By George Eckhardt, Facilities Services Colorado College is making news in the current 2010 Recyclemania Competition, the second year of participation; some good and some not-so-good news. Recyclemania began on January 17 and runs for 10 weeks through March 27. The college is participating in three categories of the competition: Grand Champion, Per Capita Classic, and Waste Minimization. At this …
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Colorado College has been awarded a second State Historical Fund grant in the amount of $133,800 to continue the challenging exterior stone and wood trim restoration of Arthur House, 1106 N. Nevada Ave. The restoration of the wraparound porch was completed last summer, thanks to the first grant award of $115,000. An ADA ramp also was incorporated, using ADA …
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Slightly more than half of the CC student-athletes competing in sports sponsored by the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference earned a spot on the SCAC Honor Roll for excellence in the classroom during the 2009 fall semester. Forty-two of 83 Tigers were honored for posting a minimum grade-point average of 3.25 for the semester. The men’s …
People were talkin’ trash at Colorado College on Tuesday, Feb. 2. Not only were they talking it, but they were also sorting and analyzing it. About 30 cubic yards of trash was piled high around the Earle Flagpole on Worner Quad – visual reminder of how much trash CC accumulates in a single day. “Trash …
“CASKET,” the Super Bowl Doritos commercial for which CC alumna and English film track major Char Lee ’09 was casting director, was one of four in the Crash the Super Bowl commercial competition that aired during the game. There were 4,000 entries, and Lee’s was one of six finalists; four of those advanced to the grand …
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CC’s new website optimized for mobile browsers is live. Now you can quickly access the campus directory, campus map, events, news, game scores, CC on YouTube, CC on Facebook, KRCC and emergency info via your smartphone. The site is intended to make information easier to access when you’re away from your computer; it’s not meant …
A documentary film by Henry Ansbacher and Daniel Junge, who both graduated from Colorado College in 1992, has been nominated for an Academy Award. The film, “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner,” is a nominee in the short documentary category. The film focuses on Booth Gardner, the former governor of Washington, who leads a …
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Cynthia Chavez Lamar CC ’92 has been nominated to the board of trustees of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development by President Barack Obama. She becomes the sixth Colorado College alumni to be selected for a position with the current administration. Chavez Lamar is the director of the Indian …
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Marion Hourdequin, assistant professor of philosophy at Colorado College, has been awarded a $244,881 grant from the National Science Foundation. Hourdequin received the grant in collaboration with David Havlick, assistant professor of geography and environmental studies at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. The funding supports three years of research on the ecological restoration of former military …
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C.J. Pascoe, assistant sociology professor, is co-author of a new book, “Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media.” The book provides a grounded and nuanced description of today’s digital youth culture and practices as they negotiate their identity, peer-based relationships, and relationships with adults. The data comes from …
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