Born in Paris, France in 1938, Monique Saigal-Escudero is an Emerita Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College. At just three years old, during the peak of Hitler’s reign in Europe, her grandmother threw her on a train headed for a small city in Southwestern France: an act that ultimately saved her life. Her passion for storytelling would soon bring her back to this history, and once again place her grandmother’s courageousness front and center in her life.
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Freshman Files: An ode to the Metrolink train
After being abruptly woken up in the middle of the night by the Metrolink train, columnist Anna R. Naigeborin PO ‘28 reflects on how her feelings about the train have changed ever since she came to Claremont.
Let’s Go Local: Going On Foot(hill) — Navigating Public Transit
Planning a trip to Los Angeles or wondering how you can get around off campus without a car? Michelle Zhang PO ’27 breaks down three public transit options which are free or affordable.
What the honk? Proposed ‘quiet zone’ could give students reprieve from Metrolink horns
Metrolink’s horns are a mainstay on Pomona’s South Campus, but that may someday change: Claremont could soon be eligible for a “quiet zone” from the California Public Utilities Commission so that trains would no longer be required to sound their horns in city limits.