The start of a life focused on social justice for Colorado College graduate Dorothy Budd ’80 began with lessons learned in philosophy professor John Riker’s ethics courses. “I’d always had an interest,” Budd said from her home in Dallas. “It really was sparked by Dr. Riker’s classes.” That desire manifested itself while studying law at [...]
April 2012 Issue
Peak Profile: David Amster-Olszewski ’09
David Amster-Olszewski ’09 didn’t grow up thinking about solar energy, but during his four years at Colorado College, it became the thing that excited him the most. Amster-Olszewski grew up in Florida, and when it was time to choose a college he decided on CC, even though he had been accepted by several in the [...]
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Alumni Association News
This year is an election year for one of the three elected alumni trustee positions on the Colorado College Board of Trustees. The Alumni Association Board (AAB) has identified nominees to stand for election this spring to fill the position held by Jack Pottle ’77, who completes his six-year term in June. Jack has done [...]
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Don’t Be Afraid
by Steven Hayward, CC English professor “Don’t be Afraid” is a darkly comic novel of adolescent anxiety featuring Jim Morrison — not the lead singer of The Doors who died in 1971, but a chubby 17-year-old living in Ohio. This Jim Morrison was born days after the singer’s death, and Jimmy has been living a largely [...]
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Choosing to Grow: Through Marriage
by Meagan Frank ’97 After hitting a low point in her marriage, Frank didn’t want to be a divorce statistic, so she set out on a quest to find the tools she needed to fight to save her marriage. She embarked on an eight-year journey of contemplation, research, and eventual revelation about how modern marriage [...]
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No More Heroes
by Henry Biernacki ’97 This “travel book” touches on more than the basics of what people do while traveling; it touches on the growth of the human spirit that occurs and what happens when the traveler returns. Niklas, a young man who travels constantly to seek new experiences and avoid the humdrumness of life, becomes [...]
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Gentlemen Preferred Dry Flies
by William C. Black ’53 Through stories of numerous historical characters, Black, a professor of surgical pathology at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, details the robust debate among fly-fishing devotees on the relative merits of dry vs. wet flies. The book is an in-depth examination of the history of fly-fishing, an art that stretches back [...]
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Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
by Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, with Kristin Thomson ’89 contributing How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other [...]
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Running with the Moon
by Steve Pettit ’73 This coming of age story features Yano, who lives in western New Mexico circa 1100 A.D. There is both excitement and tragedy in Yano’s world, and when all-out war breaks out, Yano is forced on a mission of vital importance to the survival of his pueblo, one that takes all his courage, [...]
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