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

Every year, 600 colleges and universities submit applications for Fulbright fellowships. When the Chronicle of Higher Education published the program’s list of top producers this fall, Colgate tied for eighth place among bachelor’s institutions.

(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 […]

The days have been flying by! Thanksgiving break is just around the corner and I am very ready for a bit of relaxation time. Classes have been demanding, but I am so amazed at the fact that much of what I learn in one class can be related to what I’m learning in another. These […]

With a colorful PowerPoint presentation and a booming voice, Duke University sociology professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva shared his thoughts last Thursday about the concept of grammar as it organizes society’s perceptions of race in contemporary America. Bonilla-Silva’s speech in Love Auditorium was titled “The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in America,” […]

Students in a Photo History Seminar course got a taste of stardom by producing their own exhibition of work by rock ‘n’ roll photographer Barrie Wentzell that is now on display at the Picker Art Gallery. The exhibition, No Sex, No Drugs, Just Rock ‘n’ Roll, is on view through Dec. 17.

With all the meetings with my advisor in order to pick classes, this week was pretty eye-opening. I think I’m going to follow an international relations course of study. I want to minor in something, and I’m debating between Latin American studies or film and media studies. Either one would most definitely be intriguing and […]