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Nearly 5,000 people streamed into Hamilton, across Colgate’s campus, and into Sanford Fieldhouse to hear His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama speak about happiness — that illusive quality that all human beings want, yet find so hard to achieve. Before beginning, he removed his shoes and arranged himself slowly in a cross-legged position in the […]

Between classes, homework, extracurricular activities, and doing the many other tasks that keep college students busy on a daily basis, one thing is clear: Colgate students need their rest. The Wellness Initiative, a campuswide program that provides education and opportunities for personal health, sponsored a series of events last week to teach students about the […]

Yul Kwon, winner of CBS’s hit show Survivor: Cook Islands, came to Colgate last week as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. During a workshop organized by the student-run Asian Awareness Coalition about achieving professional and academic success after college, Kwon shared some useful pointers. “Develop social networks, pursue your passion, and ask employers […]

Former presidential candidate Walter Mondale said, “Modern politics today requires a mastery of television.” On April 8, while the rest of America was flipping channels in search of the latest 2008 presidential campaign news, a capacity crowd of more than 200 alumni and friends gathered at the Paley Center for Media in New York City to gain […]

The life of an acclaimed sports journalist is filled with many interesting opportunities and experiences, but it would be a mistake to think that these can be achieved without hard work and persistence. That message was emphasized by Peter King, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, who spoke Wednesday to a group of Colgate University […]

By day, Jamal Patterson ’97 works as a sales executive for an orthodontics company. By night, Patterson trades his business suit for boxing shorts as he trains for his next match as a mixed martial arts fighter. It’s a double life, of sorts, that caught the attention of The New York Times.

The U.S. health-care system must move from an emphasis on intervention to one of prevention and early diagnosis if it is to provide real value to American consumers. That is one of the topics Dr. Michael J. Wolk ’60 discusses in the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, a podcast series that highlights members of the […]

The remaining tickets for the much-anticipated lecture by the Dalai Lama at Colgate University were snatched up by the general public in just three hours Saturday. The free tickets were available via the Colgate Bookstore’s website starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

Last Friday I stepped into the Ho Lecture Room in Lawrence Hall to get a sense of what life was like many centuries ago on another continent. I came away with just that, and more. The Colgate Medieval Colloquium focused on literature from that time period, and the expression “medieval literature” flooded my mind with […]

“The sole purpose of the company is to give,” said musician PJ Johnson. What Johnson was talking about was TOMS Shoes, a nonprofit organization that donates a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair purchased. Last Friday, Johnson performed with two other musicians from Nashville, Tenn., Tim Schurrer and Adam Agin, […]