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  • For spring break this year, nine Colgate students will roll up their sleeves and dig in to help others 鈥 literally. Accompanied by Daniel Mandell, assistant director of the COVE, the group will head to the Dominican Republic this Friday to plant vegetable gardens and lead educational sessions on nutrition for the community of El [鈥
    March 11, 2008
  • Campus was buzzing today about the blizzard that hit Sunday. No, not the lake-effect-snow kind of blizzard, but rather the hundreds of students and fans who donned white T-shirts to watch the men鈥檚 basketball team beat Bucknell to advance to the Patriot League championship game. More than 1,300 fans jammed Cotterell Court to watch the [鈥
    March 10, 2008
  • The thrill is definitely not gone for Ken Schanzer. As president of NBC Sports for nearly 10 years, he says he has 鈥渙ne of the greatest jobs on the planet.鈥 As an alumnus from the Class of 1966, he says his love of Colgate 鈥 a place of 鈥渕agic and miracles鈥 鈥 is as strong as [鈥
    March 6, 2008
  • Within minutes of walking into New York City鈥檚 Soho House on Wednesday night, the club was abuzz with Colgate alumni exchanging stories 鈥 a few good laughs as well 鈥 about their days back in Hamilton. Then, it was time to get down to business. More than 100 Colgate alumni from the classes of 鈥85 [鈥
    March 5, 2008
  • Students gathered in the O鈥機onnor Campus Center last week to engage in formal political discussion as part of a mock Democratic caucus. With tensions running high between the Democratic presidential hopefuls, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, students hoped the caucus process would help them better understand the candidates and their platforms.
    March 4, 2008
  • A Colgate couple鈥檚 tireless efforts to return a digital camera accidentally left in a New York City taxicab to its owner became the focus of an Associated Press article picked up by newspapers and websites around the world. Brian Ascher and Erika Gunderson , both from the Class of 2003, were the main players in [鈥
    March 3, 2008
  • Last year, The Memory Keeper鈥檚 Daughter, written by Kim Edwards 鈥81, became a literary phenomenon and surprise summer reading hit. Within weeks of its paperback release, the novel simultaneously reached number one on The New York Times, USA Today, Publisher鈥檚 Weekly, and Book Sense bestseller lists, and it has been published in 34 languages. In [鈥
    February 28, 2008
  • Raider Nation, it鈥檚 time to step up and be counted. Again and again and again. Fans of Colgate hockey are urged to vote for star goaltender Mark Dekanich, who is one of 10 finalists for the Lowe鈥檚 Senior CLASS Award for men鈥檚 hockey. The award recognizes achievement in the areas of character, classroom, community, and [鈥
    February 27, 2008
  • Lesley Stahl, an award-winning correspondent for CBS News鈥 60 Minutes and author of Reporting Live, will deliver the keynote address at 海角社区鈥檚 187th commencement exercises on Sunday, May 18. During the ceremony, Colgate will award Stahl a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree. One of the country鈥檚 most respected journalists, Stahl has been a [鈥
    February 21, 2008