The Outback

02/25/2026

Your morning coffee just got closer

Perhaps you’ve walked through Mead Courtyard on a Wednesday morning, pausing between the 9/11 and Che Guevara murals to wonder why several students are clumped around a first-floor window connected to Y100. For those unfamiliar with the new business, this student crowd comprises The Hatchery’s morning rush. The Hatchery is a student-founded and run cafe, operated primarily by Nicky Paterniti PZ ’27 and Joseph Grandchamp PZ ’27....

Perhaps you’ve walked through Mead Courtyard on a Wednesday morning, pausing between the 9/11 and Che Guevara murals to wonder why several students are clumped around a first-floor window connected…

01/22/2026

Are you back on campus and feeling extra titilated by the lush potentials of Pitzer in the springtime? Need a place for your creative ideas to hatch?
The Outback Newsprint Magazine is officially back Monday, January 26th!! Whether you’re into news coverage, op-eds, creative writing, poetry, art, or mixed media madness, we’re so excited to dive in with you.

Meetings are every Monday @ 8:30pm at the Pitzer Grove House.

11/18/2025

Trump’s repressive, sure. Pomona was first.

By Willa Umansky PZ '27 and Madeleine Farr PZ '27 Over two years ago on October 7, 2023, Hamas initiated “Operation al-Aqsa Flood,” firing thousands of rockets and launching an incursion into Israel in a historic attack. The operation resulted in the death of 1,200 people and the abduction of 251 hostages, marking the beginning of a war that has since accelerated Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip....

By Willa Umansky PZ ’27 and Madeleine Farr PZ ’27 Over two years ago on October 7, 2023, Hamas initiated “Operation al-Aqsa Flood,” firing thousands of rockets and launching an incursio…

11/13/2025

Words by Emmy Knapp PZ ’26, Graphic by Izzy Leake PZ ’26 “4 p.m. on Fridays at the stump on Marston Quad.” This was all the information I had before showing up to the Claremont Luddite Club, a group notoriously hard to track down due to their intentional lack of an online presence. Neither Instagram post nor email, the normal modes for contemporary club communications, confirmed that day’s…...

Words by Emmy Knapp PZ ’26, Graphic by Izzy Leake PZ ’26 “4 p.m. on Fridays at the stump on Marston Quad.”  This was all the information I had before showing up to the Claremont  Luddite …

11/12/2025

Words by Anabel Audoly CM '28, Graphic by Ben Connolly PZ '26 1 The dinner was to be at Anton Volkov’s apartment in the 6ᵉ arrondissement. He had started spending his time watching rather long episodes of two young Americans remodeling homes. They were twins and he found this quite charming, although he hadn’t yet realized it was because he missed his children....

Words by Anabel Audoly CM ’28, Graphic by Ben Connolly PZ ’26 1 The dinner was to be at Anton Volkov’s apartment in the 6ᵉ  arrondissement. He had started spending his time watchin…

11/09/2025

Words by Kayra Hidirlar PZ '28, Graphic by Genevieve O'Marah SC '28 You may have seen him before. Maybe he was sipping an iced strawberry matcha with oat milk at a local coffee shop, maybe he was talking about how much he loves women and feminist theory on your Instagram feed, or maybe he was holding up a Sylvia Plath book in front of everyone to show what he is reading....

Words by Kayra Hidirlar PZ ’28, Graphic by Genevieve O’Marah SC ’28 You may have seen him before. Maybe he was sipping an iced strawberry matcha with oat milk at a local coffee sh…

11/04/2025

Words by Willa Umansky PZ '27, Graphic by Ben Connolly PZ '26 When I was little, my family would have Shabbat dinner every week — there is something inside of me that craves the Shabbos spirit. At camp, I would keep Shabbat weekly and that satisfied my innate desire for the sabbath, for the warmth of candle light and echoes of Shalom Aleichem....

Words by Willa Umansky PZ ’27, Graphic by Ben Connolly PZ ’26 When I was little, my family would have Shabbat dinner every week — there is something inside of me that craves the Shabbos…

11/04/2025

Words by Luca Rudenstine PZ ’26, Graphic by Izzy Young PZ '28 Fiona Apple’s Parting Gift isn’t a breakup song so much as a group memo to an alumni association of exes. She once said it was written “to all of the men I have known,” which instantly shifts it from private heartbreak to mass correspondence: subject line, Your Services Are No Longer Required....

Words by Luca Rudenstine PZ ’26, Graphic by Izzy Young PZ ’28 Fiona Apple’s Parting Gift isn’t a breakup song so much as a group memo to an alumni association of exes. She once said it was wr…

10/28/2025

Words by Madeleine Farr PZ '27, Graphic by Thea Riley PZ '28 In early September, the Supreme Court lifted a lower court judge’s ruling on immigration raids in Los Angeles. While ICE agents, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and supporters argue that the SCOTUS decision was necessary to ensure agents could thoroughly carry out their duties, critics argue that it enables indiscriminate sweeps and racial profiling....

Words by Madeleine Farr PZ ’27, Graphic by Thea Riley PZ ’28 In early September, the Supreme Court lifted a lower court judge’s ruling on immigration raids in Los Angeles. While ICE age…

10/21/2025

Words by Oliver Schoening PZ '27, Graphic by Ben Connolly PZ '26 The word “dirtbag” typically conjures images of vulgarity and sloppiness — not a political identity. Yet for an American left wing increasingly under attack in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, the label may be a much-needed lifeline. In a recent opinion piece titled “America’s New Segregation,” New York Times columnist David Brooks investigates the divided state of American society and potential solutions in the Trump era....

Words by Oliver Schoening PZ ’27, Graphic by Ben Connolly PZ ’26 The word “dirtbag” typically conjures images of vulgarity and sloppiness — not a political identity. Yet for an American…

10/19/2025

Words by Elias Schendler PZ '29, Graphic by Darby Lind SC ’29 Bad Bunny once said, “Debí tirar más fotos” (I should’ve taken more photos). He sings of the profound regret one feels when failing to capture the true essence of a memory. This is very similar to the crippling sorrow I felt after failing to take pictures of my first meals at this (mostly) wildly delicious consortium....

Words by Elias Schendler PZ ’29, Graphic by Darby Lind SC ’29 Bad Bunny once said, “Debí tirar más fotos” (I should’ve taken more photos). He sings of the profound regret one feels when faili…