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Issue: Spring 2017

What Time Is It, Really?: CC and AFA Students Conduct Research that Demonstrates Relativity

If life seems to speed by on the Colorado College Block Plan, be thankful campus isn’t atop Pikes Peak, where time moves even faster. Or better yet, consider a Block Break at sea level since time moves more slowly the lower in elevation you go. It’s this well-documented gravitational time dilation effect that has a…

On the Bookshelf

“In Praise of Contempt” Essay by Katherine Standefer ’07 Standefer’s essay is featured in “The Best American Essays 2016,” edited by Jonathan Franzen and Robert Atwan. The essay originally appeared in The Iowa Review as the winner of the 2015 Iowa Review Award for Nonfiction, with a judge in that contest noting the essay takes a “no-nonsense approach to sexual morality.” In the anthology’s introduction, guest editor Franzen writes that an essay is “something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on the basis of the author’s personal experience and subjectivity.” However, his main criterion for selecting “The Best American Essays 2016” was, in a word, risk. Published by Mariner…

Issue: Spring 2017

Block Breaks Away

Photos by participants Russell Belinsky, Lia Howe, Bob Howe, and J.D. Sandfort Juan Lindau, professor of political science, was faculty study leader on a Block Break Away to Cuba for 53 alumni, parents, and friends who spent time in Havana and sailed from port to port via small ship chartered exclusively for the group in…

Issue: Spring 2017

Pressing Forward

After Election Day 2016, The Press at CC became a place where students, faculty, and staff could come together in community and create posters that expressed their emotions.

Issue: Spring 2017

A Committed Life

Theatre Professor Idris Goodwin says he’s searching for a holistic existence. His world at the moment involves juggling teaching, writing and directing plays, publishing a book of poetry, and recording a spoken-word album.

Issue: Spring 2017

Opening More Doors to a CC Education

Socioeconomic Diversity, Scholarships, and Financial Aid On Jan. 28, The New York Times published a story positing that a higher percentage of students at elite colleges are from the top one percent of the income scale than experts realized. The story was based on a study that used anonymous tax filings and tuition records from college graduates. Colorado College was named in the story as one of 38 colleges that had more students from the top one percent than from the bottom 60 percent of the income scale. Colorado College is working to expand access to a CC education, and has been actively seeking to increase the financial capabilities to…

Issue: Spring 2017

Visiting Scholars Bring Depth & Dialogue to Campus

Every year, dozens of distinguished scholars and experts visit campus to lecture, give performances, and engage with students.

Issue: Spring 2017

Milestones

Weddings and Celebrations Kitren Fischer ’03 and Justin Cox, Oct. 8, at Selby Fleetwood Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Amanda Nichols ’09 and Zak Podmore ’11, Oct. 1, in Bluff, Utah. Madeline Furst ’10 and Alex Weiss ’09, June 18, in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Jillian Keahey ’10 and Tony Weskamp, June 25, in Washington state. Lacey Wirt Gannon ’11 and Jake Gannon ’09, Sept. 3, in Fort Collins, Colorado. Births and Adoptions Neal Richards ’06 and Emery Gullickson Richards, a boy, John Waldo, on Nov. 20 in Houston. Obituaries 1939 Bernice Vessey Brenner, Sept. 27, at age 99. After a year at Hastings College in Nebraska, Bernice earned her…

Issue: Spring 2017

Class Notes

1962 Four former roommates spent four days in August sightseeing and reminiscing on Lopez Island, northwest of Seattle. Pictured left to right: Janet Fry Rogers (Annapolis, Maryland), Sue Hoyt Aiken (Paso Robles, California), Barbara Lambie Mino (Lopez Island), and Sue Dare Schuchter (Loveland, Colorado). 1966 In what they considered “a Panhellenic gathering at Lake Tahoe,” four friends — all former Ticknor Hall freshmen who joined sororities — reunited for the 2016 Reno Balloon Races and a trip to Emerald Bay. Pictured from left to right: Linda Lennartz Beaven (Delta Gamma); event host Cathy Jones Priest (Kappa Kappa Gamma); Linda Bjelland (Gamma Phi Beta); and Kathy Morris Olney (Kappa Kappa Gamma). Kari Schoonhoven…

Issue: Spring 2017

Seven Faculty Members Granted Tenure, Promotions

Seven faculty members were approved by the Board of Trustees for tenure and promotion to associate professor. President Jill Tiefenthaler and Sandra Wong, dean of the college and dean of the faculty, visited each promoted faculty member, delivering the official news along with some bubbly. Those granted tenure and promoted to associate professor, effective July…