Pomona College’s Class Day student speaker will be Andre Pegeron PO ’12, and Ben Tumin PO ’12 will speak at Commencement. Class Day is a Pomona tradition, during which graduating seniors walk through the college gates together. Compared to Commencement, Class Day is less formal and more...
Pomona College President David Oxtoby has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious policy research institution. “I felt very honored," Oxtoby wrote in an email to TSL. "The members of the Academy are distinguished in many fields of work, and it is a...
Scripps College has added an amnesty clause to its alcohol policy, Dean of Students Rebecca Lee wrote in an e-mail to students April 13. The new clause is the result of the Alcohol Task Force’s semester-long effort to review and change the school’s alcohol policy. Under the amnesty clause,...
The 7C Student Deans Committee (SDC) is in the process of improving campus disability services, aided by the advice of the Association for Higher Education Access and Disability (AHEAD). Currently, the seven colleges operate separate programs for students with learning disabilities....
In keeping with a national trend, admissions rates are down from last year for the class of 2016 at the Claremont Colleges, 5C admissions officers said. This year, Pitzer College admitted only 15.7 percent of applicants, a significant decrease from their 24 percent admissions rate for last...
As more and more posters advertising sustainability pop up in our dining halls, it has become apparent that the Claremont Colleges are moving in a greener direction. But sustainability is more than just a fancy buzzword for going green. Behind every juicy organic tomato on those posters is the...
Over 200 girls from high schools around the country participated in a day of math and science workshops at Harvey Mudd College's annual Women Engineers and Scientists of Tomorrow (WEST) conference March 4. The college's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) hosted the event. “We wanted to...
In a cheery, unassuming manner, Emma French PZ ’13 laid out her plans to tackle some of today’s most pressing issues. We sat down to talk about her involvement in Occupy Claremont and her driving passion for environmental issues. Despite the seriousness of the...
By the end of this semester Claremont McKenna College students might find themselves pulling their finals-week all-nighters in much more comfortable chairs and far less crowded spaces.The CMC Study Spaces Task Force (SSTF), formed last December, is in the process of...
Food thrown away at Frary and Frank Dining Halls can add up to more than 70 pounds per meal, an audit conducted last week by Pomona for Environmental Activism and Responsibility (PEAR) found. “We wanted to raise awareness about the amount of food that people throw away and don’t even compost,”...
When Bruce Yan HM ’15 graduates from college, he and his parents will have to pay back close to $50,000 in student loans. “I have more than $6,000 in student debt from loans and my parents took on about $40,000 to put me through college,” Yan said. “Generally, there’s a lot of pressure...
In light of a competitive job market in the current recession, Pomona College’s Career Development Office (CDO) is making an extra effort to equip graduates with tools to succeed in what can feel like a grim post-graduation future.In response to a report published last May by a Task Force made up...
“More and more men are living their lives around an unhealthy trifecta of porn, pot, and video games... We can call it the male crisis, the masculine malaise, the dude deficit... Where are all the good men?"So asked Hugo Schwyzer, an author, speaker, and professor of history and gender studies at...
Pitzer College took another step toward becoming a “LEEDer” in the push for more sustainable buildings on college campuses in June when it broke ground on a new residence hall, "Phase II" of the school's Residential Life Project. The school completed Phase I of its Master Plan in 2007 and is...
The hot topic these days at Scripps College trustee meetings is not the budget or recent staff hires, but water fountains.“After each meeting with the trustees, the end discussion has always been how great these fountains are," said Scripps Director of Facilities Niel Errickson, referring to the...
The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate voted Monday to change the name of the Committee for Campus Life and Activities (CCLA) to the Pomona Events Committee (PEC). The newly-titled PEC is an ASPC-funded committee that plans dances, parties, and cultural events at Pomona College....
Claremont McKenna College (CM), Pitzer College, and Scripps College announced the renaming of their jointly-managed science department to the W. M. Keck Science Department on Sept. 2. The name was changed from the Joint Sciences Department as part of an attempt to raise funding.According to Keck...
Last semester, Ben Feldman CM ’13, Libby Friede CM ’13, and Emma Nathan CM’13 founded a Community Garden Club at Claremont McKenna College (CMC). The young garden is about half an acre in size and located on the outskirts of the shot put field. CMC’s student garden club is open to all students...
This semester the Claremont Colleges added Portuguese to the list of languages offered at the 5Cs. Students will now have the opportunity to learn the language and explore Brazilian literature and culture through Portuguese 22, taught by Scripps professor Rita Alcala in Pomona's Lincoln building....
Pomona's Student organization Workers for Justice (WFJ) recently welcomed two first-years, Louie Lemus PO ’15 and Naomi Bosch PO ’15, into their ranks. Dormmates in Mudd, Lemus and Bosch will be two of several 5C freshmen joining the push for the Pomona dining hall worker unionization.Lemus, of...