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Claremont City Council Hopefuls Propose Policies at Pitzer-Hosted Forum Marc Rod

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During the 9th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival Feb. 17 in Pomona College’s Seaver Theater, Kyle Lee PO ‘20, Sam Betanzos PO ‘20, Juan Zamudio PO ‘18, Alex Collado PO ‘20, and Jonathan Wilson PO ‘19 perform in “Angels in the Sky,” written and directed by Zed Hopkins PO ‘20. See page 5

Pitzer Student Senate, in cooperation with the League of Women Voters, organized a forum for the candidates for the Claremont City Council at Pitzer College on Thursday, Feb 23 at which candidates discussed their policy positions. Eight candidates will vie for two open seats on the City Council in the March 7 election. The candidates are incumbent council members Corey Calaycay and Larry Schroeder, Claremont McKenna College professor and Claremont Traffic and Transportation commissioner Zachary Courser, real estate broker Anthony Grynchal, window cleaner Michael Keenan, investment advisor Murray G. Monroe, and real estate broker and pastor Abraham Prattella. The eighth candidate, businessman Korey Johnson, did not participate in the forum. Pitzer Student Senate President Josue Pasillas PZ ’17 reached out to the League of Women Voters, which organizes candidate forums for local elections nationwide, to organize the forum at Pitzer to enhance Pitzer’s partnership with the local community. “One of the goals of the Student Senate is to build partner-

ships with our community,” said Pasillas. Pitzer Student Senate aims to “engage students of the Claremont Colleges with the Claremont community and its leaders,” he added. Approximately 100 people attended the forum, but the majority of attendees were Claremont community members, not students. The forum consisted of a two minute opening statement by each candidate, followed by one minute responses to a series of audiencesubmitted questions, followed by a one minute closing statement by each candidate. Claremont Area League of Women Voters Vice President for Voter Services Cindy Reul and Chance Kawar PZ ’17 moderated the forum. The first question focused on the relationship between the Claremont Colleges and the City of Claremont. All candidates recognized that there is a divide between the city and the 5Cs agreed that the City Council must work to strengthen the relationship between the Claremont Colleges and the City Council to unite as one community. “We need to… recognize that we have our respective interests and we need to also recognize that there may be times when we have

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CMC, PO, HMC Fall Short in Faculty Gender Balance Girls Who Code CEO to be Scripps Commencement Speaker Natalie McDonald

Amanda Larson Reshma Saujani will deliver the commencement address for Scripps College’s graduating class of 2017, Scripps announced this week. Saujani is the CEO and founder of Girls Who Code, a non-profit dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology jobs. The decision marked the end of a search that began in the fall of 2015. The commencement speaker decision was made by a committee of Scripps students who had expressed interest in the selection process. Senior class representative Meghan McIntyre SC ’17 wrote in an email to TSL that Saujani represents the collective values expressed by the class of 2017. “Historically, Scripps has not had many women of color give the commencement address, and our class voiced their desire to hear from someone coming from a marginalized background,” McIntyre wrote. “When reviewing suggestions and formulating a list, we strove to find a person that is a compassionate activist who challenges the world they live in.” Past speakers of color have included Sarah Kay, the commencement speaker in 2015, and Zainab Salbi in 2012. Over the past 50 years, only six commencement speakers have been women of color. McIntyre emphasized how Reshma Saujani embodies Scripps’s values through her lifelong commitment to activism. “Reshma has a tremendous track record with promoting gender equity,” she wrote. “She has been a community activist throughout her life. For example, as an attorney she handled probono social justice cases in order

to service under-represented communities. The first Indian American woman to run for Congress, Reshma has repeatedly demonstrated her courage to take risks and challenge the world that she lives in.” Computer science major Alley Bellack SC ’17 expressed enthusiasm with the committee’s choice. “As a (computer science) student and aspiring entrepreneur, I’m deeply inspired by her work and career both in tech and politics,” Bellack wrote in an email to TSL. “Not to mention, Girls Who Code is a fabulous organization with a great mission—I considered working there, and I’m trying to get my little sister to join!” Students were actively involved in the selection process of the commencement speaker. Scripps Associated Students President Sneha Deo SC ’17 said the decision is the end result of a year-long process. “The junior class president convenes a committee of students for their class year in the spring before senior year; this group of students identifies candidates for the commencement speaker,” Deo wrote in an email to TSL. “The class president then communicates with potential candidates and secures a confirmation in collaboration with senior staff at Scripps.” The committee mentioned by Deo was comprised of students who had expressed interest in getting involved with the selection process, such as McIntyre and Isabella Levin SC ’17. In the fall of 2015, a survey was sent out to students asking for opinions regarding their choice See COMMENCEMENT page 2

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When G. Gabrielle Starr takes office as Pomona College’s 10th president on July 1, the majority of the Claremont Colleges will have female presidents. Three of the five colleges will have majority-male faculties this academic year, however. Claremont McKenna College has the lowest proportion of female professors, with only 36 percent of full-time faculty identifying as women. Together with Pomona and Harvey Mudd College, CMC is among the majority of colleges and universities nationwide that have women underrepresented in faculty. Pitzer College has the highest proportion of full-time female professors at the 5Cs, at 61 percent. Scripps College also has a majority-female faculty. Data released by the colleges does not include gendernonconforming or non-binary faculty. CMC Dean of Faculty Peter Uvin said that the number of female professors at CMC reflects the proportion of women “on the market” in each academic discipline. “In some departments, there are simply fewer women getting Ph.D.s,” Uvin said. He

cited CMC’s large economics department and the fact that only about 35 percent of economics doctoral degrees conferred in 2015 went to women. But Uvin acknowledged that “there are departments where we are clearly behind, and sometimes, quite significantly behind.” For example, women earned 40 percent of the government Ph.D.s awarded by U.S. universi-

ties in 2015, but only 30 percent of tenured or tenure-track professors are women in CMC’s government department. Uvin attributed this imbalance to slow faculty turnover. Some professors in the government department have been at CMC for over 30 years, he said, when most faculty on the market were men. Therefore, the department has not been able to catch up with the discipline’s shifting

demographics. The gender gap does not go unnoticed by students. “You definitely notice that you’re taking classes with mostly male professors,” said Sydney Joseph CM ’18, a government and psychology major as well as copresident of the CMC Women’s Forum. “I think [the gender gap] is

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Nader Calls for Student-Driven Change During Scripps Speech Julie Tran Activist, politician, and fourtime presidential candidate Ralph Nader drew more than 500 people to Scripps College’s Garrison Theater on Tuesday, Feb. 21, to listen to his thoughts on progressive activism under President Donald Trump’s administration. In a conversation moderated by journalist Giselle Fernandez, Nader shared his views on the

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Trump presidency, spoke of what he called a “strategically divisive and controlling” bipartisan system, and urged the American people to be proactive in using and protecting their rights. Ali Kapadia PO ’20 attended the talk and wrote in an email to TSL that “prior to the talk, Ralph Nader was one of my heroes. After the talk, not much has changed.” “The talk helped me further understand Nader’s accomplish-

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ments and shortcomings as well as understand truly how ahead of his times Nader was,” Kapadia wrote. At the event, Nader shared his disappointment with the level of participation in government. “We have allowed (politicians) to run away with our democracy because we have low expectation levels,” Nader said. Nader ’s pursuit of social change over the past 50 years has resulted in major federal con-

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sumer protection laws, including the National Auto and Highway Traffic Safety Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act. After his victory against the automobile industry to pass laws requiring safety precautions in automobiles, Nader said that he felt a “huge burden of trust,” as he felt that he was now expected to solve all of the injustice that he witnessed. This realization

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Green Light on College Ave Pomona Art Museum Survives Lawsuit, Council Vote Kellen Browning

Proponents of Pomona College’s plan for a new art museum can breathe a sigh of relief— the project recently cleared two crucial hurdles that could have derailed proceedings. The Claremont City Council voted 3-2 on Feb. 14 to confirm the city architectural commission’s earlier approval of the museum design plan and relocation of the historic Renwick House to make room for the museum between Bonita Ave and Second Street along College Avenue. Moving Renwick has sparked protests and pushback from community members committed to preserving historic sites in Claremont. “I supported the museum be-

cause I believe it will not only bring the colleges and city together, it will also highlight our shared history of working together for the arts and education of the entire community,” said Claremont Mayor Sam Pedroza, whose vote swung the decision. A group called Citizens to Save College Avenue is devoted to preserving the historic state of the eponymous street, and hoped for the museum to be built elsewhere. The group sued the city of Claremont last year, claiming its Environmental Impact Report— conducted for Pomona’s 2015 Master Plan—violated the California Environmental Qualities Act. If the lawsuit was successful, it could have delayed the museum project. But Los Angeles Superior Court judge John Torribio issued a tenta-

tive decision denying the group’s petition on Feb. 9, and recently released a final filing to confirm the ruling. “The court finds that substantial evidence in the record demonstrates that City analyzed a reasonable range of potential alternatives (for museum locations), and provided a reasoned analysis regarding why the alternatives were not feasible,” the final decision said. Pedroza is pleased with the decision and thinks Citizens to Save College Avenue’s misgivings were adequately discussed. “Although I understand and appreciate the concerns, I do believe that many of the significant concerns over design and compatibility were addressed as best as they could given the city process that is currently in use,” he said.

Denise Spooner, a member of Citizens to Save College Avenue, says she is disappointed but not surprised by the ruling. “We held out hope because we had some very good arguments against the Environmental Impact Report,” she said. Spooner, who is similarly dismayed by the city council’s decision, says her group is considering appealing the court ruling, but has not yet decided one way or another. Kathleen Howe, the director of Pomona’s current art museum, is “delighted” with the result of the vote. She is excited for the construction of “a beautiful building that is welcoming to our academic audiences, local community, visitors, and school outreach programs.”

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Proposed design rendering of the new Pomona College Museum of Art presented to the Claremont Architectural Commission.

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Scripps Associated Students The Scripps Associated Students Senate Meeting began on Feb. 19 with updates. Sustainability Chair Mia Farago-Iwamasa SC ‘17 reminded SAS that it was PowerDown and that the Seal Court Board would be updated biweekly. Treasures Phillippa Have SC ‘17 and Chloe Soltis SC ‘17 updated Senate on forms that were soon due. Sanskriti Dance, a South Asian Dance Performance, was approved for $750 dollars, as was No Man’s Land for $300 and Paint Party for $100. The talk “Fatness and Political Desirability” was approved for $500. SAS also worked to prepare for restructuring the Senate to make it more efficient. Each senate member wrote up their job function for this meeting. Check out next week for a full in-depth article about the restructuring. Additionally, interest was expressed in changing the composition of the Funding Advisory Committee committee and who can vote; namely, SAS representatives wished to abolish a Student Investment Fund and Motley vote and wanted to specify who is on the FAC. Have and Soltis reported the ideas to invest reserve funds in creating a scholarship, and in venmoing students to get funds back to them. -Elinor Aspegren Pitzer Student Senate The Pitzer College Student Senate meeting on Feb. 19 began with a presentation on the Alcohol Task Force from Associate Dean of Students Dan Hirsch. He drew attention to the three charges: to look at the current alcohol policies, to look at cultural aspects of

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campus life that encourage the heavy episodic drinking shown in the survey, and to come up with solutions to address conduct and think about changing the culture on campus. The meeting continued with Executive Board Reports. Vice President Hajar Hammado PZ ‘18 reported on the status of the carnival, saying that she, President Josue Pasillas PZ ‘17 and another student would be drafting a memo expressing their hesitation to use Student Activities Funds. Communications Secretary Claire Wengrod PZ ‘18 reminded candidates that they were not allowed to campaign during the meeting. Bill 53-B-11, a bill directing Treasurer Harrison Sattley PZ ‘19 and the Budget Committee of the Pitzer College Student Senate to ban funding for any individual test fees indefinitely, was approved with opposition. The Pitzer Events Board By-Laws were also approved. Bill 53-B-13, a bill to recognize the workers of Pitzer College and create an Appreciation Day for these workers, was introduced, as was Bill 53-B-14, which is a bill to allocate 1,500 dollars to introduce music equipment. Resolution 53-R-11, a resolution in support of establishing a dean’s list at Pitzer College, was introduced, as was Resolution 53R-14, a resolution endorsing the Diversity Committee’s handbook revisions to expand composition and clarify functions. A special discussion on compensation for the Student Senate was led by President Josue Pasillas PZ ‘17 and a proposal will be included in the 2017-2018 Student Senate Budget. -Elinor Aspegren

