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5Cs expand CS as Mudd struggles to handle demand JAIMIe DING Computer science has skyrocketed in popularity at the 5Cs in recent years, pushing the limits of Harvey Mudd College’s resources and dampening the prospects of students at other colleges hoping to major in CS. Now, new Scripps College, Pitzer College and Claremont McKenna College students interested in computer science are being told they may not get to explore the field as fully as they’d like — and the schools are scrambling to expand their own CS offerings. The three schools, which lack CS majors of their own and largely rely on Mudd’s program, informed their prospective students who indicated an interest in CS before the May 1 college decision deadline this spring that they could no longer guarantee those students’ placement in HMC computer science courses or the Mudd CS major, according to the deans of faculty of the respective colleges. “Scripps was my top choice,” Hana Ahmed SC ’23 said. “Then suddenly I had to re-evaluate everything.” Ahmed eventually decided to attend Scripps anyway due to the “liberal arts presence” and the resources of the consortium. She said she will still try to major in CS, but will also explore math and other majors. “If I couldn’t do CS at Scripps, I probably wouldn’t have come to Scripps,” said Wendy Zhang SC ’22, whose CS major application was accepted this year. Pomona College offers its own computer science major but is not accepting any off-campus majors at this time, according to Scripps Dean of Faculty Amy Marcus-Newhall. Yuqing Melanie Wu, Pomona’s CS department chair, did not respond to a request for comment. HMC Dean of Faculty Lisa Sullivan led a computer science task force in May 2018 with deans and representatives from all 5Cs to address CS overcrowd-

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Student Health made decision to suspend appointments without consulting deans JULIA FRANKeL When Student Health Services decided to suspend routine medical appointments Sept. 24, student deans across the 5Cs found themselves in the same boat as students: completely unaware. Or at least, that’s what the consortium says now. Last week,

The Claremont Colleges Services said deans were involved in “all the changes to the services being provided at SHS.” Either way, students remained without formal notice from their respective colleges for two weeks. Last week, a statement on the SHS website announced the center would be temporarily suspending

Despite cutting the number of students cited for alcohol policy violations in half last year, Pomona College still took disciplinary action against more students than all the other 5Cs combined, according to 5C crime and disciplinary data released Oct. 1. The school referred 60 students to campus judicial authorities for incidents involving alcohol, according to its Annual Clery Fire Safety and Security Report for the 2018 calendar year. Every other undergraduate Claremont college referred a combined

confirmed that SHS and TCCS personnel unilaterally made the decision to temporarily suspend routine appointments, without consulting student deans. “Upon review, we believe a delay in notification to the college deans created a delay in notification of

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THE DARK SIDE OF SPORTS Athletes describe life after career-ending injuries

TALIA BERNSTEIN • THE STUDENT LIFE

Spencer Sheff CM ‘20 (left), Dawson Reckers CM ‘21 and Margot Mafra Spencer SC ‘21 have all dealt with career-ending injuries.

MAttHeW KIM Margot Mafra Spencer SC ’21 was playing defense in the back row of a preseason Claremont-Mudd-Scripps volleyball practice last year when she was hit in the head by a ball. Her mobility was limited due to a recent back injury, and she didn’t have time to adjust to the slightly high hit. The ball smacked her right temple instead of her forearms, whipping her head around and causing her to fall and black out for a few seconds. “I knew that I had a concussion immediately, but I didn’t tell anyone. I sat out for one play, then told the team I was fine to play and continued in the drill,” Mafra Spencer said.

Pomona cited more students for alcohol policy violations in 2018 than other 5Cs combined JASPeR DAVIDOFF

scheduling routine appointments — including physicals, women’s health exams, vaccinations, tuberculosis tests and sexually transmitted infection testing — due to a “critical” shortage of registered nurses and medical providers. Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Smith Dickerson and TCCS spokesperson Colin Tudor

total of 45 students during the same period. In 2017, Pomona cited 131 students for alcohol violations, its report said. The Clery Act requires colleges to release such reports annually. Claremont McKenna College reported the lowest number referred, citing only a single student. Pitzer College reported 29, Scripps College reported eight and Harvey Mudd College reported seven. ASPC President Miguel Delgado-Garcia PO ’20 said the statistic demonstrates a failure in Pomona’s handling of on-campus drinking

and partying. “That number is not super convincing that the college is moving towards a place of healthy drinking culture,” he said. Delgado-Garcia speculated that Pomona’s restrictive attitudes toward substance use could motivate students to develop unhealthy habits of consuming substances in private. “If we’re taught from day one that drinking is not allowed on this campus ... forcing it behind closed doors doesn’t create a

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MARC ROD • THE STUDENT LIFE

LIFE & STYLE Relationships columnist Micaela Macagnone PO ‘20 writes about her semester abroad in Madrid and sobering return home after her father’s passing, reflecting on how she found self-care amidst grief. Read more on page 4.

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“I immediately got hit in the head again. Then I knew I was definitely concussed.” She continued to play for the next few days until the pain became unbearable. She tried sitting out for a month. But it wasn’t enough. The injury eventually ended her volleyball career. “The concussion affected everything about me: my personality and my mood, I had panic disorder, severe depression and anxiety,” Mafra Spencer said. “I was color blind, had a stutter, I had difficulty writing and reading and was cognitively functioning at the level of a 7-year-old.”

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Some CMS men’s swimmers were suspended as investigation into possible misconduct began KeLLeN bROWNING & JAIMIe DING A number of men on the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps swim team were suspended from practice for a week in mid-September, head swim and dive coach Charlie Griffiths told TSL Thursday, as the CMS athletic department and its associated schools launched an investigation into reported actions that may have violated the department’s values. Griffiths summoned his swimmers and divers to an early-morning meeting in Roberts Pavilion on Sept. 19, according to an email shared with TSL. There, he delivered a lecture about team standards and announced that some of the male swimmers were being temporarily suspended, according to three sources familiar with the meeting. The day before, several senior women on the team had told Griffiths they were quitting, citing a team culture they characterized as “pervaded by toxic masculinity,” according to a source familiar with the team. The breaking point, two sources say, was this year’s edi-

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tion of the “Stag Survival Guide,” reportedly a document circulated among the men’s team each year to “introduce new freshmen to the team and crack jokes at existing members.” This year, some of the women who saw the alleged document thought it was inappropriate, the source familiar with the team said. They say it included offensive comments about other team members. “Really [it was] the culmination of everything,” the source said. “The [Stag Survival Guide] was the epitome, the last straw.” The CMS investigation is being led by Nyree Gray, Claremont McKenna College’s assistant vice president for diversity and chief civil rights officer, according to CMC spokesperson Gilien Silsby. In response to a series of questions about the investigation, Gray said via email that she “cannot respond [...] at this time while the matter is still pending.” The investigation is expected to conclude soon, the source said. The athletic department and associated colleges “are committed to maintaining an environment in which every community member

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“Sorry to break it to you, sweetie, but not everyone is as quick to become a fake Marxist as you are, so cut people some slack.” — Cameron Tipton PO ‘20 Read more on page 9.

The Gary Troyer Tournament, followed by Wednesday night’s rivalry game, made for an eventful week in men’s water polo. Read more on page 12.

INDEX: News 1 | Life & Style 4 | Opinions 7 | Sports 10

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ALCOHOL: Policy encourages pregaming, students say Continued from page 1 healthy culture on campus,” he said. “I think that’s one of the main reasons that other colleges adopt open-door policies.” Pomona’s student handbook states that “open containers of alcohol or cups containing alcoholic drinks may not be carried around campus or in public spaces in the residence halls.” It also states that hard alcohol is “viewed with special disfavor by the college” and banned from South Campus residence halls, where firstyears and most sophomores live. Other students agreed with Delgado-Garcia, saying they saw the “closed-door” policy as conducive to unhealthy habits like pregaming. “We have to do it in secret,” Isabella Cayetano PO ’23 said. “And so we have to do it as much as possible before we go out, because once we go out, we can’t [drink].” But Dean of Campus Life Josh Eisenberg said he didn’t see forcing students to drink behind closed doors as an intrinsic safety issue. “I don’t think there’s inherently a risk,” he said. “I think there are risks behind closed doors based on the behavior you’re choosing. Like, if you’re behind closed doors and playing beer pong, yes, there’s inherently a risk.” Judicial Board chair Isaac Cui PO ’20 said via message that the consequences of closed-door drinking need to be better understood. “[The Student Affairs Committee] and the community generally need to think about whether our policies do incentivize such behaviors and, if so, how to address that concern,” he said. CMC’s policy allows for “responsible, moderate consumption of alcohol … in residential areas, including residence hall rooms, apartments

and apartment balconies.” Carrying an “open single use serving” is permitted, as is playing beer pong if registered with the Student Activities Office. “I think that the best policies encourage accountability and safety, not punishment,” ASCMC President Dina Rosin CM ’20 said in an email. Pomona experienced eight alcohol-related transport incidents during the fall 2018 semester, TSL previously reported. That was the highest in the consortium, although the number for each school was roughly proportional to school size, and no data is available for Harvey Mudd. Delgado-Garcia said a more public drinking environment could help students learn to consume alcohol in a safer manner. “Promoting events with casual drinking, I think, is a step in the right direction,” he said. “How are we preparing students for the real world? Because that’s what we’re doing here, right?” Students also raised concerns that their perception of Pomona’s strict attitudes toward alcohol makes them less likely to get assistance in emergency situations. “I think if the administration’s very anti-substance policy was a little less intense, then people would not be as afraid to call for help,” Cayetano said. Eisenberg emphasized that students should feel confident that the school’s Good Samaritan policy will protect them if they seek medical attention for themselves or another student. The policy states that inebriated students in need of assistance will not be penalized for drinking if they seek help from Campus Safety or administrators.

SHS: Pomona students got late notification Continued from page 1 students at the colleges. We regret this and the confusion it caused,” a statement sent to TSL by Tudor said. This information contradicts earlier correspondence TSL received from Tudor. Consultation with student deans occurred only after the decision to suspend routine services was made, according to Pomona College Dean of Students Avis Hinkson. It remains unclear when the decision was posted to TCCS website, and when student deans across the 5Cs were notified of the temporary suspension. Student deans alerted students from Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College and Scripps College to the suspension Oct. 3, a day after TSL published a story about the statement on the SHS site. Pomona did not make a schoolwide announcement until Thursday, a day after TSL requested comment about why a school-wide email had not yet been sent. “I apologize for not providing this information sooner and for any confusion you may have experienced,” Hinkson wrote in her email to Pomona students. Students and parents alike voiced their frustration at the lack of timely communication from administrators regarding the temporary suspension. Clarissa De La Garza PO ’22 attempted to schedule an appointment at SHS for her sinus infection Oct. 2, over a week after the decision to temporarily suspend appointments was made. At the time, De La Garza was unaware of the change, not having received an email nor read the statement on the TCCS website. Finding that she was unable to book an appointment online, she assumed that all appointments were full and postponed scheduling her appointment until the next day. When she woke up Oct. 3, her symptoms were worse. Again, she tried to schedule an appointment to no avail. She called SHS, and was eventually told to go to Claremont Urgent Care, paying for her transportation there and back. De La Garza was only informed of the temporary suspension when she was given the address of the urgent care facility. “In the moment it was frustrating because I was just trying to book an

JUSTIN SLEPPY • THE STUDENT LIFE

Ian Emlet PZ ‘21 receives a vaccine at a flu shot clinic hosted by Pomona College on Oct. 3

appointment to see a professional and get the proper medication, and was not expecting to have to go through all that,” De La Garza said. “Being informed about what is going on around campus is important, especially for students who do not have the immediate funds to seek service somewhere off campus” Simona Zanetti, a Pomona parent, said she never received correspondence from administrators regarding the suspension. Instead, she read TSL’s story on Facebook. “You can’t only be proud of excellence and low acceptance rates,” Zanetti said. “You have to provide a full package, and that includes the ability to provide an environment where kids and young adults can feel safe and assisted if needed.” “It’s as simple as that,” she continued. “The schools are in a wealthy situation, so hire the right people and the right amount of people. . . as a parent, you like to know that the safety of you kid is taken care of, it’s a priority and that its staffed appropriately.” SHS is attempting to counter staff shortages by hiring more registered nurses. A new hire underwent training today, according to Dickerson.

AMY BEST • THE STUDENT LIFE

Despite cutting the number of students cited for alcohol policy violations in half, Pomona College still cited more students than all other 5Cs combined.

“We want students to be safe, that actually is our priority,” he said. “If people are making the wrong choice based on fear, the end result is it’s not inconvenient — it’s tragedy. No one wants that.” But the policy could be better advertised or made clearer to begin with, students said. “We should have a community-wide dialogue about the Good Samaritan policy, especially as SAC debates changes,” Cui said. “The public will have the chance to weigh in — and they should.” In the past, students raised concerns that transports outside of their control left them facing the substantial and potentially unaffordable costs of an ambulance and medical treatment. Eisenberg noted that students

can have some fees reimbursed through the Student Health Insurance Program. SHIP reimburses 80 percent of ambulance costs, according to an Aetna benefits summary, but only 25 percent of students across the 5Cs were enrolled in SHIP as of last year. “If you are getting to the point where an ambulance had to show up at the curb, we should no longer be discussing whether or not there is a financial cost to that,” Eisenberg said. ”Because let me tell you what the financial cost is if we don’t get that human being out.” Campus Safety declined to release data about emergencies involving student alcohol consumption. “We as students joke around a lot with our friends, ‘Never trans-

port me because I can’t afford it.’ And I think that’s a conversation that the college can have, because there should not be a tradeoff between financial security and health,” Delgado-Garcia said. Overall, Eisenberg said, the administration is not in denial about students’ choices around drinking or attempting to create a dry campus. “We don’t allow underage drinking, but we don’t forbid drinking on campus,” he said. “We also, obviously, as an institution, don’t believe alcohol [is] inherently evil, because we sponsor events that have alcohol. What we believe in is responsible and moderated drinking. And we try to create policies that recognize that 18-to-22-year-olds don’t often know how to moderate or responsibly drink.”

