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April 27, 2012

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Alumnae Make an Appearance at the Annual Scholarship Luncheon By Hannah Long ‘15 Staff Writer

Oh, the places seniors will go! A look at the post-graduation plans of the Class of 2012. page 4

A Scrippsie for President? Read a review of this alum’s experiences running for the highest position in the U.S. page 10 government

Alumnae from around the area will soon be returning to Scripps—along with other scholarship donors— for the upcoming Scholarship Luncheon, an event that serves to thank the many generous donors who contribute to a variety of scholarships for Scripps students. The luncheon, held today, will be catered by Scripps and attended by the donors, speakers, President Lori Bettison-Varga as well as many students whose financial aid is currently benefiting in part or in whole from the scholarships funded by these donors. At the luncheon, the donors will be recognized and given an opportunity to see some of the interesting projects current Scripps students are working on. They will also have a chance to talk to students and see firsthand the impact of their donations, an opportunity that many of the donors appreciate. Carol Cleek Rush (’86), who contributes to the James W. Gould Scholarship in International Relations every year, particularly enjoys attending the luncheon. Rush has chosen to contribute to this scholarship because Gould was her academic advisor and an inspiration to her during her time at Scripps: “I wanted to honor Professor James Gould because he was very involved in nonviolence, which I thought was a very good goal for the world, and I really admired him.” Under Gould’s advising, Rush majored in International Relations at Scripps, and she hopes that this scholarship will inspire other students to do the same. Rush remembers her time at Scripps fondly, including dorm activities and her

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room in Toll Hall, and enjoys returning to campus each year for the luncheon. As well as socializing with other alumnae and current students, she particularly enjoys hearing presentations from the student speakers about their theses. Her past favorites include a presentation about the songs of songbirds as well as one about a community service trip to Africa. Viivi Soolepp Romine (’56) is also very involved in the scholarship luncheon. She was inspired to establish and fund a scholarship under her own name because of her great experiences at Scripps: “Education is very important to me, and my Scripps education in particular was very important.” Romine, who grew up in Europe, moved to the United States as a young adult. Her family did not have very much money, so she thought that she wouldn’t be able to attend college, but after working hard she received a scholarship to Scripps. She said that her Scripps education had an important and lasting impact on her and particularly remembers the threeyear Humanities program she participated in, holiday dinners hosted with faculty members and her job at the library. After graduating from Scripps with a major in English and a minor in French, Romine became a teacher and decided to fund this scholarship to give other young women the same opportunity she had. Along with Rush and Romine, the many other generous donors who will be attending the luncheon deserve acknowledgment and thanks for the wonderful opportunities they are providing current Scripps students.

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SADIOS is Once Again a Sucess! By Charlotte Rosenfield ‘15 Design Editor

As a member of the Admissions Ambassador Team for the Scripps Admissions Office, I think I can speak for most of us when I say that it is much easier, and far more enjoyable, to talk to prospective students who know that they want to attend Scripps College. The burden of convincing these high school seniors that Scripps is the place for them is shed, and we are able to get down to the basics of their future Scripps experience. This is one of the many reasons that “Spend A Day In Our Shoes”—SADIOS for short—is my favorite prospective student event. On Monday, April 15, “We welcomed to campus 158 admitted students and 215 additional guests, for a total of 373 visitors,” Vice President for Enrollment Victoria Romero reported. According to upperclassmen and admissions staff, this year saw one of the highest numbers of attendees in the history of the event. Romero also commented that the SADIOS program “is a success because everyone is so willing to meet and talk with prospective students and families.” In fact, a good friend of mine, who isn’t even on the Admissions Ambassador Team, showed up to talk to some students with me when they all arrived Sunday afternoon. She told me that she simply wanted to talk to some prospective students about how amazing being at Scripps has been for her and all of her friends. As volunteers, all of us on the Team hope to inspire “prospies,” as they are commonly known, to imagine their fantastic, opportunity-filled lives here. Maricela Limas, staff representative for the vice president of enrollment, could not have been more pleased with the outcome of SADIOS. “Overall, the program was a huge success. Most admitted students and parents thanked us for our hospitality and wished they could spend more time exploring the campus.” The event becomes far more meaningful when you can see, through the words and actions of the students, that this experience has made an impact on their perception of Scripps College. One student commented, “I really liked being able to sit in on a class. By doing so, I was able to see how professors teach their students on an every day basis, and I was able to witness teacherstudent relationships as they naturally are at Scripps.” Another said, “I really

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Prospective students were delighted to see a multitude of squirrels roaming around campus.

enjoyed the ‘Just for Students Panel.’ It was so open and the students were willing to answer just about anything the audience asked, and I really got an idea of the student body.” Limas, like many of the students, sees SADIOS as the culmination of all of the hard work the Office of Admissions has put in. “For most Scripps admission counselors, this is our favorite program of the year. We work hard throughout the year representing Scripps at college fairs and high school visits. We also spend countless hours interviewing students and reading their applications. SADIOS wraps up our recruiting year and allows us to reconnect with the prospective students we have been working with throughout the year, and who will soon comprise the Scripps Class of 2016.” And, just let me say, we can’t wait to see them next fall.

