Seven Claremont McKenna College students who participated in the blockade of conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald’s talk in April have now been sanctioned by administrators, according to an email sent to the college community Monday. Of the seven students, three received year-long suspensions, two received semester-long suspensions, and two have
Author: Samuel Breslow
‘A Slap in the Face’: Pitzer Trustees Toss Out Senate BDS Amendment
Pitzer College’s Board of Trustees struck language from a Student Senate bill Friday that barred the use of student activities funds to buy products from certain organizations associated with Israel, including Sabra, Caterpillar, and Hewlett-Packard. An amendment to the Senate’s Budget Committee Bylaws, the bill passed 22-0 with two abstentions on April 16 and prohibited “payment[s]
Ye Olde Student Life: TSL Seethes at British Wartime Plea for Help
It’s an eerie feeling to look at the TSL issue immediately before 9/11, or before the assassination of JFK, or before Pearl Harbor. These issues are utterly, utterly normal, a fact which makes complete sense, but which also serves to highlight just how blindsided we were by those events. However,
Pitzer Senate Passes Amendment Boycotting Select Israeli Products
Any Pitzer College clubs who were planning on buying Sabra hummus for their next event will have to rethink their plans. That’s because the Pitzer Student Senate passed an amendment to their Budget Committee Bylaws April 16 requiring clubs to boycott Sabra, along with a number of other companies targeted
Bottom Line Theatre’s “Sweet Things” Portrays Relationships Gone Sour
The student theatre group Bottom Line Theatre performed their latest work, “Sweet Things,” to three overflowing crowds at Pomona College’s Seaver Theatre March 23-25. The play’s plot centers around the relationships among a group of friends who “tell lies that spiral out of control to preserve their social standing, hurting
Q&A: Journalist Conor Friedersdorf Talks Campus Politics
Conor Friedersdorf PO ’02 is a journalist at The Atlantic, where one of his areas of expertise is campus politics, which he covers from a civil libertarian perspective. He recently visited campus to participate in a Pomona Student Union panel entitled “Actualizing Free Speech: The Regulation of Student Voice
Ye Olde Student Life: MP3 Format Revolutionizes Music Options
When one looks through TSL’s archives, it’s easy to see that Claremont today is a very different place than it was in the mid-twentieth century. Cigarette ads no longer appear in every issue. Women are no longer called “coeds.” Fraternities and the football team no longer dominate coverage. However, one
Students Blockade Athenaeum to Protest Conservative Speaker
A crowd of approximately 300 protesters surrounded the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College in an attempt to block conservative political commentator Heather Mac Donald from entering the building and delivering a talk on the evening of Thursday, April 6. Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and
5Cs Present Accomplished, Diverse Lineup of 2017 Commencement Speakers
Pomona College: Senator Brian Schatz PO ’94 Pomona College has announced Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) as the keynote speaker for 2017 commencement this past week in a press release on the college’s website. Schatz PO ’94 is the first Pomona alumnus to become a member of the United States Senate. “Senator Schatz
Ye Olde Student Life: Dorm TV Units Aid Instruction at Pitzer
Over the break, I suspect many 5C students indulged in quite a bit of Netflix. Back in 1965, though, Pitzer College’s administration did not seem too concerned that installing television sets in its dorm rooms would turn its student body into couch potatoes. Rather, they saw it as an opportunity