Members of the Colgate Model African Union team took full advantage of an opportunity to broaden their worldview at a recent conference in Washington, D.C. The team attended Howard University鈥檚 annual Model African Union conference and performed extremely well, distinguishing itself from more than 20 participating colleges.March 17, 2009-
Spring break means different things to different students, and there are opportunities galore for recharging personal batteries, taking advantage of internships, learning about leading and managing groups, or offering a helping hand. Some students are participating in university-organized alternative spring break trips when classes shut down for a week beginning March 13. Here is a [鈥March 12, 2009
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Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives, will deliver a lecture at 7:30 p.m. March 26 in Memorial Chapel. During his talk, 鈥淧resident Obama & the Future of the American Freedom,鈥 Gingrich will assess Obama鈥檚 policies and administration and discuss the future of the Republican Party. Gingrich鈥檚 lecture, sponsored by the university鈥檚 Center [鈥March 10, 2009
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Case Aiken III 鈥06, Adam Samtur 鈥06, and Matthew Kagen 鈥07 didn鈥檛 set out to start a theater company; they just wanted to produce a play from soup to nuts and see what happened. Now, under the production company Just ASK (Aiken, Samtur, Kagen), the trio is enjoying the success of their first show and [鈥March 9, 2009
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鈥淚t鈥檚 a bit like being in a washing machine,鈥 Paul Ridley 鈥05 said about sleeping on Liv, the 19-foot rowboat that he is sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to raise $500,000 for cancer research. Ridley talks about his expedition in the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, the podcast series that highlights members [鈥March 5, 2009
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The 30 female cast members of The Vagina Monologues won over audiences at the Palace Theater with moving performances that showed the beauty, hilarity, and hardships associated with being a woman. Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues after interviewing 200 women across the world about their sexuality. More than 10 years later, the racy and [鈥March 4, 2009
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In today鈥檚 world of instant messaging and e-mail, eloquent speech seems to be an endangered art form. At Colgate there is a group of students striving to keep that spoken tradition alive 鈥 the Debate Society. The team is a branch of the Colgate Speaking Union (CSU), which is coordinated by John Adams and also [鈥March 2, 2009
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When Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States and founder of the Favorite Poem Project, opened the floor to questions during Thursday鈥檚 lunchtime talk with students, he promised to treat each one with respect. And why wouldn鈥檛 he? At the heart of his belief, shared in his 1984 book Poetry and the World, [鈥February 27, 2009