Thirty-eight of the scheduled speakers at Claremont McKenna College’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum this fall are men and just 12 are women, according to the Athenaeum’s website. This tally excludes panel discussions. The Athenaeum hosts talks four days per week during the semester, attracting “a spectrum of luminaries” across different fields of expertise to
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Ath Speaker Series Kicks Off with Free Speech Talk by TV Host Dave Rubin
Dave Rubin, TV personality and comedian, opened the 2017-2018 speaker series at Claremont McKenna College’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Sept. 12 with his lecture “The Rubin Report: An Evening of Free Speech with Dave Rubin.” A self-defined classical liberal known for his political satire and direct approach, Rubin is
Analysis: Did Mac Donald Blockaders Violate Policy?
Claremont McKenna College announced Monday that it has found seven students responsible for violating college policies during a blockade of Black Lives Matter critic Heather Mac Donald’s Athenaeum talk in April. A close reading of the policies that CMC references in public statements reveals plenty of wiggle room — and
Students Who Blockaded Heather Mac Donald Talk Sanctioned With Suspensions, Probations
Seven Claremont McKenna College students who participated in the blockade of conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald’s talk in April have now been sanctioned by administrators, according to an email sent to the college community Monday. Of the seven students, three received year-long suspensions, two received semester-long suspensions, and two have
Students Blockade Athenaeum to Protest Conservative Speaker
A crowd of approximately 300 protesters surrounded the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College in an attempt to block conservative political commentator Heather Mac Donald from entering the building and delivering a talk on the evening of Thursday, April 6. Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and
Ath Talks Aren’t Neutral
During the protest at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College yesterday, which Samuel Breslow reported on in this week’s issue of TSL, a common argument by counter-protesters was one that seems reasonable on paper: “I agree that Black lives matter, but I also want to see the
Ath Talk Highlights History of Blaxicans in LA
Walter Luis Thompson-Hernandez spoke at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College this past Wednesday, March 23. His speech, “Blaxicans of LA: Then and Now,” focused on both the history and contemporary state of (the lives of) mixed race black-Mexicans, or “blaxicans,” in Los Angeles. Thompson-Hernandez, a multimedia journalist,
Ath Speaker Explores Arabic Traditions in History of Natural Sciences
British-Lebanese scholar Nader El-Bizri ended his teaching tour at the Claremont Colleges with a lecture, “Arabic Classical Traditions in the History of the Exact Sciences,” at the Marion Miner Cook Athenaeum the night of Tuesday, Feb. 28. El-Bizri is an architect, historian, philosopher, and mathematician teaching at the American
Conservative Pundit Criticizes Welfare, Black Culture in Ath Talk
“The African will starve rather than engage in a regular system of agricultural labor, unless impelled by the stronger will of the white man,” wrote Samuel A. Cartwright in July, 1858, invoking the stereotype of black people as inherently lazy as a defense for slavery. 158 years later, in
Ath Talk Examines Medieval Sex and Scandal
Yitzhak Hen, professor of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, spoke about Merovingian political history at Claremont McKenna College’s Marian Miner Cook Athanaeum in a talk titled, “Sex, Lies, and Politics in the Early Middle Ages” on Feb. 21. After a formal dinner and eager chatter in an ornate hall,