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News • 3 Timothy Donnelly wins the Tufts Poetry Award By Megan Petersen ‘13 Copy Editor

Timothy Donnelly, author of The Cloud Corporation, was awarded a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award at Scripps College on April 19. Katharine Larson was also awarded a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The Kingsley Tufts Award is bestowed annually upon one mid-career author of an original work of poetry and is worth $100,000, intended to allow the recipient “to work on his or her craft for a while without paying bills,” according to the late Mrs. Tufts. The award is not intended for an older poet late in that poet’s career. Linda Gregerson, chair poet, said that Donnelly’s book “just bowled [the judges] over this year.” The Cloud Corporation “juxtapos[es] the infinitely malleable COURTESY OF ARTS.COLUMBIA.EDU landscape of the imagination and the flat- The cover of The Cloud Corporation, by Timothy Donnelly, who out mortar-and-brick is described by The New Yorker as, “the barreller in chief of the war of spreadsheets younger generation of American poets.” and internal audits of accommodation to wonder as a quality that we inevitably have reality and the everyday and the pragmatic, to lose as we grow into increased certainty. and in some instances, the deadening and Katherine [Larson]’s work all together corporate,” Gregerson said. is a stunning reminder that wonder is a “I have this terrible capacity to both cultivated attitude and that if we’re very believe in almost anything and also lucky, and very good, and very steadfast, it simultaneously to disbelie[ve] in it. And can be a faculty that increases for us.” I’m kind of finding myself in the throes of “It’s a very challenging job, because that capacity right now. I’m sure that I’m there’s a lot of good work out there,” here, but it seems to be possible that this said Gregerson during her remarks prior can’t actually be happening,” Donnelly to announcing the names of the poets. said. “Because I couldn’t quite believe Gregerson said she wished the ceremony this was really happening, I didn’t feel could go on all night so that she could read in touch with the strong emotional force poetry selections from the runners up: Ed that this was happening, just underneath Roberson for To See the Earth Before the End the threshold of my availability until I of the World, Christian Wiman for Every compelled myself to think about it this Riven Thing, Julie Hanson for Unbeknownst way: that at some point during the judging, and Shane McCrae for Mule. my book passed through all [the judges’] Keynote speaker Maxine Hong hands and through their minds, too…and Kingston (The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of it blows my mind that they kept coming a Girlhood Among Ghosts, No Name Woman), back to it, and that they did choose it.” simultaneously solemn and playful, mused The Kate Tufts Discovery award, worth about poets and poems. “The power of the $10,000, goes annually to a poet for that poet is to face mystery,” Kingston said. poet’s first published book. Katherine After reading a portion of Donnelly’s Larson received the award for her book poetry, she exclaimed, “Oh, the pleasure Radial Symmetry. In addition to being a of having poetry in my mouth, feeling it in poet, Larson is also a research scientist and my body and ears.” field ecologist. Many of her poems reflect Kingston also read lines of the winners’ her self-proclaimed “love of cephalopods” work, lauding Donnelly and Larson for and include anecdotes from her adventures their work and accomplishments. as a researcher. Each poet also read selections from their “I am convinced that the combination of work, and the ceremony’s attendees each the work she does in the world is absolutely also received a book with poems from each central to the strength and originality of winner of both awards since 1997. her work as a poet,” Gregerson said of The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Larson. “The work she does as an ecologist Awards, based at Claremont Graduate and a scientist has in common with her University, are awarded annually in books as a poet a quality of luminous Claremont. attentiveness. […] I think we often imagine

Rez Life: Taking Tragedy out of the Native American Narrative By LM Ellzey ‘13

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David Treuer is a big name in the literary circuit, be it for his award-winning novels, his snarky book of literary criticisms, or his work as a professor in postgrad literature at the University of Southern California. Treuer has been hopping around the states, touring for his new book, but what makes his newest endeavor different from Little, The Hiawatha, or The Translation of Dr. Apelles? This time around, Treuer surprises with his first piece of non-fiction, Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey through Reservation Life. Seven years in the making, Rez Life is a culmination of personal stories, some Treuer’s, some interviewees’. All in all, it provides a thoughtful, indepth look at the life of an Ojibwe Indian. Before his reading on April 18 in Denison Library’s Holbein Room, Treuer sat and spoke with me for a few moments. Luckily, I’ve met Treuer before, in the class he taught at Scripps only one year ago, back when he was the Mary Routt Chair of Writing. He smiled and reminisced, saying, “That class was one of the best I’ve taught. Really the energy was great.” Moving past remembrances of Scripps, Treuer described his own journey in writing Rez Life. He recalls having to “start over” from scratch for the first time: “My editor was younger than me. He told me my piece just couldn’t work. I remember thinking he was an idiot, but I took his advice. And, well, he was mostly right.” Truer continued, “I was raised on Leech Lake Reservation, but on the outskirts, not in the center. Life is different depending on where you lived. There is not one rez life, but rez lives. There are people on the reservation who are happy, living relatively untroubled lives.” Treuer explained that tragedy is the only light Natives are seen in these days. He wants to move away from all that, for no other reason than “it’s just not how things are.” Is more non-fiction in Treuer’s future? “I’m working on another book of literary criticisms,” he said. “I’m still walking down the non-fiction path. With nonfiction, there’s just facts. In fiction, I have to work to create the mystery of a world. Non-fiction narrows the lens, and I can concentrate on telling people’s stories as authentically as possible.” Fact or fiction, Treuer’s not stopping any time soon.

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4 • Opinions & Editorials

Looking in on the Geology Department: A Student Reflects By Nancy Herrera ‘15 Design Editor

The members of the geology department at Pomona College are close-knit. I’ve been aware of the department’s feeling of camaraderie since the moment I walked into the building. It was during my first semester in college; I was going to speak with Robert Gaines, the department chair, in order to see how I can take geology classes as a way to fulfill my science requirement for the Science, Technology and Society (STS) major. This major, focused on the study of knowledge-making practices, requires me to participate in science firsthand. It is a way for me to analyze the systems in place in the teaching and making of science. I wanted to take Introductory Geology, but the

waiting list was 100 students long! Gaines said, however, that since I had already taken two semesters of introductory earth science at East Los Angeles College, I would be prepared to take an intermediatedivision course. And so it was that I found myself in GEO 123: The Neotectonics of Southern California. Everyone else in this class is a geology major and at least a sophomore, so as a first-year, of course I felt intimidated. Some of my fears were alleviated once I realized that my background knowledge was on par with my peers. In addition, Linda Reinen, my professor, supported me from the start. I am certain that my position as an STS major—an “out-

Figure 1. Because trees are almost the same height as volcanoes...

