ByMiriam Brown ’21 Jane Hatfield ’22 taught herself how to skateboard at age 10. Though she has been passionate about it ever since, she has never had very many female role models to look up to in the male-dominated sport. When she came to Colorado College, she started a girls’ skateboarding club to give female students …
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The Well Campaign is a new initiative from the CC Wellness Resource Center that seeks to promote awareness that wellness and well-being mean something different to everyone. As CC strives to become a more equitable and inclusive campus and continues to implement the Equity in Mental Health Framework as part of the JED Campus Project, …
By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 This season, the CC Nordic Ski Team had a handful of students heading to the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association Nationals at Snow King Mountain in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for the first time ever. Ines Siepmann ’19, Maddie Strasser ’21, Oliver Jones ’20, and Benjamin Swift ’21all qualified for the …
By: Miriam Brown ’21 The United States may intend to pull out of the Paris Agreement in 2020, but Colorado College is saying, “We Are Still In.” In 2015, 195 countries, including the U.S., came together in Paris and agreed to make strides to limit the effects of global warming, such as by reducing carbon …
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By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 One benefit of attending a small liberal arts school is the research opportunities available to undergraduate students. At CC, the Department of Psychology is particularly invested in student research, as three professors — Kevin Holmes, Emily Chan, and Tomi-Ann Roberts — have recently published papers on the importance of undergraduate research. Additionally, …
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By Miriam Brown ’21 Arts and Crafts Director Jeanne Steiner creates textile work inspired by high-rise architecture, such as in New York City and Chicago. Printmaking professor Jean Gumpper creates woodcuts inspired by the open landscapes of Hawaii, Michigan, and Colorado. In their new exhibition “Woodcuts and Weavings,” their art works together to create a …
Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Lisa Marie Rollins is an acclaimed playwright, director and poet based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This semester, Rollins is a visiting lecturer at CC, teaching two classes and directing a play at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Among many other accolades, Rollins has been a Sundance Theatre fellow and …
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By: Miriam Brown ’21 When Carlton Gamer first joined the Department of Music at Colorado College, the school’s trademark Block Plan system wasn’t even in the works yet. Now a professor emeritus, Gamer will turn 90 this year, and CC faculty are throwing him a concert in celebration. Gamer is most known for being a …
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By: Miriam Brown ’21 Most students never meet or interact with artists whose work they study in class. But thanks to Colorado College’s artist-in-residence program, students in the classes Human/Being Anthropological Perspectives and Southwest Arts and Culture learned about Virgil Ortiz’s art from Ortiz himself. Ortiz, a Pueblo artist who lives in Cochiti Pueblo, New …
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By Ritik Shrestha ’22 Student performers at CC are pushing the boundaries of expressionism with exciting pieces. An example of this innovation can be found in the collaboration between the Art of Songwriting course taught by Assistant Professor of Music Iddo Aharony and Contemporary Poetry taught by Professor of English Jane Hilberry. With the help …
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