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The remaining tickets for the much-anticipated lecture by the Dalai Lama at �������� were snatched up by the general public in just three hours Saturday. The free tickets were available via the Colgate Bookstore’s website starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

Last Friday I stepped into the Ho Lecture Room in Lawrence Hall to get a sense of what life was like many centuries ago on another continent. I came away with just that, and more. The Colgate Medieval Colloquium focused on literature from that time period, and the expression “medieval literature” flooded my mind with […]

“The sole purpose of the company is to give,” said musician PJ Johnson. What Johnson was talking about was TOMS Shoes, a nonprofit organization that donates a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair purchased. Last Friday, Johnson performed with two other musicians from Nashville, Tenn., Tim Schurrer and Adam Agin, […]

“It was the best experience of my life.” That was the simple text message that Jesse Winchester ’08 had sent to the Colgate athletics department after his NHL debut on Saturday night. Winchester, a dominant force for the Raiders hockey team the past four years, jumped directly to the NHL after being signed by the Ottawa […]

George Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative journalist and author, used an impressive array of facts, his sharp wit, and several well-timed baseball references to illustrate the state of politics today. In his lecture, “American Politics: The Political Argument Today,” Will discussed the limits of government — criticizing the ever-growing welfare state that encourages a sense […]

After the paper on Tolstoy has been turned in and the research notes on reverse micelles have been typed up, some students just want to use a different part of their brain for a different purpose for awhile. So they strategize and ponder world domination by playing Risk or Axis & Allies, or release their […]

Justin Cronin is the author of the widely praised novel-in-stories Mary and O’Neil, which won the 2002 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize, both for best debut fiction of the year. In the third episode of the podcast series Colgate Conversations: Writers and their Craft, Cronin talks about the success of his book and […]

Tickets for the Dalai Lama’s lecture at �������� will be made available starting Thursday (March 20). As part of the university’s Global Leaders Lecture Series, sponsored by Colgate’s Parents’ and Grandparents’ Fund, the Dalai Lama will give a talk at Sanford Fieldhouse from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. Thanks to the generosity […]

Joanne Race Borfitz of Norwich, N.Y., will join �������� as associate vice president of community relations and auxiliary services starting April 7. Borfitz fills a new position created to manage Colgate’s relationship with and investments in local and regional communities. She will also oversee the primary auxiliary operations of the university. “Joanne is a […]

The Colgate rugby football club today departed New York City for a nine-day trip to Ireland. It is the club’s second tour of Ireland – its maiden voyage was in 2004. Since then, the club has enjoyed tremendous success, making the “Elite Eight” in the Northeast Rugby Union in 2004 and again last fall in […]