By Mika Alexander In all honesty, I was nervous walking into COP27. Despite knowing I would be engaging in an international space, I arrived hyper-aware of my position as a woman of color surrounded by high-level negotiators, many of whom are elder men. For context, I am pretty used to my existence remaining unacknowledged in …
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Cecilia Timberg, 24', Gracie Roe, 25' and Reeve Schroeder, 24' present on SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities During SDG 11's group presentation, Mika Alexander, 23', was asked to do an interview with a Swiss newspaper on the importance of youth voices in civil society. All 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals Within the space …
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Hi, I'm Melanie and I'm a Molecular Biology major! For the past three weeks I have been taking MB325 - Immunology, which has been taught by Dr. Olivia Hatton. This block has been super interesting and relevant towards our current climate! Although, learning about the immune system has required me to pay attention to a …
Hello CC! My name is Hannah Baum, and I am a sophomore in Professor Karen Roybal’s Southwest Studies class, called Art, Power, & Resistance. The focus of our first week was art, embodiment, and tradition. Before starting to discuss the focus of the course, Southwest art, culture, and history, we spent two days discussing and …
"What we are seeing is death by a thousand cuts." -Maria Ressa In 2013, the Philippines became a trial-run for Facebook’s “Free Facebook” campaign, an effort to subsidize internet access for smartphone users. The campaign was heralded as a success; nearly 69 million Filipinos use Facebook today, compared to 29 million in 2012. Yet, as …
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Growing up in a small town in Oregon, I had little interaction with the military. Oregon has few active-duty military bases, most of which were several hours away. My first experience even really seeing members of the Armed Forces was on a trip to Portland to get ice cream (when you come from a small …
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In an effort to foster connection between our cohorts, Robin, a paraprofessional in the Geology department, posted photos of all of us in each classroom.In an effort to foster connection between our cohorts, Robin, a paraprofessional in the Geology department, posted photos of all of us in each classroom. Throughout the course of my first …
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During Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of Congress at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, senators from both sides of the aisle asked the following questions: "How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?" "Is Twitter the same as what you do?" “If I’m emailing …
At 8:00 am on Friday I boarded one of CC’s coach buses, feeling a sense of excitement I probably last felt in middle school—we were going on a field trip! View of the coach bus that my peers and I took to get to the site of our trip. This field trip had actually been …
Sometimes it can be hard to write about this class. But this difficulty doesn’t come from a lack of words or ideas. It comes more so from an overabundance of words and ideas as well as the reality that nothing I can write will be able to make anyone else truly understand and appreciate how …
