Amid the recent decision by Pitzer College’s faculty to vote in favor of suspending the college’s only study abroad program in Israel with the University of Haifa, the Pitzer College Council—a faculty and student...
Throughout November, Scripps College has been hosting and funding more speakers heavily praising Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela. This series is the third semester in a row in which Scripps has hosted talks extolling...
Earlier this month on Nov. 8, the Pitzer College faculty voted on and passed two motions concerning the college’s relationship with Israel, including one to suspend its study abroad program with the University of...
In a University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Title IX case handled by current Pitzer College Dean of Students Sandra Vasquez, 629 days into his illegal suspension, the former UCSB student charged with relationship...
Last Tuesday, a Facebook event invited students of the Claremont Colleges, a college consortium in southern California, to a Friday dinner hosted by the Asian American Resource Center (AARC) of Pomona College, the flagship...
Producer William Mundell stated that the documentary Better Angels could “shatter myths Americans and Chinese have about each other.” Especially relevant with issues such as trade, jobs, and intellectual property theft taking the forefront...
Last week, the Claremont Independent had the distinct opportunity of interviewing Claremont McKenna College (CMC) alumnus and former Congressman David Dreier at the screening of Better Angels—a documentary examining how rivals United States and...
As a prospective student I remember doing extensive research on the incredible opportunities my future college could offer. When I visited Claremont McKenna College (CMC)—the college I eventually attended—its Soll Center for Student Opportunity...
The Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC)—a religious organization renowned for hate speech—issued a press release Tuesday stating that they will picket at Pomona College in Claremont next Monday morning, according to their picket schedule....
The Claremont Independent had the opportunity to interview Sean Flynn, a candidate for the California 31st Congressional District. Sean Flynn is a Republican and Scripps College professor running against the Democrat Pete Aguilar. The...
This year, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) Advocates for Survivors of Sexual Assault—is partnering with O.school to reinvite adult film actress Mia Li (a.k.a Mia Little) to its annual Sex Week, hosted from October 29...
Last Monday, an email was sent out to Pomona College students living in Walker Hall—one of the dormitories for upperclassmen—from Pomona’s Residence Life Coordinator, Andrew Castro, complaining of a urine problem in the residence...
Last Friday, Pomona College’s Information Technology Services (ITS) Director of Client Services Julianne Journitz sent out an email warning student workers employed by ITS to adhere to federal drug policy amid observations that some...
According to an email obtained by the Independent, Claremont McKenna College (CMC)—ranked number one for free speech among California colleges—is in the process of rolling out the Open Academy initiative. This initiative seeks to...
Two weeks ago, Dean of Students Avis Hinkson at Pomona College, and Sue McCarthy, the college’s Title IX coordinator, sent an email to the student body ordering that groups engaging in “blacklisting”—excluding students from...
Last night I had the distinct privilege of attending a debate hosted by the Pomona Student Union at Pomona College between two extraordinary political and economic thinkers. Dr. Dan Mitchell, a senior fellow at...
This afternoon, Pomona College’s student body government—Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC)—sent out an email to all students condemning the controversial decision by the United States Senate to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh and affirming...
Earlier this afternoon, an email was sent out to notify all Pomona College students that the popular ofo bike-sharing scheme will no longer be implemented, effective next week. The reason for this cancellation was...
The Motley Coffeehouse, a student-run café at Scripps College—a member of the college consortium— closed its sitting room during business hours to accommodate protesters against the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh amid previous allegations...
Student organizers at Scripps College have planned a protest against the United States Senate’s Saturday decision to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The protest, which will take place Tuesday noon at Scripps College, aims to...
This afternoon, an email was sent out to all Pomona College students from the Dean of Students Office condemning clubs at the Claremont Colleges (5C’s)—an undergraduate college consortium consisting of Pomona, Harvey Mudd College,...
Pitzer College, ranked as the seventh most liberal college in the country and the most liberal of the Claremont Colleges, claims in its mission statement that it “celebrates cultural diversity and intercultural understanding,” stating...
