Claremont’s City Council member and former Mayor Jed Leano is running in the 2024 California State Assembly election for the 41st district. TSL interviewed Leano to ask him about the campaign, his goals and what the 7C community should know about him and his candidacy. This conversation has been edited
Author: Lucia Stein
‘Breathing together’: Documentary on Vietnam War draft resistance screened at Pitzer
On April 4, Pitzer College’s Office of Alumni and Family Engagement and the Intercollegiate Media Studies department presented a screening of “The Boys Who Said NO!,” a documentary on the draft resistance movement during the Vietnam War. A panel discussion with documentary contributors Sara Wood Smith PZ ’66 and draft
Live-in sponsors to return to Pomona next fall
On Sunday, March. 12 before spring break, Pomona College’s sponsor applications for the fall 2023 semester closed. For the first time in two years, sponsors will live in the same dorm as their first-year “sponsees” under the newly reinstated live-in sponsor policy. Pomona’s Sponsor Program matches a student sponsor, usually
‘Healthy Relationships’ workshop series begins at Pitzer
The Pitzer College Title IX Office held the first of a three-part educational workshop series teaching students how to develop interpersonal skills on Feb. 22, 2023. The first session focused on maintaining healthy relationships on campus and supporting those navigating challenging relationships. Tiombe Wallace SC ’95, who identifies as a
Campus Safety moves to new headquarters
On Jan. 31, The Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS) announced that Campus Safety has settled into its new home in the Administration Campus Center (ACC), via its official Instagram page. No longer located across from Honnold Mudd Library’s south entrance, the move brought the department to the southeast corner of Pomona
Registration frustration: stressed students report rough start to spring semester
The add/drop period left many 5C students full of anxiety and frustration in the struggle to get permission to enroll requests (PERMS) accepted and find courses with open slots this semester. Students across the 5Cs were able to register for spring classes during a designated time, set by class year,
The plan for Plan B: SAS approves funding for reproductive healthcare vending machine
Plan B may soon be accessible on Scripps College’s campus after Scripps Associated Students approved funding for a low-cost wellness vending machine in the Scripps Student Union last Sunday. SAS has yet to finalize the budget for the machine, SAS President Megan Chow SC ’23 told TSL in an email.
Scripps Advocates, first-years speak out about ‘needlessly traumatizing’ orientation content
Several Scripps College students walked out of an Aug. 22 orientation session held for first year students, citing graphic stories during a presentation that covered sexual assault and consent.
Pomona President Gabi Starr inducted into the Academy of Arts and Sciences, recognized for education equity efforts
Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr officially joined the ranks of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at an induction ceremony Sept. 9 to 10, following a year’s delay due to COVID-19. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Academy was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams
Pomona, CMC students struggle amid last week’s heat wave without AC
While Californians all over the state were dealing with a record setting heat wave last week, some students at the 5Cs struggled to sleep comfortably without air-conditioned dorms.