Author: Quinn Lester

Last week, TSL featured two different Opinions articles on education at Pomona College; current student Xiaoyin Qu PO ’15 advocated for Pomona to start taking advantage of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) while alumnus Ryan Wheeler PO ’13 wrote passionately about the value of the humanities and their lasting effects

Should you attend graduate school, and if not, what should you do? Are there any good options at all? First, on the topic of graduate schools, Dean Fred Siegel of Claremont Graduate University (CGU) wrote a fine article last week about the rewards of attending one, such as CGU. I

Over the past few months, as the Associated Students of Pomona College Commissioner of Academic Affairs, I have been in several conversations with faculty and administrators about the liberal arts education at Pomona and, more specifically, what students actually know or don’t know about the liberal arts. At first, I

A threat of sexual assault is written in a public square. Everybody laughs. Your immediate response to the juxtaposition of those two statements is probably “Where’s the joke?” but in a certain sense this same joke occurs all the time. It’s not always messages of sexual assault – it could just as easily

Last week Pomona College announced that its 2012 graduation commencement speaker will be current U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter. Ambassador Munter has led a distinguished career in the U.S. foreign services, serving in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Iraq before his current assignment. I will leave it to members

In the last couple of weeks, between the Super Bowl and the latest Republican primaries, a shocking news story broke. The Susan G. Komen Foundation, a breast cancer research organization, was planning to stop providing funding to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood, the national family planning and reproductive health organization, has

After the tumultuous events of last semester, an eerie calm has settled over the Pomona College campus. Aside from Frank Dining Hall’s closure on the weekends, there is not much evidence to attest to the firing of 17 college employees and the unprecedented protests, debates, and meetings that ensued. Even