The creation of a second Claremont McKenna College substance-free event organization this fall spurred some confusion among students who think that the school is unnecessarily supporting two separate entities designed to perform the same task.     CMC created the College Programming Board (CPB)...

Since the controversial termination of 17 dining hall workers in December, some Pomona College alumni have decided to stop donating to the school until the administration addresses the situation.“I can’t imagine donating if the school is going to pretend that it committed no error here,” Jeff...

Pomona College settled a labor practice dispute with Workers for Justice (WFJ) through the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) this week, agreeing to revise its policy on student-worker communication in the dining halls. The settlement, which states that the college does not admit any guilt,...

By the end of this semester Claremont McKenna College students might find themselves pulling their finals-week all-nighters in much more comfortable chairs and far less crowded spaces.The CMC Study Spaces Task Force (SSTF), formed last December, is in the process of...

Claremont McKenna College will begin offering an off-campus study program based in Silicon Valley next fall.     Students participating in the semester-long program will complete a full-time internship at a technology company, two academic courses and a research paper related to the internship...

Pitzer College Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid Yvonne Gutierrez-Sandoval PZ '03 has been appointed to represent non-profit private four-year colleges on the national Student Loan Negotiated Rulemaking Committee. The committee creates and modifies regulations for student loans. The...

Food thrown away at Frary and Frank Dining Halls can add up to more than 70 pounds per meal, an audit conducted last week by Pomona for Environmental Activism and Responsibility (PEAR) found. “We wanted to raise awareness about the amount of food that people throw away and don’t even compost,”...

Employees and advocates of Warehouse Workers United (WWU), a group aiming to unionize warehouse workers in the Inland Empire, spoke at Pitzer on Monday about the injustices they suffer at the workplace and their latest legal efforts against their employers.     Workers For Justice (WFJ) leader...

A lecture at Scripps by actor and author Ben Stein Feb. 9 ended in a heated interaction about public education between Stein and a student.     Stein, who played the boring history teacher in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, spoke as part of Scripps’s sixth annual Elizabeth Hubert Mallott...

Student organizations that regularly host parties at Pomona College have begun deciding on a week-by-week basis whether the Sagehen Café will sell beer and food at their events, causing the amount of refreshments for sale at parties to decline this semester.     Last semester, parties hosted by...

Long after the task of easing the transition from home to dorm life has ended, Pomona College sponsors are now required to attend spring-semester training sessions. Though training has historically been completed at the beginning of the year, the Office of Campus Life (OCL) is seeking to further...

The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College breached national curating guidelines last month when it listed art dealer Frank Lloyd as an exhibition's co-curator.       The American Association Of Museums' 2009 Ethics Code prohibits parties with commercial interests from curating...

Scripps College Academy and Claremont Graduate University have received a $10,000 grant from the National Center for Information and Technology and Microsoft Research Seed Fund.          Scripps College Academy is a preparatory program designed to prepare students from low-income backgrounds to...

Students at Pomona College will receive new identification cards within the next few weeks, said Frank Bedoya, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Housing & Operations at the Office of Campus Life (OCL).        The cards will feature FeliCa technology, a contactless smart card system...

When Bruce Yan HM ’15 graduates from college, he and his parents will have to pay back close to $50,000 in student loans.     “I have more than $6,000 in student debt from loans and my parents took on about $40,000 to put me through college,” Yan said. “Generally, there’s a lot of pressure...

For Phillip Greene, a homeless man raised in Claremont, the city's Occupy movement was more than a few tents in front of City Hall. It was a place where he could receive shelter and food, and a community of which he was an integral part until he died on Jan. 24.        Claremont community...

Laszlo Bock PO '94, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google, spoke to students about career development in an hour-long presentation Feb. 2 at Pomona College. The discussion was part of an effort initiated by the Board of Trustees to improve career services on campus. Bock, an...

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a new study co-authored by Debra Mashek, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvey Mudd College, indicates that romantic love might last longer than what is commonly thought. “Is Long-Term Love More Than A Rare Phenomenon?” is a psychological study based on two...

Two Harvey Mudd College students developed a method of detecting life last summer that could one day be used to find living organisms on other planets. A grant proposal for futher development and attachment of the system to a rover has been submitted to NASA. The students and their mentors hope...

Campus Safety has reported three incidents that took place on Sixth Street this semester, raising questions about security on the Claremont campuses.     Last weekend a suspect from one of the incidents was arrested after Campus Safety managed to connect him with an attempted burglary at the...

Claremont McKenna College (CMC) administrators spoke to students Monday about the falsification of the school's SAT scores for the first time since President Pamela Gann sent an initial e-mail alerting the CMC student body about the incident Jan. 30. The conversation took place at an open CMC...

 Pomona College dining hall workers who were fired in December said that General Manager Glenn Graziano and Assistant Director of Campus Services Margie McKenna should be fired for alleged anti-union intimidation in an open forum in Rose Hills Theatre Tuesday. Graziano and McKenna said the...

Students returning to campus two weeks ago noticed that there were no longer tents in front of Alexander Hall, a change from the constant presence at the end of last semester. This semester the Concerned Students of Pomona have decided to discontinue their vigil, which was a response to the...

The Pomona College Board of Trustees has opened a series of internal reviews and set up a task force on communication between students and trustees, prompted by the controversial document checks that cost 17 Pomona employees their jobs last semester.Members of the Trustee-Student Task Force on...

Scripps College’s stringent alcohol policy is praised by some as a means of preserving the school’s aesthetic and preventing the quiet campus from becoming a “party school.” But a new Alcohol Policy Task Force intends to review the parts of the policy that are potentially harmful to...

Pomona students hoping to spend next fall in Oxford, England will need to rethink their plans. The Office of Study Abroad (OSA) announced in November that, effective fall 2012, the Oxford University study abroad program will be discontinued.Established in 1973, Pomona College's Oxford Program...

André Larry PO '13 was critical of an unexpected change in leadership of the Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA) last semester. Now he says the new Dean of OBSA has grown on him."It definitely has helped with just being able to talk with him and him being open to it," Larry said. "At first,...

Pomona College announced last December that it would increase its summer internship funding program from eight to fourteen grants, allowing more students to receive financial compensation for hands-on internship experience. The program, which began last year, grants students $4,000 to...

Pomona College's Frank Dining Hall will remain closed on weekends until further notice, Dining Services wrote in an e-mail to the Pomona community Thursday. Frank was initially expected to revert to normal hours by the end of January, but the dining hall is still understaffed after the...

Next year, Pomona College foodies won’t even have to step off campus to buy organic greens or a carton of milk. The Smith Campus Center’s Coop Store, which is operated by Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC), will be renovated and expanded over the summer. Plans to improve the Coop...

According to Vice President of Student Affairs, Jim Marchant, the construction of Pitzer College’s Phase II residence halls is more than halfway finished and will be done by the end of June. “We’re past all the design. We’re about 75 to 80 percent through construction,” Marchant said....

Claremont McKenna College (CMC) made national headlines Monday when President Pamela B. Gann announced that the college has reported false SAT statistics since 2005 to a variety of organizations, including U.S. News and World Report, the credit rating agency Moody’s, and the U.S. Department of...

Members of the Pomona College Board of Trustees held a series of three meetings with faculty, current and former dining services employees, and students on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the recent employment authorization reviews that resulted in the termination of 17 college employees on Dec....

In a show of opposition to Pomona College’s decision to terminate 17 employees who could not verify their employment documentation before yesterday’s 5 p.m. deadline, 15 supporters of the terminated employees were arrested for refusing to move from the middle of an intersection this morning. The...

Some Pomona students encountered problems while registering for courses two weeks ago as a large number of students using the MyPomona portal overloaded the system. Pomona's Information Technology Services (ITS) received complaints from students who tried searching for courses, only to find that...

Not All Status Updates Are Created Equal After approving the minutes from last week’s meeting, President Nate Brown ’12 gave the floor to various committee heads to present updates on their progress. Senior Class President Carrie Henderson ’12 misheard Brown and thought he had asked her to update...

In light of a competitive job market in the current recession, Pomona College’s Career Development Office (CDO) is making an extra effort to equip graduates with tools to succeed in what can feel like a grim post-graduation future.In response to a report published last May by a Task Force made up...

Reverend Catharine Grier Carlson of the Claremont University Consortium is retiring after 28 years of serving the spiritual, intellectual, and emotional needs of the Claremont Colleges as Protestant Chaplain. Reverend Grier Carlson graduated from Pomona College and is a minister in the...

What if one chemical was responsible for your trust of other people, your morality, and your general happiness? This was the question that Dr. Paul Zak, Director of Claremont Graduate University's (CGU) Center for Neuroeconomic Studies (CNS), set out to answer over ten years ago. After years of...

Spearheaded by several Pitzer College students and members of the community, the international Occupy movement has found a footing in Claremont. Occupy Claremont, which draws support from both 5C students and Claremont residents, set up tents outside Claremont City Hall Nov. 20 and held its first...

Despite the protests that greeted Condoleeza Rice and the students that attended her talk on Nov. 30 in Claremont McKenna College's (CMC) Ducey Gymnasium, the former U.S. Secretary of State largely avoided controversy in both her prepared remarks and in the Q&A session that followed.Still,...

As the 30-day comment period following the proposal of a new bike policy from Pomona's Student Affairs Committee (SAC) comes to a close, SAC members are awaiting the delivery and installation of new bike racks on campus before making any final decisions about the policy, which would stipulate...

On Nov. 12, the day of the annual Homecoming football game between Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS), the athletic department at CMS sent an e-mail to students informing them that wearing the popular “Puck Fomona” t-shirts would prevent them from entering the game, highlighting...

On Nov. 12, Palmer Mebane HM '12 earned first place in the 2011 World Puzzle Championship (WPC) in Eger, Hungary, becoming the first American to claim the individual title in 12 years and defeating seven-time champion Ulrich Voigt of Germany.Logic puzzles have fascinated Mebane his entire life,...

The ultramodern Kravis Center’s smooth, burnt-crimson walls and LEED Silver/Gold certification attest to Claremont McKenna College’s (CMC) dedication to the contemporary. But in offering gender-neutral housing options for its students, CMC has found itself behind the three other co-ed...

When Pomona College students return from winter break in January, they may be seeing some new faces in the residence halls—those of Claremont McKenna College (CMC) students.According to Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Residential Life Eric Vos, CMC is currently operating slightly above...

Close to 100 protesters composed of students, faculty, and staff of the Claremont Colleges gathered outside fences that were set up around the perimeter of the gym for an "Unwelcoming Condoleezza Rice" demonstration as the 66th U.S. Secretary of State spoke inside Claremont McKenna College's...

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) informed Pomona College this week that it will issue a formal complaint over two claims associated with unfair labor practice charges that were made on behalf of workers in Pomona's dining halls earlier this semester, according to a statement issued by...

Alyssa Solis PZ ’13 and Morgan Bennett PZ ’13 had no intention of being two of the 292 protesters who were arrested in a police raid of the Occupy L.A. movement that began at 12 a.m. on Nov. 30 at Los Angeles City Hall. But according to Jennifer Roach PZ ’13, another student protester who had...

Pomona College fired 17 staff members yesterday, after those employees were unable to meet the college’s deadline for submitting updated work authorization documents. The terminations, which most directly affected dining services employees, marked the end of a three-week verification process that...

Disagreements between students and administrators at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) emerged over the last few weeks regarding access to and use of the new glass Living Room at the school's recently opened Kravis Center. Students complained about limited access to the Living Room in light of what...

A Review of the ReviewsPresident David Oxtoby visited Senate this week to discuss the employment authorization document reviews currently taking place on campus. According to Oxtoby, the Board of Trustees received an allegation from an employee of Pomona College (but not a member of the...

Scripps College recently renamed its Office of Public Relations the Office of Communication and Marketing and hired two new staff members for the office as part of the school's 2007 Strategic Plan, which was designed in part to increase the school's presence on the national level.According to...

Nerves were rattled and Campus Safety was called twice, but ultimately no arrests were made in a series of incidents at Claremont McKenna College’s (CMC) senior apartments this weekend.According to an email sent to the CMC community by Associate Dean of Students Jennifer Jimenez Maraña, the first...

Pitzer College recently established a search committee to find a replacement Dean of Faculty for next fall, following the school's announcement that current Dean of Faculty Alan Jones will be retiring after ten years in the position. While the committee still plans to have a replacement selected...

Student leaders at Harvey Mudd College (HMC) are planning to re-examine the school’s Honor Code and discuss possible changes at an event they hope to hold next semester. The idea for a campus-wide forum on the state of the Honor Code was proposed earlier this semester, after a spate of alcohol...

A presentation to be delivered by Harvey Mudd College (HMC) President Maria Klawe at an information technology forum in China on Nov. 2 was nearly called off when forum organizers deemed her presentation, "Increasing the Representation of Females in Computing Careers," to be too controversial.The...

Scripps College alumnae, faculty, students and staff gathered at Malott Commons on Tuesday, Nov. 15, to celebrate the release of Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords SC '93 and her husband Mark Kelly's memoir, Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope. Giffords, who graduated from Scripps in 1993,...

Several administrative offices and departments at Pomona College could move to new locations on campus starting next semester, after the school's Business Office and Office of Human Resources complete the move from their current home in Alexander Hall to the Pendleton Building, on Eighth Street....

At a faculty meeting Nov. 16, Pomona College President David Oxtoby pointed to fears of potential involvement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and reiterated that the college must re-verify the work authorization documents of 84 college employees before Dec. 1. The Pomona College...

Students interested in the interdisciplinary 5C Environmental Analysis (EA) major will soon have the chance to focus on hands-on sustainability, as Pitzer College is hiring a faculty member to teach sustainability-based design and studio classes. Over the past week, candidates Deike Peters, Lance...

STRIVE, a nationwide non-profit that helps low-income students apply to college, is the newest mentoring program to arrive at the Claremont Colleges, giving 5C students another way to give back to the community, influence the life of a younger student, and become involved in education. "I want to...

Michael Ceraso PZ ’13 is not your typical college student. For one, he is a couple years older than most of his fellow students. He has also devoted the last five years to political campaigns and the encouragement of political change, working with environmental organizations and on President...

Occupy Bike Racks (Please)Pomona VP and Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum visited Senate this week to update senators on the somewhat controversial proposed changes to the student handbook regarding bike safety on campus. The main issue that the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) is addressing...

Pomona City Hall became the site of angry protesters and counter-protesters last Saturday when around 50 members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), an American neo-Nazi organization, marched through town and clashed with counter-protesters, including students of the Claremont Colleges. The...

“More and more men are living their lives around an unhealthy trifecta of porn, pot, and video games... We can call it the male crisis, the masculine malaise, the dude deficit... Where are all the good men?"So asked Hugo Schwyzer, an author, speaker, and professor of history and gender studies at...

This semester, Emma French PZ '13 joined Pitzer College’s Ecology Center, one of many environmental organizations offered at the Claremont Colleges. French, however, soon recognized the need for a unifying force to coordinate activities between the various environmental groups. “There’s a lot of...

Pomona College enacted an outstanding policy over the summer that limits the interactions between dining hall employees and non-employees while employees are on duty or on break, spurring complaints from students and staff that the administration is prohibiting dialogue in the workplace. In...

Students at the Claremont Colleges involved in the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Energy Service Corps will take the bottom-up approach to promoting sustainability next week as part of Energy Education Week, which begins on Nov. 14 and aims to educate K-12 students about energy...

They said he was asleep in a car with his girlfriend when the cops arrived.“They were asleep. In an automobile. Sunday morning. Two squad cars arrived, and they ordered both of them out,” said Luis Carrillo, an attorney. “Andy was unarmed.”What happened next remains a mystery to family members of...

Michael Gray PZ '13 is, as he put it, “taking part in the revolution.”In October, Gray declared a leave of absence from school in order to participate more fully in the Occupy Los Angeles demonstration, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement that originated in New York in September...

Scripps College has implemented a number of initiatives to increase awareness of diversity on its campus after the Western Association of Schools and Colleges's (WASC) most recent Capacity and Preparatory Review (CPR), which is still under review by the Scripps faculty, recommended that Scripps...

Pitzer College's annual Kohoutek Music and Arts Festival spent close to $6,000 more than it was allocated last year, forcing the Pitzer Student Senate to tap into its budget reserves and raising questions about accounting practices for Pitzer clubs and organizations.According to Senate Treasurer...

Pomona College began checking the work authorization documents of 84 of its employees, provoking widespread outrage from many students, professors, and staff members. Supporters of Workers for Justice (WFJ), the pro-union group of Pomona dining hall staff, began demonstrating before dawn on...

Pomona College's Student Affairs Committee (SAC) is currently discussing a proposal to replace fines for policy violations with alternative forms of punishment. Currently, most violations of policies in Pomona's Student Handbook are penalized in the form of $100 to $200 fines along with...

From the Organic Farm to the residence halls, from the academic buildings to the dining halls, Pomona College is cutting its energy use and is now five million kilowatt-hours greener than it was last year.On Oct. 28 the school released its 2010-2011 Sustainability Report, which highlights the...

Error 404 “Witty Title Not Found”Pomona's Information Technology Services (ITS) Director of Client Services Julie Journitz and Manager of Network Architecture Patrick Flannery visited Senate this week to address some of the concerns that were highlighted in a recent TSL article (insert tooting of...

Scholars of ancient and modern languages and several areas of cultural studies will gather at Scripps College this weekend for the 109th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), the western branch of the Modern Language Association (MLA), which is a...

Pomona College employees earning less than $52,000 per year will be required to pay less than half as much in monthly health care insurance premiums in 2012 as they have in past years, the school told staff members last Friday.Pomona Vice President and Treasurer Karen Sisson said the...

Recently, Pitzer College students Alexa Coughlin PZ '12, Simone Fine PZ ’13, Jessica Grady-Benson PZ ’14, and Matthew Shubin PZ '12 were hired to fill four internship positions working with the college’s environmental consultant in order to meet the sustainability requirements of the American...

Pitzer College took another step toward becoming a “LEEDer” in the push for more sustainable buildings on college campuses in June when it broke ground on a new residence hall, "Phase II" of the school's Residential Life Project. The school completed Phase I of its Master Plan in 2007 and is...

Students at the 5Cs may be used to eating tomatoes and bananas every day at the dining halls, but some students are raising awareness that serving such exotic foods is an injustice. Caitlin Watkins PZ ’13 said that providing local food, as several institutions in the 5Cs already do, might mean...

Plans are underway for a major renovation of Pomona College's Robert S. Millikan building, scheduled to begin in June 2013. Millikan houses the school's Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy.A committee composed of faculty and students from those departments, as...

Since arriving on campus in August, students living in Pomona College's Mudd-Blaisdell and Harwood Court residence halls have been greeted with chain link fences covered in black tarps and construction signs every time they exit or enter their building. Though students were initially told the...

After discussing cancelation of Pomona College's annual Harwood Halloween party in future years in an effort to minimize excessive drinking at this year's party, Pomona administrators look set to allow the event to continue next year, despite reporting almost as many alcohol transports on...

After years of asking for a comprehensive 5C events calendar, students have finally gotten one.Last Tuesday, students of the Claremont Colleges were notified by e-mail of the 5C launch of the new CollegiateLink website, a service designed to cater to the needs of 5C clubs and organizations and to...

For nearly two millenia, many Christians, Jews, and Muslims have engaged in ideological and cultural disputes, some of which continue to this day. But on Sept. 6, a new and experimental theological school that takes a different perspective on the differences and similarities between these three...

High ceilings, doorways that lack 90-degree angles, and a light installation that resembles falling neon raindrops greet visitors to the Claremont University Consortium's (CUC) new Administrative Campus Center (ACC), which was relocated to First Street in June."We call it the white whale," CUC...

A proposed policy change to the Pomona College Student Handbook that would tighten the enforcement of rules governing where bicycles can be parked on campus provoked strong negative responses from some students this week, prompting the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) to send a follow-up e-mail to...

A project to convert the portion of 4th street in front of Bridges Hall of Music ('Little Bridges') on Pomona College's campus into a pedestrian-friendly walkway has generated complaints from students, faculty, and Little Bridges concertgoers who feel the project does not take into consideration...

In a time when much of academia tends to focus on contemporary research, Pomona Philosophy Professor and Chair of the Classics Department Richard McKirahan aimed to highlight the importance of the study of ancient scholars in Ancient Philosophy Week, which he organized last week. Beginning...

Alumni Get DownRepresentatives from the Alumni Relations Office visited Senate this week, bringing with them: 1) an update on their objectives for the year, and 2) about five dozen fresh-baked cookies. Cookies aside, Director of Alumni Relations Nancy Tresser-Osgood outlined some of the things...

As a liberal arts college, Pomona College boasts a plethora of courses across all disciplines. For gender and women’s studies major Sarah Appelbaum PO ’13, however, academic options have occasionally been sparse.“There have been semesters where there wasn’t a single course offered talking about...

"I hear that a lot of people avoid [Claremont McKenna College] (CMC) as much as possible; [they] will avoid going through CMC's campus," one student said, referring to a perception toward CMC held by some students at the 5Cs who don't identify as heterosexual.“They’ll take the long route instead...

The Clare Booth Luce scholarship program recently granted Harvey Mudd College (HMC) $200,000 in scholarship money for women in the sciences, rewarding the college’s progress in promoting the participation of women in science and engineering. The Clare Booth Luce program, part of the Henry Luce...

On Tuesday, Oct. 25, Scripps College hosted University of Michigan professor Tobin Siebers via Skype call at Garrison Theater. Siebers, who was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 1999 for his account of growing up with polio, spoke about “The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification,” or, in other words,...

The hot topic these days at Scripps College trustee meetings is not the budget or recent staff hires, but water fountains.“After each meeting with the trustees, the end discussion has always been how great these fountains are," said Scripps Director of Facilities Niel Errickson, referring to the...

Last week, a group of students from the 5Cs marched with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and other allied organizations to force Trader Joe's to sign the Fair Trade Agreement, which represents a step toward alleviating the horrendous working conditions that tomato pickers in Florida...

On Oct. 21 Claremont McKenna (CMC) celebrated the opening of the Kravis Center, the new building located on the corner of Columbia Avenue and Eighth Street. The ceremony brought students, faculty, and staff together in recognition of the award-winning structure. However, the center did not come...

Pomona College has been named “Best Value” among liberal arts colleges by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine in its December edition, which will be released on Nov. 8. This is the third time in four years that Pomona College has earned such a distinction.In its feature, Kiplinger especially...

When most students think of Pomona Student Union (PSU) events, they often picture formal debates in a large lecture hall or theater. Last Thursday night, however, PSU took a break from its typical format in favor of more lighthearted fare. The night's event was titled “Survivor: Pomona,” and...

“You’re close to the laundry room. Literally, that’s the only good thing,” reads the one-star room review for Mudd-Blaisdell Rm. 59 on the Associated Students of Pomona College's (ASPC) new Housing Reviews website, which was launched last week. The new online service provides students with the...

For some Pomona College students, the days of arriving at PUB or the Boot only to find that the kegs have already been tapped may be ending. Following a proposal from Pomona's new Associate Dean Chris Waugh, beer and food will now be available for purchase through the Sagehen Café at some Pomona...

