In response to rapid developments in satellite technology and space exploration, Nick Reisinger PZ ’28 is working to create a new 5C student organization, NewSpace@Claremont, designed to educate students on the tech and commercial space industries. Reisinger explained that the aerospace sector will only continue to grow and impact the economy and daily life. Thus, he said, it is essential for students at the 5Cs to know about the field.
Tag: Lina McRoberts
OPINION: Where have all the political organizers gone?
Lina McRoberts PO ’27 examines the afterlife and political inheritance of campus organizing in an attempt to tackle this question. Student organizing isn’t gone, she argues, but has only assumed an altered form.
Gazan poet Yahya Ashour reads and discusses poetry in the face of exile, displacement and violence
On Wednesday, March 11, students and faculty filtered into the Ena Thompson Room at Pomona College’s Crookshank Hall to listen to Palestinian poet and Pitzer visiting professor Yahya Ashour read a selection of his poems. Alongside stand-alone poems, he shared several from his e-book and manuscript, “A Gaza of Siege & Genocide.”
5C Critical Mass’s surveillance teach-in raises concerns about Claremont Police Department camera use
More than 70 people gathered in The Motley Coffeehouse on Feb. 27 to attend 5C Critical Mass’s Teach-In “Watching the Watchers,” which discussed the use of Claremont’s License Plate Reading Cameras in the wake of increased surveillance and immigration crackdowns.
5C Critical Mass, a leftist organization focusing on the intersection of science and social justice on campus, hosted the event to inform students on the impact of local surveillance efforts.
OPINION: Pomona’s Café 47 is Ready to Brew Something Better than Starbucks & Nestlé
“Since January of 2025, union baristas have filed more than 125 unfair labor practice charges, documenting retaliatory firings, bad-faith bargaining, and a pattern of intimidation,” wrote Lina McRoberts PO ‘27 on behalf of the Claremont Student Worker Alliance. “We refuse to subsidize a corporation built on union suppression, retaliatory discipline and a transnational labor regime that exploits workers from Buffalo to Chiapas to Yunnan… Until Pomona turns its course, we are calling on students to withhold purchases from Café 47 and redirect patronage elsewhere.”