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| Construction
is in the early stages on the new Seaver biology
building, scheduled for completion in 2007. Plans
are currently underway to spend an additional 32
million dollars for construcion of several more
new buildings at Sixth and College Street to accommodate
overcrowding in the Academic Quad. |
College Announces
Ambitious 32 Million Dollar Building Plan
By Ashley Langsdorf
Staff Writer
Baxter Health Center and Dean of students
Ann Quinley’s house will soon be gone as Pomona
begins to construct new buildings to ease space problems
in the Mason-Crookshank-Pearsons Quad.
“The Quad was at a crisis point.
Something had to be done,” said Patricia Smiley,
Associate Dean of the College. “Teachers were
crammed into classrooms. They need more room.”
Deans
Host Tenure Discussion For Students
By Jay Antenen
Staff
Writer
Dean of the College Gary Kates and Dean
of Students Anne Quinley met with students on Tuesday
to discuss Pomona College's policies on tenure and the
hiring of professors.
The hour-long lunch meeting organized
by ASPC Academic Affairs Commissioner Kyle Warneck attracted
a small audience of mainly upperclassmen to the Frank
Blue Room.
Survey
Shows Split on DDP Requirement
By Lori DesRochers
News Associate
For the last ten years, Pomona College
administrators and students have been debating the necessity
of an additional graduation requirement related to the
study of difference and power dynamics.
Last spring, enrolled students were asked in a survey
if they agreed with the statement that the college should
require students to take a course that addressed issues
of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, sexual
orientation and religion in relationship to the exercise
of power. The data showed deep divisions amongst students.
Foul
Odor Disrupts Life in Norton-Clark and Lawry
By Logan Steiner
Staff Writer
Residents of Norton-Clark and Lawry
Court have had to contend with a less than desirable
odor pervading their residence halls during the first
few weeks of school this year.
Students have complained of a feces-like
odor both inside and outside their dorms. Residents
agreed that at times the odor is unbearable, while at
other times it seems to mysteriously disappear.
First-Years
Continue To Break Records
By Jenny Mertz-Shea
Copy Editor
In the wake of Pomona’s most competitive
year yet for freshman admissions, the class of 2007
is not only one of the most qualified classes in recent
memory, it is also the largest.
“I think Pomona is a bit of a
‘hot college’ right now,” observed
Dean of Students Ann Quinley. “It’s growing
in popularity.”
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