Author: Prianca Pai

The past week and a half has been filled with budget hearings and committee meetings for the five student governments of the Claremont Colleges. Dozens of student groups and organizations presented at 5C budget hearings or in front of school-specific student governments to receive funding for event planning, printing, and

Scripps College had the highest voter turnout in a Scripps Associated Students (SAS) election in its history this year, with 613 voters, an increase of 183 from last year. Election campaigns continued discussions of topics that have recently been prominent at Scripps: the new LASPA Center for Leadership, the “We

An anonymous alumnus donated $5 million to Pomona College’s Draper Center for Community Partnerships to fund the Pomona Academy for Youth Success (PAYS) and to establish the Draper Center for Community Partnerships Fund. PAYS is a college access program for approximately 90 rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors from

Middlebury College professor Susan Burch visited Scripps College on March 10 to present a lecture entitled “Disorderly Histories: Revisiting the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, 1902-1934.” The lecture raised questions about the American model of medicine, issues of cultural misunderstanding, and discomfort around mental health.  Burch, an associate professor of

When Gabriella Heller PO ’14, a mathematics and chemistry double major, won the Churchill Scholarship, she became one of just 14 in the United States who will continue their research at the University of Cambridge under the scholarship in the upcoming academic year. “I am really excited to do the

In response to the extreme drought in Southern California, a group of Scripps College students formed the Scripps Water Task Force (SWTF) alongside the Scripps Grounds Department to educate the Scripps community about water issues, encourage students to report broken sprinklers and leaks, and put pressure on the administration to

Nicole Parsons joined Harvey Mudd College’s Office of Advancement as the Associate Director of Regional Development to help lead the Campaign for Harvey Mudd, after working for Claremont McKenna College. HMC recently began its campaign with a goal of raising $150 million. In a letter on the HMC website, President