VOL. CXXXIII NO. 0
FRIDAY, September 3, 2021
CLAREMONT, CA
ANNA CHOI • THE STUDENT LIFE
Welcome back. Let’s CMC preps for new science building take care of each other This semester, community comes first
EDITORIAL BOARD Maybe you’re still getting used to life in a residence hall. Maybe you’re returning to campus for the second or third time. Maybe you never left the city of trees and PhDs — but no matter what the last year and a half brought, TSL is thrilled to welcome you to this semester at the Claremont Colleges. One thing unites us: After two semesters of false starts and a mountain of preparation, we all know exactly how special it is to be here. There’s nothing quite like hammocking on the Mounds, relaxing in Seal Court, visiting the koi at Galileo or watching the sun rise over Marston Quad and set on the Kravis roof. And although the changing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic means this semester won’t exactly look like the ones in recent memory, it’s also one that we’re not likely to forget anytime soon. From long-awaited reunions of friends and peers to firsttime meetings of classmates that have only ever seen each other in boxes on a screen, there’s so much to get out of our time together. So in light of the unique circumstances in which we find ourselves, we have a couple of thoughts about how we can all get the most out of the coming weeks and months. First and foremost, it’s become exceedingly clear that time at the 7Cs
is precious. There’s no place like this in the world — no exact match for the hub of energy, curiosity, determination and creativity that you’ll find just stepping out for lunch or walking through an academic building. If there’s a professor you’ve been meaning to meet, a club you’ve heard so much about or a once-ina-lifetime trip to the mountains, the beach or some other part of gorgeous Southern California, there’s no time like the present. Sometimes the best decisions you’ll make in college come from heading to a meeting on a whim or choosing to keep a conversation going instead of hurrying on to the next thing. Savor each moment and take advantage of whatever you can. That brings us to a fact we’re all too familiar with: Our time here is fragile. mRNA vaccines and wavering case counts aside, the indisputable lesson of the last 18 months is that COVID-19 will be here to stay for the foreseeable future. We each need to do our part to keep ourselves safe where we are because the alternative is all but unthinkable. The colleges have given us a head start, with changes like outdoor classroom space, standardized testing schedules and hand sanitizer within a stone’s throw of every building you could think of. But to
TALIA BERNSTEIN • THE STUDENT LIFE
Facilities and spaces around the 5Cs are reopening with restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19 on campus.
be frank, administrative decisions can’t protect us — we have to be responsible for our own safety and, by extension, that of those around us. Community health includes all of us, whether we like it or not. The virus doesn’t automatically turn off in dining halls or dorm rooms late at night, and that means your ability to make good decisions shouldn’t either. The prevalence of asymptomatic cases means the potential to unwittingly get infected or infect others is always there. It may not feel like the virus is in the room with you, but it’s certainly in Claremont, and just one case can lead to dozens more. Obviously, none of us are locking ourselves in our rooms. But a few smart decisions can go a long way. When in doubt, throwing on a mask can make a world of difference (and yes, it only works if you keep it over your nose and mouth). Heading outdoors for a hangout greatly improves the air filtration around you. And although it’s exciting to be able to attend parties again, consider that very close interactions with dozens of strangers may not be the most ideal way to spend your weekend evenings for at least a little while. Finally: let’s be patient with ourselves and each other. We’ve all had to learn and relearn how to operate, both in our own contained spaces and then, gradually, how to live and work again with other people. There’s no reason that we should all have been able to jump back into daily life with the same energy as before the quarantines — and that’s completely okay. Mistakes and misunderstandings will happen. Forgetting and fumbling names, especially behind a face covering, is inevitable. And constantly juggling coursework, obligations, social life and sleep is challenging enough when it doesn’t also require thinking twice every time you enter another room. Taking time for self-care is a necessity, as is resetting the
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NEWS COVID cases in LA County are sliding, and the 5Cs’ testing systems are beginning to pick up the first positive results of the semester. Read more on page 2.
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Claremont McKenna College’s master plan is changing to accomodate a new science center and relocated athletic complex.
