ProfessorDibs.com, launched in April 2011 by Pitzer College alums Michael Goldberg PZ ’10 and Noah Taubman PZ ’10, is a website that provides students with deals customized exclusively for the Claremont Colleges. A service similar to popular deal-of-the-day websites like Groupon and Living Social, ProfessorDibs is a business venture geared
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Free Lining: A New Way to Skate
For those confused by the article’s title, Freeline Skates are (well!) skates, and can best be described as a cross between roller skates and skateboards. They come as a pair and each skate is a metal plate with two wheels attached at the plate’s base. These skates are a recent
Giving Democracy a Chance
Not many countries have broken from the shackles of dictatorship as peacefully as Egypt. After only 18 days of protests, the people of Egypt have overcome years of oppression and now wait hopefully for the establishment of democracy. Last Friday, Hosni Mubarak’s regime, in place since the assassination of then-President
My Big Fat Indian Wedding
Hari Ram works part time as a domestic helper at my neighbor’s house back in India. He has three daughters, two of whom have been married. The third daughter is a spinster, long of marriageable age but still living at home. In his village, Hari is shunned for having an
Reporter’s Notebook: Novelist Jhumpa Lahiri gives reading at CMC
Writing within the limited subject of lives of Bengali immigrants in America, Jhumpa Lahiri has found a wide cross-cultural audience. Her stories truthfully portray the feeling of alienation felt by an expatriate. Perhaps for this very reason, she has mass appeal in America, the land of immigrants. On Monday, The
Stepping Foot into a Sugary World
On the flight to L.A., my mind was a blur. I was about to spend the next four years of my life (and possibly more) in an unknown town in an unknown country in “the New World.” Raised outside the U.S., I had little prior experience with American culture beyond