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The Colgate community will be seeing some familiar sights on the big screen this Thursday night when the Hamilton Movie Theater shows Placebo, a new short film by Henry Prince ’07 and Jacob Lindauer ’08. Directed by Prince and produced by Lindauer, Placebo was filmed on and around Colgate’s campus last October. It was a […]

Eight students from the WRCU radio station and Colgate Activities Board have taken what they learned at a major conference in Texas and adapted it to their organizations on campus. The group attended the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas, which is actually a triad of three separate festivals: music, film, […]

Colgate students had a chance this week to meet with director, actor, writer, and producer Harold Ramis, who spent two days on campus talking shop and showing special previews of his upcoming movie. Ramis, whose son is a first-year at Colgate, is a veritable Hollywood heavyweight with many popular movies under his belt such as […]

Independent filmmaker Alan Berliner, who is not afraid to point the camera at himself for his experimental documentaries, will spend a week on campus teaching, showing his films, and discussing an exhibition of two of his installations. The film screenings, lecture, and exhibition are all free and open to the general public during Berliner’s visit, […]

Case Aiken III ’06, Adam Samtur ’06, and Matthew Kagen ’07 didn’t set out to start a theater company; they just wanted to produce a play from soup to nuts and see what happened. Now, under the production company Just ASK (Aiken, Samtur, Kagen), the trio is enjoying the success of their first show and […]

The 30 female cast members of The Vagina Monologues won over audiences at the Palace Theater with moving performances that showed the beauty, hilarity, and hardships associated with being a woman. Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues after interviewing 200 women across the world about their sexuality. More than 10 years later, the racy and […]

When Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States and founder of the Favorite Poem Project, opened the floor to questions during Thursday’s lunchtime talk with students, he promised to treat each one with respect. And why wouldn’t he? At the heart of his belief, shared in his 1984 book Poetry and the World, […]

As students, with paintbrushes in their hands, looked at blank canvases, members of the Colgate Christian Fellowship (CCF) asked, “Where do you see beauty in the world?” and “How do humans contribute to or detract from that beauty?” The 24 participants in the Open Canvas event, sponsored by CCF, were invited to reflect on those […]