‘Clutching at straws’: Dining services and professors at the 5Cs weigh in on Trump’s executive order to ban paper straws

The 5C dining facilities do not have plans to alter their policies after Trump signed an executive order to end the use of paper straws.

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5Cs join plastic straw-banning trend

Following Scripps College’s lead from 2017, the other Claremont Colleges have limited plastic straw use for the 2018-19 academic year. Bon Appétit Dining Services, which manages both Collins Dining Hall at Claremont McKenna College and McConnell Dining Hall at Pitzer College, implemented a company-wide plastic straw ban on May 31,

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