Many of us cheer for labor rights and criticize billionaires, and then we turn around and ask ChatGPT a question. Celeste Cariker PZ ’28 critiques the Claremont Colleges and much of the student body for their uncritical embrace of artificial intelligence (AI), which is increasingly used to replace human labor in industries like fast food, customer service and transportation.
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OPINION: Pomona should reconsider its approach to its troubled musical legacy
Pomona College quietly retired two of most popular songs — “Hail, Pomona, Hail!” in 2008 and “Torchbearers” in 2015 — due to their roots in Blackface minstrelsy and cultural appropriation. While Pomona’s website acknowledges these histories, Zena Ameida-Warwin PO ’28 critiques the College’s choice to remove the songs without engaging the community in any meaningful public dialogue.
OPINION: Replace reels with real life
Reels, TikTok, even the eldritch beast of YouTube shorts encroach have taken an aggressive hold on us, and Xavier Callan PO ‘28 is one of the brave souls who have gone cold turkey. Callan argues that we should follow his brave steps forward to take back control over how we spend our time.
OPINION: Rethinking the Supreme Court
In the face of the Trump administration’s aggressive cuts and actions, the judicial branch has been an early stalwart line against executive overreach. Alex Benach PO ’28 argues that the judicial branch’s highest court is deeply flawed.
OPINION: Stop the protein maxxing, start eating what you want
Is your Instagram overflowing with saucy beef cakes? Troves of people filling their stomachs with protein and minds with propaganda? Parker DeVore PZ ’27 asks you to step outside the videodrome and ask if our relationship with protein is dogma, health or just the most current manifestation of America’s collective food anxiety.
OPINION: A reply from the ASPC elections commissioner
Following a recent TSL opinion from Luke Brown, Will Dunham PO ’27 corrects the inaccurate statements in Brown’s piece regarding their disqualification. By clarifying the integrity of the elections code and Brown’s violations, Dunham illuminates what transpired during the election cycle.
Opinion: The real cost of administrative bloat
The liberal arts education offered by schools like Pomona College promises close relationships with professors, access to research and the ability to explore and find mentors in your faculty. Instead of keeping true to this promise, Eric Lu PO ’28 argues that the current Pomona has fallen to a familiar fate of higher education: administrative bloat.
OPINION: Finding hope in the courts
A fatalistic fug has descended in the wake of Trump’s ongoing executive restructuring of the government. Rather, it’s your top choice for research being chopped by cuts to the National Science Foundation or distress at the destruction of the Department of Education, it’s easy to find yourself thinking, yeah, it’s over. However, Daniel Choi PO ’28 argues that we should be galvanized in this moment of political turbidity and be ready to fight to rebuild and retain our democracy.
OPINION: Your vote for ASPC president didn’t matter. Here’s why
When Luke Brown PO ’26 tried to run for the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) election as a write-in candidate for president, they got the go-ahead. But less than two hours after this confirmation, they were disqualified.
OPINION: Stop buying your books
From Barnes & Noble to Amazon, the American public has shown an appetite for book consumption. In this fit of consumption, we have looked past one of America’s staple public resources, the library, letting the space of cultural exchange and community fade from our lives. Sarah Russo PO ’28 argues that we cannot afford to let our public resources go to waste, and the first step is changing our consumption patterns.