sider”—has enabled me to see things that other students can’t. It is like the saying that Mariane De Laet, my introductory STS professor says, , “A fish swimming in water does not realize that it is in water.” One quirk I noticed was the fact that trees in a cross section of a diagram of the earth, which are shown for reference, were always comically large! For the remainder of the class, I could not stop chuckling. While taking Neotectonics and speaking to all of the professors in the geology department, I am realizing that there is a place for non-majors and STS students like me. Even though I will never have a laminated photo of myself on the geology department’s wall, I know I have made my mark with them. Said Reinen, “I feel as if I should incorporate more STS themes in my class, because I think they are important.” On the anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Professor Reinen gave us a link to articles on the resulting tsunami and nuclear meltdown. They were all full of STS topics, arguing about the purpose of science and on how it should be open when sharing information. And for our final project, one question we must research is how a population is affected by living with certain geomorphic features—an acknowledgment to the field of STS. In the play Copenhagen by Michael Frayn, Niels Bohr says to Werner Heisenberg, “I believe that we don’t do science for ourselves, that we do it so we can explain to others…in plain language.” While I do not have my entire life mission planned out, one of my goals is to be in a position where I can explain science, which often seems mysterious and intangible, to the public. Taking Neotectonics has helped me on the way to reaching that goal; by learning seismology, I will be able to more articulately transmit this information to the wider public. In time, I will also be able to articulate the public’s sentiments on issues in a way for scientists to understand, which is part of what STS is all about.

Scripps College Problem #1 By Earnest Eleanor

The school year is drawing to a close and the sunny Claremont weather is shining down on us every day. These sunny days come not without impending doom. No, I’m not talking about finals. I’m not talking about the occasional sunburn. And I’m not talking about the absolute horrors of senior theses. (Mercifully, those are pretty much over by now). No, I’m talking about a much more serious problem. I’m talking about Scripps College Problem Number One. I’m talking about my lack of sundresses. Specifically, the lack of sundresses I own that are not already in another Scrippsie’s wardrobe. As I look in my closet every morning, trying to find a floral print that I haven’t already seen, I feel the despair that can only accompany a mind full of regret at not splurging on my summer shopping trip the year before to stock up before it had already been too late. I pulled a coral sundress off the hanger with great trepidation as I recalled an encounter I had between a fellow Scrippsie a few weeks earlier while wearing the same coral dress. I was finishing up at the dining hall, putting my typical two pumps of Hazelnut Coffeemate into my drink before adding half milk and just a dash of coffee. I turned around abruptly, remembering that I had only a few minutes to print out my reading before class, and almost ran into what looked to be a first-year. A first year wearing the same dress as me. We shared the usual head nod and the “oh wow can’t believe that we have the same dress!” smile and look before I managed to duck away and separate myself from the embarrassing little fashion redundancy. I quickly headed off to the Student Union. Somehow, miraculously, I almost ran into her again as I was leaving the SU (I took a detour so we

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wouldn’t be embarrassed by having to repeat our feigned camaraderie over our similar tastes in sundress options for the day) and again, two hours later, while I was studying in the Motley. Of course, I should have known I’d run into the little sundress duplicate in the Motley. Because that’s what happens at Scripps: you walk around campus for more than half an hour and you’ve seen the same people four times. Our small community is usually a homey comfort, but it becomes mortifyingly confining when all you want to do is escape from your fashion doppelganger. Emerging from my traumatic sundress flashback, awash in the remembered mortification, I reluctantly started buttoning up my dress, dreading the moment(s) when I would see that first-year again. She would probably be wearing the same dress again, because that’s how my life works. It’s not that having the same dress as someone else is so bad. Although the head nod and smile do get a bit tiring (seriously, how did I see her three times in the same three hour time span?). It’s seeing all the other sundresses that makes it so bad that I’ve been caught in the same style of dress as someone else. Everyone else seems to have a limitless supply of cute new dresses, so how is it that I manage to select the unoriginal ones that overlap with at least one other Scrippsie’s sundress of the day? How am I expected to keep wearing the same dresses over and over again when I walk across the quad and see the myriad floral prints, different colored stripes and colors without feeling a twinge of jealously? Until I own all the sundresses in the world, I’ll have to suffer through the agony of my boring, repetitive clothing. It’s a tough life at Scripps, it really is.

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Opinions & Editorials • 5

Let’s Get Naked. The time has come, sexy readers, to discuss some bloody serious business. Not the fact that your beloved Slutty Health Expert is graduating and leaving you sex-column-less. It’s been a fun year, but SHE gets the feeling that the dearth of questions indicates that all you sexy readers have grown into confident sex deities, ready to tackle your sex problems (and one another) with the open, honest excitement you deserve. And if you’re ever struck with a bout of sexual confusion, an archive of past columns now exists on the Scripps Voice website, for easy reference if you ever start to miss your dear SHE. No, the serious business we need to discuss is menstruation. Period sex. (I wanted to end my column with a bang, but I think the more appropriate punctuation is a period, don’t you?) I know I’ve alluded to how sex can be messy, but I’ve never gotten explicit about how bloody messy it can be. (Get it? Because there can be blood.) Don’t want to think about menstruating vaginas? Then you’re probably not the type of person who should consider a relationship with a pre-menopausal female-bodied individual. If you are sexually attracted to people with vaginas, you better not get all squeamish when those vaginas start spouting their monthly celebrations of the fact that their respective people are not pregnant. Join the celebration. Pamper that vagina-haver. Respect the bloated individual’s request to be left alone, or the achy individual’s request for a massage, or the horny individual’s request for some good ol’ period sex. (I’m not saying you have to indulge all these requests.