JASPER DAVIDOFF Claremont McKenna College is planning significant changes to its campus in coming years, including the construction of a new integrated sciences center, even as the school’s controversial withdrawal from the W.M. Keck Science Department remains up in the air. In late July, CMC officials presented the Claremont Architecture Commission with a proposal to revise the college’s 2012 master plan in order to shuffle around new academic, administrative, student and athletic facilities. The commission approved the adjustments. The new 135,000 square foot, four-story science building will be constructed on the site of CMC’s current baseball field on the corner of Claremont Boulevard and Ninth Street. “The new center is contemplated to include teaching and research labs, classrooms, an innovation center, and a range of other multipurpose uses,” paperwork filed by the college said. CMC originally announced the creation of its own science department in fall 2018, along with its intention to leave Keck, which it jointly administers along with Scripps College and Pitzer College. But three years later, the college still hasn’t officially declared its intent to leave. The process was pushed back due
OPINIONS Pomona College claims to emphasize education in its disciplinary process, the Editorial Board writes. But recent events suggest differently. Read more on page 3.
to fundraising constraints in April 2019. Last month, CMC announced a founding chair for its new department: Ran Libeskind-Hadas, who was previously professor of computer science at Harvey Mudd College. Now, Vice President and General Counsel Matthew Bibbens CM ’92 said, the independent department continues to grow even as CMC’s commitment to Keck evolves. “It is not yet fully clear whether or not CMC will, if you will, formally withdraw from Keck, or there might be some other partnership remaining there. I don’t want to give the impression that those final decisions have been made,” Bibbens told the commission. “But we have decided that, as a minimum, we will have a complementary department of integrated sciences that has a particular computational focus at CMC.” CMC President Hiram Chodosh drew a contrast between the college’s teaching capabilities through Keck — which is currently expanding into a new building — and opportunities in a new facility. “Our current program at Keck Science has been burdened by a lack of space, and that lack of space has prevented us from hiring the tenured, tenure-track faculty that we needed and we’ve had to rely on a great number of visitors and adjuncts,” he said. “So in a way, we’re not increasing the overall number of faculty but rather replacing the current faculty we have,
See SCIENCE on page 2 SPORTS Returning to the field after more than a year, the CMS and P-P football teams are energized for this Saturday’s Sixth Street Rivalry opener. Read more on page 4.
INDEX: News 1 | Opinions 3 | Sports 4
News
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Mudd offers students $2,000 SCIENCE: Sports complex, street worth of gifts to give up dorm improvements in the works room for quarantine spaces Continued from page 1
ANUSHE ENGINEER What would it cost for you to give up the dorm room you drew on campus? If your price is under $2,000, then, as Harvey Mudd College residence life staff told certain students in an August 24 email obtained by TSL, “we wanted to bring forth a proposition.” Noting the spread of the delta variant and new local guidelines, Mudd was “trying to account for all possible scenarios” by increasing the number of on-campus rooms it could use for quarantine or isolation. The college said it was seeking a total of four students living in suites or Jack and Jill spaces in Mudd’s inner dorms — North, South, West or East — to voluntarily relocate to a quad in Case Hall. Students were offered multiple gifts at a value of up to $2,000 per person, with the list of goodies including a TV, MacBook, Nintendo Switch, iPad and Disneyland Pass, among others. In the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s latest
guidelines for exposure management at colleges, published earlier in August, institutions are required to create “a plan for establishing spaces and housing for students to safely isolate and quarantine when needed.” While students in single rooms may be allowed to remain in place, the department said, those in living quarters that are “not appropriate for isolation” should be housed separately, preferably in a building with its own dedicated entrances and exits and signage to separate infected residents from other students. Case is organized by hallways, whereas suites and rooms at North, South, West and East often open directly into the outdoor courtyard. Earlier in August, Pomona College moved juniors and seniors living on its south campus to apartments at the Oasis Commons to make room in residence halls for first- and second-years.
