Homecoming weekend kicked off yesterday with a tour of Robson Arena and a panel and Q&A with CC Soccer legends. The festivities continue all weekend with open houses, Micro-Block presentations, Rugby and Hockey games, performances, and more.

Tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 2, from 8-11 p.m. at Robson Arena, we commemorate CC’s remarkable 150-year journey and recognize the generations of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members who have contributed to the College’s enduring legacy of excellence with the not-to-be-missed 150th Extravaganza! Featuring a live band, DJ, casino games, dancing, and an after-party drone show, this event is the perfect chance to mix with other Tigers and kick-off the next 150 years of CC. Registration will be available on-site.

Join us on Monday, Nov. 4, from 3–4:30 p.m. in Gaylord Hall for an insightful presentation by Dr. Nguyen Nguyen ’11. Dr. Nguyen will discuss the challenges facing women’s healthcare providers in navigating abortion law regulations while striving to provide comprehensive reproductive care to their patients.

With the 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs decision, elective terminations became illegal in Texas. Meanwhile, Texas has 10% of all the reproductive age women in the US. Over these past two years, Texas abortion clinics have closed, and certain towns have even tried to ban out-of-state travel to obtain a termination. Many women have come forward to share harrowing stories about delayed or denied medical care because of confusion over Texas abortion-related laws. Before Dobbs, there were 4,000 voluntary terminations in the state every month; there are now five or fewer. How are obstetricians and gynecologists on the ground handling this situation? Come hear an expert speak about the state of abortion-related care in Texas.

Dr. Nguyen is an OB/GYN healthcare provider in San Antonio, Texas. She grew up in Denver and earned her medical degree at Pacific Northwest University

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While college initiates a major transition in all students’ lives, low-income and first-generation students attending elite schools often enter entirely new worlds. Surrounded by peers from different classes and cultural backgrounds, these students face an impossible choice: turn away from their former lives to blend in or stay true to themselves and remain on the outside.

Join us on Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. in Celeste Theatre as sociologist Melissa Osborne reveals how support designed to propel first-generation students forward can unexpectedly reshape their identities, often putting them at odds with peers and families. Without institutional support, this emotional journey can lead to alienation, mental health challenges, poor academic outcomes, and difficult choices between upward mobility or maintaining authenticity and community.

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Get ready for an extra hour of sleep (or an extra hour of productivity, your choice). Be sure to set your clocks back one hour before going to bed on Saturday, Nov. 2.

Join us on Thursday, Nov. 7 from 12:30-2 p.m. in Gates Common Room as a collection of Colorado Front Range scholars with diverse areas of expertise within US elections and politics gathers to analyze and decode the results of the 2024 election cycle.

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This event is sponsored by CC’s Department of Political Science and is the final event in the 2024 Sondermann Presidential Symposium: Democracy in This Moment. Thank you to the Fred A. Sondermann Memorial Fund, Marianne Lannon Lopat Memorial Lecture Fund, and McHugh Fund for their generous support of this event. For more information, visit our webpage.

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The Robert D. McJimsey Memorial Seminar is a two-talk series beginning at Grace and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church and continuing the following day at CC. This year’s speaker for the McJimsey Seminar is Heath W. Carter, Associate Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. Carter is a historian working at the intersection of Christianity and American public life. He brings to contemporary discourse a powerful invitation to view the present through knowledge of the past.

Join us Thursday, Nov. 7 at 4 p.m. at Grace and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church (601 N. Tejon Street) for Carter’s lecture, “Blest Be the Tie that Binds? Faithful Witness on the Other Side of Election Day.” Then be sure to come to the Timothy Fuller Event Space in Tutt Library on Friday, Nov. 8 at 12:30 p.m. for his lecture, “Social Christians and the Fight to End American Inequality.”

The lecture at Grace and St. Stephen’s will be followed by a reception and informal conversation in the Parish Hall.

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Paloma is a prairie dog pup in a prairie dog town. She’s not a huge fan of prairie living, though. So, when her cousin from the city comes to visit, Paloma jumps at the chance to leave the open plain behind. Featuring lots of singing, dancing, and audience participation, The City Dog and the Prairie Dog (El perro de la ciudad y el perro de la pradera) is a bilingual children’s musical about exploring the world, learning new things, and maybe, just maybe, coming home again. The show runs from Nov. 2–24 at the FAC. Tickets start at $18, and CC students get free tickets the day of the performance!

Dr. Abbas Rattani, founder, filmmaker, and producer for M!PSTERZ – a non-traditional arts and culture collective for emerging Muslim creatives – emceed the kickoff for the M!PSTERZ Spotlight Series at the FAC on Oct. 25. Photo by Jamie Cotten