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final vspa/dos candidates visit campus

By Lucy Altman-Newell ‘17 Staff Writer ean of Students candidate Jan Collins-Eaglin emphasized expanding the role of Student Affairs, orientation, student activism and caring for everyone’s mental health when she visited campus April 14-15.

Expanding the role of student affairs would mean increasing its visibility and the services it provides.

Collins-Eaglin would like to see the student affairs office become the social, academic, and emotional hub on-campus. Faculty would integrate themselves better with the office, for instance by having faculty do research on issues of student affairs (i.e. a sexual assault report).

In order to create a campus-wide sense of school spirit, Scripps can host events around sports events and take pride in its academic achievements by counting the number of Fullbrights we acquire.

All in all, she says, “We need to be proud in saying things out loud. We have to get over our reservations, and have pride in what we do!”

Collins-Eaglin notes that orientation is a very intense time

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Charlotte Johnson (left) and Jan Collins-Eaglin visited Scripps as cadidates for VPSA/DOS. Photos courtsey of Dartmouth College and Jan Collins-Eaglin

for a first year, and so it needs to be re-looked. The two weeks host so many events that it is good to look at times when students can take a breath. There are first-years who aren’t social and don’t like hanging around with so many people, and so they need more solitary time to reflect. Therefore, she suggests taking a look at how the activities of orientation can be evenly spread

out throughout the year. Often, the second year of college can be neglected, and so she would also want to evaluate the sophomore year experience.

Concurrent with ongoing conversations on diversity, CollinsEaglin highlights the importance of creating a continuing dialogue.

She states, “Rather than the superficial eating of Mexican food

and celebrating diversity, we need to train students to listen. Not to debate, but to have a real dialogue.”

She continuously associates the challenges of marginalized students to a struggle they should celebrate.

She says, “I celebrate the struggle.

As long as there is a struggle, the college will always be dynamic….

Celebrate the struggle; it is a sign of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

scripps Poetry class hosts open mic at Pomona college Amphitheater

By Jessica Lin ‘16 Design Editor

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n Thursday, May 8, a group of students from the Scripps Poetry Writing Workshop class will host a free open mic night at the Pomona Greek Amphitheater, located at the Pomona College Farm. The event will include live music, poetry readings, and other forms of entertainment.

Free dinner will be served, with tentative plans for a menu including pasta, salad, appetizers, fresh fruit, drinks, and snacks. Everyone is invited to perform and sit back and

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enjoy the show.

Student musicians outside the poetry class have been invited to participate in the event, with one student host considering the incorporation of music in his poetry reading. The class also hopes to provide a variety of instruments for its audience to play around with, either on stage or during the show’s intermission. Members of the audience are invited to bring their own instruments to share with the community for the night.

Having begun planning over a

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month and a half ago, the group purposely chosen a date during reading days so students can attend without worrying about missing class. In a similar mindset, the hosts encourage those who are reticent about sharing their work to accept their offer to act as proxy performers. That being said, they encourage everyone to recognize the event as a free space, a place for freedom of expression.

The party’s hosts plan to share their original work, poems written to fulfill assignments as well as those

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penned outside of class. Funded by the Scripps’ English department, the show will be hosted small class of eight: Lucas Ayenew PZ ‘17, Nick Zmijeski PZ ‘17, Alexa Campbell PZ ‘15, Marissa Dorit, Sean Fentress PZ ‘16, Neeka Salmasi PZ ‘16, Maile Blume SC ‘17, and Jessica Lin SC ‘16.

Although still in the midst of preparation, the group is hoping to craft handmade, surprise gifts for those who attend the event. So make sure to come out and support your friends. It’s sure to be a show you won’t want to miss.

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growth, that you are challenging the administration.”

As a psychologist by trade, CollinsEaglin is committed to improving the mental health of every student.

She feels that Student Affairs has the critical role of dealing with the stressful demands of college life. Students arriving here have to deal with time management, relationships, friendships, and academics, and so can crack under it all. The 5Cs (extrapolating roughly from Pomona College data) have a higher rate of students with anxiety, stress, depression, and loneliness.

To address this, Collins-Eaglin wishes to create real strategic planning on what mental health programs should look like on campus. Monsour is understaffed and under-resourced, and so she knows it cannot be the

whole solution.

To students suffering from mental health problems, she says, “I think you are a hero, going to school with a diagnosis.” She thinks it is imperative that students tell their professors about their disabilities themselves, because in the real world, no one will do it for them.

She wishes to create a mental health working group and reevaluate the type of student affairs programming that we can offer.

Charlotte Johnson came to campus on April 16-17 to meet with students and staff. In her meeting with students, she said that she made the transition from working at a law school to an undergraduate institution because undergraduates are more exciting and dynamic, and she enjoys working so much. She has previously worked at the University

of Michigan, Colgate University, and Dartmouth College, and said the scale and size of Scripps attracted her to apply here.

Like many of the candidates, Johnson said the first thing she would do if hired would be to establish relationships here at Scripps. She said that that processes can be labor intensive, but that that is the foundation for all the other work she will do. When asked how long she intends to stay at Scripps, she joked “As long as you’ll have me.”

She said that she intends to say for at least five years, but would stay longer if Scripps is a good fit and if she has good support. She noted that she served as an assistant dean at the University of Michigan’s Law School for nine years, as the vice president and dean of the college at Colgate for five years, and as dean

of the college at Dartmouth for three years. She added that she is “not a jumper.” She has only spent three years at Dartmouth, but said that she has had three different bosses during her time there, so she felt it was time to look into other options.

In order to connect with students, Johnson said that in the past she has often had students over to her house for dinner. Previously, she has gone over her budget having so many dinners because she enjoyed building connections with students that way. She also emphasized that, though she is a black woman, “I’m a dean for all students, so everyone has a place at my table.”

She added that focusing on certain communities in order to do the right thing does not detract from the institution.

sas student activities chair tori sepand ‘15 shares ideas and goals for the upcoming year

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ey Scripps! For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Tori Sepand and I’ll be your SAC next year on SAS. I want you all know how excited and grateful I am to be on SAS next year.

I have some ideas that I’d love to work on that I think will be helpful with SAS’ goal to improve our communication with the student body.

As SAC, it’s my job to not only inform you with all of the awesome events that happen around the 5Cs every week, but also to support the Programming Board (PB) and be a liaison between students and SAS. We have such a great group of people next year that are so excited

to serve Scripps students and help build SAS into a supportive and active group. Next year, I will encourage PB to attend BeHeard forums, collaborate with different CLORGs on campus, and reach out to a variety of students. Our jobs on PB are to plan events that everyone will enjoy, and I plan to support the board in trying to create programs that you will want to attend.

