Claremont Independent

Last Updated: 3/16/08 Section: Opinion

Stan Love, HMC ‘87, blasted off into space the other day.  No word yet on when he’ll bring back Harvey Mudd’s administration.

CMC grad Daniel Pawson ’03 makes six figures on Jeopardy. Who says PPE majors can’t strike it rich out of college? 

Pomona’s student government wants YOU… to pay for a multilingual newspaper. The real question is: should we pay for something that would never exist in the real marketplace? No. Nyet. Nein.

We’re in pretty good company. James Yee, who spoke at the Ath on February 5, made his last public appearance on Syria TV in October. Way to go, CMC. Yee heard first hand from prisoners who were held in Camp X-Ray that the Korans those prisoners had brought with them were tossed into buckets that were used as “toilets in that makeshift camp.” Of course that was before Yee got there. “I didn’t see it, because I wasn’t a part of the intelligence operation but I was aware directly from the prisoners when they came to me with their complaints and concerns,” he said. Yee know not of which you speak. No, I didn’t think so either. 

Fair Trade chocolate for Valentine’s Day with an extra-rich helping of guilt . . . apparently, “the politics around chocolate leaves a lot to be desired.” Choose conflict-free chocolate…because you know that chocolate farmers would make billions if only we redistributed their money to trendier causes. 

Pomona’s endowment earned a 17 percent return in 2007. The reason for its success? Diversification into alternative investments like timberlands, gold, and commercial real estate, says Carlene Miller, Pomona’s treasurer. Glad to see someone successfully avoiding the sustainability bandwagon.

Freelance journalist David Brooks to speak at the Ath on “Politics, Culture and the Way We Live.” A modest topic for a modest man.

Pomona’s annual “All Brown Get Down” happened. No alcohol poisonings or wounded psyches reported.

ASCMC faces illegal immigration issues. Will everyone stop helping themselves to our social services? Also, officer elections are coming up quickly. No word yet how new candidates plan to deal with this pressing issue.

Speaking of immigration, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, did a post-mortem on Pomona’s November 12th and 14th immigration debates and in a letter to President Daniel Oxtoby, discouraged the proposed restriction of speech on campus. In his response, Oxtoby affirmed Pomona’s tradition of free speech. Still awaiting the final policy decision of Pomona’s Executive Committee of the Faculty.

Great line up recently for our Sensitivity Social Agenda. We’ve got “Representations of Sex and Intimacy in Asian America: The Hypersexuality of Race,” “Monsters, Messiahs, or Something Else: Mixed Race in Science Fiction Movies,” and “Through the Glass Closet: Homosexual Origins of the Far Right.” No, we aren’t kidding. 

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