Author: Emma Foehringer Merchant

In Pomona College’s sexual assault audit report, released via e-mail to students Thursday, a main recommendation included solidifying a cross-campus policy on sexual assault, providing cohesiveness in the system for survivors.  Sexual assault consultant and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Tiombe Preston SC ’95 prepared the report. Preston collected student

At the start of every semester, cash-strapped college students begin the long process of searching for cheap books in time for classes. Some students spend hours comparing prices on Amazon, eBay, Huntley Bookstore, and student digester posts. SwoopThat, a website founded by COO Ben Carson PO ’07 and CEO Jonathan

Raymond Lu PO ‘11, an international relations major, was recently awarded a Carnegie Junior Fellowship, which will send him to Washington, D.C., to work at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for one year. Lu applied first to Pomona and was one of two finalists from the school selected to

The controversy surrounding news that Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Andrew Lear would not be rehired for next year took a new turn last week as students began rallying support for a petition to keep Lear in Claremont. The controversy developed two weeks ago as some students reacted to what

Grace Wielebinski PO ’14 woke up early on Monday March 28 to her sponsor repeatedly knocking on her door, warning her of an emergency alert sent out by Campus Safety. The message was asking all students to evacuate at least a mile south of campus. Wielebinksi jumped out of bed

For Afshin Khan PO ’11, receiving an education as a child was a constant struggle. _x000D_ _x000D_ As an international student from Pakistan, she comes from a village where education was difficult to obtain, especially for girls. Khan said her mother, who refused to accept this fate for her children,

Pomona College’s Sustainability Integration Office (SIO) held three forums last week in the Frank Dining Hall Blue Room to explain its plans to increase sustainability on campus through the Sustainability Action Plan (SAP), a comprehensive plan developed by students, faculty, and staff at the college over the last few years.

“I have a very simple, easy, all-consuming, impossible charge with which to charge you. Work, in whatever work you do, to stop the weeping … to heal the wounds of the human family.” Davie Napier spoke those words in 1972. Claremont’s Pilgrim Place, a senior community intended specifically for citizens