One of contemporary poetry’s leading voices, Sharon Olds, gave a reading of her work at the Athenaeum on Monday, Feb. 11. Her visit was sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. Through several volumes of po…
Claremont McKenna College has announced that Trustee and financier George R. Roberts ’66 P’93, Co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and its co-chairman and co-chief executive officer, will deliver the keyno…
It may not be a household term yet, but President Obama’s mention of the College Scorecard in his Feb. 12, 2013 State of the Union Address was top news on The White House Blog the following morning. The College Scorecar…
Don’t let the lulling rhythms of the prose or the idyllic setting of See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid’s new novel published this month by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, trick you into thinking that this is a modern fairy tale, r…
Brittan Sutphin '14, is a superb athlete (she’s a nationally-ranked tennis player for CMS) and a Biochemistry major at CMC. But she might not even be here if it weren’t for some quick thinking when she suffered sudden c…
One Goal was published in November 2012 by Burn Magazine. Its 71 stunning black-and-white photos look into the locker room, the offices, and the arenas where the team's mission and accomplishments unfolded. In her first…
Something different happened recently at the Athenaeum. The venue, which has hosted political heavy-hitters, literary lights, and distinguished men and women from all over the world, was rocking in rhythm. Last Wednesda…
“What did you do—I mean, you must’ve done something to get invited to this thing?” asked the airport shuttle driver transporting me to the 2000 New Year’s Renaissance Weekend policy wonk retreat at Hilton Head. I suspec…
Award-winning novelist Jamaica Kincaid, the Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College, has published See Now Then: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), her first in 10 ye…
The big, Wednesday, Jan. 23 basketball game between the Stags and the Sagehens not only drew a capacity crowd, but notice from a local reporter, who called the game "round one in the best basketball rivalry in the Inlan…
