Pitzer College News

In 2000 a book was published, briefly, accusing one of the most famous anthropologists of a number of grievous sins.

Controversial researcher finds the world's most prosperous and happiest countries are also its least religious.

Housed in the Thatcher Music Building at Pomona College in Claremont is the headquarters for one of the Inland Empire's most popular college radio stations, KSPC 88.7FM. Situated towards the leftmost edge of the radio dial, the station's showcased a vast array of music artists and styles over its half-century stay on Southern California's airwaves.

Discouraged by society and her peers in college, Andrea Smeltzer developed an eating disorder.

Societal and technological changes have taken place at a dizzying pace over recent decades.

When some 600 atheists, agnostics and other nonreligious folks gather in Seattle starting Friday for a Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, there will be an emphatically non prayer breakfast.

Actor and anti-war activist Mike Farrell has been an outspoken opponant of the Iraq war and an opponant of the death penalty.

"You never know where life will take you," said Fernando Thomas, 45, as he looked back on the events that brought him from Arkansas to Duarte to Lancaster.

Bank of America held its 2009 Boston Neighborhood Excellence Initiative Awards last Thursday morning in the McKim Building at the Boston Public Library.

Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A' rating to the approximately $63.8 million of California Educational Facilities Authority revenue bonds , series 2009.

New Canaan-based Bright Ideas Tutoring, which specializes in kindergarten through 12th-grade education, recently announced that Fleur-Isabelle Nystrom will join the firm as a tutor.

During the Ward Churchill trial last spring, there was a witness who traveled all the way from California to testify on behalf of the fired University of Colorado professor of ethnic studies, but the judge sided with CU attorneys' arguments and prohibited the witness from answering questions.

Interactive Club members from San Dimas High School ride in a firetruck during the San Dimas Day parade at the L.A. County Fair in Pomona on Thursday, Sept.

Pitzer College's newcomers received a warm welcome at the President's House on Monday night.

The Claremont Colleges have initiated plans for expanding into the rock quarry area east of the colleges.A Currently owned by the Claremont University Consortium, the land will be parceled into smaller plots and developed by Pitzer College and Claremont McKenna College over the next decade.

Unlike two-dimensional art, installation art often allows the viewer to actually enter the piece - walk around it, survey its angles and depth and sometimes physically merge oneself directly into it.

The soon-to-be-renovated auditorium at Pitzer College is offering alumni or the public a chance to leave their mark on the facility.

Forget Eiffel or Pisa, the original mover and shaker of awe-inspiring edifices was the Tower of Babel, the would-be attempt of ambitious Biblical folks trying to literally reach out to the heavens by building an immensely tall structure - pissing off Yahweh in the process.

Teaching students about nature using scientific and artistic components has become a big affair for the O'Neill family.

When Meghan Doolan returns to Will C. Wood High School as a senior in the fall, she can tell her fellow classmates that she was elected to serve as mayor over the summer.