New CMC Initiative Sweeps Changes Across Career Services, Faculty, And Curriculum To Support “
In an email to members of the student body sent earlier today, Hiram Chodosh, the President of Claremont McKenna College (CMC), announced...
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Apr 18, 2020
Scripps Students Organizing Strike For A’s In All Passed Classes
Students at Scripps College were considering starting a strike of their classes in a bid to achieve a universal-A grading system for this...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 4, 2020
Scripps Protesters Lash Out Against Sodexo at Presentation
On Feb. 4 at noon, French multinational catering management company Sodexo gave a presentation at Scripps College in a bid to renew its...
The Claremont Independent
Feb 3, 2020
Scripps Students to Protest Against Sodexo Over Private Prisons
A protest will take place at Scripps College on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 12:10pm against the college’s dining hall catering company, Sodexo,...
The Claremont Independent
Nov 7, 2018
UPDATE—Westboro Baptist Church to Picket at Pomona College
The Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC)—a religious organization renowned for hate speech—issued a press release Tuesday stating...
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Oct 8, 2018
Student-Run Café Closes to Accommodate Kavanaugh Protesters
The Motley Coffeehouse, a student-run café at Scripps College—a member of the college consortium— closed its sitting room during business...
The Claremont Independent
Oct 7, 2018
UPDATED—Kavanaugh Protest Planned to Support Survivors
Student organizers at Scripps College have planned a protest against the United States Senate’s Saturday decision to confirm Justice...
The Claremont Independent
Jul 22, 2017
Silencing Dissent Is Social Injustice
In an editorial published Wednesday, the editorial board of The Student Life—the Claremont Colleges’ newspaper funded almost exclusively...
The Claremont Independent
Jun 5, 2017
UPDATE: In Unprecedented Move, CMC Faculty Permits Seniors Who Violated Student Code to Graduate
Claremont McKenna College (CMC) told the Independent in a statement that its faculty voted in May to allow CMC seniors who violated the...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 7, 2017
CMC President Promises To Punish Policy Violators in Wake of Protest
After protesters at Claremont McKenna College shut down a scheduled lecture and Q&A with Heather Mac Donald, a critic of the Black Lives...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 31, 2017
Scripps Students Boycott Dining Hall, Say Caterer is “Neocolonial,” “Racist,” and “Exploitive”
Scripps students boycotted Scripps College’s Malott Dining Hall during lunch on Thursday in order to protest Scripps’ contract with its...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 29, 2016
Editorial: We Tell the Truth When No One Else Will
A recent editorial in The Student Life (TSL) criticized a Claremont Independent article because they thought it opted “for sensationalism...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 25, 2016
Why I Haven’t Enjoyed Claremont
When I came to Claremont, I hoped to find a loving community and an extended family. Unfortunately, what I found instead is an...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 9, 2016
28 Scripps Professors Will Protest Madeleine Albright’s Commencement Speech
Yesterday’s issue of The Student Life contained an open letter, signed by twenty-eight Scripps faculty members, criticizing the selection...
The Claremont Independent
Apr 1, 2016
Scripps Dean: Writing #Trump2016 is ‘Harassment,’ ‘Intimidation’
Last week, Scripps College’s Student Body President, Minjoo Kim, sent an email to the Scripps community describing a “racist incident”...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 31, 2016
Scripps Students, Faculty: Protest Madeleine Albright Because She is a ‘White Feminist’
Recently, the Office of the President at Scripps College sent out an email informing the student body that former U.S. Secretary of State...
The Claremont Independent
Nov 24, 2015
Scripps Students Demand Required Anti-Oppression Training “To Ensure their Unlearning Process is Con
Yesterday, students from Scripps College issued a list of demands to the school administration. “As a collective of students who...
The Claremont Independent
Nov 12, 2015
CMC Students Feel Marginalized, Demand Resources and Resignations
Yesterday afternoon, a student demonstration took place at Claremont McKenna College (CMC), where students of marginalized identities...
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