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Student Organizers Celebrate community Diversity The 5C community responds to bigotry with peaceful countermovement

By Clair Dwyer ‘20 Guest Contributor

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prisings and protests put on by hate groups scare the living daylights out of me. So honestly, fear was my first reaction upon hearing of the decision of the Westboro Baptist Church to come to Pomona’s campus and preach their doctrine of bigotry and hate. I did not have any sense of brazen courage, nor a desire to confront the protestors head on. I think that my immediate thought when reading their hate-filled flier was to recognize that I was exactly the type of person they were there to speak out against. And that is precisely what terrified me.

However, at the risk of sounding what one might mistake as weak, I want to acknowledge that I think the greatest courage comes from moments when we are afraid. I commend the event organizers Kano Cheng PO ’22, Matti Horne PO ’22, Rachel Howard PO ’22, Rachel Lau PO ’22, and Rowan Macy PO ’22 for acting upon the news and organizing the event. It takes a great deal of character to be the one to stand up and do what is right. It takes even more

courage, perhaps, when you are a first semester, first-year college student just starting out at your new school.

I am proud to be their colleague and classmate. I wish that first-year me had understood what these first-years clearly do — change can come from every voice on campus, and every member of the community has the potential to do something really great.

“To me personally the most important part is that we’re ignoring the church,” Kano said. “To me, as a member of the LGBT community, it is important that so many people from the community came out in support.”

Kano is correct; precisely what was so extraordinary about the event is that it took a step away from fear, a step away from hate, and brought the community together. Yes, it was supervised by administrators, and Pomona’s president Gabi Starr stopped by, but, what truly made it extraordinary was the students, and the community as a whole.

As a LGBTQ+ community member made to feel unsafe by the mere idea that such a hate group might come

“To me, as a member of the LGBT community, it is important that so many people from the community came out in support.” -Kano Cheng PO ‘22

Event organizers Kano Cheng PO ’22, Matti Horne PO ’22, Rachel Howard PO ’22, Rachel Lau PO ’22, and Rowan Macy PO ’22. Photo courtesy of Talia Bernstein ‘21 via TSL.

Inside This Issue:

Page 2: Scripps Receives Grant For Computational Skills

Before the protest, students made signs for their peaceful demonstration. Image courtesy of Rachel Lau PO ‘22

to campus, I was so grateful to every person there. Showing up to events like this is important for people who are emotionally able to — it makes all the difference to people like me who feel as though the bigotry and hate is directed at them.

Though I can only speak from my own experience, to me it mattered tremendously that I felt as though my community had my back. It just reaffirmed how the mere presence of another person can change the way we feel in the world and how we look at it. Yes, we were just a group of college students guarded by a row of security officers, eating doughnuts and making posters. But in our presence, we were heroes, we were warriors, we showed that we were strong enough to peacefully rise above hate.

Though it might not seem like it sometimes, our voices, our opinions, and our passions matter. The fact that we all showed up to this event matters also, at the very least to me but in reality the impact of such an event goes much beyond the individual.

Various campus groups also showed up in support, one of which was the Claremont Christian Fellowship.

Club members Nicole Arce PO ’21,

Page 3: In Conversation with Abbi Jacobson and Lena Waithe

Julie Cho PO ’19, and Ariana Diaz PO ’19 perfectly acknowledged why their position as Christians mattered at the event.

“We want to acknowledge how Christianity has been used to hurt people, and also strive towards reversing this history, and spread the love,” they said. The students spoke with me behind their display of several signs, one which read “This is the gay that the lord hath made” and another which said “God loves all Her children.” The important part about this group’s presence, and every other group for that matter, was not their particular identity, but the fact that they were willing to help stand up to the same hatred which queer people of all identities face constantly in the world.

To me this was an event which did not scare me as I thought it might, but yet restored my faith in my classmates, my school, and humanity as a whole. The best way to protect our LGBTQ+ community members is to ignore hate and do as we as a Pomona community did — to let us know we are accepted, that we are wanted, and that we belong.

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2 • News

Paving the Way: First-Generation Students at Scripps

By Jacqueline Loh ’22 Staff Writer

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ollege is a scary time for everyone. For some, it’s their first time living on their own. For others, they are the first in their family to pursue higher education. First-generation (first-gen) students come from a myriad of diverse racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. According to the The Postsecondary National Policy Institute, student of color are more likely than white students to be first-gen students, with “42% of black students and 48% of Hispanic students [being] first-generation students, compared to 28% of white students.”

First-gen students face unique challenges, such as lack of guidance navigating college or financial burdens. First-gen students must overcome greater hurdles when it comes to paying for college as “27% of first-generation students come from households making $20,000 or less, compared to 6 percent of continuing-generation students,” according to a study from the Institute of Education Sciences.”

Additionally, “English is not a first language for nearly 20% of first-generation students.” All these issues come together and form a unique experience and set of challenges that first-gen students must face.

Another challenge that first-gen students may face is lack of parental guidance while applying for college or once in college. For many continuing-generation students, parents who

hold bachelor degrees may be able to help navigate the application and decision process, and further help the student acclimate to college life. First-gen students do not have that luxury and work doubly hard to adjust to college life. “[My parents] try to support me in the ways they can, but it is not their fault that those ways are limited,” Andrea Flores ’21 said.

Despite such adversities, these first-gen students emphasize the role their families played in their decision to pursue higher education, and how they support them today.

“I can’t really separate my family from my education because they are the reason I continue to pursue higher ed,” Flores said. “I want to be able to break barriers for the rising generation in my family and provide them with the resources I had to fight so hard to discover.”

“It’s a radical concept in that it is such a huge deal for me to be away from home, earning a degree,” Flores said. “No one in my family has ever done that.”

“Education is so important to me because it’s something that my parents have tirelessly worked at to ensure that my brother and I have more opportunities than they did growing up in Laos,” Ana Lavongtheung ’21 said.

Crystal Juan ’22 cites the resources college can offer as reasons her parents encouraged her to pursue higher education. Coming from Taiwan, “they didn’t have a worldly view or the resources available for them to be ready. And they believe that higher education, programs

like study abroad, and learning foreign languages are all extremely beneficial in preparing myself for whatever is thrown at me.”

It’s easy to take college education for granted. It’s easy to look at the stacks of notes and deadlines and see college as a mere task to be completed rather than an experience many do not have access to.

“Although it seems inevitable amongst the peers around me, it is an opportunity that not everyone gets.” Juan said, “My parents remind me of that constantly, not to force me to pursue higher education but to remind me that it is a privilege and that I should enjoy it rather than viewing it as an obligation.”

With all these challenges, there are resources on campus to aid and support first-gen students. The First-Generation at Scripps program provides workshops and events to connect the first-gen community and function as a support system. The SCORE office also works to build an inclusive community with an intersectional support system.

In Scripps’ goals of creating a diverse student body, it’s a paramount obligation for the administration and continuing-gen students to listen to and support first-gen students. They work twice as hard, overcoming even greater hurdles to get to the same place as continuing-gen students. To create a future that is more diverse and intersectional, it’s our responsibility to include and uplift those who need it the most.

The Fletcher Jones Scholar in Computation: Creating Space for Computational Skills at Scripps

By Madison Yardumian ’21 Copy Editor

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cripps College recently received a sizable one million dollar donation from both The Fletcher Jones Foundation and the Sidney J. Weinberg Jr. Foundations, adding up to a net donation of two million dollars. These generous contributions will serve to establish The Fletcher Jones Scholar in Computation position at Scripps College.

In essence, this money will go towards hiring The Fletcher Jones Scholar in Computation and enabling the selected candidate to design and teach courses that center around the teaching of computational skills, and putting these skills to use in interdisciplinary contexts. This position hopes to further extend Scripps’ interdisciplinary mission to better include STEM topics.

While the actual field of study of The Fletcher Jones Scholar has not been predetermined, this person is expected to an expert in their own field in addition to having the computational, programming, and analytical skills necessary to spearhead this new program.

The namesakes of the donating foundations have vested interest in cultivating computational skills: Fletcher R. Jones was the co-founder of Computer Sciences Corporation during his lifetime, and Sidney J. Weinberg Jr. was the senior director of Goldman Sachs.