I cannot stress enough how important it is for SAS to hear a wide range of voices in the discussions we have about issues in our community. I strongly encourage you to get involved in some way. That doesn’t necessarily

have to include taking a leadership role, but your staying informed and showing up to events and conversations that are happening around Scripps campus is important to our progress. Please come talk to me or any other SAS member about how you can get involved if you are interested in a leadership role.

Thanks for taking the time to read my little plug about SAS and my goals. If you should have any questions next year, you can find me in Browning (hey, girl, hey!), in the Student Union for my SAS office hours, or just email me. I can’t wait to see what we accomplish next year!

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a look at the new scripps clorgs The Scripps Voice

Meagan McIntyre ‘17 Staff Writer

Editor-in-Chief Megan Petersen Advisor Sam Haynes Design Editors Elizabeth Lee Jessica Lin Elena Pinsker Copy Editors Ashley Minnis-Lemley Alexandra Vallas

Check out these 18 new CLORGS coming to Scripps next fall!

Empowering Education

Fair Trade Committee

Empowering Education is an educational program for middle school-aged disabled students at El Roble Intermediate School. The program will consist of tutoring, college-readiness workshops, and tours, as well as workshops around disability justice. On the part of college students, the program will be based on a social justice service model, which will consciously encourage tutors to engage critically with their own positionalities and privileges with regards to systems of oppression in our society. For the middle school students, we will be providing academic support and empowering education with a focus on disability justice. Our hope is to empower, encourage, and educate disabled communities and allies to create social change. Contact: Sheena Iwamoto and Natalie Yau.

The Scripps College Fair Trade Committee seeks to gain and sustain Fair Trade Certification for Scripps College. Within the guidelines of Fair Trade Campaigns, we join a national effort to promote ethical supply chains in all domains of production.

In Fair Trade Certification we seek to ensure that Scripps College offers goods from production systems that provide: 1) Fair wages to farmer groups based on a FT minimum floor price that grants a premium for certified organic products. 2) Credit for community development projects chosen and carried out by the members of farming communities, themselves. 3) Fair labor conditions that prohibit forced child labor, ensure safety on the job, and grant workers freedom of association. 4) Environmental sustainability that prohibits GMOs and harmful agrochemicals. Contact: Ariana Stuart and Emily Moore.

Women in Technology

Photo Editor Emily Morris Business Manager Rosario Bennett Webmaster Emily Morris Multimedia Director Laurel Schwartz Columnists and Staff Writers Ashley Achee Lucy Altman-Newell Tamar Kaplar Natalie Camrud Nancy Herrera Stephanie Huang Kayon James Elizabeth Lee Meagan McIntyre Caroline Nelson Kara Odum Bailee Pelham Julia Thomas Christina Whalen Nicole Zwiener Staff Photographers Tianna Sheih Nicole Zwiener

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Scripps Women in Technology is a club dedicated to three goals. The first goal of the club is to provide technology resources and information to Scripps students. This includes things such as making sure they are aware of the technology available on campus (computer labs, iPads, cameras, software, etc.) and the services on-campus (IT, CP&R, tech classes). The second goal is to foster a community where students of all tech levels can work together, learn together, and grow. This includes students giving workshops on things such as wordpress, building a computer, etc.

The third goal of the club is to help alumni in tech fields connect with students so that the alumni may share their knowledge and experiences of working in a field dominated by men. Our mission is to make Scripps students more tech literate, and provide resources and mentoring for students interested in tech fields. Contact: Alicen Lewis and Sarah Chung.

Women in Finance and Consulting Our group aims to provide business-related resources and information to Scripps students, foster an oncampus community of future industry professionals, and connect students with alumni, particularly in the finance and consulting industries. We will achieve this by making sure students are aware of industry-specific opportunities on ClaremontConnect; coordinating workshops on technical financial interviews, business school applications, and post-graduate plans; and providing on-campus networking opportunities, among other endeavors. Contact: Penny Wu and Sarah Chung.

Innovate@Scripps Empowering Scripps women interested in entrepreneurship to learn more about the field, found companies, and make change. Contact: Caroline Ebinger.

Chinese Student Association Scripps Chinese Student Association (SCSA) is dedicated to offer the Scripps community a social and cultural environment to learn more about China through activities and discussions. SCSA is also a platform for Scripps Chinese students to share their experiences. Contact: Wanyun Yang.

The Mission at Natuvu Creek Our mission is to serve, at our best, the rural people of Fiji through the provision of world-class medical/ dental care, education, job training and counseling in healthful living and spiritual growth. Contact: Dina Aluzri.

Student Art Society The Scripps Student Art Society exists to ensure ample opportunities for Scripps students to participate in student-run exhibitions, promote awareness of other art students and art enthusiasts on campus, to provide an avenue through which Scripps students can engage with the Los Angeles art community, and to catalyze discussions on how the Scripps art program can be improved in the future. Contact: Leah Hughes.

Law Society The Scripps College Law Society is a student-run organization dedicated to legal issues. SCLS organizes events for Scripps women regarding the law, such as LSAT Prep events, Public Speaking events, events about current popular issues in Law, as well as semi-annual networking dinners with guest speakers in the Law.

Correction In our last issue, we published a headline that read “Monologue Dialogues performance follow Scripps’ performance of the Vagina Monologues.” This headline was incorrect and misleading. The Monologue Dialogues were not a followup to the Vagina Monologues. Rather, they were a separate production. The Vagina Monologues was not a Scripps production, it was a 5C effort and was actually performed at Pitzer.

The Scripps Voice sincerely regrets these errors.

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a look at the new scripps clorgs Scripps Climate Justice Scripps Climate Justice seeks to foster mindful action within the Scripps community on the issue of global climate change. The Claremont Colleges Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign has already been working toward these goals for two years, and this group seeks to amplify their work on the Scripps campus. The practices of the fossil fuel industry directly contribute to increasingly common and damaging climate disasters and disproportionately affect low income and minority communities through pollution, toxic waste dumping, and dangerous working conditions. With these pressing issues in mind, we hope to build connections to those within the local community who suffer most from the adverse effects of the fossil fuel industry and use our position of power as college students to encourage the school administration to divest from fossil fuels. This movement is about challenging the entrenched power dynamics of the fossil fuel industry’s political and economic stranglehold on our government and society.

Contact: Elizabeth Medford and Avery Pheil.

CARE: Creating Academic Relations Through Education CARE is a student-run organization that cultivates a mutually beneficial educational relationship between the Claremont Colleges and Chaparral Elementary School. The aims of this organization focus on providing elementary school students with college-level role models to inspire them towards the pursuit of higher education, while providing college students with an opportunity to become familiar with a public school education system, elementary school teaching methods, and most importantly, firsthand experience in a classroom setting. The goal is to create a lasting alliance between the five Claremont Colleges and the local elementary school to cultivate dialogue and interaction between them. In addition to providing students with an opportunity to engage with a local public school, this is also a great way for students who are interested in volunteering in the community to do so in a positive and fun way. Contact: Caitlyn Marianacci.

