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Claremont McKenna College Hires New Assistant Dean Of Students For Academic Success

The Claremont Independent

Aug 14, 2021

Claremont McKenna College Hires New Assistant Dean Of Students For Academic Success

In an email to Claremont McKenna College (CMC) students this afternoon, Senior Associate Dean of Students Susan Layden announced that CMC...

Occupy Pomona Continues Fight Against Furloughs

The Claremont Independent

Oct 5, 2020

Occupy Pomona Continues Fight Against Furloughs

Last Friday, in response to the widespread furloughs of Pomona College staff caused by a $37 million budget shortfall resulting from the...

Students Demand Extrajudicial Bias Reporting, Statements In Support Of #BLM, In New Petition

The Claremont Independent

Jun 29, 2020

Students Demand Extrajudicial Bias Reporting, Statements In Support Of #BLM, In New Petition

In a recent petition released by the 7Cs (Claremont Colleges) For Black Lives Matter Coalition, student activists made a series of...

Students, SJP Protest Pitzer President Decision to Keep Israel Study Abroad

The Claremont Independent

Mar 14, 2019

Students, SJP Protest Pitzer President Decision to Keep Israel Study Abroad

Shortly after the Pitzer College student-faculty vote to suspend the College’s study abroad program with Israel’s University of Haifa,...

College Presidents Spread False Anti-Trump Narrative to Student Body

The Claremont Independent

Jan 31, 2017

College Presidents Spread False Anti-Trump Narrative to Student Body

Earlier this week, presidents of the five Claremont Colleges joined over thirty peer institutions of higher education in denouncing...

Editorial: The Importance of Free Expression

The Claremont Independent

Sep 5, 2016

Editorial: The Importance of Free Expression

Free speech on campus has become a growing issue in the US and internationally as traditionally freer countries place more and more...

Social Justice Warriors Are the Reason Donald Trump Exists

The Claremont Independent

Apr 5, 2016

Social Justice Warriors Are the Reason Donald Trump Exists

Over the past couple weeks, students at colleges across the country have retreated into their safe spaces to protest the “hate speech”...

The Claremont Independent

May 13, 2015

Just The Facts: Pitzer College Tuition

With the current tuition increase rate at 5% per year, babies born this year (class of 2037) can expect to pay $156,671 per year—$626,685...

The Claremont Independent

May 13, 2015

Invest in Oil, Help the Environment

The fossil fuel divestment movement, like many other campus causes, mistakes posturing for effective action, giving its proponents a...

The Claremont Independent

Oct 27, 2014

Who’s the Fairest of Them All?

CMC Professor Emeritus Ward Elliott. Image Courtesy Ward Elliott. With midterm elections just around the corner and a heated battle...

The Claremont Independent

Sep 7, 2013

Best Places to Study at the 5Cs

Certain people can study in their dorm rooms and lounges with ease; I’m not one of them. If you’re the sort of person who can grind...

Class Reviews: Seven Classes to Take Before Graduating

The Claremont Independent

Sep 4, 2013

Class Reviews: Seven Classes to Take Before Graduating

Trying to figure out which classes to take upon first entering college can be a daunting task. Fulfilling GE requirements (for those of...

The Claremont Independent

May 5, 2013

Divestment 2.0

In a recent school-wide ballot measure, 78 percent of Pomona College students voted to request that the administration divest portions of...

The Claremont Independent

Apr 22, 2013

Professor Raviv talks bias, Pitzer, and cockroaches

By Brad Richardson and Colin Spence Up until now, CMC Associate Professor of Economics Yaron Raviv has remained completely silent on his...

The Claremont Independent

Apr 18, 2013

Rumor has it: There’s a Republican at Pitzer

It is usually assumed that Claremont’s Republicans are housed at one of two schools, Claremont McKenna College or Pomona College. It is...