CMC Meditation Program Sparks Backlash Over Participation Restrictions Jack Carroll

Despite backlash from conservative students and media, a Claremont McKenna College research study on victims of racism will continue. The program is comprised of a weekly ‘compassionate meditation’ session held by the Cultural Influences on Mental Health Center within the Claremont McKenna Psychology Department. The program was announced to the student body in a Jan. 26 email from Claremont McKenna Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion Vince Greer. The email read: “The Cultural Influences on Mental Health Center at CMC is offering a FREE 8-week compassionate meditation program for ethnic minority students to learn how to heal from racism and racerelated incidents.” It added, studen ts must identify as an ethnic minority, must have experienced racerelated stress, and must have attended one of the Claremont Colleges for at least one semester.” The research program quickly came under fire from some students within the colleges and a few conservative media sites, such as the Daily Caller and Heat Street. Headlines about the program included “CMC Funds Racially Exclusive Program to Fight Racism” (The Claremont I n d e p e n d e n t ) , “ C l a re m o n t McKenna College Funds New Race Program Excluding White Students” (Heat Street) and “Ritzy Private College Offers MINORITIES-ONLY MEDITATION to Heal ‘Race-Related

Stress’” (Daily Caller). None of these articles mentioned that the program is a research study. Students who criticized the program mainly pointed to its restrictions on enrollment based on ethnicity and race-related experiences. Shawn McFall CM ’18, the president of the Claremont College Republicans, told the Independent, “I find it disturbing that school funding is supporting a cause which excludes the majority of CMC students. Too many school programming centers which claim to represent and foster diversity have become mere tools for exclusion.” CMC Dean of Faculty Peter Uvin responded to some of these criticisms by highlighting that this is not a “stand-alone student service program” and made clear that it was not a CARE Center program. “This is a cutting-edge research study,” he said. In addition to attending the weekly meditation sessions, participating students will be asked to provide feedback in the form of weekly questionnaires and three longer questionnaires at the beginning, middle, and end of the program. Their answers will be used for psychological research purposes. The program started at the beginning of February and will run until the end of March. The program comes not much more than a year after protests erupted at CMC’s campus that forced the dean of students to resign and resulted in other institutional changes, including the creation of the CARE Center and administrative and student representatives of diversity and inclusion.

COMMENCEMENT: Scripps Students Advocate for Diversity in Speaker Choice Continued from Page 1 of speaker. McIntyre described how the committee actively sought student involvement in the selection process. “The committee sifted through nearly 100 surveys we received in the fall and the beginning of spring semester,”

McIntyre wrote. “Looking at responses, the committee formed a list of speakers that students had suggested. “The next step was sending out the second survey to collect student opinion and votes of top choice speakers, as well as ask for qualities people wanted in a speaker, and what attributes were most important to them. We

received responses from over half of the class. The committee then met to debrief these results and make the decision.” McIntyre wrote that the surveys allowed Levin and her to gain a better understanding of the collective values of the class of 2017, as they had to select the speaker that best reflected those values.

“As facilitators of the process, it was important to me to find a speaker that embodied the qualities that were important to our class,” McIntyre wrote. “In surveys, discussions with our class, (and) just looking at all the social justice work members of our class have organized, it was clear that inviting an intersectional feminist was a top priority.”

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NADER: Activist Encourages Political Participation Continued from Page 1 led him to recruit fellow social advocates to join him in his fight for progressive reform. “Mr. Nader holds a rare profile in this country as someone who has stayed resolutely outside of the mainstream, all the while working diligently to affect change and, in many cases, succeeding,” Corrina Lesser, director of public events and community programs at Scripps Presents, wrote in an email to TSL. On Oct. 10, Nader predicted in an interview with The Washington Post that a Trump presidency would result in the fastest impeachment in congressional history. After the first month of the Trump administration, Nader believes that his prediction is accurate, due to what he says are an increasing number of impeachable offenses—including

emoluments, conflicts of interests, and lack of respect for judges and the law. “It is one thing for the rich and powerful to take away what is yours that you do not have—like clean corporate behavior, fair taxation, and universal health insurance,” Nader said during his speech. “Trump’s big mistake is that he wants to take away what you now have.” When asked in an interview with TSL about his perspective on third-party candidates and the accusations of third-party candidates spoiling elections, Nader had an aggressive response. “Last I heard, the two parties don’t own the voters’ votes. Last I heard, competition is good in a democracy. Last I heard, people want more voices and choices,” he said. “‘Spoiler ’ should not be used in democracy. That is a bigoted term invented by the two-

party system. It’s unpatriotic, and we shouldn’t tolerate it.” Lindsey Michelle PO ’18, who attended the talk, said the event boosted her opinion of Nader. “I’m not entirely convinced after hearing him talk that it’s inaccurate to categorize him (as a spoiler), but I do have a much a broader appreciation for his contributions and success in lobbying for beneficial policies,” Michelle wrote in an email to TSL. Nader commended the surge of protests that followed Trump’s election, and said they are important for morale and the cultivation of citizen participation in the country’s governance. “Dropping out of democracy is the first way to destroy democracy. To know and not to do is not to know,” Nader said. “I put my bet on the people of this country, who have, in one month, showed that they are not going to take it.”

He directly addressed the 5C students in the audience, noting that “bringing this mission to life requires educational courage and a higher estimate of your own significance as students.” Nader encouraged students to raise their expectations of the government and to challenge one another to promote liberty and justice. “Institutions possess serious untapped potential in promoting change, especially if they made more of an effort of doing so instead of only focusing their efforts on theoretical applications and professional development,” Kapadia wrote. “We must be cognizant of injustices around the world, and we must have the courage and recognition in ourselves that we have the potential to right those wrongs.”

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Political activist Ralph Nader talks life and politics at Scripps College’s Garrison Theater on Feb. 22.

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GENDER: Despite Female Leadership at 5Cs, Women Remain Underrepresented in Faculty Continued from Page 1 most prominent when students are looking for mentors and trying to find professors they relate to,” Joseph said. “That can be harder if there isn’t equal representation in the faculty.” Slow faculty turnover and the uneven representation of women in certain disciplines may account for the gender gap in the economics and government departments, but it falls short of explaining the disparity in CMC’s literature department. Only 27 percent of tenured or tenure-track CMC literature professors are women, even though over 50 percent of literature Ph.D.s have been awarded to women since the early 1980s. None of the tenured male faculty were hired prior to 1980, suggesting that CMC has hired more men even when a greater number of women were “on the market.” In fact, one of the three female literature professors is on leave this year, having accepted a position at Pomona. Her departure brings the representation of women in the department down to 20 percent. However, Ellen Rentz, professor of literature at CMC since 2009 as well as adviser for Gender and Sexuality Studies, is optimistic. She cited the faculty-gender ratio among junior faculty (assistant professors), which is 48 percent. “That’s something that’s really encouraging for me,” Rentz said. “It suggests that in recent years, the college has made hiring women a priority.” As of fall 2014, the percentage of junior faculty who identify as women has also been on the rise at HMC and Pitzer. Only 38 percent of full-time HMC faculty are women, but over half—56 percent—of junior faculty were female in fall 2014. Although both Uvin and H M C D e a n o f F a c u l t y J e ff Groves said that their respective colleges are making an effort to hire more junior women faculty, Rentz pointed out that retention can be difficult. Spou-

sal hire, when a college agrees to hire a faculty member ’s spouse, is challenging to arrange at the Claremont Colleges, she said. Therefore, a junior faculty member may leave CMC for an institution that offers both her and her spouse a position. Nonetheless, progress has certainly been made over the past few decades. Only five percent of HMC’s faculty were female in 1980. Today, HMC’s president and five of their seven department chairs are women. “We value the strong leadership we get from our female faculty members,” Groves said. “And, clearly, our campus environment is encouraging to women who want to pursue leadership roles.” But Shivani Kavuluru PZ ’19, secretary of the Pitzer Student Senate, warned against complacency. She thinks the 5Cs, including Pitzer, have progress to make in forming faculties representative of the student body. “It’s really important for students who identify as non-binary or LGBTQ+ to see that they have faculty who they can relate to,” said Kavuluru. “I think faculty and professors shape a lot of students’ lives. It’s important for students to feel represented.” People of color—specifically women of color—are also underrepresented among 5C faculty. Pitzer has the highest percentage of full-time faculty who are members of minority groups at 34 percent, and only 15 percent of CMC’s full-time faculty are members of minority groups. The national average for private colleges is 18 percent. “In my view, recruiting a diverse faculty is the first step; retention is key,” said Audrey Bilger, dean of the college at Pomona. “We seek to support and provide mentorship for women faculty and faculty of color.” Both Groves and Uvin said they are committed to increasing the number of female professors. “I think we need more women on the faculty,” Uvin said. “I think it matters to have a faculty that as much as possible reflects our society.”

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differences of opinion, but we need to work hard to try to find common ground to work together for the good of our community,” said Calaycay Schroeder proposed that the city should have quarterly meetings with leaders of the Claremont College “We had a lunch every quarter with the college presidents and the CEO of the Claremont Consortium, our city manager, the mayor, and a council member, and that’s fallen off the charts. What we need to do is reinstate that and… discuss the issues,” said Schroeder. Prattella proposed a broader solution that would provide the colleges more frequent input into Claremont government. Claremont should “create some type of committee from the colleges that is part of the government. We should meet monthly, not just quarterly with the presidents, or the vice presidents, or someone who can create a voice for the colleges,” said Prattella. Keenan focused on the potential importance of local government in protecting academic freedom from potential federal action. “I propose that if we have to, passing an ordinance to protect [academic freedom] within the jurisdiction of the town, because I see [the federal government] coming after professors, and I don’t want any political interference,” said Keenan. Grynchal emphasized the city’s role in providing police services to the Claremont Colleges. He proposed that the city drop its eminent domain case against Golden State Water Company and redirect funds for it towards public safety, to help the 5Cs and the city as a whole. “The funding for [the eminent domain lawsuit] could be provided to putting more cops on the streets, which would keep us safe,” said Grynchal. Moderators also asked can-

didates about recent calls, especially from 5C students, to declare Claremont a sanctuary city. The City Council passed a resolution affirming Claremont’s support for all of its residents on Feb. 3. All of the candidates supported this resolution. Schroeder, Grynchal, Keenan, Calaycay, and Prattella believe that this resolution and the Claremont Police’s non-involvement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions are currently sufficient to protect immigrants. Grynchal and Prattella worried that the city could lose federal funding if it declared itself a sanctuary city. Pratella and Schroeder also believe that declaring Claremont a sanctuary city could be counterproductive and attract undue attention to its immigrant population. “There’s no need to create a spotlight and say that we are a ‘sanctu-

ary city,’ which could actually create danger for [immigrants],” said Prattella. “If we declare it… we do lose federal funding, up to a half a million dollars” as well as, potentially, emergency FEMA funds. Monroe was the only candidate who said Claremont should immediately declare itself a sanctuary city. According to Monroe, potential losses of federal funding are negligible. “So what if we lose $461,000 [of federal funding],” said Monroe, “If we name ourselves a sanctuary city, morally, we’re doing the right thing.” Courser believes the City should provide additional resources for immigrants who might feel threatened by new federal policies. “We can afford to be a bit brave here, in that we can help support, for instance, legally, to inform immigrants that they have their due

process rights. I think that’s the Claremont thing to do,” said Courser. The other topics covered in questions were commercial and residential development, sustainability, Claremont’s eminent domain case against Golden State Water, homelessness, the role of city commissions in Claremont, limitations on parking, and public safety. Johnson spoke to TSL prior to the forum. He believes that, as a long-time resident of Claremont who is younger than most sitting members of the City Council, he could bring a new perspective to the City Council. “I’ve been a resident for so long. I’m a highschool graduate of Claremont High. A lot of people that are on the City Council right now are in… their late 50’s or early 60’s. I’m 41, so I think I would bring a different perspective to the city, for the new generation” Johnson said.

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Claremont City council candidates at a citizen forum at Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College. Feb. 23, 2017.

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ACLU Director Shares Insights From the Field on US Immigration Policy

Alyssa Alfonso • The Student Life Ahilan T. Arulanthanam discusses the personal experience of refugees during a Tuesday Noon Talk in the Scripps Hampton Room on Feb. 21.