The Claremont Colleges have come out on top once again.On Oct. 23, the Chronicle of Higher Education ranked Pitzer College as the top liberal arts institution for students winning Fulbright Scholarships for International Study, tied with Smith College in Massachusetts. Pomona College was ranked...

An event held in honor of the nationally-recognized Food Day on Pomona’s Walker Beach on Monday, Oct. 24, provided a forum for some of Pomona’s dining service employees to express their frustration with staffing issues related to the college’s sustainable food efforts, and to reiterate their...

Renowned environmentalist and prolific author Bill McKibben spoke at Bridges Auditorium last night. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College in Vermont and the founder of 350.org, an international environmental organization aimed at raising awareness of anthropogenic climate...

The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate voted last week to form a subcommittee dedicated to investigating and informing students about the current status of the debate over unionization for Pomona's dining hall workers. According to ASPC senators, the subcommittee is an attempt to...

Pomona Geology Professor Linda Reinen gave a talk Wednesday to about 50 students on the Great California ShakeOut, a large-scale emergency disaster drill that about nine million people around California participated in on Thursday.The drill is based on the ShakeOut Scenario, a 2008 report from...

Pomona College’s new north campus dorms, Sontag and Pomona Halls, have earned the coveted LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design) Platinum Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). They are the first college residence halls in California, and the second large-scale...

Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (KGI) Professor Ian Phillips and University of Cincinnati Assistant Professor of Medicine Yao Liang Tang were granted a patent Sept. 13 for their research involving the isolation and use of stem cells in the recovery of heart attack patients and...

The Claremont Colleges reported widely varying rates of illegal drug and alcohol use in their 2010 campus crime reports, raising questions about how reliably the published statistics reflect the substance culture of each campus. Administrators across the 5Cs said that the Jeanne Clery Reports,...

Pomona College’s annual Halloween party, Harwood Halloween, has undergone some major changes this year. The party, which was previously held in the parking lot beneath Pomona's Information Technology Services (ITS), will take place in the new South Campus Parking Structure on Saturday, Oct. 29....

A group of professors at Harvey Mudd College (HMC) and Pomona College was recently awarded a $546,273 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a new state-of-the-art field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) that will be installed on Pomona's campus this spring. According...

Harvey Mudd College (HMC) President Maria Klawe is a big deal among college presidents. She is HMC's first female president, has received much recognition over the years for her research into computer science, was welcomed onto the Board of Directors at Microsoft in 2009, and is known among...

Nationally-renowned immigration scholar, educator, activist, and Distinguished Chair of the University of Houston Law Department Michael A. Olivas spoke in favor of the DREAM Act Oct. 10 at Pomona's Rose Hills Theater. His visit to Claremont comes in the wake of Governor Jerry Brown’s Oct. 8...

Hail to the ChiefThis week's ASPC Senate meeting opened with a visit from President David Oxtoby, who updated senators on the state of the $250 million Daring Minds fundraising campaign, which has already reached the $145 million mark. According to Oxtoby, while this is the first time in the last...

Scripps College President Lori Bettison-Varga approved a sustainability proposal from the school's Budget and Planning Committee Sept. 7 that will save the school $184,000 this year and make the college much more sustainable.The proposal, which involves limiting the amount of college material...

The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate voted Monday to change the name of the Committee for Campus Life and Activities (CCLA) to the Pomona Events Committee (PEC). The newly-titled PEC is an ASPC-funded committee that plans dances, parties, and cultural events at Pomona College....

Students at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) were visited by an unwelcome guest last month when an unidentified woman was found to be sleeping on dorm couches, using school laundry machines, and showering in CMC bathrooms without permission from the school.According to CMC Residence Advisor (RA)...

Long-time resident of Claremont and three-time candidate for Claremont City Council Michael Keenan was arrested on Sept. 22 for trespassing on the Pomona College Organic Farm. He planned his own arrest to bring to light his distaste with recent enforcement of the farm’s access policies.“Keenan...

Claremont McKenna College (CM), Pitzer College, and Scripps College announced the renaming of their jointly-managed science department to the W. M. Keck Science Department on Sept. 2. The name was changed from the Joint Sciences Department as part of an attempt to raise funding.According to Keck...

Harvey Mudd College (HMC) hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Oct. 1 for its new Teaching and Learning Building. The building was designed to accommodate new teaching styles and further innovations in mathematics and the sciences.HMC President Maria Klawe presided over the ceremony, while Trustee...

Pomona College received a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in June to support its new Elemental Arts Initiative, a four-year project designed to improve arts opportunities through new arts courses, symposiums, a dance concert, a theatre festival, and a summer internship. The...

The Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA) is transitioning this week to a new set of leaders, after a sudden and unexplained end to Hughes Suffren’s 11-year tenure as Dean of OBSA raised questions from some students as to the direction of the 7C resource center.Suffren was placed on...

Paul Riggins HM ’12 has a busy schedule. With classes, string theory research for his thesis, tutoring appointments with underclassmen through Harvey Mudd College's (HMC) Academic Excellence Program, and graduate school applications, Riggins has his fair share of academic commitments.But Riggins,...

Guy Stevens PO ’13 lives in a seven-person suite in Pomona's Lawry Court dormitory. Two weeks ago, Stevens and his suitemates, the majority of whom are over the age of 21, had a gathering of about twenty friends in their common room. They were drinking wine and playing music when, according to...

An installation using graphic imagery to promote safe alcohol consumption that was placed outside the entrances of the Malott Commons Dining Hall at Scripps Oct. 7 drew widespread criticism from students, leading to its eventual removal. The display, which consisted of two life-size human cutouts...

The interns say they were used. They say that working in the movie business without pay turned out to be an exercise in making coffee and taking out trash, a far cry from the educational experience they expected. They say that their employer acted illegally, a claim they hope to prove true in a...

Tab for a Cause is a new Internet start-up which turns surfing the Internet into a charitable act. Alex Groth PO '12, the vice-president of this recently launched organization, along with co-creators Kevin Jennison and Sam Ward-Packard, has had about 500 downloads of the Tab for a Cause browser...

Pomona College’s thirteenth annual Trustee-Student Retreat took place last Friday, Sept. 30, in Edmunds Ballroom. Over 80 students from all grades and a variety of majors met with over 20 Pomona trustees to discuss two topics. The first topic, the Four Year Personal and Career Development Plan,...

Associate Professor of Geology at Pomona College Robert Gaines continued his research into Burgess Shale-type deposits in the Yunnan Province this summer, furthering his use of a massive $184,036 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that he received in December. The grant, which...

Hangin’ with my PE@PsVice President for Campus Activities theory friction practice '12 updated Senate on the proposed name change for the Committee for Campus Life and Activities (CCLA), ASPC's event planning and party-throwing committee. Three possible names included ECOMM (Events Committee),...

First-year students and some sponsors at Pomona cried foul over what they considered unfair enforcement of the college alcohol policy earlier this semester, after some students were initially sanctioned for speaking honestly with staff members at the Office of Campus Life (OCL) about an incident...

“Problems with network connectivity across the campus,” blares the top of Pomona College Information Technology Services' (ITS) website. While the announcement, dated Sept. 22, is the only recent posting regarding network faultiness, Hannah Pivo PO ’14 considers the incident nothing out of the...

All employees who prepare, store, or serve food at dining establishments across the 5Cs will be required to get a food handler certification by Jan. 1, 2012, according to a law passed in 2010 that came into effect Sept. 7. While all 5C dining halls are in the process of certifying their staff, no...

Among Honnold/Mudd Library's nearly two million volumes on everything from Shakespeare to structural geology, there is an even bigger collection of untapped resources. It lives on the web and comes to students through online periodicals and journal databases, all provided free of charge to...

Last fall Harvey Mudd College (HMC) implemented a new core curriculum with the goal of better preparing its graduates for the demands of the professional world. HMC alumni identified written communication as one of the areas in which their undergraduate education could have been improved. The...

Class-based affirmative action was the topic of debate last week at a well-attended event sponsored by the Pomona Student Union (PSU), a self-described nonpartisan student organization committed to raising the level of open and honest dialogue on campus.The event, "The Price of Admission:...

Wait, We Need Jobs?This week’s ASPC Senate meeting began with a discussion between senators and the new Director of the Career Development Office (CDO) Mary Raymond. Raymond visited the Senate to introduce herself and to ask senators for suggestions on ways to improve the CDO. Key points of...

Pomona College became the first-ever liberal arts college to receive the Marine Stewardship Council's (MSC) Chain of Custody certification June 29. This recognition qualifies Pomona College Dining Services to handle and serve MSC-certified sustainable seafood to all students, faculty, staff, and...

Former United States Congressman Bob Edgar will visit Claremont today to participate in a panel discussion on the Jan. 2010 Supreme Court Decision Citizens United vs. FEC at Claremont Graduate University (CGU). Edgar, who is currently the president of Common Cause, a nonpartisan and nonprofit...

This year, the Classics Department of the Claremont University Consortium preparing for the implementation of a new program, Late Antique Medieval Studies (LAMS). The new program will be headed by the Professor of Classics and History at Pomona College, Kenneth Wolf. The Classics department...

Last semester, Ben Feldman CM ’13, Libby Friede CM ’13, and Emma Nathan CM’13 founded a Community Garden Club at Claremont McKenna College (CMC). The young garden is about half an acre in size and located on the outskirts of the shot put field. CMC’s student garden club is open to all students...

Pomona College has officially lowered the standard of evidence required to find a student guilty of sexual misconduct in campus judicial proceedings, in response to a federal regulation that would make Pomona’s old practice a violation of civil rights law. As of Monday, any student judged more...

Palmer Mebane HM ’12 was named the 2011 U.S. Puzzle Champion Aug. 30 after recording the second-ever perfect score in the nine-year-old competition. Mebane's record score gave him the edge over five-time defending champion Thomas Snyder, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, who is...

While the rest of the Claremont Colleges celebrated their jumps in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2012 Best Colleges list, released Sept. 13, Scripps College President Lori Bettison-Varga was trying to explain to her students and faculty what caused the school's unexpected drop from 23 last...

Patricia Goldsmith, Scripps’s Vice President for Institutional Advancement, has announced that she will be leaving Claremont Oct. 31 to become Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.Goldsmith, who has worked at Scripps for over 16 years, said she...

This week, the 5C Criminal Justice Network (CJN) addressed the recent conviction and execution of Troy Davis and similar death penalty cases by holding an open discussion at Scripps College. According to its website, the CJN "aims to raise consciousness about prison-related issues at the...

Suzanne Zetterberg PZ ’68, Director of the Malott Commons at Scripps College, will retire Sept. 30 after 24 years of service at the Claremont Colleges. Prior to serving in her current position, which she has held since the dining hall’s inception, Zetterberg worked as the Director of Development...

Single-sex education in primary and secondary schools could be detrimental to students and may actually increase gender stereotyping, according to a Sept. 23 report in Science authored by Claremont McKenna College (CMC) Psychology Professor Diane Halpern and seven other researchers.The paper,...

Claremont McKenna College’s (CMC) Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum underwent a major renovation this summer—its first since the building was built in 1982. The Athenaeum, known to students as the "Ath," is a conference and academic center on CMC's campus that houses a dining room, lounges, and guest...

The Board of Trustees of Claremont Graduate University (CGU) installed Deborah Freund as its fifteenth president during a ceremony on Sept. 15. As CGU's first female president she joins four other female presidents out of the seven in the Claremont University Consortium (CUC).In accepting the...

The Claremont University Consortium (CUC) announced July 27 that it is selling part of the land it owns in the Bernard Field Station (BFS), a 75-acre tract of undeveloped land north of Foothill Blvd., to Pitzer College, Scripps College, and Harvey Mudd College (HMC). Previous proposed land sales...

Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) elections were held from Monday, Sept. 19 to Tuesday, Sept. 20. Seven hundred eighty-one Pomona students voted on the ASPC website during the 24-hour time period. Anna Gibson ’12, Nick Lawson ’14, Frances Kyl ’14, and Rishi Sangani '15 won the...

Since 1984 TED has brought world-famous speakers, thinkers, scientists, and artists to speak before crowds around the world. Now, students and faculty at the 5Cs will converge on Pomona's Seaver Theatre to attend TEDxClaremontColleges, the Consortium’s first foray into the platform designed to...

ASPC (hearts) TSLFirst order of business: President Nate Brown '12 petitioned sign-ups for weekly TSL opinion pieces to be written by current senators. The opinion pieces would be 600-800 words long on the senators' positions, their goals and accomplishments on Senate, or any topic regarding ASPC...

After a summer of planning, organizing, and gathering equipment, this semester Scripps College launched its first Green Bikes Program, a student-run organization that facilitates day or semester-long bike rentals as well as a bike repair service. Prior to this semester, Scripps students had...

The Study Abroad Committee (SAC) at Pomona received 23 petitions last week for non-Pomona study abroad programs in spring 2012. This is the highest number of petitions according to records kept by the Office of Study Abroad (OSA). Out of the 23 petitions it received, the committee gave the nod to...

This year, Resident Advisors (RAs) at Pomona will accept a decreased pay from previous years. The pay cut is not major, but it is part of an Office of Campus Life (OCL) initiative that has been in the works for almost a decade.Dean of Campus Life Ric Townes, who oversees the RA program,...

On Thursday, Sept. 15, the Farm Club at Pomona opened its first produce stand, where members sold organically grown fruits and vegetables harvested from the Pomona College Organic Farm at low prices to students and faculty.The main purpose of the stand was to "bring the Farm to the wider...

Pomona students voted Tuesday, Sept. 20, to edit the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) constitution so that it contains only gender-neutral language. The vote comes on the heels of a ASPC Senate vote on Aug. 30 to make similar changes to the ASPC bylaws.According to ASPC Commissioner...

Pitzer College faculty met Saturday with legal counsel to talk about the college's affirmative action policy for hiring faculty. Faculty members discussed affirmative action for more than two hours with the college's legal counsel directly, rather than going through the administration.The...

Beginning this year, Pitzer will offer an interdisciplinary program in Secular Studies, which will focus on the study of non-religious people and their ideas, history, movements, politics, and culture. Secular Studies counts in the "Field Group B" category of academic programs, a status that...

This semester the Claremont Colleges added Portuguese to the list of languages offered at the 5Cs. Students will now have the opportunity to learn the language and explore Brazilian literature and culture through Portuguese 22, taught by Scripps professor Rita Alcala in Pomona's Lincoln building....

Pomona College has suspended the controversial 'Gotcha' program for at least one academic year, acknowledging that a procedure meant to promote safety awareness last semester had come to be widely associated with invasions of student privacy.Under the Gotcha program, a campaign to encourage the...

The Claremont Colleges hosted several representatives from the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) this week with the purpose of exploring how accommodations and services are provided for students with disabilities at the schools. The five undergraduate colleges each held two...

After months of delays due to legal obstacles, Pomona College will finally be putting to use its new set of solar panels, which were installed atop Sontag Hall, Pomona Hall, and the Pomona athletic field last year. The college purchased the panels in December 2010, but operations were delayed...

Passing by Stover Walk two weeks ago, Pomona College pedestrians may have been surprised to see 151 posters lined up and almost 200 students milling about. Posters such as “Do Photons Exist?” or “The Sociology of Senegalese Hair Braiders in NYC” were among the wide range of subjects, from the...

Chris Waugh took over July 1 as Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Smith Campus Center (SCC) at Pomona College. He comes to Claremont from Lake Forest College in northern Illinois, where he worked for nine years. Waugh replaces Neil Gerard, who retired from the position at the end of...

Mary Raymond, Pomona College's new Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Career Development Office (CDO), has come to campus with a passion for career development in liberal arts education.As the director of the CDO, Raymond said she plans to “build upon... the core” of the...

The founder and Director of Pomona’s Sustainability Integration Office (SIO) Bowen Close PO '06 announced this summer that she would be leaving her position at the end of this semester after three and a half years at the college. She cited a desire to...

The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate approved a $75,000 loan to the college last week for the school to buy energy-saving LED lights for Big Bridges Auditorium. Previously, the auditorium's only option has been to rent theatrical lights for about $2,000 a...

The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate met Monday to discuss new campaign regulations for the upcoming ASPC elections. The two main issues at hand were whether student organizations should be allowed to redirect ASPC funds towards supporting candidates that they endorse, and...

The Claremont University Consortium (CUC) was founded with the intention of creating a group of academically rigorous, small colleges with shared resources, according to Robert Walton, Chief Executive Office of the...

In past years, Residence Hall Staff (RHS) trainees at Pomona College used finger-snapping to express their thoughts about group discussions.  This year, it was the...

The pro-union group of Pomona College dining hall workers, Workers For Justice (WFJ), filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over the summer, claiming the school is implementing an anti-union campaign. These charges come at a time when negotiations...

Pomona's Student organization Workers for Justice (WFJ) recently welcomed two first-years, Louie Lemus PO ’15 and Naomi Bosch PO ’15, into their ranks. Dormmates in Mudd, Lemus and Bosch will be two of several 5C freshmen joining the push for the Pomona dining hall worker unionization.Lemus, of...

Along with a new batch of valedictorians, star athletes, and campus leaders, the 5Cs welcomed a more geographically diverse first year class this fall. As the reputation of the Claremont Colleges grows within the...

As students began to arrive on Pomona’s campus three weeks ago, many may have been wondering, “What’s with all the black fences?” It is difficult to miss this most recent addition to the Pomona scenery, as the college has fenced off much of the...

“Dry Week” or “Sub-Free” week, a transitional alcohol-free period at the beginning of the year, has historically been quite wet at the Claremont Colleges. Dry Week was...

The first shovel-full of reusable dirt will be unearthed on April 30 at the site of Claremont’s first-ever Superadobe building, which will be one of the greenest buildings in the world and the first public building of its type in the U.S. The groundbreaking marks the beginning of an...

Last fall, Pomona Sociology Professor Gilda Ochoa, Draper Center Program Manager Sergio Marin, and Pomona High School history teacher Claudia Ruelas collaborated to work on an oral history project about 'El Barrio,’ or Arbol Verde, the historical Mexican-American community in...

Negotiations to organize a unionization vote resumed April 25 after a three-month hiatus at a meeting between Workers for Justice (WFJ) and the Pomona administration. The resumed negotiations come on the heels of an announcement to dining hall staff over spring break that the college would allow...

Armed with a $13.5 million gift from a trustee, Pitzer is moving forward with the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability Initiative. The college aims to acquire a portion of the Bernard Field Station (BFS) and to open a center there dedicated to the study of...

Julia Gomez Salazar still remembers a time in Claremont when Mexican and white children were segregated, the colleges were all dry campuses, and Claremont Blvd was just a long stretch of brush.Born in Claremont in 1923, Salazar has lived all her life in “El Barrio”—officially...

Three finalists for the position of Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Smith Campus Center (SCC) and Student Activities visited Pomona College last week to meet with students, faculty, and members of the administration. The candidate who is selected will replace Neil Gerard, who has...

Pomona's Committee for Socially Responsible Investment voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a proposal that would pre-commit the college to vote “yes” on shareholder resolutions in favor of conflict-free minerals.According to Peace and Justice Coalition member and proposal...

A controversial video involving CMC Associate Professor of Government and Rose Institute Associate Director Kenneth Miller recently surfaced as part of a national debate about the use of video cameras in courtrooms. The video shows Miller testifying in the Proposition 8 trial last year. The issue...

Some Pomona students at Room Draw last week were surprised to learn that two floors of Lawry Hall were reserved exclusely for female students next year. However, according to administrators in the Office of Campus Life (OCL), the floors were set aside for only female students after the Resident...

We’re Not Idiots, CosiUp first this week, Vice President for Finance Cosimo Thawley ’11 presented the budget for ASPC next year. After the best weekend of their lives, in which members of this year’s and next year’s Budget Committees worked 25 hours to set the budget,...

Caress Reeves PO ’12 received one of 20 Beinecke Fellowships for graduate study awarded this year by the Sperry and Hutchinson Company.As a media studies major, this award will enable her to pursue her life-long passion for animation. Each Beinecke Scholar receives $4,000 during his or her...

Five future sponsors who requested to live in substance-free hallways next year were asked to switch to substance-optional hallways due to an overabundance of sub-free sponsor requests. According to head sponsor Alex Garver PO ’12, of the 58 students picked to be sponsors next year, 23...

The ASPC Budget Committee will propose an amendment to its bylaws at next week’s ASPC Senate meeting that would permit and regulate ASPC funding for alcohol at events co-sponsored by Pomona fraternities.According to Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Smith Campus Center Neil...

An endless stream of paper, coffee, and 5C student clubs representatives flowed through Room 208 of Pomona's Smith Campus Center two weekends ago for three prolonged days of Annual Budget Hearings. They were greeted by student government leaders of each of the 5Cs.The hearings, which take...

William Banks, Professor of Psychology at Pomona since 1969, died April 25 after a bout with the autoimmune disease scleroderma. He was 68.Both students and professors expressed a strong affection for Professor Banks, and sadness over his untimely death.“He was really fun to talk to, just...

Pomona Media Studies Professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick and her colleagues at MediaCommons and New York University Press (NYUP) received a $50,000 grant earlier this month from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.The grant will enable the group to conduct a year-long study of peer-to-peer (P2P) review, a...

Students of Visiting Professor of Classics Andrew Lear have obtained hundreds of student signatures on a letter petitioning Pomona College Dean of Faculty Cecilia Conrad and President David Oxtoby to hire Lear as a tenure-track professor. They plan to present the petition to Conrad at a May 2...

At the start of every semester, cash-strapped college students begin the long process of searching for cheap books in time for classes. Some students spend hours comparing prices on Amazon, eBay, Huntley Bookstore, and student digester posts.SwoopThat, a website founded by COO Ben Carson PO...

In the aftermath of several close races in last week’s ASPC elections, the current Senate formed a subcommittee at its weekly meeting April 18 to address the endorsement of candidates for ASPC Senate by ASPC-funded organizations. The discussion came in response to an e-mail sent to all...

Pomona's Student Affairs Committee (SAC) proposed three changes to the Pomona Student Handbook last week that would allow students to hold private gatherings and drink alcoholic beverages if they are 21-years-old in the common living room areas of residence hall suites, and which would...

Pomona College e-mail services switched from Hotmail to Outlook on Monday, causing a number of issues for students, faculty, and staff.According to Information Technology Services (ITS) Director of Client Services Julie Journitz, problems were reported with e-mails sent to the alias...

At the same time that "real-world" positions are becoming harder and harder to find, constrained college budgets around the country have made it difficult to expand on-campus research opportunities, leaving some students with nowhere to turn to find coveted work experience. At Pomona,...

Pomona's hammer throw field became the subject of heated debate last week after students circulated an online petition that called for replacing the hammer throwing pit with an extension of the school's Organic Farm, located on the southeast corner of Pomona's campus.Supporters of...

We were unable to put the Senate Briefs in the last week's printed version. Please visit our website if you would like to read them: tsl.pomona.edu.Same Ol’ StoryContinuing the tradition of his predecessor, next year’s ASPC President Nate Brown ‘12 showed up late to his...

