Pitzer in the News
2002-2003 Academic Year

Pomona-Pitzer Names New Tennis Coach
Claremont-Upland Voice
Aug. 22, 2003
     The Sagehens named Ben Belletto as their men’s tennis coach, replacing Ryan Witt. It is Belletto’s first head coaching job in the collegiate ranks and only his second overall. He will also serve as the program’s sports information director.
     “Everyone we’ve talked to believes that we’re catching him at the right time,” Pomona-Pitzer Athletic Director Charles Katsiaficas said. “This is his first opportunity and he’s ready and we’re lucky to get him before somebody else did.”
     Belletto played collegiately at Santa Barbara City College and Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz before graduating from St. Mary’s College in Moraga. He also was assistant director for Nike Tennis Camps at UC Santa Cruz for two years.

Colleges Host Film Premiere Fund-raiser
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Aug. 17, 2003
     Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate University are getting a little help from the stars. Proceeds from the premiere of “The Fighting Temptations,” starring Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. and Grammy winner Beyonce Knowles, will benefit the schools’ scholarships for African American students.
     “Paramount is a wonderful philanthropic organization,” said Greg Saks, director of development for Pitzer. “We tried to do this last year, but because of the war it did not happen, but they promised that we would be able to do this, and we are, which is great.”
     The movie is scheduled for release Sept. 19.
     Susan Dolgen, a member of the Pitzer College Board of Trustees, and her husband, Jonathan, a Claremont Graduate University Board of Trustees member and employee of Paramount Pictures, helped the schools work out the arrangements.

Make Time for Your Friends – They’re Worth It
Calgary Herald
Aug. 14, 2003
     Pitzer College Professor of Sociology Peter Nardi was featured in a story on friendship and its importance to universal well-being.
     “Friends are often referred to as ‘families of choice,’” Nardi said. “Sometimes they provide services, support and identity, things that may not necessarily come from a family of origin. Friends are an essential component of one’s network.”
     In the story, Nardi distinguished between the different kinds of friendship that exist.
     “There’s the casual friend, who you don’t tell about your alcoholic parents. There’s the close friend, with whom you can talk about problems you’re having with a spouse. Then there’s the best friend, the person you call immediately,” he said.

Visions of Things to Come
Claremont Courier
Aug. 13, 2003
     Nelson Trombley was profiled for the role he will play in the 12-week project, “Envisioning the Future,” which will be exhibited at multiple sites in January and February. The project features artists Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman and invites artists to “imagine, create and exhibit diverse images of the future” during the lengthy experience. Trombley will participate as an artist in the photo documentary segment of the project and as a group facilitator.
     “I’ve only been in Southern California for a year, so my being new to the area, and after having taught art for 30 years and as a producing artist myself, I thought it was important to get involved in the community. And this seemed the perfect vehicle for me to do that,” Trombley said.

Hunting for Bambi. Hoax? Reality? Does It Matter?
Common Dreams News Center Web site
(www.commondreams.org/views03/0801-05.htm)
Aug. 5, 2003
     John E. Glass, Ph.D., a sociologist, chairman of a Violence Against Women committee in Texas, and graduate of Pitzer College, wrote a piece for the Web site about a Las Vegas business called “Hunting for Bambi.” The business, supported by a Web site, purported to offer “hunters” the chance to track and shoot naked women with paintball guns. Glass said that many in the press were claiming that the hunt was a spoof and actually a marketing strategy to sell videos of men hunting women with paintball guns. Glass’ main contention was that SNOPES, a site dedicated to debunking urban myths and legends, had decided it was a hoax and dismissed the matter. To Glass, the issue was not whether it was a hoax or not. The issue was the matter of violence against women. The idea of such a hunt was just as much of a transgression as the actual hunting of women, he said. Glass argued that the questions surrounding the Bambi hunt underline the importance of exposing the invisibility of the cultural acceptance of violence against women.

Faces in the Crowd
Sports Illustrated
July 28, 2003
    Joy Haviland, a recent graduate of Pitzer College and a four-time All-America honoree, was recognized for scoring four of the Sagehens’ eight goals in route to the NCAA Division III championship against the University of Redlands. She was named division player of the year.