I’m just saying respect them.) Keep in mind that every individual deals with menstruation in a different way. We don’t all crave chocolate. We don’t all turn into crying wrecks, subconsciously mourning the loss of our wasted ova. A menstruating vagina is not an unlovable vagina. Don’t rule out the possibility of some menstrual lovin’ just because the prospect of getting a little bloody daunts you. That’s what showers are for, right? And laundry soap, if you don’t feel like taking your sexy period adventures to that slightly-public venue that is your dorm’s showers. Tampons (or Diva Cups, handily sold at the Motley if you fancy the investment) need not be removed for non-penetrative pleasure to be shared, so there’s no need to even make the bloody mess you may be worrying about. Just respect that string (or the Diva Cup stem) and don’t go pulling on the flow-stauncher unless you want to open the floodgates. Not that you even have to open the floodgates. Perhaps the most exciting innovation I’ve heard of in the past year (definitely the most exciting one I’ve heard of in the past week) is the Instead Softcup. It’s like the Diva Cup, in that it’s a little cup that catches menstrual flow. But, unlike a low-riding Diva Cup, the cervix-hugging Softcup can be left in during sex. And sleep. And other strenuous physical activities. For up to 12 hours. It takes up less space in the loving and lovable orifice that is the vagina, and it doesn’t have that nubbin of a stem should you penetrate all the way to the cervix where it’s nestled. The eco-friendly tampon alternative that is

the Softcup lets you avoid the potential awkwardness of pausing mid-hookup to remind your partner that sex can get bloody messy. (And will, if penetration occurs, do just that.) The Softcup also lets you avoid awkwardness with non-sexual partners: boiling that Diva Cup in your dorm kitchen, having to tell hungry and curious passers-by that you’re not making dinner, you’re just sanitizing your menstruationcatching container between cycles. I vote Softcup. The only drawback I can think of is you have to buy a new reusable Softcup for every cycle. Or buy non-reusable Softcups with even greater frequency. Either way, buying more Softcups rather than making the year-long investment in a slightly-less-wasteful Diva Cup strikes me as a fair trade. Because, you guys: period sex. So, everyone who menstruates: Buy a Softcup. Have sex with it. (Well, not with it, but while it’s inside your vagina. You know what I mean.) See? Nothing scary about the menstruating vagina. That said, a menstruating vagina is also not a vagina that prevents pregnancy. Or STIs. The menstruating individual is actually at higher risk for the spread of STIs than her nonbloody compatriots. Even with the miraculous Softcup in place. Remember how I debunked those condom-based myths last column? I am still pro-condom. And pro-sex. Period. I LOVE YOU, BUT IT’S OVER -SHE

A Year Abroad: Germany and Korea By Meredith Kertzman ‘13 Web Manager

As another year in Claremont is coming to a close, some Scripps students are finishing up the entire academic year they spent abroad. The Scripps Voice had the opportunity to talk with Katie Evans (’13) to learn more about her experience spending one semester in Germany and the other in Korea. As a foreign language major studying two languages with fewer classes available, Evans was beginning to run out of options by her second semester of sophomore year. “I knew if I really wanted to have a thorough knowledge of German and Korean, I would have to be abroad,” she said, “Since I’m studying German and Korean, it seemed obvious to go [to Germany and Korea], although I had options for cities when it came to Germany.” For her first semester, Evans chose to go to Germany with the IES Freiburg program, which is not approved by Scripps. “I knew I wanted to be in southern Germany, but the description of the city and the program itself sold Freiburg to me over Munich and Heidelberg. I don’t regret it!” she said. In Freiburg, Evans lived in university housing—similar to a suite at Scripps—with German students. She had the option of taking university courses but mostly took courses tailored to IES students. For anyone interested in studying abroad in Germany, Evans advised, “If you’ve had more than two years of German and want to go abroad, [Freiburg] is the place to go. Don’t let the petition process scare you, it’s nothing!” Evans is currently finishing up her spring semester in Seoul, Korea through CIEE. She lives in Yonsei University housing with other international students and is taking classes directly at the university. The decision to go to Germany first was extremely simple for Evans. “I wanted to be in Germany for the holidays which, while celebrated in Asia, aren’t nearly as prominent as in Europe,” she explained. Evans went home for a month in between her semesters abroad, which helped her transition between the two locations. She has been living away from home since 2006, when she started going to boarding school. “My parents have the opposite of empty nest syndrome; they love being home without me or my brother. I do feel a little bad, though, because one of the first things I ask about when we Skype is my cat,” she told us. In her year abroad, Evans has noticed a huge improvement in her language skills. “Some people I studied with completely reinvented themselves over the semester, but that didn’t happen to me,” Evans explained. However, she did note that she is less willing to put up with inappropriate behavior—such as sexist jokes—from men. When asked what she’ll miss from her year abroad, Evans said, “I’ll miss the transportation, the food, the shopping and how easy it was to travel.” Her location in Germany was less than an hour from both France and Switzerland. In November, Evans went to Switzerland for a day to go to a profressional tennis tournament. “I ended up seeing my two favorite players, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. I caught laryngitis a few days later from overusing my vocal cords, but it was definitely worth it.” “From Korea, I’ll miss the 24-hour convenience stores and the cafés where you can play with pets for hours,” Evans said. She also raved about the ice cream cakes in Korea. Evans will turn 21 shortly after the program ends, but she plans on buying an ice cream cake to celebrate before she leaves. When asked if she misses Scripps, Evans responded, “Yes and no. I miss my friends, my extra-curriculars—A-Team and [in]visible magazine—the beautiful dorms, and the pasta at CMC. But like any other place or experience, there are downsides.” One of these downsides is the lack of transportation in and around Claremont. Despite the downsides, Evans is happy to be returning. “I’m excited to be a senior and return to doing club activities and seeing people I’ve missed for over a year,” she said. If you want to know more about her experiences, make sure you give her time to talk about them! “It’s nice when people want to know about what you’ve been doing, but it’s impossible to condense a year of life into 30 seconds of small talk,” Evans explained.

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Features • 6

6 • Features

Oh, the Places Scripps Seniors Will Go! Of the 56 seniors who responded to The Scripps Voice’s survey, after graduation 57 percent intend to work, 23 percent intend to go immediately to graduate school, 10 percent have accepted a fellowship, and 7 percent are undecided.

