Author: Caroline Bowman

An off-campus Pitzer College student was the victim of an attempted robbery at gunpoint last Friday, wrote Acting Vice President of Students Affairs Moya Carter in an e-mail to the Pizter community Dec. 4. The incident occurred at the Chevron gas station at Foothill Boulevard and Claremont Boulevard. The student

As early as next semester, a new resource center at Pomona College will aim to help students with the quantitative aspects of their courses. The Quantitative Skills Center, which will be headed by a director the school is planning to hire this month, will provide support to students and student-tutors

At a workshop being held tomorrow at Pomona College, students from the Claremont Colleges will help undocumented immigrants from the Inland Empire take advantage of a new federal program that could offer temporary relief from fears of deportation.  The Draper Center for Community Partnerships at Pomona, the Asian American Resource

In light of a new federal program that could provide temporary legal status to some fired Pomona College workers, 32 Pomona faculty members called on the administration Saturday to reimburse former employees for the program’s application costs and rehire them if they obtain valid work permits.  In an e-mail to Acting

With the recent certification of Pitzer College’s Phase II residence halls as LEED Platinum, Pitzer has the most mixed-use LEED-certified buildings of any elite liberal arts college, according to a press release published by the college. But the college’s efforts to become more environmentally friendly do not stop there. Students,

A club called Hack, an upcoming hackathon, a visit by the Hacker Tour: All are signs that hacking is becoming increasingly prevalent at the Claremont Colleges. While for many this word may still conjure up images of the tech-savvy cracking into security systems, the focus at the 5Cs is not

Due to an unexpected staff transition at the Financial Aid Office at Pitzer College, many students returned to campus this year without having received their financial aid package.  Director of Financial Aid Robin Thompson said that the office usually sends letters out on a rolling basis starting June 15. This

As plans are made for the renovation of the Gold Student Center (GSC) at Pitzer College, students and administrators are preparing for a possible loss of on-campus student jobs. The GSC, which will be renovated throughout the 2013-2014 academic year, employs 40 to 50 students per semester, said Chris Brunelle,

Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is unveiling its Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) today, part of an effort to encourage entrepreneurship throughout the Claremont Colleges.  “Our objective is for the Center to become the hub of entrepreneurial activity at the Claremont Colleges,” wrote Janet Smith, the center’s faculty director, in