OPINION: Diet culture hurts students, silences those in recovery

CW: Mentions of eating disorders On Oct. 16, students from Scripps College, Harvey Mudd College, and Claremont McKenna College received an email from Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Recreation promoting their “Health and Wellness Fair,” which specifically (and almost exclusively) highlighted and promoted the fair’s body composition testing. This email became the center of

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OPINION: Hungry for change: How dining hall labels fail students

A glimpse of hell: Malott dining hall, 12:15 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Neither quiz nor test nor final exam can match the stress of pushing through the ravenous lunch mob in pursuit of a Beyond Burger — and the defeat of not finding one there. Barely 5-feet-2-inches and often on

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