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Celebrating LGBTQ+ Identity and History: Pride Month and Beyond
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Each June, we commemorate LGBTQIA2S+ Pride Month, a time to honor the legacy of the Stonewall Uprising in 1969. This pivotal moment in New York City ignited the modern LGBTQIA2+ rights movement in the U.S.
Initially observed as “Gay Pride Day” on the last Sunday of June, the celebration quickly evolved into a month-long series of events. Today, Pride Month is a globally-recognized period marked by parades, symposia, educational workshops, community gatherings, and honoring those who lost their lives to violence and HIV/AIDS. It serves as a powerful platform for the LGBTQIA2+ community to celebrate their identities, achievements, and resilience.
Beyond the festivities, Pride Month fosters a deeper understanding of the profound impact LGBTQIA2+ individuals have had on society. Learn more about Pride Month by visiting the Library of Congress. Celebrate Pride Month with the Colorado Springs community at Pikes Peak Pride – a two-day event, June 8-9, with vendor booths, food trucks, beer garden, and high energy entertainment to include a fabulous parade on Sunday, which starts at 11 a.m. Both days will run from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. For more information, visit Pikes Peak Pride. Come celebrate and support our local LGTBQIA2S+ community!
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June is also Caribbean American Heritage Month and Immigrant Heritage Month
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In 2006, a presidential proclamation declared June Caribbean American Heritage Month. Since then, our county has marked this month by celebrating the rich and diverse culture of Caribbean American people and their contribution to the U.S. Throughout our history, Caribbean Americans have fought for equity and equality despite continued discrimination. However, in spite of hardships, the people of this vibrant culture have helped shape our society in all areas, including the admirable work of those such as our nation’s first Supreme Court Justice of Puerto Rican descent, Sonia Sotomayor, the son of Jamaican immigrants and the first Black Secretary of State, General Colin Powell, and our current Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black American of Jamaican heritage to hold this high office.
This month, we also celebrate Immigrant Heritage Month. Since June of 2014, this celebration has honored the idea that everyone has a piece in the larger American story, whether as a person native to this land, a descendant of enslaved people, or any one of the many who came here in search of a better life. Unless you are solely of Indigenous American decent, one or more of your ancestors was an immigrant. Take some time this month to explore your own immigrant heritage. Learn more by visiting I Stand With Immigrants.
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Sean McGonigle ’24 Wins JET Award
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By Miriam Roth
Sean McGonigle ’24 has been awarded a place with the JET Program as an assistant language teacher. Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) assistant language teachers (ALT) are placed in various schools throughout Japan, assisting teachers in English classrooms. The ALTs create lessons, help out with extracurriculars, and engage in local events.
After being nominated by Hiromi Onishi and the entire CC Japanese Program, McGonigle, a Philosophy major with an Asian Studies and Japanese Language minor, says, “I am very excited to have the chance to pursue both education and the progression of my Japanese linguistic abilities though the JET program! The amazing teachers of the CC Japanese Program have helped me grow both linguistically and culturally throughout my time, and I will always be grateful for their support.”
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On Campus Happenings
There are several summer conferences and festivals on campus this summer. Here are three beginning in early June:
- The Chamber & EDC – Hello Colorado Springs interns will be on campus from June 1-August 3. Hello Colorado Springs is a wraparound program to encourage young professionals to fall in love with both their company and the Pikes Peak region. The Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC has partnered with CC to provide the cohort with safe, affordable housing in downtown Colorado Springs. These interns will be living on campus while going to jobs during the day.
- It is the 40th anniversary of the Summer Music Festival! Festival participants will be on campus June 1- 22. The mission of CC’s Summer Music Festival is to provide the highest caliber, inclusive educational experience for pre-professional musicians, connecting them with preeminent performance faculty as they prepare to launch rewarding careers, while simultaneously providing vibrant and diverse concerts celebrating legacy contemporary, and underrepresented classical music, thereby enriching the community of the Pikes Peak region.
- Please also welcome College Bound, who will be on campus from June 4 – 6. 35 people will be staying in South Hall and utilizing Barnes and Gaylord. Upward Bound Math and Science is a college access/college prep program for Pueblo High School students. Every summer as part of their programming, we host a multi-day program for their incoming seniors called College Bound. During the day, they work with students on different items related to college access, including personal essays, resume, college research and application, information on paying for college, etc.
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CC at Model UN, Part 1: The Mornings We Remember
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Zoey Rousche ’24, Arez Khadijah ’25, and Britt Nadir ’25 settle in for an early morning MUN training session. Photo provided by Zeke Lloyd ’24.
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Students listen to Sarah Hinkle teach public speaking tactics. Photo provided by Zeke Lloyd ’24.
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Over Spring Break, a group of eight CC students attended the Model United Nations Conference in Washington D.C. Zeke Lloyd ’24, traveled with the team and served as the reporter for their experience. Follow the team’s story as they trained, traveled, and competed amongst the best of the best.
Beatrice Roussell ’24 wakes up early and brews coffee in her Keurig before bundling up with a ski coat and winter hat. She walks from her house off Wahsatch to campus. In the cold of early March, the morning sun’s rays dance off the grass of Tava Quad, casting Pikes Peak in bright gold. These early morning walks are quiet, footsteps the only sound throughout the silent, still campus.
Seven other students join her in Worner. Nestling themselves into a conference room tucked-away on the second floor, they brush sleep from their eyes and sip warm drinks. It’s slow in the morning, but they are up, attentive, and eager. This meeting marks the first of six early-morning training sessions prior to the Model United Nations conference in Washington DC.
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CC Places 2nd in SCAC Presidents’ Trophy Race; Best Ever All-Sports Finish
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CC won three league championships to secure second place in the 2023-24 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Presidents’ Trophy race. It’s CC’s best finish for a full season since joining the SCAC in 2007.
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Students dressed as nuns performed on April 13 in Packard Hall for Opera Scenes, with an overarching theme of the “Nuns of Opera” singing from their side of the story. Photo by Jamie Cotten
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