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Issue: Spring 2018

What’s on Your Reading List, Santiago Guerra?

 I am currently reading “Blood Oranges,” in which Timothy Bowman presents a history of agricultural development in South Texas. Bowman offers a compelling argument for how commercial agriculture shaped South Texas after its incorporation into the United States, in particular how it structured relationships across race and class. He argues that the Mexican descendant communities of the South Texas border suffered discrimination, exploitation, and violence through this system of domination based on U.S. agricultural expansion into the Southwest. Bowman’s work offers the reader insight into the important role of Mexican labor in shaping and developing the U.S. Southwest. Moreover, it forces the reader to reckon with the history of the…

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Issue: Spring 2018

Class Notes

 1967 To mark their 50th reunion, members of the Class of ’67 added a swamp white oak to the Colorado College Arboretum, thus amplifying CC’s Tree Campus USA designation. Members pictured below from left to right: Rory Donaldson ’66, with wife Louisa, Jennifer Callaway, an unidentified individual, Lise Hazen, Keith Cunningham, Tom Zetterstrom, Thor Thorson, John Chalik, Gary Knight, and Loren Markley. Also at the Class of ’67 reunion, Emeritus Professor of History Bill Hochman was joined by Tom Wolf and Gary Knight at a dinner. 1968 The National Press Photographers Association recently gave its highest honor, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, to David Burnett. The award recognizes those…

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Issue: Spring 2018

Turning Pages

 I submitted my senior thesis just before 9 a.m. on the first day of Block 7 last year, incredibly ready to be in a class again instead of dangerously managing my own time in a thesis block. Two blocks from graduating, I wasn’t expecting one of my last CC classes, AS 226: Book and Book…

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Issue: Spring 2018

Meet the Newest Faces of Innovation

 Faces of Innovation honors CC alumni, students, and faculty who embody the innovative and adventurous spirit of Colorado College with creativity and collaborative ideas. True liberal-arts thinkers, they make connections across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. They are addressing some of the world’s most challenging problems, delighting with artful approaches, and always surprising us Discover More Online Watch video interviews of these Faces of Innovation honorees. Habiba Vaghoo The creative process inherent in the sciences like chemistry may not be immediately apparent. Colorado College Professor of Chemistry Habiba Vaghoo uses her interest in cooking and food to reveal that creativity to students in her chemistry classes, demonstrating…

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Issue: Spring 2018

Homecoming Weekend 2018

 Oct. 11-14 Class Reunions: 1968 (50th Reunion) 1973 (45th Reunion) 1978 (40th Reunion) 1983 (35th Reunion) 1988 (30th Reunion) 1993 (25th Reunion) 1998 (20th Reunion) 2003 (15th Reunion) 2008 (10th Reunion) 2013 (5th Reunion) 2014-2018 (Young Alumni Reunion) SPECIAL CELEBRATION: Professor John Riker, 50 Years at CC Football Reunion 20th Anniversary of the Feminist &…

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Issue: Spring 2018

On the Bookshelf

 Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege By Jean Halley ’89 and Amy Eshleman “Seeing Straight” introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. The book asks students to examine the privilege inherent in approaching heterosexual and cisgender (a person whose gender identity corresponds with that person’s biological sex assigned at birth) identities as “normal,” as well as the problems of treating queer gender and sexuality as “abnormal.” The book addresses topics such as hate, violence, and privilege, and considers institutionalized heteronormativity through the military, law, religion, and more. Halley is professor of sociology at the College of Staten Island…

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Issue: Spring 2018

Olympic Dreams
: Past, Present, and Future

 Located just a mile from the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters, Colorado College has numerous connections to the USOC and Olympic Games. CC alumni have represented our country in competitions, worked for the USOC as employees or interns, and cheered athletes on at events throughout the world. Standing out in South Korea More than a dozen…

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