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Issue: Winter 2019

Update on Antiracism Initiative

 In the past year and a half, CC has committed to taking up the work of antiracism, which means actively opposing racism in all of its forms. It is an effort crucial to changing higher education and the world for the better. Over the summer, a small group comprised of members of the faculty, student body, Board of Trustees, and administration considered the antiracism report and its recommendations presented in Spring 2019, as well as other information gathered throughout the last academic year. The group then drafted an Antiracism Implementation Plan, with a timeline and metrics for measuring the college’s progress. During Block 1, President Jill Tiefenthaler invited input on…

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Issue: Winter 2019

When We Print the Bulletin, We Plant Trees

 Colorado-based PrintReleaf tracks paper use all the way from a mill order to a vendor’s supply chain to print production, giving users an accurate count of exactly how much paper they have used for a print project. The company then replants trees in developing countries proportionate to paper use. CC Communications joined the PrintReleaf program five years ago to help offset paper used in printing the college’s alumni magazine the Bulletin. So far, CC has helped a program in Brazil replant 2,982 trees through PrintReleaf’s partnership with WeForest, which equates to offsetting the production of 24,849,973 pages of paper. WeForest is working to reforest clear-cut areas of the Atlantic Forest…

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Issue: Winter 2019

What’s on Your Reading List, Neena Grover?

 We asked Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Neena Grover “What’s on Your Reading List?” “What does it mean to be human? Three books that I read recently provided ample perspectives on our perceived similarities and differences. Rebecca Skloot’s ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ highlights the role of ethics and race in medicine. What happens when we don’t value people of color? Carl Zimmer’s book ‘She Has Her Mother’s Laugh’ takes historical construction of race and heredity into the current era of genomics and designer babies. Whose genome are we examining? Who has access to medicine? With the voices of women often missing from the public discourse, Mary Beard’s ‘Women and Power’ examines the historical…

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Issue: Winter 2019

Student Perspective

 Students from Assistant Professor Scott Ingram’s Field Archaeology course, AN 320, work with Ingram and professional archaeologists near Crestone, Colorado, to survey and record any artifacts found in the area and document what may have been made by people living in the area. The class contributes to Ingram’s interest in teaching insights toward understanding contemporary problems, such as human vulnerability to climate change and social and ecological sustainability, by investigating long-term human and environmental interactions. All photos by Joshua Birndorf ’20

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Issue: Winter 2019

Susie B’s Challenge Aims to Propel Colorado Pledge Forward

 As part of Building on Originality: The Campaign for Colorado College, a $435 million fundraising initiative, $100 million is being raised for scholarships. The Colorado Pledge hinges on raising $20 million of that total scholarship figure. Susie Burghart ’77, chair of the Colorado College Board of Trustees, has initiated Susie B’s Challenge, a $2.5 million effort to help jump-start fundraising. Burghart announced in September that she would match gifts totaling $50,000 or more that were directed to the pledge. Gifts made through the challenge will create endowment funds for scholarships for lower- and middle-income Colorado students and will be used to support CC students in perpetuity. The Colorado Pledge, and Burghart’s…

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Issue: Winter 2019

Jackie Taylor

 “Education was always very, very important to me and my parents,” says Jackie Taylor, former counselor at Colorado College’s Student Health Center. She was at CC for 19 years, from 1988 to 2007, one of the first women of color to counsel Colorado College students at the center. Growing up in Union, South Carolina, her teacher mother and her businessman father taught her the importance of education from an early age. Schooling, though, was vastly different at that time. “It was a totally segregated schooling environment from elementary school through high school, and because of that the expectations and opportunities were different for us,” she says. “There weren’t many careers…

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Issue: Winter 2019

CCSGA President Shares Thoughts on New CC Initiatives and Traditions

 During Homecoming Weekend, Fifty Year Club Co-President Dan Cooper ’66 and Colorado College Student Government Association President Ethan Greenberg ’20 started a new tradition. Cooper presented Greenberg with a bottle of champagne to be saved for the Class of 2020’s champagne on the quad toast that will happen as the academic year wraps up this coming spring. Greenberg then addressed the newly inducted Fifty Year Club members, sharing with them his plans for senior year as well as how the CCSGA group now functions. “I think it’s important for students to recognize that we interact with alumni all the time at the college,” says Greenberg, who shared that many alumni…

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Issue: Winter 2019

On the Bookshelf

 The Pacific Alone By Dave Shively ’03 In the summer of 1987 Ed Gillet achieved what no person has accomplished before or since, a solo crossing from California to Hawaii by kayak. Gillet, at the age of 36 an accomplished sailor and paddler, navigated by sextant. Still, Gillet underestimated the abuse his body would take from the relentless, pounding swells of the Pacific. Along the way he endured a broken rudder, among other calamities, but at last reached Maui on his 63rd day at sea, four days after his food had run out. Longtime managing editor of Canoe & Kayak and now content director of Adventure Sports Network, Shively brings…

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