Joe Biden is far from a solution to America’s issues, and we need to do more to make substantive progress, says Sam Hernandez PO ’24.
Tag: Election
Q&A: Pomona politics professor Susan McWilliams talks 2020 election
TSL sat down with Pomona College politics professor Susan Williams to talk about the 2020 election uncertainty.
OPINION: Save democracy; power the polls
In anticipation of the November election, Michaela Fogarty PZ ‘22 encourages college students to become poll workers to preserve democracy.
ASCMC announces election results; Lin new president
Claremont McKenna College students voted for their new ASCMC executive board Tuesday, electing Johnson Lin as president.
Presidential candidate, former Pomona student Marianne Williamson to visit 5Cs in November
Presidential candidate and former Pomona College student Marianne Williamson will visit Pomona College on Nov. 6 for an event hosted by TSL.
Recount names 5C student as state Democratic delegate
Shayok Chakraborty PO ’19 won a race to be a state Democratic delegate in a recount, after narrowly losing the race in the initial count.
5C students, alumni participate in midterm election beyond voting
During her leave of absence this semester, Kaila Finn SC ’20 wrote campaign publications and did communications work for 22-year-old Will Haskell’s campaign for Connecticut State Senate. Her hard work paid off Nov. 6. Haskell won his election with 53.3 percent of the vote against a Republican incumbent who has held the seat for 10 years. “I was really hooked on staying involved because it felt like a once-in-a-generation opportunity,”
Claremont students enthusiastic about voting, participating in midterm election
This midterm season, people across the country took to the polls to make their voices heard. At the Claremont Colleges, it was no different. Following on-campus voting at Edmunds Ballroom, various politics groups, like the 5C Democrats, Claremont Government Society, and Scripps Politics Association, held election watch parties. Claremont McKenna College also hosted a panel at the Athenaeum featuring students, professors, and politics experts who analyzed midterm election results in
Top political consultants predict Democratic takeover in the House in November
Robert “Bob” M. Shrum, a political science professor at the University of Southern California, and Michael Ellis “Mike” Murphy, both highly regarded political consultants to the Democratic and Republican parties respectively, are no strangers to the tactics used by politicians today. Both discussed their predictions for the upcoming midterm election at the fourth annual Dreier Roundtable luncheon held at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College Oct. 4.
News Bites – Week of Sept. 23
Israel-Palestine Working Group releases final recommendations, addresses free speech The Pitzer College Israel-Palestine Working Group released its final recommendations to the student body Sept. 24 in an email sent to the Pitzer student body from Susan Catone, executive assistant to the vice president for academic affairs. The recommendations come after a year of work by the group, which was composed of students, trustees, staff and faculty. The working group’s recommendations