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Moose Still Loose
This hungry moose was spotted grazing below the CC athletic fields in Monument Valley Park creek bed in early December. He later moved north into Monument Valley Park, and in mid-February, was spotted in the Air Force Academy grounds. While he was by campus, he got a great view of the new Western Ridge housing complex.
's Kappa Sigma Fraternity Featured on the "Today Show"
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NBC's "Today Show" was on campus last year shooting a segment about Todd Martz, a man from Colorado Springs with down syndrome who has become a special part of the CC community, and his relationship to the Beta-Omega Chapter of the Kappa Sigma house. The story is archived on NBC's site.
As a result of the story, Todd was invited to throw out the first pitch at a Rockies game. See a photo of Todd with Governor Bill Owens.
Go to Kappa Sigma's Web page to read a story about Todd from last fall's Caduceus. (Acrobat Reader is required -- click here to download.)
CC Alumnus Inaugurated as President of Colby
William "Bro" Adams, CC Class of 1969, became Colby College's 19th president this summer, after his tenure as president of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. He was inaugurated last fall. See more information on the ceremony and a transcript of his remarks online.
Adams is the only CC grad to currently serve as a college or university president. Prior to his presidency at Bucknell, he taught political philosophy at the university level, ran the Great Works in Western Culture program at Stanford University, and was vice president and secretary of Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
After interrupting his studies at CC to serve in the army in Vietnam, Adams graduated magna cum laude. He subsequently spent a year in France as a Fulbright Scholar and earned a Ph.D. in political philosophy at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
CC Alumna Wins Gold in Sydney
A downtown rally in October honored Colorado College and other local Olympians. Tara Nott '94 had won the silver medal in the first-ever women's weightlifting at the Sydney Olympics, but she was awarded the gold after the Bulgarian champion was stripped of it due to testing positive for drugs. Nott, who played Division I soccer at CC, graduated with a world political economy degree. Read articles online at Sports Illustrated, the Chicago Tribune, and the Kansas City Star.
Hillary Wolf '00 made her second Olympic appearance in the 52-kilogram judo competition, when she was defeated by Kye Sun Hui of North Korea, the defending gold medallist. Read a feature in the Chicago Tribune. Wolf has also competed in the 1996 Olympics, two World Championships (1995 and 1997), and in 1999, she claimed her third national title.
Alison Dunlap, class of 1991, competed in the women's mountain bike race in the Sydney and finished seventh. She won the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships last September in Vail. She was a member of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics road biking team.
Click here for a list of CC Olympians through history.
Homecoming Offered Whirlwind of Activities
Colorado College alumni joined parents and students for three days of special events October 12 to 14, 2001 -- see more about this special college weekend, including three pages of photos.
On October 13-15, 2000, almost 2,000 alumni and parents celebrated Colorado College's homecoming. Among the many activities and events, the college hosted the first-ever Minority Student Groups Reunion. Minority alumni discussed "Is there a place for us after CC?" and share their life experiences. Read a related article from the New York Times. This reunion also marked the 30th anniversary of the founding of MEChA -- the Hispanic student group.
Read Dwight Hamilton '50 Fifty-Year Club induction speech and see photos from this year's Homecoming Weekend.
Do a virtual visit on our close-to-real-time photo page from Homecoming 1999, which includes three pages of snapshots taken over the weekend. Remarks made by 1949 alumnus Vern Twombly and Judith Reid Finley, class of 1958, are also available.
Check out a virtual photo tour from 1998, as well as remarks made by Professor Emeritus Bill Hochman, who remembers his 43 years at Colorado College.
More than 540 Graduate at Colorado College
Attorney General Ken Salazar, 1977 CC alumnus, addressed the Class of 2001 during commencement -- read a transcript of his remarks. See Salazar as one of the featured speakers on ABC.com. (You will need Flash 5 to view this report -- click here to download.)
Check out what senior class president Jade Durkee said to her classmates. See photos from the ceremony, watch digital video footage, or listen to the CC alma mater played during the ceremony!
Click here for photos from 2000. Find out who spoke at past commencements.
United States Congresswoman Diana DeGette, class of 1979, gave the 2000 keynote address -- see a transcript of her speech. Read senior speaker Andy Vogt's remarks. Doug Fox, professor emeritus of religion, gave the traditional baccalaureate address -- read a transcript of Fox's remarks.
College Tests Alternative Admission Study
Colorado College, along with four other private schools and four major state universities, is participating in a pilot project/research study to examine a possible supplemental tool for the college admissions process.While the battery of tests that Harvard researcher Deborah Bial developed (in consultation with the Education Testing Service) include group problem-solving exercises using Legos, "the CC admission office is not eliminating the SAT as one of the credentials in our selection process. Legos are not replacing standard admission criteria," explains Terry Swenson, dean of admissions and financial aid.
Read articles in Education Week, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Denver Post, and Colorado College's Access.
