Author: Matt Dahl

An odd outbreak of originality burst onto the pages of the Claremont Independent this week, odd because this sort of thing usually gets waylaid in between the CI’s morning prostration to Ronald Reagan and its evening sermon on Ted Cruz. But it seems like this week the CI might finally be living up

Most of us have probably never had the chance to participate in a good Greek tragedy, but I suspect we’ve all done the next-best thing: gotten drunk at a college party or two. Sure, at the 5Cs, the booze flows from kegs instead of decanters, but the essentials are still

Is Big Bridges’ ceiling façade prettier than the melodic measures of, say, the After School Specials underneath it? Is Harvey Mudd College’s spring Shakespeare production better-looking than the cactus landscaping at Pitzer College? These may be silly questions, but they’re the kind that a lot of 5C students are considering right now, albeit

Armed with laptops in one hand and cans of Red Bull in the other, a small stampede of 5C students congregated upon Pomona College’s Lincoln-Edmunds building exactly one week ago, just as the sun was setting. They were gearing up for one of everyone’s most beloved events of the year:

Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold a proposed ban on race-based affirmative action at the University of Michigan, much to the chagrin of many who champion diversity on campuses and in the workplace. But this decision, as Supreme Court decisions go, was not terribly controversial—that is to

The catalog has been released. Registration times have been assigned. The ASPC planner has been updated. It’s course selection season again at the 5Cs, coinciding, as always, with that point in the semester when everyone is just sick enough of their current classes that they want to compulsively plan out

Some weeks ago, I stumbled upon a recent edition of the magazine Claremont Independent. Perhaps the large elephant on the cover should have tipped me off, but I eagerly picked it up because I was looking forward to reading a truly, well, independent publication. I was soon disappointed to discover,

More than 100,000 people came together last Saturday, March 1 for what they are already calling a new national holiday. Jubilation was in the air, but it wasn’t to celebrate the Russian invasion of Crimea. Rather, one niche Internet community was concerned with something altogether more serious: the much-awaited defeat

An early wave of springtime gaiety swept into the 5Cs last Friday. Eighty-degree sun shone down on the campuses amidst the erecting of tents, unfurling of banners, and serving of suspiciously good dining hall food. (Just kidding about the last one.) It was Valentine’s Day, and Family Weekend had arrived