Last Tuesday afternoon, I was counting down the seconds to my registration time, when the website suddenly stopped working. I freaked out, because I thought my Internet access here in Dakar had broken, but no: It was just the portal. As long as I’ve been here, we’ve had problems with
Author: Michael Maltese
Please Rebrand
Last year, Pomona College hired a marketing agency to look at how we brand ourselves. The agency, Neustadt Creative Marketing, recently suggested we deemphasize our easygoing atmosphere. They make a good point. We do put a lot of focus on our easygoing atmosphere. Take a look at U.S. News & World
Motley Staff Learns from Theft
Scripps College’s Motley Coffeehouse reported a theft of money to Campus Safety in December. “It definitely wasn’t chump change, but we can still hold business as usual for sure,” Head Manager Leah Munsey SC ’12 said. There was no forced entry, Munsey said. The Claremont Police Department offered the Motley
New ASCMC Officers Elected
Over 400 students voted in the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC) elections Feb. 28, naming Aditya Pai CM ’13 president and Miles Bird CM ’13 vice president, as well as deciding six other positions. Jessica Mao CM ’12, the current ASCMC president, said that the election was
BFS Seeks New Director
The Claremont Colleges interviewed three candidates this month for the new Director of the Bernard Field Station (BFS), the 75-acre coastal sage scrub habitat just north of Foothill Boulevard. The BFS’s habitat features a number of endangered plant and animal species and is used extensively for research, teaching and community
Warehouse Labor Advocates Draw Parallels with WFJ
Employees and advocates of Warehouse Workers United (WWU), a group aiming to unionize warehouse workers in the Inland Empire, spoke at Pitzer on Monday about the injustices they suffer at the workplace and their latest legal efforts against their employers. Workers For Justice (WFJ) leader Christian Torres also spoke
Google Exec Talks Jobs at Rose Hills
Laszlo Bock PO ’94, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google, spoke to students about career development in an hour-long presentation Feb. 2 at Pomona College. The discussion was part of an effort initiated by the Board of Trustees to improve career services on campus. Bock, an international relations
System Developed By HMC Students Could Find Extraterrestrial Life
Two Harvey Mudd College students developed a method of detecting life last summer that could one day be used to find living organisms on other planets. A grant proposal for futher development and attachment of the system to a rover has been submitted to NASA. The students and their mentors
Leadership Changes Shake OBSA
André Larry PO ’13 was critical of an unexpected change in leadership of the Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA) last semester. Now he says the new Dean of OBSA has grown on him. “It definitely has helped with just being able to talk with him and him being open
Registration Overload Causes Problems on MyPomona Portal
Some Pomona students encountered problems while registering for courses two weeks ago as a large number of students using the MyPomona portal overloaded the system. Pomona’s Information Technology Services (ITS) received complaints from students who tried searching for courses, only to find that all courses had seemingly disappeared. According to