Editorial Board | March 24, 2011, 8:28 p.m. |
Pomona prides itself on being a college that listens to its students. Pomona students are involved in college governance to a degree unheard of at other schools. There is an atmosphere of mutual...
Editorial Board | April 7, 2011, 10:42 p.m. |
As reported on the front page of this issue, next year some sponsor groups may find themselves with two female sponsors as opposed to the typical male-female ...
Editorial Board | April 14, 2011, 10:35 p.m. |
A number of online commentators have taken
Editorial Board | April 22, 2011, 6:14 a.m. |
As reported on the front page of this issue, ASPC recently formed a subcommittee to address the endorsement of ASPC candidates...
Editorial Board | April 29, 2011, 1:06 a.m. |
The Student Life would like to take this opportunity to express our respect for the initiative shown by the 17 Pomona College students who recently petitioned P...
Editorial Board | Sept. 16, 2011, 7:38 a.m. |
The Student Life would like to welcome all our new and returning readers back to campus for another semester of quality 5C journalism. With each issue, we aim to deliver informative, interesting...
Editorial Board | Sept. 23, 2011, 7:01 a.m. |
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, The Student Life would like to offer a response to those who were confused, upset, or frustrated by last week’s ‘snapping’ article. As this E...
Editorial Board | Sept. 30, 2011, 7:40 p.m. |
On Sept. 22, Pomona VP and Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum notified the student body of a federally-mandated policy change to the Student Handbook that will lower the standard of evidence requi...
Editorial Board | Oct. 7, 2011, 7:08 p.m. |
Three weeks ago, an unregistered party on Pomona's South Campus took a turn for the worse when a first-year at the event was transported to a hospital for treatment for alcohol intoxication. In ...
Editorial Board | Oct. 14, 2011, 9:52 a.m. |
Before this year, there were two spaces on Pomona’s campus in which students above the age of 21 could consume alcohol: in the privacy of their own rooms, and at officially registered parties at...
Editorial Board | Oct. 21, 2011, 7:17 a.m. |
America’s leading environmental journalist, Bill McKibben, will visit the 5Cs next week. McKibben is the author of numerous books on environmentalism and the founder of 350.org, an international...
Editorial Board | Oct. 28, 2011, 5:30 p.m. |
Pomona College’s annual Halloween party, Harwood Halloween, has become an occasion where some students binge drink and get intoxicated to unsafe levels. We saw it last year when students pushed ...
Editorial Board | Nov. 4, 2011, 11:34 a.m. |
The debate over fair treatment of Pomona’s food service employees has been going on for over a decade. In 1999, when all dining hall workers at the Claremont Colleges were employed by the massiv...
Editorial Board | Nov. 11, 2011, 1:28 p.m. |
At its next meeting, Pomona’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC) will be considering a revision to or complete elimination of the school’s system for administering monetary fines to students who vi...
Editorial Board | Nov. 18, 2011, 2:15 p.m. |
On Nov. 7, Pomona College issued letters to 84 students, faculty, and staff members requesting that they schedule a meeting with the Office of Human Resources before Nov. 11 regarding incomplete...
Editorial Board | Dec. 2, 2011, 1:27 p.m. |
Two weeks ago, The Student Life and the ASPC Committee for Campus Climate and Diversity co-sponsored an event open to the entire Pomona College community where we discussed the role of th...
Editorial Board | April 20, 2012, 9:27 a.m. |
TSL believes the fire behind Oldenborg revealed problems in the emergency response plan. We appreciate Dean of Student Life Ric Townes's fast response in coordinating policy change...
Editorial Board | Sept. 28, 2012, 8:17 a.m. |
Christian Torres, a former Pomona College chef who was among the 17 employees fired last year because they could not show valid work authorization papers, has presented a...
Editorial Board | Oct. 5, 2012, 8:23 a.m. |
Members of the Pomona College Board of Trustees will meet with students today for the 14th annual Trustee-Student Retreat. We hope that students and trustees will b...
Editorial Board | Oct. 19, 2012, 10:02 a.m. |
The Amherst Student, the newspaper of Amherst College, published an article this week that recounts form...
