Elizabeth Stein

An emotional service was held Monday night in Memorial Chapel in memory of Kevin Williams ’10, who died Oct. 4 after a yearlong battle with an inoperable brain tumor. The service, filled with moving songs and stories and pictures of the 22-year-old, was open to everyone who had been touched by Kevin’s short life. Kevin’s […]

With a colorful PowerPoint presentation and a booming voice, Duke University sociology professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva shared his thoughts last Thursday about the concept of grammar as it organizes society’s perceptions of race in contemporary America. Bonilla-Silva’s speech in Love Auditorium was titled “The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in America,” […]

Students in a Photo History Seminar course got a taste of stardom by producing their own exhibition of work by rock ‘n’ roll photographer Barrie Wentzell that is now on display at the Picker Art Gallery. The exhibition, No Sex, No Drugs, Just Rock ‘n’ Roll, is on view through Dec. 17.

Laughing and exchanging contact information, students left the ALANA Cultural Center on a recent Friday afternoon chatting about continuing their conversations, which centered around student empowerment, advocacy, retention, and their personal experiences. These students weren’t only from Colgate, but came from several upstate New York liberal arts institutions to gather at the first Student Diversity […]

The oppressive summer heat envelops Glenn Volk ’09 as he squats on the crude concrete floor at a clinic in the Punjab region of Pakistan. Beside him, a mother cradles her lifeless-looking baby, who seems to have barely any strength left to make it through the night, in her arms. Volk quickly diagnoses the child […]