Scripps College drew objections from some of its seniors when it changed the campus move-out deadline from Monday, May 14 to Sunday, May 13. The administration originally made the deadline 12 p.m. May 13 after moving the Commencement ceremony to 5 p.m. May 12. After receiving complaints from...
Around 50 students, professors and staff members attended the panel “Immigration Reform: Past, Present and Future” Thursday afternoon, the second of a series of three immigration-themed events organized by the Faculty Executive Committee, following a film screening Wednesday night and preceding...
Pitzer College students and faculty were given access last fall to Turnitin.com, a website that runs papers through its database to check for plagiarism, inciting a debate on campus about the use of the service.Immediately following the announcement on the campus-wide e-mail listserv of...
Pomona College's Career Development Office announced last week the start of a new program called Career Peers, which pairs trained seniors with other students seeking advice on resumes, cover letters and interviews. The seniors were chosen based on recent, successful job search...
Three Claremont Colleges seniors received Watson Fellowships last week. The $25,000 grant will allow Jeep Srisuknimit HM ‘12, Dean Pospisil PZ ‘12 and Gabe Loewinger PZ ‘12 to work on independent projects abroad. Srisuknimit plans to study the physics and cultural impact of unicycling in...
The United States Supreme Court's upcoming review of whether or not race can be used as a factor in admissions decisions could affect admissions at the Claremont Colleges, 5C admissions officers said. “It will be challenging for us if we are told that we cannot take ethnicity into account in...
“It’s fascinating and it’s horrible,” Natasha Haradhvala PO ’13 said about eating disorders. “I think I’m in advocacy work because people know I’m studying ED (eating disorders), and it’s incredible, the number of people who come up to me. Friends will come up and tell me, 'I’ve struggled with...
Recommendations from the Pomona College Student-Trustee Task Force are complete, and if the Student Affairs Committee passes them this morning, the Board of Trustees will vote on whether or not to implement the recommendations in its full board meeting this weekend. The recommendations...
Since the controversial termination of 17 dining hall workers in December, some Pomona College alumni have decided to stop donating to the school until the administration addresses the situation.“I can’t imagine donating if the school is going to pretend that it committed no error here,” Jeff...
Claremont McKenna College (CMC) administrators spoke to students Monday about the falsification of the school's SAT scores for the first time since President Pamela Gann sent an initial e-mail alerting the CMC student body about the incident Jan. 30. The conversation took place at an open CMC...
Students returning to campus two weeks ago noticed that there were no longer tents in front of Alexander Hall, a change from the constant presence at the end of last semester. This semester the Concerned Students of Pomona have decided to discontinue their vigil, which was a response to the...
Disagreements between students and administrators at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) emerged over the last few weeks regarding access to and use of the new glass Living Room at the school's recently opened Kravis Center. Students complained about limited access to the Living Room in light of what...
STRIVE, a nationwide non-profit that helps low-income students apply to college, is the newest mentoring program to arrive at the Claremont Colleges, giving 5C students another way to give back to the community, influence the life of a younger student, and become involved in education. "I want to...
High ceilings, doorways that lack 90-degree angles, and a light installation that resembles falling neon raindrops greet visitors to the Claremont University Consortium's (CUC) new Administrative Campus Center (ACC), which was relocated to First Street in June."We call it the white whale," CUC...
Last week, a group of students from the 5Cs marched with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and other allied organizations to force Trader Joe's to sign the Fair Trade Agreement, which represents a step toward alleviating the horrendous working conditions that tomato pickers in Florida...
In a tense overtime battle, women's soccer tied CMS 1-1 last Saturday. After this result, Pomona-Pitzer and CMS remain tied for second place in SCIAC with a record of 5-3-1 each. With only three more conference games left to play, both teams are fighting to be in the top four spots in order to...
Pomona Geology Professor Linda Reinen gave a talk Wednesday to about 50 students on the Great California ShakeOut, a large-scale emergency disaster drill that about nine million people around California participated in on Thursday.The drill is based on the ShakeOut Scenario, a 2008 report from...
Students at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) were visited by an unwelcome guest last month when an unidentified woman was found to be sleeping on dorm couches, using school laundry machines, and showering in CMC bathrooms without permission from the school.According to CMC Residence Advisor (RA)...
Tab for a Cause is a new Internet start-up which turns surfing the Internet into a charitable act. Alex Groth PO '12, the vice-president of this recently launched organization, along with co-creators Kevin Jennison and Sam Ward-Packard, has had about 500 downloads of the Tab for a Cause browser...
The Board of Trustees of Claremont Graduate University (CGU) installed Deborah Freund as its fifteenth president during a ceremony on Sept. 15. As CGU's first female president she joins four other female presidents out of the seven in the Claremont University Consortium (CUC).In accepting the...
On Thursday, Sept. 15, the Farm Club at Pomona opened its first produce stand, where members sold organically grown fruits and vegetables harvested from the Pomona College Organic Farm at low prices to students and faculty.The main purpose of the stand was to "bring the Farm to the wider...
Chris Waugh took over July 1 as Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Smith Campus Center (SCC) at Pomona College. He comes to Claremont from Lake Forest College in northern Illinois, where he worked for nine years. Waugh replaces Neil Gerard, who retired from the position at the end of...