Deresiewicz Discusses Educational Merits of Public Writing Style

If you’ve ever shared an interesting article on the The Huffington Post, sat through a TED Talk or gawked at an opinion on Thought Catalog, you’re participating in one of the fastest growing genres in the world. This style of writing is known as ‘public writing,’ a term partially coined by award-winning

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Latino Speakers Discuss Art, Sexuality in World AIDS Panel

While the AIDS epidemic raged, Joey Terrill painted. Terrill’s painting, “Still Life with Zerit,” eclectically combines commercial aesthetics, representations of queerness and Chicano and New York culture. Terrill, a second-generation Chicano man who has devoted his life to art and activism, was HIV positive while working on the painting.  Pitzer College’s World AIDS

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Students Take a Byte Out of Coding at 5C Hackathon

The sound of a hundred clicking keyboards filled Pomona College’s Edmunds Ballroom Nov. 14 as students rushed to put the final touches on their work.  The 6th Semiannual 5C Hackathon challenge took place from 7 p.m. to 10 a.m., with various teams of student computer programmers collaborating to design internet applications,

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Pomona’s The Balcony Holds First Student Art Show of Year

Art is extraordinarily versatile, connecting seemingly dissonant elements and posing questions about the world. Members of the Balcony sought to explore this concept in their presentation of “Art in Conflict” Oct. 3, their first student art show of the year. The club organizes events in the Pomona College Student Art

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