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Throughout the recent student government elections at CMC, a constant refrain among most of the candidates was that they aimed to make life at the College better, happier and "awesomer" than ever before. To many, this conjures images of great parties and exciting events put on by ASCMC.
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Claremont McKenna's Middle East Studies department graduated its first major this December and its Arabic Department is planning its summer long immersion program in Arabic language and culture. Yet the extremist views of Bassam Frangieh, its director, and President Gann's moral equivocation about those views raise serious concerns about the fledgling program's focus and fairness as it plans its expansion.
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For those of us born after the Reagan years or at their very end, America's 40th President has always been a figure set in history. Stricken with Alzheimer's, he had begun the famous "journey to the sunset of his life" while we were still very young, so we knew him mainly by the handful of defining moments by which he is remembered in our national consciousness.
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Over the course of this semester, three pro-life events are bringing the abortion issue to the forefront of debate at the Claremont Colleges. The first was a formal debate sponsored by the Pomona Student Union on February 25th, the second was the Los Angeles March for Life on March 13th, and the third, the California Students of Life Conference, will be held at Claremont McKenna on April 17th.
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Adam Kokesh, a 2005 graduate of Claremont McKenna College and former staff writer for the Claremont Independent, is running for Congress. He hopes to unseat Ben R. Luján, the Democratic incumbent, as United States Representative for New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District.
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The Claremont College's Aramark dining hall workers petitioned in 1999 to carry out a card-check unionization vote. Aramark managers had been accused of intimidating pro-union petitioners. The allegations against Aramark and student protests resulted in the termination of all Aramark contracts with the Claremont Colleges.
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Recently Claremont McKenna decided move towards being a "green" campus. In 2007 CMC decided to participate in the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPPC), a pledge which most notably requires CMC to establish a plan to be carbon neutral.
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Let's start with the old news. TNC has been "cancelled indefinitely"-a serious curve ball to CMC's famed social scene. Since cutting entitlement programs has never led to reelection, ASCMC has vowed to "try and save our Thursday nights". Fortunately for those of you going through TNC withdrawal, this week's "trial run" likely means your fix is back to stay.
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Three days before the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, I was working with a U.S. medical team at Hopital Sacre Coeur, one of the country's top hospitals located in Milot, a sleepy outpost on the northern part of the country. Our medical mission team from the U.
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Two years ago, Newsweek named Claremont McKenna College the "Top College for Election Year." I appreciate that Newsweek did not take in to account our student government's election process. Frankly, the ASCMC election process is an embarrassment to our school.
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Every year, Harvey Mudd Students construct an intricate network of bridges, platforms, and waterfalls for the infamous Slippery When Wet party. The construction and engineering has typically been part of a final project for ENG 115.
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Holy crap!!!

It's probably for our awesome scoop:

Pamela Gann (who is from the future!!) is going to be replaced by Captain Kirk!!!!!1!

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Things are getting busy and since it's final paper time, we at The StagHen have taken time out of our schedule to provide fellow students with some valuable tips on how to improve that final essay.

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At a press conference this morning, nurses from the 5C Student Health Center announced a startling trend.  As illustrated in this chart, the results of STD diagnoses have been on the rise since the Health Center began keeping track of these statistics.

A health center nurse told The StagHen that diseases like Hepatitis C were relatively prevalent on campus in previous decades but, "Recently, students expect and feel entitled to getting Hepatitis A."

Statistics show that both the quantity and quality of Sexually Transmitted Diseases are rising on campus. At first, this doesn't seem so bad but many students wonder, if everyone gets herpes anyways, what is the point of even taking STD tests?

"What is the point of graduating from Pomona with Chlamydia if anyone can do it?" noted one student.

Some have suggested that  the college needs to change its definition of what an STD is or that, perhaps, older professors need to stop giving out so many infections.

"I think there is this feeling amongst students and professors," said Alex Parson, CMC '11," that because you got into college here, you deserve to be an Aids + Student -- and that needs to change."
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Following the notorious Scissor Me Scripps bias incident, the women's college administration has announced in an email
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This week Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground?a group which bombed the Pentagon, US Capital, and 23 other sites?spoke at Pitzer College. Ayers was on campus to launch Pitzer?s Achieving Radical Change: Conversation with ?Terrorist? leaders speaker series.

?It was totally great to have him here? said Charlie Sands, a Pitzer senior. ?It?s so clear that we need radical change. We need to break our paradigm. The oil companies, and the WTO just run this world, man, and it?s not right.?

Ayers was only the first speaker. Future speakers will include:

    * Timothy McVeigh- the Oklahoma City bomber will deliver an address entitled The Power of Knowledge: How chemistry changed my life, and how it can be the change we need
    * Khalid Sheikh Mohammed- the architect of 9/11 will lecture on Effective Community Organizing: How can you improve communications with your target audience?
    * Osama Bin Laden- the world?s most notorious activist for change, and movement leader will deliver the keynote address of the series Fighting for Social Justice: How will you remake the world we live in?

 

Pitzer College initially had trouble financing the series. ?Certain people were reluctant to fund this project? said visiting professor Bobby Seale. ?We went to KLI (the Kravis Leadership Institute) and they said ?are you f***ing kidding?? but I wasn?t deterred. I know Pitzer students deserve the break out of the prisms of ?rational thought? that the other 4Cs try to impose..?

Senior Administration officials at other colleges were unavailable for comment, though several CMC Government professors were overheard plotting to purchase firearms. Said one anonymous CMC professor ?Times are tough, and there?s a $25 million bounty on Bin Laden.?
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Over the summer, Forum creative manager Alex Mitchell traveled to South Africa to do a photojournalism project on the World Cup and its fans. He was accompanied by Aleksis Psychas ’10 and Moose Halpern ’10, as well as his high school friend, Kai Moreb. This article and others will be published in his coffee table book entitled The Light-Skinned Black Stars.

