the Pomona College website, “partially renovated in 1998 and
ability to offer personal care services and paralympic teams as big schools do. Still, they should be obligated to ensure that multiple wheelchair users are represented in the student body and that they provide for an inclusive inter-able commu nity. I wanted to go to a small school rather than a big one, but I should not have had to sacrifice an inter-abled community to do so. Having an inter-abled com munity would hopefully mean that I could get to my desk with out someone moving furniture, and, at least, go to some of my
many residence halls were built roughly at the same time — or even before — most of the renovated academic and administration buildings that have AC. Renovating older resi dence halls is not an issue of lack of electrical capacity or time con straints: Pomona College just did not prioritize it.
Zeean Firmeza PO ’26 is from Mi ami, Florida. She enjoys drinking boba, playing video games and read ing.
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by the heat wave. The installation of air condi tioners, not ceiling fans, across all the residence halls would benefit the students. Or, at least allow students to have their AC unit in their rooms without needing medical accommoda tions.While writing this piece, As sistant Vice President Robert Robinson sent an email on Sept. 9, explaining why there could not be ACs in older residence halls.“Pomona has had to weigh the fact that heat waves typically come at the edges of the academ ic year and balance that with the cost of large-scale renovations,”
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Let’s take some advice from “The Lorax:” “Unless some one like you cares a whole aw ful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
When colleges prioritize repro ductive health care, they promote educational equity, reproductive justice and more positive educa tional outcomes. Having access to emergency contraception early on is absolutely essential, and even the window of a day in which stu dents may not have access to the emergency contraception after an emergency can drastically change theStudentsresults. should have access to these resources at a ready rate, without wait and without ques tions.
Aaron Matsuoka PZ ’26 is from Redding, Connecticut. They are a certified Coffee Master and love novels, tote bags and going for long walks on the beach.
CW: Sexual violence
Additionally,tests. the precedent set by Pomona’s contraceptive vend ing machine, located on the sec ond floor of Pomona’s Walker Hall Lounge, provides a reliable plan of action to solve the lack of ready access to these resources. Vending machines with various contracep tives, as well as options for free self-administered and profession ally-administered STI screenings, are necessary first steps towards ensuring healthier, safer and more equitable student healthcare.
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The lack of shade can hinder the colleges’ community. The Cla remont Colleges are supposed to be a connected network of schools that are easily accessible to one another, with a wide array of of ferings unique to each school. But without shade or places to rest on hot days, no one wants to walk across campus, isolating the col leges from one another.
Twenty-four hours can change a life. The feeling of this ticking time bomb is hauntingly familiar to many students at our own campuses, alongside a feel ing of drowning panic as they are forced to scramble, all alone, looking for emergency contra ception that they didn’t expect to need. And at the 5Cs, it’s easy to come up empty-handed.
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I recognize Elm Tree Lawn at Scripps and the many trees at Pomona. According to a Pomo na College Magazine article this past March, Pomona has “4,000 or so [trees] on campus,” making Pomona’s tree population out
ASHLEY PARK
One tree in particular that could be a good fit for our cam puses is the Coast Live Oak.
AARON MATSUOKA
So what should a student do when they need to obtain emergency contraception with in a 24-hour time frame? One of the biggest arguments against on-campus, 24/7 emergency contraceptive access is that it is unnecessary because Plan B is available at local pharma cies. This reasoning exacerbates pre-existing discrimination in the United States’ reproductive health care system, marginaliz ing students who cannot afford Plan B, lack transportation to nearby pharmacies or require a certain extent of privacy due to sensitive circumstances. Much of the time, on-campus services are the only option – and the 5Cs areThelacking.increasing necessity of emergency contraceptive access and reproductive care on college campuses has become glaringly apparent during a nationwide attack on reproductive rights. What’s more, the increased ne cessity for access to emergency contraception is particularly important on college campuses where nearly one in four un dergraduate women experience rape or sexual violence.
According to the California Na tive Plant Society, Coast Live Oaks are easy to grow and don’t require much watering, espe cially after the first year. Coast Live Oaks also create better soil health and self-sustaining fertil ity in the soil they are planted in. The one downside is that they can be slow growing. But this, of course, is only one sug gestion for the many possible trees to plant around our cam puses.While it would be great to walk around campus on hot days and have shade, I also rec ognize that the solution isn’t as simple as I stated before. Plant ing new trees would use more water, take time and cost mon ey. However, there are solutions to these problems.