Why Don't We Care About the WMD?
Salon.com
June 19, 2003
    Pitzer College Professor Dana Ward was featured in a story that argued it increasingly looks like President Bush spurred America to war with falsehoods about weapons of mass destruction and that much of the information the Bush administration offered the public as justification for a war was not true. Americans, though, don't seem to care, the article stated. Professor Ward was reported as saying, "There's a tendency to rally behind a leader whenever there's any kind of bullets flying. We saw it in the first Gulf War and we certainly saw it in the second Gulf War. That is a normal part of the process. What's not normal, though it's unprecedented, is for the administration to put out information designed to manipulate public opinion." Professor Ward went on to relate his failed efforts to convince pro-war attendees at Claremont rallies that Saddam Hussein was not behind the events of Sept. 11.
      The article can be accessed at http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/06/19/deluded/print.html. The site requires a subscription but can be accessed on a one-day free basis by following the instructions at Salon.com.

Pitzer Loses Rodman, Called Its 'Bedrock'
Claremont-Upland Voice
June 20, 2003
     If anyone was looking for John Rodman on the Pitzer College campus, chances are he would be in one place - the school's arboretum. Rodman spent much of his time there, tending the drought-tolerant plants and designing the landscaping. Rodman, who began his career teaching political theory before discovering environmental studies, was considered a pioneer in the field. "In many ways this whole field of ecological restoration was really pioneered by John and several other people in other parts of the country," said Tom Ilgen, a professor of political studies at Pitzer and longtime colleague of Rodman. "He was a very early believer that we ought to pay attention to ecological niches."

Cordero Leads Local Draftees
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
June 3, 2003
     Pomona-Pitzer catcher Jose Cortez, a Don Lugo High School graduate and 2003 graduate of Pitzer College, was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 14th round of the Major League Baseball draft. Cortez said he is excited to play for the Phillies.

Dispatches from Botswana: Seven Spending Spring Semester in Southern Africa
Whitman College Web site
May 2003
     Seven Whitman students are spending the spring semester in Botswana, a country of 1.5 million people near the southern tip of Africa. Whitman College's seven students make up a surprisingly large portion of the 16 U.S. students in Botswana this spring as part of a program sponsored by Pitzer College. The Pitzer program, based in part on cultural immersion, rotates participating students through a series of three home stays. Students live with families in small rural villages, small rural towns and the larger, urban capital city of Gaborone.

Pitzer Garden Honors Reporter
Los Angeles Daily News
May 5, 2003
     There is a garden where the Pitzer College community can find healing, reflection and renewal. Among salvia plants, Matilija poppies and great Engelmann oak tress is a place where they can gather to remember friends and loved ones who are no longer with them. "Because David [Bloom's] life was so public and successful, we are proud to point to him as a symbol of what a Pitzer alumnus can achieve," Pitzer President Laura Skandera Trombley said in opening remarks at the dedication of the garden.

Down, But Not Out
Claremont-Upland Voice
May 16, 2003
     Daniel Smith, who will begin college at Pitzer in the fall, finished his baseball career with the Webb Schools in Claremont. Smith found a way to contribute to the team despite having a torn ligament in his elbow that kept him from throwing or swinging the bat.

Sagehens Out in Quarters, Again
Claremont-Upland Voice
May 16, 2003
     Pomona-Pitzer was knocked out of the NCAA Division III women's tennis quarterfinals for the second year in a row by Washington and Lee (Va.). It was the Sagehens' third consecutive appearance in the quarterfinals. Betsy Mork recorded the lone victory for Pomona-Pitzer, defeating Laura Bruno 1-6, 6-5, 10-8 at No. 3 singles.

'Pop' Go the Spurs
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
May 15, 2003
     Former Pomona-Pitzer head coach Gregg Popovich, now the head coach of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs, hasn't missed a step despite having jumped from Division III college ball to the noisy and high-pressure world of professional basketball. "It's all just coaching basketball," Popovich said. "The players are just different." Popovich is credited with turning the Sagehens around, taking them into the NCAA tournament and a SCIAC championship in 1986 after a 68-year drought.

