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Campus Experts Comment on Mid-Term Elections

CC poli-sci Professor Bob Loevy's two editorials on judicial redistricting and negative campaign ads ran in the Denver Post. Read Loevy's quotes in an editorial in the Denver Post about Gary Hart running for president.

Loevy is quoted on the primaries in The Nation. He also talks about the Colorado primary in the Rocky Mountain News. Read recent stories quoting Loevy in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Rocky Mountain News. (To see stories on the Los Angeles Times Web site, you will have to complete a free registration.) See Loevy's post-election commentary in the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Strickland, Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar '77, Colorado Congressman Mark Udall, and Tony Marino, Democratic candidate for Colorado State Senate, discussed their platforms at a rally on campus on Monday, November 4. This event was one of many surrounding the elections. Students and faculty continued the dialogue in and out of the classroom on election night and the following day. During that time, the Denver Post ran an article, featuring CC, about political campaigning on college campuses.

Professor Loevy talks about the 2002 Colorado Senate race on Fox News, in the Washington Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Denver Post, and the Rocky Mountain News.

CC is Community Shares Campaign of Year

Community Shares presented an award to Colorado College on Tuesday, June 26. CC math professor Michael Siddoway and college relations director Todd Wilson accepted on behalf of the college. (Pictured above left to right: Wilson, Siddoway, CC President Kathryn Mohrman, Greg Borom, director of Citizen's Project, and Tyler Stevens '93 of the Clean Air Campaign.)

Community Shares chose the college to honor for the Campaign of the Year for 2000 in Colorado Springs. Professor Siddoway was instrumental in offering CC employees Community Shares for the first time this past year as another choice for workplace giving. The Office of College Relations coordinates both the Community Shares and United Way campus campaigns. Read an Access article for the 2002 United Way and Community Shares totals.

Students Opt for New Housing Complex

The college's new Western Ridge housing complex, resulting in 80 percent on campus residency, opened all its doors last fall. Read an article written by business manager David Lord. For more, click here to see older renderings, photos, and floor plans. Click here for more on the changing campus.

CC President Shares Advice on Choosing Colleges

"Prospective students and their families need to know that the high-tech, career/vocation-oriented, and other trendy options aren't their only choice in education. Liberal arts colleges continue to exist today as vital communities of teaching, learning, and discourse for undergraduates," wrote former Colorado College President Kathryn Mohrman in an opinion piece distributed by the Knight-Ridder News Service. The article is online.

Read a feature in the Christian Science Monitor with comments from Ellen Goulding from admissions. Go on a campus tour and see photos of campus and local areas.

Mohrman wrote another op-ed, also distributed via Knight-Ridder, aimed at incoming college students. Mohrman is a recent former chair of the Annapolis Group, a consortium of America's leading liberal arts colleges. The Annapolis Group recently collaborated with the journal Daedalus on examining several issues in higher education -- see more about the Daedalus volume.

Mohrman returned in January 2001 from five months in China, where she was a visiting scholar in the American studies program in Chengdu. Read her editorial published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Click here to read about her experiences in China, as well as see photographs she sent back via the net.

Tour the Colorado Springs Century Chest Online

The Colorado Springs Century Chest was resealed on April 20, in Colorado College’s Tutt Library -- read a news release.. Members of the Colorado Springs community opened the Century Chest on January 1, 2001. Five TV stations, NPR and Canadian Broadcast Network, as well as a variety of print media (AP nationwide and Saskatoon Star Phoenix in Canada) covered the event. CC's Special Collections has posted the contents online -- click here to open them. Also, check out transcriptions and recordings of yells and chants from the 1901 CC student body online. Click here to find out more.

CC Experts Offer Election Commentary

Professor Bob Loevy talks about the 2002 Colorado Senate race on Fox News. Read a Denver Post article about political campaigning on college campuses.

Loevy had a lot to say about the last presidential election. He is quoted in the Palm Beach Post, Wall Street Journal, Denver Post, Boston Herald, and the Los Angeles Times about the implications of a third party, a Dallas Morning News article on the debates, and Fox News Online articles on the primary race. Professor Lief Carter also commented on morality in the presidential campaign in a Hartford Courant article.