Megan Lewis

Seattle: 3

This summer I will be working at a restaurant at Signal Mountain Lodge in Grand Teton National Park. I knew I wanted to do something this summer that would be fun, adventurous, and unrelated to my longterm career goals for a change. I applied to dozens of similar jobs in national parks, but this lodge stood out, and I knew as soon as I was offered the position that it just felt right. I can’t wait to meet lots of new people and spend three months living in and exploring one of the most beautiful places in the country.

Five seniors plan on working at an organic farm or working with a Worldwide Organization of Organic Farmers (WWOOF) sponsor.

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Haeyoung Yoon plans to work on Eric Garcetti’s political campaign as he runs for mayor of Los Angeles in 2013. Alexandra Talleur will be attending Columbia University’s summer publishing course in New York City.

Twenty-one students’ post-graduation plans relate to their majors or minors. Of that number, nine are going to graduate school, three of whom are going to graduate school in an area related to their minors. Graduate Schools Seniors have decided to attend or are deciding among Mills, USC, UNLV, University of Cambridge, CGU, Emory, UW, University of Edinburgh and the University of Hawaii Manoa. Companies and Organizations Seniors have accepted, are considering, or are waiting to hear back from the US Assembly of European Regions, BUNAC, NERA Economic Consulting, Wildfire Interactive and Latin America for Less.

New York City: 3

Los Angeles: 7

Fourteen plan to go abroad to places as far-spread as Indonesia, India, Benin and Bulgaria.

Three seniors explicitly stated “travel” as one of their options. However, knowing that some of these seniors will be in places such as Thailand and France, it is expected that many other seniors will be doing recreational travel, as well.

San Francisco: 11

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Thirteen plan to teach or tutor, working with such organizations as Teach for America (TFA) and the Fulbright Teaching program to local tutoring centers.

Tasha Russman plans on being in Hyderbad, India, with IDEX Fellowship in Social Enterprise doing consulting work with non-profit, for-profit and hybrid model social enterprises.

Boston: 2

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I will be attending the University of Cambridge to pursue a Masters of Philosophy in European Literature and Culture in October. This year-long interdisciplinary taught course is the natural culmination of my time at Scripps. I chose it because it will permit me to attend lectures within the philosophy, literature, and history faculties at Cambridge and read many of the books that have been on my ‘to read’ list for years. After that, On verra! (We’ll see!). For those of you who believe my fate is hermetically sealed in the white towers of academia, I’m not sure. Publishing or psychoanalysis may be in the cards! This summer, I am looking forward to working, tackling some of my non-academic writing projects, and spending time with my friends and family on both sides of the ‘Pond’, admittedly much neglected during my affair with the inimitable—yet very much dead—Michel de Montaigne (the subject of my senior thesis). I dread the day my weekly rose-picking habit will be suspended, but am happy times have changed and I’ll find myself with ‘a Room of my Own’ come October.

Denver: 1

New Orleans: 1

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United Kingdom: 5

Memphis: 1

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France: 2

Bulgaria: 1

Jennie Waldow Thanks to the generous Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Scholarship, I will be studying post-1960 American art at the MA program at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. I’m currently an art history major, and in the future I would love to become a curator. I’m very excited to delve more deeply into my studies, see some great exhibitions, and live in London for nine months.

South Korea: 1

China: 1

Peru: 1

Thailand: 2

PHOTO COURTESY OF JENNIE WALDOW

Working Grad School Fellowship Undecided

These data were gathered from The Scripps Voice’s senior survey and do not reflect the Class of 2012’s post-graduation plans as a whole. Data and text were compiled by Liz Lyon (‘12) and Kate Pluth (‘12), Chairs of the Senior Survey Committee.

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Indonesia: 1

These maps highlight a number of the locations where seniors are going. Data are restricted by number of respondents.

Benin: 1

Turkey: 1

India: 1

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The Last Crossword By Tori Mirsadjadi ’12 Senior Copy Editor

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35. less than thrice 36. I’m a train! Am____! 37. what a heart does, when it realizes its years of smooth sailing at Scripps are coming to an end 39. might precede a description of this clue, coming between “11-down” and “38-down” (abbrev.) 41. where you might find “an” after “I”? (also, where is the heart of Mr. McKellen?) 44. what to do, in sans-serif fonts like Arial, when the uppercase “i” isn’t working? 45. what a parting curtain does? 47. might follow Nicholas, or “rage in the” 48. opposite of oeste 49. Oklahoma city (and my grandmother’s name) 50. plural of datum 53. what I’m not (yet) 55. comes between game and match? 57. ours is on a 12-point scale 58. initialism for Soviet national security agency 60. the best sex columnist to ever grace the pages of this newspaper, or any newspaper ever (abbrev.)

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61. what you’ll have to say to my lovely crosswords after this issue 62. Latin with 63. “you’re it!” 64. breast-cupper 65. fellow DOWN 1. surname of Harvey Mudd’s commencement speaker 2. might precede “hee,” in a giggle 3. less offensive shit? 4. go to ____ on that bad boy 5. not under 6. Liz Phair song “____ and Run” 7. because everyone gets so excited about The Scripps Voice coming out, our kind friends at CMC throw this weekly party (abbrev.) 8. conclusion (see 7-across) 12. Mr. West (a smart and talented “jackass,” according to President Obama) 15. the cruellest month, according to T.S. Eliot 16. dustily spattered, perhaps atop some ice cream 17. ___ after hours 19. 5C a capella group (attention-grabbing abbrev.) 20. what Hogwarts students are, upon first glimpsing the ceiling in their magical great hall? 21. our student body? 22. “aeronet” (see 1-across) 24. star-crossed Havanese and Pomeranian dog lovers might produce these fluffy little alien-looking puppies? 25. adventuresome 5C organization (abbrev.) 28. precedes bee 29. knockout (abbrev.) 32. off campus study (abbrev.) 34. Certain-___ (deodorant) 37. life ain’t easy for a boy with this name 11. what you might take with this apparent typo of a clue? 39. newspaper style (abbrev.) 40. nonspecific article preceding words that start with vowel sounds 42. what wine is doing while you’re not drinking it? 43. Flanders of The Simpsons 45. frequent, poetically 46. view 51. what a Betta is, in a bowl 52. keen and eager 53. smear, as with a cotton swab 54. group behind “Dancing Queen” 55. bad grammar makes me [___] (yes, I’m reusing this clue…because it’s awesome) 56. my initials (hint: my middle name is sweet in Farsi) 58. beer container 59. commercial homonym for 61-across 69. a fair thing to call a crosswordmaker who walks the line between clever and infuriating, with wonky numbering that clearly exists for the sole purpose of allowing mistakes to be incorporated into the puzzle instead of correcting them, and puns which only really make sense in retrospect (like this one, with “the line”)?