Editorial Board | Nov. 2, 2012, 10:15 a.m. |
This week’s Special Features section is, in no small part, a result of the efforts of students who have tried to start a conversation about mental i...
Editorial Board | Nov. 30, 2012, 10:42 a.m. |
Students across the Claremont Colleges are engaging in critical discussions about their schools, with topics ranging from academics to class, race a...
Editorial Board | March 9, 2013, 12:46 a.m. |
Last week, TSL reported on the marketing initiative that Mark Neustadt of Neustadt Creative Marketing proposed Pomona Co...
Editorial Board | March 15, 2013, 9:43 a.m. |
On March 6, Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College President Aditya Pai sent an open lette...
Editorial Board | April 6, 2013, 11:22 p.m. |
As of today, Claremont McKenna College is still in the process of conducting what is now an almost month-long investigation of the alleged bias-related confrontatio...
Editorial Board | April 19, 2013, 4:32 p.m. |
In recent weeks, Pomona College’s Kappa Delta (KD) fraternity has been working with the Advocates for Survivors o...
Editorial Board | April 26, 2013, 10:56 a.m. |
More changes are taking place in Pomona College’s Sponsor Group program (see article on page 1). Rather ...
Editorial Board | May 3, 2013, 5:35 p.m. |
At the end of a school year, Pomona College students are asked to participate in a number of surveys that help various campus entities and administrators gau...
Editorial Board | Sept. 27, 2013, 10:45 p.m. |
This year the administrations of the five Claremont Colleges revised their policies regarding sexual assaults on campus, as reported in TSL last week. The overarching goal of these polic...
Editorial Board | Oct. 19, 2013, 5:06 a.m. |
Our Special Features section this week focuses on the identity-based mentor groups that function to ease the transition from high school into college for first-year students at the 5Cs. For many...
Editorial Board | Feb. 7, 2014, 10:38 p.m. |
Just when you thought print journalism was dead and buried, TSL is back for another semester. With fresh faces at the helm and a slew of new staffers, we’re feeling ready to tackle any topics th...
Editorial Board | Feb. 14, 2014, 6:53 p.m. |
Before we begin our weekly opining, we’d like to introduce you to TSL’s new logo. As we began to cover all the Claremont Colleges more thoroughly, we realized that our continued use of Po...
Editorial Board | Feb. 21, 2014, 10:40 p.m. |
The members of this Editorial Board were all drawn to the Claremont Colleges in part by the consortium structure, and we’d guess that many students across our campuses feel similarly. But living...
Editorial Board | March 1, 2014, 12:14 a.m. |
If you haven’t been to Frary Dining Hall in the past week, then you may not have seen the sculpture in Bixby Plaza—covered this week on page seven of the Life & Style section. From the conve...
Editorial Board | March 7, 2014, 9:06 p.m. |
This week, the College Board announced major changes to its flagship product: the SAT. Although the three letters no longer actually stand for anything—the full name of “Scholastic Assessment Te...
Editorial Board | March 14, 2014, 6:04 p.m. |
If you haven’t yet read this week’s investigation into the Claremont Colleges’ mental health services by Julia Comnes and Kevin Tidmarsh, turn to page 2 in the News section. Before we make any s...
Editorial Board | April 4, 2014, 9:09 p.m. |
It’s that apathetic time of year again, when many students forgo their chance to participate in the closest semblance of a democratic process that college offers.
We’re accustomed to h...
Editorial Board | April 11, 2014, 11:47 p.m. |
Although there are ongoing efforts to connect 5C students to the broader communities that envelop the consortium, we believe that many students are still most concerned with their peers and p...
Editorial Board | April 25, 2014, 8:05 p.m. |
Last week, we published a story in the Opinions section that has quickly become the most widely shared and discussed piece of content we’ve had the privilege to host this school year. “Pushed...
Editorial Board | May 2, 2014, 8:19 p.m. |
After many late nights and too many staff meetings, we’ve reached our final issue of the semester. If you’ll pardon the self-indulgence, we’d like to take a look back at the semester. In our ...
Editorial Board | Sept. 20, 2013, 1 p.m. |
Hello Claremont!
The Student Life welcomes you to a new school year in Claremont and a new volume of TSL. We're excited to bring you—students, faculty, staff,...