CS: Scripps hires first CS faculty member Continued from page 1 ing, according to HMC CS department chair Melissa O’Neill. The task force reached “a b road understanding t hat Mudd and Pomona cannot singlehandedly support continued exponentially rising demand for off-campus majors in CS,” O’Neill said. Despite the strain on the CS department, O’Neill said the HMC computer science department was able to accept all 31 off-campus students who applied — 14 from CMC, 10 from Pitzer and seven from Scripps — into the computer science major this year. The department reviews all off-campus applications at the same time once a year, she said. The number is “significant,” she said; it’s equal to the total number of CS majors at HMC just a few years ago. “I think it speaks well to our department’s commitment to the ideals of the 5Cs and our collegiality towards our sister colleges,” O’Neill said. The situation at the 5Cs reflects the growing demand for CS education nationwide, and CS departments are struggling to keep up with the growth. While the average number of computer science majors per department nationwide increased by 35 percent from 2015 to 2018, there was only a 13 percent increase in tenure-track faculty in the same time period, according to an August 2019 report by the Computing Research Association. The number of HMC CS majors at Scripps increased from just one to 13 from the class of 2014 to 2019, and there are currently 14 declared majors in the class of 2021, Marcus-Newhall said via email. Seven Scripps

students have majored in CS at Pomona between 2014 and 2019, she said. Ten CMC students from the class of 2019 majored in computer science at Mudd; there are 22 declared CS majors in the class of 2020, according to CMC Dean of Faculty Peter Uvin. Pitzer did not disclose how many CS majors it has. This year, Scripps hired its first CS faculty member, Douglas Goodwin, for the Fletcher Jones Scholar in Computation Chair, Marcus-Newhall said. Scripps created the position with a $2 million endowed fund to “facilitate the design and implementation of new courses that teach computational skills,”

I suspect likewise there will come a time when we’ll look back and wonder how it could be that three of the five colleges did not have their own distinct home for computing. Melissa O’Neill

according to the Scripps news release. Goodwin is teaching “Computational Photography” and “Alt Comp Sci: Analogs/Algorithms” this semester, according to the course registration portal. The Scripps math department is also teaching a two-semester introductory CS sequence, Marcus-Newhall said. CMC currently offers a com-

puter science sequence — the equivalent of a minor — and launched a data science sequence last year. However, the department and CMC may make a decision this year on whether to turn the data science sequence into a full major, Uvin said via email. CMC hired two new CS professors this academic year, Michael Izbicki and Sarah Cannon. Izbicki is currently teaching “Data Mining” and said he will also teach an introductory Python course. Cannon will teach math and computer science classes, according to her faculty page. Scripps faculty are working on developing a CS minor and a data science minor, Marcus-Newhall said. Scripps professor Winston Ou, who is teaching an introductory Python class and is involved in the push for a data science minor, thinks Scripps will have a CS major eventually. “It’s my understanding that ... lots of liberal arts colleges are trying to hire people and are unsuccessful,” Ou said. “It’s not going to be easy and I’m not sure how we’re going to do it, but we have to. We can’t have a college where students are unable to major in CS.” Pitzer Dean of Faculty Allen Omoto said the school is “having discussions and formulating plans to provide more classes that have an emphasis on data science or computational methods” to address the demand for CS. “There was a time in the past when some colleges did not have mathematics departments, an idea that seems hard to fathom today, and I suspect likewise there will come a time when we’ll look back and wonder how it could be that three of the five colleges did not have their own distinct home for computing,” O’Neill said. “To my mind, the question is not if that future will come to pass, but when.”

Corrections In issue 3, an article about Campus Safety’s body camera use stated that Pomona’s Judicial Board can request access to the camera footage. Only administrators can request the footage. In issue 3, an article about Sodexo incorrectly stated that Sodexo manages Harvey Mudd College’s dining hall. HMC directly manages its Hoch-Shanahan dining hall and only gets “limited services” from Sodexo. In issue 3, an article about Pitzer College and Claremont McKenna College’s newspaper subscriptions incorrectly stated that Open Academy was an organization. It is a CMC initiative. In issue 3, an article about Student Health Services incorrectly stated that Harvey Mudd College students did not receive a schoolwide email announcement about the temporary suspension. Harvey Mudd students received an email announcement Thursday night. TSL regrets these errors.

TALIA BERNSTEIN • THE STUDENT LIFE

ASHMC President Kyle Grace HM ‘21 partakes in the beam signing at the McGregor Computer Center’s groundbreaking ceremony Sept. 28.

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Pomona must pay $130,000 to former student accused of sexual assault for denial of fair hearing, CA court rules PAtRIcK LIU Pomona College must pay $130,000 in attorney fees to a former student accused of sexual assault for denying him a “fair hearing,” a California appeals court ruled Oct. 3. The court of appeal’s opinion affirmed a decision two years ago that found the college responsible for disregarding its own sexual misconduct policy in denying the accused student — called John Doe in court documents — his right to question the student who accused him of sexual assault, called Jane Roe in court documents. The Los Angeles Superior Court, which first heard the lawsuit in October 2017, determined that the college’s denial was improper and “prejudicial,” and questioned whether the external adjudicator (EA) who found the accused student responsible for sexual assault could have made the same determination about the accuser’s consent had the accuser been questioned sufficiently.

The college’s further assertion that the [EA ...] will not make the same mistakes twice ignores that the reason they will not is because of Doe’s [lawsuit]. Mary H. Strobel

The court deemed Doe entitled to attorney fees to warn Pomona against denying students fair Title IX hearings and because the lawsuit enforced an “important right affecting the public interest.” “We are very pleased the Court of Appeal affirmed the order for Pomona College to pay $130,000 of attorney fees incurred in overturning the college’s bad Title IX decision,” Doe’s lawyer Mark Hathaway told The College Fix via email. “The student has graduated but Pomona College withheld his degree for a year and the student is still fighting to clear his record.” Doe had sought $255,672.50 from the College to cover attorney fees of $127,836.25. Doe was accused of sexual misconduct against Roe, a Pitzer student, in March 2015, according to the court

of appeal’s opinion. Upon being found responsible, Doe requested in April 2016 that the adjudicator review the ruling and further investigate Roe’s statements, the opinion said. The trial court found that, in the re-hearing that followed, the adjudicator violated Pomona’s policies, which grant the accused the right to either to ask the EA to pose further questions to the accuser as part of continued investigation, or to submit questions for the EA to ask the accuser at the hearing. The appeals court wrote in its opinion the EA had denied Doe both opportunities. The EA first rejected Doe’s request to have investigators ask Roe additional questions, believing it more appropriate to question her at the hearing. This was based on a misunderstanding of college policy, according to the appeals court decision. Then, the EA faulted Doe for not submitting questions five days in advance as he was supposed to, and Roe decided two days before the hearing not to attend, according to the court of appeals opinion. When Doe appealed the EA’s ruling against him on the grounds that he was denied the opportunity to examine Roe directly or indirectly, then-Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum rejected his appeal, arguing the EA had acted in line with school policy, the court of appeals opinion said. Pomona argued in its appeal of the Superior Court decision that its policy was misapplied because the EA misunderstood college policy and because of Roe’s last-minute failure to attend the hearing, a “unique set of circumstances” the college claimed was unlikely to happen again. But the appeals court judges rejected this argument, writing that Pomona’s actions “demonstrated an insensitivity to due process concerns that was likely to recur.” “The College’s further assertion that the [EA] and the Dean of Students will not make the same mistakes twice ignores that the reason they will not is because of Doe’s [lawsuit],” the judges further wrote. Sue McCarthy, Pomona’s Title IX coordinator, declined to respond to questions about the case, citing the sensitivity of the process. TSL was unable to contact Doe, Roe or their representatives.

Harvey Mudd well ahead of student body growth goals

ELINOR ASPEGREN • THE STUDENT LIFE

Drinkward Hall is the most recent building constructed on Harvey Mudd College’s campus in order to accomadate an increase in enrollment by the college.

MARIA HeeteR With 893 students currently enrolled, Harvey Mudd College is well ahead of its target for expanding the student body, resulting in concerns over how the level of growth is affecting students, according to a report released in January 2019. Under its plan, the school should have enrolled 850 students this academic year, according to the school’s website. In the 2013-2014 academic year, HMC had an unprecedented and unanticipated response to offers of admission and enrolled more students than originally planned for the class of 2017, according to Judy Augsburger, HMC’s spokesperson. There was another smaller bump in the 2018-2019 academic year for the class of 2022 due to a “lower than usual rate of summer melt” — students who enroll in May but do not attend school in September. “Overall retention has been higher than previously modeled so our total student body numbers have grown faster than originally anticipated,” Augsburger said in an email. The college still plans to grow to 900 by 2023, according to Augsburger — a net gain of just seven more students. But the level of current growth has resulted in “areas with evidence of concern” outlined in the report, which examined resources, workload and student experience.

Newly free Monte Carlo tickets run out in two days

TALIA BERNSTEIN • THE STUDENT LIFE

Students line up outside Collins Dining Hall on Wednesday evening to get tickets for Claremont McKenna College’s annual Monte Carlo party.

HAIDee cLAUeR In a departure from tradition, tickets to Claremont McKenna College’s annual Monte Carlo party were free this year — but only available to a limited number of students per school. All 1,200 tickets were given out in the first two days of tabling, which was supposed to run until Friday. The amount of available tickets varied by school and was based off historic student attendance, said Johnson Lin CM ’21, ASCMC junior class president and event planner. The decision is part of a larger change, as ASCMC recently announced it’s eliminating ticket charges for all school-wide events this academic year. Under the new system for Monte Carlo, 800 tickets are available for CMC students, 150 for Scripps College students, 100 for Pomona College students, 80 for Pitzer College students, 25 for Harvey Mudd

College students and 45 for CMC students’ guests, according to ASCMC’s live ticket counter. All Scripps, Pomona, Pitzer and Harvey Mudd tickets had already run out as of Tuesday afternoon — the first day tickets began being distributed, according to the tracker. All CMC student and guest tickets were given out by Wednesday evening. Despite the restricted number of tickets, Lin said more students from each school will be allowed to attend this year than attended in previous years. About 200 more tickets were issued this year than were sold last year, he said. Student governments across the 5Cs helped fund Monte Carlo, though contributions differed from $7.50 per ticket from Pitzer Student Senate to $10 per ticket from ASHMC. In the past, tickets to the formal event had sold for $15 or more. The different price per ticket

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for the schools stemmed from a pair of circumstances, according to Lin. ASCMC asked ASHMC for a total of $250 for its tickets, raising its price per ticket slightly, and Pitzer Student Senate asked for five additional tickets, on top of what it was originally allocated. ASCMC has a total budget of approximately $18,500 for the event without the contributions from other schools, according to Lin. The school will receive $2,850 in supplemental funding from the other student governments — $1,200 from SAS, $800 from ASPC, $600 from Pitzer Student Senate and $250 from ASHMC. With the elimination of ticketing costs, Lin hopes Monte Carlo will be a step towards creating a more inclusive and fun environment at the 5Cs, and that this will be a trial run that he hopes to expand to future CMC parties.

The report indicated that the growing student body may be placing “stress” on “student-facing support systems.” In preparation for a five-year assessment in 2019, faculty, administration and board of trustees agreed on a set of “growth indicators” that would indicate if growth presented challenges, according to Augsburger. These included faculty-student ratio; numbers of reappointment, promotion and tenure cases; square footage of residential space per student and endowment per student, according to Augsburger. Students reported decreased satisfaction with access to psychological support, and the number of students using Academic Excellence tutoring increased 40 percent from 2011-2012 to 2016-17, according to the assessment. ASHMC President Kyle Grace HM ’21 declined to speculate whether decreased satisfaction with access to psychological support was an indicator of growth, but spoke about student unhappiness with mental health resources. “There’s definitely a lot of student frustration and some need for more psychological and mental health support,” Grace said. “I don’t necessarily know if that’s a direct result of the growth plan, because I think it’s always been an issue.” HMC is taking various steps to alleviate the pressures of its expanding student body. Mudd opened its Drinkward Residence Hall in fall 2015, and plans to open up a second new

dorm in 2023, according to HMC’s website. The new residence hall is a “key fundraising priority” in their main fundraising campaign. HMC plans to fund new residence halls through a combination of 75 percent debt and 25 percent gifts, according to the HMC site. The plan for the new dorm was not only to provide housing for the growing student body but also to allow the school to cycle out dorms for renovations, Augsburger said, adding that the expansion has not presented housing issues so far. HMC is also nearly doubling the amount of Division of Student Affairs staff, including adding five staff members who live in residence halls, according to Augsburger. The school also added two new positions in the Office of Academic Affairs: the new student support position of assistant dean for academic affairs, who works with the associate dean as a resource for students in need of academic support and guidance, and the director of educational accessibility, according to Augsburger. Additionally, the college expanded new student orientation programming and training for student proctors and mentors, she said. The report indicated that the school is coping well with the increases in other areas. These included student-faculty ratios that were at or below 8:1 through the 2017-2018 academic year, an average class size of 21 and no decrease in student satisfaction with HMC, according to the report.

Current Pomona art museum to become temporary athletics office building As Pomona College’s art museum moves to its new home at the Benton Art Museum, its current home, the Montgomery Art Center, will be temporarily used to accommodate administrative staff from the Rains Center. The Rains Center is the next Pomona building that will undergo renovations, slated to begin May 18, 2020. “It will be essentially administrative space for the current athletic coaches and administration,” said Robert Robinson, assistant vice president of facilities and campus services at Pomona. In addition, the building might provide room for team meetings or laundry facilities. “Nothing is actually set in stone at this point in time, but we’re planning to try to use existing facilities to maintain the athletic program and the recreational sports programs,” he said. Robinson also said his team hopes that other schools will open up their facilities to students who typically use Rains while it’s being renovated. “We’re hoping that we’ll be able to do something similar [to what] CMC did ... when they were building Roberts Pavilion, meaning we provided facilities for basketball and volleyball and things like that,” Robinson said. “So [for] court-type practices and games, we’re going to be asking our partners at CMC, and possibly Harvey Mudd as well, to help us out.” — Aalia Thomas QRC director departs 7Cs Queer Resource Center director Manuel Diaz left Claremont on Oct. 4 to pursue a career in teaching and research, Pomona College senior associate dean Tracy Arwari said in an email to students Monday. Diaz became the director full time in December 2017 after an arduous search process. He had previously been the interim director. Pomona had originally hired one person, Jonathan Higgins, for the position in June 2017, but abruptly fired him in July 2017 citing differing “visions.” The College Fix had published an article featuring Higgins’ controversial tweets the day before he was fired. Then-Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum claimed the college knew about his tweets before it hired him and President G. Gabrielle Starr said his firing was unrelated to the article. Arwari praised Diaz’s work at the QRC, citing his accomplishments in making the center more utilized, fostering a sense of belonging among queer and transgender students of color, creating a group for queer faculty and staff, bringing back a mentorship program for queer faculty and staff and developing ally training for faculty and staff. “His tenure at the QRC was notable for his commitment to inclusivity and for holistic thinking about how to incorporate the experiences of faculty, staff and students into programs and initiatives undertaken by the center,” she said. Assistant director Pharalyn Crozier, who was appointed at the same time as Diaz, will become the interim director for the rest of the 2019-2020 academic year. The school will hire an interim assistant director, and will start its search for a permanent director in the spring. — Marc Rod

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Award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado visits Scripps

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Award-winning author carmen Maria Machado visited Scripps college on Oct. 3 to discuss her upcoming memoir “In the Dream House.”