Fandangueras De Claremont Fandangueras de Claremont seeks to create a space of convivencia, or communal living, through the practice of Fandango Jarocho, a tradition of Veracruz, Mexico, that incorporates music, dance, and verse. We aim to build community, create a context for social justice work related to Fandango Jarocho, and sustain the knowledge and participatory practices learned and embodied in Professor Martha Gonzalez’s class, Fandango as a De-Colonial Tool. Contact: Melissa Montez.

Claremont Integrated Science Society The Claremont Integrated Sciences Society (CISS) is a forum for the science students at the Joint Science Department, Keck Science. The purpose of the CISS is to allow for the mentorship of science students and to preserve the voice of science students in departmental affairs including but not limited to curriculum and others. The CISS intends to provide guidance for science students by offering advice for courses and college in general. Through social gatherings and other events, the CISS hopes to create lifelong bonds between students that have a passionate interest in the sciences. The latter purposes of the CISS will be to network and share experiences in the sciences from discussing internship experiences to collaborating for future research projects.

Contact: Emilie Fisher.

Coalition Against Classism We are an action-based student-run organization that advocates for institutional and social change centered around classism and its intersections with other systems of oppression.

We also seek to create community and a support network for students affected by classism.

Contact: Felicia Agrelius.

Garden Club

We created the Scripps Garden Club to maintain the beautiful, peaceful, and delicious student run garden. We work with the students and grounds to ensure that the Scripps Garden is a place where students can safely grow and consume a multitude of organic fruits, vegetables and herbs.

This wonderful, free resource is provided for us

by Scripps grounds and the dedicated Scripps students who worked hard to build and maintain it in the past. The Garden Club is an easy way to show our appreciation for their efforts while being rewarded with the amazing fruits of our labors. We also promote healthy eating, living, composting, and sustainability awareness at Scripps and in our daily lives.

Leaders in Education

Our mission is to build a community of future educators and activists fighting for more just schools, and particularly (but not exclusively) focused on public education. We will collaborate with other organizations both on and off campus to end the use of education as a tool to sustain colonialism, capitalism, and militarism. This is a political organization: a platform to promote, defend, and fight for public education, through engaging the Claremont community in political discourse confronting issues of ableism, classism, heterosexism, and racism, and how students can effect positive change. Through networking, hosting speakers, and organizing teach-ins, we will connect students with resources to advance their futures as educators and/or activists.

Contact: Tara Partow and Nancy Herrera.

I Am That Girl This isn’t just a women’s movement, it’s a human movement. And we need everyone. A girl’s physical, emotional and mental well-being is rooted in her self-worth. And we are living in an epidemic of self-doubt. I AM THAT GIRL exists to transform self-doubt into self-love. Every day, girls are bombarded with messages that attack what she is NOT and we work every day to help her love who SHE IS; to see that in herself and inspire that in others. We’ve seen limitless possibility when girls collaborate instead of compete and contribute as much as they consume. By building community for girls to be seen, be heard, be loved, and belong, to discover their innate worth, and to embrace and celebrate who they are, we will transform their lives and create a healthier, more powerful world. Our local and digital community, premium, curated, and user-generated content, and targeted educationbased programs all address the emotional, mental and physical well-being of girls. COMMUNITY: We build online and offline community to give girls a safe space to DISCOVER, BE, and EXPRESS who she is. CONTENT: Media is the most powerful tool to influence how a girl defines herself. We CREATE, CURATE, and ADVOCATE for premium and user-generated content for various distribution channels to inspire healthy conversations and honest perspectives. EDUCATION: We are providing tangible tools and resources with an interactive curriculum to teach girls emotional intelligence, professional skills and personal development.

Contact: Laurel Schwartz and Sarah Rosen.

Feminist Union Feminist Union Scripps College will build a community-based anti-racist feminist space of reflection, action, and self care. We will create dialogues about approaches to gender justice that are plural, critical, and constructive. Our approach rests on the premise that gendered inequalities emerge from plural experiences of power and systemic oppression. These include, but are not limited to, racial, gendered, classed, and national positioning in which we are differentially located both within our communities and as individuals. We hope to create a space where self sustainability and grassroots leadership among the most marginalized communities, with a particular focus on those experiencing gendered violence, are supported in ways that create learning as well as progressive social change. We will endorse a space of self-care by inviting organizers and community members to share and discuss the experience of activism among marginalized communities. We believe that shared experiences are a source of power, support, and comfort, and that is why our intervention as a Feminist Union is to advocate for structural support for the Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies department, and recognizing self care as a necessary part of engaging in this work. We envision collective leadership that mindfully creates projects and campaigns that blend thinking and action in progress and transformative ways. Contact: Zandalee Springs and Kay James.

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High Frequency Trading: Good or Bad?

By Kara Odum ‘17 Economics Columnist Michael Lewis’ new book “Flash Boys” explores the world of high frequency trading, a new trading method that is changing the stock market landscape. His book has sparked much debate among investors with the ultimate question being: Is High frequency trading good or bad?

High frequency trading (HTF) is a trading platform that uses algorithms to determine trades and powerful computers to carry out large orders at ridiculously fast speeds. These algorithms analyze data from multiple markets and execute orders based on a strategy of edging out a profit of a fraction of a cent per share. This approach has become more popular as connection speeds have amped up: stock exchanges can now execute trades in less than a half of a millionth of a second, such that as of 2009 it is estimated that more than 50% of exchange volume comes from high-frequency trading orders.

The market collapse in 2008 paved the way for a wider acceptance of HFT, since liquidity was such a major concern for investors during the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Liquidity is how quickly one form of an asset can be changed into another or in the stock market, how soon you can buy or sell a stock. Exchanges started offering incentives for companies to add liquidity to the market, precisely what HFT does best. The New York Stock Exchange has its own system to provide liquidity and increase competition in the market; these providers are called supplemental liquidity providers (SLPs). While the rebate for providing liquidity is negligible for the average trader, $.0015 per share, HFT firms make a profit from

Liquidity was such a major concern for investors during the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Liquidity is how quickly one form of an asset can be changed into another or in the stock market, how soon you can buy or sell a stock.

up. It was later found that a single massive sell order from an algorithm belonging to a Kansas firm was responsible for a domino like series of events that sent the market into a temporary panic. Another example of HFT gone bad was when Knight Capital, a midsize financial firm,

While the rebate for providing liquidity is negligible for the average trader, $.0015 per share, HFT firms make a profit from this rule since they make millions of transactions a day. Their main strategy relies on being able to execute trades first to take advantage of slight price discrepancies. By buying a stock first, they can turn around and sell it seconds later for a slightly higer price, and when this is done frequently enough, HFT firms make bank. had a program go rogue when it was supposed to be deactivated. This program continued to place trade orders for 45 minutes before it could be deactivated, costing the company about $10 million per minute. If something like this were to happen to a firm that was considered to be too big to fail, the market could be wrecked and the company might have to be bailed out by the government.

