Several students at the Claremont Colleges, including a number of students from Claremont McKenna College (CMC), tested positive for COVID-19 in the Claremont area this week. According to the email sent by CMC this evening, “the cases are linked to a few recent Halloween parties held in the Inland Empire area the weekend of October 30th.” In the email, CMC administrators stated that each COVID-positive student would undergo a contact tracing process. People in contact with st

Late Saturday night, at an on-campus Travis Porter concert hosted by the Pomona Events Committee—a part of Pomona College’s student government—two Pomona students were handcuffed by campus security after allegedly punching campus security officers. However, after the incident, the event was shut down by campus security for students trying to enter. The event, which consisted of both student artists and hip-hop trio Travis Porter, was organized by the Associated Students of Po

On Saturday, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) hosted its annual “Pirate Party” event, open to students of the college and guests. A day later, the Vice President of Student Activities for the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC), CMC’s student government, used the group’s official Facebook page to address alleged instances of unacceptable behavior at the party. In his post, the Vice President claims that during the event, “there were (predominantly white) m

Back in October of last year, I wrote an article on social responsibility and how the CMC administration’s policies that were strangling the social scene would only result in a self-fulfilling prophecy of more abusive partying. For a while, it seemed as if things were getting better at CMC. As far as I recall, there were no major cases of unwarranted or excessive intervention during the rest of the fall semester. Maybe it was because the administration had a more laissez fair

By now, CMC students’ WOA leaders, orientation sponsors, and resident assistants have likely shed some light on “6:01,” the infamous event that concludes the first week of classes and begins CMC’s party year. If your fine mentors went into any detail about 6:01’s rich history, you’ve learned that the occasion previously commemorated the completion of CMC’s dry week. CMC’s dry week – during which the school prohibits any and all consumption of alcohol on campus – previously oc