CORINNE BOBB-SEMPLE CW: queer domestic violence Award-winning fiction writer Carmen Maria Machado kept her audience on their toes, haunting them with her writing and inspiring them with her confidence. Machado, author of the acclaimed book of short stories “Her Body and Other Parties,” visited Scripps College’s Balch Auditorium on Oct. 3 to share a piece of her upcoming memoir “In the Dream House,” which chronicles Machado’s experiences with queer domestic violence. Leila Mansouri, assistant professor of English at Scripps, began her introduction of Machado by noting her critical acclaim as a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. “[Students] invariably respond to her work like nothing else I’ve ever assigned,” she said, acknowledging the impact of Machado’s writing. “These reactions speak not just to Machado’s talent as a writer but also to the ways her stories invest in women’s experiences and perspectives.” After Machado launched into a reading of “In the Dream House,”

she was quick to address the somber tone of the book, anticipating a skeptical reaction from her audience. “It is a memoir about queer domestic violence,” she said. “It’s super sad. It’s really weird to write a book that’s so sad.” Machado, though, is no stranger to being called weird. Amidst widespread acclaim for her first book, Machado couldn’t escape the characterization of her writing as unusual, disconcerting, and, yes — weird. However, Machado said she thinks her horror-adjacent writing is perfectly suited for her, even if critics might perceive her haunting style as unorthodox. “Women have been writing in the spooky tradition for an extremely long time,” she said. “I think there’s a reason for that. The idea of liminality, and what it means for your life to be a kind of horror story and to exist in this marginal, fragile place whether you’re queer, a woman, a person of color — there’s a rich tradition of people writing [eerily] because of that state.” The excerpt Machado read aloud from her memoir showcased a style that teetered between outright ominous de-

scriptions and humorous quips. A gruesome line like “dread gathers between your shoulder blades” is neutralized with a peculiar description of drunk college students compared to a gaggle of geese. The post-reading discussion of her work was similar to her writing style: heavy topics marked by generous bits of dry humor. At one point, when asked how to write a memoir about personal hardship, she said “go to therapy — [you’ll] get good at talking about yourself,” provoking laughter from the crowd. Machado then pivoted immediately from self-deprecation to a sober, counseling tone. “Write when your pain is interesting, not when you’re too close to it,” Machado said. Machado encouraged future writers in the audience to trust their own voices no matter how unconventional their writing choices may seem, referencing her own gruesome stories. “Those moments where I decided to write what felt right to me and trust my instincts, those are what gave me agency and literary authority,” she said. The event was well-attended

by members of the Claremont and 5C communities alike, many students driven to the event by their love of the author’s previous work. Part of the reason why Sarah Nunez SC ’22 attended the event was because she wanted to see the face behind Machado’s writing. “Her voice when she’s writing is so authoritative,” she said. “[Machado] is just as eloquent as I thought she’d be, but more funny and poignant in person.” Daniela Bond PO ’20 noted how unique Machado’s writing is, referencing her debut, “Her Body and Other Parties.” “I’d never read anything like it before,” Bond said. “It is honest and personal yet still experimental, because it combines fiction and [unconventional writing].” Sanami Fendt PO ’20 echoed Bond’s admiration for “Her Body and Other Parties.” “It touched on a part of magical realism that I had never encountered before,” Fendt said. “As I was reading it, I was [thinking], ‘Is this real or not real?’ until I realized it was hovering [between] the two. I’d never had that experience reading fiction before.”

Some attendees, although less familiar with her writing, were intrigued by Machado’s new book’s focus on queer domestic abuse. “All my classes have recommended coming to [the talk] because the topics she’s discussing, like rape culture and the politics of the home, are so pertinent,” Katie Larson SC ’22 said. Nunez noted that a personal retelling of domestic abuse can change people’s assumptions about who is impacted by abuse. “Queer abuse is something that we don’t talk about enough because we often oversimplify abuse as ‘straight,’ or between a man and a woman,” said Nunez. “It’s so fascinating to hear a personal perspective.” Nunez also purported that Machado’s sharing of personal experience with abuse signals a shift in the narratives of women-created media. “Understanding that every scene is something she’s gone through … does a lot in terms of empowering [future] female authors,” Nunez said. “It says a lot that we live in a society now where this is something that is being published. Thirty years ago, I don’t think this book would have happened.”

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How I had to fall apart to start taking care of myself MICAELA MACAGNONE CW: paternal death, depression, anxiety Last semester, the spring of my junior year, I studied abroad in Madrid. About two weeks in, my dad died from complications from esophageal cancer. With an emergency grant from Pomona College, I was able to fly home, attend the wake and memorial, then return to Madrid five days later. This exact horror story, in which my dad died while I was abroad, had kept me up at night since my sophomore year, when I declared a major that required me to study abroad. My dad, a very Sicilian and very expressive New York City restaurant celebrity, was absolutely the most loving, hard-working, resilient, fascinating and funny person I’ve ever known. All five of my siblings and I adopted his fun-loving nature, charm and intense personality. Not only did I lose my dad and the person who inspired me every day, but I also lost a part of myself — I lost someone whose dynamic energy I strived to emulate every day. Immediately following the trip back to Madrid, I struggled. Tears streamed down my face throughout all my classes, and I labored to do things that were formerly basic for me, like walking. After about two weeks, I started to feel a bit better. I largely account my emotional turnaround, and consequent ability to function throughout the rest of my time abroad, to my two best friends in Spain, who loved, uplifted and took care of me always, even though they had only known me for nine days before my dad’s passing. I also credit my emotional stability to someone I was seeing in Madrid, because he always made me feel loved, focused and comforted, something that was particularly valuable to me when other parts of my life were really sad. These three people, along with the distance I had from New York — which specifically allowed me to avoid the gravity and reality of my situation — made me real-

ly love my time abroad. While arrived at 1 p.m. to take the keys I was certainly depressed fre- from my mom. They stared at quently, I was also having fun me, my siblings, my mother and for extended periods of time for my three-year-old nephew as the first time in my life. we tearily exited the building. I In Madrid, I somehow be- knew that leaving that building came good friends with a pro- would be the largest loss and moter, so we often went to these disappointment my dad could fancy clubs where we drank for have ever imagined. free and had big swaths of After that, the reality space to dance. Dancthat my dad was gone ing became the highlight of my week. My closest friends were absurdly fun to be around, loved me and loved to eat as much as I did. I was spending a lot of time with this hot and kind boy who gave me tons of attention and frequently made me feel good about myself. At the end of the day, I had very few responsibilities except doing everything possible to make myself happy. Things took an emotional turn once I returned home for the summer. My parents’ movement studio, which I used to live above, promptNINA POtIScHMAN • tHE StUDENt LIFE ly closed after 20 years of business, forcing us to move. finally dawned on me. My deI don’t think I’ll ever forget pression, but mostly my anxithe day we moved — lying on ety, ballooned in the following my bedroom floor, with the weeks. sun shining through the winThe balloon popped over dows onto the furniture-less one week in the summer. In the wood floor, sobbing while try- course of three days, I went on ing my absolute hardest to re- a date with someone new, saw member the look of the ceiling, my high school ex-boyfriend walls and floors. I compulsively and went out with the guy I took pictures of every room in pseudo-dated in Spain. I felt the apartment, hoping that if I terrible for ultimately rejecting could somehow hold onto the the new guy, panicked upon memory of my apartment, I convincing myself that I lost all could hold onto my dad. feelings for my ex and was exThe owners of the building tremely upset that the guy from

Spain seemed like he didn’t like me anymore. There was one day where I sobbed for 12 hours. Because my level of anxiety and emotion was so high, I understood that there must’ve been something else upsetting me. I surrendered to the fact that I wasn’t really devastated about my relationship with any of them; I just wanted someone who would make my intense emotions go away. I committed to confronting my greater problems. I wanted to spend one month allowing myself to feel sadness, without the distraction of relationships, which I so often utilize to avoid my feelings. While I initially planned to “confront my problems” for just a month, it ended up going on for longer. I wanted to first address my anxiety, as I couldn’t access my emotions without fearing I would begin a never-ending panic attack. I read a book about cognitive behavioral therapy and practiced the skills I learned whenever I had a “thought d i s t o r t i o n , ” which is essentially catastrophic anxious thinking. I also read a book called “The Body Keeps the Score,” which studies how the body remembers trauma. The book included many mentions of yoga as a form of therapy. I began doing yoga a few times a week, as it grounded me in my body after the shock of my dad’s death left me more dissociated than ever. I swore off drinking and partying and decided to have zero sexual or romantic interactions

for a month. I delved into my obsessive eating and body image behaviors, which had become unmanageable. I read Jane R. Hirschmann’s book “When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies,” which revolutionized my relationship with food and exercise. I journaled and wrote frequently, went to therapy and met with a grief group. I also started going to Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) meetings. Although CoDA is similar to Al-Anon, a support group for those concerned about people close to them who struggle with alcohol addiction, it concentrates more deeply on relationships. It helps participants understand how their childhood impacts their current relationship behaviors. While fortunately everything I utilized is free or low-cost, I acknowledge the immense privilege I had of living at home rentfree and and having the time to invest in myself so extensively. I was also lucky to have many supportive friends and a sibling who encouraged this process. My dad always wanted me to feel taken care of. He would promise me anything and empower me to craft a life I wanted. He was in many ways my biggest supporter because he always supported my happiness. “Quit Paloma and come back home!” was his response to any Pomona-related complaint of mine. Losing my dad taught me that I need to take care of myself, because he is no longer here to back me and remind me of my value. My dad would be proud of the work I did this summer. I’m not only much more self-reliant, but also a better friend and kinder human being. I miss my dad every day, but the best thing I can do is remember his love and the way he expressed it, and continue to nurture that within myself. Micaela Macagnone PO ’20 is a columnist who dives deep into relationships, growing up, feelings, well-being and art. She is an international relations major from New York City who misses bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches everyday.

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The appropriation of casual streetwear is a serious flex NADYA SIRINGO RINGO A few years ago, a popular meme called “Steal Her Look” spread across social media. Based on innocent posts that recommended affordable clothing items to replicate iconic celebrity fashion, “Steal Her Look” did the same thing, except steeped in typical memetic irony — it provided exorbitantly priced suggestions to look like celebrities, characters and other popular figures. A typical example is a post aimed to steal the look of Dora the Explorer with items priced to a total of $2,825. The average person probably wouldn’t be able to afford that, much less to look like Dora. But the humor behind that price touches on another kind of irony notorious in fashion today. Recently, trends in couture have pointed toward minimalism, which should be accessible. Many people can put on a plain tee, tuck it in high waisted jeans and sport some sneakers. All of these items are available at H&M or Forever 21 (may God rest her soul). But how many people can afford to grab that same outfit from Balenciaga, Rag & Bone or Givenchy? More importantly, why would they? Sure, the material might be more comfortable, and it’ll probably last longer. But that doesn’t justify the prices. To unpack the paradoxical alignment of accessibility and luxury in expensive casualwear, let’s first look at what’s most obvious: the brand. The logic of couture lies in the name of the house which produces the item, which is why most people, even those with enough money, wouldn’t buy a Balenciaga shirt without the name on its breast. Sure, it’s just a plain tee, but it’s BALENCIAGA, bro. What a flex. This minimalism, paradoxically, also amplifies the flex. When we think of branded items, we think of sleek, futuristic designs or classic bags and shoes with a signature material or look. They’re flashy and attention-grabbing. But the minimalism in expensive casualwear begs the opposite reaction. It lets the wearer disguise their wealth, even though their economic status is clear after taking a closer look. They masquerade as everyone else, but they’re really not. It’s also ironic that those who stand by expensive casualwear strive to achieve a minimal, unluxurious look. Instead of buying largely marked-up replicas of basic tees, they could just buy the actual casual clothing, with little to no stress on their bank accounts! Meanwhile, most people only have a few really expensive pieces in their closet because luxury items can be hard to attain or inappropriate to wear on an everyday basis. The contrast between

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having limited luxury-looking items as a result of economic barriers versus because of preference in aesthetic is an important distinction to make. Minimalism isn’t the only example in which socioeconomic lines are blurred in fashion. Trendy streetwear echoes similar marketing strategies. Streetwear is a pretty broad term, but some well-known names can come to mind, like Supreme, Adidas and Nike. It’s often offered under the Lifestyle category (cause style is life, maybe?). Like casual high fashion, these brands stray away from flashy designs, preferring more lowkey solids, patterns and graphics. But in comparison, streetwear is more comfortably appropriate to be worn on a daily basis. The prices are nowhere near those of haute couture, but enough to signify that the consumer’s got some money. Streetwear can serve as a more convenient way to wear the confidence of casual high fashion, with more millennial-relevant names and affordable prices. However, expensive streetwear heavily draws from the styles and cultures of low-income communities, making versions that are inaccessible to them despite their heavy influence. This issue of gentrification isn’t new to fashion. What’s new is its infusion with minimalism, simultaneously concealing and baring one’s status with surface-level plainness. As much of a scam expensive casual fashion is, it still makes for a bigger flex than its formal, more antiquated counterparts. While social media and society continue to prop up these trends, luxury or hype brands will be sure to capitalize on them — because some form of appropriation seems to always be in style. Nadya Siringo Ringo SC ’21 is a dual cognitive science and media studies major from Jakarta, Indonesia. She’s very passionate about pop music, video games and the Enneagram.

If a story about former strippers scamming wealthy Wall Street clients doesn’t pique your interest, picture this. It’s 2008, and Lizzo, playing a stripper, runs into the dressing room of a New York strip club as her nipple tape shimmers underneath her mesh dress. “Mowtherfucking Usher is here!” she shouts. The room immediately empties as screaming women rush to the stage, and we are immersed in a blissfully intoxicating slow-motion moment set to Usher’s 2008 hit “Love in This Club.” The women — a delightful cast featuring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart, Cardi B and Lizzo as strippers — crowd the stage in a hazy cloud of sequins, neon light and money. Lopez lies on the front of the stage and playfully coos, “What’s your name?” to which a grinning Usher replies, “Usher, baby.” But the thin veneer of glamour shown in this scene dissipates when the 2008 financial crisis puts a damper on the club’s business, whose clientele consists mainly of Wall Streeters. The wealthy regulars, sobered by the stock market crash, are suddenly less willing to part ways with their cash. When the clients disappear, Destiny (played by Wu) and Ramona (played by Lopez, in a role she was born to play) devise a plan to keep the men coming to the club, and the men’s money coming to them. Based off a true story told by

journalist Jessica Pressler in her article “The Hustlers at Score,” “Hustlers” follows Destiny, Ramona and their team of recruits as their unconventional business venture — drugging men they find at bars, bringing them back to the strip club and racking up their tallies as high as their credit limit goes — devolves from a seemingly harmless and highly lucrative romp into a reckless mess. The film is engaging from start to finish because of how easily it moves between humor and drama. “Hustlers” is darkly funny as it critiques an economic system that glorifies unbridled wealth for some and produces financial instability for others.

