The passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act on July 3 has many implications for the nation: It strips healthcare and SNAP benefits from millions, thoroughly changes federal financial aid, gives the most significant tax cuts to the top 5 percent and repeals most climate change initiatives, just to name a few. But the cherry on top for Jun Kwon PO ’28 was the response to H.R. 1, Section 70415 from Gabrielle Starr, the president of Pomona College.
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Despite federal uncertainty, Pomona and Pitzer remain top Fulbright producers
Pomona and Pitzer Colleges finished the year as top Fulbright-producing institutions, maintaining their reputation amidst unprecedented uncertainty for the program. 18 Pomona students and 18 Pitzer students were awarded the prestigious fellowship this year.
Pomona’s Asian Studies program to offer new grants to students thanks to anonymous donor
Pomona College’s Asian Studies program received a $200,000 gift from an anonymous donor.
Nochella returns with a day full of music and fun
Pomona College’s annual music festival Nochella provided a stage for 5C student artists in addition to guest artist Dreamer Isioma.
Shark Mutulili named Pomona’s first Rhodes Scholar in 20 years
Shark Mutulili PO ‘25 is Pomona College’s first Rhodes Scholar in over 20 years and the 13th Rhodes Scholar in the college’s history.
OPINION: Pomona should reconsider its approach to its troubled musical legacy
Pomona College quietly retired two of most popular songs — “Hail, Pomona, Hail!” in 2008 and “Torchbearers” in 2015 — due to their roots in Blackface minstrelsy and cultural appropriation. While Pomona’s website acknowledges these histories, Zena Ameida-Warwin PO ’28 critiques the College’s choice to remove the songs without engaging the community in any meaningful public dialogue.
Sanskriti 2025: Everyone loves a love story
Claremont Tamasha — the 5Cs’ Bollywood dance club — showcased a Claremont-centered love story on April 10 in Big Bridges Auditorium. The theme, “A Claremont Love Story,” recounts a romance between a South Indian Pitzer College girl and a Pakistani Claremont McKenna College boy amid dances ranging from hip hop, Bhangra, Pakistani, South Indian, classical and more.
Pluralism, progress, problems: 50 years of interfaith chaplaincy
At the intersection of Scripps College, Pomona College and Claremont McKenna College stands the McAlister Center for Religious Activities (also called the McAlister Center for Spiritual Life), an institution many students pass every day. However, according to former Protestant Chaplain Naima Lett, 75% of the community she encountered during the 2021-2022 school year was unaware of the center’s chaplain services, which provide counseling for all students and faculty of the Claremont colleges regardless of religion. Even less known is the chaplaincy system’s fifty years of complex history, representing both the cutting edge of inclusive college campuses and archaic systems no longer relevant to student needs.
Opinion: The real cost of administrative bloat
The liberal arts education offered by schools like Pomona College promises close relationships with professors, access to research and the ability to explore and find mentors in your faculty. Instead of keeping true to this promise, Eric Lu PO ’28 argues that the current Pomona has fallen to a familiar fate of higher education: administrative bloat.
Pomona responds to false bomb threat before Shen Yun performance
The non-profit dance company Shen Yun came to Pomona College on March 30 and was met with a false bomb threat.