News and Updates

Enlarge Picture >> It’s the first Saturday at Colgate where I’ve woken up and literally have nothing to do.  I had the last class of my college career yesterday, kissed the walls of Lawrence Hall goodbye in a sort of a bittersweet farewell, handed in my last paper, and faced a series of unknowns that […]

Enlarge Picture >> I’m seated in the Hamilton Inn with the editorial staff of Colgate’s weekly newspaper the Colgate Maroon-News.  We’re taken to dinner every semester by the university as a means of thanking us for our work and dedication.  And it’s nice to get to know the staff better over a civilized meal rather […]

by Bud Poliquin, Syracuse Post-Standard

Hamilton, NY — Colgate University will award five honorary degrees at its 182nd commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 18, when approximately 700 graduating seniors will receive their bachelor of arts degrees. Those to be honored include Kwame A. Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton […]

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 […]

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 […]