The film is equally touching and dramatic in its portrayal of female friendship and motherhood. Rachael Diamond

But the film is equally touching and dramatic in its portrayal of female friendship and motherhood. A story like this could have been grossly mishandled, but writer and director Lorene Scafaria does an excellent job at humanizing the women and their occupation as strippers. Beyond touching on the socioeconomic conditions that led the characters to stripping, Scafaria also depicts the strength of the community that the women form to combat an otherwise hostile environment. This narrative shines

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through in scenes set in the strip club dressing room, which emanate warmth and charm. Indeed, Scafaria is decidedly on Destiny and Ramona’s side, even as their operation gets increasingly out of hand. The closing scene in which Ramona declares — with all of the defiant spunk that Lopez exudes — “This whole city, this whole country, is one big strip club” is simply powerful. Perhaps it’s Scafaria’s apparent hesitancy to take a critical eye to the women’s desire for material excess — and the cultural forces shaping that desire — that result in the film getting carried away with its own opulence. The latter half is saturated with more than enough montages of luxury shopping sprees. In Pressler’s article, the woman that Destiny’s character is based on, Roselyn Keo, remarks that “American culture is a little fucked up” while musing about materialism and greed. Although this commentary on American culture is a bit muddled, the story of Ramona’s and Destiny’s relationship — beginning as mentor and mentee, then evolving into friendship, a business partnership and ultimately ending in turmoil — is what grounds the film. Lopez’s tour de force performance, on the other hand, lifts the film up and gives it irresistible energy. Regardless of the questionable moral dynamics at play, you leave the theater in utter admiration of Destiny’s and Ramona’s tenacity. Although their hustle was ill-fated, the ending still felt satisfying, a testament to the powerful allure of the film — and of money itself. Rachael Diamond SC ’21 is TSL’s film columnist. She’s a philosophy major who enjoys talking about movies.

“Biohacking and the DIYbio Movement” Can grassroots innovation be applied to biology? That’s the question asked by the DIYbio movement, which strives to democratize biotechnology through the creation of biomakerspaces open to the general public. The first biomakerspace opened in Brooklyn in 2010, and now there are community biolabs all over the world. What were the hurdles in creating this ecosystem of citizen scientists, and how has the movement evolved over the past 10 years? Has the creation of these spaces really jumpstarted innovation? And what are the risks and benefits of amateur biology in this day and age of increasingly accessible technology?

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Pomona corporeal mime class thinks outside the imaginary box SOFIA SFYZER When you think “mime,” several things might come to mind: a blackand-white striped shirt, painted faces, accordion music and the streets of Paris. But Pomona College’s corporeal mime class steps outside the box of typical miming — there’s no paint in sight. Corporeal mime is an abstract movement art closely associated with theater and dance, involving fluid movements and performed with the purpose of achieving bodily awareness in the performer and the viewer. Thomas Leabhart, semi-retired Pomona theater professor and instructor of the corporeal mime class, defines corporeal miming as a deep understanding of the body and the space in which it occupies. “[Corporeal mime] is being able to know where you are in space, knowing where the body is in space and understanding it,” Leabhart said. “Not on a word level only, but on the word level and the physical engagement level.” Leabhart has been at Pomona since 1982, serving as the college’s resident artist and professor of theater. Now, semi-retired, he teaches two corporeal mime courses. Leabhart was careful to distinguish between pantomime and corporeal mime. “Corporeal mime is not pantomime, as you think of it,” he said. “It is not illusions with ropes and walks and things like that. There are no characters who are walking their dogs with their white painted faces.” He first learned about the art of corporeal mime during graduate school, when he was introduced to the work of Étienne Decroux, the

Pomona college professor thomas Leabhart teaches a coroporeal mime class that meets every weekday.

creator of corporeal mime, in a theater movement class. Decroux, Leabhart said, changed his life. “The French have an expression which translates to ‘struck by lightning,’ and that was me — I was struck by lightning,” Leabhart said. “I said, ‘That’s what I want to do.’” From then on, Leabhart has been regularly involved in corporeal mime. He founded the Mime Journal and has taught mime workshops in France, Japan, Switzerland, Austria and Uruguay. This semester, each of his students is working toward completing a research project titled “Still Moving,” in which they create a solo performance piece that breaks down the movements of putting

on a jacket, inserting corporeal techniques from the class throughout the motion. Leabhart hopes the project and, more broadly, the class will allow his students to distance themselves from their potentially hectic social and academic lives. “I want my students [to] have a sense of ease in their bodies and a sense of ease in the space, and the sense of being able to know where they are in the space and to inhabit that space,” Leabhart said. “It’s all about having an easy presence.” Leabhart’s students can attest to finding ease and honesty within the class, no matter the expectations they held for the class in the past. “I had a friend who had taken

the class multiple times and had been repeatedly recommending it to me,” Yanai Feldman PO ’19. “Coming into the class, I quickly realized how profound a practice corporeal mime is.” Abby Smith PO ’23 also took the class based on a recommendation. “My [academic] adviser told me about [the class],” she said. “He had heard great things, and all the students he knew of who had taken it talked about it being a transformative experience, not just in terms of the skills that the class gives you in theater, but also about the awareness of your body and movement you gain.” Curious about taking one of professor Leabhart’s classes in the future?

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“[I would recommend] fully committing to it,” Smith said. “I was nervous on the first day of class, but [corporeal miming] isn’t just about your physical movements. It’s bigger than that.” Miming has not only taught its students how to use their body on stages, but it has also taught them the importance of the relationship between every part of their body. Vera Berger PO ’23 agrees — after all, her miming education has transcended the classroom. “I’ve started to think about [corporeal mime] all the time,” Berger said. “I can’t stop thinking about how my body is moving when I’m not in class. Sometimes I find myself practicing my ‘Still Moving’ research when I’m in line for lunch.”

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The way humans experience music is rapidly changing. From the days of sitting around a record player to car rides with the radio constantly playing, music used to be grounded in community listening. Nowadays, as people plug in their headphones and shut out the rest of the world, listening to music has become an increasingly isolated and individualistic experience. That’s where Vibe comes in. A smartphone app, Vibe allows students to log in through their Apple Music and Spotify Premium accounts and share entire music libraries and favorite artists under their user profile, regardless of what streaming platform they use. After the successful launch at Duke in April, the Vibe team wanted to test the app out in different student environments, which is why an updated version of the app will relaunch at the 5Cs and the University of Southern California on Oct. 20, according to a post on their Facebook page. In the words of Vibe, one of their major goals is to “digitiz[e] the aux cord.” Eve Bishop PO ’21, the program head of the Vibe College Ambassador Program at the Claremont Colleges, explained the motivation of Vibe is to revive people’s desire to interact across music tastes. “We were inspired by the idea of being in the car with friends and listening to music, and how that’s a really great way to get to know your friends’ music tastes and discover music from all the different people that you’re with,” she said. Vibe was founded by a group of Duke University students in September 2018. When creating the app, the founders recognized that, while most music listeners use Apple Music or Spotify, there wasn’t an effective way to share music across those two platforms. Not only this, but both apps don’t offer users many useful ways to discover new music. “On Spotify and Apple Music, a lot of the ways to discover new music are either through hearing a playlist that’s made by strangers or [through] algorithms designed to show you music that the specific algorithm thinks you’ll like,” Bishop said. “But it’s very impersonal. Vibe is taking music discovery … and making it more of a friend-to-friend experience.” Bishop was quick to diffuse any comparisons of Vibe with other music streaming platforms. “We are not trying to replace Spotify or Apple Music — we’re really just an extension of them,” she said. “We’re just trying to better the experience of listening to music on these platforms.” With a Vibe account, each user has their own personalized “Lineup,” a list of 10 to 20 artists that the user feels best represents their music taste. Vibe members can discover other people’s music by looking at another member’s Lineup and clicking on each artist to see the friend’s favorite songs from the selected artist. Concerning Vibe’s launch at the 5Cs, Bishop said she’s excited about the opportunity to take music listening, which she considers a currently independent activity, and turn it into a vehicle for communal bonding and sharing.

How far will someone go to get what they want? “The Politician” aims to find the answer. “The Politician,” created by Ryan Murphy, started streaming on Netflix on Sept. 27 and stars Ben Platt, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton and Gwyneth Paltrow. Platt plays Payton Hobart, a neurotic high school student with one goal: becoming President of the United States. To do so, he first needs to win the election for student body president. “The Politician” is enticing and incredibly entertaining, with spectacular writing and acting. It’s a perfect culmination of all of Murphy’s work, with a hint of eccentrism. The show is comparable to Wes Anderson, complete with dysfunctional families and overhead camera angles. The writing is funny with an edge of drama that makes it a dark comedy. But, the perfection of the show on its own is not the only reason it’s so notable. “The Politician” is a satire that comments on the political climate and nature of elections in America. In my high school experience, the race for student body president was never taken to be anything more than a popularity contest. To Hobart and the rest of the main characters in “The Politician,” however, the race is taken extremely seriously, with the weight of a real presidential election. Hobart and his advisers decide that he must pick a student with cancer, Infinity Jackson (Deutch) for vice president to increase his electability. The level of pressure placed on this election feels bizarre. The stakes are stacked so absurdly high that characters go down dangerous paths to achieve their goals, channeling an almost Macbethian ambition. Hobart’s girlfriend, Alice, operates as a kind of Lady Macbeth, making sacrifices to their relationship for Hobart to ensure his victory. For this school election, putting up posters and handing out

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Adeline Yu PO ‘21, Nanea Haynes PO ‘21 and Eve bishop PO ‘21 pose with the Vibe app, which aims to digitize the aux cord.

“Music is so important to so many people, especially college students,” she said. “But I also feel like it’s so private because there’s not a simple way to share it, so I think [Vibe] will be a really interesting way for friends to connect on deeper levels.” Vibe’s initial launch at Duke University was met with substantial student involvement. “[The Duke launch] proved to be super successful,” Bishop said. “[We] got one out of every five Duke students to download the app, so that was over 1,000 Duke students who got on the app in under a month.” While Vibe thrived at Duke, a mid-sized university, the app’s team wants to understand how the app will fare at both small liberal arts colleges and large research institutions like USC. “This is another pilot run … so that in the future, when we launch [at] other schools, we’ll know exactly how to tackle anything from a small liberal arts community to a big party school,” Bishop said. A major reason for Vibe’s success at Duke was the app’s College Ambassador Program, a team of students from the university whose aim was to spread the word about Vibe across campus. Nanea Haynes PO ’21, head recruiter of the Vibe Ambassador Program at the 5Cs, believes Vibe Ambassadors can help elevate the voices of student artists. “The ideal Vibe ambassador would be in touch with the school’s music community,” she said. “If a student has their music on Spotify or Apple Music, they’d be able to put that on their Lineup, so we can help market student artists as well.” After learning about app, Samir Kothari PZ ’20 was excited about the possibility of Vibe coming to the 5Cs. “The main appeal is definitely that it’ll bring communities closer,” he said. “Maybe a gap that might have existed between two people meeting might be merged by something as simple as having two songs in common in your top 20.” Along with its launch date on Oct. 20, Vibe will also be hosting a launch party on Oct. 25 at Doms Lounge at Pomona College. For more information about Vibe, visit vibemusicapp.com or their Instagram, @vibe.

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candy is not enough. In one scene, Hobart gives a speech about the importance of gun control and announces a specific plan to make their school safer. Hobart and his opponent look closely at polling numbers and stress heavily about winning the election. They frequently break down from the pressure of the election determining their futures and careers, proclaiming that their lives are over if they do not seize victory. Because this show is produced by Ryan Murphy, a creator known for aesthetically pleasing and hard-to-believe plot points paired with a great soundtrack (recall “American Horror Story” and “Glee”), insane amounts of drama ensue. When I first heard about “The Politician,” I was obviously excited, being a big fan of Murphy and Platt. I assumed the show was Murphy’s answer to the events of the 2016 election, a political drama like “House of Cards” or a comedy like “Veep.” I was surprised to watch the trailer and discover that the show was actually about teenagers, not adult politicians. I knew that this had to be the case for a reason; Murphy must be making a statement about the current political climate in America through teenagers. Today, adult politicians can act like teenagers, starting fights over Twitter when they don’t get what they want and defaming their competitors. This contrasts directly with how teenagers are forced to grow up fast, the perils of climate change, massive student debt and more looming ominously in their futures. While the parallels are not exact, similarities can be drawn between Hobart as a highly qualified, highly motivated candidate and his opponent, Astrid Sloan, who seemingly only wants to win so Hobart doesn’t. The show derives most of its frustration from the audience because of this conflict — you want Hobart to win because it’s clear he wants it the most. Episode five of “The Politician,” called “The Voter,” occurs on the day of the election, when Sloan and Hobart are trying to

lock down undecided votes. Similar to the 2016 election, Sloan and Hobart know the results are going to come down to voter turnout. The race is that close. So they track down undecided students to try and sway them, including a junior named Elliott who apparently no other students have heard of. Gaining Elliott’s vote proves almost impossible because he just doesn’t care about the election or the candidates. His presence in “The Politician” reminded me that not all of the students care about the election; many just care about normal teenage things. He thinks his vote doesn’t matter, in what feels like direct commentary from Murphy on the lack of political awareness and voter turnout in the U.S. in 2016. “The Politician” paints an intense yet perplexing portrait of the American political system. The show points out how in a time so fraught with political disillusionment, politics can be like high school drama. Students are pushed to their breaking points to achieve what they want, breaking the rules and sacrificing their integrity and values to impose a future on the student body that fits their vision. For years, TV creators have made political dramas and comedies to respond to the political environment of the time. Some take the comedic route, like “1600 Penn” or “Veep.” Others are more dramatic, like the more positive “The West Wing” or dark “House of Cards.” “The Politician” is the best of all worlds. It combines hilarious comedy with intense drama, shedding an ironic and poignant light on current events. It’s subtle but not invisible, and the commentary is easy to understand. “The Politician” reminds audiences to pay attention to the political climate and draw their own parallels. It never truly answers the question of how far someone will go, because for these characters, you can never go too far. Claire DuMont SC ’23 is TSL’s TV columnist. She’s an intended American Studies major from Manhattan Beach, California. She loves her dogs and cats, Kristen Bell, Reese Witherspoon and talking about TV (obviously).

