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  • It鈥檚 one of the first ways that students living at Colgate identify themselves: 鈥淚鈥檓 on the third floor of Andrews.鈥 Or, 鈥淚 live in East.鈥 When students arrive on campus each August, they bring their excitement and enthusiasm. They also bring duffel bags brimming with clothes, crates of PowerBars and macaroni and cheese, photographs, and [鈥
    February 21, 2008
  • Parker Commons was transformed with palpable, focused energy for environmental change for Colgate and the surrounding community as nearly 100 participants converged for the sixth annual Green Summit. The summit is not a recognized group but rather an open gathering of students, faculty, staff, and community members who want to see environmental change enacted by [鈥
    February 20, 2008
  • Michael Eric Dyson is not afraid to shake things up, which is why his lecture 鈥淔rom Sit-ins to Hip Hop: A Social Consciousness in a Post-King America鈥 left students both moved intellectually and shaking with laughter. Named by Ebony as one of the 100 most influential black Americans, Dyson is a university professor at Georgetown [鈥
    February 14, 2008
  • Internationally recognized artists interacted with students and faculty members at a weekend symposium focused on finding innovative solutions to pressing environmental problems. 鈥淗ow can we re-imagine our relationship to natural systems?鈥 asked Natalie Jeremijenko, the keynote speaker of the seminar titled Environmental Art and New Media Technologies: Imagining Sustainable Futures. All of the weekend鈥檚 panels, [鈥
    February 12, 2008
  • (Editor鈥檚 note: The Dalai Lama鈥檚 visit has been rescheduled to Tuesday, April 22.) The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will visit 海角社区 in April as part of the Global Leaders Lecture Series. On Thursday, April 24, the Dalai Lama is scheduled to give a public [鈥
    February 8, 2008
  • 鈥淪tick your neck out.鈥 Those were the words of wisdom from John Graham, motivational speaker and philanthropist, during his visit to 海角社区, which included a brown bag lunch, presentation, and a lecture at Memorial Chapel. Hoping to inspire people to make a difference by taking risks, or in his words 鈥渟ticking their neck out,鈥 [鈥
    February 7, 2008
  • Pink is the new maroon this weekend at Starr Rink. The women鈥檚 hockey team will be playing in specially designed pink jerseys during its 7 p.m. Friday game against St. Lawrence and then again at 4 p.m. Saturday against Clarkson. Raiders fans can show their support for the team and for the fight against cancer [鈥
    February 6, 2008
  • Desperate times call for creative measures. To encourage innovative solutions to environmental crises, the arts and activism are teaming up on campus through a series of events titled Environmental Art and New Media Technology: Imagining Sustainable Future. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a time in history when the old models and ways of doing things are not going to [鈥
    February 5, 2008
  • It was billed as a humanities colloquium, but there was a whole lot of science going on. That鈥檚 because Spencer Kelly, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, and Yukari Hirata, associate professor of Japanese, were presenting the results of their neurolinguistic research, and their official sponsor was the Harvey Picker Institute for Interdisciplinary Study in [鈥
    February 4, 2008
  • As 海角社区 junior Jeremy Bennett 鈥09 studies in London this semester, he鈥檚 getting a real-life lesson in personal finances. Every fish and chips dinner, hostel stay, and souvenir is taking a big bite out of Bennett鈥檚 wallet. He and thousands of other students studying abroad can blame the weak U.S. dollar, which is making [鈥
    February 1, 2008