Riley Mang Ahilan Arulanantham, 2016 MacArthur Genius and current Director of Advocacy and Legal Director at American Civil Liberties Union Southern California, came to Scripps College on Feb. 21 to share stories from 16 years of experience working in immigrants’ rights and national security. Arulanantham was in his first year as a lawyer at the ACLU when the Twin Towers were hit on 9/11, and spent the next fifteen years fighting for fair, lawful processing of refugees and immigrants coming into the United States. Arulanantham spoke about his personal motivations for his line of work. Before he was born, his parents came to the United States in search of a better life than what was available to them in Sri Lanka at the time. Years later, when he was a young boy, civil war broke out in their country. His house became a refuge for cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends seeking asylum in the United States. Arulanantham spent two years sleeping on the floor of his parents’ room with his brother in order to accommodate loved ones who were forced to flee their homes. “That struggle, seeing them go through that, was really a profound experience for me,” Arulanantham said in his talk. “It gave a me a deep sense of empathy for the difficulties that happen when people are displaced. Whether you’re displaced as a refugee or you came here because there was no way to make a life where you were living, those are

the people who are deserving of our respect.” During Arulanantham’s first two years at the ACLU, he worked with detained immigrants in New York City. He recounted one client who came from the same region of Sri Lanka as his family, was in the United States lawfully, and had been detained for four years before Arulanantham could prove in court that this man was a documented immigrant. “A lot of my work has been trying to get people to recognize not that we can’t have an immigration law, not that we can’t have set numbers about how many people can come here, but just that when we do it we should have fairness operating in that system,” Arulanantham said. Hours before Arulanantham spoke at Scripps about his work, the Trump administration announced a new immigration policy which significantly cracks down on the flow of people between American borders. The new legislation calls for stricter enforcement of regulations outlined during the Obama administration, such as the detention and removal of immigrants convicted of any criminal offense, not just those considered most serious. The policy also calls for expedited removals by Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as a push to recruit local law enforcers to help with deportation, according to the New York Times. The tension between federal and local government will be highlighted in sanctuary cities and

other areas that resist the federal policies, as they potentially risk cuts in federal funding. When Arulanantham was asked about the role of sanctuary cities within the upcoming federal immigration policies, he explained that they were an important step that must be followed by sustained action and vigilance. “I think it is extremely important in this environment,” Arulanantham said, “to express political opposition to the federal attempt to co-opt state and local law enforcement into federal immigration law.” Students, faculty, and staff across the Claremont Colleges have banded together to make the schools and the city of Claremont safer places for undocumented immigrants. On Feb. 3, Pitzer College hosted Claremont Mayor Samuel Pedroza in a signing ceremony for the Claremont City Council’s Jan. 24 resolution which “affirms the city’s long-standing commitment to diversity and safeguarding the civil rights, safety and dignity of all people.” The resolution was passed almost two months after Pitzer declared itself a sanctuary college on Nov. 30. Some activists, such as Shayok Chakraborty PO ‘19, head of the Damage Control Action Network (DCAN), a student activist organization, consider the sanctuary trend to be more of a symbolic gesture with no legal backing to ensure that state officials stick to their words. Chakraborty also worries that student involvement is decreasing since the election. “There was a huge burst of energy right after the election. We’ve been calling for volunteers the last few weeks and the pool of students signing up is not as large as it was in November,” he said. “I think people are feeling demoralized, so I encourage students to reach out to campus organizations.” Ian Schiffer PO ‘17 is involved with various organizations such as the Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Coalition and said that he tries to use the privileges afforded to him by his white, documented, male status to be an accomplice in the struggle for immigration justice. “There are people down the road, on campus, people you see everyday that are affected by the policies, and have been since before Trump was elected,” Schiffer said. “We need to show up for these folks permanently, not just once, and not just on Facebook.” Arulanantham’s presence on campus this week echoed the energy that exists in student coalitions and organizations working to create safe spaces and provide resources for undocumented communities and people affected by an increasingly militarized federal immigration policy. Going forward, the shift in policy rhetoric and the declared resistance to that rhetoric will be a legal and financial battle that will test the power of local government in opposition to federal legislation.

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Earth to Consortium: Where Are The Solar Panels?

Kyla Smith • The Student Life

Sam Becker and Chris Wright “In my 26 years at the Claremont University Consortium, this is the first time that a student has approached me about solar.” John Moe, the director of facilities at the Claremont University Consortium, has witnessed the inaugurations of 20 different Claremont College presidents, the launch of Wikipedia, and the invention of the smartphone during his time at the CUC. Not once, though, has a Claremont College student reached out to him about solar panels, even though he is one of the most important players in helping to establish consortium-wide solar. This is likely because it took over a year of wading through diverging information from staff and faculty throughout the colleges until Sam was finally connected with Moe. Prior to meeting, Sam established connections and met with a project development manager at SolarCity and the CEO of Solar Financing Solutions to understand more about the benefits that solar could provide the colleges. We then met with Moe to discuss the feasibility of broad-scale solar at the colleges. Through this meeting and subsequent correspondence, we developed a firm understanding of the multitude of reasons for low rates of solar implementation at the colleges. SolarCity and Solar Financing Solutions have had brief discussions with staff at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont McKenna College, and Pomona College, but both companies indicated that it will ultimately require buy-in from college presidents and Boards of Trustees to make consortium-wide solar a reality because they are the ones who would decide whether a proposal is feasible and designate property to house the panels. As a burgeoning technology, solar is complicated even in the most ideal of situations. With the CUC’s energy contract, though,

solar becomes an economic, bureaucratic, and spatial nightmare. Because the CUC is treated as a single, enormous entity, they receive a contract from Southern California Edison (SCE) that puts the proponents of solar in a triple-bind: First, the current contract is almost unbeatable (from $0.092/ kWh to $0.042/kWh in the summer and $0.062/kWh to $0.049/ kWh in the winter ); next, any renewable-related savings made by an individual college would be redistributed across all the colleges, stifling any economic returns made by that college; finally, if the colleges were to significantly decrease energy demand by using solar, they also would start to lose part of the Base Interruptible Program (BIP) rebate, which is currently around 1/4 of what the colleges pays SCE per month. The colleges must therefore work together to have any chance of making solar financially justifiable. Yet, even if they started working together, a few complications could still stifle any possible progress. To install enough solar panels to beat the low rate, the colleges would have to construct big on- and off-site solar arrays and install high-tech batteries—a task which would prove difficult because of limited space. Then again, these difficulties only become deal-breakers when the returns on solar investment are calculated in narrow economic terms. When considering solar thus far, the individual colleges have seemed to brush aside the obvious environmental benefits of solar. The colleges have also neglected to factor in the less obvious secondary economic benefits. By making an investment in solar, the colleges would establish themselves as legitimate environmental leaders in the world of higher education, and could receive boosts to renown, reputation, and donations. Throughout our meetings with the CUC, it became very clear that its duty is to provide reliable and cost-efficient energy to the colleges. Any environmental benefit would be a welcome byproduct,

but not a compelling factor in decision-making. So, when our recent discussions with SolarCity, Solar Financing Solutions, and Moe concluded that consortium-wide solar is economically unfeasible at the moment, our plan for a swift transition to renewable energy came to a halt. There are still a few bright spots on the horizon. Keck Graduate Institute does not receive extremely low energy costs because it is not on the CUC’s grid, so solar may be economically feasible; and the CUC’s headquarters may have room for enough solar parking structures to make solar economically feasible. As we continue to work with SolarCity and Solar Financing Solutions to monitor the cost of consortium-wide solar, we will work to prepare the colleges for the not-too-distant date that solar is economically feasible. HMC, CMC, and Pomona have started this process by installing network-linked, real-time “smart meters,” which monitor energy demand and provide data about electricity use. Smart meters help the colleges by enabling them to do three things: quantify money saved through campus energy efficiency improvements, measure and find ways to decrease energy demand, and install “automated demand response” technology that saves thousands of dollars by limiting energy use during peak hours and interruption events. In preparation for action toward widespread renewable energy, we as students must continue to demand engaged, competent administrations. We, as students, should persistently instigate connections between faculty and staff throughout the consortium colleges so that, as solar becomes more realistic, the avenues for cooperation already exist. If you would like to work on making solar panels a reality at the colleges, email Sam Becker at sbecker19@cmc.edu Sam Becker CM ‘19 and Chris Wright PO ‘19 are co-leaders of the 5C Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) chapter.

MOVIE COLUMN

The Academy Snubbed These Movies, But You Shouldn’t Lauren Churchwell

Sophie Reingold • The Student Life

The Oscars is actually giving us a diverse selection of movies this year, not only in terms of content but also casting. While the politics behind the highly contentious awards show still has a long way to go in terms of accepting and accrediting actors of color and paint-by-numbers prestige films, I think this year shows a marked shift from the norm—one that I hope will continue. However, as usual, there are several movies that the Academy looked over this year, whether it be because of their genre or content, or maybe just because they came at the wrong place at the wrong time. I submit to you some of this year’s missed films and will try to give some perspective on the recognition I think they deserve. Best Production Design/Best Actress: The Witch dir. Robert Eggers/Anya Taylor-Joy There’s been a recent upswing in independent and innovative horror films in the past couple of years. With the reimagining of childhood horror in The Babadook to the eerie, 80s retro chic It Follows, I’d like to also submit The Witch as one of the best within this new horror frontier. Rarely do we truly imagine horror in any time but the present, and The Witch reaches back into America’s past to find the isolation and uncanny silence that seems to be missing in the modern horror landscape. From a production standpoint, the film really does transport viewers into the past; the costuming and sets take you to the 17th century

and set up how terrifying life was on the edge of the “new world.” Actress Anya Taylor-Joy (whom you may have seen in M. Knight Shayamalan’s first okay movie in years, Split) gives a brilliant performance highlighting not only the extreme piety of the era but also how that repressive Puritanical atmosphere manifests itself in the environment. Best Actor: 10 Cloverfield Lane dir. Dan Tratchenberg/John Goodman Over the last thirty years, John Goodman has shown us that he can literally do anything. As a character actor, he has shown us a range that most actors couldn’t even dream of having, being able to portray psychotic or affable villains in films like Barton Fink and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but also the affable everyman as an all-American Dad in Roseanne or everyone’s cuddly monster friend Sully in Monsters, Inc. This skill is apparent now more than ever; he deserves an award for his latest performance in 10 Cloverfield Lane. Goodman adds another amazing performance to his filmography with his character, Howard Stambler, showing that he can make every performance distinct. The film portrays a conflicted psyche that has yet to be seen in any of Goodman’s previous performances. He plays more than just a villain—he plays a man that you fear, a man that you feel sorry for, and a man who ultimately leaves you guessing at every turn. Supported by a good cast and a great script, it was ultimately because of the monster movie aspects and its early 2016 release that this

movie was passed over. Best Original Screenplay/Best Ensemble Cast: Don’t Think Twice dir. Mike Birbiglia Finally, I want to look at the genre that the Oscars neglect the most—comedies. Of course, I understand that the Oscars don’t award anything for the best cast, but they should. A great performance isn’t just made by one person; it’s created in conjunction with other good if not great actors.Don’t Think Twice takes this to heart. Director Mike Birbiglia understands the fundamental concept of what makes a great comedy; it has to have stakes even if what is at stake is absolutely ridiculous. The film turns the idea of the American success story on its head and asks us if it is okay to give up. Is being at the top of your field real success? Are the people at the top really the most talented? Every performance by the main cast is stunning in its nuance. Don’t Think Twice brings a lot out of actors that many would think could only perform comedic roles, like Keegan Michael Key and Kate Miucci. It’s one of those comedies that will make you do more than just laugh. So, when Oscar season winds down, after you’ve finally gotten around to seeing Moonlight and La La Land (don’t hate me, I’m just a sucker for musicals), take a look at these films that are a little more under the radar. Don’t forget that the Academy always has an agenda, so try to look for films that aren’t a part of its carefully curated and dictatorial image.

