April 2010 Issue

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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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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Class Notes: '40s and '50s

 

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Class Notes: '60s

 

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Class Notes: '70s

 

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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: '80s

 

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Class Notes: '90s

 

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Class Notes: '00s

 

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Greetings and Thanks to our Fifty Year Club Members!

At this point in life, we sometimes get the feeling that we are survivors, don't we? But the sturdiest group of all may be those members of the Class of 1959 who were inducted into the Fifty Year Club last October. They were also treated to the coldest temperatures in Homecoming and Parents Weekend history! [...]

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