Vol. CXXXI, No. 5

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2018

VOL. CXXXI NO. 5

CMC TO WITHDRAW FROM KECK College to create own science department

ASPC unveils new website

Socialist battles capitalist in fiery debate JULIA FRANKEL

MARIA HEETER ASPC unveiled its new website Oct. 7, with features including a more extensive and detailed dining hall menu, a new ASPC tab listing staff positions, and the phasing out of unnecessary functions, according to Brad Bain PO ’20, lead developer of the ASPC Software Development Group.

“The ASPC website is a resource curated by the Pomona student government as a way to give students services that they really need, that the school isn’t providing, and to also bridge connections between the student government and the student body,” said Sophie Richards PO ’20, product manager of the ASPC Software Development Group.

The old website, which had been operating for about 10 years, was riddled with bugs and functions that were no longer relevant or, in some cases, unusable.

The buy-and-sell function on the website was replaced by the Facebook page “5C For Sale and For Free,” and the housing search was moved to external website portals at the request of Pomona administration.

The site currently includes tabs with dining hall menus, course reviews and planning, an event calendar, and ASPC information.

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The Keck Science Center, located between Pitzer College, Scripps College, and Claremont McKenna College, serves the three colleges. CMC plans to separate from Keck and create its own department.

MEGHAN BOBROWSKY & SAMUEL BRESLOW Claremont McKenna College has decided to withdraw from the W.M. Keck Science Department to create its own science department, the college announced Thursday in a joint email statement with Scripps College and Pitzer College.

Scripps and Pitzer will continue to have a joint science program, and CMC will remain part of it during a transition period over the next

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few years.

CMC Dean of the Faculty Peter Uvin wrote in an email to students and faculty Thursday that the decision was made because of the need to upgrade facilities and relieve enrollment pressures, both of which necessitate additional funding.

But, under the Joint Keck Science governance agreement, the colleges must evenly split the cost of new science buildings, which means that “investments have often been made at the lowest common denominator

Scripps RAs to no longer serve as crisis responders CW: Mention of suicide As part of the Scripps College Residence Life student staff restructuring initiated at the end of last year, resident advisors and community coordinators are not permitted to be on the scene of crises on campus, according to multiple Scripps students.

Scripps spokesperson Carolyn Robles wrote in an email to TSL in April that the Residence Life restructure was related to an RA strike that took place two years ago “[o]nly in the sense that some of the feedback we received during the strike was that the former configuration of the RA role was too demanding.”

In the strike, prompted by a suicide of one of the RAs, the RAs demanded an increase in mental health support services and financial aid. The college responded by promising changes including increased emergency funds and a re-evaluation of RA responsibilities.

Scripps’ 12 residence halls are now staffed by six RAs and 27 community coordinators, Robles wrote.

Last year, before the CC position was added, there were 20 RAs. Robles wrote that the CC position was added to focus on building “a thriving, connected residential community.” By adding CCs and shifting responsibilities to professional staff, Robles said fewer RAs were needed.

Because of the shift, RAs live in only half the dormitories on campus, though some are responsible for a “cluster” of up to three residence

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Cecil & Bessie Bartlett Frankel and Mary Routt Hall at Scripps College do not have a live-in resident advisor.

halls, according to Robles.

Susan Miller Dorsey Hall, Cecil & Bessie Bartlett Frankel and Mary Routt Hall, Mary Kimberly and Wilbur Hall, and the Senior Routt Apartments do not have live-in RAs, though all of them have CCs living within the hall.

As part of the resulting restructuring, crisis response duties are no longer in the purview of student staff members.

“Professional staff and Campus Safety have primary responsibility to respond to crises in residence

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Pomona College Dean of Students Avis Hinkson called for an immediate end to “the practice of barring, bullying or otherwise punishing students” through anonymous submissions to electronic lists, according to an email coauthored with Title IX Coordinator and Associate Dean Sue McCarthy sent to Pomona students Oct. 4.

Student organizations who continue to use the lists, which in the past have been attached to event invitations, would be subject to disciplinary sanctions, Hinkson wrote.

The announcement has been met with pushback from organizations like Pomona Advocates for Survivors of Sexual Assault, who see the list as a tool for community accountability.

“The function [of the lists] is to allow community members some agency in naming individuals who have in the past made these spaces unsafe for people,” Pomona Advocate member Emily Coffin PO ’19 said. “The stakes of having someone missing an event for one night with the benefit of having a community of survivors feel like they’re secure and safe and validated, to me, that cost-benefit is easily weighted in favor of survivors.”

Banning at recent events At a student forum Oct. 5 hosted

by Hinkson, Coffin described Hinkson’s email as “reckless.” “[The email] was ill-informed of institutional memory and part of

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that is because of turn-over in the administration,” she said. “[The email] demonstrated that there was minimal collaboration between Dean of Students and student organizations who really had teeth in this issue.”

The lists, which vary in practice and in format by organization, are typically Google Forms attached to Facebook event invitations where students can make anonymous name submissions of guests that would threaten their own safety or the safety of others, Coffin explained.

Most recently, Sigma Tau linked a Google Form on the Facebook event page for “Squeaky Boot: a spongeboot,” an event at Pomona’s Doms Lounge Sept. 27.

Sigma Tau’s most recent usage of the Google Form included an option for students to explain the intention of their submission, along with information about the listed individual, such as school, year, and contact information.

Sigma Tau, one of Pomona’s oldest fraternities, has been using these kinds of anonymous Google Forms since spring 2017, Sigma Tau President Ethen Lund PO ’19 wrote in a message to TSL. According to Sigma Tau’s Facebook post, only one member of Sigma Tau has access to the list, submissions are anonymous, and submitted names will remain on the list for future Sigma Tau events. In the posting, Sigma Tau emphasized the practice as a tool for safety and stressed that submissions must be legitimate.

“This form is only for people

who would threaten your and/or guests’ safety at Boot. Submitting the name of a person you simply don’t like is incredibly disrespectful,” Sigma Tau stated on its Google Form. “Please please please do not undo the work we’re trying to accomplish with this form.”

The post and Google Form also noted that if someone named on the list were to attend the event, they would be asked to leave. When asked how the lists are used, Lund said the lists aspire to normalize a culture of accountability and community.

“The information [of the submitted names] is used to build awareness and vigilance of po-

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“Indoors and outdoors, I am told to be something other than myself,” Zachary Freiman PO ’20 writes. “Only in the solitude of my room and in the presence of no other person is it permissible for me to speak and conduct myself how I naturally would, enthusiastically and without reservation.”

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Students from the 5Cs gathered at the Women’s Union for a disscussion organized by the Pomona Student Union in response to an email sent by the Pomona Dean of Students and Title IX Coordinator.

OPINIONS

Erica Barry PO ’19 spoke about the inspiration behind her business, SweetRoots kitchen, which caters vegan products to the Motley. Read more on page 6.

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necessary step,” Uvin wrote. He emphasized, though, that the departments will not be completely isolated from each other.

“The two science departments will collaborate closely and be highly coordinated, with the shared goal of offering an excellent interdisciplinary science education that is greater than the sum of the parts,” he wrote.

The decision outraged many

Pomona prohibits lists banning students from events

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of what any one college could afford to contribute,” he wrote.

Professors speculated that CMC wishes to fund the sciences at a higher level than Scripps and Pitzer.

CMC’s endowment exceeds $780 million, whereas Scripps and Pitzer have significantly smaller endowments of around $340 million and $140 million, respectively, according to the colleges’ 2017 financial statements.

“Withdrawal has never been the goal of CMC, but it has become a

“Well, this won’t be a very good debate because I agree with some of what Nathan says,” said capitalist speaker Daniel Mitchell immediately after hearing his debate opponent, socialist Nathan Robinson, introduce socialist ideology at Pomona Student Union’s “Capitalism vs. Socialism” event Oct. 16.

Contrary to what Mitchell had anticipated, the crowd of about 40 students at Pomona College’s Rose Hills Theatre witnessed an explosive debate between two speakers with starkly different ideologies.

The speakers sparred over most issues raised by the moderator, Sarthak Sharma PO ’20.

Multiple attendees who spoke with TSL judged Robinson to have won the debate handily.

Mitchell, a former senior fellow at the Cato Institute specializing in fiscal policy and tax reform, lauded unregulated free markets, asserting “what makes poor people richer is a fast-growing, thriving economy, not slicing an already shrinking pie.”

Meanwhile, Robinson, editorin-chief of “Current Affairs” magazine, countered that “redistribution is almost always economically efficient.”

Robinson argued that deducting tiny amounts of wealth from figures such as Jeff Bezos would massively benefit the poor, while barely harming Bezos.

Mitchell praised the rapid growth of economies like that of Hong Kong, while Robinson argued that this growth does not necessarily correlate with increased overall well-being. While Mitchell said, “[C]ompanies aren’t democratic, and they shouldn’t be,” Robinson pointed out that this philosophy can lead to workers being “tyrannized by their bosses.”

At one point, Robinson directly asked Mitchell if he believed that a boss had the right to fire a pregnant female worker, to which Mitchell responded: “I believe in private contracts. If I set up a contract and say I want people [who] can work for three years with no interruption, I think that’s something the government should not interfere with.” “‘Sucks for you,’” Robinson said, “is almost the libertarian philosophy of life. If you sign a

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“We see them around campus, and we want to be better than them,” says Eamon Stein PO ’21. “It is not friendly on the field.”

The P-P and CMS men’s soccer teams met for the second time this season last Saturday, resulting in a 2-0 win for the Stags. Delaney Hartmann SC ’21 recaps the game and uncovers the rivalry. Read more on page 10.

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THE STUDENT LIFE

Continued from Page 1 The ASPC budget tab will be unveiled in the future.

“At the end of the day, all of these are resources that Pomona students should have access to, and it wasn’t as easy to access them in the past,” Bain said.

A group of three ASPC Software Developing Team members, who are students at Pomona, arrived on campus at the beginning of the 2018-19 school year to build the website, working one 40-hour week and contributing about eight hours per week until the launch, according to Richards.

Due to errors in the old website’s code, the students decided to build an entirely new website.

“We figured that it would be a great opportunity to not just rebuild the site, but to standardize all of our processes around the site so that in the future with students coming and going, the maintainers of the site can have a little bit of an easier time, and hopefully 10 years in the future, we won’t have to rewrite it

again,” Richards said.

ASPC President Alejandro Guerrero PO ’19 said he hoped the website would address concerns of transparency and lack of communication between ASPC and Pomona students. “[U]ltimately, it’s within our title, the Associated Students of Pomona College,” he said. “It’s not just about the Senate, but it’s about making sure that the website is for the community at large.”

Guerrero added that he wants the website to be “a place where students can go to learn more about various on campus resources, and to be a digital platform for the things that students should be knowledgeable and aware of when it comes to campuses.”

Student Carrie Young SC ’21 commented on the new updates and their use for the community. “[The new ASPC Website] provides a lot more community platform for all of the 5Cs, where before I thought it was more geared towards Pomona students,” Young said.

Corrections In the article about students with allergies navigating 5C dining halls, an earlier version of the article incorrectly stated the wrong pronouns for Molly Yeselson.

Yeselson’s correct pronouns are they/them/theirs.

In the opinion article about climate change, it was incorrectly stated that Nierenberg’s commission found a rise of three degrees Fahrenheit with doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide. It’s actually three degrees Celsius.

TSL regrets these errors.

Student groups register voters at the 5Cs ahead of midterm elections ALAN KE In preparation for the midterm elections coming this November, several student groups across all the Claremont Colleges have been actively helping students register to vote and attain their absentee ballots this past month.

Groups such as 5C Democrats, College Community Action Network, Laspa Center for Leadership, 5C Planned Parenthood, and All-In Campus Democracy Challenge have all been involved in promoting voter registration.

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It’s not as much about getting people to vote in 2018.

It’s about getting people to identify as voters for the rest of their lives.

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ASPC: Website redesigned to improve accessibility

- Lucas Carmel PO ’22 Both 5C Democrats and CCAN have targeted events such as weekly snack throughout the 5Cs and have offered to do voter registration through tabling.

5C Democrats President Sam Horowitz PZ ’20 said the group

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“made contact with over 500 students” from tabling at dining halls.

“Republicans have been in control of all branches of government and they have not served the interests of what I think a lot of students want,” Horowitz said. “So, we’re just trying to help students amplify their voice by being able to vote and make some changes in America.”