Supporters of HFT insist that it contributes a service to the market and that it isn’t so different from what other investors do. HFT does add a lot of liquidity to the market, which may help prevent a lock up of assets in the stock market.

The amount of trading and strategies used by these firms add competition to the market, which

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could drive down the price of stocks and more efficiently allocate capital. Also, since most trades are carried out by algorithms, human vulnerability is removed, which may help to prevent market drops due to fear. HFT helps investors cut transaction costs by adding infrastructure to the stock market and opening up networks between the different exchanges. Only time will tell whether or not HFT will be here to stay or will be wiped out by regulatory rulings and intense competition.

this rule since they make millions of transactions a day. Their main strategy relies on being able to execute trades first to take advantage of slight price discrepancies. By buying a stock first, they can turn around and sell it seconds later for a slightly higher price, and when this is done frequently enough, HFT firms make bank.

Some issues with this new approach to the stock market include regulatory concerns and market stability. The SEC has not been able to effectively monitor or regulate today’s market since the extent of this trading strategy and its effects have only recently come to light. However, the SEC is planning a campaign to tighten regulations on this aspect of the financial industry but as of now, the SEC has not addressed HFT firms directly.

Concerns about market stability were raised after the “flash crash” in 2010 when the market plunged by 10% only to recover in minutes.

Nearly one trillion dollars in value was wiped out momentarily before the market bounced back

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a beginner’s guide to star trek

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Caroline Nelson ‘16 TV Columnist

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aybe you’ve got a friend who’s a Trekkie, maybe you’ve run across some fun stuff on Tumblr, or maybe, like me, you saw the most recent film last summer and it made you want to see those characters in something that wasn’t a slapped together piece of crap. Whatever the reason you’re interested in watching “Star Trek” for the first time. But this is a more daunting task than it may seem, “Star Trek” has been on and off the air since the 1960’s, with each spinoff getting less comprehensible to the casual viewer. Where do you begin? Do you watch the shows or the movies? What should you watch and what should you skip? Hopefully I can answer some of those questions for you.

First of all what is “Star Trek”? “Star Trek” refers to the six television shows and twelve movies which all take place within the Star Trek Universe. These all trace their heritage to the original “Star Trek” series created by Gene Roddenberry back in the sixties, to which we shall now turn our attention: “Star Trek: The Original Series” (TOS) AKA The One With Kirk and Spock “The Original Series” was very much of its time, and I don’t just mean that all the women wore miniskirts and go-go boots. This series is campy, allegorical, and overwhelmingly optimistic. One of the great things about the show’s general lack of logic and consistency and its love of cobbling together sets out of anything it could find was that it was a show where anything could happen. The premise of the show is that two hundred years from now, in a utopian future free from poverty, war, and racism, the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew go roving around the galaxy looking for new life forms to say hello to and ask them if they want to join the United Federation of Planets. A product of the Space Age and the Great Society, this show was partially created as a fun way to play around with genre, but also as a way of discussing social and political issues using the science fiction setting as a safe space to address issues that Roddenberry couldn’t have brought up in a realist work. The first interracial kiss in television history took place on an episode of “Star Trek” and this series was groundbreaking for showing a racially integrated future with nonstereotyped characters of color playing major roles. According to George Takei, Roddenberry would have liked to have a gay character on the show but that just wasn’t going to happen, so he had to make due with Kirk and Spock. While the blatant homoeroticism of the two’s relationship created slash fiction, just about every other thing associated with the

phenomenon we now know as fandom can be traced back to the original “Star Trek.”

Best Episodes (you don’t have to watch these in any particular order, this series has little to no continuity): The Space Seed, The Naked Time, The Trouble With Tribbles, A Piece of the Action, The Devil In the Dark, The Corbomite Maneuver, Mirror, Mirror, The City on the Edge of Forever, The Journey to Babel, The Doomsday Machine, The Balance of Terror, The Immunity Syndrome, Specter of the Gun, This Side of Paradise, and Amok Time IN SPACE!!! This show was originally pitched as “Wagon Train to the Stars” so let’s say “Gunsmoke” or “Bonanza” in space.

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• Subject: Anthropology • Genre: Western/Sword and Sandals Epic “Star Trek: The Animated Series” (TAS) AKA The Cartoon One After “The Original Series” got cancelled they made further adventures with the original crew of the Enterprise. This series sucks. There’s nothing else to say. The animation is cheap, despite the fact that the episodes are twenty minutes long they drag, and the actors aren’t suited to do voice talent.

Episodes that aren’t completely awful: Yesteryear is actually good and Mudd’s Passion is kind of funny.

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• Subject: Sucking • Genre: Stuff you watch when you’re stoned/drunk/bored out of your mind “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (TNG) AKA The One that Started the Kirk vs. Picard Fights This series is proof that spin offs, sequels, and reboots don’t have to suck. After the success of the “Star Trek” movies in the eighties the series was brought back to the small screen with a new cast of characters.

Whether or not this iteration is better or worse than the previous show is a matter of some debate, but fans of the series tend to like both. When people think of “Star Trek,” they either think of “The Original Series” or this show. Though still fun and hopeful, “The Next Generation” is more restrained serious. It also started to make use of subplots and story arcs and had ongoing character development. It introduced new and important aliens like the Borg, a terrifying race of robotic zombies and further developed groups like the Klingons who used to just serve as the bad guys. This show also introduced the coolest piece of technology never invented: the holodeck, a room that projects holograms of whatever you want, allowing you to virtually go anywhere you want.

Best Episodes (You should probably go season by season on these): The Best of Both Worlds, The Inner Light, Measure of a Man, Chain of Command, The Offspring, Darmok, Tapestry, Q pid, Yesterday’s Enterprise, Frame of Mind, The Big Goodbye, Unification, The Defector, Cause and Effect, Family, Relics IN SPACE!!! “Horatio Hornblower” in Space and, in more laid back episodes, “The Office”in Space.If you like…

• Subject: English • Genre: Adventure/Office Dramedy “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (AKA The One That’s Super Serial You Guys ) After “The Next Generation,” the next three shows were pretty divisive.

“Deep Space Nine” has its own particular fan group, known as “Niners,” who like the series and its dark tone better than the cheery optimism of most of “Trek,” and there are Trekkies who think “Deep Space Nine” is a lame knockoff of “Battlestar Galactica” which takes itself too seriously.

This show is the first to have a captain of color and the first to have a premise that didn’t revolve around space exploration. Basically Captain Sisko is in charge of a space station located above a wormhole. He must deal with whatever comes through the wormhole in addition to dealing with various alien groups that have long and nasty histories together and don’t get along.

