Sagehen Round Up for the Week of March 24, 2014

Claremont, Calif. (March 31, 2014) — This week in Sagehens Athletics saw Women’s Lacrosse sweep three non-conference games, and three Pitzer runners for the Men’s Track and Field team take first place at a SCIAC Quad meet with Occidental. Women’s Lacrosse finished off a 7-1 month of March by sweeping DePauw, Carthage and North Central [Read More...]

March 31, 2014

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Pitzer College Art Professor Tim Berg Receives Center for Cultural Innovation Grant

Claremont, Calif. (March 27, 2014) — Pitzer College Associate Professor of Art Timothy Berg is one of 11 Los Angeles County artists to be awarded in the Center for Cultural Innovation’s first round of 2014 Artists’ Resource for Completion (ARC) grants. The grant supports the creation of a new sculpture by Berg and his wife [Read More...]

March 27, 2014

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Pitzer College Named Greenest Campus in US

Claremont, Calif. (March 26, 2014) — Pitzer College has been named the greenest campus in the US by Niche. Pitzer was number one out of 1,366 schools on Niche’s March 23 list. Rounding out the top five colleges were University of California, Santa Cruz; American University; University of Colorado, Boulder; and Florida Gulf Coast University. [Read More...]

March 26, 2014

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Pitzer College Hosts Talk on the 2014 World Cup, Globalization and National Identity

Claremont, Calif. (March 25, 2014) — Pitzer College presents “Brazil 2014: The First Post-Nationalist World Cup?,” a talk by Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper, on Tuesday, April 8 at 9:40 a.m. in Pitzer’s George C.S. Benson Auditorium. “Brazil 2014” is the second lecture in a series of events at Pitzer College about the World Cup. [Read More...]

March 25, 2014

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Sagehen Round Up for the Week of March 17, 2014

Claremont, Calif. (March 24, 2014) — This week in Sagehens Athletics saw the Men’s and Women’s Tennis teams pick up huge wins, while the Women’s Water Polo team began SCIAC play with a win over La Verne. Women’s Tennis had a huge weekend in edging Redlands in a key SCIAC match on Friday and then [Read More...]

March 24, 2014

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Sagehen Round Up for the Week of March 10, 2014

Jake Yasgoor ’17 won all four of his singles matches at the Stag-Hen Men’s Tennis Tournament this week, including three on Friday and Saturday at the Stag-Hen Invitational.

Claremont, Calif. (March 17, 2014) — This week in Sagehens Athletics saw the Women’s Water Polo team go 3-0 against Division I schools, while a pair of Pitzer freshmen went undefeated in three matches at the Stag-Hen Invitational for the Men’s Tennis team. Women’s Water Polo hosted Bucknell on Wednesday and prevailed in overtime 11-9. [Read More...]

March 17, 2014

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Pitzer in the ’60s: A Conversation with William Russell Ellis, Former Pitzer Sociologist

Claremont, Calif. (March 13, 2014)—As part of its 50th Anniversary celebration, Pitzer College presents “Pitzer in the ’60s: A Conversation with William Russell Ellis.” An emeritus professor of architecture at UC Berkeley, Ellis taught sociology at Pitzer from 1966 to 1969 and was the first full-time African-American instructor at The Claremont Colleges during a pivotal [Read More...]

March 13, 2014

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Emerita Professor of Writing Jacqueline Levering-Sullivan Pens Follow-up to Award-Winning Book

A Less Than Perfect Peace by Jacqueline Levering Sullivan

Claremont, Calif. (March 12, 2014) – Pitzer College Assistant Professor Emerita of Writing Jacqueline Levering Sullivan has authored A Less Than Perfect Peace, a sequel to her award-winning Annie’s War (Eerdmans, 2007). Published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, the book will be available on March 28. In A Less than Perfect Peace, four years [Read More...]

March 12, 2014

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Environmental and Social Justice Champion Van Jones to Keynote Pitzer College’s 50th Anniversary Commencement

Claremont, Calif. (March 11, 2014) — The Pitzer College Class of 2014 has selected environmental advocate, civil rights activist and CNN correspondent Van Jones as its 50th Anniversary commencement speaker. The 2014 ceremony will be held on the Stephen L. Glass Commencement Plaza on May 17 at 10 a.m. Recently named a co-host on CNN’s [Read More...]

March 11, 2014

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Sagehen Round Up for the Week of March 3, 2014

Graham Maassen ’17 won a dramatic third-set tiebreaker to give Men’s Tennis a 5-4 win over Mary Washington.

Claremont, Calif. (March 10, 2014) This week in Sagehens Athletics saw the Men’s Tennis team win a dramatic home match with Mary Washington, while four Pitzer athletes won individual events at a SCIAC Multi-Dual meet at Strehle Track. Men’s Tennis (ranked No. 16 nationally) had the dramatic match of the week, defeating No. 17 Mary [Read More...]

March 10, 2014