Whether it’s the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park closing temporarily due to concerns of fire, or the warnings on the City of Claremont’s website that wild animals driven by thirst are descending from the mountains, the effects of California’s drought are clear in the City of Trees and PhDs. While the
Author: Claire Pershan
To Senegal and Back: Musings on Returning From Abroad
Editor’s Note: As you may have noticed last semester, we tried to diversify the international perspectives showcased in TSL by alternating between columns written by Claremont students studying abroad and international students at the colleges. We have decided to move away from this informal effort and create a regular space for
Subtract
Some days, I feel very old and very silly. These are the days when I sign out of my e-mail only to sign back in a moment later, or when it’s 70 degrees and I carry around a sweater. These are the days when I bring my laptop everywhere I
Use This Space
Students, faculty, and staff of the 5Cs, I want to open this semester’s Opinions section, as I did the last, with a reminder that this space is yours. I encourage you to take ownership of your views through authorship here. That the Opinions section is a space for discourse suggests a
Joyce Carol Oates Visits Claremont
“I just like to tell stories,” Joyce Carol Oates said with characteristic humility to the room of 5C students who were fortunate enough to speak with the author before her reading. The renowned writer, who spoke and read this Monday, Feb. 4 in Claremont McKenna College’s Athenaeum, has little reason
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
It seems to me that there is a lot of talk on our campuses about political correctness and not enough talk about the correctness of our politics. President Obama’s reelection is a momentous achievement, but the process has also exposed deep flaws in our political system as it stands. In
Beware of Busyness
When friends ask me how I am feeling this year, my stock reply varies from “Busy!” to “Super busy!” or “Oh, you know … pretty busy.” Like many of my sophomore peers, I have hurled myself into extracurricular activities, delved more seriously into academic departments and even tacked on an
Use the Opinions Section This Semester
Students, faculty, and staff of the Claremont Colleges, I am writing to remind you of the importance of your opinions. In our classes here, we are taught to value critical thinking. In between your classes, I encourage you to think critically about the people and events around you. Examine and
Upcoming Senior Art Major Exhibitions
“Art is generally pretty personal,” Gewirtzman said. These seniors have each spent all semester, if not longer, pouring themselves into individual projects that they must now display to peers, professors and strangers. Beyond producing the art displayed, both the Pomona and Scripps art majors require students design the exhibition, install
It Ends Here Organizes Slutwalk to Raise Awareness of Sexual Assault
“However we dress, wherever we go, yes means yes, and no means no.” In the promotional YouTube video for the upcoming Claremont Slutwalk, a disembodied hand scrawls this quote, and other sound bites relate sexual assault awareness between images of women’s feet slipping into a variety of footwear. The student-made