FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- 4/22/99 | Contact: Diana Smith, 719-389-6138  

COLORADO SPRINGS -- A video history of Colorado College, produced by political science Professor Robert Loevy as a complement to his new written history, will be shown at 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 6, in the Max Kade Theatre, located on the third floor of Armstrong Hall.

Loevy's written history, Colorado College: A Place of Learning, 1874-1999, is the third published history of the college. Loevy's book, however, is the first to footnote the original sources of the college's history with the first bibliography ever published about CC. "It is a scholarly document as well as a source of information about the college's history," Loevy says.

The first half reviews the history of CC and Colorado Springs, while the second emphasizes 1974 through 1999 and the college's unique Block Plan calendar.

At CC since 1968, Loevy is the author of The Manipulated Path to the White House 1996, in which he proposes a model calendar of presidential primaries and caucuses to replace the current nominating system. In Colorado Politics and Government, he recommends a number of reforms.

Loevy, one of the chief architects of the Colorado primary first held in 1992, was a campaign aide to Spiro Agnew when the former U.S. vice president ran for governor in Maryland. His book, To End all Segregation: The Politics of the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, chronicles not only the history of the act, but also his work as an aide to former U.S. Sen. Thomas Kuchell, R-Calif. Loevy received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

The two-part video set is now available in the Colorado College bookstore, located on the lower level of the Worner Center. Part One focuses on the men and women who influenced the growth of the college during the early years (1874-1917). Part Two (1918-1999) documents the many changes as the college grew to be the great institution of learning that it is today. Both videos are one hour long and sell for $20.00.

Part Two of the video will be playing Tuesday, May 11, at 5, 7, 9, and 11 p.m. Cable subscribers can tune in the Library Channel (Channel 17) and view the history of Colorado College from 1917 to 1999. For those Cable Television subscribers who would like to see both Part One (1874-1917) and Part Two (1917-1999), tune in the Library Channel (Channel 17) on either Monday, May 17, or Tuesday, May 18. The complete two-hour video will be shown both evenings at 5, 7, and 9 p.m.

Sponsored by the college's 125th Anniversary Committee, the May 6 event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

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