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Tomorrow night, Scripps College will be hosting a pool party (click here for archived event) at the Sallie Tiernan Field House pool that only non-white people will be allowed to attend. Organized by Scripps’s Latinx group “Cafe con Leche”, the event was announced via Facebook (click here for archived description) under the claim of being the “first ever POC [person of color] pool party in [Clare]mont”. The three-hour use of Scripps’ Sallie Tiernan House Pool is aimed at the creation of “a safe space for 5C students that identify as POC to come together and build community,” and will be...

A collective of colleges in Los Angeles suburb has been in an uproar for the past week over Facebook posts from students with one request for housing: No white roommates. A Facebook post from Karé Ureña, a junior at Pitzer College at the Claremont Colleges, asked for fellow students to join an off-campus house for the upcoming school year. “POC only,” she wrote, using the abbreviation for “people of color.” Ureña, who is black, added, “I don’t want to live with any white folks.” The post, first reported by the Claremont Independent student magazine, sparked outrage from the campus and...

Since the Claremont Colleges are a very short distance from Upland, I wanted to get a first hand look at the terror the little snowflakes have been feeling because of the horrific Trump chalking. I am pleased to report that after spending about 25 minutes slowing cruising around the group of campuses (or is it campi), I saw no sign of fear permeating the area. No long lines in front of psych department of Student Health Services. No signs of frightening Trump chalking. (The Dreamers probably cleaned up the chalk._ No one cringing in fear. It was my first visit...