Professor Joseph Jeon will join the Pomona English Department from the University of San Diego in the fall. Jeon specializes in Asian American literature and media, and will be teaching Modern American Fiction and Asian American Literary Historiography next semester.The department plans to...

Yale University wants to bring the liberal arts college to Singapore. In 2013, Yale plans to open one of Asia’s first liberal arts colleges in collaboration with the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore’s Ministry of Education. What has some Claremont heads turning,...

Robert Faggen, Professor of Literature at CMC, lounges in a tweed sport coat under a black and white print of a single finger pointing upward. Shelves of books line all sides of his office, and an Allen Ginsberg figurine sits on his desk. He holds a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation, dated...

Scripps College announced this Tuesday that it is to receive a 1.46 million dollar grant from the S. D. Bechtel Jr. foundation. The grant is intended to support integrated science education at the Joint Science Department (JSD).A large portion of the grant will go toward the Advanced Integrated...

Last week, members of the Pomona-Pitzer Intervarsity Christian Fellowship invited their peers to grapple with the idea that a loving and benevolent God could possibly co-exist with the widespread suffering and turmoil present in the world today.Interactive stations placed around campus served to...

As part of this year’s Earth Month, Pomona College Dining Services has begun serving only seasonal, local, and/or organic hand-picked fruit. The dining halls began the transition toward sustainable fruit at the beginning of the year, and April 1 marked the completion of that...

On May 14, humans in white caps and gowns will muster forces on Pitzer’s new Commencement Lawn. At their helm will stand novelist and screenwriter Max Brooks PZ ‘94. As the author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, Brooks will rally seniors with a commencement speech,...

Raymond Lu PO ‘11, an international relations major, was recently awarded a Carnegie Junior Fellowship, which will send him to Washington, D.C., to work at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for one year.Lu applied first to Pomona and was one of two finalists from the school...

Night OwlsFirst up this week, the Senate heard updates from various media organizations on campus. KSPC, on air 24/7 and live on air consistently from 8 am – 2 am, has tried to do a lot of campus outreach as of late, including giveaways to dining halls and students, as well as pairing with...

Longtime Pomona Professors Jerry Irish and Monique Saigal will be retiring at the end of this year.Saigal, who teaches in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, has taught at Pomona since 1965. The daughter of an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, she spent part of her childhood...

Margaret Ramirez Dean, 77, has lived in the house her father built off of Claremont Blvd. and 6th Street since she was 10 years old. Now residing with her husband and daughter, Dean speaks fondly of her house as a home full of rich and happy memories. So when she received not one, but two,...

Rains Center, Pomona's athletics facility, was hit with a string of thefts between Thursday, March 31, and Saturday, April 2.Although Director of Athletics Charles Katsiaficas reported the thefts and a suspected break-in to Campus Safety, Sergeant Charles Salazar said that the Campus Safety...

The controversy surrounding news that Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Andrew Lear would not be rehired for next year took a new turn last week as students began rallying support for a petition to keep Lear in Claremont. The controversy developed two weeks ago as some students reacted to...

The Claremont Colleges' senior classes want to bring home the bacon. A ceramic piggy bank named Ellen is the prize awarded to the senior class that achieves the highest participation rate for senior donations. For the past five years running, Pitzer has won the contest. Last year, 99.6...

While prospective students swarm the 5Cs this week in search of the perfect school, Pomona’s Office of Admissions is conducting a search of its own. The hunt for a new Dean of Admissions began last semester, and college administrators hope to fill the position by the beginning of the next...

Pomona student work allotments will increase next year and the system for awarding grants for health insurance will be restructured, the Office of Financial Aid told students in an April 9 e-mail.Currently, first-years on financial aid can earn up to $1,900 for the year through on-campus...

Pitzer College's first annual Day Laborer Film Festival raised awareness about day laborers' rights and provoked a candid discussion among Claremont Colleges students, community members, and community activists.The event, hosted by the Community Engagement Center at Pitzer, brought to...

Pitzer College announced on March 29 that it has received a $1 million gift from Gloria Gold, a parent of an alumna, that will help fund renovations to the Gold Student Center (GSC).While plans are not yet complete, the funds will go toward expanding several areas of the GSC, which was opened in...

The Third Annual West Coast OUT for Work LGBTQA College Student Career Conference, a non-industry specific career conference that educates LGBTQA students on the transition from academia to the workplace, took place at Pomona's Edmunds Ballroom last weekend.According to Riley Folds, Out for...

In recent months, Pomona College administrators have discussed joining a growing number of colleges and universities nationwide that have implemented video surveillance systems on campus to combat crime, provoking some student criticism surrounding the idea.Although Pomona currently has some...

Nate Brown ’12 was elected Tuesday to serve as next year’s Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) President, earning the majority of the 735 votes cast in the election. Leslie Appleton ’12 was named the new Vice President of Finance, and theory friction practice...

Bruce Poch, who resigned as Pomona's Dean of Admissions last semester, is now writing a Q&A blog for The New York Times. The blog answers questions from readers—mostly worried parents—about what they can expect from the college admissions process. Poch worked in the...

The nearly month-long investigation into an incident last month involving three students and a vice president has been closed and no charges are being pressed, according to an email President David Oxtoby sent to the student body March 31. The investigation was in response to three...

For the past 14 years, Senior Associate Dean of Campus Life Frank Bedoya has overseen the sponsor application process. According to students involved in the process this year, however, Bedoya had little to no involvement in sponsor selection. Dean of Campus Life Ric Townes and Campus Life...

Resistance to proposed access restrictions in Pomona's new residence halls culminated this week in what students who led the opposition called "a victory." Vice President and Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum announced in an April 6 e-mail that the default security measures in the...

The Intercollegiate Media Studies department will face the 2011-2012 academic year without nearly half of its core faculty members. Next year, Professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick will not be returning to Pomona, and neither will Professor Jennifer Friedlander. Professor Tracy MacLean will be leaving...

Next year, approximately eight Pomona College sponsor groups will have two sponsors of the same gender. The same-sex pairing was the result of a significantly smaller applicant pool, and it marks the first time that Pomona has ever paired co-sponsors of the same gender together in first-year...

“I’m still not sure exactly what it was, but all I know is that something f---ed-up happened that night,” Pitzer senior Isabelle Martin said. “All I remember is dancing with this guy, and the next minute I know I was in the hospital."Martin’s experience at...

Pomona's Student Affairs Committee (SAC) issued a proposal last week that would allow for changes to be made to the Student Handbook during the year and which would formally define the SAC procedure for opening up SAC policy changes to a student comment period. The proposal also affirms the...

The Pre-Professional and Career Development Trustee Task Force is in the process of devising reforms to Pomona’s career development program. The content of the reforms is not yet well-defined, but their basic purpose will be to mandate that students participate throughout their college...

Scripps students are currently vying to receive the first ever Ellen Clark Revelle Scholarship, or “Nellie." The award, created this year to honor Ellen Clarke Revelle, SC ’31, will be given to rising sophomores and juniors based on academic excellence, commitment to community...

Grace Wielebinski PO ’14 woke up early on Monday March 28 to her sponsor repeatedly knocking on her door, warning her of an emergency alert sent out by Campus Safety. The message was asking all students to evacuate at least a mile south of campus. Wielebinksi jumped out of bed and quickly...

For the last 12 years, Carl Martellino has tirelessly directed the Career Development Office, building its staff, upgrading its web presence, and initiating popular student programs.Now, he said, it is time for a new challenge.Martellino will be leaving at the end of the month for a position at...

Emi Young PO '13 was on a plane headed for Japan when the earthquake struck on March 11. She was going for her spring break to visit family, as she usually does at least once a year. But half an hour before landing, the plane changed course, and Young found herself stranded on Hokkaido, a large...

For Afshin Khan PO '11, receiving an education as a child was a constant struggle. As an international student from Pakistan, she comes from a village where education was difficult to obtain, especially for girls. Khan said her mother, who refused to accept this fate for her children, was...

During his 18 years working at Pomona College, Neil Gerard has been celebrated for spearheading the creation and renovation of the Smith Campus Center (SCC), and for his participation in numerous campus clubs and events. Early this month, Gerard, Associate Dean of Students, Director of the SCC,...

Deans in Pomona’s Office of Campus Life (OCL) are preparing to shuffle responsibilities for the coming academic year, when Housing Director Deanna Bos will retire and the office will bring in a new Associate Dean of Campus Life to oversee the sponsor program and other areas of residential...

The dream that Laura Gamse, PO ’07, hatched before the end of her senior year is finally coming to fruition this weekend. The Creators, a film Gamse directed and produced, is being screened in Beverly Hills Sunday as part of the L.A. Film + Music Weekend. A documentary about artists in...

Roommates Ariel Gandolfo PO ’11 and Danny Low PO ’11 have been good friends since they met in middle school, and even their impending graduation will not separate them—at least not for a few more months. Gandolfo and Low are recipients of a $10,000 grant from philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis’s...

Andrew Lear, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Pomona, will not be rehired for next year after a long search process by the Classics Department that several students say they feel was conducted unfairly. Lear, an expert on sexual depictions on Greek vases, was hired two years ago to...

Harvey Mudd physics professors Peter Saeta and Gregory Lyzenga aim to curtail fears among the 5C community in the wake of the disasters in Japan through an educational presentation focusing on the earthquake, related geophysics questions, and nuclear safety. The event will take place in HMC's...

Former World Bank president Sir James Wolfensohn will be the 2011 Claremont McKenna College (CMC) commencement speaker. The college announced the decision March 21. The commencement, CMC’s 64th, will take place on Saturday, May 14, at Pritzlaff Field. Wolfensohn was chosen by members of the...

The Rose Institute at Claremont McKenna College was disqualified in its bid to redraw California’s political districts March 19 for failing to disclose all of its donors over the last ten years. The Rose Institute of State and Local Government works to address issues surrounding California’s...

Claremont played host to the southwest chapter of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), a neo-Nazi group, on Saturday, March 19. Roughly 30 NSM members, dressed in black uniforms and fatigues and carrying flags emblazoned with swastikas and the letters NSM, staged a demonstration on the...

What Recession? After introducing themselves for the 342nd consecutive week, the Senate heard from Duncan Meaney, Founder and President of the Social Equity Group (SEG), which oversees ASPC's financial reserves. Meaney became ASPC's portfolio manager in 2008, soon after which “we had a thing...

American philanthropist and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates balanced optimism and urgency in his talk at Brides Auditorium on Thursday. He spoke primarily to the importance of making the benefits of innovation available to the world’s poorest people, addressing his foundation’s work in...

As part of Pomona College’s comprehensive efforts to bolster security on campus, preliminary discussions have begun about the installation of a video management system in all residence halls. The idea has some students and administrators concerned that installing cameras could negatively...

Three student volunteers for Workers for Justice (WFJ) filed a report with Campus Safety and the Claremont Police Department (CPD) early this week alleging that Pomona’s Assistant Vice President of Facilities and Campus Services Bob Robinson displayed an act of “public...

In an effort to clarify definitions of “public” and “private” space in the Pomona Student Handbook, the Student Delegation to the Student Affairs Committee (SDSAC) drafted a proposal last week that would define “private space” as single and double residential...

The Claremont University Consortium (CUC) named Jennifer Gee Interim Manager of the Bernard Field Station (BFS) on March 1. According to Tim Morrison, CUC Vice President for Facilities Management and Planning, Gee will be responsible for supervising 5C programs and activities at the BFS. Gee...

Students could not help but laugh when event moderator and organizer Michael Wilner CM ’11 said to Scripps President Lori Bettison-Varga, “you’re going to have to defend this [policy],” during the Claremont Presidents panel discussion on Feb. 28. The president’s...

Pomona College held a forum March 3 for students to express their opinions on the Freshman Critical Inquiry program (ID1) to Professors John Harris of Duke University and Gretchen Moon of Willamette University, who served as the external reviewers of an ongoing self-study process of the ID1...

Nebraska’s Hastings College announced last week that Pitzer Vice President for College Advancement Dennis Trotter will become its new president. Trotter will succeed current Hastings president Dr. Phillip Dudley on July 1. According to Pitzer President Laura Trombley, Trotter’s...

We Are Well Endowed Vice President and Treasurer Karen Sisson was the first guest of the day. According to Sisson, as a result of the financial crisis, Pomona’s endowment fell $600 million to $1.3 billion between June 30, 2008 and June 30, 2009. Over the past year, though, the endowment has...

The National Socialist Movement (NSM), the largest openly neo-Nazi organization in the United States, will hold a rally in Claremont on March 19. The protest, part of NSM’s “Reclaim the Southwest” campaign, is billed as an anti-immigration rally. The organization announced...

At the encouragement of students, Pomona College Biology Professor Laura Hoopes is writing a memoir about her life. Hoopes held a reading March 8 at Scripps’s Malott Commons in anticipation of the release of her book, Breaking Through the Spiral Ceiling: An American Woman Becomes a DNA...

Elizabeth Turk SC ’83 was selected by Scripps seniors and members of the Office of the President to be Scripps’s 2011 Commencement Speaker. Scripps President Lori Bettison-Varga announced her selection in an e-mail to Scripps students on March 7. According to Claire Bridge,...

Pomona College’s Sustainability Integration Office (SIO) held three forums last week in the Frank Dining Hall Blue Room to explain its plans to increase sustainability on campus through the Sustainability Action Plan (SAP), a comprehensive plan developed by students, faculty, and staff at...

Unlike the other large parties held at the 5Cs recently, last Saturday’s Smiley 80s party made it through the night without any noise complaints or crowd control issues. Problems at some large 5C parties were starting to become a common occurrence, following a string of early shut-downs and...

Frary brunch just got a little more humane, as earlier this month Pomona College Dining Services (PCDS) made the shift to serving exclusively cage-free eggs. The school’s effort to reduce animal cruelty was praised by the Humane Society in a March 8 press release. “The process of...

For the first time in the history of the Claremont Consortium, the presidents of all five Claremont Colleges as well as the CEO of Claremont University Consortium (CUC) discussed the state of the 5Cs at a panel cosponsored by the CMC Forum and the Pomona Student Union (PSU) in Little Bridges...

For the first time in the history of the Claremont Consortium, the presidents of all five Claremont Colleges as well as the CEO of Claremont University Consortium (CUC) discussed the state of the 5Cs at a panel cosponsored by the CMC Forum and the Pomona Student Union (PSU) in Little Bridges...

Members and supporters of the pro-union group of dining hall employees Workers for Justice (WFJ) marched to Pomona Vice President and Treasurer Karen Sisson’s office Mar. 1 to voice their concern over the Feb. 18 firing of dining hall worker Emilio Flores Arellano. “We have seen a...

In its weekly meeting on Monday, Feb. 21, the ASPC Senate expressed a renewed interest in a proposal from last year to renovate the Coop Store. The idea was originally proposed by the Coop Committee, which sets policy for the Coop Fountain and Store through the Senate, but the proposal never...

Access to Pomona’s new north campus residence halls, which will begin housing students in the fall, may be limited to residents of the residence halls under new access restrictions proposed by the Dean of Students office in response to concerns about theft and trespassing. If the access...

Pomona College Associate Professor of English Toni Clark has announced she will retire at the end of the Spring 2011 semester. Clark first came to Pomona in 1983 as the Dean of Women and later served as Chair of the English Department. Clark said she was initially attracted to the Dean of Women...

Can one be spiritual without being religious? This question was the topic of a lecture given Mar. 1 in Scripps’ Balch Auditorium by Ronald Dworkin, Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University. His lecture, entitled “Einstein’s God: Must Religion...

At the behest of Pomona College President David Oxtoby, the President’s Advisory Committee on Diversity (PACD) has reopened discussion on the possibility of hiring an ombudsperson, a neutral go-between who relays information about the interests of employees or constituents to their...

The Rose Institute of State and Local Government, a research center at CMC focused on government and politics, released a ground-breaking and timely new website devoted to political redistricting on Feb 23. The project, Redistricting in America, was developed largely by students working at the...

The Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees recently voted to proceed with construction plans for a new teaching and learning building that it hopes will become the new “focal point” of HMC’s campus. Construction will begin this summer and is expected to be completed by spring...

Leah Steuer and Michael O’Shea will speak at Pomona’s commencementand class day, respectivelyVoting for the student commencement and class day speakers at Pomona ended on Wednesday evening. Leah Steuer received the most votes, and she will speak at commencement. Michael O’Shea...

We Didn’t Even Print It Out! For the fourth straight week, ASPC President Stephanie Almeida ‘11 had the Senators introduce themselves—hopefully she has everyone’s name down now. Afterwards, Chuck Taylor, chemistry professor and chair of The President’s Advisory...

TSL reporter Leslie Canter profiles each of the candidates and their platformsJay N. Pocock, businessman Pocock moved to Claremont with his family in 1979. He owns a small business and was recently involved in the Measure CL school bond issue. Pocock said he envisions the Claremont City Council...

Smiley 80s, the annual ‘80s-themed party thrown by ASPC’s Committee for Campus Life and Activities (CCLA), will return to Edmunds Ballroom this year, sell a smaller number of tickets, and have an increased security presence in an effort to reduce the chance of noise complaints or...

The City of Claremont will hold elections this Tuesday, Mar. 8, to fill three of the five seats on the City Council. Under the charter of the Claremont City Council, a councilmember’s term lasts for four years and elections are staggered every two years. Of the three seats up for...

Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience at Google and the company’s first female engineer, will deliver the keynote address at the 2011 commencement ceremony for Harvey Mudd College on Sunday, May 15, at 1:30 PM. “We are pleased that Marissa Mayer has...

This summer, Claremont will become home to one of the most sustainable buildings on the planet: a Superadobe. The building, composed of more than 90 percent soil, will be located at 211 W. Foothill Blvd., near the intersection with Indian Hill Blvd. The groundbreaking for the construction is...

Frank and Frary dining halls were more crowded with patrons than expected on Saturday, Feb. 19, after the pro-union group of Pomona College dining employees, Workers for Justice (WFJ), decided to call off their previous plans to boycott the dining halls. After a year of stalemated efforts to...

Pomona’s Queer Resource Center (QRC), a support and educational center for members and allies of the LGBTQ community, will officially become a seven-college institution this summer after an agreement from all five Claremont Colleges and two graduate schools to provide program funding....

Jean Adam PO ’67 was one of four American sailors killed by Somali pirates on Feb. 22 while sailing off the coast of Somalia. Adam and her husband Scott were enjoying the seventh year of a tour around the world on their yacht “Quest,” which they had custom-built after they...

As prospective students eagerly await their Early Decision letters, admissions officers around the 5Cs are breathing easier, having finally sent out the first round of acceptances. This year’s officers faced even harder decisions than usual, dealing with an increased applicant pool across...

As part of the effort to combat grade inflation at Pomona, the ASPC Curriculum Committee recently adopted new definitions of academic grades. With these new definitions, an A signifies “exemplary” performance, a B “accomplished,” a C “adequate,” a D...

Pomona College’s head sponsors for the 2011-2012 school year were announced Feb. 7. Alex Garver PO ‘12, Thuy Ly PO ‘12, Mindy Hagan PO ’12, and Seanna Leath PO ‘13 were chosen for the position. According to Dean of Campus Life Ric Townes, twelve students applied...

U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will speak at this year’s Commencement on May 15. The school reached this decision earlier in the week. The Obama Administration appointed Chu to the Secretary of Energy post in 2009. Before his appointment, Chu was a Professor of physics and molecular...

Due to a continuing housing crunch at Scripps, Pomona will once again host a few extra ladies from next door in the coming year. The actual number of students in need of housing next year will be unclear until Scripps conducts its annual room draw. According to Staci Buchwald, the Associate...

Timeliness Is Not Her Thing For the third straight week, President Stephanie Almeida PO ’11 started the meeting late, this time without Senate Advisors Neil Gerard and Ellie Ash. As Ash walked in, Almeida proposed that the Senate approve the minutes at the beginning of the meeting this...

Vice President of People Operations at Google, Laszlo Bock PO ‘94, talked to students at Pomona about life, careers, and how to differentiate themselves in the job market on Feb. 17. The event was part of the month-long Sagehens Beyond the Gates initiative, organized by Pomona’s...

A trespasser gained access to Pomona’s Wig and Harwood residence halls on Thursday, Feb. 17, and Saturday, Feb. 19 and was eventually arrested by Claremont police, according to e-mails sent to the student body over the weekend. On Thursday around midnight, Harwood RA Bianca Garcia PO...

In response to concerns over the use of sobriety checkpoints to disproportionately search and impound the cars of undocumented immigrants, Pomona Habla/Speaks Community Coalition, a Pomona-based advocacy group for the Latino community, recently presented a proposal to the Pomona City Charter...

All six Pomona students studying at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand are unharmed after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit near there Tuesday morning, killing at least 75 in the city. The university suffered relatively little damage compared to the devastated city center....

All six Pomona students studying at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand are unharmed after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit near there Tuesday morning, killing at least 75 in the city. The university suffered relatively little damage compared to the devastated city center....

Ambitious Pitzer students Pablo Baeza ‘13 and Jennifer Roach ‘14 intend to start up a community gardening program in the impoverished inner-city of Hartford, Connecticut this summer. Hartford inhabitants have seen most supermarkets abandon the downtown area for the more prosperous...

Well-known film director and screenwriter Oliver Stone came to Pomona College yesterday to screen his film South of the Border and to field questions from students, faculty, and members of the Claremont community. The event was hosted in Edmunds Ballroom and sponsored by the Latin American...

In an effort to end negotiations and move closer toward a vote on unionization, members and supporters of Workers for Justice (WFJ), the pro-union group of Pomona College dining hall employees, are organizing a boycott of Pomona’s dining halls this Saturday, Feb. 19, during Family...

Michael Gormally PO ‘11 recently received one of 14 prestigious Churchill Scholarships to study at the University of Cambridge for one year. The scholarship, awarded to graduating seniors based on academic excellence, extraordinary talent, and exceptional individual qualities, includes...

Pomona College Dining Services announced a new scheduling system, guaranteed full-time employment for all dining employees this summer, and clarified the system for taking sick leave in its first quarterly meeting Feb. 11 in Frank dining hall. Workers have long complained about the scheduling...

Curriculum could soon be required for all Sponsors, RAs Daren Mooko, Pomona’s Associate Dean of Student Affairs, has looked forward to implementing the 4-7 Program for three years. It has taken that long to research and organize his new leadership development program, which began as a pilot...

This semester began just days after Tunisian President Ben Ali’s exile and shortly before Cairo erupted in protests calling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation. Students across the Claremont Colleges have engaged in conversation about the political implications of the...

The newly created 5C Environmental Council held its first 5C Environmental Conference on Saturday, Feb. 12, in Scripps’ Balch Auditorium. The conference was seen as an important step toward better coordination of 5C environmental efforts. The event featured two headline speakers,...

The newly created 5C Environmental Council held its first 5C Environmental Conference on Saturday, Feb. 12, in Scripps’ Balch Auditorium. The conference was seen as an important step toward better coordination of 5C environmental efforts. The event featured two headline speakers,...

