Pitzer in the News
2005-2006 Academic Year

Pitzer College in Newsweek
August 22, 2006
President Laura Skandera Trombley and Pitzer College were mentioned in the Kaplan College Guide edition of Newsweek magazine.

Pitzer Mentioned on NPR "Talk of the Nation"

Pitzer Alumnus in Sacramento Bee
July 30, 2006
Pitzer alumnus Kevin de Leon, running for California State Assembly in November 2006, graduated from Pitzer College with Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and took on the political establishment from the start.

Pitzer College in July 30 Sunday Edition of The New York Times
The New York Times
July 30, 2006
Pitzer College made The New York Times' list of colleges that are "hidden gems." Although it may not be household name or have the resonance of the Ivies, Pitzer offers superb and sometimes better undergraduate experiences than "name brand" schools.

Greg Orfalea in Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times
July 19, 2006
Greg Orfalea was quoted in an article about the reaction of Lebanese immigrants to the strife in Lebanon and U.S. policy.

Professor Joe Parker's Critical Communities Study Class Travels to Mexico
The Claremont Courier
June 21, 2006

President Trombley in Inside Higher Ed
Inside Higher Education
June 14, 2006
President Laura Trombley was quoted in an article about college admission trends.

Chuck Kralowec ’06 in Chronicle of Higher Ed
Chronicle of Higher Ed
June 6, 2006
Chuck Kralowec was quoted in an article about intellectual diversity.

Arboretum Director Joe Clements in Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
June 1, 2006
An article about landscaping with cacti and succulents was published in the Home and Garden section of the Los Angeles Times.

Carmen Fought on The NewsHour and The Today Show - video clips
The NewsHour and The Today Show
May, 2006
Professor of Linguistics Carmen Fought was a guest on two national television shows as a linguistics expert.

Professor Maya Federman in New York Times
The New York Times
May 30, 2006
An influx of Vietnamese manicurists in Southern California replaced, rather than displaced, American workers.

Pitzer College in Washington Post
Washington Post
April 25, 2006
Pitzer College was listed as one of the top liberal arts colleges that do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students.

Pitzer College creating eco-friendly dorms
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
April 15, 2006
Construction of seven new dormitories, which started this week, will follow U.S. Green Building Council standards.

Claremont researchers find building blocks for Tamiflu in pods
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
April 10, 2006
Researchers at the Claremont Colleges may have found a solution in the fight against the avian flu virus in an unlikely location --on the lawns and in the trees of their own campuses.

Joint Science Professor Thomas Poon in Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal
April 6, 2006
Claremont Colleges Researchers have discovered that the seeds from the sweetgum tree are surprisingly high in the amino acid that is an ingredient in medicine that fights the avian flu.

Adam Forbes ’09 Exemplifies First-Year Volunteerism
Los Angeles Times
January 26, 2006
Pitzer College freshman Adam Forbes spent his fall break in Mississippi as a volunteer helping to salvage homes flooded in the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

“Her New Take on Twain”
Los Angeles Times
November 17, 2005
     The possibility at first seemed far-fetched: A Los Angeles collector, who had paid a dollar apiece for the stamps on 100 old envelopes in a downtown hobby shop, wondered if the letters inside might have been written by Mark Twain.
     The man approached USC English professor Jay Martin, who in turn asked a graduate student, Laura Skandera, to look into it. Sure, she replied, but the letters were probably phony.
     They weren’t.
     Written mainly to Twain’s three daughters around the turn of the 20th century, the letters were funny, sharply observant and occasionally cantankerous, like the author himself. And for a young scholar who then knew little of Twain, they were irresistible.
     The serendipitous role Skandera played in investigating and identifying one of the largest caches of Twain correspondence ever found would have a dramatic effect on the young woman and on the study of a towering literary figure.
     It launched Skandera, then 26, on a scholarly journey far different from the one she had envisioned. She switched her focus from Wordsworth and other English Romantic poets to Twain, a writer whose style and subjects were profoundly American. Nearly two decades later, Laura Skandera Trombley, as she is known these days, is a noted Twain scholar and the president of Pitzer College in Claremont.

Professor Peter Nardi Quoted in USA TODAY Article
December 20, 2005
USA Today
The Mars/Venus differences between men and women couldn't be more apparent than in same-sex friendships.

“The Beat Goes On”
Chronicle of Higher Education
October 24, 2005
     On October 29, Occidental College will meet its long-time rival, a joint team from Pomona and Pitzer Colleges, for their annual football game. Occidental won in 2004 and has the better record this year. Since 1895, the adversaries have written the scores of the games on a single pueblo-style drum. The winner keeps the drum until the next match up.
     The rivalry may continue indefinitely, but the drum—which is about the size of a small water cooler—can only hold so much history. Scores now have to be scrawled on the bottom, and the writing gets smaller every year.

“Conflict in Iraq Creates Different View Point”
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
October 26, 2005
     America’s mission in Iraq was supposed to be quick and decisive.
     Dr. Thomas Ilgen, professor of political studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, says the dialogue on Iraq is sounding more like the dialogue on Vietnam.
     “I just picked up a copy of Foreign Affairs magazine and read a piece by Melvin Laird, who was secretary of defense during Vietnam, and he was drawing these comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam,” he said. “I think people are going to be doing more and more of this. The lack of a clear exit strategy in Iraq is contributing to a declining confidence in the administration to get us out of this. I see a growing disenchantment.”

“‘I Love You, Man!’ The nuts and bolts of male friendship”
Reader’s Digest
October 2005
     For much of the 20th century, most people believed that men were too out of touch with their feelings to make friends. True intimacy was for women and sissies.
     Work would seem an obvious locale of common interest for men to form bonds, but “friendship requires exposing vulnerability, and that’s dangerous in a competitive environment like work,” notes Peter Nardi, a sociologist at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., and editor of the book Men’s Friendships. While most guys are amicable at work, very few find their closest pals there, because they don’t develop the trust that friendship demands. Trust has an age-old recipe, says Nardi: one part disclosure, one part reciprocity, one part intention.

Professor Halford Fairchild Quoted in Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
September 6, 2005