Measure CL Update

CHS STUDENTS TO CL CAMPAIGN:
THANKS, BUT NO THANKS!

A reader sends word that the student paper at Claremont High School had an editorial urging a NO vote on the school district's $95 million Measure CL. One of the reasons the Wolfpacket cited for recommending a NO on CL was that it doesn't make any sense to fund operational costs with bond:

Though all of the 95 million dollars are supposed to go towards the Claremont schools, only about a third of the money will actually benefit schools. The high interest rate of the bond will result in increased prices for basic purchases--If the school was to buy a computer costing $1000, due to the interest rate, that computer would cost the school $3000.

The students are right on this count. Although the Claremont Unified School District and its superintendent, Terry Nichols, have refused to release the financing details for the bond, we do know that the bond proponents have acknowledged that the CL bond will be financed over 40 years and that the total costs, with interest payments, will approach $250 million. The district has essentially stipulated to that much.

So for every dollar we borrow and spend, we'll be paying back more than $2.50. The CUSD board of education's enabling resolution for this bond stated that some of the borrowed money from CL will go towards paying operational costs. It means a ream of paper that costs you and I $5.00 would end up costing CUSD $15.00.

Using the bond money in such a way is no different than using a credit card or borrowing against your house to pay for a car. And like a car, that computer the Wolfpacket editorial referred to is going to be worth much less by the time it's paid off. In the case of a computer, it'd be worth nothing at all, except as a collector's item. Ask yourself how much is your own computer going to be worth in 40 years?

We're surprised to see that many people associated with this extremely flawed district finance plan are affiliated with the Claremont Colleges. Pomona College president David Oxtoby, Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe, Claremont McKenna College president Pamela Gann, Claremont Graduate University interim president Joseph Hough, CGU president emeritus John Maguire, retired CMC president Jack Stark, and others like Pomona College professor David Menefee-Libey have all endorsed CL.

Yet, if those same parties tried to run their own institutions with bond money financed as proposed under Measure CL, the trustees of their respective colleges be screaming bloody murder. It's simply foolish to spend money in such a way, and the CHS students are on target with their commentary.

Incidentally, this reminds us of some information buried in that the pre-election polling commissioned at a cost of $35,000 by CUSD earlier this year. The poll, conducted by our favorite district consultant, Jared Boigon of TBWB Strategies, indicated that a bond would have less support among people with kids in Claremont Unified schools than it would with people who were older and who didn't have children attending the schools. We suspect that this is because the closer one is to the actual day-to-day workings of our school district, the less wonderful it actually is.

As they do with most things they want you to pay for, the Claremont 400 have romanticized our schools to the point that their idealized vision of our local schools bears no relation to the reality of the situation.

Here's the Wolfpacket editorial, courtesy of our reader:

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Harvey Mudd College 7th Most Expensive in Nation According to Forbes.com

Harvey Mudd College, the local institution for propeller-heads and other nerdy types has just made the Forbes.com list of the nation's top ten most expensive institutions of higher learning, garnering honors in the Number 7 spot.

America's Most Expensive Colleges--Number 7

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Topping the list was Sarah Lawrence at $57,556 yearly, followed by:

2. Columbia University, $54,385
3. Bard College, $54,275
4. Wesleyan University, $53,976
5. Vanderbilt, $53,660
6. University of Chicago, $53,604
7. Harvey Mudd College, $53,588
8. Trinity College, $53,380
9. Georgetown University, $53,340
10. Bates College, $53,300

Observant readers might note in the screenshot above, that Forbes has the enrollment wrong at 200 students (that might have been the enrollment forty years ago), and you wonder what else they are not getting right.

Still, fifty-three Large is a lot of dough. But HMC president Maria Klawe is doubtless used to large numbers. We see in a flyer sent by CUSD--Oh! excuse us; we mean the private and totally independent "Support Claremont Schools" committee--that Mudd president Maria Klawe (right) endorses the $95,000,000 Measure CL. "One can't shovel too much money into education"--that must be her thought.

