DDP Argument Is Very
Flawed
By Conor Flynn
Contributing Writer
Laila Bernstein argues ("Student Should Stay Informed
About DDP" TSL 4/18/03) that when the facts are out everyone
will support the DDP overlay requirement. Her article pedantically
claims that anyone who objects to this must be ignorant, scared,
or confused. Unless Bernstein is trying to prove a point about
"People…[who] are unable to listen to peers…"
by setting herself up as an example of such a person, it seems
that her argument is deeply and ironically flawed.
PAC Requirements Need
Revision
By Peter Douglas
Staff Writer
I'm not sure why I'm excited about all this talk about reexamining
the PAC system. I'm a sophomore with all but two of my PAC
requirements fulfilled, and by the time any change is made,
I will have fulfilled the rest of my PAC's, have graduated,
and be lying on the couch at my parent's house unemployed
and wondering what the hell happened over the past four years.
Deep down inside, I'm altruistic though, and I want the coming
generations of bright-eyed sagehens to have the best college
experience possible. General education requirements form a
backbone to any university system, and they can either be
a stimulating incentive to acquire a truly broad base of knowledge
or a boring and pointless waste of time. Pomona's PAC system
falls somewhere in between the two extremes, more towards
the former than the latter, but still far from perfect. So,
although no one has asked me, here is what I would do to change
the PAC system.
Facilities Micromanaged,
Students Lose
By Joshua Tremblay
Opinions Editor
Last weekend's uber-successful Oskar film festival proved
many important points about the structure of space and life
at Pomona College. First and foremost, I shouldn't be allowed
to drink that much ever, let alone in public. Second, it proved
that there is a strong film/video culture on campus and that
there needs to be more support from both students and the
administration for campus media. But most importantly, it
illustrated the unfair policies that govern facililty use
at Pomona College.
It's Not a Drinking Problem,
It's a Drinking Solution
By Coty Meibeyer
Opinions Editor
By now, the class of 2007 has already made a decision that
will drastically affect their freshmen years, and they haven't
even graduated from high school yet. Housing forms are streaming
into the admissions office now, and if all prognostications
are correct, over a third of the class will request to live
in substance-free housing next year. More incoming freshmen
request to live in substance-free than there are spots available,
but all together there will be seven sub-free halls next year,
dispersed between the second floor of Blaisdell, the first
floor of Harwood, and the second floor of Wig. That's an increase
of one from this year, and it doesn't look like substance-free
is going to end fairly soon, especially if there's still demand.
Capitalist Fatcats!
By Nathan H. Fisher
A&F Editor
After lengthy consideration, the thing that pisses me off
most about this college is the jerks who subscribe to the
New York Times who just had to have their precious subscriptions
held for them in the coop store where no one else can read
them. Now, if you subscribe to and read the New York Times
everyday then, you know, more power to you. I think that's
great. But you seem to me to be in the minority of the prissy
kids who, for whatever prissy reason, get the Times daily
only to pick it up sporadically, if at all.
God Bless the Party
By Nat Bourne
Contributing Writer
The world is going to hell in a handbasket. I say this as
our monkey of a president bombs people overseas in the pursuit
of oil while millions of people go hungry. Others are attacking
affirmative action and the freedom of reproductive choice.
Do you want more proof of the coming apocalypse? Just look
at reality TV: it's gotten completely out of hand.
But I digress. The point is, it might seem
like people are just assholes in general. And you know what?
They usually are.
We'll Miss You, Peter
By Coty Meibeyer and Joshua Tremblay
Opinions Editors
Here are two shining examples as to how Peter Stanley touched
our college lives.
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