After increased incidents of racism on campus, Pomona’s Black Student Union convened with community members on March 25 to host a town hall, aiming to chart a path forward and bring attention to incidents of racism reported across academic and social spaces in recent months. BSU leadership listed out multiple demands, ranging from greater accountability mechanisms to more transparency, arguing that a failure of enforcement on campus is leading to ongoing harm for Black students on campus.
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Where to? Professor Jody Valentine on time and ethical love
Aamanya Sejpal brings you along with a professor to their favorite spot on campus in a new human interest column, Where to? This week’s subject is classics professor Jody Valentine.
Letter to the editor: Conservative Students Face Harassment, The Student Life Makes It Worse
Conservative students at the 5Cs are facing intimidation and threats, and The Student Life has repeatedly chosen to downplay, ignore, or distort that reality. On September 11th, 2025, at a memorial honoring the murdered Charlie Kirk, a student interrupted the service to antagonize the individuals who were mourning. This was
OPINION: We’re not discussing February’s shootings. That has to change.
we cannot heal without discussing what has occurred,” writes Jessy Wallach PO ’29. “For better or worse, we are experienced at grieving these tragedies. Let us not grow experienced in having these incidents fail to register as tragedies at all.”
A taste of home, right here at the 7Cs: Inside the Annual International Festival
On Feb. 13 from 12:30 to 2 p.m., the second floor of Roberts Pavilion hosted “The World Meets at 7Cs,” a festival organized by the International Student Community Programming Council. With booths representing more than 30 countries, the event featured traditional foods, music and cultural displays, giving international students the opportunity to share aspects of their home countries while inviting the broader 5C community to engage with them.
EU Center: Veronika Eberhart discusses censorship and the role of music in the Red Scare
This past Wednesday, Feb. 4, Veronika Eberhart gave a talk on behalf of the European Union Center of California. She focused on the works of Hanns Eisler, a German-Austrian composer, and within the context of the political consequences his compositions had during the Red Scare period. By describing the investigation into Eisler’s Marxist compositions, Eberhart highlighted U.S. censorship.
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“Your Valentine,” Feb. 12, 2026
Books ‘n Love: Loving and Losing in the Time War
Kassia Zabetakis PZ ’28 reviews “This is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone — an epistolary novel chronicling the love between two genetically enhanced cyborg spies fighting a time war. Zabetakis notes the beauty of the prose but laments the incomprehensibility of the plot.
The price of convenience: How ultra-processed foods rewire our brain and shape our metabolic health
A protein bar for breakfast, a lavender-vanilla latte with raspberry cold foam to get through a 9 a.m. class. We call it fuel, but what if our brain interprets it as stress instead of sustenance?
Mechanisms of obesity drugs and their influence on appetite and food intake
As the prevalence of obesity in the United States rises, drugs like Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) are receiving more attention. But is GLP-1 an effective option in the long term?