CC Names New Vice President of Business
La Junta native Tom Nycum succeeds Jan Legoza as Colorado College's vice president of business and finance. “I wanted to get back into higher education, preferably a private, smaller school setting. Colorado College is the perfect solution,” he says. See a news release and an Access article for more.
Ten Years of Community Service
The Colorado College center for community service celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1999 with an awards recognition dinner. See the mayor's proclamation, a story in the CC community newspaper, and a news release. The center encouraged more than 330 first-year students to participate in community service.. The center also was selected as a finalist in the 1999 El Pomar Foundation Awards for Excellence program in the education category.
College Celebrates Milestone Anniversary
Colorado College -- established in 1874 by among others the man who also founded Colorado Springs, Gen. William J. Palmer -- celebrated its 125th anniversary during 1999.
In 1874, Colorado College began the 1874-1875 academic year. The college classes held at this time were the first college classes in the history of Colorado (Colorado College: A Place Of Learning, 1874-1999, 21).
Samuel Huntington, author and political scientist at Harvard, gave the keynote address at the 125th anniversary symposium, a three-day series of discussion forums addressing political, religious, economic and cultural issues of the 21st century. Transcripts from the symposium are now available.
Other major 125th events included the premiere of a video history produced by Professor Robert Loevy, the performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor was rebroadcast on Colorado public radio station KCME, and an all-college convocation featured musical performances and tributes to CC history, including a keynote address by college President Kathryn Mohrman and a special benediction by Chaplain Bruce Coriell. President Mohrman also accepted a resolution of congratulations from the Colorado Springs City Council on Feb. 9 (see photo). The Colorado State Legislature issued a proclamation on Feb. 4 -- another important date in CC history -- honoring the college on its anniversary.
College Makes Impact on Community
The Colorado Springs Business Journal reports that "Colorado College alone contributed almost $114 million to the local economy in 1997...CC created 1,741 jobs, and it increased local earnings by $55 million." Read the full article. Also, see a story from last November discussing CC's economic impact on Colorado Springs. A look at Tiger hockey is included in a related story on sports and the local economy. More on CC's role in the community is available online.
CC People in the News
PBS last fall aired "Art 21: The Art of the Twenty-First Century," featuring Margaret Kilgallen, who graduated from CC in 1989 with a degree in art. She died this summer. Click here for more information.
In case you missed South African-born writer Mark Mathabane's lecture at CC on July 23, it aired on C-SPAN 2's "Public Lives" series on September 15 and 16. In addition to talking about his life and writing, Mathabane shares his impressions of Colorado College. Click here to find out more -- and to view the presentation online.
Economics professor Mike Bird and guest speaker Kenneth Minogue talked about the 125th symposium on Voice of America's international call-in show "Talk to America" in February. Ted Lindeman, professor and chair of chemistry, is featured twice in December's online edition of Scientific American as part of the regular "Ask the Experts" column.In other news, political science prof. Robert Loevy was featured in the Denver Post as part of a point/counterpoint discussion on term limits. And President Kathryn Mohrman was quoted in a Hartford Advocate story on the value of higher education (the story also ran in two other Connecticut newspapers, the Westchester Weekly and Fairfield Co. Weekly).
The Christian Science Monitor ran an opinion piece by Suzanne Tregarthen, Colorado College's former assistant dean for institutional research and planning. The article, titled "Think College Is out of Reach? Think Again" is available on the Monitors web site archives.
Another recent Monitor story featured world-class researcher, Dr. Jane Lubchenco. The zoologist is a 1969 Colorado College graduate. That story is also available. (Fall 1997)
Brian Swanson Named Hobey Baker Finalist
Colorado College senior Brian Swanson has been named among 10 finalists for the 1998-99 Hobey Baker Memorial Award. See a feature in a recent Denver Post. Brian and Scott Swanson also finished as the top vote-getters among all WCHA first-team honorees. In addition, Scott Swanson was named co-recipient of the league's Student Athlete of the Year Award. Twelve CC players received various WCHA honors. See a news release for more about All-WCHA recognition and All-Academic Team honors.
Senior Tiger hockey center Brian and defenseman Scott Swanson were named to the Titan West all-American first team. There is no greater recognition in college hockey, with the exception of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award. See a feature in the Denver Post.
El Pomar Foundation has pledged $5 million toward the construction of a facility named the Russell T. Tutt Center in honor the former chair of Colorado College's Board of Trustees. The building will provide more up-to-date facilities for students and faculty in the psychology and geology departments and the interdisciplinary environmental science and neuroscience programs.
El Pomar Foundation Pledges $5 Million to CC
See more about the gift, the science facility, science at CC, and the El Pomar/Colorado College connection.
Colorado College announced its largest-ever fund-raising campaign last April. The Campaign for Colorado College: A Course of Distinction will raise $83 million for increased financial aid, two new teaching facilities, and other support of educational enterprises.
Antoine Predock, an internationally renowned architect credited with creating buildings that both make bold artistic statements and fit with their natural surroundings, has been retained to design an arts complex on the Colorado College campus, which will expand facilities for the college's drama, dance, music and arts programs. For more about the Albuquerque architect and the proposed arts facility, see news release.
