Vol. CXXXI, No. 12

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019

VOL. CXXI NO. 12

Pomona suspends sexual assault survivors program Advocates lacked legally required training to be confidential resource JULIA FRANKEL & BECKY HOVING

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SWINGIN’ FOR SECOND STRAIGHT ’SHIP Tyson to speak with prosecutors about assault allegation JULIA FRANKEL CW: Description of alleged sexual assault Scripps College politics professor Vanessa Tyson, who has accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexually assaulting her at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, will meet with members of a county district attorney’s office in Massachusetts, Tyson’s lawyers announced Wednesday.

Earlier Wednesday, the Boston Globe reported that Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said she is “ready to investigate” Tyson’s allegations.

In response, Fairfax spokesperson Lauren Burke told the Globe that Fairfax would cooperate with an investigation but “will explore all options with regard to filing his own criminal complaint in response to the filing of a false criminal complaint against him.”

Tyson’s attorney, Debra Katz, wrote that Burke’s statement was “a clear effort to obstruct justice.”

“Dr. Tyson will not be bullied and she will not be silenced by such threats,” Katz wrote.

Wednesday’s news is the latest in a series of major developments since Tyson was first revealed by NBC News Feb. 5 to be the woman accusing Fairfax, who could become the next governor of Virginia if embattled Gov. Ralph Northam resigns.

Tyson detailed her allegations in a statement last

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AMY BEST • THE STUDENT LIFE

From left: CMS women’s tennis players Rebecca Berger CM ‘21, Catherine Allen SC ‘20 and Sydney Lee CM ‘22 compete against Idaho State on Friday, Feb. 8. The defending national champions beat Idaho State 6-1, and are vying for a second straight NCAA title after their 2018 season concluded in thrilling fashion at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center in Claremont.

The Athenas pulled out a 5-4 win against Emory University in the national title game last May after nearly four hours of back-and-forth play.

Changes to Mudd Orientation Adventure sparks petition JAIMIE DING Following several decisions made by the Harvey Mudd College administration without student input, the Associated Students of Harvey Mudd College and the college’s Division of Student Affairs have agreed to pursue a shared governance model, ASHMC president Julia Wang HM ’20 wrote in an email to HMC students Feb. 7.

A draft of the memorandum of understanding that was discussed with DSA, which Wang emailed to students, instructs the administration to receive approval from ASHMC before making changes to policies

regarding the school’s honor code, room draw, orientation, hiring committees and other items.

“Our intention is for this document to serve as a foundational reference document for students and administration when making decisions in the future,” Wang wrote.

In an email update the following week, Wang apologized for sending the draft of the MOU before receiving approval from the administration, which violated an agreement between ASHMC and the administration. Since then, ASHMC Senate members have gathered input from students on the MOU, which they planned to discuss at their meeting with DSA

Thursday.

Wang wrote that the administration “extended a verbal agreement” to five out of seven points in the MOU as currently written, with the other items needing to be reworded to “better capture the nuance of their implications.” She said ASHMC and DSA leadership are planning to have a final MOU signed within the next two weeks.

“I think what was helpful for us to understand in that meeting was that student leaders who had organized this petition really were seeking to capture things that we already do as an office in

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Pomona College announced Wednesday that the Pomona Advocates for Survivors of Sexual Assault program has been suspended for the remainder of the spring semester, an unanticipated and controversial move that prompted nearly 100 students to pack an ASPC meeting room to voice their dissent.

Written by the President’s Advisory Committee On Sexual Violence, Intervention and Prevention Leadership team, the emailed announcement to students cited “urgent and mostly confidential concerns” as reasoning for the suspension of the popular program.

Because they had been designated confidential resources, advocates were not required to report sexual assaults to the college. The availability of a confidant who is not required to report an assault can make survivors more likely to come forward and share their stories.

But the committee realized the advocates’ confidentiality was not in compliance with a federal law that requires confidential campus resources to undergo specific training to secure the privilege of confidentiality, according to an unsigned statement on the Pomona Advocates Facebook page. The advocates had not completed this training.

Advocate Molly Keller PO ’19 said the group was informed last summer that it had lost its confidential status.

Advocates needed to complete 40 hours of training facilitated

by Project Sister, an agency that provides resources to survivors of sexual assault, to retain that status, according to the group’s Facebook post.

Title IX Coordinator and Associate Dean Sue McCarthy told the advocates over email that the Project Sister training would take place in October 2018, according to the Facebook post. But the dates McCarthy listed for the trainings

were incorrect, and the advocates didn’t end up doing the training.

Even though they had not completed the training, last semester the advocates did not tell the college about sexual assaults that were reported to them, in violation of federal law.

At a standing-room-only ASPC meeting Thursday, Emily Coffin PO ’19, an advocate, chastised McCarthy in front of the crowd.

“Sue, you messed up the dates,” Coffin said, arguing that McCarthy mishandled this “small detail,” which should have been easily addressed.

McCarthy responded with an apology.

“I want to acknowledge that I did get those dates wrong. I own that,” she said. “I would have never wanted that to happen.”

The administration notified six of the more than 20 Advocates about the program suspension an hour before the PAC-SVIP email, Keller said.

Olivia Wood PO ’19, one of the head Pomona Women’s Union coordinators, met with McCarthy Monday to discuss the advocates’ future. McCarthy did not mention that the program would be suspended two days later, Wood said.

“I want to stress that really clearly,” Wood said. “She never mentioned it.”

At the ASPC meeting, advocates expressed frustration with McCarthy and the Pomona administration for failing to involve them in the suspension decision. They also promised to continue their work even without Pomona’s support.

“At every turn, we have tried to communicate with this administration and the way we have been portrayed is the complete opposite,” Keller said. “We do not believe that our work can be paused. We will continue to support all and every survivor that we can.”

McCarthy also responded to student reports that Tiombe Wallace, a trained counselor

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Pitzer College Council to vote on suspending Haifa program PATRICK LIU After months of heated debate, the Pitzer College Council, a governance board comprising students and faculty, will vote at its March 14 meeting whether to suspend its study abroad program with Israel’s University of Haifa.

While the Council’s vote is technically a recommendation to the president of the college, decisions by Pitzer’s president typically heed College Council recommendations, according to Isaiah Kramer PZ ‘20, a senator on Pitzer’s Student Senate.

The Haifa program has been a hot-button issue since November, when Pitzer’s

faculty overwhelmingly voted to suspend the program in protest of Israel’s restrictive entry laws against Palestinian people and anyone supporting a boycott of Israel, particularly those in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Following the decision, Pitzer President Melvin Oliver, who will have the final say on whether to suspend the Haifa program, spoke out against the faculty’s motion in a College Council meeting.

He said it would provide “paltry support for Palestinian rights” and would “foolishly alienate a large population” of the school’s community.

“Why would we not suspend our program with Chi-

LIFE AND STYLE

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CHLOE ORTIZ • THE STUDENT LIFE

Professor Robin D.G. Kelly of UCLA was a featured panelist at the “Beyond Walls” event Feb. 6.

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Student bakers showed off their culinary skills in a bake off at the Motley Feb. 8. The winners of the bake off will have their baked goods sold at the Motley for the rest of the semester.

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na? Or take our longest standing program in Nepal where the Pitzer in Nepal program has been run for over 40 years. During that time they have had a bloody civil war that killed 19,000 people,” Oliver asked. “Why Israel?”

Several students attended the Pitzer Student Senate meeting Feb. 3 to speak in support of the Haifa suspension. They urged Senate members to attend a public panel Wednesday called “BDS and the Path to a Just Peace in the Middle East.”

The panel, organized by Claremont Students for Justice in Palestine, brought in

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Pomona College Art Museum construction continues with eye on 2020 opening EMILY KUHN Construction of the new Pomona College Art Museum, situated along College Avenue between Second Street and Bonita Avenue, is well underway. And after surviving procedural hurdles and lawsuits, the museum is set to open in 2020.

By June 2019, the commissioning phase will begin, which will include an environmental and electrical review of the building. If everything goes according to plan, the museum should be eligible for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold status, according to museum director Kathleen Stewart Howe. LEED is a points-based certification program that incentivises eco-friendly construction.

About 90 percent of the exterior glass, roofing and doors have been installed as of this week, according to Brain Faber, Pomona Facilities and program manager for the project.

Howe said rain has slowed work on the walkways and courtyards, but has not prevented construction from staying on schedule.

“We are anticipating [to] have the building 100 percent enclosed by the end of the month,” Faber wrote in an email to TSL. The new building will include two new curricular galleries, according to Howe, as well as three vaults for storing paintings, each with a space for students to work directly with prints, paintings, sculptures and other art.

“We were very deliberate in making sure that pretty much every space in that museum can host a class or some students while they work on something,” Howe said.

Howe is excited about the plan for the courtyard, which has an event space set up to host lectures or artists’ workshops.

Inside the courtyard will be a large screen that can be lowered

week. She said she accompanied Fairfax to his hotel room to collect some papers at the convention in Boston, when Fairfax was a staffer on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.

“What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into sexual assault,” Tyson wrote. “Mr. Fairfax put his hand behind my neck and forcefully pushed my head towards his crotch. … Mr. Fairfax forced me to perform oral sex on him. I cannot believe, given my obvious distress, that Mr. Fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual. To be very clear, I did not want to engage in oral sex with Mr. Fairfax and I never gave any form of consent.”

Fairfax has repeatedly denied the allegations and insisted the encounter was consensual.

“Reading Dr. Tyson’s account is painful. I have never done anything like what she suggests,” he said in response.

Susan McWilliams, a Pomona College politics professor, confirmed to TSL Monday that Tyson told her in 2017 about the alleged sexual assault. Her involvement was first reported by The New York Times.

McWilliams told TSL that the Times reached out after she posted on her personal Facebook page claiming to have knowledge of the alleged encounter between Tyson and Fairfax.

McWilliams said she is friends with Tyson, and has been in touch with Tyson since she released her statement.

“She has mainly conveyed that it’s not the easiest thing in the world to be in the middle of a media firestorm,” McWilliams said. “The scrutiny on her is relentless.”

McWilliams was impressed

by her colleague’s willingness to speak out.

“We need more examples of people like Vanessa, who are uncowed by not only power but by malicious power that will be directed against the brave people who make these kinds of accusations,” she said.

On Feb. 8, a woman named Meredith Watson stepped forward as Fairfax’s second accuser, claiming that Fairfax raped her while they were both students at Duke University in 2000. A statement from her attorney described the alleged attack as “premeditated and aggressive.”

In a statement released the following day, Fairfax said his encounters with both Watson and Tyson were consensual, denied claims of sexual assault, and called for an FBI investigation.

“I am asking that no one rush to judgment and I am asking for there to be space in this moment for due process,” Fairfax said.

Prominent Democrats like New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker have called for Fairfax’s resignation.

Virginia House Rep. Patrick Hope, a Democrat, tweeted last week that he planned to introduce articles of impeachment if Fairfax did not resign by Monday. He backed down after black House Democrats raised concerns about rushing to impeach Fairfax before addressing Northam and Virginia Attorney General Herring’s use of blackface, according to the Times.

Northam first came under fire after the revelation of a photo on his medical school yearbook page that showed two men dressed in racist outfits, one in blackface and the other in a Ku

Pomona’s OA revision process continues with student forums BECKY HOVING & LILLY CARDEN

CHLOE ORTIZ • THE STUDENT LIFE

Pomona College Project Manager Brian Faber walks around the art museum construction site Feb. 12.

to show movies.

The full details of the opening are still confidential, but Howe confirmed that one of the opening shows will be by Alison Saar, a Los Angeles-based sculptor and Scripps College alumna, who has received international recognition for her art.

The college will also commission one of her pieces for the new museum’s courtyard.

The old museum will likely remain open throughout 2020 and, as far as Howe knows, long-term plans for the current museum have not yet been solidified.

TYSON: Second accuser comes forward POMONA: Continued from Page 1

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Klux Klan costume. Northam at first admitted to being one of the men in the photo, but later backtracked and has resisted calls to resign. Both Northam and Herring have recently admitted to wearing blackface.

Tyson’s legal team wrote in a statement Feb. 9 that she is “fully prepared” to testify at a potential impeachment hearing for Fairfax and cooperate with law enforcement in an investigation. Watson’s lawyers also said she would be willing to testify in impeachment proceedings, according to NBC. On Tuesday, Tyson who is currently spending a fellowship year at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, spoke on a panel for a Stanford event called “Betrayal and Courage in the Age of #MeToo.” Pomona’s Women’s Union hosted an screening of the event.

Tyson did not specifically address her allegations against Fairfax, but was questioned about how to empower survivors to report cases of sexual assault.

“Speaking as a professor at a women’s college,” Tyson said, “sometimes you have to lead by example — no matter how hard it is.”

Tyson criticized the “tennis match-like aftermath” of sexual assault allegations between the accuser and the accused that plays out in the media.

Onlookers should attempt to “break down the power dynamic at play” rather than follow the tennis match, Tyson said.

Speaking for survivors of sexual assault, Tyson said “we often suffer from the feeling that we’re alone, that no one will believe us, or love us.”

Students scoff at Monsour alternative Continued from Page 1

who advised the advocates, was fired by McCarthy’s office.

“Tiombe wasn’t fired,” McCarthy said. “Once we knew that the advocate program was going to be moving towards a partnership with Project Sister, I told her that we wouldn’t be retaining the services she was providing.”

In the middle of an interview with TSL Tuesday, the day before PAC-SVIP suspended the advocates program, Pomona Dean of Students Avis Hinkson texted McCarthy to ask which groups on campus were confidential reporters. In response, McCarthy told Hinkson that the advocates were confidential reporters, which conflicts with what Keller says McCarthy emailed the group last summer.

When an unidentified student asked McCarthy at the ASPC meeting about other resources available to survivors while the advocates program is suspended, McCarthy listed Monsour Counseling Services, which has been the subject of frequent student criticism, among other services, and the room erupted in laughter.

After reversing her controversial decision last fall to move Pomona College’s Orientation Adventure to students’ sophomore years, Dean of Students Avis Hinkson has held three open forums this semester to collect feedback for the new temporary Orientation Committee.

Hinkson, who arrived at Pomona in August, announced in December the school was moving the four-day outdoor program from students’ first to second years to shorten Pomona’s 10-day orientation.

Students were shocked and upset that they did not have the chance to weigh in, and created a petition calling for the reversal of the decision, which quickly garnered 500 signatures.

One week later, Hinkson backpedaled on her policy change for at least one year.

She wrote in an email to students that she would host several forums to ensure students’ voices were being heard. The forums were held Jan. 30, Feb. 5 and Feb. 8.

Daniel Garcia PO ’21 attended one because he felt the initial decision and the decision reversal were both made with a lack of student involvement.