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5C students get a taste of Chile at Malott Chef Cristian Rubilar crafts menu, shares cultural cuisine

KIRA MATTHEWS Students who frequent Scripps College’s Malott Dining Commons for burritos, impossible burgers and kombucha got to experience a different type of cuisine last week. In an event called “Flavors of Chile,” guest Chilean chef Cristian Rubilar prepared several

dishes from his home country over the course of Oct. 3 and 4, including things like porotos con riendas (a boiled bean dish), estofado de vacuno (a traditional beef dish) and manzana asada al vino tinto (baked apple in Chilean wine) for dessert. Rubilar, who’s been a chef for 12 years, is currently making his way across the western United

States as the Chilean Ambassador to Sodexo’s Global Chef program. The program allows 12 Sodexo chefs from around the world to travel throughout the United States for four weeks, cooking in cafes and dining halls for which Sodexo provides food service, according to Sodexo’s website. Scripps is one of

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chef cristian rubilar prepared a variety of chilean dishes at Malott Dining commons for the “Flavors of chile” event Oct. 3 and 4.

them. So far, Rubilar’s visited Disneyland, Loyola Marymount University and the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, in addition to Scripps, he said via email. Next, he’s off to New Mexico State University, then he’ll wrap up with stops in Honolulu, Chula Vista, California and San Antonio, Texas. “My favorite place [I’ve visited] so far has been Scripps College,” Rubilar said. “It was an amazing experience. [I have] a great desire to come back and work with [Scripps] again.” He also said his interaction with students was a “good opportunity for them and myself to interact and get to know other cultures.” On Oct. 3, Rubliar served porotos con riendas (a boiled beans dish), pastel de choclo (a sweet corn dish) and tinto pastel de harina tostada (flour cake). The next day, he whipped up estofado de vacuno (a traditional beef dish), palta rellena con camaron (stuffed avocado with shrimps), tomate relleno (stuffed tomatoes) and manzana asada al vino tinto (baked apple in Chilean wine). Students’ response to the food was evident by the long lines that stretched around Malott. Mae Garland PZ ’22 waited in the line for Rubilar’s food

Oct. 3 and said it was “really worth the wait.” Raye Gleekel PO ’21 also enjoyed the experience, especially since she had never had Chilean food before. She mentioned the shortcomings of American cuisine attempting to recreate other cultures’ foods, and why that makes Rubilar’s presence all the more important. “I think it’s fun to try foods from different places,” she said. “Probably the best way to do that is to have chefs come in who are skilled in making those, so it’s not as artificial as just an American take on that food.” But some students had critiques as well, since Sodexo operates private prisons and has a history of allegedly mistreating its workers. “This felt like Sodexo was trying to win me over, especially because I know their contract is about to end next year,” Dafina Matiku SC ’21 said. “So I believe that to some extent, they are trying to entice the students.” If they want her support, she said, they’ll have to divest from private prisons. Matiku said she is in favor of more cultural food events, but the fact that it was sponsored by Sodexo left a sour taste in her mouth. “We need better representation and people that actually stand for Scripps’ values,” she said.

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How white fragility prevents progress at the 5Cs ANAIS RIVERO “Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you … I’m not sure what was offensive, but I guess I’m sorry.” This was the reluctant apology I received from the white student who said I spoke English well. They were astounded that I spoke English well because I am a Latina. In other words, because I’m not white. I’m frustrated that this person felt the need to patronize my speech, that they made assumptions about my abilities and that once again, I was made to feel like a foreigner in the country I was born in. It was as if my ability to speak English well made me less foreign, a more palatable version of a person of color for this white person to swallow. This person truly didn’t understand why I was upset, and they didn’t want to make an effort to understand. Like many other people of color, I’m seen as hostile and over-sensitive for being upset about the microaggressions that occur on these campuses every day. Yet, we’re all expected to tolerate such incidents, forgive white people for their ignorance or use our emotional labor as a tool for their learning. The issue of white fragility is prevalent in our society. Despite the progressive facade the 5Cs like to portray, we are not excluded from this problem. White fragility occurs when white people’s racial prejudices are challenged and instead of trying to listen and learn, they withdraw, defend, cry, argue, minimize and ignore, according to Westfield State University professor Robin DiAngelo. They try to push back to maintain their racial position and power. White fragility makes people of color hesitant to have discussions with white people about race, under threat of eliciting some of these reactions and suddenly becoming the antagonist. It’s a way for white people to silence us and avoid self-critical reflection around race. It’s a cunning yet effective tool — white people save face and are able to keep their “woke” reputation without making any real efforts to make spaces safer for people of color.

Racial comfort is vital to the maintenance of white fragility. Since white people are almost always the dominant group in the United States, they never have to deal with racial discomfort or any challenge to their own racial perspectives. Once, I told someone that their language excluded people of color from queer issues and made whiteness the default — the person divided LGBTQIA+ people and people of color into two different groups and described predominantly white queer spaces as accepting. This erasure of queer and trans people of color is insulting when they’ve been at the forefront of the LGBTQIA+ rights movement for decades. The assumption that predominantly white spaces are

comfortable or welcoming to people of color is many times false. Failure to acknowledge this reinforces the idea that people of color should be made to feel guilty for not assimilating into a white space. This person responded to my challenge by briefly emphasizing how bad they felt but then proceeded to express how uncomfortable and anxiety-triggering this conversation was for them. They effectively shifted the focus from their bigotry to their negative feelings about being confronted, as if I or any other person of color am supposed

For something that’s been shown to reduce anxiety and depression, boost productivity and make us happier human beings in general, meditation hasn’t enjoyed broad popularity among Americans. Only 14.2 percent of American adults surveyed in 2017 said they practiced meditation in the previous year, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Far more people should take up this exercise and enjoy its effects, especially us college students. Granted, meditation has somewhat of a public relations problem, at least in the minds of liberal arts students. A spiritual practice that was developed in South and East Asia, meditation in the West has today become a heavily commodified industry worth over a billion dollars, according to Fortune. Profit-making corporations like Nike and Apple now ask their workers to practice meditation at work, with the presumed objective of milking their productive capacities. Students of meditation learn that their emotions of anger and sadness are mainly products of their minds without context of the structural difficulties (discrimination, injustice, lack of wealth) they face. Meditation’s proponents also include the spiritually awakened New Age types who, for better or worse, seem to put off large numbers of 7C students (see Denver House). And there are logistical issues. College students and American workers alike are notoriously overworked, and sitting in silence and doing nothing for 15 or 20 minutes every day sounds like an anxiety-inducing waste of time. Meditation also takes time — about eight weeks — to show tangible results, accord-

ing to psychological research. Despite these problems, we shouldn’t give up on meditation. It has profoundly therapeutic effects on the mind and body, documented by study after study, that everyone should access. I began practicing mindfulness meditation about a year ago when I found myself submerged in intense academic-related anxiety. After several weeks of sitting down every morning and doing the admittedly boring task of watching my breath, I noticed a change. The usual sensations of racing heart, sweating and shallow breathing had become much less dramatic, and I felt happier and calmer in general. Anxiety is an inescapable human emotion, so of course it lives within me, but meditation has helped me deal with it in profound ways. The role of mindfulness meditation in reducing stress and anxiety is well recorded. Its effects are comparable to those of antidepressant medications, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University. Mindfulness meditation also physically changes your brain, reducing the size of the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for anxiety, fear and general stress, according to Harvard University neuroscientist Sara Lazar. Meditation’s effects on attention and concentration are equally dramatic. One study in Consciousness and Cognition, a science journal, showed that even as little as four days of meditation, 20 minutes per day, can improve people’s attention span. Given these effects, I believe meditation shows promise in countering the deleterious effects that increased technology use has had on our ability to concentrate. For those who thought med-

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They have the systematic control that’s allowed them to reproduce and reinforce their racial interests. These campuses thrive on performative wokeness, yet not many white people would be willing to give up their positionality for the success of people of color. As people of color, our existence is racialized; we are forced to be experts on race and ethnic relations because they are our lives. But we are not teachers; we aren’t responsible for teaching others about white fragility or other similar topics. The amount of emotional labor asked of people of color in the education of white people is already ridiculous. It’s not the job of people of color to explain what you did wrong. We aren’t going to argue with you about whether or not your actions can be justified or explained. I have close white friends who still require me to use emotional labor when I explain how my family and I have been affected by discrimination. But these people don’t use my experiences as their own educational tool about oppression and they don’t respond with white fragility. They are trying to understand and support me. If white people at the 5Cs continue to perpetuate white fragility, productive conversations and critical self-reflections about race and privilege won’t happen. As a result, they aren’t allowing these campuses to become more secure for non-white people. Without conversations, there is no action, and people of color will continue to be brought into unsafe spaces. Our existence here shouldn’t be to validate a false narrative of the 5Cs being progressive institutions, especially when it comes at the cost of our well-being. If the institution itself will not improve anytime soon, then it’s up to white students to stop dominating these spaces and truly reflect on themselves and their actions. Anais Rivero PZ ’22 is from Miami, Florida. She’s interested in politics and Latin American studies. She tells everyone who will listen about being Cuban and drinks three cups of coffee a day on average.

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We should embrace meditation, despite its problems SARTHAK SHARMA

to comfort them and assuage their guilt. I forced them to see themselves as prejudiced, or worse, as someone that other people may perceive as racist. At the core of white fragility is the idea that people are much more concerned with being perceived as non-racist than actually doing the work to improve the conditions for people of color. Many white people are obsessed with labeling themselves as “good whites,” who are not prejudiced, versus “bad whites.” This simplistic understanding of race as individual attitudes is part of the problem. Every single white person is complicit in white supremacy because institutions are made for and benefit white people.

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itation just has benefits for our minds, studies now show that meditation, in fact, has positive effects on the body, too. It improves immune function, reduces blood pressure and enhances cognitive function, according to research in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. Because of these and many other benefits, meditation should play a more important role in our lives. Without necessarily giving up therapy or medication, college students should treat meditation as another extremely useful instrument in our toolkit to help deal with the stresses of our minds and bodies. Beyond that, we should shift our thinking around meditation, also using it as a way to increase compassion and kindness toward one another. As Brooklyn College professor David Forbes said, mindfulness as originally practiced in Buddhism is connected to a “deeper moral stance that...we are interconnected with all beings, to all our social relationships and institutions, and with the earth itself.” “Without that,” he said, “meditation can just become another tool of self-absorption.” We must also decommodify the practice as much as possible, making mindfulness meditation more accessible and open to people of all socioeconomic backgrounds. While meditation has become more popular through a multitude of apps including Headspace, Insight Timer and Calm, their use is still limited to those who can afford to subscribe to them. We also can and should use meditation as a way to advance social change. Meditation helps us become aware of our thoughts and emotions, but our practice should not end there. Instead, as Forbes argued, we must locate the sources of our feelings in the societal structures that we inhabit, and only then can we push toward social change. These are manageable steps that we can take. In the meantime, we should not shy away from meditation. It’s a powerful means of healing and growth, and far more of us should start accessing its benefits, whether through a guided meditation on YouTube or asking our campuses to offer more courses on communal mindfulness.

ACROSS 1. Strong point 6. Point on a radar 10. Comics guru Lee 14. Horned safari animal 15. The scarlet letter, literally 16. “Yikes!” 17. With 26-across, what a barista might say to break up a fight? * 19. Description for a 20-across that hasn’t been read yet 20. Text, for short 21. ______ Darko 22. New Age-y town northwest of LA 23. Keyser ____ 24. Sprinkle with oil 26. See 17-across * 31. Cremains 32. “That’s believable!” 33. ___ Raining Men 36. Cat call 37. They failed New Orleans during Katrina 39. It’s out of 1520 40. Pitzer-to-CMC direction 41. ____ de gallo 42. Throw cold water on 43. With 58-across, why Karl Marx hates Earl Grey? * 47. Belief system founded in China 49. One with flaming pants 50. Course feedback (abbr.) 51. 2018 Super Bowl champs 54. Sheep noises 57. Traditional practice 58. See 43-across * 60. “Makes sense.” 61. Lake touching Ohio and Pennsylvania 62. “To be clear...” 63. Ripped 64. Decomposes 65. Airbnb listing

Sarthak Sharma PO ’20 is from Kathmandu, Nepal. He’s an economics major and spends most of his time sending messages to Claremont Crushes.

DOWN 1. Rainbow shapes 2. Fraud 3. E.g. gluttony and boasting 4. Tolkien forest creature

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5. Poodles or pomeranians 6. Chris Evans or Chris Pratt, re. hair 7. Low-fat 8. Indian rice cake 9. Light brews 10. “Already?” 11. “We’ve got you now!” 12. Former UN chief Kofi 13. Yell at the beginning of tag 18. Seep slimily 23. E.g. ratatouille 25. We’re ___ Gonna Take It 26. Tight spots 27. Applications (for) 28. Blowhard 29. Greek yogurt 30. U.K. honor 34. Stun with a gun 35. Trick finish? 37. 2 * radius 38. Destination from the E.R. 39. Meager 41. Dells or HPs 42. Extreme kind of action 44. Come On ______ 45. Performers Goulding and Kemper 46. Key lime and lemon meringue 47. Deserve 48. Notice in Nicaragua 52. Dynamic prefix 53. Stride 54. Existed 55. “It’s not just ____!” 56. ____ cost (free) 59. Insurance grp. LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

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We need to end legacy preferences No President Starr, ‘valuing values’ isn’t education MATT DAHL Guest Writer

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JOHN GIBSON Colleges need to end legacy admissions preferences. The legacy admissions system gives a significant advantage to people based on their pedigree rather than their merit, limits the inclusiveness of institutions toward people of color (especially by forcing different minority groups to compete against each other more intensely) and, ironically, doesn’t even lead to greater donations — one of the only defenses toward legacy preferences. Legacy students are those whose parents (or grandparents) went to the same institution they’re attending. They have an enormous advantage when it comes to the admissions process. Although colleges rarely provide data on legacy admit rates, legacies can gain a 45 percentage-point increase in their chances of admission, according to a 2011 study involving 30 elite colleges. In other words, legacy preferences enable a fair amount of students, who normally would not have gotten into a particular college, to be admitted just because their parents went there. Normally, I wouldn’t have a problem with this. The 5Cs are so competitive that there are many, many more qualified applicants than there are seats, giving each institution significant leeway in customizing a class. If a college wants to cultivate a multi-generational college tradition in many families, then more power to them. But the only problem is that there are more important things to prioritize than a 5C legacy in some families — especially greater diversity. Part of preparing a group of students for a diverse world is having a student body that reflects this said diverse world. As historically disadvantaged groups gain more prominence in their fight for equality, it’s imperative that the 5Cs adapt by including students from diverse backgrounds, including different racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds. Not only is it imperative, but it’s

also the right thing to do. Affirmative action and subsequent institutional support, while imperfect, work to rectify past injustices such as the systemic discrimination that barred many minorities from entering colleges, including the 5Cs. It’s based on the assumption that if colleges give students from disadvantaged backgrounds a leg up, these students will finally have room to flourish. Legacy preferences, on the other hand, help perpetuate past injustices, as the parents of legacies went to college during a time of greater racial inequality.

