Who Killed Madrigals?
The immediate answer is the Athenaeum staff, but it’s more complicated than that. After 26 years of the Madrigal Dinner tradition at Claremont McKenna, this...
Freakonomics Calls Out CMC?
SuperFreakonomics author and last Thursday’s Athenaeum speaker Steven Levitt might have given CMC an indirect shout-out in a post today on his NYT blog:
Superfreakonomics = Supersketchy?
The Athenaeum will get its money’s worth on Thursday night: speaker Steven Levitt’s new book, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes,...
The Finished Product
The Athenaeum is one of the distinctive CMC institutions that play a major role in turning today’s students into tomorrow’s leaders. This past Monday the Ath...
Brookhiser Begets Boredom at the Ath
Disclaimer: I am a liberal. That being said, Richard Brookhiser’s speech at the Athenaeum on Tuesday was terrible.
What Sustainability Means for CMC
In a recent email to the entire college, President Pamela Gann listed eight items that the Board of Trustees had agreed to review in May. Number eight was the seemingly...
Great Ideas in Science is Liberal Arts as Hell
Don’t let certain downers give you the wrong impression. Monday’s Debate Night at the Ath was awesome. Five stars. Two thumbs up. A triumph of...
- Old Timer on CMC Celeb: Isaac Goldberg: "This interview is going to the first of many skeletons in the closet f..."
- Who Dat? on CMC Celeb: Isaac Goldberg: "Goldberg plays a smooth 2nd base, and has mastered the swinging bunt...."
- A Mitch on Photo Essay: Swim and Track Meets: "good lines, maybe try some canted framing to make the races feel more ..."
- Kimberly M. on CMC Celeb: Isaac Goldberg: "The ex-Navy Seal is the best part of the Washington Program. <3..."
- Adam Smillie on CMC Celeb: Isaac Goldberg: "Isaac Goldberg, you're me hero......"