The donation made through the Sidney J.

Weinberg, Jr. Foundation is attributed to Betsy Weinberg Smith, a former Scripps Trustee and alumna from the Class of 1974. Smith is currently the president and chief executive of the Central Park Conservancy in New York. Prior to holding this position, she was assistant commissioner of the New York City Parks and Recreation Department.

The projected start date of the scholar program is Fall 2019; the sooner the program begins the more of a potential impact it can have on current Scripps students.

“Giving

Scripps students the opportunity to learn computational skills ... [will] better serve current and future STEM majors at Scripps.”

Announcements on the Scripps College official website denote the ways in which these courses will make Scripps students better interdisciplinary thinkers and more well-equipped to enter an ever-changing workforce where computational skills are undoubtedly of value.

It is worthwhile to stress the importance of having courses that promote computational literacy at a historically women’s college.

There are not many Scripps-specific STEM resources: Scripps has a relatively young math department, a science program made up of shared resources, and a complete lack

of both computer science courses and an on-campus computer science major. Bearing this context in mind, The Fletcher Jones Scholar position and programming will allow Scripps to begin building well-funded STEM resources specifically tailored to its own students.

Given the lack of female representation in STEM fields, giving Scripps students the opportunity to learn computational skills in the supportive environment expected in Scripps courses will hopefully better serve current and future STEM majors at Scripps. Furthermore, perhaps the presence of such courses alone will encourage STEM majors and nonmajors alike to engage more readily with computational skills and defy expectations for what skill sets women and other gender minorities can and should have.

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Politics and Sustainability • 3 The Claremont Colleges are victorious after Midterm Elections

By Ittai Sopher PZ ’19 Political Correspondent

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graduate from Pitzer ’92 and CGU ’96, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, won her Florida congressional race against Republican incumbent Rep. Carlos Curbelo — who represents the most Democratic district in the country, based on the 2016 Presidential Election results.

Having lost her father to gun violence while studying at CGU, Mucarsel-Powell ran against Curbelo’s sensibilities regarding gun control, with a platform that included banning military style weapons and passing legislation to bar domestic abusers from purchasing weapons.

“This just can not be our new normal,” Mucarsel-Powell told MSNBC, when news broke about the 12 people killed by a gunman in Thousand Oaks, California on Wednesday.

“It was a top issue in my race not because it affected me personally, but because of the families affected down in South Dade, in my district.”

The first Ecuadorian-American in the House, Mucarsel-Powell, will join the record 42 Latinx members that will serve in Congress next year.

Jennifer Stark, a 1998 Pitzer graduate and a Pomona physical education teacher, made local headlines coming in first place in a six-way race for the three open seats on the Claremont City Council. Born and raised in Claremont with former CMC President Jack L. Stark as a father, Stark emphasized her experience in local organizations and groups during her campaign.

“Like everybody who is running, I love Claremont,” Stark told the Claremont Courier in October. “Unlike everybody who is running

By Sondra Abruzzo ’19 Guest Contributor

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h, the holiday season! There is nothing I love more than good food, warm drinks, and coming up with the perfect gifts for my friends and family. Although seeing your twenty-year-old daughter joyfully unwrap the Vitamix she’s been asking for is priceless, the environmental costs of getting that blender to her is actually quite high (yes, this is me, I wanted a blender for Christmas).

Extracting, transporting, and processing raw materials to make items like my blender requires substantial energy inputs, often times through the burning of fossil fuels.

Manufacturers individually wrap each piece of the Vitamix in disposable plastic film, and place it in a cardboard box with styrofoam packing peanuts. A gas-guzzling truck transports my package to our local Costco, where my mom buys the blender, wraps it in more disposable wrapping paper, and gives it to me. While I love my Vitamix dearly, this wasteful process indicates a larger problem.

Our global economy relies on a continuous cycle of consumption and disposal, as consumers continually pour money into the market by purchasing new things to replace their short lived items. This cycle is incredibly unsustainable, and although a major paradigm shift away from capitalism and our consumer culture is necessary for real change, here are some hot tips on how to gift sustainably this year.

I have a very big and broad picture of what this town is, in terms of having spent so many aspects of my life benefitting from the town.”

Although two other candidates with Claremont affiliations, CMC Government professor Zachary Courser and Pitzer graduate ’14 Michael Ceraso, did not earn seats on the council, the winning candidate, Jed Leano, featured three current Claremont College students in leadership roles in his campaign.

“I initially met Jed, because he volunteered his time as an immigration attorney to our legal clinics,” Emily Lavine ’19 a leader of College Community Action Network, in which students work to aid local immigrant communities, said.

“He was just a really nice guy who put in way more effort than what was necessary or that we asked for in volunteering for these events.”

This experience motivated Lavine to become deputy campaign manager of operations for Leano, where Lavine oversaw campaign strategy, such as canvassing routes and promoting earned endorsements on social media.

As a city-council member, Lavine believes Leano will help introduce new policies on the city council to aid the, approximately 50 students in the Claremont Unified School District, as well as 200 adults, who have insecure housing and are effectively homeless, according to Lavine.

“Jed’s campaign is largely about finding solutions to problems that we may not know exist yet,” Lavine said. “(He is) really being innovative, looking to the future and really keeping our minds open to find the best solution for our community.”

Pay attention to your classmates; one of them could be representing your district in Congress.

Other Claremont Colleges affiliated races in the midterms featured losses from Claremont Colleges graduates, but nonetheless garnered national attention for championing progressive causes. These candidates included Kevin De Leon PZ ’03, whose campaign for senate featured new forms of online advertising, in which actors depicted a scenario in which De Leon’s mother is detained by immigration authorities, showing the dark implications of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

De Leon lost against longtime incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) by a margin of 8.8 percent, in a race where Feinstein spent 13 times as much money on her campaign as De Leon did on his.

Another candidate, Kara Eastman PZ ’93, gained traction in a part of Nebraska that favored Trump in the 2016 presidential election with a congressional campaign that emphasized Medicare-for-all, a policy that has yet to be endorsed by many Democrats.

Eastman lost her race against Republican incumbent Rep. Don Bacon by a margin of 3.4 percent.

The campaigns of Mucarsel-Powell, Stark, Leano, De Leon and Eastman, show the emergence of the Claremont Colleges onto a local and national platform. Even though the student body hovers above 5,000, the impact and involvement of the students here will surely extend far beyond that number.

All I want for Christmas is you (to gift in more sustainable ways)

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Don’t wrap your gifts.

Oh my goodness, I cannot begin to describe how much of a waste wrapping paper and gift bags are. You are literally buying something just to throw it away! Instead of wrapping my gifts, I hide them around the house and send my family on a scavenger hunt to find them — rhyming clues included.

Not only is it fun for my family, it gives me a good ten minutes to chill out and scroll through everybody’s perfect holiday photos on Instagram. If this hiding idea is a little too kooky for you, wrap your gifts in something that was already going to be thrown away, like newspaper or a paper grocery bag. I can assure you that Pinterest will have 100 ways to make that look cute and aesthetic.

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Online rush shipping is a hard no-no!

I get it, we all love the convenience of Amazon, and for those who are Prime members, there is nothing quite like that free two-day shipping. However, when you rush your orders, the packing companies will often send the products in multiple, often too big, boxes that take up unnecessary space in the already underfilled transportation trucks and planes. This speedy process ends up using more packaging and fossil fuels than necessary. Therefore, I encourage you to plan ahead, and order those gifts a week or two in advance, instead of three days before.

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Try to gift with experiences rather than material things.

Tickets to a movie, concert, museum, or sporting event are great ways to give a meaningful gift without generating so much waste. You might also consider gifting a spa day, a skill-based class, or a nice dinner out.

These gifts let you spend even more quality time together, and isn’t that really what the holidays are about? Nevertheless, if you do decide to buy your special someone a tangible item, try to buy things with as little packaging as possible. Purchasing cute gifts at flea markets and second-hand stores eliminates all the environmental costs of creating a new product, avoids most of the pre-packaging, and saves you money. Plus, if you take the tags off, your lucky friend won’t be able to tell if it’s thrifted or from Neiman Marcus.

