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by Workers for Justice
(Student Group Press Release)
Official Press Release from Claremont student group Workers for Justice on tomorrow’s rally in support of Pomona College’s dining hall workers, who are trying to unionize using the card check method. The Pomona College administration has rejected their request, preferring the NLRD sanctioned “secret-ballot” vote. Anthony Chavez, grandson of Cesar Chavez, will speak at the event.
by Benjamin Alpert
Fencing finally came down from around Avery Hall today, giving passersby their first glimpse of the outside of the newly renovated Hall. According to Dean Jim Marchant, the Pitzer Board of Trustees will be on campus this upcoming weekend for a tour of the renovated Hall and the George C.S. Benson Auditorium inside.
by Benjamin Alpert
On Tuesday, March 2, the Grove House hosted a coffee “cupping” to test out new coffees that the Grove House Committee is considering offering in its Kitchen. Pitzer Junior Bennett Cross (PZ ’11) led the event and is the one-man force behind changing the coffee offered by the Grove House.
by Benjamin Alpert
The Pitzer Student Activities Committee (SAC) held its annual birthday event this past weekend, on February 27. In spite of a favorable turnout, setting up the party was not without difficulties, including a last minute change of venue and tension with CMC over funding and another party hosted the same night.
by Hannah Cornfield
Arriving more than an hour in advance, students from all of the Claremont Colleges anxiously awaited the opportunity to hear Jesse Jackson speak on January 22. It marked was the 22nd annual address in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Claremont McKenna College.
by Julia Gibas-Jones
Glass graduated from Pomona College in 1957 and returned to Claremont several years later, when in September 1964, Pitzer College first opened its doors as a women’s college. Glass will retire in June 2011, five days short of his 76th birthday, hopefully to become a student again.
by Lucia Reynolds
On Friday, November 6, Pitzer freshman Lucia Reynolds ventured into L.A. to see the Pixies live in concert at the Hollywood Palladium, which she describes as an absolutely unbelievable show.
by Christina Lee
A description of Pitzer Junior Christina Lee’s experience in a non-Pitzer program for her abroad experience last year in China. She’s confident she wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
by Haley Brown
She has a chihuahua called CC (named after a model in a Spanish game show), she is the third youngest of seven kids, and her favorite band is Rascal Flatts. You interact with her on a daily basis and may not even know her name. Meet Dora Garcia.
by Mimi Krumholz
The artwork of Robbie Acklen, Pitzer College sophomore, has recently become an international commodity; one if his photographs was recently shown and then sold at GFest – gayWise LGBT Arts Festival in London.