By Ritik Shrestha ’22 As members of the campus community, CC students, faculty, and staff can take advantage of the Adam F. Press Fitness Center. Renovated in 2013, the two-floor building overlooking the sports fields was designed to provide CC Tigers with everything needed to “live our best lives.” And while there’s a steady flow …
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By Leah Veldhuisen’19 CC graduate Brendan Young ’14 recently finished his film “Junction,” which focuses on basketball on the Navajo reservation. The inspiration for the film came when Young visited Chinle, Arizona, at the suggestion of a CC friend, Isaac Salay ’16, who was born there. Salay mentioned that Young should check out a basketball game …
By Miriam Brown ’21 Judges in the El Paso County Courthouse are supposed to be fair and impartial, but if they aren’t, Anna Grigsby ’19 and other Colorado College students are there to document it. Grigsby is one of the leaders of Justice Watch, a student organization whose mission is to hold attorneys and judges …
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By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Every student who comes to CC participates in a Priddy Trip and individual trips engage in a wide variety of service work, ranging from trail construction to working with animals. This year, the early athlete Priddy Trip worked with the Baca National Wildlife Refuge to lower and remove barbed wire fences. Our …
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By Miriam Brown ’21 What do creek clean-ups, blood drives, and anti-racism workshops have in common? They are all ways for Colorado College students, faculty, and staff to engage with the local community during CC’s recent Week of Action. Historically, the events focused on cleaning up local creeks during CC’s annual Day of Service. The …
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By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Last week, Associate Professor of English Jared Richman returned to his alma mater, Union College, to be the closing speaker at their Blake@Union exhibition on English poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake. Richman has been studying Blake since his time at Union as an undergraduate, and continued the work throughout his master’s …
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By Miriam Brown ’21 In the virtual world, Max Pil ’20 is a world-class hamster. In Overwatch, a video game in which heroes must come together to control global conflict, Pil regularly plays as Hammond, a hamster nicknamed “Wrecking Ball” for his ability to crush people with his mechanical ball. Pil plays Hammond so well that …
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By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Although many students choose to pursue Keller Venture Grants that are not directly related to their majors, my Venture Grant in Bolivia provided the first set of data for my senior thesis with the Department of Organismal Biology and Ecology. The idea first came from Assistant Professor Rachel Jabaily when she heard …
By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Although Associate Professor of Molecular Biology Phoebe Lostroh and Director of Assessment and Program Review Amanda Udis-Kessler have been a couple since 1997, they were making music together long before. They recently released their third album, “Rejoice: Songs and Hymns” under the band name EverySoul. The album contains 15 original songs …
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By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Matt Rosen ’21 has an exciting spring coming up: His book “Speculative Annihilationism: The Intersection of Archaeology and Extinction”will be published by Zero Books in June. The book is about philosophy, a topic Rosen has been interested in for a long time. His curiosity stems from watching a cartoon version of “The …
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