Editorial Board

The sponsor program is the central component of the first-year experience at Pomona. It is intended to create an immediate, supportive group that can ease the transition to college life. Many students will say that the program has done just this, but others have taken issue with the system. Does

Among the multitude of budget cuts this year, a rather large sum of money is being removed from the Pomona College work-study employment program. Approximately fifteen years ago, Pomona decided that it wanted to afford all students the opportunity to work regardless of status on financial aid. Today, 70 percent

In the past several semesters, editors of The Student Life have made a concerted effort to expand our publication’s 5-C reach and staff beyond the historical norm as a Pomona-centric publication. The idea is to use our considerable resources to create a publication with appeal to readers from all of

The Student Life’s Mar. 27 news article about awards for 5-C students misidentified the recipient of the Watson Fellowship. His name is Brandon Horn, not Richard Horn. The article also did not mention that the four Pitzer students mentioned in the article were already recipients of the Fulbright Scholarship, not

We know that students do not have final control over 5-C budgets, and the drastic cuts that will be made in next year’s budget are likely to ruffle students’ feathers, no matter how much input is collected from students. Still, it is reassuring that the college’s administration and student government

The Student Life’s front-page article on Mar. 27 about Pomona College’s accreditation process did not attribute all of the staff involved in reporting for the article. Janet Ma contributed reporting. A photograph, which accompanied a page-three article on Mar. 27 about fellowships and scholarships, did not include a credit. Robert

The board of trustees wrote, in a statement about admissions, that “the future of the nation and humankind depends upon the quality of the education received by young people. Institutions such as Pomona College should prepare their graduates to lead lives of creative leadership and exemplary service.” Lest we devolve