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Posts from the August 2015 issue

The Road Rises to Meet Them: Rockies Project Refocuses on Water Across The West

Over the last 12 years, the Colorado College State of the Rockies Project has engaged the campus, local, and regional communities in meaningful dialogue on issues that affect us all. From wolf conservation to melting alpine glaciers, the Rockies Project provides an objective voice on regional issues. Facilitating collaborative student- faculty research partnerships, as well…

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It’s All About the (Alumni) Base

With my sophomore year behind me, that is, my second year as director of alumni relations here at CC, it’s constructive to take stock of our program in order to move forward, and I am excited about what lies ahead. A long overdue redesign to the alumni website is in progress. With the aid of…

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A Special Ops Force

While there’s one Facilities project at the top of Campus Operations and Plant Manager Mark Ferguson’s mind right now, the list of sustainability-related changes happening on the operations side is lengthy. “I got here at the end of ’12, and so really in ’13 we started organizing and analyzing” benchmark data, Ferguson said. “Since then…

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Taking Care with Carbon

When it comes to hitting carbon neutrality on campus, Sustainability Director Ian Johnson says electrical, power, and natural gas emissions are of concern, but are not the biggest challenge. The biggest challenge relates to emissions due to waste, emissions due to business travel (by air), and faculty, staff, and student commuting. All of these pieces…

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Shift Happens

The week after the Class of 2015 graduated, eight faculty members gathered for a two-day workshop in Cossitt Hall. The list of departments represented by this group of professors was eclectic: kinesiology, education, history, environmental studies, religion, math and computer science, business and economics, and German. But they all came to learn about one thing:…

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Veggie Trails

Take a run-of-the-mill, 15-passenger Ford E-350 with a 6-liter diesel engine, add a student with a sense of ingenuity, toss in some waste vegetable oil, and the result is CC’s new Veggie Van. A pet project of Tom Crowe ’15, the van is a joint effort between the Office of Sustainability and the Department of…

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From Solar Panels to French Fry Fumes

Sustainability efforts on campus have made big strides lately. See how CC is diverting waste, saving resources, and cutting CO2.

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Athletics

CC-DU to Take Coors Field in ‘Battle on Blake’ The 302nd meeting between in-state rivals Colorado College and the University of Denver will certainly be unlike any other in the 65-year history of the series. The schools announced they will play an outdoor hockey game at Coors Field in Denver on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016.…

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‘Possibly the Last’ Tour Choir Reunion

Cornerstone Arts Center Flex Room was crowded. Packard Hall risers couldn’t accommodate everyone. Dust from long unused pillows (stuffed in Shove Chapel choir loft aisles for more seating) rose when singers sat down, setting off fire alarms at Baccalaureate. Billed as “Possibly the Last Tour Choir Reunion,” and held May 15-17, it was likely the…

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Four CC Faculty Members Retire

Four faculty members, with more than 150 years of teaching experience at CC among them, retired at the end of the 2014-15 academic year. They are: Richard Agee, Music: Agee joined CC in 1982, after receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Courses taught include Music History, Introduction to Counterpoint and Diatonic Harmony, and Beethoven, or…

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