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The Claremont Independent
Aug 3, 2016
Pitzer College Offers Full Scholarship for Undocumented Students
In 2012, just months after American college student-loan debt ballooned to over one trillion dollars, Pitzer College began offering a...

The Claremont Independent
May 31, 2016
Safe Space Shut Down After Anti-White, Anti-Male Statements Leaked
Recently, the Independent obtained screenshots from the “5C Women of Color” Facebook group. According to its description, the...


The Claremont Independent
May 20, 2016
Student Leaders: Diversity Proposal Remedies “Unsafe Academic Environments”
Under pressure from student leaders, the Pomona College faculty voted last week to include a consideration of a professor’s “attent[ion]...


The Claremont Independent
May 5, 2016
SJWs Create ‘Shady Person of Color’ List to Target Dissenters
During the height of the racial protests at Claremont McKenna College last November, CMCers of Color issued a list of demands including...

The Claremont Independent
Apr 25, 2016
Scripps “Unofficial Survival Guide” Legitimizes “A General Distaste or Hatred of W
Over the summer of 2015, two Scripps College students spent approximately 500 hours creating the “Unofficial Scripps Survival Guide.” The...


The Claremont Independent
Apr 19, 2016
Student Senator: Picture of Gun is a Threat to “Black Mental and Emotional Health”
Early Monday morning, Gregory Ochiagha (PZ ’18), a Student Senator at Pitzer College, sent out an email to the student body criticizing a...


The Claremont Independent
Apr 9, 2016
28 Scripps Professors Will Protest Madeleine Albright’s Commencement Speech
Yesterday’s issue of The Student Life contained an open letter, signed by twenty-eight Scripps faculty members, criticizing the selection...


The Claremont Independent
Apr 3, 2016
#TheChalkening Hits Pitzer College
Yesterday, a student wrote the phrase “Make America” (presumably the beginning of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s slogan, “Make...


The Claremont Independent
Apr 1, 2016
Scripps Dean: Writing #Trump2016 is ‘Harassment,’ ‘Intimidation’
Last week, Scripps College’s Student Body President, Minjoo Kim, sent an email to the Scripps community describing a “racist incident”...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 31, 2016
Scripps Students, Faculty: Protest Madeleine Albright Because She is a ‘White Feminist’
Recently, the Office of the President at Scripps College sent out an email informing the student body that former U.S. Secretary of State...

The Claremont Independent
Mar 11, 2016
Claremont Students: Non-Progressive Students of Color Are ‘Shady’
On Wednesday, a Facebook page called “Pray for the Boys of Claremont” began circulating among 5C students. The group posts “prayer...


The Claremont Independent
Mar 7, 2016
Pitzer Students Vote To Ban Bottled Water
On Sunday evening, the Pitzer College Student Senate voted unanimously to ban bottled water on its campus. In its official statement, the...

The Claremont Independent
Mar 7, 2016
Sexual Assault Accusations Enter the 21st Century
Sexual assault continues to be in the spotlight at the 5Cs, mostly as a result of the continued activism of Pomona College students and...


The Claremont Independent
Feb 29, 2016
President Oxtoby to Step Down
In an email sent this morning to the Pomona College community, David W. Oxtoby – thirteen year President of Pomona College – announced...


The Claremont Independent
Feb 29, 2016
Super Tuesday: Go Big or Go Home
What is Super Tuesday? Since our last feature on the Iowa Caucuses, four states, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada have all...


The Claremont Independent
Feb 11, 2016
Pomona Students: Campus Safety Tips Are ‘Rape Culture’
On Monday evening, the Claremont University Consortium Campus Safety Office sent out a message warning Claremont students about a...


The Claremont Independent
Feb 1, 2016
Iowa Caucuses: What You Need to Know
What are the Iowa Caucuses? In both parties’ nomination processes, the first state to cast its votes is the state of Iowa, which does so...


The Claremont Independent
Jan 26, 2016
W. Kamau Bell: “I’m Married to a White Woman with Two Mixed-Race Kids, So I’m a Bridge-Builder”
Last night, the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College hosted comedian Walter Kamau Bell to give a talk about ending...


The Claremont Independent
Jan 20, 2016
President Oxtoby: “One of Academia’s Highest Values is Free, Open, Informed, and Honest Inquiry”
Earlier today, Pomona College President David Oxtoby sent out an email to the student body, faculty, and staff. The email, cosigned by...


The Claremont Independent
Dec 19, 2015
GWS Department: Racism Intersects with Heteronormativity
On Thursday, the Deans of the Claremont Colleges forwarded a statement signed by over forty faculty members expressing support for campus...
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