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CMC to double campus footprint, fueled by $140 million donation from George Roberts CM ’66

Claremont McKenna College plans to double its campus footprint with new athletic facilities and a previously-planned science center, thanks to a $140 million gift from trustee and alumnus George Roberts CM ’66, the school announced in an April 22 news release. The development will add 75 acres of land east of Claremont Boulevard, currently an empty quarry owned by multiple 7C institutions, creating “the opportunity for CMC to realize all its future academic, social and residential opportunities
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Scripps adds caste as a protected category in discrimination policies

In a first at the Claremont Colleges, caste is now a protected category as part of Scripps College’s discrimination and harassment policies, thanks to advocacy by the 5C South Asian Mentorship Program. The change comes as part of a wider movement across the U.S. for colleges and universities to include caste in their list of identities within their non-discrimination policies, after surveys uncovered that Dalit students in the U.S. were being discriminated against in educational spaces. At the
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PHOTOS: Wind storm wreaks damage across campus

A major wind storm knocked out power to the 5Cs Friday night, toppling trees and causing significant damage across the campuses. At Pomona College, gusts caused a new outdoor dining tent at Bixby Plaza outside Frary Dining Hall to collapse, scattering tables and chairs around the pavement. Nearby, a tree fell on top of Clark I residence hall, causing minor damage to the building, according to an email from Pomona COO Rob Goldberg and Assistant Vice President for Facilities Bob Robinson. Hahn Ha
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Scripps residential coordinator’s probation sparks outcry, demands on work reform

Scripps College residential coordinators are protesting the Nov. 8 probation of one of their members, the latest in a spate of grievances the team has reported with the college’s administration this semester. The RC in question was placed on probation for failing to report students’ rule-breaking behavior, an obligation that was “not within her job description,” according to an open letter signed by “the entire 2021-22 RC team” addressed to Scripps’s administration earlier this month. The lette
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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION EDITORS: Our progress on newsroom diversity & inclusion

As The Student Life works to serve the 7C community with integrity, the process of fostering accessibility needs to start within our own newsroom. That’s why we’re serving as TSL’s first-ever diversity & inclusion editors. Here, we’d like to introduce the work we’ve been doing and hope to continue, as well as model some transparency by showing where we are with our staff’s composition and the direction we’d like to go in. This semester marks the first time TSL has conducted a demographic survey
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Napier Initiative courses set to resume in person this spring

As course registration for the spring semester rolls around next week, students at the 5Cs are scrambling to figure out their ideal schedules. But a lucky few automatically get a seat in the courses they want. In fact, they’re an integral part of the courses altogether. For the last 10 years, members of the Pilgrim Place community have studied alongside 5C students in a host of courses as part of the Napier Initiative. This intergenerational collaboration between the Claremont Colleges and Pilg
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Angela Davis at Pomona: ‘It's always been about collaborations, communities, and collectives’

Renowned activist and scholar Angela Davis drew crowds of students, faculty and staff to Bridges Auditorium Tuesday and Thursday evening as she delivered the 2021 Ena H. Thompson lectureship. Hosted by the Pomona College history department, history professor Tomás Summers Sandoval joined Davis for Tuesday’s interview-style discussion of her life. Davis presented her lecture on Thursday, entitled “Radical Agendas and Possible Futures.” The event had been postponed from its original April 2020 d
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Starr pushes ASPC to ‘reverse course’ on divestment bill that would reform internal finances in support of Palestine

Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr and administrators criticized legislation ASPC passed April 22, citing a lack of student representation in the decision. The resolution would divest all internal ASPC funds from items or companies deemed by ASPC to “knowingly support the Israeli occupation of Palestine,” including those listed specifically by the United Nations. In an email sent Friday, Starr expressed “deep concern” for the lack of representation from the larger Pomona student body,
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In Memoriam: Tongva elder Julia Bogany

Tongva elder Julia Bogany died March 28, 2021, according to an email sent to the Pitzer College community April 1 by Pitzer faculty and students of the Indigenous Peer Mentoring Program who worked closely with her. She had been affiliated with the Claremont Consortium — and Pitzer in particular — for over a dozen years. A member of the Gabrieleño Tongva, Bogany dedicated more than 30 years of her life to reviving and uplifting Tongva culture, language and arts in California. Her time with Pitze
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A look back: Lara Tiedens’ legacy after five years at Scripps College

Lara Tiedens’ short term as president of Scripps College came to an end April 15, 2021, a position she began at the start of the 2016-2017 academic year. She will continue her career in New York as executive director of the Schwarzman Scholars program, according to an email she sent last year. “Throughout my time here, I’ve kept close to my mind the Ellen Browning Scripps quotation engraved on Honnold Gate. Scripps is meant to be a place that generates confidence, courage and hope, and everythi
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P-P quarterback’s TikTok videos spark outrage from 5C community, prompt calls to administration for further action

