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Class Notes: '90s

 

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William Jackson Palmer Founders Society Inducts New Members

Five new members were inducted into the William Jackson Palmer Founders Society on Nov. 5, in a ceremony at the base of the Earle Flagpole on Worner Quad. The Society was created in 2002 to honor Colorado College benefactors whose lifetime gifts total or exceed $1 million. The new inductees are: The Inasmuch Foundation, with…

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Class Notes: '70s

 

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Class Notes: '40s and '50s

 

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Colorado College Alumni Take on Global Climate Change at the United Nations Climate Meeting in Copenhagen

Economics Professor Mark Smith spent the fall of 2009 as a Fulbright-Schuman EU Scholar studying the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, based in Brussels. As part of his sabbatical, he attended the United Nations 15th Conference of the Parties on Global Climate Change in Copenhagen. Despite the wintry setting, Copenhagen was the hot place to…

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Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Style in Rhetoric and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook

by Paul Butler ’79 In “Out of Style,” Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among compositionists, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it alive only in the popular imagination as a set of grammar conventions. His goal is to articulate style as a vital and…

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A Year After the Economic Crisis, CC in Better Position Following Cuts

Bookstore Advisory Committee Recommends Outsourcing The Bookstore Advisory Committee, working since September 2009 on the question of whether the CC Bookstore operations should be outsourced or return to a self-operated model, on Dec. 10 presented a unanimous recommendation in favor of outsourcing. The committee included faculty, staff and students. The CC Bookstore was outsourced largely…

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Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

by Anthony D. Barnosky ’74 While reviewing evidence that points to drastic changes resulting from even small global temperature increases, Barnosky also discusses biodiversity’s importance, compares rates of evolutionary change with global temperatures, and recounts Earth’s four previous mass extinctions. One of the assessments is that “many of the species that humans tend to like”…

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