By: Emme Laundry On Oct. 14, 2020, American students wrote essays on the rhetorical effectiveness of “Actually, Raising Beef Is Good for the Planet,” an article by cattle rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman featured in the SAT. As a vegan who’s passionate about activism and sustainability education, writing an essay explaining how effective this article’s rhetoric was pained me, to say the least–knowing so many others … Continue reading Bullshit Is Killing the Planet
By: Casey Xu and Emme Laundry On October 14th, 2021, students across the 5Cs demonstrated in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders protecting their sacred headwaters, Wedzin Kwa, from being drilled by the Coastal GasLink Pipeline project funded by Claremont McKenna College trustees Henry Kravis CM ’67 and George Roberts CM ’66. Roughly fifty students stood in the quad by the Cube and the Kravis Center … Continue reading The 5Cs of Divestment: Change, Coalition, Conflict, Criticism, and Censorship
Students protested at Scripps College this past Friday, November 15th, to get President Lara Tiedens to sign a carbon commitment. This protest was a culmination of over a year’s worth of attempts to work with the administration on institutionalizing sustainability at their school. Student organizers, Julia McCartan SC ‘21 and Clair Payne SC ‘21 began the protest by explaining that the purpose of a carbon … Continue reading Scripps’ Students Protest for Carbon Commitment