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Arts & Entertainment • 9

The Playful Plateful

Claremont Restaurant “Presses” for Food Sustainability By Kate Pluth ‘12 Copy Editor

What characterizes The Press, that cozy restaurant and bar on Harvard Avenue in the Village? Trivia night, good wine. Healthful entrées, addictive garlic fries. But what you may not know about The Press is that it commits itself to food sustainability. About 30 to 50 percent of The Press’s ingredients are sustainably sourced, and about 10 to 15 percent of ingredients come from within 100 miles of the restaurant. Owner Steve Rudicel is also one of the founders of Mariposa Creamery in Alta Dena—the “micro-creamery” produces milk and cheese, owns around 16 goats and offers a range of cheese-making, goat-keeping and cooking classes. Rudicel shared with me one particularly salient back-story about the eggs The Press uses. Sugarhouse Farms of Alta Dena—essentially a neighbor of Rudicel’s Mariposa Creamery—raises chickens for organic, soy-free eggs. In an email, Rudicel wrote that the owner of Sugarhouse Farms “was sick of people complaining about $5 a dozen for eggs and was going to quit this incredible and inspiring project he started. Anyway, I asked him where it made sense to continue, break even, make a little money, feel good about what he was doing. [He replied the cost would be] eight dollars per dozen [eggs]. So we started buying every egg his girls could lay for The Press at eight dollars.” To put this in perspective, the average cost for a dozen eggs produced through large industries is around two dollars. This marks a pretty solid dedication to the type of establishment The Press hopes to be—one that supports community efforts and humane practices that can be sustained over time. It wasn’t always that way at The Press. When Rudicel started the restaurant 16 years ago with two partners, he saw the need to have vegetarian options with a home-cooked vibe, but wasn’t yet concerned about food sustainability in the business. And with their present sourcing configuration, there are certain sacrifices involved; Rudicel admits that they “make less profit than other restaurants [that] are buying all conventional ingredients.” Yet he also emphasizes how those sacrifices are worth it, and how food produced conventionally as opposed to sustainably, though it may be cheaper at checkout, has other environmental and health costs not included in the price tag. Speaking of the eggs again, “Eggs are only cheap because of subsidies and inhumane animal husbandry… If subsidies, say the soy subsidies that make soybeans the number one ingredient in almost all animal feed despite that that is not what animals should be eating, became subsidies and help for small farmers, great eggs would be cheaper,” Rudicel wrote, “But if you’ve ever raised a chicken, you know that eggs can’t cost 99 cents a dozen without some shortcuts, shenanigans, and, in all seriousness, suffering.” Rudicel also described his belief that sustainable food is healthier food—for those who produce it and the plants and animals involved, as well as the consumer who eats it—so paying more for food now helps hedge healthcare costs later. Uncensored opinions, These ideas may seem radical, and when you take into account so many of the obstacles facing people of lower socioeconomic status, they may not be feasible for straight from the Editors-in-Chief themselves. everyone, at least at this point in time. Yet it’s difficult not to appreciate The Press’s efforts, since the restaurant does “ladies” When Scripps professors come in to a classroom, and say, “Hey have the ability to support smaller local or environmentally sustainable businesses. ladies.” Not only is it an annoying word, but it’s very paternalistic. Advocacy for food sustainability and food justice, though on the rise, still consists mostly of grassroots organizations and individuals like Rudicel. So the next time you go to The Press, be your drink alcoholic or no, give a toast witty after the fact to the approaching summer and to the improved quality of the fare you eat there. I don’t know about you, but I feel as though I always think of

For more information about The Press, visit their website at thepressrestaurant.com. You can also visit Mariposa Creamery’s blog at mariposacreamery.com.

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something witty to say after its too late. After the person has left, after the text conversation has taken a new turn, after someone else said something witty and yours wasn’t as witty, so it’s no longer viable. I wish I had the gift of wittiness.

how TSL steals our writers

I am jealous of TSL from stealing all of the fabulous Scripps

writers. Has more prestige, a longer track record... it’s no wonder our Scripps writers are going elsewhere. But we have grown and now we have pride and we want Scrippsies to feel that their voice is heard right here!

Netflix Instant TV

I haven’t decided whether it’s a gift from God or the worst procrastination site on the internet – it’s a time sucker.

Summer

With all this fabulous weather outside, it’s no wonder we don’t have any more fucks to give.

Claremont WIFI

Claremont works at Scripps and not at Pomona, Claremont – WPA works at Pomona and not at Scripps. The internet works in Smiley, but not in the SCC and not at Rains... wtf ?!? Also, the one place that should ALWAYS have internet is the Library.... seriously Claremont?

The Bitch Tally

What began as a count of just one unnamed editor’s comments turned into a competition between editors to see who could (or couldn’t) be bitchier. The final tally? Too embarrassing to reveal. We’ll leave the standings up to your imaginations.

“White women are racists, too!”

PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE RUDICELMICDEN Sending the message that one can pay the farmer a higher cost now to avoid paying health costs and the doctor later.