This week, the 5C Activities Committee received confirmation that comedian Aziz Ansari will be performing at Big Bridges on Thursday, Apr. 14. According to Assistant Director of the Smith Campus Center and Student Programming Ellie Ash, who is on the 5C Activities Committees, the Committee is...

Not Again… This week’s meeting started off with a visit from a special guest, Dean of Campus Life Ric Townes, equipped with his fancy iPad. ASPC President Stephanie Almeida ’11 suggested that the group go around and introduce themselves again. Junior Class President Carrie...

The Director of Pomona College’s Asian American Resource Center (AARC), Sefa Aina, was recently selected as a member of President Barack Obama’s Commission on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. TSL sat down with Aina earlier this week to discuss his new position and his path to...

The newly formed Ralph Cornell Society of Native Landscapers at Pomona College has begun work on a sustainability garden directly outside Frary dining hall, with the goal of planting drought-tolerant native plants. Founded last semester by Nik Tyack PO’11, Patrick Halliday PO ’11,...

A select group of professors from liberal arts colleges around the country came to Pomona last weekend to discuss a topic of common interest: first-year seminar programs. The conference, entitled “Teaching and Maintaining Multidisciplinary First-Year Seminar Programs,” was hosted by...

Despite coming in with a stated goal of increased sustainability, the new dining hall management at Pomona has had to put the Food Rescue Program on hold, causing excess food to go to waste. According to Samantha Meyer PO ‘10, the Sustainability and Purchasing Coordinator for...

“I have a very simple, easy, all-consuming, impossible charge with which to charge you. Work, in whatever work you do, to stop the weeping … to heal the wounds of the human family.” Davie Napier spoke those words in 1972. Claremont’s Pilgrim Place, a senior community...

Negotiations between pro-union dining hall workers and college administrators took on a new tone when the two sides met Jan. 27. Both workers and administrators came out of the meeting more hopeful than in past negotiations, while still acknowledging the work ahead of them. Dining hall cook...

The recent termination of dining hall worker and former Workers for Justice (WFJ) leader Maria Garcia on Jan. 20 has put further strains on the relationship between administration and pro-union workers. According to Francisco Garcia, Garcia’s brother and a Pomona dining employee, Maria...

By now, almost everyone has heard of how Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords miraculously survived the gun wound to her head during her “Congress on Your Corner Event,” in Tucson, Ariz. on Jan. 8. Immediately following the tragic event, she received a spontaneous outpouring of support...

Pomona College became embroiled in a controversy over student privacy and dorm security after a sponsor was removed from his position and told to leave his dorm room last month because of hard alcohol found in his room during a “Gotcha” check for unlocked doors. Andrew Hong...

The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) voted Feb. 7 to appoint replacements for the positions of North Campus Representative and Commissioner of Academic Affairs after receiving resignations from the students who held the positions last semester. Derek Schaible PO ’11 replaced...

The FBI arrested Claremont resident Martin Calvin Yarbrough Jr, 48, on Jan. 28. Yarbrough allegedly mailed threatening letters containing white powder to offices of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services and the Edmund D. Edelman Children’s Court. Federal...

If you passed outside Garrison Theater on Tuesday night, you might have thought Scripps was hosting a comedy show. Had you walked in, however, you would have found political and social analyst David Brooks standing on stage. His hour-long talk on Feb. 8 included a mix of personal anecdotes and...

Lending academic expertise to the Workers for Justice movement, Gordon Lafer, associate professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center and former Senior Policy Advisor on Labor in the U.S. House of Representatives, contextualized some of the key issues that have...

Pomona students are finally breathing a collective sigh of relief as the dust and dirt swirling around North Campus have settled to reveal two sleek and modern buildings, Sontag Hall and Building B, along with a spacious stretch of green. Every day, students walk by and eagerly peer through the...

Nice To Meet You Since it was the first meeting for new North Campus Representative Caroline Rubin PO ’12 and Commissioner of Academic Affairs Derek Schiable PO ’11, Stephanie Almeida PO ’11 ordered that everyone go around the room and introduce themselves. Commissioner for...

Frank Dining Hall was briefly downgraded to a B health rating after receiving an unexpected health inspection on Jan. 25. A follow-up inspection upgraded it back to an A on Jan. 31. According to Assistant Director for Campus Services Margie McKenna, the dining halls can be docked ten points...

This summer, Deanna Bos will not be slotting students into empty rooms. She will not be worrying about residence hall keys and security, overcrowding, or last-minute changes. Instead, after 28 years of working in Pomona’s Office of Campus Life, Bos is retiring and moving on to the next...

Claremont police arrested an intoxicated man after he entered Pomona’s Mudd residence hall on Jan. 27, inquiring about an ex-girlfriend. Two students initially denied him access to the building and immediately contacted Campus Safety, who arrived on the scene shortly thereafter. “I...

Pitzer began construction on four new buildings over winter break. The new buildings, located just north of the school’s most recently constructed residence halls, will house 308 students, as well as a number of offices, study rooms and archive rooms. The college plans to have the new...

When the ball dropped Jan. 1, the countdown began for Glenn Graziano, the new General Manager for Pomona’s dining halls. Seated at a small desk in the back recesses of Frank Dining Hall, Graziano’s computer is framed by two photos of his daughters. It seemed from the first day of the...

Pomona College won the 2010 Claremont Colleges Power Down Competition, which pitted Harvey Mudd, Claremont McKenna, and Pomona against each other in a competition to reduce energy use during the month of November. The annual competition compared total electricity consumption in November at the...

TSL: The title of your latest book and the title of your talk at Pomona contain the caption “One solution to our two biggest problems.” What problems and what solution exactly are you referring to, and what is your intention in discussing these with Pomona students? Van Jones: [We...

Last December, Associate Dean of Students Neil Gerard announced his retirement following 18 years of quiet but influential work. During his tenure, Gerard helped transform the college’s student activities and campus life into what it is today. Gerard described his decision to retire as...

Pomona College has hired Mary Lou Woods as its new Assistant Vice President (AVP) Controller and Associate Treasurer. Woods started her new job Monday. Karen Sisson, Treasurer of Pomona College, said that Woods’ hiring “represents the culmination of a 10-month search to replace former...

Between 20 and 30 students from Scripps College will be living on Pomona College’s campus for the duration of the Spring 2011 school semester. The Deans of Students at the two colleges collaborated to make the decision to move Scripps students to Pomona. According to Rebecca Lee, Scripps...

Zipcar, the Massachusetts-based car-sharing company with cars at Pomona and Pitzer Colleges, will increase its hourly rates for Pomona students from $7 per hour to $8 per hour beginning Jan. 1, 2011, according to Richard Paisner, Zipcar’s Senior Account Manager for the university sector. ...

Two dorms at Pomona were burglarized on the evening of Friday, Nov. 19, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum told the Pomona community in an email Nov. 20. The burglaries occurred in the Clark I and Wig dorms.“Laptops, other electronic items, purses, and...

The Sagehen Café is contemplating the development of a “happy hour” program, an idea that reportedly arose from a discussion among students in the café. There is no specific proposal in place, and a representative of the Sagehen Café declined to comment on it or...

Pomona College Anthropology Professor Ralph Bolton PO ’61 recently received the annual Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology, the most prestigious honor in the field. Bolton has taught at the college since 1971 and studies Andean anthropology, human sexuality, and the...

Scripps College has announced that their position of Vice President for Enrollment, vacant since July, is to be filled by Victoria Romero. The position of Vice President for Enrollment at Scripps was vacated by Pat Goldsmith when she was named Vice President for Institutional Advancement at...

Over the past few weeks, a number of emails have been sent to the Pitzer College student body regarding the composition of the Student Senate’s Diversity Committee, which has opened up a discussion of issues of diversity on Pitzer’s campus. “The concern was raised that the...

The City of Claremont recently passed a preliminary proposal for a new ordinance that would ban smoking in certain public areas in the city. The proposal comes after a much more extensive proposal to ban smoking in Claremont, which was rejected by the Claremont City Council last spring. The final...

Coup de Aussie As the gathered senators looked around the table, they quickly realized that their almost always-punctual president, Stephanie Almeida ’11, was nowhere to be found. Vice President Cosimo Thawley ’11 immediately took advantage, using the opportunity to rally support for...

As the struggling economy causes graduate school application rates to rise and admissions rates to fall, many Pomona College seniors are still forging ahead with their graduate school plans for next year. Some are adapting their application strategies for an admissions climate that many describe...

Harvey Mudd College recently added three new members to their Board of Trustees, according to an announcement posted on the HMC website. The newly appointed members include Ann McDermott HM ’81, Greg Rae HM ’00, and John Vickery HM ’90. McDermott graduated from Harvey Mudd with...

Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), gave a talk criticizing Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, S.B. 1070, at Claremont McKenna College’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Monday, Nov. 22. The talk was...

Harvey Mudd College engineering professor Carl Baumgaertner remembers crawling in a foxhole with his buddies in 1945, hearing a German artillery shell land 50 feet away, and seeing one soldier get a nasty piece of shrapnel through the arm. “I’m outta here,” he remembers the...

I recently had a chance to talk with Pomona College Trustee Louise Bryson. Since receiving her master’s degree at Stanford University in 1969, Bryson has worked in the commercial and non-profit sectors of the arts and entertainment industries. During her time in the entertainment...

Pomona College’s decision to terminate its contract with food management provider Sodexo has provoked mixed reactions from those concerned about labor relations in Pomona’s dining halls. Some predict improved communication between workers and administrators, while others question the...

Longtime Pomona College Vice President and Dean of Admissions Bruce Poch will resign at the end of December. Poch has worked at Pomona for 23 years, longer than any Dean of Admissions in the school’s history, and is currently on sabbatical. “At Pomona, I managed to extend the...

Former Bernard Field Station (BFS) Manager Stephen Dreher is no longer employed by the Claremont University Consortium (CUC) and will vacate his on-site residence.CUC, which supervises the BFS, could not confirm that Stephen was fired and could not comment on the reason for his departure as CUC...

Scripps students voted to approve a measure to change the language in Scripps Associated Students (SAS) bylaws to be more gender-neutral this fall.Although Scripps is a women’s college, transgender students who do not identify as female currently attend Scripps. A desire for greater...

After inspiring a class full of disadvantaged students, a Hollywood film starring Hilary Swank and Patrick Dempsey, and teachers in public school systems across the nation, Erin Gruwell hasn’t lost the vivacious attitude that helped her win the affections of students and admirers. ...

Pressing Issues After President Stephanie Almeida ’11 banged her gavel at 5:17 to open the meeting, she turned things over to Environmental Affairs Commissioner Nate Wilairat ’11 for the first and most important thing on the day’s agenda: Balloon Pollution. According to...

Palmer Mebane HM ’12 helped the United States emerge victorious from the 19th World Puzzle Championship last month in Paprotnia, Poland.Mebane, a Harvey Mudd math major and puzzle enthusiast since his preschool years, was the youngest member and the only undergraduate student on the...

Two Harvey Mudd seniors, Zara Seibel and Andrey Sergeivich Shur, recently won prestigious academic awards. Seibel won the Daniel Garrad Prize, which recognizes excellence in the philosophy of science. She received the prize from Scotland’s University of Edinburgh, where she studied abroad...

I recently had a chance to speak with Pomona College Board of Trustees member Mary Ellen Kilsby. A Pomona graduate of the Class of 1956, Kilsby has lived her life in a manner that defies the typical “road map to success.” Dancing through life, following her intuition, and taking...

The Pomona Student Union (PSU) hosted a panel entitled “Now What? Atheism Beyond the Question of God” on Nov. 11. The discussion featured three atheist panelists and took place in Edmunds Ballroom. Rose Green PO ’12, a lifelong atheist, organized the event. “Most...

Pomona College took further steps last week to transition its dining hall management to self-operation, following the college’s announcement that its contract with Sodexo will be terminated in January.Two applicants were reviewed last week for the position of General Manager of the dining...

Pomona College will terminate its contract with food management provider Sodexo on Jan. 18, 2011, Vice President and Treasurer Karen Sisson told students in a Nov. 10 e-mail. The termination ends a 10-year relationship between Sodexo and the college. “Instead of relying on a third-party...

After discussing an informal proposition to combine Claremont Cash and Board Plus (“Flex”) last month, the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate has decided to table the debate until they receive a more formal proposal to work with. Wanting to cut down on the cost of...

Richard Berke, National Editor of The New York Times, visited Pomona Tuesday to deliver a talk, titled “How The New York Times covered the midterm elections.” Before Berke’s talk, Nathan Schauer and John Thomason from TSL, Evan Preston from KSPC’s Uproot, and Ina...

Blind Luck Pomona’s Vice President for Technical Advancement Christopher Ponce began the meeting with a summary of the college’s new Daring Minds campaign. Part of this campaign, Ponce explained, involved choosing current students to represent the school. Ponce quickly added that this...

A housing shortage at Pomona College that forced the college to lease College Park apartments this fall should not be a problem next year after the completion of the new dorm on North Campus. “Admissions and housing is not an exact science, so it’s impossible to be certain,”...

This is the first installment in The Student Life’s new series profiling members of the Pomona Board of Trustees and their thoughts on a meaningful life. I recently had a chance to talk with Pomona College Trustee Bill Keller PO ’70. Since 2003, Keller has served as Executive Editor...

Pitzer College Professor of Psychology David Moore, Scripps College Professor of Psychology Alan Hartley and Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Spezio, and Claremont McKenna Professor of Pscyhology Cathy Reed received a grant for $411,008 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Moore,...

The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) has updated its website to improve its performance and to simplify the task of managing the website. The updated site will run on the Content Mangament System Wordpress. According to Alexander Rudy PO ‘11, a Content Management System...

Pomona College is nearing the end of a three-year re-accreditation process conducted by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Re-accreditation is a voluntary process but is necessary in order to maintain an accredited status, which allows the college to receive federal funds,...

This year’s installation of Pomona College’s Distinguished Speaker Series, which was scheduled to host civil rights and environmental activist Anthony “Van” Jones on Nov. 5, has been postponed and tentatively rescheduled for Jan. 26. Jones’ office has not confirmed...

Kiplinger magazine recently released its annual ranking of the “Best Values in Private Colleges” in the United States. This year, Pomona College ranked second among liberal arts colleges behind Swarthmore College. All the 5Cs made the top 100 list, with Claremont McKenna College at...

Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, and Pomona College are competing this month to see which campus’ dorms can lower their energy consumption the most. The contest is a joint effort between Pomona for Environmental Action and Responsibility (PEAR), Pomona’s Sustainability Integration...

Bernard Field Station (BFS) manager Stephen Dreher was fired by Claremont University Consortium this past Monday, Novn 8. Field station users at the 5Cs were informed of the decision by e-mail on Wednesday. The notice did not indicate the exact reason that Mr. Dreher had been fired, but cited...

Pomona College students are participating in launching events for the new “Daring Minds” campaign, taking place this fall on the East and West Coasts. Approximately eight to 10 Pomona sophomores, juniors, and seniors attend each event. “Campaign Pomona: Daring Minds,”...

The annual Eurotrash party, which took place at Scripps College last Saturday, was shut down an hour early due to the behavior of students waiting in line to get into the event. Eurotrash was held in the Scripps parking garage, and the entryway included a “fast-pass” line for...

Bryan Penprase, Pomona College’s Frank P. Brackett Professor of Astronomy and Department Chair, along with Catherine Wilka PO ’12 and Alex Hagen HM ’10, are contributing to the largest-ever study of near-earth objects (NEOs). They are part of an international group called the...

Pitzer College has once again been ranked by The Chronicle of Higher Education as the number one Fulbright-receiving undergraduate institution based on the number of Fulbright scholarships awarded to students last spring. Last year, Pitzer nominated 79 candidates for the Fulbright scholarship, 22...

The Princeton Review caused a stir at the 5Cs last week when it released its new “Guide to 286 Green Colleges,” which includes Claremont McKenna and Harvey Mudd but excludes Pomona, Scripps, and Pitzer.The review’s ranking, which was first reported by The Claremont Port Side,...

For those of you who missed the propaganda advertisements on TV, the older women in visors with plastic picket signs, and the rampant listserv e-mails, Tuesday was Election Day. But even if you already knew that, you might have been aware of only a couple of the propositions that were on the...

Altercations erupted among students, Campus Safety, and Claremont police officers outside Harwood Halloween Saturday after Pomona College’s annual party was closed off to additional students. According to Claremont Police Department (CPD) Chief Paul Cooper, after the event had reached...

Yesterday at 5:47 p.m., the bell in the Bixby Plaza clock tower at Pomona College rang for the first time since 2000. This marked the first official ringing of the bell since it was silenced after student complaints. Associate Dean of Students Neil Gerard said that the ASPC Senate is trying to...

Claremont McKenna College’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) received a $5,000 grant for winning the Jenzabar Foundation’s Student Leadership Award. Student Management Team leaders Gaby Andrade CMC ’12 and Van-Anh Su CMC ’13 accepted the grant at the Millenium Campus...

A burglar entered a Claremont McKenna College apartment around midnight on the evening of Friday, Oct. 29 and stole expensive electronics while the residents were sleeping, CMC Associate Dean of Students Jennifer Marana told students in an e-mail over the weekend. The burglar was described as...

The Pomona Grading Scale Environmental Affairs Commissioner Nate Wilairat ’11 started the meeting with a summary of the recently released College Sustainability Report Cards. Pomona, Wilairat explained, was one of a handful of schools to receive an “A” grade in 2011. However,...

An e-mail sent out to a large number of alumni the week of Oct. 11 called for a pledge campaign to withhold donations to Pomona College in response to the college’s dispute with Workers for Justice, drawing a rebuke from the college administration.Pomona sent out an e-mail addressed to the...

A Harvey Mudd College dining services employee was dismissed and banned from campus Tuesday, Nov. 2. Raul Oliveros had worked for the college for rougly 10 years, said Vice President for Administration and Finance/Treasurer Andrew Dorantes. “The reason that led to his termination had to...

Students living on North Campus have received a number of e-mail updates describing new measures being taken to mitigate the noise emanating from the construction site of the new North Campus residence hall and parking garage. The e-mails were sent to residents of the Clark, Norton, and Lawry...

New Yorker movie listings editor and film critic Richard Brody spoke at Claremont McKenna College’s Mary Pickford Auditorium Wednesday on the life and works of French “New Wave” director Jean-Luc Godard. Brody, who was invited by colleague and CMC film professor Jim Morrison,...

Focus on me, not your lunch… President Oxtoby forcefully called the meeting to order at 12:02. The faculty slowly settled to order, although the ruffling of lunch bags could still be heard. He then asked the faculty to approve the minutes from the previous meeting, which they did...

Student Opinions:Emery Donovan, PO ‘12 Registered in California The issue that is most important for me is definitely Prop. 23…which is going to repeal California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. The majority of the funding for Prop. 23 comes from Valero and Tesoro,...

In response to longstanding concerns about grade inflation at Pomona College, a faculty and student committee is developing a set of grade definitions to guide grading across the college. The Curriculum Committee began reviewing grading practices last semester, after faculty voted in favor...

Let’s not get too involved… Shortly after ASPC President Stephanie Almeida ’11 pounded her gavel at 5:15, signaling the beginning of Senate, Ellie Ash handed out Conflict of Interest forms for the senators to sign. The point of these forms, Ash explained, was to state for the...

Scripps College Academy received the 2010 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Oct. 20 at an award ceremony at the White House. First lady Michelle Obama presented the award. 400 after-school and out-of-school programs were nominated for the world. Out of 50 finalists from...

Resident Advisor (RA) walk-throughs in Pomona College’s Lawry Court have become more frequent this semester. Lawry RAs have, in accordance with the administration’s orders, conducted regular walks through common rooms enclosed within the nine suites of the dorm. Stefan Castellanos PO...

Claremont McKenna College, which has traditionally offered very few courses on Friday, will increase the number of Friday classes next semester due to a significant loss of classroom space. According to CMC Dean of Faculty Gregory Hess, the college has temporarily lost a large number of...

The first college football game ever played occurred on Nov. 6, 1869, between Princeton and Rutgers. Rutgers won the game with six “runs” to Princeton’s four. Today, that historic rivalry is a source of lore and pride for both campuses. But according to sports writer Frank...

Frank Dining Hall Executive Chef Justin McGruder and Sustainable Food Coordinator Samantha Meyer PO ’10 held the first “Food Focus Group” meeting with students in Frank’s Blue Room Tuesday during dinner. McGruder appealed to the whole student body to help formulate a...

Pomona College’s dining halls have implemented several changes to their food purchasing and trash disposal systems this year in an effort to make the college’s food services more sustainable. Samantha Meyer PO ’10, the college’s new Sustainable Food Coordinator,...

The fire alarm in Pomona College’s Lawry Court has gone off improperly more than 10 times this fall, including three times between 8 and 10 a.m. Monday, due to problems with the exhaust fan in suite A3. Assistant Director of Maintenance Operations Judy Brown said the problem has now been...

Though cross-enrollment and intercollegiate departments are common at the 5Cs, the schools’ academic practices and philosophies differ in many respects. Dean’s List honors—or similar distinctions—are granted at every college except Pitzer, but the logistics of the awards...

Some students at Pomona College are finding that the convenience of having a bicycle on campus is tempered by the hassle of finding a place to lock it. The perceived lack of sufficient bike racks at Pomona has become a matter of concern for administrators and students, bikers and non-bikers...

Workers for Justice held a brief rally on the steps of Frary Dining Hall Thursday. During the dining hall workers’ 4:00 p.m. break, students and staff came together for half an hour in support of labor peace. Mariachi Serrano de Claremont played several songs to open the rally....

Pomona College unveiled its new fundraising campaign, Daring Minds, last Thursday with an address in Bridges Hall of Music before its annual Founder’s Day celebration at the Smith Campus Center’s South Lawn. Alumni were also given a tour of the new North Campus residence halls for...

Pitzer College has risen 24 spots in the U.S. News and World Report rankings over the past nine years. The college is up from 70th in the nation in 2002 to 46th in 2011. The increase, according to the college’s Office of Public Relations, is “the greatest by any college or...

The National Science Foundation has awarded Scripps College a $411,008 grant to build an advanced laboratory for research on human cognitive functioning. The student-faculty laboratory will use high-density electroencephalography (EEG) to record brain activity. The grant was awarded by the...

One evening in 1971, New York Times copy boy Robert Rosenthal received a call from his editor. “Come to Room 1111 at the Hilton Hotel tomorrow,” his editor said. “Don’t tell anyone you’re coming, even your parents, and bring about enough clothes for a...

Conservative political analyst William Kristol spoke about current trends in American politics at Claremont McKenna’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Oct. 13. The talk, entitled “The Future of American Politics: Obama, the Tea Party, and the 2010 and 2012 Elections,” was...

The City of Claremont came to two major agreements last week in its efforts to sign a new contract for waste disposal and to reduce the cost of trash collection in the city. “We have a contract [with a landfill in] Orange County which is expiring soon,” said Claremont Mayor Linda...

