News is out that Pomona is buying CGU: https://www.pomona.edu/administration/president/statements/posts/pomona-enters-exclusive-negotiations-cgu

As a current Claremont colleges parent, this has nothing to do with undergraduate education.

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Anonymous wrote:President Starr handled the Palestine shenanigans well! She arrested/suspended protesters who assaulted admin and caused a nightmare situation on campus and reeled the campus back into shape from excessive antisemitism. She invested a ton into sustained dialogue and Israel/palestine talks and resources on both sides.

She then doubled down that Pomona is a college for people of all backgrounds, across the world, and began the global Pomona campaign. Hate all you want, but she did nothing wrong.

She had a SWAT team arrest students who were sitting peacefully in her office (to protest her decision to destroy some student-created protest signs on campus) then when the students were released from processing at midnight she deactivated their campus access cards so they had no place to sleep.

At every stage she escalated the conflict with students and acted arbitrarily, which is a terrible way for a college president to act.

She removed bad people from campus who ziptie doors and graffiti campus. You're defending assaulters and radicals.

Ooh “radicals” who don’t want children starved to death. Count me in. And are you one of those people who thinks having to hear “palestine will be free” counts as assault now?

And the whole point is she had no idea who zip tied a door— she just randomly kicked people off campus based on whether their phones were in proximity to a protest without any real effort to figure out who was involved or giving people a chance to object or defend themselves.

Dp but since she’s done that there hasn’t been a protest on campus. Protests harm the campus community and keep real discussions and issues like you’re mentioning from being talked about.

If you think some signs posted on campus and some kids sitting in the presidents office do more damage to the campus community than having 2 dozen cops in riot gear swarm the campus and haul kids off to jail and then kicking some other kids out based on sketchy evidence with no hearings with a month to go in the semester (meaning they’ve paid but get no credit) then I don’t know what to say.

At best I guess you can say her heavy handed arbitrary actions discouraged students from exercising their free speech rights. So congrats? You must love the Trump Administration.

I don't encourage students to barge into administrative offices or shut down campus just because they're upset about a genocide across the planet that their school has a tangential connection to. the students are allowed to protest and they're allowed to do whatever sit-ins and workshops they want; and have continued to do so, but borderline riots are not legitimate applications of the first amendment just because it's an opinion you share.

There is a lot of disagreement about what actually went on. My Jewish kid was at protests daily and never saw anything remotely resembling a “borderline riot.”

Given that the political narrative about “out of control Palestine protesters” is being pushed by the same people who blatantly and tirelessly push misinformation and obvious, absurd lies about every other topic (e.g. Russia’s well documented election interference efforts in dozens of countries for decades, the overwhelming scientific and business community consensus — eg among reinsurers — about human-caused climate change, etc.), I’m extremely skeptical of most of what I’ve heard about “borderline riots.”

Also, as a Jew who has lived in Israel and speaks Hebrew and Arabic, I am very concerned about (overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian) political block pushing the “criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism” idea. Those people have, for example, perversely condemned many pro-peace Jewish organizations as “anti-Semitic”, which is the height of gaslighting coming from supporters of an administration that has nominated many openly pro-Nazi people to senior positions — e.g. Ed Martin.

Anonymous wrote:I hate leadership transitions at colleges. My advice having survived one with my older DD is that the first 3 yrs of a new head can be rocky. When faculty starts to leave (attrition) it's time to transfer.

I very much doubt faculty are leaving from a presidency change.

When I was there I barely knew Claremont Graduate School (as it was called) even existed.

I hate leadership transitions at colleges. My advice having survived one with my older DD is that the first 3 yrs of a new head can be rocky. When faculty starts to leave (attrition) it's time to transfer.

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Anonymous wrote:President Starr handled the Palestine shenanigans well! She arrested/suspended protesters who assaulted admin and caused a nightmare situation on campus and reeled the campus back into shape from excessive antisemitism. She invested a ton into sustained dialogue and Israel/palestine talks and resources on both sides.

She then doubled down that Pomona is a college for people of all backgrounds, across the world, and began the global Pomona campaign. Hate all you want, but she did nothing wrong.

