Nicholas Steinman CM ’28 draws attention to the borders and barriers separating each college within the consortium. A master plan published in 1982 attempted to centralize the seven institutions’ planning mechanisms, but topography and practical traffic inevitably doomed the plan to a pipe dream. Steinman argues that students should try to better understand the institution’s architectural legacy and seek creative ways to reunify students, even if poor layout and planning may separate them physically.
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OPINION: Real-life urbanists don’t hate the suburbs
Nicholas Steinman CM ’28 builds a case against a recent Claremont Independent article defending suburban neighborhoods, arguing that urban cityscapes provide a more sustainable alternative to housing shortages and low-density sprawl.
World Cup brings LA local politics to the international stage
Nicholas Steinman CM ‘28 doesn’t like sports — but the local impacts of the World Cup have upended his preferred pastime of Los Angeles municipal politics. Steinman dives into the impact the World Cup has had on the local economy, and larger political discourse around the past, present and future of his hometown.
City Limits: On the Los Angeles County line
Nicholas Steinman CM ’28 continues his examination of how City Limits inform our life in Claremont
City limits: No, Claremont’s $2.50 Uber rides haven’t gone away — yet.
The era of students piling into city subsidized Ubers for under three dollars might be coming to a close. The program, Claremont Dial-a-Ride, which has provided waivers within Uber is facing challenges and cuts from the Pomona Valley Transportation Authority and Claremont City council due to ballooning costs from rampant student use.
OPINION: In an era of disorder, our cities are still too perfect
“Lovable neighborhoods don’t get built anymore, only appearing when our social fabric breaks down. But it’s not because we don’t know how to build them anymore,” Nicholas Steinman CMC ’28 writes. “If we reform our byzantine municipal regulations to make it cost-effective for more people to build more varied buildings again, and if we move past our misguided aspiration to create ‘efficient’ urban areas, we can once again build the progress we need in our cities without closing them off to humanity.”
OPINION: Maybe we should do our readings
“The Claremont Consortium’s unique take on the small liberal arts college model allows students to explore many interests and gives rise to constructive discussions. But we seem scared to honestly discuss how this impacts the rigor of many of its core academic programs,” Nicholas Steinman ’28 writes.
OPINION: Life is a fedora: why I wear fedoras, and why you should too
The 5Cs, despite being radically epistemologically free, contain a hard core of constrained expression. Nicholas Steinman CM ’28 is more aware of this than anyone. He wears fedoras. Constraint may get us some things. But at what cost to our identity are we willing to pay to furnish our professional success, and do our sacrifices pay off how we expect them to?
OPINION: LA can’t keep neglecting downtown; Convention Center expansion isn’t the answer
Why is Downtown Los Angeles putting billions of dollars into making Olympics 2028 appearances, while the infrastructural malignancies that have existed for years continue to eat away at its culture and prosperity for its residents? Steinman believes that the local Los Angeles legislature needs to reprioritize the quality of living for its residents before making blingy investments in an attempt to show off when the Olympics roll around.
OPINION: Democrats cannot bow to Trump in the government shutdown fight
The government faces yet another potential shutdown due to Republicans’ lack of willingness to negotiate over the next federal budget agreement in Congress. The Republicans’ spending proposal refuses to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, and President Trump is threatening to use the shutdown as an opportunity to fire more government employees, writes Nicholas Steinman CMC ‘28.