Pomona-Pitzer football player Skylar Noble PZ ’22 sparked outrage among the 5C community when screenshots and recordings of his TikTok videos under the handle @sketchy.sky emerged on Twitter Sunday night. The first TikTok to make its way to Twitter was a screenshot of a video captioned “people really wake up and choose to believe that Serena Williams is and has always been a female.” Two more of Noble’s TikToks surfaced later on Sunday evening. The first of the two, originally posted four days
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CMC campus sign vandalized to spell name of white supremacist group

“KKK” was what a Claremont McKenna College sign displayed Friday night after being vandalized by an unknown male suspect just before midnight. Campus Safety officers responded to the incident “immediately” after receiving a report from a passerby, according to an email to students Friday. The ‘C’ in Claremont and the ‘C’ in McKenna were covered with black tape by the letter ‘K’ to spell KKK, the initials of a U.S. white supremacist group, according to the email. The sign is located on Sixth St.
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5C students near Claremont test positive for COVID-19

Multiple 5C students living in or who recently visited the Inland Empire area near campus have tested positive for COVID-19, according to an email sent out to students living in southern California this semester. The students who tested positive, at least some of whom attend Claremont McKenna College, notified administrators, Dean of Students Dianna Graves and Sharon Basso, vice president of student affairs, said in the email. It’s unclear exactly how many total students have tested positive, w
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Pomona College alumna wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Pomona College alumna Jennifer Doudna PO ’85 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 Wednesday for developing a genome editing method with Emmanuelle Charpentier. She is the first Pomona alumna to receive the prize and part of the first women duo to win a Nobel in the sciences. Doudna graduated from Pomona with a Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry in 1985. She went on to earn her doctorate in biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology from Harvard Medical School in 1989 and is currentl
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Pomona to rename Millikan Laboratory, citing Robert A. Millikan’s eugenics promotion

Pomona College will rename Millikan Laboratory, President G. Gabrielle Starr announced Tuesday, citing the namesake Robert A. Millikan’s history of eugenics promotion. The announcement comes after nearly 1,000 community members signed a petition over the summer demanding the name be removed. “In recent years … troubling information has come into sharper focus regarding Millikan’s role in supporting the deeply disturbing practice of eugenics,” Starr said in an email to students. “The reality of
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Pitzer BSU calls for greater support for Black students from admin

The Pitzer College Black Student Union called on the college last week to provide greater support for Black students in a six-point address, offering solutions that they say would “support and foster a successful and well-rounded college experience for their Black students.” Specifically, the BSU called for active recruitment of Black faculty and staff, aggressive recruitment of Black students, more robust financial aid packages, more Black administrators in the admissions and student affairs o
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5C professors join national strike for racial justice

Several faculty at the Claremont Colleges canceled or postponed their classes on Sept. 8 and 9 as part of a nationwide movement to bring attention to issues of racial injustice, police violence and systemic racism in the U.S. The Scholar Strike was “designed to call awareness to the racial climate in America, and the rash of police shootings and racialized violence,” the event’s official website read. It was “inspired by the NBA, WNBA, Colin Kaepernick and other athletes, to underscore the urge
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Pomona, Pitzer reduce work allotments, creating stress for students

Students at Pomona College and Pitzer College were confused and frustrated when they learned in July that their ability to work college sponsored jobs would be curbed by restrictions on hours. Before adjusting to a slightly more lenient limit, Pomona Dean of Students Avis Hinkson announced in a July 17 email that the school would limit students to “one job or 6-8 hours of remote employment per week” to ensure that “as many full-time Pomona students as possible are able to secure remote campus e
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CMC closes The Children’s School for 2020-2021 school year; parents frustrated, saddened by closure

When Claremont McKenna College announced July 1 that it would close The Children’s School for the 2020-2021 school year due to coronavirus concerns, many parents reacted to the news with frustration, confusion and concern for what the fall could hold for their families. The Children’s School, a preschool and daycare that has been a unique part of the Claremont Colleges since it was opened in 1936, typically enrolls 70 children between the ages of 2 to 5. It is located just south of CMC’s senior
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New Harvey Mudd professor brings abundance of insights on BLM protests and racial attitudes

From coming face-to-face with members of the Ku Klux Klan to organizing counterprotests against the Unite the Right rally in 2017, Anup Gampa has spent almost a decade attempting to understand and fight racism. Joining Harvey Mudd College this fall as an assistant professor of psychology, Gampa recently received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Virginia. There, he conducted research on racial attitudes and actively organized students against white supremacist groups such as t
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