Hub Quiz Affirmative Action for McKenna Scholars

Anyone wonder why the Hub Quiz was 10:00 PM tonight?

Apparently, it was so that the McKenna Scholars could have something to do tonight. Admissions is funding Hub Quiz and so they are adding some silly rules. Let me quote an email advertising it for you,

The prizes are amazing thanks to the generosity of the Admissions Office and DOS - the first place team will take home iPod Nanos while the second place team will recieve $50 Visa Debit Cards. It's McKenna Weekend as well, so we'll have some prospies to play. Here's an incentive to get you to add them to your team - we'll give you an extra two points to have a prospie as one of your four team members and 5 points if half of your team is composed of prospective students. You know what 5 points can do in a Hub Quiz...

Just another subtly way that the culture of affirmative action creeps into everyday life at Claremont McKenna College.

As for the Ipod Nano, it reminds me of something Borat once said.

Invitation to a Talk Show at Pomona College

As of this writing, I've been invited to talk about the banning of David Daleiden and Kyle Kinneberg at KSPC this upcoming week.

I'm sure David and Kyle would love to attend as well, but we just aren't sure if the ban extends to the airwaves.

We do know, however; that David and Kyle were banned from attending an excellent debate between Erwin Chemerinsky and Ken Starr regarding the War Powers resolution.

As many of you know, I'm to blame (at least indirectly) for their banning. I gave David the flyer advertising "Abortion Awareness Week."

Professor Pitney Joins Facebook Group, Cites Kafka

Professor Jack Pitney joined the "Don't Ban Kyle and David from Pomona" facebook group, which has over 480 members less than two days after being created. Here's what Professor Pitney wrote on the wall it's from Kafka and very appropriate (if a bit cliched.) 

"I don't know this law," said K. 

"So much the worse for you, then," said the policeman. 

"It's probably exists only in your heads," said K., he wanted, in some way, to insinuate his way into the thoughts of the policemen, to re-shape those thoughts to his benefit or to make himself at home there. 

But the policeman just said dismissively, "You'll find out when it affects you."

Franz joined in, and said, "Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent." 

Franz Kafka, The Trial, at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/ktria11.txt

Questioning the Bernard Field Station Protests in Light of the Kyle-David Ban

Should Harvey Mudd ban some of the protestors at the Bernard Field Station? After all, "expect resistance" can be seen as a threat, can't it?

Sam Corcos took these photos at Harvey Mudd College during the Bernard Field Station protests earlier this past week. I went back into the Claremont Independent archives and came up with these two stories. It turns out that the land given was always intended to be used for further expansion. Dean Marcelle Holmes was at Pomona when the students were arrested. I can't seem to find anything from her on whether or not the students' behavior was "disruptive." I guess they didn't ask enough questions.