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4 • News Scripps Presents Abbi Jacobson and Lena Waithe in Conversation

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By Theri Aronson ’20 Staff Writer

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n Sunday Nov. 4, comedian and, producer, writer, and series creator, Abbi Jacobson, made a stop at Scripps College to talk about her newest book “I Might Regret This,” that was published on Oct. 30. Jacobson’s book chronicles the three-week cross-country road trip she took in Summer 2017. According to Jacobsen, the book is mostly about her worries, mundane thoughts, and observations of cities she drove through: Santa Fe, Marfa, Texas, Kanab, etc.

However, going far beyond the mundane, the book contains a nostalgic essay about Jacobson’s time on Comedy Central’s “Broad City,” with her co-star and best friend, Ilana Glazer, as well as a few sentimental pieces about her past relationships, and ex—someone who is no longer in her life.

The talk also featured actor, writer, and producer of “Master of None,” Lena Waithe. This was Waithe’s second time at Scripps, however this time she was the interviewer as opposed to the interviewee.

At one point in the conversation, Waithe asked Jacobson about how she felt shooting the last episode of “Broad City,” which is set to premiere in January 2019. Without a moment of hesitation, Jacobson smiled and expressed that, in fact, she could not be more satisfied with the way the last episode turned out.

“It was the perfect culmination of “Broad City,” but of course it was still so sad shooting the last scene knowing that it was the last scene I was going

to shoot with Ilana, as ‘Abbi and Ilana,’ ” Jacobsen said.

When asked why she chose to start writing a book so soon after the last episode ended, Jacobson opened up about what it means to have her own style and express herself.

“Partially, writing this book was a chance for me to develop my own voice,” Jacobsen said. “It was also, partially, a way for me to distinguish myself from my character on the show.”

“The projects I create are the ones I need to get out,” Jacobson said. “I needed to write this for me. I learned so much about myself writing this book. I just wrote through it.”

Jacobson described the road trip as a chance to just “be” and to distance herself from all the heartache her last relationship had caused her. This, she noted, is what also makes her nervous about the book. She is worried her vulnerability won’t translate off the page; she told the audience that she titled her book “I Might Regret This” because she might actually regret publishing the content of her book.

Numerous students shot up their hands after Waithe turned over the microphone to the audience for questions.

One student asked Jacobson about the inspiration behind Broad City’s infamous pegging episode (Season 2 Episode 4: Knockoffs). Jacobson responded by acknowledging it was a funny episode that came out of the writer’s room, but that she felt uncomfortable answering the question without Ilana present.

“I thought she would have been more receptive to the uncomfortable questions since “Broad City” is all about exposing what often makes us embarrassed,” one Scripps student said.

Another student questioned Jacobson on what she was doing in her twenties, and what advice she has for those looking to create a web series.

“Find a voice that is uniquely yours, then believe it,” Jacobson said.

According to Jacobson, she had three jobs and was nowhere near finding her passion in her twenties, which was a great relief to the 20-some-year-olds in the audience with undeclared majors and little to no idea what they are going to do next, or what lies ahead of them.

The good news is, neither does Abbi.

The conversation ended with Waithe asking Jacobson a question usually reserved for more intense discussions: If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you reach the pearly gates?

“I honestly just keep thinking about pizza,” Jacobson said, after taking a long pause, “Like margherita pizza or tomato pie.”

Photos Courtesy of Scripps Marketing and Communication

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News • 5

GJW Namesake has Passed Rose Garden to be Planted in her Honor

By Theodora Helgason ‘22 Staff Writer

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lumna and Lifetime Trustee Gabrielle JungelsWinkler ’72 was best known on campus for the residence hall named in her honor and affectionately nicknamed “GJW” by current students. President Lara Tiedans announced that Jungels-Winkler passed away on Oct. 31 in an email to the student body sent out on Nov 2.

“Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Residence Hall owes much of its grace and beauty to the suggestions made by Mrs. Jungels-Winkler during the design process,” Former Scripps College President, Nancy Y. Bekavac, said.

Yet, Jungels-Winkler’s impact on campus was much larger than the residence hall named for her. She embodied Scripps in her dedication to the humanities, her passion for art, and her love for beauty, on and off Scripps campus.Jungels-Winkler’s explored Europe, Asia, and Africa in her early life.

According to a Scripps Alumna Magazine article from Fall 2008, “Gabrielle was born in Hong Kong but holds Swiss citizenship,” Former Director of Public Relations and Communication, Mary Bartlett, wrote.

“With a strong background and interest in history and art, she came to Scripps and majored in art history (Gabrielle spent her junior year at L’Ecole du Louvre in Paris)” Bartlett said. “After graduating from Scripps, she married, and while her former husband was earning his PhD in geophysics at Caltech, she worked in the Caltech public relations office.”

According to Bartlett, Jungels-Winkler lived in the Netherlands with her former husband after her life at Scripps. They then moved to Borneo, and later Angola.

“She not only learned how to grow her own food, but started an infirmary in Angola, where medical knowledge and help were minimal,” Bartlett said.

“Also, due to her undergraduate classes in psychology at Scripps’ Mary B. Eyre School, she started a nursery school in Angola that eventually was so successful it became accredited, and still is. This is where she learned Portuguese, the national language.”

“Gabrielle spoke English, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese, in addition to her first language, Cantonese,” Executive Director of Marketing and Communications, Carolyn Robles, said.

She moved to the UK after her years in Borneo and Angola.

The Voice reached out to Carolyn Ditte Wagner ’72, an alumna and former Scripps trustee who was close friends with and a classmate of Jungels-Winkler.

“After Gabrielle settled in London, she bought a working farm in the country,” Wagner said. “Most of the 1,000 acres were devoted to crops and grazing and the remaining 200 acres were conserved as woodlands. She completely restored the 18th century residence (which is listed on the National Trust) along with the property’s gardens and wall garden.”

Jungels-Winkler’s dedicated work on her farm helped the local community. “As the proprietor of a working farm with a listed historic home, Gabrielle’s responsibilities included strategic decisions regarding the farming

plan, the purchase and sale of land, the employment of farming staff, the requisition of vehicles and machinery, financial management, and maintaining the residence in accordance with its official designation. Under Gabrielle’s direction, the property became a model of enlightened organic farming and environmental sustainability, as evidenced by its use of thermal energy and solar power,” Wagner said. “It was also an active contributor to the region’s economic health and civic well being through its support of artisanal crafts and local businesses.”

Jungels-Winkler’s leadership extended beyond her farm. She was president of the GJW International and UK Foundations. “Gabrielle oversaw two seven-member boards of directors and had primary responsibility for strategic planning, financial management, investments, and governance. She also oversaw the allocation of grants and monitored the implementation of grants to ensure compliance with contractual terms,” Wagner

helped people with disabilities in the UK. “In the early 1980s, she worked with the British Dyslexic Association, serving as Information Officer, and helped push through the 1983 Education Act,” Bartlett said. “This cause was of particular importance to her, as her twins were identified as dyslexic.”

Her son, Christophe Jungels-Winkler currently serves on the Scripps Board of Trustees. “In addition to her service on the Board of Trustees of Scripps College and the foundations previously noted, Gabrielle was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Academy of Arts and was an Overseer Trustee of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens” Wagner said. “She was actively engaged as a Friend of the Great Hall at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, a Member of the European Land Owner’s Association, and a Member of the Historic Houses Association.”

She gave generous gifts to Scripps that have had a lasting impact on students and faculty.

“Most recently, Gabrielle advanced the More Scripps Campaign with a $3.1 million gift in support of the arts and humanities, which also enabled Scripps to create an endowed faculty chair in the history of architecture and art and to provide ongoing support for the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery,” President Tiedans wrote.

Jungels-Winkler used her wealth to help other Scripps students. In her time at Scripps, her wealth was not a barrier between her and other students. “Gabrielle and I came from very different backgrounds -- I was a scholarship student and the first in my family to go to college -- but this difference was never a divider,” Wagner said.

“Rather, the difference promoted empathy and strengthened our friendship.”

