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  • Here I am on campus, Thanksgiving break just passed, and the first snow has finally fallen. I had a wonderful time with my friends at the ALANA Thanksgiving dinner. The food was delicious and I am appreciative of the fact that ALANA was able to provide a home-like feel for those of us who could [鈥
    December 3, 2010
  • Waving peace signs in the air and repeating choruses of 鈥淚鈥檓 鈥楢鈥 African,鈥 students and faculty hardly looked like they were gathered in Love Auditorium to learn anything. Yet they were treated to a unique and original lesson in evolutionary biology 鈥 in rap format.
    December 2, 2010
  • Every year, 600 colleges and universities submit applications for Fulbright fellowships. When the Chronicle of Higher Education published the program鈥檚 list of top producers this fall, Colgate tied for eighth place among bachelor鈥檚 institutions.
    December 1, 2010
  • (Editor鈥檚 Note: This article was written by Ryan Nelson 鈥12 ) Would you butt into a stranger鈥檚 conversation at a bar if they were speaking insensitively about homosexuals? Would you support a law to grant birthright citizenship to children of illegal immigrants? Would you be upset if your psychology professor began arguing for medical testing [鈥
    November 30, 2010
  • (Editor鈥檚 Note: This article was written by Edouard Boulat 鈥11) On the day of the Patriot League men鈥檚 basketball championship game back in 1996, Adonal Foyle 鈥98, the Raiders鈥 star player at the time, missed part of the team鈥檚 pre-game warm-up. The excuse he gave his coach? 鈥淪orry I missed the shoot-around, coach. The conversation [鈥
    November 22, 2010
  • The days have been flying by! Thanksgiving break is just around the corner and I am very ready for a bit of relaxation time. Classes have been demanding, but I am so amazed at the fact that much of what I learn in one class can be related to what I鈥檓 learning in another. These [鈥
    November 19, 2010
  • With a colorful PowerPoint presentation and a booming voice, Duke University sociology professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva shared his thoughts last Thursday about the concept of grammar as it organizes society鈥檚 perceptions of race in contemporary America. Bonilla-Silva鈥檚 speech in Love Auditorium was titled 鈥淭he Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in America,鈥 [鈥
    November 18, 2010