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
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 against Scripps. Then, on March 18, the … Continue reading Student responses to ADL Report Cards and lawsuits on campus
Words by Willa Umansky PZ ’27 Graphic by Thea Riley PZ ’28 “I love reading about your sex 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 … Continue reading Rethinking Hookup Culture: Love Sex is Nice
Words by Oliver Schoening PZ ’27 Graphic by Ash Dirks SC ’28 On Saturday, March 8, Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was taken into custody in his apartment by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. ICE was acting on orders from the White House to revoke his student visa and have him deported from the country, despite the fact that the Syrian-born Palestinian is a green … Continue reading Mahmoud Khalil and Trump’s War on Campus Activism
Words by Sage Lewit PZ ’27 Graphic by Blue Byrnes PZ ’27 Lingerer – They say you are confused, Trying too hard, holding on. Gripping and grasping – missing your cue I hear you. Your words hang quietly looming ahead the masses who misread you. Coin you insecure. Call you yet miss you no Further. In your absence they are remiss Freed of your echoes which … Continue reading Pull a Brain in Two
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