Students Protest at Stanley Residence

Matt Preusch

Last Thursday evening, a group of approximately 50 students from the five colleges and six Aramark workers marched to the doorstep of President Peter Stanley’s home on the corner of Fourth Street and College Avenue. The group was attempting to deliver a letter which had been drafted by workers seeking the endorsement of the Council of Presidents for a Non-Intimidation/Neutrality Agreement with Aramark.

The Council of Presidents, chaired by Stanley, had previously refused an audience to the Worker Support Committee (WSC) during one of its meetings in Alexander. Since that time, Stanley has met with members of the WSC and discussed Aramark and the Non-Intimidation/Neutrality agreement with them. [con't]

Pomona Receives Mellon Grants

Paul Dahlgren

The Mellon Foundation awarded Pomona College four Postdoctoral grants. The first one of these grants will be used to bring a lecturer to teach Asian American Literature next year. The rest of the grants will be used to hire lecturers who will each have two year terms.

"[The grants] will allow us to introduce new elements into our curriculum and, at the same time, will provide some teaching support for the home departments," said Dean of the College Hans Palmer. [con't]

Room Draw Proceeds Smoothly

Neel Garlapati

Considerably fewer students are going to defer room draw this year compared to previous years.

"I think it went okay, there seemed to be a lot fewer upset people than last year," commented Dean of Campus Life Matt Taylor. After three days of room draw earlier this week, 791 students had claimed rooms out of an eligible 977. The low number of deferrals surprised many students because after the first night of room draw, a much higher number of seniors-to-be had drawn rooms than was expected. [con't]

President-Elect Richard Park Reveals Plans

On Wednesday afternoon, ASPC President-elect Richard Park ’00 sat down with TSL Editor-in-Chief Jeff Gernes ’01 to discuss the coming year. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.

JG: The ASPC President, to a large extent, can set the agenda for the rest of the Senate. What’s on your agenda for next year?

RP: If you’re talking about broad agendas, I think some of things I want to focus on are encouraging more interaction with the surrounding community in terms of social events or in terms of outreach efforts like bringing high school students here. So that’s one thing, encouraging interaction with the local community. Another thing is trying to consolidate Pomona College’s and the other four colleges’ interests into the whole Five-College Senate. [con't]

Security Briefs

Thursday, April 8, 1:08. Someone reported that someone had pushed a 2 foot hole in the interior wall of Seaver Theatre. [con't]

Senate Briefs

ASPC President Andrew Sheppard ’99 began the meeting by asking the newly elected Senators for the 1999-2000 academic year to introduce themselves. Along with the current Senators present were Putnam Shin ’00, Jake Oken-Berg ’02, Samantha Brenner ’02, Tamara Chellam ’01, Emeka Okereke ’00, and Aaron Ginoza ’02. Not in attendance were Janelle Lin ’00 and Gabe London ’00.

Commissioner of Campus Events Sesyle Moorhead ’99 announced the Flamenco night which will be tonight at Frary. Moorhead then announced the 5-C Alumni/Student Party that will be on Saturday night in Frary. Moorhead also said the Alumni office is short on volunteers for the upcoming Alumni weekend. [con't]