A standing ovation. Cheers, claps; claps, cheers, followed by even more cheers and claps…
Each year, Pomona College selects a “first-year book” that incoming first-years discuss with peers and faculty members during Orientation Week, and invites the author to visit campus in October. This year’s assigned book was none other than Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s autobi...
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Sonia Sotomayor
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Us
SETTING: Our Beloved World
CHARACTERS: All the people in it
SCENE: Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Thursday, 3:30 pm. I walked out of my International Relations class, trying to put aside the heaviness sparked by the discussion on the Rwanda genocide and other ethnic conflicts. The first floor of Carnegie Hall — that classy building resembling the White House to some deg...
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