Legacy preferences, on the other hand, help perpetuate past injustices, as the parents of legacies went to college during a time of greater racial inequality. John Gibson

Legacy admits in elite colleges are overwhelmingly white, which was confirmed by a September study based on recent affirmative action lawsuit Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard — signifying a non-diverse past student body. (I’m assuming what’s true for Harvard University is most likely true for other elite colleges.) This is a system that gives some people yet another advantage in an unfair society that most likely already privileges them, since they might not have been admitted to an elite college if they hadn’t been born to the right parents. Thus, legacy preferences should be abolished; this change would open up more spots for more qualified applicants, espe-

cially students of color, and also provide a golden opportunity to make elite colleges like the 5Cs more diverse. This is a solution that is a good first step to correcting inequality. Even though removing the legacy system would help rectify past and continuing injustices, it stays in place because some people, especially those in college administrations, defend it as being necessary for economic benefits. Except that it isn’t true. A study that tracked alumni giving from 1998 to 2008 found “no statistically significant evidence” that legacy preferences led to an increase in alumni donations — they just let in more kids from privileged families. In other words, there’s no compelling evidence for the assertion that ending legacy preferences would precipitate a financial disaster for colleges. This makes sense: If you are a wealthy alumnus or alumna and are not willing to “give back” to your college, the fact that your kids go there is unlikely to change your mind. Moreover, the rejection of your kid (something that’s highly likely given your school’s competitiveness) is unlikely to make you so angry at the college that you stop donating altogether. Legacy preferences cannot be an issue we keep stalling on. Students should advocate for change and administrators should effect this badly needed reform. Though it’s merely a first step, doing so will help spring the 5Cs into a diverse future, as opposed to being held back in the past. John Gibson PO ’22 is most likely going to major in history and is from Kayenta, Arizona. He strongly believes in diversity and is at a loss on how to best increase it in an equitable way beyond rudimentary first steps.

A few weeks ago, a provocative piece appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Who Decides What’s Good and What’s Bad in the Humanities?” The article made an astonishing argument: the liberal arts “don’t transmit value.” Rather, the authors claimed, liberal education teaches something different. The real purpose of the liberal arts is to teach “metacognitive skills,” “disciplinary procedures and habits of mind” and “critical thinking.” Does this description sound right? It might, to you. But it should, at least, sound familiar. The authors of the article were G. Gabrielle Starr, president of Pomona College, and Kevin Dettmar, a Pomona English professor and director of its Humanities Studio. So that, then, is the kind of education that administrators at Pomona confess to champion: education that is value-neutral, dedicated to procedure and more concerned with second-order reflection than first-order interrogation. We should be worried. But not because such an outlook is the road to relativism, as right-wingers often rail. My concern is more complex. I fear that Starr’s and Dettmar’s insistence on value-neutrality in the college’s classrooms (a position that many at the 5Cs are apt to support) actually feeds into another phenomenon (one that students are far less likely to endorse): the rise of bureaucracy in the college’s institutions. This is a counterintuitive claim, so let me explain. I’ll start by clarifying Starr’s and Dettmar’s views on values. Their argument begins with the (correct) observation that students today are diverse, attentive to difference and wary of appeals to authority. Consequently, they proclaim, instructors must recognize that “value is both situated and multiple,” not “transcendental” and singular. Teaching otherwise would be foolish at best, force-feeding at worst. So far, so good. This way of thinking isn’t anything new — in fact, it’s a perspective that was first announced over 100 years ago, by the German sociologist Max Weber. In his famous “Science as a Vocation” lecture, Weber also insisted that “the task of the teacher” was to refrain from imprinting on students any “personal political views.” Weber said this because he recognized, as Starr and Dettmar do, that spheres of value have become disaggregated in the modern age. Biology, literature, mathematics, politics — each is constituted by its own inner logic that is incommensurable with

any other. Thus, in Starr’s and Dettmar’s pithy phrase, all an instructor can do is teach students how to “value values.” She cannot tell them which set of values to avow in the first place. The problem with this position, of course, is that choices between systems of value, or between avenues of study, still need to be made. But if teachers are discouraged from providing guidance on that front, who does instead? The answer, for Weber, was as obvious as it was terrifying. He realized that the vacuum left behind by the evaporation of traditional sources of value would be filled by a new, and much more insidious, ordering force. It would be filled by the “iron cage” of bureaucracy, a system that would profess value-neutrality, but which would actually usher in a new set of values altogether: those of power, procedure and profit. Something like this is what has been happening at Pomona. It’s the reason why the number of administrators at Pomona has increased 384 percent from 1990 to 2016, even as the student population grew only 12 percent in that time frame. And it’s why the college’s various offices, though better-staffed and moreequipped than ever before, nevertheless prove their obduracy and opacity over and over again — as in the Orientation Adventure scandal last year and in the suspension of Student Health Services last week. Neither of those events is a bug in the system. They are its features. The bureaucracy of modern colleges is unresponsive by design. Its real purpose is to shape student life according to the terms of its technocratic priorities, priorities that are purportedly value-neutral but which actually adhere to the Foucauldian “disciplinary procedures” that Starr and Dettmar commend. It’s time for students to resist this. To do so, they’ll need to reject the administration’s impulse to drain education of its substantive value — pace Starr and Dettmar’s call to the contrary. They’ll need to rebuff the logic of Silicon Valley that Starr and Dettmar hold up high. They’ll need to legislate their own values, values that can act as countervalues to the bureaucracy’s bullheadedness. Those values can grow up wherever students gather together in concert: in classrooms, in student-run clubs, in secret organizations like Mufti, in school traditions that have not yet been shut down or sanitized. It’s up to students to preserve what makes Pomona particular, to reflect on and reaffirm the value of their education there. This is no longer my fight; I write here only as an alumnus perturbed by Starr’s and Dettmar’s comments in the Chronicle. I’m hopeful, though, that Pomona’s current students can rise to the challenge. Matt Dahl PO ’17 is now a Ph.D. student in political theory at the University of Notre Dame.

Shanahan wall highlights need for Harvey Mudd admin to improve communication MICHELLE LUM “TELL ADMIN: STUDENT WELLBEING ABOVE LIABILITY CONCERNS.” The words glared out at me from a large chalkboard along one staircase of Harvey Mudd College’s Shanahan Center late in the afternoon on Sept. 23. The building, commonly known as Shan, is where the HMC Office of Admissions, Office of Financial Aid, Office of the President, Department of Mathematics and many classrooms are located. As I walked past the chalkboard, I felt extremely unsettled. Though I had only been on campus for a few weeks, I had already heard about the intense workload at HMC and the numerous jokes about students’ work-life balance, or more accurately, lack thereof. A few days later, I noticed that students had added comments in response to each other and also brought up a multitude of other topics. “DO BETTER” “HMC’s neoliberalism directly undermines the mission statement” “What neoliberalism? Why are you angry? I’m here bc of financial aid.” “Bragging about ROI [return on investment] demonstrates our unfailing commitment to amoral wealth” “# OF WOMEN IN CS [computer science] ≠ SOCIAL CHANGE” “ALCOHOL EXISTS” “DON’T STRIP OUR CULTURE” I was shaken. The students who had written these words were clearly upset about many on-campus issues, ranging from the way administration has been handling student wellbeing to HMC’s mission state-

ment, and were voicing their concerns to administration and the rest of the community through one of the only means they found accessible: the Shan wall. After seeing the wall for the first time, I expected HMC administration to send a simple email to the student body stating that it had noticed the writing on the wall and describing how it was going to approach the issues highlighted. But almost two weeks have passed since the first words were written on the wall. The weekend of Sept. 27 to 29, the HMC Board of Trustees was on campus and most likely saw the wall since it has such a prominent position on campus. In the past few weeks, other

students have added more phrases to the chalkboard. It seems like every day, there are more opinions brought up on the wall. Still, HMC administration has stayed silent. And that’s appalling. Topics like student wellbeing are difficult to address, but that doesn’t mean that administration can just sweep them under a rug. For me, especially as a firstyear, it’s been frightening to see such a lack of communication from administration when I know so little about the school. The lack of transparency makes me wonder about what else I don’t know and what I’m really getting myself into for the next four years. I want to attend a school where I know I will be supported, mentally and

emotionally. Though it’s true that students have been voicing conflicting opinions on the wall and that the reasons behind these comments are not completely clear, HMC has had many problems with student wellbeing in the past. In particular, the Wabash Report conducted in November 2015 on the impact of HMC’s curriculum, workload and Honor Code on students was leaked to TSL in March 2017. It revealed that HMC’s “workload was challenging and, more importantly, unending.” Upon release of the leaked report, students held protests and classes were canceled for two days. In fall 2017, HMC conducted a Workload and Health at Mudd

KYLe GrAce • tHe StUDeNt LIFe A Harvey Mudd college student wrote on a wall on campus “Do better” in response to concerning changes in HMc’s residential life policies.

study, which revealed that “assuming a full course load — which represents between five to seven courses, depending on class year — respondents are spending more time on their studies (45.5 hours per week) than they might at a full-time job,” according to the executive summary. In the years following the release of the Wabash Report, administration and faculty have been working on a review of the HMC Core Curriculum, which was identified to be one of the sources of the over-thetop workload at HMC. And in light of the events of spring 2017, HMC president Maria Klawe told NPR, “One of the things we heard from some of our more vocal student critics was: You’re not engaging us in the dialogue about trying to find solutions. So we’re having a number of meetings over dinner and over lunch [to discuss] mental health, work-life balance and diversity and inclusion.” So, there’s no excuse for the silence on administration’s part on the topic of the Shan wall. I’m frustrated. I wish someone would say something — anything. HMC administration needs to reprioritize and put students (who are the entire reason why HMC even exists) at the top of the list, and the first thing it needs to improve is communication. Ask for student input, actually listen to what we have to say and tell us about the changes and initiatives that have been made. Don’t keep us in the dark. Michelle Lum HM ’23 is from San Jose, California. As one of the HMC Class of 2023 Presidents and someone who often finds herself under lots of stress, she is genuinely concerned about student wellbeing at HMC.

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It’s time to apologize for colonial atrocities

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CW: mentions of war, violence, death, rape A century ago, on April 13, 1919, the British army fired on thousands of unarmed men, women and children in Amritsar, India who had gathered to celebrate a festival. Official records put the death toll at 379 but other estimates are closer to 1,000, according to The Guardian. On the 100th anniversary of the Amritsar massacre, the British high commissioner to India expressed deep regret for “the suffering caused,” but did not apologize. Individuals surely cannot be held responsible for the acts of past generations. As a Brit, it isn’t my fault that my country’s massive empire once spanned a fifth of the world’s population. It isn’t my fault that, 80 years before I was born, Colonel Reginald Dyer told his troops to fire in Amritsar. The British government tried this argument, or a variation of it, in court. The government argued that it could not be held responsible for the actions of a past colonial administration, according to The Independent, a British newspaper. It was defending itself against claims brought by Kenyan Mau Mau victims dating back to the 1950s, when Britain responded to an uprising through systematic torture, violence and rape. The suppression of resistance led to the torture, maiming or execution of as many as 90,000 Kenyans. While individuals aren’t responsible for historical atrocities, nations must acknowledge and apologize for them, instead of sweeping them under the rug. Most Brits, including myself, are more than happy to take part in a national pride that celebrates Britain’s historical successes: fighting fascism in World War II, for example, or winning the World Cup in 1966.

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I’m canceling ‘cancel culture’ CAMERON TIPTON I remember the first week of classes like it was yesterday. I was sitting in my dorm with a couple of friends, talking about classes, fellow Orientation Adventure-goers, how so-and-so was doing and things of this nature. “Oh, he’s canceled,” one of my friends would tell me whenever a given person came up. “Her? Oh, yeah, she’s problematic. She’s canceled.” I sat there, totally perplexed. It was like I had just awoken one morning to find myself in an alternate reality, one in which the status of a friend was as precarious as that of my favorite Netflix series. As a transfer student from a non-residential community college, I had never been exposed to cancel culture before. Little did I know that this conversation was just an introduction. Friends were dropping like flies: He made a classist remark, she slipped up on someone’s pronouns, they didn’t open the door for a person of color … Canceled. All of them. My friend group became more and more sparse, and within a week I wasn’t sure if the literal apocalypse was upon us or if I just went to Pomona College. On at least one occasion, a student was canceled for insinuating that a friend of hers was being difficult with regard to buying plane tickets. He was unable to buy them due to family circumstances that she didn’t even have knowledge of. But that didn’t matter. She was dismissed as “classist,” and, as a consequence, canceled. She lost all of her friends and ultimately

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left Pomona. That is more fucked up than I can convey in a single TSL article. Reader, let this idea be something more than an obscure Mitski reference: We are just tall children. Sorry to break it to you, sweetie, but not everyone is as quick to become a fake Marxist as you are, so cut people some slack. Consider context.

Sorry to break it to you, sweetie, but not everyone is as quick to become a fake Marxist as you are, so cut people some slack. Cameron Tipton

Context is everything; ask any psychologist. If somebody makes a “problematic” comment, remember that not everybody has had exposure to progressive ideals. Some students come from incredibly conservative backgrounds (I know I did), and, as unfortunate as it may be, some have had little to no exposure to people from different socioeconomic strata, or even to people of color. First-years usually come to Pomona fresh out of high school, and oftentimes the only ideas they have been exposed to are those of their parents and classmates. While Pomona (and more broadly the 5Cs) tries to foster

critical thought, we all have to start somewhere. We are bound to stumble and fall. As decent human beings, we owe it to one another to help each other back up, to learn the ropes. Abandoning people in teaching moments is in no way constructive, and if anything, it adds to the problem. You aren’t “mature” for canceling someone when they make a mistake; you’re a dick. Granted, there are exceptions to this claim. Another person’s aversion to learning or changing morally questionable behavior (racism, sexism, transphobia or tendencies toward sexual assault, to name a few examples) is entirely out of your control. If somebody doesn’t want to change, you can’t help them, and in those instances it’s important to take care of yourself and limit toxic interactions. I also do not mean to suggest that one must task oneself with “educating” all people who slip up. All I mean to suggest is that we are growing, developing human beings. Remember that the next time you think about throwing out a peer like your three-day old Chipotle leftovers. We are here to learn, and cruelty is not an effective teacher. Cameron Tipton PO ’20 is a textbook Tepid Take™ testifier. They appreciate their non-toxic roommate Adam, who is definitely not canceled.