CCAN, a left-wing student coalition at the 5Cs, has been holding a series of events offering snacks and postage for students who complete absentee ballot request forms.

As of Oct. 17, CCAN sent out 91 request forms. CCAN will continue to hold events until Oct. 24.

Noah Massillon PO ’21, a leader of CCAN, said his motivation for getting more people to vote was “[seeing] certain things that we as progressives, we as college students, we as young people, hold dear to us being threatened sparked me to put pressure on get people to vote, getting people to voice their ideas, and not to just stand idle when things start to change.”

Pomona politics department liaison Lucas Carmel PO ’22 organizes the Pomona branch of a nationwide non-partisan voter registration initiative known as the All-In Campus Democracy Challenge.

The aim of the initiative is to get as many students on campus to vote in electoral processes. The branch has 30 volunteers across all four years, including two alums, who primarily reach out to students through canvassing and political campaigning where individuals are directly approached

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Continued from Page 1 tentially dangerous circumstances,” Lund said.

While Sigma Tau members can request an attendee on the list to leave, Lund said that “students at the Claremont Colleges have no power to bar or remove other students from events.”

Lund declined to comment on the number of students on Sigma Tau’s list.

South Asian Student Association used a similar electronic list for Desi Beats, an event the organization hosted in March. Krithika Rao SC ’19, one of SASA’s co-presidents, said SASA noticed other student organizations using the lists and wanted to follow their lead.

“SASA’s intention was to put survivors first,” Rao said. “Simple as that.”

But, Rao noted SASA used the list practice solely for the Desi Beats event. According to Rao, SASA received zero submissions of names for the event and, at the request of Pomona’s administration, complied with discontinuing the list’s use for future events.

in campus spaces that are funded by money that is generated by the campus.”

McCarthy said those rights can’t be restricted without some sort of due process. Because Sigma Tau, SASA, and other similar registered student organizations are funded by the college, they are legally mandated to comply with Title IX protections.

Both McCarthy and Hinkson said they didn’t think the lists were made with malicious intent. Instead, McCarthy said that the list was a way for students to take agency in establishing safe spaces and that the practice had unintended results.

“In part, [the lists] met its intention because I heard from survivors at the forum that they felt safer in spaces, but there was also unintended harm caused to individuals who may or may not have been appropriately put on that list,” McCarthy said.

She could not comment on specific examples of students being removed from events, but stated there have been instances of students receiving correspondence from groups indicating that the respective students should not attend the event.

Concerns from administrators and Title IX Hinkson said that to her knowledge, the practice of electronic lists has been in place for at least 18 months. But, concerns of discrimination brought forward by students to Title IX Coordinator McCarthy is what led to the co-authored email announcement, Hinkson said.

“There [has] been a small number of students coming forward to express concern about the fact that their names appeared on the list,” she said.

According to McCarthy, the lists could be cause for discrimination under Title IX if a pattern emerges where the lists are disproportionately impacting particular people based on gender and/or other identity factors.

“The essence of it is that the college is obligated to laws around non-discrimination,” McCarthy said.

“Every student has an equal right to participate in campus events that are sponsored by the campus or are

Accountability, discrimination, recommendations McCarthy noted from the lists, there is no way for her to know whether or not a person’s placement on a list was actually for a behavior they had been found to have done.

She said the potential for the list to cover a broader array of community members — and not just perpetrators of sexual violence — escalated her concern that students placed on the list were being discriminated against.

“I was becoming more concerned that we could be in a situation where a student harmed themselves because of the experience of thinking they were on the list or knowing they were on the list and receiving particular treatment as a result of that,” she said.

But, Coffin believes that improper usage of the lists are rare, and that there are more pressing measures that must be addressed before hypotheticals are considered.

“The vagueness to [the lists] is a nod to the fact that they are there as a tool of protection, a tool of security, and a tool of accountability in a lot of ways,” she said.

“I really would like to believe that the instances in which these lists are abused are really few and far between, and that those submitting to these lists do not owe any level of explanation as to why they are submitting a name.”

McCarthy, who co-chairs the Sexual Violence Intervention and Prevention Presidential Advisory Committee, which is composed of students, faculty, and staff, said the committee is undergoing an extensive review of Pomona’s current policies regarding Title IX and sexual misconduct. The committee hopes to provide recommendations to Pomona President G. Gabrielle Starr at the end of this academic year.

Sigma Tau did not comment on how the organization ensures the legitimacy of its submissions.

But in a statement to TSL co-authored by Lund and Sigma Tau Vice Presidents Kate Miller PO ’19 and Isabel Durham PO ’19, Sigma Tau recognized that its practices “may be imperfect interim solution[s] to a much larger problem, but we will continue to find ways of ensuring safe social spaces until the administration puts forth a more accessible and comprehensive policy for greater community accountability.”

Coffin believes that an alternative should be presented before the lists are dismissed as a tool completely.

“Dean Hinkson said [at the forum] how problematic these methods are or how problematic the lists are, but as it stands now, with [the lists’] absence, what’s the alternative?” she said. “It’s problematic that we have perpetrators who aren’t being held accountable on campus. It’s problematic that there’s going to be assaults that continue to happen at these parties.

So, as students, we’re kind of saying, ‘Enough is enough,’ and taking some action on our own accord.”

and spoken to.

Though canvassing is frequently used, Carmel said it is “not good enough at following through with people in actually helping with registration and turnout.”

Their outreach plan is divided into three phases that began Sept.

25, which is National Voter Registration Day. On Oct. 10, volunteers confirmed the ballot requests of students they assisted. The last phase will be a final confirmation of the status of students’ ballots.

Altogether, the initiative has contacted approximately 900 people at Pomona. As of Oct. 8, 530 students have used the TurboVote platform, a non-partisan voting service, and 259 students were registered through it, as opposed to other means of voting, such as mail.

“The number I’m really proud

of is 530 because that far outpaces any number we’ve hit before in other election years,” Carmel said.

Amongst all institutions of higher education partnered with TurboVote, Pomona ranks the third highest in the percentage of undergraduates registered to vote between September and October at 25.53 percent, according to Carmel.

The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement conducted by Tufts University found that 17 percent of Pomona students voted in the 2014 midterm election.

Carmel’s goal for this midterm cycle is to bring that figure to 30 percent.

“It’s not as much about getting people to vote in 2018,” Carmel said. “It’s about getting people to identify as voters for the rest of their lives.”

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Pomona Student Union hosted a discussion to talk about the issue of banning students from events on campus.

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Luke Meares PO ’21 and Daisy Chadruc PZ ’21 help register students to vote during Pitzer’s “Snackie Snack” Oct. 16.

Keck professors, who have complained for years that the department has been under-resourced.

“Keck is sort of always the ‘other,’ and we’ve always been promised more and not gotten it,” said Melissa Coleman, an associate biology professor at Keck. “My initial reaction is not pleasant words for CMC.” Uvin acknowledged in his email that enrollment pressures have led to “undue growth in class size and heavy reliance on visitors,” and that Keck professors have been “rightly critical” of this situation.

CMC will need to provide at least three years notice prior to completing the separation, per the governance agreement.

The college has hired Cannon Design to construct a new building to house its science department, but a site has not yet been decided, Uvin wrote. He added that CMC plans to invest between $200 million and $250 million to launch its new science program, and to ultimately hire 22-28 full-time science faculty.

Scripps and Pitzer, meanwhile, plan to renovate and add to Keck.

According to Uvin, they are working with the architecture firm Carrier Johnson, and plan to complete construction by 2022.

Pitzer Dean of Faculty Nigel Boyle wrote in an email to TSL that “although this outcome is not what we wanted or expected I want to be clear that this is going to be a good outcome for Pitzer and Scripps and, most importantly, for our students.”

He emphasized that Scripps and Pitzer plan to expand their science facilities.

“We love our science department, Scripps loves it, and we together want to invest in it,” he wrote.

Scripps Dean of Faculty Amy Marcus-Newhall similarly wrote “we are excited to deepen our

commitment to science education at Scripps.”

For many Keck professors, the announcement came as a shock.

“I think all of us would have liked to have been more a part of these conversations and these decisions instead of having them dropped on us,” said Mary Hatcher-Skeers, a professor of chemistry at Keck.

Uvin acknowledged that the decision may come as a surprise.

“We regret we had to have the conversation so far outside of the public space,” Uvin wrote. “We will provide opportunities for input by all of you as we proceed on this exciting journey.”

CMC Dean of Students Dianna Graves wrote in an email to CMC students Thursday that Uvin will host a forum for students to provide input Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. in Davidson Lecture Hall.

Coleman expressed disappointment that CMC did not step up to provide more funding to Keck.

“We’ve been under-resourced for a long time and needed new faculty and were trying to figure out how to do that, and the solution is for CMC to not give us money but to form their own science department,” she said.

CMC and Keck initially announced the decision to their respective faculties in meetings Wednesday.

TSL reported the decision Wednesday night, but spokespeople for CMC, Scripps, and Pitzer declined to comment until Thursday.

The three colleges have collaborated on science education since 1964.

About 3,200 students take classes at Keck annually — up from 2,100 students 15 years ago, according to Keck’s website.

“Science enrollments have grown faster than overall enrollments at the three sponsor colleges, indicating a sharp increase in interest among Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps students in studying science,” the website states.

Over the past two years, Keck’s

enrollment has consisted of about 40 percent Scripps students, 32 percent CMC students, and 26 percent Pitzer students, with the remaining enrollment coming from Harvey Mudd College and Pomona College, according to the website.

Regardless of the final outcome, many professors predicted the transition is likely to involve some turmoil.

Hatcher-Skeers said she hoped it would be a seamless transition for students but acknowledged there might be some obstacles.

“One of the most poignant comments in the meeting was, ‘How are we going to ensure we continue to give the best to our students and that nobody falls through the cracks here?’” she said.

Uvin promised in his email that CMC will work “to ensure that our students are well supported throughout the transition period.”

Keck faculty will remain with the department by default, but they may apply to work at CMC’s new science department, Uvin wrote.

Coleman said Keck faculty currently receive the same benefits as CMC faculty, but that after CMC leaves Keck, they will receive the same benefits as Scripps faculty.

“There are some tradeoffs,” Coleman said. For example, she said their housing assistance will decrease, but they will receive more retirement benefits.

Uvin emphasized that much work lays ahead.

“This is a moment of opportunity, transition, and major decisions,” he wrote.

Hatcher-Skeers said many professors were frustrated because they’ve been trying to expand and develop Keck for years.

“So faculty are exhausted of building plans that never turn into anything,” she said. “But maybe this, because it’s such a dramatic change, will promote forward progress.”

Ariel So, Jaimie Ding, and James Karsten contributed reporting.

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Synaida Maiche CM ’22 and Giselle Hernández SC ‘22 participated in a lab analyzing the effects of how aluminum changes states into alum in Professor Torsten Fiebig’s chemistry lab at Keck Science Department Oct. 18.

NEWS RESIDENCE: Students not fully informed of changes Continued from Page 1 with support from the College’s Safety Operations Specialist and other emergency support services as necessary,” Robles wrote in an email to TSL. Meera Kolluri SC ’20, who has several friends working for Residential Life, said that though RAs receive calls on the RA on-call phone during the weekend, they are not permitted to be on the scene of any crisis situations like alcohol poisoning or emotional breakdowns.

“RAs are not first responders, so they are not allowed to come to the scene [of an emergency],” Kolluri said. “If there is a call, they have to defer the call to the professional staff.”

In the past, Kolluri said, “the student RAs were allowed to physically be present.”

Robles wrote that RAs are trained in building evacuation procedures, but the primary responses for emergencies should be led by professional staff. According to an email from Robles in April, Scripps does not anticipate the student staff restructuring to impact existing policies.

“In an emergency anywhere in The Claremont Colleges, students should always call Campus Safety, who will respond and access additional resources as necessary.”

Robles wrote. “Campus Safety immediately notifies the on-call Dean and the Dean of Students in the event of an emergency that impacts Scripps students or the Scripps campus.”

Melody Chang SC ’22, who lives in Eleanor Joy Toll Hall, values the personal connections she has made with the RA and CCs in her hall. She wasn’t aware that RAs aren’t crisis responders, but feels that professional staff may be the best people to handle emergencies.

“I always thought the RA was in charge of [handling crises], but at the same time I guess the immediate response for an RA is to call someone who can professionally do it,” Chang said. “In a way, it feels safer.”

The shifting role of the RA can be confusing to returning Scripps students. Kolluri said that students aren’t as comfortable seeking emo-

tional support from professional staff.

