Author: Michelle Guan

When Bruce Yan HM ’15 graduates from college, he and his parents will have to pay back close to $50,000 in student loans.     “I have more than $6,000 in student debt from loans and my parents took on about $40,000 to put me through college,” Yan said. “Generally, there’s

In light of a competitive job market in the current recession, Pomona College’s Career Development Office (CDO) is making an extra effort to equip graduates with tools to succeed in what can feel like a grim post-graduation future. In response to a report published last May by a Task Force

“More and more men are living their lives around an unhealthy trifecta of porn, pot, and video games… We can call it the male crisis, the masculine malaise, the dude deficit… Where are all the good men?” So asked Hugo Schwyzer, an author, speaker, and professor of history and gender

Pitzer College took another step toward becoming a “LEEDer” in the push for more sustainable buildings on college campuses in June when it broke ground on a new residence hall, “Phase II” of the school’s Residential Life Project. The school completed Phase I of its Master Plan in 2007 and

The hot topic these days at Scripps College trustee meetings is not the budget or recent staff hires, but water fountains. “After each meeting with the trustees, the end discussion has always been how great these fountains are,” said Scripps Director of Facilities Niel Errickson, referring to the new sustainable

The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate voted Monday to change the name of the Committee for Campus Life and Activities (CCLA) to the Pomona Events Committee (PEC). The newly-titled PEC is an ASPC-funded committee that plans dances, parties, and cultural events at Pomona College. The committee hosts annual

Claremont McKenna College (CM), Pitzer College, and Scripps College announced the renaming of their jointly-managed science department to the W. M. Keck Science Department on Sept. 2. The name was changed from the Joint Sciences Department as part of an attempt to raise funding. According to Keck Science Department Dean

Last semester, Ben Feldman CM ’13, Libby Friede CM ’13, and Emma Nathan CM’13 founded a Community Garden Club at Claremont McKenna College (CMC). The young garden is about half an acre in size and located on the outskirts of the shot put field. CMC’s student garden club is open

This semester the Claremont Colleges added Portuguese to the list of languages offered at the 5Cs. Students will now have the opportunity to learn the language and explore Brazilian literature and culture through Portuguese 22, taught by Scripps professor Rita Alcala in Pomona’s Lincoln building. It is the only Portuguese

Pomona’s Student organization Workers for Justice (WFJ) recently welcomed two first-years, Louie Lemus PO ’15 and Naomi Bosch PO ’15, into their ranks. Dormmates in Mudd, Lemus and Bosch will be two of several 5C freshmen joining the push for the Pomona dining hall worker unionization. Lemus, of Colony High