Following the demolition of the Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations over the summer, Pomona College relocated its language and residential programming across campus while construction began on the new Center for Global Engagement (CGE). Students and Language Residents said the move changed the close-knit residential community and informal interactions that developed when language housing, dining and language operated in the same building.
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Graft brings Claremont’s multilingual life to the page
On a campus where students regularly speak and study languages from around the world, Bowen Xu PO ’29 noticed something missing: few places for students to write in them. That gap became Graft, the multilingual review of the Claremont Colleges, a student-run literary journal that publishes creative and scholarly work across languages and cultures.
News and sports round-up: What’s happening at the 7Cs?
Editorial note: The shorts in the news and sports sections are intended to complement articles to come in TSL’s first official issue, to be released on Sept. 25. TSL is currently conducting research and soliciting interviews to develop these stories further, and welcomes any insights that the community can provide
Pomona approves $125 million investment plan for new Center for Global Engagement; students express housing concerns
Pomona College President Gabrielle Starr confirmed in an announcement last month that the college’s Board of Trustees approved a $125 million investment plan for the Center for Global Engagement (CGE), the facility that will replace Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations, a residential complex and dining hall where students learn and practice foreign languages.
College officials said they will adjust for the temporary decrease in housing after Oldenborg is demolished and before the CGE is completed.
Coop Fountain operations at risk following destruction of Oldenborg Center next academic year
Plans to destroy Pomona College’s Oldenborg Center in the 2026-2027 academic school year could threaten operations at the Coop Fountain, according to student representatives familiar with the situation. As part of the college’s Global Pomona initiative, Oldenborg will be replaced with the Center for Global Engagement, a facility meant to encourage both global and local partnerships among students and faculty. But one detail in the building’s plans has alarmed students: unlike Oldenborg, the new center will not have an industrial kitchen.
Claremont Mosaic: Monique Saigal-Escudero: How her grandmother’s courageous act saved her from the Nazis
Born in Paris, France in 1938, Monique Saigal-Escudero is an Emerita Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College. At just three years old, during the peak of Hitler’s reign in Europe, her grandmother threw her on a train headed for a small city in Southwestern France: an act that ultimately saved her life. Her passion for storytelling would soon bring her back to this history, and once again place her grandmother’s courageousness front and center in her life.
Four students forced to relocate from Oldenborg dorm accommodations to make room for isolation housing
The unexpected relocation of students from Pomona College’s Oldenborg dormitories to make space for isolation housing has sparked frustration and concern among students over the school’s handling of on-campus housing. On Tuesday, Sept. 10, four students living in Oldenborg dorm accommodations were notified via email that they would have to
Lost in Translation: Why learn a new language at all?
Columnist Claire Welch SC ‘27, a Chinese and Italian Foreign Languages major, writes about linguistic exile, Italian movies and making connections across language barriers.
Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium: Michelle Strucke on ‘promises, values and contradictions’ in U.S. foreign policy
Michelle Strucke, director of the Humanitarian Agenda and Director of the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discussed U.S. foreign policy and humanitarian work during an Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium on Apr. 4. She highlighted the complexities of policymaking, focusing on humanitarian needs and the contradictions within policies.
Say ‘hei’ to Oldenborg Dining Hall’s new Finnish language table
On Wednesday, March 20, Oldenborg hosted the first session of its new Finnish language table, an effort championed by Xuehuai He PO ‘25 and Rowan Norenberg PO ‘27.