who are part-time or visitors or adjuncts, with strong tenured, tenure-track faculty who are great teacher-scholars.” The construction of the science center will finally push CMC to leverage its property on the east side of Claremont Boulevard, currently a quarry, to replace athletic facilities displaced by the new building. Plans for the sports complex include a baseball field, softball field, combination football field/ track, and a 30,000 square foot fieldhouse. As part of the project, CMC is funding a redesign of Claremont Boulevard adjacent to its campus, between Sixth Street and Ninth Street. The project calls for protected bicycle lanes in both directions, possible removal of pine trees along the west side of the street, improved pedestrian crossings and new traffic signals. Previously, CMC’s 2012 master plan had called for an alumni and admissions-focused building at Ninth and Claremont, as well as a significant new campus center that officials said the college no longer needs due to improvements at locations including the Emett Student Center, which includes the Hub, and Roberts Pavilion. “This is a particularly exciting opportunity for us, in a high-value way, to create a next generation integrated sciences program with strong connections to our core strengths in policy and business and the liberal arts more generally, and we’re really very very excited about this shift in resources
COURTESY: CITY OF CLAREMONT
Plans for the new East Campus sports complex include new fields, track facilities and a fieldhouse.
away from what we had planned for many years, to build a big student center,” Chodosh added. Redistributing the planned construction farther east will better connect all parts of the college, city staff projected.
“I think this will improve the connectivity through the campus, as well as reduce the potential for overbuilding and congestion in the western portions of the campus,” Chris Viers, the city’s principal planner, said.
5Cs align on grading policies JAMES KARSTEN • THE STUDENT LIFE
Photo illustration: Harvey Mudd College offered rewards to students who give up their rooms for quarantine space.
WELCOME: Make compassion a priority Continued from page 1 goalposts for what we can always accomplish under these conditions. And your support can mean a lot to a friend who might be finding this transition more challenging. Our faculty and staff, too, have been working tirelessly to get us back safely and to a semblance of the lives we’ve known at the 7Cs. We owe them tremendous gratitude for what
they’re doing and will continue to do — and they won’t be perfect either. No matter the frustration that might come with meals, testing or classroom rules, let’s put compassion and empathy first for our fellow community members. As we’ve said, this semester promises to be one we’ll remember. We have the chance now to make those memories about growth, perseverance and joy.
Scripps, Pomona, CMC adopt 4.0 GPA scale, schools clarify credit/no credit, pass/no pass systems CLAIRE DUMONT This semester, transcripts across the Claremont Colleges will look a little different — but the policies they follow will now be the same across schools. The consortium is aligning its grading policies, with Scripps College, Pomona College and Claremont McKenna College joining the other 5Cs in adopting a 4.0 grade point average system. The change is in effect f o r t h i s f a l l , a n d wa s a n nounced in an email to Pomona students on August 20 and Scripps students on August 23. The colleges previously used a 12 point GPA scale, in
which students had to divide by three to calculate a GPA under the 4.0 scale recognized by many graduate schools and employers. The change is to a more “conventional” grading scale, according to the Scripps email, and allows a consistent grading system across all 5Cs. Po m o n a a l s o a n n o u n c e d in the email that an A+ is “no longer an available grading option” on the grading scale. In the past, an A+ grade showed “superlative achievement and [was] rarely given,” according to the Pomona catalog, but it did not add points to a student’s GPA. Pass/no pass, or P/NP, will be used to refer to courses like
P.E. and internships that do not use letter grades, previously referred to as pass/no credit, according to the email. According to a Scripps email sent to students August 23, a Dis now the lowest passing grade for Scripps students in any class, a policy already existing at the other 5Cs. Pass/no pass classes will still require a minimum C grade to receive credit. Students can also earn a High Pass in these courses. In letter-graded courses that students request to take without a letter grade, grading will be marked as credit/no credit. Students also have to earn a C in order to get credit for courses they choose to take credit/no credit.
