Author: Hannah Li

E-mail communication at Pomona College was impaired for almost a week because of an outage in Microsoft’s MyMail system. The outage, which began Nov. 8 and was not fully resolved until Wednesday, was caused by several problems within the system, which hosts all Pomona student e-mail accounts. “Microsoft Live experienced

Claremont will soon be represented by Democratic Congresswoman Judy Chu, who on Tuesday won the race for California’s newly drawn 27th Congressional District. Chu’s election marks the end of a long period of Republican representation of Claremont.  Chu won the election with 63.4 percent of the vote to Republican Jack

Pomona College’s yearbook, Metate, will not be published this year for the first time since the 1890s. A decline in student interest prompted the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) to cut funding for the yearbook. “Usually the yearbook is partially funded by ASPC student fees and partially funded by

Pomona for Environmental Activism and Responsibility (PEAR) brought National Food Day to campus this week, aiming to show students that there are more considerations when dining than just the choice between soup or salad.  A series of food awareness activities took place Wednesday evening, followed by a Workers for Justice (WFJ)

After two months of research and discussion with its lawyers, Pomona College has concluded that sponsors are not mandated reporters of sexual assault. This means that sponsors, should a survivor of sexual assault talk to them, are not legally required to report the incident. Piya Bose, Associate Dean of Student Life at

The California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) Energy Service Corps, a program that utilizes a three-pronged approach to promote conservation of energy, is starting its second year at the Claremont Colleges. The program is run in partnership with AmeriCorps. “There’s basically three main goals: K-12 education, campus outreach and community

Pomona College will begin a new alcohol education and bystander intervention program Oct. 15.  The Teaching Alcohol Abuse Prevention (TAAP) program, which is aimed at first-years, will work in conjunction with the online AlcoholEdu training that all first-years must take. “Some of it is a follow-up to AlcoholEdu, which has a

Pomona College is trying to determine whether sponsors, the returning students who live in Pomona first-year residence halls to ease new students’ transition to college, are legally required to report sexual assaults. The question arose during this year’s sponsor training, when sponsors asked whether they, like resident advisers (RAs), are considered

Dixie Morrison PO’ 15, the head of the new branch of Vote Naked on Pomona College’s campus, is trying to encourage 5C students to vote.  Vote Naked is a nonpartisan organization whose purpose is to encourage youth to vote. It emphasizes alternative voting methods, such as vote by mail, the