Colgate Magazine — Autumn 2018

AUTUMN 2018

Feature

All the Things You Didn’t (or maybe did) Know About Colgate P.14 The Big Question

What if Modern Humans Traveled to the Past? P.13 Voices

A Race Against Time P.6

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Looking back on our history and looking forward to our future

look Everything old is new again. Visually based on an 1890s etching that was drawn from a village rooftop, this illustration by Steven Noble is a current view of the campus.

Read this issue and all previous issues at colgate.edu/magazine.

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Contents

AUTUMN 2018 Special Bicentennial Issue

President’s Message

Endeavor

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Joe Donnelly ’86 Interviews Himself

Letters

The L.A. writer adds to great bathroom lit.

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Voices

Thumb Drive

A Race Against Time

Brandon Ramcheran ’06 aims to improve durability in gaming gear.

Rebecca (Jewett) Trachsel ’97

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Marianne Janack ’86

True Grid: Colgate played its first football game in 1890

The A–Z on RBG Julie Cohen ’86 does biopic justice to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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Colgate News

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A somewhat complete list of historical facts, titillating truths, blatant brags, astounding oddities, and more

Discover

Rebecca Docter

Out of Office Professors on sabbatical tackle real-world issues

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Our Story Colgate’s history enlightens its future

Crystal Magic Major possibilities exist within tiny nanocrystals

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Ask a Professor Geoff Holm has the answer

Aleta Mayne

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Landscape View

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Evil at Heart?

Joe Berlinger ’83 on his new film about killer Ted Bundy.

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Book Review

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How Colgate’s campus has developed over 70 years

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Cover: Memorial Chapel from a 260-foot perspective.

Photojournalist Brian Ness captured the shot using a drone; Photoshop master Mark DiOrio completed the image with floating balloons; concept inspired by Christian Schmidt.

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Meal Ticket David Kelly ’86 swam through a cannoli shell and came out with a musical.

Alumni News

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Salmagundi

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Special Collections and University Archives

Read This Essay Aloud

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Vice President for Communications Laura H. Jack Managing Editor Aleta Mayne Communications Director Mark Walden Assistant Editor Rebecca Docter Creative Director Tim Horn Art Director Karen Luciani Junior Designer Katriel Pritts Redesign Pentagram: Luke Hayman, Shigeto Akiyama, Jenny Hung; Heinrichs Partners: Jay Heinrichs University Photographer Mark DiOrio Production Assistant Kathy Owen Contributors: Gordon Brillon, Web Content Specialist; Daniel DeVries, Media Relations Director; David Herringshaw, Digital Production Specialist; Jason Kammerdiener ’10, Web Manager; Katherine Laube, Senior Designer; Brian Ness, Video Journalism Coordinator; John Painter, Director of Athletic Communications; Kristin Putman, Social Media Strategist Printed and mailed from Lane Press in South Burlington, Vt. Colgate Magazine Volume XLVIII Number 1 Colgate Magazine is a quarterly publication of Colgate University.

Online: colgate.edu/magazine Email: magazine@colgate.edu Telephone: 315-228-7407 Change of Address: Alumni Records Clerk, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346-1398 Telephone: 315-228-7453 Opinions expressed are not necessarily shared by the university, the publishers, or the editors. Colgate University does not discriminate in its programs and activities because of race, color, sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, predisposing genetic characteristics, domestic violence victim status, or any other protected category under applicable local, state, or federal law. For inquiries regarding the university’s non-discrimination policies, contact Marilyn Rugg, Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346; 315-228-7288.

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Colgate Enters Its Third Century

n words and images, the Office of Communications portrays Colgate’s proud traditions and bold ambitions.

We attract new generations of promising undergraduates, connect alumni to their alma mater, and tell the world about the academically rigorous community that thrives in the Chenango Valley.

While Colgate’s story reaches back two centuries, we know that the look and feel of our communications must also convey our forward momentum, distinctive take on the liberal arts, commitment to asking difficult questions, and relentless search for innovative answers.

To accomplish this task, we extended our Bicentennial partnership with the award-winning design firm Pentagram and asked them to envision how we might portray the university following our 2018–2019 celebration. Their answer is to continue to embrace the iconic Colgate C and render the university’s name in our Portrait font. (For more on the inspiration behind these elements, watch our video at 200.colgate.edu.) Gold leaf will give way to traditional Colgate maroon and a palette of complementary colors. We will also redouble our commitment to compelling

photography that captures the spirit of the Colgate experience.

Working with the admission office, advancement, and other departments across campus, we will revamp our communications materials with these new graphics. Equally important, we will begin to speak of our university in a bolder, more confident voice that reflects the leadership role this institution holds among American higher education institutions.

The new Colgate Magazine provides a first glimpse of this approach to telling Colgate’s story. It represents the combined engagement of staff, faculty, alumni, parents, and friends. Moreover, it advances the vision that President Brian W. Casey outlined for our community last autumn.

Colgate is entering a new era of ambition and impact. To achieve success, we draw on our history and the legacy handed down by past generations. We apply our creativity.

We tap into the academic rigor that drives our mission and the energy that sets us apart from our peers. In this way, we will ensure that our storytelling is authentic; you will find that your beloved Colgate — remaining true to its essence — continues to flourish and make you proud.

— Laura H. Jack, VP for Communications

A new beginning for a long-standing tradition Welcome to the new Colgate Magazine, formerly the Colgate Scene.

This redesign, the first in a decade, makes some long hoped-for changes — while, we hope, maintaining the spirit of Colgate’s flagship publication. Backed by readership survey data, we felt confident in the decision to change the name as part of our mission to modernize the magazine. You will undoubtedly notice other changes as well — starting with the more manageable size. We’ve also created a more navigable structure with numerous entry points.

In the following pages, you’ll find the same content you’ve loved, new ways to engage with the magazine and learn about Colgate, and a boost in pride for alma mater.

For those who prefer to read us online, you can visit us at colgate.edu/magazine, which will also evolve soon to reflect this redesign.

We care what you think, so send your feedback to Colgate Magazine, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346 or magazine@colgate.edu.

— Aleta Mayne, managing editor Autumn 2018

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President’s Message

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o be on the Colgate campus in these past months is to witness two related yet conflicting phenomena: the celebration of the past and a push toward the future. In late August, Bicentennial banners began appearing on Memorial Chapel and on all of the light poles in the Academic Quad. New banners also march up Oak Drive. On the banners is a “C” that is derived from the mark on the 1904 Salmagundi and on a number of old sports team uniforms. It is a piece of Colgate’s history.

It is also new, something different for the eye to see.

To be on the campus is to be struck by them.

On the side of the hill is the newly constructed Benton Hall, home to career services and the Office of National Fellowships and Scholarships (which helps students and alumni apply to Rhodes, Marshall, and Fulbright scholarships, among others). It is as modern a building as Colgate has ever built, filled with touch screens and smart boards, cooled and warmed with environmentally sensitive systems of great efficiency.

It is also, to see it in person, somehow old looking. Built of traditional gray stone with a slate roof, it looks as if it has been in its location for decades, sitting next to the academic buildings all Colgate alumni remember. The unattractive parking lot that, until recently, marked its spot is a very distant memory. It is hard to fully decide whether Benton Hall is a new building, or an old one. But it seems clear that Colgate is building in an important way.

New residence halls are now rising above Andrews and Stillman halls. They, too, seem old and new. They are something the eye has to adjust to, yet they are

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designed in silhouettes and materials familiar to any Colgate graduate.

Finally, as you are fully aware because you are reading this column, these words come to you in a redesigned Colgate Magazine, one that contains the older names of “The Scene” and “Salmagundi” as sections in the new design.

We are celebrating Colgate’s Bicentennial throughout this entire academic year, and we will speak of our history. Three books about Colgate’s history are being published this year, including a photo book titled When Through Thy Valley — words familiar to all alumni as the opening line of Colgate’s alma mater. A website also captures much of the past, and for that we can thank a large group of administrators, faculty, staff, Alumni Council members, and students.

I was struck by the phrase the Bicentennial Committee chose to capture the themes of the year: “Proud Tradition. Bold Ambition.” These words are on all the new banners and they capture, in some important way, how I view my responsibilities in this position. As Colgate’s 17th president, I remain deeply aware of the work of the 16 presidents who came before me, and the work of the trustees, faculty, and alumni who have brought us to the beginning of Colgate’s third century.

But I spend much of my day — as I should — thinking about our bold ambitions. Upon our past we must build new heights of excellence. Academically, we must determine how best to ever deepen our academic program and establish that this is an institution of profound academic achievement and rigor. We must seek new ways to attract to our valley faculty, students, and staff of great experience and ability. We must consider how best to build a campus for the next century. We must invest in our student housing and social spaces so they can form meaningful communities.

In each of these areas, I spend my days in the frame of “bold ambition” — but, as always, ever mindful of our “proud tradition.”

The other phrase the Bicentennial Committee considered as a guiding frame was “Always Ascending.”

They chose the other phrase — Proud Tradition, Bold Ambition — because it seemed to give more space and possibility to acknowledge and celebrate our past. But it is important for me to state that, as we enter into our third century, the call to be always ascending animates this office and this administration.

In a year of celebrations, we must keep an eye on the future. And we must dream boldly. The 16 occupants of this office before me would demand no less. The tens of thousands of alumni who cherish this university should expect no less.

