Kevin Burke | 3/11/10
As you may be aware, India is full of trash; when you’re finished unwrapping something you simply throw it out the window or discard it in the nearest gutter. It looks like there are two equilibria here: one where everyone litters and one where only a few people do. The amount of litter here is astonishing and it’s taken me a month to get used to just dropping things whenever I’m finished with them (don’t get me started on “Be the change:” this problem’s bigger than me and I use trash bins when they’re around.
Most of the trash here is simply burned, after it’s been picked through by dogs and cows (have only seen a few people digging through the trash here; there aren’t any giant piles of trash). Shop owners keep the areas in front of their shops clean, but the same can’t be said of houses; there are some really nice houses behind Vidya Bhawan that...
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The CMC Forum | 3/11/10
Just like the rest of CMC, the Forum has checked out for a few days. While we take our well-deserved vacation, please enjoy our recent content. We’ll be back in action in a few days– and soon, we’ll announce a new editorial team.
If you’re taking it easy on campus or at home and you’re tired of reading 8:27 Procrastination and ramblings on Claremont weather conditions, may we suggest TED? It’s like the Ath, but...
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Claremont Now | 3/11/10
The city council briefly spoke about this naked ride on Tuesday night. Unfortunately, the photo caption appears to be incorrect. It reads: "Girl Talk played at Harwood Halloween, but paused his music for 30 minutes due to safety concerns. (Andrew Hong/TSL)" Here is the link to the Pomona College Student Life story (and photo):
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The CMC Forum | 3/11/10
Twenty years from now, many of us will experience a funny sort of deja vu as pictures from our college days come to light for the viewing pleasure and delight of our children. These won’t be the days of old, like the 90’s or early 2000’s, when children had only the dozen or so fuzzy pictures of parents with fro’s, bell bottom jeans, and tie-dye T-shirts to try to recreate their parent’s lives circa 1970. Our kids will have a bounty of pictures and videos to choose from as they reflect on the legitimacy of our authority.
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Ben Casnocha: The Blog | 3/11/10
There is a tremendous amount of fuzzy thinking around terms like "social entrepreneurship," "social business," and "socially responsible business." When people ask me what I think about social entrepreneurship, I first say I'm not sure what social entrepreneurship means. I'm not sure what makes it deserving of its own term. Then I say I think for-profit entrepreneurship does huge amounts of social good so I'm going to stay focused on that. Carl Schramm recently wrote an excellent short piece in the Stanford Social Innovation Review called All Entrepreneurship is Social. Nut graf: ...regular entrepreneurs create
thousands of jobs, improve the quality of goods and services
available to consumers, and ultimately raise standards of...
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The CMC Forum | 3/11/10
The Men’s Basketball and Swimming teams, as well as the Women’s Swimming team took home their respective SCIAC championships for the second year in a row. Although a spirited run brought the Athenas baskeball team to the SCIAC playoffs, they were unable to take down #1 Occidental in their semifinal game.The Men’s Swimming team won their third straight SCIAC title, defeating Redlands by over 200 points. Andrew Fevery CM ‘13 won the 1 and 3 meter diving SCIAC titles. Joining him on the top podium were Austin Hallett CM ‘12 who won the 100 butterfly. The 800 free relay team of Blake Weber CM ‘13, Jeff McNerney CM ‘12, Andrew Cosentino CM ‘11, and Stephen Andron CM ‘10 also set a 25 year old CMS record.
The Women’s Swimming team beat Redlands by over 100 points to win their eighth straight SCIAC championship, the...
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Claremont McKenna College News | 3/11/10
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Claremont Insider | 3/11/10
There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
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The CMC Forum | 3/10/10
In lieu of a real student center, ASCMC and the administration have been mulling ideas to improve Emett Student Center â...
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Kevin Burke | 3/10/10
Tyler Cowen blogged about this today, so I better publish this piece, which I wrote two months ago, when I was really fed up with bad question askers after the ITAB trip, but it never made its way onto the Forum. Here it is, verbatim.
Five Types of Question Askers to Avoid
Kevin Burke
Pot, meet kettle:
- The person who just wants the speaker to confirm something that they already believe. You can tell this type because they ask leading yes or no questions. “Do you believe that global warming is going to destroy our way of living?”
- The person who just wants to show off how much they know to everyone else. You can tell...
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Kevin Burke | 3/10/10
When I’m in a foreign city I use these proxies to find a place to eat:
No outside advertising in English: +1 point. Generally, ads in English mean a place is catering to tourists, and thus likely to try and steer me to the non-spicy items, etc.
More than half full with locals: +3 points. This is great as well because then I can just look around and order whatever everyone else is having.
More than half full with tourists: -2 points. I know I talk a lot about signaling, but this is really more for spice, quality and price reasons, not “I want to be different than the crowd” reasons.
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Claremont Insider | 3/10/10
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Claremont Insider | 3/10/10
COUNCIL COMINGS AND GOINGSWell, as we predicted, at their meeting Tuesday night, the Claremont City Council appointed Councilmember Linda Elderkin mayor and named Councilmember Sam Pedroza mayor pro tem. Outgoing mayor Corey Calaycay was honored by a representative of State Senator Bob Huff's office, and Calaycay is off to make a run for the state assembly. Calaycay hopes to fill the 59th Assembly District seat vacated by Anthony Adams, who, after avoiding being recalled for supporting last year's state budget agreement, decided not to run again. The Claremont 400 is hoping Calaycay wins the Republican primary in June. Given the gerrymandered nature of our district, winning that race pretty much guarantees a...
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