The Grammys are back! Tomy Helman PO ’28 breaks down this year’s nominations with a mix of praise and disdain, highlighting Kendrick Lamar’s excellence, Billie Eilish’s questionable appearance, and the omissions of artists like Sombr, Raven Lenae and Alex Warren.
Arts & Culture
Eat, drink, move: Nutritional biology students on the science and culture behind our health
Eating isn’t just essential to our survival — it’s engrained in our social, cultural and political worlds. In this compilation of articles, students from BIOL 183: Nutritional Biology go behind the issues that affect our bodily and mental health.
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.
So I had this dream last night: sketches of the people who make up my life
Do dreams make up who we are? Back with her weekly column, Alison Barrera PO ’29 explores the concept of dreams, specifically, how the people in our dreams make up who we are. With the help of a strange airport and the unexpected return of childhood friends, Barrera highlights how our past selves shape the person we’re becoming.
Claremont Characters: Miriam Akhmetshin always delivers
In the latest and last entry of her column, Ila Assegaf profiles Miriam Akhmetshin SC ’26, an art history and economics major who recently completed training to be a doula.
Ten years of ‘yes, you can’: How the Hive reshaped creativity across the 5Cs
As of this fall, the Hive has been a staple of the 5Cs community for ten years. In 2015, a grant transformed what had been the Seeley G. Mudd Science Library into a more flexible, lively space. A decade later, the Hive remains an experiment in creativity and collaboration.
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.
Pitzer Connect debuts as Pitzer’s first ever tech club
This semester, Pitzer Connect made history by becoming Pitzer’s first technology club with the mission of bringing together everyone interested in tech, regardless of experience. At their first event on Nov. 7, the executive team explained the process behind majoring in data science and computer science at the other 5C campuses, since Pitzer does not offer those programs.
The poem of ecstasy: duality of perfect love in Shunkinshō
What makes love perfect? Can it survive when it stops being human? Leslie Tong PO ’29 returns with her weekly column, attempting to answer these two questions through her analysis of Shunkinshō, Junichiro Tanizaki’s 1976 work.