The Scripps experience allowed JungelsWinkler to form meaningful friendships on campus. “We shared so much -- the excitement and perhaps trepidation of being away from home, the thrill of embarking on a new educational path, the pressure to do well in class, and the joy of having lots adventures,” Wagner said. “These commonalities were unifying.”

On Oct. 3, 2008, Scripps awarded JungelsWinkler with the Ellen Browning Scripps Society Award. The award commemorates individuals who exemplify Ellen Browning Image courtesy of Scripps College Scripps’ devotion and dedication. said.

Her love for the beauty of Scripps campus and her Jungels-Winkler became visually impaired in her late- generous impact on the college have inspired Scripps to 30s and dedicated her time to making art accessible to commision the “Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Rose.” the visually disabled. “Having become visually disabled “This rose will fill the new Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler at the age of 37, Gabrielle sought to extend visual arts Rose Garden adjacent to Balch Hall, and we anticipate education to those who share her disability,” Wagner that its abundant blooms and fragrance will soon make said. this garden a cherished spot for reflection and study. An “For instance, with two professors she created on-campus dedication ceremony for the garden will take a “touch and feel” book for all major museums in place in the spring,” President Tiedens said. the UK which provides a multi-sensory approach to There will be an opening ceremony this spring for experiencing the visual arts. Readers of the books, the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Rose Garden. It will be which were written in Braille, were able, for instance, to a setting for the Scripps community to symbolically experience through touch oil on canvas and gouache thank Jungels-Winkler for her contributions to Scripps on paper. The books were accompanied by audio tapes by appreciating the beauty and the humanities that featuring period music to match each painting.” she loved.

Jungels-Winkler worked to implement policies that

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SPOTLIGHT

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Crime and Punishment I Ac c o u n t a b i l i t y i n H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n a n d S u r r o u n d i n g C o m m u n i t i e s

n college, the weekend and joints roll up right around the same time. Red solo cups can either be found in between lips or hands. Real IDs are tucked behind the fakes. While this is certainly not every college students’ experience, there is a certain unspoken expectation that teenagers will engage in illegal behaviors once they get to college. Partying in college is not anything new; after all, many adults seem to fondly remember college as the best time of their lives.

But while we at the Claremont Colleges might hear the wail of an ambulance every so often on a weekend night, we very rarely hear the sirens of a police car on the Claremont College campuses… But why?

In an article that appears in Inside Higher Ed, journalist Jake New reports t h a t ,“s m a l l , p r i v a t e l i b e r a l arts colleges tend to have low number of arrests, even with proportionately high numbers of disciplinary referrals... In 2013, private, four-year institutions with enrollments of fewer than 5,000 referred more than 14,000 students for disciplinary action for drug violations. Fewer than 2,000 s t u d e n t s w e r e a r r e s t e d .”

According to a substance abuse report, 25 percent of students in college report detrimental academic effects of their substance abuse. That being said, students on college campuses don’t necessarily face the legal punishments that someone living in a surrounding community might.

“Once you’ve made it into college, you’re in a semie l i t e t y p e o f s i t u a t i o n ,” Susan Phillips, Pitzer Professor of Environmental Analysis and expert in urban environments and lifeways (including gangs and the U.S. Prison system) said.

“Institutions themselves are able to shield people from involvement with the police in a way that, if a similar situation went down in a neighborhood, even if it was a middle-class neighborhood, it might be a diff e r e n t o u t c o m e .”

Why is this?

The War on Drugs began around the early seventies, when then-President Richard Nixon declared that

A m e r i c a’s n u m b e r o n e e n emy was drugs. Since then, the criminal justice system has targeted lower-income communities, which are oft e n m a j o r i t y p e o p l e o f c o l o r.

Michelle Alexander explains in her book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” that media campaigns were waged; “politicians b l a s t e d “s o f t ” j u d g e s a n d enacted harsh sentencing laws; poor people of color were vilified. The system n o w, h o w e v e r, r e q u i r e s v e r y little maintenance or justification. In fact, if you are white and middle class, you might not even realize the drug war is still going on…

C r a c k i s o u t , t e r r o r i s m i s i n .”

“People use drugs recrea t i o n a l l y, a n d p e o p l e a r e a d dicted to drugs at all levels

they are not targeted by the p o l i c e ,” P h i l l i p s s a i d . “ W h e n t h e r e ’s t r o u b l e w i t h d r u g s , oftentimes campuses will have their own way to curtail and deal with them that d o n ’ t i n v o l v e t h e p o l i c e .”

Wealth often feels implied when it comes to higher education, and this is the case when it comes to the way the criminal justice system reacts to drug use on college campuses.

“In the case where someone would get caught, the n a r r a t i v e … t e n d s t o b e ‘o h this person needs help, they n e e d t o g o t o r e h a b ’ ,” P h i l l i p s said. “Clearly they’re worth i n v e s t i n g i n i n t h a t w a y. A n d then their parents foot the bill for that. When you’re on the street, and say you get caught, no one is going t o s a y, “ t h i s p e r s o n n e e d s

choices regarding their alcohol use, as well as help reduce the risk of harmful individual behaviors related to a l c o h o l .”

As a result, according to Phillips, “you have a disparity where people who are using drugs are being penalized at much greater rates by virtue of their race and s o c i o e c o n o m i c s t a t u s .”

The War on Drugs is not only racist, but is also economically detrimental to the people who are incarcerated for these non-violent drug offenses.

“The decision to prosecute drug offenses not only means that we are sending people to relatively short stints of prison time instead of providing longer-term solutions to addiction like drug treatment, but also that we are giving people lifelong criminal records that can prevent future employment, exclude them from public housing, and lead to harsher punishments f o r f u t u r e c r i m e s ,” B e r nadette Rabuy said in a Prison Policy Initiative article. “Drug charges — and their frequent mandatory minimum sentencing — also give prosecutors leverage to compel guilty pleas on other offenses that possibly wouldn’t have resulted i n a c o n v i c t i o n o t h e r w i s e .”

M o r e o v e r, s t u d e n t s a t t e n d ing high school are required to disclose their disciplinary history to colleges that they apply to, and must answer “whether [they’ve] been suspended, expelled or put on probation for any disciplinary violation”, according to an article in the Washington Post. In cases of students being arrested during school, black students account for the majority of these arrests.

These students— although they too might join the workforce in the following few years— are not given the same protection that students who are already in h i g h e r e d u c a t i o n e n j o y.

In higher education, students are more protected than their counterparts in surrounding communities. Violent offenses, such as sexual assault, are also treated differently on college campuses.

“A c o l l e g e p r o c e s s i s a n internal disciplinary procedure, the purpose of which is

I n 2 013 , p r i v a t e , f o u r - y e a r i n s t i t u t i o n s r e f e r r e d m o r e t h a n 14 , 0 0 0 students for disciplinar y action for drug violations. Fewer than 2,000 students were arrested. o f s o c i e t y,” P h i l l i p s s a i d . “ [ H o w e v e r, ] w h e n y o u ’ r e p o o r and you’re using drugs, maybe you don’t have the money to purchase the drugs, maybe you get involved in a scen a r i o w h e r e . . . Yo u ’ r e a n a d dict and you don’t have the [means] to figure your way around that. Drug use, when y o u ’ r e p o o r, a l s o t e n d s t o b e more out in the open and on the streets, where people a r e b u y i n g t h e i r d r u g s .”

On a college campus, drug use looks different.

“When you’re talking about [drug use] at a college campus, it means that people can use drugs recreationally” Phillips said. “They don’t have to steal to get drugs b e c a u s e t h e y h a v e m o n e y.

The sources are different, the way they are procuring their drugs are different, and the patterns of use are diff e r e n t .”

Because institutions of higher education are not required to employ members of the police force as their c a m p u s s e c u r i t y, s t u d e n t s are not necessarily bound to the same laws that members of the outside community might be.

“Students are considered valuable assets to building a common future, and so

help”. No one can afford to pay for this person to go to private rehab [or] for a fancy lawyer to keep that person out of jail the way they would in a college setting if the law becomes involved.

Then, you have a disparity where people who are using drugs are being penalized at much greater rates by virtue of their race and socioecon o m i c s t a t u s .”

In the cases of public institutions of higher education versus private institutions, large, public colleges and universities will sometimes refer more students for drug violations than arrest them.