“If I was in need of help of support, I would be more comfortable with someone my age coming and talking with me, consoling me, and taking care of me,” she said. “Of course if it’s critical and other measures needed to be taken, I wouldn’t mind extra support. [But] in the culture I was raised in, I’m … not comfortable with an adult that I don’t know showing up to help rather than an RA I’ve been seeing in my dorm regularly.”

Sohni Kaur SC ’21, who lives in Dorsey, has not interacted with the RA or CCs for her dorm, except for calling the RA-on-call when locked out of her room. She felt that it was good that students are able to avoid high stress situations with the new structure, but echoed Kolluri’s concerns.

TSL reached out to several past and current RAs who declined to comment.

CC Sam Norrito SC ’21 thinks the Scripps community needed more time to grow into the new Residence Life system as the student staff roles have changed.

“There’s no tension in between the people in the roles in any way, so it’s not a reflection on the members of the Res Life team,” Norrito said.

“There is just some tension in get-

ting used to this new system, like the CC calls the RA, who then calls the Dean on Call, [which adds] a couple of extra steps. Adjusting to the new dynamic is creating some confusion.”

Norrito said that despite the time required for the students and professional staff to settle into new roles, residence hall culture has improved since adding the CC role.

“I think the purpose of restructuring was to shift [the] community building onto a different role so that [the CCs’] sole focus is [getting] people to focus on the dorms and how do we get the Scripps community to be a vibrant place,” Norrito said.

“Both [RAs and CCs] are student leaders positions whose primary focus is to help build a vibrant residential community where every student feels a sense of place and connection,” Robles wrote.

Dorsey resident Kayley James SC ’20 believes this year has been an improvement in regard to community-building in residence halls.

“Scripps is still lacking in dorm culture, but it is getting better. … I think that there’s potential [with the new structure]. Scripps hasn’t fully realized its potential but it’s getting there.”

Elinor Aspegren contributed reporting.

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Four community coordinators, but no resident advisors, live in Cecil & Bessie Bartlett Frankel and Mary Routt Hall at Scripps College.

DEBATE: Socialist won handily, attendees say

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Daniel Mitchell and Nathaniel Robinson were invited to participate in a “Capitalism vs. Socialism” debate, organized by the Pomona Student Union Oct. 16.

Continued from Page 1 contract, you have to deal with it.”

A major point of conflict in the debate was the definition of socialism. Mitchell criticized Venezuela, the USSR, and even Nazi Germany as socialist regimes, but Robinson repeatedly insisted that such regimes were not actually socialist. Instead, Robinson praised European nations for universal healthcare and paid family leave, stating that no Europeans “want to live like Americans.”

Robinson also repeatedly mentioned the Pomona Dining staff’s 2013 unionization as an example of positive socialism and worker organizing.

Following the debate, Mitchell and Robinson maintained strong opinions about their opponent’s viewpoints.

“We were talking at crosspurposes,” Mitchell said. “Nathan was saying that basically every country that has ever identified itself as socialist was not. He had this idea of anarchical socialism, and I was focusing on the real world examples of socialism.”

On the reverse, Robinson criticized Mitchell’s ideas.

“I found my opponent’s views to be atrocious and morally reprehensible,” Robinson said. “The

Women of color lead four of five student governments ANAIS RIVERO An unprecedented four of five of the student government presidents at the Claremont Colleges are women of color this academic year.

Shivani Kavuluru PZ ’19, Maya Love CM ’20, Julia Wang HM ’20, and Irene Yi SC ’19 are female presidents of Pitzer Senate, ASCMC, ASHMC, and SAS, respectively. ASPC President Alejandro Guerrero PO ’19 is the only male of the five.

Kavuluru was with her fellow presidents when she first realized they were all women of color.

“We were all in the car together, and I don’t remember who said it but someone said, ‘Wow, we are all women of color,’ and it gave me chills,” she said. “Little moments like that give me so much happiness. All these women put so much work in and deserve to be in their position[s]. I can confide in the other presidents and learn from them.”

White students account for over half of the student body at Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, and Pitzer College.

In previous years, students have rallied to protest their colleges’ disregard toward the struggles that minorities face on campus.

In 2015, CMC students led rallies and a hunger strike to demand the resignation of Dean Mary Spellman after she wrote in an email to a Latina student that she would try to serve students who “don’t fit our CMC mold.”

In 2017, Harvey Mudd College students called for $18,000 to be allocated to six groups on campus that represent minority interests, $3,000 for each group.

Kavuluru said that having diverse student governments helps students of color talk about issues they face on campus.

“Sometimes white people unfortunately cannot completely understand these issues,” Kavuluru said. “It is especially important that people of color feel comfortable asking for money to meet their needs.”

Wang and Yi spoke about their student governments’ history with representation.

“I think student government is relatively diverse; we have people from a variety of constituencies sitting on our board,” Wang said.

“I don’t think having a woman of color as president is an abnormality of Mudd. Our college president is a woman, and our previous student government president was a woman of color.”

SAS has had women of color as presidents in the past. It currently

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kind of society that he would build is one that no one who has just a basic moral functioning should ever want to live in. This ideology is going to drive humanity into the abyss.”

The speakers took student questions, which focused on topics such as differences between capitalist and socialist approaches to climate change, along with connections between colonialism, capitalism, and slavery.

On climate change, Mitchell declined to opine, stating that it wasn’t his area of expertise. Robinson attacked this response.

“If it were up to [right-wing politicians], this is what you’d hear a lot: ‘It’s not my issue; I don’t know; who knows?’ And then they do nothing,” he said. “I don’t think any of us can afford to talk that way anymore. . .This is clearly a crisis of unregulated capitalism.”

Robinson spoke passionately and appeared frustrated at many of Mitchell’s points, rapidly taking notes and rifling through his papers. Mitchell presented a mostly calm demeanor, only occasionally becoming more agitated. Robinson said afterwards that it was his first debate.

Following the debate, a group of about 20 students flocked to Robinson, while only a few approached Mitchell. While students responded

Claremont Colleges celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day EMILY KUHN

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Irene Yi SC ’19, Shivani Kavuluru PZ ’19, Julia Wang HM ’20, and Maya Love CM ’20 are the student government presidents at their respective schools for the 2018-19 academic year.

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“Higher education was made for white males, but to see all these women of color is incredible, and it shows how the colleges are trying to create a culture of inclusivity.”

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- Julia Wang HM ’20

has “quite a few people of different backgrounds,” Yi said. “We have international students, students of color. It is great to lead such an electric group of people.”

Kavuluru said she is Pitzer Sen-

ate’s second president to identify as a woman of color and that there is still room for improvement in increasing Pitzer Senate’s diversity in race as well as other categories.

“We need to be dynamic and adapt to the needs of the student body,” Kavuluru said. “Student senate has progressed in terms of diversity. I think we should remember that Pitzer is a predominantly white institution and Senate should not become stagnant. We can always do better.”

Love wrote in an email to TSL that one of her main goals is to maintain a strong representation of diverse students on ASCMC. “I am honored and empowered to be the first African American [f] emale [ASCMC president],” Love wrote. “I am learning every day how to better serve my team and the student body.”

The presidents hope that they can act as role models for other students of color.

“I remember as a first-year,

the SAS President was another Asian-American woman, and I remember being in awe that someone who looked like me had that position of power,” Yi said. “I think it’s so important to have people who look like you in positions of power.”

Camila Toscano PZ ’21 was pleased with the representation of women of color in 5C student governments.

“Women of color are underrepresented in general and especially in government, despite being super qualified.” Toscano said. “I hope we can keep electing [them] to represent us.”

Wang added: “Having this entire group of [student government association] presidents be people of color is a beautiful moment for the 5Cs. Higher education was made for white males, but to see all these women of color is incredible, and it shows how the colleges are trying to create a culture of inclusivity.”

with enthusiasm to Robinson’s points, they reacted with frustration to Mitchell’s argument.

“When I saw the debate’s poster, Mitchell seemed far more qualified and experienced, and I feared it would be a very unequal debate,” Daniel Savin PO ’22 said. “On the night, however, Robinson clearly emerged victorious, and if anything, it was a mismatch in his favor.

Mitchell was unconvincing. Robinson was sensible and pragmatic.”

Attendee Ivette Fernandez PO ’19 concurred. “Robinson came a lot more prepared than Mitchell from a holistic perspective,” she said.

“Mitchell came from strictly economics, while Robinson considered the entire well-being of the nation.”

PSU committee members said they considered the debate a success.

“When we came up with the questions, we were thinking about how to highlight differences between these ideologies to help people learn,” said Anam Mehta PO ’21, one of the event organizers. “It was definitely more geared towards learning than winning.”

Sharma added: “It was a very productive conversation. A lot of people who talk about these terms a lot don’t really know what they mean in practice, so I think this was a great learning experience for all.”

Students at the Claremont Colleges recognized Indigenous Peoples’ Day Oct. 8 with the fourth annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Midnight Celebration at Scripps College’s Malott Commons and a visit to festivities at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles.

The celebration in LA marked the removal of a Columbus statue in Los Angeles Square Park and the city’s first official Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration since voting last year to replace Columbus Day. The 5C Indigenous Peer Mentoring Program helped organize the midnight gathering by sending out an email encouraging Indigenous students at the 5Cs to celebrate the beginning of the day by smudging — a traditional Plains Indian practice meant to act as a healing and cleansing ceremony — and offering a sense of familiarity and community.

Marisa Branco PZ ’22 of the Isleta Pueblo Tribe attended both the 5C gathering and the LA event. “[T]hey wanted the first sights, sounds, and smells that Indigenous students experience on Indigenous Peoples’ Day to be that of other Indigenous people, and that’s why it’s at midnight, to kind of enter the day prioritizing and giving space to those voices and experiences,” Branco said.

Branco estimated that about 1015 Indigenous students attended the fourth annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Midnight Celebration and said she was grateful for the opportunity to honor her heritage with other Indigenous students. She commended the 5Cs for hosting such a gathering and signaling to Indigenous students that they intended to do more than simply rename the day and brush aside the history of what it means.

“I feel like a lot of the times, especially within institutions that make the change from calling it Columbus Day, there isn’t actually a lot done to unpack what was being said to Indigenous students with having a day honoring Columbus beforehand,” Branco said.

“A lot of the times, it just almost feels like another way to erase the experience, but I think having the gatherings and having an actual event honoring it as Indigenous Peoples’ Day does feel a little bit more like a reclamation of what

that day is.”

Branco acknowledges that for a lot of people the day can be really painful. “It is still kind of a colonizer’s day, with that history of the name,” she said.

But, Branco tries to use it as a day to honor her roots by reconnecting with people that help her cultivate and honor that identity.

Angela Mooney D’Arcy, a Pitzer College professor of the Acjachemen Nation, said that Indigenous Peoples’ Day was a time for her to reflect on “the delicate balance between pushing back against our erasure, and having our presence co-opted and tokenized.”

“It’s important to tie Indigenous Peoples’ Day to local government accountability and to the native nations on whose lands they’re built [on],” D’Arcy said.

In addition to teaching “Protecting the Sacred” at the Robert Redford Conservancy, D’Arcy is also the executive director of Sacred Place Institute. The ultimate goal of her organization and of her class is to cause a mass paradigm shift where Indigenous peoples and cultures are protected and where society’s dominant worldview shifts from one “based on extraction and domination” to one “based on relationships, reciprocity and respect.”

D’Arcy also emphasized that Indigenous people need to be put at the forefront when discussing environmental conservation.

“The planet will be fine, the planet will go on with or without us, but if we want to save our [human] species then it really is time for the settler-colonist to step back and for Indigenous peoples to step forward and to be the spiritual and ideological leaders for sustainability,” D’Arcy said.

Nobu Ollin PZ ’20 of the Mexica tribe is in D’Arcy’s “Protecting the Sacred” class. He talked about the importance of utilizing the academic privilege and the access to resources we have at the Claremont Colleges to create what he calls “regenerative blueprints” in order to give back to people and the planet.

“Our professor, Angela Mooney D’Arcy, brings a wealth of experience on the frontlines of protecting and nourishing the land through her work at Sacred Place Institute,” Ollin said. “The question is, will we use that educational privilege to work on concrete blueprints for food sovereignty, water sovereignty, and community resurgence?”

