Getting involved at Pitzer is easy! There are plenty of organizations and activities to meet most interests. If you do not find it here, you can always create it yourself. If you would like more information on these groups and how you can get involved, be sure to come to the Activities Fair in September. Watch for more information this summer about other involvement opportunities!

Pitzer Involvement Opportunities
Clubs and social groups are plentiful, with more than 100 extracurricular organizations represented on the Claremont campuses. The number and nature of groups is constantly evolving, but some examples of five-college groups available to Pitzer students include: Amnesty International, Model United Nations, Ethnic/Multicultural Groups, International Place, and Debate. Pitzer has no sororities or fraternal organizations.

Club Sports
Year-round club sports at the Claremont Colleges include lacrosse, rugby, field hockey, and men’s volleyball. Several casual athletic opportunities, ranging from weekly softball to three-on-three basketball tournaments, are also available.

College Governance
You have an opportunity to serve on college committees and attend College Council meetings. Look for information about committees and selection procedures in the fall.

Ecology Center
Located on the second floor of the Grove House, the Ecology Center is one of Pitzer’s most activeorganizations. One of the group’s primary goals is to educate the community about environmental issues.

Gold Student Center (GSC)
The Gold Student Center offers a number of recreation activities. You can work out with weights, ride the bicycles, climb the stair stepper, boulder on the climbing wall, swim laps or join an aerobics class. You can play billiards, foosball or ping pong day or night. In addition, leadership and employment opportunities are available. You can get involved with the PAct (Pitzer Activities), or work at the Service Desk, or Fitness Room. Student Senate, PAct, and other student organizations share office space at the GSC.

The Grove House
The Grove House, a craftsman period home relocated to the campus in 1977, functions as a coffee house, serving an array of beverages, baked goods, and specialty vegetarian lunch items. In addition, the house has informal meeting rooms, an art gallery, the Bert Meyer Poetry Room, a guest room, and houses the Women's Center and Ecology Center. The Grove House Committee organizes community activities held at the house. Surrounding the Grove House are community gardens, which provide some ingredients for the kitchen, the outdoor classroom, wildflower gardens and the renowned John Rodman Arboretum.

Hall Council
The Council helps plan and organize activities in each residence hall. This body also contributes funding for activities on campus. In addition, Hall Council helps develop residence hall policies that affect the overall quality of residential life. As the planning organization of each residence hall, Hall Council consists of representatives from each hallway or tower. Students involved in hall council take an active role in planning activities and programs. They also represent students in voicing concerns and suggestions related to the quality of residential life.

New Resources Lounge
New Resources students have a lounge (located in Mead Hall, Little X) designed to specifically meet their needs, a place to “rest, refresh and rejuvenate.” The lounge is a group-shared space and is self-governed.

Other Side
Pitzer’s student-run alternative magazine, publishes news, opinion, fiction, essays, cartoons, poetry, and other works submitted by student, staff, and faculty writers.

Pitzer Activities (PAct) Programming Board
PAct is a student-based organization that coordinates a variety of special events throughout the year. If you are interested in planning programs or helping out, you can become a student coordinator of the PAct Program Board. Program areas include social activities, wellness, mini-courses, cultural life, campus films, trips and contemporary issues. PAct will take you to the movies, shuttle you around Southern California to cultural and entertainment attractions and bring music, poetry and speakers to campus. If you have an idea for an event, PAct welcomes it. Look for upcoming events in email and Pitzer’s Web site.

Pitzer Outdoor Adventures (POA)
POA sponsors a range of outdoor activities, including trips to the desert and local mountains for hiking and climbing. POA serves as a resource to individuals or groups planning their own outings and can help in obtaining the necessary equipment.

Student Senate
Members are elected by the student body and are voting members of the College Council. Senate members discuss issues of concern to students and make recommendations to appropriate college committees and administrators. Senate meetings are open to the community. Elections for the position of First-Year Student Representative and Hall Representatives will take place shortly after the beginning of the semester.

Without A Box
Without a Box is an improvisational, experimental theater group. The troupe performs throughout the year on campus and in the community. Membership is open to all Claremont Colleges students by audition.