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Pitzer Makes Mother Jones' List of Top 10 Activist Campuses

Claremont, Calif. - Aug. 21, 2001 - Pitzer College has secured a high place 
this year on the list of Top 10 activist campuses compiled annually by 
Mother Jones magazine. Pitzer's campus activists secured the No. 2 position 
in the magazine's third-annual ranking of activist colleges for protests 
last March over plans to build a seventh college on the Bernard Biological 
Field Station. 

Several students chained themselves to concrete-filled trash cans and barricaded 
entrances to the main business building of the Claremont University Consortium 
for 28 hours until local authorities were called.  Ten students were arrested; 
three of them were from Pitzer.  The students were charged with misdemeanor 
trespassing and released. 

To compile the rankings, Mother Jones asks for nominations from national groups 
like Amnesty International, Habitat for Humanity and Act Up.  This year's No. 1 
slot went to Yale University, where student protesters forced the institution and 
its business partner, Bristol-Myers Squibb, to relax the patent on an AIDS drug, 
thereby allowing an affordable generic to be exported to Africa.  The list will 
be published in Mother Jones' September/October issue, which hits newsstands in 
early September.  Mother Jones also is available on the web at www.motherjones.com.

Other institutions that made the list are Pennsylvania State University (3), 
Harvard University (4), Howard University (5), University of Michigan (6), 
Florida A&M University (7), Oberlin College (8), UCLA (9) and University of 
Wisconsin (10). 

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Pitzer College, a member of The Claremont Colleges, offers undergraduate studies 
in the liberal arts and sciences with an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, 
cultural immersion, social responsibility and community service.