Rock the Vote in Claremont

If there is one definite positive effect of all the controversy caused by the early closure of Harwood Halloween, the debate surrounding the proposed Keck Institute, and the Irvin Landrum Jr. situation, it is that it has gotten Pomona students more aware of the community around them. Never before in my time here have students been more angry at the Village, City Hall, and the College itself. Demonstrations, rallies, and vitriol filled exchanges are somewhat effective, but to truly change things in our community we all need to register to vote. [con't]

Activism Should Engage Private Lives

Some students are becoming aggressively apathetic.

At dinner on Tuesday, several student protesters marched into Frary Dining Hall shouting the words "What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!" and continuing the protest of the police shooting of Irvin Landrum, Jr., and the District Attorney’s recent report which cleared the CPD. [con't]

We Need To Secede From Claremont

Editor:

"The Cops won’t end this one early." –Advertisement for CMC’s Monte Carlo night held at the Fairplex in Ontario.

Enjoy being treated like second-class citizens by a populace that uses our fields as municipal parks and takes our seats when lecturers speak? How do you feel when you see unleashed villagers’ dogs use the college grounds, that your tuition pays to maintain, as their toilet? Feel comfortable knowing that a police force which has drawn its guns on students this semester and murdered an 18-year-old motorist last January is here for our protection? [con't]

Internet Message Board May Help

Editor:

A firestorm of dialogue has engulfed Pomona College of late. The ASPC Senate, the administration, President Peter Stanley, ASPC President Richard Park, CCLA, the CPD, Claremont’s elderly, Jon Vanasco, Ann Quinley, Neil Gerard, the Office of Study Abroad, Aramark, and many other people and institutions have been questioned, criticized, and attacked. [con't]

Don’t Assume Germans to be Nazis

Editor:

In the early morning on November 9, a day loaded with mostly terrible German history as well as the day the wall came down ten years ago, someone vandalized the German Lounge in Oldenborg, stealing posters, destroying others, and writing "F*** Hitler" on the pin-board of the Lounge. [con't]

"He" Sets Women Outside of the Norm

Editor:

Peter Cook mixes up two arguments in his Opinions piece "PC Standards," neither of which are particularly convincing. First, he brings up the only tenuously related case of a man fired and humiliated for using the word "niggardly," but makes no mention of how this was received at Pomona, any similar situations at Pomona, or how it pertains to the gender-neutral "he". [con't]