‘No commencement until divestment:’ Pomona Divest from Apartheid organizes second encampment to express solidarity with Gaza

On Monday, Pomona Divest from Apartheid established an encampment on Pomona’s Marston Quad to express solidarity with Gaza.

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Sagehens women’s water polo three-peats as national champions to cap off weekend of P-P dominance over CMS

Finals season started early for athletes at the Claremont Colleges as the Sagehens and Athenas looked to make the grade in a trio of championship showdowns on Sixth Street. Ultimately, it was straight A’s for the Hens on the semester, sending the Athenas home with no credit and no titles.

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Pomona faculty vote to divest from corporations ‘complicit in war crimes committed by the Israeli government’

On Thursday, May 2, Pomona College faculty voted to “divest from corporations complicit with war crimes and other human rights violations committed by the Israeli government in Israel/Palestine.”

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Pomona College hosts town hall to discuss calls for divestment; Starr announces plans to lift three of seven suspensions for arrested students

On Thursday, April 18, Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr and Chair of the Board of Trustees Sam Glick hosted a town hall discussion in response to students’ calls for the administration to disclose their investments and to divest from “the apartheid system within the state of Israel.”

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Pitzer College Council votes to permanently close University of Haifa study abroad program; Pitzer President Strom Thacker announces intention to veto

The Pitzer College Council voted to suspend Pitzer’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa, a motion that Thacker announced he would veto.

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