Now that the California state budget has all but gone up in smoke, revered economists and casual cannabis users alike are saying it’s high time marijuana was legalized for recreational use. If it passes on Nov. 2, Proposition 19 will allow Californians over the age of 21 to possess up...

Pomona College is preparing to build a new studio art building to replace the studios currently housed in Rembrandt Hall. The new facility will be located on the existing parking lot between Seaver Theater and Pomona’s baseball diamond. According to Vice President and Treasurer of Pomona...

Pomona College students and trustees met Oct. 15 to discuss internships, career planning, and life after college at the 12th annual Trustee-Student Retreat. Although the retreat fell on the first night of fall break, turnout was high. “Over 80 students [registered], and more than that...

Writing within the limited subject of lives of Bengali immigrants in America, Jhumpa Lahiri has found a wide cross-cultural audience. Her stories truthfully portray the feeling of alienation felt by an expatriate. Perhaps for this very reason, she has mass appeal in America, the land of...

How many times have I told you?! After calling the meeting to order promptly at 5:15, ASPC president Stephanie Almeida gently reminded her fellow senators to bring their binders to their weekly meetings, which a number of them had forgotten to do. Let’s keep it PG While explaining what...

The Dorothy Drake wing of the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College was shut down for financial reasons in June. According to Judy Sahak, the Director of the Ella Strong Denison Library, the process leading up to the closure of the wing began six years ago when the Council of...

Gene Simmons, lead singer of the band Kiss, spoke at Pitzer’s new Benson auditorium last Saturday, discussing his journey from a poor immigrant’s childhood to rock n’ roll stardom. The talk was organized by Pitzer’s Associate Vice President for College Advancement, Joy...

Associate Dean of Students Daren Mooko sent an e-mail to the student body Oct. 1 regarding a Queer Resource Center (QRC) flyer at Claremont Graduate University that had been repeatedly removed from a bulletin board. The e-mail was sent as part of the school’s protocol for...

Chicano/Latino Student Affairs (CLSA) has organized an ongoing series of events addressing issues facing the Latino community. The series, which began in September and will continue through November, is titled “Immigration: National Impact and Local Implications.” The events are...

Claremont will be a host city for the 2011 Amgen Tour of California, an annual cycling road race that is one of the most well-known races in the U.S., race presenter AEG announced Oct. 7. The sixth annual tour, which is sponsored by the biotech company Amgen, will begin on May 15 in Lake Tahoe...

Pomona College Economics professor Tahir Andrabi is garnering national attention for his research on disaster relief aid in Pakistan, which supports an optimistic view of how aid affects the attitudes of its recipients toward foreigners. Andrabi spent much of last year collecting data and...

Bruce McKenna, one of the writers for the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and the creator of and writer for sister miniseries The Pacific, gave a lecture Tuesday at Claremont McKenna’s Athenaeum. McKenna addressed historical accuracy in drama, specifically in these two projects, which...

In the spirit of National Coming Out Week, the Queer Resource Center painted Walker Wall in celebration of the queer community. “National Coming Out Week is a way for queer people and their allies to declare themselves as such in a statement against heterosexism and other things that...

Along with its annual Founder’s Day celebrations Thursday, Pomona launched its “Daring Minds” campaign, which President David Oxtoby hailed as the “most ambitious fundraising campaign in [Pomona’s] history.” The campaign was formally announced at a...

Many Pomona College alumni are pledging to withhold donations to the college until the dining hall workers and the administration have signed a labor peace agreement. At press time, more than 150 alumni pledges had been made public. According to Peter Kunhs PO ’98, who has helped raise...

A task force comprised of Pomona College trustees, students, and faculty has been created this year to evaluate the ways in which the college is preparing its students for life after graduation. Each year, Pomona forms a committee to analyze one aspect of student life. Last year’s task...

The Pomona Student Union (PSU) hosted a panel called “To Have & To Hold: Marriage in Contemporary America” on Sept. 30. The debate, held in Edmunds Ballroom and co-sponsored by the Public Events Committee, featured W. Bradford Wilcox, Director of the National MarriageProject and...

Harvey Mudd physics professor Vatche Sahakian spoke Tuesday about a new theory of gravity that could revolutionize modern physics if proven correct.Sahakian’s colloquium at Harvey Mudd’s Galileo Hall drew more than 100 students and professors. This installment of the colloquium series...

The Pomona College Museum of Art has been awarded a grant worth $10,000 from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) for its spring 2011 exhibition “China: Insights.” The grant is intended to help provide educational supplements to the exhibition, which will study China’s...

Let the games begin Stephanie Almeida PO ‘11 banged the gavel at 5:15 p.m. and started moderating everyone’s caucus. I-bankers might not take vacations but we do Dean Miriam Feldblum encouraged students to attend the Student-Trustee retreat on Oct. 15, even though it falls on the...

After nine years of serving the Claremont University Consortium (CUC) as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Student Services, Dr. John Beckman has announced his retirement.Though most students know little about Beckman’s job, he has influenced student life through his...

Amid the controversy surrounding Park51, the proposed Islamic community center and mosque in lower Manhattan, Muslim students at the 5Cs are feeling the reverberations of anti-Islam sentiments thousands of miles away.One student who wished to remain anonymous described an incident in which, after...

Elizabeth Turk SC ’83 was named a 2010 MacArthur fellow on Sept. 28. A sculptor living in Atlanta, Georgia, Turk was awarded the $500,000, no-strings-attached grant for “transforming her signature medium of marble, a traditionally monumental and prone-to-fracture material, into...

An economics major in shorts, a polo shirt, and flip-flops walks into the Coop Fountain and orders a grilled chicken sandwich. He doesn’t look that different from any other 5C student, but it turns out he’s a little bit older than most recent graduates and commutes daily from his home...

The Claremont Village hosted the event “Welcome to Claremont” on Thursday, Sept. 30. Attracting mostly freshman, the village “Open House” celebration was a two-hour event, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at which free food and other prizes were given out to students of the 5Cs by a...

The Claremont City Council passed a parking ordinance Sept. 28 that would lower the number of parking spaces each of the 5Cs is required to have, on the condition that the colleges agree to ban one or more classes from bringing cars to campus.Under the current Claremont Municipal Code, each of...

The Claremont City Council approved a final parcel map for the Bernard Field Station (BFS) on Sept. 28, despite protests from students and community members. The parcel map splits the undeveloped land north of Foothill Boulevard into four distinct parcels, which can be more easily sold as...

The Biszantz Family Tennis Courts complex at Claremont McKenna College recently won the United States Tennis Association’s Outstanding Facility Award, its third award for design. USTA guidelines state that the award is given to complexes of exceptional quality in order to “encourage...

The Claremont University Consortium (CUC) appointed Dean Manship to the newly created position of Emergency Preparedness Planning Manager of the Claremont Colleges on Oct. 2. The creation of this position is “a tremendous move toward creating a more integrated emergency response...

Harvey Mudd College students are designing their own green experiments for use in undergraduate chemistry education. The procedures for the most recently completed experiments, which involve the synthesis of organic molecules such as warfarin, divanillin, and several molecules used as fragrances,...

President Barack Obama held a conference call with college and university journalists Monday to discuss the steps his administration has taken to address the issues facing young Americans, particularly issues surrounding higher education.“I want to just take a minute to underscore something...

The Pitzer College administration has decided to ban drinking games on campus starting this semester. Pitzer students caught playing drinking games may face judicial sanctions.“We had all the ingredients in place that led us to make the next logical step, which was that drinking games...

A new position at Honnold-Mudd Library, termed “Vice President for Library and IT Services,” is in the works.According to John Beckman, Chief Administrative Officer and Vice President for Student Services of the Claremont University Consortium (CUC), the new position is “the...

Pomona College is participating in a new program to cut down on food waste in its dining halls. The Stop Wasting Food campaign is a pilot program that Sodexo—Pomona’s food service provider—instituted this fall at eight college campuses across the country. In addition to...

Claremont McKenna College’s new building, the Kravis Center, is not expected to be completed until spring 2011 at the earliest, according to the college’s website. If it is finished by then, the project will have taken two and a half years from groundbreaking to completion. The...

Pomona College is in its third week under a revamped system for reusable takeout containers. The college’s dining services began distributing the brand new containers Friday, Sept. 10.Dining services provided free containers to Pomona students by crediting all student accounts, except those...

A record heat wave stormed through Claremont this week, producing an average high of 104 degrees Fahrenheit. On Monday, the recorded high was 112 degrees Fahrenheit, the hottest temperature ever recorded on that day, and only 5 degrees short of Claremont’s all time high, set in 1948. In...

Pomona College officials spoke to a small group of students at Rose Hills Theater Monday regarding the college’s response to three separate indecent exposure incidents that occurred on Saturday morning, Sept. 18, and Monday, Sept. 20. The speakers present—Pomona’s Vice President...

Connie Wilson, Academic Department Coordinator of 33 years for the Pomona College Department of Physics and Astronomy, died unexpectedly on Sunday. Her death came as a shock to the many students, professors, and staff members who knew her well. Wilson had begun to complain of pain the previous...

The Claremont City Council approved a plan Sept. 14 to allow the Gold Line light rail to extend through Claremont, marking a major step forward for a project that has caused some controversy at the Claremont Colleges.Claremont was the last city to submit its plan to accommodate the Gold Line...

Pomona College held a memorial service Saturday to commemorate the life of former President David Alexander, who passed away July 25 at the age of 77. Considered one of this institution’s greatest and most influential presidents, Alexander also inspired broad changes in American higher...

A professional thief or group of professional thieves stole several items from Honnold-Mudd Library over summer break. Items reported missing included a wallet and two laptops. All of the items had been left unattended. “We believe these not to be random crimes of opportunity; rather, these...

Women’s rights activist Sheryl WuDunn visited Scripp College’s Garrison Theater Thursday, Sept. 16, to discuss the challenges facing women around the world and argue for solutions. WuDunn was invited to speak as part of the College’s Alexa Fullerton Hampton Series, entitled...

Pomona College’s construction projects on North and South Campus are both currently on schedule after a three-month delay to the South Campus plan. The two projects are on track to be completed by March 2011.The delay to the South Campus project was a result of difficulties in obtaining...

The Pomona College Board of Trustees has elected three new members: Joel Feuer ’76, Bryan White ’84 and Reza Zafari ’82. The three began serving their terms on the board July 1 of this year. Feuer majored in English at Pomona and served as Commissioner of Communications as well...

Representatives from the pro-unionization group of Pomona College dining hall workers, Workers for Justice (WFJ), met with college administrators on Monday to discuss the possibility of using a “vote-by-mail” system for unionization, which they proposed on May 12.Under the new system,...

The Pomona College fraternity Kappa Delta’s weekly Wednesday-night social event, Pub, is scheduled to resume Oct. 6 after a one-month suspension. Pub was suspended for the first month of this semester due to a policy violation by the fraternity, Assistant Director of Smith Campus Center and...

Sefa Aina, Director of Pomona College’s Asian American Resource Center, was recently appointed to President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.The Advisory Commission was created as a result of an Executive Order signed by President Obama in...

Scripps College was named the fourth most beautiful college in the world by Forbes magazine earlier this month, after Kenyon College, Oxford University and Princeton University. The magazine cited the “artistic connection between buildings and landscape” at Scripps, calling it...

A Pomona College professor is making headlines for his role in uncovering a new fossil deposit from the early days of animal life.Robert Gaines, Associate Professor of Geology, has co-authored a newly-published article on the findings he and several other scientists made in the Canadian Rockies...

The 2010-2011 school year is the first year that Pomona will not allow smoking in any of its dormitories, after the administration decided to disallow smoking in the campus’s only smoking dormitory, Lawry Court. The campus became nearly smoke-free in 2003, when residential smoking areas...

Pomona College’s Student Union (PSU) hosted a panel discussion entitled American Rage: Race, Revolt, and the Tea Party Movement at Rose Hills Theater Tuesday. The event, PSU’s second of the year, featured three guest speakers—Gerard Alexander, Rich Benjamin, and Jennet...

Newsweek magazine has ranked Pomona College as the nation’s second most desirable small school, beat out only by Cooper Union in New York City. The ranking was part of a college ranking series by Newsweek that contained various divisions for different sizes of schools, types of school...

Claremont McKenna College’s celebrated Thursday Night Club (TNC) was temporarily suspended, beginning on Sept. 9, by the college’s Office of the Dean of Students and Campus Security, due to the presence of two unregistered kegs.However, Associated Students of CMC (ASCMC) Dorm Affairs...

Bruce Poch, Pomona’s Vice President and Dean of Admissions, is on sabbatical this semester. It will be his first leave of absence in 23 years of service to the college.At this time last fall, Poch was traveling to high schools located across the U.S. and internationally, which has been one...

A male suspect entered the dorm rooms of two female students on Pomona College’s North Campus early Saturday morning and exposed his genitals while standing near the sleeping students’ beds.Campus Safety was called and the Claremont Police Department (CPD) also became involved.The...

A group of Pomona College dining hall workers, accompanied by several students, gathered outside of Frary Dining Hall in a Workers for Justice demonstration last Friday. After the participants gathered around the Frary fountain, workers and students alike took up signs and loudspeakers, heading...

Due to planned and unplanned absences, Pomona’s politics department will be significantly understaffed next school year. Only nine of the twelve politics faculty members will be teaching fall semester 2010 and spring semester 2011.“A quarter of us will be gone at one time or...

In an e-mail sent out Apr. 24, Housing Director Deanna Bos informed students currently placed in deferred housing that the school anticipates finding on-campus housing for all of them. Before they received this e-mail, many of these students feared that due to the large number of students in...

Students at Pitzer College voted from Apr. 12 - 15 to elect several representatives to the college’s student senate. Alex Smith PI ’11 was elected Senate Chair and Leah Kahn PI ’12 was elected Vice Chair, but a second set of elections is currently underway because no candidates...

At least 11 Pomona College students have received Fulbright grants for the 2010-11 academic year, and two more are alternates.The Fulbright Fellowship, created in 1948, is an award that provides students, scholars, and teachers grants to partake in international exchange to further peaceful...

The Pomona College Student Affairs Committee will make a number of changes to student employment on Pomona’s campus next year, according to Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum. The changes were made by a working group consisting of Dean of the College Cecilia Conrad, VP for Planning Richard...

Pomona’s primary environmental club, Pomona Students for Environmental Activism and Responsibility (PEAR), held a series of events last week to celebrate Earth Week.“The idea with the events was to reach as broad a swath of students as possible,” said Joanna Ladd PO ’10, a...

On May 16, a group of Pomona College students and faculty will wear white stoles to the commencement ceremony of the class of 2010 to express concerns with commencement speaker Janet Napolitano’s stance on immigration.The planned action will augment the efforts of the May 16th Coalition, a...

On Apr. 22, Pomona College announced the selection of nationally acclaimed author Jonathan Lethem as the Roy Edward Disney Professor of Creative Writing. Pending the approval of the Board of Trustees in May, Lethem will begin teaching in Spring 2011. Lethem spoke by phone with TSL Managing Editor...

Dining hall workers called for a student boycott of dinner at Frank and Frary dining halls on Wednesday in support of their push for a card check neutrality agreement on unionization.The boycott was organized by the Workers for Justice (WFJ), a pro-union coalition of workers, and supported by...

All I need to do is come up with one last gavel joke… ASPC President Jed Cullen ’10 convened the meeting at 5:03 p.m. All quiet on the Scott Levy front The meeting began with Cullen asking the senators updates on their various committees. When Cullen addressed Commissioner of...

The Claremont City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to reject a proposal that would have amended the city’s No Smoking Ordinance to include a ban on smoking in outdoor public places.The Community Services Commission drafted and presented the City Council with a proposal that stated that smoking...

Following recommendations made by the ASPC Food Committee, the Pomona College Office of Campus Life will reduce the number of meal plans offered from twelve to six for the 2010-2011 school year. Currently, students can choose any combination of four meal options—12, 14, 16, or 19 meals a...

Harvey Mudd received a $1 million grant from the Los Angeles-based Rose Hills Foundation for Undergraduate Science and Engineering Scholarships.“The purpose of this program is to support science, mathematics and engineering education in California by providing scholarships for undergraduate...

Roughly 550 admitted students and their families flocked to Pomona College for Admissions Days on Apr. 12 and Apr. 19. According to Vice President and Dean of Admissions Bruce Poch, a high percentage of the students who come to the Admissions Days typically enroll at Pomona, and this year a...

A sewage pipe ruptured and created a blockage at the Smith Campus Center (SCC) on Sunday, causing a temporary closing of the Sagehen Café and the SCC bathrooms. The plumbing blockage occurred beneath the SCC courtyard, according to Neil Gerard, associate dean of students and director of...

A team from Harvey Mudd College was named a finalist in this year’s Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), which ran from Feb. 18 to Feb. 22. Harvey Mudd entered six teams in this year’s contest, with participants ranging from freshmen to seniors.The team comprised of Richard Bowen...

Dude, why is your gavel so loud today? ASPC President Jed Cullen ’10 convened the meeting at 5:04 p.m. It’s a Living Document… Cullen then introduced 2010 ASPC Elections Commissioner Mark Simon ’10. Simon passed out his report on possible amendments to the ASPC...

Pomona College students who lived in Lawry or Clark I dorms this year were given a 25 percent reduction in their room draw numbers due to their proximity to the construction at Claremont McKenna College and Pomona, according to Housing Director Deanna Bos.“The College acknowledges that the...

The Daily Beast, an online news source, named Claremont McKenna College number one on its list of the “100 Happiest Campuses.”Using statistics collected from U.S. News & World Report and College Prowler, the Daily Beast ranked CMC, Pomona, Harvey Mudd, Scripps, and Pitzer among the 22...

Pitzer College received the 2010 Multicultural Undergraduate Internship grant from the Getty Foundation. This is the second year in a row that the college has recieved a grant to fund a summer internship for a Pitzer student to work at the Pitzer Art Galleries.The Pitzer Art Galleries Getty...

Pomona College is currently ranked sixth out of all colleges on The Global Language Monitor’s TrendTopper MediaBuzz College and University Rankings.The report, released biannually, ranks colleges and universities in terms of their presence in international print and electronic media. The...

Nineteen Pitzer College students have been granted Fulbright Fellowships for the 2010-2011 academic year. This is the highest number of Fulbrights awarded to Pitzer students in the college’s history, topping the previous record of 17. Over 100 Fulbrights have been awarded to Pitzer...

Pomona College’s recently redesigned Smith Campus Center (SCC) was honored with the Facility Design Award by the Association of College Unions International.The SCC was one of six college student centers to win the award, which was based on the buildings’ appearance, the workability...

Due to a perceived lack of student interest and low attendance rates, the Pomona College Committee for Campus Life and Activities (CCLA) has decided to eliminate its Themed Parties Committee. According to Vice President for Campus Activities and CCLA Commissioner Kayleigh Kaneshiro PO ‘10,...

After Pomona College’s room draw last Friday, a number of students found themselves without a room and placed into deferred housing. However, unlike in previous years, the students who did not choose a room may be deferred off campus into the College Park Apartments, rather than into a room...

Pomona College announced its selection of acclaimed author Jonathan Lethem for the Roy Disney Professorship in Creative Writing Friday.Lethem is best known for his novels Motherless Brooklyn, which won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and The Fortress of Solitude, named...

At least five Claremont Colleges students were assaulted Monday night in three incidents on Pomona’s campus, college officials said Tuesday.Four Pomona College students and one Pitzer College student were attacked by a group of three Pomona city residents, according to Pomona’s Senior...

Last Thursday, Claremont McKenna College welcomed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to campus for a dinner, speech, and question and answer session at the Miriam Miner Cook Athenaeum.Romney’s talk was partisan but congenial, and this style was evident from his opening remarks....

Shelley, a film by Ian Carr PO ’10 and his childhood friend Andrew Wesman, was recently accepted as an official selection in the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation competition for student films. The 21-minute film—Wesman’s senior thesis project for Harvard...

Former Claremont High School (CHS) student Tyler Singleton, 18, chose not to contest felony charges against him for two counts of unlawful sex with a minor, or statutory rape.He appeared at the Pomona Superior Court on Mar. 30 for his second arraignment, after opting not to plea and waiving his...

The Claremont Police Department has issued a release about a reported indecent exposure incident on the Pomona College campus shortly before midnight on Apr. 8. A female Pitzer student was walking at the intersection of College Avenue and Sixth Street when the suspect pulled up in a car, exposing...

Later this week, Pomona’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC) will vote on proposed changes to the current sexual misconduct policy in the student handbook. The changes were drafted by an SAC subcommittee that consists of ASPC Vice President of Finance Kelly Schwartz PO ’11, Dean of...

Nice Gavel! ASPC President Jed Cullen ’10 convened the meeting at 5:05 p.m. If only we had some green construction paper...… Cullen introduced Director of Financial Aid Mary Booker, who discussed issues surrounding student employment. This year, in order to cope with a $400,000...

Scripps College inaugurated Lori Bettison-Varga as its eighth president on Mar. 27, officially replacing Frederick “Fritz” Wells after his two-year term ended last June. Before coming to Scripps, Bettison-Varga spent 15 years at The College of Wooster, served as director of the Keck...

Shahram Ariane has been hired as the Director of Campus Safety for the Claremont University Consortium (CUC).Ariane will fill the position left open by the departure of Lena Robinson in July. Robinson opted to take advantage of an early retirement plan offered by CUC to reduce its operating...

Students may soon be able to text Claremont University Consortium (CUC) Campus Safety officers to report incidents or receive assistance. The initiative has been spearheaded by Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Commissioner of Off-Campus Relations Hsuanwei Fan PO ’12 and...

Honnold/Mudd Library is running out of space, according to Pomona College Vice President Cecilia Conrad.The library’s capacity issue arose from an inability to properly compromise user space, which students enjoy, and book space, where faculty would like to see their pertinent collections...

Due to a steep decline in applications over the past couple of years, Pomona College’s Unity Dorm residence will be discontinued in the fall. For the past four years, Pomona’s Smiley Hall has housed a residence created by and for students with a dedication to community building and...

The Claremont University Consortium’s (CUC) contract with its power provider, Southern California Edison (SCE), has a variety of consequences for the consortium’s efforts to invest in renewable energy sources. The specifics of the contract and contradictory policies within SCE cause...

Zephanii Smith CM ’12 was named to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) National Board of Directors in February, becoming one of seven youth members from across the country to receive the honor.“It’s a wonderful opportunity for me to...

Despite last week’s e-mail to the Pomona College community claiming the school would not offer any on-campus storage this summer, the Office of Campus Life (OCL) has decided to offer a limited amount of summer storage to students who opt to pay a fee.In previous years, Pomona has given...

A group of students and community activists have come together to protest Pomona College’s choice of Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano as the college’s 2010 commencement speaker.The group, which calls itself the May 16th Coalition, opposes Napolitano’s immigration...

Richard Walter, co-chair of the screenwriting program in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA, came to Pomona College to give a lecture and seminar for selected screenwriting students on Apr. 9. Professor Rick Blackwood, who was Walter’s student in 1980, was one of...

