Jada Shavers

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OPINIONS: Catfished by a Scripps-sponsored internship

Nov 8, 2024 | tsl.news | Jada Shavers |Scripps College

Last spring, when I was searching for an anthropology senior thesis, I found a flier posted at Scripps College detailing a fully funded research project in Senegal, Africa, guided by a Scripps professor. We all know the difficulty of finding any internship, so when I finally received a “Congratulations” email, I did everything to ensure that I would get the most from the opportunity. What I know now, however, is that it was all a waste. Let’s go back to the beginning.
OPINION: Body hair and bare ass: I want to see it all

Mar 29, 2024 | tsl.news | Jada Shavers

Every morning you get up and face the day. You prepare your bag, or your car, or your bike or whatever it is you need to get through the day. Usually, it’s a rushed morning. You are running around the house looking for your keys — which are hiding in the same place they always are — but your eyes are groggy and it takes you a couple tries to find them.
OPINION: To-do: Surviving the Post-Valentine’s Day Blues

Feb 16, 2024 | tsl.news | Jada Shavers |Valentine's Day

Happy two days post-Valentine’s Day to all my fellow single, lonely-heart readers. You made it! I mean this genuinely. This Wednesday, we survived all of the Instagram “I love you” stories, last-minute flower orders, happy couples, mail center packages and worst of all — public campus hand-holding. It seems Valentine’s Day is the one day when all public displays of affection become acceptable (even though they are not). Despite these gruesome scenes, you survived. We survived.
: ‘A safe space to make jokes’: Black Comic Cultures Stand-Up Showcase brings students to the stage

Apr 28, 2023 | tsl.news | Jada Shavers

Laughter poured from Pomona College’s Allen Theatre last Tuesday, April 18, as students huddled into the packed room, finding seats in chairs or room on the floor, to see the Black Comic Cultures Stand-Up Showcase. With around 10 student performers, the event explored a variety of experiences through humor in a comfortable environment for student voices to flourish.
‘Creative healing spaces’ at Pitzer’s Storyteller’s Festival

Apr 21, 2023 | tsl.news | Jada Shavers

Music and activity boomed from Pitzer College’s McConnell Center Apron last week as art and food vendors invited students to experience communities beyond the classroom. The second annual Storyteller’s Festival last Thursday, April 13 at Pitzer was a collaborative event to invite students to participate in communities on and off campus through spoken word, music, film screenings, art and food.
‘A Collective Memoir:’ Pitzer class showcase spotlights Asian American identities

Apr 14, 2023 | tsl.news | Jada Shavers

In the dim Benson Auditorium, the white projection screen illuminated “Asian Americans: A Collective Memoir,” a series of ten short films exploring Asian-American stories. Consisting of a variety of different experiences, 5C students had the opportunity to view and celebrate representations of Asian identities as a community. The films shown were created by Candace Ho, Dinesh Sabu, Emilio J. Virata, Iliana Garcia, Kitty Hu, Melanie Lim, Olivia Stark, Teresa Matsushima and Ziyao Liu.
Off-campus gym outside the Claremont bubble offers students ‘inclusive fitness’

Mar 24, 2023 | tsl.news | Jada Shavers

Between Claremont McKenna College’s Roberts Pavilion, Pomona College’s Center for Athletics, Recreation, and Wellness (CARW), Scripps College’s Tiernan Field House, the Pitzer College pool and Harvey Mudd College’s Linde Activities Center, choosing a workout space can be overwhelming. “I sometimes feel intimidated to go to the gyms,” Addison Reddington CM ‘25 said.
‘The world is a narrative’: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke brings poetry reading back to the 5C’s

Mar 3, 2023 | tsl.news | Jada Shavers

Standing behind the podium in Pitzer College’s Broad Performance Center, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke read an excerpt from her newest book “Look at this Blue.” As she shared from a collection of poems describing her experiences in California, her soft, deep and crisp voice took the audience on an intimate journey of suffering, reflection, realization and the fights endured for loved ones.
OPINION: When comedian Mo Amer took the stage, he left me sick to my stomach

Feb 10, 2023 | tsl.news | Jada Shavers

Last week, I watched students, community members and professors around me settle into their seats in the Garrison Theatre at the sold out, first-part comedy series held by Scripps Presents, “Laughing Matters! Featuring Mo Amer.” But within Amer’s first joke, I realized he was the comedian, and my Blackness was the punchline. Mo Amer is a Palestinian refugee.
Kicking off Black History Month with ‘The Black Experience In Design’

Feb 3, 2023 | tsl.news | Jada Shavers

To mark the beginning of Black History Month, the Hive and Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA) worked together to co-host and present a panel of several prominent figures to discuss what it means to be Black in the design world. Those on the panel included Kareem Collie, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer White-Johnson, Quinlin Messenger and Christopher Rudd, who all work together in conversation to break down the complex discussions.