So, the new year and a new century begins. It’s time for banners and celebration. And it is time for the long, steady, good work of a university always ascending. — Brian W. Casey

Through The Years: Colgate’s alumni publication 1904–1909 Annual of the Alumni Association 1910–1911 Alumni Annual 1912–1915 Colgate Alumni Quarterly 1920–1925 Colgate Alumni Maroon 1925–1966 Colgate Alumni News 1966–1972 Colgate University Publication 1972–2018 Colgate Scene 2018– Colgate Magazine

Letters Covering diversity I am always attracted to the magazine’s cover and was pleased to see its featured photo of Provost and Dean of the Faculty Tracey Hucks ’87, MA’90 (spring 2018). That enticed me to scan inside for other photos and, as a result, appreciate visually the face of Colgate today. This, along with other aspects of Colgate’s progress, has made me prouder now to be an alumnus than I was many years ago. Back then, Colgate shined academically but fizzled demographically, a shortcoming that diminished its potential for expanding its students’ notions of America’s diversity.

In this respect, it probably was no worse than many of its peer institutions. Those were the days, my friends.

Today Colgate is greater than it was. Yet I recognize that some alumni of my era, and perhaps some more recent graduates, yearn to Make Colgate Great Again. Sad. As much as I gained from my Colgate education, I wish it had been more like it is today. But that is only a half wish. Under its present standards, I probably would not have made the cut for admission. It was only well into my four years, if even then, that I may have approached today’s required level of excellence.

Jesse Etelson ’55

He noticed a slipup Dear folks, I like numbers but I was confused by one in the spring 2018 issue of the Scene. The article concerning Professor Silvia Jiménez Bolaños (“The Thing Is…” pg. 36) and her fascination with Fibonacci numbers, in turn fascinated me. But I don’t understand why her left shoe bears two “2”s. It seems to me that one would suffice. Would you mind asking her where I’ve gone wrong and conveying same back to me?

Ted Schulenberg ’52 From Silvia Jiménez Bolaños, Assistant professor of mathematics Dear Ted, You are absolutely correct. You found a mistake in my shoes! The number 2 should appear only once [the Fibonacci sequence is 0112358…]. They corrected the mistake after I bought the shoes.

It is amazing that you were able to catch that!

My area of research doesn’t involve the Fibonacci sequence, but I’ve found it fascinating ever since my math teacher told us about it when I was 9 years old.

Thank you for reaching out.

Inspired by the vision statement I received in the mail Colgate’s vision statement for its third century, and it inspired me to think about what Colgate means to me. I call my vision statement “The Thirteen Principles of Colgate.” (I did borrow one point from Colgate University’s Third

Century vision statement about intellectual rigor, which I liked.)

1. Colgate University is a small liberal arts college in upstate New York with big aspirations.

2. Colgate students work hard and play hard.

3. Colgate’s faculty is world class and sets a standard of intellectual rigor for the university.

4. Colgate’s administration and staff embrace the values of diligence and common sense.

5. Colgate’s alumni are the beating heart of the institution and the guardians of its traditions and worth.

6. Colgate is American, good and bad, yet also welcomes and interacts with the world.

7. Colgate is inseparable from the beauty of its campus in Hamilton, N.Y., situated proudly in the Chenango Valley.

8. Colgate is its people, maroon and white, a Raider Nation.

This has made me prouder now to be an alumnus than I was many years ago.

Jesse Etelson ’55

9. The stewardship of Colgate University is a sacred trust.

10. The essential character of Colgate University is encapsulated in its motto Deo ac Veritati.

11. Don’t overthink it; try to get along with other Colgate people.

12. Enjoy every minute of your association with Colgate.

13. And Let Colgate Be Colgate!

Daniel Wiseman ’85

Call for nominations

Colgate Board of Trustees The Nominating, Governance and Trustee Development Committee of the Board of Trustees welcomes recommendations for new members to bring guidance and wisdom to the university’s governing board.

The board seeks energetic and committed people with expertise in areas including, but not limited to: higher education, finance, the arts, technology, global learning, legal affairs, marketing, or media relations. Nominees should display the ability to exercise informed, independent judgment and to act in the best interests of Colgate to properly steward the university's academic, program, and fiscal resources. Candidates should be willing to fully immerse themselves in the work of the board. They should place Colgate as a priority in terms of time and philanthropy, and be committed to staying abreast of the changing landscape of higher education.

The full board meets three times a year, and trustees are expected to participate in committee meetings and conference calls at other times. Trustees are also often asked to attend and/or host other university events. Each year, the board welcomes three to five new trustees for three-year terms that may be followed by two additional three-year terms.

Recommendations may be made by mail to: Nominating, Governance and Trustee Development Committee, c/o Robert L. Tyburski '74, Secretary, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346; or by e-mailing rtyburski@colgate.edu.

Send your letters to Colgate Magazine: magazine@colgate.edu or 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346. We reserve the right to decide whether a letter is acceptable for publication and to edit for accuracy, clarity, and length.

Letters deemed potentially libelous or that malign a person or group will not be published. Submissions should not exceed 250 words. Please include your full name, class year, and location.

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In addition to her running ambitions, Rebecca (Jewett) Trachsel ’97 is a high school cross country and track team coach in Lexington, Mass., and a mother of two.

Quest

A Race Against Time

By Rebecca (Jewett) Trachsel ’97

t’s 4:45 a.m. I ease out of bed, throw on my running clothes, gather my gear (headphones, gels, water bottle, hat, gloves), and prepare to head out for my 20th marathon.

“What the heck am I doing?”

Just three weeks earlier, while running the Shamrock Marathon in Virginia Beach, I injured my calf. I thought I would need months to rehabilitate, but here I was,

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getting ready to try again. And not only try again, but attempt to hit the goal I’ve been chasing relentlessly since the fall of 2015: to run a marathon in under three hours.

I’ve always been a runner. Running was something I did for fun, to work through problems, or simply to check out mentally.

In high school, the track coach convinced me to join the team, and I quickly fell in love with the feeling of flying around the oval.

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At Colgate I joined the cross country and track teams. The adjustment to the harder training, along with college in general, was a challenge, but I committed myself fully. After graduation, while I still ran occasionally, I was focused on my career and navigating life beyond college.

Ten years later, I was married with two kids, and I decided I wanted to run the Boston Marathon. You know, just for fun; a bucket list item. To qualify, I ran a local marathon: I needed a time of 3:40, I finished in 3 hours and 39 minutes. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, and I was thrilled that I’d pulled it off. At the same time, I couldn’t believe I was going to do it all over again. I told myself, after Boston, I would officially be done with marathons.

Fast forward to 2015: I was 40 years old, and I was lining up in Albany, N.Y., for my 12th marathon. My personal record was 3 hours and 11 minutes. I’d been working with a coach and increasing my training intensity, which was resulting in faster times. For this race, I was feeling nervous but cautiously optimistic. As I ran, every mile felt better than the last, and I knew something magical was happening. I found a new gear for the last 10K, and my smile grew bigger with every step.

Elated, I crossed the finish in 3 hours and 4 minutes. I had no idea this was a possibility; suddenly, I had to readjust my thinking.

Since then, running a sub-three-hour marathon has been my only goal every time I start a marathon. I have attempted it on eight occasions. Twice I have run 3 hours flat. Last winter, in the Harrisburg Marathon, I crossed the line in 3 hours and 7 seconds.

With each near miss, I had pushed beyond a place I’d never thought I could go, but rather than celebrate, I was frustrated every time I didn’t see a 2 on the clock.

In my last attempt, I crossed the line in 3 hours and 1 minute. For days, I was down on myself and running in general. Then my husband, Jeff ’96, said, “Maybe you need to let go of the time goal for a while. It doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen. I just don’t think it always needs to be your main focus.”

It was exactly what I needed to hear.

I’d started to lose the joy of running, and, as a result, forgotten why I do it in the first place. I love to train and race, not only to do well, but also because I enjoy the experience as a whole. I’ve lost sight of that lately. My story is not over — this is just a new chapter.

This fall I will line up for my 22nd marathon. I will train as hard, if not harder.

I will try again. But my main goal will not be time. It will simply be to run well and be proud of the outcome, no matter what. ●

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After moving to Seattle postColgate, I joined a band called the Filthy Femcorps, an all-womenand-non-binary brass band. I get to meet awesome people, play music, wear a cape and a sparkly dress in a boxing ring … what’s not to love? (Also, shout out to the Colgate Pep Band — I wouldn't still be playing without you all!)

By Marianne Janack ’86

I come from a family of readers. My sister, brother, mother, and I would park ourselves on chairs or the couch, spending afternoons in our cramped living room. We’d be alone together with our books.

David Foster Wallace said that reading fiction is a way to overcome loneliness. I think there is something implausible about the claim; retreating into a book is generally a way of avoiding others. And, I admit, I sort of like it that way.

But I have been a member of several book groups, and I teach, and the ways that I interact with books and readers in those settings are entirely different. Reading books together aloud (as my husband, daughter, and I did with the last Harry Potter book); reading with the intention of coming together with others to discuss what we’ve read (as I do with my students or with the members of my summer book group); or reading aloud and puzzling over passages (as I’ve done with a Hegel reading group who committed to getting through his Phenomenology) — these seem to be authentic ways of overcoming loneliness.