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HUMANITIES COLUMN: “FAIL BETTER”

Fay, DJ Spooky give new light to environmental adaptation BLAKE PLANTE In an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” a timid bank teller who enjoys books has his life dictated to him by the outside world. With never enough time to read, he eventually sneaks a few books into a bank vault and closes the door behind him. Outside, a nuclear blast eviscerates his city.

He emerges upon the devastation and discovers a library with many books still intact. Finally content, he sits down again to read, but slips and breaks his glasses. The environment had adapted to his passions, until it didn’t.

On Thursday Oct. 11, the Pomona College Humanities Studio hosted Jennifer Fay, professor of cinema and media arts at Vanderbilt University, to talk about virtuosic failure and environmental design. The discussion was focused on Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill Jr.,” which was screened a few hours earlier with a live, modern reinterpretation of its score by Paul D. Miller, also known as DJ Spooky.

“Steamboat Bill Jr.” is a 1928 silent film structured around environmental collapse, in which Keaton created a three-block American town and destroyed it with a fabricated cyclone.

Fay’s talk honed in on Keaton’s relationship with the environment. Keaton’s character, William, returns to Mississippi to reunite with his father. Now a foppish college graduate, William appears maladapted to his new environment.

The storm approaches and William’s misadventures continue, but when the storm hits, his clumsiness shifts to heroic capacity. Whereas before he’d tumble on ropes and engage the steamboat’s engine on accident, now he fabricates a rope mechanism to sail his father’s steamer single-handedly and rescue the other characters.

Keaton’s character isn’t shifting, Fay tells us; the world is adapting to him. It needs to collapse for him to succeed. “Failure,” Fay explains, “is a systemic condition in this film.”

Fay is the author of “Inhospital World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene,” in which she wrote a chapter about Keaton’s environmental designs.

“Keaton’s films are about adaptability,” Fay said. Sudden shifts occur when the environment adapts to the characters, rather than vice versa. For the “loser” character archetype to succeed, the environment must fail.

Earlier that day in the large,

echoing Edmunds Ballroom at Pomona, Miller asked us to imagine we were in his loft in New York for a living room session. He often scores and screens films for a small audience of friends to “see what works and what doesn’t.” Miller is known for his electronica, hip hop, reggae, dub, and astral and galactic funk albums. His scores frequently collide silent films from the early 1900s with contemporary soundtracks.

By yoking a film traditionally accompanied by an orchestra, theatre pianist, or organist with contemporary music, Miller didn’t only decide which moods in the film to support or amplify; he also conspicuously adjusted the film to a different milieu.

I don’t think I was wrong to feel a kind of eeriness as strings and an electronic undercurrent introduced the two steamboats and their competing owners in the film, one a tycoon with a luxurious new boat, and the other an old-fashioned captain getting pushed out of his industry.

While the film’s original orchestral score by Timothy Brock gives this scene the feeling of a parade, Miller ’s instilled a sense of ecocriticism, awareness of race and gender politics, and maybe also feelings of anxiety and distrust.

Rather than feeling plucky and adventurous, the electro swing and house paired to the film’s artificial cyclone acknowledge the environmental devastation as it occurs while remaining upbeat.

In “The Art of Rhythm,” a video interview created several years ago, Miller suggested: “It’s important for people to experience rhythm because it’s how we make up the everyday world around us. A composition is based on emotion, how people think about putting together something that expresses some eternal thing.”

Movement, too, has rhythm.

Placing the movement and music of the film together anachronistically seems to bridge some of the gaps between then and now, to bring to consciousness more of today’s conversations in yesterday’s content.

Inspired by Miller, I thought I’d try giving the film my own score. I started with “The Vengeance of Galaxy 5” from his 1996 album, “Songs of a Dead Dreamer,” to intensify the film’s initial eeriness. I continued with that for a while, unsatisfied with many of my selec-

COURTESY OF THE POMONA COLLEGE HUMANITIES STUDIO

Jennifer Fay, professor of cinema and media arts at Vanderbilt University, speaks with students about virtuosic failure and environmental design Oct. 11.

tions until I put the storm scene to “Human Sadness” by Julian Casablancas and the Voids.

It was as if the artificial city melted to the rock epic’s apocalyptic baseline, drum thumping with each crash as Keaton tumbled through the wasteland.

My witchy mix — a replacement, rather than a reimagining of the original score — sufficed to match a suffuse environmental pessimism.

Courtesy of an invitation from the Humanities Studio, I joined a seminar with Fay the next day.

We viewed the first test of the atomic bomb, documented amateurly in the 1945 “Trinity” film.

J. Robert Oppenheimer appeared with his iconic Pork Pie hat, as part of a team preparing the bomb for launch in southeastern

New Mexico. As the bomb was hoisted upward, the film cut to black, and we watched the desert landscape explode with light.

“They didn’t know what the mushroom cloud would look like,” Fay explained as we were peppered with three separate camera shots of the blast, each unable to capture its full mass.

She explained that most nuclear training films are framed with a before and an after, showing the devastation, but also lending reassurance that the world goes on afterward. However, in this film, she remarked, “there is no after.”

There was concern that this bomb might have ignited the e a r t h ’s a t m o s p h e r e , a n d we dropped it. The film could have been the end of human record-

ing, the end of human knowledge –– maybe the end of the world.

In an essay called “Cinema’s Hot Chronology (5:29:21 Mountain War Time, July 16, 1945),” Fay designated “Trinity” as a geological marker for the earth’s shift from the Holocene to the Anthropocene.

As the name suggests, the Anthropocene classifies humans as a geological force. But while humans have adapted the planet for our own purposes, Fay poetically suggested that, in some ways, we’re no longer a force of history; we’re a brute force of wind –– an algae taking over the planet.

“We have already become the nature on which species will form their culture,” she said.

“For this particular length of time, things got better and the

planet suffered.”

As experienced by the spectacled bank teller in “The Twilight Zone” and William in “Steamboat Bill Jr.,” the environment can adapt to produce more desirable outcomes for some of its characters.

But after the bankteller ’s settled down in his desolate library and after William finds his rhythm in the cyclone, we do not have assurance that these environments will continue to be favorable for these characters.

Glasses break; cyclones end; sometimes the environment is favorable, and sometimes, it isn’t.

Blake Plante PO ‘19 is an English major. He is most commonly spotted scribbling into an allweather notebook at all events.

STUDY ABROAD COLUMN

Study abroad gets less exciting, but that’s a good thing MARC ROD Studying abroad is hectic and crazy. Every day, there are surprises and new experiences, unexpected twists and turns to contend with, new challenges to tackle … until there aren’t.

I have now been in Germany for more than a month and a half.

For the first few weeks, I faced new obstacles and discoveries — both exciting and daunting.

I faced challenges large and small daily, from confusion with Freiburg’s culture and my difficulties adjusting to a new teaching style, to more mundane changes. These included my 20-minute commute via tram to and from class, the need to buy groceries and cook dinner for myself, and the daily struggle not to buy gelato on the way back from class.

Every day seemed exciting

and novel. I was enthusiastic about each discovery I made in Germany about the local culture, EU politics, and more. This could also become exhausting. I often found myself completely worn down by the end of each day and was frequently confused and uncomfortable moving throughout Freiburg.

Life in Germany was utterly different from life at the 5Cs and even from living on my own in

Washington, D.C. this past summer.

Gradually, without my noticing it, I began to settle into Freiburg. I only realized how accustomed to my surroundings I was during a field trip to Brussels and Paris last week, which interrupted my usual routine, and it took me by surprise.

My previous experiences abroad were, at most, about a month long. Each time, I did

not have enough time to fully settle in; I remained on my toes and was constantly amazed by everything I encountered.

When I realized that I had become more accustomed to Freiburg, I began to doubt myself and reanalyze my experiences. Was I jaded? Was I not doing enough to appreciate my surroundings and environment? Was I not doing enough to find new experiences within

Freiburg?

However, looking back, I realized I had a similar experience in my first semester at Pomona College. The first few weeks, I was surprised, excited, and challenged by everything I encountered, but over time, I settled into a routine, and began to become more comfortable in my surroundings.

Through reflection, I decided that acclimating to Freiburg was not a bad thing. I still learn more about EU politics daily.

Classes remain challenging in ways I detailed previously, but are educational as well. I am still keenly aware that I am living in a foreign country with a unique and different culture.

Having a routine and being comfortable in Freiburg provides me with a steadier base from which to learn about and explore Germany. I am not so exhausted at the end of every day, and I find myself much more comfortable in my day-to-day life.

I am thankful to have established some sense of stability in Freiburg. The electrifying atmosphere of my first few days in Freiburg was highly enjoyable and enriching, but also not sustainable.

Each day is much less of a rollercoaster, which I do not consider a bad thing. Now, I can take in and learn about Freiburg, Germany, and Europe at a more moderate pace, which I greatly appreciate.

This adjustment period is something anyone studying abroad might experience. Hopefully, this may serve as a reminder for others to explore as much as possible in their first few weeks abroad, but also as a reassurance that the semester will become less hectic.

I am glad I went to great lengths to learn as much about my surroundings as I could in my first weeks here, and to have realized that studying abroad, like most other experiences in life, requires balance. I am happy to have found my balance between routine and novelty in Freiburg.

Marc Rod is an international relations major at Pomona College, studying the European Union in Freiburg, Germany. Fittingly, he enjoys travel and journalism.

MEGHAN JOYCE • THE STUDENT LIFE

LIFE & STYLE OCTOBER 19, 2018 MUSIC COLUMN

Does death equal permission? New release from Lil Peep with XXXTentacion feature sheds light on questionable ethics

CGU celebrates annual show on digital art, poetry, Scrabble BREELYN MANGOLD

ELLA BOYD The recently released single “Falling Down” showcased a surprising collaboration between artists Lil Peep and XXXTentacion.

The surprising part is that these artists were able to collab in the first place: Peep died in November of 2017, while X died in June of 2018.

The truth is that the song wasn’t a mutual collaboration.

Peep co-wrote and recorded a song titled “Sunlight On Your Skin” with musician ILoveMakonnen, but died of a drug overdose before releasing the final version to the general public. The hook was leaked to the internet after Peep played part of the song on his Instagram Live.

Fans of Peep then put the snippet of his song on YouTube, where rapper XXXTentacion first found it. X recorded his own voice over Peep’s audio, but ended up passing away before the song was finalized. Since X was so driven to release the song, XXXTentacion’s mother ended up reaching out to Peep’s management. The song was then completed and released to the public, as a tribute to both artists.

The problem here is that Lil Peep did not want this collaboration. ILoveMakonnen responded positively to XXXTentacion as an artist, stating that X “had so much wisdom for being young” and that “X wanted to be a part of this song.”

Peep, however, did not. Rapper Lil Tracy, who Lil Peep frequently collaborated with during his lifetime, tweeted that Peep and X were “never even friends [and] didn’t like each other.” Peep never heard the XXXTentacion feature and was not alive to approve it.

Regardless of the drama surrounding the release and tension between the two rappers, we can only conclude that there is no way to know for sure what Peep would have thought.

The fact that both rappers signed to major labels also plays a controversial role in this release.

When fans questioned why the song was released, Peep’s mother said that “it was Makonnen’s choice.”

ILoveMakonnen is alive and Lil Peep isn’t, but should this give him the right to do whatever he wants with music half made from a deceased artist who can no longer voice his own opinions and values? At best, this song aims to honor both artists posthumously; at worst, it is purely a marketing tactic used to attract fans from both audiences and make more money.

Like many issues in music, the situation comes down to who has the rights and who has the money.

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Columbia Records acquired the rights to Peep’s unreleased music, and therefore Columbia, not Peep’s own mother, has control over what sees the light of day and what remains hidden.

Columbia plans to release a full posthumous album of Peep’s unreleased material, and the lead single will be “Falling Down.”

This raises questions of artistic integrity: If Peep wouldn’t have wanted this song to exist, why should a major label decide how Peep’s vision is carried out after his death? Is there any way for artists to remain true to their own desires if they cannot voice these desires for themselves? Should rights to an artist’s music remain even after an artist is no longer alive?

Royalties do not cease to exist when musicians do, and often, dead musicians generate higher sales than living ones. Forbes Magazine posts lists of top-earning dead celebrities every year, and in 2017, they reported on Michael Jackson, who had been dead for years, stating “Jackson tops our list of the 13 highest-paid dead celebrities for the fifth year in a row--with earnings of $75 million.

His postmortem empire is going strong, boosted by the Halloween special and new album Scream, which Jackson, of course, had no part in putting together.