I first met the vuvuzela walking along the streets of Accra, Ghana. Often unwarned, the plastic horns boomed out relentlessly, hitting my ears from every direction. Like the unsynchronized car horns of Manhattan, they were only a minor disturbance in a loud city. I knew these horns would be plentiful in South Africa, but I didnâ
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Journalists, scientists and politicians often measure the Gulf Oil Spill by the number of barrels lost or gallons spilled. Unfortunately, it is rare that we speak of it in the terms of a human cost: if the oil was instead harvested it could support the average lifestyle of one million people. BP lost a small U.S. state worth of revenue a day by virtue of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. While a million Americans lost the potential energy usage of those barrels of nonrenewable energy. Obviously, it is a lose-lose situation for all. The greatest impact will nonetheless be felt by the Gulf Coast. Consequences associated with oil exploration and drilling have long plagued these states. People here may have become accustomed to these injustices, yet their patience is wearing thin.

Living in the South for this past summer has made one thing clearâ
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By 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Orientation had come to a close, teary-eyed parents were long gone, and the freshmen finally finished setting up their bunks at Camp Claremont. Many of the new students found their little minds brimming with all of the sage advice that could possibly fit in a paper folder. Use the writing center, go to the Ath, try Pitzer lunch – but, hey, that’s just the obvious stuff. What about the things that don’t come in your orientation packet? Despite the best efforts of W.O.A.! Leaders and Sponsors, there are some crucial tidbits that still manage to fly under the radar. Don’t worry new campers, the Forum is here to help, offering a series of short letters from a reliable crew of both familiar faces and fresh, new voices.

To kick it off, sophomore Libby Friede from Philadelphia hits on the sensitive topic of the infamous high school sweetheart.

Dear Freshman,

If youâ
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Editor’s note: This is the third part of a series of recommendations for your Fantasy Football 2010 draft. The series will run until the NFL kicks off on September 9th.

So now youâ
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No doubt, you’ve heard it a hundred times already this semester: How was your summer? What did you do this summer?

We at the Forum hate to compound the problem but the thing isâ
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Editor’s note: This is the second part of a series of recommendations for your Fantasy Football 2010 draft. The series will run until the NFL kicks off on September 9th.

Okay, now you know how the league works and you wonâ
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Editor’s note: This is the first part of a series of recommendations for your Fantasy Football 2010 draft. The series will run until the NFL kicks off on September 9th.

Disclaimer: Dr. Z claims in no way to be a medical, dental, or any other type of physician in any way. He has also never received a doctorate. He is only considered a â
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What is it that we are to turn on? To what are we tuning in? Midterms!

On November 3^rd, 2010, Barack H. Obama will still reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but offices at the other end of that particular street might begin to move. Recently White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs let forth the earth shattering notion that Democrats might not control both chambers of Congress after the election. Not particularly surprising to anyone who has been paying attentionâ
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Ok, Xzibit hasn’t actually been to CMC this summer but you wouldn’t know it from the way flatscreens have been popping up around campus. Poppa, Ryal, South Lab, and Collins are all amongst the facilities that have received the MTV treatment.

In addition to the new flatscreens, which will feature live updates from CMC’s finest internet publication, the computer labs have seen a few other upgrades. Poppa’s nasty old flooring and plastic sheets have been torn up and replaced with new carpeting. The chairs have also been upgraded to seats with some sick new technology — armrests! Awesome. And, if you’re a lab junky like me, you’ll be most excited for this last detail: Poppa is now ALL double screens. That’s right. No more arguing with growling seniors for those prized PCs during thesis time.

Some of the other changes students will see on campus include: flat-screens in Collins (and some huge fruit posters?), new wide-screen monitors in Ryal, and, even though you loved the Hub’s old-church-basement feel, it’s received a makeover, too. Those old love seats have been swapped for plush new leather furniture and the carpet has been completely replaced. The Kravis Center workers are still slaving away, but the construction has ended on the new pathway from CMC to Scripps. Now, there are a few new places to sit and a few less steps on the way to that delicious Scripps brunch.

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August, to some, is the time to start shopping for school supplies. But to rising high school seniors, it means time to start shopping for schools. In this time-honored tradition, ’tis the season for private rankings institutions to release fresh lists of the best schools in the United States.

Princeton Review

The Princeton Review released its college rankings list August 1 and CMC took top spots in flattering categories, including Happiest Students (#2), Best Quality of Life ( #4), Best Career Services (#7) and School Runs Like Butter (#7). The full lists are available here.

The Princeton Review book, which profiles the best 300+ colleges in its yearly publication, is a trusted staple for helicopter parents, prospective students, and college administrators. But the unscientific methods used to create the venerated lists suggest our adoration may be misplaced.

The rankings are calculated by current student surveys. Hereâ
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Had I been elected as El Presidente, one of the first things I planned on doing was cutting the Yearbook's funding from ASCMC.

Think about it. In the age of Facebook, why do we need a year book and why, oh why, do we need to all pay for it?

I can understand the thinking for sentimental purposes, but then, sentimentality, good econ. majors that many of us are, has a price. People who want the yearbook should pay for it and leave the rest of us with our Facebook profiles. We'll do fine.

P.S.: Good job to whoever came up with the not-so-bright decision to have Andrew Bluebond be yearbook editor. That task requires someone who can keep to a timetable, something, he, as editor of The Port Side, utterly failed to do. We outpublished him every time.
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