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Issue: Winter 2016

Live Green Roof Takes Root on Honnen Ice Arena

CC students and Facilities Services installed a 2,650-square-foot live green roof on the Honnen Ice Arena in August to help with sustainability efforts, transforming the formerly barren roof into a lush carpet of 12,800 succulent sedums. Honnen is the least efficient building on campus, which makes it an ideal place to study the roof’s effectiveness for application elsewhere on campus. Studies show green roofs reduce stormwater runoff by 65 to 90 percent in the summer and 25 to 40 percent in winter. The drought-tolerant sedums provide a low-maintenance green space that helps reduce heating and cooling costs, extends roof life by as much as 40-50 years, lowers interior sound levels…

Issue: Winter 2016

Love and Good Vibrations

Mike Love P’10, seated, Beach Boys singer and music icon, signs posters for fans following a discussion of his memoir, “Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy,” in September as part of CC’s Visiting Writers Series. The book tells the story of his five-decade tenure in the legendary band. Photo by Vivian Nguyen ’20.

Issue: Winter 2016

Sondermann Presidential Symposium Brings Speakers to Campus

Fred Sondermann taught in CC’s Department of Political Science from 1953 until his death in 1978. He conceived the idea for a presidential symposium and directed the first one in 1968. The symposium’s success was such that the department decided to offer the presidential symposium in subsequent presidential election years, and Sondermann continued to direct them through 1976. The 2016 Sondermann Presidential Symposium, organized by Assistant Political Science Professors Elizabeth Coggins and Dana Wittmer Wolfe, is the 13th in a series that has become a signature college program. This year’s speakers included: Donna Brazile, veteran Democratic political strategist, television political commentator, syndicated columnist, and interim director of the DNC, on…

Issue: Winter 2016

Post-Election Updates

Rosa Clemente delivers a lecture titled “The Day After: Civic Responsibility and Social Justice Beyond the Ballot” in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center on Nov. 9. CC students lead a march from campus to downtown Colorado Springs the day after the election. Several students carried signs addressing the divisiveness that surfaced during and after the presidential election. President Jill Tiefenthaler chats with students following a “Loving Sendoff” on Worner Quad before Fall Break. During the event, organized by the CC Student Government Association, Tiefenthaler and students spoke of the need for dialogue, respect, and inclusion.

Issue: Winter 2016

The Music of ‘America’s Piano Man’

Joshua Duchan, left, a Billy Joel scholar at Wayne State University, and CC Assistant Professor of Music Ryan Bañagale ’00, conduct a live phone interview with musician and songwriter Billy Joel. They co-chaired “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me: The Music and Lyrics of Billy Joel,” a two-day conference held at CC in early October that was widely covered in the media, including The New York Times. Photo by Vivian Nguyen ’20.

Issue: Winter 2016

Professor Tim Fuller Honored with ‘Festschrift’

Political Science Professor Tim Fuller was honored with a festschrift, or published tribute, compiled by colleagues and former students who have gone on to academic careers. The book, “Philosophy, Politics and the Conversation of Mankind: Essays in Honor of Tim Fuller,” captures much of the range of Fuller’s interests in ancient and modern political theory, imaginative literature, philosophy and theology, and politics. The opening essay by Paul Franco ’78 charts the main contours of Fuller’s intellectual interests. Members of the Board of Trustees received copies of the festschrift at a dinner in which Fuller discussed the importance of the liberal arts and shared recollections from his long career.

Issue: Winter 2016

Homecoming Weekend 2016

Photos by  Vivian Nguyen ’20 and Bryan Oller

Issue: Winter 2016

Family and Friends Weekend 2016

Photos by Bryan Oller

Issue: Winter 2016

Block Breaks Away 2017

Feb. 3-12 Cuba with Professor Juan Lindau Mar. 6-12 Hiking Death Valley National Park with Peter McCarville ’84 May 5-7 Young Alumni Block Break Away: Southeast Utah with David Taft ’08 May 7-13 Hiking Bryce and Zion National Parks with Peter McCarville ’84 May 26-June 3 Discovery and Adventure in the Andes of Peru with Gary Ziegler ’64 Sept. 26-Oct. 8 Burma/Myanmar with Professor John Williams For more information, see www.coloradocollege.edu/us/alumni/events