By Trevor Hunnicutt  |  News

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 the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.The museum struggled amid a severe recession to attract sufficient donations to ...

By Trevor Hunnicutt  |  News

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 to several media outlets.Disney, who had suffered from stomach cancer, died at ...

By Leah Steuer  |  Life & Style

An Education should serve as such to any filmmaker looking to respectfully illustrate a May-December romance. Actually, the romance between 16-year-old Jenny and 30-something David falls more squarely into Lolita territory, but director Lone Scherfig and writer Nick Hornby artfully steer the film away from the popular gut reaction to borderline ...

By Mairead Small Staid  |  Life & Style

Forget the threesome and the affair, the real scandal in this season’s “Gossip Girl” was Jenny’s flat-as-her-affect hair at cotillion. That episode redeemed itself, however, when the season’s greatest fashion moment came in the form of a background singer’s blond hair lofted four inches high at the crown of h...

By Clay Taylor  |  Opinion

Last Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 24, I put my hatchet away and sat down at my desk to find the right words to tell the Pomona College community that Miss Henrietta Gobbles, a turkey whom Isaac Kastama PO ’11 and I had purchased to kill and cook for Thanksgiving, was deemed unfit for slaughter and officially pardoned.   On Walker Beach, Isaac and I tried to stand tall as we read Miss ...

By Nick Hubbard  |  Opinion

Will you go out with me?Depending on who you ask, those six words are said too often or too rarely on campus. Two of my colleagues at The Student Life have taken opposing views on the issue. Last month, Charles Johnson wrote an op-ed describing how the lack of a college dating scene and the sheer debauchery of the TNC “meat market” drove him to search for love on Craigslist. ...

By Nick Hubbard  |  PP Sports

Making lists is hard. I started to make a list of 47 things I was thankful for about Pomona’s sports culture. I love sports, but I got to 18 and I was stumped. So for now, I’m calling this Parts 1-18 of the 47-part series, “Things That Sagehen Sports Fans ...

By Amy Brownstein  |  PP Sports

The Olympic Games represent not just a time for countries to unite, but also a time to recognize the accomplishments of athletes in less popular, non-mainstream sports ranging from speed skating to bobsled, biathlon to luge, and snowboarding to skeleton. The athletes who participate in these less mainstream sports train ...