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Sophia Frye

Oct 5, 2021

Pomona, Scripps, To Suspend Students For Missing COVID-19 Tests

In an email to students sent today, Pomona College Dean of Students Avis Hinkson announced the details of Pomona’s three step sanctioning process for students who miss their weekly Covid-19 tests. Later on the same day, Scripps College’s Interim Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Adriana di Bartolo-Beckman announced Scripps’ disciplinary policies surrounding testing. Both institutions agreed that students who miss a certain number of tests will be suspend

Scripps Juniors Compelled To Live Off-Campus By Overenrollment, COVID-19 Restrictions

The Claremont Independent

May 26, 2021

Scripps Juniors Compelled To Live Off-Campus By Overenrollment, COVID-19 Restrictions

In the Scripps College Class of 2023 Facebook group, rising Scripps College junior and outgoing Judicial and Academic Review Chair Maddy Levine announced that rising juniors will have the last priority for housing in “room draw” and that “up to 120 juniors will be forced to live off-campus in the Claremont Collegiate Apartments (“CCA”),” following the Fall Planning 2021 announcement Dean Charlotte Johnson shared with the Scripps community on April 26. Scripps College sent the

Rebuttal: We Shouldn’t Embrace All Cancel Culture

Kara Hagler

May 5, 2021

Rebuttal: We Shouldn’t Embrace All Cancel Culture

In recent years, cancel culture has gained notoriety for high-profile “cancellations” of prominent figures for harmful actions. The #MeToo movement saw people like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby rightly exposed and brought down for instances of sexual assault. In these and other cases, cancel culture has effectively held people accountable for evil actions by giving average people the power to bring wrongdoings to light and deter future transgressions. However, the vagueness

The Claremont Independent

Mar 16, 2021

Pomona To Reopen Athletic Facilities

In an email sent to the student body earlier this evening, Miriam Merill, Chair of Physical Education and Director of Pomona-Pitzer Athletics, announced that Pomona College will be reopening several of its athletic facilities to members of the college community. According to the email, “[m]asks must be worn at all times except for when swimming,” and a “Daily Health Check (proof of completion) must be provided upon arrival to [the] facility.” No indoor facilities, including b

Pomona To Resume Summer Campus Programs As County Infections Diminish

The Claremont Independent

Mar 11, 2021

Pomona To Resume Summer Campus Programs As County Infections Diminish

Earlier this evening, Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr sent an email to the student body stating that, as LA county’s regulations transition into the less-restrictive red tier, students may be able to return to campus in the summer of 2021. The news also solidifies Pomona’s plans to reopen in the fall, announced in January of this year. California’s tier system measures risk levels for COVID-19 on a county-by-county basis. Under the tier system, a county in the red

Scripps Students Call for Dean’s Resignation Over Alleged Negligence, Anti-Black Behavior

The Claremont Independent

Jul 21, 2020

Scripps Students Call for Dean’s Resignation Over Alleged Negligence, Anti-Black Behavior

In an open letter to the Board of Trustees at Scripps College, Students For An Accountable Scripps, a student activist organization, called for the firing of Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Charlotte Johnson. The student activists accuse Johnson, who is Black, of anti-Black behavior and negligence of students during the coronavirus pandemic, including the underfeeding of students who stayed on campus during the spring 2020 semester. One of the core comp

Scripps Defends Inviting Venezuelan Propagandists

The Claremont Independent

Apr 16, 2018

Scripps Defends Inviting Venezuelan Propagandists

In a statement obtained by the Independent, Scripps College’s administration defended inviting two Venezuelan diplomats last week to speak about their totalitarian government’s “grassroots initiatives.” This semester will be the second in a row that Scripps has invited Venezuelan officials to whitewash the country’s economic and human rights woes, with pro-Venezuelan regime speakers and a Venezuelan consul-general speaking last semester as well. Despite the Independent point

The Claremont Independent

Apr 13, 2018

Scripps College Pool Party Desegregated

The Claremont Independent does not condone violence acts or threats of violence in response to our articles. Please respect our request. Update: The pool party has now been postponed. Scripps College President Lara Tiedens sent out the following email to students this afternoon: “The pool party has been postponed due to concerns about student safety in the wake of numerous phone calls and emails from the public expressing hostility and threatening physical violence.” After th

Scripps College Hosts Segregated Pool Party

The Claremont Independent

Apr 12, 2018

Scripps College Hosts Segregated Pool Party

The Claremont Independent does not condone violence acts or threats of violence in response to our articles. Please respect our request. Tomorrow night, Scripps College will be hosting a pool party (click here for archived event) at the Sallie Tiernan Field House pool that only non-white people will be allowed to attend. Organized by Scripps’s Latinx group “Cafe con Leche”, the event was announced via Facebook (click here for archived description) under the claim of being the

At Scripps College, Totalitarians Welcome—But Not Conservatives

The Claremont Independent

Apr 9, 2018

At Scripps College, Totalitarians Welcome—But Not Conservatives

Next week, Scripps College will fund a Venezuelan propaganda tour for the second time this school year. It will host two of the country’s consuls-general for a three-day speakers’ series whitewashing the horrific human rights abuses of dictator Nicholas Maduro and extolling the virtues of Venezuela’s socialist government, which most recently has used national food shortages to starve political dissidents and to purchase the support of desperate and dying citizens for authorit

Again, Scripps Funds Propagandists from Venezuelan Govt.

