CMC’s Model United Nations (MUN) Team had some pretty big shoes to fill at this year’s TrojanMUN Conference held last weekend (Oct. 29-Nov. 1). After all, last year CMC’s MUN team ranked 6th in the nation. CMC’s MUN tea…
Laverne Cox is an Emmy-nominated actress, documentary film producer, and prominent advocate for transgender awareness and equality. Lauded for her portrayal as Sophia Burset on Netflix’s "Orange is the New Black," Cox i…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/aint-i-womanAn advocate with an empowering message of moving beyond gender expectations to live more authentically, Laverne Cox, Emmy-nominated actress, documentary film producer, and prominent equal rights advocate, is scheduled t…
A former member of the senior civil service, James P. Finkel served as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for the Prevention of Genocide's 2013-2014 Leonard and Sophie Davis Genocide Prevention Fellow. During the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/presidents-atrocity-prevention-boardThe Supreme Court first formulated the “one person, one vote” rule in the 1960s, holding that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment includes a “one-person, one-vote” principle. This principle requires…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/taking-voter-equality-seriously-what-does-%E2%80%9Cone-person-one-vote%E2%80%9D-really-meanMeredith Brenalvirez ‘80 is president of the board of directors of Military Women in Need (MWIN), the leading non-profit for women veterans in California. A MWIN board member since 1994, Brenalvirez has played a key rol…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/cmc-celebrates-veterans-dayJohn J. Pitney, Jr. is Roy P. Crocker Professor of American History and Politics at Claremont McKenna College where he teaches courses on Congress, interest groups, political parties, and mass media. A leading expert on…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/politics-of-autismElhanan Miller is the Arab affairs reporter for the Times of Israel, a Jerusalem-based Israeli news agency. He holds a master’s degree in Middle East history and Islamic Studies from Hebrew University, where he complete…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/analyzing-recent-violence-in-israelpalestineBy Tom Johnson Teachable moments from distinguished panelists were on the agenda at the latest Dreier Roundtable (DRt); a half-day conference held last Friday in the Kravis Center and the Marion Miner Cook Athenaeum. Th…
Jerry Lin ’07 majored in Economics with Honors and the Financial Economics sequence at CMC. Truth to tell, he lost a lot of sleep cramming for exams, but he’s made up for it with a new ecommerce business he recently lau…