Loevy participated in the 2000 Republican convention as the author of a new plan for primaries considered for adoption by the Party. One of the chief architects of the Colorado primary first held in 1992, he has written two books on the presidential selection process. Read a transcript of Loevy's remarks from his campus talk.

Vice President Dick Cheney has a strong CC connection. His wife, Lynne Cheney, is a 1963 CC alumna, and his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, graduated in 1991 and 1988 respectively.

CC Profs, Staff, Alumni in the News

A group that frequently performs on campus, Buntport Theater -- founded by several CC grads -- has been named Denver's Top Theater Company by the Rocky Mountain News.

Research by Henry Fricke, CC assistant professor of geology, is included in "Origin and Migration of the Alpine Iceman," a paper published in Science magazine on Oct. 31. Fricke was part of a research team that studied the mysterious 5,200-year-old iceman that was found in an Alpine glacier in 1991. The researchers, led by Wolfgang Mueller of the Australian National University in Canberra, studied the forms of elements in the iceman's teeth, bones and intestines, comparing them with the types found in water and soil in the region. The team concluded that the iceman, known as Ötzi, probably spent his whole life within about 37 miles of the spot near the Italy-Austria border where he was found. Fricke studied oxygen and carbon isotopes in the iceman's teeth and bones. See more about Fricke.

Ofer Ben-Amots, music professor, was a featured artist and composer at "Only in America: Jewish Music in a Land of Freedom," Nov. 7-11, in New York City. The event is sponsored by the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music. Ben-Amots' composition "MIZMOR: Seven Degrees of Praise" received its world premiere in a concert at the Lincoln Center on Nov. 9. See the festival and conference's web site and Ben-Amots' site for more.

History Professor Dennis Showalter presented a lecture, "Frederick the Great," on Oct. 15 at The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Showalter is one of eight prominent historians invited to provide new perspectives on some of the most notable military figures of the modern era as part of a "Great Military Commanders" series of western heritage talks at The Smithsonian. Showalter's talk on Frederick the Great, who ruled the eastern German state of Prussia from 1740-1786, kicked off the series with some new thoughts on the controversial leader. Showalter is author of the book "The Wars of Frederick the Great: Modern Wars in Perspective," among several others. He was president of the Society for Military History from 1997-2001. See the Smithsonian site and Showalter's bio for more.

David Mason, English professor, read from his poetry at the Library of Congress's National Book Festival on Oct. 4 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. He was one of 80 writers and artists invited to participate, and one of 13 poets -- along with Dana Gioia, new chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, who has been a visiting writer at Colorado College. See more about the book festival and its bio on Mason and Gioia -- and the CC bio on Professor Mason, who also is profiled in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, the English language version of which is distributed with the International Herald Tribune in Greece and Cyprus (though he is misidentified as teaching at University of Colorado).

Kathryn Mohrman, former president of Colorado College, wrote about life after the presidency in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Michael King '71, a physics major who earned an honorary degree in 1995, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering -- read the news release. The February 2003 issue of Reason magazine includes an article by visiting professor Cathy Young about her experiences at CC. Washington Post profiled Lynne Cheney, a 1963 CC alumna. English professor John Simons is quoted in the Washington Post about author Philip K. Dick. The Christian Science Monitor ran a piece featuring Mario Montaño's Rio Grande course. See a USA Today feature on new student orientation.

Bradley Friedman '82 was named Director of Endowment and Planned Giving for the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado -- read a press release. Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a Denver native and 1969 Colorado College graduate, received the eighth annual $250,000 Heinz Award for the Environment for her groundbreaking research on ocean ecosystems. Read a news release and visit the Heinz Awards web site for more on Lubchenco.

Check out the Christian Science Monitor for a feature on CC Cares Day. Lori Garver, a 1983 alumna and an executive at an aerospace-consulting firm in Washington, was featured in a recent story on ABCNews.com. Harlene Hayne '83 and her study about the memory of 3-year olds is featured in the Washington Post. See an interview with alumnus and speaker Jake Norton in the Independent.

