Title IX

Pomona and Campus Safety Chase Seniors Across Claremont to Stop Their Graduation Celebration

A final nighttime gathering of freshly graduated Pomona College seniors was met with swift response from Pomona staff, Campus Safety, and eventually the Claremont Police Department over graduation ...
Title IX

Black Lives at Mudd Demand Concessions from Harvey Mudd Administration

On April 29, Black Lives at Mudd (BLAM) emailed a resolution to the Harvey Mudd (HMC) community “demand[ing] that the institution be held responsible for the harm caused to the Black student body of ...
Title IX

Pomona College Hosts California Gubernatorial Debate in Big Bridges

Eight candidates took to a crowded stage at Pomona College’s Bridges Auditorium Tuesday night, discussing California’s affordability crisis and trading jabs over the gas tax, public healthcare, and ...
Title IX

Harvey Mudd Student Body President-Elect Faces Recall Over Year-Old Racism Accusations

The newly elected president of Harvey Mudd College’s student government (ASHMC) is facing recall over a comment she made during the Spring 2025 election season. Though the president-elect issued ...
Claremont Independent

Rideshare Software Developers Demand $10,000 from Pomona Student Government

Pomona College’s student government, the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate, is facing a sudden $10,000 demand from the student software developers behind its ridesharing service. The ...
Claremont Independent

When Sex-Positivity Stops at Pregnancy

For many students, college opens the world of sex and birth control to them. During Claremont McKenna’s freshman orientation, they learn about the plethora of campus resources available for any of ...
Title IX

Fizz Goes Flat: The Mimetic Danger of Anonymous Social Media

Fizz is a mobile app that lets college students post anonymously to their campus community, verified only by a school email. The app sells itself to students as a fun, casual campus-exclusive feed to ...
Title IX

Angela Davis Entertained Tyrants and Border Guards Before Pitzer’s Class of 2026

Pitzer College is widely understood to be the most uniformly left-wing of the Claremont consortium. This morning, they announced a commencement speaker who celebrated border guards and shook hands ...
Title IX

Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty Announced as Claremont McKenna Commencement Speakers

Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty (CMC '02) will deliver the commencement address at Claremont McKenna College’s graduation ceremony on May 16. The announcement came ...
Title IX

Man Wins First Place in Women’s 100m Dash at Pomona-Pitzer Track Meet

A video showing a man dressed up as a woman to compete in the Women’s 100-Meter Dash at a Pomona-Pitzer track meet went viral on Monday, garnering millions of views across social media platforms.
Title IX

Pomona and Claremont McKenna Began Unprecedented Lobbying Efforts in 2025

In 2025, Pomona and Claremont McKenna Colleges spent $190,000 and $100,000, respectively, to lobby the federal government. Pomona hired lobbying firm theGROUP DC while CMC hired law firm Holland & ...
Title IX

Pomona College Officially in “Exclusive Partnership Negotiations” with Claremont Graduate University

CGU chose Pomona over a number of other partnership candidates, with the institutions’ boards of trustees formally agreeing to begin talks last week. Alongside the announcement, both institutions have ...