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| Pomona
College recently filed an amicus brief in the University of
Michigan affirmative action case along with 28 other liberal
arts colleges and universities. |
Pomona Weighs in on Affirmative
Action
By Kyle Warneck
Staff Writer
Amid the over the five dozen briefs being submitted to the Supreme
Court in Grutter v. Bollinger, et al. and Gratz and Hamacher
v. Bollinger et al., the University of Michigan affirmative
action case, one will be signed by Pomona College. Pomona, in conjunction
with 28 other highly selective, liberal arts schools, has filed
a brief supporting the University of Michigan in this historic case.
This brief is in addition to the one filed on behalf of hundreds
of colleges, including all five Claremont Colleges, by the American
Council on Education (ACE) and the National Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities (NAICU). All of the colleges receive federal
funds and will thus be bound by whatever decision the Court makes.
Eight Pomona Faculty Searches
Underway
By Jenny Mertz-Shea
News Associate
The hunt for next year's new faculty hires is halfway completed,
with four professors already signed on and other finalists visiting
Pomona this week.
Study Abroad Office Faces
Restructuring
By Erin McLaughlin
Staff Writer
Pomona's Study Abroad programs, used by about half of students before
they graduate, are on the verge of major changes. The first of these
are in the works for the current year.
Duke Study Finds Wide
Grade Inflation
By Francine Miller
The Stanford Daily (Stanford U.)
STANFORD, Calif. - Some beg, some plead, some even flirt with their
professors -- all in the name of getting an "A." But for
Stanford University students, achieving those top grades might not
be so hard after all, according to a recent grade inflation study
at Duke University.
Connection 47 Takes On
Huntley
By Susan Hoang
Staff Writer
Book exchange website Connection 47 began to operate last November
as a new service to students.
In previous years, students who sold their books
to Huntley complained that they were getting back a fraction of
the value of the books, and that Huntley would then sell them at
seemingly exorbitant prices. Other students sold their books individually,
either to classmates they knew were taking the class or through
the Pomona Student Digester.
Nearby Police Stand-off
Raises Safety Concerns
By Conor O'Rourke
News Associate
Parents of Claremont College students arriving Thursday
for family weekend were met with an unlikely surprise, which may
cause added anxiety about sending their children away to school
.
The reputation of Claremont as a quiet, safe community
was seriously jeopardized that afternoon during a three-hour standoff
involving 50 police personnel and James Thomas Babakitis, 37. Babakitis
had been eluding police forces all day after trying to run over
a deputy sheriff during a routine traffic stop on Wednesday, February
12.
Enthusiastic Anti-War
Protesters Throng Streets of San Francisco
By Charles Proctor
Daily Bruin (U. California-Los Angeles)
They seem to spring up overnight. They travel by train, car, bus,
plane, bicycle or foot. They come in ones, twos, threes, small groups
or massive armies.
They engage in curbside debates or tabletop discussions,
arguing politics, ethics, history, war and peace. They represent
one of the loudest and fastest-moving movements in the world, an
unparalleled coalition of ethnicities, religions, ages and cultures.
And, for the most part, they never know one another's
names.
In a show of solidarity with the international community,
more than 100,000 protesters turned out in San Francisco on Sunday
in the culmination of two days worth of anti-war protests around
the world. As they flooded city sidewalks and flowed down back alleys,
the demonstrators adhered to one common cause, and yet their reasons
for protesting were as diverse as their faces and the clothes they
wore.
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