The root of the issue comes to light here: A magazine about money showcases dead artists because their revenue is impressive. There

is no mention of creating projects using Jackson’s music because it touches lives or because his fans care about his legacy.

According to lawyer Joseph D. Schleimer, when an artist dies, sales spike immediately before slowing down over time.

Ironically, natural deaths do not generate as much revenue as young or unexpected ones.

This means if an artist is purely concerned with increasing their long-term worth, they are better off dying at the age of 21 than 81, even though theoretically an artist can create more music the longer they live. Perhaps even more depressing is the idea that because a dead artist is unable to spend the money they make, their estate is often worth more after they die.

Public domain rules affect these situations. In the United States, copyrights hold for 75 years maximum after an artist’s death. After this time, the estate does not receive royalties. Estates generate revenue because the copyright on works of art gets passed on to relatives or organizations after death, and once this is public domain, these rights can no longer be passed along. The larger the profits, the more these rights are questioned.

Beyond profits and marketing rights, rights to an artist’s work include the ability to release or hold music. Being part of a late artist’s estate can be extremely

BOOK COLUMN

profitable, but there is more at stake here than money. There seem to be little ethics involved with owning the work of a deceased artist. Although public domain stops certain types of profit, this does not occur for decades after the artist’s death, and does little for the family and fans affected by the tragedy.

In Peep’s case, the debate is over whether or not he would have wanted the collaboration and/or release of “Falling Down.” On a larger scale, the debate is if there is any way to protect the rights of artists who were more concerned with their vision than their profits. To combat this, record labels and producers should consider the wishes of the artist they are making so much money off of.

Music sends a message regardless of whether or not the person recording it is still alive.

From a Lil Peep song titled “Praying to the Sky,” Peep sings “they gon’ miss me when I’m dead.”

It’s time to prove Lil Peep right and concentrate on missing him as a person and artist, not only for the revenue his work continues to generate.

Ella Boyd is a first-year from Maine who attends Scripps College.

She traded alpine skiing for writing for the student paper, and enjoys creating art through film, music, and poetry.

“The living aren’t equal and neither are the dead. Transformation is the bravest fantasy,” said Inez Tan as she read from her poem, “I Am Trying to Care about You as a Person but You Keep Turning Me into a Bear.”

Last Friday evening, Oct. 12, Foothill Poetry Journal hosted a night of poetry reading and a showcase of digital art at Claremont Graduate University’s Peggy Phelps and East Gallery.

The event was held in celebration of the publication of the 10th volume of Foothill.

Various poets showcased their work after the audience had a chance to browse the art on display. Among this art was the group show, “Chroma,” a collection by second-year students at CGU. Work by Aurora Berger was showcased at the event and published in this year’s edition of Foothill.

The featured art by Berger was used by Foothill as the cover art for the 2018 edition of the poetry journal.

Berger ’s art was a raw depiction of the womanly body and bodies with disabilities.

One piece, titled “Tributaries,” showed stretch marks that paint a woman’s hips and tell the story of a winding path, similar to the nature of tributaries flowing into a larger river. “ We a r e c e l e b r a t i n g t h e release of this journal,” said

Emily Schuck, co-editor-in-chief of Foothill. “We publish once a year. This is the first time our journal has shifted leadership.

We have also done a redesign and renaming of the journal.”

P r e v i o u s l y, F o o t h i l l wa s named Foothill: a journal of poetry. Schuck and her co-editorin-chief, Brock Rustin, led the refining and sophistication of the brand in efforts to streamline the appearance of the journal.

“I think this is our strongest issue so far,” Schuck said. “It really focuses on marginalized voices in a way that none of our other issues have.”

The entire journal, from the cover art to the poetry itself, strives to uncover voices from a variety of marginalized groups.

The reading featured Patricia Smith, the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry award winner, and Lynne Thompson, an interviewee featured in this year’s publication of Foothill, along with two Foothill contributors, Inez Tan and Ashanti Anderson.

Each poet commanded the group with emotive anecdotes concerning race, womanhood, and sexuality — speaking with the enthusiasm and vivacity that the 10th volume of Foothill embodies.

Anderson stunned the audience with a powerful reading of the poem “Scrabble,” which creatively tackled the topic of racism and the history of racial conflict in America.

CHLOE ORTIZ • THE STUDENT LIFE

Lynne Thompson was a featured interviewee in the latest issue of Foothill Poetry Journal. She read her poems at the CGU poetry and art event Oct. 12.

Under the covers: The racial gap in romance SAMANTHA RESNICK

NINA POTISCHMAN • THE STUDENT LIFE

Abs so sculpted they belong in an art museum. Luscious, flowing-with-the-breeze, heartthrob hair. Heaving bosoms in low-cut, lace dresses.

I’ve been reading a lot of romance novels recently. Somehow, I’ve managed to get away with writing a senior thesis about them, which means I’ve seen cover after cover with all of the titillating details described above.

I understand that these covers are meant to help the books sell.

When readers are bombarded with options in their local bookstore, or, more likely, scrolling through thousands of titles on their smartphones, a seductive cover becomes the book’s siren call.

The romance genre especially plays into readers’ fantasies, with everything from billionaire businessmen in red rooms (i.e. the tamest way to summarize “Fifty Shades of Grey”) to timetravel with muscly Scotsmen in kilts (“Outlander”).

Books call to me precisely because of this fantasy element.

I watch a movie when I want all of the visual elements laid bare.

It’s in books where I get teased, where the author gives me just enough to suck me in, but then leaves me to fill in the gaps. So when I know exactly what the characters look like thanks to the cover, I miss out on part of that imaginative process.

It’s like when I read a book, and then see the movie adaptation, and the actors they cast don’t fit how I imagined them all. Having a cover tell me what the characters look like can often be a mini-version of that bad movie adaptation. It strips me of the ability to fit the book into my own fantasy.

As a former shy girl who once read romance books as a stand-in

for real-life romantic relationships, I also developed some pretty unrealistic expectations from them. With book covers portraying the same beauty standards over and over again, I felt isolated when I didn’t see those same ideals in myself.

This isn’t to say the covers don’t have their differences — some models have six-packs, others eight-packs. Some wear cowboy boots (and not much else), others have fangs. But there’s one physical attribute that seems to unite the ones I’ve come across thus far.

All the covers that feature characters are white. Like, alabaster, bone-licked clean, Snow White white.

This is a problem that goes beyond the constraints it places on my imagination. And it hasn’t gotten better. In fact, a study done by Ripped Bodice, a bookstore that exclusively sells romance novels, shows it actually got worse in 2017.

In 2016, 7.8 percent of books published by leading romance publishers were written by authors of color. That number dropped to 6.2 percent in 2017.

The homogeneity of romance cover art is a reflection of this lack of diversity among published writers.

The race of the authors and the race of the characters are not necessarily always correlated. In other words, the lack of authors o f c o l o r d o e s n ’t n e c e s s a r i l y mean there are no characters of color. But as the Ripped Bodice points out, “If every creator is white, the default is a white lens.”

Take, for example, the use of AAL (African American Language) by Kathryn Stockett, a white author, in “The Help.” The Association of Black Women Historians stated that it “misrepresent[s] African American speech and culture.” Lin-

guists who study AAL have since pointed out that Stockett misuses grammatical constructions within the dialect.

The romance genre is oversaturated with white authors and white characters. The industry certainly doesn’t need more white authors writing characters of color, either. “The Help” highlights this problematic part of publishing, which has historically led to the often stereotypical, racist depiction of people of color.

The New York Times apptly points out the irony in all of this.

The romance genre has such incredible diversity in terms of subgenre — and none when it comes to the characters and authors themselves, even though college-educated black women are the most likely demographic to buy books, according to a Pew Research study.

Thankfully, there are movements focused on changing the white face of romance.

“We Need Diverse Books” is a non-profit dedicated to diversifying children’s literature, but it has started to spread into adult literature and genres as well. Kensington, an independent publisher, has “forged a chain uncommon in mainstream publishing: an unbroken line of black women, from the novel’s protagonist, via the author, to the editor, to the art director who created the cover art (featuring a black woman).”

So, my dear romance publishers, please stop telling me what the characters look like. You’re kind of ruining my fantasy, here.

But if you absolutely, absolutely must, it’s high time to recognize that whiteness should not have a monopoly on romance.

Samantha Resnick is a linguistics major at Pomona College. She likes reading words, and sometimes, she likes writing them, too.

LIFE & STYLE PAGE 6 FILM COLUMN

OCTOBER 19, 2018

THE STUDENT LIFE

‘A Star is Born’: A promising debut single of a film

BEN HAFETZ Transitions from actor to director, or pop star to movie star, have had mixed results over the years. There have been successes like Ben Affleck directing “Argo” or Beyonce starring in “Dreamgirls,” but there have also been massive failures like George Clooney’s “Suburbicon” or Rihanna in “Battleship.”

In “A Star is Born,” directed

by Bradley Cooper and starring himself and Lady Gaga, these two stars mostly succeed in this difficult transition.

The film tells the love story of fading rockstar Jack (Cooper) and rising pop star Ally (Gaga), as they fall in love, struggle with fame, and deal with Jack’s substance abuse issues.

The love story between these two characters is the heart of the film, and the chemistry between Cooper and Gaga works for the most part.

The moments where the chemistry work best occur in the scenes of musical performance. These are scenes like Ally and Jack’s first performance of “Shallow.”

Cooper chose, as director, to forgo the traditional method of having actors lip sync musical performances in film, by instead having himself and Gaga perform the songs live to the camera. In addition, Cooper chooses to focus the camera on the faces of himself and Gaga during musical performances.

This combination of live singing and a camera that never leaves its performers’ faces gives the film’s musical moments a sense of authenticity that builds the love of Jack and Ally, and makes the audience truly believe that these two are rockstars.

Unfortunately, this chemistry and the film itself do not work nearly as well in the non-musical scenes that make up the majority of the film’s nearly two-and-a-half hour runtime.

In these scenes, Cooper’s directorial choice of shooting most of the film in close-up creates a situation where the audience is confused about when and where scenes are taking place. This lack of clarity

regarding time and place makes it unclear how long Jack and Ally have been together and dampens the impact of their relationship’s emotional beats.

The lack of believability in Jack and Ally’s love story is hurt even more by the film’s script. Its dozens of so-called romantic lines sound more like a South Park-esque parody of melodramas, and result in what can only be described as mocking laughter from the audience.

Luckily, the performances of Cooper and Gaga, as well as the rest of the ensemble, bring enough power to somewhat redeem the film’s less than stellar script. Cooper gives a true movie star performance as an incredibly charismatic, yet broken, rockstar looking for his last chance in love and life. Meanwhile, Gaga proves herself as someone to watch by playing a strong and warm star on the rise. In addition to these two career defining roles, Sam Elliott and Andrew Dice Clay stand out as Jack’s brother and Ally’s father respectively.

Overall, “A Star is Born” is a promising, yet flawed film. Cooper’s truly remarkable direction of the film’s musical performances and his career-best performance are the start of what could be the next actor/director dual talent.

Gaga’s feature film debut shows potential for the next great musical acting double threat.

However, the glaring issues with the film’s script, rookie directorial mistakes, and overlong runtime prevent “A Star is Born” from becoming a truly great film.

Instead, it is an enjoyable film with moments of musical greatness.

Seriously, “Shallow” slaps. Listen to it right away.

3.5/5 Ben Hafetz is a media studies and politics double major at Pitzer College.

He likes to not only see movies, but also tell his friends why they should or should not like certain ones.

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SweetRoots Kitchen brings Connecting chemistry and the arts: plant-based treats to the 5Cs Gillian Holzer explores Margaret SCIENCE COLUMN

Fowler Garden’s wall painting

CAITLYN FICK Gillian Holzer SC ’19 has a passion for art history. As an intern for Zebala & Partners this past summer, she was able to explore this passion further and combine it with another love: chemistry.

“I took an upper division art history course my first semester and general chemistry, and I really liked both of them, and everything just kind of snowballed from there,” Holzer said.

These interests eventually led Holzer in the direction of inorganic chemistry and materials science. The inorganic chemistry field explores the properties of metals that the general population uses on a daily basis.

These metals, specifically transition metals, make up a large portion of the periodic table, but often defy the rules that are taught in general chemistry courses. This means that students often study these metals later in their college career.

These metals are responsible for the creation of vibrant pigments, and Holzer has been able to use this chemical knowledge in her thesis research.

