After several cases of the hand-foot-and-mouth disease on campus, the 5Cs are warning students about virus-prevention measures to avoid the spread of disease.
Author: Elinor Aspegren
Keckxit updates: CMC faculty backs decision, Pitzer receives $3 million donation
Claremont McKenna College’s faculty backs the school’s decision to leave its joint science department with Scripps College and Pitzer College.
Pomona students stage sit-in to protest ‘financial insecurity and inaccessibility’
Pomona students held a sit in for nearly four hours Monday to protest Pomona’s policies for students on work-study.
Scripps cuts substance-free housing, replaces with ‘wellness community’
Scripps has eliminated substance free housing for the 2019-2020 year, replacing it with a Wellness Learning Community, which is not sub-free.
Experts: Colleges unlikely to be affected by Trump’s free speech order
President Trump signed an executive order which would pull federal funding from colleges that don’t protect free speech. Each of the 5Cs receives funding, and could potentially be impacted.
A spotlight on mental health
Pomona’s president pledges “we will do better” in response to student criticisms of mental health resources.
Pitzer College bans Claremont Independent, non-TSL news sources from Haifa vote
Pitzer College is banning The Claremont Independent from attending Thursday’s College Council vote on Haifa.
News Bites Week of Feb. 24
Pitzer Student Senate advocates for making all public bathrooms gender-neutral, Pomona names its new art museum and more from this week’s news.
5C Housing Exchange program ends: Students no longer able to live at other campuses
Residential Life deans nixed the little-used Housing Exchange program Feb. 15, a move they have been considering for four years.
Residential life deans cancel 5C Housing Exchange program
Starting this fall, 5C students will no longer be able to choose to live at a different school in the consortium. The Claremont Colleges’ residential life deans are canceling the 5C Housing Exchange program, which allowed undergraduate students to swap housing arrangements with each other and live at a different