Author: Miller Williams

On Nov. 12, the day of the annual Homecoming football game between Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS), the athletic department at CMS sent an e-mail to students informing them that wearing the popular “Puck Fomona” t-shirts would prevent them from entering the game, highlighting a number of issues that have

Scripps College alumnae, faculty, students and staff gathered at Malott Commons on Tuesday, Nov. 15, to celebrate the release of Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords SC ’93 and her husband Mark Kelly’s memoir, Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope. Giffords, who graduated from Scripps in 1993, has spent the last

Michael Gray PZ ’13 is, as he put it, “taking part in the revolution.” In October, Gray declared a leave of absence from school in order to participate more fully in the Occupy Los Angeles demonstration, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement that originated in New York

Recently, Pitzer College students Alexa Coughlin PZ ’12, Simone Fine PZ ’13, Jessica Grady-Benson PZ ’14, and Matthew Shubin PZ ’12 were hired to fill four internship positions working with the college’s environmental consultant in order to meet the sustainability requirements of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment

On Tuesday, Oct. 25, Scripps College hosted University of Michigan professor Tobin Siebers via Skype call at Garrison Theater. Siebers, who was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 1999 for his account of growing up with polio, spoke about “The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification,” or, in other words, how the appearance

A group of professors at Harvey Mudd College (HMC) and Pomona College was recently awarded a $546,273 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a new state-of-the-art field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) that will be installed on Pomona’s campus this spring. According to the NSF, the foundation receives about

Last fall Harvey Mudd College (HMC) implemented a new core curriculum with the goal of better preparing its graduates for the demands of the professional world. HMC alumni identified written communication as one of the areas in which their undergraduate education could have been improved. The change, according to Wendy

Single-sex education in primary and secondary schools could be detrimental to students and may actually increase gender stereotyping, according to a Sept. 23 report in Science authored by Claremont McKenna College (CMC) Psychology Professor Diane Halpern and seven other researchers. The paper, “The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling,” is largely critical

The Study Abroad Committee (SAC) at Pomona received 23 petitions last week for non-Pomona study abroad programs in spring 2012. This is the highest number of petitions according to records kept by the Office of Study Abroad (OSA). Out of the 23 petitions it received, the committee gave the nod

_x000D_ “Dry Week” or “Sub-Free” week, a transitional alcohol-free period at the beginning of the year, has historically been quite wet at the Claremont Colleges.  Dry Week was implemented to provide a period of time (which is not actually a week-long and varies for each college) for incoming first years to acclimate to college