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Enlarge Picture >> A friend of my roommate knocks on the door and asks if she’s ready to go. ‘Where are you off to” I ask, looking up from my book. ‘My biology research professor is cooking us dinner at his house,’ my roommate says.  ‘See you in a few hours.’ ‘Have fun,’ I call […]

Senior Shortstop Also Ranked In Home Runs And RBI Hamilton, NY — Colgate University’s senior shortstop Melissa Rawson (Palmdale, CA/Highland HS) currently has the second highest batting average in the nation according to the latest NCAA statistics.  She is averaging .509 for the Raiders through 37 games. Rawson is also tied for third in home […]

Enlarge Picture >> I’m a paper, an exam, and a Creative Writing portfolio away from graduation. At least I passed my swim test. I stood with thirty to forty other procrastinating seniors outside the pool at 8:00 a.m. on a Monday morning, all in the name of graduation.  At least I wasn’t the only one […]

Hamilton, NY — Colgate University English professor Lynn Staley has received one of 184 Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2003. Staley, the Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of humanities in the department of English, was selected from a pool of 3,200 applicants from colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Her area of study […]

Enlarge Picture >> I am more than ready to commence the weekend. After handing my thesis over to the English department, my head feeling thirty times lighter, I’m ready to take a temporary hiatus from academia.  I know more than a few people are feeling the same way I do.  I grab my roommates and […]

Sophomore outfielder to represent Colgate at NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference May 25-29 at Disney’s Wide World of Sport’s Complex.

Hamilton, NY — Colgate University softball player Dorothy Donaldson (Lakeland, FL) has been selected by the NCAA as Colgate’s representative to the NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference to be held May 25-29 at Disney’s Wide World of Sport’s Complex and Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Donaldson will be one of over 300 student […]

Colgate squares off against American on Saturday at 2 p.m., while Army faces Bucknell in the other semi-final match.

Balanced offensive attack leads Raiders to first 4-win conference season.

Hamilton, NY — Colgate University senior shortstop Melissa Rawson is eighth in the nation with a .474 batting average, according to the latest NCAA released.  She is also 28th in home runs (0.26 per game) and 29th in doubles (0.32 pg). Sophomore first baseman Natalie Rawson is 10th in runs batted in with 32 in […]