Students cast their votes for next year’s Associated Students of Pomona College Senate on Tuesday, with five of the nine contested positions going to run-off elections. More than 740 students submitted ballots this year.North Campus Representative Stephanie Almeida PO ’11 was elected...

Last week, two members of the political movement led by Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. tabled near Pomona’s gates to promote the movement’s latest initiative: the immediate impeachment of President Barack Obama.Carrying large posters that showed Hitler’s famous toothbrush mustache...

Saturday night, just a few hours after members of the Queer Resource Center (QRC) finished painting a rainbow flag over the entirety of Walker Wall––a process which took two days––students participating in “Beverage Scavvy,” an annual scavenger hunt in which...

Pro-union food service workers asked for formal talks between Pomona College staff and administration Wednesday night, a day after the college’s first public discussion on a union vote.The statement, signed by a group that named itself the Independent Labor Organization of Pomona College...

Following a national trend, Pomona College’s applicant pool this year was significantly larger than last year’s.The number of applicants went from 6,149 for the Class of 2013 to 6,765 this year—a 10 percent increase—but the college is aiming for its usual class size of...

Members of the Pomona College Student Affairs Committee (SAC) approved a proposal on Apr. 2 to change the wording of the college’s policy toward drinking games.The proposed policy change is open to student comment until Apr. 23, at which point SAC will make a final decision regarding the...

The results of the Associated Students of Pomona College’s Food Committee’s Dining Hall Survey came in Mar. 26. The committee has and will continue to discuss the results and how relevant changes can be implemented at the school’s dining halls.The idea to create a Food...

Pomona has installed compost bins across campus to supplement ongoing efforts at the Organic Farm. The initiative, which launched in late March, was spearheaded by Samantha Meyer PO ’10 with funds from the President’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability (PACS).“I came up with...

Scott Olivet PO ’84 was chosen as the keynote speaker for this year’s Class Day, scheduled for May 15. Olivet, who is currently the Executive Chairman of RED Digital Camera and Chairman of Oakley, Inc., became the newest member of the Pomona College Board of Trustees last...

Approximately 15 Orientation Leader (OA) applicants were removed from the OA leader selection committee’s final list of chosen applicants due to past disciplinary conduct, primarily alcohol violations.Martin Crawford, senior coordinator of the OA program, announced the 2010 OA leaders on...

04.06.2010 Début The meeting began at 5:02 p.m., with the arrival of guest speaker Coach Charles Katsiaficas, Director of Athletic Facilities. Faulty scoreboards to be fixed Katsiaficas informed Senate that the scoreboard in Haldeman Pool, which frequently shows the wrong score, will...

Scores of demonstrators marched past Pomona College President David Oxtoby’s house on Mar. 24 in an attempt to force progress in a dead-locked discussion about a unionization proposal by the college’s food-service workers.The march began after about 125 professors, staff, students and...

The Pomona College Student Affairs Committee (SAC) voted to instate a gender neutral housing policy on Mar. 12. The new policy allows students to live in doubles, two-room doubles, and friendship suites with roommates of any gender or sex after their first year. It will go into effect in time for...

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor spoke at Bridges Auditorium Tuesday in the highly-anticipated second installment of the Pomona College Distinguished Speaker Series.After participating in several discussions and meetings with students throughout the morning, O’Connor...

Claremont McKenna’s weekly Thursday Night Club (TNC) party is to be enforced as a CMC-only event following of thousands of dollars in facilities damages and several violent incidents.“We need to be able to manage TNC before we can start opening it to other schools,” said ASCMC...

The Claremont Museum of Art (CMA), which was forced to shut down in December after losing its location at the Packing House in the Village, is planning an innovative arts education program entitled ArtStart Claremont. Museum officials hope that the CMA will reopen in the coming years.The CMA has...

The number of Pomona College sponsor applications dropped significantly this year.According to the Pomona College website, about 35 percent of freshmen apply each year to be sponsors. This year’s 110 applicants out of a class of 391 make up only 28 percent of the Class of 2013.Last year, 55...

The sister of Pomona College’s Dean of Students is making history by joining the ranks of the Obama administration.In September of last year, President Barack Obama nominated Chai Feldblum, sister of Vice President and Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum, to a position on the five-person Equal...

Tinku Juneja has withdrawn his appeal of the Claremont Planning Commission’s denial of his request to establish a 7-Eleven convenience store in Claremont.On Mar. 2, Juneja requested permission to open a 7-Eleven in the vacant building located at 601 East Foothill Boulevard. When his request...

On Mar. 13, a brigade of 11 students from the Claremont Colleges set out for Lima, Peru on a MEDLIFE trip to help save lives and provide basic health care to impoverished communities.MEDLIFE (Medical Education and Development for Low Income Families Everywhere) is a student-run organization whose...

Pomona College Sustainability Coordinator Bowen Close submitted a draft of the college’s first-ever Sustainability Action Plan to President David Oxtoby yesterday.With Oxtoby’s approval, the plan will be brought before the Board of Trustees in May. Pending their endorsement, it will...

The Claremont City Council unanimously selected Linda Elderkin as the city’s new mayor on Mar. 9.Elderkin has served as Associate Dean of Students at Pitzer College and both Dean of Campus Life and Associate Dean of Students at Pomona College. Her husband Rick is a math professor at...

Accomplished novelist and poet Chris Abani visited Pomona College on Mar. 4 - 5. Abani is the final of three candidates for the Roy E. Disney Professorship in Creative Writing.The first day, Abani led a sample workshop with students and faculty where student work was discussed. Later that day, he...

Frary Dining Hall will be open for lunch and dinner this spring break, unlike in previous years.Although all dining halls will be closed over the upcoming weekend, as well as on Mar. 20, Frary will serve two meals a day on Monday through Friday of break. Lunch will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30...

On Mar. 4, a contingent of 5-C students joined a rally in Riverside to protest recent cuts to the California budget for public institutions of higher education.Sam Gordon PO ’11 and Alvin Sangsuwangul PO ’10 worked together to bring Claremont students to the rally. They gathered a...

As a result of a Feb. 18 Business and Financial Affairs Committee vote, the Honnold Café will begin to accept flex dollars on a trial basis after spring break.At the end of the semester, the Student Deans Committee will vote on whether or not to permanently accept flex as a means of...

Pitzer College announced this week that Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker will be this year’s commencement speaker. Other Claremont College speakers include Freeman A. Hrabowski III at Harvey Mudd, and Sue Monk Kidd at Scripps College.Pitzer students selected Booker from a list of candidates...

Name GameASPC President Jed Cullen ’10 called the meting to order at 5:05 p.m., after which each member introduced him- or herself, due to the number of guests present. Going over names was completely necessary for the guests—all five of them—who might have needed to use them,...

Last month, the Joint Science Department (JSD) of Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer colleges received a $5 million gift from the Sidney J. Weinberg foundation for the endowment of the new Dean’s position.This Weinberg Family Dean of Science Endowment Fund, which will be awarded over...

Stand-up comic Russell Peters is scheduled to perform at Pomona College’s Bridges Auditorium on Apr. 17 at 8 p.m. Tickets went on sale to 5-C students Mar. 3 and are available to the general public starting today.Tickets, which cost $20 for 5-C students, have been selling on each of the...

National Public Radio stations from across the country broadcast Pomona College trivia Mar. 6, as part of the game show Says You!Two hour-long shows were taped at Bridges Auditorium on the Saturday of Parents’ Weekend, Feb. 13. The first show aired last weekend, and the second will air this...

Human Rights attorney Scott Horton debated Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Peter Berkowitz on human rights and the rules of warfare in a debate organized by the Pomona Student Union on Mar. 4 at 7 p.m. in Edmunds Ballroom.Horton, who specializes in Human Rights Law and the Law of Armed Conflict,...

As an Environmental Analysis major who is “committed to sustainability and social justice,” Samantha Meyer PO ’10 has long been curious about the nutritional value of the college’s cuisine.“I’ve found it really frustrating that students are required to be on...

Bins of donated items for the Hope program, organized primarily by Pomona College’s Asian American Resource Center (AARC), Draper Center, and Residence Hall Staff, have not been donated after several months.Hope began last semester on October 21—Founder’s Day—to provide...

Pomona College has become a “net exporter” of students to other 5C dining halls for the first time in several years, according to administrators.“In prior years, more students from the other 5Cs came to Pomona,” said Bob Robinson, Assistant Vice President and Director for...

Committees from Claremont McKenna College and Pomona College met Mar. 5 to discuss the schools’ ongoing alcohol policy assessments.The two schools are undertaking their reviews simultaneously only by chance. Pomona is reviewing its policy in compliance with the Board of Trustees’...

Due to noise complaints, the annual Smiley 80s party was shut down at 11:45 p.m. on Mar. 6, more than an hour before it was scheduled to end.According to Claremont Police Chief Paul Cooper, CPD first received a noise complaint from a Claremont resident at 10:15 p.m. The CPD responded to the call,...

Lupe Fiasco’s Mar. 5 performance was “the roughest show” Bridges Auditorium has ever seen, said auditorium manager Kurt Beardsley.The concert, which sold out just 16 days after ticket sales began, was the kick-off for Fiasco’s 2010 Steppin’ Laser Tour. It started at...

Students in Solidarity with Workers for Justice (SSWJ) held a rally on Pomona College’s Marston Quadrangle on Saturday afternoon. The group is asking the college to sign an agreement that would allow food-service employees to vote on whether or not to form a union.The organizers are...

Pomona College is unlikely to allow its food-service workers to hold a “card-check” vote to form a union, President David Oxtoby said Tuesday Mar. 2.Many of the dining hall workers petitioned the president this week to allow them to hold the vote on whether to form a food service...

A fluke turns out well for ASPCIn 2008, ASPC said it wanted its funds to be invested in a socially responsible manner. It hired Duncan Meaney from the Social Equity Group/Financial West Group, an investment firm based in Berkeley. ASPC was originally supposed to commit $400,000. However, because...

Harvey Mudd College hopes to partition its 11.45 acres of land adjacent to the Bernard Field Station into four sections, two of which it intends to sell to Claremont Graduate University.Each institution would end up with approximately 4.5 developable acres, and one acre they would set aside for...

On Feb. 19, ASPC President Jed Cullen received a notification that there was only one ticket remaining for the upcoming Lupe Fiasco concert in Bridges Auditorium.It took just 16 days for the Chicago-based artist to sell out all 2,450 seats in Big Bridges, an accomplishment fellow hip-hop artist...

A student-only alcohol forum was held Feb. 25 to collect student opinion before the upcoming review of Pomona College’s alcohol policy.Approximately 20 students attended the event, joining in discussion with students serving on the Alcohol Policy Review Committee, including Stephanie...

The ASPC is currently gathering student opinion on cigarette sales at the Coop Store.On Feb. 23, the ASPC’s Coop Committee e-mailed a survey to the Pomona College community to help gauge opinion on the matter.“It is one of the issues we’ve been discussing all year,” said...

The Pomona Student Union hosted a debate exploring the ethics of abortion Feb. 25 at Rose Hills Theater. The debate featured professors David Boonin of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Patrick Lee, director of the Institute of Bioethics at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio....

Miguel Tinker Salas, a professor of history and Latin American studies at Pomona College, has been chosen as the faculty mentor for Posse 6.Tinker Salas, who has taught at Pomona for more than 16 years, will supervise the group of 10 students in the incoming class of 2014 who have been recruited...

The Claremont McKenna College (CMC) Board of Trustees has approved a 25-year master plan intended to guide the school through expansion and renovation. Key points of the plan are the relocation of sports fields and the addition of a new fitness center, campus center, and two academic...

Sontag Hall and Building B, the dorms under construction on Pomona College’s North Campus, are on schedule to be finished by March 2011.According to Assistant Vice President and Director of Facilities and Campus Services Bob Robinson, the new dorms will share many of the same features that...

The Pomona College North Campus lounge located on Eversole Courtyard, popularly known as “Grooveline,” underwent thorough renovations last summer, and is currently available for any type of gathering. Though students have had trouble accessing the lounge due to a faulty card reader,...

Pomona College’s Smiley 80s and Harvey Mudd College’s Club Two300 have both traditionally attracted a significant attendance. This year, however, the two parties were accidentally scheduled for the same Saturday night, Mar. 6. “Smiley 80s is always the first weekend of March,...

Zipcars on campus affected by Toyota’s massive safety recall are now back on the road and available for reservation after being repaired. In response to Toyota’s safety recall, Zipcar announced Jan. 29 that it would not allow reservations for its Toyota Matrix vehicles until problems...

In January, the Claremont School of Theology (CST) received a $10 million gift from Board of Trustees member David Lincoln and his wife, Joan.The gift will be used to start the Claremont University Project, which CST President Jerry Campbell said is “a project intended to create a small...

Due to a drop in the number of study abroad applications for fall semester, the Pomona College Office of Campus Life (OCL) is anticipating a housing crunch that would make it impossible for all students to obtain on-campus housing.In response, the college is planning to offer an off-campus...

The Claremont Police Department intercepted a group of 5-C students bicycling naked through the Village around 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 26.No arrests were made, police said, but several students were handcuffed, and an officer physically pulled one biker, Erica Reiss PO ’13, from her...

Pomona College is unlikely to allow its food-service workers to hold a “card-check” vote to form a union, President David Oxtoby said Tuesday.Many of the dining hall workers petitioned the president this week to allow them to hold the vote on whether to form a food-service...

The Pomona College Student Affairs Committee (SAC) approved a proposal Feb. 19 that would make room draw gender-neutral for the 2010-2011 school year, pending input from the student body at large.According to current policy, students cannot room with a member of the opposite sex in a double or...

This year, Claremont McKenna College will launch a summer school program, allowing students from the 5Cs to take selected classes at the college over the break.The program, designed by CMC Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty Greg Hess and Associate Dean of the Faculty Lisa...

The City of Claremont’s Planning Commission voted 6-1 on Tuesday against the construction of a 7-Eleven store on Foothill Boulevard.The decision came after more than 20 Claremont residents spoke against the conditional use permit that had been brought to the City.The permit sought approval...

The Claremont Institute, a conservative, Claremont-based think tank, will host former Vice President Dick Cheney as keynote speaker at their 30th anniversary dinner Mar. 27.Cheney will address a crowd of 300 to 500 people at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Although Cheney was...

Commander-in-Chief Sheikh Jed Cullen…The meeting began promptly at 5:00 p.m. with a brief discussion on a new name for President Jed Cullen ’10—either Presidential Sheikh or Commander-in-Chief Sheikh. It was resolved that he prefers the latter.Alex Rudy ’11 is also chair...

By the middle of March, Pitzer College will be reaping the benefits of an improved, state-of-the-art auditorium.Dubbed the George S. Benson Auditorium after one of the college’s founding trustees, the auditorium has been completely gutted and is being reconstructed with some of the finest...

Pomona College President David Oxtoby was elected chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) at the organization’s annual meeting in January.Out of approximately 25 board members, Oxtoby was chosen to replace Miami Dade College president...

The City of Claremont’s Planning Commission unanimously approved a drive-through ordinance Tuesday.The ordinance, which the City Council will consider Mar. 9, would allow drive-through facilities for banks and pharmacies in specific areas of Claremont.If the City Council passes the...

On Jan. 12, Addie Salomon PO ’12 was sitting in the living room of her uncle’s orphanage in Carrefour when the ground began to shake.Salomon, her mother, and her younger sister had come to Haiti a few weeks before to visit her uncle and help at the orphanage he founded there in 2004....

Pomona College’s Budget Planning Advisory Committee (BPAC) held a forum with faculty on Feb. 17 to discuss plans for this year’s budget.According to BPAC Treasurer Karen Sisson, the committee must reduce the budget by $3 million due to a 2008 decline in the college’s endowment....

Maxine Burkett, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii and director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy, spoke Wednesday about climate justice and climate-induced migration at Rose Hills Theatre.In her talk, the first in the History Department’s Ena...

The western portion of Claremont McKenna College’s campus has been riddled with large cranes, chain-link fences, construction workers and loud noises for approximately a year.The product of this construction will be CMC’s new Kravis Center, an administrative facility named after CMC...

Recent downpours in Claremont left the Pomona College Maintenance Department struggling to deal with flooding and leakage.During the storms, the department received 400 separate calls regarding leaks in academic buildings and dormitories.Bob Robinson, Assistant Vice President and Director of...

Pomona College Assistant Professor of art Lisa Anne Auerbach recently received a grant of $20,000 from the Comfort Tiffany Foundation.The award was given to 30 of more than 400 candidates in recognition of their talent, promise, and individual artistic strength.Auerbach said she had no specific...

After months of controversy, a proposal to reconstruct Pitzer’s student government system backed by members of the Pitzer Student Senate has failed. In a school-wide vote that closed Feb. 8, students rejected the proposal for a new constitution 330 to 148.“I think that in the nascent...

Andrew Ingram HM ’01 died in a plane crash in East Palo Alto Feb. 17.He was one of three employees of Tesla Motors, a car company working to design environmentally friendly cars, who died in the crash.Ingram always had a passion for math and science, reported Palo Alto Online. In sixth...

Novelist Edie Meidav, a finalist for the Roy E. Disney Professorship in Creative Writing, visited Pomona’s campus Thursday as part of the English department’s interview process to fill the endowed faculty position.In the morning, Meidav led a mock fiction writing workshop for a group...

After taking part in a Pomona Student Union panel on the state of California’s government Tuesday, Feb. 16, former California Governor Gray Davis sat down with The Student Life for an exclusive interview. Travis Kaya, The Student Life: What did you think of tonight’s debate? Governor...

Pomona College plans to unveil its “Daring Minds” campaign in October 2010. This comprehensive fund-raising campaign is designed to ensure that Pomona becomes “even stronger, better, and more distinctive,” as President David Oxtoby wrote in a recent e-mail to faculty,...

On Monday, Feb. 22, Pomona College plans to launch a new homepage for the first time in almost a decade. Pomona Communications Director Mark Wood said this feat of web-design will “put Pomona ahead of the curve again” in terms of college websites.“We like to call it Pomona...

Pomona’s Honorary Degrees Committee (HDC) has selected Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to be the featured speaker at the college’s commencement ceremony May 16.Napolitano, a Democrat and former governor of Arizona, has served for one year as head of the U.S. Department...

At a City Council meeting early this fall, Claremont officials decided to seek proposals from large national and regional chain stores. Mayor Corey Calaycay explained that the long-existent “stigma” against “big boxes” in the city has resulted in economic woes. Calaycay...

Former California Governor Gray Davis joined noted Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters and UCSD Associate Professor Thad Kousser to speak at Pomona’s Bridges Hall of Music Tuesday, Feb. 16 in an event organized by the Pomona Student Union (PSU). Titled “Governing California,”...

Arthur Benjamin, a mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd College and “mathemagician” by trade, appeared on The Colbert Report on Jan. 27. Benjamin was invited on the show to speak about his ability to perform incredible mental calculations. He is also able to explain the mathematical...

On Feb. 3, poet D.A. Powell disproved the popular myth that poets cannot make money.Powell received the most lucrative award in all of poetry: The Kinglsey Tufts Award, which is a $100,000 grant given out by Claremont Graduate University. Powell said it was a “tremendous surprise” and...

Pomona College’s Curriculum Committee is discussing potential solutions to grade inflation problems and has scheduled a vote on the issue for April of this year, according to Associate Professor of History Victor Silverman, chair of the committee. Silverman said that faculty had been...

Bikestation, a national company that places bicycle centers near public transportation facilities, will open a new station in Claremont on Feb. 24. In an effort to increase bicycle use, the Bikestation, which will be located near the Claremont Metrolink station, will provide lockers, basic bike...

Abnormally high chlorine levels in Haldeman athletic pool on Jan. 25 led to skin irritation and breathing problems.The Pomona-Pitzer Men’s and Women’s swim teams jumped into the pool for their morning training only to emerge with burning eyes and skin. Before practice began, the...

The city of Claremont sold its trolley to Nevada-based Specialty Vehicles earlier this month. The trolley, which was purchased for $75,000, will be used as part of a Disney project in Hawaii that is currently under construction. The trolley had a relatively short lifespan. In January 2008, the...

Toms F. Summers Sandoval, a Pomona College joint professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies, is now the first Faculty Coordinator for the Draper Center for Community Partnerships.The Draper Center, inaugurated in October following the receipt of an endowment from alumnus Ranney Draper PO...

After the unexpected departure of three of its top officials, Claremont University Consortium (CUC) Campus Safety is left without an experienced director. The organization is presently interviewing for a new permanent director.According to John Beckman, CUC Chief Administrative Officer, the...

The Queer Resource Center has established a new branch of The National Marriage Boycott (NMB) here at the Claremont Colleges. Lowell Reade HM ’12 and Allie Foot CM ’10 helped bring the student-led movement, which advocates for the revocation of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), to...

Maria Khoury, a Harvard-educated Palestinian woman, spoke at St. Ambrose Parrish Hall in Claremont on Feb. 15. She discussed the hardships facing the Palestinian people and promoted her West Bank village of Taybeh.The small town of Taybeh, located 20 miles north of Jerusalem, is the only village...

Earlier today, President Oxtoby announced that the commencement speaker for the class of 2010 would be Janet Napolitano, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. Mrs. Napolitano served as governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009, when she was selected by President Barack Obama to serve as...

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spoke Feb. 3 at Scripps’s Garrison Theater as part of the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program. The fourth speaker in the annual series, Gingrich lectured on his methods for encouraging, educating, and promoting leadership in a talk...

Pomona alumnus Arthur “Art” Clokey PO ’43, the creator of the well-known “Gumby” character, passed away in his sleep on Jan. 8.Clokey was born in Detroit in 1921. His family moved to California when Clokey was young, as reported by the New York Times.However, they...

Two CMC research institutes, the Lowe Institute of Political Economy and the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, have teamed up to found a new center for economic and public policy information about the Inland Empire.“The idea is that there is currently no academic institution...

The construction of a new parking structure on South Campus is underway. What was once a small parking lot will become a larger, two-level garage topped by an Astroturf sports field.The lot will occupy the space between Seaver Theater and First Street. Because the plot is on sloping ground, the...

After addressing more than 600 students and community members in Scripps’s Garrison Theater on Feb. 3, former Speaker of the House and conservative luminary Newt Gingrich sat down with The Student Life for a brief Q&A.Travis Kaya, The Student Life: Why did you feel it was important to come...

Approximately 40 Harvey Mudd College students have been employed as tutors in the HMC branch of the Homework Hotline program.The program began in 1991 at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana. Originally a small-scale operation, the program has grown and is now able to take more than...

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will speak at Bridges Auditorium on March 30.In 1981, O’Connor became the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States after being appointed by President Ronald Reagan to replace Justice Potter Stewart. Although her...

Environmental justice advocate Majora Carter gave a lecture at Pomona College on Jan. 21 as a featured speaker in Pomona’s week-long celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy.Known for founding Sustainable South Bronx, Smart Roofs, LLC and the Majora Carter Group, LLC,...

