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Hate Incidents Strike Pomona
By Dan Check News Editor
Some Residential Advisors and Head sponsors, fearing an attitude of permissiveness towards homophobic and racists actions, recently formed Hens Against Hate (HAH) in order to question Pomona’s attitudes towards diversity and tolerance.
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Outside Hacker Attacks Network
By Peggy Liao and Daniel Myers News Associates
Between 2:30 and 5:30 am on Friday, February 11, network servers for the Claremont Colleges and Claremont Graduate University were effectively disabled after suffering a "distributed denial of service attack."
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Musical Difficulties
By Peggy Liao News Associate
CCLA has experienced several difficulties this year in trying to bring large bands to Pomona College. CCLA Large Events Coordinator Mike Sung ’00 cited various reasons for these difficulties, including Claremont’s proximity to Los Angeles and the small size of the school.
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Dorms Robbed and Vandalized
By Scott Laboda Staff Writer
Campus Safety was busy this past weekend investigating a troubling rash of thefts. Electronic entertainment equipment was stolen from Mudd-Blaisdell, Smiley and a dorm on Harvey Mudd’s campus.
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On February 10, at 11:29 an anonymous male reported that the pedals on his bike had been loosened. He said that this happened once before. Both times he had attended a Landrum protest. He also received harassing e-mails after attending these protests.
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Compiled by Liz Rodriguez
Commissioner of Community Affairs Janelle Lin ‘00 announced that the Professor Service Auction will take place March 9 during snack. She encouraged the senators to come up with a service they can provide for the auction. All proceeds will go to a charity called Reach For The Stars.
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Dan Check
Simon Morfit ‘00 stands in front of his door, which was repeatedly vandalized last semester in one of a string of homophobic hate incidents. (see article left)
On February 7, CINE, the Claremont Intercampus Networking Effort, increased the bandwidth of the colleges’ Internet connection from 10 megabits per second to 15 megabits per second to cope with increased demand.
The bandwidth of a connection is a measure of its capacity to transfer data. A 15 megabit per second connection can transfer data about 480 times faster than a standard modem, or the equivalent of 1.3 floppy disks per second.
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Three members of The Student Life’s editorial board were presented with charges Tuesday by the Office of Campus Life for violations of the Pomona Student Code.
Complainant Austin Harris ’03 objected to the characterization he recieved in last semester’s joke issue, which he claims caused him "great personal and emotional distress." TSL allegedly violated the section of the code forbidding conduct which treatens the "health, safety, or well-being of any member of the college."
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A female student reported Thursday that she had seen a man with a gun walk through the Fireplace Lounge at Smith Campus Center.
According to Corporal John Teuber of Campus Safety, she saidthe man had "two tan-colored leather belts with holsters." Four CPD units responded and coordinated a sweep of the building, finding nothing.
Another student said that "it was not clearly alarming and not clearly a gun." Most likely the student saw a worker with hand tools, said Teuber.
Deep Thoughts from Ben Stein’s Lair: Hollywood Machine Generates the Pressure
I didn’t fully awake for some time until, looking out at the drizzled palm trees whizzing past me on the 10, the strange promise of the day fully sunk in. I’m gonna be on a game show. Hot damn.Go to Article
The Fuck Shit Ups Fuck Some Shit Up
Drew Eastman ‘01, also known as Drew P. Nutsack, will be honest with you. "I’d love to say," he said, "you know, ‘I’m in it for the love of the music,’ and yeah, I enjoy that.
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Hens Stage 25 Point Comeback, Win 94-90
The Pomona-Pitzer men’s basketball team (9-2) had a strenuous week but came out of it with two gutsy road victories against Whittier and Occidental. These wins, combined with Occidental’s blowout over Claremont-Mudd (9-2), put the Sagehens back into a tie for first place in SCIAC.
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Ping-Pong. Pow!
The contest began innocently enough on Monday night at 9 p.m. Five guys and one girl were brought together at Rains Center united only by one thing: their willingness to compete in the annual Pomona College ACUI Table Tennis Qualifying Tournament.
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Vandals Detract from College Experience
Respect. People often cringe upon hearing that word. In the minds of many of our generation, the idea of respect conjures up visions of oppressive power structures and surly grandparents. Go to Article
Societal Violence Independent of Hollywood
Okay, you walk into the theater and sit in one of the plushy seats. You put your drink down and grab a handful of heavily buttered popcorn and proceed to stuff the handful into your mouth.
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Editor Defends Parody, Ideology
The informal policy of The Student Life has been to avoid responding in writing to allegations launched at it. Letters-to-the-editor have traditionally been the most appropriate venue to discuss issues about content; larger issues involving management, editorial decisions and policies should be addressed to the Print Media Committee.
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J-Board Threatens Our Free Speech
This Tuesday, three members of The Student Life’s Editorial Board were formally presented with Judicial Council charges by Dean of Campus Life Matt Taylor. The charges, made by complaintant Austin Harris ’03, are in regards to alleged harassment by TSL in last semester’s joke issue.
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