When I first visited Pomona in April of my senior year of high school, I was still trying to figure out where I wanted to go for college. Pomona was one of only two West Coast schools I was considering, and many of my friends back east were shocked at the mere mention of California. After becoming endlessly fed up with the "decisions" made by some of those stupid "Ivy"League "schools," and finding myself hopelessly entangled with my notoriously nerdy high school’s acceptance/rejection gossip circles, I was hoping that Pomona College would be somewhere that I could go to learn. Go to Letter

Last weekend a small group of students in Lawry premised a party on a simple and fail-safe theme: 1,000 beers. Three trashcans full of beer and ice greeted partygoers, and for the span of a night a common room became the scene for arguably the best unregistered party at Pomona College. The common room was packed with people, and the overflow extended onto the stairs, the balcony, and the ground below. Go to Letter

First, I would like to extend a warm welcome back to campus to all the members of our community, especially to those students returning from programs abroad and faculty returning from sabbatical. I believe Winter Break provided a much-needed opportunity to relax and prepare for the exciting semester ahead of us. I would like to take this opportunity to share some of my thoughts with you concerning last semester and the direction we are heading in for the rest of the year. Go to Letter

Welcome back to campus! We hope your semester break offered just the respite you needed before beginning our final semester here at Pomona College! Amazingly enough, we are just a few short months away from graduation. Go to Letter

Please understand, first, that you, personally, are situated only at the periphery with relation to what I am about to say. I also extend special though highly qualified thanks to Dr. Ringer for her last minute assistance. Yet, even more, I would like to extend my gratitude to Dr. Sharon Sievers, from the Asian Studies Committee; as she was the only qualified professor, by having been on that committee, who, unlike Dr. Furth, Dr. Broughton, Dr. Lipski, and Dr. Kim, not only didn’t venomously refuse to come to my rescue as chairman of my thesis committee, but actually had the decency to, as it were, snatch me out of the fire, even at the last minute; simply because nobody else would, as well as because she honestly, unquibblingly recognized the true quality of my achievement; even though I’d regretfully aborted it about one year less than I should have, just to get out from under the rancorously, poisonously, victimizingly mediocre intolerance of most of you. Go to Letter