Harvey Mudd students join with students from Claremont McKenna and Scripps Colleges to compete as single athletic teams. This intercollegiate athletic program is known as Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, or CMS. Male teams are the Stags; female teams are the Athenas. All 20 CMS teams compete in Division III of the NCAA and in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Intramural sports are popular at Harvey Mudd—in fact, these teams often have more fan support than the varsity teams. Intramurals draw on the rivalry between Harvey Mudd’s dorms, which compete in sports including inner-tube water polo, flag football, ultimate Frisbee, and floor hockey. The Claremont Colleges also collectively offer a number of club sports, from ballroom dancing to rowing.
Nearby joint Del Taco offers three tacos for a dollar on Hundred Taco Night, when students eat as many tacos as possible while watching Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Harvey Mudd’s rivalry with Cal Tech goes back decades. In 1986, for instance, Mudd students stole Cal Tech’s memorial cannon by disguising themselves as maintenance workers.
Bar Monkey, at West Hall, offers almost 200 mixed drinks—and the bartenders can whip any of them up in fewer than 10 seconds.
Case dorm hosts Happy Wednesdays, full of alcohol-induced fun, every week.
Bill Nye (yup, the science guy) spoke at Harvey Mudd’s 2008 commencement.
Only six Harvey Mudd students have ever received a perfect 4.0 GPA.
Harvey Mudd’s Honor Code is student-developed and student-enforced.
