Tania Azhang

Irvine

Editor Arts and Culture at The Student Life

Journalist | Arts & Culture Editor @TSLnews

Articles

Protecting access to student loans is critical | Opinion

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Tania Azhang

With the Trump administration’s aggressive assault on student loans, many young adults in America might be asking themselves if higher education is even worth it. I’m borrowing $65,000 from the federal government to attend graduate school in the fall, and I believe that the skills students learn in college are worth the cost. Tuition at private universities averages at more than $43,000, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Trump’s attack on student loans threatens the future of higher education | Opinion

3 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Tania Azhang

With the Trump administration’s aggressive assault on student loans, many young adults in America might be asking themselves if higher education is even worth it. I’m borrowing $65,000 from federal government to attend graduate school in the fall, and I believe that the skills students learn in college are worth the cost. Tuition at private universities averages at more than $43,000, according to a U.S. News and World Report.
At graduation ceremonies, national divisions over Gaza and Trump are vocalized | Opinion

3 weeks 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.
Suspended Pomona students defiant, call for reinstatement

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.
OPINION: In Trump’s America, the future is dire for women

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.
Michelle Dowd PZ ’90 discusses foraging, growing up in a cult at CMC Ath Talk

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.
OPINION: Get canceled

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.
American in Paris: The Globalization Question

Apr 26, 2024 | tsl.news | Tania Azhang

A few weeks ago, a Pitzer College friend of mine visited me in Paris from Scotland. We discussed the study abroad semester wrapping up and how much we’ve learned while abroad. Ultimately, we both came to the same conclusion: Anyone who decides against studying abroad is an idiot. Before the juniors who decided to stay on campus get all up in arms, I want to clarify that we’re JOKING. Please calm down. There are many reasons one might or might not choose to study abroad.
American in Paris: Updating the “American Experiment”

Mar 22, 2024 | tsl.news | Tania Azhang

(Quinn Nachtrieb • The Student Life)There are archaic stereotypes about Europe versus America that persist today: Americans are all about hustle culture, Europeans laze around in cafes all afternoon before going to work, the French are always on strike, etc. The roots of these stereotypes — believe it or not — lie in early cultural exchanges between Europe and the (then) newly-founded United States.
American in Paris: Love language(s)

Mar 1, 2024 | tsl.news | Tania Azhang

There’s something inevitable about ruminating on language while abroad. Of course I’m writing about the troubles of mitigating it, about how the French’s unimpressed stare as you blubber out a question at the grocery store makes you want to dissolve into a puddle of mush, blah blah-blah blah-blah. For many Americans, language barriers while studying abroad are only a temporary inconvenience. “It’s so annoying that they don’t speak any English, but it’s fine,” an American will say.