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INVOLVEMENT MADE EASY
Activities
opportunities to get involved
outside the classroom are practically limitless. In addition to college sports and
outdoor activities, you can express yourself through theatre productions, music
ensembles, dance groups, art shows or student publications; attend a wide array
of performances, lectures or athletic contests; or join any of the more than 220
clubs and organizations among the Claremont Colleges. It’s important to
remember that any list of students organizations available to Pomona students is
really only a snapshot. New interest groups and organizations are founded and
funded every semester. Some, like the Mortar Board Society and Kappa Delta
fraternity, have been around for decades; others are created in response to
emerging issues; still others vanish and are reborn as student interests reshape the
times. If you see a void, consider it an invitation to start something new—that’s
the Pomona spirit. Even first-year students have found the support they need to
get a club up and running. Evan Stalker and Ian Carr received seed money to
revive Studio 47, a film and production studio, and in their first year sponsored
two film festivals, set up a rental service for students and supplied VJ equipment
for campus parties (see page 52). Julie Tate began researching the possibility of
starting a 5C equestrian team during spring semester of her first year and by the
next fall was attending regional horse shows with 19 active members.
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Public Events: Film
series, speakers, lectures, trips
and parties are organized by
student government and
individual clubs, by residence
halls and sponsor groups. The
College, academic
departments and student
groups invite performing
artists and guest speakers in every field to campus. Many visitors stay several
days, lecturing, conducting workshops or master classes and meeting
informally with students. A sampling of recent speakers on the Pomona
campus includes noted public figures (Microsoft founder and philanthropist
Bill Gates [above], former President Bill Clinton, retired Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor, U.S. Senators John Edwards, Dianne Feinstein and Bob Graham,
activist Angela Davis, former Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki); Nobel
laureates (Desmond Tutu, Bono, Gerald M. Edelman, Robert H. Grubbs, K.
Barry Sharpless, Herbert Simon); noted journalists (Walter Cronkite, Haynes
Johnson, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller ’70, Michael Moore);
literary figures (Edward Jones, Maya Angelou, Carlos Fuentes, bell hooks,
Garrison Keillor); social scientists (political theorist Benjamin Barber, Mexican
scholar Carlos Montemayor and feminist theologian Judith Plaskow); and
performing artists (Ludacris, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Margaret Cho, The
Indigo Girls, Willie Nelson, Itzhak Perlman).
Student Media: Pomona’s weekly The Student Life, the oldest
student newspaper in Southern California, is written, edited and managed
entirely by Pomona students. Other publications at Pomona and the 5C
campuses include: The Claremont Student, a 5C newspaper; Harmony, a
multicultural newspaper; Metate, the Pomona yearbook; Passwords, a literary
magazine; and The Re-View, a feminist newspaper.
Known as “The Space,” KSPC-FM (88.7 and www.kspc.org), has been
broadcasting music, news, sports, talk shows and public affairs programming
for more than 50 years, earning a reputation as one of the area’s best sources
for alternative music. Over 100 students from all five undergraduate colleges
help operate the station as producers, engineers, business managers and in
various on-air positions. Located in the basement of Thatcher Music Building,
the KSPC offices include two sound studios.
Theatre and Dance:
Dance and theatre productions feature
student artists in performances of
classic and contemporary plays, kabuki,
musicals and original works. Majors
and non-majors alike have the
opportunity to perform onstage and
work behind the scenes in every aspect
of theatre—direction, playwriting,
lighting, sound, set construction and costume design. Recent productions
include: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Sondheim’s Into the Woods, Sarah Ruhl’s
Melancholy Play, Ibsen’s The Master Builder, Anouilh’s Waltz of the Toreadors
and Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia.
Visual Arts: The fine art collections of Pomona College are housed in
the Pomona College Museum of Art. Among its holdings—selections of
which are displayed on a rotating basis—are all four of Francisco de Goya’s
etching series and more than 5,000 examples of Pre-Columbian to 20thcentury
Native American art and artifacts. The museum also brings to campus
each year a wide range of exhibits, both historical and contemporary, designed
to complement the College’s curricula. The Pomona Student Art Gallery in
the Smith Campus Center is dedicated to the display of student photography,
painting, ceramics, sculpture, mixed media and electronic works. The Pomona
College Museum of Art also hosts several student exhibitions each year.➣
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