Education, along with health care, has sported the highest rate of price increases of any sector of the economy for decades. By our admittedly crude and offhand calculation, the Claremont Colleges have raised prices by an average of something like 7.25 %, compounded, over at least a generation. The CPI increase over the same period has been "only" 4.4%. So institutions like President Klawe's have been inflating their prices about 65 percent faster than the economy as a whole.

But then, higher education shares the same pricing model as a used car lot: There is the sticker price and then there is the price you pay. Many students get subsidies--in higher ed these are called "scholarships"--participants in the sector's own private income-transfer plan.

Too bad the institution President Klawe runs, Harvey Mudd College, won't have to participate in paying for the school measure she supports because non-profits, such as the colleges and some of the retirement homes in town, are exempted from paying property taxes.

CMS Golfers in the News

We tried. We really tried to avoid a certain multi-ethnic golfer's ubiquity, but in the end we could not. His mighty public relations reach extended even to Claremont.

A reader sent us a link to a CBS News video of reaction to Tiger Woods' press conference last Friday in which he issued a public apology for his indiscretions. Several members of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's golf team were interviewed for the story. The piece aired on Friday's CBS Evening News, and their website has the story posted.

Here are some quotes from the CBS News report:

"I think it was just shocking and kind of upsetting," said Scripps College student Kristina Block.

They watched as Woods tried to claw his way out of his moral hazard, apologizing to his business partners, his foundation and the young golfers who idolized him. Some were forgiving.

"Everyone makes mistakes, and he realizes his mistakes," Block said.

Some felt for his wife.

"You're giving someone your heart, and he tore it out of her," Claremont McKenna College student Brittany Isobe said crying.

Some were still angry.

"No amount of apology or words is going to eradicate what he did," said Claremont McKenna student Kacie Curd.

We're not quite sure about the new usage for the term "moral hazard." It certainly reduces the Elin-Tiger marriage to a transactional relationship.

Anyway, here's the video:


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If It's a Second Tuesday It Must Be Council Night

4PM STUDY SESSION

The Claremont City Council meets tonight, minus the Claremont Unified School District board. The council will meet for a special meeting at 4pm in City Hall's Citrus Room (upstairs from the Council Chambers).

The special meeting will be a study session on "Institutional Zone Parking," meaning the Claremont Colleges, public schools, and retirement communities. Each institution is supposed to provide sufficient parking for the number of people staying or visiting their respective locations. The City has a formula for figuring the number of parking spaces needed.

According to the city staff report on the parking situation at the colleges, Claremont Graduate University, Pitzer College, and Harvey Mudd College have a parking deficit. Pomona College and Scripps College, and the 5C's as a whole have surpluses:

From Pg. 18 of the study session report on institutional parking
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REGULAR MEETING

Tonight's regular meeting has a number of interesting items listed:

• City Manager Jeff Parker seeks council approval to spend $112,962 for Mobile Data Computers to be installed inside police vehicles, as well as $76,690 to purchase in-car digital video systems for CPD's vehicles.
  
  The City would contract with CDCE Incorporated in Yorba Linda for the mobile computing hardware and with Insight Video Net for the digital camera systems.
  
  
• Staff is asking the council to approve a General Plan amendment and a zoning change that would change the land-use designations for three Caltrans properties along the 210 Freeway from Park/Resource Conservation (open space) to single-family residential use.
  
  The three Caltrans parcels were originally zoned for residential use and were changed to open space in 2005 when the City completed it's General Plan update. Caltrans then sued the City for inverse condemnation because the rezoning took away a potential revenue-generating use for its land.
  
  The parcels are located at:
  
  
  1. Live Oak and Base Line Rd., north of the 210 Freeway.
  2. The east side of Sumner, north of the 210 Freeway (between Webb Canyon and Towne Ave.).
  3. The southwest corner of Monte Vista Ave. and Base Line Rd., north of the 210 Freeway.
     
  
  The City and Caltrans reached a settlement agreement this past January, and rezoning the parcels for residential use was apparently part of that agreement.
  
  On April 21, the Planning Commission denied the considered a recommendation for the changes and denied the request on a 4-3 vote, so the matter goes back to the council. Four of the five councilmembers must approve the amendment.
  
