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A campus committe went to work on the project last spring after Archetype, a Denver-based graphic design firm, was selected to guide the process. Archetype and the committee worked through the summer interviewing college constituencies, performing research and analysis, and considering various concepts.

In September, several possible designs were tested with both on- and off-campus focus groups. Using feedback from those sessions, the process continued with the dsesigners and the committee collaborating on various alternatives.

Official introduction of the logo/visual identity system is coinciding with the public kickoff of the College's capital campaign in March.

"Fierce. Fast. And home at last. Tiger Hockey at the new World Arena." The copy on billboards around Colorado Springs has a nice ring to it.

And, believe it or not, the concept has become reality.

On the Jan. 23-24 weekend, CC and the University of Wisconsin made history when they christened the Colorado Springs World Arena in the first hockey games ever played there. With 8,000 spectators in attendance each night, the two-day event had to be one of the city's most memorable in decades.

Included in the crowd were local dignitaries and donors who were instrumental in building the facility, as well as scores of former players who have worn Tiger jerseys during the last six decades. Many of those players actually laced up the skates and tried out the ice in an alumni game Saturday afternoon.

Weekend ceremonies also included induction of CC's entire 1949-50 hockey team into the Colorado College Athletics Hall of Fame. That team - captained by Milo Yalich and coached by the late Cheddy Thompson - won the program's first of two national championships.

In addition to Thompson and his 16 players, three other former Colorado College students who went on to win Olympic Gold Medals in figuring skating - Peggy Fleming, along with David and Hayes Alan Jenkins - were inducted into the Hall of Fame.

The hockey games matched a pair of old rivals that always put on a great show, wherever they play. Last March, for instance, the Tigers and Badgers battled through six scoreless periods at the Air Force Academy's Cadet Ice Arena, going to a fourth sudden-death overtime session before T.J. Tanberg's rebound goal shortly before 1 a.m. gave Colorado College a 1-0 playoff victory. It remains the longest men's college hockey game ever played.

"She was a major influence on those of us who pursued cultural anthropology," says Chris Jones '83. "Initially steered in that direction by my sister Kathy '80, Marianne became my advisor. I eventually majored in anthropology and later worked with Marianne as a paraprofessional in the department and with the Southwest Studies program."

A fellow of the American Anthropological Association who has published two books and authored several articles, Stoller's field trips were popular at CC. "Her 'Arts and Cultures of the Southwest' class, for example, took students to Canyon de Chelly, Chaco Canyon, Acoma, Zuni and the Hopi mesas where we saw night kiva ceremonies and feast day dances," says Jones. "And I'll always remember the rattlesnake that reinforced Marianne's lesson to never remove pottery shards from a site."

Stoller, who was president of the American Society of Ethnohistory and served more than five years on the Board of the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, has been a consultant for several museums, a panelist/reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other organziations, and a recipient of several research grants during her tenure at CC. Her vast knowledge of land and water rights has lead her to be called upon as an expert witness in New Mexico and Colorado county, state and federal courts.

"Many of Marianne's students practice anthropology in our everyday lives and, in some cases, in our careers," Jones says. "She taught us to appreciate other cultures. Thank you, Marianne. And happy fishing."

Competitive Irish folk dancing, theater productions, Italian and an interest in early church writings added up to a Rhodes scholarship for Colorado College senior Gregory Criste.

Criste and the 31 other college students named as recipients of the scholarship will study at Oxford University in England next fall. Criste plans to study patristic literature - the writings of leaders of the early Christian church.

A fifth-year senior majoring in the classics, history and politics, Criste spent one year at Gonzaga University in Florence, Italy, where he studied Italian and art history.

After Oxford, he intends to continue his education at the University of Chicago, the University of Notre Dame, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania or the University of Toronto. Criste hopes to be a college professor.

Outside the classroom, Criste has performed in numerous theatrical productions, including the lead role in the 1996 Colorado Springs performance of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."

He also plays piano and spent last summer working for the College Light Opera Company in Cape Cod, Mass.

His athletic endeavors do not include traditional competitive sports. Instead, he has competed nationally and internationally with the McTeggart Irish Dancers of Denver.

This is the second consecutive year a Colorado College student has been named a Rhodes scholar. Last year's recipient, Ryan Egeland, was an offensive tackle on the football team who studied chemistry and biochemistry.

This article by Scott Thomsen of The Gazette is reprinted with permission.

A biology major, Wittemyer graduated in May 1997 from Colorado College. He has long been interested in elephant protection and has worked in this country to raise awareness about the connection between ivory sales and harmful poaching.

Wittemyer is one of approximately 1,600 U.S. grantees who will travel abroad for the 1997-98 academic year under the Fulbright program.

Tiger standouts, sophomore Gretchen Grindle and junior Andrea Godsman, earned All-America honors, finishing 22nd and 24th respectively in the 5K competition.

Senior striker Dan Morlan, who led the Colorado College men's soccer team to the semifinals of the NCAA Division III West Region playoff championship this fall, also has earned All-America honors.

Colorado College is one of the top 10 consumers of electricity in Colorado Springs. Although each block of energy will cost the college an extra $3 a month, physical plant staff quickly capitalized on the option to purchase energy created through a renewable resource. In fact, Colorado College was one of the first commercial customers of Colorado Springs Utilities to get on the "Green Power" bandwagon by naming the Worner Center its green energy building.

Colorado Springs Utilities has formed a partnership with Public Service Company of Colorado and Holy Cross Electric Association to develop a wind generation farm located in Weld County, Colo., near the Colorado-Wyoming border. The partners paid an estimated $10 million to construct a 10 megawatt wind facility that will take advantage of the consistent winds that blow on Colorado's northeastern plains.

Wind energy, which uses only wind as fuel and has no air, water or waste emissions, is one of the cleanest sources of renewable energy. Studies have shown that the wind farm in Weld County will have almost no environmental impact on the flora and fauna of the surrounding area because bird flight patterns at the site are minimal.