Best Episodes: In the Pale Moonlight, Take Me Out to the Holosuite, Trials and Tribble-ations, Duet, Far Beyond the Stars, The Visitor, The Wire, Hard Time, The Die Is Cast, You Are Cordially Invited IN SPACE!!! “Fort Apache” in Space

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• Subject: Politics • Genre: Procedural/Political Thriller “Star Trek Voyager” AKA The One With The Lady Captain “Voyager” is also split between those who love its premise and protagonists and sexist guys who can’t stand Captain Janeway. I realize this isn’t exactly fair but the studio did get death threats for putting a woman in charge of the ship and Janeway attracts some of the most virulent hate of any captain. She also has a strong fanbase and I have noticed that there’s a gendered pattern to this. Women tend to like her, and her critics tend to be male and either claim that they just don’t agree with her command decisions, or blatant misogynists like the Star Trek commentator SFDebris. Putting the issue of gender aside, “Voyager” tells the story of the titular ship that is swept thousands of lightyears away from earth on a routine mission and their struggle to get back home. Like “Deep Space Nine,” it is a darker iteration of “Star Trek” but still plenty of fun and features lots of great characters.

Best Episodes: Bride of Chaotica, Message in a Bottle, Eye of the Needle, Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy, The Killing Game, Heroes and Demons, Author, Author, The Scorpion, A Year In Hell, Dark Frontier, The Thaw, Timeless, Living Witness, Blink of an Eye IN SPACE!!! “The Odyssey” in Space If you like…

• Subject: Women’s Studies • Ge http://fanart.tv/fanart/tv/73566/clearart/ StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries-73566-2.png nre: Workplace/Family Drama with the occasional Nazi alien “Star Trek Enterprise” (AKA The One That Nobody Likes)

Poor little “Enterprise.” This show came after a very long run of “Trek” and at this point the franchise needed an injection of fresh blood.

Unfortunately it didn’t get it until Season 4 and by that point it was too late. “Enterprise” was a show nobody really wanted to make, and as a result the characters are poorly defined and the plots are tired. However when it started to get good, it got really good. “Enterprise” is a prequel to “The Original Series” that takes place before the formation of the Federation and before space travel was something normal for humans.

At its best it shows different groups learning to work together for the common good and occasionally destroying super weapons. “Enterprise” is also an easy show to go into without any previous knowledge of “Trek,” since viewers get to encounter things from the rest of the franchise for the first time.

Best Episodes: Shuttlepod One, Minefield, Acquisition, Regeneration, Similitude, Twilight, Damage, The Forgotten, Countdown, Zero Hour, Exile, Storm Front, The Forge, Awakening, Kirshara, In A Mirror Darkly IN SPACE!!! At its very best it kind of feels like “Lord of the Rings” in Space If you like…

• Subject: History • Genre: Historically Inaccurate Soap Opera Note: These “best of” lists are not all of my own creation; they have been compiled from various best episode lists around the Internet. If you don’t want to take my word for it, check out TV tropes where people suggest and vote on episodes.

Another Note: Though I personally like to watch the pilot, first “Star Trek” pilots tend to be terrible (no pun intended), so I’d recommend you skip those as they might turn you off an otherwise good show.

reservations for COLLAB alexander wang x h&M Stephanie Huang ‘16 Fashion Columnist As a skeptic when it comes to mass corporation and designer collaborations, I don’t know exactly how I feel about the upcoming Alexander Wang x H&M that was announced at Coachella, to be in-stores November 6 next fall.

Known for his minimalism and attention to monochrome staples,

it is questionable whether Wang’s details, quality, and construction will translate seamlessly into products on a mass-produced and more affordable level.

With previous collaborations including Marni, Isabel Marant (one of my personal faves from the past), and Versace, to name a few, the Swedish fashion house has racked up an impressive line-up.

The issue that still stands with me is the overhype of such collections, and that while these collections are about making designer items accessible to the “average” consumer, they sell out within the first week and are marked up on eBay until they cost just as much as or more than the original designer items. The exclusivity of such collections also requires

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that shoppers pay more than they usually would. This elitist retail outlook is something that deters me from being a fan of such collaborations.

Yet despite all these reservations, I trust the man, and have been a fan of probably every single piece that has been made under his name, so I’ll keep quiet until I see the collection.

8 • Arts & Culture

scripps bloggers share lives online

By Natalie Eisen ‘17 Staff Writer Like superheroes, many people have their own sort of secret identity. That girl in your class may be ravenously obsessed with a television show; that person you saw across the dining hall could be a first-class juggler. And in this day and age, pretty much anyone could be running a blog.

By now it’s possible to carve out a space of your own in the rugged frontier that is the Internet— and indeed, Scripps students contribute to everything from creative writing blogs to blogs more focused on social justice, spaces celebrating geekdom, and places to describe in loving detail each aspect of studying abroad. What unites Scripps bloggers (and really, bloggers in general) is a passion that leads them to put fingers to keyboards, touchscreens, and frustratingly imprecise phone keyboards to talk about what they love.

At least that’s the case for Megan Gianniny ‘14. She says, “I think my identity as a geek/nerd is a really important part of myself that people can’t always tell from looking at me (although they certainly can if I’m wearing one of my many “Doctor Who” shirts), and blogging gives me a way to share that passion with a wider online audience.”

Gianniny says that community provided by blogging has been a great part of what makes blogging exciting and enjoyable for her — and in fact, a large motivating factor for many bloggers is the idea of a community with similar interests and passions.

Sarah Luna Lockwood ’16 also found that she thrived in an online

Selene Hsu ‘15 is studying abroad in London this semester and using wordpress to document her adventures across the pond. Her frequently-updated blog can be found at selenestudiesabroad.wordpress.com and includes photos documenting her travels around Europe as well as her food experiences.

community— “in my life,” she says, “it provided a very vital connection.

It’s never good to spend too much time online, but I think that the Internet can provide a certain kind of happiness to people who don’t have access to it otherwise.”

For many people, that happiness can be a powerful motivator. But there are as many reasons for starting a blog as there are blogs and people who run them. Alicen Lewis ’15 says she started her own blog in part to have a platform to express her opinions and share her views.

“I have so many ideas I want to put out there,” she says, “that I just don’t have time to put down on paper.”

Others agree— “it is a perfect opportunity to be creative,” says Selene Hsu ‘15, “and exercise writing skills that would really help articulate the kind of person you are to future employers or to anyone on the blogosphere!”

“I highly recommend anyone interested in blogging to go ahead and make one,” continues Hsu, who mainly focuses on her experience studying abroad in her own blog.

“My only advice is to not go into making a blog with the mindset of having it perfect. Be authentic.

Learn from your mistakes. Have fun!

Don’t be intimidated by established blogs since they all had to start from somewhere too!”

