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Radio Making Waves at CC

Radio at Colorado College is on the move as The SOCC, the student-run station, relocated to new quarters and KRCC, the college’s NPR member station, takes to the streets. The SOCC (the Sound of Colorado College), which first went on the air in spring 2008 from its birthplace in the basement of KRCC, moved to what was formerly the piano room on the first floor of Loomis Hall. Matt Baer ’10, SOCC general manager, says the new location gives the station more visibility. “We have a much greater connection to the campus being based in Loomis,” he says. “It’s great, because students are walking by all the time, asking questions,…

Issue: November 2009

Roll the Press… (Over to Taylor Hall)

How do you move five old fine printing presses, weighing up to 3,500 pounds, keeping them from damage and misalignment? Very carefully, and with the help of a moving truck, forklift, and tow truck. CC moved the 31-year-old Press at Colorado College’s collection of printing presses and lead type from the basement of Jackson House to a new home in Taylor Hall in mid-August. Five presses, including one built in 1895 and one weighing 3,500 pounds, and more than 500 cases of lead type were transported across campus in a move that involved removing doors, windows, and a retaining wall from Jackson House. The Press at Colorado College is now…

Issue: November 2009

Jurassic Park Meets Barnes Science Center

New Assistant Professor of Biology Emilie Gray may be surprised by the efforts that CC inadvertently made to help support her research. This summer the old animal suites in the Barnes Science Center basement were remodeled into a multiuse biology/chemistry/anatomy lab, and the adjoining labs were remodeled to improve ventilation and to better meet the needs of current faculty, including new faculty hire Gray. Gray, who holds a Ph.D. in ecophysiology from the University of California-Irvine, specializes in the study of mosquitoes. The remodeled lab includes an area Gray uses that facilities services calls “the mosquito room,” which has light colored, welded seam vinyl flooring. In a turn of events…

Issue: November 2009

Opening Convocation and Fall Conference

Colorado College welcomed 527 first-year students and 32 transfer students, and presented three alumni with honorary degrees at its Opening Convocation on Aug. 31, which marked the beginning of the college’s 136th academic year. Marc Acito ’90, a novelist, former syndicated humor columnist, and former professional opera singer, received a standing ovation at the conclusion of his keynote address. His speech is available via podcast at www.ColoradoCollege.edu/podcast/?name=Marc_Acito and the video is available on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFM2OkZYsvs Acito and Krista Smith ’86, Vanity Fair’s West Coast editor, received honorary doctor of humane letters degrees; Tijani R. (T.J.) Cole ’87, juvenile and family court magistrate for the 20th Judicial District in Boulder…

Issue: November 2009

The Mountain Endures

Dear Alumni and Parents, Each year when I greet the new class of Colorado College students, I urge them to orient themselves around the mountain. Pikes Peak was here long before CC and will be here long after, and in the meantime we get to claim it as our own — the touchstone against which we are “nestled” (to use the language of CC publications of yore). Our mountain is a representation of endurance, of continuity, of sustainability. I tell the students that they need to hone in themselves what they want to be long lasting. Who do they want to be? What do they want to stand for? The…

Issue: July 2009

Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization

Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization by Andrew Price-Smith, political science professor This timely book analyzes the relationship between public health and governance, particularly looking at how disease affects national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book, “The Health of Nations,” Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing its internal politics and relationships with other states. ISBN-10: 0262662035 and ISBN-13: 978-0262662031. Published by MIT Press; 2009.

Issue: July 2009

Worlds Apart?: Disability and Foreign Language Learning

Worlds Apart?: Disability and Foreign Language Learning by Tammy Berberi ’91, Elizabeth C. Hamilton, and Ian M. Sutherland Today’s foreign language teachers are increasingly expected to be skilled in addressing multiple intelligences and learning styles, yet without a reliable resource that consolidates the best of what is known about the broad spectrum of disabilities that exist in classrooms. This book, the first of its kind, offers critical and practical essays with insights applicable across the language-teaching spectrum. ISBN-10: 0300116306 and ISBN-13: 978-0300116304. Published by Yale University Press; 2008.

Issue: July 2009

The Early Care and Education Teaching Workforce at the Fulcrum: An Agenda for Reform

The Early Care and Education Teaching Workforce at the Fulcrum: An Agenda for Reform by Kristie Kauerz ’91, Sharon Lynn Kagan, and Kate Tarrant The authors focus on the more than two million individuals who care for and educate nearly two thirds of the American children under age five participating in non-parental care, and address frequently asked questions about teacher quality, teacher effectiveness, and the professional development necessary to achieve both. ISBN-10: 0807748277 and ISBN-13: 978-0807748275. Published by Teachers College Press; 2007.

Issue: July 2009

The Family of Sukey Lewis in the Plantation South

The Family of Sukey Lewis in the Plantation South by Heather Palmer ’81 Working from a cache of newly discovered diaries and letters from 1793 to 1866, Palmer presents the story of five generations of an American family. As each generation featured moves further west, the men write of the challenge of bringing crops to fruition and the women write of the sorrows of the early deaths of their children and the strain of being so far from family. Yet, despite their struggles, a spirit of fun and hope pervade their writings. ISBN: 978-0-9760489-2-3. Published by The Sherman Preservation League Press; 2008.

Issue: July 2009

The Best Nonreligious Quotes Ever

The Best Nonreligious Quotes Ever by Christine Pierce ’83 and Kevin Reedy ’83 What happens when two middle-aged friends get their master’s degrees in theology, only later to conclude that there may not be a God? They write an inspirational quote book aimed at nonreligious and religious people alike. The book provides encouraging, thoughtful, and often-humorous quotations of a nonreligious nature. It contains more than 600 quotes that are grouped into such categories as humor, parenting, friendship, and tolerance. ISBN-10: 0966374231 and ISBN-13: 978-0966374230. Published by Now What Press; 2008.