“The reversal only helped the superficial problem, because we still have a lot of unknowns and questions regarding OA, and the utter lack of transparency broke trust,” Garcia said.

“That trust isn’t going to be rebuilt for a long while.”

Feedback collected at the three forums will be organized and prioritized by the temporary Orientation Committee, which is comprised of two staff members, three students and one faculty member, Hinkson said.

The committee was meant to have three representatives each from students, staff and faculty, but received only 10 total applications combined, most of which were from students.

David Tanenbaum, a physics professor at Pomona since 1997, is the sole faculty representative on the committee. He volunteered for the position

because he believes orientation is an important part of the firstyear experience.

“Our role is to listen to the open forums and summarize and prioritize this input for the implementation committee,” he wrote in an email to TSL. “We are not making the decisions about the future of orientation, but we should help set the agenda for that discussion.”

Christina Ciambriello, the secretary for the Board of Trustees, and Paola Reyes Noriega, an admissions officer, are also on the committee.

Once the temporary Orientation Committee collects the feedback, they’ll hand it off to the Orientation Implementation Committee, which according to Hinkson, is the ongoing, standing committee on orientation.

The Orientation Implementation Committee is made up of faculty, staff and two student representatives: first-year class president Andriw Read PO ’22 and sponsor Nick Timms PO ’21. “[The committee] begins to put together a program engaging with all of the logistics and everything that surrounds [orientation],” Hinkson said at the Feb. 8 forum. “They’re putting together a program, getting the appropriate considerations to put together a final event for August 2020.”

At least for fall 2019, though, OA will remain the same.

Some students, like Sam Rubin PO ’19, a two-time former OA leader, thought the forums were a valuable way to gather student input.

“I look forward to hearing more from administration in the future,” he said. “Specifically, working hard to solicit as many opinions and ideas as possible and letting students know before any radical changes are made.”

Others feel differently.

“I hope that [the administration] will actually take the advice of the students who are at these forums and who are talking to them, but [the forums] also are not going to be a completely inclusive group of students,” said Leah Rosenzweig PO ’19, a former sponsor and OA leader.

“I noticed just at the forum the other day that there were only 10 students there. Seven of them were people that I knew, and they were all white seniors.”

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An open forum on Pomona’s Orientation Adventure program was held at Frank Dining Hall Feb. 5.

Claremont City Council decision will divide 5Cs into three voting districts ELINOR ASPEGREN Claremont’s city council voted Tuesday to move to a by-district system of elections, an action that splits the 5Cs into three separate voting districts.

Before the 3-2 vote, the city council held at-large elections to elect its five members. Under the new system, each city council member will be elected by and represent one district.

After fielding map submissions from Claremont residents to divide the city into five voting districts for the 2020 election, the city shared 11 potential maps in late January. Three of the maps divided the 5Cs in two, while eight divided them into three or more districts.

Under the chosen map, Map 124a, Pitzer College will be part of district two, and Claremont McKenna College, Scripps College and Harvey Mudd College will be members of district three.

Pomona College is in district five, whose city council representative will be up for re-election in 2020.

The decision to divide the colleges into three prevents “super voters,” according to city consultant Doug Johnson of the National Demographic Corporation. The maps with all of the colleges in one district had a

smaller voting population than the other districts, meaning that each individual voter in the colleges’ district would have had a greater say in who represented them on the council.

The district map will be in place only for the 2020 election, when the town will redistrict based off of 2020 census data.

CMC government professor Zachary Courser CM ’99, who has mounted two unsuccessful city council bids, explained that the city’s district decision was prompted by two laws related to minority voting rights.

The first, the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1960, curbs vote dilution of minority groups, through barring the denial of the right to vote due to several factors and the monitoring of polling places by federal officials, according to the Department of Justice.

The second, the California Voting Rights Act of 2001, lowered the level of proof required for minority groups in California to allege that their votes were being diluted in “at-large” elections, Courser said.

Councilmember Jennifer Stark PZ ’98 said the decision stemmed from a “plausible feeling that a demand letter was going to come” from the Southwest Voter Registration Educa-

tion Project.

City attorney Joseph Larsen said during a special meeting last week that the city worried it was in violation of these laws because of “oral communication” in September from the group.

SVREP told the city it could be subject to $30,000 in legal fees if the group sent a formal demand letter alleging that the city was unfair to its minority voters because of its at-large process. Under the district model, minority populations are evenly balanced with other populations, ensuring that each vote counts equally.

“When a demand letter is served, it makes the city liable for paying for the person who sent that letter’s court costs,” Stark said. “It was determined it was more fiscally responsible to preemptively move towards districts.”

The 5Cs were a “hot topic of discussion” in the proceedings about districting, Johnson said.

Johnson noted throughout the process that the 5Cs represent a high population but a small number of actual voters, hence the decision to split the schools into three districts. Several residents brought up the colleges in their comments to the city council during public hearing.

“I think we should, as best we can, include as many young

people that want to be involved in local government as possible,” Stark said. “However, a great many college students are here for a short time and are not going to make Claremont their home.”

Democrats of the Claremont Colleges president Sam Horowitz PZ ’20 called the college voter representation in Claremont “small but underestimated” during the public hearing.

Horowitz said if the schools were divided among different districts, there might be confusion among students over which polling place they went to based on their campus address, which could potentially be a “barrier for getting people out to vote.”

Although the decision wasn’t his preferred choice, he was glad the 5Cs weren’t split into four or five districts.

“I believe that having district-based elections in general will improve student turnout, but the fact that the 5Cs are now split into three different districts will undoubtedly cause confusion among student voters,” he wrote in an email to TSL. “Unfortunately, this may lead to students being turned away to vote, becoming discouraged and subsequently not voting at all.”

Ultimately, however, Stark

doesn’t think this decision will affect students all that much.

“Just as much as any City Council representative affects you now, I think to the same effect they would affect you in the future,” he wrote.

Other students also attended the Tuesday meeting, but not to represent student voters.

College Community Action Network representatives Shayok Chakraborty PO ’19, Emily Lavine SC ’19 and Devon Baker PO ’22 advocated for increased representation for the southern part of Claremont in their remarks.

“We were not too concerned about a student district because we don’t believe that there are a lot of student issues that pertain to the [city],” Chakraborty said in an interview with TSL. Baker agreed.

“Students [at] the Claremont Colleges tend to be higher income and also don’t have much of a personal stake in the community,” Baker added. “So to take that away from people who are more low-income in south Claremont specifically ... it’s a lot more important that they are advocated for and get to advocate for themselves.”

Lavine said south Claremont, historically known as the region in Claremont south of the

Metrolink train tracks, has historically been under-represented on the city council. Only two south Claremont representatives have been elected to the council in the past 45 years, a fact repeated by numerous south Claremont residents throughout the meeting.

“When you ask them what the top issue that [they] have in local politics, they say, ‘We feel ignored,’” she said.

Chakraborty thinks the decision, which created one district for south Claremont, will be beneficial for those residents.

“From the perspective of representation for those whose voices are least heard and whose concerns are most serious, I think this has ended up well,” he wrote in an email to TSL. Brendan Schultz PZ ’19, one of the colleges’ few Claremont voters, defended what he said was the positive impact of the student voice on Claremont politics, such as in a recent debate over a resolution supporting undocumented immigrants in Claremont.

“We bring a view that is typically a lot younger than the standard Claremont voter and the student body at the colleges is more diverse than the Claremont community at large,” he said.

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McConnell reinforces high ratings in response to food safety issues BEN REICHER While Los Angeles County safety inspections continue to grant top marks to 5C dining halls, reports of potentially unsafe food items at Pitzer College’s McConnell Dining Hall have led the school to double down on its existing procedures to ensure they’re serving high-quality products.

TSL received two reports of mold on food on McConnell’s serving line in recent weeks, including a moldy hamburger bun on Jan. 21 that was reported to staff. To general manager Cynthia Bennington, this incident reinforces the importance of McConnell’s vigilance for food safety.

“We received one report of a bun with mold on it. We discarded all remaining buns that day, and reiterated with our team the importance of not only going by the recorded ‘use by’ dates, based on purchase, but thoroughly visually inspecting all ingredients before use,” Bennington wrote in an email to TSL. “Our bun vendor bakes fresh and does not use preservatives, so the shelf life is sometimes shorter than anticipated, which we clearly needed to pay more attention to.”

TSL has also obtained a video, recorded Jan. 31, that appears to show mold on tomato slices being served at McConnell’s grill.

The incident was not reported to dining hall staff. Bennington’s email also mentioned two reports of winged insects in salad greens.

McConnell is run by Bon Appetit, which also operates Claremont McKenna College’s Collins Hall. The dining halls at Pomona College are run by the college itself. Scripps College and Harvey Mudd College dining halls are run by controversial food services corporation Sodexo.

Bon Appetit employees follow the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points system, an FDA-issued quality control process, and complete a training program in food safety, according to Bennington.

Bon Appetit chefs are certified

by ServSafe, a “nationally recognized food safety certification program” and have the required California Food Handlers card.

On top of regular inspections by the LA County Department of

Public Health, Bon Appetit also employs a third party company, EcoSure, to conduct semi-annual safety audits.

Customers can make reports in person to staff or through McConnell’s website.

“If there were to be a report [of unsafe food], we’d immediately investigate, discard or compost the suspect item, and if necessary, report the problem to our supplier so they can check their own practices and stock,” Bennington wrote, outlining Bon Appetit’s procedure for dealing with unsafe food items. In the case of the salad greens, Bennington said the products were composted, and the supplier was notified.

“We hold safety meetings weekly, and have a dedicated safety committee that meets bi-monthly to discuss ways to further improve sanitation through education around frequent hand-washing, sanitizing workstations, avoiding cross-contamination and ensuring proper food temperatures,” Bennington added.

McConnell’s efforts seem to have paid off. LA County inspections have given the hall an A rating (90-100 points) in each inspection since 2016, the last year for which data is available. The most recent inspection on Feb. 6 of this year scored 94 points and found three violations. The most violations McConnell has ever received, according to county data, was five in September 2017.

Students who eat at McConnell seem generally content with the food safety and quality. Shaafi Farooqi PZ ’19 said she eats in McConnell almost every day and is generally satisfied with the food quality and overall environment in the dining hall.

“Obviously [the reports of mold on food are] concerning, but one moldy bun doesn’t make me question everything about the dining hall,” Farooqi said. “I feel like that could happen anywhere, probably.”

McConnell staff members Gary Lewis and Sergio Solares said, in separate interviews, that they have never observed or received reports of unsafe food in McConnell in their time working there.

Emily Gao PZ ’20 said the reports of moldy food make her “wonder how the other dining halls are.”

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Scripps seniors develop web app for survivors of sexual violence HELENA ONG

JAMES KARSTEN • THE STUDENT LIFE

Partially rotten tomatoes were spotted at McConnell Dining Hall Jan. 31

All the other 5C dining halls have received an A-rating in every listed county inspection.

Food at Frank, Frary and Oldenborg dining halls is typically received two to three days before being served, according to an email from Jose Martinez, Pomona’s general manager for dining services.

In addition to outside inspections, Pomona does internal safety inspections two to four times a day, as well as at opening and closing times.

“Pomona also invested in blast chillers, [devices that] cool down food and maintain it away from the danger zone [the temperature range that allows spoiling], which helps maintain a strong HACCP plan,” Martinez said.

Jennifer Carbajal, Bon Appetit general manager for Collins, wrote in an email that Collins also makes use of EcoSure in addition to county inspections, and like McConnell, follows Bon Appetit’s steps for responding to a report of unsafe food. Collins’ sole report of a food safety issue this academic year, according to Carbajal, was a small insect in a poke plate in December.

“We have strong food safety procedures and training at Bon Appetit Management Company, so I would say we don’t have a lot of reports of food safety issues [at Collins],” Carbajal said.

Management at Scripps and HMC dining halls did not respond to requests for comment before press time.

After spending the summer working on a web app that connects victims of sexual assault to each other, two Scripps College seniors finally got to see I’m With Them come to fruition when it was launched in January.

I’m With Them was developed by Diana Arreola SC ’19 and Monica Acosta SC ’19 through an eponymous nonprofit founded by Laurie Girand, a Harvey Mudd College trustee. According to the organization’s website, I’m With Them aims to “reduce work-related sexual misconduct by privately connecting victims who have the same perpetrator.”

The app is not a method for reporting sexual assaults.

Girand said she developed the app to record patterns of behavior among sexual perpetrators when she noticed how accusations of sexual assault against former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar were initially treated as individual incidents.

Arreola and Acosta, who both major in computer science at HMC, were hired “to code the website from the ground up,” Girand wrote in an email to TSL. They were also responsible for the overall architecture, evaluating vendors for authentication and billing,

choosing the hosting platform and engaging with users that provided feedback, according to Girand.

Both Acosta and Arreola had previously worked together at the Motley Coffeehouse, and had taken the same software development class, Acosta said.

“They brought a unique perspective and they brought a generational perspective that we wouldn’t have had otherwise,” Girand said.

“The world is changing so fast, the way that college students perceive information, the way they perceive social media, the way they handle those things, is entirely different.”

According to Acosta, the seniors began working with back-end development, before others joined the team.

Acosta then moved to creating the front pages and exterior of the website.

“We were giving a lot of input into the product itself,” Acosta said. “We met with people at the EmPOWER Center on campus and went over the kinds of things we would be asking and phrasing things on the website.”

Arreola did not respond to TSL’s requests for comment.

Acosta was inspired to take the programming job after attending a debate on the #MeToo movement at Pomona College last spring. The

event was rife with tension as renowned feminist writer Roxane Gay engaged in a contentious conversation with attorney Brett Sokolow and Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis.

“I think that event really solidified the frustrations I felt from people on campus about how allegations of sexual assault and harassment were being handled,” Acosta said. “I think just being there, you really felt for these people who had been through those sorts of unfortunate experiences.”

Acosta also discussed the difficulty of finding jobs in computer science that have social impact.

“My understanding of ... the tech industry is that it’s, at least in my experience, really hard to try to find jobs or internships that deal directly with social issues,” Acosta said.

But her background as a Scripps student helped her identify ways to achieve social change through technology.

“You can go straight to work on all these interesting theoretical problems and then when you bring in information that you get from your other classes — things like race, class, gender — it’s easier to see how tech can be used in a positive way,” she said.

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Diana Arreola SC ‘19 and Monica Acosta SC ‘19 helped develop “I’m With Them,” an app that connects victims of sexual violence.

HAIFA: Senate MUDD: Petition got 500 signatures resolution condemns faculty Continued from Page 1

Continued from Page 1 professors from UCLA and a member of the Board of Directors of Jewish Voice for Peace to provide historical context for the faculty decision and to argue in favor of the program’s suspension.

