SOCIAL: CMC Committee Crumbles

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Ritchie praised students for their calls to remove cops from the Claremont campuses. She also applauded them for resisting the Claremont Colleges’ attempts to exploit their employees and using their privilege as students at well-resourced institutions to promote transformative justice.

“I’ve definitely seen students standing in solidarity with hotel workers, with cafeteria workers, [and] with the people who these colleges are in relationships of exploitation with,” Ritchie said. “That’s what we do in the most resourced spaces. We stand with the people who are being exploited by them and we use the resources to practice the world we want.” select applicants, with the goal of forming a group that represents CMC’s student body.

The Prison Abolition Collective meets on Mondays from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Scripps student union.

The group will meet with Dean of Students (DOS) staff and use student feedback to make positive changes to CMC’s social life, according to an email Dean of Students Dianna Graves sent to CMC students.

In her email, Graves said that the purpose of the group is to “collaboratively analyze” the school’s current social life and “identify ways to make improvements.”

Starting March 1, the group will meet once a week to discuss issues involving alcohol accessibility, event registration, student fees and inclusivity.

Graves highlighted the working group’s holistic approach to social life in her email.

“At its core, this is a conversation with the student body about the community you want to have. The people you want to meet and get to know, the experiences you want to have together, the friendships you want to build,” Graves said.

In an email sent to CMC students, Singh said she hopes that new approaches to CMC’s social life — such as the new working group — will help foster inclusivity on campus.

“[ASCMC officers] want to ensure that this process will continue and be inherently inclusive of the many voices and experiences that make up our campus, including but not limited to affinity groups, CMC Advocates, student-athletes, club and organization participants, DOS, and many more.” she wrote.