Sometimes, h o w e v e r, the disciplinary referrals and arrests are equal, and sometimes the arrests outnumber the disciplinary referrals.

“In instances where a S c r i p p s s t a f f m e m b e r, C a m p u s S a f e t y, o r o t h e r m e m b e r of the community discovers that a student is inebriated, the priority is to ensure the student receives any req u i r e d m e d i c a l a t t e n t i o n ,” Scripps College Marketing and Communications said.

“The matter will also be ref e r r e d t o t h e C o l l e g e ’s d e d i cated alcohol and drug couns e l o r, w h o w i l l w o r k w i t h t h e student to help make better

to adjudicate whether someone is or is not responsible f o r a p o l i c y v i o l a t i o n ,” S a l l y Steffen, Title IX coordinat o r s a i d . “A t a b i g p i c t u r e level, the goal of college and university policies is to establish a set of community standards and expectations around a variety of issues... and to hold people accountable when they violate these standards. Sexual assault is prohibited under the Title IX policies of all of The Claremont Colleges. If a member of the consortium community accuses another member of the community of sexual assault, they have the option of pursuing a case under the r e l e v a n t c o l l e g e ’s g r i e v a n c e p r o c e d u r e .”

At the Claremont Colleges, if there is a matter involving students from different campuses, the disciplinary procedure can differ depending on which colleges are involved.

“It is the policy of the respond e n t ’s (accused party) college that applies to resolve a Title IX complaint because the respond e n t ’s h o m e c o l l e g e h a s t h e power to discipline if the respondent is found respons i b l e f o r a p o l i c y v i o l a t i o n ,” Steffen said.

Details about the policies and grievance procedures of the 7Cs can be found on Tit l e I X ’s 7 C V i o l e n c e P r e v e n tion and Advocacy page.

“The standard for determining a policy violation under all the procedures is “preponderance of the evidence” or “more likely than n o t ,”” S t e f f e n s a i d . “ Te r m s common in the criminal setting such as defendant, guilt, innocence, sentencing, or trial are not applicable in t h e c o l l e g e c o n t e x t .”

M o r e o v e r, w i t h a n i n t e r n a l disciplinary procedure, the consequences look different as well. According to Steffen, “the most severe sanction for violation of a college policy is expulsion”.

H o w e v e r, t h e c r i m i n a l j u s tice system may get involved a t t h e v i c t i m ’s r e q u e s t .

“Some conduct that violates college policy may constitute criminal cond u c t u n d e r C a l i f o r n i a l a w, and anyone who believes they have been a victim of a crime has the right to report to the police in lieu of or in

addition to seeking redress a t t h e c o l l e g e l e v e l ,” S t e f f e n said. These includes cases of rape, domestic violence, and stalking, according to Steffen.

These cases are investigated by the police (rather than the Colleges) and can lead t o t h e r e s p o n d e n t ’s i m p r i s o n m e n t . H o w e v e r, f o r c a s e s like these, the “evidentiar y standard for determining a criminal violation is beyond a r e a s o n a b l e d o u b t ,” a c c o r d ing to Steffen.

Under the Clery Act, colleges report sexual assault cases to the Education Department. The reporting of sexual assault can vary due to the existence of Title IX offices on campus, as well as the amount of communication students are able to have with required personnel

7 B y P r iy a C a n z i u s ‘ 2 0 more likely to be victims of s e x u a l a s s a u l t .”

T h i s , a c c o r d i n g t o N e w, can be attributed to the fact that students with more money are likely to attend more parties and are able to afford the drugs, alcohol, and, sometimes, transportation fees that are often identified with partying.

This is not to say that wealthier students in any way deserve this statistic, just that the statistic exists.

While sexual assault is certainly a violent crime, in o u r s o c i e t y, i t i s o f t e n “ h i d d e n . . . a n d i s n o t a p r i o r i t y. . . both on a college campus and communities that are targeted by the criminal just i c e s y s t e m ,” P h i l l i p s s a i d .

“Sexual assault isn’t taken as seriously and it remains a kind of invisible thing that people don’t speak up about i n t h e s a m e k i n d s o f w a y s .”

Most crimes are treated differently in higher education than they are in surrounding communities, and because of this, there are fewer incarceration rates for students than there are people in the general population.

When it comes to drug offenses, “you could argue that that shielding [against the criminal justice system outside of higher education] is a g o o d t h i n g , t h a t i t ’s a s l i g h t ly less virulent and paranoid way of dealing with drug use o n a c o l l e g e c a m p u s ,” P h i l lips said. “The conventional wisdom is ‘these kids are trying hard, they mess up, they need a second chance, a n d w e c a n w o r k w i t h t h e m ’ .”

M o r e o v e r, t h o s e i n t h e middle and upper class are incarcerated less than their lower-income peers for their drug use. “ I f y o u h a v e a [ B a c h e l o r ’s Degree], you have a certain e a r n i n g p o w e r, [ a n d ] y o u have the ability to hold a job, i f y o u ’ r e l u c k y,” P h i l l i p s s a i d . “ [ A d d i t i o n a l l y, ] i t m e a n s t h a t maybe you’re living in a town that isn’t struggling with iss u e s o f c r i m e .”

H o w e v e r, i n l o w e r - i n c o m e neighborhoods that are already being targeted by the prison system, offenders are not offered the same opport u n i t y.

“Where police tend to look for crime is in poorer neighb o r h o o d s , a n d s o t h e r e ’s

while privilege is a hard pill t o swallow, you’re less likely to be held accountable for swallowing it with a B.A . in your hand

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at their college.

The findings here are different than they are for drug offenses. In sexual assault cases where women are the victims, the acceptance rate of the institution where a woman received her education is not a determinant of her likelihood of being assaulted.

According to Steffen, “both public and private schools that participate in the federal financial aid system have Title IX policies and procedures.

Respondents at public colleges may also have some rights under the U.S. Constitution that would not apply to a respondent at a private college. It is up to courts to interpret exactly what this means in the context of university adjudication processes, including T i t l e I X p r o c e d u r e s .”

According to a 1995 study that was cited it Inside Higher Ed, New reports that, “female students from elite Ivy League institutions were not at a lower risk of sexual victimization than at any other institutions. At the same time, economically privileged students at all institutions — as measured by the level of education attained by their mothers — were

targeted surveillance that happens in poorer neighborhoods that already struggle w i t h c r i m e ,” P h i l l i p s s a i d . “ I t tends to be a self-fulfilling p r o p h e c y, b e c a u s e t h e n t h e i r involvement with the prison system weakens those comm u n i t i e s f u r t h e r. I t o f t e n d e rails them from any potential for forward motion that t h e y h a v e i n s o c i e t y.”

And so members of poorer communities are sent into the prison system to be held accountable for their criminal actions, rather than to a rehabilitation center to be treated for potential addict i o n s . A r g u a b l y, t h e p r i s o n system does not teach acc o u n t a b i l i t y e i t h e r, a s e v i denced by the 43-50 percent recidivism rate for repeat drug offenses for drugs other than cocaine.

But, “the way that [addiction] plays out in the middle-class and upper class is very different because those challenges are not compounded by involvement with the prison systems and t h e p o l i c e ,” P h i l l i p s s a i d .

“Many people wind up dysfunctional in middle class families... and are [still] able to proceed with their lives because of the privilege that they have that in part comes from not being targeted by t h e c r i m i n a l j u s t i c e s y s t e m .”

I t ’s d i f f i c u l t t o b e a c o l l e g e student and to never have engaged in any sort of illegal activity; after all, we are not the intended targets of the criminal justice system. In a community where getting a bad grade on a test can be more stressful than walking

by Campus Safety with a red solo cup in hand, it can be hard to understand whether or not to feel accountable for illegal actions.

With some of us heading into well-regarded jobs that require habitual drug tests and others into wellpaying industries where cocaine use is considered the norm, it is necessary to take a step back and realize that while privilege is a hard pill t o s w a l l o w, y o u ’ r e l e s s l i k e l y to be held accountable for swallowing it with a B.A. in your hand.