The 5Cs need to be more shady
But action isn’t going to happen overnight. We have the power to organize as stu dents, create tree planting clubs or go to our current gar den clubs to take action.
SHS lists the available sexu al health care services on their website — as well as the prices of these services. They include emergency contraception sold by SHS for $15 and the Pomona College Wellness Room vend ing machine for $20, with STI screening panels costing up wards of $70. They do not in clude options for students who either cannot afford these ser vices or for survivors who have no wish to be poked, prodded and interrogated without guar antee of full confidentiality be fore they are ready to talk about theirWhileexperiences.thepresence of these resources are proof of the Cla
If students take purposeful action, the annoying backpack sweat after walking to class could be gone, and the gru eling walk to Honnold Mudd Library could be a thing of the past. Let’s get out there and change this. Let’s get out there and throw some shade.
watering techniques that can help us reduce how much wa ter we are using to water the new trees. According to the EPA, “microirrigation systems use 20 to 50 percent less water than conventional sprinkler systems.” Microirrigation also has the added benefit of tar geting water to the root sys tem of plants, where water is needed the most.
Claremont is “the city of trees.” That’s what my mom, a former San Bernardino resident, would always say about Clare mont during my college search. She would talk about the beauti ful campuses she used to see on her drive through Claremont to work every morning, something that led me to look at the Clare mont Colleges in the first place.
Accessibility also means wide spread knowledge of the resources available. Various advocate groups from the 5Cs can hold resource in formation events, similar to the Sex Trivia or mixer events they current ly organize. They can also include booths during major events such as Sex Week that focus entirely on spreading information about avail able on-campus services to stu dents.Flyers listing all information around access to Plan B should be hung around the campuses. The colleges can make their sites listing all of SHS’s sexual health services more visible by including it in their main websites, perhaps in the “Stu dent Life” section. Students should know about the availability and lo cation of resources before they en counter a need to use them.
The lack of shady trees on our campuses makes walking to classes, let alone cross-campus, unbearable. Even more, it de creases the amount of student engagement in our rich campus and cross-campus communities. Community is core at the Clare mont Colleges, written in many of our colleges’ values. But for such a big problem, there is a simple solution: create more shade.However, while it is easy to plant trees, that doesn’t mean we should plant just any tree. As a consortium, we should focus on planting sustainable shade. Luckily, many trees are suitable for dry climates like Claremont and naturally native to Southern California.
When I toured the 5Cs’ cam puses, I saw no issue with the number of trees they had. But, in the short two weeks I have lived here, I have realized that the 5Cs lack an important byproduct of trees:Overshade.thepast couple of weeks, I have been making trips from Pitzer College to Frary Dining Hall, Malott Dining Hall, the Hive and the Honnold-Mudd Library. I have not enjoyed these walksThislately.past week, I walked from Pitzer across Claremont McKen na College’s campus to the library. Immediately when I walked into the air-conditioned oasis, I felt it — back sweat. Arguably, it is the worst type of sweat, the most embarrassing type of sweat, the most uncomfortable type of sweat. No wonder walking on the campus felt like a ghost town the past week. No one wants to endure this discomfort: it sucks.
As I mentioned before, many trees are suitable for our dry cli mate. In addition, there are also
The possibility of an unwant ed and dangerous pregnancy or STD is a medical emergency – and in a medical emergency, students should not be left with out support or solutions. The 5Cs have a responsibility to their students to provide ready 24/7 access to emergency contracep tion, as well as financial support for sexual health services at Stu dent Health Services.
remont Colleges’ commitment to student sexual health, their location and price fail to make this access five-campus-wide and affordable. To reaffirm their commitment to students’ health, safety and rights to privacy, the Claremont Colleges must work together to implement easy and accessible emergency contraceptive services across their campuses.Fortunately, roll-out shouldn’t be a major hurdle in 5C-campus-wide distribution of emergency resourc es; in fact, campus COVID-19 re sponses set a blueprint for possible methods of contraceptive distribu tion. This semester, the 5Cs were able to successfully implement uni form vending machines across the campuses to dispense and collect COVID-19
Ashley Park CM ’25 is from Claremont, CA. She has been a CMC Advocate since spring 2022 and works to advo cate and raise awareness for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
number its students by more than three times. While walk ing on the Pomona campus, the increased shade is evident. The rest of the 5Cs — Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Claremont McKenna — should strive for this.
