News and Updates

Building houses out of gingerbread helped generate more than $700 that was donated to the real home-building efforts of the Madison County chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

It’s crunch time here at Colgate. With finals week coming up, everyone is keeping busy. Sharing the last classes of the year with my fellow peers is a bit sad. I made good friends in all of my classes, and I’m going to miss the times we had. Still, next semester brings a whole new […]

Conversations on world affairs take place at Colgate every day, and of course they can’t all be recorded and shared. But the highlights can. “Colgate Conversations on World Affairs” is a new series of 20-minute video interviews with visiting scholars — hosted by university president Jeffrey Herbst.

Raiders running back Nate Eachus ’12 has been named to the 2010 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) All-American team.

An emotional service was held Monday night in Memorial Chapel in memory of Kevin Williams ’10, who died Oct. 4 after a yearlong battle with an inoperable brain tumor. The service, filled with moving songs and stories and pictures of the 22-year-old, was open to everyone who had been touched by Kevin’s short life. Kevin’s […]

The role Steve Burke ’80 will play in reshaping how and what America watches continues to be subject No. 1 for many media watchers. The Colgate grad soon will become head of NBC Universal after the company finalizes its merger with Comcast, where Burke is the chief operating officer.

Here I am on campus, Thanksgiving break just passed, and the first snow has finally fallen. I had a wonderful time with my friends at the ALANA Thanksgiving dinner. The food was delicious and I am appreciative of the fact that ALANA was able to provide a home-like feel for those of us who could […]

It was the first day of December when campus received the first dusting of snow that actually stuck around the next day.

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Ryan Nelson ’12 ) Would you butt into a stranger’s conversation at a bar if they were speaking insensitively about homosexuals? Would you support a law to grant birthright citizenship to children of illegal immigrants? Would you be upset if your psychology professor began arguing for medical testing […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Edouard Boulat ’11) On the day of the Patriot League men’s basketball championship game back in 1996, Adonal Foyle ’98, the Raiders’ star player at the time, missed part of the team’s pre-game warm-up. The excuse he gave his coach? “Sorry I missed the shoot-around, coach. The conversation […]