
A couple of summers ago, I woke up to the notification that Madison White would be my roommate for my first-year starting out a Whittier College. Madison White. I immediately searched her name on Facebook and Instagram and found her profile featuring Madison smiling with a “Proud Slytherin” filter over it. I thought, “Okay, I can deal with a Harry Potter nerd.”
Scrolling further down her page, I discovered she was into politics. Cool, so am I. After we introduced ourselves, one of the first texts she sent me was, “I was so relieved when I realized you were a Democrat, too.” We soon found out we were enrolled in the same linked course that covered feminism and women in politics. …

Anyone standing on top of the Science and Learning Center in recent days could look north and west to see huge plumes of smoke expanding into the sky like a mushroom cloud from an atom bomb. What looks like giant, fluffy gray clouds is actually smoke billowing into an already carbon-saturated atmosphere.
The source is the catastrophic Woosley fire engulfing Northwest Los Angeles County, including much of Malibu and adjacent inland towns such as Calabasas and Agoura Hills. …
