Author: Michelle No

An installation using graphic imagery to promote safe alcohol consumption that was placed outside the entrances of the Malott Commons Dining Hall at Scripps Oct. 7 drew widespread criticism from students, leading to its eventual removal. The display, which consisted of two life-size human cutouts depicting female students after a

The Claremont McKenna College (CMC) Board of Trustees has approved a 25-year master plan intended to guide the school through expansion and renovation. Key points of the plan are the relocation of sports fields and the addition of a new fitness center, campus center, and two academic buildings. The planning

Scripps College recently received a $3.5 million commitment from alumna Joan Lincoln SC ’49 and her husband, David Lincoln, to expand the college’s ceramic arts program. The pledge will fund a ceramic artist professorship, the construction of the Joan and David Lincoln Ceramic Art Building, and a portion of the

The Pomona Student Union welcomed New York Times reporter Richard Perez-Pea PO ’84, Los Angeles Times journalist Hugo Martin PO ’87 and Geneva Overholser, Director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, as they spoke about the displacement of print media by online media at “The Future of Journalism: The

A team of three Harvey Mudd College students took first place at the Southern California Regionals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest on Nov. 7 at Riverside Community College, ranking ahead of CalTech, USC and UCLA.They will move on to the international finals next year

Pomona College donated a rare California condor specimen and more than a hundred study skins of stuffed birds collected from Belize to the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology on Oct. 30.Pomona Associate Professor of Biology Nina Karnovsky, along with her vertebrate biology class, delivered the specimens to enthused museum curators

The FIL.I.AM benefit showcase drew more than 300 members of the Claremont community to the Pitzer Mounds for an evening of charitable entertainment on Oct. 29.Organized by the Center for Asian Pacific American Students (CAPAS), in collaboration with the Filipino Club and the Asian Pacific American Coalition (APAC), the event

Bryan Teague HM ’10 received a $10,000 check on Oct. 1 from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a ceremony held in Galileo Hall.The scholarship is awarded by nomination only and just 19 schools in the United States have been selected to participate.Although the foundation does not guarantee a selection from

Gary Lorden, former math adviser for the CBS show “Numb3rs,” spoke in HMC’s Galileo Hall last Friday as part of the 2009 Dr. Bruce J. Nelson ’74 Distinguished Speakers Series.Lorden’s speech incorporated examples from a book he co-authored with Keith Devlin, The Numbers behind Numb3rs: Solving Crime with Mathematics ,

What began as a Harvey Mudd College investigation into a statistical hunch culminated in a late-August research presentation in Mombasa, Kenya that debunked World Health Organization (WHO) cataract surgical rate (CSR) targets. The WHO uses CSR targets to measure the number of cataract surgeries per million people needed to prevent