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Charlie Hatcher
Jan 26
ASCMC Fined, Loses Tax-Exempt Status Due to Improper Filings
Copyright Craig Stanfill . Image via Flickr. On November 24, the president of the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College, CMC's...

Violet Ramanathan
Jan 24
CMC Faculty Recommend Ending Test-Optional Admissions
Claremont McKenna Admissions Office. On Friday, January 24th, the Claremont McKenna College faculty voted to approve a recommendation to...


Emilio Bankier
Dec 31, 2024
Pomona and CMC Advise International Students to Return to Campus Before Trump Inauguration
Image via Wikimedia Commons. Copyright Sdkb . In the final days of the fall semester, Pomona College and Claremont McKenna College sent...

Baxter Brew
Nov 16, 2024
Mental Illness is Losing its Meaning
Image credit: Baxter Brew Thankfully, mental health has largely escaped the antiquated corner into which our parents’ generation pushed...


Greta Long
Nov 10, 2024
The Athenaeum is a Serious Project – We Should Dress Like It
Image via Calisphere. Copyright Honnold Mudd Library . As a freshman eagerly anticipating my arrival at CMC, I couldn’t wait for my...


Lenny Fukshansky
Nov 6, 2024
Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Through the Lens of the Soviet Experience
Student protesters on October 7th. Lenny Fukshansky is a professor of mathematics at Claremont McKenna. A version of this article was...

Charlie Hatcher
Nov 3, 2024
91% of 2024 CMC-Affiliated Political Donations Go to Democrats
CMC-affiliated donations over time. According to the nonprofit OpenSecrets, over 91% of the $22,782 in political donations made by...


The Claremont Independent
Nov 3, 2024
California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Colleges and Universities
Image via Flickr. Copyright Gavin Newsom . On September 30th, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1780 into law,...


Violet Ramanathan
Oct 31, 2024
ASCMC Cancels Snowglobe Citing Budget and Scheduling Concerns
Image via Flickr. Copyright cmcforum . On Tuesday, October 29th, the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC) Vice...

Greta Long
Oct 26, 2024
Starr Bypasses Judicial Council to Issue Full Suspensions to Oct. 7th Protesters
Protesters block the back door of Carnegie Hall. On Wednesday, October 23, Pomona President Gabi Starr issued a statement regarding the...


Kendall White and Charlie Hatcher
Oct 7, 2024
Protesters Occupy, Vandalize Pomona's Carnegie Hall on One-Year Anniversary of Oct. 7 Attacks
Protesters on Sixth Street. On Monday, October 7, hundreds of students across the Claremont Colleges participated in a walkout to demand...


Emilio Bankier
Oct 5, 2024
Protests Injure Four Staff Members at Harvey Mudd Career Fair
Image credit: Harvey Mudd College On Wednesday, September 25, protests at Harvey Mudd College’s fall career fair turned “unpeaceful”...


Will Chance
Sep 23, 2024
President Biden’s Student Loan Debacle
Image via Flickr. Copyright The Review University of Delaware. The average CMC graduate owes the federal government $13,962 in student...


Violet Ramanathan
Sep 9, 2024
Dean of Students Office Initiates Shift in Alcohol Policy at ASCMC Events
On Sunday, September 8th, the Executive Board of Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC) announced a new policy...

Jacob Smagula
Sep 5, 2024
Claremont McKenna Rises to 6th Place in Free Speech Rankings
Claremont McKenna College. On Wednesday, Claremont McKenna College leapt from 73rd to sixth place in the Foundation for Individual Rights...

Jameson Mitrovich
Feb 17, 2024
Pitzer Student Senate Votes to Suspend Study Abroad in Israel
Pitzer College's entrance. (Campus Grotto) On Sunday, February 11th, the Pitzer College Student Senate voted to suspend Pitzer’s study...


Charlie Hatcher
Feb 4, 2024
Pro-Palestine Activists Call to Halt Pitzer's Study Abroad in Israel
Pro-Palestine activsts at Scripps College in October. (Claremont Independent) On Friday, February 2nd, approximately 200 students from...


Jameson Mitrovich
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...


Austin Andersen
Jun 1, 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...


Trevor Klein
Jun 1, 2023
Chodosh to Take Sabbatical, Basso to Serve as Acting President of CMC
President Chodosh addresses the Athenaeum crowd. (CMC) On Thursday morning, the Claremont McKenna Board of Trustees announced that...
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