Forum Held on Mid-East Policy

By JEFF HOROWITZ
Copy Editor
At a well attended forum held in the Blue Room of Frank Dining Hall on Monday, a panel of Pomona politics and history professors tried to explain the political and religious history of the United States’ involvement in the Middle East, as well as current possibilities for U.S. foreign policy.

Faculty on Leave: Students Lose Courses, Advisors

By NATHAN FISHER
News Editor
Forty-three professors, fully one-quarter of the Pomona faculty, have elected to go on leave for at least one semester of the 2001-02 academic year, the largest proportion of faculty to take leave in recent memory.

College Recognizes Academic Merit

By PER MILAM
Staff Writer
The Pomona College Awards and Scholars’ Banquet and Summer Science Poster Conference was held on Monday, September 24. The purpose of the banquet was to honor students from all five colleges who had distinguished themselves academically.

New Programs Proposed to Celebrate Diversity

By SUSAN HOANG
Staff Writer
As a liberal arts institution, Pomona constantly reinvents itself to suit the changing needs of the students’ academic interests. In keeping with its mission, Pomona is contemplating adding two new features to the current curriculum: a Jewish Studies professor and a Dynamics of Difference and Power requirement.

Author Teaches Workshop

By HANS HASSELL
News Associate
This year’s arrival of Janet Fitch, the recipient of the Moseley Fellowship, along with the anticipated arrival of David Foster Wallace as the Roy Disney endowed chair of creative writing next fall, only increases the growing interest in creative writing at Pomona.

Senate Cuts Budgets across Board

By AIDAN DOHERTY
Managing Editor
he end of last year saw intense clamor from student organizations defending their budgets from cuts by the ASPC. Cuts in funding for Pomona organizations, both deep and widespread, signaled a return by the Senate to a more severe budgeting process.