Time is also a factor, as trees won’t be fully mature when planting and, therefore, might not put off as much shade at first. While shade might not be immediate, the cooling effect will. This is because plants and other vegetation have a property called evapo transpiration. According to the EPA, “[e]vapotranspira tion, alone or in combination with shading, can help reduce peak summer temperatures by 2–9°F (1–5°C).” The EPA also states that evapotranspiration, in addition to shade produced by the trees, would reduce the need for air conditioning, thus conserving power and money.
Why the 5Cs need Plan B
Pomona-Pitzer football shocks Redlands 21-20 in dramatic comeback win
The Sagehens’ win improves them to 2-0 on the year and brings a wave of momentum as they travel to Oregon on Sept. 17 to face Pacific University.
TSL: What will the club be like?UA: We’re only going to be playing within ourselves be cause I don’t want this to be a competitive environment. I want this to be an environ ment in which people who are aspiring to learn volleyball can actually learn how to pass and how to be better. We can be competitive among our selves, but the main purpose is to grow, rather than to earn points or whatever.
mont mean to you?
This conversation has been light ly condensed and edited for clarity.
Continuing their undefeated streak, the Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) football team pulled their second win of the season last Saturday against the University of Redlands — their first against the school in eighteen years.
“We knew how important that play was,” Mark Carling said of the defensive effort. “That was from our hearts … everyone bought in, our coach made a great call and we executed it.”
Even with the tied score, chants of “P-P on the field” and “Let’s go Sagehens” echoed throughout the crowd, which was packed with students and parents alike adorned in the Sagehens’ orange andHowever,blue. these chants faded fast. After taking three sacks in the first half, Pomona-Pitzer’s No ble started the second half taking some big hits on a few designed runs, stalling their offense and pushing momentum towards Redlands. Quarterback Noble was on the run all day, recording 19 rushing attempts for 36 yards. Nevertheless, Noble praised his offensive line for their efforts.
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UA: The first volleyball com munity I was introduced to here was the men’s volleyball team, and it was such a supportive en vironment. Everyone took care of each other. Everyone valued each other. Because we have so many academic things going on that are stressful, having a medium which you could get it all out through doing sports was very helpful for my mental health — and doing it with peo ple that I enjoyed spending time with was way better.
Noble noticeably shifted gears during this drive. Finishing the final drive with 68 yards passing, 9 yards rushing and a completion percentage of 75 percent, Noble brought his team to the goal line, spiking the ball with 0.3 second left on the clock. Just as he had all game, Noble was forced out of the pocket, running almost all the way to the sideline. Despite
it looking like the Bulldogs were about to extend their undefeated streak, Noble found Wimmer in the end zone as time expired to tie the game 20-20, sending the crowd into a frenzy.“When I was rolling out, I didn’t think I had anything, and then I saw Sander coming across,” Noble said. “That’s a guy I’d trust with my own kids if I had them. I threw it, and he made the play … everybody else is making plays for me. They did it. They won.”
“It’s the home opener … the crowd helped us, no doubt,”
Beginning the second quarter, the Bulldogs began to dominate. They scored their first touchdown with 1 minute and 30 seconds re maining in the first half.
For Ayyilmaz, it was reviving the beach volleyball club at the 5Cs. Ayyilmaz is an international student from Izmir, Turkey. TSL sat down with him to hear about how he’s recreating the beach volleyball scene in Claremont, one he says hasn’t been vibrant since 2017.
Pomona student passes on love for volleyball, brings back club
Also, when I was a sopho more — my first time on cam pus — I spent a lot of nights playing beach volleyball with random people that I didn’t know. When the new freshmen this year came to campus, I also saw a lot of them playing beach volleyball and making friends overVolleyball,volleyball. especially on Walker Beach, is a bonding ac tivity for people who just ar rived for their first weeks in college. That means a lot to me, and I want to make this some
“I was making throws, I was running, but I have to credit a lot of this to our line even though I was taking some shots,” said No ble. “They did their job … this win was totally not on me.”
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Seemingly out of nowhere, with time running low, Noble found a new favorite target, Quinten Wimmer PZ ’24. The duo marched their team down the field, bringing life back to the Sagehen hopefuls. Adding to what would become a 92-yard re ceiving day, Quinten matched his brother Sander with a touchdown of his own to bring the game with in a single score, 13-20.
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TSL: How did you get into beachUA:volleyball? I’ve been playing beach volleyball for 10 years now. I’ve spent literally every summer since 2013 at my family’s beach house, playing beach volleyball in this very famous beach volley ball café. All the famous beach volleyball players would come there, and we would all look up to them. I grew up looking up to that. And in high school as well, I playedThat’svolleyball.whywhen I came here my first semester I played vol leyball in the men’s volleyball 5C club team, but because I have a health problem that prevents me from taking part in strenuous activities, I had to step out of it. That’s why I decided on pro posing the beach volleyball club, which is going to be very lowstakes but will still allow me to play volleyball.
