Scott Olivet PO ’84 was chosen as the keynote speaker for this year’s Class Day, scheduled for May 15. Olivet, who is currently the Executive Chairman of RED Digital Camera and Chairman of Oakley, Inc., became the newest member of the Pomona College Board of Trustees last October. “I think
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“This is What Will Save Us” Author Edwidge Danticat on the Haitian Recovery
The Port-au-Prince that Edwidge Danticat returned to last month was not the city of her childhood. The images of the loss were startling: her grammar school a heap of fractured cement, tents huddled among the ruins, and her cousin Maxo lying dead, his neighbors digging through the rubble around him
Pomona Student Lives Through Haiti Quake
On Jan. 12, Addie Salomon PO ’12 was sitting in the living room of her uncle’s orphanage in Carrefour when the ground began to shake.Salomon, her mother, and her younger sister had come to Haiti a few weeks before to visit her uncle and help at the orphanage he founded
Q&A with Gray Davis
After taking part in a Pomona Student Union panel on the state of California’s government Tuesday, Feb. 16, former California Governor Gray Davis sat down with The Student Life for an exclusive interview. Travis Kaya, The Student Life: What did you think of tonight’s debate? Governor Gray Davis: I think
Newt Gingrich: Q&A
After addressing more than 600 students and community members in Scripps’s Garrison Theater on Feb. 3, former Speaker of the House and conservative luminary Newt Gingrich sat down with The Student Life for a brief Q&A.Travis Kaya, The Student Life: Why did you feel it was important to come to
Scott Olivet Named to Pomona Board of Trustees
D. Scott Olivet PO ’84 was named the newest member of the Pomona College Board of Trustees earlier this month. Olivet is currently the Executive Chairman of RED Digital Camera and Chairman of Oakley, Inc., and brings decades of business and marketing experience to the position.“Given the years of service
Frank Albinder Named President of Alumni Association
Frank Albinder PO ’80 has been named President of the Pomona College Alumni Association. The president, selected by the association’s Executive Committee every year, sits on the Board of Trustees and helps plan campus events like Alumni Weekend and Class Day.“I was honored when I was asked to serve,” Albinder
What’s Eating Your Empanadas? It Could Be An Argentine Ant
The Argentine ant ( Linepithema humile ) is by itself unremarkable: it is barely three millimeters in length, a poor vector for disease and incapable of biting or stinging. It is, however, taking over the world.The largest known megacolony of Argentine ants stretches more than 6,000 kilometers—that’s 3,700 miles—along the
“Soloist” Author Speaks at Pomona, Provides Soundtrack for Change
In 2005, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez met Nathaniel Anthony Ayers plucking a two-stringed violin under a Beethoven statue in downtown LA. A Juilliard alumnus whose schizophrenia left him down and out on Skid Row, Ayers provided the basis for a series of widely-read news columns that put a
John Krasinski Gives LA Premiere of “Brief Interviews”
Paying homage to the late David Foster Wallace’s legacy as a writer and teacher, actor-director John Krasinski spoke to a crowd of 200 Pomona College students Tuesday night at the first Los Angeles-area screening of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. A longtime fan of Wallace’s work, Krasinski—who rose to fame