This article, written by a former news writer and mother, discusses the necessity for student protestors to better campus life and society. She insists that America's youth is not to blame, but that they are fighting injustices on campus and around…
A Claremont college newspaper, the Claremont Collegian, published this article on October 3, 1969 and used it to inform members of the community about the Vietnam Moratorium "No Business as Usual" that was going to take place on October 15, 1969. It…
The February bombings at Pomona College and Scripps College shocked the whole community. All Black students and faculty evacuated campus following threats of violence from white students. Members of the Black Student Union performed a campus sweep to…
The title of this article affirms that the Black Student Union "fled" campus after the Pomona and Scripps campus bombings: a loaded phrasing. The wording captures the tension on campus, and implies that the BSU students feared reprisals against them…
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…
In this official public statement, the presidents of the five Claremont Colleges, and the Claremont University Center pledged to start building a student body that reflected the ethnic distribution within the United States. In their list of promised…
In this letter of 1992, Mark Curtis, President of Scripps College from 1964 to 1976, discussed the first sit-in that occurred during his Presidency. The sit-in protested the removal of an olive tree grove to construct the Humanities Building. Curtis…
This letter served to inform Scripps alumnae of a new initiative to increase enrollment of minority students at the College. The administration particularly wanted to intensify efforts to enroll African-American and Mexican-American students.
In this statement, the Council of Presidents, lead by Scripps College president Mark Curtis, responded directly to the concerns raised by the Black Studies Center faculty.