On the night of Thursday, Nov. 3, members of the Claremont College community gathered in The Motley Coffeehouse for the second installment of Brown Noise: An Open Mic. The event was hosted by the new 5C slam poetry club, Motormouth, and centered specifically around POC voices. Motormouth was founded this year by
Author: Schuyler Mitchell
Know Your Noh: A Celebration of Japanese Theatre
The Japanese theatrical tradition of Noh came to the Claremont Colleges for the week of Oct. 24. Noh, one of the world’s oldest forms of theater, dating back to the 14th century, mixes drama with song, dance, and masks to tell stories. Isabella Ramos SC ’17 worked with Professors Anne Harley
UTI Brings The Sting to 5Cs
This past Saturday, Oct. 22, the Underground Theatrical Institution (UTI – and yes, that is intentional) filled the Scripps Balch Auditorium with laughter during their inaugural improvisational comedy show. UTI began last year as a group of people playing improv games around campus until, as member Sam Rubin PO
New Sounds, New Emotions Permeate Bon Iver’s New Album
“Yearning” and “heartbreak” permeate Bon Iver’s 2008 folk album, For Emma, Forever Ago, like frost in February. An aching chill seeps into your bones, intensified by frontman Justin Vernon’s falsetto echoing over a weeping acoustic guitar. If For Emma, Forever Ago was winter, then Bon Iver’s 2011 follow-up, Bon Iver, Bon Iver, was
Students Discuss Model Minority Myth at Asian American Student Union Event
On Sept. 21, the Asian American Student Union (AASU) at Scripps College hosted an event to discuss and learn about the model minority myth. The Facebook page for the event describes the model minority myth as “the idea that all Asian Americans are high-achieving, have middle-to-high incomes, attend elite universities, and therefore
Spades, Ghetties, and Other Local Slang
When I left my home in Raleigh, North Carolina, to begin my first year at Pomona College, I knew I was going to experience some regional differences between the American South and Southern California. There were the big changes I noticed right away: the liberal political climate, the existence of