On MadrigalsWhy We Lost the Madrigal Feast and How We Can Get it Back
Twenty-six years ago, the first note was sung and first proverbial boar spitted of what would become in the next quarter-century a beloved institution at Claremont McKenna: the annual Madrigal Feast. …
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Drinking Ourselves BrokeWhy CMC's Alcohol Policies are gambling with more than $13,000 of your money
Last spring, 19-year-old Arman Partamian died during a fraternity initiation at SUNY-Geneseo. His blood alcohol level at the time of death varied between .39 and .55 in different parts of his body. Just last month, his father filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against the university.…
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On the Future of the Conservative MovementParting Thoughts from the Editor EmeritusAs I will be graduating this month, I decided to write this column, my last in the pages of the Claremont Independent, so I can leave my fellow students with my hopes for the future of the conservative movement and the Republican Party.
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At the Close of a DecadeThe Aughts, now in their last days, began life, like this millennium, in a strange and intoxicating mixture of hope and fear. Just as so many millions around the world prepared to usher in what was to be an age of peace and prosperity, others dug bunkers beneath the ground and stockpiled ammunition in anticipation of the collapse of civilization that was to be brought on by Y2K. How distant a memory, it seems - the looting, the rioting, the planes falling from the sky - how na've we feel ourselves to take taken such worries seriously.
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