Go Home INS!
By Peter Douglas
Staff Writer
Imagine you're studying abroad in Spain. The sun is shining,
the wine is flowing, the beaches are beautiful, and the water
is warm. You meet a nice Spanish boy/girl and start enjoying
his/her company on a regular basis. It becomes harder and
harder to get up in the mornings, since in Spain the fun doesn't
start until 3 AM. You've got plenty of credits back at Pomona,
so you think, what the hell, I'll drop a class. And then boom,
the policia breaks down your door, drags you off to jail,
and holds you there for two days until they let you call your
parents so they can bail you out. It sounds pretty scary.
Of course, this would never happen. There is no John Ashcroft
in Spain.
Let Us Declare War on
Terror-ible Media
By Peter Skipper
Contributing Writer
On Saturday, February 8, the Los Angeles Channel Four News
at Six team finished their broadcast with the report paraphrased
below:
In Corona, police notified the FBI Friday
of the disappearance of a tractor-trailer rig destined for
the Long Beach shipyards, and holding 22 tons of boric acid.
Boric acid is a highly flammable industrial chemical. Though
no accusations were made, police said that they could not
rule out the possibility of terrorists being responsible for
the theft. The FBI is commencing an investigation.
The college chemistry majors reading this
report may already be snickering at its contents, but for
those of us not yet in on the joke, allow me to fill in a
few details: boric acid is nonflammable!
The Revolution Will Not
Be Televised
By Jeff Horwitz
Contributing Writer
Tuesday, February 22, in front of an audience of four students
and one retiree, two candidates for Claremont City Council
outlined their campaign platforms.
Despite poor attendance, both candidates, Jackie McHenry and
Peter Yao, spoke eloquently about changing Claremont, and
both are well qualified to do so. McHenry, a community activist,
is a long time advocate for local democracy and a member of
the California First Amendment Coalition. Yao, the director
of engineering for a Fortune 500 company and resident of Claremont
for 40 years, decided to run for public office because he
believed the city did not respond properly to the shooting
in which Claremont Police Officers killed Irvin Landrum on
January 11, 1999.
Only four students heard these candidates
speak about how Claremont could be a different and better
place. Only four students listened to proposals to end the
perennial police shutdown of Harwood Halloween, to end racial
profiling in Claremont, and to protect some of the last open
space in Claremont.
Four students. If that's all that care about what happens
in Claremont, we, as students, are in a lot of trouble.
Student Government: I
Hate You
By Joshua Tremblay
Opinions Editor
Throughout the years, The Student Life newspaper has been
both critic and champion of the actions and procedures of
the Associated Students of Pomona College, the elected governing
group of the students. It is the expressed purpose of the
group, as a credible, elected link between the students and
the administration, to try to improve life and conditions
for students at the college. This is not the first article
to be critical of Senate, and it is assuredly not the last;
it is merely part of the ongoing discourse between the student
government and the students they "serve." Student
government at Pomona College has lost its mission and is,
more often than not, more involved in fulfilling the self-serving
interests of its members.
Open And Shut
By Kyle Warneck
Staff Writer
Dr. Brian Rosenberg, Dean of the Faculty at Lawrence University
and one of the candidates for Pomona's presidency remarked
that, "the openness of the [presidential search] process
really says something about the school." He reminded
the students that the nature of Pomona's presidential search
was not what one would find at most colleges around the country,
but then again, Pomona would like to think that its students
are not the type of students one finds at most colleges either.
Be All That You Can Be
in Substance-Free
By Laurel McFadden
Staff Writer
I learned the other day that I am apparently part of a system
of intolerance, social ineptitude, and reclusion. It was a
bit surprising to be so suddenly and negatively categorized.
Further reading revealed that my dorm situation deemed me
practically a crime against social harmony. Shocking. It seems
living sub-free comes with a disturbing stereotype I hadn't
counted on.
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