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COACH BILL ARCE IS REMEMBERED Bill Arce, founding Claremont-Mudd- Scripps (CMS) athletic director and Stags head baseball coach, passed away March 7. He was 90. A joint statement from President Hiram Chodosh and the pre…

‘…disciplinary learning is not an end in itself, but a means first to shared expression within a community’ I would like to use this small space to pass on something useful I have learned about the culture of education.…

The New Yorker Editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick was the keynote speaker at CMC’s 69th Annual Commencement on May 14. Remnick, who received an honorary degree from the College, discussed “dissent, s…

The following is excerpted from President Hiram Chodosh’s charge to the Class of 2016 during this May’s Commencement ceremony: …take the things you loved here and recreate them wherever you are. Turn your apartment buil…

When The New Yorker launched in 1925, the cover of the magazine’s first issue featured the dandy Eustace Tilley striking a very Manhattan-esque pose … impeccably dressed, with silk top hat and monocle in hand, he prepar…

My sophomore year, I took a class on the Holocaust during one semester and a class on the American Dream during the other. The class on the Holocaust taught me how to think more critically. And in “Philosophy and the Am…

David Remnick has confessed a couple of secrets about his own writing that most certainly has aroused author envy. The first is that Remnick doesn’t get writer’s block. The second is that—wait for it—he loves to write.…

The poet Henri Cole spends his life immersed in language. Still, he doesn’t quite trust what words do to us. “There’s a lot of poetry that’s not about fear, grief, despair, triumph,” he says in a gentle Southern accent.…

In a May letter to the campus community President Hiram Chodosh outlined a number of accomplishments over the past academic year and also plans for the coming year. Calling the 2015-16 academic year both “intensely chal…