In a meeting last Monday, Claremont McKenna College’s student senate—the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC)—met with representatives from 5C InterVarsity (5CIV), the Claremont College’s local chapter of a national evangelical Christian fellowship organization—InterVarsity (IVCF)—and proposed dissolving 5CIV’s club charter. 5CIV is a student run-Christian fellowship organization that organizes and hosts small-group Bible studies during the week for studen

My senior year of high school, I established a safe space. Of course, at that point in my life, I had never heard the phrase “safe space,” so I called it the Gay-Straight Alliance. At its best, the GSA was a family for kids who did not otherwise have a supportive community. And in my tiny rural high school, there were a lot of queer kids who needed family. Still, the GSA struggled to be everything those students needed. It’s hard to build a community that consistently cares f

This guest opinion piece was written by Nick Monco, who graduated from Claremont McKenna College (CMC) in 2006. In addition to being a CMC alumnus and former writer for the CI, I am a Catholic priest, so I suppose it is fitting to begin this reply to Jordan Bosiljevac with a confession: when I first read snippets of her article, “Why Yes Can Mean No,” it occurred to me that CMC was filling its students’ heads with rubbish that I never encountered during my tenure as a student