Last fall, you would find Julia Kelly SC ’21 practicing Wolof, a Senegambian dialect, with her homestay family in Senegal. In the winter, you would find her volunteering with Muslim women in Morocco. This summer, she summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak. And this Tuesday, Oct. 3, between 8 p.m. and
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Senate Briefs: Week of September 17
Scripps Associated Students With seven candidates for first-year class president and six applications for secretary, Scripps Associated Students is in the midst of a dynamic election season. Fliers have been posted around the Scripps College campus and all the residence halls, including the off-campus collegiate apartments, where 38 first-year students are housed
Scripps Celebrates Cross-Generational Latina Photography
The exhibit, which celebrated its opening on Sept. 9, will run until Jan. 7, 2018 and features photographs from three Mexican female artists: Sara Castrejón, Graciela Iturbide, and Tatiana Parcero. Although both Iturbide and Parcero were invited to exhibit-related events, only Parcero could participate in the opening. Oswaldo Ruiz, who
Ye Olde Student Life
While I would have loved to finish my Ye Olde TSL tenure with a truly revelatory find, I have too much essay-writing left to spend hours in TSL’s archives this week. So, from 1926, here’s a humorous look at how our professors prepare for the finals we dread. _x000D_ _x000D_ EXAM TREMORS RECORDED
Behind the Scenes at the Movies
Zootopia's rolling credits displayed all of the production team (from director to animation supervisor to assistant editors) before rolling the actors' names. The 2016 Oscars changed the order of the awards around so the production awards (cinematography, production design, sound mixing) came before the actors, director, and best picture. Given this
Jungle Book Brings Roaring Tale to Life
Continuing a trend of Disney’s recent live-action remakes of their classic movies, including Alice in Wonderland in 2010 and Cinderella in 2015, The Jungle Book—originally released in 1967—is hyper real, technology-laden, exhilarating, and truly beautiful. I had a lot of fun guessing the actors behind the CGI animals—Idris Elba (Shere Khan, the
Ye Olde Student Life
Pomona College has been navigating municipal bureaucracy recently, in the hope of building a new art museum (see p. 1 for details.) Since the museum may have a new home soon, this week’s Ye Olde TSL looks back to the year the current building opened: 1958. _x000D_ _x000D_ Gladys K. Montgomery Art Building Will
Bee Yourself: The Surprising Human-ness of this Misunderstood Insect
At the beginning of the year, I wrote about the supercolony found underneath the Claremont Colleges and the vicious Argentine ants that inhabit it. I’m back, with another column about another super neat insect—bees! Bees are incredibly interesting creatures with complex social structures. A typical honeybee colony consists of three kinds of
Zoning Issues Arise over Proposed PO Art Museum
After a Claremont City Council meeting on Apr. 12 that lasted until 1 a.m., the future of Pomona College’s proposed new art museum remains uncertain. In its 2015 Master Plan, Pomona proposed a new building on the western side of College Avenue between 2nd Street and Bonita Avenue. That site,
Ye Olde Student Life
Baseball games on campus were rained out this week. Despite Claremont’s notoriously sunny climate, it turns out rain cancellations have been a proud tradition since 1889, when Pomona College fielded its first baseball team. “Records in the ‘Student’ for 1889,” TSL reported in 1925, “show that only a very few games