Claremont McKenna College Hires New Assistant Dean Of Students For Academic Success
In an email to Claremont McKenna College (CMC) students this afternoon, Senior Associate Dean of Students Susan Layden announced that CMC...
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Oct 5, 2020
Occupy Pomona Continues Fight Against Furloughs
Last Friday, in response to the widespread furloughs of Pomona College staff caused by a $37 million budget shortfall resulting from the...
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Jun 29, 2020
Students Demand Extrajudicial Bias Reporting, Statements In Support Of #BLM, In New Petition
In a recent petition released by the 7Cs (Claremont Colleges) For Black Lives Matter Coalition, student activists made a series of...
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Mar 14, 2019
Students, SJP Protest Pitzer President Decision to Keep Israel Study Abroad
Shortly after the Pitzer College student-faculty vote to suspend the College’s study abroad program with Israel’s University of Haifa,...
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Jan 31, 2017
College Presidents Spread False Anti-Trump Narrative to Student Body
Earlier this week, presidents of the five Claremont Colleges joined over thirty peer institutions of higher education in denouncing...
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Sep 5, 2016
Editorial: The Importance of Free Expression
Free speech on campus has become a growing issue in the US and internationally as traditionally freer countries place more and more...
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Apr 5, 2016
Social Justice Warriors Are the Reason Donald Trump Exists
Over the past couple weeks, students at colleges across the country have retreated into their safe spaces to protest the “hate speech”...
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May 13, 2015
Just The Facts: Pitzer College Tuition
With the current tuition increase rate at 5% per year, babies born this year (class of 2037) can expect to pay $156,671 per year—$626,685...
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May 13, 2015
Invest in Oil, Help the Environment
The fossil fuel divestment movement, like many other campus causes, mistakes posturing for effective action, giving its proponents a...
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Oct 27, 2014
Who’s the Fairest of Them All?
CMC Professor Emeritus Ward Elliott. Image Courtesy Ward Elliott. With midterm elections just around the corner and a heated battle...
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Sep 7, 2013
Best Places to Study at the 5Cs
Certain people can study in their dorm rooms and lounges with ease; I’m not one of them. If you’re the sort of person who can grind...
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Sep 4, 2013
Class Reviews: Seven Classes to Take Before Graduating
Trying to figure out which classes to take upon first entering college can be a daunting task. Fulfilling GE requirements (for those of...
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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...
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Apr 22, 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...
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Apr 18, 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...
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