Andrew Spielman '52 is featured in Harvard University Alumni Magazine and on NPR's morning edition about his research on mosquitoes and the West Nile Virus. Ed Goldstein '79 wrote an article for Government Executive magazine about unique federal agency tours and museums in the Washington D.C. area. Laura Fulgiiti '85 is lauded in Phoenix New Times for her work as a forensic anthropologist. Diana Smith '98 talks about a liberal arts education in the August 2000 Springs Magazine.

Peter Neupert, a 1978 CC philosophy major, was profiled in Business Week on his move from being a noted Microsoft exec to new chief executive of Drugstore.com. Anne Shutan '80 and her wood sculpture exhibit were featured in the Independent. CC alumna, honorary co-chair of the Cornerstone Arts Advisory Committee, and world-famous figure skater Peggy Fleming was honored by Sports Illustrated. Fleming, along with Ed "Dutch" Clark, Hayes Alan Jenkins '56, David Jenkins '58, William Thayer Tutt, and Brian Swanson '99 are some of the greatest sports figures of the 20th century according to CNN and Sports Illustrated (CC people are listed under Colorado, Alaska, and California).

See more about other CC people in the news.

Notable Lectures Available Online

Various recordings and transcripts from commencement weekend 2005, including an archived video stream of the commencement ceremony, are available at the Commencement 2005 webpage.

A recording of the April 27, 2005 talk by renowned sustainability expert Wes Jackson, director of the Land Institute, is available online as an MP3. In his writing and frequent lectures, Jackson explores the intersection of science and society, agronomy and ecology, culture and politics. The title of his talk was “The Necessity and Possibility of an Agriculture where Nature is the Measure”.

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson gave the keynote speech at the State of the Rockies conference on April 6, 2005. Read the transcript to his talk, "A New West, A New Energy Policy".

Innovative creativity economist, Richard Florida visited CC in November 2004 and gave a talk entitled "The Rise of the Creative Class and What it Means to Economic Development".

Opening Convocation 2004 featured an address by alumnus and New York Times Pentagon correspondent Thomas D. Shanker '78, " Dateline: The Edge of the World." Several recordings of speakers from the Sondermann Symposium 2004-05 "Year of the Presidency" are available online.

Transcripts of remarks by journalist and author Eric Schlosser, Zen master Joan Sutherland Roshi, and 2004 Class President Sally Gasper are available on a page of links devoted to Commencement 2004.

Carol Annette Petsonk, who currently is international counsel for Environmental Defense in Washington, D.C., addressed the college community in a talk, "Time, Precious Time," as part of CC's 2003-04 opening convocation. Student body president Matthew Synenberg also spoke.

Andrew Shue — actor, activist, athlete, and entrepreneur — encouraged the Class of 2003 to “reach out beyond yourself and build the bonds of community” during his speech in May 2003 to the graduating class in Armstrong Quad. Remarks from Senior Class President Quana Rochelle are also available online.

CC President Richard F. Celeste discussed the college's economic role in the community on December 11, 2002 -- read a transcript of his remarks. Several transcripts and a few audio recordings from the college's fall 2002 symposium "September 11 -- One Year Later: Responding to Global Challenges"-- including keynotes by Hanan Ashrawi and Gideon Doron -- are available online as well.

Read Professor Emeritus Doug Fox's remarks at the 2000 baccalaureate ceremony.  Transcripts from CC alumna Diana DeGette's 1998 convocation speech and 2000 commencement address are available online, as well the transcripts of speeches by a few of the other prominent individuals who have visited campus in recent years -- Nobel-Prize-winning economist Franco Modigliani, Adam Werbach, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Ann Richards -- and, from 1999's commencement, U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson.

Transcripts are available of the 2001 opening convocation speech by Craig Werner '73 and the 2000 convocation speech by Jay Engeln '74 .

Marian Wright Edelman, civil rights activist and founder of the Children's Defense Fund in the 1970s, gave the baccalaureate address on May 16, 1999. The 125th anniversary symposium in February 1999 featured 16 guest speakers discussing cultures in the 21st century. Transcripts are available online.

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