New decorations policy for The Motley awaits administrative finalization

After a year of discussions regarding the future of decorations at Scripps College’s Motley Coffeehouse, a new policy is currently being finalized by the Scripps administration.

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Students protest Starbucks at Pomona’s Café 47, business slows

On Thursday, Oct. 16, several Claremont and national labor organizing groups held a teach-in at the Motley Coffeehouse in response to Pomona College’s Café 47 switching their supplier from Peet’s Coffee to Starbucks Coffee.
The teach-in, titled “Why Starbucks?”promoted a petition to remove the corporation from Claremont campuses alongside nationwide anti-Starbucks movements, and encouraged the boycott of Café 47 and other Starbucks-supplied establishments across the 7Cs.

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OPINION: Hey Jonas Brothers, you man-children cannot revive the dying boy band trend!

As teenagers in the early 2000s, the Jonas Brothers had the makings of a classic “boy band.” In order of importance: first, they were good-looking; second, they could sing. They packed sold-out stadiums with obsessive girls screaming and toppling over one another for the mere chance to catch a brother’s

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