CMC Faculty Proposes Racial-Ethnic Understanding GE Requirement For All Students
In an email from Professors Gaston Espinosa and Dan Livesay relayed through Dean Dianna Graves, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) students...
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The Claremont Independent
- Oct 12, 2020
Scripps Student Gov’t Promises To Take Misuse Seriously In Proposed Anonymous Bias Reporting Mechani
Members of the Scripps Associated Students (SAS), the student governing body at Scripps College, have proposed a bias incident reporting...
The Claremont Independent
- Sep 23, 2020
How New Trump Executive Order Targeting CRT May Affect Claremont Colleges
Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that “it shall be the policy of the United States not to promote race...
The Claremont Independent
- Sep 20, 2020
Scripps Professor Involved in Altercation With Protester
On Sept. 19, Scripps College student groups Scripps for Black Lives Matter, Watu Weusi, and the Asian American Student Union released an...
The Claremont Independent
- Jul 31, 2020
Why You Should Support #Defundthepolice Even If You Don’t Think Our System Is Racist
By Margot Rosenblatt I’ve never seen “The Purge,” but it seems like an unpleasant movie. Although it’s fiction, I believe it holds some...
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,...
The Claremont Independent
- Jun 18, 2020
New CMC Initiative Sweeps Changes Across Career Services, Faculty, And Curriculum To Support “
In an email to members of the student body sent earlier today, Hiram Chodosh, the President of Claremont McKenna College (CMC), announced...
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
- Nov 28, 2018
Scripps Funds Pro-Venezuela Talk Series Third Semester in a Row
Throughout November, Scripps College has been hosting and funding more speakers heavily praising Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela....
The Claremont Independent
- Nov 15, 2017
Student Op-Ed: Outdoor Clubs Are Too White
In an opinion editorial for the Student Life, the administration-funded student newspaper at the Claremont Colleges, a white Pitzer...
The Claremont Independent
- Apr 6, 2017
Claremont Students Plan to Protest ‘Anti-Black Fascist’ Heather Mac Donald
Students at the Claremont Colleges plan to protest and “shut down” a speech by prominent political commentator Heather Mac Donald...
The Claremont Independent
- Jan 26, 2017
CMC Funds Racially Exclusive Program to Fight Racism
On January 25, Vince Greer – the Assistant Dean of Students for Diversity and Inclusion at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) – distributed...
The Claremont Independent
- Sep 6, 2016
Pomona College Poster: ‘Everyone is Problematic’
New students at Pomona College were welcomed to campus with posters all over their dorms giving instructions for “How to be a (Better)...
The Claremont Independent
- Aug 11, 2016
Pitzer College VP Defends Racist RAs Despite College President’s Condemnation
After several national media outlets covered Pitzer College student leaders’ defense of racially discriminatory housing practices, both...
The Claremont Independent
- Aug 9, 2016
Students at Claremont Colleges Refuse to Live with White People
A group of students at the Claremont Colleges are in search of a roommate for next year, but insist that the roommate not be white. Karé...
The Claremont Independent
- May 31, 2016
Safe Space Shut Down After Anti-White, Anti-Male Statements Leaked
Recently, the Independent obtained screenshots from the “5C Women of Color” Facebook group. According to its description, the...
The Claremont Independent
- Apr 29, 2016
Editorial: We Tell the Truth When No One Else Will
A recent editorial in The Student Life (TSL) criticized a Claremont Independent article because they thought it opted “for sensationalism...
The Claremont Independent
- Apr 1, 2016
Scripps Dean: Writing #Trump2016 is ‘Harassment,’ ‘Intimidation’
Last week, Scripps College’s Student Body President, Minjoo Kim, sent an email to the Scripps community describing a “racist incident”...
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