Believe it, dear readers. This was scrawled in white chalk on the ground outside of Balch. I came upon it Sunday morning and I’m assuming it’s been washed out of existence by now. But, seriously? There’s enough problems with that sentence, enough to fill a book’s worth of pages. But, seriously?

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10 • Arts & Entertainment The Nation is the Artwork and We are the Artists By Nikki Broderick ‘14

Susanna Dakin (’72) chronicles her experiences of running for president in 1983-84 against incumbent Ronald Reagan as part political act, part performance art piece in this earnest and entertaining novelistic memoir. Dakin recounts her journey beginning a few months after her 50th birthday, when she sees a vision of a banner reading “An Artist for President” in her art studio that quickly vanishes. Unable to get the idea of an artist holding the highest position in the country out of her mind, and deeply disturbed by the United States’ looming threat nuclear warfare, Dakin decided to run on a platform based on the artist inside each of us. She writes that “anyone who hones the skills and dares the risks of creativity—whatever the medium—is an artist.” In order for all citizens to take part in the ongoing creation of our nation, Dakin argues, everyone has to search for the creativity and liberate the artist within. To kick off her official campaign, Dakin overcame her biggest fear: ocean swimming through the breakers. Seen on the cover of the novel emerging from the Pacific Ocean in Venice Beach, she told reporters waiting onshore that the “waters had tested her.” Following the press conference (deliberately placed on the Summer Equinox), Dakin began her whistle-stop tour around the country, stopping in large cities and rural towns, and speaking off the train to reporters at the most remote stops. She brought along with her Lowell Darling as her “political consultant” and historian, and Darling’s journal entries provide an alternative perspective throughout the novel. Dakin also brought a feminist political advisor, “Paula,” a woman whose name Dakin has changed in her book. With her plan to run for president, Dakin also presented a larger structural change to the Presidential Cabinet: she wanted to streamline the traditional cabinet positions, replacing the fourteen departments with seven, each incorporating a chakra placement, a deadly sin the cabinet member need be wary of, a virtue or perfection and one or more art or skill set. This reorganization was part of a larger “systems sculpture” change Dakin campaigned to see in the United States, incorporating political life with the spiritual and artistic. During her journey, Dakin gained a newfound respect for all candidates who run for office, learning from her exhausting yet rewarding campaign trail, meeting ordinary Americans who, like her, were troubled by politics in the early-1980s. Throughout her journey, Dakin learned about not only about the American political landscapes, but also about herself. She finds truth and art in everyday life. Largely fueled by the lack of voter participation in the 1980 national election, Dakin’s early-1980s vision was not only for an artist for president, but also for a greater democratic nation, with each citizen participating in politics every day—not just once every four years, or even more infrequently than that. By blending the art of politics and the politics of art, Dakin’s message is even more applicable today: we need a new way to think about politics that include all the citizens in the United States.

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An Artist For President: The Nation is the Artwork and We are the Artists. Susanna Bixby Dakin. 397 pages. Hyphen Media LLC. $29.95

The Journey has Finally Ended: Thank you, Scripps! By Vritti Goel ‘12 Co Editor-in-Chief

The Scripps Voice and I have been involved for four long years, and now it’s finally at an end. I’m not the clingy, high-maintenance one in this relationship, mind you. If anything, The Scripps Voice has changed me more than I’ve changed it. When I first had this revelation, I thought it was weird: how can I have a relationship with an inanimate object that belongs not just to me but to so many others as well? And yet, as I thought back on the last four years, my position as EIC and the concept of a relationship were too eerily similar. There was… …The first spark of attraction, a.k.a Year 1 That moment when you’re first introduced to someone and you think there’s a spark. It’s time to explore the potential of being together. I walked into my first meeting for The Scripps Voice (back when it was just called voice) as a nervous first-year and walked out a Photo Editor and writer assigned to my very first proper news story. I spent the rest of the year learning the style of journalism and how edit photos professionally, and I (maybe knowingly) set myself up for what was to come: applying for the Editor-in-Chief position. …The courtship, a.k.a. Year #2: The spark was real, and now you’re having the first date, the handholding, the awkward-but-not first kiss and the honeymoon period. It’s all going so well. I was surprised when I got the position—along with another first year, KC Mautner (’12). We were pumped and also understandably nervous when we started. We spent the first month making posters, planning meetings and sending out applications. The CLORG fair was a hit, as was our first meeting of the year. We had what looked to be a great staff, and we thought we’d have a solid lineup of issues.

Sure, we had our hiccups—late layout nights and printing issues—but we did great as first-timers. …The rough patch, a.k.a. Year #3: But was it really going that well? You’re exhausted from the commitment. This relationship is taking up too much time, and you’re beginning to think about breaking up. I considered it. Not returning for Year #4 with The Scripps Voice (still voice at the time), that is. It wasn’t anything that anyone did. The new staff was great, as were my co, KC and her 2nd semester replacement, Tori Mirsadjadi (’12). But I was jaded. No matter how well the staff worked and how good we thought our issues were, there were problems. There weren’t enough writers, and the response from the community was less than stellar—a survey we sent out was so depressing I had to scroll through images of adorable bunnies to cheer myself up after reading the comments. The magic was all gone. I had to be “on” all the time, ready to beg for writers—my friends found it amusing that I asked even strangers to write for the paper—at every moment, or create articles from thin air myself. The adrenaline I got from having 24 hours (and sometimes not even) to fill pages of white space was absent. I didn’t want to be the “lame duck” editor who overstayed her term. Two years was long enough, right? …The makeup and the breakup, a.k.a. Year #4: You fixed the problem. But the spark’s just not there anymore. It’s not exciting anymore, it’s comfortable, and while that’s good, the impending physical separation isn’t going to last with “comfortable.” You’ve accepted it and now it’s time to move on. I got a new co-EIC, Lauren Prince (’14). We changed the paper, from voice to The Scripps Voice.

