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Student Opportunities and Advising Hub Opens

The Student Opportunities and Advising Hub, better known as “the hub,” opened with the start of the academic year as part of CC’s efforts to be equitable, inclusive, and supportive of all students. The hub, on East Campus at 1014 N. Weber St., serves as the center of holistic support for all CC students, academically and personally. “We will strive to ensure that all students have access to information about resources and opportunities on campus and beyond, which supports our goals at the hub as well as our goals at CC to become an antiracist institution,” says Teresa Leopold, director of the hub. The hub staff work in collaboration with…

Issue: Winter 2019

New Signs Designate Tava Quad

The newly named Tava Quad, previously informally known as Armstrong Quad, was blessed at a sunrise ceremony during Homecoming Weekend. More than 40 members of the Ute Tribes participated in ceremonies and festivities that included the sacred blessing, meeting with students in two convergence classes, and a cultural performance that included powwow dancing and a drumming exhibition. Informational signs relaying the history of the area and the Nuúchi (Ute) People, the first inhabitants of the region, are located at the four cardinal entry points to Tava Quad, the largest greenspace on campus. “Tava” means “sun” in the Ute language, and they called the majestic peak that towers over Colorado Springs…

Issue: Winter 2019

RMPBS Move to Campus Expands Opportunities

Rocky Mountain PBS has moved its Colorado Springs operations from downtown to the CC campus in order to expand its local programming and educational initiatives. The move, which took place in August, will help create new opportunities for collaboration with CC students. The station already collaborates with CC through a block class on engaged journalism and will support up to 20 internships each year for students to gain practical work experience in a media environment. CC’s Film and Media Studies program has partnered with Rocky Mountain PBS since 2014, beginning with a summer, two-block Colorado Documentary Project course. That course led to the creation of “In Short: Student Films from…

Issue: Winter 2019

CC Team Studies Gerrymandering

Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Beth Malmskog and her students studied gerrymandering and Colorado’s new redistricting laws during the summer. Haley Colgate ’20, Edgar Santos Vega ’20, Jose Monge Castro ’20, Kadin Mangalik ’20, and Austin Eide ’16 worked alongside Malmskog to assess the current districting plans and prepare for the 2021 redistricting…

Issue: Winter 2019

Africana Intellectual Project Launches

The Africana Intellectual Project at Colorado College, established earlier this year, is not just for Colorado College, but rather for the entire community, says director and founder of the program Michael Sawyer. Sawyer, assistant professor in Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies, says the project is designed to enable CC and its intellectual community to explore…

Issue: Winter 2019

Expanding College Access with Stroud Scholars Program

Barry Sarchett, professor of English at Colorado College, says that over the last decade, he has been “personally distraught” about social inequality in higher education. “It became quite clear over the last decade or more that elite institutions of higher education — and I include CC in that category — had become, despite their own best intentions, engines of creating and maintaining social inequality rather than engines of social mobility,” Sarchett says. As a first-generation college student from working-class parents himself, Sarchett calls higher education’s relationship with inequality a “betrayal.” So he started doing research into college access programs at institutions like Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and the University…

Issue: Winter 2019

In Memoriam

George Simmons, who taught mathematics at CC from 1962 to 1990, died Aug. 6 in Colorado Springs. He was 94 years old. George studied Banach algebras for his dissertation work at Yale University and focused his later work in classical analysis. He taught at Williams College, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maine, Yale, and the University of Chicago before arriving in Colorado Springs. Though never a fan of the Block Plan, George was well known for delivering his lectures in ways that were engaging for students. And he used a writing style which earned him a worldwide reputation in his field for clear and precise instruction. His texts included…

Issue: Winter 2019

Obituaries

’36 Vanessa Morgan Reid raised a family with her husband Clifford in Los Angeles, then went on to work for the California Department of Health. She died July 28 at age 105. ’42 Leanna Allen worked for the War Production Board and then the Civilian Production Administration until she married in 1948 and became an Air Force wife and mother of two. She died March 19, 2018, at age 97. ’43 Clara Mae “Cam” Abell Harmston, part of Delta Gamma at CC, established a restaurant and motel in Roosevelt, Utah, with her late husband, Gordon Harmston ’40. She also regularly volunteered, often in the schools of her six children. Cam…

Issue: Winter 2019

Edward J. Robson Arena

The Edward J. Robson Arena is a multi-purpose ice hall to be located on Colorado College property on the west side of Nevada Avenue between Dale and Cache La Poudre streets. Owned and operated by Colorado College and home to CC Tiger Hockey, the arena is a physical and cultural extension of Colorado College as…

Issue: Winter 2019

Cannabis and the Latinx Community: More of the Same?

As an anthropologist, my research focuses on the everyday lives of individuals and communities as they engage in the consumption of psychoactive substances and the accompanying policies and practices that attempt to control, regulate, and police access to these substances. I rely on a multidimensional analysis of the legal and social life of marijuana as substance/medicine/commodity from a historical, medical, and legal perspective to understand the race, class, and gender dimensions of marijuana prohibition and legalization, especially as it has impacted the Mexican-descent communities of the southwestern United States. The following is an excerpt from a work-in-progress. Eleazar Garcia is a 19-year-old Mexican American male from the South Texas border.…