Check and chat: Claremont Chess Club Tournament creates community

In Pomona College’s Clark I Courtyard on Jan. 26, students played in the Claremont Chess Club Tournament, the club’s first official tournament in four years. Organized by Eleonore Viatte PO ’24 and Kabir Kothari PO ’24, the tournament was a collaboration between the Claremont chess club and Pomona North Campus resident advisors.

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Despite policy change, confusion surrounding student party policies rampant among Pomona students, RAs

Pomona College’s student affairs committee revised the school’s unregistered party policy at the end of the spring semester, to clarify chronic areas of confusion and discord among actual policy, training by the Office of Housing and Residence Life, implementation by resident advisors and student perceptions.

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Scripps College RAs no longer permitted to serve as primary crisis responders

CW: Mention of suicide As part of the Scripps College Residence Life student staff restructuring initiated at the end of last year, resident advisors and community coordinators are not permitted to be on the scene of crises on campus, according to multiple Scripps students. Vice President for Student Affairs and

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