By Sarah Senese ’23 This past January, the Colorado College Speech and Debate team brought home the title “First Place Overall Sweepstakes,” attesting to the hard work of both the team members and their coach, Sarah Hinkle. First Place Overall Sweepstakes is awarded to the team that not only has the highest number of students …
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By Miriam Brown ’21 Dominique Christina has performed her poetry for National Poetry Slam Championships, TEDx stages, YouTube videos with thousands of hits, and conferences across the country. Next Monday, she will add Colorado College to the list. Christina is an award-winning writer, educator, and activist who has written and performed poems broaching topics such …
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By Miriam Brown ’21 For the next three months, Arielle Gordon ’21 will be sorting through crates of documents in the Collaborative for Community Engagement’s basement. “I’m excited,” she says. “I don’t know what sort of hidden gems we have. The crates contain memos from meetings, newspaper clippings, undated photographs, and other documents belonging to …
Wooglin’s Deli will soon open its second location in northeast Colorado Springs. The eatery, which has been a fixture at 823 N. Tejon St. for nearly 30 years, plans to open another location near the corner of Barnes Road and Oro Blanco Drive by the end of the year. In the proposed site plans, the …
Pilot program boosts access for low- and middle-income students Colorado College is launching the Colorado Pledge, a historic undertaking to address affordability concerns in higher education. CC’s Colorado Pledge is a financial aid initiative designed to ensure Colorado College is as affordable for Colorado students from low- and middle-income families as the state’s flagship public …
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By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 While CC’s Thesis Specialist Mia (as she is known) Alvarado has published much of her writing, including poetry and nonfiction, in magazines and journals including The Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, VQR, and Outside, her recent essay is particularly exciting: It has been named a finalist for “Best of the Net” honors and selected to be …
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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: 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 Miriam Brown ’21 Sound artist, performer, and composer Reiko Yamada has built her career around pushing past disciplinary boundaries. In Block 4, Yamada will bring her expertise to Colorado College as the latest innovator-in-residence. Innovation at CC launched its Innovator-in-Residence Program two years ago to give students the opportunities to collaborate and connect with people …
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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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