8 • Opinion

GENERATIONS:

Avocado Toast vs. Affordable Housing: The Debate between Generations Conveniently Disregards the Existence of the Ruling Class

By Luena Maillard ‘20 Staff Writer

W

e have all seen the articles, ‘Millennials are killing the golf industry’, ‘Millennials are killing the diamond industry’, ‘Millennials are killing the [insert high-cost business here]’. More recently, articles of that nature have started pinning the newest generation of Gen Z’ers as such murderers of industry.

The reverse is true as well. I myself am not immune to the ever-present ‘babyboomers ruined the economy’ jokes that run throughout younger generations.

As a certified ‘person who was born in 1998 in that weird period between generations’, I have never questioned the concept of separating groups of people by birth year before. As integral as they appear today, social generations as a whole have only existed for a century or so, commencing with

the ‘Lost Generation,’ used to define those who fought in World War I. Before that, the term was strictly used to define familial generations as a way of tracing your ancestors within your personal family.

So how did this term broaden to something we can use to generalize entire groups of people?

Essentially, there had to be a reshaping of the notions of time and social change.

Political rhetoric and the spread of nationalism in the early 19th century encouraged the idea that society progresses and the start of movements for change begin with the youth. One needs only to look at the youth movements which were growing in Europe such as, ‘Young Italy’ and ‘The German Youth Movement’ to observe the budding shift in thinking towards the generational.

Now, six generations later, we are seeing the steady growth of older generations using generational terminology in order to bypass class analysis. It is an insidious and extremely convenient tactic by the ruling class. By framing generations as

comprehensible ‘classes’ themselves with differing interests from each other (i.e. Millennials hate golf, diamonds, divorce), this attitude positions all people within a cer tain age as responsible for the issues that we are seeing in society today, such as higher costs of living or inflation. Therein lies the inherent problem in framing generations this way: it very conveniently overlooks the fact that there exist working and ruling class peoples throughout every generation. Blaming all people within a certain age veils the responsibility of the ruling class, the 1%, for the failings of the current capitalist system. This works to not only harm the working class, but forces society to follow a consistent red herring, to the benefit of the ruling class.

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I’M NOT YOUR LUGGAGE RACK

By Faith McDermott ’20 Staff Writer

I

’m not looking for a project. There--I said it. I’ll probably receive some kind of backlash for that brutally honest statement but it’s true. I’m not interested in dating a guy who has more baggage than a family of of four going on a week-long ski trip.

Some people may say that’s judgemental, cruel, and just plain old rude. And if this judgement call was formulated purely off the fact that there are people out there who haven’t had it easy and that these people not worth being acknowledged or heard, then that would be true. However, time and time again, I meet men who use me as their personal luggage rack. We go on a few dates, we seem to be hitting it off, and then BOOM! They drop the bomb. Familyish, financial-ish, mental health-ish, I’ve seen it all.

But it’s not the fact that these men have dealt with or are currently dealing with hardships that causes me to be wary. It is the fact that a lot of them are not self aware enough to realize that their struggles are negatively impacting their, and oftentimes their partner’s, quality of life. Because these men in question can not look their problems straight in the eye, it is often the women they are romantically linked to that end up bearing the majority of the load.

Now I do want to acknowledge the fact that this is not solely a male issue, or an issue confined to heterosexual relationships. There are people of all genders and sexualities that could use a lesson in healthy coping mechanisms. However, after quickly polling my straight female friends and stumbling across many a Reddit thread bemoaning the ‘emotionally constipated man’, there appears to be a trend. As a whole, women emotionally mature faster than men, and my tangled relations with emotionally incompetent men appears to be a shared experience.

Therefore, I think it’s fair to say that while unresolved baggage is not a characteristic exclusive to straight males, all too often they are the ones who break the luggage scale.

Let’s take for example Arthur,* who I met on Tinder. We chatted on the app, and I invited him over for a movie night. Fifteen minutes in, he’s told me about several of his exes, his mother who died when he was twelve, the fact that he’s broken six Trojans, and that the scar on his knuckle is from punching his brother’s two front teeth. Combine this with his personally held belief that we as humans can suppress all emotion, and you’ve got yourself a clinical basket case.

I’ll admit Arthur is severe. He is the epitome of a hyper masculine boarding school boy who only

processes emotions through fucking and punching take, and while every moment will not be equal, at people. This encounter also happened on the first, the end of the day it should feel balanced. and only date we had, and I guess I can thank him So what exactly is this balance? How does one for expediting my screening process. So while find the middle ground between being closed off Arthur’s circumstances are certainly not the norm, and being overbearing? Considering men, unlike it’s important to note that his approach to dealing women, do not usually find emotional support in with them is far from atypical. their same sex friendships, who do they confide in

Arthur never told me he was starving if not the women in their lives? These are complex for feminine influence, but he didn’t have to. His questions and I don’t have the answers to them. constant need for a girlfriend, the scorn he harbors These are societal issues that permeate way beyond for his exes, and his mother’s death already told me the Claremont bubble, and for the men who have that. He also didn’t need to tell me he was insecure crafted their own multifaceted emotional support in his masculinity. The stories he told about busted systems, I commend you. However, for the men who condoms and busted lips did it for him. While neither haven’t, these societal issues are an explanation not I nor my friends have encountered another Arthur, an excuse. While we work towards the long term goal some of the men we have encountered are less of eradicating hypermasculinity, in the short term severe versions of this extreme prototype. They are ,how and where do men find emotional support? men who suppress their struggles and emotions for While the answer to this question is still unknown, I so long, they begin to fester. However, things can can tell you right now the answer is not unpacking only stay buried for so long until one of two things your bags, scratching your head, and expecting your eventually happens: girlfriend to figure it out for you, as even though One: it all comes tumbling out. It could be three they will rarely ask, the woman ends up carrying the dates in or three months in and suddenly you’re majority of the load. This isn’t fair, this isn’t healthy, learning about his deadbeat brother, his mother who and it sure as hell isn’t fun. is sleeping with her Soulcycle instructor, and his Your girlfriend’s job is not to fix you. She is not father who is always away on business. You’re not responsible for your emotional growth, for fostering exactly sure what to say as this is way beyond your your well being, for turning your boy-like self into a pay grade. So instead you listen, and several weeks man. Yet somehow this is what is expected from later you suggest he make an appointment to talk her. As a woman, I am supposed to turn a beast to someone. He refuses. He doesn’t simply say no, into a prince. I am to defrost a frozen heart. I am to he glares, he hisses and he says he doesn’t want to pick up the pieces of a never ending jigsaw puzzle talk about it again. However, his constant fear that and attempt to put them all together. And god you will cheat on him with the boy from math class forbid I can’t or, gasp! I don’t want to, I have been who helped you study for the midterm shows that branded as a selfish, cruel, and spiteful just because he doesn’t want to talk about it doesn’t woman. This is BS. It’s not my nor any mean it’s not there. other woman’s fault if her male partner Two: It all comes tumbling out. This can happen can’t take care of himself. It’s not our at any time but from this point on you are his fault that he hasn’t crafted alternate lover, his mother, his therapist, and his support networks. And above all secretary. He expects you to sleep else, it’s not any woman’s job to with him, parent him, advise him, and clean up a man’s shit while the keep him on track. He says he doesn’t man she’s dating doesn’t have need help because he has you. As if the self awareness to realize he’s a college-aged woman has the tools the one who caused the mess in to undo years of emotional festering. the first place. I’m not a mother, As if it’s even her job in the first place. a therapist, a babysitter, or a Let me make this clear. These maid. My job is not to play the men are not bad people and they are role of man’s personal caretaker. deserving of kindness, empathy, and I’m a human being, and it’s love. They are the product of poor time I, and all the the other circumstances and a society that women on these campuses, doesn’t embrace men who embrace were treated that way. *Name their emotions. A healthy relationship Graphic Courtesy has been changed to protect the of KissCCO is like a seesaw. You give and you privacy of the individual.

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Opinion • 9

Glitz and Glam in Scripps’ Garage: SAS’s Annual “Eurobash”

By Aya Burton ‘22 Staff Writer

O

n Saturday, Nov. 3, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., Scripps hosted its biggest 5C party of the year, the legendary “Eurobash.” Dressed in attire ranging from sequined mini skirts and glittery mesh tops to more casually chic blue jeans and tees, students from all of the Colleges streamed in unruly files toward Scripps’ parking garage for a night full of lights and music.

