Month: December 2020

Culture, Podcasts

The Public Menu: Interview with Ivan Brehm, owner of Nouri

Welcome to the Public Menu!A podcast series that introduces you to the political and economic lenses of food industry professionals around the world. Highlighting the perspective of food industry leaders and workers not only offers underheard voices a seat at the table but is sure to leave you with food for thought. Created by Kristina Linder SCR ’21, Thomas Martinez PZ ’22, Jessica Mei SCR … Continue reading The Public Menu: Interview with Ivan Brehm, owner of Nouri

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Culture

The Claremont Mental Health Initiative

The Claremont Mental Health Initiative is a 7C student-led project dedicated to improving access to mental health resources at the 7C’s and beyond. We started in 2018 and have grown to 180+ members on Facebook, and spent the past couple of years developing and implementing a survey with help from the heads of Monsour, faculty, and students across the colleges. The survey received over 300 … Continue reading The Claremont Mental Health Initiative

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Culture

Wealth Distributions Maps

For a CMC Linear Algebra class, Aaron Scher PZ ’22, Daniel Abalusi PZ ’22, Yilin Li PZ ’22, and Seiji Akera PZ ’23 studied wealth distributions across the US. Above are a couple images they generated that they wanted to share. The first two maps show the income distribution in the United States based on 32,000 zip codes. The students used MATLAB to generate these … Continue reading Wealth Distributions Maps

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News

Student Organizers Speak: Elections and Social Change

In the aftermath of the presidential election, student organizers reflect on their political involvement and how to continue the fight for social change. For some, the focus remains on electing progressive candidates, for others this means taking a more local approach and investing in the practice of Mutual Aid.  President of 5C Democrats, Nevada Lee SC ‘22 described her reaction to Joe Biden and Kamala … Continue reading Student Organizers Speak: Elections and Social Change

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Culture, Poetry

I Left Behind My Books

I left swimming to the mermaids. God (Freud) made us all half-man, conjoined legs, and sterilized by  sex-ed explanations of the human race. On Sunday  I left baptism to nameless sirens: uvulas wrung dry.  (The salt sours their lungs as seafoam  guzzles from their throats). Moans stretch their lips until wry like a Doxen’s snout. Dusk’s drunk fishers see bitches without bones  honed to sharpen … Continue reading I Left Behind My Books

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Opinion, Opinions

Opinion: Police Brutality Towards Disabled People Deserves More Attention

Content warning: police violence, ableism, racism On September 4, a 13-year-old autistic boy named Linden Cameron of Salt Lake City, Utah was experiencing a mental health crisis due to “bad separation anxiety” from his mother going to work for the first time in more than a year. According to The Guardian, his mother, Golda Barton, called 911 to request for a crisis intervention team. Instead, … Continue reading Opinion: Police Brutality Towards Disabled People Deserves More Attention

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Opinion, Opinions

Democracy, Old and New: How Mutual Aid Can Point the Way Forward

We live in what is increasingly seen as a time of decay, decline, and injustice. In spite of clear statistical data showing majority support for progressive reform, we find ourselves forced to choose between a moderate presidential candidate (one with quite a record of racism and imperialism) and a sheer monster (We can celebrate that we’ve defeated the monster, but the moderate doesn’t inspire me … Continue reading Democracy, Old and New: How Mutual Aid Can Point the Way Forward

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