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  • Raiders football coach Dick Biddle, and Colgate fans everywhere, won鈥檛 forget Sunday鈥檚 game for quite awhile. The game against Coastal Carolina, and Biddle鈥檚 place in school history, was not settled until the game clock showed triple zeros and the Raiders had turned a muffed snap into a game-winning touchdown toss.
    September 8, 2008
  • Even though first-years had barely stepped foot on Colgate鈥檚 campus last week, Adam Zimmermann 鈥10 didn鈥檛 waste any time getting the Class of 2012 fired up to vote. Recognizing a golden opportunity, Zimmermann, president of Colgate鈥檚 Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE), decided to integrate a voter registration drive into Link orientation meetings.
    September 5, 2008
  • Ask Ajay Chahar 鈥12 where he is from, and he鈥檒l say, 鈥淐olgate.鈥 That鈥檚 partly because he is so excited about being a first-year student, and partly because he鈥檚 lived in so many cities in his native India that he doesn鈥檛 know which to call home. His father is an army colonel, and Chahar moved with [鈥
    September 3, 2008
  • After spending nine weeks this summer volunteering at an orphanage in Tanzania, Jennifer Etkin 鈥10 knows that: 鈥 She wants to pursue a Peace Corps-type experience after graduation, and eventually develop her interest in international law and human rights issues 鈥 A young woman from New York City鈥檚 Park Avenue can have a genuine impact [鈥
    September 2, 2008
  • Amid the whoops of welcome and buzz of activity emanating from Whitnall Field on move-in day, came this shouted question from a first-year student: 鈥淢om, how many of these 250 hangers do you think I鈥檒l need?鈥 Ah, the joys of packing 鈥 and overpacking 鈥 for college.
    August 28, 2008
  • As the former chief executive officer and president of seven companies, including Revlon and DelMonte, Robert A. Fox 鈥59 knows a thing or two about being an effective leader. On Wednesday, Fox returned to Colgate鈥檚 campus 鈥 the place he credits with giving him 鈥渢he building blocks for success鈥 鈥 to offer leadership advice to [鈥
    August 22, 2008
  • A college degree provides you with many advantages after you graduate. A Colgate education, however, not only opens up lots of opportunities once you leave, but while you are studying here as an undergraduate. One of the most popular ways to take advantage of all Colgate has to offer is to study abroad. As ironic [鈥
    August 19, 2008
  • It pays to coach Little League. For Kevin Briody 鈥85, it led to a Daytime Emmy award. While coaching his son Cavan鈥檚 Triple-A baseball team in Ridgefield, Conn., Briody, a folk singer-songwriter, had made the acquaintance of another player鈥檚 dad, who also happened to be a songwriter. In fact, he was Paul Glass, music supervisor [鈥
    August 7, 2008