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December 1, 2000

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Massey Announces Retirement from Pitzer Amidst Worker Conflicts
By CONOR FRIEDERSDORF
News Editor

Pitzer College President Marilyn Chapin Masey announced her retirement effective June 30, 2002 in a press release Wednesday. The fourth president in Pitzer's history, Massey took office July 1, 1992. A desire to spend more time with family is the reason given in the press release for Massey's retirement. Go to article

Pitzer Professors to Attempt Organizing
By CONOR FRIEDERSDORF
News Editor

More than one third of Pitzer's tenured and tenure track professors have indicated a desire to unionize with Local 620 of the Industrial Workers of the World(IWW). Go to article

Orozco Drawings Acquired by Gallery
By CONOR FRIEDERSDORF
News Editor

After almost 20 years of negotiation, Pomona College's Montgomery Gallery has acquired 17 drawings by Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. The drawings, studies of the Prometheus mural that Orozco eventually completed on the north wall of Pomona's Frary dining hall, include five compositional sketches of the mural and 12 figure studies. Go to article

Power Outs Continue
By BETH COPE
News Associate

Beginning Monday evening Pomona College experienced three power outages in as many days. This comes in the aftermath of Southern California Edison's refusal to allow the Claremont Colleges to opt out of their I-6 interruptible power rate structure until March. The Colleges had thought they would be able to opt out of the contract in November. Go to article

Racism Discussed
By CONOR FRIEDERSDORF
News Editor

The Sagehen Multicultural Awareness Committee (SMAC) held two "Talking SMAC" workshops Friday and Saturday afternoons in the Smith Campus Center to address race relations at Pomona College Go to article










Pitzer President Marilyn Massey plans to retire in 2002.






Fallen Angels: Lucy, Crew and Cameron Do Not a Farrah Make
Whether it is their giggle fits or their laughable "tough girl" faces, Charlie's angels will do little more than annoy you. Hell, Bill Murray isn't even funny in this movie, and that takes effort. Go to article

Bowling in Pomona: A Look at Toilets in Art
Pomona Art Colony's "Looky Loo: Tour de le Toilettes" was an ode to bathrooms, as well as an art show. The show was a benefit for the DA Center for the Arts; the shops, restaurants, and studios of Pomona's art colony (located at Garey and Second Street) invited me to inspect their "sanctuaries" Sunday afternoon. Go to article




Wild, Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Me Away
"We have to go to the track!" yelled John. A quick glance at our credit ratings confirmed it-we did indeed have to go to the track. So we went Go to article

Nobody Loves Coaches
This week, college basketball started the season for the first time in almost 30 years without the loveable oaf that is Bobby Knight. No red sweater, no white hair, no sideline chair launchings. Go to article




Calling a Code Red on Global Warming
George W. Bush claimed in the second presidential debate that the science is not in on global warming. He could not be more wrong. Go to article

Electoral College Enforces Substantial Campaign
Regardless of whether George W. Bush maintains his roughly 300 vote lead in Florida and assumes the presidency this January, last week's election will undoubtedly add fuel to the debate over the proper way to elect the chief executive of the United States. Go to article




Whores Distateful, Inappropriate
In his article about the football game, Duke Gray said "The teams then proceeded to pass the ball back and forth like it was a cheap whore." Although the phrase may have been effective, I think it was distasteful and inappropriate. Go to letter

Conor, Cheap Whore, Was Right
Last week a student from another college claimed that I willfully misrepresented the facts in a news story about Pat Buchanan's speech at CMC's Pickford Auditorium Go to letter