Nicholas George PO ’10 filed a lawsuit against the federal government Wednesday, contesting his detention by law enforcement officials at the Philadelphia International Airport this past summer.His crime? Carrying Arabic flashcards and a book on politics in his carry-on...

In a rare move, Pomona College denied tenure to Assistant Professor of English Meg Worley late last semester. Although the college has made no official announcement, English Department Chair Kevin Dettmar confirmed that Worley did not receive tenure. “She was turned down,” Dettmar...

Ken Miller, an Associate Professor of Government at CMC, was called to testify on Jan. 25 in the federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8.“Prop 8” was a controversial 2008 California ballot initiative amending the state constitution to define marriage as a...

The three remaining finalists for the Pomona College English department’s search for the Roy Edward Disney ’51 Professorship in Creative Writing are novelists Jonathan Lethem, Edie Meidav, and Chris Abani. The post was last held by the late David Foster Wallace.Upholding...

Pomona College Alumnus Roy Edward Disney ‘51, the namesake of Pomona’s Disney Professorship in Creative Writing, died Dec. 16 after a yearlong bout with stomach cancer.Disney, the billionaire nephew of Walt Disney and longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, graduated...

The Associated Students of Pomona College finalized its decision to hire Alexander Rudy ’11 as the next Commissioner of Communications on Tuesday.Rudy, former editor-in-chief and current web editor of The Student Life newspaper, edged out five other well-qualified applicants for the...

Scripps College recently received a $3.5 million commitment from alumna Joan Lincoln SC ’49 and her husband, David Lincoln, to expand the college’s ceramic arts program.The pledge will fund a ceramic artist professorship, the construction of the Joan and David Lincoln Ceramic Art...

In response to the wave of bicycle thefts at the Claremont Colleges over winter break, the Claremont Police Department arrested two male suspects on Jan. 13. The case is currently under investigation. Claremont University Consortium Campus Safety officers Arman Abedini and Robert Loya played an...

In response to the wave of bicycle thefts at the Claremont Colleges over winter break, the Claremont Police Department arrested two male suspects on Jan. 13. The case is currently under investigation.Claremont University Consortium Campus Safety officers Arman Abedini and Robert Loya played an...

Critically acclaimed novelist Jonathan Lethem visited Pomona College on Feb. 4-5. Lethem is the first of three candidates for the Roy E. Disney Professorship in Creative Writing.During his visit, Lethem led a sample workshop with students and faculty where student work was discussed. Later that...

There will be no Christmas miracle for the Claremont Museum of Art.The struggling museum, which had resorted to using city funds to keep its Packing House location open, will be shuttered at 5 p.m. Sunday, according to theInland Valley Daily Bulletin.The museumstruggledamid a severe recession to...

Roy Edward Disney PO ’51, a powerful force in the entertainment empire named for his uncle, died Wednesday. He was 79.Disney’s death was confirmed by Clifford A. Miller, a spokesman for Shamrock Holdings, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, according toseveralmediaoutlets.Disney,...

Crime is down in the city of Claremont: there were just six burglaries and 20 thefts this October, compared with last October’s 11 burglaries and 50 thefts.“We’ve had a big decrease [in thefts and burglary] in comparison to last year,” said Captain Jenkins of the...

December 1, 2009Someone has to remember Perkin WarbeckPotentially in order to make up for his absence at last week’s Senate meeting (which may have been the result of a desire to extend his Thanksgiving Break, but more likely was a celebration of the 510th anniversary of the hanging of...

The number of students with flu-like symptoms on the 5Cs peaked in November of this year. In response to the national swine flu outbreak, the 5Cs have taken several preventative measures this semester. To curb the spread of the influenza, Student Health Services (SHS) distributed flu kits and...

A task force, consisting of 16 trustees, faculty, administrators, and students, convened at the beginning of this academic year to review issues of alcohol policy at Pomona College. The group first met on Oct. 9, during the weekend of the Student-Trustee Retreat, and will meet again on Dec. 9....

From late 2008 to May 2009, an old-fashioned red and white trolley offered free rides around the Claremont Village. Its circuit ran from Bonita to First Street to Oberlin Avenue to College Avenue every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.The tram was leased by the Claremont City...

A number of staff members frustrated with the workers’ compensation system at Pomona College have not been reporting injuries obtained on the job. Rather than deal with managers and limitations within the system, some staffers are paying out of their pockets or not treating their...

Frank Dining Hall’s dishwasher, which had been “non-operational” for over two weeks, was fixed just before dinner on Tuesday, allowing students to once again use the more sustainable washable plates.The dishwasher, which is more than 30 years old, stopped working when the belt...

The healthcare debate on campus took an enlightened turn Tuesday when professors and experts explained the heated issue at Pitzer’s Dining with Democracy forum.Moderated by Elena Fanjul-Debnam PI ’10, the panel included Paul Torrens, a professor of health services at U.C.L.A.; June...

The Pomona Student Union welcomed New York Timesreporter Richard Perez-Pea PO ’84, Los Angeles Times journalist Hugo Martin PO ’87 and Geneva Overholser, Director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, as they spoke about the displacement of print media by online media at...

The fines for parking violations in the City of Claremont will increase once a city council resolution goes into effect on Tuesday.Part of the reason for this resolution is to standardize the fines for parking violations in Claremont. Currently, parking fines in Claremont range from $20-55 for...

A Nov. 12 event entitled “Time to Act: L.A., Democracy and Climate Change” released some of the local and international results of World Wide Views, a global forum on climate change attended by citizens around the world in late September.Thirty-eight countries around the world took...

TSL: What are your goals as Ambassador and what have you been doing so far?Houda Nonoo, Bahraini Ambassador to the United States: Traveling, visiting different states, visiting different universities, visiting different institutions, telling them about Bahrain. A lot of [people I talk to]...

a victimless crime. ...except for the car. ...and it’s owner.11/15/2009; 11:47; CMCA student is in station to report a blue 2003 VW Passat had its rear passenger side window cracked while parked on 9th street near Wohlford. Nothing was stolen.i find shouting to be the most effective way to...

Last year, 29 students took part in Pomona College’s Sustainability Action Fellowship, a program organized by Pomona Sustainability Coodinator Bowen Close as a way for students to get involved in the creation of the college’s Sustainability Action Plan.The fellowship was organized...

The United States Commission on Civil Rights launched an investigation into whether liberal arts colleges are discriminating against women during the admissions process.At the end of October, the commission finalized a list of schools to investigate after deciding in August to pursue the proposal...

November 17, 2009The End of the WorldBefore the meeting had been called to order, Secretary Amy Li ’13 told ASPC President Jed Cullen ’10 that Commissioner of Communications Than Volk ’10 (which Li pronounced “Thon”) had not submitted a list of names of the people...

A team of three Harvey Mudd College students took first place at the Southern California Regionals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest on Nov. 7 at Riverside Community College, ranking ahead of CalTech, USC and UCLA.They will move on to...

Pomona College faculty spoke about past and present labor struggles on campus at “Pomona College: Community or Corporation?” on Nov. 13 in the Frank Blue Room.History professors Sidney Lemelle and Toms Summers Sandoval gave short lectures followed by small group discussions and a...

The student-run Democrats of the Claremont Colleges (DCC) won two honors earlier this month in the California College Democrats’ challenge to register Democratic voters. The Claremont Colleges registered the third largest number of voters among participating schools and the most voters for...

A committee of Pomona faculty, staff, and students is in the process of researching possibilities for more extensive emergency response efforts on campus.Pomona currently has established emergency response procedures and plans, but is lacking the immediate medical care often necessary in...

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Stephen Reinhardt ’51, Pomona alumnus and current circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, came to Pomona’s Edmunds Ballroom to speak at PSU’s...

Even graduate students lose bicycles11/9/2009; 12:00; CUCA CGU student is in station to file a report for a stolen blue and silver bike. It was secured with a combination cable lock.leaving your bike unlocked: a bad idea, even at cmc11/8/2009; 14:50; CMCAn unsecured blue Schwinn road bike left...

New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat and Nation columnist and contributor to the Center for American Progress Eric Alterman spoke at this year’s installment of the Pomona Student Union (PSU)’s Great Debate. The event, entitled “Can We Trust the Media?” took place at...

November 10, 2009Beads!Prior to the meeting, Commissioner of Clubs and Sports Rylan Stewart ’10 dropped two large cardboard boxes on the table. Someone asked them what they were, and he responded that they were Mardi Gras beads. He then asked if anyone wanted some. He did not specify what...

Pomona College donated a rare California condor specimen and more than a hundred study skins of stuffed birds collected from Belize to the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology on Oct. 30.Pomona Associate Professor of Biology Nina Karnovsky, along with her vertebrate biology class, delivered...

A gift from an alumnus prompted the official creation of the Speaker Series Working Group last year. The Pomona College group, which was given a three-year donation by the Broe family to bring big-name speakers to campus, brought political strategist David Plouffe as its first speaker last...

The Honduras Justice Tour came to Scripps College’s Hampton Room onNov. 4.The tour, a series of speaking engagements throughout Southern California, constitutes the first time the Honduran resistance movement has spoken directly to the U.S. public since the military ousted Manuel Zelaya...

Pitzer College was recognized by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) on Oct. 26, when the college won two MarCom Awards for excellence in marketing design.A platinum award in the category of “Magazine: Educational Institution” went to the Fall 2008...

Pomona students, administrators, and guests gathered on Saturday for the ceremonial ground-breaking of Sontag Hall, one of two new residence halls currently under construction on campus. Scheduled for completion in Spring 2011, the dormitory will house 150 students and will promote environmental...

The FIL.I.AM benefit showcase drew more than 300 members of the Claremont community to the Pitzer Mounds for an evening of charitable entertainment on Oct. 29.Organized by the Center for Asian Pacific American Students (CAPAS), in collaboration with the Filipino Club and the Asian Pacific...

Harvey Mudd Assistant Professor of Chemistry David Vosburg spoke at the Veritas forum, hosted by the Pomona-Pitzer Christian Fellowship in Rose Hills Theatre on Tuesday.As both an organic chemist and a Christian, Vosburg aimed to dispel the notion that faith and science are...

In early January, the city of Claremont will embark on a renovation project to improve the Claremont Village. The plan, which was unanimously approved at the Nov. 3 city council meeting, affects the area bordered by Indian Hill Boulevard, Bonita Avenue, Harvard Avenue and First Street.Among the...

After over an hour of deliberations at their biweekly meeting, the Claremont City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to grant $18,879 to the Claremont Museum of Art to help the museum remain financially afloat for the remainder of the year.The appropriation, which will come out of the city’s...

Pomona College received a $25,000 grant from the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation for the Summer Undergraduate Research Program, the college said in a press release Tuesday.SURP, as the program is known, provides several dozen students with up to $4,000 for four to 10 weeks of research...

Claremont’s city council will discuss Tuesday a plan to fund the city’s beleaguered Museum of Art.The Inland Valley Daily BulletinreportedMonday that the independent museum, whose board has said it could close its Village Expansion’s Packing House location due toinsolvency, is...

Lieutenant Dan Choi, an American infantry officer who was discharged last March when he came out as gay, spoke to students at the Claremont McKenna College Athenaeum on Friday.Choi began his speech with a poem in Arabic about identity and the importance of being true to oneself. He then said that...

The Student Affairs Committee (SAC) has proposed a series of revisions to Pomona’s sexual misconduct policy following a comprehensive assessment of current practices and procedures. The revisions include organizing offenses by Roman numerals, allowing victims to testify without the...

No softball field for drunk stags11/1/2009; 12:06; CMCA staff member requests that an officer meet with her at the CMS softball field to file a vandalism report. Officer expresses concern and requests extra patrols from Saturday at noon to Sunday at noon.Looooook oooooout!11/1/2009; 1:01; HMCA...

Robert Rogers CM ’52, Claremont McKenna College dean of admissions from 1957 to 1990, died on Oct. 20 at age 81.After a stint in the Navy, Rogers became an integral member of the Claremont college community. He attended CMC—Claremont Men’s College at the time—and received...

Gary Lorden, former math adviser for the CBS show “Numb3rs,” spoke in HMC’s Galileo Hall last Friday as part of the 2009 Dr. Bruce J. Nelson ’74 Distinguished Speakers Series.Lorden’s speech incorporated examples from a book he co-authored with Keith Devlin, The...

Bryan Teague HM ’10 received a $10,000 check on Oct. 1 from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a ceremony held in Galileo Hall.The scholarship is awarded by nomination only and just 19 schools in the United States have been selected to participate.Although the foundation does not...

Melvin Henriksen, professor of mathematics emeritus at Harvey Mudd College, died on Oct. 14 at the age of 82. Henriksen came to HMC in 1969 as the chair of the mathematics department and continued working there until 1997, when he retired from teaching. Even after he retired, however, he remained...

iMurmur hit the shelves of Apple’s iTunes store on Jul. 14.Created by Michael “Fuj” Fujinaka CMC ’07 to train aspiring doctors and help those already in the field to diagnose heart murmurs, the application became immensely popular almost immediately. According to the San...

For the past nine months, Pomona’s communications office has been working furiously to redesign the official Pomona College Web site.The project, set to roll out in mid-January, will mark the first major overhaul of Pomona’s web presence in ten years.The “web team,”...

Pomona’s tennis complex is expected to undergo some major renovations before the season begins next semester.Lights will be added to the four courts that currently do not have any, and a small building near the courts will be expanded for use as a team meeting room and storage space. In...

November 3, 2009Haste makes Waste, but not for Jed CullenAt 5:09 p.m., ASPC President Jed “Speed Racer” Cullen ’10 said, “Well, if we have everyone here, we might as well get started early,” and gaveled the meeting to order, a full 60 seconds ahead of schedule. While...

The sold-out Girl Talk concert and after-party made this year’s Harwood Halloween one of the largest ever.However, the size and location of the event caused many problems for audience members and event organizers alike.Because of the number of students pushing against the stage during the...

On Wednesday at about 3:10 p.m., a 79-year-old Claremont female resident was struck by a Metrolink train at the Indian Hill Boulevard crossing, where she died on the scene from her injuries.The train was headed eastbound from Los Angeles Union Station to its final destination in San...

Political theorist Jodi Dean delivered a lecture entitled “The Real Secret of Obama’s Birth Certificate” on Wednesday in Scripps’ Garrison Theater at 7:30 p.m.The lecture constituted one of the final installments of Scripps’ “Secrets in a Democracy”...

Pomona College students and deans gathered in the Rose Hills Theater Thursday to discuss “Policies, Procedures, and Pomona.” Dean Daren Mooko said the event was an open forum established as a direct response to anop-ed articlepublished in The Student Life on September 25. This piece...

A group of environmentally-inclined Pomona students performed the Macarena on chairs in Frary dining hall on Oct. 24, some of them adorned with body paint. Half an hour later, they assembled to form the digits “350” in Bixby Plaza.The event was suggested by 350.org, an open-source,...

To foot the bill of recent development on campus, the administration is engaging in a capital campaign that will fund future projects. Though currently in the nucleus or “quiet phase,” the college plans to go public with the campaign in October 2010.“We want to involve the whole...

This semester, many seniors are neglecting to visit Pomona’s Career Development Office (CDO) and to utilize its job search resources, a phenomenon Director Carl Martellino said is not unusual at liberal arts colleges during economic crises.Since the beginning of the school year, the number...

At this time last year, members of Pomona’s Model United Nations (MUN) were preparing for their conference at McGill University in Montreal with some of the biggest universities in North America.This year, however, the club will not be attending the conference. The club will also miss the...

October 27, 2009Burritos and stuffPrior to the meeting, ASPC President Jed Cullen ’10 shared an e-mail conversation with those who had arrived early. He said he had posted on Chirps to ask if anyone wanted to pick up food for the senate orientation following the meeting. One person...

Just two years after its grand opening, the Claremont Museum of Art (CMA) is on the verge of closing its doors for good.The museum’s current exhibitions, “An Enduring Legacy: New Acquisitions to The Permanent Collection” and “Ten Pound Ape: Your Mother Was Beautiful Once,...

What began as a Harvey Mudd College investigation into a statistical hunch culminated in a late-August research presentation in Mombasa, Kenya that debunked World Health Organization (WHO) cataract surgical rate (CSR) targets. The WHO uses CSR targets to measure the number of cataract surgeries...

No iPod, No Cry10/20/2009; 11:33; POMA student is in station to report that a black Nikon Coolpix digital camera, black Cannon digital camera, and a black 6G iPod have been stolen from their Mudd dorm room.Goodbye, Fair Beach Cruiser10/20/2009; 14:43; CMCA blue beach cruiser is reported stolen...

In terms of both total Fulbright scholarships awarded and fellowships awarded per capita, Pitzer, Pomona and Scripps Colleges were ranked in the top ten liberal arts colleges in the Oct. 23 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.With 15 class of 2009 graduates receiving the scholarship,...

For the past nine months, Pomona’s communications office has been working furiously to redesign the official Pomona College Web site.The project, set to roll out in mid-January, will mark the first major overhaul of Pomona’s web presence in 10 years.The “web team,”...

D. Scott Olivet PO ’84 was named the newest member of the Pomona College Board of Trustees earlier this month. Olivet is currently the Executive Chairman of RED Digital Camera and Chairman of Oakley, Inc., and brings decades of business and marketing experience to the position.“Given...

A furniture show for the new Pomona College residence hall is being hosted in the lobby of Big Bridges Auditorium this week until Thursday. Six vendors are presenting their furniture lines so that students can fill out surveys in which they rank the vendors, listing their top two preferences, and...

Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, spoke at Claremont McKenna’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Friday, just two days after publishing his latest book.Levitt is well known for his unorthodox approach to economics. At the event, he elaborated on how he developed...

The Pomona Student Union hosted the year’s first on campus social debate about copyright issues in Doms Lounge on Thursday. The speakers in the debate, which was sponsored by the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics program, were David Menefree-Libey of the Politics department, Peter Kung of...

In recent budget cuts, Pomona College slashed an estimated $400,000 from campus job allotments, capping total annual earnings for students not on financial aid at $1,000. The cut, the second largest in size of the 2009-2010 school year, is almost 17 percent of the $2.38 million previously...

Pomona’s endowment investment returns are down 22 percent as of Jun. 30.Although this may appear to be a significant loss, Vice President and Treasurer Karen Sisson said this drop is actually less severe than anticipated. Last year, the school predicted that returns on investments would...

Pomona College’s Neuroscience program, which has been lobbying for department status since the 1990’s, formally applied to become a department on Oct. 1.“I don’t think the structure of a program was ever intended to support our numbers,” said Biology Professor and...

Tiny people can be trespassers, too!10.12.03; 21:01; POMA grounds keeper reports that a 2 - 3 inch hole was cut into the fence on the east side of Strehle track.Finders keepers; losers no longer have vital retina protection against uv-rays10.12.09; 11:35; CMCA CMC employee reports that his black...

Plans are complete for the Gold Line Foothill Extension to expand its reach from East Pasadena to Claremont. Construction will begin as soon as funding for the project is secured.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a potential sponsor but no concrete connection has been established...

Frank Albinder PO ’80 has been named President of the Pomona College Alumni Association. The president, selected by the association’s Executive Committee every year, sits on the Board of Trustees and helps plan campus events like Alumni Weekend and Class Day.“I was honored when...

Forbes Magazine referenced Claremont McKenna College President Pamela Gann and Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe in an article exploring the low percentage of female college presidents.According to the American Council on Education, 23 percent of college presidents are female, which is a...

To celebrate her commitment and innovation in scholarship and service to society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted Jamaica Kincaid, the Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, into its 229th class on Oct. 10.“I am very...

The Workers' Support Committee (WSC) is a group of students that came together both to provide support to give workers a more prominent voice on campus, and to create better relations between students, staff, and faculty. The organization gradually coalesced as a group in part as a result of...

Gaby Mendoza PO ‘12 drives exceptionally well. She has a license now. And a car. But if she had been pulled over three years ago, her biggest fear would not have been her parents or even the police; it would have been deportation officers.When she was nine years old, Mendoza flew from...

Gaby Mendoza PO ‘12 drives exceptionally well. She has a license now. And a car. But if she had been pulled over three years ago, her biggest fear would not have been her parents or even the police; it would have been deportation officers.When she was nine years old, Mendoza flew from...

Amid the climate of economic uncertainty, the Pomona College community has begun to reexamine the position of staff on campus. Student groups and faculty committees have voiced concerns over the treatment and representation of staff at the college, while the administration is in the process of...

I mean, when you gotta steal a 100 foot vine, you gotta steal a 100 foot vine.10/5/2009, 15:50, CUCAn employee of the chaplain’s office reports that a 100-foot-long vine, with attached fruits and grapes, was stolen from the east side of the McAlister center.Copper Thief on the...

Over the last several weeks, there have been several incidents of theft and vandalism in and around Oldenborg Center. From suggestive and inappropriate remarks written on white boards and the loss of an expensive dictionary from the Spanish Lounge to the vandalism of the recently installed Peace...

The Workers’ Support Committee (WSC) held a rally outside of Hahn prior to the 11th Annual Student-Trustee Retreat to protest the changes in housekeeping staff policies and highlight workers’ concerns last Friday.After cries of “Si, se puede” (Yes, we can), WSC member Sam...

The Office of Campus Life decided to remove Harry Harris PO ’12 from the sponsor program on Oct. 6, after he broke school policy while already on probation. The Lyon One East sponsor received a policy violation for property theft when he was caught on camera taking a keyboard from the...

Pomona faculty approved changes to the college’s cross-enrollment policy at an all-staff meeting on Oct. 7. The changes are aimed at reducing the complexity of cross-enrollment procedures and granting more liberty to students taking classes at other Claremont colleges.Previously, Pomona...

Pomona’s Bridges Hall of Music hosted a memorial service for former Professor of Philosophy and Kappa Delta Fraternity advisorFrederick Earl SontagSaturday.Sontag, who recently retired from Pomona after 57 years of service, died June 14. He was 84.Grant F. Sontag, the late professor’s...

October 13, 2009Numbers and StuffAt roughly 5:03 p.m., Senior Class President Calvin Kagan ’10 entered the senate and shouted, “Wintaye, did you change your number?” Junior Class President Wintaye Gebru ’11 said, “Yup.” Kagan responded, “I should have...

Twenty members of Pomona’s Board of Trustees and administrators and about 80 students convened in the Hahn building for the 11th Annual Student Trustee Retreat last Friday.Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum remarked on the unique opportunity for student-trustee interaction provided by the...

Cleve Jones left some audience members in tears Wednesday as thelong-time AIDS-awareness and queer-rights advocate and creator of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt delivered an emotional speech about his life's work at theAthenaeum.Jones emphatically recounted the long train of events that...

Pomona College received a $7.5 million donation from Rick Sontag HMC ‘64 and Susan Sontag PO ’64 for the construction of a new North Campus residence hall designed to meet the standards of a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified “gold” building.The...

Peter Barker CM ’70 became the California Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Sep. 28.In a press release from JPMorgan Chase, Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon said that Barker, the former chair of Claremont McKenna College’s Board of Trustees, has been “a trusted banker and terrific...

