After being told that her backpack was perhaps too boyish, Ansley Kang SC ‘29 realized that the Claremont Colleges overemphasize the importance of looking good.
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OPINION: It’s time to start enjoying your coffee without a side of homework
5C students think that the quintessential café accouterments include a laptop, a triple shot dirty chai, noise canceling headphones, enough papers to comfortably cover the four-top table that they plan to monopolize and the locked in attitude of a future management consultant. Ansley Kang SC ‘29 disagrees. The café used to be a nexus of social vibrancy and discourse, so its post-COVID mutation into a bookless library hurts to watch. However, café culture is not beyond saving.
OPINION: AI can take the credit for this new cultural normalization of cheating
Once meant to empower us, AI culture now glamorizes shortcuts and academic dishonesty — turning human creativity into an afterthought. AI startup companies like Cluely have unfortunately transformed AI from a tool of innovation into an inescapable condition of our ever-demanding world whose marketing normalizes and even necessitates cheating on anything and everything. We must work to revalue individualistic traits in our work, for the sake of it being meaningful and formative.
OPINION: MAGA conservatism has no place in Christianity
Charlie Kirk’s death was certainly an important moment in the history of the Trump administration, and perhaps even for the world at large. However, it certainly was not as important as Jesus’s death. That hasn’t stopped comparisons between the two. The MAGA movement’s hijack of Christian imagery, says Ansley Kang SC ‘29, is fundamentally in conflict with their rejection of Christian morals. Christians and agnostics alike should fight for the separation of church and state now more than ever, as MAGA’s new church only worships Trump.