DJs, Vani Dewan ‘21 and Devang Patel CMC ‘19, offered a diverse array of tunes for students to jam to. Throughout the event, students got down to 2000’s pop hits as well as more recent music.

Especially energetic dancers could be seen throwing their hands up in the air and rocking their heads back and forth to the beat, while the boldest of them squeezed their way up front to mosh.

Here, the temperature was noticeably degrees hotter, and sweat poured freely as students danced and collided into one another, causing whole groups of people to sway and buckle under the weight. Shorter students complained of getting squashed and elbowed in the head while girls in heels grimaced

as other dancers bopped up and down on their toes.

After getting their share of heat and discomfort, or in need of a bathroom break after uninhibited dancing,

Graphic By Ashley Hsieh ‘22

students linked arms with their friends and shoved through barricades of people to find some air. Once outside the mass of grooving students, one could catch a breath in the emptier sections of the garage and enjoy the flashing blue and purple lights from afar.

In comparison to other social gatherings at the 5Cs, how did Scripps’ biggest party of the year stack up?

According to one Scripps senior, Eurobash is, consistently, “the best party of the year.” For others, Eurobash felt a bit too unruly and claustrophobic.

Many attendees could be spotted at The Hub early in the night, having escaped the garage to enjoy a more low-key evening.

For moshers and dance enthusiasts, Scripps Associated Students (SAS) certainly hosted a night to remember.

For those in favor of chill kickbacks or more intimate gatherings, Eurobash might not have been the ideal scene.

In any case, the event allowed students to get their glitter on and dance off any stress from the past semester.

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10 • Arts & Entertainment

Queer Artists Who Are Killing The Game

By Hayley Van Allen ‘21 Queer Columnist

The Internet The Internet is composed of five clearly great friends, two of whom are very openly gay: Sydney Bennett (Syd), the lead singer, and Steve Lacy, on guitar/vocals. Their music blurs the lines between funk, rap, and more traditional R&B. In “Hive Mind,” their newest album released in June 2018, Syd sings intimate love songs backed by masterfully crafted tracks created by the rest of the band.

Additionally, all the members also released solo work in the last two years, and Syd’s album “Fin” is very gay and very slept on mix of R&B, hip-hop, and soul. The Internet’s song “Come Over” has been nominated for two Soul Train Awards this year, and it can’t be recommend highly enough.

Recommended Songs/Music Videos: Come Over (video), Girl, Body, Smile More Hayley Kiyoko No summary of queer music artists would be complete without mentioning Hayley Kiyoko, affectionately referred to by many as Lesbian Jesus. In 2018 alone, the artist released her first full length album, went on a solo tour around America and Europe, opened on tour for Panic! At The Disco, released two music videos, and managed to dub the year “20gayteen.” Her first full length album, “Expectations,” was released in April 2018. While her music style can be described as predictable pop, what makes Kiyoko stand out is her bold lyrics about relationships with other women. Few popular artists have been able to capture the queer experience the way Kiyoko has.

Recommended Songs/Music Videos: Girls Like Girls (video), What I Need ft. Kehlani (video) Jamila Woods Jamila Woods is an openly queer artist, poet, and activist. While she doesn’t explicitly sing about being queer, Woods is worth mentioning for her musical talent alone. Her songs feature personal reflections, critiques of racialized society, and a soft optimism.

You may have seen her perform at Pomona’s No-chella concert last spring! She’s done collaborations with a number of artists, including Chance the Rapper, Noname, and Macklemore. Her musical style can be described as a soothing mix of soul and R&B. Recommended Songs/Music Videos: Holy (video), Blk Girl Soldier (video), LSD ft. Chance the Rapper Janelle Monae Janelle Monae officially came out in tandem with the release of her most recent album, “Dirty Computer.” Her work spans a variety of styles, from R&B to rap to pop and much of it has clear influences from Prince. Monae puts an incredible amount of creative effort and thought into her albums and the worlds she creates with her music. If you haven’t seen it yet, her motion picture “Dirty Computer” is well worth the 45 minute watch. Her music and videos deal with issues surrounding race, gender, and sexuality. In an interview about her album, Monae said, “being a queer black woman in America, someone who has been in relationships with men and women, I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker.”

Recommended Songs/Music Videos: Q.U.E.E.N. (video), Pynk (Video), Make Me Feel (Video) King Princess King Princess identifies as genderqueer and gay and is currently dating actress Amandla Stenberg. The singer released her debut single “1950” in February of 2018. The song became immensely popular and KP is now hailed as a gay role model for many of her fans. At only 19, she released her first EP “Make My Bed” four months later in June. KP captures a similar vulnerability to Lorde in her pop songs, singing about love, loneliness, and the queer experience.

Recommended Songs/Music Videos: Pussy is God (video), 1950 (video), Talia (video)

The Controversy of Greta Van Fleet and Musical Inspiration

By Ali Bush ‘19 Music Columnist

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he new rock band, Greta Van Fleet, deeply upsets me. I’m seething just typing the band’s name. The rock band has made a huge splash on the rather lacking hard rock scene with their new album, “Anthem of the Peaceful Army,” performing on The Tonight Show and even Elton John’s Oscars after-party. They play hard rock jams with blues riffs and their singer has an amazing screeching falsetto voice. If this description is familiar, it is because it also describes Led Zeppelin, spot-on. And this is why I have come to listen to this band with suspicion, and extreme annoyance. Greta van Fleet has constructed their entire discography and image on Led Zeppelin while trying to cover this up. Their musicianship and production are all adequate, but it is this band’s simultaneous total lack of creativity and industry succeeds that angers me, and prompts big questions about rock music and its future.

Greta van Fleet poses themselves as modernday rockers who are deeply inspired by 60s and 70s hard rock, but evidence of any other influences, other than Led Zeppelin, is nonexistent.

The mythical lyrics and the blues riffs certainly are direct rip-offs of Zeppelin, and lead singer Josh Kiszka’s voice, perhaps their biggest asset, is a dead ringer for that of Robert Plant. The issue is not that they’re bad musicians. It is as if they’ve

learned their scales, applied them to Led Zeppelin songs, and just kept on playing Led Zeppelin songs, inserting a slightly modifies riff or lyric here or there. Their songs repackage the guitar style and vocals of Led Zeppelin and provide nothing new to contemporary listeners. Their constant call for peace just ends up feeling hokey.

This critique is not to condemn musicians who borrow styles and motifs of other artists; this is almost unavoidable in any kind of artistic process.

Rock music itself is based on a system of stealing, borrowing, and modifying. Led Zeppelin, perhaps more infamously, lifted songs of 1930s blues singers for their own creations. Without giving blatant credit to artists like Memphis Minnie and Muddy Waters, Zeppelin deprives these artists of royalties and respect. But Zeppelin at least had the decency and intelligence to adapt these songs and change it into a completely new genre.

Members of Zeppelin also publicly acknowledge their cultural appropriation and express deep admiration for their predecessors.

After all of this, the band refuses to acknowledge Led Zeppelin as an influence. Failing to recognize that source that has given them their style, sound, and image is an affront to musical history. Even Robert Plant has spoken out about the band and visibly rolled his eyes over them in an interview!

Maybe it’s just my opinion, or a sense of common decency, but for this band to achieve this much success, and not humbly thank the musicians

who gave them their sound, is entitled and flagrantly fraudulent.

Surprisingly few critics have forthrightly expressed these concerns forthright, perhaps convinced that Greta Van Fleet is coming to save rock-and-roll. To me, the band’s massive success over songs that sound like Led Zeppelin covers has me anxious about the state of rock music.

Did rock music reach its peak with Led Zeppelin?

Is there any future for rock music, or is it already a historical genre? If bands like Greta Van Fleet continue to rise to success, rock music will never move forward. The band foreshadows a dystopia in which rock music will become just another algorithmic franchise industry, where bands that resemble Led Zeppelin 2.0 are more popular than those actually thinking outside of the box.

