Volunteers and Kids Carve Out Their Own Halloween

By Ariane M. Balizet

The magic of Halloween, if I ever felt it, disappeared sometime after I donned my homemade bunny ears for the last time and before the frenzy and utter chaos of Harwood Halloween created an irreversible connection in my mind between a killer hangover and the image of a grinning pumpkin. Fortunately, there are those among us who keep Halloween Scrooges like me doubting our convictions, such as the nearly 300 Claremont College participants who hosted dozens of disadvantaged or disabled children this past Friday for Halloween festivities. [con't]

Maybe you’ve noticed our new hats? They’re an 80/20 acrylic/wool blend with an adjustable one-size-fits-all snap-back and a handy wide brim to protect our delicate, imperial faces from the blazin’ hot sun. They’re top quality. That’s the Bangladeshi factory way. Sadly, you, Pomona Student, can’t own one. And what many of you do not know is that we have also made an entire line of I.E. Regal-Wear®, each complete with the fancy-schmancy I.E. logo. But you can’t have those either. We have not the resources to satisfy Pomona College’s insatiable demand. [con't]

Photos From the Philippines’ "Burning Heart"

By David Roth

Many white people have felt entitled to the Philippines. Besides the Spanish, who have never felt bashful about breaking out their patented brand of colonialism, the United States at one point in time felt that the Philippines was crying out for some good ol’ American civilizing. At least 100,000 Filipino deaths, several concentration camps (no one much likes to talk about this), and a couple of embarrassingly brutal military campaigns later, America finally left the Philippines at the end of the Spanish-American war in 1898. Characteristically, we never looked back. There was money to be made, after all, wars to be fought, history to make. [con't]

These are the Tales, the Freaky Tales : Underground with Digital

By Daniel May

"Has anyone seen a giant orange hat?" I screamed into the Lyon dorm room. Eminem was on full volume, and the tiny group of freshman whose afterparty we had interrupted barely looked up from the dirty floor tiles whose glossy allure I only knew too well–a shine that proves unfailingly intriguing in those precious moments the world begins to spin. "Nah, that aint how you do it," my corn-rowed accomplice chastised me. He proceeded to show off the correct form. "How’s the party ya’ll" he called out with a smile. "Mind if I get a swig of this?" Shock-G, the lead MC of Digital Underground, barely waited for a response before he brought the half drank forty to his lips. [con't]

Quasi: Field Studies Jonathan Vanasco A&F Editor Sleater-Kinney was supposed to be all the rage. The all-girl-indie- rock-band-with-catchy-hooks-and-uncompromising-pop-sensibilities who provoked gushing descriptions with more hyphens than you could ever hope for. It was hard to walk into a party or take a ride in some hipsterís car without hearing "dum dum dee dum" or other overplayed singalongs, which always seemed to prompt two major debates about the band: whoís the cutest, and whoís the most talented. And through it all, seemingly meek drummer Janet Weiss fell sheepishly into the background of the band, and just never won any of those awards until now. [con't] Indigo Girls: Live at Bridges Auditorium Tamara Chellam Contributing Writer "So, we’ve been playing some really small places and not necessarily selling out everywhere, so weíre doing the guerrilla warfare thing," Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls told me before their show at Big Bridges last Tuesday night. "Going out there, bam! Don’t worry about what’s going on, just play your music. We never know what we’re going to play. We make the set list right before we go on. We like to play all of the new stuff because we’re doing that right now. But we’ll go off and play something weird or we’ll do an old song that we haven’t done for a while." [con't]

PoSA’s Latest Endeavor Sells Out to the Man

By Natasha Gronsky

"Babies, Boobs, and Puppies (What Sells)," the current PoSA (Pomona Organization of Student Art) exhibit, opened this past Friday, introducing a collection addressing the humor and tragedy of American consumerism and commercialism.

The pieces were varied in tone, from the serious to the surreal. A few of the funnier works were those of Andrew Evans ’02, Catherine Kernodle ’01, and Doug Meyer ’01. Evans’ piece included nine CD cases, each priced at $299.99, with names of familiar bands and albums such as Oasis and The Smiths. [con't]

Dining Around Town With Epi-Curious

The newest eatery at the Claremont Colleges is the Aramark run Sagehen Café, located at the new Smith Campus Center. Opened just one week, the Café features table service for lunch and dinner, and after hours desserts and coffee. The comfortable atmosphere and quality service is set in a room which is a little on the noisy side. Raul Duque, the Café manager, oversees all aspects of the operation from greeting and seating guests to monitoring the kitchen and the personnel. The Café has a limited but varied menu with choices to accommodate most. [con't]