The Pomona College class of 2026’s final celebration the night of their graduation ended in confrontations with Campus Safety and, eventually, the Claremont Police Department (CPD). Officers followed the group from Pomona to Harvey Mudd College and ultimately called the CPD on students. What multiple students and HRL student employees described as an excessive and abnormal response prompted TSL to investigate protocols surrounding HRL and Campus Safety’s relationship to the CPD.
Special Projects
A letter to the Claremont community from TSL’s new Director of DEI & Outreach
Hi Claremont! We’re The Student Life, the weekly student newspaper of the Claremont Colleges since 1889. You’ve probably seen our name around campus, whether on a physical paper, a newspaper stand, an Instagram post or in a group chat. But even if you haven’t seen or read us before —
Last month, the Claremont Colleges opted into 100 percent renewable electricity. Here’s how student pressure made it happen.
As the co-leaders of the campaign, we want to clarify what this win means, why it matters, and how we got here. Our win is a testament to the power of grassroots student organizing. But despite our excitement that the Claremont Colleges have moved away from fossil fuel-driven electricity, we must recognize that this decision should have been a no-brainer for the Colleges.
More than a major: Finding identity and community in the 5Cs’ Chicanx Latinx Department
As her first year at Pomona comes to a close, Special Projects writer Alison Barrera PO ’29 paints a picture of the 5Cs’ Chicanx Latinx Department, speaking with students from across The Claremont Colleges who have found community in this space. “There’s an innate sense of community, passion and appreciation that exists among the Latines in the CLS department that I haven’t found anywhere else,” Barrera writes. “So, please, if you’re a first-year student, or just someone who has never taken a CLS course (or an ethnic studies course for that matter), give one a try. You might find yourself writing a 40-page thesis — or a TSL article — about it.”
City Limits: On the Los Angeles County line
Nicholas Steinman CM ’28 continues his examination of how City Limits inform our life in Claremont
Wizards Weekly: Apr. 23, 2026
“Graduation Wizard”
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“Outside the therapist’s office of the wizard who can cure any mental problem in one minute with magic”
‘We can’t talk about that here’: Stories of surveillance and censorship in higher education
A common misconception of higher education is that it takes place in an “ivory tower,” separated from the reality of human life. Unfortunately, there is often hostility toward scholars; in the United States alone, there have been discussions of banning American research projects involving Chinese scientists and of cutting funding for political reasons. I spoke with Pomona College professor Alana Felton and Pitzer College professor Emily Matteson to uncover experiences with surveillance and censorship in our own academic communities.
The Claremont Orientalist: White men at the 5Cs who only pursue women of color
“Ugh, look who just passed by.” “Who?” “The guy with the Asian fetish.” “Which one?” I wish this weren’t a real exchange I had with my friends. Unfortunately, there are too many white men on campus who share a reputation for exclusively pursuing women of color. I decided to interview
City limits: No, Claremont’s $2.50 Uber rides haven’t gone away — yet.
The era of students piling into city subsidized Ubers for under three dollars might be coming to a close. The program, Claremont Dial-a-Ride, which has provided waivers within Uber is facing challenges and cuts from the Pomona Valley Transportation Authority and Claremont City council due to ballooning costs from rampant student use.