New Claremont Port Side Issue

By Josh S. | December 10, 2008 at 5:46 pm | Life | 18 comments | |

 

The Claremont Port Side, Claremont’s progressive/liberal magazine, just published a new issue and it is available online at claremontportside.com.

1) The most relevant article to CMCers is Michael Wilner’s piece on CMC’s future potential expansion east into Upland.
Summary: While construction to the east of CMC is controversial, this would shorten the drive to In N Out.

2) Andrew Bluebond wrote a piece on bias-related incidents at the Claremont Colleges.
Summary:  CMC students are entitled to freedom of speech and all that, except in cases of harassment, yelling fire in crowded theater, etc.  Also, the administration is free to send out e-mails about bias-related incidents.

Side note: It can be hard to determine what constitutes harassment, which has been a point of contention by some students recently.

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In late 2007, Josh started the website CMCForum.com. It has since grown into this fine publication today. He is a senior at CMC and is not looking forward to graduating, after which he will move back to NYC and take over.

 
 
 
 
  • Judge McKenna

    running tally, fall 2008:

    Claremont Independent (EIC: Ilan Wurman): 4 issues
    Claremont Port Side (EIC: Andrew Bluebond): 2 issues

    it looks like the conservatives won this one.

  • Judge McKenna

    running tally, fall 2008:

    Claremont Independent (EIC: Ilan Wurman): 4 issues
    Claremont Port Side (EIC: Andrew Bluebond): 2 issues

    it looks like the conservatives won this one.

  • cindi

    in n out… and closer to tropical lei!

  • cindi

    in n out… and closer to tropical lei!

  • Bring Back Abhi!

    last year the Port Side kicked the CI’s ass, in the fall the CI only had like 1 issue and the Port Side had like 4. abhi rocked… what happened this year?

  • Bring Back Abhi!

    last year the Port Side kicked the CI’s ass, in the fall the CI only had like 1 issue and the Port Side had like 4. abhi rocked… what happened this year?

  • Andrew Bluebond

    Budget constraints happened, my friend. I have to be sure that we can publish throughout the year. I don’t want to blow our entire budget in the first semester.

  • Andrew Bluebond

    Budget constraints happened, my friend. I have to be sure that we can publish throughout the year. I don’t want to blow our entire budget in the first semester.

  • Tyler Henley

    The replacement of the current baseball field would be a travesty for everyone
    in the CMS community. I am not a part of the team, but I have traveled around
    the sciac to watch baseball games, and CMC has the best field, HANDS DOWN. The
    natural setting, the silhouette of the trees, the hill in left field, the ivy
    surrounding the stands… its way too spectacular to demolish for the purpose of
    CMCs expansion.
    Furthermore, why does the College intend to expand so
    extensively? We have excelled in our pursuit of collegiate excellence -
    wouldn’t we be abandoning our fundamental advantages over other schools by
    growing the student body and throwing up parking garages and dorms all over the
    place?

    I am strongly opposed to these propositions. We should spend our money
    on the quality of educational experiences within our current setting.

  • Tyler Henley

    The replacement of the current baseball field would be a travesty for everyone
    in the CMS community. I am not a part of the team, but I have traveled around
    the sciac to watch baseball games, and CMC has the best field, HANDS DOWN. The
    natural setting, the silhouette of the trees, the hill in left field, the ivy
    surrounding the stands… its way too spectacular to demolish for the purpose of
    CMCs expansion.
    Furthermore, why does the College intend to expand so
    extensively? We have excelled in our pursuit of collegiate excellence -
    wouldn’t we be abandoning our fundamental advantages over other schools by
    growing the student body and throwing up parking garages and dorms all over the
    place?

    I am strongly opposed to these propositions. We should spend our money
    on the quality of educational experiences within our current setting.

  • Claremont Port Side’s CMC’s PR

    They did come out with more than one issue. It was just passed out at the new school in Singapore!

  • Claremont Port Side’s CMC’s PR Office

    They did come out with more than one issue. It was just passed out at the new school in Singapore!

  • just a guess

    but the previous unsigned comment was almost definitely by cj

  • just a guess

    but the previous unsigned comment was almost definitely by cj

  • give bluebond a break

    The CI receives a lot of extra funding from private sources, namely, conservative alumni. Let’s face it, CMC used to be a very conservative school, so a lot of our alumni are conservative and would like to see the College stay that way, and like to give to the CI to help push it back towards that direction.

    In a couple of years, the alumni base will be more ideologically balanced, I’m sure, and hopefully those more progressive graduates will give as much as the conservative ones do.

  • give bluebond a break

    The CI receives a lot of extra funding from private sources, namely, conservative alumni. Let’s face it, CMC used to be a very conservative school, so a lot of our alumni are conservative and would like to see the College stay that way, and like to give to the CI to help push it back towards that direction.

    In a couple of years, the alumni base will be more ideologically balanced, I’m sure, and hopefully those more progressive graduates will give as much as the conservative ones do.

  • http://claremontconservative.com The Real Charles Johnson

    Gosh golly. I sure have so many people who think I come on this site a lot!

    I didn’t write anything on here about the Port Side this time around, altho now that I know they’re having a hard time making ends meet, I feel somewhat guilty for using it to paper my bird cage.

    As for the above comment, how do you know who what our finances are like?

  • http://claremontconservative.com The Real Charles Johnson

    Gosh golly. I sure have so many people who think I come on this site a lot!

    I didn’t write anything on here about the Port Side this time around, altho now that I know they’re having a hard time making ends meet, I feel somewhat guilty for using it to paper my bird cage.

    As for the above comment, how do you know who what our finances are like?