Author Archives: jeremybmerrill

Kiplinger Drops CMC from “Best Value” Rankings

Posted on February 12, 2012 by jeremybmerrill

Just a quick piece on Kiplinger dropping Claremont McKenna from their rankings after CMC revealed it had been reporting false data. With Alyssa Roberts. The Claremont Port Side broke the news. (And we got picked up by The Choice at … Continue reading →

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SAT Scandal Involved Systematic Score Manipulation

Posted on February 12, 2012 by jeremybmerrill

I was the first to obtain and publish a side-by-side comparison of the manipulated SAT data reported by CMC and the actual data. My article makes use of D3.js graphs, DocumentCloud and an embedded Google Doc. This article was picked … Continue reading →

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In SAT Score Scandal, CMC Admissions Dean Richard Vos Resigns

Posted on February 12, 2012 by jeremybmerrill

When the news broke that a “senior administrator” at Claremont McKenna had been fudging reported SAT scores, I helped break the news that Richard Vos, the Vice President and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, was the “senior administrator” and that … Continue reading →

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President Pamela Gann Speaks About SAT Scandal

Posted on February 12, 2012 by jeremybmerrill

I, along with another Port Side reporter, interviewed Claremont McKenna President Pam Gann. Our interview (at which CMC Forum reporters were also present) was the only one Gann has granted to anyone. I think we did a decent job: Gann … Continue reading →

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State of the Union Bingo

Posted on February 12, 2012 by jeremybmerrill

I built a quick little State of the Union Bingo game. A few hundred people played it during the hour-long (or so) speech. The code is available on github.

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15 Arrested in Protest of Pomona Dining Hall Firings

Posted on December 2, 2011 by jeremybmerrill

Fifteen Claremont Colleges students, faculty, alumni and local union members were arrested in a civil disobedience action after 17 workers were fired from Pomona College’s dining halls. For the Claremont Port Side.

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UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident: Could it Happen in Claremont?

Posted on November 22, 2011 by jeremybmerrill

In the wake of the UC Davis pepper spray incident, I talked with the Claremont University Consortium’s Director of Campus Safety about the schools’ pepper spray policies. For the Claremont Port Side.  

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#ONA11 Buzzword Bingo

Posted on November 15, 2011 by jeremybmerrill

I was a part of the Online News Association’s 2011 conference in Boston in September 2011. I, along with Katie Zhu, built this Buzzword Bingo game over the course of a couple days. It’s built in PHP and jQuery and … Continue reading →

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How Does ASCMC Spend Your Money?

Posted on October 19, 2011 by jeremybmerrill

To show students how the student government spends its money, mostly drawn from student fees, I interviewed ASCMC officials and made an interactive visualization of their budget for the Claremont Port Side. The BudgetViz code is on Github, it is written … Continue reading →

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OccupyLA: Diverse, but Coherent

Posted on October 18, 2011 by jeremybmerrill

I went to OccupyLA and wrote a profile of that diverse movement and it’s connections to Claremont for the Claremont Port Side.

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