Social reading harkens back to an earlier era. In The Social Life of Books, Abigail Williams notes that the practice of solitary reading only developed as lighting and ophthalmology improved and when books became less expensive. The practice of reading to and with others was partly a matter of necessity, but maybe we shouldn’t have given up the act of reading together.

Writing could be another way to overcome loneliness.

Authors craft words for readers in an act of recognition that there’s another person out there, sitting on a porch in Boothbay, Maine, or in a bathtub in Minneapolis; in an office in Omaha or in a restaurant in Reykjavik. Writers reach out to that reader, saying, “Spend some time listening to me.”

Literary critic Harold Bloom (who may be curmudgeonly, but nevertheless gets some things right) said, “to read human sentiments in human language, you must be able to read humanly, with all of you… Shakespeare speaks as much to you as you can bring to him. That is to say: Shakespeare reads you more fully than you can read him.” Reading and writing go together — solitary reading brings us closer to others by helping us see humanness in words, and because we, as readers, are also read. To write well is to read well; to read well is to open ourselves to the words of others.

Marianne Janack ’86 is the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of philosophy at Hamilton College and the 2017–18 Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professor. She lives in Clinton, N.Y., with her husband, John Adams, daughter Madeleine Adams, and cat Sidney Wertimer (named after a Hamilton economics professor).

Illustration by Rebecca Clarke

— Danielle Osman ’16, Seattle, WA @daniboy206

I took this picture from our FOX Sports World Cup studio set in Red Square. The Kremlin, Saint Basil’s Cathedral, and the ‘Golden Hour’ all in harmony.

@rob.stone5

— Rob Stone ’91, Manhattan Beach, Calif.; FOX Sports host, led the network’s 2018 FIFA World Cup coverage in Russia

Future Raider Daniel Green Jr., son of Daniel Green Sr. ’06, former men’s basketball team member — Daniel Green ’06; senior manager, Global Partnerships at Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment and founder and CEO at Green Sports Management @dgreen23

From my time in Hamilton, I’ve learned the importance of place.

I find it crucial to explore my surrounding community, even if I am only calling it home for a short time. I plan to continue learning about the beautiful Adirondacks during my time here.

— Revée Needham ’18; Upstate Institute Summer Field School fellow with the Adirondack Council in Keene, N.Y. @heyrevee

I like to take portraits in a way that obscures my subjects’ identity; it makes the photographs more relatable, graphic, and enigmatic.

— Thea Traff ’13, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Photo editor, the New Yorker @theatraff Autumn 2018

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Tweets We Can All Appreciate Sustainability director John Pumilio is on a quest to explore — and record — Colgate’s ornithological richness.

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ustainability director John Pumilio likes to ask the groups he leads through Colgate’s woodlands, “Did you hear that?” As his charges strain their ears, they start to hear the mellifluous sounds of songbirds in the trees above. “Most people tune them out,” says Pumilio.

“But when they listen to the power of a blackburnian warbler or an indigo bunting, then get out their binoculars and realize how beautiful these birds are, people get hooked.”

Pumilio has identified more than 80 species of birds in Colgate’s forests. Over time, Colgate has been restoring its woodlands to a native deciduous forest, providing habitat for migrating songbirds, many of whose numbers are dwindling.

Some of these birds stop off in Hamilton for a few weeks.

“Knowing they depend upon the Colgate forest for a portion of that journey reminds me that we are part of conservation efforts that are hemispheric in scope,” Pumilio says.

Scientists are still trying to understand the exact pathways birds use to travel from their wintering grounds in Central or South America to their breeding

Indigo bunting

grounds up north. For a long time, biologists believed that songbirds traveled set flyways to migrate across the hemisphere.

But as ornithologists have developed new tools to better recognize migration patterns, they’ve realized that different species and even individual birds are using their own migration routes, widely spread across the continent. “They may be using prevailing wind patterns

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or following mountain ranges, but generally they are migrating all throughout North America,” Pumilio says.

For decades, bird migration studies have relied on catching birds and banding them, in hopes of finding the birds in a new location to understand how they traveled. More recently, however, scientists have been able to follow large groups of birds by using the same radar

stations that track weather patterns. Other researchers have developed tiny geo-locators — instruments light enough to not impede the flights of songbirds — in order to trace the journeys. Another technique relies on recording tweets that identify species flying at night.

Pumilio is recording the soundscape of Colgate’s woodland. He is working with biology professor Ana Jimenez and student researchers to strategically place microphones along fixed points on the ground throughout the Colgate forest.

Through these recordings, the team has created a baseline that can be used to compare changes in the soundscape and Colgate’s breeding birds across time. Indigo buntings, for example, have just one song, but birds living only a few miles apart have different dialects. By recording how the local dialect changes over time, biologists may learn how birds are spreading locally from place to place. Robins, meanwhile, have 60 or 70 different songs, but each bird sings those songs in a unique order. The soundscape recordings may allow Pumilio to “fingerprint” individual birds and then see if they return to Colgate year after year.

Over time, those data can help biologists understand the health of the forest and the changing makeup of its species — as well as the unique role that Colgate’s woodlands play in supporting the conservation of endangered songbird species. “We tend to think about preserving their breeding habitat, or their wintering habitat, but not the importance of preserving their habitats during their migrations,” Pumilio says.

For the rest of us, better understanding the sounds of the forest can help us appreciate the bird life around us. “Birds put a lot of time and energy into singing, and it’s an important part of their life histories,” Pumilio says. “When you open that up to people, it can really enrich their outdoor experience.”

— Michael Blanding

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CAMPUS LIFE | ART | ATHLETICS | INITIATIVES | CULTURE | GLOBAL REACH

13 bits 1 Poet punk laureate Patti Smith, a MacArthur fellow, and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners constitute the lineup for this fall’s Living Writers course.

2 Cool beans: Coldgate cold brew coffee is one of many beverage choices served by FoJo Beans artisan coffee roasters, a new Hamilton establishment.

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Andrew Brozman ’72 with pieces from his personal collection in Chappaqua, N.Y.

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pening their homes, alumni shared their personal art collections with students — and, ultimately, the university community.

The exhibition Colgate Alumni Collect was the resulting work of student curators pairing with their predecessors to select pieces for display in the Picker Art Gallery last summer.

The variety of artwork — from American prints to outsider art — represented the individual stories of the three alumni who participated. Here, art history major Claire Pandaleon ’18 interviews Andrew Brozman ’72 about his story.

Lights, Camera, Action… Film and Media Studies is now officially the university’s 56th major.

What got you into collecting?

How has your collection developed since you began?

My wife, Tina, and I always had a passion for the arts. She was an accomplished pianist and played the viola; I sang as a visiting student in the University of Michigan Residential College Choir. We frequently attended concerts, operas, art museums, and galleries throughout the United States and Europe.

Translating those interests into an art collection was a natural evolution. We began by purchasing the works of local artists whose paintings we found visually attractive. As our interest grew, our desire to learn more about the field grew correspondingly.

In 2005, my wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

We decided to put art on our walls that she enjoyed and would appreciate throughout the course of her illness. It was during this time, to her death in 2007, that our collection was built to its current state.

Photograph by Graham Macindoe; illustrations by Toby Triumph

What qualities do you look for when you are acquiring a work?

Ultimately, art is extraordinarily personal in nature; what captures my heart’s eye is unique to me. We never purchased a work that didn’t evoke in us an emotional and sensational (in the pure sense of the word) response. We had to be beguiled by the art. Although our collection travels well beyond the confines of the impressionist and postimpressionist periods, it is most heavily focused on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During that time, a dramatic evolution in artistic substance occurred.

What advice would you give to others who are interested in collecting art?

As with the pursuit of any endeavor, the most important factors in achieving an art collection are passion, preparation, and curiosity.

Without each, the pursuit is bound to fail.

4 In a recent survey of 1,244 colleges nationwide, Colgate ranks in the top 10 schools that offer the most generous financial aid, according to Studentloanhero.com.

5 More than 13,000 people have watched the Bicentennial video pinned on top of Colgate's Facebook page.

Are you one of them?

6 Forgeries, fakes, and fraud: A raid on an Italian mob reveals replicated artifacts were likely sold to scholarly institutions.

The impact could be “convulsive,” art and art history professor Elizabeth Marlowe told the media.

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Facts About Moore

The Thought Into Action entrepreneurship program is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Mentors have devoted more than 23,000 hours toward supporting student projects.

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⚫ At UNC–Chapel Hill, she oversaw a program of 28 sports with more than 800 studentathletes, achieving two top 10 Directors Cup finishes, five National Championships, and eight ACC Championships in the past three years.

8 “Immigration on balance is good.” In a recent Reuters article, Associate Professor of Economics Chad Sharber reminds us to consider all perspectives when discussing immigration.

9 All roads point to Texas: Colton Point ’20 gets acclimated to life in the Lone Star State as the newest professional goalie for the NHL’s Dallas Stars.

⚫ She received her bachelor’s in secondary education from University of Missouri and holds both a master’s and doctorate in counseling psychology with an emphasis in sport psychology.

10 The Class of 1965 Arena was featured in Athleticbusiness. com for its architectural and design focus on the history of the athletics department.

