The Originals Festival on Pomona's Marston Quad. “Originals: The Campaign for Pomona College” is now public. The college’s most ambitious fundraising campaign ever, “Originals” is ripe with goals, well-choreographed promotional videos, and vague statements about the future of Pomona College. At its core, the campaign says less about Pomona and its future and more about how out-of-touch the college’s leaders are with their own institution, something you can see clearly by

Since 2024, Harvey Mudd College has created four joint majors, all related to climate: Chemistry and Climate, Computer Science and Climate, Biology and Climate, and most recently, Mathematics and Climate. Despite making up four of only 15 majors at the college, only eight of Mudd’s 649 declared students are in one of the joint climate majors. If Harvey Mudd wants to be at the forefront of environmental issues, it needs more students majoring in climate, not more climate joint

They are impossible to miss. Hundreds of small white dots have made a mess of Claremont McKenna’s walkways and unnecessarily impeded students’ travelling around campus. Despite assurances that these speed dots will create a safer campus for pedestrians and control the speed of vehicles, in practice they are a headache for campus commuters and a waste of CMC resources.

Last month, during a nightly scroll through social media, I came across an unfamiliar subreddit: r/SuburbanHell. Out of curiosity, I clicked on the banner, only to find hundreds of posts, all berating the very existence of suburbs. Users shared aerial photos of cookie-cutter houses, miles on end, with captions mocking the dullness of suburban life and the difficulties it wrought upon them.

Last week, Black Lives at Mudd (BLAM) emailed a resolution to the Harvey Mudd (HMC) community “demand[ing] that the institution be held responsible for the harm caused to the Black student body of Harvey Mudd College.”