Lesson About Life on Graduation Day
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
May 19, 2003
     Best-selling author Naomi Wolf was selected by the students of Pitzer College to speak at their graduation. She charged the students to continue their work of social justice and ethical leadership after they leave school. "You have to be willing to throw away the script, which means getting rid of the life expectation that is imposed from the outside," Wolf said. "If you rip up the script and give back to the world, the universe will take care of you. But sensible investing also helps."

Educational Oasis: Claremont is Home to a Cluster of Nationally Known Private Colleges
Living Here Magazine (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
May 2003
     The monthly publication profiled Pitzer as part of the Claremont Colleges. The article noted, among other things, that Pitzer is known for its social and behavioral sciences curriculum. With the help of their counselors, Pitzer students create their own courses of study. The school places an emphasis on social responsibility and community service.

Pals Get Phone Lines Humming to Reach Senior Shut-ins, Disabled in Community
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
May 29, 2003
     The Ontario Senior Center has implemented its new Phone Assurance Line or PAL Program to reach out to senior citizens in the community via telephone. The program provides companionship and resources to seniors or disabled persons who are restricted to their homes. Tracee Davis, senior supervisor at the center, presented the idea of the program to three students from the Claremont Colleges who needed to fulfill a community service requirement for their course in Visual Anthropology. Deborah Price, 37, a Pitzer student, said the program applied the ideas and techniques that were learned from books to the community.

Peace and Diversity
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
May 13, 2003
     Students at Vina Danks Middle School in Ontario got a lesson on equality, peace and diversity from Julie Chavez Rodriguez, granddaughter of Mexican labor leader Cesar Chavez on May 12. A panel of seventh-graders also shared their recent experiences in La Paz, Calif., where they worked closely with Pitzer College students on a variety of community service projects, including the construction of a Cesar Chavez memorial garden. The assembly was made possible through the school's partnership with Pitzer and a GO SERV Cesar Chavez state grant.

Pitzer College Dedicates Garden to Honor Late NBC Reporter
Associated Press
May 5, 2003
     David Bloom's alma mater Pitzer College dedicated a memorial garden in honor of the NBC correspondent who died while covering the war in Iraq. More than 50 alumni, students, faculty and staff attended the dedication May 4, 2003, and shared their memories of Bloom, 39, who graduated from the college in 1985 before becoming a rising star at NBC and the weekend anchor of "Today."

Free Conference Addresses Risk and Resiliency in Child Development
Claremont Courier
April 5, 2003
     Within the research community and beyond, in families, schools, hospitals, clinics, and government, it is becoming more widely understood that the very early years of a child's development are critical to his or her social, emotional and physical growth and health. Addressing a broad scope of issues relevant to this essential period of life, Pitzer College hosted a conference called "The First Five Years: Risk and Resiliency in Childhood" on its campus April 11.
     "We've realized, in child development in general, a lot happens and it happens early," said Mita Banerjee, associate professor of psychology and conference co-chair. "The first few years of life are not just a resting period. We know that as soon as you can get in that door, it leads to a much better outcome. If you wait until kids get to school and they show up with problems, it's very difficult to intervene at that point."
Actor and director Rob Reiner, the founder and president of the I Am Your Child Foundation and the chair of the California Children and Families Commission, delivered a keynote address. First Lady Sharon Davis, wife of Gov. Gray Davis, also presented at the conference.

Four Pitzer Students Receive Fulbrights
Inland Valley Voice/Los Angeles Times
April 4, 2003
     Four Pitzer College students have earned Fulbright scholarships, marking the first time in the university's 40 years when so many have been honored at the same time.
Rosa Hughes, Alicia Alvarado and Jose Luiz Calderon will travel to South Korea to teach English. Elise Carlson will study in Sweden in 2003-04. Her project is "Patriarchy and Assimilation: Turks, Assyrians and Kurds in Sweden."
     "It's an amazing achievement. This is a good class of students and I think what they've been really good at is taking advantage of the opportunities here," said Nigel Boyle, associate professor of political studies at Pitzer. "In addition to being good students in their fields, they've really broadened their education outside of that."

