Mental Illness is Losing its Meaning
Image credit: Baxter Brew Thankfully, mental health has largely escaped the antiquated corner into which our parents’ generation pushed...
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The Claremont Independent
Greta Long
Nov 10
The Athenaeum is a Serious Project – We Should Dress Like It
Image via Calisphere. Copyright Honnold Mudd Library . As a freshman eagerly anticipating my arrival at CMC, I couldn’t wait for my...
Lenny Fukshansky
Nov 6
Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Through the Lens of the Soviet Experience
Student protesters on October 7th. Lenny Fukshansky is a professor of mathematics at Claremont McKenna. A version of this article was...
Charlie Hatcher
Nov 3
91% of 2024 CMC-Affiliated Political Donations Go to Democrats
CMC-affiliated donations over time. According to the nonprofit OpenSecrets, over 91% of the $22,782 in political donations made by...
The Claremont Independent
Nov 3
California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Colleges and Universities
Image via Flickr. Copyright Gavin Newsom . On September 30th, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1780 into law,...
Violet Ramanathan
Oct 31
ASCMC Cancels Snowglobe Citing Budget and Scheduling Concerns
Image via Flickr. Copyright cmcforum . On Tuesday, October 29th, the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC) Vice...
Greta Long
Oct 26
Starr Bypasses Judicial Council to Issue Full Suspensions to Oct. 7th Protesters
Protesters block the back door of Carnegie Hall. On Wednesday, October 23, Pomona President Gabi Starr issued a statement regarding the...
Kendall White and Charlie Hatcher
Oct 7
Protesters Occupy, Vandalize Pomona's Carnegie Hall on One-Year Anniversary of October 7th Attacks
Protesters on Sixth Street. On Monday, October 7th, hundreds of students across the Claremont Colleges participated in a walkout to...
Emilio Bankier
Oct 5
Protests Injure Four Staff Members at Harvey Mudd Career Fair
Image credit: Harvey Mudd College On Wednesday, September 25, protests at Harvey Mudd College’s fall career fair turned “unpeaceful”...
Will Chance
Sep 23
President Biden’s Student Loan Debacle
The average CMC graduate owes the federal government $13,962 in student loans . Though Washington provides only a portion of the...
Violet Ramanathan
Sep 9
Dean of Students Office Initiates Shift in Alcohol Policy at ASCMC Events
On Sunday, September 8th, the Executive Board of Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC) announced a new policy...
Jacob Smagula
Sep 5
Claremont McKenna Rises to 6th Place in Free Speech Rankings
Claremont McKenna College. On Wednesday, Claremont McKenna College leapt from 73rd to sixth place in the Foundation for Individual Rights...
Jameson Mitrovich
Feb 17
Pitzer Student Senate Votes to Suspend Study Abroad in Israel
Pitzer College's entrance. (Campus Grotto) On Sunday, February 11th, the Pitzer College Student Senate voted to suspend Pitzer’s study...
Nathanael Baumann
Oct 29, 2023
CMC Raises More Than $1 Billion
The forthcoming Robert Day Sciences Center. (CMC) Claremont McKenna College raised nearly $1.1 billion as a part of an alumni fundraising...
Charlie Hatcher
Sep 6, 2023
Claremont McKenna Plummets to 73rd in Free Speech Rankings
Heather Ferguson and Jon Shields run Claremont McKenna's Open Academy initiative. (CMC) On Wednesday, Claremont McKenna College fell from...
Austin Andersen
Jun 1, 2023
CMC Administration Ballooned in Years Since Spellman Resignation
Outside Claremont McKenna's Kravis Center. (ThoughtCo) While college administrations have been expanding for decades, their growth rate...
Trevor Klein
Jun 1, 2023
Chodosh to Take Sabbatical, Basso to Serve as Acting President of CMC
President Chodosh addresses the Athenaeum crowd. (CMC) On Thursday morning, the Claremont McKenna Board of Trustees announced that...
Will Zhou
Apr 25, 2023
Bobby's Room: Inside Claremont's Largest Poker Game
Adam Koszut's felt poker table in Crown B317. (Will Zhou) If you've ever walked by the third floor of Crown Hall at 4 a.m. on a Friday...
Margot Rosenblatt
Mar 27, 2023
Israel-Palestine Dominates ASCMC Agenda for Fourth Week
via E-International Relations At the March 26 Claremont McKenna Executive Board meeting, the newly sworn-in board chose a chairperson for...
Margot Rosenblatt
Mar 21, 2023
ASCMC Will Not Adopt IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
Debate between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine students raged on at Associated Students of Claremont McKenna Executive Board meetings in...
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