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Ayyilmaz poses in front of his table at the annual 5C club dinner. the event, also known as “turf Dinner,” took place on COUtuesday.rteStY:
pened.”Despite recovering a botched snap deep in Bulldog territory on the following drive, the Sagehens’ momentum seemed to stall after a missed field goal prevented them from adding to their lead.
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“I’ve just done it a thousand times,” said Shirangi. “Just another day kicking a ball. Zone everybody else out. That’s it.”
The teams are going to be different each game. In terms of structure, first, we’ll do warm-ups for 10 minutes. Then we separate into groups of six or eight and pass the ball to each other. And I and my co-leaders will walk among them and show people how to pass better if we think they need help. For the last hour and a half, we’ll make little scrimmages, playing six-ver sus-six on the field.
Ulas Ayyilmaz PO ’24 is a third-year student at Pomona College. When he could no lon ger play club volleyball at his peak level, owing to a health con dition, he decided to take things down a notch — by bringing back what he says is a more ‘relaxed’ version of his favorite pastime.
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prime position to score. Neverthe less, the P-P defense would not be deterred. On a crucial third down, lineman Mark Carling PZ ’23 de livered a sack to force a deep field goal for Redlands. On the next play, the Sagehens came up big, blocking the field goal to keep it a one score game.
Still, the P-P offense remained stagnant and could not capitalize on the opportunity, returning the ball to Redlands. After a defensive miscue by the Sagehens, the Bull dogs were able to turn a short pass into an easy touchdown, followed by a missed extra point, to take a 20-7 lead into the fourth quarter.
Following a change in pos session, the Bulldogs came out throwing, completing a wild bobbling catch to set them up in
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Sagehens practice tackling last fall. the pomona-pitzer team is looking to continue their current undefeated streak this season.
“All week we’ve been going through that play,” Jameison said. “We knew it was coming, we ran it to perfection, and that’s what hap
Quinten Wimmer said. “What that comes down to is uber fo cus … making the plays when it counts.”Just as things were looking up for the P-P offense, a fum bled snap at midfield recovered by Redlands gave them excellent field position to put the game away.While this put them in dire straits, the P-P defense refused to back down. The Sagehens locked up the Bulldogs when it mattered most, coming up big on third down to set up a fourth-and-1 for all the marbles. Potentially still feeling the effects of the blocked kick, Redlands made the choice to go for it. Against all odds, the defensive line came up with their play of the game, handing the ball back to their offense for one last shot at the win.
“I saw that our coach gave us a play call that was gonna set me up to make a play,” Carling said. “Sure enough, our field goal block came out, and they did their thing … it was good to see all the dif ferent parts of the team come to gether to change the momentum of the game.”
But the game was not over. In or der to seal the win, starting punter and backup kicker, Cameron Shi rangi PZ ’24 would have to knock down the game-ending extra point. A nervous hush swept over the crowd as they anticipated the kick, only exasperated by Redlands’ at tempt to ice him.
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Is magic in the air for the Sage hens? The last-minute victory on Saturday might say so.
The P-P offense started hot, taking advantage of a Redlands turnover on downs in midfield by marching into the red zone. Follow ing some key runs by quarterback Skylar Noble PZ ’23 and running back Kenric Jameison PZ ’23 to convert on third and fourth down respectively, a defensive facemask penalty put them in prime position to score. The Sagehens then took the Bulldogs by surprise, breaking out a trick play in which Jameison took on the role of passer, complet ing his throw to tight end Sander Wimmer PZ ’24 for his first career touchdown pass.
The Sagehens stunned the Redlands’ Bulldogs during their home-opener, capping off a 13 point, fourth quarter comeback with a walk-off touchdown and extra point to seal a dramatic 21-20 victory.
Shirangi’s kick was a bullet through the uprights, summoning a roar from the P-P fans and bring ing the Sagehens a comeback victo ry straight out of a movie. Noble’s performance earned him SCIAC Athlete of the Week honors, going 32-52 passing with 276 yards in the air and two touchdowns.
‘earn’ your nickname,” said Emi ly Cady SC ’25, another returner. “They always try to encourage the rookies to do something fun or crazy at practice or a game to ‘earn’ it. But you can also just get it like, for funny reasons.”
