Pomona College has moved Sunday’s commencement ceremony 30 miles away to the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, after pro-Palestine protesters set up an encampment this week on the ceremony stage.
As students vacate one pro-Palestine encampment at Pitzer College, another has emerged at the Claremont Colleges consortium, this one taking over the commencement stage and lawn at Pomona College.
Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...
One week ago, after months of intense pro-Palestinian demonstrations, Pomona College hit a breaking point. Students had been camping on the small California campus’s main quad for several days, ...
At least one person was arrested outside the event in Los Angeles, after pro-Palestinian protesters scuffled with police and private security officers. By Jonathan Wolfe Pro-Palestinian demonstrators ...
Pomona College students and students from the other Claremont Colleges rally to ask Pomona College to divest from financial ties to Israel and the war in Gaza on April 11, 2024. (Genaro Molina / Los ...