⚫ She opened her own private sport psychology practice before going into athletics administration.

11 Reducing, reusing, and recycling will be pushed even further: NYSAR3 awarded Colgate a $2,500 sustainability grant.

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Art and art history professor Penny Lane received the Vanguard Award at San Francisco Documentary Film Festival.

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13 Colgate and its Keck astronomy consortium partners are the first liberal arts institutions admitted to AURA, the association managing Hubble and Webb telescope missions.

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Team Leader Meet the new vice president and director of athletics

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icki Moore traded in her tar heels for black patent leather pumps when she became the newest Raider on July 1. She was previously the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s senior associate athletics director and senior woman administrator. Highlights of Moore’s 14-plus-year career include co-authoring the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) 2018 Strategic Plan for athletics, fostering gender equity as part of UNC’s Title IX review process, and launching Psychological Resources for Student-Athletes at University of Oklahoma.

⚫ As an undergraduate, she earned Division I Academic AllAmerica honors, was a four-time captain on the track and field and cross country teams, and was a silver medalist at the USA Outdoor Junior Nationals and the Junior Pan Am Games. ⚫ She is joined by her husband, Dr. Bill Moore, and son Ian in Hamilton. ⚫ She rides one mean unicycle.

Scene and ended in August 2018, just in time for the start of the Bicentennial celebrations.

to better facilitate internship and full-time employment opportunities for both current students and alumni. → The Office of National Fellowships and Scholarships helps students and alumni apply to competitive fellowships and to gain readiness for applying.

Fellowships are available to all class years as well as alumni.

Infrastructure

A Foundation for the Future

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olgate teaches its students to identify objectives, develop a plan, and work diligently to achieve success. The university followed its own advice when it built Benton Hall.

Opened in August 2018, Benton Hall fulfills Colgate’s ambition to house career services, Thought Into Action, and Office of National Fellowships and Scholarships under one roof — and it declares

the university’s commitment to success after graduation.

The 18,500-square-foot building, carefully planned and constructed during the past two years, was named for Board of Trustees member Daniel C. Benton ’80, P’10, H’10. Here are a few more facts you should know: → The Career Services office, which sees more than 10,000 individual appointments each year, will be able to use this new space

→ Colgate’s Thought Into Action program, which promotes entrepreneurship and student-alumni engagement by connecting entrepreneurs with resources and direct mentorship, has supported more than 340 ventures in its 10-year existence. → Reflecting Colgate’s commitment to sustainability and achieving a carbon neutral campus by 2019, Benton Hall is aiming to become LEED Platinum certified. → Materials in the project are made of recycled materials and sourced from within 500 miles of the site, including blue stone from Ithaca. → Construction of the building began in February of 2017

→ The $16.2 million cost was fully donor funded. → Like many buildings across campus, Benton Hall’s exterior incorporates Romanesque style. → As the new hub for career discovery, the building has an interview suite and five techintegrated interview rooms, the Clifford Commons and Rosensweig Seminar Room for larger meetings and teaching space, 10 spaces with video conferencing capabilities, and administrative offices. → The construction of Benton Hall is a part of Colgate’s larger $60 million building campaign to enhance the student experience. → During construction, a time capsule was placed in the exterior facade at the south entrance of the building. → The 18,500 square-foot building was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, one of the world’s leading academic architectural design companies.

Athletics

Nicki Moore, Benton Hall, Homecoming game jersey: Mark DiOrio

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he Colgate Raiders sported throwback threads for this year’s homecoming game Sept. 22, which coincided with Bicentennial weekend. The uniforms were based on those worn by the distinguished 1932 “Undefeated, Untied, Unscored Upon, and Uninvited” team (for more, see page 18, #89).

Burlap-like material on the back of the jerseys is akin to the 1932 numbers. The helmets were bathed in a white hydrographic dip to look like leather, the straps on top represent the stitching that held the helmets together in the 1930s, and the back bumper has a stitched-looking line stating “13 founders with 13 dollars & 13 prayers & 13 articles.”

This year’s homecoming game jersey was based on the 1932 uniform (left).

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Discover

is minus 272.9 degrees centigrade, just a quarter of a degree above absolute zero.

At that temperature, tiny metal circuits printed on silicon chips can become superconductors, with the ability to transmit electrical impulses with no energy at all.

Segall has used these superconducting chips in the past to explore quantum computers and electrical vortices. His current research project is using them to create artificial neurons to replicate the human brain — in hopes of teaching computers to perform heretofore difficult tasks, such as quickly recognizing human faces.

Spoiled for choice Christopher Henke

Kezia Page Ken Segall

Rebecca Shiner

Faculty

Out of Office On sabbatical, Colgate professors explore the questions that fuel their classroom creativity.

ravel, writing, research.

When faculty members go on sabbatical, it’s no vacation. Here are four examples of professors delving into their disciplines to examine real-world issues.

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Beyond repair If your refrigerator is on the blink, you call Maytag for a repair. But what do we do when a bridge breaks down, or a hurricane causes social order to collapse, or the safety of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is under threat?

In Repairing Infrastructures, a new book

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he is co-authoring, sociology professor Christopher Henke argues that the notion of repair is just as important on a national or global level as it is on a personal level — and yet it is often overlooked by policymakers and sociologists. Henke argues that infrastructure requires a complex navigation through physical, social, and political structures in order to maintain its essential place in modern life.

Quantum leaps How low can you go? For physics professor Ken Segall, the answer to that question

People vary widely in how they make decisions, even trivial decisions like picking a restaurant meal: at one end of the spectrum are “satisficers,” who order quickly off a menu and are generally happy with what they get, and at the other end are “maximizers,” who agonize over every dish in an effort to have the best meal and then still often wish they’d ordered something else. Psychology professor Rebecca Shiner has shown in her past research that, when given choices that are reversible, maximizers can feel as happy with their decisions as their satisficer tablemates. But many choices in life are not fully reversible, which leaves maximizers feeling regretful about much of what they have chosen. In her current work, Shiner is investigating the possibility that what fuels maximizing is a self-defeating attempt to prevent future regrets.

Prying Eyes When the slaves who were brought to Jamaica worked in urban areas, they lived in “yards” with high walls so their owners could keep them under careful watch.

Kezia Page, associate professor of English and Africana and Latin American studies, has seized upon the idea of “the yards” to explore the central role surveillance has played in Jamaica over the decades. In research for a new book, she starts in the 1940s when the yards were used to surveil colonial Jamaica’s black population; jumps to the 1970s to examine the attempted assassination of reggae singer Bob Marley in a probable CIA plot; and concludes with the 2010 Tivoli Gardens incursion, a U.S.backed attempt to apprehend a popular drug lord that left 73 civilians dead and changed Jamaican society. — Michael Blanding

Research

Crystal Magic Geoscientist Marc Michel ’98 is exploring techniques to create useful nanocrystals before our very eyes.

illions of years ago, the earth was completely molten, a roiling ocean of hot magma that only gradually cooled to rock. As it did, various elements — aluminum, iron, silicon, and other metals — crystalized into the familiar minerals we know today. “All of the elements we use in our technology come from the minerals in earth’s crust,” says Marc Michel ’98. “We rely on them for all aspects of our modern existence.”

An assistant professor of geosciences at Virginia Tech, Michel has worked to replicate the earth’s crystallization processes — albeit on an extremely accelerated timescale — to create brand-new synthetic minerals.

“By understanding and controlling crystallization, we can put together atoms in new ways,” he says. Last fall, he received a $560,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore crystallization of tiny nanoparticles that could be used in applications ranging from environmental cleanup to medical treatments.

Michel graduated from Colgate with a geology degree, but also minored in art, which has proven to be useful in his crystal design career. “A lot of my research has an artistic component to it,” he says.

While earning his master’s at Stony Brook

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University, he worked in a lab doing “hard core crystallization,” taking the results to the giant synchrotron at nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory to examine them under the intense spectrum of light. Michel was hooked, staying to earn a PhD. He began focusing on nanoparticles, a 10,000th to a millionth of a millimeter in size, sometimes consisting of just a few atoms. At that size, solids have vastly different properties.

For example, some nanocrystals can soak up pollutants, absorb humidity, transmit electricity, or insulate tiny wires, depending on their size and shape.

Michel is currently exploring a new way to grow crystals by sticking nanoparticles together. His NSF-funded research will examine these processes in aluminosilicate crystals that consist of aluminum, silicon, and oxygen — some of the most common materials on earth — in an effort to develop nanoparticles with unique new properties.

To aid in that process, Michel has used 3-D printing to make new reactors to build crystals. The size of a coffee cup, the reactors are constructed from a transparent resin with inputs for injecting chemicals and for stirring to create reactions. By varying the concentration of chemicals and injection rate, scientists can change the crystals ultimately formed. Michel describes how to create the reactors in a paper published last September in Applied Geochemistry. Creating them through 3-D printing can decrease the cost and allow for rapid tweaking of designs.

His hope is that disseminating such techniques can increase the rate of producing breakthrough new crystals with new applications to change the world. “A community of people working toward that common goal will ultimately build a base of knowledge that makes a contribution well beyond individual groups.” —Michael Blanding

Ask a professor

If a modern human went back in time, would that person be more or less susceptible to disease?

Most modern humans have been vaccinated against many of the worst pathogens that have plagued people for millennia.