  
• The council will be asked to consider an amendment to the already approved special event permit for the Wednesday night Family Festivals in the Claremont Village Expansion. The amendment would extend the closure on Oberlin Ave. north to Bonita Ave. It would also add one hour to the festival, going from 5pm to 9pm, instead of ending at 8pm. And the street closures would run from 3pm to 10pm, adding an hour at each end.
  
  The city staff report, by Director of Community Development Tony Witt - or T. Witt, as he is affectionately known - also asks the city to approve the use of small, "quiet generators." You've gotta love the way Tony slips in a modifier, as if that really means anything. It's just an old Madison Avenue advertising trick ("New and Improved!") that's meant to assuage the concerns of people in the Village who might voice objections to the generators.
  
  And, as usual, Tony withholds the key information. He doesn't specify what exactly the generators would be used for. Whenever Tony employs this sort of obliqueness in a report, beware! You're sure to be in for big surprise.
  
  This one was fast-tracked by the City and Tony to avoid generating any controversy. It will set a record for time from idea to implementation.
  
  As we wrote last week, this Family Festival expansion seems to mix up the cart and the horse. Witt has based his decision on one data point -the initial April 29 festival night. If you went to the second one, last Wednesday, you would have noticed a marked drop off in attendance, so staff's expansion of the event may be premature.
  
  It's not unlike the Claremont Trolley - magical thinking in search of a staff report to justify it. It's sooooo Claremont! You just have to love it.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• The council is also considering approval of an exclusive negotiating agreement with Jamboree Housing Corp. to develop 75 units of affordable housing on the old Claremont Courier site at 111 S. College Ave.
  
  The proposed development would be a mix of senior and family housing units. 59 of the units would be reserved for very low-income residents, and 19 units would be for low-income tenants.
  
  The landlord would be obliged by the agreement to give preference to families with at least one household member who works in Claremont. One should remember that this preference is only good for the initial leases. When the units turn over, there is no preference. With residency length in our area averaging around seven years, according to Councilmember Peter Yao, after that time we can expect the local preference to have been thrown out the window.
  
  
• Lastly, the council will discuss the Metropolitan Water District's model water conservation ordinance. With the state entering its third year of drought, MWD is restricting the amount of water available for purchase by agencies like Three Valleys Municipal Water District.
  
  MWD has asked local government and water agencies to adopt water conservation ordinances to help reduce water consumption. The City is looking to vote on an ordinance by June 9, and implementing the ordinance will require the cooperation of Three Valleys and our local water company, Golden State Water.
  
  We've heard through the jungle drums that one of the proposals may included spying on your neighbors. Thank you, Tim Worley, for that one!
  

Claremont City Council
Study Session - 4pm
City Hall, Citrus Room
207 Harvard Ave.

Regular Session - 6:30pm
Council Chambers
225 W. 2nd St.

Call (909) 399-5460 for information.

Coming Soon: Commencement Weekend

Another academic year has come and gone, and in a couple weeks Claremont's education mills will be shipping off the 2009 product models into the job market with much attendant fanfare.

We're still very much a company town or, more precisely, a consortium town, so the pace of life in the Claremont Village will slow perceptibly with summer's approach and the departure of the colleges' students.

In the meantime, here is a list of this year's commencement events:

Friday, May 15th

• Baccalaureate Ceremony
  The Claremont Colleges
  3:30pm - 4:30pm
  Garrison Theater
  Scripps College
  231 E. 10th St.
  (909) 621-8685
  
  Speaker: Scripps Alumna Karen Tse,
  
  
  
• Baccalaureate Ceremony
  Claremont School of Theology
  4:30pm
  Kresge Chapel
  Claremont School of Theology
  1325 N. College Ave.
  (909) 447-2552

Saturday, May 16th

• Claremont School of Theology Commencement
  8:30am
  Claremont School of Theology
  Quad
  1325 N. College Avenue
  (909) 447-2552



• Claremont Graduate University Commencement
  10:00am
  Mudd Quadrangle
  Harvey Mudd College
  E. 10th St. and Dartmouth Ave.
  (909) 607-3305
  
  Commencement speaker:
  James P. Carroll, acclaimed author on religion and politics whose writings and novels include four New York Times bestsellers, two New York Times' Notable Books of the Year.
  
  
  
• Pitzer College's 45th Commencement
  10:00am
  Brant Clock Tower Lawn
  Pitzer College
  1050 North Mills Avenue
  (909) 607-2690
  
  Commencement speaker:
  David Feldman, Emmy award winning comedy writer and performer. He has written for ABC's Roseanne, HBO's Dennis Miller Live, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He currently writes for Talk Show With Spike Feresten on Fox. David also appears frequently on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
  
  
  
• Keck Graduate Institute Commencement
  11:00am
  KGI campus lawn
  Keck Graduate Institute
  535 Watson Dr.
  (909) 607-0135
  
  Commencement speaker:
  Myrtle Potter, President and CEO, Myrtle Potter and Company and Former President and COO of Genentech, Inc.
  



• Claremont McKenna College Commencement
  2:00pm
  Pritzlaff Field
  Claremont McKenna College
  South of 9th St. and Claremont Blvd.
  (909) 621-8117
  
  Commencement Speaker:
  Surin Pitsuwan ’72, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Sunday, May 17th

• Pomona College Commencement
  10:00am
  Marston Quad
  Pomona College
  College Ave., between 4th and 6th Streets
  (909) 621-8131
  
  Commencement speakers:
  Bob Herbert, New York Times, Op-Ed columnist, playwright Luis Valdez and Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich '75.
  

• Scripps College Commencement
  10:00am
  Elm Tree Lawn
  Scripps College
  345 E. 9th Street
  On campus lawn - two rows of elm trees
  just north of the Malott Common
  (909) 607-1870
  
  Commencement speaker:
  Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Representative (D-AZ) and
  Scripps College graduate, class of '93.
  

• Harvey Mudd College Commencement
  1:30pm
  Mudd Quadrangle
  Harvey Mudd College
  E. 10th St. and Dartmouth Ave.
  (909) 607-7924
  
  Commencement speaker:
  Dean Kamen, founder of FIRST, entrepreneur, inventor, physicist, advocate for science and technology.
  

Pomona College Number One

Two publications have named Pomona College a top value liberal arts school when it comes to the keeping the costs to students down. Daily Bulletin reporter Wes Woods II covered this news in an article yesterday:

Pomona College was ranked first among liberal arts colleges by Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine in its February edition.

Princeton Review's 100 "Best Value Private Colleges" for 2009, ranked Pomona College ninth.

The Princeton Review used surveys of students and administrators at more than 650 private and public universities and colleges.

The review also took into account the three areas of financial aid, academics and costs of attendance using more than 30 factors from the 2007-08 academic year.

The Bulletin piece also noted that CMC, Scripps, and Harvey Mudd also received mention in the lists:

Also on Kiplinger's list for best value of liberal arts colleges were Claremont McKenna College, which ranked 12th, and Scripps College, which ranked 35th.

For Princeton's Review's best value private colleges, Harvey Mudd College was ranked in the top 50, though not in the top 10. The review did not issue rankings below the top 10 and instead listed those colleges alphabetically.

Harvey Mudd College

Now that the excitement of the June election is safely behind us, we return to our series of snapshots of the finances of each of the educational institutions in Claremont. Today we focus on Harvey Mudd College, the one whose campus looks like an electron micrograph of a computer chip.

The dollar amounts appearing in this post are taken from the college's 2005 IRS form 990. That is the most recent return available to us and covers the time from July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2005. In that time, there has been some staff turnover (for example, a new president).

An earlier post makes some general comments about these data. Earlier posts of data for Pomona College may be found here, Scripps College here, and Claremont McKenna College here.

Remember, all numbers reflect the data as of June 30, 2005. By request, we have added tuition and room/board to our snapshot. We will update the prior posts with these numbers.

Tuition and fees: $21,685,266

Room and board: $6,246,993

Total Revenue: $59,222,836

Total Expenses: $46,718,691

Excess for the year: $12,504,145

Net assests on July 1, 2004: 239,001,027

Net assets on June 30, 2005: $257, 961,413

Corporate Officers

Jon C. Strauss, President
Compensation: $261,000
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $36,193
Expense account and other allowances: $38,015

Andrew Dorantes, VP Finance, Treasurer
Compensation: $152,500
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $25,641

Thomas Helliwell, VP, Dean of Faculty
Compensation, $175,000
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $24,733

Tanya Mink, VP Advancement, Board Secretary
Compensation (probable partial year, see Raspberry below): $101,000
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $12,869

Charles Raspberry, Interim VP Advancement
Compensation (probable partial year, see Mink above): $52,308
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $6,231
Expense account and other allowances: $1,569

Deren Finks, VP, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid
Compensation (partial year? See Copeland-Morgan below): $120,500
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $16,905

Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, VP, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid
Compensation (partial year? See Finks above): $48,333
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $6,143



Jeanne M. Noda, VP, Dean of Students
Compensation: $118,500
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $15,126

Compensation of the Five Highest Paid Employees Other than Officers, Directors, and Trustees

David Asai, Professor, Chair Biology
Compensation: $156,198
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $23,491
Expense account: $500





Robert Keller, Professor, Director CS Clinic
Compensation: $158,405
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $22,662
Expense account: $24

Ziyad Duron, Professor
Compensation: $150,403
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $20,276

John Townsend, Professor, Chair Physics
Compensation: $143,372
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $24,440

Michael Erlinger, Professor (Advice), Chair, Computer Science
Compensation: $142,256
Contributions to employee benefit plans: $24,325

Compensation of the Five Highest Paid Independent Contractors

NTDStichler, San Diego, Architect
Compensation: $147,561

PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, Los Angeles, Accounting/Tax
Compensation: $95,621

Eric & Co., Inc., Rancho Cucamonga, Painting
Compensation: $78,112

Cambridge Associates LLC, Boston, Consultants
Compensation: $113,459

RMA Group, Rancho Cucamonga, Contractor

Compensation: $90,979

Can't We All Just Get Along?

No, we don't receive ad revenue from NBC, but we couldn't help noticing that things have reached a truly sad state when the most honest treatment of race in America happens on a sitcom:

30 Rock, Season 1, Episode 16, "The Source Awards":

Jack: Well, well, well Lemon. Steven’s a good man; he’s on partner track at Dewey, and he’s a Black.

Liz: A black?!? That is offensive.

Jack: No, no, that’s his last name: Steven Black. Great family.

Liz: Oh, yeah, of course.

Jack: They’re remarkable people, the Blacks: musical, very athletic...not very good swimmers. Again, I’m talking about the family. Black is African American, though.

We were working on yesterday's post about the upcoming Black Party at Pomona College and the letter the Claremont Colleges received concerning their censorship (okay when it comes to things they don't like), when it occurred to that the treatment of issues like race, gender, or class sometimes receive at the Colleges risks turning a good number of people into caricatures incapable of speaking for themselves.

These and other matters of political correctness are serious issues to be sure, and we have a long way to go to solving any of them at the Claremont Colleges, in this city, or for that matter as a country. We should have serious discussions of issues; however, we should also not become so serious that we misread something as innocent as a party flyer, as Scripps College Dean of Students Debra Wood did in February, or become so straitlaced that we can't laugh at ourselves.

The self-seriousness of those who would protect the oppressed or downtrodden in a way dehumanizes the very people they would protect. You almost want to see these protectors slip on a banana just to get them to lighten up enough to allow you to talk to them without having to walk on eggshells. These folks haven't figured out that the best way of deflating some of these stereotypes is to poke fun at them.

And efforts to stamp out racism or any other -ism through censorship, as Pomona, Scripps, and Harvey Mudd Colleges were accused of doing, seems a terribly Procrustean solution to what are really very human problems. Watching the current presidential campaigns try to deal with the same issues, one really does sense that there is a significant segment of the voting public who are ready to try some different approaches to such things as discussions of race.

Let's see how long it takes that debate to filter down to the local level.

Free Speech Black Out at 5-Cs

Above, left: Good --- Above, right: Bad
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Aditya Bindal over at the Claremont Conservative blog has a post about a "Black Out" party being thrown next Saturday at the Edmunds Ballroom on the campus of Pomona College. The party is sponsored by Pan African Students Association, a 5-College organization.