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10-Minute Explore Gender Dynamics, Immigrant Experiences Shringi Diva Vikram Five potent student-directed plays, focused on the theme of ‘Power and Privilege,’ resounded through a packed Seaver Theatre at Pomona College’s Ten-Minute Play Festival on Feb. 17, during Pomona Family Weekend. The theme responded to recent political discourse around marginalized groups in the United States. “It was time to step back and look into our prejudices,” said Giovanni Ortega, assistant professor of theatre and dance and the event’s faculty producer. “And we had people from very different backgrounds. Real community was created.” But the series did more than explore identities—Ortega said that the production’s audience included people from all the 5Cs. “We had people from very different backgrounds, people who don’t usually go to the theatre,” Ortega said. The festival captured the audience’s attention with the opening play, Angels in the Sky, written and directed by Zed Hopkins PO ‘20. The performance was composed from interviews with exdrone operators and set inside the mind of one operator. A fusion of dance, spoken word, light work, projections, and pulsating music mirroring sounds of breathing explored the operator’s experiences and the apathy of Western privilege. “I wanted to blend East and West, Japanese Butho, which was the physical inspiration, and what we call contemporary performance … it was about bridging the gaps between cultures,” Hopkins said. The second play, Good Morning America, written and directed by Jivika Rajani PO ’17, and starring the director, Rena Patel SC ’19, and Aiden Maurstad PO ’20, told the story of Mena, an Indian

student, colliding with the world of the immigrant Sofia, and the American Nick. “I tried to make it translate some of my own experiences as a woman of color,” Rajani said. The third play, Lord and the Snake, written by Grace Connaughton PO ‘17 and directed by Sasha Scudder SC ‘19, opened with a gunshot, preparing the audience for something dark and dramatic. But the play drew surprised laughs with its depiction of a Miami druglord, played by Anais Gozales Nyberg PO ‘20, an emotional support snake, and a journalist, played by Lilly Sterenberg PZ ‘20. The fourth play to hit the stage, Like Grandfather, was written by William Chen PO ’18, and directed by Elliot Joyce PZ ’18. In the play, a Japanese-Chinese grandfather dolefully explained his time in Japan, prompting his grandson to leave the family table and insist he was American through the play. The audience laughed as they realized that Peter was not so different from his grandfather after all. ​ In the finale, Smile, It’s Not that Bad, written and directed by Teagan Stewart CM ’18, women catcalled men, talked over them at a workplace, and claimed that the men must be feeling “moody” because it’s “that time of the month, high sperm-count and everything.” “I think to reverse [the gender dynamic] is kind of a cold splash of water,” Stewart said, “To say ‘how would you feel if you were put in this situation?’” The show ended by asking every woman who had ever been harassed or talked down to by a man to stand. “I didn’t want to miss the moment, so I made sure to sit at the back,” Ortega said. “All the women standing, what a beautiful way to show the power of theatre.”

Glass Humanities Lecturer Links Art Objects and Oppression

Romario Quijano • The Student Life Ariella Azoulay of Brown University’s Institute for International Studies lectures about reaccessing alternative modes of engaging art from formerly colonized peoples.

Andrea Hernandez Brown University professor of comparative literature, modern culture, and media Ariella Azoulay delivered the 2017 Stephen and Sandra Glass Humanities annual lecture in Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College on Feb. 21. The Glass Humanities program, established in 2005 through the generosity of Nancy and David Bushnell, brings a leading figure in the humanities to the campus each year. Professor of studio art Sarah Gilbert said that Azoulay brings a unique attitude to art as a field of study. “In many institutions, art is considered separate from humanities, while here at Pitzer College it is not,” Gilbert said. “Ariella Azoulay is someone who, likewise, doesn’t just consider art as a neutral thing, but sees it as part of something else. Her creativity in seeing the connections surrounding art—for example, the connection between African art and the history of colonialism and imperialism, is what drove me to invite her here today.” Azoulay, who investigates the communication of historical knowledge through visual media, spoke about the importance of acknowledging the wider historical context of artwork displayed in museums. In her lecture, she challenged contemporary conceptions of art, especially when it comes to items looted from Africa that were later displayed in Western museums. “We often think of forced migration of people separately from forced migration of objects,” she said. “These are not only interlinked, but the expropriation of objects from different people is the basis of the transformation of displaceable people into disposable people.”

Azoulay also asserted that the talk’s purpose was to discuss the link between art and rights. It is generally believed that when a museum displays an artifact, the museum has the authority to express judgement of the art. However, Azoulay argued that it is actually the other way around. “Those looted objects—from India, from South America, from Africa—endowed the constitution of the Museums of Modern Art, which we associate with neutrality, with the presentation of those objects as works of art; those looted objects endowed the museum with this authority,” she said. Azoulay also talked about our roles as cultural consumers and the impossibility of displaying expropriated objects with ‘neutrality.’ “Exhibiting and displaying artifacts which are used as neutral categories is not a neutral position. It socializes the spectators into imperial violence,” she said. “They do not recognize the art of looting, but they appreciate the value of the displayed object.” In an interview with TSL, Azoulay said she hoped people, especially students, will think critically when they attend museums. “I hope they engage with other people, contemporaries and past, that are tempted to resist the imperial colonization form,” she said. Carly Michelle PZ ’18 was especially interested in this. “I thought this was a great lecture, and I loved Azoulay’s new perspective to art, specially when it comes to highlighting issues of colonialism and imperialism, which most artists don’t talk about,” she said.

Meghan Joyce • The Student Life During the 9th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival on Feb. 17 in Seaver Theater, Emma Elliot SC ‘19, Ella Jarvik PO ‘17, Henry Minervini CM ‘19, Namrata Dev CM ‘19, and Anoush Baghadassarian CM ‘17 perform in “Smile, It’s Not That Bad,” written and directed by Teagan Stewart CM ‘18.

Ath Talk Examines Medieval Sex and Scandal Tarini Sipahimalani Yitzhak Hen, professor of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, spoke about Merovingian political history at Claremont McKenna College’s Marian Miner Cook Athanaeum in a talk titled, “Sex, Lies, and Politics in the Early Middle Ages” on Feb. 21. After a formal dinner and eager chatter in an ornate hall, the lights slowly dimmed, welcoming Hen on stage. “I belong to a group who study medieval manuscripts. I know it sounds creepy but it isn’t,” he said, earning a few chuckles from the audience. Hen attends many conferences where he and other experts read and analyze various manuscripts, reading between the lines of Medieval letters. Hen said that these manuscripts often include Biblical comparisons, describe sex scandals that are used to flaunt political power, and reflect how aristocratic people used the written word as a means of communication. Threaded within letters between bishops are well-constructed insults, which Hen generously narrated: “Order yourself to be castrated so that you do not perish through

such things … I could give you grief about your other faults.” Hen also said that while he is able to come up with theories to explain these letters, there is no way of knowing for sure if they are correct. “Being a medieval historian without a large dose of imagination is very boring. We exercise our imagination trying to find what these letters can mean,” he said, “But I’m always willing for someone to come and say ‘you’re wrong.’” Furthermore, these letters give us insight into the literary and communicative abilities of aristocratic women. Hen believes these kinds of letters survived because they are strange, creating the need for historians like Hen to read between the lines and extract information that may allude to the political state and activities of the time. While a group of historians analyzing medieval manuscripts may conjure a tranquil image of people leisurely weaving through scandalous texts, Hen mentioned that sometimes there isn’t anything significant to say about a text. Additionally, Hen said that when there doesn’t seem to be any substantial meaning hidden within a text, the group starts collectively brainstorming. “Each one of us has different expertise,” Hen said.

He memorably ended with a quote from Sherlock Holmes: “Once you eliminate the impossible, however improbably, whatever remains must be the truth.” Mirenna Scott PO ’20 found the niche subject of the talk to be quite interesting and unexpected compared to others she has attended thus far. “I never really thought about the

process of historical analysis. I suppose I assumed it involved mostly the finding and transcribing of the past. I didn’t think too much about historians needing to come up with their own interpretations based on the limited information they have in front of them. But I suppose that’s why history can be very subjective and biased towards the authors of a particular story,” she said.

Liam Brooks • The Student Life Yitzhak Hen, a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University in Negev, Israel, speaks at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Feb. 21.

MUSIC COLUMN

White Noise: The Grammys are Still Racist Schuyler Mitchell

I’ll admit it: after watching Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly get snubbed for the Album of the Year award in 2016, I had to sit out watching the Grammys this year. TPAB is a masterpiece, incorporating jazz, hip hop, funk, spoken word, and soul. The record touches on a variety of pertinent topics from depression to systemic oppression without ever feeling preachy or forced. To top it off, Lamar gave a jaw-dropping performance at The Grammys in a prison jumpsuit with his hands shackled: a powerful visual message about America’s mass incarceration problem. Watching live as TPAB was passed over in favor of Taylor Swift’s 1989 was painful. While I definitely enjoyed dancing to a handful of Swift’s fun synth pop tracks, there was no way the album deserved what is generally considered the highest accolade of The Grammys. So, in 2017,

when I heard that The Grammys selected Adele’s 25 instead of Beyoncé’s Lemonade for Album of the Year, I was severely disappointed but not at all surprised. Even Adele expressed that she believed that Beyoncé should have won in her place. When accepting her award, Adele said on stage, “I can’t possibly accept this award. The Lemonade album was just so monumental.” Lemonade blends and transcends genres. Though it was heavily an album about her process of coming to terms with Jay Z’s infidelity, the album also discussed issues of racism and misogyny. In my opinion, the audio itself would be enough to make Lemonade deserving of Album of the Year—but Beyoncé went a step further and made it an hourlong visual album, chock-full of symbolism. Adele wasn’t the only artist who expressed her disapproval of The Grammys’ decision. Singersongwriter Sufjan Stevens wrote a post on his blog to The Grammys

titled “Friendly reminder: don’t be racist.” He then continued with the following: “Q: WTF is ‘Urban Contemporary’? A: It’s where the white man puts the incomparable pregnant black woman because he is so threatened by her talent, power, persuasion and potential.” St. Vincent tweeted her support of Sufjan’s statement, writing, “Re: Beyoncé and the Grammys. What Sufjan said.” Before the 2017 award show even happened, Frank Ocean posted on his blog that he would be boycotting The Grammys, citing their choice of 1989 over TPAB as Album of the Year as one of his reasons: “If you’re up for a discussion about the cultural bias and general nerve damage the show you produce suffers from then I’m all for it,” Ocean wrote. “Have a good night.” So, do The Grammys have a race problem? Absolutely. It seems that The Grammys would rather

praise standard love song albums by white women than groundbreaking albums tackling social issues by African American artists. In 2015, Raquel Cepeda wrote in Rolling Stone, “White people rejoice! You’ve managed to coldjack yet another awards season … this year the Grammy Awards promise to be a throwback to that time when Shirley Temple got down in blackface.” Cepeda writes that no black artists were nominated for Best New Artist or Record of the Year, but infamously problematic white “rapper” Iggy Azalea was nominated in both of those categories. Citing the award show’s racism, Drake, Kanye West, and Justin Bieber all boycotted The Grammys this year. The Grammys’ choice of 25 for Album of the Year definitely won’t help to change the growing popular opinion that the show has a race problem. Hopefully in 2018 black artists will get the recognition they deserve, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

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FASHION COLUMN

Student Spotlight: Designer Sara Bautista SC ’18 Sara Bautista: There’s a fashion world and then there is personal style. The fashion world I’ve never been into. The first time I ever remember reading a fashion book was Fresh Fruits, which is that Japanese Harajuku book from 2001 or something. That was the only time I ever remember doing that. And, as far as art, my parents are artists. And they indoctrinated me to make things to feel. So anytime I feel anything, I just make something! It’s all very second nature. It’s a good way of coping with life that they set me up with. It’s a form of self-expression and conveying feeling. TSL: What are your favorite brands/what inspires you? SB: As far as brands, I feel like branding is capitalism. Social coherency. Social capital. But if I had to pick brands: Eileen Fisher and Supreme. Just because I love old women’s wear and Eileen Fisher is so sick to me. And my brand! Interracial Leisureware. I’m also in Adisa Studios and we have a lot of things cooking right now.

Ella Harris • The Student Life

Sara Bautista SCR ‘18 models her style in Scripps College’s Margaret Fowler Garden.

