Kohoutek catastrophe: Lively music festival stifled by noise complaint

Kohoutek, an annual music festival hosted by Pitzer College, was quieted and forced indoors by a noise complaint April 20.

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As students pressure Scripps to drop Sodexo, president announces dining services committee

Scripps College’s contract with Sodexo, a food services company that operates prisons in other countries, is set to expire in 2020, and students have been putting pressure on the administration to not renew its contract. More than 40 students protested the school’s involvement with the French multinational company outside Malott

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Pomona College Art Museum construction continues with eye on 2020 opening

Construction of the new Pomona College Art Museum, situated along College Avenue between Second Street and Bonita Avenue, is well underway. And after surviving procedural hurdles and lawsuits, the museum is set to open in 2020. By June 2019, the commissioning phase will begin, which will include an environmental and

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Student governments offer funding for gender-affirming processes

Pitzer College and Scripps College student governments are expanding their funding options to fund a variety of gender-affirming actions for transgender, intersex, and non-binary students, according to then–Pitzer Student Senate Treasurer Jessica Miao PZ ’21 and Scripps Associated Students President Irene Yi SC ’19. Pitzer Senate Budget Committee now offers

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Students frightened by Trump’s anti-trans memo, frustrated by colleges’ silence

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s memo affecting the rights and recognition of transgender people, students at the Claremont Colleges expressed feeling fearful and angry at the colleges’ administration for their tepid responses and support. The Trump administration issued a memo Oct. 21 that defined gender as purely biological,

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Claremont Colleges celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Students at the Claremont Colleges recognized Indigenous Peoples’ Day Oct. 8 with the fourth annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Midnight Celebration at Scripps College’s Malott Commons and a visit to festivities at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles. The celebration in LA marked the removal of a Columbus statue in Los

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Athenaeum speaker talks controversy of marijuana legalization in Colorado

Tony Mecia, a journalist from the Weekly Standard, spoke on the effects of legalizing recreational marijuana use in Colorado at a talk hosted by the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College Sept. 26. Mecia said that he didn’t have a strong opinion on the recreational marijuana issue and

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