Author: Claire Mullen

The first shovel-full of reusable dirt will be unearthed on April 30 at the site of Claremont’s first-ever Superadobe building, which will be one of the greenest buildings in the world and the first public building of its type in the U.S. The groundbreaking marks the beginning of an innovative,

An endless stream of paper, coffee, and 5C student clubs representatives flowed through Room 208 of Pomona's Smith Campus Center two weekends ago for three prolonged days of Annual Budget Hearings. They were greeted by student government leaders of each of the 5Cs. The hearings, which take place each spring,

Robert Faggen, Professor of Literature at CMC, lounges in a tweed sport coat under a black and white print of a single finger pointing upward. Shelves of books line all sides of his office, and an Allen Ginsberg figurine sits on his desk. He holds a letter from the Guggenheim

While prospective students swarm the 5Cs this week in search of the perfect school, Pomona’s Office of Admissions is conducting a search of its own. The hunt for a new Dean of Admissions began last semester, and college administrators hope to fill the position by the beginning of the next

Bruce Poch, who resigned as Pomona's Dean of Admissions last semester, is now writing a Q&A blog for The New York Times. The blog answers questions from readers—mostly worried parents—about what they can expect from the college admissions process. Poch worked in the admissions offices of both Wesleyan University and

The Intercollegiate Media Studies department will face the 2011-2012 academic year without nearly half of its core faculty members. Next year, Professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick will not be returning to Pomona, and neither will Professor Jennifer Friedlander. Professor Tracy MacLean will be leaving Pitzer, while Professor Jesse Lerner will also leave

Emi Young PO ’13 was on a plane headed for Japan when the earthquake struck on March 11. She was going for her spring break to visit family, as she usually does at least once a year. But half an hour before landing, the plane changed course, and Young found

Harvey Mudd physics professors Peter Saeta and Gregory Lyzenga aim to curtail fears among the 5C community in the wake of the disasters in Japan through an educational presentation focusing on the earthquake, related geophysics questions, and nuclear safety. The event will take place in HMC’s Galileo-McAlister Hall today from

The National Socialist Movement (NSM), the largest openly neo-Nazi organization in the United States, will hold a rally in Claremont on March 19. The protest, part of NSM’s “Reclaim the Southwest” campaign, is billed as an anti-immigration rally. The organization announced the rally March 1 in a video posted on

The Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees recently voted to proceed with construction plans for a new teaching and learning building that it hopes will become the new “focal point” of HMC’s campus. Construction will begin this summer and is expected to be completed by spring 2013. The building, which