College, City Find Relations Worsening

By Matthew Preusch

When Pomona College moved into the Hotel Claremont, now Sumner Hall, from the basement of the Pilgrim Congregationalist Church in Pomona during the winter of 1888, there was little more to the Village than a railroad station, a farmhouse, and two or three small houses in the sagebrush. Now, after growing together for over 100 years, the college and the town are still learning how to get along. [con't]

SCC Office Bets Wrong on Indigo Girls Crowd

By Krista Seymour

Big Bridges Auditorium was only just over half full last Tuesday night when the Indigo girls performed in concert, causing surprise among administrators who were confident that the group would draw sellout crowds. Only 1357 seats in the 2400-seat theater were sold for Tuesday’s concert.

Associate Director of Smith Campus Center David K. Swenson, organizer of Tuesday’s event, said, "We expected to sell out, hands down. Now, we realize that maybe our expectation was faulty." [con't]

HMC Upsets Students on Speaker Choice

By Will Weinstein

Even though he is no longer at Harvey Mudd College, controversy surrounding Professor David Noble continues to raise debate on HMC’s campus.

When it came time to select this year’s commencement speaker, Noble was voted by students to be their first choice. Disappointing students, HMC President Jon Strauss found Noble to be a bad choice for such an event, and selected an alternative speaker. [con't]

Claremont Resident Files Anti-Keck Initiative

By Bethany Woodard

The Claremont community brandished a new weapon against the proposed Keck Graduate Institute last Friday. A local citizen, Carol Gil, filed an initiative to turn the land between College and Mills Avenues into a conservation space where new building would be prohibited. The possibility that this initiative may come before local voters has led to a frenzy of activity on the part of student and community activists as they try to mobilize and register students to vote. [con't]

Longtime Friend Diane Whitcomb Remembered

Diane Whitcomb, administrative assistant to President Peter Stanley since May of this year and secretary to the president the previous eight years, passed away November 4. She was 44 years old.

Ms. Whitcomb became ill with flu-like symptoms at the end of June and was hospitalized in July with a pulmonary infection that was never successfully diagnosed. She was transferred to Barlow Respiratory Hospital and Research Center in Los Angeles, where she had been steadily recovering until she contracted a serious infection, declined rapidly, and died on Thursday evening. [con't]

Campus Safety, CPD Explain Crime Report Protocol

By Beth Cope

Recently a rash of computer burglaries occurred at the Claremont Colleges. Around the October 23 and 24, laptop computers were stolen from a number of locked and unlocked dorm rooms across the campuses. In most cases where an incident like this occurs, Campus Safety is called and a report is filed. But then what?

According to an extensive set of guidelines set forth in an agreement between Campus Safety and the Claremont Police Department, in crimes of property such as these, a report will be taken only by Campus Safety, and forwarded at a later date to the police. [con't]

Security Briefs

Background information: Previously, female student at Pomona reports unidentified male followed her to her room... Wednesday, November, 9:15 p.m. same female recognizes same male, who turns out to be a high school student, in Coop. Female told Campus Safety she decided to handle this one herself. [con't]

Senate Briefs

Environmental Affairs Commissioner Aaron Ginoza ’02 began the meeting by announcing that in the coming week he would be overseeing another information drive concerning campus recycling. He then informed the senate concerning the student government conference he and ASPC President Richard Park ’00 attended at Haverford College. Park added that the trip had taught him that Pomona students had it much better than students did at other schools. He said that the ASPC handles problems that are details more than anything else is and that other schools’ student governments lack facilities, administrative assistance, and funding. [con't]

Matthew Preusch The ASPC Senate this week voted to repeal the contoversial code requiring approval for all postings on Pomona Campus. Now only postings for events with alcohol will require the 5-C stamp, or any other sort, of approval. Speek on, my Sagehens.