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Inferno Engulfs
Claremont, Approaches Campus
By Jay Antenen
Staff Writer
As fires raged across California, Pomona
students hunkered down for a week of classes marked
by little outdoors activity and smoke filled skies.
Students huddled inside dorms as ash
rained down on the campus coating cars and streets in
a thin layer of dark grey dust over the weekend. Sporting
events were canceled and some students donned facemasks
to protect themselves. No college property was damaged
and there were no reported injuries on campus Dean of
Students Anne Quinley said.
High
Hopes for Harwood Halloween at New Indoor Venue
By Caleb Oken-Berg
News Editor
The Rains Athletic Center will not be
open for basketball or volleyball Friday night, but
instead will be taken over by a hip-hop concert and
thousands of students decked out in a wide variety Halloween
costumes.
Rains’ gymnasium is serving as
the new location for the annual Harwood Halloween concert,
featuring the early-ninties-hip-hop group Naughty by
Nature as the main attraction.
Plagued by seven years of noise complaints
and early shutdowns, organizers of the event were forced
to choose an indoor venue or risk losing the tens-of-thousands
of dollars spent on the party.
Alternate
Academic Advising in Near Future
By Lori DesRochers
News Associate
Pomona College prides itself on the
interaction between faculty and students, the support
system offered to freshmen, and the closeness of the
small community. Incoming students are all assigned
to a sponsor group with two sophomore sponsors. Students
have the opportunity to participate in various mentoring
groups, and interact with resident advisors, and a faculty
advisor. In the very near future, freshmen will be offered
the chance to get to know one more friendly Pomona face:
a student advisor.
In the still-developing plan for student
advising, freshmen who indicate interest will be paired
with an upperclassman to receive advising about classes,
major tracks, and other pertinent academic issues. The
students will meet over lunch in November, and will
have opportunities to meet and talk more often if the
students feel it is necessary.
New President Seeks to Encourage, Strengthen Campus
Arts Culture
By Kyle Warneck
News Associate
In his Inaugural Address twelve years
ago, President Stanley announced an ambitious vision
for a central place for members of the Pomona community.
This vision eventually became the Smith Campus Center,
one of the most visible legacies of his time at Pomona.
In his Inaugural Address, President
David Oxtoby listed three areas that merited attention
at Pomona: creative arts, student fitness, and increased
interaction with the Los Angeles community.
Dorm Council Revamped, Funding Cut
By Lori DesRochers
News
Associate
The walls of Peter Flueckiger’s
office are covered with literally hundreds of novels,
encyclopedias, dictionaries, and anthologies. The spines
of the books are lined with Japanese characters, making
them indecipherable to everyone but the most dedicated
of Japanese scholars, and even then, their contents
probably wouldn’t interest most.
“This one is a list of every book
written in Japan before the Meiji restoration,”
Flueckiger says, his eyes glowing with excitement behind
thick-framed glasses. Moving his prized rare book collection
from Tokyo, Japan, to Claremont was tough; the transition
from graduate school student to professor at Pomona
College was not.
Iraq
Talk Draws Over Three Hundred Students
By Edward Wexler-Beron
Contributing Writer
A conservative speaker
at Pomona criticizing the United States’ current
policy in Iraq?
“I never would have expected to
hear this viewpoint on Pomona’s campus,”
said a surprised Zack Grieman, class of ’07.
Tuesday night at Edmunds ballroom, a
crowd of over 300 students heard Danielle Pletka speak
about her belief that the U.S. has missed multiple opportunities
in rebuilding Iraq, and that we must rely more on the
Iraqi people in our efforts to create a stable democracy
there. Her speech was based on her opinion that the
U.S. government made the correct decision to remove
Saddam Hussein, a decision that should have been made
in the first Gulf War.
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