The Claremont Independent

Apr 7, 2018

Again, Scripps Funds Propagandists from Venezuelan Govt.

Scripps College will be inviting two Venezuelan officials next week to to speak on a three-day speaker series praising “grassroots initiatives” of the country’s totalitarian government. The officials, Venezuelan Consul-Generals Antonio Cordero and Jesús Chucho García, will be speaking to students on “African solidarities,” “coups and imperial wars,” and the country’s vision for “a new society rooted in political participation, communal economies and democracy.” Last semester,

The Claremont Independent

Mar 31, 2017

Scripps Students Boycott Dining Hall, Say Caterer is “Neocolonial,” “Racist,” and “Exploitive”

Scripps students boycotted Scripps College’s Malott Dining Hall during lunch on Thursday in order to protest Scripps’ contract with its dining hall provider Sodexo, accusing Sodexo of racism, exploitation of labor, environmental violations, and management of private prisons. Organized by Scripps student campaign Drop Sodexo, the boycott as well as a simultaneous protest outside the dining hall were aimed at ending Scripps’ contract with Sodexo. Drop Sodexo urged students to e

College Presidents Spread False Anti-Trump Narrative to Student Body

The Claremont Independent

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 President Trump’s recent executive order, which halts refugee immigration from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen for 90 days. Trump stated of the executive order, “America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression, but we will do so while protecting our own citizens and b

Editorial: The Importance of Free Expression

The Claremont Independent

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 restrictions on speech. As students and journalists at the Claremont Colleges, we have seen the negative repercussions of this trend firsthand—in our classrooms, jobs, places of worship, and even in our coffee shops. It’s sad what this culture has cost the colleges. We live in a community of bright, engaged students, but fear of radical left wing

The Claremont Independent

Apr 25, 2016

Why I Haven’t Enjoyed Claremont

When I came to Claremont, I hoped to find a loving community and an extended family. Unfortunately, what I found instead is an environment in which professing a commitment to social activism is often more important to my fellow students than actually connecting with the people around them. Many of my progressive classmates concern themselves with berating their peers for their ostensible insensitivity or privilege, rather than with expressing sensitivity to each other. I have

28 Scripps Professors Will Protest Madeleine Albright’s Commencement Speech

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 of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to deliver the commencement speech at Scripps College this May. “As concerned Scripps faculty members, we are outraged at the selection of Madeleine Albright as the 2016 Commencement speaker and will not participate in this year’s graduation ceremony,” the professors write. “Our oppositio

Social Justice Warriors Are the Reason Donald Trump Exists

The Claremont Independent

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” that is Donald Trump’s name. Never to be left out of a big PC trend, the Claremont Colleges have seen plenty of oversensitivity to Trump as well. Students and administrators at both Scripps College and Pitzer College have referred to the phrases “#Trump2016” and “Make America” as “harassment,” “intimidation,” and “racism,” among other things.

The Flaw in “Flawless”: Beyoncé and the Contradictions in Feminism

The Claremont Independent

Apr 3, 2015

The Flaw in “Flawless”: Beyoncé and the Contradictions in Feminism

Since entering Scripps, I have been told that Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Hilary Clinton, Emma Watson, P!nk, Meghan Trainor, and Michelle Obama are feminists. I have also been told at separate times, from inside and outside of Scripps, that each of these women is anti-feminist. In class, I have watched risqué videos of women that are widely acclaimed as breakthroughs for the feminist movement, and I have watched these videos in other settings where they are viewed as over-sexualiz

The Claremont Independent

Apr 2, 2015

Why Malott Matters

Since 2005, a committee composed of several faculty members, alumnae, and students has met every spring to begin work on selecting a conservative speaker to invite to Scripps for the following year. All of this is made possible by the generosity and drive of Elizabeth Hubert Malott (Class of 1953 and Trustee from 1996-2003). Mrs. Hubert Malott cherished her time at Scripps and valued above all else the new ideas, philosophies, and horizons that she was exposed to during her f

Relatives of Conservatives Speaker Series Started at Scripps

The Claremont Independent

Apr 1, 2015

Relatives of Conservatives Speaker Series Started at Scripps

Barbara Pierce Bush, a global health activist, social justice champion, and daughter of President George W. Bush, headlined the 2015 Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program March 24 at Scripps College’s Garrison Theater. The Malott program has sought to bring speakers to campus who hold “a range of opinions about the world – especially opinions with which we may not agree, or think we do not agree.” The last three guest lectureships were given by syndicated conservativ