For more about the campaign, see the online news release.
Colorado College has joined 1,200 colleges and universities in an effort to inform students and families that -- contrary to what many of them might think -- they can afford a college education. Coordinated by the American Council on Education, the "College Is Possible" campaign kicked off last fall with a news conference and launching of a Web site to serve as an information resource for issues of affordability in higher education.
College Is Possible:
CC Joins National Campaign"Financial aid accounts for a significant and growing amount of the Colorado College budget, and it also has been made a top fund-raising priority," CC President Kathryn Mohrman said. "While about two-thirds of our students received some sort of state or federal financial aid, half also are assisted by funds directly from the college. We also go to great lengths not to overburden students with financial aid packages comprised mainly of loans."
For more information about financial aid options at Colorado College, see our Admission site.
Prof's Research Featured in
Tomi-Ann Roberts, a member of the psychology faculty at Colorado College, is interviewed in an ABCNEW.COM story about her recently published research study, "That Swimsuit Becomes You: Sex Differences in Self-Objectification, Restrained Eating, and Math Performance." The story is available on the ABC News Web site.
ABCNEWS.COM, Denver Post, 'Dr. Dean Show'The Denver Post ran a story on the study, also available online. Another article on Roberts, a noted researcher and authority on gender issues and the psychology of women, is available on the college's newspaper Access. "Dr. Dean," America's second most popular syndicated radio spot heard on more than 400 stations, also aired a piece on the study. The text is available online as well.
Grads Named to
Seven 1998 Colorado College graduates have been selected to join Teach for America, the national teacher corps. The were among 700 outstanding college graduates announced in a recent USA Today ad. They will spend the next two years teaching in economically impoverished urban public schools around the nation.
'Fortunate 700'The seven CC grads are Parker Baxter, Benjamin Cope, Peter Enns, Bryce Hach, Gregory Hoge, Regan Plumb, and Jodi Shields.
See the Teach For America Web site for more about the program.
Let Your Mouse Do the Walking: Campus Tours
An "historic walking tour" of Colorado College is now available through the CC Tutt Library's Special Collections page (which also features, among other things, an overview of all CC presidents from the last 124 years). The tour's extensive text and historic photographs features 21 buildings and landmarks on campus.A more general campus tour is online on our web's Visitor Center.
CC Web Lauded
The college's Web site has been racking up the honors of late, including recent designation (spring 1998) as "Site of the Week" by CAUSE, the association for using and managing information resources in higher education.Kaplan, a company that provides testing services and information on selecting colleges and universities, bestowed a similar honor last summer. And this very page, What's NEWS, was recently given a Silver Award by CASE District 6 in its annual recognition of leading efforts for the advancement and support of higher education.
The day after a early April (1998) snowstorm blanketed Colorado Springs and the Front Range, temperatures rose to the point where religion Professor Sam Williams and his class met outdoors on Armstrong Quad. For more on the ups and downs of the Pikes Peak area's weather, check our our local weather page. Photo by Keith Bingham
Home at Last
The CC Hockey team finally got the chance to christen its new home ice at the Colorado Springs World Arena during a series against the University of Wisconsin on Jan. 23 and 24, 1998.Check out the hockey web site for more on the Tiger's winning season.
In addition to the hockey team's opening series, the World Arena played host to a ceremony honoring the induction of Olympic gold medal winning figure skaters Peggy Fleming '70, Hayes Alan Jenkins '56, and David Jenkins '58, as well as the 1949-50 CC hockey team, into the Colorado College Athletic Hall of Fame during the World Arena's inaugural weekend.
Click here for a closer look at the new Colorado Springs World Arena.
Balinese Orchestra Provides Unusual Halftime Show
What may have been the first-ever marching Balinese gamelan at a college football game provided the halftime entertainment at Colorado College's homecoming this fall (see full-sized photo). The gamelan is a type of musical ensemble native to Bali, Indonesia, that is often accompanied by dancing and puppet shows.Used in festive processions, the gamelan balaganjur (literally "marching band") is one of four gamelan ensembles on campus. The college acquired the instruments -- gongs, symbols, drums, flutes, and gangsas or metallophones -- in 1992 and established an Indonesian performing arts program the next year. The gamelan performs frequently on campus and tours, though this was the first time it had played at an athletic event. There are about 200 gamelans around the country, though only a few Balinese style ones, according to music Professor Victoria Levine, who directs the Colorado College program.
Cutler Cupola Returns!
The bell tower or cupola of the college's oldest building, Cutler Hall, was lowered to the ground on March 14 (1997) as the first step of a major exterior renovation project. Built in 1878, Cutler was the college's first permanent building as is still its visual hallmark today. The project is funded in part by a grant from the State Historical Fund of the Colorado Historical Society.The structure was returned to place on May 22, 1997 -- shown in this photo. Additional photographs of the historic events are also available online, as is more about the history of Cutler Hall. Also see a story from the Gazette.
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