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Kelly Joe Phelps will bring his acoustic country blues to the Barge Canal Coffee Company on Lebanon Street on Friday, April 16 at 8:00 p.m. Though Phelps has lived all his life in the state of Washington, he plays country blues as if he were born and bred on the Mississippi Delta. With a husky […]

Boston magazine’s ‘Best of Boston’ singer/songwriter Kevin Connolly will give a concert at the Barge Canal Coffee Company on Lebanon Street on Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. Connolly’s music ‘cuts a fairly wide swath through pop music culture, touching on everything from blues to folk to country to rock ‘ and often a combination […]

HAMILTON – Everyone acts unethically now and then, but few people consider themselves to be lacking in moral integrity. How is this possible’ What are people telling themselves just before committing an undesirable act that enables them to freely behave in a way that contradicts their ethical values and yet not feel guilty nor morally […]

Hamilton – This spring, nine groups of Colgate students will embark on off-campus study programs for the semester. Thirteen students on the Dijon Study Group in France, led by French professor H

Hamilton – Stress made Harvard University undergraduate students relatively oblivious to the long-term consequences of their actions, revealed a study conducted by a researcher there. Both stress and short-term/long-term tradeoffs in decision making are pervasive and important in business, politics, and everyday life. For example, managing budgets and social relationships, maintaining health, and raising children […]

Hamilton – Poet C.K. Williams will give a reading of his work on Thursday, January 28 as part of the Colgate University Poetry Reading Series. The reading will take place in the Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall) at 4:30 p.m. Williams, who lives in Paris, France, is author of numerous books of poems including […]

Hamilton – On Monday, February 1, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, as part of a coast-to-coast tour under the direction of Christoph Poppen, will appear on the Colgate University stage, opening the Spring Concert Series. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Colgate Memorial Chapel. In a review of an October 1997 concert at […]

Hamilton – This fall, a first-year seminar at Colgate University gave students an opportunity to explore an old house in Hamilton and help out its owner with useful tips on reducing the cost of running it. The seminar, called ‘Global Sustainability,’ focused on energy issues. ‘I wanted to include a hands-on component,’ said Beth Parks, […]

Colgate University senior Antonio Delgado of Schenectady, NY, is one of 32 students selected nationwide as Rhodes Scholars for 1999. Befitting the oldest and arguably the most prestigious international fellowship, Rhodes Scholars are selected through an exacting process of applications and interviews by which judges determine applicants’: literary and scholastic attainments; fondness for and success in […]