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CMC Faculty Proposes Racial-Ethnic Understanding GE Requirement For All Students

The Claremont Independent

Feb 3, 2021

CMC Faculty Proposes Racial-Ethnic Understanding GE Requirement For All Students

In an email from Professors Gaston Espinosa and Dan Livesay relayed through Dean Dianna Graves, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) students...

Scripps Student Gov’t Promises To Take Misuse Seriously In Proposed Anonymous Bias Reporting Mechani

The Claremont Independent

Oct 12, 2020

Scripps Student Gov’t Promises To Take Misuse Seriously In Proposed Anonymous Bias Reporting Mechani

Members of the Scripps Associated Students (SAS), the student governing body at Scripps College, have proposed a bias incident reporting...

How New Trump Executive Order Targeting CRT May Affect Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Independent

Sep 23, 2020

How New Trump Executive Order Targeting CRT May Affect Claremont Colleges

Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that “it shall be the policy of the United States not to promote race...

Scripps Professor Involved in Altercation With Protester

The Claremont Independent

Sep 20, 2020

Scripps Professor Involved in Altercation With Protester

On Sept. 19, Scripps College student groups Scripps for Black Lives Matter, Watu Weusi, and the Asian American Student Union released an...

Why You Should Support #Defundthepolice Even If You Don’t Think Our System Is Racist

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...

Scripps Students Call for Dean’s Resignation Over Alleged Negligence, Anti-Black Behavior

The Claremont Independent

Jul 21, 2020

Scripps Students Call for Dean’s Resignation Over Alleged Negligence, Anti-Black Behavior

In an open letter to the Board of Trustees at Scripps College, Students For An Accountable Scripps, a student activist organization,...

New CMC Initiative Sweeps Changes Across Career Services, Faculty, And Curriculum To Support “

The Claremont Independent

Jun 18, 2020

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...

The Claremont Independent

Mar 1, 2020

All Segregation Is Wrong, Period.

The Claremont Colleges are a place where events you couldn’t make up take place. For example, the recent “BlaQ Mixer” event at Pomona...

Scripps Funds Pro-Venezuela Talk Series Third Semester in a Row

The Claremont Independent

Nov 28, 2018

Scripps Funds Pro-Venezuela Talk Series Third Semester in a Row

Throughout November, Scripps College has been hosting and funding more speakers heavily praising Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela....

The Claremont Independent

Nov 15, 2017

Student Op-Ed: Outdoor Clubs Are Too White

In an opinion editorial for the Student Life, the administration-funded student newspaper at the Claremont Colleges, a white Pitzer...

Claremont Students Plan to Protest ‘Anti-Black Fascist’ Heather Mac Donald

The Claremont Independent

Apr 6, 2017

Claremont Students Plan to Protest ‘Anti-Black Fascist’ Heather Mac Donald

Students at the Claremont Colleges plan to protest and “shut down” a speech by prominent political commentator Heather Mac Donald...

CMC Funds Racially Exclusive Program to Fight Racism

The Claremont Independent

Jan 26, 2017

CMC Funds Racially Exclusive Program to Fight Racism

On January 25, Vince Greer – the Assistant Dean of Students for Diversity and Inclusion at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) – distributed...

Pomona College Poster: ‘Everyone is Problematic’

The Claremont Independent

Sep 6, 2016

Pomona College Poster: ‘Everyone is Problematic’

New students at Pomona College were welcomed to campus with posters all over their dorms giving instructions for “How to be a (Better)...

Pitzer College VP Defends Racist RAs Despite College President’s Condemnation

The Claremont Independent

Aug 11, 2016

Pitzer College VP Defends Racist RAs Despite College President’s Condemnation

After several national media outlets covered Pitzer College student leaders’ defense of racially discriminatory housing practices, both...

The Claremont Independent

Aug 9, 2016

Students at Claremont Colleges Refuse to Live with White People

A group of students at the Claremont Colleges are in search of a roommate for next year, but insist that the roommate not be white. Karé...

Safe Space Shut Down After Anti-White, Anti-Male Statements Leaked

The Claremont Independent

May 31, 2016

Safe Space Shut Down After Anti-White, Anti-Male Statements Leaked

Recently, the Independent obtained screenshots from the “5C Women of Color” Facebook group. According to its description, the...

Editorial: We Tell the Truth When No One Else Will

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...

Scripps Dean: Writing #Trump2016 is ‘Harassment,’ ‘Intimidation’

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”...