Charlie Kolbrener Art is a product of people’s inherent desire to create something out of feeling. Whether it be painting, sculpture, or fashion, these forms of self-expression help

us both cope with our emotions and produce meaning out of our personal experiences. If we didn’t have art, how would we be able to endure the monotony of daily life? This week I sat down with Sara Bautista SC ’18. Bautista discussed

her early indoctrination into this philosophy about art due to her parents’ positions as artists. Bautista, recognizable by her distinctly colorful clothing, self-described as dressing like “a sexy little boy,” is a member of Adisa Studios and

Transnational Author, Activist Shares Novel-Writing Process

Austin Huang • The Student Life Nina Revoyr, visiting Creative Writing Professor at Pomona College, reads from her novels in Pomona’s Ena Thompson Reading Room on Feb. 20.

Ariel So Novelist Nina Revoyr read selections from her best-known works, including her 2003 awardwinning novel Southland, her most recent novel Lost Canyon, and her 2001 novel Wingshooters, at the Ena Thompson Room of Pomona College’s Crookshank Hall on Feb. 20. Born to a Japanese mother and a white American father, Revoyr graduated from Cornell University and went on to become a visiting professor at various colleges, including Cornell University, Occidental College, and Pitzer College. Revoyr is currently a co-editor of the college textbook Literature for Life: A Thematic Introduction to Reading and Writing, as well as an avid philanthropist and vice president and chief operating officer of the non-profit organization at Children’s Institute, which works with children affected by trauma and poverty in Central/ South Los Angeles. Having grown up in Tokyo, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles, Revoyr has always been interested in exploring various issues of race, class, and culture in her novels. When asked to share how she got to “where” she is today as a writer, Revoyr immediately joked and said, “Where am I?” Writing as a career “never gets easier,” she said. “I had a childhood that lent itself very well to creative pursuits, meaning it was lonely and had a lot of difficulty.” Growing up, Revoyr said she

did not fit into either schools in Japan or Wisconsin. Moving to California finally allowed her to find a more “comfortable” environment in which she could find her “people” and “place.” “I did a lot of reading in that time, even from a really young age,” Revoyr said. “I did a lot of imagining, started writing myself into stories … and it became a way of keeping myself company.” Revoyr said she still applies this to her writing now. “In some ways, the writing of novels is still [about putting myself into stories],” she said. “You know, I’m grown-up now, theoretically— I definitely have a much happier life now—but novels, especially, give me a chance to inhabit a world that’s slightly different from the one that I live in ... allow me to kind of work things out fictionally.” Southland, her second novel and a New York Times bestseller, revolves around the history of Los Angeles, from the internment camps of World War II to the garment factories of the 1990s. Detailing the life of a young JapaneseAmerican woman, Jackie Ishida, Southland tells a gripping story about love, family, murder, and racial injustice. Revoyr, as a lover of adventure novels, is also fascinated by themes of man versus man as well as man’s struggle against both nature and the environment. Her 2015 thriller novel Lost Canyon depicts a group of friends on their backpacking trip at the Sierra Nevada mountains. With four multiracial characters, the novel plays around with the way in which these characters are forced to face moral dilemmas and threatening risks in order to survive, while blending in themes of how both race and class distort their very own perceptions and experiences. Revoyr’s fourth novel, Wingshooters, deals with the racism that fictional character, Michelle LeBeau, experiences as a child and how she gets bullied for being half-white and half-Japanese in a predominately white town of Deerhorn, Wisconsin. During the Q&A session, when asked where she finds inspiration

for her plot lines, Revoyr said that her process is partly based on luck. She added that her writing often comes out of questioning. “Generally what happens to me with books is that I have a question, I have a problem, something that I want to figure out, and it takes the writing of the book to kind of figure out what the answer to that question is.” Revoyr explained that things that “nag” at her are usually what stimulate her the most. “I kind of set up a ‘what if’ story,” Revoyr said. “[The inspiration comes from] what bugs you, the stuff that obsesses you, that you can’t let go of, you know—that’s the stuff to go for.” Audience member Elika Nassirinia PO ‘17 also asked Revoyr about her motivation to write about diverse characters. “I’m not writing diverse characters because I’m trying to make a point, or I’m trying to be politically correct because I think there’s not enough diversity in fiction,” Revoyr said. “Although I think all those things [are true], I’m writing to reflect the world as I know it, and that’s important to me—particularly to write stories about places, about neighborhoods that often aren’t depicted with love.” Revoyr urged students to keep writing, as she noted that her first novel “blossomed” from a short story that she, in fact, wrote in her junior year of college. “The point is, even what you’re [writing] now, the things that obsess you now ... can be fire for what you do later,” she said. “Remain interested in the world.” After the reading, Nassirinia said she admired how each of Revoyr’s novels are distinctly different from each other, praising Revoyr’s capacity to do such different things. “I thought [the talk] was very interesting,” she said. “I also really appreciate the diversity in her novels because I think that’s something that’s still missing in literature or the canonical literature that is supposed to be worth reading.”

the designer of Interracial Leisureware. We covered her interest in fashion and its inherent connection to art, along with her very exciting upcoming projects. TSL: How did you become interested in fashion?

TSL: What is your creative process like? SB: Interracial Leisureware, the project, came out of me being an American Studies major and not knowing how to feel ever. Because my major is so emotionally taxing. I felt like I needed to just do something with all of these readings. And, like, my life. So I started it. At first, it was very serious. Or just taking itself very seriously. And then I really realized quite quickly that that’s not who I am. So it has kind of devolved into whatever I feel like. I just want to play with color more and just, I don’t even know. I think I want to start making more jewelry again soon. I know that there is a laser cutter somewhere on campus. I might make Interracial Leisureware a jewelry line and not even a clothing line! TSL: How would you describe your personal style? SB: I always tell people I’m like a sexy little boy. There are certain things, elements to outfits that I always have. I always wear a safety piece. A safety piece to me is either something a friend gave me or something that is someone else’s. So, right now I’m wearing a hat that a friend gave me, earrings that a friend gave me, and my

boyfriend’s jacket. And I always wear weed socks and I always wear Dickies and I always wear silly things that make fun of orientalism. I like to be silly with it. TSL: What are your favorite pieces? SB: My favorite things that I wear are—well I own so many weed socks. Just my collection of HUF. I’m so passé. I like HUF and HUF socks so much still. I have since I was like ten years old and I’m never going to get over that. So I will just wear weed socks until the day I die probably. My favorite pieces would be, I have a 1980s Adidas Tracksuit. Like, original. I got it from my grandma’s friend who died. That’s my favorite. I would be buried in that. And I have all pink superstars that are the same colorway. So I wear them together. Every year on my birthday! I only wear that outfit once a year, on my birthday. And I have a Jordache fur coat from the 80s that I love. I love the 80s. TSL: Is there anything you’re working on right now? SB: Watch out for Adisa Studios. We definitely have a lot of fun stuff. We all are cooking a lot of good things. Our set up at the Hive is going, so once that is all done we’ll be actually in production. I have a shirt coming out called The Bananalands. It basically makes fun of how tour shirts are really in right now. I couldn’t name you one Joy Division song. So it is making fun of that aesthetic, but it is mimicked off of a Hawaii tourist shirt. So it is vaguely the islands, the Bananalands. And the way that all world island cultures are homogenized into this weird foreign trope that doesn’t mean anything except to bolster the West and its continued normality. And so on the back of the shirt there are all of the major colonized islands of the world and their colonizer. Who came, what country, and what year. So it mimics a tour shirt. It’s a little subtle but also very colorful. The front is super colorful and the back is super colorful. And it is presenting the horrible facts of history. Making space for that but also playing with the fact that as the descendent of colonized people, I still do whatever I want. Check out Sara’s instagram, @ latterdaylove, and make sure to watch out for Adisa Studios and Interracial Leisureware!

Seinfeld Star, PO Parent Provides Advice for Future Performers

Alyssa Alfonso • The Student Life Jason Alexander discusses being a college drop out, comedy, and philanthropy in Pomona College’s Bridges Auditorium on Feb. 18.

Marc Rod Actor Jason Alexander, well-known for his role as George Costanza on Seinfeld and parent of Noah Greenspan PO ‘18, spoke to students and their families on Feb. 18, during Family Weekend. At the event, Pomona assistant professor of theatre and dance Carolyn Ratteray interviewed Alexander about his training, career, and advice for aspiring actors. Alexander spoke about how his performance career began with a childhood interest in magic. Alexander transitioned to acting in middle school

when a peer recruited him for a production of The Sound of Music. With other members of theater productions at his school, he took frequent trips to New York City to see plays on Broadway, and became entranced by the idea of becoming a Broadway actor. Later in life, his dream came true when he was hired for a Broadway production prior to his senior year at Boston University, which led to him dropping out. Alexander emphasized that, in his view, formal training is crucial for aspiring actors, even those who have a natural talent for acting. He asserted that without formal training, actors cannot reach their

full potential. Alexander advised that in the modern day, actors must produce work and publish it online. He said that talent scouts find actors through this digital work, and agents frequently play a decreased role in finding actors jobs in the current acting industry. Audience response to the event was generally positive. “I thought he was very authentic and gave some really good life advice that didn’t just apply to actors. Plus it was interesting to hear about how he got into acting,” Matthew Cook PO ‘20 wrote in an email to TSL.

OPINIONS FEBRUARY 24, 2017

THE STUDENT LIFE SEAN OGAMI, News Editor KELLEN BROWNING, News Assignment Editor ELINOR ASPEGREN, News Associate LIAM BROOKS SAFA ARSHADULLAH, Life & Style Editor Production Editor SOPHIE PETERS, Life & Style Editor ANIKKA VILLEGAS, Life & Style Associate CHRISTOPHER ESKILSON KATE DOLGENOS, Opinions Editor Content Editor JO NORDHOFF-BEARD, Sports Editor LAUREN ISON Editor-in-Chief

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Supporting Trans Students On and Off Campus

The United States is “not experiencing the best of times,” as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said. In the past few days alone, militarized police raided the main protest camp at Standing Rock and anti-immigration sentiments erupted. In one of many cases, an off-duty police officer fired a handgun at a Latino 13-year-old. This week has been terrifying for many of us. With this in mind, we’d like to use this space in TSL to address the Trump administration’s most recent violation of LGBTQ student rights. Yesterday, the Department of Justice revoked the Obama administration’s legal guidance to public schools on allowing students to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. The decision shows a complete reversal of the president’s “promise” to protect LGBT rights. (Add it to the list of the failed promises by this administration so early on.) On the surface, this backpedaling shows a complete lack of respect for the basic needs of trans students. But the bathroom debate is just one small part of a larger

movement to systematically strip away protections for trans folks, a group of people who are already subject to some of the highest rates of violence and murder of anyone. When you deny trans students access to a bathroom, you tell them they don’t belong, that their identities don’t matter. Even at Pitzer College, where gender neutral bathrooms were added last year after a resolution from the Pitzer Student Senate, there’s still plenty of work to be done. This Thursday, Pitzer President Melvin Oliver affirmed the school’s support of trans students and reiterated California’s legal protections for trans people. At the same time, Oliver used the email to laud the school’s progressive record. “At Pitzer, we were early adopters of gender-inclusive housing and bathroom options, as well as transition-related mental health, and medical services,” he wrote. But Pitzer, like all the Claremont colleges, has much room to improve regarding trans support. Nat Bentley PZ ‘18, a transgender male student, wrote a student-wide email in response to Oliver’s remarks. He outlined

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the persistent shortcomings of the institution, particularly how the gender neutral bathrooms largely replaced women’s bathrooms, setting up “a juxtaposition (which) connotes that trans people (men, women, genderqueer, agender, etc.) should be clumped with cisgender women.” Furthermore, Bentley’s email pointed out that many of the forms Pitzer students are required to fill out — for the registrar, housing, or admissions — enforce a difference between men/women and transmen/transwomen. “Am I not a ‘real’ male because I am transgender?” he wrote. As we’ve written before, maintaining a sharp local focus is crucial for making real differences for real people. White House policies affect people locally and personally. This week’s policy reversal will largely affect students at public schools, but we can’t overlook our own campus policies. We need to hold ourselves and our institutional leaders accountable for supporting trans and nonbinary people who are our friends, roommates, classmates, instructors, and staff.

