After the Pitzer Student Senate voted 16-1—with many abstentions—in favor of a motion to divest Pitzer College’s endowment from a BlackRock-managed fund, students threatened “unrest” if the president of the college does not meet their demands. Pitzer College president Melvin L. Oliver previously vetoed a student and faculty decision to boycott Pitzer’s study abroad program in Israel. After one student mentioned Pitzer President Melvin Oliver’s previously vetoed student motion

Throughout November, Scripps College has been hosting and funding more speakers heavily praising Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela. This series is the third semester in a row in which Scripps has hosted talks extolling the virtues of Venezuela’s government; this small women-only liberal arts college in Claremont, California also hosted and funded speakers openly in support of the Maduro regime during the spring 2018 semester and last fall. This semester’s talks took place

Last night I had the distinct privilege of attending a debate hosted by the Pomona Student Union at Pomona College between two extraordinary political and economic thinkers. Dr. Dan Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute specializing in fiscal policy and the economic burden of government spending, and Nathan Robinson, editor-in-chief of the Current Affairs socialist magazine and prolific author, engaged in discourse over the nature of capitalism and socialism, what t

Earlier this afternoon, an email was sent out to notify all Pomona College students that the popular ofo bike-sharing scheme will no longer be implemented, effective next week. The reason for this cancellation was attributed to ofo’s business crisis; students have also expressed disapproval of a “capitalistic program” like Ofo. According to Robert Robinson, Associate Vice President of Facilities and Campus Service, “This type of bike-sharing has taken off nationally in recent

My heart was beating and my mouth was dry. Dare I challenge my professor’s assertion that Marxism is a better economic system? As I began to speak, fifteen pairs of eyes turned my way… Coming from a family of firm believers in the free market, I was never certain whether my opinions were my own or those of my parents. Leaving home, I looked forward to going to a college where I could encounter a range of viewpoints. Scripps gave me the perfect opportunity to challenge my most