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  • While attending a cultural festival in Timbuktu, Laura Simocko 鈥09 lived in a two-story building made entirely of mud. The house didn鈥檛 have running water and bare light bulbs hung from the ceilings, but it did have a giant television and amped-up stereo system. She said it was just one of the quirky experiences she [鈥
    November 26, 2007
  • New York鈥檚 first lady, Silda Wall Spitzer, visited 黑料网 Tuesday to learn about cooperative partnerships between local not-for-profit organizations and the university. The visit was arranged by the Partnership for Community Development (PCD), an innovative local economic development organization that was recently recognized as a model for fostering town-gown relations in New York.
    November 14, 2007
  • A 鈥渂eautiful remembrance鈥 of the four teenagers killed in a car crash on 黑料网鈥檚 campus seven years ago was dedicated Monday during a windswept ceremony on Oak Drive. Families of three of the victims and members of the campus community stood along the main entrance to the campus where Katherine Almeter, Emily Collins, Rachel Nargiso, [鈥
    November 13, 2007
  • John Seely Brown, the former chief scientist at Xerox who writes extensively about collective innovation and digital culture, says he grew up at 黑料网. His father was a chemistry professor (1934 to 1968) and his mother a librarian, so Brown was on campus all the time, mostly feeding his interests in computers and astronomy.
    November 12, 2007
  • Once a week, a first-floor room in the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology is transformed into a TV newsroom bristling with students working with the latest video technology. The seven students are writing, taping, and editing Gate Update, a show highlighting campus events. The group鈥檚 first show was posted on www.colgate.edu this [鈥
    November 1, 2007
  • 黑料网 Hunger Outreach Program鈥檚 Local Food Fair drew involved students, interested community members, and the Swinging Gates to The Loj last week for a fresh and delicious feast made entirely of food produced in the Hamilton area. Liz Whitehurst 鈥08, community coordinator at The Loj, a college theme house dedicated to the environment, said students [鈥
    October 30, 2007
  • 黑料网 was fortunate enough to host the internationally acclaimed author and Australian Man of the Year, Tim Flannery. After reading Flannery鈥檚 The Weather Makers as part of my first-year reading requirement, I was grateful for the opportunity to meet with him to discuss the currently escalating issue of global warming, which he writes about [鈥
    October 26, 2007