Editorial Board

Christian Torres, a former Pomona College chef who was among the 17 employees fired last year because they could not show valid work authorization papers, has presented a compelling, well-reasoned proposal to get his old job back. The Pomona administration should agree in advance to rehire Torres, provided that he

TSL believes the fire behind Oldenborg revealed problems in the emergency response plan. We appreciate Dean of Student Life Ric Townes’s fast response in coordinating policy changes, and we are happy that the fire posed no real threat to students or to the building. Policy changes should be made quickly

TSL‘s Special Features section this week looks at parties and party culture across the Claremont Colleges. Many students seem to associate parties with music, dance, socializing and fun, as they should. If one were to examine the results of partying over the past week, however, bias-related incidents and destruction of

The United States Supreme Court looks like it might be getting ready to overturn its own 2003 decision Gratz v. Bollinger, which upheld the right of college admissions committees to take race into account while deciding which students to accept. That’s bad news for Claremont community members of all racial backgrounds,

Two weeks ago, The Student Life and the ASPC Committee for Campus Climate and Diversity co-sponsored an event open to the entire Pomona College community where we discussed the role of this newspaper in issues of diversity on campus. Event attendees included TSL employees, members of the ASPC committee, and

On Nov. 7, Pomona College issued letters to 84 students, faculty, and staff members requesting that they schedule a meeting with the Office of Human Resources before Nov. 11 regarding incomplete or deficient employment authorization documents. These employees were told to submit proper documentation on or before Dec. 1 or

At its next meeting, Pomona’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC) will be considering a revision to or complete elimination of the school’s system for administering monetary fines to students who violate policies in the Student Handbook (see story Page 1). If the proposal moves forward, it could lead to the replacement

The debate over fair treatment of Pomona’s food service employees has been going on for over a decade. In 1999, when all dining hall workers at the Claremont Colleges were employed by the massive food service provider ARAMARK, there were allegations of improper labor practices, according to a website maintained

Pomona College’s annual Halloween party, Harwood Halloween, has become an occasion where some students binge drink and get intoxicated to unsafe levels. We saw it last year when students pushed up against the fence outside Pomona’s Information Technology Services (ITS) parking structure after being turned away, creating what amounted to