“I think if it’s something that

someone has a strong interest in, and something they’re truly passionate about, then I would recommend they go for it, no matter what,” agrees Gianniny. “I think the joy of getting to share your passions with an audience, however large or small it may end up being, outweighs the difficulties of balancing it with student life.”

Sure, balancing schoolwork, a blog, and some sort of social life can be a tough situation. But at the end of the day, it’s pretty good to have a space to be yourself— express your own views, talk about things that get you excited, or just share your day-to-day life. It’s a great big world out there. May as well get blogging about it.

Megan Gianniny ‘14 is the Editor of TV for the blog dailygeekette.wordpress.com, a blog that prides itself in providing content for “ladies, fandoms, & nerds, oh my!” Their goals are to make sure the women voices of the geek community are heard, and to focus on women’s issues within the scope of the geek life.

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scripps seniors: what is my thesis called?

Ann Kirkpatrick Major: History & Hispanic Studies “Playthings of a Historical Process”: Prostitution in Spanish Society from the Restoration to the Civil War (1874-1939) Lily Stewart Major: Religious Studies Canonizing Episcopal ‘Naughtiness’: Negative Portrayals of Bishops and the Bishopric in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography Eliana Rudee Major: Politics & International Relations Perceptions and Strategic Concerns of Gender in Terrorism Caroline Novit Major: Creative Nonfiction Writing I’ll Write You: An Experiment in Epistolary Form Anna Petkovich Major: English & FGSS “Her Power is Her Own”: Classed Confines, Gendered Expectations, and Questions of Social Movement in The House on Mango Street Vicki Wong Major: Human Biology Major, Asian American Studies Minor Don’t Be Led by the Lead: Racialism, Segregation and the “Poisoned Criminal” Imaginary Ina Herlihy Major: Economics What is the impact of the technology boom on housing in San Francisco?

Kathleen Shangraw Major: Neuroscience Characterization of auditory inputs to a brain area required for learned vocal production Kelly Davis Major: Organismal Biology Shoulder Impingement in Water Polo Players Jessica Warren Major: Anthropology Growing Together Separately: An Analysis of the Influence of Individualism in an Alternative Educational Setting Jamie Lowe Major: Biology The Effects of Music Therapy on Stress Induced Muscle Pain Jacqueline Freedman Major: Media Studies Disidentified Masculinities Julia Howard Major: Sociology Kitchen Justice: Gender Difference in Building Common Ground Sarah Taylor Major: Creative Writing Letters to Yoko Ono Hilary Sager Major: Public Policy Analysis & Sociology What Happens to a Dream Deferred? An Evaluation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Megan Pritchett Major: Sociology Title: “I’m a Jesus feminist”: Understandings of Faith, Gender, and Feminism Among Christian Women

Emily Quinn Finney Major: Physics Using Radio Relics to Constrain the Dynamics of 1 RXS 0603.3+4214 Lauren Becker Major: History The Myth Still Lives: Pachuco Subculture and Symbolic Styles of Resistance Joanne Chern Major: English Restoring, Rewriting, Reimagining: Asian American Science Fiction Writers and the Time Travel Narrative Christine Zenel Major: Anthropology A Paradoxical Paradise: The Marquesas as a Degenerate and Regenerative Space in the Western Imagination Leah Soffer Major: Economics Public Funding for the Arts: Welfare for the Wealthy?

Lauren Prince Major: Media Studies Beauty and the Body: Gendered Representations of the Digitally Altered Image Anna Walton Major: Music Senior Composition Recital Natasha Pabrai Major: Biology The use of anti-CD3 treatment and genetic screening to delay further beta cell destruction in type 1 diabetes Vivian Delchamps Major: English “For the Woman First of All”: Walt Whitman and Women’s Literary History Emily Rhodes Lindburg Major: Cognitive Science Feminist Stereotypes: Communal vs. Agentic Casey Maas Major: Psychology Decoding Faces: The Contribution of SelfExpressiveness Level and Mimicry Process to Emotional Understanding Ingrid Van Valkenburg Major: English & Economics The Factors for Choosing a Partner: Using Economic Theory to Enhance Readings of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” and “Pride and Prejudice” Sharmishtha Gupta Major: Anthropology & History What it Means to be Singaporean: NationBuilding, National Identity and Ethnicity in Twentieth Century Singapore Hannah Shoenhard Major: Philosophy Economic Liberty and Justice in Critiques of John Rawls Irina Rabkina Major: Neuroscience Examining the Intersection of the Cognitive Advantages and Disadvantages of the Bilingual Brain Jade Ulrich Major: Media Studies James Deen: The Feminist Enigma

Jane Eisenberg Major: Geology Structure, Composition, and Emplacement History of Orbicular Granites and Comb Layering, Sierra and Sequoia National Forests, CA Nikki Broderick Major: Politics “This is Seattle”: Parents Involved in Community Schools and the Grassroots Fight Against Busing Hanna Brody Major: Biology Investigating the function of selfish DNA satellites through expression profiling in the Jewel Wasp testis Kiley Lawrence Major: Biophysics, A Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Sequence Context Effects on CpG Methylation in DNA Catherine Schetina Major: English, “It Made the Ladies into Ghosts”: The Male Hero’s Journey and the Destruction of the Feminine in William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” and Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” Lisa Beem Major: Environmental Analysis/Economics Connecting Residents with Their Watershed Through Green Stormwater Infrastructure: A Case Study of Thornton Creek, Seattle, Washington Monkgogi Bonolo Otlhogile (MK) Major: Environment, Economics & Politics Diamonds Are Not Forever: An Assessment of Mineral Wealth’s Effects on Economic and Human Development in Middle Income Botswana Theresa Iker Major: American Studies, Gals Getting “Reno-vated”: Individual Transformation and National Change During the Rise and Fall of the Reno Divorce Ranches Rose DuCharme Major: English & French Studies Mad Love and Narrative Uncertainty in the Twentieth Century: A Study of “The Good Soldier” and “Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein” Allison Riegle Major: Art, Rieglematica: Re-imaging the Photobooth Through Female Performativity and Self-Portraiture Marie Angeles Major: English & Philosophy On the Matter of God’s Goodness: An Examination of the Failure of Theodicies, Herman Melville, and an Alternative Approach to the Problem of Evil Allyson Healey Major: Art History, Canvass Flirtations and Kissing for Votes: Representations of the Duchess of Devonshire in the Westminster Election of 1784 Shravani Bobde Major: Biology Mapping the Landscape of Huntington’s Disease: Internal Education and External Research Dana Shaker Major: Anthropology Title: Dwelling in Possibility: Narrating, Requesting, and Providing Food “Options” in the Lives of Dietary-Restricted College Students

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april showers bring may flowers and fun events MAY 2

Track & Field SCIAC Championships @ Occidental, all day Women’s Tennis SCIAC Championships @ CMS, all day Softball TBD vs. CMS #1 Seed Hosts Softball v. Chapman @ Redlands, SCIAC Tournament

MAY 10

Track & Field @ Occidental Invitational, all day Women’s Tennis NCAA Team Championships: 3rd Round @ CMS, all day

MAY 16

Women’s Golf NCAA Championships @ Howie-in-the-Hills, FL, all day Track & Field @ Redlands, Last Chance

The Claremont Concert Orchestra Sat, May 3 at 8 p.m.

