Author: Julia Comnes

After raising its prices at the start of the fall 2012 semester, the Coop Fountain has reduced its deficit by an estimated $10,000 to $15,000. The deficit at the end of the spring 2012 semester was $67,000. “Considering that it’s only been 11 weeks since we made the changes, I

Cameron Munter, keynote commencement speaker for the Pomona College Class of 2012, is now speaking to students in a more intimate setting: the classroom. Munter, a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and Serbia, is currently a visiting professor at Pomona and will be teaching for a three-year term in the

Earlier this month, the organizers of Claremont McKenna College’s Thursday Night Club parties (TNC) decided to try a new way of choosing a theme for the Nov. 15 event by surveying students and having them vote. On the ballot were “Thrift Shop,” “Risky Business: CEOs and Office Bros” and “Thanksgiving:

The replacement of Scripps College’s Hall Council with the Student Senate this semester was a long time coming, said Emily Jovais SC ’13, President of Scripps Associated Students (SAS). The Hall Council was not attached to SAS and the council’s focus was on events in the residence halls, not school-wide

For Lena Connor PO ’13, the fact that she is both a Rhodes and Marshall scholarship finalist still has not sunk in. “I keep thinking to myself, ‘This isn’t real,’” said Connor, an environmental analysis major who plans to study ecotheology in graduate school. Connor and Annie Lyden PO ’13

The Scripps College Board of Trustees has approved the schematic design of the college’s new residence hall, and planning of the building is now in the design development stage. The building, which will cost $16.2 million, is planned to hold 82 beds. Two-thirds of the residence hall will be suites

While the Democrats of the Claremont Colleges have spent much of their energy on voter registration, the Claremont College Republicans have been focusing on helping local Republican candidates’ campaigns. The club has worked with Donna Lowe, candidate for the California State Assembly; Gil Gonzales, candidate for the California State Senate; and

On Oct. 19, while many students were taking cabs to the Ontario Airport for Fall Break, Jesse Pollak PO ’15 was rolling up his sleeves. Pollak had recently found out that President Barack Obama, his favored candidate for the 2012 election, was falling in the polls. “Everything was falling apart

When Christina Whalen SC ’15 heard the faint sound of a fire alarm from her room in Dorsey Residence Hall on the afternoon of Oct. 8, she wasn’t concerned. She assumed that someone had forgotten to take something out of the oven or that someone left one of the building’s