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 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’