(There is one major exception: smallpox. Those born in the United States after 1972, when widespread vaccination ceased, have not been vaccinated.)

Even taking vaccines out of the equation, the enhanced nutrition experienced by most modern humans during childhood development would contribute to better overall health and a stronger immune system, rendering adults much less susceptible to infectious disease.

Humans from industrialized nations might be more at risk of parasitic infections, because these have largely been eliminated in these countries due to increased sanitation, so our immune systems are “naïve” to them. However, these would likely be more of an inconvenience than a serious threat to health.

As an associate professor of biology, Geoff Holm teaches basic molecular and cellular biology, virology and immunology, and the pathogenesis and epidemiology of infectious disease. His research focuses on mammalian reoviruses.

Marc Michel ’98 in his lab at Virginia Tech

Do you have a big-picture question for a faculty member? Write to us at: magazine@colgate.edu.

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Bicentennial Special

Two Hundred A somewhat complete list of historical facts, titillating truths, blatant brags, astounding oddities, and more.

By Rebecca Docter

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Student Life Not missed: “Exercise by manual labor”

1 Founded in 1821, the

PHILOMATHESIAN SOCIETY was

the school’s first student group.

The literary society was intended to prepare students for the ministry.

2 Daily schedule of a student in the 1830s: AM

5–5:30 Chapel 5:30–6 Private devotions 6–6:30 Reading and studying 6:30–7 Breakfast 7–8 Exercise by manual labor 8–8:30 Private devotions 8:30–12 Studies and recitations PM

12–12:30 Dinner 12:30–1:30 Exercise by manual labor 1:30–5 Studies and recitations 5–5:30 Chapel 5:30–6 Supper 6–6:30 Private devotions 6:30–9 Meetings, reading, and writing 9–9:30 Devotions in room 9:30–4:30 Sleep

3 Special Collections object: Hookah owned by Henry M. Campbell, Class of 1842. He was a missionary for the American Baptist Missionary Union in Aracan, Burma. → 4 In the early days of the university, firstyear students read Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita Libri as part of the Latin curriculum.

To celebrate the end of the year, they held a COMEDIC FUNERAL PROCESSION and service followed by the burning of their Livy volumes.

5 For students in the 1850s, taking a bath at the end of a long

day wasn’t a relaxing affair. They washed in facilities supplied with spring water, so in wintertime, things got PRETTY FRIGID. 6 From 1867 to 1890, students celebrated George Washington’s birthday with a COED LITERARY FÊTE, complete with social activities.

7 During PIPE DAY, inaugurated by the Class of 1887, graduating seniors smoked pipes on the Quad in resistance to faculty and administrators who prohibited the habit.

8 In the early 1900s, interclass rivalry was rampant and could get out of hand. For example, in 1915, some students chopped the “flowing locks” of a villager (they later made a court appearance), and in 1921, a group of students burned the Whitnall Field grandstand. But, at year’s end, they always agreed to bury the hatchet — literally,

by TOSSING AN AX into Taylor Lake.

9 Another interclass rivalry tradition involved stealing the BUST OF MERCURY from other classes, who hid it around the Chenango Valley.

There were rules: It had to be stashed between Earlville and Bouckville, and it had to appear at every class banquet of the possessing class. The game became dangerous, with tales of students bribing taxi drivers to transport the statue and a student spending a frigid night in a barn to keep Mercury safe.

10 The COLGATE-SYRACUSE RIVALRY lasted from 1891 until 1961. Legend has it that in approximately 1907, a Colgate student buried his embroidered “C” sweater under the drying cement of Archbold Stadium, forever cursing the team. Later, in 1958, Syracuse University students dyed Taylor Lake Orange; Colgate students dropped red paint on Archbold Stadium.

11 Colgate’s FIRST FRATERNITY, Delta Kappa Epsilon, received its charter in 1856, followed by Delta Upsilon in 1866. In 1979, the school’s first local sorority, Delta Nu, was established, and two years later, Gamma Phi Beta granted its national charter.

12 Phi Delta Theta celebrated its 100-YEAR history at Colgate last May. Its intention: to be installed on campuses with a “high and well-established reputation.”

13 The ISLE O’BLUES ORCHESTRA, a dance orchestra created by six students, began around 1923 and toured the U.S. and Europe.

14 Oct. 20, 1923: 15 In 1934, the Skull and Scroll and the Gorgon’s Head secret societies joined to create the KONOSIONI senior honor society. Konosioni means “people of the long house,” which honors Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) living traditions.

16 The Colgate Thirteen formed in 1942. They now boast 27 RECORDED STUDIO ALBUMS.

18 WRCU FM 90.1 is the largest student-run organization on campus. The station first began broadcasting in 1954 when seniors Bill Heurmann, Phil Hubert, and Marvin Clinch posted a sign that read: “New radio station. Needs technical help. Soldering a plus.”

18. WRCU, 1956

Current photos by Mark DiOrio; archival photos from Special Collections and University Archives

20 Up until the 1960s, upperclassmen enforced the rules requiring first-year students to don GREEN CAPS, regularly attend chapel, and recite the alma mater when prompted.

21 1967: Office of Undergraduate Studies is established as the UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS PROGRAM,

providing support to students who have faced significant challenges.

22 Student clubs and organizations include off-thebeaten-path options like the Roleplaying Game Society and the BELLYDANCING CLUB.

FIRST HOMECOMING DAY

17 When the Colgate Thirteen travels, the dozen plus one singers travel in “THE GRUNT,” a custom-designed Ford F-550.

19 In March 1957, two students stole Colgate’s 80-MILLION-YEAROLD DINOSAUR EGG from Lathrop Hall. They left the egg on the doorstep of a Catholic priest’s house. It now resides in the university vault.

23 To help students cool off after tours, the admissions office turned to ice cream.

The CHIPWICH TRADITION started in the early 2000s when Vice President and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Gary Ross ’77 picked up the cookie sandwiches from Byrne Dairy.

24 The MAX A. SHACKNAI COVE offers alternative breaks during which students can travel to domestic or international locations to engage in community service. Past locations: Neyba, Dominican Republic; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Mexico City, Mexico.

25 The Residential Commons creates community through activities such as NERD NIGHT, where students gather to learn. In the inaugural event, President Brian W. Casey spoke about what activates his inner nerd: campus architecture.

26 Colgate currently has 56 MAJORS, the newest being film and media studies. Types of classes students can look

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forward to: Global Cinema, Narrative Screenwriting, and American Popular Culture.

The Written Word New writing with old origins

27 Colgate’s Special Collections holds the first four SHAKESPEARE folios.

One of the folios has the only surviving portrait of Anne Hathaway, the Bard’s wife.

28 Befitting Colgate’s origin as a Baptist college, Special Collections houses a large number of BIBLES. 29 Abolitionist George Gavin Ritchie founded the university’s first student newspaper, the HAMILTON STUDENT, in 1846.

humor publication. The studentcreated magazine, complete with colorful cover art, featured stories based on campus events like football games, Winter Carnival, and commencement.

34 THE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE DRAMA IN ENGLAND

is an international academic journal published annually at Colgate. Since its founding in 1984, it has included more than 500 articles, review essays, and book reviews. Susan Cerasano, Edgar W.B. Fairchild Professor of literature, is one of three editors for the journal; its 12-person editorial board represents a variety of universities.

35 The CAMPUS SAFETY BLOTTER, a popular weekly item in the Maroon-News, began in 1995.

36 The MONTHLY RAG, Colgate’s satirical magazine, was founded in 2007. In the beginning, students printed copies in the Cooley Science Library and hand stapled them; in 2009, funding from Student Government improved production values.

The University Today

30 The Maroon-News — which changed names five times over the years — is the OLDEST COLLEGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER in the U.S. 31 Colgate’s alumni publication, now COLGATE MAGAZINE, was founded in 1904.

32 The junior class published the JUNIOR DAILY newspaper for one week every May between 1906 and 1916. The paper covered “Junior Week” (the predecessor to Spring Party Weekend) activities and included the names of party attendees, amusing poetry, play announcements, and cartoons. A single issue initially cost 6 cents.

33 If you needed a laugh between 1920 and 1956, you could flip open the BANTER, Colgate’s

Spoiler alert: Dancefest is still a hit

37 In 1910, the university owned approximately 200 acres of land; today, the university owns 575 ACRES, a 187.5% increase.

38 Colgate has FOUR GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS: The Clifford Gallery for art and art history, the Longyear Museum of Anthropology, the Linsley Geology Museum, and the Picker Art Gallery. The tradition of celebrating exhibitions began

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when the Longyear Museum opened as a teaching gallery in the 1950s.

39 The FLAGS hanging in Frank Dining Hall represent the makeup of Colgate’s international student body.

40 TRUDY FITNESS CENTER was the first LEED gold-certified building in Madison County.

41 The university pledges to go

CARBON NEUTRAL by 2019.

42 Case Library is home to a LASR (Library Automated Storage Retrieval) system. It holds VHS tapes, DVDs, vinyl records, lessused books, microfilms, and more.

43 CASE-GEYER has approximately 832,561 print book/periodical volumes; 668,260 e-books; and 131,606 print and digital periodicals.

