By Dane Brodke
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| Pomona
| November 01, 2009
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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 an op-ed article published in The Student Life on September 25. This piece concerned a “beer scavenger hunt” that took place in April. At the beginning of the forum, Mooko said that the “beer scavenger hunt” was not within the scope of discussion. Mooko gave a PowerPoint presentation at the event detailing the process whereby deans will respond to alleged violations of the student code. However, when he reached a slide that explained the “Dean Investigation,” several students began to ask questions about the procedures. Students present were curious about the notion of “discretion” that deans are afforded when investigating an alleged violation. The conversation centered on whether students’ private records—such as which buildings they have swiped into on campus, and what items they have purchased from the Coop Store—could be indiscriminately gathered as evidence. Nathaniel Volk PO ’12, who coauthored the original article, was particularly vocal during the forum. “I think it was a very good starting point…but I don’t think [Dean Mooko’s presentation] was allowing enough discussion on the issues,” he said after the event. “It definitely was really, really awkward in that they didn’t want to or they weren’t letting us talk about scavvy, because it’s very clear that everything is going to trace back to this.”
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Math Adviser for CBS’s “Numb3rs” visits HMC
By Michelle No | News 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 Numbers behind Numb3rs: Solving Crime with Mathematics, which was based on his tenure working as a mathematical adviser ...
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CMC Alum Fujinaka Creates iPhone App for Medical Students
By Josh Nomkin | News 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 Diego Union-Tribune, the application has been downloaded 10,000 times. Fujinaka wanted to help medical school students like himself ...
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Liberal and Conservative Writers Debate Media Bias at PSU
By Jordan Cohen | News 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 Pomona’s Bridges Hall of Music on Nov. 5. The debate, which attracted 230 students and faculty, consisted ...
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Staff Wages To Remain Stable, For Now, at Pomona
By Travis Kaya | News 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 re-evaluating the college’s budget to determine whether labor reductions will be necessary in the near future.“It’s ...
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Pomona Chooses Furniture for New North Campus Dorms
By Lauri Valerio | News 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 providing additional comments. “We’re trying to get a feel from the ...
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Neuroscience Denied Department Status
By Jamie Goldberg | News 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 rather than become its own department. Oxtoby has yet to make a final decision ...
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More Vandalism Reported
By Lisa Dusenbery | News 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 on all of the undergraduate colleges except Scripps. Pomona reported that th...
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HMC Faces Tough BFS Questions This Summer
By Jamie Goldberg | News 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 construction within a year on a new teaching and learning building, which will replace ...
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