Author: Madeleine McClintic

This summer, Rodrigo Ranero PO ’14 will return to his home country of Guatemala and, with the help of grants from both the Strauss Foundation and Davis Projects for Peace, will contribute to a collaborative effort to reclaim the Xinka language. His work this summer is part of a project

This Thursday marked the start of “Authentifiction,” Pitzer College’s Senior Thesis Exhibition. The exhibition, which showcases the work of Pitzer’s graduating studio art majors, is on display at three locations: the Nichols Gallery in the Broad Center, the Lenzner Family Art Gallery in Atherton Hall, and the Barbara Hinshaw Memorial

With eight members, Big Body Nation is by far the largest of the four student bands performing at this year’s Kohoutek Music and Arts Festival at Pitzer College. They’re also the weekend’s most experienced performers, landing a coveted spot playing at 9 p.m. on Saturday night, third-to-last of all the

In just a few short weeks, students, faculty and staff at the 5Cs will have the opportunity to participate in the creation of the Pomona College Museum of Art’s newest exhibit, “Art in Dialogue.” The exhibit is structured so that selected members of the 5C community can pick an artwork

Pomona Ventures, Pomona College’s first organization dedicated to student entrepreneurship, will be giving selected students up to $4,000 to start their own companies this summer. The grants will be in the form of summer fellowships funded primarily by Pomona alumni, similar to the Summer Undergraduate Research Program, and students will work

This week, Pomona College students had the chance to put their culinary skills to the test by competing in the first Iron Chef Pomona competition. The competition began Monday at Frary Dining Hall, where teams of four students made desserts for a panel of judges. On Tuesday, the top four

Splash, an organization offering classes taught by college students to high school students, will be coming to the 5Cs for the 2013-2014 school year. The program is currently in development under the leadership of Lenore Byers PZ ’16 and Ana Villa HM ’16.  Splash already exists at schools such as

Nourish International, a 5C organization focused on combating world poverty, will head to Fundong, Cameroon this summer to participate in a community-based project. The group will be collaborating with Better Family Foundation, a grassroots organization based in Fundong that focuses on empowering families both socially and economically. “Through this project,

Sex is not often the topic of classroom discussion, but recent events have made an effort to frame sex acts in an academic context. The Claremont Colleges hosted a series of four events this week and last week relating to Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission and Sadism/Masochism, or BDSM. The events aimed to

This past Wednesday, Harvey Mudd College’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE) hosted their annual Miss SWE Pageant in Galileo Auditorium. The pageant involves a group of cross-dressing male contestants, and since this year’s pageant fell on Halloween, several of the contestants wore costumes. The contestants’ “names” were Christina, Natalia, Matilda,