OPINION: Pitzer Senate’s “Complete Failure In Leadership” Was Structurally Inevitable

Like most aspects of Pitzer College, governance is best done by the students. Thankfully, we have a concrete institution that allows us to hold up our side of the college’s structure. It has allowed students to come together, debate, and present their ideas to the community as a whole —

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Sounds Right To Me: An Analysis Of ‘Overheards’ At The 5Cs

  Salmon shorts. Intersectional feminism. Particle physics. Birkenstocks. Pretentiousness. “Squaremont” is a tiny place, and anything that can help divvy up the grounds can make one’s home campus feel more defined. Stereotypes are an efficient way of doing that, and one of the fastest ways to make a stereotype itself

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Student Talk Is Everything We Ever Wanted Social Media To Be

  I despise email with all of the disintegrating bones in my internet-addicted body. Please just message me on Slack, Facebook, iMessage, or even Instagram, and I will be much happier. Email is ugly, breaks a lot, and takes far too much of my oh-so-precious time. However, email offers something

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Pitzer Professor Says Israel/Palestine Working Group’s “Very Existence” is Anti-Semitic

“The very existence” of Pitzer College’s Israel/Palestine working group, Pitzer professor Albert Wachtel said Friday, “is an anti-Semitic statement.” The working group, which is comprised of two faculty members, two students, two trustees, and one staff member, was formed in response to the Board of Trustees’ June decision to nullify

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