“I’m sick of all these bandwagoners posting about Kony,” said pretty much everybody on Facebook who didn’t share the video. I’m talking about the viral video produced by Invisible Children, an organization dedicated to spreading awareness about crimes against humanity in Uganda. This video, which...

Bob Robinson: Redefining “Fashionably Late” since 2011     This week’s Senate meeting set a Guinness World Record (source not found) for shortest ASPC meeting in the last 100 years, largely due to the absence of Director of Campus Services Bob Robinson. ASPC President Nate Brown mentioned at...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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),...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...