“For a school that has been around for over a century, Pomona’s reactionary protocol to overt racism on campus is laughable. What does accountability mean when the administrative response to racial slurs is simply an invitation for dialogue?” Kaitlyn Ulalisa PO ’27 and Mujeebat Gbolahan PO ‘27 wrote. “Why are Black students responsible for healing themselves of the audacious nature of another’s words?”
Opinions
OPINION: Ozempic (and the death of body positivity) is screwing amputees
“GLP-1s are killing body positivity — but not in the way you think,” Grace Rutherford PO ’28 writes. “While these medications can offer real health benefits, they are flooding and redirecting every conversation away from body acceptance to body improvement. People are now putting mental health aside in exchange for fitting into an ideal.”
OPINION: Students for clean air: The fight against gas boilers
“We are calling on you to help us pass resolutions at the 5Cs which put pressure on our local government agencies to pass zero-emissions policies,” writes Leah Glasser PZ ’26. “Resolutions in favor of the proposed rules would show the SCAQMD board that the bodies which they govern are in support of zero-emissions regulations which could create the necessary pressure for these rules to pass.”
OPINION: We’re not discussing February’s shootings. That has to change.
we cannot heal without discussing what has occurred,” writes Jessy Wallach PO ’29. “For better or worse, we are experienced at grieving these tragedies. Let us not grow experienced in having these incidents fail to register as tragedies at all.”
OPINION: It’s Trump’s online circus and we’re all just living in it
“As a result of all of Trump’s actions, the United States is no longer perceived with the legitimacy it once was. We can no longer take for granted our position at the top of the world order,” Olivia Brinkman PO ’29 writes. “As Americans, we are watching our window of tolerance for the actions of our government expand in real time, normalizing nonsensical and hateful behavior. We must not let Trump’s social media rampages distract us from the real harm his actions are causing abroad.”
OPINION: Sic semper tyrannis: No quarter for despots
“America has given the Venezuelan and Iranian peoples something that they haven’t had in a long time: Hope,” writes Gabriel Khuly CMC ’28. “That must be celebrated and replicated in every other nation ruled by enemies of freedom.”
OPINION: Get up. It’s time to flash mob
“With the rise of social media ‘cringe culture,’ … we simply aren’t motivated to organize ‘spontaneous’ dance pieces that draw in massive crowds of strangers, united in their shock and delight at the earnest spectacles before them,” Zara Seldon PO ’29 writes. “Our world is lonelier than ever, making flash mobs a perfect example of the unapologetic, out-in-the-open whimsy necessary to harness the power of communal joy.”
OPINION: Have you been in pain? If so, care about pregnancy.
“The Claremont Colleges’ insufficient support for pregnant students, whether they carry a pregnancy to term, have a miscarriage, or seek an abortion, is both indicative of and an inadequate response to the American legal and medical system,” Vivian Fan PO ‘28 writes. “The Title IX and Accessibility offices ought to collaborate with SHS to ensure that students, regardless of whether or not they carry a pregnancy to term, are able to access relevant resources and comprehensive healthcare.”
OPINION: In defense of PDA and reflections on embodied love
“We have a collective problem, not only of loneliness, but of an inability to celebrate the manifestation of real love upon exposure to it,” Alex Benach PO ‘28 writes. “In other words, seeing love represented can act as a medicine for our repulsion to love.”
OPINION: When you travel, don’t start with English
The modern expectation of everyone to speak English quietly places the burden of communication on local people in linguistically diverse areas, treating them as the ones who must adapt.