As I walk into the East Campus apartment complex, I am quickly engulfed by three rectangular buildings. Adorned with laminate siding and painted with an array of pastel browns and blues, the newly completed housing development at Colorado College presents itself as a meticulously maintained, residential utopia. The landscaping is sparse and uninspired, as…
COLORADO SPRINGS — Recently, Colorado College has been raising money to build a new hockey arena on campus. Honnen, the current arena, was built in 1936. “It’s certainly not a green building,” said Linda Alexander, the director of Honnen. CC has been doing their best to work with what they have, updating lights, putting on…
COLORADO SPRINGS — The shovel bit into my palm as I sliced its metal blade into the soil, heaving up the remnant roots of chard and vines of weeds that twisted over the garden bed. My muscles quivered from the manual labor, swing after swing as I churned the cold, dark earth after a summer…
COLORADO SPRINGS–Colorado College is a liberal arts school situated in Colorado Springs. The school has a block program which lasts three weeks. At the end of each block there is a block break which lasts four days. Students get out on Wednesday and must return on a Sunday. During this period of time a massive number of…
I am a first-year at Colorado College studying film and journalism. I grew up in Macon, GA and moved to Austin, TX in 2013. After the move, I learned about climate change in school for the first time. I quickly realized that this was a serious issue and spent more time studying it. I believe…
As a first-year student at Colorado College, I am interested in studying either environmental studies or sociology. I was able to spend a semester in high school studying the effects of colonialism and apartheid in southwestern Africa, which sparked my interest in social and environmental justice, as well as experiential learning. Having lived in Atlanta…
My mother is from Italy and my father is from Atlanta, Georgia. I grew up in Atlanta and went to the Atlanta International School, where I began my French studies when I was four years old. I also began learning how to play violin. Junior year I transferred to McCallie, a boarding School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This was a…
I am a student, writer, and environmental educator who splits time between the cold, historic lanes of my hometown in Boston, MA and the mountain-shadowed Colorado Springs, CO. I study Creative Writing for Social Change and Education at Colorado College, where I’m currently at work on a short story collection. My fiction explores themes surrounding…
My name is Alex Donahue and I’m a sophomore from Massachusetts. I’m a neuroscience major because I believe that understanding the brain allows us to understand our bodies, our decisions, and our interactions with others. I’m interested in journalism because being a scientist and an effective writer could give me the skills to make complicated…
