We just received the news that the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center has been awarded the LEED Gold designation. That is quite an achievement. And credit goes to our determined student leaders.
I remember vividly the day almost four years ago when then-Vice President Tom Nycum came to see me with a [...]
Category Archives: General
A Little Gold for CC’s Green Efforts
October 7, 2009 – 9:27 am
Yes, Colorado Springs is international
November 25, 2008 – 2:15 pm
Note: This blog entry is based on a guest column I wrote for The (Colorado Springs) Gazette.
Imagine downtown Colorado Springs with signs in five languages, and with plasma screens linking the city electronically to 24-hour news reports in different parts of the world, or live feeds showing a climber on K2, or a missionary in [...]
Comfort Food
October 10, 2008 – 7:24 pm
With the Dow in a nosedive, Washington in a daze, and the Presidential election pushing the nasty index to new heights, my mind has turned toward food. Yes, food.
You see, while my grandmothers were dramatically different — one a first-generation Italian immigrant and the other an all-American Waspy descendant of a Civil War vet—they [...]
Follow-up to 'The Monthly Bag'
July 14, 2008 – 4:32 pm
I’d like to keep you updated on “The Monthly Bag” and one group’s reaction to the college’s response. See my previous blog entry for the beginning of this story.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a freedom of expression advocacy group, targeted CC in March, launching a media campaign against the college. FIRE said CC [...]
Freedom of speech and personal safety
April 7, 2008 – 8:32 am
Freedom of speech and personal safety are basic rights we all hold dear. We work hard at Colorado College to ensure both. A recent campus issue is a case in which these principles of good compete.
Dangerous Spam
August 6, 2007 – 2:16 pm
I have a spam guard on my computer to try to eliminate the extraneous stuff that gets sent to my email address. It helps. It catches the virus-laden items and about three quarters of what I think of as electronic junk mail. Still, a couple of times a week I am obliged to review the [...]
Sanctuary. Enter at your own risk.
April 19, 2007 – 10:14 am
Prologue
I drafted a blog entry as I was returning from Chicago to Colorado Springs on the morning of Monday, April 16, before I’d heard the news from Virginia Tech. I was tired as I wrote, so I held onto the draft to take a second look at it before I posted it.
“Yesterday [...]
Semester that Begins with Blackout Ends with Whiteout
January 10, 2007 – 1:36 pm
What a first semester! And what a Christmas Eve!
At 4 pm on the very first day of classes last September, the whole Colorado College campus lost power. A blackout shut down the computer center, took the library offline, disarmed the card access to the residence halls, and generally caused confusion and dismay. Conscientious freshmen, [...]
