Memo to Newsweek: Pomona is CMC's Rival!

These schools aren't rivals and don't share the same January weather.

Many Claremont McKenna students will remember our slight at the hands of Newsweek when they failed to list as one of the "New Ivies." (They gave Colgate of all places a nod instead of us. Just how many 200 million dollar gifts have they received lately and how many alums run large corporations? That's what I thought.)

You will also recall them calling us "The Hottest for Election Year" rightly noting that "speakers like Bill Clinton and Justice Antonin Scalia dropped by last spring, and neither was tarred and feathered."

While this sometimes even-handedness may be a point in Claremont McKenna's favor, it is more an indictment of the skewed, left-wing nature of most private colleges who fattened with federal dollars, seek to hear their own echo chambers instead of tackling worthy ideas and ideals. In the past, I've about that supposed balance in The New York Sun.

Newsweek's latest stupidity is its article on the top rivalries in the country by trying to argue that Pomona and Amherst have some rivalry despite being on opposite sides of the country. (The Amherst students aren't buying it either, from the looks of it.) Not only do they ignore the documented fact that Claremont McKenna-Pomona have the closest rivalry in the country, but they try to implausibly argue that the two consortia are pretty similar. They aren't.

You have to ride a bike, drive a car, or take a bus to get to the other members of the Amherst consortium. Something to consider once one has imbibed a lot of alcohol. You won't fall into any snow banks here!

For what it's worth, I chose Claremont McKenna (obviously) over Pomona and Amherst. And it was the education, not the weather (mostly).