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Palestine Protesters Block Entry to Pomona College Building
Students protest Pomona's financial ties to Israel. On Thursday, November 9th, students from across the Claremont Colleges protested at...
Liam Bayer
Nov 13, 2023


Claremont Faculty Release Statement Supporting BDS
Pro-Palestinian Protesters march through Washington. ( AFSC ) A new Claremont College faculty statement on Gaza has garnered over 175...
Charlie Hatcher
Nov 5, 2023


Divest Claremont Submits Legal Complaint Against Pomona College
Students march through Pomona's campus. ( TSL ) On Monday, October 30, the student group Divest Claremont Colleges, in collaboration with...
Charlie Hatcher
Nov 5, 2023


CMC Raises More Than $1 Billion
The forthcoming Robert Day Sciences Center. (CMC) Claremont McKenna College raised nearly $1.1 billion as a part of an alumni fundraising...
Nathanael Baumann
Oct 29, 2023


CMC Refuses to Condemn Hamas Attacks; 65 Faculty Release Independent Statement
Last week, Claremont McKenna refused to condemn Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israeli civilians. Administrators cited the college’s stated...
Jameson Mitrovich
Oct 29, 2023


Claremont SJP Blames Israel for Hamas Attacks
Walker Wall at Pomona College. (Claremont JVP) In a statement released on October 8, the Claremont Students for Justice in Palestine and...
Jameson Mitrovich
Oct 14, 2023


The End of Political Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University
An empty classroom in Claremont. (CGU) The administration of Claremont Graduate University has ended its graduate program in political...
Jameson Mitrovich
Sep 19, 2023


Claremont McKenna Plummets to 73rd in Free Speech Rankings
Heather Ferguson and Jon Shields run Claremont McKenna's Open Academy initiative. (CMC) On Wednesday, Claremont McKenna College fell from...
Charlie Hatcher
Sep 6, 2023


The Court Must End Race-Based Affirmative Action
A man protests affirmative action policies that disadvantage Asian Americans. ( PBS ) In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court...
Nikhil Agarwal
Jun 13, 2023


CMC Administration Ballooned in Years Since Spellman Resignation
Outside Claremont McKenna's Kravis Center. (ThoughtCo) While college administrations have been expanding for decades, their growth rate...
Austin Andersen
Jun 1, 2023


Bobby's Room: Inside Claremont's Largest Poker Game
Adam Koszut's felt poker table in Crown B317. ( Will Zhou ) If you've ever walked by the third floor of Crown Hall at 4 a.m. on a Friday...
Will Zhou
Apr 25, 2023


False History Drove Call for Removal of American Flag at Pitzer
A sculpture of Columbus beheaded in Boston's North End. (NBC Boston) The call for the removal of an American flag from the Pitzer College...
José Najas
Apr 24, 2023


Israel-Palestine Dominates ASCMC Agenda for Fourth Week
via E-International Relations At the March 26 Claremont McKenna Executive Board meeting, the newly sworn-in board chose a chairperson for...
Margot Rosenblatt
Mar 27, 2023


ASCMC Will Not Adopt IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
Debate between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine students raged on at Associated Students of Claremont McKenna Executive Board meetings in...
Margot Rosenblatt
Mar 21, 2023


Rebuttal: CMC Should Not Renounce the Claremont Institute
Image via Claremont Institute The Claremont Institute, a modest building in an Upland office park, is home to a cluster of influential...
Charlie Hatcher
Mar 21, 2023


NATO Expert Visits Claremont Colleges
Image via Radio ZET Ian Brzezinski, the former Pentagon Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy, spoke at...
Pieter van Wingerden
Mar 7, 2023


When Dictators Speak, We Should Listen
Image via Washington Post Winston Churchill once said, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” In Taiwan,...
Pieter van Wingerden
Mar 6, 2023


Leftists Don't Really Hate America
Leftists don’t hate America. They hate America’s problems. They may conflate these problems with the country, but the two are not the...
Margot Rosenblatt
Mar 6, 2023


Ward Elliott: A Pillar of Claremont McKenna
Image via CMC Professor Ward Elliott passed away in Claremont on December 6. He was 85. He was one of the few professors to serve under...
Richard Cordero
Mar 6, 2023


Israeli Flag Torn in Half at Pomona College
Image taken by Solomon Oshin This fall, Solomon Olshin, a Senior at Pomona, hung three flags from his dorm window: an Israeli Flag, a...
Margot Rosenblatt
Mar 6, 2023
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