Look, we don’t really understand why a headline writer decided that a fashion show constituted a threat to the college. It was the time of the Great Depression; things were weird. All we know is that this article is some of the most aggressive, adjective-heavy advertising for a campus event
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On Oct. 17, 1967, TSL printed a student survey under the inconspicuous headline “Pomona Organic Test (POT).” The survey is too long to reprint in its entirety, but we’ve excerpted some of the better questions here, including a memorable assessment of the 1968 presidential field. _x000D_ _x000D_ Pomona Organic Test (POT) _x000D_ _x000D_
How to Ace Your Exams Using Principles of Cognitive Psychology
In my cognitive psychology class, we spent a week learning about empirically supported ways of enhancing test performance and the effectiveness of studying. I found this information to be incredibly pertinent to college students like myself, so I thought I would share it with you. The first suggestion is to try to make your studying environment
Layers of Chaos in Hail, Caesar!
Hail, Caesar! is one of those movies where you get to the end credits, turn to the person you saw the movie with, and simultaneously exclaim, “What?!” Set in 1951, the Cohen Brothers' most recent experiment is a whirlwind combination of religious humor, simultaneous storylines, and throwbacks to Cold War red scare.
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March 1, 2016, may soon be remembered as a momentous day in American politics. It was the day Donald Trump rampaged gleefully through the Republican primaries and Hillary Clinton enjoyed a wave of victories on the Democratic side. But March 1, 1976, was a day of nearly-equal political consequence: Pomona College held its
Worrier vs. Warrior: Performing Under Stress
Have you ever wondered what separates the students who grow clammy moments before a test from the students that look as if they’ve just won the lottery? A 2009 study in Taiwan delved deep into the human genome to discover what causes certain people to come undone under stressful circumstances, while others
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In news from the 1930s, Pomona College used to own a 25-year-old horse named Frank. No, the venerable steed was not the namesake of the college’s south campus dining hall—that would be Richard N. Frank, restaurateur, who passed away last year. But we think Frank (the horse) would make a great mascot
Oscar Predictions
The Oscars are coming! The Oscars are coming! One week from now, all of Hollywood’s finest (minus a few prominent actors, including Will Smith, participating in a boycott due to the overwhelming whiteness of the Awards this year) will walk down the Red Carpet to be asked “Who are you
Bringing LGBTQ+ Into the Limelight
It’s the Oscar’s second consecutive year of selecting twenty all-white Best Acting nominees. Additionally, not a single Best Picture nominee has a non-white lead actor or actress, and there is only one Best Director nominee of color. Redeeming? Not even a little bit. One thing that we can notice, however, is that LGBTQ+ stories are
Facing Stress with a Focused Mind
The saying goes that your college years are supposed to be the best years of your life. While bits and pieces of this may be true, these years are often also the most stressful. What’s college without a filthy room you’re too busy to clean, a seemingly never-ending list of theings to do,