Sun, May 4 at 3 p.m.

Garrison Theater

5c Dance Company Showcase Sunday, May 4 4:30 p.m.

Edmunds Ballroom

MAY 3

Track & Field SCIAC Championships @ Occidental, all day Women’s Tennis SCIAC Championships @ CMS, all day Softball TBD vs. CMS #1 Seed Hosts

MAY 13

Women’s Golf NCAA Championships @ Howie-in-the-Hills, FL, all day

MAY 19

Women’s Tennis NCAA Team Championships @ CMS, all day

Pomona & Oxtoby: Reconsider Divestment Thursday, May 1 2:30- 3:30 p.m.

SCC Fountain, Pomona College

Psyko Taiko Spring Concert Friday, May 2 7- 8 p.m.

Balch Auditorium

MAY 8

Track & Field Claremont Classic XI, Decathlon/Heptathlon Only, 12 p.m.

MAY 14

Women’s Golf NCAA Championships @ Howie-in-the-Hills, FL, all day

MAY 20

Women’s Tennis NCAA Team Championships @ CMS, all day

Glee Club Concert!

Thursday, May 1 8 p.m.

Bridges Hall of Music Pomona College

Meditation Retreat Sunday, May 4 1-5 p.m.

Smith Campus Center (SCC), Pomona College

MAY 9

Track & Field Claremont Classic XI, Decathlon/Heptathlon Only, 2 p.m.

Women’s Tennis NCAA Team Championships - 2nd Round @ CMS, all day

MAY 15

Women’s Golf NCAA Championships @ Howie-in-the-Hills, FL, all day

MAY 21

Women’s Tennis NCAA Team Championships @ CMS, all day

Pomona College Senior Exhibition: Viscerreal Wednesday, May 7 7-9 p.m.

Pomona College Museum of Art

CCBDC in Concert Sat, May 3 7 p.m.

Sun, May 4- 11 a.m.

Bridges Auditorium Pomona College

Compiled by Jessica Lin, Design Editor

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Dear CCBDC,

Student Life • 11

A letter to the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company

Elizabeth Lee ‘16 Design Editor here are those who look on from afar with intrigue or envy upon the common sighting of a team jacket around campus. There are also those who are dismissive of CCBDC as a band of misfits, an arrogant cult, or even a semidangerous web of bedazzled obsession. I saw a potentially safe and familiar space as well as an excitingly new experience to take on. I have been a part of Team for a year now, really just a semester, and how quickly that semester has passed. And yet so much has happened since I joined that the beginning already seems long ago.

This is a love letter, yet make no mistake—it is not one written without honesty or consideration of more than just the amiable aspects.

Since joining, I have come across many who are remarkably caring, beautiful, and inspiringly strong, as well as jerks and spineless “syndrome” sufferers. Oftentimes they’ve all even existed within single individuals, and I have loved and appreciated the many identities that constitute the whole.

Even within Team, among the most dedicated members, there are those who eventually stop feeling like it is worthwhile. It is actually quite common among those to whom it matters most when the ultimate reality “tumbles short of [their] dreams,” as Nick Carraway puts it. There is a life course that sometimes ends in not only accomplishment and personal transformation but also exhausted disillusionment. I, however, am still just at its beginning.

You could say that I have little experience with Team on which to develop my perception of it or that I can’t ever know how it used to be, but one thing being on Team has taught me is that a lack of experience or knowledge does not necessarily mean I have nothing worthwhile to offer. This letter of gratitude, while perhaps small, is a reflection of my own experiences, which matter significantly to me. I thought about publishing this letter anonymously, because it is one that could reflect the experiences of and therefore could have been written by many others. But my identity would not be so hard to determine for those to whom it could possibly matter, and the inclusion of a name validates this account as undeniably real. Perhaps the effect of being on Team is individually unique and not eventually without its drawbacks, but there are still so many meaningful things to be and that have been gained.

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Last semester, after only spending a few hours a week on Beginners team and a Beginning Social class, I decided to show up to a weekend workshop. Upon my arrival, I watched shyly and uncomfortably for a few minutes from the side, not knowing anyone, as the highestlevel team dancers practiced for Nationals. Thinking I had come at the wrong time, but mostly just intimidated, I left, pretty certain I would not return. That night I received a message from one of those advanced dancers saying they were sorry they had missed me and hoped I would come back. It was one of the first of many times I remember someone making me feel visible and extending a hand, and it is an example of those many small moments I have experienced with CCBDC that would end up making

positive perception of competitive dance, ate an absurd amount of Subway sandwiches, danced a foxtrot with a cross-dressing Marilyn Monroe, came to accept hair gel as a necessary evil, and even learned some ballroom dancing and won a few ribbons. Joining Team provoked a domino effect that has helped and is still helping me build confidence and become less afraid or shut off from the world. It is a process throughout which the CCBDC community has been present all the while, yet which I expect to continue long after my time with it is over.

Many of my other CCBDC experiences and relationships I consider important extend beyond the realm of Team; however, they are still unofficially associated with it in my mind. There are so many interesting conversations to be

CCBDC Competitive Couples Spring ‘14, Courtesy of Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company

all the difference.

The next weekend, I came back.

And from there, I started attending more workshops, even letting myself be convinced to come back early from winter break to learn things far beyond my level at the time.

Since I survived those, I figured I may as well try the advanced classes, which were challenging but manageable enough to encourage me to audition for Tour team. Again, team members went out of their way to help me work on the new material, and in that process I met who would become my close friend and competitive dance partner.

Up until then, my prior experiences with dance, specifically ballet, competitions had been relatively unpleasant and even damaging, but after much encouragement, I decided to give competitive ballroom a try. Along the way, I met an incredibly supportive group of people, developed a far more

had among people of such diverse backgrounds when they are all united by a common interest and hours spent in practice. I’ve had so many new songs, old quotes, random articles, movie nights, unhealthy snacks, and funny links shared with me. I’ve enjoyed silent and understanding company while watching a lunar eclipse and while waiting for the sun to rise. These experiences, while they have little to do with dancing, happen because of what Team is and because of the people who make it that way.

Members end up discovering new aspects of themselves and are inspired to see things differently or make changes in their own lives, because ballroom becomes so embedded in our lives overall.