Editorial Board | Oct. 13, 2013, 12:32 a.m. |
The SB 131 (Beall) bill recently passed in both houses of the California state legislature and will become law on Oct. 13 if Governor Jerry Brown does not use a veto. The bill would lengthen the...
Editorial Board | Oct. 4, 2013, 6:44 p.m. |
Pomona College's Neuroscience and Dance Departments are co-hosting the Moving Mind Symposium this weekend in an attempt to bridge the gap between the arts and sciences. Meanwhile, the ...
Editorial Board | April 18, 2014, 8:53 p.m. |
The establishment of the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Sexual Assault Task Force (see News, page 5) has us considering the progress that has been made over the past year to addres...
Editorial Board | Oct. 26, 2013, 5:49 a.m. |
At each of the five Claremont Colleges, the Board of Trustees is a group of men and women that holds the power to appoint the president of each college, as well as make financial decisions and l...
Editorial Board | Nov. 2, 2013, 5:17 a.m. |
It is no secret to students of the Claremont Colleges that the 5Cs can be a stressful place. Students constantly complain about their workload, which causes some to pull all-nighters and other...
Editorial Board | Nov. 9, 2013, 6:40 a.m. |
The Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC) and the Forum, a news and opinions publication that focuses mainly on the CMC community, officially separated as per a revi...
Editorial Board | Nov. 16, 2013, 6:51 a.m. |
As course registration for the spring semester rapidly approaches, we have an opportunity to reflect on how our previous studies at the Claremont Colleges have shaped how we think, what we care ...
Editorial Board | Nov. 23, 2013, 6:55 a.m. |
The Claremont Colleges bubble houses a community where issues of social responsibility and justice are always at the forefront of the campus-wide conversation. Global climate change ...
Editorial Board | Dec. 6, 2013, 5:42 p.m. |
TSL's Opinions section has dedicated its space this semester to a variety of topics germane to the Claremont Colleges community, reaching out to students, faculty, and...
Editorial Board | Sept. 26, 2014, 8:18 p.m. |
It’s no secret that California is experiencing one of its worst droughts in recorded history. And while its effects may not be readily apparent to students of the 5Cs, in our habitat of the gras...
Editorial Board | Oct. 17, 2014, 7:11 p.m. |
On Sept. 19, TSL published a graphic entitled “Trans Vocabulary” that attempted to define and pictorially represent some of the major terms and descriptions of gender identities now acc...
Editorial Board | Feb. 13, 2015, 8:14 p.m. |
The Scripps College Registrar sent an email to the student body Feb. 12 announcing a new feature on the Student Portal that allows students to select the gender pronoun with which they most clos...
Editorial Board | Feb. 23, 2015, 8:28 a.m. |
What does joining the carbon neutral bandwagon really mean?
Last February, Pomona College joined an array of undergraduate institutions in pledging to become carbon neutral by the year 203...
Editorial Board | Feb. 28, 2015, 12:44 a.m. |
The Claremont Colleges may be a consortium of liberal arts schools, but recent acts of discrimination reflect an underground sentiment that’s anything but liberal.
While upsetting, the re...
Editorial Board | March 6, 2015, 10:30 p.m. |
Comments on TSL’s website are an essential part of 5C campus discourse. Our articles can only say so much. We depend on commenters to bring other perspectives to the stories, as we can’t ...
Editorial Board | May 6, 2015, 3:21 a.m. |
In the wake of crises, demonstrations and disasters, dialogue occurs in many different settings. In an increasing manner, social media determines our conversations, responses and perceptions of ...
Editorial Board | Sept. 18, 2015, 12:35 p.m. |
On behalf of TSL, we’d like to offer you a belated welcome (back) to Claremont! Whether you’re reading this in print or on our newly redesigned website—which you can visit at t...
Editorial Board | Sept. 25, 2015, 12:25 p.m. |
Many students were doubtful when Pomona College announced that the college would pilot Callisto, a new sexual assault reporting system, in an effort to make its campus safer. Woul...