A scheduled voter registration event at Pomona College co-hosted by the college’s Residence Hall Staff (RHS) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) was cancelled hours before the Thursday evening event began. The Deputy...
As an international student, my time is divided between two very contrasting settings. One is Claremont—home of the Claremont Colleges—an affluent college town tucked within the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and the other is...
It is the start of a new school year and the start of another year of journalism, events, and more from The Claremont Independent.The past couple years have been eventful here at the Claremont...
On Friday evening, Pomona College alumnus, commencement speaker, and sitting United States Senator from Hawaii Brian Schatz tweeted in support of the New York Times’s controversial new hire to its editorial board. The Senator...
On this day, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, invariably there arises a debate over the concept of American exceptionalism. About thirty percent of Americans believe that the United States stands alone as the...
The national anthem, a familiar sight at Pomona College’s commencements in years past, was conspicuously absent at its commencement ceremony on May 13. While Pomona College has played the national anthem at its commencement...
This morning, Pomona College President Gabrielle Starr sent an email to the student body announcing the results of a Gallup survey on student and faculty perceptions of speech and campus climate conducted by a...
The Claremont Independent had the opportunity to interview retired Judge Steven Bailey, a candidate for California Attorney General. Judge Bailey is a part of the Golden State Coalition which is a slate of constitutional conservatives running...
This afternoon, Pomona College erased one anonymous message recently painted on Walker Wall—a wall dedicated to free speech—for being “an offensive message directed at an individual.” This message, since painted over by the college,...
In an incident of public shaming, an anonymous student working on a theatre production for Pomona College’s Theatre and Dance Department posted several posters on buildings throughout the campus accusing a faculty member—Pomona College...
In a statement obtained by the Independent, Scripps College’s administration defended inviting two Venezuelan diplomats last week to speak about their totalitarian government’s “grassroots initiatives.” This semester will be the second in a row...
The Claremont Independent does not condone violence acts or threats of violence in response to our articles. Please respect our request. Update: The pool party has now been postponed. Scripps College President Lara Tiedens sent out the...
The Claremont Independent does not condone violence acts or threats of violence in response to our articles. Please respect our request. Tomorrow night, Scripps College will be hosting a pool party (click here for archived event) at the Sallie...
Over the summer, I read Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in their Own Land as part of Pomona College’s required reading for incoming students. The book dove into the thoughts, minds, and history of the...
Next week, Scripps College will fund a Venezuelan propaganda tour for the second time this school year. It will host two of the country’s consuls-general for a three-day speakers’ series whitewashing the horrific human...
Scripps College will be inviting two Venezuelan officials next week to to speak on a three-day speaker series praising “grassroots initiatives” of the country’s totalitarian government. The officials, Venezuelan Consul-Generals Antonio Cordero and Jesús...
I’m starting to suspect that the progressives might be right that misogyny and sexism are still rampant problems in American society. I’m just not sure some of them know what those words actually mean....
Last week, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) gave Claremont McKenna College (CMC) a “green light” rating for free speech on campus, the highest level a college can achieve. CMC is the...
For one afternoon, Pitzer College closed the Gold Student Center (GSC) gym to all males to create a safe space for women and gender non-binary students. The Friday event, sponsored by Pitzer College Residence...
This semester, Scripps College’s Humanities Institute’s semesterly speaker series, titled “Exclusive Nationalisms: Global Migration and Immigration,” invites various speakers to purportedly answer the question of “How does global migration and immigration feed into exclusive...
On March 2nd, Pomona College’s Art Museum, in collaboration with “artist activist” Alexandra Bell, mounted three large works of art throughout campus, denouncing language “perpetuat[ing] racist narratives” used by the New York Times. The...
I am a natural proponent of liberal arts colleges. I was always that kid who got her books confiscated for reading under her desk or asked too many annoying and strange questions. I have...
