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Scripps Students concerned over new LASPA Center
Scripps College recently received a $5 million donation, a keystone gift from alumnus Eileen Schock Laspa ’67 and Jude Laspa, Harvey Mudd...
The Claremont Independent
May 10, 2013


The Financial Aid Fiscal Cliff
Claremont McKenna College President Pamela Gann sent an email to the CMC student body March 14 announcing the termination of the...
The Claremont Independent
May 7, 2013
What’s in a feminist? Implications of the Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary Celebration
On Tuesday, Jan. 22, the CMC “E-memo Digest” announced a Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary Celebration to be held the following day. The flyer...
The Claremont Independent
May 7, 2013
The Enemies of Voltaire: Campus Speech Codes
Claremont Mckenna College President Pamela Gann sent out an email April 19 regarding the confrontation between a member of the Students...
The Claremont Independent
May 5, 2013


Hail Politically Correct, Hail
As hundreds of Pomona College alumni descend upon the campus for Alumni Weekend May 2-5, there are sure to be graduates looking to relive...
The Claremont Independent
May 5, 2013


Divestment 2.0
In a recent school-wide ballot measure, 78 percent of Pomona College students voted to request that the administration divest portions of...
The Claremont Independent
May 5, 2013
Professor Raviv talks bias, Pitzer, and cockroaches
By Brad Richardson and Colin Spence Up until now, CMC Associate Professor of Economics Yaron Raviv has remained completely silent on his...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 22, 2013
Rumor has it: There’s a Republican at Pitzer
It is usually assumed that Claremont’s Republicans are housed at one of two schools, Claremont McKenna College or Pomona College. It is...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 18, 2013


Dean Spellman on the sexual violence procedures
After initially responding to our request for an interview with a statement entitled “Regarding Title IX,” the Claremont McKenna Office...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 12, 2013


An interview with Professor Norman Valencia
The Claremont Independent is pleased to introduce Professor Norman Valencia to Claremont McKenna College. Professor Valencia joins us...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 11, 2013


Why not just CMCers should care about sexual violence policy
On Mar. 1, we attended the “5C Deans of Student Life Panel on Sexual Assault Policies,” hosted by the Motley and Sexual Assault Awareness...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 11, 2013
CMC hires assistant professor of Portuguese
Claremont McKenna College recently hired its first full-time, tenure-track assistant professor of Portuguese to the Department of Modern...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 9, 2013


Featured Organization: Students for Syria
By: Chris Gaarder and Derek Ko Seventy thousand dead. Untold hundreds of thousands wounded. Millions displaced. These are the numbers...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 8, 2013
Zimbardo at the Athenaeum
“All evil starts with 15 volts.” If there was one point that the audience was supposed to remember from Dr. Phillip Zimbardo’s Athenaeum...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 9, 2013
Sandra Fluke surprises
As someone who not only opposes public funding for birth control, but also believes in axing public funding for a wide range of...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 9, 2013


Computing Differently
In 2009, iPad was iPod spelled incorrectly, we only endured one Hangover, the Motorola Droid was the archaeohipster’s solution to the...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 7, 2013


Beyond Dean-O-Mite: Chodosh on free speech & more
On December 7th, 2012, the Editors-in-Chief of student publications the Forum, the Claremont Port Side, and the Claremont Independent had...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 5, 2013


Lessons from Argentina: Everything will be okay
A strike significant enough to shut down the subway in the nation’s largest city would worry Americans (or should I say the people of the...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 5, 2013


Title IX, sexual violence, and the preponderance standard
On Dec. 10, 2012, President Pamela Gann announced in an email to the student body that Claremont McKenna College had revised its sexual...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 4, 2013


Musings on the mainland
Gun-rights advocates have often insinuated that if the government saw fit to ban firearms, it would see fit to ban knives to curb other...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 1, 2013
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