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Pomona President Says College Supports Students Amid Coronavirus Evacuation
After various student complaints and petitions in response to Pomona College’s trend of denying petitions for students to stay on campus...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 15, 2020


Coronavirus Pandemic Leaves Hundreds of Claremont Students Facing Homelessness
The Pomona College administration released through school email channels on Thursday (March 12) a decision to shift academic endeavors to...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 14, 2020


Claremont Colleges Cancel Classes for Semester
UPDATE: Claremont McKenna College has decided to move all courses, academic support, and student services online for the remainder of the...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 11, 2020


Pitzer Students Threaten “Unrest” If No BlackRock Divestment
After the Pitzer Student Senate voted 16-1—with many abstentions—in favor of a motion to divest Pitzer College’s endowment from a...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 8, 2020


Pomona Student Body Votes for Shadow Grading
On March 3, the Associated Students of Pomona College (“ASPC”)—the student body government of Pomona College—announced the results of a...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 4, 2020


Pomona Announces Historian, Human Rights Lawyer as Commencement Speakers
Today on Feb. 27, Pomona College announced Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Pomona alumna and human rights lawyer...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 27, 2020


Scripps Invites Vocal Anti-Israel Activist As Keynote Speaker
Scripps College has invited Jasbir Puar, Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, to speak at...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 27, 2020


Pomona, Pitzer Respond to Potential Anti-Semitism Lawsuit
After the David Horowitz Freedom Center (“DHFC”), a conservative foundation, stated in a letter to Pomona College president Dr. Gabrielle...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 12, 2020


David Horowitz Freedom Center Threatens Pomona and Pitzer with Lawsuit Over Support For Anti-Semitis
On Feb. 3, Pitzer College and Pomona College became one of the first targets for enforcement of President Trump’s latest executive order...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 10, 2020


“BlaQ Mixer” Event Desegregated After Media Reports
The Claremont College Consortium’s Queer Resource Center’s (QRC) “BlaQ Mixer,” which previously explicitly excluded non-black students,...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 5, 2020


Scripps Protesters Lash Out Against Sodexo at Presentation
On Feb. 4 at noon, French multinational catering management company Sodexo gave a presentation at Scripps College in a bid to renew its...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 4, 2020


Scripps Students to Protest Against Sodexo Over Private Prisons
A protest will take place at Scripps College on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 12:10pm against the college’s dining hall catering company, Sodexo,...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 3, 2020


College-Funded Queer Resource Center Excludes Non-Black Students From Networking Event
On Feb. 6, the Queer Resource Center (QRC), a student resource operated and funded by the Claremont University Consortium (CUC)—which...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 3, 2020


CMC Installs Four Art Sculptures In Front of Dining Hall
With its effort to embrace more public art, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) recently finalized its fourth public art installation. This...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 2, 2020
Pomona Pays for Angela Davis Lecture, Fails to Properly Inform Students About “Anti-Semitic” Crimina
Pomona College, a member of the Claremont Colleges consortium, has paid for University of California, Santa Cruz Professor Emerita Angela...
The Claremont Independent
Jan 30, 2020


Pomona, CMC Release Admit Rates for Class of 2023
After withholding admissions rate data for students accepted in the Fall 2018-Spring 2019 admissions last spring, Pomona College and...
The Claremont Independent
Jan 28, 2020


Pomona Physics Hosts Mandatory “Decolonizing Physics” Event for Third Year in a Row
On Wednesday, December 11, the Physics and Astronomy Department at Pomona College, an elite liberal arts college in Claremont CA, hosted...
The Claremont Independent
Dec 12, 2019


Pitzer College, David Horowitz Trade Blows Over Posters
On Dec. 2, 2019 at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, flyers of the latest publication of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC)...
The Claremont Independent
Dec 9, 2019


An Uber Ride’s Lesson in Civil Discourse
A few weeks ago, I took an Uber from a student journalism event at the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda to Claremont....
The Claremont Independent
Nov 23, 2019


College-Invited Speaker Ties Jewish Student Journalist to “White Nationalists,” Calls NYT “Pro
During a question & answer session at Pomona College following a film screening of Gaza Fights For Freedom, a pro-Palestinian...
The Claremont Independent
Nov 14, 2019
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