This spring semester, the general Introduction to Statistics (MATH058) course at Pomona College has a new addition to its curriculum—the exploration of social justice issues. Taught by visiting assistant professor Omayra Ortega, a Pomona alumna, the class uses “examples from social justice literature [to] help explain the statistics.” This course is the only general introductory statistics class offered at Pomona. Other introductory classes have a specific applied focus, like

Following the shutdown of conservative speaker Heather Mac Donald by a crowd of students last spring, the Independent has discovered that none of the Claremont Colleges have adjusted their policies in order to protect controversial speakers on campus. After Heather Mac Donald—a conservative scholar who opposes the Black Lives Matter movement—attempted to speak at Claremont McKenna College’s (CMC) Athenaeum last April, an angry mob of student protesters forced her to be hustle

An unnamed student group is attacking Pomona College for its “admission policy that allows for discrimination” against former convicts, claiming that the “facts” surrounding a person’s incarceration “don’t always tell the full story” and “might not account for structures that either privilege or police certain individuals.” In a series of college-approved posters affixed earlier today across the campus of the elite liberal arts college, the group urges students to consider ho