Cesar Chavez Commemoration Continues at Claremont Colleges
Claremont Courier
April 2, 2003
      The Claremont Colleges continued their month-long commemoration of Cesar Chavez, the farm labor leader whose accomplishments were celebrated nationally on March 29.
A "Pilgrimage for Peace, Justice and Unity for Humanity" was held April 12. The 6-mile march began at the Pitzer College mounds, stopped at Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church for an ecumenical service and continued to Pomona City Hall.

Pitzer Students Recognized for Work with Migrants
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
March 29, 2003
      The Pomona Day Labor Center was packed with day laborers, college students, local dignitaries and some community members. More than 70 people had come together to remember United Farm Workers founder Cesar Chavez on the anniversary of his birth and to present an award to Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley for the institution's support of the center through its students and other programs. Since the center opened, many Pitzer students have volunteered their time as early morning English teachers and by assisting the laborers with other needs.
       Ontario resident Jesse Diaz has been involved with the center since 2000, when he first arrived at Pitzer following graduation from Chaffey College. Diaz is now a student at UC Riverside but continues being involved providing assistance with immigration issues and job training.
        "We want them to go from unskilled to skilled labor," Diaz said.

Fund Honors Pitzer College President: College Board of Trustees Creates Scholarship Pool in Name of Laura Skandera Trombley
     On the eve of her formal inauguration, Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley had her name inscribed on a $330,000 scholarship fund raised by the college board of trustees. Skandera Trombley became the college's fifth president July 1 when she succeeded Marilyn Chapin Massey. The college will hold an installation ceremony Saturday (Feb. 15). The ceremony, planned for the Brant Clock Tower lawn, is the centerpiece of a weeklong celebration of the college and its new president. At Thursday's dinner for college trustees, the board announced that its members had created the Skandera Trombley fund out of their own pockets. The fund will support scholarships for incoming students who are the first in their family to attend college; it will also pay for academic programs.

Community Activist Leads Friends of Diamond Bar Library
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Feb. 14, 2003
     Nancy Lyons '77, a community activist and college professor, has been elected 2003 president of the Friends of the Diamond Bar Library. Lyons, a math teacher at Azusa Pacific University, leads the group's executive team. Lyons has resided in Diamond Bar for 23 years. The Friends, Lyons said, exists to increase the resources of the Diamond Bar branch of the Los Angeles County Public Library System and to improve literacy.

Student Trades Places with President: Pitzer College Senior Won Raffle to be School's Top Administrator
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Feb. 13, 2003
     Pitzer College student Sterling Struckmeyer woke up Wednesday morning to start his new job as the college's president. Even if it was just for a day. The 22-year-old senior tackled a jam-packed schedule, which included meetings with campus officials and the mayor of Claremont, lunch with members of the student senate and a phone call with a Pitzer alumnus. Struckmeyer's day as president was part of the college's weeklong celebration marking the inauguration of its fifth president, Laura Skandera Trombley, who spent Wednesday filling Struckmeyer's shoes as a student.

College to Test Policy of Making SAT Optional: Pitzer Says Move will Aid Diversity. Critics Argue the Approach Restricts the Basis for Evaluation
Los Angeles Times
Feb. 8, 2003
     Pitzer College announced Feb. 7 that it will launch a three-year trial, lifting the requirement for applicants to submit SAT scores for admissions decisions.
     The action makes the Claremont school the first selective liberal arts college in California, and apparently on the West Coast, to make college entrance exams optional.

Expert: Don't Forget Afghanistan
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Feb. 8, 2003
     Don't forget Afghanistan, a leading journalistic expert on the Central Asian country that once served as a safe haven for al-Qaida terrorists said in a hour-long talk at Pitzer College on Feb. 7. A U.S. military intervention in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks routed al-Qaida and removed the radical Islamic Taliban regime from power, but the intervention has done little for the long-suffering people of Afghanistan, Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid said.

