Student Organizations on Campus

Claremont students are actively busy striving to make a difference on campus as well as in the community. Student organizations are entirely self-governed. Some are five-college organizations and some are restricted to their home campus but host five-college events.

Café con Leche is a Scripps College organization that wishes to provide a forum for the discussion of past and present social, political and economic topics that affect women, particularly those of Chicana/Latina descent. Each group discussion follows a brief academic analysis of a significant topic by a member of Café Con Leche. The goal of all discussions is to educate the Scripps community while promoting an understanding of significant issues concerning the awareness of diversity on our campus. The Café con Leche office is located at Gabrielle Jungles-Winkler 105, phone extension 78872.

Chiapas Support Committee Mission Statement (5C): The Chiapas Support Committee was founded in 1995 to educate the surrounding community about the human rights situation in Chiapas, Mexico, where descendants of the Mayan Indians were asking for solutions to their situation of poverty, the need for self government, and human rights. Our mission is still true today. The Chiapas Support Committee annually sends delegations of students to Chiapas to participate as human rights observers. In conjunction with Fray Bartolome de las Casas, a human rights center in San Cristobal de las Casas (city in Chiapas, Mexico), students travel to indigenous communities in Chiapas, gaining hands-on experience in human rights work. These students will experience the effects of power relations, environmental degradation, and how Chiapas associates to the international community. This group is not alone in its efforts; it is part of a greater international effort to ensure that all are empowered with the ability to act out against human rights violations. It is the obligation of these participants to bring back their experiences from their trips to educate and inform the greater college community of the Claremont Colleges. Contact - Randy Gomez at rgomez@pitzer.edu.

The Latino Student Union (LSU) is a Pitzer College student-run organization whose purpose is to provide a forum of current political and cultural awareness, as well as involvement and support in the Latino community. LSU was established to bridge communication between the Latino students in Pitzer, to the larger Pitzer community, as well as to the surrounding communities. The ways in which LSU reaches out to the larger Pitzer community and surrounding communities is through the promotion of cultural awareness, promotion of activism in benefit of the extensive Latino community, and through the creation of bridges of communication and cooperation between LSU and other clubs and organizations on campus.

The Latino Student Union was solidified as a group after its second year as a Pitzer club. LSU is a politically conscience and activist group that works to bring the Pitzer and the surrounding community together through various events ranging from an annual Día de Los Muertos Benefit Dinner to taking part in an Anti-ICE Raids march. With every semester and every year LSU has begun to gain recognition within the Pitzer and surrounding community for their involvement and drive for activism. LSU has grown and continues to further establish stronger bonds with other organizations on and off campus to compile events. Contact - Liliana Sanchez, Pitzer '09, LSU Secretary, liliana_sanchez@pitzer.edu.

Mariachi Serrano de Claremont (5-College) - Contact at mariachiserrano@gmail.com. Mariachi Serrano de Claremont, formerly known as the Claremont Colleges Mariachi, began as an idea. A group of students were brought together by their passion for mariachi music. Marchiachi Serrano de Claremont had its debut performance at Día de la Familia, 2006. Since then, the group has grown to be a 16-piece ensemble. Mariachi Serrano is both self-taught and receives instruction from a local mariachi instructor. You can see Mariachi Serrano perform at different on and off campus events. Most mariachi members don't have a mariachi music background. We're always looking for enthusiastic instrumentalists!

SHPE HMC - Harvey Mudd is now an official chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Although this organization promotes Latinos in the field of Engineering, the HMC Chapter aims to promote the participation of Latinos in all sciences and technical fields. Because SHPE is a national organization it offers the opportunity to network with companies and other chapters across the country. SHPE HMC meets every Thursday to discuss conferences and upcoming events. The 2007-2008 President is Jose Moreno (jmoreno@hmc.edu).