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This is a photograph from 1969 of President Mark H. Curtis (from 1964-1976) giving a follow-up announcement to students of Scripps College that are demonstrating against his neutral stance on the events that took place under the Nixon administration…

This document provides a numbered list of proposed resolutions regarding student sentiments for the college to publicly agree to and support. The students that composed this express their anger with the President Mark H. Curtis regarding the school's…

Letter to the Scripps Community from the Office of the President shortly after the campus bombings

This San Bernardino local newspaper reported on the students' demonstration in which more than 500 students stormed the office of Scripps College President Mark Curtis on Mar 4th, 1969. Students were protesting his objections to the establishment of…

A contrafact song protesting the censorship of history textbooks based on Annie Little's "Fly Me Away"

In this article from the days following the bombings, Claremont Colleges Provost Mark Curtis is quoted describing how his administration had decided to move the 65 Black students at the Colleges to off-campus housing. Although there was no evidence…

This song was composed by the students in the Core: Mobilizing Art class of Fall 2015.

This is a song that is intended to function as a protest chant or unifying anthem that deconstructs the negative stigma surrounding leg, underarm, facial and pubic hair. This empowering contrafact is inspired by Fergie's "Glamorous"--a pop song from…