Editorial Board | Oct. 2, 2015, 2:50 a.m. |
In the wake of the controversy surrounding the Mudd Goes Madd, it’s becoming clear what issues actually matter to students. On the Facebook event page for the party, comments deriding poli...
Editorial Board | Oct. 23, 2015, 4:44 a.m. |
When Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Pomona College’s Bridges Auditorium last night, Oct. 22, students saw a compelling discussion on a range of relevant topics. Sotomayor wr...
Editorial Board | Oct. 30, 2015, 2:28 p.m. |
In 1986, representatives of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came to campus to recruit Claremont students. This attempt, however, ended up being more controversial than the organizers antic...
Editorial Board | Nov. 6, 2015, 11:12 a.m. |
The results of last spring’s Sexual Assault and Campus Climate Survey, released yesterday to students at the Claremont Colleges, are an incredibly valuable resource to any student at the C...
Editorial Board | Oct. 16, 2015, 4:34 p.m. |
The Claremont Colleges’ Council of Presidents may not have anticipated that they would provoke such a strong student backlash, but they got more than they bargained for when they instated ...
Editorial Board | Nov. 20, 2015, 1 p.m. |
When it was announced that Harvey Mudd College and the intercollegiate Keck Science Department would be hosting a representative from Monsanto Company, an agricultu...
Editorial Board | Nov. 13, 2015, 10:45 a.m. |
In the wake of recent race-related events on campus, we both condone certain responsive actions but ardently condemn others. Let us be explicit: Racism has no place here. And that statement does...
Editorial Board | Dec. 4, 2015, 3:31 p.m. |
This semester has been a whirlwind, to say the least. Much has happened in the nation and the world, and much has happened on the campuses of our five undergraduate colleges. Sexual assault beca...
Editorial Board | Feb. 5, 2016, 2:28 p.m. |
In this week’s issue of TSL, Elizabeth Wilcox reported that Pitzer College students are generally hopeful that the appointment of Dr. Melvin L. Oliver as Pitzer’s new p...
Editorial Board | Feb. 12, 2016, 4:44 p.m. |
On Feb. 8, students received an email from Director of Campus Safety Stan Skipworth, informing students that drug-laced drinks were allegedly served at three on-campus parties over the last...
Editorial Board | Feb. 19, 2016, 11:14 a.m. |
As Saahil Desai reported in this week's issue of TSL, about a dozen members of The Remembrance Project, an anti-immigrant group with ties to the Republican Party, protested out...
Editorial Board | Feb. 26, 2016, 2:46 p.m. |
Scripps College recently announced that former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright would be the 2016 Scripps Commencement speaker, as Colin Gamm reported in this week's issue of ...
Editorial Board | March 4, 2016, 10:44 a.m. |
With three more days of the 5C PowerDown Challenge, Harvey Mudd College is currently leading with a 12.1 percent reduction in its energy consumption. In fact, as it stands now, all colleges...
Editorial Board | March 25, 2016, 12:23 p.m. |
It’s been a whirlwind of a week here at TSL.
Our newspaper recently faced budget cuts and mid-semester financial problems that threatened the execution and distribu...
Editorial Board | April 8, 2016, 3:08 p.m. |
As Sana Khan reported in this week’s issue of TSL, several recent incidents of vandalism took place at Pitzer College and Scripps College that targeted students of color. In T...
Editorial Board | April 22, 2016, 8:29 p.m. |
In the age of blogs and social media, student journalism has an important role in keeping students informed about campus news. When campus publications opt for sensationalism over accuracy ...
Editorial Board | April 29, 2016, 4:31 p.m. |
This week, TSL received two letters to the editor and ten guest op-ed submissions. While we haven’t officially checked the record books, it is extremely rare for us to receive so ...
Editorial Board | Sept. 16, 2016, 10:25 a.m. |
Welcome back, everyone! Another year in Claremont, another promising incoming class. We at TSL are so excited to be back on campus, and we've taken the summer to refl...
Editorial Board | Oct. 21, 2016, 3:41 p.m. |
In early October, The Washington Post obtained a video of Donald Trump’s lewd remarks about women during a conversation with media personality Billy Bush in 2005. The video incited sharp c...
