Pitzer College Student Senate Calls for College President’s Removal Over Israel Study Abroad Program

Haaretz ^ | Apr 2019 | JTA and Marcy Oster

[Badboo]

Pitzies to bed Scrippsies to wed. Ah the days of good old CMC. The first Earth Days at Pitzer were a blast. Coeds so stoned it was a guaranteed lay.

If you are a Mudder, it was I and Charlie Speelbutt that stole the No Tell Motel sign from your dorm roof, not once, but twice. If you were from Pomona, well I am just sorry for you.

My years at Claremont made Animal House seem like a convent. Have no idea how I made it through. Only took seven years and Dean Heslop finally had to suggest, strongly, that I finish my studies “off campus”. I think he is in Hotel Fed now, no chit.

[doug from upland]

A lifetime ago I was accepted at Claremont Men’s College, was on alternate scholarship list, but did not get it. The group of colleges are beautiful but they have all gone insane since my youth. Got a scholarship to UC Santa Barbara and went there instead.

[Blurb2350]

You’re right about Heslop. He spent something like 12-18 months in Club Fed for defrauding a So Cal indian tribe over construction contracts. He just got out. “Persimmon, persimmon, Scripps College for women.” I was at CMC. Entered with the first class to admit women. It remained “Men’s” until midway thru my senior year, when old man McKenna finally coughed up the big bucks. It was something like $22 million — a pittance to have a college named after you! All of the women who graduated with that first class were given a choice of having their diploma read “Claremont Men’s College” or “Claremont McKenna Ditto.” And but two or three chose “Men’s,” and those two or three changed their mind before graduation.

[1L]

Were any of you guys at CMC contemporaries with David Bloom, the NBC reporter who died in Iraq? I knew David. Not well, but we crossed paths one summer in the mid-80s.

[Blurb2350]

No, he was Pitzer 1981-84 (or so) and I was CMC 1976-1980.