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Enlarge Picture >> Colgate is the only university in America that requires its students to pass a swim test before they can graduate.  With three weeks left in the semester, I still have yet to take mine.  Distribution requirements done, majors completed, thesis about to be handed in, and the only thing holding me back […]

The Raiders compete for the league championship from Saturday-Sunday at Lehigh.

As of Monday, April 21 ‘ Freshman pitcher Kate Howard (Wheaton, Ill.) has broken the Colgate record for most wins by a frosh pitcher with 11.  She was 3-0 last week for the Raiders moving past Michelle Gerdes (1987) and Tara McGoff (1996), who had 10 wins.  Howard had her third shutout of the season […]

Enlarge Picture >> I figure that it is one of the last ‘work’ weekends of my college career.  I settle down with my thesis and a cup of coffee far too early in the morning.  Slightly disgruntled.  It’s gorgeous outside.  I embrace my scholarly-ness for all it’s worth and make slow but steady progress for […]

Raiders rally after slow start but fall short

Hildebrand and Quince topple two school records  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: Julie GrecoPHONE: (315) 228-7860April 19, 2003  Results LEWISBURG, PA. ‘ The Colgate women’s track and field team placed fourth at the Bucknell Quadrangular on Saturday, April 19 in Lewisburg, Pa. The Raiders, who traveled a skeleton team of 15 girls due to injuries, managed 43 […]

Enlarge Picture >> Thursday afternoon and I’ve completely lost my will to work.  Television and reading for class both seemed unappetizing.  My friend Andy appeared at my door. ‘There’s a poetry reading downtown in the bookstore.  Want to go” ‘Sure,’ I say.  I hadn’t opened my books anyway. ‘It’s the students from the Advanced Poetry […]

Hamilton, NY — The Colgate Bookstore will host Debbie Stack and Captain Ronald Marquisee in the Class of 2003 Event Room (third floor) on Saturday, April 26, from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m., to present a reading and conduct a discussion of their book, ‘Cruising America’s Waterways: The Erie Canal.’ The event is free and […]

Hamilton, NY — Colgate University was ranked third by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education in a survey of the nation’s 25 top liberal arts colleges measuring success in integrating black students and faculty. The ranking appears in the publication’s winter 2002-2003 issue. The ranking was based on a score composed from individual rankings […]

by Dave Rahme, Syracuse Post Standard