Kate Dolgenos Columnist Journalism is a notoriously hard career to enter. Recent graduates have experienced trouble finding jobs in the industry, even with high GPAs and strong extracurriculars. Meaningful experience at a college print newspaper is practically a prerequisite for aspiring journalists, as is the completion of several impressive journalismrelated internships. So why does TSL receive so little institutional support from the 5Cs? TSL’s funding struggles are painful and well-documented. As a 5C club with almost 100 staff members from every undergraduate college in Claremont,

it should receive roughly equal funding from each student government. But, with the exception of Pomona College and Scripps College, which each provide several thousand dollars a year, the 5Cs allot pitiful amounts of money to the paper. For 2016–17, Claremont McKenna College gave $750, Harvey Mudd College $300, and Pitzer College an embarrassing $150. Pitzer’s pittance is $50 less than the school grants the 5C Women’s Roller Derby club which, while undoubtedly fun, is unlikely to launch anyone’s career. The colleges’ failure to properly fund TSL is partially due to the paper’s past as a Pomona-only organization, funded entirely by Pomona. When TSL began reporting on 5C news and allowing students from all 5Cs to join in the mid-2000s, the other colleges were reluctant to begin paying for it. Consequently, in the weeks leading to 5C budget hearings, TSL is gripped with uncertainty. Members of senior staff, rather than focusing on the production of high-quality content, are forced to re-negotiate the club’s funding and justify the existence as a print paper. At other schools, it’s under-

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stood that school newspapers are not necessarily profitable enterprises. Schools continue to fund them because they are valuable resources for their students. In 2014, the school paper at the University of Missouri at St. Louis was forgiven $40,000 in debt. At other schools, like the University of California: Irvine and the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, students pay a mandatory media fee each year to pay for the school paper’s printing costs. However, the 5Cs have not deemed TSL worthy of a designated yearly fee. Instead, administrators continue to justify TSL’s meager funding by pointing to the budgets of student papers at other liberal arts colleges. This comparison isn’t apt. TSL serves five liberal arts colleges–its budget should be larger than papers that serve only one. Moreover, even some liberal arts colleges give their newspapers substantially higher budgets than TSL. Wesleyan University, a liberal arts college in Connecticut with an endowment far lower than Pomona’s, budgeted $30,000 for its student-run paper until 2015. When the paper ran an op-ed critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, Wesleyan’s student government voted to drastically cut its funding by more than half. The paper’s new budget? $13,000 – $1,800 more than TSL received last year from all five colleges combined. The Student Life shouldn’t have to fight so hard for funding that papers at other colleges take for granted. In 2015, a decrease in TSL’s labor budget, which is paid entirely by Pomona College, forced the paper to stop paying the vast majority of its staff. TSL’s inability to pay students who devote hours to its production each week makes it difficult for low-income students to work there. That’s a huge problem, considering that working at the paper is vital for students with journalistic ambitions, who need to provide published clips for job and internship applications. This is especially true for students who come to college without previous published work or connections in the media; these students will have difficulty getting pieces published in outlets other than a student newspaper. In any case, TSL isn’t just for students who want to be journalists. Being on TSL staff provides students with experience in writing, editing, photography, graphic design, and illustrating. Even students who do not work for the newspaper benefit from its presence on campus; TSL has covered important stories that are neglected by other campus-focused media outlets, including in-depth investigations of the political leanings of 5C trustees and partnerships between the clinic program at Harvey Mudd College and the defense industry. The point of the paper is not to turn a profit, but to cover important campus stories and help students stay informed and develop valuable skills. TSL should not have to beg every year from non-receptive student governments. The colleges’ various budget committees have an obligation to accept the necessity of TSL’s presence on campus, resolve their disputes about funding amongst themselves, and allow student journalists to get on with their real jobs. Student journalism in Claremont has suffered enough from their failure to coordinate properly. Kate Dolgenos PO ‘17 is a politics major from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She wears better shoes than you.

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Almonds and the Inconsistency of 5C Environmentalism Megan Rohn Guest Columnist As I step into the shower in my flip flops, I remember to turn over the big red shower timer that my sponsor gave me when I was a freshman. The brightly covered timer reminds me to limit my shower times in order to save water. After my shower, I go to brush my teeth. There, above the sink, is an informational sticker stuck on the mirror, describing the drought and what I can do to combat it. These stickers and timers are common in dorms and academic buildings throughout campus, and our administrators make a valiant attempt to get us to conserve water. However, while the college doesn’t want us wasting water by leaving the sink on when we brush our teeth, they do not seem to mind wasting water in other ways. For example, 5C dining halls serve unsustainable items like almond milk (which requires gallons of water to produce), and the 5C campuses use sprinklers to maintain their grassy landscaping. In every dining hall at the 5Cs, there is a separate refrigerator that usually contains a few cartons of almond and soy milk, primarily for people who are lactose intolerant or have dairy allergies. I am completely in favor of serving soy milk, and I am glad that the colleges provide alternatives to milk for those who cannot or choose not to drink it for one reason or another. However, it seems

slightly hypocritical for the dining halls to provide almond milk, because it is not, in my opinion, a sustainable alternative. It takes an entire gallon of water to grow one almond. Each half-gallon carton of almond milk supposedly contains about 2 cups of almonds, or about 184 almonds. The almond milk in our dining halls is from Blue Diamond growers, who grow their almonds in California, so the 5C’s choice brand of almond milk affects California’s water supply directly. This water is all the more important considering the fact that California has been in a drought for the past 4 years. Of course, almond milk is far from the least eco-friendly item served in the dining halls. The production of beef, which is often on the menu at the 5Cs, supposedly requires more than 106 gallons of water per ounce. The water used to grow almond milk is exponentially small compared to the amount of water that it takes to produce all of the beef that we consume at the Claremont Colleges, especially considering the fact that California is the fourthhighest beef-producing state in the U.S., producing almost 6 percent of the country’s beef, which means that some of our beef likely comes from in-state. Furthermore, there was the 2015 lawsuit whereupon it was discovered that almonds may only make up two percent of the ingredients in Blue Diamond Almond milk, which is the brand that is present in Frary dining hall. Earlier that year, a British website alleged that almonds

only make up a small portion of the ingredients in Almond Breeze, another popular almond milk brand. Subsequently, the Almond Board of California announced that Blue Diamond almond milk has a relatively similar makeup to that of Almond Breeze. This revelation lead to the aforementioned lawsuit in which Blue Diamond was accused of false advertising. In short, it is possible that there aren’t actually that many almonds in the milk here at the dining halls, or anywhere for that matter. Also, I realize that the colleges only purchase a couple of cartons of almond milk per dining hall per day, which is relatively inconsequential in comparison to all of the water we use to shower and water the lawns. However, this does not mean that the water we “use” on almond milk is inconsequential. It does mean that we use a lot of water for a lot of potentially unnecessary things, and therefore there are plenty of opportunities for us to reduce our usage. One of those opportunities would be to stop buying almond milk, or to purchase less of it. Another, perhaps more impactful opportunity, would be to reduce the extent to which we water the lawns, which are always a disturbingly perfect shade of emerald green. While I understand that it is important for Marston Quad to look nice for visitors, it would be wise to replace some of the grass in less populated areas with a more sustainable type of turf, such as mulch. While I fully advocate switch-

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ing to mulch and soy milk over grass and almond milk given the current water shortage, I have nothing inherently against nicely watered lawns or people who like Blue Diamond products in general. However, it is odd that the almond industry has successfully fooled 5C students,

Donald Trump and Antisemitism: A Match Made in Heaven

Zachary Freiman Guest Columnist

Donald Trump is the least antiSemitic person. Ever. That is, according to him. Of all the lies that dribble out of his mouth, this may be the most dangerous, inexcusable, and incontrovertibly false. Trump has engaged in anti-Semitic behavior, allowed anti-Semitic incidents to slide, and promoted anti-Semites to the highest positions of authority in his government. In an abysmally received speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition, Trump queried: “Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t re-negotiate deals? Probably 99 percent of you.” Gasps could be heard as a candidate for president blatantly trafficked in the worst of Jewish stereotypes in an effort to win votes from Jewish Republicans. Is it any wonder Clinton received an overwhelming majority of Jewish votes cast in the 2016 race? Trump’s tweets have exposed what had long been writhing under the surface of his campaign—clear anti-Semitic undertones, in addition to the racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and homophobic sentiments on display. Throughout the campaign, Trump re-tweeted hundreds of white nationalists and antisemites. He even went so far as to delay disavowing David Duke, a former KKK leader, who has said “Jewish supremacists who control our country are the real problem.” In addition to dabbling in his own anti-Semitism, Trump hired the

slimy white supremacist Steve Bannon to head his campaign in the closing months of the 2016 presidential election. In his divorce deposition, Bannon’s now ex-wife claimed that he had refused to send his daughters to the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles because of the number of Jews that attended. In fact, it was the way in which Jews raise their daughters to be “whiny brats” with which he took issue. After this revelation was made public by the press, Trump promoted Bannon to the position of Senior Advisor to the President of the United States. The legitimacy Trump bestowed upon white nationalists and antiSemites was so potent that it created an outpouring of anti-semitic activity, including death threats, against Jewish journalists who wrote stories critical of Trump. This culminated in a spectacle of events two days in a row last week, in which Trump was asked about anti-Semitism. On Wednesday, Trump responded to a question about anti-Semitism by ranting about his “victory” in the presidential election, in which he lied about the number of electoral college votes he received and then remarked that “as far as Jewish people—so many friends, a daughter, a son-in-law and three beautiful grandchildren—I think you’re going to see a very different America in the next three, four years… You’re going to see a lot of love. OK?” Despite his unintelligible response, one can decipher that Trump touts his daughter, Ivanka, son-in-

law and advisor, Jared, and their children as illustrations for his love of the Chosen People. Yet, the mere fact that he is related to Jews does not absolve him of anti-Semitism, his promotion of anti-Semitism, and his willful ignorance of the evergrowing problem. The following day, Thursday, an ultra-Orthodox reporter, Jake Turx—a clearly Trump-friendly individual—asked the President about anti-Semitism again. The reporter began his query by scolding his colleagues in the press for what he asserted was a misrepresentation of active antisemitism in the Trump administration. He next reminded Trump of his Jewish grandchildren in an effort to provide Trump with an ‘out’ and proceeded to throw Trump a low-ball question, an easy A. “How is the government going to address the recent uptick in antiSemitic activity?” Trump balked. He suddenly screamed at the reporter to be quiet and sit down and blabbered on about how he is the least antiSemitic person (perhaps he will coin the phrase ‘pro-Semitic?’) one will ever meet. Many things were troubling about Trump’s press conference, not the least of which was his response to the reporter’s question on antiSemitism. Yet, speaking from one Jew’s perspective, I found it horrifying to witness a president crumble under a question that should have a very simple answer: “Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in my administration, and we will work to ensure

that it is eradicated everywhere.” A great number of Americans aren’t aware that more hate crimes per year are perpetrated against Jews in the United States than any other minority group. Trump’s win has correlated with a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents. Waves of bomb threats have targeted Jewish community centers across the country, forcing them to evacuate multiple times both this and last month. Additionally, a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, was desecrated this week by vandals. One of the worst offenders is none other than college campuses. Ten percent of all anti-Semitic events in the United States in 2015 occurred on college campuses, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Phrases like “Zionists should be sent to the gas chamber” as well as swastikas have been spray-painted on Jewish students’ dormitories and gathering places across the country. So, by all means, let’s protest. Let’s take to the streets and resist any wisp of complacency in the next four years. But, when we are fighting for our Muslim brothers and sisters, our gay and lesbian family members, our undocumented friends, and our disabled countrymen, we must remember to fight against anti-Semitism at every turn alongside our long list of demands. Zachary Freiman PO ’20 is a prospective Music and Public Policy Analysis double major from Sleepy Hollow, NY. He dreams of one day meeting Oprah Winfrey.

Milo’s Hate Speech is Not Free Speech

Tiara Sharma Columnist Within 24 hours, journalist and political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was disinvited from the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he was to deliver a keynote speech, lost a book deal with Simon & Schuster, and quit his position as a senior editor at Breitbart. Needless to say, he has had an off week. Yiannopoulos has been instrumental in the popularization of white nationalist, neo-Nazi ideologies that are also entrenched in sexism, queerphobia, and other forms of bigotry. As a self-proclaimed “warrior for

free speech and creative expression,” Yiannopoulos’ popularity marks a rise in the advocacy for uninhibited public discourse. However, his interpretation of free speech has not gone, and should not go, unchallenged. Yiannopoulos’s rapid downward spiral comes after an interview transcript of right-leaning, satirical podcast Drunken Peasants with Yiannopoulos began circulating on social media. In the interview, Yiannopoulos calls consent “arbitrary and oppressive” and claims that it fails to acknowledge the “complicated nature of many relationships.” In addition to completely undermining the necessity of consent laws, Yiannopoulos said: “I think in the gay world ... relationships ... between younger boys and older men ... can be hugely positive experiences.” His remarks quite clearly condone pedophilia and sexual violence against those who are legally unable to consent. Of course, this is coming from the man who wrote a Breitbart piece entitled “Feminists and Progressives Attack College Football With More Dodgy Rape Statistics,” in which he argues that rape culture is a myth and contingent on ‘man-hating’ and ‘undermining masculinity.’