As COVID-19 rates slide in LA County, semester’s first cases emerge at 7Cs KAYLA ALCORCHA Los Angeles County continues to add more than 2,000 COVID-19 cases a day, but the area’s case rate has now declined for the second straight week, with a 22 percent decrease since August 19, the department of public health said Thursday. The 5Cs’ own weekly testing protocols have already uncovered a handful of COVID-19 cases a week after move-in. Still, the upcoming Labor Day
weekend is worrying some experts as gatherings become more likely, and officials are warning that both vaccinations and mitigation efforts need to continue in earnest. “Many of us do have some choices we can make about how we live our lives right now,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told reporters Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times. “There is great power to protect ourselves
and each other in those choices, and approaching them thoughtfully is our path through this together.” Claremont’s cases have risen in the last month along with the county’s, with 102 cases in the last 14 days, according to an LA Times database. The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Claremont is 2,624, comprising about 7 percent of residents. The 5Cs required students to get vaccinated before coming
JASPER DAVIDOFF • THE STUDENT LIFE
Community members queue up for COVID-19 testing through Student Health Services at Walker Hall.
to campus, allowing for exemptions, and set a policy to restrict large gatherings until after Sept. 20. Pitzer College has one positive case as of Aug. 30, according to its testing dashboard. Two Harvey Mudd College students are currently in isolation, President Maria Klawe said in a Thursday email, and “contact tracers have already reached out to all those in our community who are believed to have been in close contact.” Scripps College and Pomona College also made dashboards available, but have yet to post data collected since many students moved in last weekend. Claremont McKenna College Dean of Students Dianna Graves CM ’98 told students in an email that a dashboard would launch in the coming week. The 7Cs are collectively tracking “a variety of COVID metrics” to review internally, The Claremont Colleges Services said in a statement to TSL. With Scripps’ new requirement that all students, faculty and staff be tested once a week “in the initial weeks of the semester,” put in place on Monday, all of the 5Cs are now testing students at least weekly. Claremont’s vaccination count is slowly inching up, nearing 68 percent with at least one dose on Thursday, according to LA County. But it still lags behind a 75 percent partial vaccination rate among LA County residents at large, with 65 percent fully vaccinated. According to figures presented by Ferrer, unvaccinated people across all age groups in LA County are three to four times more likely to become infected than vaccinated residents. With concerts and sports events returning, California
recently announced a new set of guidelines for large indoor events, to go into effect on Sept. 20. Organizers of indoor events with at least 1,000 people must verify that all attendees are either vaccinated or have proof of a negative test in the last 72 hours. These regulations previously applied to indoor crowds of at least 5,000. In addition, for events on or after Sept. 20, self-attestation is no longer an acceptable method for verifying vaccination. “The Delta variant has proven to be highly transmissible, making it easier to spread in large crowds where people are near each other for long periods of time,” Dr. Tomás Aragón, director of the California Department of Public Health and the state’s public health officer, said in a statement in mid-August. “By requiring individuals to be vaccinated, or test negative for COVID-19 at large events, we are decreasing the risk of infection, hospitalization and death.” Proof of vaccination as a means to gain entry to events or establishments has been in the works for a while, particularly in Los Angeles. On Aug. 11, the LA City Council voted unanimously to draft an ordinance requiring people to show proof of at least partial vaccination against COVID-19 to enter most public indoor spaces in the city. The county reported 43 new COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, amounting to 25,364 total fatalities in the county from the virus over the course of the pandemic. Since the start of August, the county’s average number of daily deaths has increased from fewer than 10 deaths on average each day to twice that. Hospitalizations have also risen, with 1,673 confirmed patients, LACDPH said.
OPINIONS
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EDITORIAL BOARD: Pomona’s disciplinary system is ‘educational.’ Until it isn’t How can you tell we’re back on campus? Bikes, scooters and skateboards are cruising down Sixth Street. Athletes are back in competition. 7C Facebook groups are bustling with minifridges and mattress pads. And once again, the Pomona College administration is making unilateral decisions which harm its most vulnerable students, provoking the dismay of its own community. Perhaps it’s not surprising that 17 months after first generation and low-income students were left to fend for themselves after Pomona rejected many of their petitions to stay on campus, the resumption of campus life almost immediately brought forth a similar case of the school yanking support from a student who needed it. We’re of course referring to Drew “Ziggy” Carter PO ’22, a transfer student, Mellon Mays fellow and Pell recipient looking to experience his first semester in person in Claremont. Let in by a roommate after his request to move in early was rejected, according to a letter he shared on Twitter, Carter was moving his belongings into a residence hall on August 16 and 17 when a staff member discovered him. Ten days later, he was suspended for the entire fall semester and told to leave campus. Pomona’s walk and its talk are astoundingly different when it comes to this case. Its disciplinary policies have gone through many changes in recent years to make procedures more equitable and holistic, a process student leaders have admirably pushed forward. Flipping through the student handbook, you’ll find that the college’s welfare requires “genuine community interaction and respect for the rights of others.” That disciplinary measures should take into account the “well-being of the respondent and well-being of the entire college community. That Pomona aims for an “educational
JASPER DAVIDOFF • THE STUDENT LIFE
Students painted a message on Walker Wall Thursday criticizing Pomona College’s student affairs decisions.