“What you’re asking for is just trying to facilitate academic freedom,” said Robin Kelley, a UCLA history professor and member of the panel. “It’s so basic. I mean, I’m surprised that this is a controversy, that’s what surprises me. Like this is a debate.”

Estee Chandler, founder of Jewish Voice for Peace Los Angeles, said the BDS movement “is not anti-Semitic” and utilizes “a nonviolent strategy with a long history in struggles for human rights.”

But not all of the responses to the decision to suspend the study abroad program have been positive.

In November, senators Kramer, Claire Wengrod PZ ’19 and Brendan Schultz PZ ’19 introduced resolution 55-R-04, which condemned faculty for moving forward with the decision before reaching a consensus with students.

The resolution claimed that the faculty decision did not align with Pitzer’s shared governance system, in which students, faculty and staff share power in campus decision-making.

Instead, faculty decided to “act unilaterally without regard to student voice, which is an abuse of power,” the resolution said.

55-R-04 was brought forward once again at the Feb. 3 meeting, but was voted down.

Shay Lari-Hosain PZ ’22 told senators at the meeting that the Senate should “demand shared governance on its own terms and talk about Haifa on its own terms,” characterizing the resolution and similar discussion as “distractions.”

The majority of senators said they believed that faculty had not intended to abuse their power as the resolution insinuated.

The issue has transcended the college, with groups like the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees, which represents more than 6,000 Palestinian university staff, speaking out.

“Please, uphold the vote in support of our struggle for freedom, justice and equality,” the federation wrote in a letter to Pitzer Feb. 5.

Whether these expressions of support and opposition sway the College Council’s final decision will be reflected in the vote in March, which will be held in the Founders Room on the top floor of McConnell Center.

Haidee Clauer and Kira Matthews contributed to this report.

writing for the future and for institutional memory purposes,” said Leslie Hughes, the college’s assistant vice president for student affairs.

The discussions between students and administrators were prompted by a petition for shared governance with more than 500 signatures, which objects to recent changes the administration made to HMC’s New Student Orientation and the structure and hiring process of Residential Life teams.

“We do not believe that this is an isolated incident, but represents a concerning trend of DSA neglecting student voices,” the petition states.

Student dissatisfaction stemmed from Hughes’ January email announcement that a series of changes were being made to the orientation trips and mentor model at HMC. The position of mentors,

who are placed in dorms and provide support for groups of first-year students, will be combined with that of orientation leaders, who lead orientation trips for first-year students at the beginning of the year, Hughes wrote.

Assistant Dean for Residential Life Marco Valenzuela announced other controversial changes in an email to students in January: sending all students on the same trip and “maintaining small groups throughout the trip” instead of creating 23 separate trips, merging of the head mentor and orientation director roles and removing community input from the mentor application process.

After the Feb. 7 meeting, however, DSA reinstated the community input forms in a different, more focused format that would “probably be more helpful for us moving forward,” Hughes said. The forms allow HMC students to

give feedback on students who apply to be a mentor or proctor.

“They weren’t being super considerate of [what] student reactions would be to some changes, especially when the students are very invested in the community that they have,” said Kyle Grace HM ’21, a Linde dorm mentor and ASHMC sophomore class president.

“But I think it’s good they have sort of come to this agreement and not shut out student voices.”

Wang declined to comment, and other members of ASHMC and HMC student leadership either did not respond to a request for comment or were unable to comment by press time.

Hughes said the new orientation model has been used in the past — most recently the 2015-2016 academic year — and was being brought back to provide a “more cohesive experience” for first-year students.

“Before, they were sort of bonding with their orientation

trip leaders in a short-term experience, and then having to figure out how to bond and integrate with their mentors,” Hughes said. “What we envision happening is that our students will work with their mentors from the get-go, and go through this bonding experience with their small groups, and then have the same person continuing on for the rest of the year supporting them in their experience at Harvey Mudd.”

When asked if she was surprised by strong reactions from students following these policy changes, HMC Dean of Students Anna Gonzalez said, “Yes and no.

“I was surprised and pleased that there was the sentiment of looking at shared governance,” Gonzalez said. “And so moving forward what I actually like about it is that our student leaders and our students are eager just as we are to have that working body to look at shared governance at the college.”

Corrections Last week’s P-P athlete of the week Daniel Rosenbaum was incorrectly identified as a Pitzer College student. He attends Pomona College.

Last week in an article about Pomona College’s Rains Center, Gray Butler PO ’20 was misidentified as PO ‘19.

TSL regrets these errors.

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FOOD COLUMN

Pepo Melo is one in a melon STEPHANIE DU Opinion: The Claremont Village has great food. Fact: There are at least two of almost everything — two boba places, two ramen restaurants, two sushi stops and at least three ice cream and pizza places. But as of right now, there is only one place that sells vegan and healthy fast-food, and that place is Pepo Melo.

Keith Strenger, the owner of Pepo Melo, is a produce broker for melons. “Being in the fresh produce industry, I always wondered why there weren’t more options that dealt with fresh cut fruit,” he said. After seeing frozen, pressed and blended fruit products, he came up with the idea of serving fresh cut fruit in its own natural way.

Strenger noticed that most stores that sell açai or smoothie bowls only offer blueberries, bananas, strawberries and the occasional kiwi as their toppings.

For Pepo Melo, Strenger wanted far more options; currently they serve around 17 different fruits. By spring, he expects at least 20 fruit options. Pepo Melo’s fruits are sourced from all over the world, including local farms, Guatemala, Costa Rica and South Africa.

Because of the wide variety of fruits, I was curious about waste management. Strenger said that all leftover fruits would be used for “fruitade,” a drink comparable to agua fresca but with no added sugar. The flavors for fruitades change daily depending on what kind of fruit is leftover. Recent flavors include

Lemon Papaya Basil and Cucumber Mint — a perfect refreshment when the weather gets warm.

“Pepo” is the scientific word for the flesh of a melon, and “melo” is an abbreviated form of melon. Pepo Melo thus not only has a nice ring to it, but represents the roots of Strenger’s career as a melon broker.

Strenger admitted that Pepo Melo did not open at an ideal time because of the cold weather.

But the week after winter break, it quadrupled in business. He attributed the store’s success to Instagram and word of mouth.

“Once somebody takes a photo and shows it to everyone, it’s just a snowball effect from there,” he said.

Strenger believes that business will only increase as the weather gets warmer.

“I’m providing something people will crave when the weather hits 80 and above,” he said. Because of the large presence of students at the 5Cs, Pepo Melo now takes Claremont Cash.

Although the majority of Pepo Melo products are vegan, Strenger himself is not vegan. Before Pepo Melo opened, Strenger hired a plant-based private chef for four months to help design recipes and introduce him to vegan and healthy ingredients.

The private chef invented all the signature bowls and came up with creative names such as Call Me Big Papaya (derived from the song Call Me Big Papa), which consists of a base of coconut yogurt with bananas, kiwis, papaya, coriander, chia pudding and raw caramel drizzle. All

ingredients are fresh and packed with protein and vitamins.

Strenger used his new knowledge to create his own recipes because he wanted more options for everyone, one of which is overnight oats soaked in hemp milk with goji berries. The goji berries acted a substitute for honey, making it 100 percent vegan.

Strenger discovered that the goji berries actually added more sweetness to the oats than honey did. “We are learning on our own how to be creative using natural ingredients without adding anything else,” he said. “Why add honey when you can add goji berries, which has its own health benefits?”

I tried his overnight oats and was surprised at the sweetness and creaminess of it. The oats had absorbed all the hemp milk, making them soft and fragrant.

Biting down into the soaked goji berries added in pops of sweetness.

The toppings bar was fascinating because there were so many options: different types of mixed nuts, granola, chia puddings, seeds, powders and much more. There were even toppings that I’ve never heard of, such as spirulina, a powder made from algae.

“When you have all these options, it’s hard to say no. I have tried a bowl with everything to see if the toppings go well together. The end result was delicious,” Strenger said.

I ended up trying the bee pollen as well, which had an interesting texture and flavor. It was slightly bitter, but had a no-

ticeable floral taste. I also had the Purely Elizabeth granola, which had a lovely cinnamon flavor. For those who like a bit of crunch, try the hemp seeds or the cacao nibs.

The sorbets at Pepo Melo are also a must-order. I sampled three flavors: Blue Majik, charcoal and pitaya (dragon fruit). Blue Majik had a beautiful light blue color and tasted light with a hint of pineapple and coconut. At first, I was skeptical about charcoal because of the color, and the fact that it’s…charcoal. It ended up being my favorite flavor.

It was just the right amount of sweet and creamy, and I never would have guessed that it was made from activated residues of organic matter.

Pitaya, a gorgeous magenta color, was bursting with fruity undertones.

To my delight, Pepo Melo serves pineapple Dole Whip on the weekends. It tastes just how you would expect: sweet, tart and refreshing.

The best part of Pepo Melo is that it is customizable. Although there is a menu of suggested combinations, you can pick and choose from the multitude of toppings, allowing you to come up with your own flavor combination.

“There’s nothing that doesn’t compliment another topping,” Strenger said.

Stephanie Du SC’ 21 is a biology major. Her hobbies include cooking, baking, traveling and eating all kinds of foods.

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Pepo Melo offers a wide variety of toppings so customers can mix and match their own bowls.

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Scripps gets its 15 minutes in Netflix feature film ‘Bird Box’

TALIA BERNSTEIN • THE STUDENT LIFE

“Bird Box,” an apocalyptic film directed by Susanne Bier and starring Sandra Bullock, filmed its final scenes at Scripps College.

LEORA AKBAROV This article contains spoilers.

Since its worldwide release Dec. 21, the Netflix original film “Bird Box” has garnered staggering international attention.

In its first week of streaming, Netflix reported that the horror film received over 45 million views — a record-breaking total for the multi-billion dollar streaming service.

And although “Bird Box” has quickly gained notoriety among many, 5C students may have an extra level of familiarity with the movie.

After more than two hours of nonstop suspense, the film resolves itself when main character Malorie Hayes (Sandra Bullock) and her two children find refuge in the fictional Janet Tucker School for the Blind, a paradisiacal garden that shields its residents from the perils of the outside world.

If you’ve seen the film, you may have wondered why the Janet Tucker School’s Spanish-style architecture and overgrown greenery looked so familiar. That’s because you’ve probably been there — it’s a combination of locations throughout the Scripps College campus.

According to Corrina Lesser, the director of public events and community programs at Scripps, the school started working with the producers of “Bird Box” in September 2017.

She said it took 36 hours to transform the on-campus sites into the Janet Tucker School,

and the actual filming lasted three days during January 2018.

Anisha Kaul SC ’20 was on campus at the time of the “Bird Box” shoot and was able to get a glimpse of the set after the crew had left.

“All we knew about the set was that is was supposed to be used in a horror movie,” she said. “It was really cool to see the courtyard transformed that way.”

Lesser said the film’s producers shot in the Sycamore and Eucalyptus Courtyards, and at the main entrance to the college outside the admissions office at Scripps.

“The location scouts took a full campus tour, but zeroed in on those locations almost immediately,” she said.

“Bird Box” is the most high-profile film to be shot at the college up until now, but other filmmakers are often interested in using the campus.

“Scripps has a gorgeous campus and our proximity to Los Angeles is certainly enticing for many local productions,” Lesser said. “On average, the college receives inquiries for possible filming a few times a month.”

In order to manage the interest in the campus, Scripps uses a location scouting company called Unreel Locations, which also represents Pomona College.

The company, which represents a number of commercial and residential spaces, has participated in the making of movies like “Catch Me If You Can” and “Princess Diaries.”

The Scripps courtyards can be seen one hour and 54 minutes into the film.

East Sixth Street: Fostering a creative community for artists ARIEL SO East Sixth Street, a creative online magazine for all artists in Claremont, was founded last year by co-executive editors Lena Proctor CM ’21 and Elton Smole CM ’21, along with a group of their friends.

After one year, they have expanded into holding regular live events for the 5C community, while accepting artwork submissions for photography, illustration, music, writing, film and more.

Recently, the editors spoke to TSL, sharing insights into their creative processes, backgrounds, group dynamics and hopes for the publication.

TSL: How did you guys get together and come up with the idea of East Sixth Street magazine?

Elton Smole: We [the editors] all met in the first week of coming to [Claremont McKenna College]. One of my friends, who’s now one of the editors, gave me the idea of starting a fashion photography magazine, so I ran with that idea and it ended up developing into a creative magazine. We decided to make it an online magazine, so that’s how the website was born, and we started doing events and just building the community.

Lena Proctor: We had a squad, like, five or six people that we knew all really valued creativity. And being on CMC’s campus, we noticed there was a huge lack of creative representation, so we immediately went: “Let’s do something about this. This will be dope.”

TSL: Could you talk a lit-

tle more about the style and vision of the magazine?

LP: Our mission was to have an online platform for people at CMC and the 5Cs, and for artists to be able to collaborate with each other. Recently, we’ve been more focused on performances and live events, so that’s given people the opportunity to see performers and present their own artwork, visual art, jewelry, etc.

ES: The most recent event we did was last semester in Claremont Hall’s courtyard, and we did another one the previous semester. It’s kind of become a tradition, and it’s basically just a two-part kind of event, with the first part being live student performances — which includes stand-up, poetry, spoken word, dance, artists singing or rapping — then it usually transitions from there into a party with the DJ set.

TSL: What are some of your goals for East Sixth Street?

LP: I think just being more consistent with events. Because it’s hard getting everything organized and preparing for them, but they’ve shown to be really worthwhile, and people really enjoy them, so i’d be interested in doing more.

ES: Definitely just increasing our presence.

TSL: Could you share more about your individual creative backgrounds?

ES: I’ve been doing photography for maybe five years.

My dad gave me a film camera in high school, which I started using around sophomore year, and then I started taking pictures of landscape scenes,

and then I kind of transitioned more into portrait photography. But I have been moving in the direction of film work and videography, so I started working at the film studio at Pomona — Studio 47. And then I’m also interested in literature, reading, writing, that kind of stuff.

LP: I’ve been someone who draws and sings a lot, but I really only started songwriting and taking my music more seriously in high school. Once I got to college, there was a group of people or community that was supportive and interested in the same types of things that I was, so that gave me a bit more of courage to keep going. Last semester, I joined another club called “Live Your Best Life.” It’s a record label on Pitzer’s campus, and we do collaborate a little bit with East Sixth Street as well.

TSL: How did you branch out into the different sections of the magazine?

LP: Well, we came together because we each brought something else to the table.

[Taite Jorgensen CM ’21] loved fashion; [Giano Stringfellow CM ’21] was a rapper; I did music; Elton did photography; [Antonio Pineda CM ’21] also loved fashion. And we thought a lot about how to be inclusive for all types of creative expressions. We included prose, poetry and an “other” section where people could just submit, as well as design, style, clothing.

