Claremont College Student Arrested at Protests in Seattle

By Megan Purn

As Seattle erupts in a frenzied convulsion of disorder, the city remains uncomfortably conscious of its sudden prominence as a subject of worldwide curiosity. Peaceful protesters of the World Trade Organization’s summit this week in downtown Seattle have been joined by rioters and anarchist groups, prompting action from King County sheriff’s deputies and the National Guard. Although unarmed, the gas-mask and riot-gear sporting police are becoming more serious, injuring and arresting many. [con't]

Trustees Asked to Divest From GCC

By Krista Seymour

Last week, following two weeks of deliberation, Pomona’s student government unanimously passed a resolution calling for Pomona College to divest from corporate members of the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), an organization of business trade associations and private companies that denies the existence of global warming. Pomona’s student government is the seventh in the nation to pass a resolution against the GCC. Scripps, CMC, UCLA, and the University of Washington are among the six others. The resolution has arrived after months of student-led actions by the Divestment Club, a subset of the Eco Club, the five-college ecology club. [con't]

CCLA Places Bid for Smashing Pumpkins

By Matthew Preusch

Mike Sung ’00 got closer to flulfilling a four year dream on Wednesday when he made a bid to the agents of the Smashing Pumpkins, hoping to bring them to Pomona College. Sung offered the group $50,000, $34,000 of which the ASPC voted to allocate after he sold them on his proposal at Tuesday’s senate meeting.

Sung, the chairperson of CCLA’s committee on large concerts, will get the other $16,000 from that organization, which is an arm of the ASPC. An additional $20,000 will be needed once a band and date are secured, but Sung explained to the Senate that most of that sum is ‘day of’ costs, and can be covered by ticket pre-sale revenues. [con't]

Shared Media Department in the Works

By Will Weinstein

A proposal for a joint five-college Media Studies program, similar to that of Women’s Studies and Black Studies, is in the early stages of development. A preliminary proposal has been started at Pitzer, and next week faculty from the five colleges will meet to discuss the basic logistics of the hypothetical joint program.

The current Media Studies program at Pomona, one of the first to be offered at any liberal arts college, is an interdisciplinary program which encompasses all facets of media including film and media production, as well as media theory. [con't]

Security Briefs

Wednesday, November 24, 10:24 p.m. Officer spotted three possible off-campus people, two females and one male, in a Honda. Although they were all suspected of being high school students, one turned out to be a student from another college. They were asked to leave, but then could not find their car. Campus Safety assisted them in their search. They found the car and left. [con't]

Senate Briefs

Campus Events Commissioner Tamara Chellam ’00 reminded the senate that the Winter Wonderland party, hosted by CCLA, would be on Friday, December 3. She said that the CCLA is currently inundated with budget requests, and will be holding an emergency meeting that evening.

The senate then approved a $1,000 budget allocation for the Public Events Committee to host the "winedown" event on the last day of classes. [con't]

Silent marchers walk by the academic quad on Pomona’s campus Wednesday night in recognition of World Aids Day. As treatments for the disease improve, patients are leading longer, healthier lives. However, social service organizations like the Foothill Aids Profect, which sponsored the walk, are say funding is becoming harder to find.