process that allows for students in violation of the Student Code to think about their actions, the impact of those actions on the community, and prevention of future code violations.” And then there’s this action. In a bewildering series of Twitter replies to a Houston higher education reporter — the only public statement the college has made on this case, despite considerable outcry both on campus and around the country — Pomona stated the importance of students’ compliance with safety instructions during a pandemic, laid out its structure for handling student affairs violations and promised it reviews “potential options and assistance” after a suspension and to “support the individual’s return to our community.” How holistic and thorough could this process really have been? How restorative can this
justice be when the student in question isn’t even allowed to participate in the community he is supposed to be learning how to engage with and think about? And how can “potential options and assistance” ever measure up to the housing, food and care that low-income students need in a new place far from home? If safety is the goal, what about his? In case it wasn’t abundantly clear, a full-semester suspension for a residential violation is absurdly disproportional. We can’t imagine this happening at another institution, particularly during a pandemic where travel and relocation put people at a greater risk both of spreading and contracting the disease. COVID-19 seems to have been a particular rationale for the harshness of the decision, but we don’t think Pomona should be able to pick and choose when it uses public health conditions
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as cause for concern. Take, for example, the un-distanced, maskless mass gathering of the school’s largest-ever first-year class, purely for a traditional photo op, or for that matter walk into Frary Dining Hall at 12:30 p.m. any day of the week and consider whether it looks like safety is really the first priority. If this administration can’t prove it’s taking student health and safety seriously in every relevant instance, it shouldn’t have the audacity to claim a higher standard for a single student. We should expect better from a group of capable, hardworking student affairs leaders — but, at this point, we’ve learned not to. Time and time again, Pomona’s stated commitment to diversity and access has been tested by instances in which the school lets students and organizers down, failing to keep commitments on financial support and education-
al resources. Students mess up, and disciplinary measures are part of the process. But suspending a student for moving in early — particularly a FLI student of color — is nothing but punitive. If our community is really going to remain healthy and take care of itself the way that’s supposedly intended, then everyone must hold themselves accountable for the safety of those around them. That includes those with the most power. Carter deserves a meaningful appeal with student involvement and an outcome that actually reconciles the wrongdoing and allows everyone to move forward. Pomona’s administration has a choice to make. It can pretend this didn’t happen and ignore the serious blow to our tenets of trust, shared governance and mutual respect. Or, it can recognize the situation for what it is, start a real conversation and show we’re capable of doing better than this.