TSL: What are the group dynamics like within the ed-

COURTESY OF ELTON SMOLE

Members of the East Sixth Street team pose for their website.

itorial team?

ES: I mean, we’re just like best friends, so we spend all of our time together, anyway.

LP: Yeah, I think that’s what makes it really fun. It doesn’t feel too much like work, a lot of times, especially when we’re planning an event; it’s a way we can all support each other as well as other people who appreciate it, so it just works. w TSL: What has been a project you’ve most enjoyed working on so far? And why?

ES: Probably the most memorable one was the first photo shoot that we did. It was just really exciting ‘cause it cemented the idea. I also really enjoyed designing the website.

LP: The beginning of the year, things were still so exciting as freshmen, and we were like, “Wow, we’re really doing something that we care about, and we’re making this happen.” We walked around the 5Cs at the perfect time of the day. Elton had his camera. We were just in our best outfits, having so much fun, playing music and expressing ourselves.

TSL: What has been the response from the community been like?

LP: People have been really excited. I remember our first event that we had, I had multiple people come up to me to say, “Thank you for bring-

ing this to CMC because I’ve never seen people this excited to support other artists.” So, just hearing that made it so worthwhile, on our end, for the work being put in, ‘cause it’s really being appreciated by our campus. And I think I didn’t give it enough credit before on how supportive our community really is. And the 5Cs as well.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

For more information on East Sixth Street, visit their website or submit your own original creative work to submit@eastsixthstreet. com. If you’re interested in staying updated on upcoming events, check out their Facebook page.

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THE STUDENT LIFE

Hip Hop For Change: Noteworthy club makes a beat at the 5Cs KYLA WALKER Kendrick Lamar ’s music pumped through tapping feet on the floor of the Motley Coffeehouse, spilling out of the whispered lyrics nearly everyone’s lips knew by heart.

“At its essence, hip hop music is meant to educate and meant to give people an outlet they wouldn’t ordinarily have,” said Vani Dewan SC ’21, founder of Hip Hop for Change at the 5Cs, which held a listening party and discussion for Lamar’s “To Pimp A Butterfly” album Feb. 7.

“The organization’s effort is to bring that back, and that’s what I’m trying to do as well on this campus, to study hip hop in an academic lens … not just listening to it passively, but allowing it to take up space with these types of conversations.”

Hip Hop For Change started as a non-profit organization in Oakland, California, working with local artists and musicians to host educational and community outreach events and using the genre of hip hop and grassroots activism to fund underrepresented voices.

Dewan established the club at the 5Cs fall 2018, and has ambitions of making the group a

larger, independent organization. “[Hip hop] is worthy of analysis and time. [It] doesn’t usually receive that kind of attention,” Dewan said. “People think of it as more of a trivial art form when really it’s more intentional and soulful than many other genres of music.”

The listening party was the first official event hosted by the club, which chose the 2015 album to honor Black History Month and begin its gatherings with a classic.

At the event, club members curated, played and analyzed a seven-song set. Dewan chose three of the songs and the four other members selected one track each. Charity Turnboe PO ’22, a member of Hip Hop for Change, shared “King Kunta” and discussed its allusions to “Invisible Man” and “Roots: The Saga of an American Family.”

“The mission of the club is to change the narrative and the stereotype of hip hop,” Turnboe said. “A lot of the times people view it as one-dimensional, but there’s so much variety.”

Dewan said Hip Hop for Change seeks to advocate for the true heart and soul of the genre by exposing both fans and strangers to lyrics, and in turn starting

conversations at the 5Cs. “Our short-term mission is to educate and empower on our campuses,” Dewan said.

“By taking up space, putting people together that normally would not be in conversation together … we share personal stories that serve as an outlet for the speaker and an educational experience for the listeners.”

The lyrics for each track at the listening party were projected with annotations from Genius.com, providing context for the audience. Each member came prepared with discussion questions, but the conversation flowed naturally over time and branched into tangents such as race, gang affiliation and the listener’s connection to Kendrick’s stories.

“I see the conversations happening on small levels with friends, but for this kind of a large scale, multi-campus wide discussion, I don’t think that’s happening currently.

That’s why I think people are so into the idea [of this club]; it’s different,” Dewan said.

For more information or to join the club, email 5CHH4C@ gmail.com, “like” Hip Hop For Change at the 5Cs on Facebook, or follow it on Instagram.

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Students listen to Kendrick Lamar’s music in the Motley while lyrics are projected on screen.

Student bakers donut disappoint at the Great Motley Bake Off CATHERINE WARD Student bakers gathered at the Motley Coffeehouse on Feb. 8, primed to wow their peers with their culinary skills at the biannual Motley Student Bake Off. A crowd of student samplers showed up before noon, and the line stretched all the way around Seal Court for the duration of the hour-long competition.

The event, held at the beginning of each semester, is named after the feel-good hit show “The Great British Bake Off.” “I’m a huge fan of ‘The Great British Bake Off,’ and I live for Paul Hollywood’s critiques,” bake off attendee Izzy Phan SC ’20 said. “I think the name definitely affected my standards for the baking.”

The difference between the TV show and the Motley event, however, is that the GBBO competitors only have to make enough food for two judges. Student bakers are tasked with making enough for a huge crowd of hungry college students to eat.

“Today we have cake pops, macarons, oat bars, pumpkin cake. … In the past we’ve had donuts, muffins, granola, just a huge range of things,” product manager Caitlin Kim SC ’19 said. “We also have gluten-free and vegan options, because that’s important to us [at the Motley].”

As the taste-testing students entered the Motley, they were each handed a voting slip. The students tried a bite of every item before marking their top three favorites. Later in the week, the Motley management team planned to tally the votes and deliberate over factors like the cost and dietary restrictions of each dish.

The top-rated items will then be sold at the Motley for the duration of the spring semester. Bakers are only compensated for the price of ingredients, but most say it’s just a fun excuse to bake every week.

Some bakers have contributed every year.

“This is my sixth or seventh

FILM COLUMN

Reel Talk: The most underrated films of 2018 RACHAEL DIAMOND Award season is upon us, meaning that it’s time to root for the best films of the year, grumble about films that are showered with unearned praise, lament over the inevitable snubs and argue with everyone you know about which films belong in each of these categories (at least that’s what I do).

The two biggest awards shows, the Oscars and the Golden Globes, have delivered a list of nominations that is puzzling at best and embarrassing at worst, favoring mediocre remakes like “A Star is Born” and poorly made, pedophile-directed biopics like “Bohemian Rhapsody” over some of the most inspired and moving films of the year.

The following list contains the best films of 2018 that I feel are being gravely underappreciated.

“First Reformed” 2018 was a big year for Ethan Hawke, who wrote and directed the biopic “Blaze,” a drama based on the life of musician Blaze Foley. Hawke’s greatest achievement of the year by far, however, was his performance as Reverend Ernst Toller in Paul Schrader’s deeply unsettling drama “First Reformed.”

Toller — an alcoholic healing from a family tragedy, whose physical health is quickly deteriorating — runs the historic First Reformed Church in upstate New York, but begins to unravel after a troubling encounter with a tortured environmental activist (Philip Ettinger) and his pregnant wife (Amanda Seyfried).

“First Reformed” is a dense rumination on faith, politics and despair, wrapped sharply in a haunting character study. Its stunning conclusion is the best ending of the year.

“Leave No Trace” It is disappointing that no women were nominated for best director, but this oversight is especially shameful given the existence of Debra Granik’s quietly brilliant “Leave No Trace.”

Centered on the relationship

between a war veteran plagued by post-traumatic stress disorder (Ben Foster) and his young daughter (Thomasin McKenzie), the film follows the two as they are uprooted from their isolated life in the forest and struggle to find a home.

McKenzie delivers an outstanding, confident performance, and the two actors expertly convey all the love and tension of the father-daughter relationship despite a minimal script. While many of us have fantasized about dropping everything to live off the grid, the film exercises remarkable restraint and avoids romanticizing their lifestyle. Instead, it functions as an incredibly thought-provoking mediation on the ways we choose to live, and what it means to be home.

“If Beale Street Could Talk” If “Moonlight” wasn’t enough to convince you that Barry Jenkins is truly a genius, his adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel “If Beale Street Could Talk” will.

This deeply affecting celebration of love tells the story of a young pregnant black woman named Tish (Kiki Layne), who seeks to clear the name of her fiancé

Fonny (Stephan James) after he is imprisoned on a false accusation of rape.

Jenkins’s depiction of 1970s Harlem is glowing and drenched with color, and the film is full of beautiful and heartbreaking close-ups in which Layne and James shine.

Composer Nicholas Britell’s aching and euphoric score is the best of the year.

“Sorry to Bother You” Contrary to its name, “Sorry to Bother You” is a confident and wickedly creative directorial debut from Boots Riley that will leave you shaken to your core. Lakeith Stanfield plays Cassius “Cash” Green, a black telemarketer whose career takes off when he begins speaking in his seemingly impossibly “white voice.”

Tessa Thompson is a marvel as Cash’s girlfriend and aspiring artist Detroit, and Armie Hammer also makes an appearance as a fanatical coke-snorting CEO. There’s a lot going on and at times the film lacks focus, but “Sorry to Bother You” is so utterly entertaining from start to finish that it is impossible not to applaud

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its ambition, or to get it out of your head once it ends.

“Burning” Based on the short story “Barn Burning” by Haruki Murakami, Lee Chang-dong’s “Burning” is a deliciously thrilling and atmospheric mystery that has all the elements we’ve come to expect from Murakami’s stories — mysterious women, things (or people) vanishing without a trace, and, of course, cats. All three leads — Yoo Ah-in as aspiring writer Lee Jong-su, Jeon Jongseo as his childhood friend Shin Hae-mi and Steven Yeun as the inexplicably wealthy Ben — are excellent, and the ending presents an incredibly satisfying release of tension that smolders throughout the film.

If nothing else, watch it for an absolutely mesmerizing weed-induced dance scene set to Miles Davis, placed against the backdrop of a fiery sunset — without a doubt the best scene of the year.

Rachael Diamond SC ’21 is a philosophy major. She enjoys ranting about movies to anyone who will listen.

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ELOISE SHIELDS • THE STUDENT LIFE

Amalia Berrett SC ‘21 assembles macaroons during the Motley Student Bake Off, which determines what treats will be served this semester.

time baking in the competition,” said Maddy Blumer SC ’19.

“These are oatmeal butterscotch bars, also known as scotchy bars.

They’re really easy to make so it’s a good thing to bake for the Motley.”

The event is not restricted to Scripps students, so anyone from the 5Cs can enter. Baking is a significant part of many students’ lives, and the bake off gives them a chance to share their unique passion with the 5C community.

“I’m really into science and stuff, so I got interested in baking,” Anna Banyas HM ’22 said.

“Not only did I want to gain another skill, I was interested in how the ingredients interact and how baking happens.”

Some competitors even choose to enter two or three

items. One contestant, Amalia Barrett SC ’21, made three different types of mini macarons and was still piping the cookies together as people walked through the door.

There were so many people that many of the items were already gone halfway through the event.

Most of the bakers said baking is a good way to destress and share something they love with their classmates. For some, it’s also a way to push themselves and show their creativity.

“I recently made biscotti for the first time. My sister and I made a star bread together, which is a sweet bread that’s wrapped,” Banyas said. “I like trying things with a strong potential for failure. The trash can has had many of my dishes.”

Creation, commerce and community: Artistic entrepreneurs at the 5Cs YASMIN ELQUTAMI Almost every student at the 5Cs has experience juggling academics, extracurriculars and personal lives, but only a few add running a small business to the balancing act.

Becca Magnan PO ’22, Madison Seto SC ’21 and Carrie Young SC ’21 are three such entrepreneurs; they make and sell art through their respective self-run businesses, making names for themselves within the 5C community and online.

Magnan, who makes wire earrings and crystal pendants to sell on her online shop and Instagram account, The Crystalist Shop, considers her business to be unique from her other artistic projects.

“My shop is, to me, not just a space for physical jewelry, but an outlet for me to express my creativity,” she wrote in an email to TSL. “I love art — I paint and sketch, but this is one outlet that is easy to show to people.”

One of Magnan’s favorite things about her business is “seeing people wearing [her] jewelry around the campuses.”

It’s “especially cool knowing that people are buying local,” she said.

Seto is a visual artist who designs stickers, and sells them on Etsy while advertising on Instagram. She said her business, Madison Seto Design and Papery, is a perfect match for her college lifestyle.

“My art originally manifested in making large, elaborate, three-dimensional things,” Seto said. “When I came to college I obviously couldn’t take all my tools with me. I ended up turning to two-dimensional art forms that I could digitize in my dorm room.”

She was excited to make the shift to stickers.

“I’ve always liked the idea of stickers, and people who

cover their laptops and water bottles with stickers,” Seto said.

“Stickers aren’t a print you have to frame. They’re art you can have with you all the time to make you feel better, rather than having to be in a certain — maybe formal — space.”

Young’s Etsy shop and Instagram account, Youngwire, showcase her wire earrings which depict intricate faces. She sees jewelry as “an amazing template for sculptural art” to share with others.

She explained how her art business keeps her creative drive alive: “If I weren’t selling my art I would never make it,” she said.

“It’s the process of creating that gives me energy and desire to keep going. Once it’s done, I don’t need the product, so people get to enjoy something I also got a ton of joy from making.”

Seto touched on the importance of the community giving back to student businesses.

“Making your first random sale, in which someone you don’t know buys your product, is just so exciting and humbling.

You think, ‘This person doesn’t know me at all and values what I make enough to pay for it.’

It’s a surreal feeling,” she said.

“People are willing to support other Claremont students even if they don’t know the impact they have. Everything they do matters to us.”

The small vendor community is also important to Seto. “It’s also really inspirational to see other college students that are doing the same thing because we’re all juggling all these things at the same time,” she said. “We can influence others to create their own businesses because, even though it’s challenging, we’ll support each other. The community [aspect] of it is great.”

Magnan, Seto and Young’s works can be found on their Etsy accounts, @TheCrystalist, @MSetoDesignandPapery and @youngwire, respectively.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

DataMatch 2019 STORY AND Q&A BY SCHUYLER MITCHELL

Put your romantic life into the hands of an algorithm Do you feel frustrated by the Claremont dating scene? Have you found yourself replicating the mistakes of your parents’ failed marriage? Are you spending your nights lying awake in bed, endlessly swiping through Tinder profiles until the blue light from your phone screen makes your eyes water and every face congeals into an amorphous mass of disappointment?

We’ve all been there.