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But we shouldn’t claim these highlights as our cultural heritage if we refuse to also acknowledge the dark parts of our country’s past. British people cannot decide that they’re part of the national ‘we’ when it comes to D-Day but not when it comes to colonial atrocities. In 2013, the British High Court ordered the UK government to pay £13.9 million to be shared among 5,228 Mau Mau veterans, The Independent reported. Many veterans were in their 80s by the time the verdict was reached. They were able to receive compensation in part because the atrocities they faced came at the very end of the British Empire. It’s far too late to offer reparations for most victims of colonialism, who are now long deceased. But apologizing is still important, not just because it acknowledges the pain and suffering of victims, but because it also acknowledges the responsibility of Britain, as a nation, for that suffering. I don’t remember learning about colonialism in school. On a specially themed “Victorian Day,” I remember shading in a map of the British Empire and feeling proud of my country’s past greatness. We didn’t deconstruct or discuss the exploitation that lay behind that massive empire. Last year, Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn proposed that all British children should learn about colonialism in school. Conservative member of Parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg responded in an interview with the LBC show that “the British Empire had good and bad bits like all sorts of things.” This year, Rees-Mogg published a history book called “The Victorians,” which has been heavily criticized by academics for the way it whitewashes colonial atrocities, according to The Guardian. Rees-Mogg has been dubbed “the honourable member for the 18thcentury” for his outmoded views, including his stance against gay marriage and abortion. His view on the empire, however, is scarily in line with that of

the British public. A 2014 YouGov survey found that 59 percent of Brits think that the British Empire is more something to be proud of than ashamed of, including 48 percent of 18 to 24 year olds. In the same poll, 34 percent of Brits said that they would like it if Britain still had an empire. The “good old days” — the days when Britain was a global superpower at the heart of a powerful empire — have a powerful nostalgic appeal for Brits. Everyone wants to think they belong to a country to be proud of, but national nostalgia can be dangerous if, in its search for a palatable national image, it conceals horrific atrocities. Here in the U.S., things aren’t much better. An “Apology to Native Peoples of the United States” was tucked away on page 45 of a 67-page 2010 spending bill. The bill “apologizes on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native Peoples for the many instances of violence, maltreatment and neglect.” The apology was never publicly acknowledged by then-President Barack Obama. As the executive director of the Indian Law Resource Center Robert T. Coulter asked, “What kind of an apology is it when they don’t tell the people they are apologizing to?” A stand-alone Native American Apology Resolution has never been passed, despite efforts by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-KS and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND to do so since 2004, according to Thoughtco, an information website. The problem of whether to apologize for past brutalities is not unique to the UK. If we are to properly understand our national pasts, we have to look unflinchingly at the bad as well as the good. As nations, we have to come to terms with historical atrocities. That means acknowledging them publicly, openly and truthfully. That means apologizing. Ellie Woodward-Webster PZ ’21 is a literature major on exchange from England. Her favorite things about California so far are the weather, mountains and tater tots.

speaking multiple languages should be a requirement

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OTTILIA NUMMELIN From a young age, I’ve been learning foreign languages. I’d even say that one of my defining traits is my knowledge of them — I speak six. Truth be told, I’m only fluent in three, but I know the basics of the others. For me, it’s not even that impressive. Most of my friends from back home speak at least five or six. Imagine how powerful my language skills would be if high school teachers didn’t give me lifelong trauma. Most of the languages I know are what many would call useless, but learning any foreign language makes one smarter, according to The New York Times. It improves cognitive skills that are unrelated to language-learning and even shields against oldage dementia. Not only does learning a language make one more respectful of other cultures, it also opens doors — social and professional — that otherwise would stay closed. Yet, many people still don’t see the opportunities that come with knowing several languages. The beginning was anything but easy, but I managed to pull through. The present me not only studies in English but here I am writing this article in English — a door that otherwise would’ve stayed closed had I not learned another language. Besides English, I studied Swedish for my whole seven-year secondary school career. I dabbled in French. That didn’t go as hoped though, partially due to scary Belgian teachers. During my first year of university, I began learning Mandarin. There was really no particular reason for me to start learning it aside from pure interest. I had never studied a non-European language and it intrigued me. Now at Pitzer College, I chose Korean as one of my electives. I had some basic knowledge of Korean but I needed to start from

scratch with an actual teacher. I cannot hold a conversation in Korean or Mandarin yet, but ever since I started learning those languages, in certain situations, I have understood more of the world around me. I have immersed myself in the cultures of said languages just like with Swedish and English when I was younger. Yet, especially in English-speaking countries, learning a foreign language is overlooked. While all of the undergraduate colleges recommend prospective students take at least two to three years of a foreign language in high school, none of them require it. Not only does a person who has studied a foreign language have the skill of speaking and writing that language, learning another language also improves one’s employability after college. If anything, language competency shows that a student is more than capable. The 5Cs provide language classes from beginners to advanced. But only three of the five colleges, Scripps, Claremont McKenna and Pomona, require a foreign language requirement to graduate. Pitzer and Harvey Mudd see it only as a bonus, not a necessity. This isn’t purely the case only in the 5Cs: Most elite colleges only recommend a language being taken in high school and only a few see a foreign language as mandatory for admission, according to College Transitions, a college planning website. I am a huge advocate for learning languages, and I have already seen from personal experience that making the extra effort to learn foreign languages does take you somewhere. For me, that language might have been English. Not only will learning a foreign language make one literally smarter, but it also connects one with unexpected people and enhances one’s experience in this magical thing we call life. Ottilia Nummelin PZ ’22 is a Finn from Luxembourg. She pretends to speak multiple languages and understand films without subtitles.

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Hens bring the heat, earn 1-0 win over CMS in first women’s soccer rivalry game ERIKA SCHWERDFEGER “Aim higher.” That’s the mantra the Pomona-Pitzer’s women’s soccer team (100-1, 6-0 SCIAC) had emblazoned on the backs of their jerseys and at the forefront of their minds as the Sagehens headed onto Pritzlaff Field on Wednesday night for the first Sixth Street rivalry game of the season. The Sagehens are fighting to prove they deserve the program’s highest ranking in history. At No. 8 in the nation, expectations were high, but Wednesday’s close rivalry game saw the Hens bring the heat, edging out Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 1-0. “It feels kind of awesome,” Ciannah Correa PO ’22, a member of the P-P team, said. “It was just a grind to the end … And essentially what this game was going to come down to was who worked harder at the end and who had more heart on the field.” Five minutes in, the Athenas (6-2-3, 2-2-2 SCIAC) saw their first good chance at the goal with a pass by Lauryn Jeans CM ’22 off a free kick, but goalkeeper Isa Berardo PZ ’20 was there to scoop it up. The goal to win it all came early,

in the 12th minute of the game. It was a bit anticlimactic — the ball came out of a long pass from Correa that set both midfielder Bria VarnBuhler PO ’20 and goalkeeper Athena Manthouli SC ’22 racing toward it. With the goal vacated, both arrived at the same time, and out of a chaotic tangle of limbs the ball came off VarnBuhler’s leg and rolled into the net, securing the Hens’ 1-0 lead that would remain the rest of the game. “In the moment that we scored, it was like, overwhelming joy,” Correa said. “It just kind of felt like the culmination of a lot of hard work being piled into two seconds of play.” About five minutes later, CMS had a shot at redemption with a long-range by Kira Favakeh HM ’20 that appeared headed for the net, but bounced off the crossbar instead. “I think we showed a lot of grit,” said Gabby Clouse CM ’20, a member of the CMS team. “We went down early, which is always tough, but I don’t think we wavered after that. And we didn’t lose control of the game at any

point, so I’m proud of us for doing that.” At the half, goalkeeper Manthouli had cinched four saves for CMS, and it seemed just a matter of time before the Athenas could start closing in. In the second period of play, which was even more frenzied than the first, CMS exerted major pressure on offense. A series of shots by Mia Duranczyk CM ’23 and Favakeh in the final minutes had spectators on the edge of their seats, but after multiple deflections over the crossbar and corner kicks that came up short, the Hens secured the win. Correa applauded “the insane hard work that my teammates had on the field because nobody stopped, nobody gave up in the end … it was always, ‘I’m gonna put in that extra effort.’” CMS players seemed proud of their work, too, despite the loss. “Obviously it wasn’t the result that we wanted to have, but I think something ... that we did well was we really came out and we played the second half, and I think it showed us that we could obviously hang with that team,”

Clouse said. Correa also praised Athenas’ play in the hard-fought game. “CMS obviously plays with so much heart, it was just a really nitty-gritty game.” she said. “[It] came down to the last moments and I feel like when that last whistle blew I felt so relieved, like ‘Oh my goodness, we did it.’” Last year, the women’s soccer rivalry games saw CMS win at their home field and tie at P-P, so this first Sixth Street face-off of the season was highly anticipated. This season, the Sagehens are working to stay grounded despite their big win streak. “Once you’re on a win streak, it’s hard to continue to find the drive to improve, and I feel like we’ve been handling that really well in practice,” Correa said. “Of course it’s easy to become complacent. ... But that’s just not something you see in our practices.” Next up for the Sagehens is a home game against Caltech on Saturday. The Athenas will host Chapman the same day.

MAX WEIrAUcH & tALIA bErNStEIN • tHE StUDENt LIFE

Left: Nicole Oberlag HM ‘22 cuts between Megan Kuo PO ‘20 and Emily tomz PO ‘22 in the cMS versus P-P game Wednesday. right: taylor Arakaki Sc ‘23 cuts inside Anna Ponzio PZ ’22 during a game Wednesday.

SWIM: Students may face consequences continued from page 1 feels welcomed and valued. Conduct inconsistent with those values will not be tolerated,” Silsby said in an email to TSL Oct. 2.

The colleges may mandate remedies if students are found to have acted in a manner contradictory to the values of CMS Athletics and their college. Gilien Silsby

“Furthermore, the colleges may mandate remedies if students are found to have acted in a manner contradictory to the values of CMS Athletics and their college,” she said. Members of the CMS men’s swim team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Both the Stags and Athenas were recently picked to finish second in the conference by a poll of SCIAC head coaches, although it’s unclear whether that ranking was made with the knowledge that multiple members of the women’s team had quit. CMS opens its season at UC San Diego on Oct. 26.

Star CMS running back Garrett Cheadle talks breaking records, concussions and love of the game KELLEN BROWNING Imagine staring down a line of towering men, their faces hidden by masks and their legs braced to charge. Their only mission: to slam into you and send you tumbling to the ground. That’s the image that Garrett Cheadle HM ’20, the star running back for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps football team, confronts every Saturday. “It’s a scary position — when you have the ball, everyone wants to get you,” he said. At the same time, “it’s definitely a rush when you know that there’s 11 people on the other side of the ball who want nothing [more] than to rip the ball out of your hands, or to tackle you and punish you for carrying the ball. And you’re just kind of like, ‘F you.’” Cheadle, a six-foot, 215-pound runner, has given a lot of “F you”s to opposing defenses so far this year. The reigning SCIAC Offensive Player of the Year has already amassed four touchdowns and 307 total rushing yards in CMS’ (2-2, 0-1 SCIAC) four games this season. He’s a crafty, hard-nosed runner, using defenders’ momentum against them, spinning around and changing angles to get opponents off-balance, then bulldozing through tackles when necessary. “One of the reasons why I really like football and running back in general is because it feels like it’s an intellectual battle as well as a physical battle,” Cheadle said. “Every step that you take, people react.” It didn’t always come easy, though. As a kid, Cheadle was the smallest on his team. He finally had a growth spurt in high school and, as has been a theme throughout his career, injuries to players ahead of him on the depth chart gave him a chance at the running back position. When college recruiting season arrived, though, Cheadle didn’t have years of experience as a runner or much film to dazzle college coaches. During a game partway through his senior year, he suffered a serious ankle injury that broke bones and ligaments and required two surgeries to fix. Cheadle wasn’t highly recruited, but was happy to go to Harvey Mudd College, a Division III program and a school that fit his STEM interests. “Coming in freshman year … I hadn’t played football since that moment. Since the moment I heard my bone snap,” Cheadle said. “It’s a confidence-killer for

sure, and you have to just be able to fight through the mindset, the negative thoughts in your mind.” Injuries to other running backs during his first two years as a Stag gave Cheadle the chance to show off his skills at the collegiate level. Junior year, he took over the starting job full-time and didn’t look back. “When you get that opportunity, you don’t get many more opportunities,” Cheadle said. “So it’s just this idea of ‘I have to run as hard as I can to not let anyone bring me down, do anything it takes to get that extra yard, do anything it takes to break that extra tackle.’” Last year as a starter, Cheadle ran for 1,305 yards, the second-most in a season in Stag history. He also set the record for the most rushing yards in a single game, churning out a staggering 274 against Whittier. But CMS head football coach Kyle Sweeney said Cheadle is more than just a runner. “I don’t think he gets enough credit for his blocking and catching the ball and doing all the little things that don’t show up on the stat sheet,” Sweeney said. “He is a very complete football player.” Cheadle said he wasn’t focused on getting the single-season rushing record last year, but some of his teammates are buzzing about the possibility this time around. It would be “cool” to get the record, he admitted. But he’s focused more on another SCIAC title. “I don’t think it’s good to be motivated by individual accolades,” he said. “Obviously, our goal is to repeat [as conference champions]. That’s like one of the most difficult things to do in sports — you always have a target on your back and you’re never the same team that you were.” Off the field — as one might expect from a Mudder — Cheadle defies the football player stereotype. He’s a computer science-math joint major with a passion for analytics, numbers and tutoring, and he thinks he might become a math teacher. “Maybe that’s down the road,” he said. “Math is a true passion of mine.” Football and academics, however, don’t always dovetail. Last year, Cheadle was just getting a handle on a difficult math class when he sustained a concussion during a game. “I was really struggling in a way that I haven’t struggled before. … I couldn’t study, I

couldn’t think,” he said. “That really made me think about quitting. Like, ‘Is this really worth it? If I get another concussion, what do I do? Should I set some kind of precedent?’” Cheadle stuck with it and scraped by in the class. His parents bought him a new, more protective helmet, and since then his head has been “a-OK.” But concussions and football are inextricably linked, especially as the consequences of repetitive hits to the head become more well-known and former NFL players open up about how chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease, has impacted their lives.

Concussions have “become much less of a taboo” subject, Cheadle said. “I felt back in high school you don’t really talk about that.” Cheadle doesn’t know how many concussions he’s had between football and high school lacrosse — certainly more than three. The football helmet he wore in high school had a sensor that alerted him when he sustained a hit that could cause a concussion; one game, it went off eight times. “It’s definitely scary — I don’t think that one more year of football is going to change the outcome for myself, and I don’t know what that outcome’s go-

ing to be,” Cheadle said. Running backs are particularly likely to hit the ground with their heads, he said, because they’re not going to let go of the ball to break their fall. “It’s just how comfortable are you with your brain’s health,” Cheadle said with a sigh. “It’s hard, it’s really hard.” Still, he wouldn’t trade football for anything. “Just the level of competition that you play at and the nitty-gritty of the sport, the things that happen behind the scenes and the team dynamic is something that I feel like I can’t get elsewhere,” he said. “It’s not something I’d ever give up.”

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running back Garrett cheadle HM ’20 makes a run during football practice Sep. 5.

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INJURY: Former athletes talk Soccer players and the finding purpose post-career practice of giving back continued from page 1 Though it doesn’t happen often, some student athletes at the 5Cs have sustained career-ending injuries. They recall the initial feeling after a serious injury as surreal and described the difficult process of leaving the sport they love. In May 2016, while playing football at West Point, Spencer Sheff CM ’20 tore his anterior cruciate ligament. “It was really heartbreaking,” Sheff said. “I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel because it had been something I had worked for my whole life, going and playing DI football, so to have that taken away from me hurt. … When it happened, it just didn’t seem real.” After taking a year off from school to work and rehabilitate, he transferred to Claremont McKenna College. At the beginning of his junior year at CMC, Sheff, a running back, re-tore his ACL as well as other muscles in the knee, including his meniscus and lateral collateral ligament. A “dimesized portion” of his cartilage was missing. “The second time I tore it, it was almost like a joke,” Sheff said. “It’s like you put so much into coming back from something like that — it was a yearlong process that I took to come back … and I tore it again and it was just like, the world is a cruel place.”