44 Colgate has more than 34,000 LIVING ALUMNI. 45 Colgate does not have a dentistry program. But on April 1, 2014, the university announced that it did. Time called it one of the best APRIL FOOL’S pranks of the year.

46 The Robert H.N. Ho Science Center houses a cold room, dark rooms, and a RADIOACTIVE LAB as well as a visualization lab.

47 Colgate offers up to 20

FACULTY-LED STUDY GROUPS per

year. Some locations this fall include: Wollongong, Australia; St. Andrews, Scotland; and Cape Town, South Africa.

73. Students participate in an arts workshop, April 1968

including Maroon-News, WRCU Radio, RAIDER PEP BAND CAMP, COVE Volunteer Program, and the Masque and Triangle Student Theater Society’s New Expressions Camp.

50 The YES MEANS YES seminar (developed from a senior thesis by Jaclyn Berger ’09) allows students to discuss positive sexuality, relationships, and identity in an intellectual and personal capacity while earning PE credit.

51 To maximize the utilization of local agriculture on campus, approximately 30 PERCENT of university food purchases come from local, communitybased, or third-party certified organizations.

48 Students get involved in Outdoor Education before they even start their classes.

Traveling in small groups, students in the WILDERNESS ADVENTURE pre-orientation program have the opportunity to bike, hike, paddle, and more in central New York.

ASSISTANCE program, helping low-income families in Madison and Chenango Counties. In 2017, approximately 40 students filed tax returns for 743 families.

49 First-year students can pick from seven different pre-orientation programs,

53 The Cooley Science Library, located in McGregory Hall, was renovated in 2015 and features

52 Through the Upstate Institute, students run the VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX

the university. In addition to his contributions in teaching, he sold his collection of SHELLS AND STUFFED BIRDS gathered overseas to be used for research. Bickmore would later become the first superintendent of the American Museum of Natural History.

64 In 2010, former World Chess Champion GARRY KASPAROV addressed the Colgate community as part of the Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders. The series, which began in 2007, has welcomed such speakers as Aretha Franklin, Hillary Clinton, and Shimon Peres.

in 1989 and renamed in 1996, the ALANA CULTURAL CENTER is active today in educating the Colgate community on the contributions of ethnic groups.

71 In 2014, students formed the ASSOCIATION OF CRITICAL COLLEGIANS in concert with a 350-person sit-in protesting microaggressions against the minority community and a lack of diversity. In response, the university worked with students to create a 21-point road map to promote inclusivity.

65 Peter Balakian, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in humanities, won the 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY for his collection, Ozone Journal.

a MOSH PIT OF LEARNING, with beanbag chairs and comfortable seating.

54 DANCEFEST, the most popular event on campus, celebrated its 20th anniversary last spring.

55 HAVANA, CUBA: Colgate will offer its first extended-study opportunity there this winter.

56 The largest proportion of Colgate’s international students hail from CHINA (between 80 and 100 students in any given class year).

57 Students put out flames: Since the mid-1990s, more than 150 students have worked as VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS for the Hamilton Fire Department.

58 The newly built BENTON HALL was designed adhering to LEED Platinum sustainability standards: energy-efficient windows, built-in recycling, and water bottle refilling stations.

See page 11 for more.

59 Ten Colgate PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS, ranging from health and wellness to real estate,

connect alumni and students through industry.

60 The university recently became a member of the

GERMAN AMERICAN EXCHANGE, which gives students the opportunity to apply for 10week paid summer internships at businesses within Germany.

61 815 STUDENTS make up the Class of 2022.

62 The newest class includes citizens of 44 NATIONS.

Cause for Applause

72 Christina Liu ’13 wrote This is Not a Play About Sex for her senior thesis, based on more than 30 hours of interviews with 26 students on their sexualities, genders, and bodies. The activist play debuted in 2012 and has been performed annually at Colgate ever since.

66 Over the years, Colgate has hosted a multitude of famous performers: DUKE ELLINGTON, THE DOORS, FLEETWOOD MAC, and the GRATEFUL DEAD, just to name a few.

67 Astrophysicist

73 The ’60s were a time of cultural change at Colgate, especially concerning arts on campus. Students banded together to create two festivals: the CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL (1964) and FORTNIGHT OF THE ACTIVE ARTS (1968). The festivals featured acclaimed guests, such as Philip Roth and The Doors.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON spoke at Memorial Chapel on “Ten Things You Should Know about the Universe” on Feb. 25, 2013.

68 Some noted politicians have made the trek to Hamilton, including former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland TONY BLAIR, former U.S. Secretary of State COLIN POWELL, and former PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON.

Aretha, a Pulitzer, and students making change

69 HASCALL HALL (also called the Old Biology Hall), built in 1884, is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1975, students protested the demolition of the building, asking the administration to “Save Old Bio.”

63 Albert S. Bickmore, who became a faculty member in natural history in 1868, brought new ideas about teaching science, specifically biology, to

70 In ’68 and ’69, students protested, demanding an “Afro-American Cultural Living Center.” In 1970, a cultural center was opened. Rededicated

74 Anthony Aveni, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of astronomy and anthropology and Native American studies emeritus, was named PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR in 1982 by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

75 Marietta Cheng, professor of music and director of the Colgate University Orchestra, is CONDUCTOR LAUREATE of the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes.

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TRIVIA You have unlimited time to finish this exam

76 In 1846, Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution was renamed Madison University. What was another suggestion for the university’s new name?

A. Payne University B. Kendrick College C. Chenango College 77 Colgate is the oldest college in the United States.

A. 66th B. 12th C. 82nd 78 After World War II, a College Street complex for married students was called: A. Tomorrowland B. Vetville C. Soldiersville D. Sweetheart Lane 79 How many years old is the historic Hamilton Theater?

A. 53 B. 72 C. 160 D. 123 80 Which of these was once a faculty title?

A. Professor of Bovine Husbandry B. Professor of Physiology and Hygiene C. Professor of Etiquette and Gentility 81 How much does the chapel bell weigh?

A. 656 pounds

Go, ’gate!

Storied and unstoried athletics

B. 1,013 pounds

C. 2,005 pounds

82 How large is Taylor Lake?

A. 2 acres B. 10 acres C. 5.5 acres D. 11.5 acres 83 Which of the following is not a Colgate a cappella group?

A. The Dischords B. Mantiphondrakes C. Whiffenpoofs D. The Swinging ’Gates 84 Which of these was the name of a student literary publication?

A. The Caliper B. Vortex C. The Moon D. Children of the Sun E. All of the above 85 Who is the longest-serving current Colgate professor?

A. Al Strand, mathematics B. Margaret Maurer, English C. Tom Balonek, physics and astronomy 86 How much did Col. Austen B. Colgate pay for the university’s famed dinosaur egg?

A. $13 B. $5,000 C. $250,000 D. $1 million Find the answers on page 72.

86. Colgate’s oviraptor dinosaur egg

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87 John W. Peddie, Class of 1894, organized the FIRST FOOTBALL TEAM in 1890, coached

by Samuel Colgate Jr. 88 Seating 10,221 people, the ANDY KERR STADIUM was named after the head football coach from 1929–1946. Known for his impressive record and innovative strategies, Kerr was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 and the Colgate University Hall of Honor in 1979. Today, the football and men’s lacrosse teams play in the stadium.

89 The 1932 football team was, according to Andy Kerr, “UNDEFEATED, UNTIED, UNSCOREDUPON — AND UNINVITED!” The Raiders thought they were headed to the Rose Bowl to meet USC after completing a perfect 9-0 campaign and outscoring their opponents 264-0. Instead, undefeated but twice-tied Pittsburgh earned the bid.

90 The Class of 1965 Arena houses the STEVEN J. RIGGS ’65 RINK. Riggs, a varsity hockey player while at Colgate, still holds one of the highest pointsper-game averages of Colgate players. He was drafted into the Army in 1966, upgraded to a private while still in basic training, and married before being sent to Vietnam.

As a respected lieutenant in command of 30 men, a newlywed, and a father-to-be, Riggs lost his life in an ambush attack. At the Class of 1965 Reunion, Riggs’s son, Steven, signed his and his father’s names into the steel beams that would form the arena.

91 NFL head coach Bill Parcells ’58, a.k.a. “THE BIG TUNA,” attended Colgate before transferring to the University of Wichita.

92 In 2016, Lauren Schmetterling ’10 became the first Colgate athlete to win an OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL for her performance in the Women’s Rowing Final. Previous Olympic medalists include Frank Castleman, Class of 1906, who won the silver medal in the 200 meter hurdles (1904), and Dick McGlynn ’70, who won the silver medal with the Men’s Hockey Team (1974).

93 Captain Richard B. Morrin MA’60 scored the FIRST HOLEIN-ONE at Colgate’s Seven Oaks golf course in 1959.

94 All of Colgate’s varsity teams are DIVISION I. 95 Intercollegiate athletics began at Colgate with baseball.

Its first game was played in 1867 — just two years after the Civil War. The football team played its first game in 1890, followed by basketball in 1900, track and field in 1901, hockey and tennis in 1915, soccer in 1920, lacrosse in 1921, golf in 1923, and swimming and diving in 1927.

96 1955: the baseball team earned a trip to the NCAA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES. 97 The FIRST WOMEN’S TEAMS — basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, swimming and diving, tennis, and volleyball — launched in 1973–74.