Editorial Board | Oct. 28, 2016, 9:51 p.m. |
As students run out to purchase wigs, fangs, and other accessories for costumes this Halloweekend, we at TSL would like to remind the community of what happened on these campuses t...
Editorial Board | Nov. 7, 2016, 6:03 p.m. |
It feels like the election has gone on forever. Media coverage from the primaries until now has captured the attention of the world, for better and for worse. In the last ten months, we hav...
Editorial Board | Nov. 18, 2016, 10:32 a.m. |
TSL's online comment section can be a lively space, full of debate and discourse. Web readers weigh in on a number of articles from our Opinions, News, and Life & Styl...
Editorial Board | Dec. 2, 2016, 10:34 a.m. |
For the last two semesters, TSL has struggled to accrue sufficient funding to print on a weekly basis—without funding from outside sources.
Since TSL ...
Editorial Board | Feb. 24, 2017, 3:01 p.m. |
The United States is “not experiencing the best of times,” as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said. In the past few days alone, militarized police raided the main prote...
Editorial Board | March 9, 2017, 11:43 p.m. |
This week, the Claremont Independent published a piece headlined "Pitzer College RA: White People Can't Wear Hoop Earrings" in response to a mural painted by three Latinx stud...
Editorial Board | March 24, 2017, 2:44 a.m. |
Since our first issue 128 years ago, we at TSL have committed ourselves to providing a platform for student expression. This platform has always extended past the feet of our own staffe...
Editorial Board | March 31, 2017, 12:30 p.m. |
Last week, we published the Wabash report, an external report on campus climate at Harvey Mudd College in its entirety. This was no light decision — we discussed the merits of rel...
Editorial Board | April 7, 2017, 2:39 a.m. |
During the protest at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College yesterday, which Samuel Breslow reported on in this week’s issue of TSL, a common argument...
Editorial Board | April 14, 2017, 12:01 p.m. |
We support the resident advisors at Scripps College. We support the work they do as well as their right, and need, to not do that work — we support the strike.
However, without w...
Editorial Board | Nov. 14, 2017, 12:48 p.m. |
“We are still in shock. Over the last 48 hours, in a multitude of different capacities, this country experienced a paradigm shift unlike any that we, as students, have lived...
Editorial Board | Nov. 14, 2017, 12:54 p.m. |
As highlighted in the news section this week, students can only enter the McConnell and Malott dining halls after presenting their IDs. The policy enforcements sparked some P...
Editorial Board | April 21, 2017, 3:36 p.m. |
If you’re reading this in in a gray box on post-consumer recycled newsprint, you’re not stuck in the past. If these words are appearing as backlit pixels, you’re not living in ...
Editorial Board | April 28, 2017, 3:20 p.m. |
This semester has been a tough but affirming year for our staff. In over 120 pages of newsprint and an untold number of late-night hours, we produced original reporting covering events acro...
Editorial Board | Nov. 17, 2017, 12:29 p.m. |
Student governments may not always think kindly of TSL. That’s totally understandable; we annoy them all the time.
We harass them for quotes and press access to events. We email ...
Editorial Board | July 19, 2017, 9:28 p.m. |
We wholeheartedly disavow the sanctions Claremont McKenna College imposed this week on students involved in the blockade of Heather Mac Donald’s talk in April.
They ar...
Editorial Board | Oct. 13, 2017, 3:28 a.m. |
The confrontation at this week's Tuesday Noon Academy asks us to think again about modes of protest on campus. Though the protesters came from outside the campus community...
Editorial Board | Oct. 6, 2017, 4:43 a.m. |
Less than a week after it happened, the best journalists of our time have found the real story of the tragedy in Vegas – the “goofy little doodad” that Stephen P...
Editorial Board | Dec. 12, 2017, 3:22 a.m. |
Last week, we noticed the Scripps student body fee for the 2017-2018 school year rose a dollar per student, from $108 in the 2016-2017 year, to $109 per semester. There was no explanation, no em...
Ariel So Meghan Joyce Kellen Browning Editorial Board | Feb. 2, 2018, 1:56 a.m. |
This past Saturday, TSL’s editorial board traipsed down to Laemmle Theatre in the Village to get inspired by watching “The Post,” which dramatically retells the story ...