CLASSES CANCELED AFTER HATE CRIME.Byline: Melissa Pinion-Whitt and Mira Katz Staff Writers CLAREMONT - The Claremont Colleges Claremont Colleges, at Claremont, Calif.; including five liberal arts and sciences colleges and two graduate schools; founded 1925, known until 1961 as the Associated Colleges at Claremont. Their history began with Pomona College (inc. canceled classes Wednesday in response to a hate crime targeting a psychology professor lecturing about racism. The victim, identified as a white, Jewish Claremont McKenna professor, found her car spray-painted with racial epithets against blacks and Jews after speaking at a Tuesday night forum on the First Amendment and hate speech. ``A hate crime such as this one is the greatest imaginable affront to everything that we possibly stand for at (Claremont McKenna College A member of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont McKenna College is a small, highly selective, private coeducational, liberal arts college enrolling about 1100 students with a curricular emphasis on government, economics, and public policy. ),'' CMC (Common Messaging Calls) A programming interface specified by the XAPIA as the standard messaging API for X.400 and other messaging systems. CMC is intended to provide a common API for applications that want to become mail enabled. 1. President Pamela Gann Pamela Brooks Gann is the fourth president of Claremont McKenna College in California. Born in Monroe, North Carolina, Gann graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970, with a degree in mathematics. wrote in a letter to students and faculty. ``How can we possibly carry on as a teaching and learning community if persons physically threaten property and person in a way that leaves no doubt that it was in response to speech?'' Claremont police Lt. Stan Van Horne Van Horne can refer to: People
Classes were canceled so students could participate in a teach-in, rallies and sit-ins to protest the vandalism. ``One never lightly cancels classes, for to do so in some way suggests that we can be bullied by the perpetrators of such a heinous crime,'' Gann said in the letter which also offered a $10,000 reward for information that would solve the crime. ``Yet, we need every single person in this community to come together ... to follow his or her conscience, and to start a process of regaining control of our community.'' Claremont police contacted the FBI in West Covina West Covina, city (1990 pop. 96,086), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the San Gabriel valley; settled 1905, inc. 1923. Before World War II, West Covina was a small rural community where walnuts, wheat, and livestock were raised. on Wednesday morning and two agents responded to assist police with the investigation. ``We thought if someone wants to speak their mind particularly in our city and on the Claremont campuses, they shouldn't fear any reprisals REPRISALS, war. The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for a injury committed by the latter on the former. Vatt. B., 2, ch. 18, s. 342; 1 Bl. Com. ch. 7. 2. ,'' Van Horn said. ``It's safe to say that we're pretty shocked by it and are working hard to find out who's responsible.'' Police came to the school after they received a report of vandalism and auto burglary at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The vandalism occurred some time after 4 p.m. Melissa Pinion-Whitt, (909) 483-9378 m-pinion-whitt(at)dailybulletin.com |
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