By Willa Umansky PZ ’27 On Sunday, February 25, Pitzer held its third annual Sex Trivia competition in the Gold Student Center Multipurpose Room. The trivia night — sponsored by Pitzer’s ResLife and Title IX offices — was advertised as a sex-positive event inclusive to the college’s queer community.  The event captured the interest of students, engrossing late teens and early twenty-somethings in the world … Continue reading Pitzer hosts third annual Sex Trivia night

By Ben Lauren PZ ’25 With a record number of ballots collected Pitzer College has officially elected its new executive board for the upcoming school year, led by its incoming President Elect Paa Thompson PZ ’25. Thompson narrowly edged out runner up Isa Iqbal PZ ’26 in a nail biting final round of the ranked choice vote that saw Thompson receive 281 votes to Iqbal’s … Continue reading Pitzer Student Senate announces executive board election results

By Ainslee Archibald, PZ ’25 The April 5 application deadline for Pitzer housing is fast approaching, and the suite politics on campus are reaching a boiling point. This year, Pitzer is organizing a Substance Free Living Community, creating dedicated space for single-gender housing, and implementing new procedures for evaluating accommodations applications. All the while, competition for main campus singles ever increases. By noon on April … Continue reading What’s new with the Pitzer housing process?

By Ivy Rockmore PZ ’27 On Feb. 3 Pitzer College’s Black Student Union (BSU) hosted the second edition of PZ Black Flea, gathering student artists, organizers, and shoppers to uplift and empower the Black creative community on campus. The vibrant flea market provided a space specifically for Black students at Pitzer and Black vendors from across the state to sell artwork, vintage clothing, crafts, and … Continue reading Pitzer BSU hosts second PZ Black Flea marketplace

By: Jack Paradis PZ ’26 If you’re like me, your morning routine was completely turned on its head when Pitzer College’s trademark coffee shop, the Pit-Stop Café, stopped accepting meal swipes last fall. I ran out of flex money in, like, early October. To be fair, we get 160 flex dollars for the 16 meal plan, and at $6 for a bagel and a coffee, … Continue reading Why doesn’t the Pit-Stop take meal swipes anymore?

By Ainslee Archibald PZ ’25 What if, instead of limiting yourself to Pitzer students via student-talk, you could buy and sell with students across the Claremont Colleges through a 5C-exclusive platform? That’s the goal of Dormplex, an online marketplace for college students launched by Noah Leopold PZ ’25 last semester. Dormplex launched as a test website last November. Now, Leopold and his co-founders are working … Continue reading PZ Junior co-founds Dormplex app to provide 5C’s with digital marketplace

By Rachel Rowlee PZ ’25 Isabelle Thacker joined the Pitzer community when her husband, Strom C. Thacker took office on July 1st, 2023. She spoke with The Outback through an email exchange on her experience at Pitzer thus far, her career as an attorney, and how she hopes to engage with the Pitzer community.  Thacker, who previously worked as a supervising attorney at The Legal … Continue reading An Introduction to Isabelle Thacker: Her Hopes, Her Experiences and Observations

On February 5., Pitzer College invited president and co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs council, Salam Al-Marayati, and CEO of the New Israel Fund, Daniel Sokatch, to speak as part of Pitzer’s Presidential Initiative on Constructive Dialogue. The event was moderated by President Strom Thacker and was moved to Zoom from its original location in Benson Auditorium due to hazardous weather conditions. The two speakers … Continue reading How do we engage?: Salam Al- Marayati and Daniel Sokatch speak on student discourse of Israel and Palestine

On Sunday, Feb. 11, the Pitzer College Student Senate passed Resolution 60-R-5 calling on the administration to suspend the college’s direct enrollment study abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel. The resolution, which passed with a vote of 34:1 with no abstinences, cites solidarity with Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The resolution will now move on to the College … Continue reading ‘No academic freedom for anyone until there is academic freedom for everyone,’: Pitzer Student Senate passes ‘Suspend Haifa’