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By Kahani Malhotra 425 Views 5CEJ, Boiler regulations, Claremont McKenna College, Clarissa Aquino, Climate Action Campaign, Ian Akers, Jaden Yang, kahani malhotra, Maddie Huq, Scripps College, student senate

Claremont McKenna College and Scripps College passed resolutions this month to support phasing out large industrial gas boilers in Southern California.

Jaden Yang PO ’28 and Clarissa Aquino PZ ’26 have led the charge at the 5Cs to pass student resolutions on gas boilers. The end goal of the campaign is to convince the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), a government agency that oversees air quality standards, to phase out the use of medium to large-sized boilers across Southern California.

They hope to get all 5Cs to support the resolution by the end of April, so they can show full support for shifting away from gas boilers at the SCAQMD’s next board meeting on May 1.

Tessa Hicks Peterson poses and smiles for the camera during a photo shoot.

News

April 17, 2026 2:35 amApril 17, 2026 3:22 am

Inside-Out program plans restructuring following Norco prison closure

By Macy Puckett and Ila Bell 780 Views California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Rehabilitation Center, cdcr, Claremont McKenna College, CMC, CRC, Crossroads, Derik Smith, Inside Out, InsideOUT Writers, jec, justice education center, kenneth butler, Los Angeles, los angeles area, Male Community Reentry Program, mcrp, napier fellow, norco prison, pathway to BA, Paula Gutierrez, Pitzer College, Starting Over Inc, tessa hicks peterson, The Reintegration Academy, UCLA

Following a year of uncertainty regarding the program’s future, the 5Cs’ Justice Education Center (JEC) appointed a new interim director, Tessa Hicks Peterson, last month. Peterson has since initiated plans to pilot multiple new partnership models next fall for Inside-Out, as the program navigates reconstruction following its partner institution’s, the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) — also known as Norco prison — closure in the fall.
Inside students currently participating in Pitzer’s Pathway-to-BA program are set to graduate on May 19 after fulfilling the 32-credit course requirement. They will then be relocated to other prisons in California, but they haven’t been told which facilities they’ll be transferred to, according to Peterson.

Claremont McKenna College Front Page News

April 17, 2026 2:34 amApril 17, 2026 2:45 am

CWPD and QCL see declines in sign-ups; student employees say AI is to blame

By Kahani Malhotra 762 Views AI, Chloe Ray, Claremont McKenna College, CWPD, Eleanor Larson, Georgia Evrigenis, Kahani Malhorta, QCL, Writing Center

Sign-ups at Claremont McKenna College’s Center for Writing and Public Discourse (CWPD) and Quantitative and Computing Lab (QCL) have declined significantly this academic year. Some student employees attribute the trend to students’ growing use of AI tools for academic support and say a continued lack of sign-ups may result in staff cuts.
This spring, the CWPD has only seen around 345 appointments, according to its sign-up portal — an approximate 50 percent decline in use compared to last spring, when the center received 700 student appointments, according to an email from Associate Director Chloe Ray sent to writing consultants last May.
Several current and former student QCL employees confirmed the center experienced a similar decline in sign-ups.

Opinions

April 10, 2026 2:37 amApril 11, 2026 2:36 pm

OPINION: In an era of disorder, our cities are still too perfect

By Nicholas Steinman 683 Views Claremont Colleges, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont Students for Abundance, Echo Lake, graffiti towers, Highland Park, Nicholas Steinman, Oceanwide Plaza, Pitzer Hall, Silver Lake

“Lovable neighborhoods don’t get built anymore, only appearing when our social fabric breaks down. But it’s not because we don’t know how to build them anymore,” Nicholas Steinman CMC ’28 writes. “If we reform our byzantine municipal regulations to make it cost-effective for more people to build more varied buildings again, and if we move past our misguided aspiration to create ‘efficient’ urban areas, we can once again build the progress we need in our cities without closing them off to humanity.”

Current CARE Center Fellows smile and pose for a group photo.

