Forbes Magazine has just released their very own “America’s Best Colleges” list.  Claremont McKenna College is #40, Pomona is #20, and Harvey Mudd is #52.  Somehow Scripps and Pitzer didn’t make it on the list (but check out what colleges did).  The methodology is listed along with the rankings:

1. Listing of Alumni in the 2008 Who’s Who in America (25%)

2. Student Evaluations of Professors from Ratemyprofessors.com (25%)

3. Four- Year Graduation Rates (16 2/3%)

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Prominent activist and media critic Robert McChesney made a notable speech at Pomona College last week in front of community members of the Claremont Colleges. McChesney, a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, addressed the weakening of the journalism industry and the social implications of its current “state of crisis,” a notion that has become “conventional wisdom” among press scholars.

“Journalism is the heart of democracy,” said McChesney, who went on to declare that a well-informed public is imperative to the success of a free society.

I am used to being in the minority. In high school, my social circle consisted mostly of male friends. Of my closest girlfriends, I was the only one to select a private college to attend upon graduation. At college, I decided to major in History with a Gender & Women’s Studies sequence, sealing my minority status. And now, I am in the minority of students at Claremont McKenna shunning the “Obamania” around me and declaring my support for Senator Hillary Clinton in the upcoming presidential election.

Case Study: Maximizing My Life Utility and Post Abroad Efficiency

Problem: Did I come back from abroad more lost than found?

Never in my life did I think I would write this:

Josh Groban changed me.

On Sunday February 10, 2008 at approximately 2:34 am in an overpriced but delicious West Hollywood diner, Josh Groban raised me up.

Really.

As a probable gesture of inherent love towards all man(kind), THE Josh Groban – curls and all – gave my table a piece of untouched red velvet cake.* And as I joined my posse of gallivanting, well-dressed brothers in digging my hands into God’s next best gift besides Josh (who did not give us forks), I only had two things on my mind:

“How the fuck is this happening?” and “Where is Byron Yang?”

Like many of my fellow junior brethren, I took a break from the Club Med College lifestyle last year for a semester “studying” abroad in hopes of gaining true insight of the world, and my life.

On Wednesday, January 20^th, four Claremont McKenna College professors from different fields of expertise participated in an Athenaeum panel to discuss one of the most burning concerns of the 21^st century – global warming. CMC’s Emily Meinhardt (’10) moderated the panel, which offered us a wealth of valuable insights from their respective disciplines of chemistry, philosophy, government and economics as to the responsibilities and challenges we face in tackling the issue.

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The following is an “official response” written by Brad Walters, ASCMC President.

“I am deeply sorry to anyone who was inadvertently offended by the promotion of the White Party. ASCMC is a responsible and diverse organization that always aims to be sensitive to its constituents and community. The problem here was a failure of communication; the party’s theme was in no way related to race, but that was poorly communicated.