Tag: edwards cinema

Campus and community arts events for the week of March 7, 1997.

In addition to the plethora of movie theaters now open throughout the Inland Empire -- there are from two to five in just about every city -- next week die-hard movie fans will be pleased when two new movie theaters open in the glorious Ontario Mills mall, otherwise known to many as the biggest money-making scam of the season.

Campus and community arts events for the week of March 22, 1996.

There was an important event last Tuesday night [Academic Awards Night] celebrating the talents and achievements of our best students, honored by their best teachers. A few faculty phoned it in.

I have been a resident of the city of La Verne for almost five years and I am a recent applicant to the University of La Verne. I am writing in regards to Edwards Cinemas’ selective showing of films. I, too, made the observation that the theater was not showing movies of diverse ethnicity.

A college community is known for fostering diversity and challenging traditional ways of thinking. In a city such as La Verne, with a university within its boundaries, not to mention schools in the neighboring cities of Claremont and Pomona, diversity should be encouraged everywhere, but this is not entirely the case.