But fear not — you don’t have to wallow in self-pity any longer! A team of computer science majors at Harvard University have unlocked the secret to true love: an algorithm. This week, water isn’t the only thing pouring down on the Claremont Colleges. The Golden Antlers has teamed up with the Harvard Computer Society to bring Datamatch, a data-driven matchmaking service, to the 5Cs. Let Cupid’s arrows RAIN, baby!

Datamatch was invented by the Harvard Computer Society in 1994 and has since become a long-running Valentine’s Day tradition at the school. According to the Datamatch website, more than 80 percent of the student body signs up annually, which means everyone at Harvard is either really chill and cool, or really single and lame.

Last year, Datamatch began to expand to other universities.

“At Harvard in general there’s very much a culture where you’re expected to go out with your date or click ‘interested,’” said Harvard senior Russell Pekala, one of the two supreme cupids behind this year’s Datamatch. “I hope that that kind of cultural expectation

Q&A with Alex ValdesusoPinney PZ ’20, editor-in-chief of The Golden Antlers TSL: Why did The Golden Antlers decide that Claremont was in need of Datamatch?

Alex Valdesuso-Pinney PZ ’20: I reached out to them a little over a year ago because I heard about it through the grapevine from one of my friends who said it was at Brown [University] and Harvard. I wanted this to be a non-traditional Tinder/Bumble experience that was funny, but also maybe somewhat realistic.

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of going out in a low-pressure environment is something that Claremont can replicate.”

A low-pressure environment in Claremont? Good luck.

Nevertheless, the 5Cs might be able to learn from Harvard, just this one time.

“We have at least one instance where we’ve heard of people who have gotten married as a result of their Datamatch date,” said Harvard junior Teddy Liu, the second supreme cupid coding the key to our hearts this year.

Added Pekala: “We did a survey two years ago and asked people if they knew of any Datamatch stories. We heard about 12 different couples through that survey that were together just because they had met on Datamatch, and we also heard about at least that many friendships or cool new connections that were formed because of it as well. So it’s more than just

romantic connections. We’re proud of all types of connections between people.”

So how does the algorithm actually work? How is it going to help me find my future exwife? Sadly, Liu told me that that information is strictly proprietary. Oh, well — I wouldn’t have been able to understand the computer science anyway.

Sign-ups opened on Feb. 6 in Claremont and closed Feb. 13. The Datamatch website reports that 26 percent of students at the 5Cs signed up for the service. On Valentine’s Day morning, participants received an email listing their matches and compatibility percentage.

Pekala told me that, statistically, someone at the Claremont Colleges will find true love. Unfortunately, after mostly matching with people I’ve already ghosted on Tinder, it doesn’t look like that person will be me.

TSL: The Golden Antlers did a matchmaking service in the past, right?

AV P : We d i d a f a k e matchmaking service. Last year, we were going to send out a toaster and just keep spamming people’s emails with images of toasters.

There was a toaster that had a little heart and eyes, like the Brave Little Toaster but more goofy. We were going to send it out and say, “This is the love of your life,” and then we were going to keep on sending messages about the toaster. That just never happened.

TSL: That is really unfortunate.

AVP: I wish we would’ve gone through with it.

TSL: How did the collaboration with Datamatch work? I know the algorithm is secret, but somehow the questions you guys write

got matched with the algorithm?

AVP: I know that the questions are kind of linked to personality traits and they code them based upon that. But the algorithm is pretty secret.

TSL: How did you decide what questions to ask?

AVP: We started off by looking at other real matchmaking services, like Plenty of Fish. From there, we tried to put some more Claremont-specific questions and funny answers.

TSL: Do you have any words of advice for people taking the quiz on what they should do if they match with somebody they know or don’t really get along with, like an enemy or an ex?

AVP: I think the important thing is to not take this too seriously. This algorithm isn’t going to decide whether you should marry them or have 12 kids with them. It should be more like, “You know what?

I matched with somebody, let’s see what happens. We both took this quiz, we already have a sort of common background for a first date, we might as well see where it goes.”

TSL: What do you think the best first date would be at the Claremont Colleges?

AVP: I’m a big proponent of Collins first dates. They are highly underrated. Honestly, it really depends on the

person. I have a list that I can make up if people want first date ideas.

TSL: That’s very dedicated.

AVP: I’m very dedicated to the cause. We also have a couple things planned for people to possibly win some prizes for first date experiences.

TSL: What is your hope or vision for the future of Datamatch in Claremont?

AVP: I’d love for this to be a thing in Claremont. I’ve already heard so many different conversations about it.

People aren’t certain it’s going to work, but I think it’s going to be a really fun time where people will get a list of names and maybe see where that opportunity takes them.

TSL: Do you know how many people signed up in the first day?

AVP: They haven’t given me any specific numbers, but I’ll show you what they shared with me. ... They said, “Super excited about your sign-ups today. You’re about to beat out Brown and Wellesley.”

TSL: What are the top songs people should listen to if they’re sad their Datamatch doesn’t like them back?

AVP: Just listen to Avril Lavigne’s first album. I think that’s a really, really good way to keep on pushing through everything. Put “Complicated” on repeat and you should be fine.

My lover waits between the sheets: On literary loves SAMANTHA RESNICK I don’t often read Reddit, but a recent question-turned-confession titled “I think I’ve fallen in love with a fictional character” caught my attention: “I know people get crushes on fictional characters all the time, but this has gone beyond a crush. I’m infatuated with him. ... [H]e’s the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing on my mind before I go to sleep.”

The dilemma posed here by user “someperson23” is not an uncommon one — the very anonymity of their name suggests that this problem could plague anyone. There is a booming world of reader-generated content that speaks to this infatuation with certain literary characters.

FanFiction.net is estimated to have over two million users and nearly eight million published pages of content. Other sites have taken it a step further, even offering a marriage certificate between you and your favorite character.

This issue also relates to the nature of romance in fiction and the often stereotypic portrayals books can promote.

Literary characters are usually more attractive, smarter, funnier, romantic and entertaining than living, breathing people.

They were written that way.

And this post is especially fitting for Valentine’s Day, a holiday for which companies sell consumers a carefully crafted caricature of love — one that requires you to spend $60 on a bouquet of roses.

The holiday often champions romantic love, but Plato teaches us that there are other types — platonic love, familial love, even the love of knowledge. This Reddit user’s post, however, begs us to add one more: literary love, or, in more clinical terms, fictiophilia.

In the case of someperson23, this refers to when a reader falls in love with a fictional character. However, I’d like to expand it to include falling in

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love with the fictional world the author has created.

Ever since I finished my first full trilogy (Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium”), I’ve come to intimately understand the heartbreak induced by the end of a series, that inevitable moment when you must leave the fictional world in which you’ve been immersed.

Reading is, at its essence, a suspension of disbelief — we are willing to temporarily put aside rationality in order to inhabit the world of a writer’s mind. But if we are taking part in this knowingly, then why is it so hard to return to reality afterwards?

The answer, it turns out, lies in neurobiology. When a writer does their job well, evoking all of the sensory details of their literary cosmos, then our eager little book-loving brains light up in response.

The New York Times reported on the findings of a 2006 study in the journal NeuroImage. A team of researchers in Spain examined the difference in neurological activity when participants read neutral words versus words with strong olfactory associations.

They found that the primary olfactory cortex of the subjects activated when they read words such as “perfume” but not for words like “chair.”

Other studies corroborated these results by examining words with texture and motion associations, leading the NYT article to conclude that “the brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life.”

It is not so surprising, then, that a reader might fall in love with a character. Is this the cost of being a reader? Such a dismal catch-22: we must believe in a fictional world in order to fully enjoy it, but that act of belief itself then makes the inevitable return to reality all the more harrowing.

This might not be a pain

particular to readers, either.

The movie “Ruby Sparks” tells the story of a writer who, well, writes his ideal girlfriend into existence. Putting aside the fact that the film is the epitome of Manic Pixie Dream Girl mania, it does make a worthwhile point. If we readers think we get lost in the book’s world, then imagine the poor writer.

While that may seem bleak, it is also ultimately what is so wondrous about reading. We are, for brief periods of time, able to escape into a world that is often more perfect, more marvelous, more startling than our own. And that escape can then inform our experiences

with reality, as little as we would like to have returned to it.

Other studies have shown that fiction readers have an increased aptitude for empathy. That same NYT article reports on the findings of Dr. Keith Oatley and Dr. Raymond Mar, who found that frequent readers were able to “better understand other people.”

The act of reading thus appears to improve our ability for imagining the rich inner lives of others, allowing us to consider different perspectives more easily.

Beyond the benefits and costs, this phenomenon of literary love calls into question larger philosophical meditations on the nature of love and reality. Is the “love” felt by readers such as someperson23 real? If so, that would imply that love can exist in a fictional realm, that is does not need to be based in reality.

While it is strange to think that, in some ways, the writer has manufactured the love between the reader and a fictional character, this relationship does not seem to be so different from the more typical versions of love we associate between partners in non-literary conceptions.

Because, at the end of the day, if reading is a suspension of disbelief, isn’t that what real life love is, too? We put aside, if only temporarily, our cynicism at living in a Tinder and hookup world, a world in which it feels harder and harder to find meaningful connections. We trust that our partner won’t hurt us — that they will protect that burgeoning, blushing, blooming intimacy between us.

And yes, the risk of heartbreak is ever present. When a relationship doesn’t work out.

When a particularly good book comes to end. But at the end of the day, love — and reading — seem worth it.

Samantha Resnick PO ’19 likes reading words, and sometimes, she likes writing them, too.

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things you didn’t know about Valentine’s Day MADY COLANTES

It’s the season of Valentine’s, and love is in the air.

Whether you’re preparing lavish gifts and rose bouquets for your sweetheart or compiling a Spotify playlist of sad songs to cry to alone, you may be curious about Valentine’s Day traditions and how they surfaced. I’m not a love expert, but I can certainly share some interesting facts about this holiday.

1

Was my biology teacher lying?

I f yo u k n o w a n y t h i n g about biology, you know that the hearts we draw look nothing like an actual heart.

It is speculated that the shape peppering all Valentine’s Day cards is meant to resemble the seed of a now-extinct plant called silphium, which was used in ancient times as both a food seasoning and a contraceptive. The heart shape became associated with sex, and from there, the connection was drawn to love. Other theories connect the shape to crude drawings of breasts, a butt or — to put it delicately

— male sexual organs.

2

Hallmark didn’t create the holiday after all.

Sure, Hallmark has certainly profited from romantic card purchases (we exchange about 144 million cards each Valentine’s Day), but the holiday’s origins extend far beyond the company. According to the most popular legend, St. Valentine was a priest in ancient Rome, who — despite Emperor Claudius II’s ban on marriage for young men — secretly married young lovers. Upon being caught, St. Valentine was sentenced to death. Feb. 14 is thought to mark the day of his execution or burial.

3

XOXO

Though we may associate it with text lingo, “X” has been used as a kissing symbol since the Middle Ages. People who couldn’t read or write often signed documents with an “X” because it was easy to write. “X”, however, is also representative of Christ because of its resemblance to

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a cross — people would kiss their signature to show piety.

No one really knows how “O” came to represent hugs though; some say it’s simply because it was also easy to write.

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It’s a popular day for engagements...

As you might expect, many people choose to pop the question on what’s seen as

the most romantic holiday.

It’s a good choice too, at least for young adults — in a James Allen survey, 43 percent of millennials cited Feb. 14 as the day they’d most like to get engaged. New Year’s Eve came in second with 23 percent of respondents hoping for a ring.

Surprisingly, Valentine’s Day boasts only the second-highest number of actual proposals per year; Christmas holds the title as the most popular day to get engaged.

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...but if you’re alone, you’re not alone!

Fear not, all you singles: In 2016, of all U.S. residents 18 and older, 47.3 percent were single. If that doesn’t comfort you, try showing yourself some self-love: About 15 percent percent of women admit sending themselves flowers on Valentine’s Day, whether it be to impress unknowing onlook-

ers or simply to feel special.

But even better than flowers, in my opinion, is stress-eating junk food, and for that, Potbelly Sandwich Shop has you covered. On Valentine’s Day, any customer who comes in without a significant other can get a free cookie!

Mady Colantes PO ’22 is from Seattle. When not in shock over the lack of rain in Claremont, she enjoys reading and getting too excited over small things.

Love to Elena Kim PO’21 is the first bite of vegan texas sheet cake, enjoyed with friends, under the watchful eyes of Prometheus.

While Alex Rosen PO ‘21 also loves dogs, his guitar and baseball on saturday afternoons, his collection of Crocs holds the #1 spot in his heart.

Alessia Milstein PZ ‘22 loves Pitzer’s weekly Snackie Snack...but who’s the real snack here?

Vanessa Lincoln SC ’21 and Christina You SC ’21 couldn’t let go of each other even if they wanted to…

#TSLove Alison Jue SC ’20 is spending her Valentine’s Day reminiscing about her true love, the Boston Red Sox, winning the 2018 World Series.

Abby Johnson SC ’21, Sophie Liles SC ’21 and Olivia Gleason SC ’21 love late night fire drills!

Nicholas Mendez CM ’21 cannot decide whether or not to hyphenate his and his couch’s last names when they get married…

Grove House chicken Blanquita (PZ) discovered her love of cycling for the first time this December. “I feel like I can fly,” she says.

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‘Overheard’ memes are divisive and harmful

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Spring sports starting As soon as it stops raining

Finally reunited with twin Spirit Goodnight Oppy

TSL needs more sports writers Come work for TSL!

RIP Mars Rover “My battery’s low and it’s getting dark”

Family Weekend Free meals at Bardot

Scripps’ alum performs at Grammys There’s hope for liberal arts students!

Going to TNC with your mom “It’s called Mo Bamba”

Oscars cutting down on categories Why should I even watch it anymore?

KenKen In a 4x4 KenKen, the numbers 1-4 will appear in each row and column exactly once. To solve, fill in according to the operation in the upper left-hand corner of each bolded area. For example, the bolded area with 5+ will include two numbers that add to 5.

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EAMON MORRIS “Overheard at PZ: Person A: ‘So dude what are you taking this semester?’

Person B: ‘You mean classes or drugs?’”

The conversation above is an example of a common post that appears in the Facebook group “Meme Queens of the 5Cs,” which has more than 6,200 members. These members are given access to “memes related to the 5C experience” with the understanding that they will not post memes referring to specific people without their consent and that they’ll be mindful of how the content affects others.

For the most part, these vague rules are followed. The group is home to an eclectic variety of memes, from Vine compilations to complaints about the weather. It’s a gallery of comedic content, well-designed for procrastination.

More recently, however, it has become a place to call people out, complain and sow division between students.

Of course, the good students of the 5Cs would never directly call out their peers. Instead, they listen in on their conversations and report on them, keeping the identities of the speakers anonymous.

