A September report by higher education research collective UnCivil called out four Claremont Colleges for their ties to civil discourse programs it says embrace anti-activist agendas or are funded by billionaire-led conservative nonprofits: the College Presidents for Civic Preparedness, the Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI) and BridgeUSA.UnCivil aims to map the donor networks and conceptual origins of the Civil Industrial Complex, or the series of conservative campus initiatives and private- and state-funded “civic thought” centers that claim to support civil discourse and viewpoint diversity.
Tag: Zena Almeida-Warwin
Stuck in the Margins: “Chaos in the Mecca”
Zena Almeida-Warwin PO ‘28 is back with her weekly poetry column. In this edition, she reflects on her weekend trip to Howard University. Almeida-Warwin spent time at the HBCU during homecoming, also known as “the mecca” by students.
Stuck in the margins: “Baboon on East Bonita”
Zena Almerida-Warwin continues her poetry column with another original piece: “Baboon on East Bonita.” She recounts a few jarring interactions with a local Claremont resident, prompting her to reflect on the comfortability some feel to criticize strangers, especially young women.
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.
OPINION: When Looks Kill: The issue with attractive depictions of murderers on screen
When murderers become attractive do we lose sight of the horrifying realities of murder? With the recent release of the steamy and sexy Netflix true crime series, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,”Zena Almeida-Warwin PO ’28 questions society’s obsession with romanticizing murderers. Arguing that our fixation on human attractiveness when it comes to these types of movies and shows, Almeida-Warwin warns readers of desensitization to murder and that we may be distorting real trauma into our own pleasure.