On Tuesday, Feb. 6, Maya Wind and Robin D.G. Kelley led a discussion titled “Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom.” The event, located at Pitzer College’s Benson Auditorium, centered around what speakers described as the complicity of higher education institutions in Israel’s ongoing occupation of
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‘Islamophobia is a threat to every American’: Dalia Mogahed discusses the rise of Islamophobia and ways to combat it
On Friday, Jan. 26, the Muslim Chaplaincy at the Claremont Colleges collaborated with the Bayan Islamic Graduate School to host a conversation with Dalia Mogahed about the rise of Islamophobia in the United States. This is following Israel’s escalating attack on and destruction of Gaza that intensified following Hamas’s attack
‘Laboratory for policing’: IDAAS talk discusses racialized surveillance
On Wednesday, Nov. 15, the Claremont Colleges Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies (IDAAS) held a teach-in hosted by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. The event, titled “From Los Angeles to Gaza: Charting the Global Struggle Against Racialized Surveillance,” featured guest speakers Matyos Kidane, Shakeer Rahman and Hamid Khan. It
Meet Pomona’s 2023 Yidan Experiential Learning Grant for the Study of Asia recipients
On Tuesday, Nov. 14, Diana Truong PO ’24 and Griffin Campion PO ’24, the 2023 recipients of the Yidan Experiential Learning Grant for the Study of Asia, presented their summer experiences at a lunch colloquium in the Oldenborg Center. The grant, sponsored by the Oldenborg Center, offers financial assistance to
“Being Human in the Age of AI” featuring Stephanie Dinkins: Technology and humanity, hand in hand
This Monday, Harvey Mudd College hosted its third and final event for the 2023 Dr. Bruce J. Nelson ‘74 Distinguished Speaker Series “Being Human in the Age of AI.” Stephanie Dinkins, a transmedia artist and professor of art at Stony Brook University, spoke on “Love & Data.” Beginning in September,
Divest 5C files legal complaint against Pomona College
On Monday, Oct. 30, Claremont’s Divest 5C filed a legal complaint against Pomona College. In their complaint, students called on California Attorney General Rob Bonta to review Pomona’s investments and force the administration to divest its endowment from fossil fuels. 41 faculty and staff members signed in support of Divest
Meet Pomona’s 2023 Oldenborg International Research and Travel Grant recipients
This summer, Maria Duran Gonzalez PO ’24 traveled to Ecuador to document the stories people, especially women, tell about the land. One of the testimonies she heard from an abuela was, “Before, what was sown was reaped; the cassava, the coffee, the banana, the beans [and] all that was planted
Mapping mass incarceration: Scripps alum Mariah Tso discusses community-driven cartography
This Monday, the 5C Prison Abolition Collective (5C PrisAb) held a talk titled “Mapping Mass Incarceration” at Scripps College’s Motley Coffeehouse. Guest speaker Mariah Tso SC ’14, a Diné cartographer and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialist who currently works at Million Dollar Hoods (MDH), spoke about critical cartography and MDH’s
‘A family away from home’: A look into Black Student Unions across the 5Cs
Black Student Unions across the 5Cs serve as a space for Black students to find community during their time in Claremont. Student leaders from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Scripps College and Pomona College told TSL about their goals for their respective organizations. Black Lives at Mudd Black
Major denial: students struggle to enroll in courses required for major
With acceptance rates as low as 7 percent, the Claremont Colleges are some of the most selective liberal arts schools in the nation. But in the wake of class registration, some students are discovering that being accepted to these schools is not always the hardest part — sometimes, it’s getting