Claremont McKenna College’s Civility, Access, Resources and Expression Center brought together five grassroots organizations to share their missions and the problems they have faced because of the COVID-19 pandemic in its Political Engagement through Empowered Representation, or PEER, Conference Saturday via Zoom.
Students, faculty and staff filled nearly every seat surrounding the large round tables that filled the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Monday evening at Claremont McKenna College.
David Cubek, director of the Claremont Concert Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Pasadena Symphony, conducts the choirs and orchestra of the Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and the Scripps Colleges as they performed Mozart’s Requiem in D minor in the Garrison Theater at the Claremont Colleges Saturday.
The 3.88 percent tuition increase to be initiated for the upcoming school year is a crushing financial blow for many students. This increase, however, is modest compared to previous years. Although any increase is tough, this time administration took student input into account when choices were made.