Changed the editorial staff layout, worked out a system of responsibilities and plunged headfirst into “beta testing,” as I called Fall 2011. It was a brand new relationship and the magic was somewhat back. But, let’s be real, here. I was a senior, I couldn’t stay. Long distance doesn’t really work for this sort of thing. It was going to be over after May 12, whether I liked it or not. And The Scripps Voice would get a new Editor-in-Chief, Rosemary McClure (’13), to join Lauren next year. Then I stopped and thought about you, the readers. Where did you fit into all of this? So I had another revelation. Yes, this relationship with The Scripps Voice is personal, but you’ve been the reason I did it all. I wanted to give you the best kind of newspaper possible, the best opportunities to be showcased, something to be proud of. I mean, come on, we can hold our own against the other 5C publications, and we have been this year. It took me 3 years to achieve what I’d wanted, and with help from Lauren, and the support of all the editors, writers, and you readers, The Scripps Voice is becoming important to the community. It’s being read, responded to and discussed. That’s really all a newspaper can ever ask for. So, without becoming even more sentimental than I already have been, thank you. Thank you for reading, for commenting—even if the criticisms were harsh, they were worth hearing—and for believing in us. It was real, Scripps, being here as Editor-in-Chief for 3 years, thanks for the opportunity. Do me a favor, and look after Lauren and Rosemary, though they don’t really need it. Keep supporting this newspaper, because it’s got potential. Cheers!

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Student Life • 11

Senior Athlete Spotlights: CMS Lacrosse Allie Haynes

Jane Eberts

Major: Economics-Accounting Hometown: Atherton, Calif. Favorite thing about Scripps: It is too hard to pick

Major: Dual in English and Media Studies Hometown: Vail, Colo. Favorite thing about Scripps: The pool! If I could

what my favorite thing about Scripps is, but a few of my favorites are my group of friends that I have had ever since the first few days of our first year, the smell of the orange blossoms in the spring, and the Motley! The Scripps community is also full of the most genuine people I have ever met. Our alumnae are so passionate about their experience at Scripps, and I can’t wait to join them and brag about mine experience too. Favorite thing about CMS Lacrosse: My favorite thing about the CMS lacrosse team is my teammates. I have made some of my best friends through the lacrosse team. Whenever anyone of us might be feeling a little down, the best motivation is reminding ourselves that we play for each other. Also loves: My favorite things to do other than lacrosse is bake and spend time with my friends and family. After graduation: I am working as an auditor for BDO in San Francisco.

spend all my time between there and the Motley, I would. Favorite thing about CMS Lacrosse: My teammates. Some of my closest friends are on the team, and I definitely play for them. I <3 my lady cougs UGHUGUGH!! Also loves: GTL, baby...Gym. Tan. Lax. All day err day. Is also: One of the captains of the team, and an RA in GJW After graduation: As of right now, my goal is to work in the TV/film industry and become a producer.

What About the Rest of Scripps? We know where most, if not all, of our beloved seniors are going after May 12, but what about the rest of Scripps? We asked students from the the classes of 2013, 2014 and 2015 to share their summer plans. Here are what some students wrote back! LM Ellezy ‘13: From May to August, I will be living in Thailand, where Kiley Lawrence ’14: I will teach kindergarteners English. The program words with a native English speaker and a Thai interpreter, this way the kindergarteners will learn the best possible pronunciation at an early age. I’m very excited since I’ve never been to Thailand and I hope to pursue teaching as my future career!

Elsa Watland ‘13: I received a Johnson award to return to Nairobi (where

I studied abroad) and research education for girls in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum.

My summer plans involve traveling to Ghana to do medical humanitarian work, including working at the Kaleo Area Women Development Association in Kumasi and volunteering in the rural town of Sandema, which houses a local orphanage. I’ve fundraised a little over $1500 total. With that money, I will be working to assess and deliver medical equipment to regional hospitals, as well as collaborating with rural Ghanaian community members to initiate a personal volunteer project that reflects the voiced needs of the people there. I leave the day after move-out!

Lauren Prince ‘14: I’ll be working in the Marketing department at the

on research for my thesis. I’ll be looking at gold catalysts in a type of organic reaction.

Levitt Pavilion this summer. It’s a non-profit organization with the mission of building community through music by building outdoor concert venues and providing free concerts to the public. I’m looking forward to learning marketing strategies, and hopefully I’ll have a better idea about what I want as a future career by the end of the summer.

Rosemary McClure ‘13: This summer, I’m going to stay in Australia [where I’ve been studying for the entire year] and travel, first alone, then with my parents. I plan to go to Cairns (the closest major city to the Great Barrier

Megan Petersen ‘15: I’m spending 8 weeks in Rabat, Morocco to learn

Kelsey Mesa ‘13: I will be working in Professor Wenzel’s lab and starting

Arabic through the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship.

Reef) and volunteer on a live-aboard dive operation helping lead scuba dives.

Christine Zenel ’14: I will be going on an archaeological dig in an indigenous island village in Tahuata, the home of two valleys in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. I will be excavating intact remains of residential and ceremonial centers, helping to improve the local heritage museum and learning native crafts (such as weaving, fishing, making leis and grating coconuts). I have wanted to be an archaeologist since I was little, and I absolutely can’t wait to go on my first dig! With aspirations to be an anthropologist/archaeologist, I hope that this summer will help me figure out if this is the right path for me. I’m also so excited to speak French, learn a new language (Marquesan) and bask in the sunshine of the South Pacific!

Michelle Nagler ‘15:

I’ve been accepted to join other teens on a free trip to Israel, through an organization called Birthright. I’ll be experiencing Israel as a tourist, so I’ll get to climb Masada, swim in the Dead Sea, visit the Western wall, ride a camel, and enjoy the company of new friends. I’m definitely planning on taking my camera so that I can get some cool shots!

Charlotte Rosenfield ‘15: I’m going to be an intern at the Buck Institute, which is a research center for development and aging located north of San Francisco.

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