Three years ago, more than a thousand civilians were murdered on October 7th. Two years ago, protesters stormed Pomona’s Carnegie Hall and spraypainted “intifada” across its walls. One year ago, students from the Claremont Colleges disrupted a memorial for the lives lost in the attacks, shouting “Zionists not welcome here.”

There is a great game at Pomona College. It is not the Sixth St. Rivalry game against CMS, or the now-defunct rivalry game with Occidental College, or even the distant tradition of the Sophomore–Frosh rivalry. Pomona’s Great Game is a seemingly never-ending contest between the College’s various administrative offices. The objective? To make students’ lives harder.

President William C. Dudley is Claremont McKenna College’s sixth president, assuming the position after serving as president of Washington & Lee University for nearly a decade. He was preceded by Hiram Chodosh, who helmed Claremont McKenna for 13 years.

Last month, during a nightly scroll through social media, I came across an unfamiliar subreddit: r/SuburbanHell. Out of curiosity, I clicked on the banner, only to find hundreds of posts, all berating the very existence of suburbs. Users shared aerial photos of cookie-cutter houses, miles on end, with captions mocking the dullness of suburban life and the difficulties it wrought upon them.

Pomona College has parted ways with Dining Services General Manager Jose Martinez after a series of controversial decisions and years of staffing woes. A spokesperson for the college confirmed to the Independent that Martinez “is no longer employed by Pomona College.”

The University of Chicago surpassed Claremont McKenna College in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s 2027 Free Speech Rankings released Wednesday. Claremont McKenna slid to second place after topping the 2026 report, while Pomona ranked 226 out of 261 schools.

A year after Charlie Kirk was murdered in front of thousands of onlookers at a debate event at Utah Valley University, the assassination continues to divide the Claremont Colleges. The anniversary of the murder prompted celebrations on campus and online, which drew national attention on X. Students the Independent interviewed expressed concern that the normalization of political violence chilled free expression on campus.

Pomona College was back in the national spotlight this summer after reporting in the New York Post and Daily Mail surfaced a lawsuit filed against the College by a former employee, Melody DiDonato, in 2025. The suit alleges that Pomona discriminated against her on the basis of her disability and Jewish faith and subjected her to a hostile work environment. An amended complaint was filed in May 2026.

A final nighttime gathering of freshly graduated Pomona College seniors was met with swift response from Pomona staff, Campus Safety, and eventually the Claremont Police Department over graduation weekend, leaving many departing seniors with a bitter feeling as their alma mater got in the way of their last night together.

Claremont McKenna College's fifth president, Hiram Chodosh. (Photo Credit: Jasper Langley-Hawthorne) President Hiram Chodosh is Claremont McKenna College’s fifth president, assuming the position after serving as Dean of the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law. After thirteen years in the role, President Chodosh will be succeeded by former Washington & Lee president William C. Dudley. President Chodosh’s wife, Priya Junnar, will also depart as Director of the Athe

Claremont Colleges students lost access to Canvas, a learning management software used by roughly half of American colleges and universities, for several hours during a nationwide cyberattack targeting the website’s parent company just a few days before finals week.

Pomona College’s student government, the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate, is facing a sudden $12,000 demand from the student software developers behind its ridesharing service. The graduating developers are asking ASPC to buy the software, after originally agreeing to develop and maintain it for $700 a year before passing it on to younger students. The matter has created confusion within ASPC and between the outgoing and incoming Senate leaderships, as con

Sex Week reflects the internal contradictions of the Claremont Colleges’ supposed sex-positive culture. Events like these trivialize sex as a consequence-free means for pleasure rather than aiding students who are actually affected by its physical and mental consequences. If student groups want to remain true to their mission of supporting students and survivors, they should make active efforts to care about students at every point on their sexual journey – including pregnanc

Fizz is a mobile app that lets college students post anonymously to their campus community, verified only by a school email. Fizz sells itself to students as a fun, casual campus-exclusive feed to share jokes, memes, and gossip. However, Fizz quickly becomes a place for targeted bullying, false accusations directed at students and staff, and pile-ons that spread rapidly. Unverified information about campus events can be misleading and even dangerous.

Pitzer College is widely understood to be the most uniformly left-wing of the Claremont consortium. This morning, they announced a commencement speaker who celebrated border guards and shook hands with dictators.

Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will deliver the commencement address at Claremont McKenna College’s graduation ceremony on May 16, alongside his wife, Akshata Murty (CMC ‘02). The announcement came in an email from President Hiram Chodosh Thursday morning.

Pomona College’s Black Student Union (BSU) held a town hall attended by hundreds of students last Wednesday night, alleging that black students had been “subjected to hateful experiences on this campus, experiences that range from microaggressions to explicit hate speech to moments that feel like racial violence” and “persecuted in and out of the classroom for simply existing.”

Pomona College will host primary candidates for the California governorship in a debate on April 28, College President Gabi Starr announced earlier this month.

Cesar Chavez speaking in Los Angeles. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles Times ) School holidays are not neutral. They are signals about what we choose to elevate, and what we set aside. When schools drop Presidents' Day but keep Cesar Chavez Day, that is not just a calendar decision; it’s a value judgement. But more than that, it reflects our changing relationship with history itself. To begin with, neither holiday is required. Although Presidents' Day is a federal holiday, schools

The liberal arts in America have moved away from their traditional mission of providing students a space for inquiry while educating them about the intellectual foundations of their civilization.