Bolivia, Overlooked
By Kavin Paulraj
Staff Writer
Mainstream media has failed once again, this time by a total
lack of coverage of one of the most newsworthy issue. In Bolivia
on February 12, 2003, nothing less than a civil war erupted.
The repressive policies of the Fondo Monetario Internacional
(FMI), known in English as the International Monetary Fund
(IMF), have caused the latest uprising in Bolivia, GDP-wise
the poorest country of South America.
Surprising Unity Found
at LA Peace Protests
By Peter Douglas
Staff Writer
There is something about being surrounded by tens of thousands
of chanting, marching people that is both satisfying and uncomfortable.
Satisfying because in that crowd shouting in unison there
is a sense that finally your voice can be heard and some change
will come from it; uncomfortable because as the words get
repeated by thousands and thousands of very different people,
the message gets distorted until you can no longer be sure
its your own.
Campus Activism Still
Lacking
By Kyle Warneck
Staff Writer
Going by demographics alone, Pomona should be a hot bed of
anti-war activism. On October 12, New York Times poll
data suggested that "younger Americans are the most opposed
to a pre-emptive strike, and most likely to think that a war
between the United States and Iraq would spread to other countries
in the Middle East." In addition to our age, our education
levels make us likely to oppose the war in Iraq.
Other studies show those with a college education
or in college represent the most likely demographic to oppose
the war. A quick skim of newspapers would have one thinking
that these trends have led to months of activism on other
college campuses. The Times continued, "The speed
of the antiwar mobilization has struck some longtime college
presidents. 'Students are engaging very, very quickly with
Iraq,' said Nancy Dye, the president of Oberlin College."
So the question is, what's going on with Pomona?
OSA Should Rethink Options
By Joshua Tremblay
Opinions Editor
Imagine, just as your sophomore slump is really
bringing you down, you get a letter in your mailbox. This
is not the average ad for a campus event you would never go
to. This is an invitation to come and "check out"
the Office of Study Abroad's offerings.
This is incredibly exciting, it's your first chance to go
abroad and experience the variety of cultures that exist worldwide.
Among the offered programs, support for your major is minimal-but
you hear that an upperclassman before you solved the same
problem by going on a better-suited (albeit not Pomona-sponsored)
program. Assuming that Pomona College's elders, wisepersons,
and powers-that-be are fair enough, there is no reason you
couldn't use the same program to suit your needs. After all,
"The College believes that the opportunity for interested
and qualified students to study for one semester in a foreign
country may benefit the student's academic program and enrich
the life of the College community." So saith the OSA
website.
A Man, A Plan, A Useless
City
By Coty Meibeyer
Opinions Editor
For me, and many others I'd imagine, the village serves as
a pleasant place with a Starbucks, a great video store, a
post office, overly pricey restaurants, and innumerable antique
stores that somehow seem to stay in business.
All of this, however, is due to change sometime
in the next year or so, with the implementation of the Village
Expansion Specific Plan, which is the reason for the construction
on Indian Hill Boulevard. The Plan, as it's called on the
Claremont City Council website, includes plans for a two-screen
art house theater, an inn, a parking structure, a specialty-food
store, "entertainment-themed" restaurants, expansion
of current retail stores, and perhaps even a bookstore. There
is even talk of open space and small plaza areas. While this
may at first sound great, I beg to differ.
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