Staff members and student coordinators at Pomona’s Draper Center for Community Partnerships, a space that supports community engagement activities for students at Pomona and the 5Cs.
Tag: Students
South African Scholars open this year’s Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium Program
Each year the Globalization, Environment and Society (GES) study abroad program at the University of Cape Town (UCT) brings four Pomona College students to South Africa for a semester of study. Last week, Dr. Shari Daya and Dr. Pippin Anderson, both professors at the University of Cape Town, visited Pomona to give students and faculty a sample of the program’s curriculum.
Thinking Its Presence conference confronts violence inflicted upon BIPOC psyche
From March 30 through April 2, the interdisciplinary conference “Thinking Its Presence: Racial Vertigo, BlackBrown Feelings, and Significantly Problematic Objects” took place at Pomona College. The 40+ events in the conference included BIPOC scholars, activists, artists and authors. Attendees engaged in workshops and panels combining aesthetic, spiritual, performance-based and conversational approaches to explore the violence inflicted upon the psyche and affective states of BIPOC individuals.
Printing exhibition connects local community and 5Cs, mixes traditional and contemporary artforms
RePrinting Claremont opened at the Garner House on Saturday, March 4. The exhibition weaved together Claremont past, present and future through Claremont Heritage’s Special Collections and student artwork to display the shared roots of the Claremont community.
CMC breaks ground on Robert Day Sciences Center, a ‘quantum leap into the future’
As its first step toward doubling its campus, Claremont McKenna College hosted a groundbreaking event for the Robert Day Sciences Center on Sept. 30. Slated to open in the fall 2024, the new building will replace a baseball field at the southwest corner of East 9th Street and Claremont Boulevard.
With Scripps’ accommodations office slow to respond, some students turn to professors
Several Scripps College students report that requests for assistance with academic accessibility accommodations have not been met since the summer, forcing them to advocate for themselves independently.
After a temporary pause, Pitzer’s Student-Talk returns with opt-in policy, community guidelines
Pitzer College’s Listserv Student-Talk is back — along with some modifications from Pitzer Student Senate’s executive board.
OPINION: 5C students should not be subject to regressive ideas of modesty
The censorship of a portrait that the author sent for an Instagram takeover for the Pomona Office of Communications shows that even the 5Cs are not immune to oppressive policing of female students’ attire, writes guest columnist Eshanya Agrawal PO ’25.
OPINION: Students are going hungry. Mutual aid can help
Pitzer Community Fridge, a mutual aid initiative aiming to provide free and accessible food, can help address the issue of food insecurity facing 5C students, write guest columnists Juliane Hyvert SC ’25 and Sydney Watson SC ‘25.
OPINION: Cats aren’t just cute, they’re beneficial for your health
Owning a cat has often underappreciated benefits for your mental health, writes Mishaal Ijaz SC ’24.