Mining the Depths of Chavez Ravine: Exhibit Looks at Mexican Community Uprooted at Dodger Stadium Site
Los Angeles Times
Jan. 29, 2003
     The photography of Don Normark, from his 1999 book, "Chavez Ravine 1949: A Los Angeles Story," will be on display at Nichols Gallery at Pitzer College through Feb. 15. On Feb. 5, KPCC-FM (89.3) radio personality Kitty Felde will moderate a community panel discussing the ravine. That event, which includes dinner and another screening of the unfinished film, features Jose Calderon, a Pitzer sociology professor; Gilbert "Magu" Lujan, a Chicano artist; ravine residents Henry Cruz, Albert Elias and Carol Jacques; and Frank Wilkinson, a former member of the housing authority. The exhibit is directed and curated by Susan Phillips, director of the Center for California Cultural and Social Issues (CCCSI) at Pitzer. Normark's work is an example of photographic anthropology, helping people understand why the story of the ravine has become such a multifaceted symbol, she said.

Teach-in Focuses on Civil Rights
Los Angeles Times
Jan. 25, 2003
     Many of the students responsible for protests that galvanized the city over the shooting of Irvin Landrum Jr. are gone. On Friday, those who remain and two Pitzer College professors tried to revive with a teach-in, march and rally what they deem the incomplete story of Landrum's death. About 45 people gathered on the lawn in front of City Hall in a reprise of what were weekly protest rallies over the police shooting of Landrum. The 18-year-old African American was shot by two Claremont police officers Jan. 11, 1999, during a traffic stop. He died six days later. In the months after the shooting, the account from the police officers was contravened by investigations. The officers contended that Landrum had fired at them, but tests showed the gun had never been fired. The furor grew at the end of 1999 when City Manager Glenn Southard named the two officers employees of the year. Those stories were told again Friday by professors Jose Calderon and Halford Fairchild, first to two dozen students on the Pitzer College campus, and then to about 45 people in front of City Hall. "The movement had died down for a while, and it's good to see it percolate up again," said Adam Cahn, a senior at Pitzer who as a freshman witnessed the rallies that peaked with hundreds marching through city streets.

Landrum Shooting becomes Foundation for Teach-in: Professors also Plan to Examine Domestic Effects of Terrorism, Threat of War with Iraq
Los Angeles Times
Jan. 24, 2003
The shooting death of Irvin Landrum Jr. four years ago drew unwanted attention to the city, provoked a furor locally and motivated a number of changes in city government and at the Police Department. Landrum's shooting by police officers is still fodder for current political campaigns, particularly the city's naming of the officers as employees of the year 11 months after the incident. But the rallies and public outcry over Landrum's death have yielded to legal briefs and the courtroom in a lawsuit filed by Landrum's survivors against the city and the officers. Two college professors are hoping to revive attention to the shooting, which they have called unjust, and to link it to new local activism over war preparations in Iraq and domestic security measures that they say have eroded civil liberties. Beginning at 10 a.m. Jan. 24, Pitzer College Professors Jose Calderon and Halford Fairchild have organized a teach-in at Pitzer, to be followed by a march from Pomona College to City Hall and a rally on the lawn in front of City Hall.

Grant Funds Literacy Program for Troubled Teens: College's Goal is to Help Students Realize How Skills Apply to Everyday Life
Dec. 21, 2002
Los Angeles Times
A grant of nearly $25,000 from the federal Department of Education will allow a program at Pitzer College to provide improved literacy and library services to about 200 students at a local high school run by the Los Angeles County Probation Department. Pitzer's Center for California Cultural and Social Issues (CCCSI) was one of 94 agencies nationwide to receive a share of the $12.5 million of Improving Literacy Through School Libraries grants awarded this fiscal year. The grant program, a new initiative aimed at districts where 20% of students are from families with incomes below the poverty line, aims to improve students' literacy and academic achievement.

