In an effort to be transparent, we analyzed our coverage from the past semester and looked at the students we are covering. In an
Opinions
OPINION: Loud hands are proud hands: The joy, freedom, and pain of stimming
CW: Anti-autistic ableism and mentions of self-harm There’s a beauty in my hands moving in front of me: short, jerking motions that remind me
OPINION: Breaking free of the Athenaeum mold
It’s hard to think seriously about poverty in Africa while eating a cannoli.
OPINION: Edit and Delete: How Standard English grammar promotes silence
Things that make my skin crawl: nails on a chalkboard, loud gum-chewing, and hearing someone say “less” when they really should have said “fewer.”
OPINION: Regarding immigration, our humanity must transcend borders
In my senior year of high school, our school’s FREE Club (Friends of Rights, Emancipation, and Equality), a student-led social advocacy group, devoted the
OPINION: Be careful with how you criticize Ivanka Trump’s emails
On Nov. 19, journalists at the Washington Post reported that Ivanka Trump (daughter and close advisor of President Donald Trump) had used a personal
OPINION: Don’t take Orientation Adventure out for first-years
I arrived at Pomona College on a Saturday last August having traveled 2,000 miles from home, familiar with practically no one on campus and
OPINION: OA is cancelled, not moved
Orientation Adventure will still have the same trips, it will just be for sophomores — so moving it isn’t a big deal, right? Wrong:
OPINION: Teach philosophy in elementary school and beyond
Philosophy, much to the chagrin of the scientistic intelligentsia, is inescapable. The study of life’s animating questions protects the mind against the tyranny of
OPINION: The Claremont Colleges can do better when it comes to HIV harm reduction
We’re fast approaching December, and specifically, World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. While we should absolutely celebrate the progress medicine and society have made