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In Whittier’s Library, a Politician Keeps Company With a Poet
As a student, Richard M. Nixon was a member of Whittier College’s football team. He’s wearing No. 23. “He was a great debater,” the college’s president says, “but a terrible athlete.” Whittier, Calif....
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Behind a Campus Chapel, a Place for the Ashes of the Dead
Orange, Calif. — Does your college have a resting place for the dead? Offhand I can think of only a handful of institutions that do, and almost all of those institutions are very old. Hamilton College...
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A Tale of 2 Chickens, a President, and Her Mother
Claremont, Calif. — It’s not every college president who has to explain chicken-butt photos to her mother, but when the time came, Laura Trombley managed. All part of being a president, she said. Ms....
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The Fifth Dimension Brings a Touch of Magic to Kids’ Afternoons
Richard Tran, a Whittier College student, helps a child with a computer game in the Fifth Dimension area of the Whittier Boys and Girls Club. Whittier, Calif. — Kids are swarming around Richard Tran...
View ArticleAfter 25 Years of Losses, Caltech Basketball Instills Fears in Presidents’...
Pasadena, Calif. — I went to the Caltech-Whittier College men’s basketball game Saturday evening because, as a journalist, I have a responsibility to history. Also because Sharon Herzberger, Whittier’s...
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Beneath a Pirate Flag, West Hall Offers Pranks and the Occasional Nightmare
Claremont, Calif. — Ask Maria Klawe about West Hall and she pauses, almost imperceptibly, for just a moment. Then Ms. Klawe, the president of Harvey Mudd College, brightens. “Well, it’s known as Wild...
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What Students Ask About Orozco’s Prometheus Is, Well, Obvious
José Clemente Orozco’s portrait of Prometheus is the subject of a new exhibition at Pomona College’s art museum. Claremont, Calif. — The great Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco has been engaging...
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Cal Poly Pomona’s Doomed Tower Awaits Its Fate
Pomona, Calif. — So I went to visit my favorite doomed building, which stands not far from where Interstate 10 makes a roller-coaster descent into this broad valley. Here W.K. Kellogg, the cereal...
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Lunch at Grove House: Sandwiches, Cookies, and a Taste of Philosophy
Sandwiches and cookies are the fare at Pitzer College’s Grove House, along with a daily special. Claremont, Calif. — In a sunny, cramped space shoehorned under a staircase, Zenia Gutiérrez is fast...
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For Claremont’s Female Presidents, ‘It’s Not Lonely at the Top’
Lori Bettison-Varga, Deborah Freund, Pamela Gann, Maria Klawe, and Laura Trombley (Photos courtesy of Scripps College, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer...
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