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April 2010
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 be, as Smith and eight CC alumni who attended can attest. Smith asked the alums to contribute their reflections on the meeting to the Bulletin. What do you get when you put an international climate summit, a rock concert, a trade show, protesters of all stripes, a snowstorm and eight CC alums together in Copenhagen…Read more
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April 2010
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 productive source of invention. “Style in Rhetoric and Composition” is a collection of essays that trace the evolution of the study of style and illustrates the debates that continue to shape the field of rhetoric and composition. Selections range from works by classical rhetoricians to modern compositionists addressing a variety of issues. Out of Style:…Read more
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April 2010
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 because a local operation could not by itself compete with the economies of scale offered by national and international retailers providing a similar service. Validis Resources will operate the CC Bookstore. After a year of staff reductions and $8 million in budget cuts, “the broad outlook for Colorado College is stable,” President Richard Celeste told…Read more
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April 2010
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” will be wiped out by global warming, and evolutionary diversification will occur in “what we normally call pests.” ISBN-13: 978-1597261975. Published by Shearwater; 2009.Read more
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April 2010
Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific
by Katherine Giuffre, CC associate professor of sociology “Collective Creativity” analyzes the explosion of artistic creativity taking place on Rarotonga, a South Pacific island. By examining tourism, galleries, and the artists, the book presents a detailed picture of a complex and multi-faceted community through the words of the artworld participants. Giuffre spent her sabbatical year on Rarotonga; she took a group of students there in December 2007 and will take another group this summer. ISBN-13: 978-0754676652. Published by Ashgate Publishing; 2009.Read more
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April 2010
Dragon House
by John Shors ’91 Shors’ third novel is set in modernday Vietnam and tells the story of Iris and Noah, two Americans who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. Inspired by the street children she meets, Iris walks in the footsteps of her father, a man whom Vietnam both shattered and saved. Meanwhile, Noah slowly rediscovers himself through the eyes of an unexpected companion. ISBN-13: 978-0451227850. Published by NAL Trade; 2009.Read more
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April 2010
The Paradoxes of the American Presidency
by Tom Cronin, CC political science professor and Michael Genovese This is an expanded update of the highly regarded “The State of the Presidency” (1980). The presidency is loaded with paradoxes that make the job arduous under the best of circumstances. The public wants a strong president but is suspicious of power; it yearns for a leader who is heroic yet has the common touch; and it demands bold visions but at low social and economic costs. ISBN-13: 978-0195385281. Published by Oxford University Press; 2009.Read more