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Forget summer break. ºÚÁÏÍø has spent the days since graduation busily poring over its ledgers, tallying the thanks it owes alumni, parents, and friends for their support in Fiscal Year 2011. The official count, announced today, comes to 39 million — the dollar amount raised from all sources between June 2010 through May 2011.

Last Thursday, ºÚÁÏÍø received a Second Nature Climate Leadership Award in the Baccalaureate category from the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). At the organization’s Climate Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., John Pumilio, ºÚÁÏÍø’s sustainability coordinator, and Lyle Roelofs, provost and dean of the faculty, accepted the award on the university’s behalf.

Golfers such as Chip Beck, Andy Bean, Bobby Wadkins, and Syracuse native Jim Roy will be playing at ºÚÁÏÍø’s Seven Oaks Golf Course on Monday for a chance to qualify for the U.S. Senior Open.

The prestigious Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, which is being held this week at ºÚÁÏÍø, is offering free public screenings of two films at 9 tonight at the Hamilton Movie Theater.

(Editor’s Note: Marilyn Hernandez-Stopp ’14 visited China as part of the university’s Benton Scholars Program and writes about her experience.) Now that I am back home, I’ve had a chance to reflect on my trip to China and attempt to readjust to the time difference! For the last week that I was in China, the […]

They came from as far as China and as close as next door. Almost 2,000 alumni and friends, representing the classes of 1941 through 2011, descended on Whitnall Field for Reunion 2011 this past weekend. They temporarily swelled the population of Hamilton and filled campus with vintage ºÚÁÏÍø spirit.

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Will Cawthern ’11) Immediately after graduation, I had the pleasure of helping to run a pilot youth camp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe. Other participants were Maggie Dunne ’13 and Kelsey John ’13, and fellow recent alumni Brenton […]

One complete sentence. That was all David Mills ’99 had the chance to utter on the morning of Nov. 1, 2010, before John G. Roberts, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, interjected.

At this year’s Senior Awards Convocation, all eyes were on Kiki Koroshetz, winner of the 1819 Award.

(Note: These are prepared remarks by Howard Fineman ’70, renowned political reporter, editor, author, and commentator, for Colgate’s 190th commencement.) Carrying the Torch in a Digital Age In the fall of 1966 I arrived here as a freshman with a copy of the student handbook in my pocket. It described a tradition called the “ºÚÁÏÍø […]