Archive for: athenaeum
If We Love CMC, Why Hurry Home?
Along with a handful of East Coast CMCers stuck in Claremont for the past few days (see: huge storm), I had to occupy myself with whatever I could during the day...
Mitt Romney Actually Coming to the Ath
We have confirmed campus rumors that former Republican presidential primary candidate Mitt Romney will be one of CMC’s upcoming Res Publica Society speakers.
Nuns and the Death Penalty at the Ath
The Forum has gotten early word that Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and outspoken activist against the death penalty, is scheduled to speak at...
Debate Night 2.0: 1400, Alcohol, and Men
Still fired up from the first Debate Night at the Ath (“Is CMC a true liberal arts college?”), The Forum and ASCMC are pleased to announce a second Debate...
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...
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- Hmm on Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart: "Because relationships are always based on logic......"
- in a relationship on Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart: "damn connor. i guess you're right. i'll try to make friends now...."
- Connor Barclay on Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart: "@"in a relationship" Let me pretend I'm not hopelessly romantic, an..."
- 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..."