This Wednesday, Pomona College’s Dean of Students, Avis Hinkson, sent an email notifying students of planned changes to the Student Handbook, crucially to those pertinent to speech codes at the college; the new speech codes restrict circumstances under which college administrators can punish students for speech code violations. At a college where free speech is a hotly-contested issue, these proposed changes could potentially be a win for free speech proponents. Under the pro

On Friday, Pomona College announced that it would begin to provide funds for students wanting to change their name or gender on legal documentation; this funding would cover application and document fees. Dean of Students Avis E. Hinkson sent an email to the student body informing them of the recent policy change, noting that the college would start providing “funds to students wishing to receive assistance with paying for typical application and document fees for changing on

This week, we witnessed yet another government shutdown. For Democrats, Republicans, and virtually all in between, the scenes on the floor of the House and the Senate provide the latest evidence of the dangerous incompetence of our elected government. Some have said that this legislative ineptitude is the greatest threat our country faces, trumping even national security concerns. The greatest threat to the freedom of everyday Americans, however, does not come from Congress.

Ever since the release of an American citizen following negotiations between Raul Castro’s government and the Obama administration, the president outlined a handful of steps that he intends to take to better relations between the two countries. This represents a potential thaw in the cold relationship between Cuba and the United States that froze following Fidel Castro’s historic rise to power and the United States’ attempts to overthrow the communist regime. The United State

While many students in Claremont may have been taught to see the North Korean problem through the lenses of international politics or nuclear nonproliferation, Kim sees it primarily as a human rights issue. She also believes that it is important for the international community to view North Koreans not as powerless, oppressed people, but as agents of bottom-up change in their country. Keighley Overbay HMC ’17 expressed similar sentiments when talking about her motivation for