To Sara Wexler HM ’26, leaving her land-locked mountain state to come to college in sunny, beachside California was the ticket to success. Or was it?
Tag: California
As money pours into California’s proposition campaigns, 5C students serve up the facts
With reproductive freedom, gambling, dialysis and greenhouse gasses among the seven propositions on California’s Nov. 8 midterm ballot, Claremont McKenna College’s Rose Institute of State and Local Government released a “Video Voter Guide” last month to help Californians understand what their vote means.
OPINION: California’s student housing crisis requires immediate action
The lack of affordable housing for college students across California requires immediate action, writes Yifei Cheng PO ‘24.
Before Inside-Out and PAYS, Danny Wilks PO ’71 brought activism into the community
Teaching partnerships between incarcerated people in California and the 5Cs might seem like a recent development. But in the late 1960s, student members of Pomona College’s Black Studies Center developed an educational program for prisoners in Chino, led by BSU founder Danny Wilks PO ’71.
Claremont Colleges have first right to buy Claremont School of Theology campus, state court rules
In the latest development in a five-year legal battle between the Claremont Colleges and the Claremont School of Theology, the Superior Court of California ruled Jan. 14 in favor of the Claremont Colleges’ legal right to repurchase the land owned by CST. The graduate school is now prohibited from leasing or selling the land to third parties.
OPINION: The 5Cs must take an active role in water conservation
California’s ongoing drought demands more active measures to conserve water from 5C colleges and their students, argues Willa Frank PO ’25.
OPINION: California’s juvenile justice system needs a complete overhaul
A proposal to raise the minimum age at which California juveniles can be tried as adults is only scratching the surface of the complete transformation the state’s juvenile justice system badly needs, argues Kenny Le PZ ’25.
OPINION: California can’t afford more spills — stop current and future offshore oil drilling
The Orange County oil spill provides further evidence that California must end all offshore oil drilling in the state, argues Kenny Le PZ ’25.
OPINION: Save lives by keeping AB 988 alive
Assembly Bill 988 will save lives by providing funding for California’s mental health crisis response system, but we need to advocate for it now so it will pass, argues Porter Reyes PO ’25.
Outdoor classes experience turbulence amid persistent plane noise
Interference from planes flying overhead has made outdoor classes tricky, especially when students are also muffled by wearing masks.