Academy Award winning actor and humanitarian Sidney Poitier will be the speaker at Claremont McKenna College's 55th annual commencement ceremonies, 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, in Badgley Garden. Poitier, the first black a…
In 1976 Cathy Guisewite became the first woman to break the "paper ceiling" of the comic pages with her comic strip Cathy, the first widely syndicated humor strip by a female cartoonist. Millions of fans read Cathy each…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith will speak on the topic Walking the Tightrope: The Tensions Between Work and Family in America Today at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, April 1, at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. E…
When asked what he would change if he were “king for a day,” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daniel Lopez '74 said he would alter attitudes about juvenile law. Although regarded as the “Siberia of the legal community”…
U.S. Representative Xavier Becerra will speak in commemoration of Cesar Chavez at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27 at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. The lecture is free and open to the public on a first-come basis. Co…
CMC Trustee Peter Barker '70 has been elected Chair of the CMC Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2002. Chair-elect Barker will succeed Robert J. Lowe '62, whose term as Chair of the Board of Trustees ends on June 30,…
CMS swimmer Suzy Nicoletti ended her college swim career with a dream-come-true win on Saturday, during the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships in Oxford, Ohio. Nicoletti, who had just missed winning the…
The stakes can be life or death. Are our juries acting prudently? The United States judicial system assumes that jurors are able to critically analyze testimonies when forming their decisions. But when psychological exp…
When Charles Johnson, who will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, March 14 at the tribute to Dr. Ricardo Quinones, captured the National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage, he became the first African America…
The Law School Admission Council administered 107,000 Law School Admission Tests (LSATs) last year. And Alex Johnson '75 supervised each and every one. Well, perhaps not directly - but as chairman of the Law School Admi…
