Case Aiken III 鈥06, Adam Samtur 鈥06, and Matthew Kagen 鈥07 didn鈥檛 set out to start a theater company; they just wanted to produce a play from soup to nuts and see what happened. Now, under the production company Just ASK (Aiken, Samtur, Kagen), the trio is enjoying the success of their first show and [鈥March 9, 2009-
鈥淚t鈥檚 a bit like being in a washing machine,鈥 Paul Ridley 鈥05 said about sleeping on Liv, the 19-foot rowboat that he is sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to raise $500,000 for cancer research. Ridley talks about his expedition in the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, the podcast series that highlights members [鈥March 5, 2009
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The 30 female cast members of The Vagina Monologues won over audiences at the Palace Theater with moving performances that showed the beauty, hilarity, and hardships associated with being a woman. Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues after interviewing 200 women across the world about their sexuality. More than 10 years later, the racy and [鈥March 4, 2009
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In today鈥檚 world of instant messaging and e-mail, eloquent speech seems to be an endangered art form. At Colgate there is a group of students striving to keep that spoken tradition alive 鈥 the Debate Society. The team is a branch of the Colgate Speaking Union (CSU), which is coordinated by John Adams and also [鈥March 2, 2009
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When Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States and founder of the Favorite Poem Project, opened the floor to questions during Thursday鈥檚 lunchtime talk with students, he promised to treat each one with respect. And why wouldn鈥檛 he? At the heart of his belief, shared in his 1984 book Poetry and the World, [鈥February 27, 2009
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MTV has been a major influence on pop culture for more than 25 years, and Carole Robinson 鈥83 has been there for nearly its entire lifetime, having joined the cable TV network just three years after its founding in 1981. In the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, the podcast series that highlights members of the [鈥February 26, 2009
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The Colgate campus Tuesday night hosted a key and sometimes controversial figure of the civil rights movement, Angela Davis, who urged students to reconsider how they view black history. A university professor and activist for civil rights, prison reform, and political accountability, Davis was brought to Colgate by Sisters of the Round Table (SORT). 鈥淚n [鈥February 25, 2009
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It鈥檚 a space so nice, they built it thrice. And on Tuesday, February 17, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends all gathered at the James C. Colgate Student Union to cut the ribbon on a newly remodeled Donovan鈥檚 Pub.February 24, 2009