Barbara Brooks

Thursday was day one on the job and Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst “moved forward boldly and aggressively,” just as he said the university will do during his term. He began by delivering the closing remarks to the alumni and parent participants in the university’s first Summer on the Hill  program, which exemplified two of his […]

Professor Jane Pinchin called her “the benevolent godmother of James B. Colgate Hall, sitting at the center of the center of campus.” “Her fan club spans the world,” said Gary Ross ’77, dean of admission, who first fell for her charms when he was a student and she a new employee in the student activities […]

Slater Brothers Entertainment will again bring Hollywood to Hamilton with its second annual Hamilton Film Festival, Aug. 5-8. This year, local talent will be showcased in a special screening of short films made in central New York. The local short competition is open to anyone who is a resident or student in Madison, Herkimer, Chenango, […]

During their collective 14 years at Colgate, the four students who dedicated Colgate’s new “Relectronics” station have exhausted the utility of nine cell phones, more than a dozen chargers, and at least a handful of headsets. Now, thanks to a fall 2009 independent study project by Steffan Pierre ’10 and Megan Cronin ’10 — and […]

Augusten Burroughs, who chronicled his unusual childhood in his 2002 memoir Running with Scissors, delivered a candid keynote address at Colgate’s fifth annual Big Gay Weekend. His messages ranged from developing inner strength (“What you need is not more confidence, you need to subtract whatever it is that prevents confidence, and that is caring too […]

Her voice was characteristically scratchy and barely louder than a whisper. Yet, true to form, Louise Glück, the Pulitzer Prize-winning lyric poet, held students and faculty spellbound for 45 minutes Wednesday as she read nine poems from her latest collection, A Village Life. The former poet laureate of the United States made history at Colgate […]

During his first two years at Colgate, Naledi Semela ’10 lived in the Harlem Renaissance Center (HRC). Yet he didn’t fully connect the residence’s theme to its history and culture until he took the recent Harlem Renaissance Tour. “There were portraits and artworks on the walls,” said Samela, an art and art history major, “but […]

After a year of research and careful consideration, Colgate has put into place a new student sexual misconduct policy that more clearly defines prohibited behaviors and also emphasizes the responsibility of all parties to express their consent.

More than 800 Colgate alumni, family members, and friends gathered in New York City to roast and toast Andy Rooney ’42 P’74, GP’05, the legendary newsman who is one of Colgate’s most storied alumni. Judging from the huge crowd and the adoring e-mails and letters that poured in before the event, the celebration was long […]

When Courtney Walsh ’10 sat down to dinner at Circa restaurant in Cazenovia, there was a good chance that she had seen the vegetables on her plate before. The dinner, hosted by Chris Henke, professor of sociology and anthropology, was the culmination of the semester’s work in his core distinction class, simply called Food.