Over the summer, Holzer explored the dyes used in a wall painting in the Margaret Fowler Memorial Garden on Scripps College’s campus. For her thesis, she is focusing on the use of two different chromium dyes in this same painting, and hoping to confirm their chemical makeup.

“I think that I personally find a lot of things to be very interesting about materials science, which I guess is more the vein that my thesis truly is in because it’s trying to understand a material and how it behaves,” Holzer said.

For her thesis, she is synthesizing lead chromate and preparing the pigment in a way similar to how the artist of the wall painting, Ramos Martinez, did. He used a wax emulsion medium, and she is interested in comparing the chemical properties of this material with a linseed oil binder to see if there are any differences between them.

Holzer’s thesis advisor, Professor Nancy Williams at the W.M. Keck Science Department, noted a similar interest in chemistry and the materials around her. While she is a chemist first and foremost, she said, “I’m really interested by the

applications of inorganic chemistry in other facets of our lives.”

The ability to see chemistry as a part of our everyday world is natural to Williams. As she explained: “I’ve always seen chemistry in the world and, to me, it’s never been an abstraction. It’s not the land of make-believe to me.”

This connection between two seemingly different fields, chemistry and art, is a strong reminder that chemistry, or science more generally, allows us to understand the world on a much deeper level.

The distinction made between STEM fields and more humanitiesbased fields is irrelevant, as they are naturally connected.

In fact, this connection is vital to the art history and conservation fields, as much of conversation requires a chemical understanding of the pigment and dyes being used. As Williams said, “You’re looking at a material, and you want to understand what’s going on a molecular level.”

That’s chemistry and materials science working together.

Caitlyn Fick is a chemistry major at Scripps College. She enjoys mountains, trees, water, and dogs.

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Erica Barry PO ’19, founder of Sweetroots Kitchen, provides homeade treats for the Motley Coffeehouse.

STEPHANIE DU Erica Barry PO ’19 is an economics major currently learning about entrepreneurship. Fittingly, she founded her own business and 5C club, SweetRoots Kitchen.

Currently, there are 40 student bakers who sign up for weekly shifts to bake vegan muffins and deliver them to the Motley Coffeehouse.

Growing up, Barry was passionate about all forms of baking and cooking. In high school, she had a cooking blog called Cannella Vita. As her blog got more and more reviewers, Barry ended up being featured on BuzzFeed, Martha Stewart Online, and Fox News Magazine.

When she came to college, she wanted to continue with recipe development and cooking. But this time, she wanted to challenge herself to focus on plantbased cooking.

She asked herself, “How can I take the skills I already have and apply them to something that’s good for the environment and our health?” she said in an interview with TSL. After spending a summer testing different recipes for vegan muffins, she finally created a perfect recipe. Barry started thinking of ways she could give back to the community, and from there SweetRoots Kitchen was born.

Barry called SweetRoots “a

social enterprise where we sell muffins to the Motley and the proceeds go to buying ingredients and renting spaces to give free workshops to underserved communities in San Diego.”

Currently, her baked goods are only sold at the Motley. Barry originally chose to cater toward the Motley because the cafe’s message of empowerment aligns with that of SweetRoots.

However, Barry is looking to expand, and has already met with a couple of other on-campus cafes. “The more people who can try [SweetRoots products], the better,” Barry said.

She believes that there’s a misconception that a plant-based diet is expensive, and she wants to show people that adding more plant-based foods to one’s diet can be fun, exciting, and not necessarily costly.

Through her workshops, Barry’s goal is to teach youth where food comes from. “It’s a really important thing that many people lose touch with these days,” she said.

Barry is planning on expanding her workshops to the greater Claremont area, so that more 5C club members can join. She wants to get as many people involved as possible because she wants to spread the message that a plantbased diet does not have to be restrictive.

Rather, she believes it can be

additive, or as simple as replacing an ingredient containing animal products with one that does not.

Abby Taylor SC ’21, one of the club’s members, describes herself as an avid baker. She found out about SweetRoots Kitchen through a survey that Barry posted on Facebook.

Taylor loves baking at home, and thinks of it as a stress-coping mechanism. “I figured that this would be a really good way to keep doing that at school,” she said.

Barry agreed with Taylor and said that this was something she has talked about with her fellow bakers. While it gets busy handling college and a business, Barry’s love for baking serves as an outlet for stress.

SweetRoots Kitchen club members often meet to discuss new recipes. They are planning to create fall and holiday inspired recipes, such as pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. “I like to try and get everybody involved in the creative process,” Barry said.

As a baker, entrepreneur, and 5C student working to promote the SweetRoots philosophy, Barry can’t wait to create a community to educate and feed people delicious, plantbased treats.

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OPINIONS OCTOBER 19, 2018

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No transports at Monte Carlo

Using ashes as a bakng ingredient Salty cookies

20 dollars?

I already pay 70k in tuition...

5C substitutions Cheaper than salt?

Meghan + Harry They’ve been busy

New look Lakers Welcome to LA, King James

Royal pain Another burden on the UK taxpayer

Warriors still hold the crown Kevin Durant broke the NBA

How today’s unpaid internships perpetuate inequality CHRISTOPHER MURDY An important barrier came down on Capitol Hill last month without much fanfare: unpaid congressional internships. Long seen as the door into Washington and the path toward forging a career there, these internships play a key role in limiting accessibility.

Nearly regarded as a rite of passage for older college students, internships offer students valuable experience and networking before they enter the job market. But, when it comes down to taking a summer job or an unpaid internship, the decision strongly depends on one’s socioeconomic status.

Pay Our Interns, the group that led the effort for paid internships, published a study in June 2017 that explored the wide-ranging impact of the “intern-to-staffer pipeline” and how the unpaid internships on Capitol Hill perpetuated a system that kept economically disadvantaged students out of Washington.

The issue of unpaid internships lacks the partisanship surrounding many other issues in Washington today, which may offer a crucial opening for action.

In fact, Democratic senators proved to be significantly less likely than Republicans to pay their interns, with 20 percent fewer doing so. Though, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced this past spring that they would pay interns and immediately after, they noted that “the share of people of color in the program leapt from 18 percent to 42 percent.”

With the expenses of an internship averaging out to $6,000, in addition to the lost income from a paid summer job, this opportunity is inherently open only to those able to take this

financial loss.

Furthermore, the exclusivity of the internship market breeds the same in the job market, as students with internship experience have a 51.7 percent higher chance of receiving a job offer by graduation.

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In the present day, when students have to decide between taking an unpaid internship and a summer job, the student with the means to support that choice improves their chances of a job offer following graduation. This leaves the student without those same means further behind in the job market,

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perpetuating a cycle of intergenerational economic inequality.

New York Times writer Darren Walker brings up the importance of the “people you know,” highlighting how “contacts and money matter more than talent”

and that “access and opportunity go to the people who already have the most of both.”

At no fault of their own, it can be very difficult for the first generation immigrant or the rural, economically disadvantaged student to know the “right people.” Having to already face this barrier in the internship market, these students would be far better competitors if they could actually afford to take the internships for which they are qualified.

While the prevalence of unpaid internships has been steadily declining over the past decade, that trend could be at risk following a January 2018 decision by the Department of Labor to loosen the requirements surrounding unpaid internships.

The National Association of Colleges and Employers reports that now as long as “the intern is determined to be the primary beneficiary of the internship experience, he or she may be unpaid.”

As college students, we historically have had some of the lowest voter participation rates of all demographics. In the 2014 midterm elections, only 13 percent of students aged 18-24 cast their vote. As such, we risk being a forgotten demographic.

Politicians have little incentive to support the causes of a demographic group that has such a statistically small chance of influencing their future in office. Just one year after the group Pay Our Interns began pressuring Congress to fund internships, they succeeded.

We need to follow their example and exhibit this same pressure to bring about broader support for paid internships in both the public and private sectors.

Christopher Murdy PO ’22 is an intended International Relations major from Lido Beach, NY. He has yet to be convinced West Coast beaches are better.

Stop belittling mental health issues in everyday conversation EAMON MORRIS CW: Discussion of mental health issues, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder “My final exam grade has me depressed.”

“This movie is seriously giving me anxiety right now.”

“My mom is so bipolar. I can’t stand her.”

It’s likely that you’ve heard something similar to one of the phrases above before. It could have been before a test someone was stressed out about, during a horror film, or at an awkward family gathering.

In today’s environment, medical vocabulary often pops up into everyday conversations as a placeholder for more in-depth descriptions of our feelings. Using serious mental illnesses as adjectives should serve as a sign that we need to improve our vocabularies and reconsider how we feel.

I should clarify: Most people experience anxiety or encounter a temperamental relative at some point in their lives. But there’s a difference between having situational anxiety and having an anxiety disorder, and there’s a difference between having a few mood swings and having bipolar disorder.

Situational anxiety is part of life. One might feel anxious before a job interview or before a wedding. Normally, this anxiety fades away after the event.

For people with anxiety disorders, however, the anxiety does not simply leave.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “people with generalized anxiety disorder display excessive anxiety or worry, most days for at least 6 months, about a number of things such as personal health, work, social interactions, and everyday routine life circumstance.”

Forty million adults in the United States suffer from some sort of anxiety disorder, and 43.8 million adults in the United States experience anxiety or a mental illness of some kind every year.

To equate the symptoms they experience on a daily basis to a moderate level of nervousness experienced before a test trivializes a serious medical issue that greatly complicates and negatively impacts the lives of many people across the country.

Therapy and psychiatric care

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can be extremely expensive. The cost of having your feelings validated and getting an official diagnosis is often too high for many low-income people to pay for.

Twenty-one percent of people report an inability to access needed mental health care for themselves or a family member, and 13 percent of that group are unable to access mental health care due to its costs. From this inaccessibility, many people are forced to endure the effects of their disorders without treatment.

It should be noted that this could be one factor that contributes to the hefty use of medical

terminology in everyday life.

Without access to affordable care, people might rush to label small bouts of anxiousness as persistent anxiety.

That’s why it’s necessary to analyze our emotions before we label them as a mental health issue. We must determine if our feelings of anxiousness are persistent, if they happen more days than not, if they result in physical symptoms, and if they are difficult to control.

It’s certainly possible for someone to self-diagnose an anxiety disorder, but before one runs around telling people they have

anxiety, it’s important to dedicate some time to monitor individual symptoms.

This is also true when talking about other people.

We can’t call our neighbors ‘bipolar’ simply because the type of music they blast frequently changes. It’s not anyone’s place to diagnose someone based solely on their external behavior. To do so perpetuates the stigma that mental conditions are something to be ashamed of and contributes to a negative perception of the mentally ill.

It isn’t enough to stop trivializing mental illness with our word

choices.

We must ensure that mental illness ceases to be something disgraceful. Mental illness shouldn’t be an affliction that one has to research on one’s own. Our institutions need to educate young people about mental illness and offer resources in a non-threatening environment.

If the 5C community wants to ensure adequate mental health to all students, they need to take greater steps beyond the programs already in place to improve awareness and give students access to treatment paths.

Additionally, we need to tread

carefully when describing our own emotions.

Instead of claiming you have a serious mental health issue, describe the root of your stress and explain how it affects you. It’s better to complain about specific things people do, rather than call them ‘bipolar’ or ‘insane.’

Instead of simplifying mental conditions, expand upon your emotions. Instead of dismissing mental illness, educate yourself and those around you.

Eamon Morris PZ ’22 is from Orange, CA. He tried giving up coffee this week and slept for three days.

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THE STUDENT LIFE

‘Be yourself, just quieter’

ZACHARY FREIMAN GRAPHIC BY JULIA READ

There is an unwritten rule that all socially conscious individuals know to be true: One may not ever question the shyness of another. How rude!

We have been conditioned into this understanding; reservedness is still considered less than socially acceptable, but, nevertheless, admirable.

This is not to say there is anything wrong with innate introversion — insert “some of my best friends are shy.” Rather, there is a double standard to which

extroverted and, yes, the “loud” among us, are held.

I am not typically reserved.

Even at my most reserved, I am perhaps animated to a greater degree than most. I do not go one day without some smart aleck telling me to “use my inside voice” as if it’s the first time I’ve ever heard it.

I know this may shock some, but that is really just as rude as telling a gay man to “stop acting so gay” or telling a woman she “needs to smile more.”

No one has the right to tell another to be less than his or her authentic self. That principle ap-

plies to monitoring others in all realms of life. Unless you’re a parent (grandparents and guardians apply, too) or a teacher, butt out.

Even outside, I am quieted!

