TNC to be Enforced as CMC-Only

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Claremont McKenna’s weekly Thursday Night Club (TNC) party is to be enforced as a CMC-only event following of thousands of dollars in facilities damages and several violent incidents.“We need to be able to manage TNC before we can start opening it to other schools,” said ASCMC President Tammy Phan CM ‘11.The decision follows a threat from the CMC Dean of Students to cancel TNC unless reforms were made. As a result, the popular event did not take place last week.“We had been talking about our concerns about the event for several months,” said CMC Dean of Students Mary Spellman. “There was significant damage to the rooms in which the event was held, a student was assaulted, and the college felt it could not continue to have the event in that format.”In response, the newly elected members of ASCMC’s Administrative Council, who were sworn into office on Mar. 8, drafted a proposal during the break to restructure TNC. The chief authors of the proposal were Social Affairs Council Chair Seth Winterroth CM ‘12 and Dormitory Affairs Chair Alexander Reichert CM ‘11.The six-point proposal focuses on improving security, containment, and logistics of the party, Winterroth said. This includes hiring outside security firms, changing the location of the event, and placing more responsibility on dorm presidents, who organize the weekly parties.The most controversial part of the proposal enforces the event’s CMC-only policy. Although the college previously allowed students from other Claremont Colleges into the event, TNC has been a CMC-only event since its inception. The rule just has not been enforced until now.ASCMC leaders said the action was necessary for safety and financial reasons.“We’d be more open to having TNC open to other schools if we could get some funding from other schools,” said Winterroth.At some TNCs, he said, there have been more students from other schools than from CMC.“If we have money from our school’s student government, and a majority of it is going to other schools’ students, that just doesn’t make any sense,” he said. “It’s not good business practice.”Phan agreed, saying, “my student fees shouldn’t go to someone else, shouldn’t go to someone from another college.”Reichert cited the huge costs of facility damages, which have exceeded $13,000, as reason to charge other schools for entrance to TNC.“Right now we can’t afford to have TNC open to all 5Cs,” he said.The proposal was approved by the administration following Spring Break. The event reopened on Thursday in the McKenna Auditorium.

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