Food files: Compe-taters take their mark for the battle of the breakfast spuds

Triangle potatoes, tater tots, home fries, oh my! With only so many options and so few meal swipes, Erin Slichter PO ’21 investigates where best to eat breakfast.

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Scripps Revamps Residential Life Positions To Alleviate Workload

  Scripps College will be restructuring the student positions in its residential life program next year in an effort to address criticisms voiced during a nearly two-week resident advisor strike last April. The college will be reducing the number of RAs and their responsibilities as well as adding several new

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After Outcry, Pomona To Fly Puerto Rican Flag At Commencement

Pomona College has agreed to fly the flag of Puerto Rico alongside flags of other graduating students’ home countries at this year’s commencement. The decision follows an outpouring of student support after Pomona initially declined a Puerto Rican student’s request to have the U.S. territory’s flag displayed. Pomona began flying

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Pomona Students Discover Record-Breaking Physics Of Petunia’s Explosive Seed Dispersal

A flower species’ seeds are breaking records in physics, blasting out as rapidly spinning projectiles that travel up to 20 feet, and Pomona College discovered it first. A study published last month by Pomona students and physics professor Dwight Whitaker attracted national attention, including from The New York Times, when

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Scripps Student’s Video of Border Guards Attracts Media Attention

Students in Pomona College professor Miguel R. Tinker Salas’s Mexico-U.S. Border class visited the border in San Diego-Tijuana during spring break, where one student filmed a video that gained attention from national media of uniformed officers posing in front of border wall prototypes for pictures that some deemed to be

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Ofo Bike Share Program Extends Free Trial

  Bike sharing company ofo has extended its free pilot program following what it says has been a successful start at the 5Cs, exceeding expectations. “It took off,” said Austin Marshburn, ofo’s head of universities. “Really bigger than I thought it might have been. It’s not something I was expecting

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