Mike Whatley CMC '11 and Andrew Grimm CMC '11 won the two highest awards the Government Department can bestow, that of Best Government Student and Best Government Thesis.
Whatley had the highest G.P.A. in the major, so he was the natural choice. Good on him.
A previous version of this post was inaccurate. I have been informed that my sources on the government department list were mistaken or I failed to understand them properly. The conversation on the awards, apparently, was wide-ranging and so there was some confusion as to how it occurred by the professors I spoke with.
Either way, the onus is on me to get it right and I apologize yet again. Grimm apparently won the best government thesis award by consensus, according to Professor George Thomas, his thesis reader, who emailed me this morning.
The close vote I mentioned previously was between me and unnamed student who won best thesis to address public affairs. (I was apparently nominated for both awards.) I do not know who that student is, but I wish her all the luck as well.
Again, congratulations to all of the of my fellow Government honors and please accept my apologies both for getting it wrong. It was what I had heard, but apparently I heard wrong. As the news source with the most traffic on campus, I have an especial obligation to get it right. Anything else is not acceptable. Given my critics, I must hold myself to a higher standard. Contrary to popular perception, I am still human and so I ask your forgiveness. I don't often get things wrong, but when I do it is incumbent upon me to apologize.
I'll try harder next time. Sorry. You deserve better, and I'll try to provide it before I retire from The Claremont Conservative in May or June.
A previous version of this post was inaccurate. I have been informed that my sources on the government department list were mistaken or I failed to understand them properly. The conversation on the awards, apparently, was wide-ranging and so there was some confusion as to how it occurred by the professors I spoke with.
Either way, the onus is on me to get it right and I apologize yet again. Grimm apparently won the best government thesis award by consensus, according to Professor George Thomas, his thesis reader, who emailed me this morning.
The close vote I mentioned previously was between me and unnamed student who won best thesis to address public affairs. (I was apparently nominated for both awards.) I do not know who that student is, but I wish her all the luck as well.
Again, congratulations to all of the of my fellow Government honors and please accept my apologies both for getting it wrong. It was what I had heard, but apparently I heard wrong. As the news source with the most traffic on campus, I have an especial obligation to get it right. Anything else is not acceptable. Given my critics, I must hold myself to a higher standard. Contrary to popular perception, I am still human and so I ask your forgiveness. I don't often get things wrong, but when I do it is incumbent upon me to apologize.
I'll try harder next time. Sorry. You deserve better, and I'll try to provide it before I retire from The Claremont Conservative in May or June.
18 comments:
A man stands up and apologizes. Good on you, CJ.
Well played, sir.
If this were Wilner, he would not apologize for fear of such statement being used to later incriminate him. Good move.
So if I understand this correctly, the voting was not based on thesis quality, but was divided by factions within the gov department?
I would expect nothing less from the Claremont Conservative.
I am proud of Charles. We all know he should have won and that the others won the "Not Charles Johnson" award.
Time to call this what it is: Johnson lost out because he exposed a supporter of terrorism on our campus. The Govt. dept. couldn't be seen as supporting someone who went after their terrorist-supporting colleague. The dog that didn't bark bit him.
I'm deleting all mentions of Grimm in the comment section here. It's not appropriate and I won't have it.
As an aside, I would say that I have nothing against Andrew. He is a real gentleman and I wish him all the best.
Dude, your comment section has been seriously hijacked as of late. Props for owning up, but I suspect shenanigans in the 15 or so "CJ is my hero" posts that have been showing up (within minutes of each other) under every post you've been making! Assuming the ones you had to remove were made by the same person?
You're deleting them because they all said how smart he was and how he clearly deserved it. Good on CMC to not let politics come in the way of acknowledging the better man.
I'm deleting them for the exact reason I said. He's very, very smart and very hard working and a genuinely nice guy, but I won't have people come on and say really nice things about him and then have other people come on and say really negative things about him or something. In other words, it is over with.
To the person who accuses me again of commenting on my own website anonymously, I don't.
If you're holding yourself to such a high standard as the most read publication on campus, how about proofreading your material before posting it?
Can't afford a proof reader.
But Kang had a point. What was your thesis? Remember, thesis doesn't refer to the document but a hypothesis.
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