Pandering Politicians Get Away with Murder

By Claire Christian

Listen up, kids! Election 2000 looms large in front of us, and I know that you have placed researching each candidate and his respective platform high on your list of things to do, right after eating at Frary and watching Boy Meets World. But seriously, your vote may not matter all that much. Wait, you think, certainly choosing a president is an important task. [con't]

Disengaged Gen-Xers Trade Politics for Profit

By Will Hawkins

It is a common myth that our generation is disengaged from politics. Generation X, defined loosely as anyone born in between the mid-sixties and the late seventies, has been stereotyped as the ‘slacker’ or ‘whatever’ generation by a wide variety of sources. [con't]

Next to Temp Work, Army Looks Tempting

By Amanda Baber

The Army won’t leave me alone. They called my house five times this summer, and if the restraining order doesn’t come through soon, I’m afraid I’m going to crack.

I had always assumed that my failing eyesight, slow reflexes, and tendency to set my own thumbs on fire in high school chemistry would disqualify me from any job requiring a familiarity with hand grenades. But the Army is desperate to shore up its reserves, even if those reserves have not completed a pull-up under their own power since 1989. [con't]

Frosh Experience Sparks Poor Light Bulb Jokes

By Kevin Herms

If home is where the heart is, Pomona is beginning to feel like just that. Whether its the upper classmen practicing their projectile friendliness, the understanding faculty, or even the cleaning service with their pleasant "good morning," it’s hard to picture a place I’d rather spend the next four years. I’ve yet to encounter a single unkind individual here. I find myself taking a moment every day to sit back and count my blessings, imagining the multitude of ways my life could be much worse than it is. [con't]

Overzealous Campus Safety Regulates Trees

By Peter Cook

It happened Saturday last. Four well-meaning, innocent youths were happily perched in a tree situated to the west of Rains. It was around two in the morning, and a number of parties up north had just broken up. The youths amused themselves by making various noises at the people walking below and cataloguing their reactions. It was all perfectly innocent and innocuous. Then things got ugly. [con't]

Smith Completes Campus, Needs Personal Touch

By David Park

What I love about this school is that it always puts out. We ask for better dorms, they renovate them. We ask for better food, they fire Aramark (well, hopefully). We ask for a better Student Union, they build the Smith Campus Center.

After several years of construction, the ever-coveted centerpiece of our school is finally up and standing. In case you missed it, it’s that really large white building in the middle of campus.

Ideally, Smith is designed to be the center of Pomona’s campus, a multi-purpose student center brimming with life. [con't]

"Freshman" Loves Pomona, Various Drugs

By Chris Bissell

I am a freshman at Pomona College, and I happen to like it here. Perhaps there are not a few gasps of awe, not a few rustled newspapers held by chortling students. Pomona is a good place. People who don’t like it here are cynics. Cynicism. Ah, yes. Cynicism. I don’t like cynicism, and I’ll tell you why. Cynicism sucks. The world is full of cynics. That will never change, I tell you.

I like Pomona because you don’t have to work. Pomona makes it easy for you not to work. This is fine because you’ll never need to save up for retirement; the smog is already feeding pre-cancerous cells in your lungs. [con't]