Day Program accepts first students, hires professorsAll-day retreat, subcommittees helped program take shape
(5/11/08) -- CMC's Robert Day School of Economics and Finance has accepted its first undergraduate students to the Robert Day Scholars Program, which was made possible by alumnus Robert A. Day's unprecedented $200 million grant to the college last year. These first 20 Robert Day Scholars, as they are called, are all 5C students who will matriculate in the program next year as seniors.…
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CMC Professor to Resign as Holocaust Center DirectorDean to Faculty: Not the Result We Expected "A Few Months Ago"
Claremont McKenna College history professor Jonathan Petropoulos will resign as director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights effective summer 2008. Dean of Faculty Gregory Hess made the announcement to CMC professors at a meeting on April 8.…
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BSU president battles Pitzer for "safe place" for black studentsSenate, Campus Life Committee wary of proposal(5/11/08) -- The new president of the Black Student Union (BSU) at Pitzer, Jeanine Daniels, is seeking formal authorization to convert a room on Pitzer's campus into a "safe place for black students," to redress what the group sees as a misrepresentation of diversity on campus by the college's administration.
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The 5C dining halls: an on-campus monopoly(5/11/08) -- "Hannah, I'm concerned about your cholesterol. Have you been eating Taco Bell and In-N-Out three meals a day, every day?" my doctor asked me. I looked at my athletic frame and wanted to deny the validity of my blood test. But when I really thought about my food intake, namely from Pitzer's dining hall selection, I had my answer - cheesy "ethnic" foods glazed with your choice of hoi sen or soy sauce, greasy hot dogs and pizza...
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5C Asia delegation raises academic, political questionsFrom March 24 to April 6, five of the seven Claremont consortium presidents travelled from Singapore through Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing as part of a 25-member delegation of faculty, administrators, and trustees, working to raise the profile of the consortium in Asia.
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CMC Professor Involved in Art Restitution ControversyFirm clears Petropoulos of legal wrongdoing; ethical questions remainClaremont McKenna College's administration first learned of the Pissarro affair in early August 2007 when Dean of Faculty Gregory Hess and John V. Croul Professor of History Jonathan Petropoulos met for coffee at Starbucks. The situation, which has received significant mention in the European press, involves Petropoulos in a controversial effort to restitute a Nazi-looted painting to its rightful owner, in which his associate, a Munich art dealer, has been investigated for blackmail.
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