In the aftermath of the Berkeley riots that forced him to cancel his speaking engagement, I had many conversations with people who claimed to condemn Yiannopoulos’s ideologies, but defended his right to disseminate them on college campuses. My response to these people is simple: college campuses are not, and should not be, responsible for financially supporting figures like Yiannopoulos whose politics are founded upon the marginalization of certain identities. Our campuses cannot host public figures who claim that “gay rights have made us dumber,” call transgender people “mentally ill,” or claim that rape culture is a “fantasy.” Three years ago, Scripps College rescinded the invitation of conservative columnist George Will in light of his comments “debunking” rape culture on college campuses. Former Scripps President Lori Bettison-Varga wrote in a statement: “Sexual assault is not a conservative or liberal issue. And it is too important to be trivialized in a political debate.” Indeed, the validity of sexual violence that is experienced daily cannot be discounted. The legitimacy of marginalized identities and experiences, such as those that pertain to racism, sexual assault, homophobia,

transphobia, and xenophobia, deserve to be heard and validated by our institutions of learning. It is unacceptable that his pedophilia comments were the straw that broke the camel’s back for Simon & Schuster and CPAC. Their continued support of his brand up until this point reveals their own ignorance of the ways in which Yiannopoulos actively perpetuates hate speech, racism, sexism, and xenophobia. By continuing to fund speakers like Yiannopoulos, colleges like our own are not advocating for free speech; they are encouraging a type of ill-informed, hateful discourse that has no place on our campuses. If our colleges want to flaunt diversity on their brochures and websites, they should be willing to address the needs of their diverse students. They are entirely responsible for assuring that white supremacists, sexists, and bigots masquerading under the label ‘political pundit’ do not impinge upon the lived experiences of their students. Tiara Sharma SC ‘20 is from Boston, Massachusetts. She plans on majoring in English and maybe Philosophy.

along with many other people in America, with their narrative that almond milk is a healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to milk, when in actuality it uses quite a significant amount of water. If the 5Cs are serious about sustainability, they must curb their water waste. That just might

mean no more almond milk, and it certainly means no more wasteful sprinklers. Megan Rohn PO ‘18 is an International Relations major from Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is also an amateur stand-up comedian and yes, unfortunately, all of her stories are true anecdotes from her real life.

Weekly Crossword

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Across 1. Combat style exercise, Rou sey style 4. Bucket 8. Golden state nickname 12. Person in charge of checking for the rules 13. Shrek 14. Colorful part of the eye 15. Country next to Leb. and the Mediterranean Sea 16. Politically and socially aware 17. Executive refusal 18. Where the heart is 20. One of the graduate colleges producing pharmacists, abbr. 22. Museum contents 24. Cook on “Two Broke Girls” 27. Actor’s position 30. Cookie sandwich 33. Popular post-grad exam 35. Summer drink 36. Concern of 58-Across 37. Politicians on the right 38. 34-Down website ending 39. Graduate of a college 40. Student org. focused on working with staff and workers 41. Peel of an orange 43. Ending of an email/FB post that is selling something 45. Request 47. Upscale apartment 50. 7C support resource for students of African descent 53. Love interest in Faulkner’s “The Hamlet” 56. Charged particle 58. Coalition of countries who are specifically invested in 36-Across 59. Long story of heroism 60. Pig’s home 61. Standing string instrument 62. What you need to do before you travel 63. Follows tic Down 1. Machine that takes pictures of your insides 2. Material popular at Pride 3. Angela Davis do 4. See 44-Down

5. Long in the past 6. Annoy 7. Smelly dumpling veggie 8. ____ Rights Movement 9. Plural, past tense of “to be” 10. TURNT 11. Prefix meaning same or equal 19. Jemison, first Black woman to go to space 21. Evidence of a ghost 23. Hammer or screwdriver 25. Popular brunch ingredients 26. Increase in size 27. Scrap fabric 28. Foul smell 29. Jean brand 31. Hotel chain 32. Ticklish children’s toy 34. Eco related government entity threatened by the new administration 39. Netflix doesn’t have them 40. Dove sound 42. Organization that has fought for the equality of Black folks for over 100 years 44. With 4-Down, a political sl gan used in the thrust of 8-Down also used with “____ is Beautiful” 46. Don’t give away 48. Raised in solidarity 49. Kansas dog that looks behind the curtain 50. Sound of awe 51. Plastic of concern 52. Spanish “to be” 54. ____ tree, or worried 55. State ID 57. Lady Liberty home

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SPORTS FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Sports Calendar

February 24 - March 2

Pomona-Pitzer

Friday, February 24th Swim & Dive NCAA Regionals Grinnell, Iowa

Track & Field At CMS Rossi Relays 10:00 a.m. Men’s Basketball V. TBA Time TBA

Women’s Water Polo V. St Francis At Thousand Oaks 8:30 a.m. V. Fresno Pacific 2:00 p.m.

Men’s Tennis V. TBA Cleveland, OH Baseball At Chapman 11:00 a.m.

Men’s Tennis At Chicago Cleveland, OH 9:00 a.m.

Softball V. La Verne 12:00 p.m.

Women’s Tennis At Redlands 2:00 p.m.

Sunday, February 26th

Baseball V. Chapman 2:30 p.m.

Men’s Golf At Masters Spring Invite Robinson Ranch 8:00 a.m.

Men’s Basketball At CMS EDIT PICOKR’S 7:00 p.m. Saturday, February 25th

Men’s Tennis V. TBA Cleveland, OH Wednesday, March 3rd

Women’s Golf SCIAC #1 At San Dimas Canyon 8:00 a.m.

Women’s Lacrosse V. Occidental 7:00 p.m.

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Friday, February 24th Swim & Dive NCAA Regionals Grinnell, Iowa

The Claremont Colleges Foxes Women’s Rugby Football Club (30, 3-0 Gold Coast) are the 5Cs’ best team on campus that is the least talked about. Not many 5C students know about women’s rugby; the club has a small budget and faces institutional adversity when attempting to provide resources for its team members. Despite all the systematic obstacles it faces, the club is a group of focused people who work hard and have achieved considerable success over the last two years. The Foxes are students from all grade levels from every school and are a diverse group united by their common love for rugby. On Saturday, Feb. 18, the Foxes traveled through the Los Angeles flash floods to face the Occidental College (0-1, 0-1 Gold Coast) women’s rugby team, the only other Division III women’s rugby team in Southern California. The winner of this game would advance to the NSCRO Pacific Coast Championships on April 1-2, the national championship for Division III women’s rugby teams that have spring seasons, since most Division III teams play in the fall. The Foxes won easily against the Tigers 36-10, and moved on to nationals. Katelyn Faust CM ’17 and Michelle Ramirez SC ’20 led the Foxes with two tries each, the rugby equivalent of a touchdown. Natalie Mark PZ ’18, Catherine Weiss SC ’20, and Joey Yamada CM ’18 each scored one try. Faust also hit one penalty kick, the same thing as a field goal, for three points. Senior Kelsey Roy was the only player

Jo Nordhoff-Beard • The Student Life

Locke Curtis PZ ’20, Sophie Baker SC ’20, Michelle Martinez SC ’20, and Grace Piette PZ ’20 of the Claremont Colleges’ Foxes bring down an Occidental College women’s club rugby player in their game on Saturday, Feb. 18.

to score for the Tigers and scored two tries. Most Foxes have never played rugby before coming to the 5Cs. Of the starters on Saturday’s game, only two of the 15 players on the field had ever played rugby before. Dana Alimena PZ ’19 has played on Stars Rugby twice, a 7s rugby team with athletes from multiple countries that has the opportunity to train with the United States rugby national teams. Stars Rugby competes at the Las Vegas Sevens Rugby World Cup tournament, where Alimena will have the opportunity to play against

many Olympic rugby players. Grace Piette PZ ’20 played rugby in high school in northern California and has made an instant impact on the Foxes this season being a player to watch as the thrower in lift plays, where two people from each team lift one person from their team up in the air to catch a ball thrown in between the lifters, which puts the ball back in play after it goes out of bounds. Other Foxes have substantial prior athletic experience, with Faust and Lindsay Mooradian PZ ’19 being varsity soccer players for CMS

and P-P, respectively, and Kimmy Tuttle CM ’19 and Megan Fuelling CM ’19 being CMS volleyball players. Rugby is a confusing sport to watch, but once in the community, it is easy to understand its great power in bringing people together and creating long lasting friendships and great college memories. The Foxes next play the UCI Anteaters on the road this Saturday, Feb. 25, at 5:30 p.m. This game has no bearing on their national championship participation but is important nonetheless.

Women’s Lacrosse At P-P PICK 7:00 p.m. Sunday, February 26th Women’s Golf SCIAC #1 At San Dimas 8:00 a.m.

Saturday, February 25th

Baseball V. Puget Sound 11:00 a.m.

Track & Field Rossi Relays 11:00 a.m.

Monday, February 27th Men’s Golf V. TMU Spring Invite At Santa Clarita All Day

Swim & Dive NCAA Regionals Grinnell, Iowa Women’s Golf SCIAC #1 At San Dimas Canyon 8:00 a.m. Women’s Tennis At WashU 8:30 a.m. Trinity Invitational

Tuesday, February 28th Men’s Golf V. TMU Spring Invite At Santa Clarita All Day Wednesday, March 1st Women’s Lacrosse At Whittier 7:00 p.m.

Men’s Tennis V. Bates 10:00 a.m. V. Brandeis 3:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 2nd

Softball V. Occidental 12:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.

Men’s Tennis V. Pacific Coast Doubles At La Jolla

Scores Pomona-Pitzer

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

Men’s Golf Tied for 2nd place

Swim & Dive SCIAC Championships Women 1st 1289 Men 1st 1030

Softball Chapman 4 P-P 1 P-P 4 Chapman 1

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Baseball V. Puget Sound 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m.

Men’s Basketball V. P-P SCIAC Semifinal 7:00 p.m.

Baseball Whitworth 8 P-P 3 Whitworth 10 P-P 6 Whitworth 7 P-P 6

Claremont Colleges Women’s Rugby Outfox Occidental

EDIT OR’S

Baseball V. Bates 2:30 p.m.

Women’s Lacrosse Chapman 15 P-P 5

SWIM & DIVE

Women’s Water Polo V. University of Toronto 10:30 a.m. V. Azusa Pacific 2:00 p.m.

Women’s Tennis V. UT Dallas 8:30 a.m. At Trinity 1:00 p.m. Trinity Invitational

Women’s Water Polo CSUN 9 P-P 3 Azusa Pacific 6 P-P 5

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Women’s Tennis CMS 9 Chapman 0 CMS 7 Chapman 0 CMS 9 Brandeis 0 Women’s Lacrosse CMS 13 Redlands 3 Baseball CMS 4 Caltech 3 10 innings CMS 5 Caltech 0 CMS 6 Caltech 3

Men’s Tennis P-P 6 Bates 3

Softball Linfield 3 CMS 1 Linfield 4 CMS 1

Women’s Basketball Caltech 76 P-P 44 Redlands 75 P-P 48

Golf Men 1st 583 Women 1st 338

Men’s Basketball Caltech 61 P-P 59 Redlands 87 P-P 75

Women’s Basketball CMS 71 Chapman 62 Men’s Basketball CMS 62 Chapman 50 CMS 70 Occidental 66 OT

Dominic Frempong • The Student Life

P-P MEN’S GOLF

Sagehen Golf Follows Through in SCIAC Placement Claire Wendle

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s golf team teed off their spring season this past weekend at the SCIAC 1 tournament in Brookside, California. They were ranked sixth in the SCIAC standings going into their first weekend of play for 2017, but after two afternoons of outstanding golf, they finished tied for second with University of La Verne with 591 points overall, trailing first place ClaremontMudd-Scripps, who ended with a score of 583. The Sagehens upset with their second-place finish after putting out a much stronger performance than expected, even in a weekend of less-than-ideal weather for golfing. In their list of preseason favorites, SCIAC ranked P-P behind University of Redlands, California Lutheran University, University of La Verne, and Chapman Universi-

ty. The team ended up placing ahead of all of them apart from La Verne with a lead of at least 10 points. Owen Rosebeck PO ’20 led the team with a fourth-place finish overall with two over par at 74 in the first round, but reducing his stroke count for one under at 71 in the second round for a total of 145 points for the weekend. He was closely followed by Gilbert Chang PO ’19, who had a first-round score of 74 and a second-round score of 75 to tie for fifth place. Rosebeck wasn’t surprised with the team’s successful outcome. “As a team, we all knew we could compete at a high level with the rest of the league, and I think that showed this weekend,” he wrote in an email to TSL. “The team has a bunch of new talent with [five] new freshmen, and it felt great to prove ourselves in that way in a tournament setting; now we just have to perform in the same way for the rest

of the season.” Connor Rooney PO ’19 barely missed a spot in the top 10 when he tied for 11th place with scores of 73 followed by a 76 for a total of 149 for both days of play. He was trailed by Sam Sawyers PO ’20, who played a very consistent weekend with two back to back scores of 75 for an overall 150 and a tie for 13th place. The Sagehen’s team was rounded off by David Song PO ’20, with a score of 84 on Saturday, which he shaved down to 76 on Sunday, earning him a score of 160 and a tie for 38th place. The final player in the P-P line-up was Jack Carrigan PZ ’20. He shot 86 on Saturday afternoon and followed up with 84 for Sunday afternoon’s round, finishing in 46th place with an overall score of 170. Even in an individual sport like golf, the team dynamic helps push players to perform their best. “Playing golf on a team, personally, gives me extra motivation

to play hard and to not give up,” Rosebeck wrote. “The finish last weekend comes from the sense of team and from months of hard work in the preseason. When eleven other people are counting on your score it matters so much more than when you are just playing for yourself.” When it comes to the team’s goals for the upcoming season, Rosebeck said, “Our ultimate goal is to qualify for the national tournament. To do that we must either win the conference or be selected as a wildcard team. We have a few non-conference tournaments in the coming weeks which will give our guys some much needed experience in pressure situations. Anything can happen in the SCIAC tournaments, so we all need our games to stay sharp.” The Sagehens will hit the green again next weekend for the Masters Spring Invite at Robinson Ranch, and they have ample time for prepare for SCIAC 2 in April.

P-P Athlete of the Week CMS Athlete of the Week Women’s Lacrosse Rebecca Long

Women’s Tennis Nicole Tan

CM ‘20 Singapore

PO ‘17 Seattle, Washington

Although the Pomona-Pitzer women’s lacrosse clocked in a loss to Chapman University last Saturday, Feb. 18, that didn’t stop Rebecca Long PO ‘17 from having an outstanding game. The senior opened up her final regular season for the Sagehens with a hat trick of three goals on five shots. After a quiet first half, she came out strong for the second half of the game and was the highest scorer on the team. The Sagehens have won the SCIAC championships the past two years, and hopefully Long will be able to capture her third and final one this spring.

Nicole Tan CM ‘20 was a solid contributor to CMS women’s tennis victories against Brandeis, Chapman, and Cal Lutheran this week. She played No. 1 doubles and No. 2 singles against Brandeis and Chapman and won each doubles and singles match by over five games. In the fall season, Tan reached the round of 16 in the ITA Regionals tennis tournament, before losing to her teammate Catherine Allen SC ‘20 6-1 6-2. Tan looks to be a great contributer for the No. 5 nationally ranked Athenas this year as they look to make it back to the NCAA Final Four.

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CMS SWIM & DIVE

CMS Makes Splash at SCIACs, Set Sights on NCAA Championships

Courtesy of Krystal Sung

Proud CMS Athenas celebrate their 296 point win at the SCIAC Championship on Feb. 18.

Blaise Malley The season came to a perfect end for the Claremont-MuddScripps swim and dive team. Both the women’s and men’s team captured the SCIAC championships this past weekend, culminating in strong performances for both the Athenas and the Stags on the final day of competition on Saturday, Feb. 18. For the Stags, this marked the team’s 10th consecutive SCIAC title and 37th overall, while the Athenas won their 18th overall title. After seeing their 13-year run as champions come to an end in 2016, the Athenas reclaimed the crown this season. “To be able to come back and win this year was very exciting and very meaningful, particularly for the seniors who have devoted so much to the program over the course of their careers,” said head coach Charles Griffiths when asked about the significance of the women’s win. The women entered the final day of competition with a 255-point lead over closest competitors, rival Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, before extending their lead to finish with a relatively comfortable 305-point margin. “[We had] a lot of depth on the women’s side,” said Griffiths. “We just had several events where we had three All-Conference swimmers out of three spots, and that was cool.” One of the top swimmers dur-

ing the championships was Lizzie Carrade CM ’18, who broke the meet record in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 17:09.26. “It was really exciting for me personally, but at the same time, I like to think of it more in terms of a success for the team, because a big part of swimming for CMS is you’re not just swimming for yourself,” said Carrade, when asked about what it meant for her to swim such a strong race in the conference championships. Griffiths also pointed to Jocelyn Crawford CM ’20, who won two individual races, finished second in another, and was a part of four winning relays over the course of the championships, as one of “many great performances” in the Athenas’ overall success. Looking back at the success that they have had all season, Carrade credits the dedication and enthusiasm that pushed the Athenas to be the best that they possibly could. “I think we have a really positive team atmosphere on our team. It’s really fun at the championships to watch everyone, behind everyone’s lane, behind the blocks, cheering and rooting each other on, and being very encouraging and supportive,” Carrade said. The men had a more difficult path to their championship title. They entered the final day facing the slimmest of margins, trailing Sixth Street rivals P-P by two

points. “We knew it was going to be extremely close going into the finish, and we were just fighting for every point, and we were fortunate that it worked out,” said Griffiths. The Stags performed very well on the final day, ending the championship meet with a tight eight-point margin over the second place Sagehens. The Stags also saw several exceptional individual performances, including Kendall Hollimon CM ’20, who, according to Griffiths, “completely dominated the boards” in both of his diving events, winning both by over 100 points. Matthew Williams CM ’17 also put in a great performance in his final SCIAC events, breaking a conference record in the 100-yard butterfly and winning his fourth consecutive titles in both the 100 and 200-yard backstroke events. Another notable swim came from Ben Culberson CM ’20, who despite finishing in second place in his race, set a CMS record in the mile freestyle race, finishing with a time of 15:33.89. The Stags and Athenas will culminate their fantastic seasons at the NCAA Championships in March. Saturday, Feb. 24, is the diving regional championship meet, which will determine who advances to the championship. Five Athenas and four Stags will represent CMS at the Championships this year.

Mary Jane Coppock • The Student Life

CMS WOMEN’S LACROSSE

CMS Lacrosse Nets Win Against Redlands

Katie Baughman After two nail-biting wins over University of Redlands last year, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women’s lacrosse team (1-0, 1-0 SCIACs) blasted past the Bulldogs in their season opener on Tuesday, Feb. 21. The Athenas triumphed over the Bulldogs (0-1, 0-1 SCIACs) 13-3, upping their average of 12 goals per game last season. The Athenas, who hosted the Bulldogs in Claremont, displayed a dominant offensive performance and kept Redlands’ scoring opportunities to a minimum. Corie Hack CM ’19 had a standout night, scoring four times throughout the match. A hat trick from Allie Hill CM ’20 and two goals from Sally Carlson CM ’20 also lifted the Athenas’ offense. In total, the Athenas took 31 shots, compared to the Bulldogs’ 12. The Athenas immediately got the ball rolling with five consecutive goals early in the first half. Hack, who was SCIAC Newcomer of the Year in lacrosse and CMS Freshman Athlete of the Year in 2016, started the Athenas off with the first goal of the night in the first three minutes off of a free position shot. Less than 30 seconds later, Mikaela Connell CM ’18 followed with a goal of her own to put the Athenas up 2-0. Allie Hill shortly followed up the Athenas’ quick start with two consecutive goals within a minute of each other. An assist from Connell to Hannah Graves CM ’20 put the Athenas up 5-0 with just 10 minutes to play in the first half. Despite a shot from Hanna Morford to put the Bulldogs on the

P-P WOMEN’S WATER POLO

P-P Women’s Water Polo Sunk by Citrus College Kellen Browning

Adela Pfaff • The Student Life

Katie Hill CM ‘18 squares off against the University of Redlands’ Bulldogs on Feb. 21 at John Zinda Field.

board, Hack quickly responded with her second goal, closing the half out at 6-1 CMS. Just when CMS’s offense couldn’t get any hotter, they upped the ante in the second half, racking up seven more goals. Within the first 30 seconds, Carlson assisted Hack for another goal, bumping the Athenas’ lead up 7-1. Five minutes later, CMS scored three times in less than two minutes with shots from Hack, Hill, and Cara Cancelmo CM ’17. Cohen added another goal in the

thirteenth minute, extending the lead to a decisive 11-1. Although an assist from Hanna Morford to Sadie Pickering gave Redlands their second goal, Carlson immediately responded by scoring CMS’s final two goals. Although Morford landed a shot with four minutes remaining, CMS was too far ahead for the Bulldogs to catch up. The game ended in a decisive 13-3 win for the Athenas. In addition to the offense’s exceptional night, CMS’ defense also

had a strong showing. In her first official game as an Athena, goalie Sara Reid CM ’20 played a crucial role in the victory with six saves out of nine shots on goal. After a dominant 2016 regular season record (13-4) and an appearance in the semifinal round of the SCIAC tournament, CMS’s performance shows strong promise for an exciting and successful new season. Next up, the Athenas will face their Claremont rivals, the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m.

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team dropped a pair of games last Saturday, Feb. 18, at Citrus College, and fell to 0-8 on the season. After being walloped 9-3 by No. 22 California State University, Northridge, the Sagehens lost a nailbiter to Azusa Pacific University 6-5. In the first match, the Matadors opened up an 8-0 lead on the Sagehens, who didn’t score until the game was all but over. Against APU, however, head coach Alex Rodriguez said his team limited turnovers and improved their defense. “We did a better job of controlling the ball and (were) able to control the flow of the game,” he said. Christina Williamson PO ’17 scored with 2:13 remaining to put the Sagehens within one, and Rodriguez called a timeout with about 30 seconds left to design a play for Williamson and Jocelyn Castro PZ ’18. Castro got a shot off with about five seconds left but couldn’t connect. “The defense forced her into a more difficult shot,” Rodriguez said. “I would have liked to have tied it and gone to overtime for that experience. I don’t mind losing games, especially early on, but … having that close game would have been nice, and pulling out a win would’ve been nice too.” Williamson and Morgan McCracken PO ’18 led the team with two goals each on Saturday, while goalkeeper Ahsha Earwood PZ ’17 had 13 saves across the two games.

The Sagehens have yet to win this season, but seven of their eight opponents—including 2016 national champion University of Southern California (No. 2), University of California, Santa Barbara (No. 9), and the University of the Pacific (No. 11)—are top national programs. Rodriguez is glad his team is getting that kind of experience early. “I think it’s going to be a process of us learning,” he said. “It’s been exciting just to have the competition and see the girls get better. They’re working really hard—I think we train harder than anybody.” By throwing his players in the deep end of the pool, Rodriguez hopes to toughen them up for league play later in the season. In the USC game, “they let the fear, the nervousness get ahold of you, and when it comes down to it in all sports, it’s about confidence,” Rodriguez said. “I don’t want to get to the SCIAC championship game and them be ‘Oh my gosh.’ I want it to be another game. … They’re not going to be more scared of playing whoever it is in SCIAC finals than they were against USC.” Rodriguez, who was on sabbatical last year to coach USA water polo, admits he is eyeing a conference title; his team finished third last year. “That’s why you play sports, is to win,” he said. “It’ll be a challenge, but I think we have talent and the programming to be successful this year.” The Sagehens will travel to Thousand Oaks for the Tina Finali Invitational this Friday, Feb. 24, and open conference play against California Institute of Technology at home Wednesday, March 8.