CIA Infiltrates Pomona
College
Author's Name Withheld
Contributing Writer
On Tuesday February 25th the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
succeeded in infiltrating Pomona College. The CIA's agent
within the college was the Career Development Office (CDO)
who sponsored the event and facilitated the meeting of recruiters
and students of the Claremont Colleges. This latest effort
by the CIA is part of an ongoing operation at many leading
colleges and universities across the United States. This particular
operation, you may be relieved to know, was not designed to
gather intelligence on radical student organizing or teaching
at the 5-C - but don't let your guard down, because the CIA
might already have someone tracking you. This time they want
to recruit people to work for them, so they came here.
Who Needs Civil Liberties,
Anyway?
By Peter Douglas
Staff Writer
While many of Americans were glued to their televisions, waiting
for Tom Ridge to tell them when the "Orange Alert"
would be over, a much scarier threat was waiting the in halls
of the Department of Justice. Two weeks ago the Center for
Public Integrity, a civil liberties watchdog group, exposed
a leaked draft of the Bush Administration's next anti-terrorism
legislation, called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act.
The administration was planning on keeping it a secret until
the political timing was right, possibly once the country
was distracted by war in Iraq. In fact, the Justice Department
on several occasions told members of the Senate Judiciary
committee that they weren't working on any such legislation.
Fortunately for all Americans, an anonymous and conscientious
employee of the Justice Department leaked the draft, and the
Center for Public Integrity then passed it on to several media
sources.
Where's the Party?
By David Lydon
Staff Writer
The student strike has got me thinking. According to a message
recently posted on the Digester, "forgoing for a single
day the opportunities we have here at Pomona [allows us to]
recognize the more permanent and scarring disruptions that
a war will have on our campus." When examined through
this lens, one of the great mysteries of the year becomes
perfectly clear: in order to help highlight the horrors of
war, the Committee for Campus Life and Activities has spent
the last year on strike. They just forgot to tell anyone about
it.
5-C Asian American Resource
Center Needed
By Anna Kim
Contributing Writer
Fourteen years ago students at the Claremont Colleges, including
the undergraduate institutions and Claremont Graduate University,
presented a proposal for an Asian American Resource Center
(AARC). The request came out of the simple need for a "safe
place" where Asian Americans could go to deal with personal
and academic problems, and understand the issues that challenge
and shape their identities as racial and ethnic minorities.
The 1989 proposal discussed the reasons a resource center
was needed and included a mission statement outlining the
goals of the proposed AARC. The first proposal for a centrally
located Asian American Resource center was rejected by the
Council of Presidents of the Claremont Colleges. As a result,
students were forced to seek administrative support at each
of the individual colleges.
Inequalities go to Court
By Professor Jose Calderon
Contributing Writer
The future of affirmative action in education lies in two
important court cases that are going to be heard by the U.
S. Supreme Court. One of the cases involves a group of students
who want their university to use affirmative action to right
the effects of past discrimination. The previous ruling turned
down this request but did not change an earlier decision by
the judge that upheld the university's admissions policy to
include race and ethnicity as factors in admitting undergraduates.
This was a major victory for advocates of affirmative action.
In another suit, two white applicants claim that they were
not admitted to Michigan's law school because of their race.
The students contend that they were held to higher admissions
standards than those used for Black and Latino applicants.
Both cases are being fought by the Center
for Individual Rights, a Washington- D. C. - based public-interest
law firm that is dead set on putting an end to affirmative
action. Either case could result in taking away some of the
last vestiges of affirmative action.
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