“But I’m using my outdoor voice,” I too often reply to random strangers who feel they are entitled to direct me how to talk, act, or behave.

Again, what would otherwise be an unthinkably rude and inappropriate incursion into people’s rights to live their lives as themselves is not given a second thought by the acquiescence of bystanders or by the individuals perpetuating restrictive societal

Crossword: Coasting

norms.

Loud and boisterous people are frequently assumed to be extroverted and comfortable in their own skin. While this may be true for some, for others it is certainly not the case.

It may be quite distressing, perhaps even traumatic from a young age, for some livelier people to be told that by the very nature of being themselves, they are violating unwritten communal rules and contributing to their own ostracization.

Society busts the creativity out of kids. Ever since I was young, adults and (obnoxious) peers

ACROSS 1. Accepted 3. Home of the Hoyas 11. It follows eyes, ears, and mouth 13. Former Maine senator Snowe 14. Bashful 15. Saucy music 17. Piece of a squirrel’s stockpile 21. Texter’s “Respectfully, I think” 22. Stiff bristle 23. For every 25. Hair removal product 26. TSL=wkly, NYT= 27. Witch hunt ground zero 29. In epidemiology, a quantity to prevent one additional bad outcome 30. Employment ins.

31. Green light?

32. Putting off college for a year, say 33. Emory state 34. World’s third-largest news agency 36. Activity for which a burning passion is appropriate 38. 5C interdisciplinary sci. major

39. Crazy 41. In geology, a billion years 42. Non-Pomona Cal Poly 43. Gotti, Cross, and Smith Jr. 44. Saturn has over sixty 46. Currently speeding down a mountain 48. Reason for airport lines 50. Big tablet 52. Nicholas II was the last 54. Setting of “The Mentalist” 55. To __ or not to __ DOWN 1. Empire based at Cusco 2. Amt. 3. Fortune 500’s #13 in 2017 4. Expression of astonishment 5. Srsly?

6. SI unit of absorbed radiation 7. Some first responders 8. Rapper featured on Flo Rida’s “Low” 9. E.g. Rockefeller or Getty 10. He crossed the Delaware 12. Ostentatious 14. Tin

16. Main arteries 18. Eagles’ Hotel 19. Check-up staple 20. “You have died of dysentery” trail game 23. MLB team that plays at Petco Park 24. Chicago train nickname 26. “What’s the ______?”

27. Mediterranean or Baltic 28. Dude 35. Battle between Dell and HP, say 37. Partner, spouse, BF, or GF 38. Encounters a yield sign 40. Schindler of “Schindler’s List” 42. To such a degree 44. Pa’s wife 45. Aching 47. Muckraker Tarbell 48. It follows uno and due 49. My father, to my grandfather 51. Afternoon 52. Rsn. for a whistle in football 53. AF’s lowest rank

to speak and conduct myself how I naturally would, enthusiastically and without reservation.

I am forced to present my tempered self in the classroom and around campus as I hope no one would be, but fear that many are. Let me do me, and I’ll let you do you.

Zachary Freiman PO ’20 is a music and public policy analysis double major from Sleepy Hollow, NY. He seeks retribution for Merrick Garland in everything he does.

Trump: The worst distraction in the history of presidents, maybe ever SEAN BURKE

JASPER DAVIDOFF • THE STUDENT LIFE

have commanded that, for the sake of society and my future, I sit still, write more neatly, stop doodling, and, above all, be quieter. Not speak more quietly — be a quieter person. I have been told to change who I am.

This brings me to one of my favorite phrases: “You do you.”

Despite its questionable grammar, the sentiment hits home. It’s the true American ideal for which we constantly strive. It is freedom.

Indoors and outdoors, I am told to be something other than myself.

Only in the solitude of my room and in the presence of no other person is it permissible for me

It may come as no surprise that I’m not really a fan of presidents, generally. If I had to choose, I’d say my favorite one was that guy who died of the sniffles 30 days into his term because he wouldn’t put on a raincoat at his inauguration. That’s my president.

Although many recognize the paralyzing danger presented by a Donald Trump presidency, we have too quickly had our attention diverted with each daily mini-scandal: the pumpkin-spice covfefe, if you will.

I am no less guilty of this.

I, too, laughed when Trump thought the air force had actually designed and built invisible F-35s, when he forgot Russia invaded Ukraine about two years prior to his comment, or when he said that al-Qaeda had flown American Airlines Flight 175 into a 7-Eleven convenience store.

And don’t even get me started on the Stormy Daniels media circus. The guy with access to the nuclear codes basically had to pay a porn star for the emotional labor of watching Shark Week with him. That is rich.

The private sector wrecking crew has found an obliging foreman in Trump. He will give them whatever they want to beautify their balance sheets. The fact that Rick Perry has been tapped as the head of the Environmental Protections Agency should be enough to make you want to grasp your reusable straws and catch the next Metrolink to any other planet.

As the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change outlines in great detail, we are well on our way to a planet that has been deep fried to extinction.

The GOP position, which resists any legislation that would leave a square inch of inhabitable land for the next generation, is inexcusable, and all lawmakers or lobbyists supporting it should be forced to build their second houses on the Arctic sea pack.

Recently, the cabinet has jettisoned regulations pertaining to the sale of asbestos, the carcinogenic particulate responsible for classic hits from your childhood

such as lung cancer and mesothelioma. Beyond this, Trump has been dismantling consumer protection laws at the behest of special interest groups and ushering in a new era of public anti-unionism.

That’s only the domestic half of it. The failing infant formula industry, which is being propped up by government subsidies and predatory business practices in the third world, pushed Trump to threaten economic warfare on Ecuador if they enacted a policy that was universally supported by the scientific community and the UN World Health Assembly.

This resolution, which was aimed at curbing the breastmilk substitute industry’s exploitation of new mothers (which has been estimated to have caused a million infant deaths in the developing world), was eventually passed when Russia told the U.S. to back down. How’s that for active measures?

Mohammad Bin-Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia and 2018 Ethnic Cleanser Of The Year finalist (runner-up to Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi), has been massacring unarmed men, women, and children in Yemen in his pursuit of unchallenged regional domination.

This was not only with Washington’s approval, but involved using arms bought from American arms manufacturing companies like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

These are the things we don’t hear about. Liberals would rather write some lofty piece about the decline of civil discourse. The reason we don’t hear about these singularly evil policies in Washington is because equivalent measures have been enacted by previous administrations of both political parties.

The neocons like Marco Rubio and the late John McCain hate Trump because he wholly eschews the illusory air of respectability that insufferable journalists imagine flows in the ventilating unit in the cesspool that is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Look, kid, if you’re gonna threaten another sovereign state with wholesale annihilation, at least do it to the tune of Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys, and also let that sovereign state be Iran.

Trump or no Trump, there are

hordes of terrible, terrible people who pull the levers behind the smoke and mirrors of our everyday lives. POTUS 45 just doesn’t shake our hands and look us in the eye when he sells off the public interest to the highest bidder.

We are the victims of a national anemia in which we are politically impotent, and the 40 percent of the electorate that has read a book since seventh grade can only resort to smugness, ridicule, and ultimately despair when our elitism hands us a Trump presidency.

In the words of former New York Times journalist Chris Hedges, Trump is “the fool who prances at the front of our death march.”

The presidential motorcade of spectacle and absurdity is delivering death to human beings on foreign shores on its way to our own doorstep.

No one in Washington is on our side, and no one is looking out for the interests of the American people. For me, for you, for the captive Marlon Bundo, we need to organize and mobilize ourselves against the forces arrayed against us. It’s an uphill battle, but the future of our nation, our planet, and our species depend on it.

Sean Burke PZ ’21 is a ideological crackhouse from the North Shore of Massachusetts. One time, his old band, Rarig’s Kid, almost played at a Jill Stein rally, but she heard their music and summarily rescinded the invitation. He can be reached on Twitter @RachaelRaytheon.

NATALIE BAUER • THE STUDENT LIFE

SPORTS OCTOBER 19, 2018

Sports Calendar

Oct. 19 - Oct. 25

Pomona-Pitzer Wednesday, Oct. 24

Friday, Oct. 19 Women’s Volleyball At Whittier 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer Whittier At P-P PEDITOR’S ICK 4 p.m.

Men’s Soccer At Whittier 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 20 Men’s Soccer Cal Lutheran At P-P 11 a.m.

Men’s Water Polo At Chapman 7 p.m.

Men’s Water Polo Occidental At P-P 11 a.m.

Women’s Volleyball Chapman At P-P 1 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball CMS At P-P 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer At Cal Lutheran 2:30 p.m.

Men’s Water Polo La Verne At P-P 4 p.m.

Football Whittier At P-P 7 p.m.

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Friday, Oct. 19

Tuesday, Oct. 23

Women’s Volleyball At Redlands 7 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball At Occidental 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 20

Wednesday, Oct. 24

Men’s Water Polo At Chapman 11 a.m.

Men’s Soccer Redlands At CMS 7 p.m.

Football At Occidental 1 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball Caltech At CMS 4 p.m.

Men’s Soccer At Whittier 7 p.m.

Men’s Water Polo Redlands E At CMS PDITOR’S ICK 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer At Redlands 7 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball At P-P 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer Whittier At CMS 7 p.m.

Scores Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Volleyball P-P 3 Redlands 2 P-P 3 Caltech 2 P-P 3 Occidental 2 Men’s Water Polo UC Santa Barbara 12 P-P 7 Loyola Marymount 15 P-P 14 Air Force 14 P-P 11 P-P 11 San Jose State 9 Women’s Soccer P-P 0 CMS 0 Men’s Cross Country 5th at Pre-Nationals Women’s Cross Country 9th at Pre-Nationals Football Cal Lutheran 28 P-P 24 Men’s Soccer CMS 2 P-P 0

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Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Women’s Volleyball Cal Lutheran 3 CMS 2 CMS 3 La Verne 0

CMS MEN’S WATER POLO

Stags water polo struggles on East Coast against Division I competition NOOR TAMARI On Saturday, Oct. 12, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men’s water polo team trekked across the country to participate in the Harvard Invitational Water Polo Tournament.

After a close 14-13 loss to Pepperdine University the weekend before, the Stags were hoping to snatch a few wins on the East Coast. Despite their aspirations, the start of the tournament did not necessarily go as planned, as CMS suffered losses to Division I teams from Harvard University, Brown University, and Princeton University.

The Stags did finish the weekend with one victory, however, defeating Iona with a score of 12-10.

Peter Blumberg CM ’22 scored the final goal with only 1:20 seconds remaining.

The Stags fell to 10-5 on the season, and attributed the recent losses to a lack of anticipation for the intensity required to play the D1 schools.

One of the main fallbacks the team faced, according to Zack Rossman CM ’20, was poor communication between defensive players.

“Specifically, our perimeter players need to do a better job talking with our center defenders and goalies as to when to drop and when to press,” Rossman said.

Although the trip was disappointing, the tournament served as an opportunity for the Stags to reflect on their performance and improve for the future.

“Playing D1 teams is key to improvement because they expose flaws that don’t come up against less competitive D3 teams,” Ross-

man said.

Although they finished the weekend with double the amount of losses they entered with, it proved to be a moment of learning for the whole team.

“We’ve made a name for ourselves this season with scrappy, last-minute victories, and we’re really proud of the strong start to this season,” said Rossman. “While this period of frustration was difficult, we’ve moved past it and will use it to strengthen our rapport down

the road.”

In terms of scoring, Rossman indicated his surprise to see the success the underclassmen have found on the offensive end this year. In particular, Nick Britt CM ’21, Barron Banta CM ’21, and William Clark CM ’22 provided scoring options the Stags did not have in the past.

As a veteran player, Rossman is focusing more on the role of giving younger players the confidence to make strong drives and counter attacks.

“It’s key to build confidence right now, especially with such a young team,” Rossman said.

Since the tournament, the Stags have evaluated their performance to make some changes to their system.

The team plans on intensifying their warm ups in hopes of improving upon how they start the game.

“While we didn’t have a particularly strong weekend on the East Coast, we do not want to forget about our undefeated record in SCIAC,” Rossman concluded.

COURTESY OF CMS ATHLETICS

Robert Driscoll CM ’21, pictured in a game earlier this season, has been key to the Stags’ strong offensive attack this year.

CMS WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Athena volleyball coach Vlasich comes home to Claremont, builds dynasty MILLY CHI Kurt Vlasich, head coach of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women’s volleyball team, recalls early memories of playing sports for local youth teams, just miles away from the 5Cs. “I love the fact that my two little girls go to the elementary school that I did,” Vlasich said.

