FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, took the Claremont Colleges to task again on its website's blog. FIRE first contacted the presidents of the 5C's, along with the Claremont University Consortium, to notify the colleges of concerns FIRE had about several incidents that seemed to limit freedom of speech on the Claremont campuses.
The Daily Bulletin covered the contact FIRE had with the colleges in an April 10th article. (The online version of the Bulletin article includes a PDF of FIRE's letter to the colleges.)
FIRE seems to have kept tabs on the goings on at the Claremont Colleges, and their blogger Erin Royce summed up the seeming double standards at the 5C's when it comes to which ideas are acceptable and which are not:
Now, FIRE has learned that about a week ago, another flyer was posted around the campus of Pomona College, another of the Claremont Colleges, advertising a "Black Out Party." This ad also features photos of scantily clad African-American women. As of today, there is no word on whether or not Pomona administrators will send around an e-mail criticizing this flyer, but if they don't, it's an obvious display of a double standard that FIRE and the students of the Claremont Colleges should not tolerate.
Claremont McKenna College bloggers Aditya Bindal and Charles Johnson have followed the FIRE/5C's story closely, and you can read their takes on the coverage the issue received in Pomona College's The Student Life here and here.
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