THE STUDENT LIFE Editorial Board KAYLA ALCORCHA, Editor-in-Chief JASPER DAVIDOFF, Managing Editor CLAIRE DUMONT, Managing Editor
Staff JAMES KARSTEN, Production Editor MADY COLANTES, Copy Chief ANUSHE ENGINEER, News Editor YARU LUO, Sports Writer STELLA FAVARO, Photographer
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JASPER DAVIDOFF • THE STUDENT LIFE
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ACROSS 1. Kind of oil that’s creating buzz 4. ___ Dhabi 7. QVC competitor 10. Hubbub 13. Likely answer to “Tu veux un croissant?” 14. Early supercontinent 16. Set (down) 17. Ashes’ container 18. What a teapot does before being poured out 19. MLB leaders 20. Recline 21. *Get a kick out of this shoe! 23. Duchamp’s movement 25. Western hemisphere grp. 26. Strongly recommend 27. *Get a kick out of this person! 31. One ringing a bell in the town center 32. Well-respected 33. Begs 34. ___ Jima 35. Vote in favor 36. Land parcels 40. “How dare you!” 45. It has a good atmosphere 46. *Get a kick out of this instrument! 47. Vid. with whispering or crinkling
48. “Chandelier” singer, not 55-across 49. Bog down (in conflict, perhaps) 50. *Get a kick out of this food! 55. Spy org., not 48-across 56. ___ Just Not That Into You (2009 film) 57. Main source of leak issues? 58. Solo played by Ford 59. Poet’s ‘before’ 60. Added plants to, as a space 61. “If you ask me,” in text 62. Gov. digits 63. Haute fashion inits. 64. Prefix to graphic or Guessr 65. Spot for a ring DOWN 1. “It’s possible!” 2. Acorn hidings 3. Attended, as a restaurant 4. College Pk. units 5. Scott on Happy Days 6. Possibly offensive 7. Attack (someone) 8. Crystal ball users 9. Snitch, slangily 10. Africa’s largest country by area 11. Bad, as goods 12. Certain slimy shooters
15. Stop producing leads, as a case 22. Entice 24. Card that can count for one or eleven 28. Haring with iconic illustrations 29. Luxury cars with a circle logo 30. Workplace fairness law, for short 31. Fastener 33. Try to get into a closed class 35. “___ said forever, now I drive alone past your street” 36. Instructs 37. Bacon portions 38. Fred on Portlandia 39. Partner with alt and delete 40. Cold coffee drink 41. Dress’ edge 42. Writer Chimamanda Ngozi 43. Writer Bâ 44. Roosevelt who repped at the UN 46. Truck’s fuel 48. Quarrels 51. Who that? Who that? rapper 52. Notification 53. Heavy fencing sword 54. 39-across + Y
TSL is back! Two global pandemics can’t bring us down.
Neat outdoor classrooms! Better furniture than my room.
Free COVID testing! So good you *have* to take it.
Dining halls are open again! I can finally eat Pitzer bao again.
So are corrections. TSL will regret our errors.
Ambient noises abound. Planes, trains, and cars, oh my!
Questionable methods. If you saw me spitting into a tube, no you didn’t.
If you can get in... F
SPORTS
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Season preview: three things to know before this Saturday’s football opener
STELLA FAVARO • THE STUDENT LIFE
The Pomona-Pitzer football team practices at Merritt Football Field Tuesday.
YARU LUO After more than a year off the field, the CMS and P-P football teams are set to return for a long-awaited season, opening with the two teams’ much-anticipated Sixth Street rivalry game playing Saturday at 7 p.m. Both P-P and CMS will compete in 10 games each this season, and energy is running high for this weekend’s opening match. P-P captain Tate Tussing PZ ’21 has “been waiting about 20 months for football,” he told TSL. The game, he added, “should be electric.” Health is a priority on and off the field With the pandemic in mind, training will continue to follow untraditional regulations this season. Masks are worn indoors, team meetings are socially distanced and different training facility hours and rules are followed. However, Tussing is “eased
by the fact that the whole team and staff are vaccinated and that I have smart teammates who know how to be safe during these times.” One of P-P Head Coach John Walsh’s priorities during COVID is to make sure that the team keeps itself safe and helps the 7C campus community stay safe, too. “We’re doing everything we possibly can because we want to play football games, we want our kids to go to class in person. And we want everyone else to be safe,” Walsh said. Practice started Aug. 6 for the P-P team and Aug. 7 for CMS But for most student-athletes, practice also continued throughout the pandemic. The teams had a diversity of COVID experiences. While some players had access to a gym directly in their house or in their state, other players “were standing on brothers’ couches, uncles’
