Editor:

"The Cops won’t end this one early." –Advertisement for CMC’s Monte Carlo night held at the Fairplex in Ontario.

Enjoy being treated like second-class citizens by a populace that uses our fields as municipal parks and takes our seats when lecturers speak? How do you feel when you see unleashed villagers’ dogs use the college grounds, that your tuition pays to maintain, as their toilet? Feel comfortable knowing that a police force which has drawn its guns on students this semester and murdered an 18-year-old motorist last January is here for our protection?

Want a full and lasting solution?

We propose that the Colleges secede from the City of Claremont.

We already provide most of the services for ourselves that a city normally provides, and we wouldn’t be held to the City’s noise ordinance or be subject to the good will of their police.

To most of you this might sound quite extreme, however it gives us as a college community control of our future indefinitely. The alternative is to continue as the City’s bastard child. We may be able to find an amicable middle ground with the villagers, but there’s no guarantee that things won’t return to their current state.

If you agree with us that the city should not be able to control us any longer send a reply to:

the_5cs@hotmail.com. If you just want more information about what we are proposing or comment on it please do as well. Thank You.

Sincerely,

The Supporters of College Secession