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. Read more...
Head of Middle East Studies Supports Terrorist Group
Claremont Independent | 4/25/10
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. Read more...
Bookshelf: The Judge
Claremont Independent | 4/25/10
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. Read more...
Los Angeles for Life
Claremont Independent | 4/25/10
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. Read more...
Adam Kokesh for Congress
Claremont Independent | 4/25/10
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. Read more...
The Rocky Road to Pomona Workers' Unionization
Claremont Independent | 4/25/10
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. Read more...
CMC's New Climate Action Plan
Claremont Independent | 4/25/10
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. Read more...
News in Brief
Claremont Independent | 4/25/10
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. Read more...
"Relief" in Haiti
Claremont Independent | 4/25/10
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. Read more...
The ASCMC Vision: Neglection to Election
Claremont Independent | 4/25/10
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. Read more...
The Staghen
Slippery When Wet: The Great Swine Flu Petri Dish
Welcome to the StagHen | 5/10/09
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. Read more...
The StagHen won fifteen pulitzers!!!!!
Welcome to the StagHen | 5/9/09
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!
Top 5 Ways to Impress Your Professor With That Term Paper
Welcome to the StagHen | 5/3/09
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.
Health Center Warns of Grade Inflation in STD Tests
Welcome to the StagHen | 4/16/09
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." Read more...
"Muddy Horcrux, Rusty Bonesaw, etc." Named Amongst Scripps Administration Official Offensive Terms List
Welcome to the StagHen | 4/9/09
Following the notorious Scissor Me Scripps bias incident, the women's college administration has announced in an email Read more...
Pitzer Begins "Achieving Radical Change: Conversation with Terrorists" speaker series
Welcome to the StagHen | 4/7/09
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.? Read more...
First came the cryptic writing on the wall. Last spring semester, strange riddles displayed in the empty windows of 325 N. Yale Avenue inspired much head scratching and tummy grumbling. Claremont’s salivating epicureans left love poems to the forthcoming Cheese Cave on the shop’s doorstep:
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.
Letters to Freshmen: Advice From a Senior Stag
The CMC Forum | 9/6/10
The second letter of advice comes from senior, Alexander Reichert. Hailing from Boston, Reichert is a member of ASCMC, serving as our Dorm Affairs Chair (DAC). He is also a member of the Claremont Cougars men’s lacrosse team and a three-time W.O.A.! Leader.
Well hello there, newest additions to the happiest campus in the country.
First, I would like to welcome you and express my personal excitement for your freshman class. From the impressions that W.O.A.! leaders had of their groups, to some of the orientation stories that have been told, to hanging with a few of you in Green lounge on Tuesday night, I have heard nothing but positive things about your class from the the upper classmen.
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.
Now you know not to gamble on a defense (click here to read Rule #3). But I still havenâ Read more...
Valuing Phones in Blood
The CMC Forum | 9/5/10
My summer internship at Human Rights Watch (HRW) exposed me to a number of human rights issues. However, the issue of “blood cell phones,” cell phones containing Tantalum extracted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was one that affected me most personally and one in which American electronic consumers play an active role.
Many Americans are familiar with the phrase â Read more...
Summer Stories Series: Vuvu Mania
The CMC Forum | 9/3/10
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 Read more...
Deepwater Scars in the Southland
The CMC Forum | 9/3/10
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.
(Photo Credit: Rush Jagoe) Oil workers' bar in Louisiana.
Living in the South for this past summer has made one thing clearâ Read more...
Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart
The CMC Forum | 9/2/10
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.
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