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  The Campaign for Claremont McKenna surged past the $600-million mark last week with the announcement of a $50-million unrestricted gift from trustee and alumnus George R. Roberts '66 P'93. With several months still ahead in the Campaign, the College has realized not only the highest goal in its 66-year history, but also the largest campaign ever staged in liberal arts college history. In honor of Roberts' extraordinary gift, the Board of Trustees will designate a new fitness and athletic facility as the Roberts Pavilion.
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  Living on One Returns to CMC
After 8,000 miles of driving around the United States in a modified 1978 school bus, Chris Temple '12 and Zach Ingrasci '12 returned to campus, where the idea for their nonprofit started, and wrapped up their national screening tour of Living on One Dollar. The Kravis Leadership Institute welcomed them with a lively reception, and students packed Pickford Auditorium for a viewing of the moving documentary, which captures their stay in rural Guatemala and the transformative power of effective microfinance on poverty. KLI has strongly supported the evolution of Chris and Zach's documentary, and the formation of their Living on One organization.
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    Hiram E. Chodosh, Claremont McKenna College's President-Elect
The Board of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College has elected Hiram E. Chodosh as CMC's fifth president. President-elect Chodosh, 50, serves as Dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, where he is also the Hugh B. Brown Endowed Presidential Professor of Law and Senior Presidential Adviser on Global Strategy. Chodosh will take office on July 1, 2013, and succeeds Pamela B. Gann, who has served as President of CMC since 1999. She will continue at the College as a Professor of Legal Studies.
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CALENDAR

December 14
Last Day of CMC Classes

December 22
Inland Pacific Ballet – The Nutcracker

January 13-18
Silicon Valley Networking Trip

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AN INTERVIEW WITH DIANE F. HALPERN PH.D.




PRESIDENT-ELECT CHODOSH AT THE ATHENAEUM



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    Steve Crown '74 and his Family Honored for $7.5 Million Unrestricted Gift
The Board of Trustees will designate Claremont Hall, an award-winning Silver LEED-certified student residence hall, as Crown Hall, in recognition of a $7.5-million unrestricted gift from Trustee Steve Crown '74, and his wife, Nancy. The new Crown Family gift has helped to propel the Campaign for Claremont McKenna past the $610-million mark.
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Hitting the right notes in 2012
Don't worry, Monsters Calling Home isn't going away. But their band name is. The young indie alt-rock band — whose members include Alex Hwang '08, Daniel Chae, John Chong, Jennifer Rim, Sally Kang, and Joe Chun — has enjoyed an amazing year. Earlier this month, the band capped off an exciting 2012 with yet another highlight: a sold-out December 4 performance at the legendary venue, the Troubadour, in Hollywood. The band is changing its name to Run River North.
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Getting Intuit with The Idea Jam
As a way to identify ambitious, creative, and competent individuals (i.e., potential employees), the financial software company Intuit annually assigns our students to examine a real-world problem facing their small business customers. Not for the meek at heart, the CMCers are grouped in interdisciplinary and inter-school teams of four, and must collaborate on innovative solutions and then present them (gulp!) to Intuit's upper management.
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Top 40 Under 40
The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal takes its annual look at people younger than 40 who are center stage in driving the economy in the local –– and in many cases, international –– business community. This year's list includes Alexei Agratchev '99, co-founder and CEO of RetailNext Inc..
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Cody Mivshek '13 Named SCIAC Athlete of the Week
After a week in which he averaged 18.5 points and six rebounds in a pair of basketball wins, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps senior guard Cody Mivshek has been named the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Male Athlete of the Week, for the week of Dec. 3-9.
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Mood Swing Rocks the Board of Trustees Dinner
Claremont's eclectic a cappella singing group performed for the Board of Trustees dinner last week as invited guests welcomed President-elect Chodosh. Members' soul-pleasing sound enchanted the audience as they sang a set list that included I Won't Give Up and You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.
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Are All Leaders Narcissists?
Ron Riggio, the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology, asks, "Do the huge egos of many top-level leaders mean that they are narcissists?" Some leaders clearly are, and perhaps that's not so bad, Riggio suggests. Maybe there can be such a thing as "healthy narcissism." Read more on this in his latest cutting-edge leadership editorial in Psychology Today.
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