Ananya PO’27 discusses the balance between fitting in and being herself in this article. Through a series of metaphors about travelling abroad and architecture, Ananya details her ongoing journey to strike this balance.
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The aca-obession continues at this year’s SCAMFest
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.
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.
Betty Who? “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties” showcases the complexity of femininity and identity
From the night of Halloween, Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties” ran for a total of three shows at the Large Studio of Pomona College’s Seaver Theatre Complex. The production follows the titular Bettys — five different women who share the same name, but couldn’t be more different from each other — as they navigate the challenges of womanhood and figuring out who they are.
‘Come for the egg rolls but stay for the talk on racism’: Sharing Asian American stories with Curtis Chin
On Oct. 16, Scripps Presents hosted writer and filmmaker Curtis Chin in Balch Auditorium for a conversation on his memoir, writing process and his creative journey as a whole. His memoir,“Everything I Learned I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” from which he read sections throughout the event, began as a collection of comedic family stories, eventually transforming into a reckoning of his intersecting racial and religious identities.
Lessons on advocacy and athletics from Aly Raisman
On Oct. 2, Raisman, a six-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time gymnastics team captain, took the stage at Scripps Presents to share lessons from her athletic journey and trauma healing process. Raisman came forward as a survivor of sexual abuse in 2017 and is now an avid advocate for sexual assault survivors. In telling her story, Raisman noted how devastatingly common abuse is, and emphasized that speaking out can be extremely terrifying.
Monica Lewinsky in conversation: Reclaiming the narrative
“In my family, we call [1998] The Brainwashing. The younger generations said — ’wait, the 24-year-old young woman had more consequences than the 50-year-old most powerful man in the world.’ That insistence to revisit the story and to revisit me as a person created this current [of change]” Monica Lewinsky said.