News and Updates

HAMILTON ‘ Fulbright scholar and writer/translator Marguerite Feitlowitz will discuss her recent book ‘A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture’ at Colgate University’s Humanities Colloquium on Tuesday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall. Feitlowitz’s book focuses on the last dictatorship (1976-83) in Argentina, in which some […]

Hamilton ‘ Judy Collischan, associate director of curatorial affairs at the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY-Purchase, will speak about public sculpture at the Colgate Humanities Faculty Colloquium on Tuesday, November 9 at 4:00 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall. Colgate is considering plans to purchase, in the near future, a series of […]

HAMILTON – The Manhattan String Quartet will be in residence at Colgate University November 17 through 19, 1999 to participate in the university’s Core program classes and perform two concerts in the Chapel. On Thursday, November 18 at 5:00 p.m., the quartet will perform Webern’s Five Pieces for String Quartet. Joscelyn Godwin, professor of music, […]

HAMILTON – Virtuoso organist Joan Lippincott will bring a delightful treat to the Colgate University Concert Series when she will play an All-Bach program in the Colgate Memorial Chapel, on Sunday, October 31 at 3:30 p.m. The New York Times has called Ms. Lippincott ‘a dynamic interpreter of high standard,’ and she is renowned as […]

HAMILTON ‘ Jim Crace, whom John Updike has called ‘a writer of hallucinatory skill and considerable cruelty,’ will participate in the 1999 Living Writers series at Colgate University on Thursday, November 11. After an early afternoon conversation in class with students, he will give a free public reading from his book Quarantine at 4:30 p.m. […]

HAMILTON ‘ A new arrangement between the Village of Hamilton and Colgate University will authorize the college’s campus safety officers to enforce village regulations on campus. Under terms of the arrangement, which the village and college have been discussing for more than a year, Colgate campus safety officers will be sworn in as part-time officers […]

HAMILTON ‘ Family Weekend at Colgate University, a highlight of the fall semester, will bring more than 2,500 family members to campus September 24-26 for receptions, athletic events, theater, concerts, exhibitions, and other presentations. Large numbers of parents, mostly of first-year students, will begin arriving Friday afternoon, September 24. That evening, Colgate students in University […]

HAMILTON ‘ Colgate University’s Center for Ethics and World Societies has begun its second year of operation under the topic ‘Homeless in the World: Refugees, Immigrants and the State.’ Established last year through an anonymous gift to the college, the Center for Ethics and World Societies facilitates discussion of issues arising from the interactions of […]

HAMILTON ‘ Writer Kelly Cherry will participate in the 1999 Living Writers series at Colgate University on Thursday, October 7. After an early afternoon conversation in class with students, she will give a free public reading from her book of stories, The Society of Friends, at 4:30 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall. […]

Hamilton, NY — A student-driven campaign at Colgate University has resulted in the adoption of an Academic Honor Code that will be implemented beginning in the fall of 2000. After months of discussion and development among students, faculty members and the administration, the code was put forth in a student referendum during the spring semester […]