In Meme Queens, posts like these (called “overheards,” or OHs) are increasingly common. To be fair, the OHs usually seem innocent enough.

The post I mentioned above, for example, is a humorous conversation that plays into the stereotypes of Pitzer College.

In general, a poster will be in the right place at the right time, positioned perfectly to intercept a fragment of a conversation so bizarre it guarantees them hundreds of likes in the Facebook group.

Yet on a fundamental level, overheards are unethical and bring our society closer to a “1984”-style dystopia, where all public conversations are at risk of being documented and preserved on the internet in perpetuity, and where anyone can chime in and identify the speaker.

Overheards are allowed in Meme Queens because they don’t call people out by name,

therefore not violating the rules against referencing specific individuals.

They do, however, reference specific conversations and take people’s words without their consent to be used as a form of humor.

For the most part, our conversations are not performative.

We don’t speak or crack jokes or reveal secrets with the understanding that our words will be available for analysis by thousands of people.

We joke and we whisper and we chat with our friends.

We shouldn’t have to sequester ourselves in our dorm rooms to be given privacy. We should be able to speak directly with our friends in public without having to worry about being made into a joke.

Of course, there’s another component to the overheards.

Sometimes, people say incredibly ignorant things, like false statements or privileged opinions about race or economic status. This is obviously unacceptable, especially at the 5Cs, institutions renowned for their progressiveness.

But when people do or say things like this, the cure to it is not calling them out. Even when done anonymously, calling people out only reinforces their confidence in their ignorance.

To them, if it makes this many people angry, it must be right..

In reality, their beliefs are something to be remedied. This is not done by walking away from the ignorance to post it in a meme group. This is done by talking to individuals on a personal level, treating them as equals — “calling in” instead of calling out. This is done by explaining how what they said or did was wrong, not simply taking their words and stringing them out in public for the world to see.

Furthermore, posting overheard snippets of offensive conversations without names attached does nothing but generate rage without a focus, rage that spills over to target and stereotype entire groups.

When physical descriptors are attached to the conversation (for example, the person’s race or gender), people begin imagining the words coming out of the mouths of every person that fits that description, causing division and conflict between groups and continuing the cycle.

Confrontation is always difficult, but even if “calling in” is too uncomfortable, “calling out” is never an acceptable alternative, especially in a Facebook group intended to bring people together through shared experiences in humor and quality memes.

Eamon Morris PZ ’22 is from Orange, California. His roommate collects plastic water bottles.

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Americans need to stop brushing off foreign languages CHRISTOPHER MURDY Some Americans today look to European-style government as the solution to our domestic challenges. But adopting aspects of their education system, specifically their focus on teaching foreign languages, ought to be far less controversial.

While standards vary from country to country, the average European student begins to study their first foreign language between the ages of six and nine, according to Pew Research Center. Furthermore, 20 European countries mandate that students study a second foreign language before they graduate from secondary school.

As a result, a median of 92 percent of European students of all age groups study at least one foreign language, according to Pew. By comparison, only 20 percent of all U.S. students study a foreign language, and only 10 states and the District of Columbia require graduates to have studied a language.

As evident from the pushback against the Common Core Initiative, nationwide attempts to standardize education requirements can be difficult to implement.

Nevertheless, foreign language instruction ought to be considered a key aspect of any proper education and treated as such.

Few subjects offer students more of an economic boost than foreign languages classes. On average, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia found that pro-

ficiency in one offers American workers a two percent boost in annual income. This bonus increases for languages with fewer speakers.

Relatively few Americans can take advantage of this bonus, though, because our current education system fails at foreign language instruction. Most often, the few states with language requirements only mandate two years of instruction.

Because these classes often start as late as high school, it simply ends up being too little, too late. Researchers at MIT have found that those who start learning a language after the age of 10 do not achieve the proficiency of native speakers.

Only 0.7 percent of Americans who can speak another language “very well” indicate that they learned it in school. While some may argue that these results suggest we should divert resources away from foreign languages, that would be unwise.

Those either raised bilingual or taught a foreign language also have better memory, visual-spatial skills and even creativity. These benefits extend well into adulthood, and foreign language abilities have even been seen as a factor in delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

European-style education clearly demonstrates how effective foreign language instruction could become in the U.S. Of those able to speak another language, 68 percent credit their lessons in school.

Historically, Americans have often dismissed these statistics with claims that Europeans are advantaged

by growing up in much closer proximity to other foreign language speakers. Yet the number of Spanish speakers living in America grows rapidly each year. Since European schools most often teach English as their foreign language, many Americans live just as close to Canada or Mexico as these Europeans do to the United Kingdom or Ireland.

In areas of the U.S. that may lack any significant diversity, successful language instruction would introduce these young students to cultures different from their own. Studies have shown that students who study a foreign language hold a more positive opinion of the speakers of that language.You could ask what the “use” is of any major, and the answer is that it will be whatever that student chooses to do with their post-college life.

Language skeptics may be quick to claim that these skills will do little for those who don’t plan to travel internationally in life. Twenty years ago, one could viably make that argument, but it falls flat now.

In today’s world, we are seconds away from engaging with media, literature, communication and entertainment from all around the world. Equally important, language skills give job applicants an additional asset as globalization continues to change the world economy.

Pomona College, Scripps College and Claremont McKenna College require their students to demonstrate competency in a foreign language before graduation, but Pitzer

College and Harvey Mudd College do not have any such requirement.

For those of us who will take a language class during our time here, we must focus on gaining proficiency in that language and then continuing to use it after we graduate.

We have a duty to ensure the next generation of America grows up with an appreciation for foreign languages and culture.

Current trends suggest this will require much effort. In response to the Great Recession, foreign language classes often became the first casualty of budget cuts. Ironically, these cuts only further hurt students’ chances of attaining jobs.

In Massachusetts, for example, the number of job postings requiring bilingualism almost tripled between 2010 and 2015, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Additionally, students who study a foreign language regularly score higher on standardized testing, perform better in science classes and succeed more in college classes, according to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

The U.S. needs to dramatically overhaul its foreign language instruction so its students can become more competitive in an increasingly global economy, perform better in school and become more culturally aware.

Christopher Murdy PO ’22 is an intended International Relations major from Lido Beach, New York. This weather is really starting to remind him of home.

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Summertime Sataness: Lana Del Rey as the Antichrist CAMERON TIPTON “Feet don’t fail me now...”

These five words marked the beginning of a new era, one characterized by moderate-to-severe depressive episodes, waterproof mascara and casual cocaine use.

The homosexuals, of course, wasted no time in declaring Lana Del Rey a gay icon.

The ethereal richness of her vocals, the evident depth concealed behind seemingly cliche lyrics… one can’t help but extrapolate some sort of deeper meaning.

That’s because there is one.

A big one.

I am fully convinced, theydies and gentlethems, that Lana Del Rey is the Antichrist. By the end of this article, you will be, too.

We must begin, of course, with “Born To Die.” The title is as provocative as it is existential, marking a defined beginning and end. Conceptually then, the album encompasses the extremes of the human experience, from unresolved daddy issues and habitual drug abuse to unparalleled opulence. She leads a life of sin and is not afraid to admit it. Nothing too incriminating, right? Wrong.

So what? Del Rey’s the queen; this is common knowledge. However, her presumed “boyfriend” soon makes an appearance; he’s a scantily clad, heavily tatted fellow, whom we might presume to be the embodiment of sin (or, at least, temptation). Fast forward to the end of the video: an image of Mr. Sin holding the bloody, mangled remains of our monarch, no doubt symbolizing the death of the established order.

This is just the beginning.

“Born To Die” was promptly followed up with an EP, “Paradise,” one with indisputably Edenic implications. From her claim that she is “an angel living in the garden of evil” in “Gods

& Monsters” (no doubt a play on Lucifer’s status as a fallen angel) to her admiration of “the snake on your tattoo” in “Yayo” (Snake? Garden? Come on!), the parallel couldn’t be clearer.

Focusing specifically on the lyrics of “Gods & Monsters,” Del Rey even goes as far as publicly expressing her antagonistic relationship with God, singing, “Me and God, we don’t get along” before ultimately asserting, “God’s dead, I said ‘baby that’s alright with me.’”

A risque claim, to be sure, especially from a self-professed Christian. Through her music, Del Rey repaints the Christian narrative, shifting it from the traditional conception of Eden as a “paradise” to a “garden of evil” in which the omnipotent God is dead. Who, then, will assume His role? Keep reading.

Enter “Ultraviolence.” Ominous title aside, this album wastes no time entering this post-God dystopia, evidenced by the first track on the album, “Cruel World.” “Got your bible … and your gun,” she croons.

This juxtaposition of a sacred religious text with a tool of destruction, reinforcing the death of Christianity as we know it, is only the beginning.

If one looks very closely, Del Rey not only commits, but openly glorifies, all of the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride (“Shades of Cool”), Greed (“Money Power Glory”), Lust (“Fucked My Way Up To The Top”), Envy (“Sad Girl”), Gluttony (“Old Money”), Wrath (“Ultraviolence”) and Sloth (“Brooklyn Baby,”).

If we consider her “Paradise” EP as a distinct album, then “Ultraviolence” would be her third album. Why, you might ask, would Del Rey wait until her third album to accept all these abominable sins? As a direct rejection of the Holy Trinity, of course! The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are foregone in the name of the Daddy, the Baby

and the Absurdly High Note She Hits In “Cola.”

For the sake of concision, we’ll overlook “Honeymoon” (because, let’s face it, most LDR fans do anyway), but the Satanic loyalty continues with “Lust For Life,” a direct and undeniable declaration of sin with the implication of permanence.

But wait, you may be asking yourself, didn’t she say we were born to die? Well, yes. But, that was then. This is now. We were born to sin.

Now, why is any of this relevant? I’ll tell you why. Her newest album, “Norman Fucking Rockwell,” is scheduled to be released in late March. This falls into Aries territory, which is represented by a disembodied ram’s head and therefore the sign of Satan (sorry, I don’t

make the rules). But that’s not all — this upcoming album will be her sixth.

The End — or, depending on your devotion to Del Rey, the Beginning — is on the horizon. This knowledge likely won’t protect you from her fiery reign, but perhaps if you go home and read your Scripture (i.e., Lana Del Rey Wiki), you might have a shot at salvation. In the words of our new Supreme, “I pray your life is sweet, you fucker.

Damn you.” Repent, or be damned.

Cameron Tipton PO ’20 is a psychology major. They are passionate about creative writing, Iranian-American politics, LGBTQ issues and iced coffee..and Lana.

Obviously.

CHLOE FRELINGHUYSEN • THE STUDENT LIFE

Jasper’s Crossword: Presidents’ Day

ACROSS 1. Movement led by Chavez and Huerta 8. Briefly, brief albums 11. The Simpsons disco character 14. Cubs home turf?

15. FAFSA eligibility doc.

16. Hurl 17. Define the boundaries of 18. Confidential 20. Pitzer * 22. Colorado ski resort town 25. Siberian clink 26. Scripps (with 64-across) * 27. Ruckus 29. Bits of cocoa or coffee 32. ___-lacto 33. Harvey Mudd * 37. ___ Turner’s rebellion 38. Neither partner 39. Gossip that might be spilled 40. TSwift album that includes “I Knew You Were Trouble” 41. Pomona (incl. first initial) * 44. “You’re it!”

45. Bigwig 46. State above Colo.

47. Friend or kind of 39-across 48. Enlighten 51. They have the meats 52. Claremont McKenna * 57. Guest’s guest, say 58. Mesopotamian kingdom 62. Ref. for Claremont clocks 63. Geese formation 64. See 26-across * 65. 5C single sign-on system 66. Sixth sense 67. Crux

DOWN 1. Non-THC cannabis element that’s growing in popularity 2. Old variety show: ___ Haw 3. President suffix 4. Peninsula annexed by Putin 5. Like those depicted in Mad Men 6. Broadway’s Patrick Harris 7. Being broadcast 8. Channel that might air a Big Ten game 9. Expressed orally, legally 10. Island nation in the Indian Ocean 11. Eastern European 12. Carry, or an item that would help 13. Ride finder 19. Night watch 21. Frankenstein’s assistant 22. Getting _____ (playing nice) 23. 21 ______ (rapper recently detained by ICE) 24. Like Ocasio-Cortez or Sanders, say 27. Famous kind of cookie 28. E.g. Nerf bullet 30. Drink bill 31. Perspiring 34. Modest reply to a compliment 35. It precedes “nautics” in NASA 36. Cubes have twelve 38. “Good choice.”

42. Softwares in testing 43. What Horton hears 47. Dr. Jekyll alter ego 49. Types of a teen’s facial ailment 50. Shrill squeak 51. Ones who might vocalize the

show name from 2-down 52. Hewlett Packard computer, for short 53. Mission: Impossible rogue agent Faust 54. Things to get stuck in 55. Today’s is 2/15/19 56. Suffix for metamorph or psych 59. Kylo of Star Wars 60. Business name ender, for short 61. Enzyme add-on

TANVI JHUNJHUNWALA Her flowing golden locks and iconic slender waist were what made her the archetype of the Hollywood dream girl.

Now, she’s making a comeback.

The new “Barbie” movie, an adult comedy, will star Margot Robbie as the live action version of the doll, according to Variety.

The making of this movie seems like a regression to the same problematic perception of beauty from which we were emerging.

It’s no secret these societal ideas of beauty, color and weight are fed to us from childhood, and a long-time culprit is Mattel’s Barbie.

She’s tall, she’s blonde, she’s thin and she’s white.

Young girls played with her hair, and consequently, impossible body dimensions were what we began to crave.

The psychological effects of having a perfect doll given to us were substantial — we idolized the dolls, which for many people manifested in the form of eating disorders or a desire to get plastic surgery. For some, it became so extreme that they tried to become “real-life” barbies.

As the public began to shatter these ideas after recognizing their negative effects, the demand for Mattel’s Barbies started to fall. The toy was being called out for the ideals of skin color and body type it promoted. According to Fortune, Barbie sales fell by 16 percent in 2014.

In response, Mattel announced in 2015 that it would release a new range of Barbie

dolls with different skin colors and body types.

The “Fashionista” range, which debuted these new dolls, was a clear victory for the movement. The bestselling Barbie was Latina and plus-size, and Barbie sales rose 14 percent in 2016, Retaildive reported.

Barbie as a character has been moving into more professional spaces. Originally released as a housewife, she has moved into the corporate world, in addition to becoming an astronaut and a hairdresser.

But the new movie threatens to return Barbie to the past.

The casting of Robbie risks another movie being made about the same blonde, white, skinny girl that is over-represented in Hollywood.

