Words by Ayden Duchovnay SC ’28 Graphic by Ava Tratt PZ ’27 Here, it is a February of eucalyptus and rosemary and yesterday’s weed. 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 … Continue reading February
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 … Continue reading In “Severance,” Hell Has Its Perks
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 An overgrown summer, but still … Continue reading Conversation with Friends, 1/23/25
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. Malekzadeh is a … Continue reading ‘Get a piece of that MAGA pie’: In conversation with Shervin Malekzadeh
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: … Continue reading Movies to Move You
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 … Continue reading Actuality
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, … Continue reading Men were never providers
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 … Continue reading On the verge of victory: Adan Campos set to return to Pitzer
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 … Continue reading Claremont Colleges Face Big Decisions on Testing Policies
Words by Willa Umansky PZ ’27 Graphic by Ava Tratt PZ ’27 and Genevieve O’Marah SC’28 This interview transcript has been edited for clarity and concision. The Outback: Can you explain a little bit about the free wall project? In practice, what are you trying to do? This past summer, I and Grace Wood-Hull (PZ ’25, free wall project co-lead) … were tour guides at … Continue reading Interview with Project Pericles Fellowship Recipient and Free Wall Project Lead