“Ultimate is a super fun cul ture and team, and it’s a really special place on campus,” Cady said. “I hope more rookies come and try it out!”
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While the team hopes to have different results in competition this season, there are traditions they know will remain the same. One such tradition is the “rookie challenge.”“Iteither happens at the end of fall or beginning of spring,” Wilk said. “Rookies come up with a bunch of random fun challenges. It’s like our very nice version of hazing.”
ellie Dekker pZ ‘23 catches a frisbee during a Claremont Greenshirts’ practice.
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“My nickname is ‘Peanut,’” she said. “One of the first games, I brought [my tournament buddy] a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. And so the next week, they were like, ‘Emily is now Peanut,’ mostly I think because of the Peanut Butter Cup thing, but I think they said I was ‘sneaky’ like Peanut Butter in the Peanut Butter Cup.”
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their friends again after the sum mer. We played ‘mini’ which is just a miniature version of Fris bee, which helped keep spirits up too, especially in the heat.”
“How the nicknames work is that returners choose the nicknames for the rookies, and it kind of depends on how you
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Amid the sweltering 100-de gree heat of the past week, the 5Cs’ women’s Ultimate Frisbee team — better known as the Greenshirts — kicked off the season with its first practice of the year.
In addition to having a fun season, one of the Greens’ top priorities is making it back to Nationals, which they last qual ified for in 2018. Wilk said that creating a more competitive en vironment is something she and the other captains have been discussing and planning for this season.“Inthe past, I think the main focus has been community, and having fun, and encouraging new people to join the sport. This year we’ve tried to create more of a balance. We really want to win Nationals,” Wilk said. “We’ve talked to the team and that’s sort of what every one’s goal is, so we’re focusing on creating more of a balance between being competitive and still being a super inclusive en
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These tasks are light-hearted and fun, according to Kromer.
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Ultimately, as long as their fun and inclusive culture remains in tact, the Greenshirts will consider their season a success.
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Cady’s nickname falls into the latter category.
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Sagehens receiver Quinten Wimmer PZ ’24 excelled in P-P’s victory over the Redlands Bulldogs Saturday. Wimmer’s level of play in the fourth quarter brought the Sagehens’ offense out of their rut and back into the game.Pomo na-Pitzer’s win was a team effort this week, but Wimmer shone through with his 11 receptions for 92 yards and a touchdown. Wimmer put the team on his back, reinvigo rating the crowd by making several catches on the drive that brought the game within one score.
Creating an inclusive, fun en vironment is at the center of ev erything the Greenshirts do and the first practice was no excep tion.Much of the responsibility of fostering a welcoming commu nity falls on the shoulders of the team captains such as Anna Wilk SC
“The hope this year is to get to scrimmage them a little bit more and create a more friendly rapport with them so that then after one game you can be hap py either way and support the
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“You could get points if you send a picture of a dog to the chat,” Kromer added. “Or you always have to be carrying your Frisbee with you, and if an up perclassman sees you with[out] your Frisbee, you get docked.”
“We’25. had a lot of new freshmen and overall rookies [at the first practice] … A few sophomores and some seniors who had played other sports in the past who de cided to show up either because friends invited them or they had heard about it,” Wilk said. “Ev eryone was really excited to see
The Athenas’ soccer defender Annie McKinley CMC ’25 was awarded the SCIAC’s defensive player of the week for her outstanding performance in last weekend’s tournament held in Manchester, Vermont. The Athenas had a victorious weekend, winning both games 1-0. During the first game, the Athenas faced the No.6 ranked MIT Engineers, where McKinely scored the game-winning goal off of a corner kick. Her goal, and the subsequent CMS win, created a wrench in the Engineer’s previously perfect season, costing them their first loss this fall. McKinely was not only a goalscorer for the Athenas, but also a key player defensively, where she helped the team shut out both their opponents and leave New England with a perfect tournament record.
Another tradition is their sig nature nickname system.
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The Greens missed out on Nationals last year after a loss to Occidental College (Oxy), the only team they needed to beat to earn a spot. Sylvie Kromer SC ’25, one of the team’s return ers, said that the match against Oxy this season carries a lot of weight.“The way that the divisions work for Nationals is there’s only two teams in our Division, and it’s us and Oxy,” she said. “Usually it’s just a one-game matchup, and it’s very stress ful.”Wilk said that this year the league is trying out a new sys tem to defuse the tension that accompanies such a high-stakes, infrequent match.
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