Amelie Lee ’23 Editor-in-Chief The Guest List by Lucy Foley (5 stars) After two upper-class elites plan an elegant wedding on an abandoned island, their matrimony comes to a screeching halt when the lights cut out and someone is...
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Members of Scripps Staff Incentivized to Terminate Relationship with the College through New Program
Anna Liss-Roy ’20 and Priya Canzius ’20 Co-Editors in Chief 6 June 2020 Some members of the Scripps community may not return next year due to a Voluntary Separation Incentive Program (VSIP) recently introduced by the College. On...
Where Are The “Emergency Funds” In This Emergency?: Investigating the Lack of Transparency and Effectiveness of Scripps Emergency Funds
Jamie Jiang ’22 Guest Contributor When Jane Doe’s (real name redacted for privacy reasons) laptop broke down in early April, she found herself unable to complete her class assignments. In one of Doe’s classes, she expressed her...
After Faculty Votes Against Universal Pass, Nobody Fails at Scripps Looks to the Future
Madison Yarduman ’22 Copy Editor What started as a small collective of Scripps seniors of color requesting commencement fee refunds and Universal Pass for the senior class quickly evolved into one of the largest activist...
After Years of Student Organizing, Scripps Drops Sodexo
Kendall Lowery ’22 Food Columnist/Copy Editor On May 15, Scripps President Lara Tiedens announced in an email that Scripps would not be renewing its dining services contract with Sodexo, the college’s dining service provider for...
Prequel to “The Hunger Games” Starring President Snow Falls Flat
Amelie Lee ’23 Copy Editor (Warning: spoilers for “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” ahead) In the weeks leading up to spring break, my friend Anna and I rewatched the entire “The Hunger Games” series, hoping to revisit the...
Length of Time Scripps Alumni are Able to Keep their Emails is Extended to an Undetermined Date
Priya Canzius ’20 Editor-in-Chief May 21, 2020 Following a campaign started by Kaela Fong ‘19 for Scripps students to be able to keep their .edu emails, Scripps has decided to extend the length of time that alumni will have...
What is it like for Students Residing at Scripps During the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Julia Cox ’23 Webmaster May 13, 2020 For the 14 students currently living on Scripps’ campus, the last two weeks have been a time of great adjustment. After a Scripps student on campus was diagnosed with Covid-19 on April 30...
The World is Still… We Should Try to Be Too
Crystal Juan ’22 and Sydney Lee (CMC) ’22 Staff Writers May 7, 2020 As a group of college students, we look into the future with curiosity, worry, and hope. To counterbalance a looming feeling of uncertainty, many of us...
Scripps Faculty Vote for Pass/No Record Grading with Opt-in Letter Grades Despite Student-Run Campaign in Support of Universal Pass Policy
Anna Liss-Roy ’20 Editor-in-Chief April 30, 2020 On Thursday April 30, Scripps faculty voted on four motions, deciding to implement a default pass/no record grading policy with the option for letter grades, according to multiple...