She had a SWAT team arrest students who were sitting peacefully in her office (to protest her decision to destroy some student-created protest signs on campus) then when the students were released from processing at midnight she deactivated their campus access cards so they had no place to sleep.

At every stage she escalated the conflict with students and acted arbitrarily, which is a terrible way for a college president to act.

She removed bad people from campus who ziptie doors and graffiti campus. You're defending assaulters and radicals.

Ooh “radicals” who don’t want children starved to death. Count me in. And are you one of those people who thinks having to hear “palestine will be free” counts as assault now?

And the whole point is she had no idea who zip tied a door— she just randomly kicked people off campus based on whether their phones were in proximity to a protest without any real effort to figure out who was involved or giving people a chance to object or defend themselves.

Dp but since she’s done that there hasn’t been a protest on campus. Protests harm the campus community and keep real discussions and issues like you’re mentioning from being talked about.

If you think some signs posted on campus and some kids sitting in the presidents office do more damage to the campus community than having 2 dozen cops in riot gear swarm the campus and haul kids off to jail and then kicking some other kids out based on sketchy evidence with no hearings with a month to go in the semester (meaning they’ve paid but get no credit) then I don’t know what to say.

At best I guess you can say her heavy handed arbitrary actions discouraged students from exercising their free speech rights. So congrats? You must love the Trump Administration.

I don't encourage students to barge into administrative offices or shut down campus just because they're upset about a genocide across the planet that their school has a tangential connection to. the students are allowed to protest and they're allowed to do whatever sit-ins and workshops they want; and have continued to do so, but borderline riots are not legitimate applications of the first amendment just because it's an opinion you share.

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Anonymous wrote:President Starr handled the Palestine shenanigans well! She arrested/suspended protesters who assaulted admin and caused a nightmare situation on campus and reeled the campus back into shape from excessive antisemitism. She invested a ton into sustained dialogue and Israel/palestine talks and resources on both sides.

She then doubled down that Pomona is a college for people of all backgrounds, across the world, and began the global Pomona campaign. Hate all you want, but she did nothing wrong.

She had a SWAT team arrest students who were sitting peacefully in her office (to protest her decision to destroy some student-created protest signs on campus) then when the students were released from processing at midnight she deactivated their campus access cards so they had no place to sleep.

At every stage she escalated the conflict with students and acted arbitrarily, which is a terrible way for a college president to act.

She removed bad people from campus who ziptie doors and graffiti campus. You're defending assaulters and radicals.

Ooh “radicals” who don’t want children starved to death. Count me in. And are you one of those people who thinks having to hear “palestine will be free” counts as assault now?

And the whole point is she had no idea who zip tied a door— she just randomly kicked people off campus based on whether their phones were in proximity to a protest without any real effort to figure out who was involved or giving people a chance to object or defend themselves.

Dp but since she’s done that there hasn’t been a protest on campus. Protests harm the campus community and keep real discussions and issues like you’re mentioning from being talked about.

If you think some signs posted on campus and some kids sitting in the presidents office do more damage to the campus community than having 2 dozen cops in riot gear swarm the campus and haul kids off to jail and then kicking some other kids out based on sketchy evidence with no hearings with a month to go in the semester (meaning they’ve paid but get no credit) then I don’t know what to say.

At best I guess you can say her heavy handed arbitrary actions discouraged students from exercising their free speech rights. So congrats? You must love the Trump Administration.

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Anonymous wrote:President Starr handled the Palestine shenanigans well! She arrested/suspended protesters who assaulted admin and caused a nightmare situation on campus and reeled the campus back into shape from excessive antisemitism. She invested a ton into sustained dialogue and Israel/palestine talks and resources on both sides.

She then doubled down that Pomona is a college for people of all backgrounds, across the world, and began the global Pomona campaign. Hate all you want, but she did nothing wrong.

She had a SWAT team arrest students who were sitting peacefully in her office (to protest her decision to destroy some student-created protest signs on campus) then when the students were released from processing at midnight she deactivated their campus access cards so they had no place to sleep.

At every stage she escalated the conflict with students and acted arbitrarily, which is a terrible way for a college president to act.

She removed bad people from campus who ziptie doors and graffiti campus. You're defending assaulters and radicals.

