At 7 p.m. last Saturday, Nov. 15, the Claremont Shades hosted SCAMFest, the annual collegiate acapella festival at the Claremont Colleges. After months of preparation, the Shades hosted this year’s event to an auditorium full of enthused Claremont students and visitors.
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SageMUN, the conference where high school students make diplomacy feel alive at Pomona College
This fall, the Pomona College Model United Nations team (PCMUN) revamped its annual conference, SageMUN, pivoting from focusing on college students to working with high schoolers.
Pomona alum’s documentary sparks dialogue about exploitation and empowerment
Pitzer College’s screening of I Have a Name, Adam Bronfman’s documentary about photographer Jon Linton’s work with unhoused communities, sparked deep reflection during family weekend. Attendees considered not just the power of storytelling, but also who gets to tell those stories and how advocacy lands in a place of privilege.
Acoustic Open Mic Night showcases the raw talent of student poets and singers
On Nov. 11, students gathered at the Coop Fountain for Acoustic Open Mic Night, an event co-hosted by 5C Pens & Poetry Club and the Pomona Student Union. Many students took to the stage to showcase their original music and poetry centered around their personal experiences and social issues.
Making room: OBSA’s student art exhibit opening
On Nov. 13, the Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA) welcomed the community to their bungalow on Pomona campus, where they hosted their second-ever student art exhibit. Black creatives from across the 7Cs were able to submit work, adorning the space with new photography, paintings, collages and poems.
Two is better than one: The co-presidency behind Harvey Mudd’s class of ’29
Harvey Mudd College’s first-year class presidents, Swetha Madhanrajan HM ‘29 and Jimin Bang HM ‘29 — known affectionately as “SWIM” — are redefining what student leadership looks like through intentional connections and a contagious energy that is catching on across campus.
CMC first-year class president Zoey Marzo finds meaning in every hello
Zoey Marzo CM ’29 was elected first-year class president because she values community above all. Her leadership style, combined with her peers’ enthusiasm, made her the ideal candidate. Mirroring the quick, conversational energy of the people she represents, she’s never still, always orbiting others.
Behind the curtain of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Through outlandish rehearsals, the cast and crew took Shakespeare’s beloved “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and made it uniquely their own. Each night was different, from clown noses, unicorn floaties and New York accents. The fanciful nature of late-night rehearsals lived on through tech week until opening night’s first cue.
A 50-year quest towards gravitational waves with Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne
On Nov. 2, Kip Thorne took the stage at Harvey Mudd College’s Galileo Auditorium to recount his 50 year odyssey of making gravitational wave astronomy a reality. The audience, which was composed primarily of physics students and scientists across the 5Cs, brought along their editions of Thorne’s “Gravitation” textbook to be autographed. For many, this event was a chance to meet a personal hero, to put a face to the name that they’ve studied in class.
Social media malignance: Why do I keep stalking my own Instagram page?
In her column “Social media malignance,” Celeste Cariker PZ ’28 grapples with the negative social effects brought upon our generation after having grown up with internet platforms that unnaturally allow us to curate how we are perceived. “This outlet we’ve grown up with that allows us to present a “perfect” version of ourselves seems to have trained us to be profusely apologetic about the less-polished qualities that allow us to be known by others,” writes Cariker.