98 DR. MERRILL MILLER was the first female head physician for a Division I college football team.

99 Starr Rink, former home of Colgate hockey, appears in the 1977 sports movie classic SLAP SHOT starring Paul Newman.

100 Ernie Vandeweghe ’49 was the university’s first AllAmerica basketball player. After graduation, Vandeweghe played six seasons between 1949 and 1956 with the NEW YORK KNICKS. He played 224 regular-season games for the Knicks while attending Columbia University Medical School. He later married Colleen Kay Hutchins (Miss America 1952) and passed his athleticism on to their children.

101 Colgate hosted the 1977 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship at Seven Oaks.

SCOTT SIMPSON won medalist honors. His winning total of one over par stands as one of just four times since 1965 that the individual champion finished with a score above par.

102 The type of SAND in the bunkers at Seven Oaks Golf Club is the same as that in the traps at Augusta National.

103 Men’s hockey won its first ECAC HOCKEY TOURNAMENT title

in 1990 and advanced to the NCAA championship game.

106 Former football head coach Dick Biddle encouraged students to EAT CAKE. One Wednesday, after serving his team a cake that said “don’t be cake eaters,” meaning “don’t be soft,” the team won their Saturday game. Being superstitious, the team started eating cake every Wednesday in the locker room.

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Through the Years

104 THE RAIDERS are the only Patriot League team to play for a football national championship.

They’re also the only Patriot League program to win two games or more in a single NCAA playoff. Colgate won three games in 2003 and two games in 2015.

105 Women’s hockey set a program record in 2018 with 34 VICTORIES and advanced to the program’s first Women’s Frozen Four. Colgate’s 20 home wins were the most in Division I women’s or men’s hockey.

(leave), hawkshaw (detective), goop (moron) 2018–19: Woke (culturally and politically aware), GOAT (greatest of all time), snack (an attractive person) 110 On screen: 1919: Mickey, Tarzan of the Apes 1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Midnight Cowboy 2019: The Lego Movie 2, Captain Marvel (both scheduled for release)

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Exactly how times have changed

107 $100 IN 1819 is worth $1,905.59 today.

108 No.1 songs on the Billboard Top 10 list through the decades: 1960S: “The Twist” by Chubby Checker 1970S: “You Light Up My Life” by Debby Boone 1980S: “Physical” by Olivia Newton-John 1990S: “How Do I Live” by LeAnn Rimes 2000S: “We Belong Together” by Mariah Carey

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109 Slang through the centuries: 1819: Nanty narking (great fun), hum (home) 1919: Hoosegow (prison), duck soup (something easy), skidoo

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111 Tuition costs: 1869

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$180

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$45

1962

$1375

1908

$60

1968

$2285

112 Some suggestions for “How to Dress Well, Though in College” from a 1922 Madisonensis: One pair of black flannel trousers One maroon sweater (Go, ’Gate!)

A SHEEPSKIN Indestructible and unwashable socks Shoes Hats (only recommended for first-years)

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87. Allen Miller ’43 (driver), James Queeney (back left), and Richard LaBonte ’43 at the 50th Colgate football celebration.

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113 This is how the United States looked at Colgate’s last big celebration, its Centennial: PRESIDENT: Woodrow Wilson WOMEN’S RIGHTS: Congress approves the 19th Amendment.

ATTA’ BOY: Babe Ruth joins the Yankees. DRY COUNTRY: The United States enters the first stages of Prohibition. GRAND OLD FLAG: 13 stripes, 48 stars

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Serving Our Country Campus has not been immune to the effects of wartime

114 More than 110 Madison University alumni served in the CIVIL WAR. 115 During the Civil War, students celebrated victories by FIRING A CANNON in front of East and West Halls.

116 During World War I, campus served as a military post so that students could prepare for combat. The Colgate University STUDENTS ARMY TRAINING CORPS was organized on Oct. 1, 1918, and continued until Dec. 18, 1918.

117 600: The approximate number of men — about three-fourths of the student body — who left by May 1917 to join the armed services or assist in the war effort during World War I. When the fall semester began, the students who remained were required to practice military drills.

118 Two German doctors visited Colgate in 1933 to take notes on the university’s successful athletics program. Members of the Berlin Olympic Committee and the NAZI PARTY, they assured students that war was improbable and that Jews were not being persecuted.

119 Colgate was one of 131 colleges to offer a V-12 NAVY COLLEGE TRAINING PROGRAM as a pathway for students to obtain Navy commision during World War II. It was also one of 20 flight preparatory schools in the nation, training future military pilots.

120 Though many faculty members served during World War II through teaching on campus, OTHERS HELPED OVERSEAS in places like the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.

121 In the midst of the United States’ involvement in World War II, a COLGATE AIRPORT was opened with the tagline “Home of the Flying Red Raiders.”

Women at Colgate They made a difference long before coeducation

122 President Stephen Taylor’s daughter, Emily, is perhaps the FIRST WOMAN to study at the university in the 1850s. She sat in on classes, studied German, and gave her work to Professor Ebenezer Dodge for proofing.

123 Mabel Dart, Class of 1882, had to pass an exhaustive series of entrance tests before she was allowed to take classes at Colgate. She was one of the first women to be admitted.

The DART COLGROVE COMMONS is named for her.

124 JOSEPHINE

YOUNG CASE,

President Everett Case’s wife, was an accomplished poet and novelist.

In 1969, she wrote a novel about living in Hamilton and taught a literature course at Colgate.

125 Helen Craven Mues was the FIRST GI WIFE to register at Colgate.

126 September 1970: Colgate became OFFICIALLY COED. 127 When Colgate became coed, the alma mater’s second stanza was changed to “YEARLY ROVE THY LOVING ONES” instead of “sons.”

128 The Swinging ’Gates, Colgate’s FIRST FEMALE A CAPPELLA group, released the album Stop Staring, Start Listening in 2017.

Students in the Marines participate in map-making class, 1944

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129 First tenured female professor: CAROL BLESER in 1970 130 1974 was called the “YEAR OF WOMAN” because of the

number of female faculty members granted tenure.

Recipients included Marilyn Thie (philosophy, religion, and women’s studies), Margaret Maurer (William Henry Crawshaw Professor of literature), Myra Smith (psychology), Lynn Staley (Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of the humanities and medieval and Renaissance studies), and Mary Bufwack (women’s studies).

131 One of the first full-time female professors hired, JANE PINCHIN became the first female Dean of Faculty in 1994. In 2001, she became interim president.

She is currently the Thomas A. Bartlett Chair and Professor of English emerita.

132 Colgate’s first residential living community, CICCONE COMMONS, was named after Diane Ciccone ’74, one of the first female graduates who is now a trustee emerita.

133 Another trustee emerita, CNN political analyst GLORIA BORGER ’74 was the first female editor of the Maroon.

134 Former President REBECCA

CHOPP (2002–09), Colgate’s only

female president, calls Emily Dickinson a role model “because of her love of words and simplicity and her ability to think outside of the box about the ordinary as well as the extraordinary.”

People The brilliant, the eccentric, and the just plain memorable

135 FIRST PRESIDENT: Nathaniel Kendrick (1836–1848) 136 Many Colgate luminaries are buried in the UNIVERSITY CEMETERY, such as President Ebenezer Dodge, founders

24 Colgate men were listed, including George E. Merrill and James B. Colgate. → 145 Lyle Bishop Chapman, Class of 1913, was one of the “UNTOUCHABLES” — a group of feds tasked with taking down the infamous Al Capone and his booze ring.

146 Although he was Jewish, Johnny Marks, Class of 1931, wrote holiday favorites including “RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” and “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” among others.

147 CHARLES ADDAMS, Class of 1933, was the creator of the Addams Family, which started as cartoons in the New Yorker. The house at 52 Maple Avenue in Hamilton is said to be the basis for the Addams Family house.

148 Harry Emerson Fosdick, Class of 1900, was a prominent figure in the FUNDAMENTALISTMODERNIST CONTROVERSY within the Presbyterian Church. He was also a founding pastor of New York City’s Riverside Church.

123. Mabel Dart, 1882

Samuel Payne and Jonathan Olmstead, and English professor Jonathan Kistler.

Centennial celebration Oct. 9–12, 1918.

138 Colgate’s second student, Eugenio Kincaid, WALKED 160 MILES to Hamilton from DeKalb, N.Y., to study with Daniel Hascall. On his way to the village, he chopped wood to pay for his meals and lodging.

140 Today’s student body includes 285 UNDERGRADUATES FROM 50 COUNTRIES. Their paths were paved by Moung Kyaw, Class of 1868. Kyaw, the university’s first international student, came to Hamilton from Burma (now Myanmar).

According to letters in the university archives, Colgate’s first student from “India,” which may have been Kyaw, brought a Buddha. When he converted to Christianity, he broke off the Buddha’s head and returned to Burma to become a missionary.

139 More than 1,300 ALUMNI returned to campus for the

141 Charles Evans Hughes, former

137 Jonathan Wade, who hailed from Hartford, N.Y., was the FIRST STUDENT. Arriving approximately a year before the institution formally opened, he learned Latin in the home of Daniel Hascall, one of the university’s founders.

chief justice of the Supreme Court, enrolled at Colgate when he was just 14 YEARS OLD. The swing voter was a member of Delta Upsilon, and he transferred to Brown University, where he finished his undergraduate degree.

