Pomona, Scripps, To Suspend Students For Missing COVID-19 Tests
In an email to students sent today, Pomona College Dean of Students Avis Hinkson announced the details of Pomona’s three step sanctioning...
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Santiago Barreto
Oct 2, 2021
Harvey Mudd Eases COVID Restrictions, Increases Maximum Gathering Size From 10 To 20
A policy update from Dean Marco Valenzuela sent to Harvey Mudd students yesterday announced that Harvey Mudd will be moving into Tier 2...
Theodore Pasquesi
Sep 30, 2021
Class Elections Imbued With Activist Sentiment
As apprehension mounted amidst impending Claremont McKenna College (CMC) class presidential elections, aspiring student leaders scrambled...
Kara Hagler
Sep 16, 2021
CMC To Track Students Who Avoid COVID-19 Surveillance Testing
Earlier today, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) Vice President of Student Affairs Sharon Basso informed the student body “that weekly...
Santiago Barreto
Sep 6, 2021
Pomona Faces Accusations of Racism, Classism After Suspension of Student For Moving In Early
Last month, Pomona College, a member of the Claremont Consortium, suspended a transfer student for the fall 2021 semester for failing to...
Abbas Seltzer
Aug 25, 2021
CMC Barn Party Canceled, Convocation Goes Virtual Less than a Week Before Classes Start
Two days after half of its freshmen and sophomores moved in, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) announced that its Convocation Ceremony will...
Liam MacDonald
Aug 24, 2021
Pomona Title IX Coordinator To Leave September 1
In an email sent yesterday evening, Pomona College Dean of Students Avis Hinkson explained to students that Title IX coordinator Sue...
Liam MacDonald
Aug 18, 2021
Claremont McKenna Admits To Seven Total COVID-19 Cases, Strengthens Dining Hall Regulations
In an email to the student body sent earlier today, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) admitted to having had a total of seven positive...
Kara Hagler
Aug 14, 2021
CMC To Implement Contact Tracing, Anonymous Reporting Mechanism, In Updated COVID-19 Policy
Today, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) sent an email to the Class of ‘24 following up on an announcement from CMC’s President Hiram...
Liam MacDonald
May 6, 2021
Student Gov’t Passes Israeli Boycott Without Club Divestment Clause
Earlier today, the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC), Pomona College’s student governing body, passed a modified version of...
Kara Hagler
May 5, 2021
Rebuttal: We Shouldn’t Embrace All Cancel Culture
In recent years, cancel culture has gained notoriety for high-profile “cancellations” of prominent figures for harmful actions. The...
Kara Hagler
Apr 29, 2021
Widespread Backlash to Student Gov’t Israel Boycott, Anti-Discrimination Petition Reaches 500 Signat
Last week, the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) passed a resolution divesting from companies operating in Israel as listed by...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 30, 2021
The US Should Boycott The 2022 Olympics In China
China is destroying promised liberties in Hong Kong, committing genocide in Xinjiang, and oppressing more people than any other...
The Claremont Independent
Aug 20, 2020
Democrats Need To Reclaim Patriotism
This summer, my stepdad saw an American flag dancing in the wind and assumed its owner was conservative. It is a common reaction by...
The Claremont Independent
Aug 19, 2020
New DOE Title IX Regulations Not The Correct Fix
Earlier this week, the Claremont Consortium announced the creation of an interim sexual assault policy in accordance with the regulations...
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
Jun 25, 2020
An Open Letter To The Claremont McKenna And Harvey Mudd Presidents
Dear Presidents Klawe and Chodosh, Harvey Mudd College (HMC) and Claremont McKenna College (CMC) share much in common. Most obviously,...
The Claremont Independent
May 26, 2020
Charity And Bullying Can’t Go Hand In Hand
As reported by the Independent earlier today, the producers of “Love is Blind: Claremont,” an online dating show run and participated in...
The Claremont Independent
Jan 17, 2020
How Problematic Thoughts Can Make You a Better Person
By Margot Rosenblatt A few weeks ago, on the raised section of the Hoch-Shanahan dining hall, a very wise Scripps upper-classman uttered...
The Claremont Independent
Sep 28, 2019
The Antigua Incident: How Scripps Admin Trains First Years To Suppress Ideas From Day One
By Margot Rosenblatt I never thought that the Caribbean island of Antigua, of all places and things, would embody so well my apprehension...
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