“While the administration and the board of trustees promote dialogue and free exchange of ideas as the best thing in the world, their actual actions are out of touch and completely unaligned with the needs and opinions expressed by the student body,” writes Alex Benach PO ‘28. “If we are to foster a relationship between student body and administration in which various input is actually welcome, said discourse must be followed by responsive, concrete action.”
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Students ‘channel rage,’ demonstrate outside Starr’s house amidst calls for divestment
On Sunday, Sept. 15, approximately 60 students gathered in front of Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr’s house on N. College Avenue for a demonstration led by Pomona Divest from Apartheid (PDfA). The demonstration, which began at 11:50 p.m., went on for about 20 minutes and included a series of
Pomona faculty holds emergency meeting to discuss resolution condemning arrests
On Monday, April 8, Pomona College held an emergency faculty meeting to discuss a resolution regarding the April 5 student arrests.