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Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!: Gesture, Choreography, and Protest in Ferguson, a point of view piece by Anusha Kedhar

By now, you know this phrase well. It has become the rallying cry of those protesting the killing of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Mo., earlier this year. Like other memorable activist slogans — “Hell no! We won’t go!” and “No justice? No peace!”— it captures the essence of collective anger in response to…

Issue: December 2014 • Tags: ,

“We Will Remember Them” Colorado College’s Wartime History

WWI bayonet drill 1919

Studying war has been a personal and professional passion of mine for many years. As a CC student, my independent minor focused on the war poetry emerging from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. At Dartmouth College for my Master’s, I published a paper on my grandfather’s experiences in World War II, and my thesis…

Issue: December 2014 • Tags: ,

Meet the Class of 2018

The incoming CC class is smart, diverse, adventurous, and fun.

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Fostering a New Generation of Innovative Leaders

Nonprofit organization seeks hard-working, dedicated, intelligent, and motivated employee. College student/recent grad seeks meaningful work experience with public interest nonprofit organization. Public Interest Fellowship Program: Bring the two together to increase the capacity of nonprofit organizations, provide CC graduates with relevant job experience, and foster a new generation of nonprofit leaders. CC’s innovative Public Interest…

Issue: August 2014 • Tags:

CC Recognized as ‘Changemaker Campus’

Colorado College has been designated a Changemaker Campus by Ashoka U, and selected to join a global consortium of leaders in social innovation. The group seeks innovative, transformative, and sustainable solutions to social problems. The 26 members of the consortium, which includes only three liberal arts colleges, are committed to advancing social innovation initiatives on…

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Bright Ideas

The date was April 1, but there wasn’t a fool to be found in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center as The Big Idea pitch competition winners for 2014 were announced. What’s The Big Idea? On paper, it’s a program designed to give students a launching pad for creating startups and pursuing funding for…

Issue: August 2014 • Tags:

Conversation Pieces

It’s right there in the name: InterDisciplinary Experimental Arts. IDEA Space is an art gallery, sure, but it bursts out of that box to deliver enlightenment and inspiration wrapped in texture, color, shape, and line. Jessica Hunter-Larsen ’90 has been the curator since 2006, when she was handed a tabula rasa for the resource in…

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A Resource for the Rockies

In its 12th year, the State of the Rockies Project continues to be a critical resource for keeping the public informed about the conservation issues that matter most in the Rocky Mountain West. Each summer, the program hires several student interns who compile research for the annual State of the Rockies Report Card. Three of…

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Three ‘Generations’ of CC Biologists Co-Publish

Biologists from three eras at Colorado College collaborated on research in the Colorado mountains that has appeared in one of the premier botanical journals in the world.

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A Corps of Botanical Discovery

CC’s Carter Herbarium and the botanists who put the Pikes Peak region on the map

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