2007-08 - Pitzer College

326 LIFE ON CAMPUS
CULTURE, MEDIA, SPORTS, AND
RECREATION
Throughout the year, a great many special academic, cultural, artistic, musical, and other
entertainment programs are presented at Pitzer and at the other Claremont Colleges.
Some are professional, others are amateur or student programs. Pitzer students
participate with Scripps, Harvey Mudd, and Claremont McKenna students in the Concert
Choir; the Pomona College Orchestra and Band are open to all those qualified.
Students serve on the Campus Life Committee, which both initiates and funds a wide
variety of activities including lectures, conferences, films, parties, and outings. There are
student-run poetry and music series, art shows, and a diverse group of movies shown in
several 5-college film series.
Bridges Auditorium
For over six decades, this facility-one of the larger college or university auditoriums in
the West-has provided programs of major cultural significance for the colleges and the
larger geographic area.
Byron Dick Seaver Theatre
Conceived of as a “teaching theatre,” the state-of-the-art facility contains a 350 seat
proscenium theatre, a 100 seat experimental theatre, studio spaces, classrooms, offices,
and other facilities for theatrical production. It is a most fitting home for the Theatre
Department for the five Claremont Colleges.
Publications
The Other Side, a Pitzer student magazine, gives students an opportunity to gain
valuable experience in newspaper work and provides an important medium of
communication and information for the campus. A five-college student newspaper,
Collage, is published on a weekly basis and has traditionally enjoyed a high rate of
participation by Pitzer students. In addition, Pitzer publishes a weekly news
report/calendar, a Student Handbook, an alumni magazine, and The Participant.
Sports and Recreation
Pitzer College, with Pomona College, supports a broad program of intercollegiate
athletics for men and women. Pomona-Pitzer is a member of the Southern California
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, locally, and is associated nationally with Division III
of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Men’s teams include baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, soccer, swimming,
tennis, track and field, and water polo. Women’s teams include basketball, cross country,
softball, soccer, swimming, track and field, tennis, volleyball, and women’s water polo. In
addition, coeducational club teams compete in both badminton and fencing, while competitive