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March 13, 2026 12:16 am

CMC’s CARE Center celebrates 10 years of constructive dialogue

By Reanna Mohler 836 Views CARE Center, care cmc, Cerena Karmaliani, Claremont McKenna College, CMC, DEI, Jenni Florencio, Trump, Vince Greer

Claremont McKenna College’s Civility, Access, Resource and Expression (CARE) Center celebrated its 10-year anniversary on March 4. Students and faculty spoke to CARE’s impact on campus amid threats to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from the Trump administration.
To Vince Greer, CMC assistant vice president for dialogue and diversity, the current political climate makes the CARE center and its mission “more important [now] than ever.”

Volunteers in hair nets help pack meals for those in need.

News

March 6, 2026 2:12 am

ASCMC inaugural meal packing event yields 16,000 meals for charity

By Noah Brewster 777 Views ASCMC, California, Claremont McKenna College, CMC, Ellen Ketels, food insecurity, Katherine Hodge, ken eckel, meal packing, Noah Brewster, OPC, Zhongyi Chen

Last Friday, 85 students and faculty members volunteered to package more than 16,000 meals for the Pomona Valley Food Bank in an event hosted by Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC). Ken Eckel CM ’28, community service committee chair, and Katherine Hodge CM ’27, academic affairs committee chair, organized

Front Page News

March 6, 2026 1:55 amMarch 6, 2026 2:58 am

Scripps anticipates housing shortage next spring due to record fall abroad applicants

By Ila Bell and Carys Hardy 1067 Views Carys Hardy, Claremont McKenna College, Eliza Cole, Ila Bell, Josh Scacco, Maia Gutmann, Pomona College, SAGE, Scripps housing, scripps study abroad, Simone Pradha

Scripps College is anticipating housing shortages next year after receiving record numbers of study abroad applications for the fall semester, leaving many Scripps students concerned about spring semester dorm availability.Scripps’ office of Study Abroad and Global Education (SAGE) sent a notice on Feb. 24 to students planning to go abroad in the fall, encouraging them to consider going abroad in the spring due to potential issues.Though SAGE said they will not require students to change semesters, they strongly encourage students to reconsider.

News

February 27, 2026 1:57 amFebruary 27, 2026 1:58 am

5Cs implement ‘Know Your Rights’ immigration and workplace protections

By Carys Hardy 516 Views California’s Workplace Know Your Rights Act, Carys Hardy, Claremont Colleges, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Jordan Becknell, Know Your Rights, know your rights notice, Lu Lo, Pitzer College, Pitzer Production Center, Pomona College, Scripps College, Sending Alerts to Families in Education Act, TCCS

5C human resources departments have begun to implement California’s Workplace Know Your Rights Act (SB 249) after it was passed Feb. 1. In alignment with the Act, 5C employees will receive notice of key workplace rights and have the opportunity to indicate emergency contacts, but student workers and college staff

Paul Hurley, CMC professor of philosophy, poses and smiles for the camera.

Features

February 13, 2026 3:22 amFebruary 13, 2026 3:34 am

‘Don’t play God’: Professor Paul Hurley on outcome-centered morality

By Shannon Bigelow 314 Views Claremont McKenna College, Molly Daley, Paul Hurly, Shannon Bigelow

On Wednesday, Feb. 4, in the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College Professor of Philosophy Paul Hurley delivered a talk titled “Are you Living in a Funhouse Mirror?”

Students and Professors engage in lively discussion around large table.

News

February 6, 2026 12:44 amFebruary 6, 2026 2:55 am

Students, faculty and alumni discuss ICE and civil unrest in Minneapolis

By Domino McMillan and Noah Brewster 639 Views Alex Bartholomew, Claremont McKenna College, Domino McMillan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ioannis Evrigenis, Kravis Center, Minnesota, Noah Brewster, open academy, Shivom Parihar

Last Saturday, more than 20 students, faculty and 5C alumni gathered in Claremont McKenna College’s Kravis Center for an event hosted by The Open Academy to discuss the mobilization of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Participants also talked about the recent murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis.