Asian American Student Center Defeated Again!

Hallelujahs all around.

The Student Life reports that...

The Asian American Student Alliance, a politically inclined 5-C organization that has been lobbying the Claremont University Consortium for a campus-wide Asian American Student Center, will shift away from that proposal this semester, a member of the group said this past week. Such a shift will effectively end the third student-led push for such a center in two decades.

One small step for racial justice, one giant step against educational apartheid. The best thing is that the students themselves gave it up.

Former CMC Prof. David W. Berson Joins PMI

News from outside the Claremont McKenna bubble.

Today PMI announced that David W. Berson would be the new Chief Economist and Strategist.

[Berson] has held several teaching positions at the University of Michigan, Claremont McKenna College, and Claremont Graduate School. Berson has published more than ten papers on the U.S. housing and mortgage markets.

Looks like we're working real hard to down play that we're now an Economics Trade School.

Can't Pay? Don't Lay!

At the risk of social exclusion and genuine shunning, let me just say that I love birth control, but I hate subsidized drugs. They wildly distort the market.

According to Pomona's Student Life, birth control prescription prices jumped from $10 to $15 a month up to $25 to $50 a month at Student Health Services. What the school is doing providing birth control when there's a Planned Parenthood, a RiteAid and numerous other organizations nearby is any body's guess.

Fortunately, government has stepped in (at least at some schools)!

While student senate presidents from Scripps and Pitzer have also expressed interest in subsidizing the cost of contraceptives, CMC Student Body President Brad Walters ’08 said in a statement that CMC students would probably consider birth control prices “outside the purview of the college” and see “student government involvement with the issue to be inappropriate.”

And it's not already inappropriate that all students already pay for sex supplies for a select few?

Memo to next wealthy donor: Forget about endowing an economics department. It's all about the sex funds.

When government has failed to step in, some have taken to an international trade to fulfill their fix.

Marisa Robertson ’08 was studying abroad in Spain, where the device only costs about $20 and a prescription isn’t required. She stocked up on birth control while she was abroad and has asked a friend who is currently studying there to bring more back.

That's being entrepreneurial in college. It might also be illegal. I guess there are unjust laws just as there are unjust men.