- Carl Peaslee on Summer Stories Series: "The form is fixed now. It is at the bottom of the post...."
- Kelsey Brown on Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart: "I believe what she meant was that if you are consumed by your relation..."
- missed the point on Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart: "I think my name says it..."
- in a relationship on Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart: "why can't someone feel satisfied with their relationship and be happy ..."
- Jillian on Pimp My Campus: "oooh, new walkway! so excited to see it when I get back!!..."
Beth Ricca Leaves CMC
Beth Ricca, Associate Director of Career Services and Director of Internships, has left Claremont McKenna. Rumors about Ricca’s desire to leave CMC have long circulated campus and Diana Seder, Director of Career Services, confirmed that Ricca has “has accepted a position with the Ramapo School in New Jersey” after “ looking to move back to her home state for some time.”
Career Services is currently searching for a replacement and has hired on an interim Assistant Director, Jason Jeffrey, to fill her position. Jeffrey, who will take over the sponsored internship program, starts at CMC on January 11.
After Dean Huang’s interview with (and ultimate decision to decline an offer from) Amherst earlier this semester, not to mention his replacement as Dean of Students by Mary Spellman, Beth Ricca’s departure rounds out something of a tumultuous semester for the administration.
has accepted a position with the Ramapo School in New Jersey
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Wyatt MacKenzie
Wyatt MacKenzie, like Venus, was formed spontaneously from sea foam and emerged carrying an IBM Selectric. He is physically incapable of producing anything but the most perfect reporting imaginable and has won seven Pulitzers for his work investigating CMC cafeterias. He hopes one day to report a story so hard that it stops ethnic conflict in the third world.
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2009-12-22
11:41:43
Nice move CMC. Keep dean Huang and get rid
of beth ricca. CMC improved 50 percent this month.
Beth ricca was probably the most incompetent administrator in the history of cmc and for no apparent reason they had given her power over 100s of students summer plans. Let summer awesomeness begin free from the shackles of beth ricca!
2009-12-22
18:27:12
I don't think that beth was necessarily incompetent at all. I think she was a hardass. And given that we have the broadest and most diverse abroad program on the planet, I don't think that's a bad thing. Her job was to keep us in check. We hate getting kept in check. But that doesn't mean that she didn't know how to do her job. In fact, I would argue the opposite. She knew exactly how to do her job; that's why we didn't like her.
2009-12-22
19:59:51
Joshua, I think you're confused... Beth Ricca wasn't the director of Study Abroad or Off Campus Study... She was the Associate Director of Career Services and Director of Internships.
2009-12-23
00:36:56
That's true, but from my understanding she mostly gave people grief about getting funding to go abroad. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but most everyone I know who found fault with her found it in the study abroad department of her job description. Remember also that she resided in Career Services when it was launched into second best in the country (now, I'm told, we're seventh; not too shabby).
2009-12-23
08:57:21
Beth Ricca once tried to deny me a grant to work abroad because "we had not discussed" the issue of traveling to countries currently on the state department list. I told her we had, many times, over email. She began to get furious at the suggestion that I was calling her a liar, and she began searching for my file. She found it under a Collins cookie, which had grease stained the front page. Stapled to the back were the emails between me, her, and my sponsor. Good riddance to mean incompetence.