Author: Nicholas Sundback

Last year, Pomona College gave its housekeeping staff a 2 percent pay raise, but this year the college should offer more. The cost of living is increasing, housekeepers remain poorly integrated into the Pomona community, and recent policy changes increase the amount of work housekeepers have to do within their

The Claremont consortium has resource centers that raise awareness of, and create discussion space for, the role of gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality, and some racial identities (though not indigenous ones) in students’ backgrounds and everyday experiences. But what about socioeconomic class? I believe that Pomona College would benefit from

If and when administrators at the Claremont Colleges feel the need to opine on the Arab-Jewish Israeli conflict, they should speak and act carefully to avoid privileging pro-Israeli perspectives and stifling pro-Palestinian ones. Unfortunately, they do not all seem to have pursued this course of action.  In December, Pomona College

Students at Pomona College by default receive a numerical grade from 1-12 in each class. They may take elective courses pass/no credit, but a pass/no credit course does not offer students a different sort of feedback on top of the 1-12 number scale. Our current grading system does not capture

In a 2007 survey by the Health Education Outreach center, 48 percent of Pomona College students reported feeling “hopeless,” 90 percent felt “overwhelmed,” 86 percent felt “exhausted,” 72 percent felt “very lonely,” 70 percent felt “very sad,” 53 percent experienced “overwhelming anxiety,” and 33 percent reported being “so depressed it