A Crusade? Indeed...

Ms. Emily Meinhardt is running this group. The email was sent out to all of us.

The Environmental Crusaders will meet every Wednesday at 8pm in Beckett
Lounge to keep environmental activism alive at CMC. We planned (and
won!) the 5C Dorm Energy Challenge and the Global Warming panel at the
Athenaeum. Help us plan for Earth Day events and pursue better
environmental policy at CMC! FMI, contact Scott Eaton
(seaton08@cmc.edu) or Emily Meinhardt (emeinhardt10@cmc.edu).

Forgive me, but weren't progressives supposed to be up in arms when President Bush used the phrase "crusade" in the War Against Islamic Terrorism?

Doesn't Ms. Meinhardt know that kind of language -- "crusade"-- is deeply religious language?

Matters are further complicated by Abhi Nemani, Portside Editor, who uses deeply religious language for his own piece in The Claremont Portside. He refers to Ms. Meinhart as "ever-fervent." Those who are fervent, according to Mr. Webster, are exhibited or marked by great intensity of feeling. In a word, they are zealous.

Might the similarity between Ms. Meinhardt's language and religious language mean that we ought to take her position more on faith than on reason?

UPDATE: Many of you took umbrage at my analysis of Ms. Meinhardt's language.

Let me be clear. I am certain Ms. Meinhardt has the most sincere of intentions and that she does good, but let us all be clear that if you enter the conversation by emailing everyone or make a public statement, those statements become fair game. I do not intend to go after anyone personally -- hence the reason I refuse to use first names or post photos -- but I do intend to criticize ideas out there that I believe need criticism. You must decide for yourself whether or not I am being fair.

Stagafling Gets Dean Huang Talking About The Party Crashers

Dean Huang and Stagafling sat down for a little conversation about what can be done about all the "non-CMC drunks" coming over and crashing our parties. As you've no doubt heard, we've had far too many visits to the emergency room this year and so they have put our parties on hold. The whole conversation is worth reading, but this is definitely my favorite paragraph from Dean Huang.

The other Colleges don't seem to be throwing many 5C parties any more, and we're shouldering a disproportionately large amount of the burden. That needs to change. There are some 30 weekend nights in a semester, and I'd be surprised if the other Colleges combined are hosting 8 5C parties. Are we supposed to take on 22 parties per semester for all the Colleges to enjoy? If that's the plan, I'm NOT on board with it. We may have to put the brakes on these events until the other Colleges pull a little more weight.

I am with Dean Huang all the way to the hilt on this one. I have a bunch of solutions to this problem myself. It's pretty outrageous that we're shouldering the costs for other people's misbehavior and then they have the gall to say that we're a bunch of drunks, but then again, I'm not entirely convinced that it is true.

If you need any confirmation, just check out this YouTube clip (from DJ Timbo and crew, no less.) (Start watching twenty seconds in...)

In any event, well done getting him on record Stagafling. Did you ask him any questions about Dean Wood?

Claremont Insider Blogs About Claremont Conservative

The post is up right now.

I love The Claremont Insider. I read them routinely. Thanks for the shout out.

They have created a Claremont Colleges news section that definitely warrants further checking out.

Day Gift Makes The List of Slate 2007 Largest Donations.

Here it is in Slate. Here is the paragraph in question.

Robert A. Day—$200 million to Claremont McKenna College to establish the Robert Day Scholars program, which will create an enhanced curriculum and state-of-the-art facilities, all focused on finance and accounting. Day is the founder of Trust Company of the West, an investment management firm.

Not Quite That Way: Press Mistastes John Coffee's Claremont McKenna College

Investment News's Bruce Kelly wrote up John C. Coffee's talk at the Athenaeum this past Friday.

Coffee was a bit more hesitant to say that the "opt out" system would be bad for individual investors than the article suggests. But most importantly, he suggested that middle range investment groups may team up to get more in court, leaving the bigger corporations to settle for smaller amounts.