Heavy rain showered the Claremont Colleges this Tuesday, causing student displacement and damage to facilities, including residence halls.
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Pomona, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer require post-break COVID-19 testing; Scripps institutes random testing
As 5C students made a return to Claremont following fall break, some colleges also brought back temporary COVID-19 testing requirements. Students at Pomona College, Harvey Mudd College and Pitzer College are required to test for COVID-19 upon returning from fall break, according to emails from both colleges.
Nueva línea de autobús aumenta conveniencia, molesta a otros
El 25 de septiembre, Foothill Transit, una de las agencias de transporte público sirviendo a Claremont, modificó la ruta 188 para seguir el Claremont Boulevard en vez de Indian Hill Boulevard, mejorando el servicio a los Claremont Colleges, pero aumentando el tiempo que toma el autobús en terminar la ruta.
Climate strike rally encourages 5Cs to ‘Speak Out’
In solidarity with over 500 Climate Strikes happening worldwide, dozens of students from across the Claremont Colleges gathered last Friday at Pomona College’s Walker Beach to participate in a climate strike rally and share their personal experiences with climate change.
OPINION: The Student Disability Resource Center is failing us
Are the Claremont Colleges educationally equitable? Not until the Student Disability Resource Center is better funded, writes Annika White PZ ‘25.
OPINION: No, Scripps classes aren’t easier
The trope that Scripps classes are easy isn’t a “fun stereotype,” writes Eliza Powers PO ‘25 – it’s highly sophisticated coded misogyny.
OPINION: Orientation planning needs to be adjusted for international students
For international students, first-year orientation is intensely overwhelming – but it doesn’t have to be that way, writes Vivian Wang CM ‘26.
OPINION: Wheelchair users must be better represented at the 5Cs
In order to be a more inclusive environment, the 5Cs must recognize diversity of ability and provide better accessibility, writes Max Zonana PO ’26.
Honnold Mudd Library staff voting on unionization
Staff at the 7Cs’ Honnold Mudd Library are deciding by secret ballot whether to form a union after at least 30 percent of approximately 40 eligible employees expressed interest. The California Federation of Teachers filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board filed a petition to represent the staff, according to a Feb. 9 statement from The Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS).
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.