couches, friends’ couches; didn’t have access to a weight room,” Walsh said. The CMS team continued doing lifts and runs at home on their own time. “It almost felt like we never left,” CMS quarterback Zach Fogel CM ’23 said. On the P-P side, Tussing noted that having Zoom meetings allowed the team to connect with the incoming first-years in closer ways than previous seasons. “We did a lot of Zoom meetings: team meetings, football meetings, meetings about current events,” said Walsh. “And [there were] a lot of things going on in the United States and in the world, and we had a lot of discussions beyond football throughout the whole COVID year and a half off.” For both the Stags and Sagehens, every part of the return is meaningful — not just the upcoming rivalry game. “We will never ever take a
meeting practice weight room session game for granted ever again, because of COVID,” Walsh said. P-P stars graduate, CMS welcomes optimistic “young talent” After graduating valuable players like quarterback Karter Odermann PO ’20, a SCIAC Player of the Year who completed 134 pass attempts during the 2019 season (54.3%) for 1,618 yards, defensive linemen Kyle Davis PZ ’21 and Josh Portnoy PO ’20, Walsh has been working hard to build “great leaders on the defense” and offense. Cornerback Tussing and linebacker Nick Pacult PZ ’21 will be leading the defense, along with captains Mike Collins PO ’22, who plays offensive line, and wide receiver Win Hunter PZ ’21. Along with key returners, fresh players like “Evan Flitz [are] going to light it up at QB, transfer students Julian Garrett and Garrett Pittman are going to
be fun to watch fly around,” Tussing said. “Mark Carling and Nick Del Biaggio will haunt the dreams of quarterbacks and offensive coordinators around the league. And I could really go on and on.” On the other side of the ball, defensive back Ben Cooney CM ’22 leads the CMS defense as captain and left tackle Jacob Lyle CM ’21 returns to captain the offense. For the Stags, having a leader return when half the team is playing for the first time is “huge,” Fogel said, because “they can really look up to him as a leader and he’s done a great job with them so far.” The CMS team graduated a couple of their starters, but Fogel is optimistic about “a lot of young talent” on offense. “This is a long time coming for us,” Fogel said. “It’s been almost two years now since we’ve played a snap of real college football. And this is what we all like to do, so … there’s going to be a lot of energy out in the field on Saturday night. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”
Sports Calendar P-P
CMS
Friday, Sept. 3 Women’s Volleyball Pacific Coast Classic
Friday, Sept. 3 Women’s Volleyball Pacific Coast Classic
Women’s Soccer vs. Cal Lutheran
Women’s Soccer vs. Williamette @ Cal Lutheran
Saturday, Sept. 4 Men’s Water Polo Triton Tournament Women’s Volleyball Pacific Coast Classic Men’s Soccer @ UC Santa Cruz Men’s Football vs. CMS Sunday, Sept. 5 Men’s Water Polo Triton Tournament
Men’s Soccer vs. Westmont Saturday, Sept. 4 Men’s & Women’s XC @ CSU Fullerton Men’s Water Polo @ U.S. Air Force Academy Women’s Volleyball Pacific Coast Classic Men’s Football @ Pomona-Pitzer
Wednesday, Sept. 8 Men’s Soccer vs. Vanguard
Sunday, Sept. 5 Men’s Water Polo @ U.S. Air Force Academy
Friday, Sept. 10 Women’s Volleyball @ La Verne
Wednesday, Sept. 8 Women’s Soccer vs. Whittier
Saturday, Sept. 11 Men’s Water Polo Inland Empire Classic
Friday, Sept. 10 Women’s Volleyball East-West Battle
Women’s Volleyball @ La Verne
Men’s Soccer vs. Oglethorpe
Women’s Soccer @ Whittier
Saturday, Sept. 11 Men’s Water Polo Inland Empire Classic
Men’s Football @ Whittier Sunday, Sept. 12 Men’s Soccer vs. Whitworth Monday, Sept. 13 Men’s & Women’s Golf CA State Intercollegiate Tuesday, Sept. 14 Men’s & Women’s Golf CA State Intercollegiate Women’s Soccer vs. UC Santa Cruz
Women’s Volleyball East-West Battle Women’s Soccer @ UC Santa Cruz Men’s Football vs. Lewis & Clark Sunday, Sept. 12 Men’s Water Polo Inland Empire Classic Men’s Soccer vs. Cal Lutheran Monday, Sept. 13 Men’s & Women’s Golf CA State Intercollegiate Tuesday, Sept. 14 Men’s & Women’s Golf CA State Intercollegiate