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Prometheus |
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Where can you go to eat your breakfast cereal beneath a priceless work of art?
[Read on]
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Pomona's Name |
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The goddess Pomona appears in a relief sculpture above a
portal in Pomona College’s Smith Campus Center, holding a
basket overflowing with fruit. (In fact, in a humorous
detail, one bronze orange has fallen out of her basket and
is visible on the floor below.) [Read on]
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Ski Beach |
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Only in Southern California would a tradition like Ski-Beach
Day be possible. But then, that's the whole point. [Read on]
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The Borg |
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The Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations -- an international center and
residence better known on campus as "the Borg" -- helps assimilate students into various aspects of international life on campus.
[Read on]
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The Roosevelt Oak |
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More than a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt helped
plant a small tree on the Pomona College campus that came to
be known as the Roosevelt Oak, a tree that would live for
the next 70 years in front of Pearsons Hall on the Pomona
campus. [Read on]
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Walker Wall |
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In the days following September 11, 2001, the best way to
find out what Pomona students were feeling was to keep an
eye on Walker Wall. The evening of day one, it was covered
with a uniform layer of black, as if it were going into
mourning. [Read on]
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Snack |
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Few forces on this planet are as powerful as the hunger
college students feel while studying late at night. So
Pomona’s most prized perk just might be the free food
students get five nights a week ... [Read on]
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The Mystery of 47 |
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In 1964, a student project to determine
whether the number 47 appeared more often in nature than
other random numbers turned into a wholesale 47 hunt that
has continued to this day. [Read on]
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Football Rivalries |
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Pomona's football program goes back more than 100 years,
which is plenty of time to develop some serious rivalries.
The rivalry with Occidental College began in 1895, making it
the oldest on the West Coast. [Read on]
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The Gates |
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When the gates were first built in 1914 on either side of College Avenue, just south of Sixth Street, they marked the northern boundary of the College.
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Mufti |
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Mufti—a name that literally means “out of uniform” or “undressed”—has been a long-standing tradition on the Pomona campus.
[Read on]
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Death by Chocolate |
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Pomona students don’t fudge when it comes to academics, but
once a year they are quite willing to put down their books
for a pre-finals frenzy of chocolate consumption.
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Snow Day |
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Sure, Pomona College soaks in Southern California sunshine
through most of the year. But that doesn’t mean students
can’t play in the snow. [Read on]
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Room Draw |
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The annual quest for the perfect dorm room turns intense
with the arrival of one more e-mail in students’ crowded
inboxes.
[Read on]
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Sagehen Evolution |
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There are varying legends surrounding the origin of the nickname of Pomona’s athletic teams--the
Sagehens--some of them too ludicrous to reprint. [Read
on]
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The Star Trek Connection |
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When Captain Jean-Luc Picard (a.k.a. Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart) beamed down to accept an honorary degree and speak at Pomona's 103rd Commencement on May 14, 1995, it wasn't the College's first close encounter with the modern Star Trek series ("Next Generation," "Deep Space Nine," and "Voyager.")
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