Bindal wonders if the racial and gender stereotypes seen in the Black Out party poster will provoke the same sort of outcry from Scripps College Dean of Students Debra Wood as the February's White Party did.

To the great unwashed, this seems a double standard, which it is. Wood, and no doubt others, refuse to acknowledge this, and they seem to want to practice censorship in some instances but not in other similar situations. This sort of irrationality gets explained away by the Debra Wood School of Thought by simply saying, "I know better than you what's right and what's wrong."

(Residents of Claremont are very familiar with this same thinking, which has been applied to any number of fiscal and program initiatives. Maybe this is where the overlap in Town and Gown governance expresses itself most.)

Wood's type of censorship is getting notice. Charles Johnson at the Conservative noted that an organization called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has singled out the Claremont Colleges for what FIRE believes is a chilling atmosphere for free speech.

In a letter dated March 18th, FIRE contacted the presidents of all five colleges, as well as the Claremont University Consortium. The letter cited the Debra Wood-White Party incident, as well as other incidents involving administrators at Scripps and Harvey Mudd College.

The letter said:

Taken together, these incidents show a concerted effort on the part of Claremont College administrators to pressure students to censor their expression. Even if those responsible for the controversial expression were not ultimately punished, the responses that were sent out to the Claremont College community - including references to notifying campus safety and to taking "appropriate action" in response to protected expression - are likely to have a profound chilling effect on speech at the five colleges.

Will Bigham covered the FIRE letter in the Daily Bulletin last week. The Bulletin also posted the actual letter from FIRE, which you can read here.

The Law Doesn't Concern Itself with Trifles

Those wacky college deans.

First, Dean of Students Debra "Debbie Downer" Wood of Scripps College willfully--or not--misinterpreted a flyer advertising a party at Claremont McKenna College, finding all kinds of racism and sexism therein (here, and here).

Then, in a bit we did not cover, but which was commented on here, Dean of Students Jeanne Noda at Harvey Mudd College got all exercised over a comment written at her college on a white board, to wit, "Hillary is a foxy lesbian".

Now, in a trifecta (but always remembering there are still two more colleges to go), Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum at Pomona College waxes earnest about what she sees as the very possibly incorrect origins of the Pomona College Alma Mater (circa 1910):

The nut graff of her memo, reproduced below, is this:

Learning that the origins of our Alma Mater--a song that many of us cherish, and one we sing at Orientation, Commencement, and numerous other times--is rooted in a minstrel show that was held at the College is very upsetting.

Really.

Is there some kind of chromosome for over-reaction that all college deans are required to possess? Or do the deans see their jobs as firewall busybodies protecting ever and ever small groups from ever and ever slighter slights? Don't they have better things to do with their time?

It's a losing battle to take on college students in this way. They are too shrewd in manipulation and we think there is at least a possibility that is going on here.

We remember a challenge taken on by a sociology class of ours in college. See if you can make the professor lecture from the corner of the room with one leg in the wastebasket--that was the idea. We never did get her leg in the wastebasket, but by paying rapt attention whenever she approached the corner and by shuffling papers and losing interest whenever she departed from it, we had her far into that corner most of the time.

Don't these over-educated, over-reactive professionals know when they are being played?

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Claremont Colleges Stereotypes

We were on the campuses over the weekend trying to keep our fingers on the pulse of the Young Generation. As Yogi Berra said, "You can see a lot just by observing". While lots of students were wearing college T's, sweats, and hoodies, we saw these examples of self-referential commentary:

Pomona College: "The Ivy League Called, They Want Their Pretension Back"

Scripps College, the Women's College (and this shirt antedates the recent episode of "Foot-in-Mouth" disease suffered by the Dean of Students): "Its not PMS, We're Just Indignant"

Claremont McKenna College: "Love Fades, but Money Is Forever"

Harvey Mudd College (from the women's viewpoint): "The Odds are Good, but the Goods are Odd"

Pitzer College: "Why Go to College When You Can Go to Pitzer?"

We understand that these shirts may have originated as a fund-raising tool for one of the college clubs. Our rendition may not be exact; we weren't taking notes and are doing it from memory. We would welcome corrections and additions of any memorable phrases we may have missed. We'll print those that are printable.