News Bites – Week Of Nov. 4

Bags of urine found in Walker Hall Bags of urine were reportedly disposed of in Walker Hall trash cans, according to an email sent by Pomona College Residence Life Coordinator Andrew Castro to Walker residents. “The week before fall break, my friends that lived in Walker noticed that it was

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Pitzer Students Receive Death Threats for Controversial Mural

Three Pitzer College students received harrassment and death threats following national news attention on a mural they painted reading “White Girl, Take Off Your Hoops,” on the college’s free art space. According to Jacquelyn Aguilera PZ ’19, one of the artists, the piece came from desires for self-healing through art and to start a conversation

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Conservative Pundit Criticizes Welfare, Black Culture in Ath Talk

  “The African will starve rather than engage in a regular system of agricultural labor, unless impelled by the stronger will of the white man,” wrote Samuel A. Cartwright in July, 1858, invoking the stereotype of black people as inherently lazy as a defense for slavery. 158 years later, in

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Pomona Student Union Explores Campus Conservatism in Walker Hall

The Pomona Student Union (PSU) held a discussion on Nov. 28 about conservatives at the Claremont Colleges. The discussion, held in Walker Lounge at Pomona College, had about 15 attendees, including three staff members of the Claremont Independent, a conservative-leaning publication on campus. PSU board member Audrey Jang PO ‘19 began

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Christina Hoff Sommers Discusses Feminism, Campus Activism at CMC

  Christina Hoff Sommers, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, former philosophy professor, and author of Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys, gave a talk at Claremont McKenna College’s Pickford Auditorium on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Roughly 35 people attended the event, which was hosted by the conservative student publication, the Claremont

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Feminism Takes a Right Turn at Rose Hills Theater

Since its inception, feminism—an ideology which professes gender equity across social, political, and economic lines—has been closely associated with the political left. A clear example of this is how both Democratic presidential candidates have embraced the label, while their Republican counterparts couldn’t distance themselves more from it. But for Sherrie

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