Even though Mattel has made an effort to introduce new dolls, there remains a fundamental issue. They’re not Barbie; they’re simply variations of her. It’s the Barbie character who’s a global powerhouse, a household name, and having her star in another large production is just a solidification of that.

While casting is an issue, the basic flaw lies in the nature of Barbie as a character, which is so deeply rooted in her aesthetic appeal that to change her would be to change the character completely. Yet, a complete change in character is what is needed.

Another movie about Barbie just does more to validate the Hollywood dream girl; it places her, yet again, at the top of the hierarchy.

Tanvi Jhunjhunwala PO ’22 is from New Delhi, India, and she hates mac and cheese.

Optimization: The new threat to liberal arts TALIA IVRY Guest Columnist

JASPER DAVIDOFF • THE STUDENT LIFE

The new ‘Barbie’ movie is one step forward, two steps back

It’s been a little over three weeks since we’ve returned to school, and though the heyday of settling in and figuring out schedules has left little time for existential musings, I find myself reflecting on a conversation I had with a close high school friend over break.

We were driving back from a bookstore and discussing how impactful a good book can be when she sighed and said something like “It’s so nice to read, but I don’t really understand the point of studying literature.” Shocked, I asked her to clarify. “I guess it’s like, what’s really the use of an English major?”

To be clear, this friend is no illiterate opponent of higher education — she attends an elite university and enjoys reading fiction in her spare time. I spent the rest of the car ride trying to defend the ethos of the liberal arts education, but it was the word “use” that particularly stung and stayed with me.

Were it not for this specific turn of phrase, I might have written off the instance as an example of STEM single-mindedness that so pervades our society at the moment, leaving humanities out to dry. Yet as

I thought more about why her comment bothered me, I realized there is a unique and insidious facet to her way of thinking that needs to be explained.

This is a relatively new notion, but one already so instilled into our capitalistic society that it at first seems self-evident: To be successful (see: productive), you must optimize every experience.

In this culture of, as Drake says, “grind ‘til you come up,” summer plans become resume builders, social interaction is calculated to maximize networking potential and college is only as valuable as the future employability it sets up.

The narrative of the American dream has its roots in Puritan notions of the sanctity of work. But recently, the pressures associated the with millennial trend of glorifying workaholism are starting to seep into higher education.

Far from being a one-off, my friend’s question seems to be the thought of many college students today; it’s the idea that our worth will be determined by the heft of our paychecks and the intensity of our jobs.

If college, like all other avenues of Generation Z life, must be exploited to the fullest, it makes sense that students would turn to majors they view as more practical, more useful and optimal. More and more frequently,

optimization looks like STEM. Beside being factually inaccurate (humanities majors are no less likely to be employed than life or social sciences and the difference in employment rates between STEM and humanities is not actually that stark), the low opinion of humanities reflects a disturbing trend in Generation Z culture, one in which we see ourselves only as future cogs turning the wheels of capitalism.

Work for the sake of work inevitably leads to massive burnout, and ignores the values of developing critical inquiry, intellectual progress and thought for the sake of thought.

You could ask what the “use” is of any major, and the answer is that it will be whatever that student chooses to do with their post-college life.

James Blaisdell, a former president of Pomona College, said, “they only are loyal to this college who, departing, bear their added riches in trust for mankind.”

In the end, everyone must decide for themselves what “riches” they have to offer, and that’s a question that doesn’t depend on one’s major.

Talia Ivry PO ’21 is a psychology and religious studies double major from Wisconsin. She is grateful to have escaped the polar vortex.

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SPORTS

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THE STUDENT LIFE

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

‘Statistics are standard’: New P-P golf coach brings professional tricks to Claremont

TORREY HART “It’s a lot bigger than a laptop,” said Pomona-Pitzer golf coach John Wurzer, motioning to his own. “It’s called TrackMan, it’s $30,000, and it’s a radar that reads every shot and how much it spins back, forth and sideways.”

And it symbolizes the new coach’s vision for Pomona-Pitzer golf.

Wurzer, a former assistant coach at the University of Southern California and Cal State Fullerton, is about to begin his first competitive season at the helm of the program. His arrival in Claremont was deliberate — the Southern California native began a head coaching job at Portland’s Division II Concordia University just three weeks before accepting his current position, but the situation with P-P was ideal.

“It wasn’t the intention to move around that fast, and it is always a little awkward to leave a job after three weeks. But it was just the better opportunity for me, and I was grateful that I had really multiple options to choose from,” he said. “The hiring process wasn’t going as fast, and I just didn’t want to assume that this was going to be a job that I would get offered because I wasn’t anywhere close to that.”

Both schools offered him the chance to coach women and men, but Division III presents unique

challenges.

“It’s not so much the job is different — the coaching is not easier or harder — the coaching is the same, and that’s no matter what.

But the recruiting, the Division III versus my background has been more Division I,” Wurzer said. “So just the differences in the levels, and it’s not a negative change, it’s just the recruiting is much more academic-based. So that’s a big part of what I do.”

With that academic rigor comes a shift in daily priorities from the D-I level. At USC and CSU Fullerton, players had to schedule their classes around practice; the opposite is true at P-P. The adjustment has proved challenging, but by no means insurmountable.

Under the prior coaching staff, players tended to practice individually due to class conflicts.

However, Wurzer has made it a priority to foster a stronger sense of team.

“In the past it’s always been that coach [Bernard] Walker ... was very hands-off with the team [and] didn’t really tell us what to practice on, what to work on. He was more of like the transportation,” women’s team captain Sophia Hui PO ’19 said.

“It worked out because a lot of us had our own private swing coaches, we knew our own games a lot better, but I feel like now I see a lot of the girls more. I also

CMS Athlete of the Week

only from his D-I days but from the highest professional level: the PGA and LPGA tours.

“You sort of follow trends.

Some of the stuff you find separately and you sort of pick up on it before it becomes mainstream,” Wurzer said. “A lot of my job is to expose people to stuff. And I pick certain things that I know we’re going to do, but I may expose them to 70 percent more things, and we only do 30 percent of it.”

And that’s where the TrackMan comes into the picture — Wurzer noted that top programs might have between two and four of the pricey devices, and he sees one in the future of his program.

Though he “hates” to compare schools, he aspires to turn P-P into something akin to the Stanford of D-III. “Very rigid, high-standards academically, but also high standards from an athletic standpoint,” he said.

It will require funding from both the athletics department and program alumni to get to that point, Wurzer said. He hopes to increase players’ access not only to the aforementioned technology but also to a network of golf courses.

“Because ultimately it’s about playing golf more than it is about bells, and whistles and toys, and all that,” Wurzer said.

The team currently practices both at a seven-hole on-campus

know what they’re working on, which is great to hold each other accountable,” she said.

Walker was fired in May 2018, and claimed he was terminated for not reporting allegations of student misconduct, among other reasons.

Beyond shifting the dynamic and moving past the sour ending to last season, Wurzer is bringing the team up-to-speed in its use of game-enhancing technologies now considered standard in the elite golfing world.

“They record every shot they hit on an app on their phone, and that’s used to measure not necessarily just the simple stats, but things to the terms of strokes gained. So what it breaks down for them is from zero yards to their maximum distance, it measures where they are statistically against professionals or scratch handicaps,” Wurzer said.

“There’s a large data pool and it just measures how they plus or minus compared to that large number. ... These are things that they’ve never done before,” he said.

“We have this app that we use to track all our shots throughout our rounds, so that database is really useful in understanding our strengths and weaknesses,” men’s captain Conor Rooney PO ’19 said. The tool is aptly called Golf Metrics.

Wurzer draws these tactics not

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Women’s Golf Men’s Baseball Amy Xue Jeremy Jess CM ’22 San Ramon, California

PZ ’20 San Luis Obispo, California Jess earned a spot on the D3baseball.com Team of the Week following his strong performance in Pomona-Pitzer ’s season-opening win over University of Puget Sound Feb. 8.

The junior led the Sagehens with four RBIs, three runs and a home run to secure a 14-4 win against the Loggers. Jess, a pitcher and third baseman, will look to lead his team through SCIAC competition, as P-P was ranked fifth in the conference entering the 2019 season.

Xue was named the SCIAC Women’s Golfer of the Week after her tournament win against Redlands in the first competition of the 2019 season. The first-year battled through tough conditions during competition Saturday and Sunday for an impressive two-day score of 154. After a rocky start to Sunday’s round, Xue managed to pull out a close win by a single stroke — beating out four other golfers who tied for second place — to lead the Athenas to a team win at the tournament.

CMS SPORTS WEEKLY ROUNDUP TORREY HART CMS women’s golf overcomes poor conditions to nab come-from-behind win After trailing by two strokes at the end of day one against Redlands at the Los Serranos North Golf Course last Saturday, the Athenas (1-0 SCIAC) improved their score by five strokes on day two, despite poor conditions. CMS outscored the Bulldogs by 17 strokes on the second day to win 625-640.

Amy Xue CM ’22 was named the SCIAC Women’s Golfer of the Week after her individual win with a twoday score of 154. Just one stroke behind her were Taylor Hughes CM ’20 and Tiffany Hu CM ’22, tied for second with a score of 155. The duo also tied with Redlands’ Annie Hay and Kendall Nicholson. In third, just one more stroke behind, was Mira Yoo CM ’21.

The Athenas return to Los Serranos for the first regular-season SCIAC tournament this weekend.

Hull allows one run over five innings as CMS baseball wins season-opener The Stags (1-0) opened their 2019 season with a 9-6 win over Lewis and Clark before the final two games between the teams and another against Puget Sound were canceled due to inclement weather.

Starting pitcher Justin Hull CM ’20 struck out eight over five innings of one-run ball.

Relievers Nico Mannucci CM ’21, Brandon Mitchell CM ’21 and Nick DeGallier CM ’19 tossed scoreless innings, while Nick Dazell HM ’22 gave up a pair of runs and Konnor Kwok CM ’20 allowed one.

Thanks to a fifth-inning three-run home run, shortstop Zach Clarke CM ’20 led the team in RBIs on the day. Centerfielder Henri Levenson CM ’20, second baseman Patrick Gavin CM ’21, and corner infielder Marco Castillo CM ’22 — who also scored on an error — each drove in one of their own, while left fielder Kevin Nakahara HM ’20 tacked on two more.

Weather permitting, CMS will play an away doubleheader against Occidental Saturday.

CMS women’s basketball stretches streak to 18 with 3 wins in 5 days The Athenas (22-2, 14-1 SCIAC) posted three commanding wins over the course of five days, taking down Caltech 62-47, La Verne 75-43 and Occidental 80-55. The team honored seniors Corinne Bogle CM ’19, Ellery Koelker-Wolfe CM ’19 and Teeana Cotangco CM ’19 prior to the first game.

Gloria Bates CM ’20 led all CMS scorers with 32 points across all three games and added 10 rebounds. Classmate Maya Love CM ’20 followed her with 28 points on the week, and led the team with 26 rebounds.

O v e r t h e t h re e - g a m e stretch, CMS shot 42.6 percent from the field and upped

its current winning streak to 18 games. The Athenas will play their final regular season game against Saturday against Cal Lutheran.

CMS men’s basketball battles back to preserve threegame win streak Though things looked iffy as the Stags (17-6, 11-3 SCIAC) trailed Occidental by six after the first half of their Wednesday night game, CMS battled back to a final score of 65-57 to win its third game in five days.

Coming off a weekend 89-69 win over Caltech and a Monday 73-49 victory over La Verne, the Stags held Occidental to just 19 points in the second half to allow the comeback.

Miles President HM ’20 led CMS scorers with 37 points across the three games; Maxwell Kirsch CM ’21 followed with 36 points, all off the bench.

The Stags as a whole shot 51.4 percent from the field over the three-game winning streak.

CMS will play at Cal Lutheran Saturday before hosting Chapman for Senior Day Tuesday.

CMS track looks strong against Division I field In a Division I-heavy field, CMS’ Abby Johnson SC ’21 took fourth in the one-mile race at the indoor Howie Ryan Invitational last Friday in Houston with a time of 5:07.94. The Athenas’ next highest finish came from Natalie Marsh SC ’19, who took sixth place in the 3,000-meter, running 10:27.47.

On the men’s side, in a field that included 15 Division I com-

petitors, Miles Christensen HM ’22 won the 3,000 in a time of 8:29.48. Stevie Steinberg HM ’21 was just behind him in fourth place, going 8:33.53.

Pole vaulters Walker Quinn CM ’20 and Garegin Soghomonyan CM ’22 added ninthand tenth-place finishes for the Stags, hitting marks of 14-feet-8.75-inches and 14-feet2.75-inches, respectively.

The team will cross Sixth Street to compete at the Pomona-Pitzer All-Comers meet Saturday.

Athenas split softball season-openers with Whitworth CMS (1-1) won its first game 7-2 and dropped its second 7-3 against Whitworth in its season-opening doubleheader last Friday.

In the first game, starting pitcher Chloe Amarilla CM ’19 found success on both sides of the plate. She tossed a complete game, allowing just two earned runs, and drove in a run of her own. Despite the loss in the second game, she notched a double and triple.

Outfielder Molly Spaniac CM ’21 went 2-for-4 in both games, driving in two of the Athenas’ five runs that came in a big first game fourth inning. In addition to Amarilla and Spaniac, Maddie Valdez CM ’21, Kawai Scanlan SC ’21, Kylie Hetzel HM ’20 and Savannah Green CM ’20 each drove in a run apiece in the CMS win.

The Athenas are slated for a doubleheader against Vanguard Friday.

ADAM KUBOTA • THE STUDENT LIFE

John Wurzer is in his first season as Pomona-Pitzer’s head golf coach.

putting green, which opened in September 2017, and on the football and soccer fields. Players spend morning practices tracking longer shots out on the fields.

“It’s a competitive practice where they measure. They have a yardage, they have to hit to it — just like they’re on the course — make a decision, check the wind, line up their shot, hit it, and then measure about how far they miss,” Wurzer said. “They’ll kind of get a sense of what’s a good range and a miss range every week. Golf is very much

cumulative.”

And it will be through the little things that the team improves under Wurzer’s watch. While the women are already one of the top 10 teams in the nation, and were the runners-up last year in what is arguably Division III’s best conference, the men have a ways to go.

“Winning is a byproduct of just putting in the hours and the time,” Wurzer said. “So winning is not something you control, but it’s what you strive for. It’s not an expectation, but that’s a goal.”

CMS WOMEN’S TENNIS

Athena tennis, 2018 NCAA champs, swinging for a repeat GABBY HERZIG The Claremont-MuddScripps women’s tennis team is gearing up for a 2019 season that it hopes closely mirrors last year ’s, which ended with the Athenas as the NCAA champions for the first time in program history.

