Veterans Day at Claremont McKenna

Maybe I'm going out on a limb here, but I somehow doubt it. I apologize for posting this so last minute, but I wanted to be sure I worded it right.

Something's been on my mind. Could someone please explain to me why we have school on Veterans Day, but not on Cesar Chavez Day? Why is there no school wide service to commemorate the lives lost and the service rendered? Maybe those are questions and fights for other days, but I feel they ought to be asked all the same.

In any event, Claremont McKenna rightly boasts a history chock full of heroes and lest we forget them, I direct you to Ward Eliott's Claremont McKenna history. He puts it better than I ever could.

Billy Pedersen ‘68, Jesse Clark ‘65, and Stewart Moody ‘67 were neither economists nor ordinary people, but extraordinary people, looking death in the face on mission after mission in Vietnam till death won the last hand. Jesse Clark could play better golf on his knees than anyone else standing up. He was blown up by a mine in Cu Chi, South Vietnam. Billy Pedersen and Stewart Moody went down with their helicopters in Vietnam. Pedersen had volunteered for service in Vietnam, completed his tour of duty, packed to go home, heard his replacement had not arrived, and volunteered yet again to help his shorthanded buddies. He was shot down in an ambush and killed on his second mission. Harry Jaffa dedicated his The Conditions of Freedom (1975) to his memory.

Really? Top Bachelor? A Keck Graduate Student?

Really? America's Top Bachelor? A Keck Graduate Student?

Read it and weep. I know I did. (Courtesy of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)

The 23-year-old Kent, Ohio, native was awarded a $10,000 prize. He is featured in the magazine's November issue.

"With his smoldering eyes and chiseled cheekbones, how could we escape the hotness of this Midwestern wonder boy?" read a caption on the Cosmopolitan Web site. "When he told us he wanted a super power so he could 'read girls' minds,' we knew he was the 'one.'"

It actually gets creepier.

On the magazine's Web site, Watkins identified his guilty pleasure as "shopping with a woman, especially if she models the clothes."

(Okay, I really didn't want to post this, but I kind of lost a bet.)