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05/08/2025

By Joseph Woo Chan PZ '27 RRC Fellows Francesca Luna SC ’27 (left) and Luca Davis PZ ’27 (right). At the Honnold/Mudd Library Founders Room on April 7, Robert Redford Conservancy (RRC) Fellows Francesca Luna SC ’27 and Luca Davis PZ ’27 led a presentation on the development of SoCal Earth, a website designed for easy access to environmental information regarding Southern California....

By Joseph Woo Chan PZ ’27 RRC Fellows Francesca Luna SC ’27 (left) and Luca Davis PZ ’27 (right). At the Honnold/Mudd Library Founders Room on April 7, Robert Redford Conservancy (RRC) Fellow…

04/25/2025

Words by Ayden Duchovnay SC '28 Graphic by Ava Tratt PZ '27 Here, it is a February of eucalyptus and rosemary and yesterday’s w**d. Snow has melted off the dry brown mountain And my friends are at the pool. I want the February of petrichor and pine, I want the rain to melt. I want the snow, I want to brake for geese and to Look across the lake, I see Rainier

Words by Ayden Duchovnay SC ’28 Graphic by Ava Tratt PZ ’27 Here, it is a February of eucalyptus and rosemary and yesterday’s w**d. Snow has melted off the dry brown mountain …

04/23/2025

Words by Tania Azhang PZ '25 Graphic by Ash Dirks SC '28 “What does this piece evoke for you?” asked our museum guide Solomon. We were looking at Alison Saar’s painting “Lethe,” depicting a Black woman whose body is partially underwater while her head hovers above the surface. I recently visited the Benton Museum’s “Black Ecologies in American Art” exhibition. We were evaluating works by Saar and other Black artists for my American Studies seminar....

Words by Tania Azhang PZ ’25 Graphic by Ash Dirks SC ’28 “What does this piece evoke for you?” asked our museum guide Solomon. We were looking at Alison Saar’s painting “Lethe,” depicti…

04/21/2025

Words by Ayden Duchovnay SC '28 Graphic by Blue Byrnes PZ '27 Two birds left luck For Lucy, yesterday Just beside her favorite elm All at once she felt As if the roots had willed A bridge, between The trees and the worms and From the edge of her Outstretched hand She sees now Alida wears eight rings, each one…...

Words by Ayden Duchovnay SC ’28 Graphic by Blue Byrnes PZ ’27 Two birds left luck For Lucy, yesterday Just beside her favorite elm All at once she felt As if the roots had willed …

04/18/2025

Words by Madeleine Farr PZ ’27 and Tania Azhang PZ ’25 Graphic by Genevieve O'Marah SC '28 On the rainy afternoon of Friday, March 10, we, Madeleine Farr and Tania Azhang, had the pleasure of discussing the contemporary political landscape — particularly Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the horrors of the tech-bro oligarchy — with Pitzer College political studies professor Shervin Malekzadeh....

Words by Madeleine Farr PZ ’27 and Tania Azhang PZ ’25 Graphic by Genevieve O’Marah SC ’28 On the rainy afternoon of Friday, March 10, we, Madeleine Farr and Tania Azhang, had the pleas…

04/17/2025

Words and graphic by Nozomi Shima PZ '25 Have you been lacking in your lust for life? Nervous about everyone around you getting their summer internships and jobs for next year secured? Wanting to make the most of your college years while it feels like time is slipping away by the second? I get it, and I have two pieces of good news for you: You’re not alone, and I have a few movies to inspire you and reinvigorate your joie de vivre!...

Words and graphic by Nozomi Shima PZ ’25 Have you been lacking in your lust for life? Nervous about everyone around you getting their summer internships and jobs for next year secured? Wantin…

04/15/2025

Words by Maya Raphael PZ '27 Graphic by Thea Riley PZ '28 To me, selfhood is not the intentional curation of an identity but the natural cumulation of experiences within this body. I contain multitudes. Every step I take is imbued with every step I have ever taken. Every breath I breathe whirls endlessly in the space of my being. The culmination of all pain is captured by a single beat of my heart....

Words by Maya Raphael PZ ’27 Graphic by Thea Riley PZ ’28 To me, selfhood is not the intentional curation of an identity but the natural cumulation of experiences within this body. I co…

04/15/2025

Words by Soren van Loben Sels PZ '28 Graphics by Izzy Young PZ '28 and Genevieve O'Marah SC '28 ‘Men used to be the providers’, we hear it again and again. Whenever the subject of traditional gender roles is broached, this old trope is inevitably brought up, whether to condemn or to yearn for. But were they ever? The basic premise is rarely directly questioned, but it should be....

Words by Soren van Loben Sels PZ ’28 Graphics by Izzy Young PZ ’28 and Genevieve O’Marah SC ’28 ‘Men used to be the providers’, we hear it again and again. Whenever the subj…

04/11/2025

Words by Ben Lauren PZ '25 Graphic by Genevieve O'Mara SC '28 In February 2024, after working in Pitzer College’s dining services for nearly a decade, Bon Appétit Management Company terminated Adan Campos for a lapsed visa. Now, nearly a year later — after a seven-month-long campaign calling on Pitzer to rehire him — he is just a step away from returning to the community he sees as his family....

Words by Ben Lauren PZ ’25 Graphic by Genevieve O’Mara SC ’28 In February 2024, after working in Pitzer College’s dining services for nearly a decade, Bon Appétit Management Compa…

04/10/2025

Words by Oscar Ponteri CM '27 Graphic by Genevieve O'Marah SC '28 Pitzer College is reconsidering its current COVID-era test-blind policy which is set to expire in fall 2025. The college has been test-optional since 2012, and “test-free” since 2021 but legislation enforcing its current test-blind stance is now up for review. Following Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Pitzer is the second of the Claremont Colleges to review their testing policies this year....

Words by Oscar Ponteri CM ’27 Graphic by Genevieve O’Marah SC ’28 Pitzer College is reconsidering its current COVID-era test-blind policy which is set to expire in fall 2025. The …

04/08/2025

Words by Ben Lauren PZ '25 and Willa Umansky PZ '27 Graphic by Willa Umansky PZ '27 On March 3, Pomona, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges all received an F grade on their Campus Antisemitism Report Cards issued by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Three weeks earlier, the ADL and the Louis D. Brandeis Center filed a Title VI complaint…...

Words by Ben Lauren PZ ’25 and Willa Umansky PZ ’27 Graphic by Willa Umansky PZ ’27 On March 3, Pomona, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges all received an F grade on their Campus Antise…

03/28/2025

By Willa Umansky PZ ’27 “I love reading about your s*x life in the school newspaper,” is a text that would have sent me into an anxiety induced coma in high school. At my haggard, ancient age of 20, I have grown used to receiving messages of this nature. Intimate inquiries, promiscuous prose, and porny poems — I have written a lot about love and s*x....

By Willa Umansky PZ ’27 “I love reading about your s*x life in the school newspaper,” is a text that would have sent me into an anxiety induced coma in high school. At my haggard, ancient age of 20…

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