The liberal arts education offered by schools like Pomona College promises close relationships with professors, access to research and the ability to explore and find mentors in your faculty. Instead of keeping true to this promise, Eric Lu PO ’28 argues that the current Pomona has fallen to a familiar fate of higher education: administrative bloat.
Author: Eric Lu
Opinion: Clean energy alone won’t save us
The green energy revolution has been a promise of the new millennium. With growing wind, solar and hydroelectric resources supplanting existing carbon resources, the energy capacities, and resultantly, production abilities of our nation are seemingly endless, capable of fueling an ever-growing economy. Eric Lu PO ’28 argues that, for any of the changes made by green energy to have lasting effects, we need to change our economy and consumption patterns.
OPINION: Why Kamala Harris lost
As the dust settles on the results of the 2024 election, much of America is looking for someone to blame. As the Democratic Party gears up to do its usual finger pointing, attributing Kamala Harris’ loss to the American public’s sexism and racism, Eric Lu PO ’28 argues the blame lays with the party itself.
OPINION: The politics behind apolitical acts
While Haverim’s action of painting over the Walker Wall and encouraging participants to keep designs apolitical and inclusive, pure intentions of bringing “unity and fun to the wall and to [the] schools,” Eric Lu PO ‘28 argues that painting over a free wall and encouraging apolitical responses is an inherently political action.
OPINION: It’s time for Pomona to appoint a student trustee
In the current climate of student unrest, protests and disciplinary and judicial response from Pomona College, the valley between the world of students and administration has grown wider and wider. Eric Lu ’28 argues that Pomona could address this growing dissonance by electing a student voice to the Board of Trustees.
OPINION: Eliminating test scores is not the answer to educational equity
As the nation’s leading educational institutions start to reinstitute testing, the Claremont Colleges have remained stalwart, extending test optional policies until the 2027 admission cycle. Eric Lu, PO ’28 argues that testing now arises as an opportunity for equity through standardization.
OPINION: No-taxes-on-tips, a solution or a distraction?
Surprisingly, Trump and Harris have united under one policy, eliminating tax on tips, a seeming slam dunk for the worker, but Eric Lu PO ’28 warns that this policy is a hollow promise, offering a band-aid solution that distracts from a greater push for workers rights.