Zara Seldon PO ’29 recalls her experience with Pomona College’s Housing and Residence Life (HRL) office in her forced double as she attempted to remove an extra wardrobe. The new Center for Global Engagement (CGE), replacing Oldenborg, has caused a housing crisis evident through many residents’ experiences, but one that HRL was neither prepared to handle nor receive blame for.
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Pomona students report buying and trading room draw times due to housing crisis
During room draw this past week for fall 2026 housing, students at Pomona College have reported trading and bidding for housing selection times — including thousand-dollar bids and internship offers. This follows the college’s decision to demolish the Oldenborg Center in May and subsequently reduce on-campus housing.
Taking down Oldenborg, a 120-bed language residence hall, is part of the college’s $125 million Center for Global Engagement (CGE) project to replace the dorm, dining facility and language center. CGE is set to open in fall 2028 and, once completed, will house 200 students.
OPINION: Support SB79 to begin addressing California housing, transportation crises
California continues to experience a chronic housing shortage, the root cause of an ever-increasing unhoused population. A glimmer of hope in tackling the issue is presented by the current deliberation over bill SB79, which would require California cities to allow the construction of dense, multi-family housing within short walking distances of major public transit infrastructure. Decades of long-term policy failure has led to an absence of infrastructural evolution needed in order to properly sustain California’s continued population growth. “The only real way to reduce housing inequity in California is to move away from our illusory notion of ‘local control’ over land use,” Nicholas Steinman CMC’28 writes. Steinman argues that constituent advocacy for the passage of SB79 is essential in order to finally address the housing crisis in California.
OPINION: Your guide to the off-year 2025 elections
Disappointed by the 2024 election results and wondering what’s next? Akshay Seetharam HM ’27 breaks down the key off-year races in 2025, from state Supreme Court battles in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — where ideological control is up for grabs — to New York’s mayoral free-for-all. With courts at risk of shifting conservative and governorships on the line, these elections are an early test of the post-Trump landscape.
Upcoming comedy cookout hopes to support first-time home buyers
The stand-up comedy fundraiser Laughs & Grills: A Comedy Cookout, hosted by the nonprofit Living Life Through Love (LLTL), which focuses on providing affordable housing solutions for underserved communities, will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13 at Rose Hills Theater.
Out of rooms, out of answers: Pitzer’s class of 2027 left without housing
On Wednesday, April 24 Pitzer College informed students in the class of 2027 participating in the room selection process that they had “reached capacity” for housing.
New residential themed communities pilot at Pomona College for the upcoming school year
Next fall, Pomona will introduce two new housing options based on community interests for rising sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Pomona contingent faculty members’ housing crisis remains stagnant
Seventeen days after three Pomona College contingent faculty members sent an open letter to faculty about their removal from college-owned residences, the situation — in which a total of nine contingent faculty have received an eviction letter — has yet to be resolved. Still, members of Pomona’s community have continued
Q&A: Jed Leano on his time as Claremont Mayor and his State Assembly race
Claremont’s City Council member and former Mayor Jed Leano is running in the 2024 California State Assembly election for the 41st district. TSL interviewed Leano to ask him about the campaign, his goals and what the 7C community should know about him and his candidacy. This conversation has been edited
Following eight-year legal battle, Claremont School of Theology will move to LA this summer
After 66 years in Claremont and a nearly decade-long legal debate with the Claremont Colleges over a land agreement, the Claremont School of Theology announced plans to move to a new site at Westwood United Methodist Church in Los Angeles this summer.