Robert Bell HM ’72 is a member of an international team that recently won the $1 million Netflix prize for creating the best recommendation software to predict trends in Netflix customer movie preferences.Three years ago, Netflix issued a worldwide challenge to engineers, scientists, and...

Pomona College recently became one of only 26 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada (out of more than 300) to receive an average grade of A- on the Sustainable Endowments Institute’s 2010 College Sustainability Report Card.Pomona received a C+ in 2007 and a B in both...

The Motley Coffeehouse will charge an extra $1for to-go cupsstartingOctober 21.The biodegradable to-go cups currently in use can be recycled at Pomona’s organic farm, but only 5 percent currently end up being disposed of in this fashion, according to the Motley. The café said...

In 2005, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez met Nathaniel Anthony Ayers plucking a two-stringed violin under a Beethoven statue in downtown LA. A Juilliard alumnus whose schizophrenia left him down and out on Skid Row, Ayers provided the basis for a series of widely-read news columns that...

On Friday, Oct. 2, physicist Brian Greene addressed a packed Galileo Hall in the kick-off lecture of this year’s Dr. Bruce J. Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series, “The Power and Beauty of Mathematics.”Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University. He...

Catherine McFadden, professor of life sciences at Harvey Mudd, has joined an international team of researchers that recently received a four-year grant of $160,000 from the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation. Professors Robert Toonen of the University of Hawaii and Yehuda Benayahu of Tel...

Pomona College Professor of Asian Studies Allan Barr is currently working with author Yu Hua, one of the major figures in contemporary Chinese literature.Barr is translating Hua’s newest novel-in-progress, China in Ten Words. Barr previously translated Yu’s first novel, and his third,...

The California State Bar awarded Cruz Reynoso PO ’53 the Witkin Medal in early September, citing his “significant contributions to the quality of justice and legal scholarship.”Established in 1993 and named after esteemed legal scholar Bernard E. Witkin, the medal recognizes...

October 6, 2009Secrets Don’t Make Friends, But They Do Make Senators…At 5:05 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6, the senate room contained only five vacant chairs, a marked contrast from two weeks before, when the room contained only five occupied chairs. Prior to calling the meeting to order,...

Flu season is approaching, and the Claremont Colleges are preparing themselves.The measures currently in place rely on a 5-C flu kit initiative and buddy system, and the colleges are also looking into measures to house sick students together. The colleges do not have access to H1N1 vaccinations...

Hipster ScumStrikes Again!10.4.09, 0:40, POMA white female adult, wearing a blue hoodie, reportedly steals a pack of cigarettes from the Coop Store. Estimated value: $6.66.That hipsterprobably just wanted a computer so she could listen to Animal Collective while smoking10.3.09, 18:57, PTZA...

A California Court of Appeals has published a decision that the state’s medical marijuana law does not require all cities to approve zoning for marijuana dispensaries. The ruling affirmed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dan T. Oki’s decision to bar Darrell Kruse and Claremont All...

On Sept. 9, Pomona implemented a new “teams system” for the housekeeping staff working in the residential halls and one academic building. The new system is meant to compensate for some of the changes made to Pomona’s housekeeping this year, including the loss of six...

Effective Oct. 1, the Tranquada parking lot (TSSC) between the Lincoln-Edmunds buildings and Health Services Center, where six Zipcars are currently located, will be reserved solely for Pomona student parking through May 2010.According to ASPC Vice President for Finance Kelly Schwartz PO...

5-C students and members of the Claremont community have been enjoying the Skyspace art exhibit on Pomona’s campus since it was unveiled in 2007. But Pomona College Museum of Art Director Kathleen Howe and Associate Dean of Students Ric Townes have become concerned with students and...

Pomona College hosted a dedication ceremony for the Draper Center for Community Partnerships Thursday night in the Smith Campus Center,following the receipt of anendowmentfrom alumnus Ranney Draper PO ’60 and his family.The mission of the center, previously known as the Hart volunteer and...

The Princeton Review has ranked Claremont McKenna College among the top ten schools in the nation not only in the “School Runs like Butter” and “Best Career Services” categories, but also in the “Lots of Beer” category. This year, however, an administrative...

But Locking my door would be soooo proletariat!9.19.09 05:10 PZA student reports that her friend’s silver MacBook Pro laptop has been stolen from an unsecured room.I suppose silver macbooks are the new unsecured bicycles...9.25.09 13:14 CMCA silver MacBook Pro is reported stolen from an...

Orange-cushioned seats flank spacious tables, widescreen televisions display photographs of the 5Cs, and couches and booths make up a quaint area known as “The Café.”Such is the updated look of Honnold-Mudd Library’s first floor. New features include an open area where...

During their two day visit to Pomona last week as part of the Pomona Student Union’s “Congress to Campus” event, The Student Life sat down with former Congressmen Dennis Hertel (D-MI) and Dennis “Denny” Smith (R-OR) to talk politics and life on the Hill.TSL: Is there...

Pomona College is the first and only member of the 5Cs to participate in the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program.“I’d love to see all of the Claremont Colleges in the program,” President David Oxtoby said.The Yellow Ribbon Program is a provision of the Post-9/11 G.I....

Paying homage to the late David Foster Wallace’s legacy as a writer and teacher, actor-director John Krasinski spoke to a crowd of 200 Pomona College students Tuesday night at the first Los Angeles-area screening of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.A longtime fan of Wallace’s work,...

Students from the DREAM Act Coalition marched from Harvey Mudd’s Hoch-Shanahan dining hall to Pomona’s Smith Campus Center on Sep. 23, stopping at 5-C dining halls and brandishing rally signs to raise awareness about the DREAM Act. The rally was the first in a string of monthly...

Concerns over staff wages and labor conditions at Pomona came to a head last semester when members of the Workers’ Support Committee (WSC) organized an initiative to give staff members an equal voice in the budgeting process. Today, WSC continues to advocate for workers’ rights.WSC...

George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics John Seery has been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s prestigious Sidney Hook Memorial Award. Seery will receive the award at the 42nd Triennial Council of the Phi Beta Kappa Society on Saturday in Austin,...

A two-day program organized by the Pomona Student Union (PSU) brought former Representatives Dennis Hertel (D-MI) and Denny Smith (R-OR) to campus Sep. 28-29 to provide insight into the legislative process and perspectives on current political situations. Over the two days, the congressmen...

“Drug Wars,” the latest in a series of Pomona Student Union events, featured a spirited debate on the virtues and vices of drug prohibition and potential legalization. The debate, which took place Sep. 23 at 7 p.m. in front of a packed crowd in Edmunds Ballroom, pitted former Bush...

Over the summer, a number of Pomona professors received grants and fellowships for their research and projects. The Student Life spoke with three of these professors to learn more about the current and anticipated direction of their work as well as the process and impact of earning grant...

Pomona College hosted residents of the greater Los Angeles area on Saturday to discuss views and perceptions about global warming. The meeting was one of five hosted in the United States as part of an event sprawling across six continents, 38 countries and including over 4,000...

Denise Hayes began her job as the new director of Student Health Services on July 13, overseeing the Claremont Colleges’ several health departments. She came from DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., where she was the director of student health and counseling.Hayes said she is excited...

For the first three months of the school year, Pomona College’s Sustainability Integration Office (SIO), with the help of student organization Pomona for Environmental Activism and Responsibility (PEAR), is sponsoring a pledge for students to their reduce environmental impact and promote a...

George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics John Seery has won a triennial award from the Phi Beta Kappa honors society for liberal arts educators.The Sidney Hook Memorial Award, which includes a $7,500 prize funded by a grant from the John Dewey Foundation,...

Pomona recently became a participant in the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program, making it the first of the 5Cs to embrace the new aid package for veterans.The Yellow Ribbon program, effective Aug. 1, is a condition of the Post 9/11 GI bill that allows participating colleges to grant...

Brandishing signs as they stopped at 5-C dining halls, students from the DREAM Act Coalition marched across the Claremont Colleges Wednesday to raise awareness for immigration legislation before Congress.The rally was the first in a string of planned monthly awareness events intended to whip up...

The sister of Pomona College’s Dean of Students could make history by joining the ranks of the Obama administration.President Barack Obama nominated Chai Feldblum to a position on the five-person Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that fields complaints of employment...

Clean Sweep9.8.09, 14:15, CGUAn officer responds to CGU apartments to file a report for missing property. A student reports that two seven-foot brown polyester couches were stolen from a nearby lounge while a white van marked “Citrus Cleaning” was in the area.These are not the couches...

Nick George PO ’10 arrived at the Philadelphia International Airport an hour and a half before his flight back to Pomona College this fall. Ninety minutes later, as his plane thundered down the runway, he was sitting in a police holding room in handcuffs.Transportation Security...

The construction of a new dormitory and parking garage on Pomona’s north campus is proceeding according to plan, but is causing disruption for nearby residents and for students who park on campus.“We’ve had some concern about the noise associated with the construction...

In an attempt to make Pomona more sustainable and cost-effective, a number of changes have been made at the dining halls, including the introduction of reusable take-out containers and the removal of trays.The changes will save $460,000 over the course of the coming year, according to Pomona...

Immediately after the 2008-2009 academic year, the Pomona College Board of Trustees convened on campus to plan the budget for the following year, as they do every May. Unlike at previous years’ meetings, however, this board had the daunting task of cutting $5.8 million for the upcoming...

Pomona College’s Draper Center for Community Partnerships, previously the Office of Community and Multicultural Programs and the Hart Volunteer Center, rang in the new school year with a gift from alumnus Ranney Draper PO ’60 and his family.The amount of the gift was not...

Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist who was detained in Iran earlier this year on charges of espionage, gave a lecture at CMC’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Wednesday.Rather than her recent incarceration, Saberi focused on the experiences she had with Iranian youth, women and...

The Claremont Progressive is a new bi-weekly publication meant to provide a forum for a wide array of social issues, ranging from pollution in the Inland Valley to concerns from Pomona’s staffing practices.“We were looking for some sustained way of creating a political discourse, not...

A community group filed a lawsuit on Sept. 1 against the city of Pomona and their police department, stemming from an incident at a meeting concerning sobriety checkpoints last year. The lawsuit alleges that off-duty police disrupted the meeting that was held in a church by the group, the Pomona...

Christian Lander, author of the popular blog “Stuff White People Like,”spoke Sept. 17 in Rose Hills Theater about the role of humor in discussions of race. The event was sponsored by the Pomona Student Union as part of a year-long theme on media and the press. Lander has achieved...

September 22, 2009No One Wishes He Were an Oscar Myer WeinerAPSC President Jed Cullen ’10 called the meeting to order at 5:10 p.m. Cullen welcomed the senators to the meeting and hoped they enjoyed the meeting last week, which he may have missed in order to celebrate the 1341st anniversary...

Fredrick E. Sontag, Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College, died Jun. 14 of congestive heart failure. Sontag, 84, began teaching at Pomona in 1952 and retired at the end of last semester, ending a career that spanned nearly six decades and included thousands of students.Before coming to...

This fall there are a lot of new faces on campus, but these are not exclusively the new freshman or transfers. This year there are over twenty new professors across the five campuses in the Claremont Consortium that have taken positions across the countless departments within the 5Cs. Here is a...

A group of Pitzer College students protested an off-campus talk on April 20 by Jim Gilchrist, founder of the anti-immigration group the Minuteman Project, eventually breaking up the meeting. The event was sponsored by the Mountain View Republican Club, a group based in La Verne and not...

Five 5-C graduating seniors were granted prestigious Watson fellowships by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Anoush Suni PO ’09, Irene Toro Martinez PO’09, Brian Dolphin PI ’09, Kyle Delbyck SC ’09, and Brandon Horn HM ’09 are five of 40 students nationwide who will...

Pitzer College Student Senate announced that students Brian Orser PI ’11 and Paul Waters-Smith PI ’10 had been elected Senate president and vice-president, respectively, for the 2009-2010 academic school year.The results did not include the amount of votes that the candidates...

Pomona’s summer housing policy has undergone several modifications since last summer. The largest change was the introduction of less-strict interpretation of current policy, while retaining a no-tolerance policy for drugs and alcohol.Last summer, about 200-250 students lived in the dorms...

Five college administrators began monitoring the swine flu outbreak on Monday in response to reports of new infections in the US.“We have a five-college Consortium set of protocols which have been engaged at the lowest level,” said Pomona Dean of Campus Life Ric Townes. The colleges...

Dear Pomona College,It has been an honor to write security briefs for you each week for the past four years. Although you plague my life with bike thefts, hundreds it seems (actually 2.7/week on average), it has been a pleasure to journey with you through your frustration with campus life, loud...

In these difficult economic times, each of the 5Cs has made efforts to determine changes in the cost of attendance and financial aid policies for the upcoming academic year. Although the colleges were affected by the financial crisis, most of them did not report drastic changes of costs and...

Pomona College named Paul Efron PO ‘76 the new Chair of the Board of Trustees on Apr. 22. Efron has been a member of the Board since 2000 and is the father of Alex Efron PO ’11.“I joined the board because I thought I could help to make the college a better institution,”...

Pomona College will officially have a Media Studies Department on July 1. The soon-to-be department, however, is already facing problems of downsizing. After this semester, Rick Blackwood and Lauri Mullens, both professors of media studies, will be leaving Pomona. Blackwood’s departure is...

Pomona College announced a voluntary early retirement plan (VERP) on Apr. 21 for eligible staff and faculty members. Administrators hope that the measure will reduce the college’s number of full-time employees, and cut down on labor costs.“Consequently, it is clear that we will have...

Organizers of last week’s Stand With Staff rally presented a petition of nearly 800 signatures to the Budget Planning Advisory Committee (BPAC) on Monday as part of their student-led initiative to garner support for workers’ rights.The petition comes on the heels of the well-attended...

The Claremont University Consortium announced Monday that libraries located on the Harvey Mudd, Pomona, and Scripps College campuses will no longer be operated by CUC.Sprague and Seeley G. Mudd, currently science libraries on the HMC and Pomona campuses, will close on June 30. CUC will continue...

Marijuana is apparently moderately popular on campus now. ASPC President Eliza Finley PO ’09 called the meeting to order at 5:03 p.m. Director of Smith Campus Center Neil Gerard was glad that the gavel had returned to meetings. Senators then introduced themselves to Associate Dean of Campus...

Pitzer has recently increased its effort to impound improperly parked bikes on campus. The increased bike use on campus means that Pitzer has found itself struggling to keep up with the expanding bike population.In the past five years, the bicycle population at Pitzer has exploded. This tipping...

Vandalism has recently appeared on various buildings across the 5Cs. The graffiti in question depicts a man holding a gun to another man’s head, beneath which reads the word “capitalism.The image appears to have been created using red spray paint and a stencil, and has been spotted...

With budget cuts pending, students have started to question the impact of the financial changes on 5-C staff.Approximately 145 students attended Stand with Staff Tuesday. The event, which was organized by Stephanie Almeida PO ’11 and Rosa Greenberg PO ’12, gathered students on the...

Ashwin Balakrishnan PO ’09, Jacob Cohen PO ’10, and Patricia Nguyen PO ’10 were granted a total of $10,000 from the Davis Projects of Peace two weeks ago. This summer, the three friends will work with the Vietnamese-American community of Versailles in Eastern New Orleans to...

At Scripps College, some feel that President Frederick “Fritz” Weis has made a notable and lasting impact on the college, in spite of the fact that he was originally selected merely as a reliable substitute as the college searched for a permanent president.After selecting Lori...

Pomona College science students Benjamin Kozak PO ’10, William Fletcher PO ’11, and Thomas Lane PO ‘10 recently received prestigious science scholarships from the Beckman Scholars Program and the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship program.Kozak, a biology major, will receive a...

These fruit trees are just so amazing 4.14.09 01:00 A student reports hearing screams coming from a wilderness area. Officers respond but find no one. I just hate their taste in music 4.15.09 00:36 A student files a noise complaint against a party in a dorm lounge. I only like the mellow sounds...

With the end of the school year approaching, students and administrators at Harvey Mudd College have continued efforts to resolve the issues surrounding the possible development of the land adjacent to the Bernard Field Station, which was purchased by HMC last fall.Harvey Mudd plans to start...

Pitzer’s College Council passed a resolution that asks faculty members to post a detailed course description online prior to registration and to send out lists of required books before classes begin starting for the Spring 2010 semester. The College Council, comprised of faculty, staff, and...

As a part of the recent slew of budget cuts, students not on work-study will receive a smaller allotment of money they can earn and students on work-study will not be able to apply for increases in allotment. Currently, $2.3 million are spent on student wages. The administration is attempting to...

Acts of terrorism will not be tolerated 4.7.09 19:22 Campus safety officers report swear words spray painted on two trees. Looks better the way it is now 4.9.09 15:56 An employee reports an art project vandalized; one piece has been broken off and stolen. Someone is getting rich during the bad...

Last weekend, drawings and phrases of a derogatory nature were found on the Scripps College campus, spray painted onto the trees, sidewalks, and the Amherst Drive pavement. The graffiti included phrases such as “Scissor Me Scrippsie,” “Wannabes,” and “Every...

The committee that oversees Pomona College’s residence hall policies has decided to change the procedure for housing students who sign substance-free contracts. Members of the committee said that students used the contracts, which stiffen the penalties for drug and alcohol use in certain...

Pomona College Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum and Dean of Campus Life Ric Townes held a presentation on the north campus housing and parking project in Hahn 101 on Tuesday. The contractors for the project explained what the construction entails, and students were able to ask questions and...

A free wall established on Mar. 31 on the north side of the Z tower of Pitzer College’s Mead residence hall has sparked several controversies, including whether students went through the proper channels to establish the wall as a “free wall,” a space not subject to...

How Can Finley Call for Order Without a Gavel? The meeting was called to order at 5:07 p.m., despite the much-lamented lack of the president’s famous gavel. President Eliza Finley PO ‘09 congratulated next year’s newly-elected senators, but was somewhat disappointed to find that...

Several security breaches occurred on Pomona’s campus during the past two weeks. Burglaries occurred in Millikan Laboratory and Andrew Science Building as well as the On The Loose gear room, located in Walker Hall. It is unclear whether the incidents were related, but Campus Security and...

Sidi Benzahra, a visiting physics professor in the Joint Science program, has adapted his book Women City into a full-length movie.Benzahra’s film focuses on the torment caused by rape in the lives of three women from different walks of life, who form a bond based on their mutual...

Faculty and administrators say that the result of a battle over the firing of a controversial University of Colorado professor has legal implications on the firing decisions made at the 5Cs.On Apr. 2, the Denver State Court ruled that the university had fired former Ethnic Studies Professor Ward...

Despite college-wide efforts to curb spending in light of massive endowment losses, Pomona College employees will not see their wages and salaries affected by budget cuts in the 2009 fiscal year. With massive deficits expected within the next five years, however, administrators are currently...

Room draw numbers were reassigned to all Pomona students following alleged technical difficulties in the first room draw lottery.Staff at the college’s Office of Campus Life said that the program that generates numbers failed to take into account students’ room draw number assignments...

Government and philosophy major Simon Shogry CM ’09 is unsure what he will do after he graduates next year. “I had one job interview last week and am waiting to hear back from a few other options,” said Shogry. “But if none of those pan out I plan on studying Ancient Greek...

With a mother and cousin who graduated from Scripps College, Lori Bettison-Varga is far from unfamiliar with the women’s college, where she was appointed as the new president on Mar. 28.“My mother embedded in us a sense of leadership and empowerment that I believe stems directly from...

Last week, Pitzer College announced five new recipients of the Fulbright Fellowship: Alex Kenyon PI ’09, Jeffrey Bandler PI ’09, Yasuhiro Sekiyama PI ’09, Joshua Lo PI ’09, and Jason Morales PI ’09. In late March, Pitzer announced that Michele Hatchette PI ’09,...

The Student Dean’s Committee is re-evaluating the recording, demonstration, and banning policies in place at the Claremont Colleges.The review comes just over a month after two anti-abortion Claremont McKenna College students were banned from the Pomona College campus for videotaping a...

Modifications of the Scripps dorm escort and guest policy were approved recently by the Scripps Associated Students (SAS) after a survey given to the student body showed that most students were dissatisfied with the current policy.The policy now allows guests to travel to and from bathrooms...

Jed Cullen PO ’10 was elected ASPC President for the 2009-2010 school year Tuesday, earning the majority of 776 votes cast in the ASPC Senate election. Kelly Schwartz PO ’10 and Kayleigh Kaneshiro PO ’10 were elected Vice President for Finance and Vice President for Campus...

Just when college-bound seniors thought they would finally be cut a break, the 5Cs have proven themselves just as selective as past years. Although most small liberal arts colleges were expecting applicant numbers to drop sharply due to the recession, numbers stayed about the same for all the...

How do you make fun of this…seriously 3.26.09 00:36 A student reports that his computer and his roommate’s computer and cell phone have been stolen from their dorm room. The lock on the bathroom window is broken. Now this is my type of vandalism 3.30.09 06:50 An employee reports a...

The Associated Students of Pomona College conducted a survey on proposed budget cuts last month that drew responses from over 800 students. Student leaders and administrators say the opinions of students will be taken into consideration by a committee tasked with recommending possibly steep...

Pitzer has announced the speakers for its 2009 commencement ceremony.This year, speakers will include David Feldman, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer and performer; Springsong Cooper PI ’09; Jim Marchant, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Students; and Kathleen Yep,...

Frick Would Like to Cancel the Meeting ASPC President Eliza Finley PO ’09 called the meeting to order at 5:04 p.m. after waiting some time to achieve a quorum of senators present. Before conducting senate business, Finley introduced a meeting guest, Than Volk PO ‘10. After prompting...

Bill Ayers, co-founder of radical group the Weather Underground, spoke at Pitzer College’s Gold Student Center on Monday night about the state of democracy in America and the Obama administration.In his remarks, the self-described radical reminded people that Obama’s election was...

In response to the recent increase in unspeakable horrors and unconscionable acts of violence on Pomona’s campus, Campus Planning and Maintenance, the Dean of Students Office, the Dean of the College and Campus Safety, and the Dean of Landscaping have formed a subcommittee. The...

Late Tuesday, Freshman Daniel Wurzhebacher PO ‘12 boldly pinched off a loaf in Mudd Backhall’s gender-neutral bathroom, becoming the first man - or woman - to do so in the bathroom this academic year. With the closer men’s bathroom occupied, and classtime quickly approaching,...

Undeniable hipster John Wick, PO ‘11 has been having trouble justifying his need for a fixed-gear bike to friends in recent weeks.“No, guys, you don’t understand!” Wick was overheard saying recently at a lunchtime conversation with friends, “not having gears or ...

A Feb. 10 march on the Pitzer College mounds in support of Professor Brian Burkhart gave fresh attention to the embattled Native American Studies professor’s push to remain employed by the institution. Around a dozen students, professors, and Claremont residents showed up for the so-called...

After eight years of petitioning to be given autonomy as its own department, the Pomona College neuroscience program faced another setback on Jan. 28. After faculty consultation, Dean of the College Gary Kates recommended to President David Oxtoby that neuroscience retain its status as a program...