The Student Life

5Cs implement ‘Know Your Rights’ immigration and workplace protections

February 27, 2026 1:57 am Carys Hardy 0

5C human resources departments have begun to implement California’s Workplace Know Your Rights Act (SB 249) after it was passed Feb. 1. In alignment with the Act, 5C employees will receive notice of key workplace rights and have the opportunity to indicate emergency contacts, but student workers and college staff

CMC’s Gould Center celebrates 40th anniversary

February 27, 2026 1:55 am Chloe Kiparsky 0

Claremont McKenna College’s Gould Center for Humanistic Studies celebrated its 40th anniversary last Monday, Feb. 23, hosting an open house, speeches and a Q&A panel for more than 50 attendees.

Amid Claremont housing crisis, 5C students support tenant protection efforts

February 27, 2026 1:45 am Bianca Mirica 0

Claremont housing advocate groups tabled outside of Frary, Malott and Collins dining halls last week, collecting signatures for a tenant protection petition and registering students to vote in the city’s Nov. 3 election. The groups’ outreach corresponds with ongoing debate over Claremont’s housing policy, which remains unsettled.

EcoReps bring conscious composting to Collins Dining Hall

February 20, 2026 2:22 am Reanna Mohler 0

One ton of food — equivalent to 2,000 full plates — was dumped by diners at Claremont McKenna College’s Collins Dining Hall last month, according to the college. The statistic comes as Collins enters its second semester of front-of-house composting, an effort spearheaded by the dining hall and student sustainability groups like the EcoReps.

Year of the fire horse: Lunar New Year celebration hosted by TASA, Canto Club and Tea Circle

February 27, 2026 3:48 am Kate Yoo 0

Stepping into the Gold Center, the Taiwanese American Student Association (TASA), Claremont Cantonese Club (Canto Club) and Tea Circle hosted their annual Lunar New Year’s event on Feb. 20.

Open Mic Night brings together student creatives from across the 5Cs

February 27, 2026 3:43 am Corina Yi 0

On Tuesday, Feb. 24, students gathered together for Open Mic Night at Dom’s Lounge, an event co-hosted by the Pens & Poetry Club and Pomona Student Union (PSU).

SACSE hosts Ath talk: ‘Who Fuels the Sex Trade?’

February 27, 2026 3:37 am Shannon Bigelow 0

On Friday, February 20, the Athenaeum hosted advocate Cristian Eduardo and lawyer Yasmin Vafa for a talk titled “Dismantling Demand: Who Fuels the Sex Trade and at What Cost?”

Claremont Drag Club celebrates queer joy and chosen family in ‘Bad Romance’

February 27, 2026 2:43 am Zoe Chin 0

While drag faces mounting attacks across the country, Claremont students proved the art form is alive, messy and louder than ever.

OPINION: Get up. It’s time to flash mob

February 27, 2026 3:39 am Zara Seldon 0

“With the rise of social media ‘cringe culture,’ … we simply aren’t motivated to organize ‘spontaneous’ dance pieces that draw in massive crowds of strangers, united in their shock and delight at the earnest spectacles before them,” Zara Seldon PO ’29 writes. “Our world is lonelier than ever, making flash mobs a perfect example of the unapologetic, out-in-the-open whimsy necessary to harness the power of communal joy.”

OPINION: Have you been in pain? If so, care about pregnancy.

February 27, 2026 3:39 am Vivian Fan 0

“The Claremont Colleges’ insufficient support for pregnant students, whether they carry a pregnancy to term, have a miscarriage, or seek an abortion, is both indicative of and an inadequate response to the American legal and medical system,” Vivian Fan PO ‘28 writes. “The Title IX and Accessibility offices ought to collaborate with SHS to ensure that students, regardless of whether or not they carry a pregnancy to term, are able to access relevant resources and comprehensive healthcare.”

OPINION: In defense of PDA and reflections on embodied love

February 26, 2026 10:29 pm Alex Benach 0

“We have a collective problem, not only of loneliness, but of an inability to celebrate the manifestation of real love upon exposure to it,” Alex Benach PO ‘28 writes. “In other words, seeing love represented can act as a medicine for our repulsion to love.”

OPINION: When you travel, don’t start with English

February 20, 2026 2:33 am Catarina Shi 0

The modern expectation of everyone to speak English quietly places the burden of communication on local people in linguistically diverse areas, treating them as the ones who must adapt.

Athenas brave power outage, best Sagehens in multi weekend series

February 27, 2026 1:01 am Talbott Chesley 0

On Feb. 22, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) softball claimed a 2-1 series victory against rivals Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) in a hard-fought slate of games that stretched across two weekends due to a stadium lighting malfunction.

Sagehens water polo avenges January loss, wins second of three Sixth Street matches

February 27, 2026 12:56 am Anne Reardon 0

On Wednesday, Feb. 25th, Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) women’s water polo battled in the most recent iteration of the Sixth Street Rivalry. CMS’s win in the prior matchup marked their first in 14 years over the Sagehens.

Get Your Head in the Game: How 5C chess players love the game Kasparov hated

February 27, 2026 12:56 am Katharine Fullerton 0

Grandmaster Garry Kasparov compares chess to “mental torture” — a statement that at first glance seems overdramatized for a leisure activity enjoyed by seniors at the local park — but to budding competitive chess players, could be an emerging reality.

Paulo Dybala and the art of being second

February 27, 2026 12:51 am Otto Fritton 0

How does it feel to be good, but not quite good enough? Otto Fritton PZ ’27 explores the confusing career of footballer Paulo Dybala, feeling as though some chapters were left unwritten for the Juventus regular and Argentine international.