for Youth Success (PAYS), a three-year pre-college summer program for local low-income and first-generation students of color.
Pomona has two remaining local Greek letter organizations, Sigma Tau and Kappa Delta, both of which are co-educational. Neither have special housing, and Greek life is not considered a major part of the social scene on campus the way it is at many other U.S. colleges.
=== Traditions ===
==== Forty-seven reverence ====
==== Other traditions ====
As part of Pomona's 10-day orientation, incoming students spend four days off campus completing an "Orientation Adventure" or "OA" trip. The OA program began in 1995, and is one of the oldest outdoor orientation programs in the U.S.
Every spring, the college hosts "Ski-Beach Day", in which students visit a ski resort in the morning and then head to the beach after lunch. The tradition dates back to an annual mountain picnic established in 1891.
Since the 1970s, Pomona has used a cinder block flood barrier along the northern edge of its campus, …
