Author: Nik Tyack

Bernard Field Station (BFS) manager Stephen Dreher was fired by Claremont University Consortium this past Monday, Novn 8. Field station users at the 5Cs were informed of the decision by e-mail on Wednesday. The notice did not indicate the exact reason that Mr. Dreher had been fired, but cited “issues

Pomona College Sustainability Coordinator Bowen Close submitted a draft of the college’s first-ever Sustainability Action Plan to President David Oxtoby yesterday. With Oxtoby’s approval, the plan will be brought before the Board of Trustees in May. Pending their endorsement, it will become official school policy. The plan explicitly lays out

Students in Solidarity with Workers for Justice (SSWJ) held a rally on Pomona College’s Marston Quadrangle on Saturday afternoon. The group is asking the college to sign an agreement that would allow food-service employees to vote on whether or not to form a union. The organizers are proposing a “card-check”

Environmental justice advocate Majora Carter gave a lecture at Pomona College on Jan. 21 as a featured speaker in Pomona’s week-long celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy.Known for founding Sustainable South Bronx, Smart Roofs, LLC and the Majora Carter Group, LLC, Carter has worked to create green jobs,

Last year, 29 students took part in Pomona College’s Sustainability Action Fellowship, a program organized by Pomona Sustainability Coodinator Bowen Close as a way for students to get involved in the creation of the college’s Sustainability Action Plan.The fellowship was organized into six groups of four to six students. Each

A Nov. 12 event entitled “Time to Act: L.A., Democracy and Climate Change” released some of the local and international results of World Wide Views, a global forum on climate change attended by citizens around the world in late September.Thirty-eight countries around the world took part, and approximately 4,000 citizens