Many of you may be familiar with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) that have gone into effect in all but four states this year and last. They are a nationwide standardization of educational requirements for public schools, replacing requirements that varied state to state in the past. If you didn’t
Author: Audrey Glaser
College Offers Us Time to Get Weird
If a healthy life could be diagrammed like a food pyramid, what would it look like? Thirty-five percent sleep, 25 percent work, 25 percent time with loved ones, five percent exercise, five percent reflection, and five percent miscellaneous? I’m tenuously extrapolating from what I’ve read in Oprah magazine, which is
College Doesn’t Owe You Beer Or Sunshine
Tim Wise had a lot to say in his two hours here on Tuesday. One thing stuck in my mind. “This place doesn’t exist for you. College doesn’t exist to hand you four years’ worth of party favors for your high school GPA. Colleges are longstanding institutions with their own missions;
Egocentricity
Envision your typical Thursday. Mine goes something like this: a quiet morning to myself, lunch with a member of my Sponsor Group, class, office hours, Mock Trial practice, and then an evening with friends. I tend to think of my Thursdays as a universe in which my peers and professors
An Exercise in Community Response
If you were on campus Jan. 16, you heard sirens. You saw people bleeding. You were pushed aside by paramedics and police. All of this was a part of a gruesomely realistic training exercise for local emergency personnel. January 16 was an administrative reaction to the Newtown massacre—a tragedy we
5Cs Take Flattery to Facebook
The Claremont Colleges have witnessed the advent of a new Facebook trend this semester—the Compliments pages, which have been adopted by both Pomona College and Scripps College. The idea began on the other end of the country at Queens College in New York. From there, it spread to Washington University,
Students Organize Benefits for Hurricane Sandy Victims
While we on the West Coast have continued to enjoy 80-degree weather, some on the East Coast are still reeling in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Recent figures from the forecasting firm Equecat predicted that the storm will cost the United States a total of $50 billion in damages, putting
Childish Gambino Brings Students to Their Feet
Pomona College’s Bridges Auditorium welcomed Donald Glover, otherwise known as Childish Gambino, to the stage Saturday night. The concert opened with DJ Xclusive, a Chicago native who has had his remixes featured on worldstarhiphop.com. He entertained the audience with several prerecorded “conversations” compiled from snippets of R&B songs. One of
SCAMfest Spirit Infects 5C A Capella Groups
Pomona College welcomes the 17th annual Southern California A Cappella Music Festival (SCAMFest) at Bridges Auditorium tonight at 7:30 p.m. This year’s lineup features eight groups from the Claremont Colleges, including the hosts, the Claremont Shades, along with After School Specials, Kosher Chords, Men’s Blue and White, Midnight Echo, Mood
Pomona Art Museum Installs ‘The Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses’
For most, the act of public speaking is an occasional necessity, and often a nauseating prospect. In the eyes of Adam Overton and all those who collaborated on the Pomona College Museum of Art’s newest exhibit, it is a medium of art. On Thursday night, the museum revealed the installation