Vlasich has been coaching the Athenas since 2011. He’s racked up three conference titles in his seven years and a national championship just last year. He took the program lead in career wins earlier this season, and the Athenas are well on their way to another SCIAC title.

While he’s had great success at CMS, Vlasich’s own childhood is filled with memories playing tennis, not volleyball. He didn’t discover his love for the sport until his junior year of high school.

His first encounter with the sport involved filling in for a friend in a local game of beach volleyball. He can pinpoint the exact location of the event — Memorial Park, just a few blocks away from the 5Cs. Vlasich’s “Claremont fam-

ily,” now in its third generation, has been involved in the community for a long time. His mother worked as the Claremont Unified School District nurse, and his grandfather, an obstetrician, delivered “half the families in Claremont.” During his junior year of high school, his father even helped form the volleyball program at Claremont high school.

“I dropped the tennis racket, started playing volleyball, and eventually walked on at Pepperdine,” Vlasich said.

While playing at Pepperdine, he was coached by Marv Dunphy, the Hall of Fame head coach for the U.S. National Team, which won a gold medal in 1988. Vlasich attributes his sense of identity to the family dynamic and pride he cultivated during his time at Pepperdine.

“Learning from somebody like [Dunphy] and getting a chance to be a part of a tradition that is Pepperdine volleyball is really where this all started for me,” Vlasich said.

The legendary coach also inspired Vlasich to pick up coaching.

“I’ll never forget sitting down with [Dunphy] my senior year

and talking about the ways to give back to the volleyball community,” he said. “I realized, one of the things that we should look into doing as young ambassadors for volleyball is to teach somebody else.”

Vlasich’s gratitude for the mentors and support systems in his life are not limited to his years as a player. He also expressed his appreciation for his colleagues at CMS, assistant coaches Morgan Coberly, Shayla Chalker, and Jack Coberly.

“I always feel like I am blessed to have the three assistants that I do,” Vlasich said. “It’s so fun, because the four of us are totally dialed in, we understand everybody’s role, what to do and when, and it just makes the moment so much easier to manage.”

He credited Coberly with helping cultivate team spirit for the Athenas.

“I think the best thing we have going in [the team spirit] department is [Coberly] … He has a very organic approach. We call him the Zen master,” Vlasich said. “I think you always have to read [the players’] body language and understand what they’re going

Men’s Cross Country 1st at CSUSM Cougar Challenge Women’s Cross Country 1st at CSUSM Cougar Challenge Men’s Water Polo Harvard 12 CMS 8 Brown 13 CMS 8 Princeton 14 CMS 9 CMS 12 Iona 10 Women’s Soccer CMS 0 P-P 0 CMS 0 Cal Lutheran 0 Men’s Soccer CMS 2 P-P 0 CMS 2 Cal Lutheran 0

IAN POVEDA • THE STUDENT LIFE

Kurt Vlasich, head coach of the CMS women’s volleyball team, recently became the program’s all-time winningest coach.

through. You try to keep them engaged, but not stress them out.”

Vlasich’s deep understanding of the team is precisely what has allowed him to recruit and foster strong players throughout the years, solidifying CMS women’s volleyball as one of the top teams in Division III. To Vlasich, compromising on players’ athleticism or academic skill is not necessary.

“I think there’s always this perception of Division III that you can have a high academic student-athlete but the academics are going to far outweigh the athletic portion of it,” he said. “I just felt like that’s not true; I don’t think you should have to compromise on either one … Why can’t you find the really good athlete that’s also a really good student? Because they exist.

You just have to work a little bit harder to find them.”

At the end of the day, Vlasich values the importance of putting in extra work for the best outcome.

As both a coach and father, balancing work and family — and having the support of loved ones — is incredibly important, he said.

“I love the support that I get from my family,” Vlasich said.

“I love the support I get from my wife … We’ve got two little girls in our schedules, so we can literally go an entire day without seeing each other until 10 at night.

And you know, that’s going to put some strain there. But the way she handles it is incredible, and it just allows me to not carry that stress with me.”

Sometimes, he even brings his daughters to work. His older daughter watches the women’s team practice and looks up to them, even incorporating the techniques she’s observed from the college team into her own club volleyball practices as well.

“She’s only ten years old, and she wants to be one of them already,” Vlasich said. “That’s just a really special thing to see.”

Vlasich never predicted his return to Claremont, or his extensive career in volleyball, coaching one of the top teams in the country.

But, he has found a true home here.

“Just the fact that I get to be a part of it, really means the world to me,” Vlasich said. “Most days I go home, and I feel like I’m part of a team, and not in charge of a team. It’s a wonderful feeling.”

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CMS V. P-P WOMEN’S SOCCER

Goalies combine for 18 saves as Sagehens and Athenas draw 0-0 SEAN LEE The Pomona-Pitzer (10-2-2, 7-2-2 SCIAC) and ClaremontMudd-Scripps (7-4-2, 5-3-2 SCIAC) women’s soccer teams played to a 0-0 draw Oct. 14, as neither team found the back of the net after two grueling overtime periods.

The P-P offense created a number of promising opportunities throughout the game, but were ultimately denied by CMS goal-

keeper Claire Hamson CM ’21, who managed 11 saves, including several acrobatic dives to keep the ball off the line.

When asked who she would choose as the player of the game, midfielder Lauryn Jeans CM ’22 said: “I’d have to give it to our goalie, she made some amazing saves. But then again, everyone is working out there, even on our bench.”

On the other end of the pitch,

P-P goalkeeper Isa Berardo PZ ’20 also kept a clean sheet, registering seven saves.

Despite the lack of goals, P-P head coach Jennifer Scanlon was delighted with the team’s performance.

“It was probably our best game start to finish we’ve played this season,” Scanlon said. “We did what we set out to do on offense and created good opportunities.”

This was the second matchup of the season between P-P and CMS, with the Athenas having taken the first game with a 1-0 win back on Sept. 12. On Sunday, the rivalry remained strong as the two teams produced another close and exciting game.

“Given that this was our second match against Pomona Pitzer, I think the biggest difference was that we both knew a little bit more about how each other play and about what skill sets each player had,” CMS head coach Jennifer Clark said. “We didn’t approach it any differently in practice, but we each had more information going in that allowed us to prepare better for the game.”

The Sixth Street rivalry games are ones that the players always look forward to, and are truly one of a kind, with all athletes from both teams attending colleges within the same consortium.

I think it’s the most fun rivalry in the country,” Sarah Malott CM ’19 said. “You can’t really get this sort of ‘across the street rivalry’ anywhere else.”

With three games of conference play remaining before the postseason, P-P is currently sitting on top of the SCIAC standings and are heading confidently into the final stretch of the season.

“Coach has always talked about playing to your potential … we’re almost there,” Emily Tomz PO ’22 said.

Now fifth in the SCIAC and with four conference games left, CMS believes that they can make a strong final push to finish their season in the top four of the standings to make the SCIAC tournament.

“We’d love to end on a high note,” Catherine Leon CM ’19 said. “Making the SCIAC tournament is crucial for our season, and we’re a very dangerous team.

Don’t count us out just yet.”

On Saturday, Oct. 20, the Sagehens will be looking to have a strong showing against Cal Lutheran (8-2-4, 6-2-3 SCIAC), while the Athenas will be hoping to win a crucial game against Whittier (4-4-4, 3-4-3 SCIAC), who sit right below them in the standings at sixth.

ADAM KUBOTA • THE STUDENT LIFE

(Left) Anna Ponzio PZ ’22 dribbles past Emily Kussick CM ’21 during the P-P vs. CMS soccer game Oct. 14. (Right) Lily Gane PZ ’20 lunges for the ball inside the box.

P-P Athlete of the Week Women’s Cross Country Helen Guo PO ‘20 San Ramon, California Guo turned in a huge performance at the Pre-Nationals meet in Oshkosh, WI last Saturday. The Pomona Junior finished third overall with a time of 21:36.4 over 6k, leading the Sagehens to a ninth place finish and earning her SCIAC Athlete of the Week honors. It was her third time winning the award so far this season, and second in a row. Guo is peaking at the right time, and will hope to carry this momentum into the SCIAC Championships Saturday, Oct. 27.

CMS Athlete of the Week Women’s Soccer Claire Hamson CM ‘20 San Diego, California Hamson had a dominant week in goal for the Athenas, shutting out P-P on Sunday and Cal Lutheran on Wednesday.

The Sophomore goalie had a season-high 11 saves against the rival Sagehens and followed that up with five against Cal Lu. She now has turned in nine shutouts in 14 games for the Athenas, and is boasting an impressive .880 save rate.

The Athenas will continue to rely on Hamson’s strong play as they make a push for the SCIAC tournament with three games left in the season.

CMS V. P-P MEN’S SOCCER

Stags claim ‘Golden Boot’ after second Sixth Street Rivalry win over Sagehens DELANEY HARTMANN The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men’s soccer team (11-2, 8-2 SCIAC) snatched a decisive 2-0 win over across rival PomonaPitzer (6-9, 5-6 SCIAC) in the Sixth Street Rivalry game Oct. 13. The Stags took home the treasured “Golden Boot” trophy after securing wins in both of the regular season matchups against P-P. For both teams, the Sixth Street Rivalry games are a special opportunity to show who rules the 5Cs in sports. On the Stags’ side, head coach Matt Edwards made it clear that any game versus P-P is one to win. “[Edwards] tells that this is the biggest rivalry in the country, and

one of the coolest ones to be a part of,” CMS goalkeeper Jacob Mays CM ’22 said. “There is something special about walking to the game you are about to play, and then seeing the rival team at dinner the next night.”

The passion and excitement approaching the game were mirrored by the P-P team. Sagehen midfielder Eamon Stein PO ’21 highlighted the special intensity of the team approaching a game versus CMS. “The team energy is always different going into the Sixth Street game, because it means a lot to us personally,” Stein said.

Stein explained that there is an extra motivation to win because of the rich history of the rivalry

between the two teams.

“We just don’t like their vibe,” Stein said of the neighboring CMS team. “We see them around campus, and we want to be better than them. It is not friendly on the field.”

As a first-year on the CMS team, Mays felt pressure from both the senior Stags and the alumni present at the game to maintain a clean sheet in goal.

“The seniors made sure we knew that we owed them a win,” Mays said. “It was also important for us to show all of the alumni that were there that CMS is still on top.”

The energy of the fans was equally as intense as that on the field. The stands were packed with

a distinct side for each respective team, and there was not a quiet moment for the whole 90 minutes.

“The fans were going crazy, but it was important to use that as fuel, and to remain calm, cool, and collected,” Mays said.

While the players tried to remain calm, the game was a scrappy and dramatic battle from the very start. During the first 10 minutes of play, Stein — one of PP’s main goal scorers — took a bad fall after going up for a header and ultimately had to leave the game with a broken leg.

“It was really disappointing having to leave the game, especially so early on,” Stein said. “[I] feel like I could have made a difference.”

Without Stein, the Sagehens struggled against the rock-solid CMS defense to finish any of their 16 shots during the 90 minutes.

The Stags only narrowly outshot the Sagehens with 17 shots throughout the game, but experienced more success in finding the net, scoring one goal each half.

The first goal came in the 34th minute when Nate Huntington CM ’21 found a gap after a rebounded bicycle kick. Ethan Tyng CM ’22 extended the CMS lead to two after scoring on a short pass from teammate William Barton CM ’22 in the 62nd minute.

Even though the Sagehens were disappointed with a tough rivalry loss, they were proud of their second-half push to the

goal, and are looking ahead to three winnable SCIAC matchups in hopes of making it into the SCIAC tournament, according to the injured Stein.

P-P will host their next SCIAC opponent Cal Lutheran (5-9, 5-6 SCIAC) Oct. 20.

The Stags walk away from the victory with the golden boot, and their heads held high going into a string of SCIAC matchups before the conference tournament.

“I think if we go into every game as hyped up as we were for [the Pomona-Pitzer] game, I don’t think there is a team that can beat us,” Mays said. “We are looking to send a message to the SCIAC that we are back, we are ready, and we are unbeatable.”

SANDRA SUBLETTE• THE STUDENT LIFE

(Left) Samay Rahim CM ’22 pushes against Max DeWit PZ ’19 for the ball, in the P-P vs CMS game Oct. 13. (Center) Bryan Uribe HM ’22 dribbles the ball. (Right) Nate Huntington CMC ’21 looks for a pass.