Visitors to Scripps College are often struck by the beauty and peacefulness of the school’s campus and dorms. The college’s founding residence halls were built to feel like houses, and these architectural choices shape dorm culture and social life at Scripps nearly a century later. Today, they can often feel overbearing.
Author: Malin Moeller
Lab Notes: Professors weigh in — ‘everyone should try research’
Summer research continues this week, but it’s time to ask professors about the value of student research. Professor Aaron Leconte and Visiting Professor Taia Wu recount their Scripps-Pitzer lab that modifies DNA polymerase to improve drug delivery systems. Wu, a Scripps student researcher turned professor, now guides students through summer research and shares the benefits of summer research from the lab’s lead professors.
Lab Notes: Newts, rats and summer research at Claremont
You’ve seen the fliers dotting the boards in the halls of the Nucleus and Estella advertising mysterious summer opportunities, maybe you even fought through rounds of interviews yourself to no avail. Fear not, Malin Moeller SC ’27 answers the question on the minds of many: What is summer research even like?
OPINION: Claremont students must prepare for the AI revolution
AI is already used in driverless cars, customer service, search engines and travel agencies, and next it might come for your job. Malin Moeller, SC’ 27 argues that we should be cognizant of the possible constriction of the American labor market, and that we can no longer afford to conscientiously object.
‘Finding hope through music’: ‘Reason to Be’ musical debuts at 5Cs
Devon Tao HM ’25 first began writing songs about climate change as a final project for a music class. These songs eventually formed the backdrop for their original musical “Reason to Be,” which opened at Seaver Large Studio on March 27 and ran through the weekend.
Mai Der Vang on the endangered saola and humankind’s relationship with nature
On March 26, Vang came to Pitzer’s Broad Performance Center to read from her newest collection of poetry. Her writing uses the saola, an endangered animal endemic to the Annamite Range between Laos and Vietnam, to explore the complex relationships between humans and nature.
Queering the kegger: The return of the Quegger
A queer-inclusive twist on the traditional kegger, the “Quegger” is a party that has been on the social scene in one form or another since 2017, but has been revitalized this semester. Since last month, two Queggers have been hosted in Scripps’s Schow Courtyard, the most recent occurring last Saturday, March 8.
‘Our stories. Our image’: Introducing BLAREMONT MAG
BLAREMONT MAG is a new magazine featuring Black students through photographs, videos and written stories. Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director Rahim Chilewa PZ ’27 pioneered the project, which he envisions as a way to share the stories of Black students through art.
A ripening issue: Dan Koeppel talks about the future of bananas at the Athenaeum
Dan Koeppel, or “Dan the Banana Man,” discussed the history and future of the banana industry at the Athenaeum on Feb. 12. Koeppel is the author of numerous books, including “Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World” (2008), and describes himself as having the world’s broadest knowledge of bananas.
A ‘new history’ of America: Jalil Muntaqim on incarceration and abolition
Hosted by the 5C Prison Abolition Collective, former Black Panther Jalil Muntaqim gave a lecture outlining a “new history” of the United States. Muntaqim, who was incarcerated for 49 years, spoke about abolitionist organizing and the history of the prison-industrial complex.