It was really heartbreaking. I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Spencer Sheff

That second injury effectively ended his football career. Dawson Reckers CM ’21, a transfer student who used to run cross-country for Pomona-Pitzer, also saw his NCAA career come to an early end. Between his junior and senior years of high school, the former Sagehen broke his femur while playing trampoline basketball with friends. “At first, I didn’t really think too much of it,” said Reckers, also a former track athlete. “I broke it, and it was very painful, but I had also had other injuries that were fairly painful.” Reckers began running again before his femur completely

healed. One day, while on a run during his first year of collegiate competition, his femur moved again slightly, effectively re-injuring it and putting a permanent end to his running career. “When I felt my femur shift a second time, I knew that I couldn’t be running even at the limited capacity I was operating at then, which made it career-ending because I no longer would be able to participate in the sport to any meaningful degree,” he said. For all these athletes, coming to terms with their injuries wasn’t easy. Immediately following his first ACL tear, Sheff thought it was “the worst thing that’s ever happened to me in my life.” “[Football] was the most important thing in my life, if I’m being completely honest,” he said. “The only reason I got good grades was because my mom told me that if I wanted to play football, I had to have a 4.0, so I got a 4.0. I always wanted to play big-time football.” Reckers said it’s taken him about two years to fully accept that he will never run competitively again. “It’s always hard when you’re taken away from a sport or activity that you really love,” he said. Mafra Spencer said volleyball had played a key role in her life for a decade. “I love the intensity and speed of the game,” she said. “There has been a lot of change in my life, but volleyball has consistently been an escape from the challenges.” But there’s life after sport — and all three athletes eventually found a silver lining. When her symptoms were the worst, Mafra Spencer said she was bed-ridden up to 20 hours a day with nausea, migraines and fatigue. She took the spring 2019 semester off to recover, and said she’s now almost back to normal. “I miss volleyball a lot, of course, but this journey has taught me that there is much more to me and my life than volleyball,” she said. Mafra Spencer said the recovery process changed her in many ways. “The healing process has been unbelievably challenging yet so rewarding,” she said. “I see life in a completely different way now. I am grateful for being able to have conversations without a stutter and to see colors again. This injury forced incredible life lessons on me,

and although it was extremely challenging, I could not be more grateful for everything that I have learned.” Mafra Spencer now spends her time doing newspaper design for TSL’s opinions section, participating in her sculpture and playground games classes and focusing on her health. Sheff said he’s grateful the trajectory of his first injury brought him to CMC and “allowed him to see a side of life he had never seen before.” He said he spent his year off loading UPS trucks during the graveyard shift, cleaning horse stalls and working at a batting cage. After Sheff’s second injury ended his football career, he got into weightlifting and had more time for reading, video games and schoolwork. Not running cross-country

It’s always hard when you’re taken away from a sport or activity that you really love. Margot Mafra Spencer

and track has given Reckers more time to meet with professors, participate in the Pomona Consulting Group and study, he said. Sheff and Reckers said having the right attitude was key to overcoming their injuries, both emotionally and mentally. “If you know that you may be coming back in the future, you need to be motivated enough to be willing to work hard,” Reckers said. “It’s a big initial investment to get back where you were fitness-wise and skill-wise.” But, he said, if you know you’re not going to be able to do the sport again, there needs to be some level of acceptance. “Dwelling on it, for me, has never been a positive thing,” he said. Sheff agreed that focusing on past mistakes is not productive. “Don’t think so much about what you could’ve done,” he said. “Look back on the times when you played sports and just appreciate all the memories you have.” Editor’s note: Margot Mafra Spencer SC ’21 is TSL’s opinions design editor.

Athletes of the Week Pomona-Pitzer Isa Berardo pZ ’20 Women’s Soccer Santa Cruz, CA

So far, the Sagehen women’s soccer team (10-0-1, 6-0 SCIAC) has played six conference games — all wins — and five of them were shutout victories, leaving their opponents without a single point. The common theme throughout all of these games? Isa Berardo in goal, for either the majority or entirety of the game. Now in their senior season with the Hens, Berardo spent the full 90 minutes in goal for Wednesday’s Sixth Street rivalry game at CMS (6-2-3, 2-2-2 SCIAC), racking up three saves and advancing to 8-0-1 on the season. Last year, they recorded the best save percentage (.944) and the lowest goals against average (.182) in Division III.

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Ethan Lewis CM ’20 Men’s Water Polo Honolulu, HI

Lewis contributed one goal to the Stags’ (8-8, 3-1 SCIAC) first game against Johns Hopkins in the Gary Troyer Tournament beginning Friday and three goals in the next day’s contest against California Baptist. Lewis had the second goal of the game, and later netted the two goals that brought CMS from a two-point deficit to a 7-7 tie, making the Stags’ next goal by Koss Klobucher CM ’21 a game-winner. On Wednesday, CMS traveled across Sixth Street for the rivalry game versus Pomona-Pitzer (9-7, 2-2 SCIAC) in which Lewis scored four goals. His fourth was the game-winning point that broke the suspenseful 8-8 tie with only 1:48 left on the clock.

DANNY TA In soccer, philanthropy among professional players has always been important, but it’s become more and more prominent recently as soccer players’ public images have become increasingly impactful. Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most famous charitable players, as well as one of the biggest names in soccer and the second highest paid athlete in the world, according to Forbes. He earned $109 million in 2019. Ronaldo was also the most charitable athlete in the world in 2015, according to Athletes Gone Good. The Juventus F.C. superstar was born off the western coast of Portugal, where he grew up in an impoverished household, in a classic “rags to riches” story, according to Biography.com. At age 11, he left home to train with one of Portugal’s best soccer academies. Fast forward a few decades, and now he’s arguably the best player in the world — but the fame hasn’t stopped Ronaldo from forgetting about the less fortunate. Throughout his career, Ronaldo has made many contributions to charities supporting his hometown and other parts of the world. In 2017, he raised €600,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation by donating a replica of his 2013 Ballon d’Or, an award given to the best player over the previous year, according to Marca, a Spanish sports newspaper. Ronaldo’s decision to donate the trophy was out of the ordinary among those who have won it. In 2016, he made an unspecified “generous donation” to the Save the Children Fund to help families in war-ravaged Syria, according to The Washington Post. And he’s been a global ambassador for the organization since 2013. U.S. women’s soccer legend Mia Hamm has also used her success to contribute to charitable causes relating to issues to which she’s deeply connected. After losing her brother to a rare blood disorder in 1997, Hamm created the Mia Hamm Foundation, a non-profit that raises awareness and money for families needing bone marrow or cord blood transplants, according to the foundation’s mission statement. The organization also supports sports programs for young women by cooperating with corporations and foundations to provide grants and host community events, according to

the mission statement. One of these initiatives was Soccer for Success, a year-long after-school program that offers soccer training sessions to young people. As part of this initiative, the Mia Hamm Foundation teamed up with Nike in 2015 to provide a grant that would allow 250 girls from East Los Angeles to participate, according to the U.S. Soccer Federation. And it’s not just the big names who are giving back to their communities. Manchester United’s Juan Mata, who is known as one of the nicest players in soccer, according to The Telegraph, has made a name for himself beyond the soccer pitch. In 2017, Mata launched Common Goal, a charity movement through which professional soccer players and coaches pledge at least 1 percent of their salaries to a collective fund that supports global soccer charities, according to Common Goal’s website. Nearly 525 have joined so far. U.S. women’s national team stars Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan, Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp, Juventus’ Giorgio Chiellini, Bayern Munich’s Serge Gnabry and Canadian women’s team captain Christine Sinclair are among the movement’s most prominent members. Rapinoe has spearheaded several philanthropic initiatives over the years. Having had the privilege to pursue multiple sports growing up and play soccer competitively, she considers it her duty to give back to others, believing that “everybody has a responsibility to try to make the world the best place it can be,” she told the Los Angeles Times. Last year, Rapinoe teamed up with Shasta Regional Community Foundation to launch a fundraiser for victims of the Carr fire, which affected her hometown of Redding. The fundraiser raised around $57,000, according to the fundraiser’s Facebook page. Rapinoe supports the American Civil Liberties Union, Seattle-area Boys and Girls Clubs and Athlete Ally, an LGBTQ+ athletic advocacy group. Rapinoe’s platform and her uncompromising commitment to her ideals made her a role model for many young athletes worldwide. These athletes have raised the bar for those that come after them, emphasizing that part of being a professional athlete is about caring for humanity and using one’s platform for social change. Danny Ta PO ’22 is a math major from Ontario, California. In his free time, he enjoys being frustrated by the inconsistency of his favorite soccer team, Manchester United.

Weekly Calendar P-P

CMS

Saturday, Oct. 12

Saturday, Oct. 12

Football vs. La Verne

Football @ Cal Lutheran

Men’s Water Polo @ La Verne, 11am @ Redlands, 7pm

Men’s Water Polo @ Occidental

Women’s Soccer vs. Caltech

Women’s Soccer vs. Chapman

Men’s Soccer @ CMS

Men’s Soccer vs. Pomona-Pitzer

Men/Women’s Swim & Dive Redlands Pentathlon

Men/Women’s Cross-Country Triton Invitational

Men/Women’s Cross-Country PP Cross-Country Invite

Tuesday, Oct. 15

Tuesday, Oct. 15

Volleyball vs. Cal Lutheran

Volleyball vs. Caltech

Wednesday, Oct. 16

Wednesday, Oct. 16

Women’s Soccer @ Caltech

Women’s Soccer @ Cal Lutheran

Men’s Soccer vs. Chapman

Men’s Soccer vs. Caltech

Thursday, Oct. 17

Men’s Water Polo vs. Chapman

Women’s Tennis ITA Cup Friday, Oct. 18 Women’s Tennis ITA Cup Volleyball @ Whittier

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WET SEASON Stags top Sagehens in ‘fiery’ Sixth Street battle, capping busy week for water polo teams HUGO WARD The 5C men’s water polo teams emerged from a hectic weekend of tournament play with a pair of big victories and two disappointing defeats apiece — but it was Claremont-Mudd-Scripps that scored the statement win of the week, beating their Sixth Street rivals 9-8 Wednesday night. After a back-and-forth game between the two squads, two Stags came up huge in the suspenseful closing minutes at Haldemann Pool to seal the win for CMS (8-8, 3-1 SCIAC) over Pomona-Pitzer (9-7, 2-2 SCIAC). Coming out of halftime, the two teams were tied with six goals each. Ethan Lewis CM ’20 scored two goals in the third to put CMS ahead, but Riley Mangan PZ ’20 and Joseph Schafer PO ’20 each scored to help the Hens claw back in the fourth. With fans on their edge of their seats and less than two minutes to go, Lewis made another clutch goal to give the Stags the lead. Noah Smith HM ’22, who had nine saves in the game, made another key stop to fend off P-P and secure the victory. “We’re psyched about the performance,” Zack Rossman CM ’20 said in a message to TSL after the game. “We had a great energy all night and stuck to our game plan even when things weren’t going our way.” The win gave CMS revenge for P-P’s victory earlier this season, and propelled them into a three-way tie for second place in the conference. And the Sagehens, who were ranked No. 1 in the nation for Division III coming into the season, dropped to fifth in the SCIAC. “We didn’t end up with the result we wanted, but sometimes that’s the way it goes,” Noah Sasaki PO ’21 said in a message to TSL. “Last night, CMS was the better team and they wanted it more than we did. Moving forward, I think the biggest thing is stepping back as a team and taking a second to find our fire again.”

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JUSTIN SLEPPY • THE STUDENT LIFE

The rivalry game between P-P and CMS is one of Sasaki’s favorite atmospheres. “I think what makes it so special is just the years of history and tradition that goes into the competitive spirit of the game,” he said. “There’s always a great crowd, and the environment is electric every year.” Rossman felt similarly. For CMS, this “game is what it’s all about. It’s got a fiery energy from the very start. … We’re really battling for pride more than anything else,” he said. “Our two teams have very different structures

... and I think that really adds to the competitive spirit.” Last weekend, both squads participated in this year’s Gary Troyer Tournament, which included 22 programs across the NCAA divisions. “The most exciting thing about playing in the Gary Troyer Tournament is the caliber of games we get to play in our home pool,” Sasaki said. “It’s always a blast to get a shot at some top [Division I] programs in the amazing environment of the Haldemann pool.” Added Rossman: “We always have a huge fan base show out. For kids who are out-of-state, this might be the one game their parents get to watch in person.” The Sagehens got off to a strong start, beating the Air Force, a DI program, 118. Against other DI competition, though, P-P struggled, losing 12-9 to No. 9 UCSD and 13-7 to No. 8 Pepperdine. The Sagehens capped tournament play with a victory over California Baptist University 10-7, which was the program’s first win over Cal Baptist since 2013. Sasaki was pleased with his team’s efforts. “Going into the tournament, I had high expectations,” he said. “Although we did not win all four games, I’d say we had a successful tournament and am super happy with how we played.” On the other side of Sixth Street, CMS also scored two wins.

The Stags beat Fresno Pacific 15-11 — their third victory over the Sunbirds this season — and edged out California Baptist in a nail-biter. CMS scored the last three goals, recovering from a 7-5 deficit to win 8-7 at Axelrood Pool. Lewis and Koss Klobucher CM ’21 were instrumental in the win, with Smith netting seven saves. CMS also lost 9-8 to Johns Hopkins and 19-10 to Pepperdine, despite four goals from Christian Thornton CM ’21 in the latter game. “We’ve got a rare combination of talent and depth, which allows us to be confident going into almost any game,” Rossman said. Both teams are only about halfway through their seasons and hungry for more success in the pool — specifically, a win in the inaugural USA Water Polo Division III National Championship. Sasaki hopes P-P will continue “working hard and pushing ourselves to continue to improve our play.” After CMS’ triumphant rivalry game victory, Rossman hopes to start a win streak. “Not all wins are created equal, but it’s also important to know how to pull out a victory on days when you might not have your best stuff,” he said. Coming up next, the Sagehens will face La Verne and Redlands on Oct. 12. CMS will play Occidental the same day.

TALIA BERNSTEIN • THE STUDENT LIFE

Not all wins are created equal, but it’s also important to know how to pull out a victory on days when you might not have your best stuff. Zack Rossman CM ’20

JUSTIN SLEPPY • THE STUDENT LIFE

top-right: Jacob cohn PO ‘22 advances on the ball. center-left: christian thornton cM ‘21 looks to block a pass by tony Murphy PO ‘20. center-right: benjamin Sasaki PO ‘22 attacks the ball. bottom: Kyle ballack cMc ‘23 guards the goal against an approaching athlete.

JUSTIN SLEPPY • THE STUDENT LIFE