Greta Van Fleet renders rock music embarrassingly stagnant, and doesn’t push forward any new ideas or concepts. I’ll even go so far as to say that they are an embarrassment for rock music, as their success proves that it’s easy to be successful without being innovative. Ultimately, there is no authenticity or experimentation in their songs. They’ve simply adopted this 1960s style to provide their fans with a bit of nostalgia, which at the end of the day is pretty sad.

So if you have any urge to listen to this band, please just listen to a Led Zeppelin album; you’ll have a much better time.

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Health and Lifestyle • 11

Challah for Hunger: a demonstration of the power of community

By Kendall Lowery ‘22 Staff Writer

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fter a long day of Thursday classes, I pulled my hair back, threw on a long sleeve shirt and a hat, and made my way to the Malott kitchen. After I arrived, rinsed up, and donned an apron, my shift leader tossed a hunk of dough in front of me with a satisfying thwack; I was ready to roll-mble.

While we chatted, my fellow volunteers and I pressed, stuffed, and braided racks of challah, whose subsequent sale would continue a 14 year tradition within the Scripps community.

Challah for Hunger (CfH) was founded

by Scripps student Eli Winkelman ‘07 in 2004 as a way to connect with the Jewish community. However, as her project gained traction, the group began to donate their profit from challah sales to social justice causes. The organization began to spread as the second chapter was started at the University of Texas, then the third at UCLA, ultimately spanning to its current 80+ chapters worldwide. The organization has grown into hosting leadership summits, food justice initiatives, and was even

featured in President Bill Clinton’s book Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World.

However, despite its international scope, volunteering with CfH feels incredibly local. You are able to bond with friends or strangers over the rolls’ construction and reap the rewards of your work the next morning with a freshly baked loaf.

In my case, CfH additionally gave me a space where I was able to escape the hectic nature of the Consortium and to return to baking: a high school hobby that I hadn’t realized that I had missed until my shift.

The locality of each chapter is grounded in its commitment to a local cause dedicated to food justice. This year’s proceeds from the Scripps branch will be donated to Huerta Del Valle, an organization with the goal of creating one garden for every mile of the city of Ontario. Like

most cities, Ontario is a municipality in which non-monetary community spaces and fresh produce is uncommon. Thus, Huerta serves to create an educational, nutritional, and economically beneficial space for its community.

CfH’s support of Huerta not only creates community at Scripps, but expedites the facilitation of healthy communities outside of the oftentimes impenetrable Claremont bubble.

According to Challah for Hunger’s website, Winkelman’s “envisioned Challah for Hunger as a network whose participants feel a sense of ownership and positive obligation within an interconnected community.”

Graphic Courtesy of Getty Images

In Support of Strange Flavors

By Kendall Lowery ‘22 Staff Writer

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or those of you who may have found yourself stumped, staring hopelessly at a menu board, faced with the eternal decision between dependability and intrigue, I am here to complete that leap of faith for you!

I began this mission with a trip to Á La Minute, an ice cream shop splitting a cool space and an enjoyable playlist with Augie’s Coffee in the Claremont Packing House. They also possess a menu full of notoriously unusual flavors, and they lack the usual assuagement of a display case of ice cream: each batch is made to order with liquid nitrogen. However, those who are not dissuaded due to the differentiation from predictability are rewarded with some very tasty treats.

The Gold Rush This flavor packs a lot into one bite. It’s an amalgamation of vanilla, caramel, and waffle cone bits, but it blends smoothly and is reminiscent of a creamier version of Ben and Jerry’s Americone

Dream.

Brown Butter Pumpkin Despite its temperature, this flavor made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. However, it diverges from the myriad of other pumpkin-flavored items that pop up during this time of year with its molasses coconut caramel topping, creating a complexity in both the flavor and texture of the scoop.

Butternut Squash Black Garlic (topped with Burnt Sugar Syrup) This is probably Á La Minute’s most unconventional flavor, but should not be passed up. Its refreshing departure from the sweetness that seems inextricably

linked to ice cream is deliciously executed, and the garlic (though initially threatening) rounds out each bite perfectly. I implore you to challenge your boundaries with this choice.

Orange Honey Upon trying this flavor, I came to the realization that despite its more consumable name, I had never tried orange ice cream (outside of Dreamsicle form). The scoop was subtle and enjoyable in its simplicity. The generous amount of honey drizzle solidified like hardened caramel upon exposure to the ice cream and worked its way nicely into each bite, providing a graceful sweetness to the satisfying flavor.

Pursue the flavors that intrigue you to the point of intimidation -- conquer the fear that surrounds unchartered territory, and be your own gustatory thrillseeker. Though you may have to sacrifice the comfort of that scoop of vanilla, the next time you stare at that menu board, you’ll be able to hold your head high knowing that one less flavor is part of the unknown.

Graphic Courtesy of Pamela Perry

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12 • Health & Lifestyle

ask Lue

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Dear Lue, What defines cheating in a relationship?

-Anonymous

Dear Anonymous, It’s hard to create one definition of cheating since relationships can be very different, what could be cheating for one couple could not be for another. If I had to whittle it down to one definition, I would say that cheating involves betraying your partner’s expectations about what kind of contact you have with others outside of the relationship.

That can encapsulate a variety of actions, but the emotional outcome is usually always the same — the person who has been cheated on feels rejected and betrayed.

Since interpretations of cheating vary from person to person, it is important to discuss what the expectations are in the relationship with your partner early on.

This will eliminate gray zones that could result in someone being hurt, and the more communication the better in my opinion.

LUNCHTIME ART FOR HEALING

Luena Maillard is a junior at Scripps who is passionate about holistic health and education. In high school, she was employed

by Planned Parenthood as a Peer Health Educator to teach sex ed classes to high school health classes. She is currently working as a PHE here on campus, and you can find her during her office hours at Tiernan Field House for one-on-one conversations!

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Dear Lue, What’s the deal with No Nut November?

-Numbnut

Dear Anonymous, Okay maybe I’m old because I had to urban dictionary this one. I found this definition: “Abstaining from masturbating or sexual activities of any kind during the month of November as a true test of willpower as well as totally boosting your testosterone to get some sick gains, again no you cannot bang your wife or girlfriend that defeats the whole purpose.”

First of all, the phrasing of the definition is gross. Second, I can’t quite understand the point of No Nut November. It seems like an unnecessary and excessive form of proving your masculinity to your fellow bros. Abstain from masturbating or sexual activities if you want, but to do so purely as a means of competition that is linked to perceived levels of machismo is frankly toxic.

Now, to address the notion that refraining from masturbating will give you ‘sick gains’: while it is true that the testosterone hormone does help muscles to synthesize proteins, masturbation only affects testosterone levels in minor, short-term ways. Generally, while engaging in sexual activity or masturbating t-levels go up until ejaculation, after which they return to normal levels. Not enough research has been done on the effects of abstinence on t-levels, (in fact there have been about four studies done total on about 39 people all of which argue that t-levels actually decrease and the other half that argues the opposite) and it is absolutely safe to say that t-values would only fluctuate within normal levels. This is an important distinction, as I believe the pseudoscientific link being claimed during No Nut November originated from a poor understanding of the mechanisms of testosterone, as well as a false equivalence of supplemental testosterone to naturally produced testosterone.

Of course, there are a variety of reasons for taking supplemental testosterone.

However, I am speaking specifically to those who take it for muscle-building purposes, for example, taking supplemental testosterone is popular within body-building communities. Adding more testosterone than what would naturally be in your body might result in increasing muscle mass (of course there are side effects as well) however these results cannot be compared to the naturally fluctuating t-levels that exist in the body. In short, abstaining from sexual activity or masturbation cannot alter your t-levels enough to build any more muscle than if you were not abstaining.

Poetry Column over shoulders Anna Mitchell ’22

What has fallen off my back?

W h a t e v e r i t s n a t u re , i t ’s m i n e l i ke f r u i t d ro p p i n g p l u m p , a l m o s t bursting (squeeze a grape between fingers you’ll see) or an avalanche you watch f ro m a c ro s s t h e v a l l e y the snow-crust cracking then tumbling in ecstasy down the ridges of my spine both sharp, and undefined.

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