Day Laborers' Safe Haven Takes on Festive Atmosphere: Volunteers Play Host to Workers and Their Families for a Day of Food, Entertainment and Gifts for Kids
Los Angeles Times
Dec. 21 2002
It is rare that volunteers at the Pomona Economic Opportunity-Day Labor Center get to see the children or wives of the men who show up at 6 a.m. daily looking for work. But Friday the center had a Christmas party with steaming plates of rice and beans, fried chicken and musical accompaniment by a young trio of singers. In its fourth year, the center has tried to create a safe place for undocumented men to find work that pays a reasonable wage, keeps them off street corners and helps them fit into American society. About 100 of them filled the community room at the center Friday for a meal and toy giveaway. It is a mostly transient group, said Pitzer College Professor Jose Calderon, who helped develop the center. Calderon said this might be the only day laborer center in the country linked to a college.

Students Challenged to Become Advocates for Peace
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Dec. 12, 2002
Licel Zayas was standing on her front porch when some kids passing by started to call her names. "They were being mean and stuck out their tongues,' said the Upland Elementary School fourth-grader. "I wanted to say something back, but I didn't. I just went inside my house." Licel's classmate Timmy Helton experienced something similar. "I was playing baseball with my friends and I missed the ball and they started laughing at me,' Timmy said. "I told them if you guys are going to be like that, I'm leaving, and I left.' Their teacher Melissa LaLone, who graduated from Pitzer College in 1997, was proud to hear of her students' commitment to peace. On the school's fourth annual Peace Day, LaLone, the day's founder, sat quietly in a chair at the head of her class and listened to one example after another of how the students were trying to be peaceful and be positive role models for others. "Peace is not always easy,' LaLone told them. "Sometimes it seems easier to push and shove. Sometimes it takes more courage to walk away; to become a peaceful person who says I don't believe in violence and walk away."

Tutors Prepare Disadvantaged Students for School
Los Angeles Times
Dec. 3, 2002
Student Alma Linda Chapa thought she would have to spend the summer working behind the counter of a mini-mart near her Long Beach home, as she had the year before. Instead, Chapa found a job doing what she loves and hopes to do for a long time: teaching. A sophomore at Pitzer College in Claremont, Chapa joined a summer tutoring program at an Ontario preschool that was made possible by a $15,000 grant from the Times Holiday Campaign. The tutoring program, sponsored by a national group called Jumpstart, sends college students to preschools year-round so they can help disadvantaged children improve their social and literacy skills to prepare them for grade school and beyond. Allison Couch, the program coordinator, said the summer session allowed more college students to try their hand at tutoring, thus increasing interest for fall participation. This winter, Chapa is a Jumpstart team leader at another preschool in Ontario called Para Los Ninos. She is among 50 students from the Claremont Colleges who visit Para Los Ninos and other preschools twice a week.

University Partnership Gets Federal Grant: Claremont Graduate University and Pitzer College will Use Funds to Work on Community Issues in Ontario
Dec. 3, 2002
Claremont Graduate University and Pitzer College have received a $350,000 federal grant to fund a grass-roots organization that works for community redevelopment in Ontario. The grant is from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to support the Ontario Community-University Partnership, a 2-year-old collaboration between the two schools and diverse groups from Ontario including city agencies, businesses, hospitals, schools, churches and community-based organizations. The partnership has focused on three areas: housing, education and health. Last year the program printed and distributed a health resources directory for Ontario residents who might not know where to turn for medical care, said Marie Sandy, the partnership's founder and director of the Pitzer in Ontario program. "Many were free services and they were here already," she said.

Pirated Files Clog College Networks: Student Downloads Flood Systems and Draw Complaints from Entertainment Firms
Los Angeles Times
Dec. 2, 2002
Alex Honigman can't remember exactly what he was looking for on the Web that October night, but he insists it wasn't what he ended up with: the latest Clint Eastwood movie. Nonetheless, when the Pitzer College junior clicked open the file containing scenes from the Eastwood thriller "Blood Work," he tripped an electronic alarm system at Warner Bros., the film's producer, which then notified his Claremont school. In no time, Honigman, 20, was suspended briefly from the campus computer network and required to write a letter of apology to the Hollywood studio. Pitzer administrators also warned him that a second offense could bring a year's suspension from the network. "They told me ... Warner Bros. could prosecute the college," Honigman said. "It was pretty unnerving."

