Author: Natalie Orenstein

As an Environmental Analysis major who is “committed to sustainability and social justice,” Samantha Meyer PO ’10 has long been curious about the nutritional value of the college’s cuisine. “I’ve found it really frustrating that students are required to be on the meal plan and yet we are not given

The ASPC is currently gathering student opinion on cigarette sales at the Coop Store. On Feb. 23, the ASPC’s Coop Committee e-mailed a survey to the Pomona College community to help gauge opinion on the matter. “It is one of the issues we’ve been discussing all year,” said ASPC Vice

A committee of Pomona faculty, staff, and students is in the process of researching possibilities for more extensive emergency response efforts on campus.Pomona currently has established emergency response procedures and plans, but is lacking the immediate medical care often necessary in emergencies.The committee, which has met twice, is looking for

Robert Rogers CM ’52, Claremont McKenna College dean of admissions from 1957 to 1990, died on Oct. 20 at age 81.After a stint in the Navy, Rogers became an integral member of the Claremont college community. He attended CMC—Claremont Men’s College at the time—and received an MA in education from

This semester, many seniors are neglecting to visit Pomona’s Career Development Office (CDO) and to utilize its job search resources, a phenomenon Director Carl Martellino said is not unusual at liberal arts colleges during economic crises.Since the beginning of the school year, the number of seniors visiting the CDO has

Pomona College’s Neuroscience program, which has been lobbying for department status since the 1990’s, formally applied to become a department on Oct. 1.“I don’t think the structure of a program was ever intended to support our numbers,” said Biology Professor and Neuroscience Coordinator Rachel Levin. “Programs are second-class citizens, which

The sister of Pomona College’s Dean of Students could make history by joining the ranks of the Obama administration. President Barack Obama nominated Chai Feldblum to a position on the five-person Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency that fields complaints of employment discrimination. The nomination was announced Sep. 14.

Pomona College’s Draper Center for Community Partnerships, previously the Office of Community and Multicultural Programs and the Hart Volunteer Center, rang in the new school year with a gift from alumnus Ranney Draper PO ’60 and his family. The amount of the gift was not disclosed. Draper, who has been