Live-in sponsors to return to Pomona next fall

On Sunday, March. 12 before spring break, Pomona College’s sponsor applications for the fall 2023 semester closed. For the first time in two years, sponsors will live in the same dorm as their first-year “sponsees” under the newly reinstated live-in sponsor policy.  Pomona’s Sponsor Program matches a student sponsor, usually

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Beckett Hall sewage leak forces 25 students to relocate

Zubin Jotwani CM ’20 woke up in Beckett Hall at Claremont McKenna College around 8 a.m. Nov. 26. to the sound of professional sanitation cleaners vacuuming the sewage water that had flooded his dorm room. “I put my feet on the ground and there was an [inch] of water,” he

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Residential Vibrancy Initiative revamps social life at Scripps

This year, a new Residential Vibrancy Initiative is redefining party culture at Scripps College, which was previously known as a quiet campus at the 5Cs. The initiative is focused on strengthening community among Scripps students, Assistant Dean and Director of Campus Life Brenda Ice wrote in an email to TSL.

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Oldenborg Center renovation to start as early as 2020

Renovations for Pomona College’s Oldenborg Center, a 5C language hall, dining hall, and academic administrative office is in the works, with demolition of the building starting as early as 2020, according to Anne Dwyer, faculty director of Oldenborg. Reconstruction after that could take up to 18 months. There have been

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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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