Author: Jenna Perelman

Forty minutes outside of Claremont lies the Huntington, a nonprofit cultural, research, and educational institution. The Huntington, located in San Marino, houses botanical gardens, a vast library, and several art galleries. Kate Restaino SC ’16 went to the Huntington for her Desire and Decadence Core class.  “I was amazed by

The prospect of four years of sunshine encouraged Gillian Burke, a high school junior from Greenwich, Conn., to tour Pomona College. “Being in California is awesome, for starters,” Burke said. Megan Kristof, a prospective student from Darien, Conn., agreed.  “The California atmosphere drove me out to coming,”she said, citing the

Do The Math The movement to divest from fossil fuels first gained national attention when 350.org, an international nonprofit environmental organization, began promoting the campaign during its “Do the Math” tour in November 2012. Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, was the keynote speaker in the tour. The exponential growth

“People have offered [recreational drugs] to me since I’ve been here,” said a first-year Scripps College student who wished to remain anonymous. “I’ve been offered molly (MDMA), cocaine, Adderall, Xanax, and weed of course, and my friends have taken shrooms, LSD, and probably other things I don’t know about.” Based

This November, while Claremont students were busy campaigning or casting their votes for in the presidential election, students abroad watched from afar, focusing instead on the politics in their new host country. While some students leave the Claremont bubble by traveling to industrialized and cosmopolitan countries, others select an experience