Spotlight: STEM at Scripps

Today STEM careers make up a huge portion of jobs that one can aspire to hold. As a women’s college, there is a particular interest in seeing our women in these industries. By Chloë Bazlen ‘18 and Natalie Camrud ‘17 did the numbers to give the most information possible on how many of our women graduate with a degree in a STEM field and what, more specifically, they are doing with those degrees. Design by Taylor Haas ‘18.

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Climate change: our generation’s biggest injustice

In the discussion of activism, it is important to remember that we are college students. Along with fighting injustice, we have papers to write and midterms for which to study. However, as Scripps students discover and become activists for their passions, climate change is an issue that often gets left by the wayside.

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Representation: seeing more people like me

When I was seven, the first Cheetah Girls movie was released and, like most other seven-year-olds, I was excited by the prospect of a singing girl group (boy bands were just not my thing back then). As an adolescent girl, I was drawn in by the promise of friendship and flashy dance numbers, but besides these obviously necessary aspects of a hit motion picture, there was something about the movie that really clicked for me. It was not until recently that I realized what exactly made this movie so memorable and important — not only for myself, but for so many of its viewers. It was the first time I remember seeing someone like me in mainstream media.

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Clark Humanities Museum hosts Edward Curtis photo exhibit

One key component of this year’s Core syllabus is the “Edward S. Curtis and ‘The Vanishing Race’: Ethnography, Photography and Absence in The North American Indian” exhibit in the Clark Humanities Museum. The exhibit serves as an on-campus response the to the continuing “Vanishing Indian” myth in American culture that positions Native American people and cultures as exotic figures in a distant past that have no place in contemporary society — a widespread attitude that is used to justify modern-day forms of erasure and violence.

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