Time for sweets and scares. The 5Cs are a great place for families around Halloween time. Activities this year, open to staff and faculty families, range from costumed trick-or-treating at the CMC student apartments and…

As a boy growing up in Ojai, Calif., a young John-Clark Levin '12 loved to watch Jeopardy! on special occasions with his family. He recalls one evening in particular as he was sitting with his dad, watching a mustached…

"Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools." You'd never expect those words to come from the mouth of a successful, award-winning poet, yet that's just what August Kleinzahler once declared to the great surprise of an…

On October 9, 2012, the Inland Empire Center, in partnership with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, held the fourth CMC-UCLA Inland Empire Forecast Conference at the Citizen's Business Bank Arena in Ontario. The Inland Empire…

When he joined the U.S. Treasury in 2009, he had primary responsibility for the government's role in reorganizing the American International Group (A.I.G.), and helping taxpayers recover the $182 billion bailout of AIG…

It's after 10 p.m. on a recent weeknight when my cell phone buzzes. Kyle Weiss 15 is texting from the Kravis Kube, where he is studying for a mid-termone of three big tests, actually, all in the same week. We're decidin…

This month marks the fifth-year anniversary of the history-making Robert A. Day gift to Claremont McKenna College. Five years ago in September 2007, the College announced Mr. Day's pledged $200 million personal gift to…

A month before they waved goodbye to CMC and packed a renovated school bus for their inspirational zig-zag across the states, Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci were premiering their rousing new film, Into Poverty: Living o…

The New York Times is the latest media medium to weigh in on professor Charles Kesler's new book, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism (Broadside Books/HarperCollins Publishers, 2012). In this piec…

People will do lots of things to get out of paying taxes, but what about those who do the slightly unconventional to pay what they owe? Years before distinguished writer Paul Elie debuted his award-winning book, The Lif…