Last fall semester, students in Pomona College’s Foundations of Modern Physics (PHYS101 PO) class were required to complete a “Decolonizing Physics” project as a part of their physics coursework. Taught by Professor Janice Hudgings,...
The Claremont Independent was able to sit down with Claremont McKenna College’s (CMC) Dean of Faculty, Peter Uvin, and discuss his involvement with the Heterodox Academy—a non-partisan organization of professors and graduate students dedicated...
In January, the Senate Democrats blocked a bill that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is at risk. I would...
Pomona College’s Politics Department has postponed a Friday event with California Democratic assemblywoman and alumna Cristina Garcia, after news broke that Garcia is under investigation for sexually assaulting a legislative aide.
This week, we witnessed yet another government shutdown. For Democrats, Republicans, and virtually all in between, the scenes on the floor of the House and the Senate provide the latest evidence of the dangerous...
This spring semester, the general Introduction to Statistics (MATH058) course at Pomona College has a new addition to its curriculum—the exploration of social justice issues. Taught by visiting assistant professor Omayra Ortega, a Pomona...
In an opinion editorial for the Student Life, the administration-funded student newspaper at the Claremont Colleges, a white Pitzer student frets that the colleges’ outdoor programs, though open to all students and well-funded, are...
An unnamed student group is attacking Pomona College for its “admission policy that allows for discrimination” against former convicts, claiming that the “facts” surrounding a person’s incarceration “don’t always tell the full story” and...
Scripps College is hosting and funding a three-day speakers’ series with a Venezuelan government official to valorize that country’s totalitarian regime and spread awareness of the “truth in today’s Venezuela,” whitewashing the ruling regime’s...
This evening, the President of the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC)—the college’s student government—released an email to the student body of Claremont McKenna College announcing that the Claremont College’s local chapter of...
In a meeting last Monday, Claremont McKenna College’s student senate—the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC)—met with representatives from 5C InterVarsity (5CIV), the Claremont College’s local chapter of a national evangelical Christian fellowship...
In its email response to “anti-Muslim” comments by attendees of a lecture at Scripps College last week, the Claremont Colleges’ Muslim Student Association urged students to donate to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)—which...
On Tuesday afternoon, during an open lecture at Scripps College, several attendees unaffiliated with the college challenged the lecturer to explain his views about Islamist terrorism and President Trump’s immigration policies, sparking half an...
On Saturday, Pomona College’s student government—the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC)—and its president Maria Vides introduced a resolution into the ASPC Senate seeking to “Institutionally Recognize Indigenous People’s Day” in lieu of Columbus...
After a two-week investigation, Pomona College’s Incident Response Team has concluded that the offensive memes posted in an anti-PC meme group on Facebook, though “bias-related,” constitute speech that is protected by the First Amendment...
After discovering a student-run meme page that contained “deplorable” and “deeply offensive” pictures and text, Pomona College launched a “Bias-Incident Response Team,” which quickly concluded that the meme page constitutes a “bias-related incident.” The...
This afternoon, in an email to the Pomona College community, Dean Ric Townes reported that Pomona College is investigating an anti-PC meme-sharing Facebook group for the “deeply offensive memes” posted therein. “As stated in...
Last week, in an opinion article for The Student Life (TSL)—the student-government funded newspaper of the Claremont Colleges—a Pomona College student called for the removal of German composer Richard Wagner’s frieze from Pomona’s Bridges...
If further evidence were needed that campus courts are the wrong place to adjudicate criminal cases and, especially, sexual assault cases, look no further than Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Here, the administrator recently...
In an email sent this evening, Pomona College administrators characterized policy violations by Pomona students who blockaded the appearance of conservative speaker Heather Mac Donald at neighboring Claremont McKenna College (CMC) as “minor” and...
In her former job as a director of judicial affairs at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Pitzer College’s newly hired dean of students Sandra Vasquez concealed material evidence from a low-income, minority student...
