Four questions: Dominic Salcido, senior maintenance mechanic

By Willa Umansky PZ ’27 Salcido’s father worked at Pitzer for a number of years and he recently started working after his father’s retirement. He expressed his excitement about continuing the family legacy. What show are you binging?“Naked and Afraid” What is your go-to snack when you get home from work?Fruit. watermelon, oranges, and cantaloupe. Who is your favorite musician right now?Jelly Roll. What is … Continue reading Four questions: Dominic Salcido, senior maintenance mechanic

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Creative, Poetry

spectral silhouettes, arduously silent

Words by AnonymousGraphic by Ben Connolly PZ ’26Doodles by Leo Bowman PZ ’25 i am unraveling a calamitous disaster pace, woefully languid i’d bathe in your sunlit eyes and dance upon the freckles that decorate your arms so i’ll let it take me crestfallen and despondentcuz i’m reduced to my want for youpersonhood carved awayi look at the glow of the moon, my stomach has pits i’m furiously … Continue reading spectral silhouettes, arduously silent

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Culture

Campus Couture Chronicles: March Edition

By Willa Umansky PZ ’27 I just wear something that doesn’t give me gender dysphoria. It’s a balance, whatever i’m feeling that day. – Liv ’25 I try to be colorful casual! -Strom ’President Very little originality. I go to a fashionable school, see people being fashionable, then I copy it – Nola ’25 “Silly gothic chic question mark?”- Chi PZ ’26 Continue reading Campus Couture Chronicles: March Edition

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Creative, Prose

Fragments

By Edie Vigushin SC ’24, Willa Umansky PZ ’27, Zoe Lusk PZ ’25 entangled in the clear bowl atop my mother’s bureau. Like little metallic fish. z I kneel before the moon praying to feel small, hoping to see that moon which casts wonder and renders me speechless, instead I see only my bleeding skin reflected back at me. My mind is bloated and salted, … Continue reading Fragments

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pink drawiing of old timey people engaging in intercourse

Culture

Intimate Inquiries

Dear Clementine,I’ve been getting with this senior since September – no strings attached. Like seriously so casual, never during the week and we don’t really text intermittently. HOWEVER, I’m starting to realize we know a lot about each other, get along well, fight together well, have sex together well, etc. I don’t know how to approach our impending doomed end. We have a few more … Continue reading Intimate Inquiries

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Creative, Prose

A Broken Foot And A Clean Tire

Words by Tye Iverson PZ ’26, Artwork by Maya Rafael PZ ’27 A habit is a placeholder. An item which binds you to the activities shining in your right arm, held together through your wrist and down to your forefingers. It waves hello to the goodbye you’ll see on the other side of a day. My Obsessions are a lock. A foot to a can … Continue reading A Broken Foot And A Clean Tire

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Mural on Mead with students standing in front of it

Culture

Mural spotlight: Serpent Mural by Yando Rios and Mead mural by Aaron Rhodes and Darci Raphael

By Eli Heart PZ ’26 If you, like me, have spent a considerable amount of time appreciating the murals that surround our beautiful campus, you may wonder which was the first mural, why it was made, and how the mural-making culture at Pitzer College began. In this series, I will document murals on campus in no particular order to provide the student body with more … Continue reading Mural spotlight: Serpent Mural by Yando Rios and Mead mural by Aaron Rhodes and Darci Raphael

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Culture

A reflection on the Tibetan Freedom Concert

By Ben Connolly PZ ‘26 On June 15th, 1996, roughly 100,000 people gathered at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco for the first Tibetan Freedom Concert. The show was organized by the Beastie Boys to raise money and awareness for the genocide of Tibetan Buddihsts following the occupation and annexation of the region in 1950-1951. Amid the annexation, “in October 1950, El Salvador responded to … Continue reading A reflection on the Tibetan Freedom Concert

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Trees forming archway with green hearts drawn over it

Opinion

Huerta del Valle: The Inland Empire’s path to a green communal paradise

Cameron Macdonald PZ ’25, Fia Powers PZ ’25 and Wynne Chase PZ ’26 are finding a solution to the trauma, health risk, food insecurity and a general lack of care for communities through the work of Huerta Del Valle. Huerta Del Valle is alleviating community stress through the simple, yet vital, role of community gardens. Continue reading Huerta del Valle: The Inland Empire’s path to a green communal paradise

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Culture

A Brief History of the Grove House

Words by Wynne Chase PZ ’26, photos by Wynne & Ashe West-Lewis PZ ’26 Have you ever looked at the lovable bungalow home nestled into the garden on campus and wondered to yourself “what is your story?” Luckily, over the summer, I read the 61 page document on the inception of Pitzer College’s Grove House as we know it today. I wrote this in order … Continue reading A Brief History of the Grove House

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