Month: December 2023

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Mapping Student Resistance

By Jane Lovett SC ’25, Helen Chirigos PZ ’25 and Maya Forgus SC ’25 Archiving 5C history through the lens of student organizers and for the purpose of creating institutional memory for future generations of students and organizers is an important power-tracing tool. Archiving creates a space in which to understand historical and contemporary power mapping, movement formations, movement reiterations, and successful tactical strategies that … Continue reading Mapping Student Resistance

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Creative, Essays

Fingertips

By Sonali Mudunuri PZ ‘26 I’ve been having this nightmare where I’m twenty-six again in an A-line, bone-white, lacy gown that sits tight around my stomach. The air stands stiff and stilted; the silence crawls up my skin like starved gutter rats. In front of me, the unfamiliar sea of guests — which until now, just appeared as an amorphous, breathing fog — is staring … Continue reading Fingertips

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Opinion

America, Here is Why You Have the Most Olympic Gold: You’re Wealthy

By Tara Malhotra PZ ‘27 Congratulations, America; you have the most Olympic gold!  Throughout my childhood and adolescence, I always looked forward to the leap years – not because of the 29th day in February, but because of the Summer Olympics. Ethnically Indian, I would yearn to see Team India win medals, only to have my hopes shattered: even in the most recent 2020 Tokyo … Continue reading America, Here is Why You Have the Most Olympic Gold: You’re Wealthy

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Creative, Essays

What I’ve Learned From Living on Little Farms

By Wynne Chase PZ ’26 My whole life, I’ve worked on little farms. When I was young, my mom sent me to a co-ed overnight camp in Massachusetts, which, to this day, provides the brightest memories when I look back in nostalgia. I would wake up surrounded by about 25 other children my age, and make breakfast with the other early risers for everybody on … Continue reading What I’ve Learned From Living on Little Farms

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Culture, Opinion

A Holiday Guide to Talking About Palestine With Your Zionist Family 

By Anonymous PZ ’26 As I pack for break, a growing mass of sweaters, thick denim, and warm garments pile up at my ankles. These layers will eventually make it in my suitcase and act as armor when I face my family this holiday season. “Family,” my 27-person group chat of uncles, nieces, and grandparents, was once an extremely active chat filled with baby photos, … Continue reading A Holiday Guide to Talking About Palestine With Your Zionist Family 

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News

5C students create vigil for Palestinian Children and Die-In for International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

By Luca Rudenstine PZ ’26 On November 29th at 9:45 am, 5C students gathered on Marston Quad at Pomona College in all-black to prepare for a day of actions as a part of an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People “to demand an end to the siege in Gaza” and “Shut It Down! for Palestine.” The students were adorned in Keffiyehs and carried … Continue reading 5C students create vigil for Palestinian Children and Die-In for International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

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