Seniors: Shine in the Spotlight

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Seniors! Submit info for the Senior Spotlights and be featured on CC’s social media. Open to all seniors in the class of 2024.

A Strong Finish for Talking Tigers!

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Mock Trial

The A team from the CC Mock Trial team travelled to the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) tournament, hosted in Geneva, IL from March 8–10. ORCS is the national semi-final level of mock trial competition. Of the 700+ college mock trial teams who began the season, just 196 qualified to compete at ORCS. There are eight ORCS tournaments around the country, each with 24 teams competing. The top 6 teams from each ORCS tournament earn a bid to compete at the National Championship Tournament.

The CC team ended with a record of 4-4, winning at least one of two ballots in all but one round. For the second year in a row, CC drew a very challenging slate of opponents at ORCS – our “strength of schedule” metric was among the top 5 most challenging out of all 196 teams competing at ORCS tournaments. CC placed in the top half of teams at the tournament, but unfortunately fell just short of earning a bid to the National Championship.

The coaches are incredibly proud of the students’ performances this year and are looking forward to another successful season in 2024-2025!

Speech and Debate

Zara Zafar ’27 and Sophia Murphy ’27 advanced to Semi-Finals at the Vanderbilt University British Parliamentary Debate tournament at the end of Block 6. This was the second weekend in a row that the team demonstrated superior performance. Previously they made it to the Finals round at a virtual competition. Both tournaments featured over 70 debate teams from across the country.

A Monumental Adventure: El Cap and Back in a Block Break

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Wiley Holbrooke ’25 and Savian Czerny ’25 climb El Cap in Yosemite Valley during first Block Break in the fall of 2023. Photo provided by Holbrooke.

By Megan Clancy ’07

Block Breaks have always been a time to rest, play, and possibly embark on a small adventure. During the first Block Break in the fall of 2023, two CC juniors, Savian Czerny and Wiley Holbrooke, decided to take this third option to the extreme.

“It began with a wild idea freshman year,” says Holbrooke. “I told a friend, ‘I think I want to try and climb El Cap in a Block Break.’ And he told me, ‘there’s only one person on this campus who can do that with you.’” Czerny was soon introduced to Holbrooke and planning began.

The idea was based on Nose in a Day (NIAD), the goal of reaching the nose of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley in one day. Many consider it one of the best rock-climbs in the world and the goal has become an increasingly popular challenge. But could Czerny and Holbrooke get from campus, do the climb, and make it back all in one Block Break?

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Please Take Note

On Thursday, April 18, CC will welcome over 500 5th grade students from the Pikes Peak Region coming from private and public schools competing in the Battle of the Books competition.

Democratic Dialogue Takes Tigers to Washington

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CC students and USAFA cadets at the National Defense University.

By Maggie Mixer ’24, DDP Co-Chair

The Democratic Dialogue Project (DDP) is a joint student organization of CC students and United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) cadets that works to build bridges across the civilian-military divide. The club hosts discussion sessions, speaker events and more to encourage students and cadets to debate political issues and build social connections. The goal of the organization is to improve communication and conversation among young leaders about issues central to our democracy.

This year, the DDP launched a new part of our project, with a student-led trip to Washington D.C. Along with the USAFA cadets, we met with State Department officials, Congressional staffers, and others to learn about what civil-military relations look like on the ground in our nation’s capital. The idea of the trip was to meet with professionals from a wide array of departments, agencies, and branches of government to hear different perspectives on civil-military communication and to learn how the Department of Defense interfaces with the rest of the government.

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FAC Corner

Class-curated Exhibition Opening Fri (Pop-up Concert) and Sat (Tours & Demos)

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How do museums display music? Using the FAC as a learning lab, Dr. Lidia Chang’s MU 228 Music and the Museum course tackles this question with an exhibition exploring the history of the Collegium Musicum at CC through a collection of historical instruments amassed by the Music Department.

Pop-up Collegium Concert today, Friday, April 12, 5 p.m. at the FAC.

Celebrate the exhibition opening with a pop-up performance by Collegium Musicum. CC’s ‘Early-Music’ ensemble, the Collegium will perform music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods on instruments included in the exhibition.

Curator Tours and Demos tomorrow, Saturday, April 13 at the FAC

Join the student curators for presentations, tours, and demonstrations throughout the day during the museum’s free day.

Photo of the Week

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Artist Sofia Crade, who created “Rockey,” a 24-foot sculpture and puppet that took a month and a half to create, and carpenter Dan Crossey. Photo by Jamie Cotten

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