Ontario Think Tank Awarded $350,000 Grant: Group Targets Health, Education, Housing Issues
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Dec. 1, 2002
A grass-roots community/university partnership created to educate and empower residents in need has received a $350,000 boost from the federal government. Claremont Graduate University and Pitzer College received the grant to support the Ontario Community-University Partnership, a think tank made up of 26 community-based organizations, businesses, schools, city agencies, churches and residents. The partnership unites the various entities to determine and meet the community's greatest needs, while helping local universities enhance their community-based research, said Marie Sandy, director of Pitzer in Ontario program who initiated the partnership. The grant, provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), allows colleges to train and assist community groups to address residents' needs in housing, healthcare and education through both research and outreach, Sandy said.

Students Score Win for Trees: Staples Agrees to Sell More Recycled Paper
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Nov. 15, 2002
Members of the Claremont Colleges Ecology Club scored a victory this week when the Staples office supply chain agreed to increase its use of recycled paper. Jason Venetoulis, a visiting professor of environmental studies at Pitzer College, said Staples' concession was a "step in the right direction. Staples could have gone further than 30 percent recycled. But it is another compromise on the way to more responsible alternatives for consumers."

Sagehens Mess Up Archival: Soggy Weather Affects Stags in Their First Loss
Los Angeles Times
Nov. 11, 2002
Pomona-Pitzer didn't want to be just another stop on archrival Claremont-Mudd-Scripps' road to the NCAA Division III football playoffs. Mission accomplished -- and then some. The Sagehens drowned the Stags' playoff aspirations in the rain-made lake formerly known as Merritt Field on Nov. 9 by scoring early and then forcing turnover after turnover the rest of the way in a soggy, messy, 12-7 homecoming victory.

Return of the 'PowerChicks'
Pasadena Star-News
Nov. 8, 2002
Southern California academe's newest power-chick, Laura Skandera Trombley, who succeeds Marilyn Chapin Massey as president of Pitzer College, was honored Nov. 5 at a luncheon at the California Club hosted by Martha Hammer, president of the Independent Colleges of Southern California

Pitzer Named Top Small School
Seventeen Magazine
October 2002
The popular magazine for teen-age girls has recognized Pitzer College as No. 2 on its list of the Top 10 Small Schools. The No. 1 school was Cooper Union. Following Pitzer at No. 3 was Scripps College. Ripon College, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Centenary College of Louisiana, Stephen's College, Cornell College, Fisk University and Albertson College rounded out the list. Pitzer also was ranked No. 55 on the magazine's online list of the 100 Coolest Colleges. The Claremont Colleges as a whole were ranked 17th.

Latino Leaders Discuss Empowerment
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Oct. 20, 2002
About 100 Latino leaders gathered at Pitzer College on Oct. 19 for the Organizing for Political Empowerment Conference. Keynote speaker Julie Chavez-Rodriguez, granddaughter of the late farm-labor leader Cesar Chavez, joined other speakers and guests to address educators, community activists, local artists, union heads and local politicians. "This is a chance for the Latino education community to get together with the labor community and the cultural arts community and organize,' said event organizer Jose Calderon, a professor of sociology and Chicano studies at Pitzer

Pitzer Spotlighted on Weekend 'Today' Show
NBC
Oct. 19, 2002
Pitzer College was featured as part of the weekend "Today" show's "Homecoming on the Plaza," with alumnus/anchor David Bloom '85 detailing his experience at the College

Attorney General Congratulates Pitzer Alumna
MSNBC
Sept. 26, 2002
Los Angeles U.S. Attorney Debra Yang '81 received public kudos from Attorney General John Ashcroft regarding an investigation that led to the arrest of several Homestore.com executives.

Planned Burn Benefits Debated: Firefighters Say Risks Too High
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Sept. 26, 2002
Paul Faulstich, an environmental studies professor at Pitzer, is quoted in a story about conducting controlled burns in high-risk fire areas: "Fire suppression is more often than not a poor management practice. What it does is ensure that when we do have a fire, it is a fire that is difficult to control."

New President Marks Depth of Students
Los Angeles Times
Aug. 27, 2002
Pitzer College's fifth president, Laura Skandera Trombley, plans to enhance programs at the College while encouraging the involvement and activism for which the school is known.