Author: Hannah Shoenhard

Nerves were rattled and Campus Safety was called twice, but ultimately no arrests were made in a series of incidents at Claremont McKenna College’s (CMC) senior apartments this weekend. According to an email sent to the CMC community by Associate Dean of Students Jennifer Jimenez Maraña, the first incident occurred

Patricia Goldsmith, Scripps’s Vice President for Institutional Advancement, has announced that she will be leaving Claremont Oct. 31 to become Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Goldsmith, who has worked at Scripps for over 16 years, said she was attracted to

William Banks, Professor of Psychology at Pomona since 1969, died April 25 after a bout with the autoimmune disease scleroderma. He was 68. Both students and professors expressed a strong affection for Professor Banks, and sadness over his untimely death. “He was really fun to talk to, just a really

Yale University wants to bring the liberal arts college to Singapore. In 2013, Yale plans to open one of Asia’s first liberal arts colleges in collaboration with the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore’s Ministry of Education. What has some Claremont heads turning, though, is that as recently as

Scripps College announced this Tuesday that it is to receive a 1.46 million dollar grant from the S. D. Bechtel Jr. foundation. The grant is intended to support integrated science education at the Joint Science Department (JSD). A large portion of the grant will go toward the Advanced Integrated Science

The Claremont Colleges' senior classes want to bring home the bacon. A ceramic piggy bank named Ellen is the prize awarded to the senior class that achieves the highest participation rate for senior donations. For the past five years running, Pitzer has won the contest. Last year, 99.6 percent of

Pomona's Student Affairs Committee (SAC) issued a proposal last week that would allow for changes to be made to the Student Handbook during the year and which would formally define the SAC procedure for opening up SAC policy changes to a student comment period. The proposal also affirms the right

The dream that Laura Gamse, PO ’07, hatched before the end of her senior year is finally coming to fruition this weekend. The Creators, a film Gamse directed and produced, is being screened in Beverly Hills Sunday as part of the L.A. Film + Music Weekend. A documentary about artists

Elizabeth Turk SC ’83 was named a 2010 MacArthur fellow on Sept. 28. A sculptor living in Atlanta, Georgia, Turk was awarded the $500,000, no-strings-attached grant for “transforming her signature medium of marble, a traditionally monumental and prone-to-fracture material, into intricate, seemingly weightless works of art,” according to the MacArthur