Tania Azhang

1 day ago | sacbee.com | Tania Azhang |Tom Philp

About two-thirds of the way through my daughter’s commencement last week on a vast lawn at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undergraduate student body president Megha Vemuri went off script. She brought up the ongoing one-sided war in Gaza and criticized MIT for not doing more. And she used the word that divides the proverbial room — “genocide.”A staid ceremony suddenly turned acrimonious. Jewish students left their seats in search of their parents.

Nov 21, 2024 | claremont-courier.com | Tania Azhang

by Tania AzhangPomona College students Daniel Velazquez and Francisco Villaseñor, who were suspended for the academic year for their participation in an October 7 demonstration in Carnegie Hall, held a November 15 press conference in El Barrio Park. Some 50 students attended the event.

Nov 8, 2024 | tsl.news | Tania Azhang

For those of us who grew up with Donald Trump, Nov. 6 was a reminder of waking up to his presidential nomination in 2016 — flashbacks of panic on social media, followed by years of #MeToo stickers, women’s marches and pussy hats flooding our Instagram feed. Today there’s a similar deluge of infographics, Robert Frost quotes and Twitter posts as we reel from the election results. Our generation has, unfortunately, become desensitized to this media frenzy.

Oct 25, 2024 | tsl.news | Tania Azhang

With cloudy gray skies and autumn neigh, students flocked to Claremont McKenna College’s Athenaeum on Oct. 16 for Michelle Dowd PZ ’90’s talk “What I Learned from Foraging (And Surviving a Family Cult).” A Pitzer College alumna, Dowd is a writer and professor of journalism, with contributions in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and TIME Magazine.

Sep 20, 2024 | tsl.news | Tania Azhang |Adam Akins

“Get your f***in’ ass up and work,” goes the proverb of the wisewoman Kim Kardashian. “It seems like no one wants to work these days.” Kim’s interview led to quite a lot of backlash. Some might even say she got canceled for it. But guess what? She’s still a billionaire and we’re the losers scrolling on Twitter. Our generation, unlike Ms. Kardashian’s, fears that posting an opinion as curt as hers would spell social demise.