Claremont students organize with local tenants for permanent eviction protections

around 45 minutes, after which he thanked the crowd, took a selfie and dipped behind the curtain.

The crowd flooded outside Big Bridges to Marston Quad. Reenactments, praise and criticism could be heard as people headed out for the night.

“It was fun to find something relatable in each of the sets because the comedians incorporated their own experience into the performance,” Kayla Park PO ’26 said. “The energy was so dynamic between the audience and the performer.”

COuRTeSY: INCLuSIVe CLAReMONT

Members of Inclusive Claremont attended the Feb. 8 listening session to show support for stronger tenant protection ordinances.

On Wednesday, Feb. 8, over 20 members of the 5C student group Inclusive Claremont joined Claremont Tenants United to advocate for stronger renter protections at the first of two listening sessions held by the City.

Tenants of Monarch Terrace apartments pushed for the city of Claremont to organize these listening sessions to hear from the community regarding future tenant protection ordinances. Last year, Revere Investments bought the Monarch Terrace apartments.

The company used a loophole in California housing law that allows landlords to evict tenants in order to renovate a unit and then raise rents, known as a “renoviction.” Revere Investments then told tenants they had just 60 days to move out, according to a Claremont Courier article.

After months of organizing by Monarch Terrace residents to prevent the evictions, the Claremont City Council passed a temporary eviction moratorium on “no fault” evictions last October.

However, the moratorium is set to expire on June 30. According to the Co-founder of Claremont Tenants United (CTU) and a Monarch Terrace tenant of 20 years, Lydia Hernandez,CTU is pushing the City Council to adopt more permanent renter protection ordinances.

“My point is to let the city know we have to do more to protect tenants,” Hernandez said.

The listening sessions were held in-person Feb. 8 and via Zoom Feb.15.

“City staff planned these two listening sessions as a way to gather feedback from landlords and tenants about what they’d like to see represented in future tenant protection ordinances,” Katie Wand, Claremont’s Assistant City Manager, told TSL via email.

In preparation for the listening sessions, CTU and Inclusive Claremont organized canvass-

On Tuesday, Feb. 14, the Claremont International Relations Society hosted an event titled “Hot Topic: Turkey-Syria Earthquake & Relief Efforts” led by Heather Fergusson, a professor of History at Claremont McKenna College.

This event was inspired by two emails from Claremont McKenna College Dean of Students Diana Graves that provided students with resources to support the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria and Turkey. The first email included a link to the Claremont Colleges Turkish Student Association GoFundMe page, while the second email provided a list of five additional relief organizations.

Fergusson felt that along with the email, the community needed to have an event to highlight the importance of navigating tragic global events with care and compassion.

“The 5Cs includes many faculty and students who have lost family, relatives, loved ones, friends, students and colleagues,” she said. “If we seek to actively engage as global citizens at CMC, we must begin by recognizing that global events have direct and immediate consequences for our ‘local’ SoCal community as well.”

Fergusson discussed the disaster in her history classes as well as with her students in the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies humanities lab on Race and Islam. In both discussions, she explained the importance of regional knowledge to clarify the political and historical barriers rescue teams faced in bringing relief aid to those most in need.

In her Hot Topic presentation, Fer-

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