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The Claremont Independent
Mar 16, 2020
Pomona To Not Forcibly Evict Students
According to student group “Occupy Pomona,” Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr has verbally agreed with student activists that...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 16, 2020
Pomona “Student-Supporting Functions” To Be Sharply Reduced By Tomorrow
As part of the ongoing effort by Pomona College to reduce student presence on campus to limit the potential spread of the coronavirus,...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 16, 2020
Pomona Says It Cannot Support On-Campus Population
According to a late morning email sent by Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr today (March 16), the college is taking steps in...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 15, 2020
Pomona President Says College Supports Students Amid Coronavirus Evacuation
After various student complaints and petitions in response to Pomona College’s trend of denying petitions for students to stay on campus...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 14, 2020
Coronavirus Pandemic Leaves Hundreds of Claremont Students Facing Homelessness
The Pomona College administration released through school email channels on Thursday (March 12) a decision to shift academic endeavors to...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 14, 2020
We Stand With The #HomelessAtPomona
After being ordered to vacate campus because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pomona College students struggled with the heart-wrenching...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 11, 2020
Claremont Colleges Cancel Classes for Semester
UPDATE: Claremont McKenna College has decided to move all courses, academic support, and student services online for the remainder of the...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 8, 2020
Pitzer Students Threaten “Unrest” If No BlackRock Divestment
After the Pitzer Student Senate voted 16-1—with many abstentions—in favor of a motion to divest Pitzer College’s endowment from a...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 4, 2020
Pomona Student Body Votes for Shadow Grading
On March 3, the Associated Students of Pomona College (“ASPC”)—the student body government of Pomona College—announced the results of a...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 1, 2020
All Segregation Is Wrong, Period.
The Claremont Colleges are a place where events you couldn’t make up take place. For example, the recent “BlaQ Mixer” event at Pomona...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 27, 2020
Pomona Announces Historian, Human Rights Lawyer as Commencement Speakers
Today on Feb. 27, Pomona College announced Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Pomona alumna and human rights lawyer...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 27, 2020
Scripps Invites Vocal Anti-Israel Activist As Keynote Speaker
Scripps College has invited Jasbir Puar, Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, to speak at...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 25, 2020
What’s America’s Mission?
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the conclusion of the Cold War, the United States has found itself trapped in a crisis of...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 21, 2020
Trump is Right About Tariffs Against China…But for the Wrong Reasons
Earlier last month, President Trump signed the recently negotiated phase-one trade deal with China. During a ceremony at the White House,...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 12, 2020
Pomona, Pitzer Respond to Potential Anti-Semitism Lawsuit
After the David Horowitz Freedom Center (“DHFC”), a conservative foundation, stated in a letter to Pomona College president Dr. Gabrielle...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 10, 2020
David Horowitz Freedom Center Threatens Pomona and Pitzer with Lawsuit Over Support For Anti-Semitis
On Feb. 3, Pitzer College and Pomona College became one of the first targets for enforcement of President Trump’s latest executive order...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 5, 2020
“BlaQ Mixer” Event Desegregated After Media Reports
The Claremont College Consortium’s Queer Resource Center’s (QRC) “BlaQ Mixer,” which previously explicitly excluded non-black students,...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 4, 2020
Scripps Protesters Lash Out Against Sodexo at Presentation
On Feb. 4 at noon, French multinational catering management company Sodexo gave a presentation at Scripps College in a bid to renew its...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 4, 2020
In Defense of Embracing—Not Separating—Differences
While rhetoric on college campuses often falls along lines of radical inclusivity, more and more events at the Claremont Colleges appear...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 3, 2020
Scripps Students to Protest Against Sodexo Over Private Prisons
A protest will take place at Scripps College on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 12:10pm against the college’s dining hall catering company, Sodexo,...
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