In Popular Culture
The Claremont Colleges are featured in the zombie horror novel World War Z as the setting of a documentary featuring a battle between 300 students of the colleges and a horde of 10,000 infected Californians. The documentary is used to combat deaths due to a previously unknown psychological disorder known as apocalyptic demise syndrome, or ADS.
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