For me, it became about conquering fear—not learning to ignore it or eliminate it but being able to know it and face it. There is the fear of the new or unknown that

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upon learning to improvise, social dance, or just give in to ridiculously silly impulses seems more within your control. You learn to make the distinctions between protecting yourself versus holding back, losing yourself versus self-discovery, passively and unconsciously fumbling along versus letting it go (yes, that was a reference to this year’s anthem). There is the fear of honesty and openness that recedes in light of what might be gained and makes hiding less appealing when being asked to dance inspires the courage within you to start asking others to dance with you. And there is the fear of caring—of letting others become meaningful parts of your life and of letting yourself become part of a larger existence and network of support—a fear that becomes worth overcoming. There are not many rules, expectations, or assigned roles in this community that determine any individual’s value or how members are allowed to interact with one another.

Instead we all belong to a larger family in which every individual is important and cared for in a safe and comfortable space. It is a system that is not also without some confusion, disappointment, or pain to complicate the relationships within it, but it is also quite simple.

If you need care, why shouldn’t we provide it? If you want to offer care, why shouldn’t we accept it?

This caring often takes a variety of forms, but they all contribute to the overall sense of nourishment that Team provides.

Maybe a year from now I will have turned more cynical towards Team.

Maybe I will have grown weary with frustration and disappointment at its having failed me or in my own failing of it—maybe even enough to leave Team, as all are bound to do at some point, if at different times and for different reasons. All things in life, including the things we love and even we ourselves, inevitably change or drift apart but they are all forever impacted by their interactions with each other. For now I am still enamored with what there is to gain—happy memories to look back on, new experiences from which to learn, and relationships with people who make those things matter even more. Now is what is real. It is what makes this all worth saying and makes everything we put into and get out of Team worth experiencing. But these “now”s will also stay with me personally for a long time and have irrevocably affected the course of “now”s to come.

With love and gratitude, Elizabeth

12 • Student Life

editor-in-chief megan petersen ‘15 says thank you for a fantastic year Megan Petersen Editor-in-Chief

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o the Scripps community, from the bottom of my heart: Thank you.

This year has been a wild ride for all of us, but it’s hard to believe it’s already coming to a close.

This has been a fantastic year for the newspaper, and I write these words for the final issue with both sadness that this is it for Volume 17 of The Scripps Voice but also with excitement for what is to come.

But first, I have to say thank you to all the people without whom the paper would not exist.

Thank you to every single one of our writers and photographers who have filled these pages, and to the guest contributors who have graciously given us their words and ideas. This paper is only a voice for Scripps students if Scripps students make it so.

Thank you to the editorial staff: Elizabeth Lee, Ashley Minnis-Lemley, Jessica Lin, Elena Pinsker,

Photo courtesy of Mia Polansky, Rice University ‘17

and Alex Vallas (and Selene Hsu too!) for putting up with me on layout nights, and for putting the newspaper together with grace and speed. We tried to come up with a good word to describe Alex, but she is beyond description. Safe to say, we will miss her next year as she departs to complete the rest of her 3-2 engineering degree.

Thank you to Lily Comba and Rosario Bennett, our business managers who brought in the most ad revenue we’ve ever had.

Thanks to web managers Sophie Saouma and Emily Morris. Best of luck as you graduate.

Thank you to Sam Haynes, our advisor, for sticking with us through a very challenging year for him, for always advocating for us, and for always reassuring us that we were doing good work.

A million thank-yous to Aidan Harley. She did more work than was her fair share, and she gave everything she had to this publication. I don’t know how I’ve done these last few issues without her — without her powerful leadership, her incredible writing, and her loving friendship. I wish you all the best in your future adventures.

Thank you to President Bettison-Varga for sending this paper to a conference at the New York Times in March. Expect to see some innovation as a result of that conference starting next semester.

Finally, thank you so much, Scripps, for the opportunity to lead your paper, and for supporting Aidan and me throughout this process. So many of you have told us that we’ve done well, and, trust us, we always really needed to hear it.

Leading this publication has been one of the most exciting, most frustrating, most enlightening, and most empowering things that I have ever done. There were days when I wanted to rip my hair out because of this newspaper and there were days when it was the only thing for which I was willing to get out of bed. I will not serve as an editor-in-chief next year, but I will always cherish this experience.

I am excited to announce next year’s editorsin-chief. Elena Pinsker ’17 is a math major with

four years (and counting) of design and journalistic writing training under her belt. As a design editor this year, she has loved putting her hobby of fooling around on InDesign to good use. A Silicon Valley native, Elena can otherwise be found at Whole Foods looking for organic dino kale or ranting to somebody about FC Barcelona’s current lack of defense.

Lucy Altman-Newell ’17 is currently a staff writer, and has enjoyed writing since she learned the alphabet, and became involved with journalism in early 2010. She wrote for her high school paper for four years, eventually becoming Editorin-Chief there. She also founded an online literary magazine for her community, and has won awards for creative writing. In Claremont, she writes for The Scripps Voice and [in]VISIBLE. In her spare time, Lucy loves hiking, rock climbing, and spending time outdoors.

Thank you again, Scripps, for this amazing year. See you around!

Love always, Megan

Photo courtesy of Dagmar Kuta

zombies invade rancho santa ana botanic gardens in claremont Tamar Kaplan Staff Writer

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un for your life! The Claremont Zombie Run is happening soon and those who aren’t careful could turn into flesh-eating corpses, or worse, miss out on all the fun! If you watch AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” participate in Humans v.

Zombies, or keep a survival duffel stashed away for a “rainy apocalyptic day,” then this race is perfect for you.

Blood bath begins at 7 a.m. on Saturday, May 3 at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden here in Claremont. The garden is comprised of a dense maze filled with zombies at every turn ready to devour you (or to just steal your flag).

Individuals will be let into the maze in waves beginning at 7 a.m. with new waves happen-

ing every 10-15 minutes. Make sure to get there early, though, as registration for the race is at an unprecedented high. For people who prefer to do their zombie combat in groups, there will be designated times for teams to enter into the treacherous maze.

Those who make it through the maze with their flag belt still intact receive a complementary beverage. Individuals who are 21+ will get a drink from Dale Bros Brewery and anyone under 21 will get a drink from one of the many drink booths. Cheers to survival!

Don’t fret over losing all of your lives though, because everyone at the race, whether alive or undead, gets to attend the fun post-race party!

There will be music, food, activities, photo

opportunities, and local vendors. Who knew a zombie party could be so lively?

The race also has a charitable element to it, as some of the proceeds will be going to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the American Red Cross.

Registration is currently open and those interested in signing up should do so soon because tickets become more expensive closer to the race date. All registered runners will receive an unlimited number of times to make it through the course, a free event t-shirt, and a free pass for that same day to the Rancho Santa Ana general gardens.

For more information, go to claremontzombierun.com.

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