Last May, the Athenas fought their way to the title on their own home courts at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center. After a three hour and 40 minute nail-biting match against the seven-time national champion Emory University Eagles, the Athenas came out on top with a 5-4 win.

The Athenas already had a promising fall season, with Catherine Allen SC ’20 and Caroline Cox CM ’21 winning the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s National Doubles Championship in October. In addition, the ITA announced Jan. 17 that CMS had earned the No. 1 spot in the Division III preseason poll.

“Our mindset is that it is a brand new year, but that we are capable of another strong season,” Allen said. “We can definitely use the lessons we learned that helped us win last year, but the work needs to be put in. We have a long way to go.”

The team is adjusting to the loss of two key members, Kyla Scott HM ’18 and Lindsay Brown CM ’18, who both played doubles and graduat-

ed last spring. However, CMS has welcomed four new faces to the program: Sydney Lee CM ’22, Sarah Bahsoun CM ’22, Crystal Juan SC ’22 and Georgia Tuckerman CM ’22.

“We definitely lost two great leaders and fierce competitors,” Cox said, “but the freshmen have been working really hard and have brought an exciting new energy to the team.”

Allen agreed, noting that the first years are incorporating “their own skills and weapons that are fitting in quite well.”

As for their aspirations for the rest of the season, Cox said that “defending our title is of course the unspoken goal.”

If the Athenas want a repeat, they’ll need to go through Emory and Williams College, who are respectively ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the NCAA. The Athenas defeated Williams in the NCAA semifinals before taking down Emory in 2018.

After last year’s win, CMS learned that working together is vital, especially in the face of tough opponents.

“We need everyone to contribute and play their role and all that is understood by every member on the team. That mutual feeling is unifying,” Cox said.

The Athenas have secured wins over Idaho State, Caltech, Occidental College and UC San Diego so far this spring. They will play against Brandeis University at home Feb. 23.

AMY BEST • THE STUDENT LIFE

Sydney Lee CM ‘22 returns a serve in the Athenas 6-1 win over Idaho State Friday, Feb. 8.

SPORTS FEBRUARY 15, 2019

THE STUDENT LIFE

P-P SPORTS WEEKLY ROUNDUP NOAH SHAPIRO Sagehen softball starts season with doubleheader sweep of Puget Sound The Pomona-Pitzer softball team (2-0) opened its season with a doubleheader against Puget Sound (0-2) last Friday, winning a competitive first game 5-3 before blowing out the Loggers 13-1 in the second.

Liz Rodarte PO ’19, the reigning Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Year, pitched all seven innings of the first game for the Sagehens, tallying eight strikeouts and giving up only three runs.

With the game tied at three in the bottom of the sixth, Izzy Deatherage PO ’20 hit a double with the bases loaded to give the Sagehens the win.

The second game was almost over before it began, as the Sagehens jumped out to a 10-0 lead and never looked back. Both Megan Otsuka PZ ’22 and Julia Carreon PZ ’22 recorded their first career home runs, with Otsuka’s coming on her first ever at-bat for the Sagehens.

P-P baseball downs Puget Sound 14-4 on opening day The 2019 baseball season got off to a quick start for the Sagehens (1-0), as they took down Puget Sound (0-1) 144. Tyler Yoshihara PO ’20 and Ethan Baer PZ ’20 both put in four innings on the mound before Luka Green PO ’20 entered in the ninth to close the game.

The Sagehens immediately jumped in front, putting up four runs in the bottom of the first to seize control.

The offense was consistent throughout, scoring in five of their eight innings up to bat.

Jeremy Jess PZ ’20 led the way for P-P, going 3-4 with four RBIs, three runs and a home run. Jeremiah Quezada PZ ’20 also contributed to the scoring, going 2-5 with four RBIs. Sagehen men’s tennis opens year with two wins

over SCIAC opponents Ranked No. 12 in the nation, the Sagehen men’s tennis team (2-0) got off to a strong start last Saturday, beating conference opponents Cal Lutheran (1-1) 6-3, and Whittier (0-1) 8-1.

Jed Kronenberg PO ’21 paced the Sagehens, winning all three matches over the weekend. After picking up the win at No. 2 doubles over Cal Lutheran, he took No. 1 singles 6-1, 6-1. The sophomore capped off the week by downing Whittier in No. 1 singles as well. Kronenberg, who won last year’s SCIAC Newcomer of the Year, earned a SCIAC Athlete of the Week honor for his performance.

Sagehens women’s water polo goes 1-3 against tough competition at Triton Invitational The Sagehen women’s water polo team (1-5), winners of the past two SCIAC Championships, struggled against the top competition in the nation last weekend at the Triton Invitational in San Diego.

On Saturday, P-P lost to No. 1 USC (12-0) 15-4 and No. 16 Long Beach State (2-6) 17-8.

On Sunday, the team split a pair of overtime thrillers, first falling to San Diego State (3-4) 6-5 before beating Santa Clara (2-6) 8-6 for their first win of the year.

P-P found itself trailing by a goal with under a minute to go in each of their Sunday games, but Kyla Pickell PZ ’19 came up big both times. Scoring with just one second remaining against SDSU and 54 remaining against Santa Clara, Pickell gave the Sagehens a second chance at a win in each game.

After losing their first overtime on a power play in sudden death, the Sagehens shut out Santa Clara in overtime for their only win of the weekend.

Sagehen women’s basketball wins on Senior Day The P-P women’s basketball team picked up two big conference wins last week to extend their winning streak to five, taking down Cal Luther-

Athletics staff working overtime to keep competition flowing smoothly amid storms JAELIN KINNEY It doesn’t rain often in Claremont, but when it does, it quite literally pours.

Last weekend, Southern California was hit by abnormally cold weather and a massive rainstorm that caused streams and puddles of water to dot the 5Cs. For ill-prepared Californians, rain means wet clothes and an urge to binge-watch shows while bundled underneath blankets. But for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Pomona-Pitzer athletic programs, rainy weather can cause slippery fields. Chilly temperatures tighten muscles and increase likelihood for injury.

Enter Aaron Becker, Pomona-Pitzer’s assistant athletic director for operations and events, whose role becomes especially critical when the downpour starts. Becker communicates with coaches and staff for athletic needs and oversees events both outside and inside of P-P’s Rains Center.

“The rain interrupts things, but it doesn’t make the job any harder,” Becker said of last week’s rainstorm.

Given the harsh conditions, practices for baseball, softball and tennis were moved inside.

Becker said that although these athletes did not get to practice on the diamond or court, they continued to train through other

activities, like jogging, weightlifting or practicing fundamental skills for their respective sports.

On Feb. 2, P-P women’s tennis was scheduled to compete against Occidental College, and swim and dive was scheduled for a meet against Caltech.

Becker made the call to move the tennis matches to Feb. 7, as the rain was falling too hard to compete.

Although tennis had to reschedule, eventually winning its postponed opening match 9-0, swimming and diving carried on in Claremont. The heated swimming pool at the Haldeman facility reduced the physical impact that the cold weather had on athletes, allowing the P-P team to compete against Caltech Feb. 2. CMS did the same against Cal Lutheran and La Verne at Axelrood Pool.

On that same day, Roberts Pavilion sprung a leak, forcing the postponement of a CMS women’s basketball game against La Verne, briefly halting the continuation of the Athenas’ then 14-game winning streak. Lucky for CMS, the team was able to pick up where it left off just a few days later.

“I think [the rain is] more of an annoyance for everyone,” Becker said. “Everyone is eager to go back and continue playing their sports, and the rain prevents them from doing that.”

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The harsh conditions of recent rainstorms pose a serious challenge to P-P and CMS sports teams.

an (9-15) 62-56 on Saturday and Whittier (10-13) 76-67 on Wednesday.

The game against Cal Lu was Senior Day for the Sagehens, who honored Keilani Ikehara PZ ’19, Anita Romero PZ ’19, Zoe Hunt PZ ’19 and Naomi Baer PO ’19. While it was the seniors’ night, P-P was led by its youth. Amara Chidom PZ ’22 scored 16 points and 10 rebounds and Carly Leong PZ ’22 chipped in 15 points. Both players came off the bench for the Sagehens.

The Sagehens were in control against Whittier, getting out to an early lead. Renae Tamura PO ’21 had a big impact with 10 points, six rebounds and five assists, while Cameron Edward PO ’22 paced the team with 14 points on a blistering 4-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc.

Historic season continues: P-P men’s basketball sets program record with 22 wins, extends win-streak to 18 The P-P men’s basketball team (22-1) continued its tear through the SCIAC, downing Cal Lutheran (7-16) 78-61 on Saturday and Whittier (9-15) 94-71 on Wednesday. With the wins, the Sagehens stretched their win streak to 18 games, and moved to a perfect 14-0 in the SCIAC. On Saturday, the Sagehens took a 35-20 lead into halftime and remained in front the rest of the way. Adam Rees PO ’20 was one of four players to reach double figures, and led the balanced scoring attack with 15 points and nine rebounds.

The Sagehens dominated the Kingsmen in the paint, winning the rebounding battle 47-25.

Daniel Rosenbaum PO ’19 and Micah Elan PZ ’20 shouldered the load for the Sagehens against Whittier, as Rosenbaum had 24 points, seven rebounds and four assists, while Elan had 21 points, eight rebounds, four assists and four steals.

The Sagehens again had an advantage on the glass, out-rebounding Whittier 48-28. The win was the 22nd of the season for the Sagehens, setting a new program record.

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CMS SOFTBALL

Athenas softball coach coming into her own in second season UMA NAGARAJANSWENSON The Claremont-MuddScripps softball team has undergone dramatic changes in the past two seasons. In addition to player turnover creating a very young team, the Athenas hired a new head coach late in 2017, Gina Oaks Garcia.

Former longtime coach Betsy Hipple, who led the Athenas to four Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victories over 12 seasons with the team, stepped away in fall 2017 and was replaced

by Oaks Garcia, who now enters her second season at the helm.

Oaks Garcia is a former All-American player at Cal State Fullerton, and has played softball for the U.S. national team and in various national and international professional leagues. Her experience as a player has served her well as a coach, her players say.

“She’s played professionally, and she knows the game really well,” All-American pitcher Chloe Amarilla CM ’19 said.

Oaks Garcia, who was unavailable for an interview, was a pitcher in her playing days, a factor that influences her coaching strategies.

“She focuses a lot on her pitching staff, she knows the mechanics and drills,” Amarilla said. “She’s really helpful for the battery.”

The “battery,” a common nickname for the pitcher and catcher on a team, is a critical strength for the Athenas. It includes Amarilla, just named to the NCAA Division III Player of the Year Watch List, and Maddie Valdez CM ’21, a

catcher who hit .347 and led the team in RBIs last season, and smacked a home run in the Athenas’ season opening win over Whitworth.

Team morale is as high as ever, in part due to Oaks Garcia’s coaching, Amarilla said.

“We’ve either been too serious or too much on the fun side,” the senior said, referring to past seasons, “and we’ve struck a balance this year.”

Alexis Singh SC ’22 agreed.

“We’ve created a lot of great bonds with the older players and the younger girls,” Singh said. “It’s a lot of fun.”

Largely due to Oaks Garcia, the team is more tight-knit than ever before, a sentiment echoed by first-years and seniors alike.

“She really focuses on having a family,” Amarilla said.

“We do Christmas cards and a lot more fun things as a team.

We went to a hip-hop class during ‘hell week,’” a week of intense training at the end of winter break.

Singh added: “We do a lot of team bonding events with the coaches. I think right now we’re already starting to click and it’s still pretty early in the season.”

Despite the breaks from traditional training, the defending SCIAC champions are keeping their eyes on the prize.

“We know our competition level is there,” Amarilla said.

“We’re good enough, and we should be beating these teams.”

Both players said the team already had the raw talent necessary for success when Oaks Garcia took over, but her guidance has been crucial for the team’s upward direction.

“They want us to have fun, but they also want us to keep that competitive streak in us,” Singh said. “It really comes

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Gina Oaks Garcia is in her second season as the head coach for the CMS softball team.

down to the mental game, and I think that’s really important to coach.”

The coaching transition has been relatively smooth despite a chaotic start, according to Amarilla. Hired late in the fall semester in 2017, Oaks Garcia had limited time to get to know the team and the players. But it didn’t seem to matter, as the Athenas won the SCIAC title and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

“She came in with the right mentality. She didn’t want to do a complete 180 and change things right away,” Amarilla said. “It was a gradual shift in the coaching style and tactics.”

Oaks Garcia inherited a strong team, though, and the Athenas have high hopes for this season.

“This year has been a lot better, because she’s been able to make this program her program,” Amarilla said. “Coach is a really positive force, and it’s hard not to enjoy being coached by her.”

CMS WOMEN’S GOLF

CMS women’s golf hungry for second title after last year’s taste of success

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The CMS women’s golf team is aiming to defend its NCAA Division III title in the 2019 season.

DELANEY HARTMANN Ten months removed from its first NCAA national championship in program history, the CMS women’s golf team is excited to embark on its bid to defend it.

“There’s no other feeling like it,” head coach Jodie Burton said, referring to last year’s title run.

CMS took home the Division III championship in May by defeating Williams College in a hotly contested final round. The Ephs overcame a four-stroke deficit on the final day of the tournament, and the Athenas won the title in dramatic fashion, defeating Williams in a second playoff hole.

“The championship win last year was very surreal,” said team captain Kelly Ransom CM ’19. “It was such a fun ending to a dream season.”

The team returns four out of five golfers from the national championship squad, having only graduated 2018 individual national champion Margaret Loncki CM ’18. The team also got an infusion of six first-year athletes, and expects to compete for a repeat title.

“We definitely have a goal in mind,” Ransom said. “I feel a little bit of internal pressure to perform well on the national stage, but I think that the team has a lot of good positive energy moving forward.”

Burton has been coaching at CMS for more than 40 years

— including 31 years of basketball, with stints in volleyball and tennis — and started the golf program 12 years ago.

At the time, she was looking for something different in her career.

Burton admitted that she never expected to produce a national championship team.

But as she looks back at the talent, energy and strong team chemistry last year, she said she isn’t surprised that the Athenas were able to pull it off.

“Your teammates are the only ones who understand exactly how difficult golf really is,” she said. “You are always out there by yourself, but at the same time you really aren’t, because you can feel the support from the team.”

And the surprising key to the Athenas’ success? Having more fun than their opponents, Ransom said.

“Every other team was always so serious, but we were always listening to music, laughing and having fun,” she said.

Both Ransom and Burton agreed that the team has the pieces to defend its title but just needs to maintain focus. The Athenas’ focus was certainly put to the test during their first spring competition Feb. 9 and 10 against conference rival and nationally ranked Redlands.

The team rose to the occasion, pulling off a comeback win 625-640. The Athenas will next compete Feb. 16 and 17 at the Los Serranos golf course.

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