“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.”
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Reading My Surroundings: Lessons from Mount Baldy
Jessy Wallach PO ‘29, writes about Leonard Cohen’s “Leaving Mt. Baldy” and her experience at the Claremont colleges. She draws striking comparisons between Cohen’s stay at the Mount Baldy Zen Center and the promised utopia of college.
OPINION: We don’t need to go to Bentham’s Prison, we have panopticons at home
College campuses have long existed as hubs of student expression and activism and Pomona’s attempt to diminish that through increased surveillance disguised as security is reprehensible.
Stuck in the margins: “He Will Sink”
Zena Almeida-Warwin PO ’28 reflects on a tumultuous summer, where poetry and journaling helped her escape –– partially –– from the clutches of overthinking and melancholy. Over the course of the summer, Almeida-Warwin harbored feelings for someone emotionally unavailable, in a foreign city which they shared only for a brief time. Consequently, in an effort to move on, she forbade herself from even imagining him.
Books ‘n Love: When fake dating gets too real
“The Love Hypothesis” follows the complicated (perhaps cliché) love story of Olive Smith and Adam Carlsen, professor and grad student duo who strike up a deal to enact a fake relationship for both of their benefits. Kassia Zabetakis PZ ’28 reviews the novel’s highs and lows in the first of her romcom review series, offering critiques of the characters’ one-dimensional personas while still recognizing the light-hearted excitement that’s sparked by reading a cheesy romcom.