Ooh “radicals” who don’t want children starved to death. Count me in. And are you one of those people who thinks having to hear “palestine will be free” counts as assault now?

And the whole point is she had no idea who zip tied a door— she just randomly kicked people off campus based on whether their phones were in proximity to a protest without any real effort to figure out who was involved or giving people a chance to object or defend themselves.

Dp but since she’s done that there hasn’t been a protest on campus. Protests harm the campus community and keep real discussions and issues like you’re mentioning from being talked about.

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Anonymous wrote:President Starr handled the Palestine shenanigans well! She arrested/suspended protesters who assaulted admin and caused a nightmare situation on campus and reeled the campus back into shape from excessive antisemitism. She invested a ton into sustained dialogue and Israel/palestine talks and resources on both sides.

She then doubled down that Pomona is a college for people of all backgrounds, across the world, and began the global Pomona campaign. Hate all you want, but she did nothing wrong.

She had a SWAT team arrest students who were sitting peacefully in her office (to protest her decision to destroy some student-created protest signs on campus) then when the students were released from processing at midnight she deactivated their campus access cards so they had no place to sleep.

At every stage she escalated the conflict with students and acted arbitrarily, which is a terrible way for a college president to act.

She removed bad people from campus who ziptie doors and graffiti campus. You're defending assaulters and radicals.

Ooh “radicals” who don’t want children starved to death. Count me in. And are you one of those people who thinks having to hear “palestine will be free” counts as assault now?

And the whole point is she had no idea who zip tied a door— she just randomly kicked people off campus based on whether their phones were in proximity to a protest without any real effort to figure out who was involved or giving people a chance to object or defend themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:President Starr handled the Palestine shenanigans well! She arrested/suspended protesters who assaulted admin and caused a nightmare situation on campus and reeled the campus back into shape from excessive antisemitism. She invested a ton into sustained dialogue and Israel/palestine talks and resources on both sides.

She then doubled down that Pomona is a college for people of all backgrounds, across the world, and began the global Pomona campaign. Hate all you want, but she did nothing wrong.

She had a SWAT team arrest students who were sitting peacefully in her office (to protest her decision to destroy some student-created protest signs on campus) then when the students were released from processing at midnight she deactivated their campus access cards so they had no place to sleep.

At every stage she escalated the conflict with students and acted arbitrarily, which is a terrible way for a college president to act.

She removed bad people from campus who ziptie doors and graffiti campus. You're defending assaulters and radicals.

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Anonymous wrote:President Starr handled the Palestine shenanigans well! She arrested/suspended protesters who assaulted admin and caused a nightmare situation on campus and reeled the campus back into shape from excessive antisemitism. She invested a ton into sustained dialogue and Israel/palestine talks and resources on both sides.

She then doubled down that Pomona is a college for people of all backgrounds, across the world, and began the global Pomona campaign. Hate all you want, but she did nothing wrong.

She had a SWAT team arrest students who were sitting peacefully in her office (to protest her decision to destroy some student-created protest signs on campus) then when the students were released from processing at midnight she deactivated their campus access cards so they had no place to sleep.

At every stage she escalated the conflict with students and acted arbitrarily, which is a terrible way for a college president to act.

Yeah, the insane actions of the Pomona admin actually recruited a huge number of students to the anti-genocide cause.

But, you can’t really expect intelligent commentary from someone who refers to students protesting a regime currently using starvation as a weapon in their ongoing genocide as “shenanigans.”

Anonymous wrote:President Starr handled the Palestine shenanigans well! She arrested/suspended protesters who assaulted admin and caused a nightmare situation on campus and reeled the campus back into shape from excessive antisemitism. She invested a ton into sustained dialogue and Israel/palestine talks and resources on both sides.

She then doubled down that Pomona is a college for people of all backgrounds, across the world, and began the global Pomona campaign. Hate all you want, but she did nothing wrong.

She had a SWAT team arrest students who were sitting peacefully in her office (to protest her decision to destroy some student-created protest signs on campus) then when the students were released from processing at midnight she deactivated their campus access cards so they had no place to sleep.

At every stage she escalated the conflict with students and acted arbitrarily, which is a terrible way for a college president to act.