On Friday, Oct. 30, officers from the California Department of Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) detained and arrested a Pomona College student on campus. Officers dragged the student from the pavement area outside Clark V Residence Hall onto North College Way between 10:14 and 10:17 p.m., where they were handcuffed. The student later received a citation for battery of a peace officer; multiple eyewitnesses contested the validity of the charge.
Nadia Hsu
Milk & Honey makes a sweet comeback
Milk & Honey reopened on Tuesday, Oct 6. Pomona Dining Services previously shut down the student-run boba shop on Sept. 10, sparking student outcry and renewed debate over Dining Services’ decisionmaking and labor practices.
Pomona Dining Services meal plan changes raise concern over shared governance
The changes were informed by Dining Services’ ongoing consultation with Webb Foodservice Design Group, a consulting group that Pomona hired in January 2026 to implement wider changes within Dining Services across the next two years. In a resolution passed on Sept. 24, the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) condemned Dining Services’ lack of discussion with students amidst recent decisions, and called for Pomona to renew their commitment to shared governance.
Milk & Honey delegates to Pomona admin with Local 11 and dining workers, demands fair labor practices and reopening plan
Milk & Honey student workers and Pomona College dining workers gathered as a delegation on Monday, Sept. 21, to demand fair labor practices for both Milk & Honey and full-time union workers from Pomona administrators.
Claremont Police Department called on senior graduation party, raising questions around college police protocol
The Pomona College class of 2026’s final celebration the night of their graduation ended in confrontations with Campus Safety and, eventually, the Claremont Police Department (CPD). Officers followed the group from Pomona to Harvey Mudd College and ultimately called the CPD on students. What multiple students and HRL student employees described as an excessive and abnormal response prompted TSL to investigate protocols surrounding HRL and Campus Safety’s relationship to the CPD.
News and sports round-up: What’s happening at the 7Cs?
Editorial note: The shorts in the news and sports sections are intended to complement articles to come in TSL’s first official issue, to be released on Sept. 25. TSL is currently conducting research and soliciting interviews to develop these stories further, and welcomes any insights that the community can provide
Documenting collective memory: Archival projects at 5C APIDA spaces
Many of our campuses’ APIDA spaces came into being in the wake of student protest and political contention. Decades later, we risk forgetting these histories. The AARC and CAPAS are carrying out archival projects meant to preserve institutional memory and share the history of 5C APIDA student life and organizing.
Tranquil by design: A history of Scripps architecture and culture
Visitors to Scripps College are often struck by the beauty and peacefulness of the school’s campus and dorms. The college’s founding residence halls were built to feel like houses, and these architectural choices shape dorm culture and social life at Scripps nearly a century later. Today, they can often feel overbearing.
Behind The Claremont Independent: Its origins, funding and wider impact
The Claremont Independent (The CI) is the only 5Cs student publication that receives funding exclusively from outside sources, instead of from the schools. Earlier this year, the newspaper’s coverage of pro-Palestine action on campus was cited by a letter sent by The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and the Workforce to Pomona College demanding student disciplinary records related to alleged “occurrences of antisemitism.” Given The CI’s national spotlight, this article seeks to go behind the publication. It reviews their funding sources, national affiliations, and origins in the 1990s to illustrate the CI’s political significance both on campus and beyond.
Williamson Gallery exhibit illuminates political history of Mexican muralist Alfredo Ramos Martínez
You might be unfamiliar with “The Flower Vendors,” the mural tucked inside Scripps’ Margaret Fowler Garden, and with its artist — acclaimed Mexican muralist Alfredo Ramos Martínez.
Ramos Martínez’s work has long been thought of as decorative and apolitical, but a new exhibition at Scripps’ Ruth Chandler Williamson gallery, “Pintor de Poemas,” is reappraising him as anything but.