Word: pitzer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Girl from Pitzer. Experience has shown that consortiums need not create vast impersonal multiversities; even in the closest alliances, colleges can and do preserve their individuality. One of the oldest such arrangements (1925) is the agreement that now unites California's six neighboring Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles. Next autumn, for example, Linda ("Penny") Kugler, a junior at Pitzer, will study U.S. colonial history at Harvey Mudd, American literature at Claremont Men's College, economics at Pomona. Penny will reside in a Pitzer dorm, most of the time eat in dining rooms at Harvey Mudd or Claremont...
...James Dickey, San Fernanda's poet-in-residence, spoke at Pitzer College, Claremont, Calif...
...Pitzer's biggest asset is that its own inventive enthusiasm is teamed in comforting alliance with the Claremont Colleges, which will help pay Pitzer's bills until the school is self-sufficient. In the words of Classics Scholar Stephen Glass, a Pomona graduate: "There is newness here without risk...
...Pitzer's 156 students and ten faculty members are alternately merry and moody as they strive to reduce chaos to confusion. "I'm just completely, totally in ecstasy over this whole thing," bubbles Student Taffy Squires. "But the hardest part is that there is nothing concrete to hold on to." The most concrete aspect of Pitzer is its first two buildings, a dormitory and a combination administration-classroom building, which are wired for closed-circuit television and tape recordings designed to transmit lectures, panel discussions and dramatic productions right into the girls' rooms. Teaching methods are mostly...
Instant Tradition. Pitzer aims to expand its enrollment to 600 girls within five years. In the meantime, students and faculty have formed a unique partnership to produce an instant tradition. At weekly "TownHall Meetings" they debate issues that range from whether the girls should be required to wear skirts at meals to writing a school constitution. On the theory that a college ought to be a model democracy, Pitzer has demolished the sanctity of faculty meetings and invited elected student representatives to take part. A few checks and balances remain, however. Dean Charlotte Elmott recently vetoed a unanimous student vote...