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As CS Dept. Strains, Low-Demand Majors Awash in Professors
A student petition is asking Pomona College—one of the member institutions of the Claremont Colleges—to hire more computer science...
The Claremont Independent
Nov 17, 2017
Student Op-Ed: Outdoor Clubs Are Too White
In an opinion editorial for the Student Life, the administration-funded student newspaper at the Claremont Colleges, a white Pitzer...
The Claremont Independent
Nov 15, 2017


Student Group Blasts College for Admitting Too Few Convicts
An unnamed student group is attacking Pomona College for its “admission policy that allows for discrimination” against former convicts,...
The Claremont Independent
Nov 9, 2017


Scripps Funds Propaganda Whitewashing Human Rights Violations
Scripps College is hosting and funding a three-day speakers’ series with a Venezuelan government official to valorize that country’s...
The Claremont Independent
Oct 24, 2017


CMC Decides Against Quashing Christian Student Group
This evening, the President of the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC)—the college’s student government—released an...
The Claremont Independent
Oct 19, 2017
Student Government May Dissolve Christian Student Group
In a meeting last Monday, Claremont McKenna College’s student senate—the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC)—met...
The Claremont Independent
Oct 17, 2017


Students Asked to Donate to Terror-Affiliated Organization
In its email response to “anti-Muslim” comments by attendees of a lecture at Scripps College last week, the Claremont Colleges’ Muslim...
The Claremont Independent
Oct 16, 2017


“Anti-Muslim” Dissenters Disrupt Scripps Open Lecture
On Tuesday afternoon, during an open lecture at Scripps College, several attendees unaffiliated with the college challenged the lecturer...
The Claremont Independent
Oct 11, 2017


Student Senate Seeks to Erase Columbus Day
On Saturday, Pomona College’s student government—the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC)—and its president Maria Vides...
The Claremont Independent
Oct 10, 2017
No Sanctions for Offensive Memes, College Says
After a two-week investigation, Pomona College’s Incident Response Team has concluded that the offensive memes posted in an anti-PC meme...
The Claremont Independent
Oct 3, 2017


MEMEGATE: Pomona’s Disciplinary Options Limited by California Law
After discovering a student-run meme page that contained “deplorable” and “deeply offensive” pictures and text, Pomona College launched a...
The Claremont Independent
Oct 2, 2017
MEMEGATE: Pomona Declares Anti-PC Meme Group “Bias-Related Incident”
This afternoon, in an email to the Pomona College community, Dean Ric Townes reported that Pomona College is investigating an anti-PC...
The Claremont Independent
Sep 25, 2017
Statement Regarding Dismissal of Ross Steinberg
We are committed to thoughtful, independent journalism, and we stand by the right of Mr. Steinberg to be heard. When Mr. Steinberg...
The Claremont Independent
Sep 25, 2017


Student Wants to Tear Down German Composer Frieze
Last week, in an opinion article for The Student Life (TSL)—the student-government funded newspaper of the Claremont Colleges—a Pomona...
The Claremont Independent
Sep 20, 2017


Pomona Refuses to Punish Students for Illicit Blockade of Conservative Speaker
In an email sent this evening, Pomona College administrators characterized policy violations by Pomona students who blockaded the...
The Claremont Independent
Sep 18, 2017
Claremont College Administrators Respond to Trump DACA Decision
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to end the DACA program, administrators at the Claremont Colleges—a consortium of five...
The Claremont Independent
Sep 6, 2017
Pitzer Dean of Students Concealed Material Evidence in Title IX Investigation
In her former job as a director of judicial affairs at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Pitzer College’s newly hired dean of...
The Claremont Independent
Aug 28, 2017
ASPC Debuts Free Ride Shares For Marginalized Students
The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC), the student government at the college, is funding and launching an airport rideshare...
The Claremont Independent
Aug 6, 2017


Students Seek Apology, Explanations for QRC Director’s Ouster
In an open letter released this evening—the second this week on the matter—a group of students at the Claremont Colleges have demanded...
The Claremont Independent
Jul 18, 2017
CMC Suspends Multiple Students for Policy Violations at April Protest
In a statement this morning, Claremont McKenna College announced sanctions placed on ten CMC students for violating college policy during...
The Claremont Independent
Jul 17, 2017
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