October 18, 2022
Alumnus Established Computer Labs on Campus
Tech titan Ryal Poppa ’57 GP ’08 made significant contributions to benefit CMC students
Maroon and Gold to the Core
Chris Brandt ’85 P’14 P’18 says CMC Athletics changed his life
The only thing sweeter than savoring the highest highs of victory as a college athlete? Seeing your son extend those triumphs even further. For Chris Brandt ’85 P’14 P’18, his time as a basketball player and golfer influenced everything about his CMC experience—and beyond.
1988: SCIAC All-Sports Trophy Sweep
The 1987-88 year was a first, as CMS won all three SCIAC All-Sports trophies
The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps athletic department has made a habit of placing bulk orders for SCIAC trophies. The Stags and Athenas have won 343 SCIAC titles, almost 100 more than any other SCIAC institution, despite getting a late start with their first year coming in 1958-59, more than 40 years after the Bulldogs, Poets, Tigers and Sagehens were up and running.
1954: Football and Track Find a Home
The new complex became home to football and men's track and field
By 1954, Claremont Men’s College student-athletes had been competing with Pomona in athletics for seven years, but the wheels were already visibly in motion to allow CMC to split from the Sagehens and form its own athletic department on the North side of Sixth Street.
Oct. 18, 2022
Yahoo! News shared Prof. Jack Pitney’s political expertise as the mid-term elections approached. Pitney suggested that on the economy, Democrats need to be careful in the framing. “If they say inflation is coming down, people will hear prices are coming down,” and that’s not happening, he said. “A decline in the rate of increase [in inflation] isn’t a great talking point.”
Oct. 17, 2022
The Mercury News interviewed Prof. Jack Pitney about the Golden State’s midterm elections. In California, “it remains to be seen whether people get excited about the House races when there aren’t any competitive statewide races,” he said.
October 17, 2022
Oct. 16, 2022
The New York Times quoted Prof. Minxin Pei reflecting on China’s rhetoric during the Cuban Missile Crisis. “The official line referred to the U.S. and the Soviet Union as one imperialist fighting another imperialist, each one a threat to the world,” Pei said. “It was a case of ‘dog biting dog.’”
The Bharat Express News also published the story.
Oct. 14, 2022
In his op-ed for The Globe and Mail, “Xi’s inevitable third term will add a new tier to the Communist Party’s house of cards,” Prof. Minxin Pei analyzed the prospects of the Chinese president’s third term.