149 Yoichi Okamoto ’38 was the second OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHER. Known as “Oke,” he candidly captured photos of Lyndon B. Johnson.

150 Newsman ANDY ROONEY ’42 admired the work of E.B. White.

“I read everything E.B. White ever wrote,” Rooney said in 2010. “He wrote very simply and directly. And whatever the subject was, it was always good.”

142 When George Edmands Merrill became Colgate’s sixth president in 1899, he was given a house and an ANNUAL SALARY OF $4,000 (about $116,000 today).

151 Adonal Foyle ’98, who played in the NBA for 13 years, came to Hamilton when he was 15 years old from St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

143 Oswald Avery, Class of 1900, performed an experiment with his co-workers revealing that DNA HOLDS GENETIC INFORMATION.

152 Colgate has a long history of sending alumni to the PEACE CORPS. Since 1961, more than 300 alumni have served in more than 77 different countries.

144 144 In the 1903 edition of WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA,

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other organizations on campus, it became the yearbook in 1934.

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Salmagundis through the years

158 On March 15, 1890, the New York Times reported the university’s name change to COLGATE. “The change is hailed by the students with great joy, and a new yell was ringing out in the village soon after the receipt of the telegrams. It is: ‘Yell high, yell great; ’RAH ’RAH, COLGATE!’ The faculty immediately declared a holiday, and it was spent in jubilating over the victory.”

159 In its archives, Colgate has several CANES, which were en vogue accessories in the late 19th century.

history of American civilization, focusing on the history of higher education and American intellectual history.

Mystery and Miscellany

$50,000 (more than $1 million today) “to recognize God’s providence.”

157 The first volume of the SALMAGUNDI, meaning “miscellany” or “medley,” was published in 1883. Its editor was James C. Colgate. While its content originally focused on lists of faculty, fraternities, and

From coincidental to spooky

154 A.D. Gillette, who attended the Hamilton Institution from 1828–31, was the minister who prayed with PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ASSASSINS before they went to the gallows.

155 One of the most important backers of the early days of the institution was WILLIAM COLGATE, a prominent soap and candle maker who lived in New York City. A devout Baptist, he was interested in fostering ministerial education.

156 When his steamship hit an iceberg and almost sank in 1879, JAMES B. COLGATE DONATED

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160. Hotel Hamilton, June 22, 1909

160 HOTEL HAMILTON was decorated for the visit of Charles Evans Hughes, Class of 1880, then governor of New York, June 22, 1909 (pictured below).

161 SKI RACES were a part of the university’s annual winter carnival tradition. In the early 1900s, those in fraternities and student residences hit the snow to compete for the house cup.

162 In 1918–19, 80 students contracted the SPANISH FLU. Only one Colgate student died from the pandemic that killed millions.

163 Some areas of campus are rumored to be haunted, including Andrews Hall, Eaton Hall, and Merrill House. In 2016, Ghost Hunter John Zaffis investigated and found evidence that PARANORMAL ACTIVITY may exist in Merrill House.

164 While we rep maroon today, Colgate’s original colors were BLUE AND MAGENTA (1868–1886) and then orange and maroon (1886–1900).

165 You may have been to a TUNK, but have you ever wondered what the Colgatespecific word means? The origin refers to a masculine social situation; both students and faculty have used the term through the years.

166 MYSTERY OF THE MISSING PLASTER CASTS: Colgate used

its collection of plaster casts as teaching tools. Most of the

casts were donated in honor of Trustee George L. Stedman in the early 1900s, and they were housed in the reading room at the James B. Colgate Library.

Sometime between 1943 and 1956, they were removed and are rumored to have been taken to the local dump. Only the busts of Homer and Virgil remain on campus.

167 How many of these HAMILTON ESTABLISHMENTS do

you remember? John’s Shoe Shop, PM Jones, Rausa’s Smoke Shop, Blue Bird Restaurant, Reed’s Hardware, Crowe’s Drug Store, Roger’s Market, Trask Motors, Vantine Studios, McLaughlin’s, The Nautilus, Rosita’s, Numero Uno, The Trillium, Cat's Meow, Bubba’s Burritos, and Loose Caboose.

168 COLGATE’S SEAL depicts a hand holding a torch, along with a scroll bearing the Latin motto Deo Ac Veritati (For God and Truth).

169 Colgate’s MACE — the object carried by the university marshal leading the commencement procession — dates back to 1991.

Its creation was spearheaded by biology professor William J. Oostenink. The acorn and oak leaves at the top represent strength, stability, and continuity.

170 Pictured: the university key, kept in the archives. “A KEY may be used to lock oneself in or open the door to a wider life. Colgate has always stood for the open door.” — John Golden ’66, former chair of the Board of Trustees 171 President Brian Casey’s dog,

173 When Michael Torpey ’02 landed the part of Norm in the movie POTTERSVILLE, he had no idea it’d be filmed in Hamilton. “I was floored,” he said.

174 By simply saying “hi” to everyone you meet on campus, you’re participating in a nearly century-old Colgate tradition.

The first published mention of the “COLGATE HELLO” was in the 1924–25 student handbook.

175 Hamilton’s zip code, aka “the hip zip,” is 13346. The first two numbers are 13 and the last three numbers add up to 13.

The Campus This must be the place

176 42°49'10"N 75°32'11"W: Colgate’s coordinates.

177 In 1794, SAMUEL PAYNE, one of Hamilton’s first settlers, “felled the first tree in a virgin wilderness.” He prayed and dedicated to God the land that is now Colgate’s campus.

178 178 “The Hill” was previously known as “PAYNE HILL.” 179 The boarding hall served up LESS CARB-CONSCIOUS MEALS of oatmeal, pancakes, and bread in the early 1800s.

EMRYS, has his own Instagram

180 Rooms were lit by WHALE OIL lamps or candles in the early years.

172 Nestled in the Adirondacks, COLGATE CAMP is a summer tradition for many in the university community. The descendants of Colgate’s 10th president, Vincent Barnett Jr. (1963–69), are the first on the camp’s calendar each season.

181 The campus’s oldest buildings are constructed from CHENANGO SANDSTONE.

account: @Emrys_at_Colgate

182 Built by students and faculty in 1827, WEST HALL is the oldest structure on campus. It was originally called Western Edifice.

The building’s gray limestone came from the quarry above the old golf course.

183 Nicholas Brown, patron of Brown University, donated $1,000 toward the building of West Hall.

191 In 1959, CHAPEL HOUSE was built with a gift from a donor who asked that her identity never be revealed.

192 13: The number of steps between each floor in Alumni Hall.

193 The Class of 2002 gave the WALL AND GARDEN in front of Merrill House in remembrance of 9/11.

184 REMOVAL CRISIS: In 1847, faculty members and alumni considered moving the university to Rochester or another city with more opportunities than Hamilton.

194 FOSSILS decorate the side of Hascall Hall.

185 JAMES B. COLGATE HALL initially was called James B. Colgate Library when it was erected in 1891. It now houses the Office of Admission.

195 You can walk from Lathrop Hall to the Ho Science Center without ever stepping outside — just go through the TUNNELS.

186 James B. Colgate Library cost $140,000 to build.

LANGUAGE STUDY, located in

196 The W.M. KECK CENTER FOR

Lawrence Hall, allows students to immerse themselves in language and culture in a hightech environment.

187 The ACADEMIC QUAD took shape in 1918.

188 Stairway to heaven: Architect Paul Rudolph’s original plans for the Dana Arts Center included a STAIRWAY linking the roof sculpture court with the upper campus.

189 “ANGEL FACTORY”: Because of the university’s theological ties, this was the nickname for Eaton Hall when it was turned into residence halls in 1928 after the seminary relocated to Rochester.

190 A CONVEYOR TRACK SYSTEM brought books from James B. Colgate Library to Everett N. Case Library in 1958.

197 The ROBERT M. LINSLEY GEOLOGY MUSEUM houses a

7-foot-long mammoth tusk, a fluorescent mineral display, a mural depicting Hamilton 375 million years ago, and fossil samples (pictured).

198 The COLGATE COMMUNITY GARDEN is home to eggplant, watermelon, kohlrabi, and … honeybees. In 2017, students brought two hives to the location.

199 25: Years the Saperstein Center has been active. Read more on page 26.

200. Current photo of OLMSTEAD HOUSE, where the 13 founders first gathered.

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Our Story

Mark Williams

The university’s much-anticipated Bicentennial is, in part, about examining our past so we’ll be better informed to shape Colgate’s future. Faculty and staff, alumni, and students have devoted themselves to this pursuit; these projects are just a few examples of that effort.

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The Hill Envisioned

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magine if Oak Drive had never been created. Or, what if lower campus — everything down the hill from McGregory, Lathrop, and Lawrence — were just a sweeping park?

Possibilities like these are the subject of The Hill Envisioned, an exhibition of blueprints, architectural plans, and maps showing campus planning proposals through the years. Held in Clifford Gallery, it premiered last spring and returned in the early fall.

“This show is not a history of the campus,” explains Bob McVaugh, a professor of art and art history whose decade-long research comprises the exhibition. “It’s a sampling of moments over time when those in charge of the campus turned to voices outside, and we’re extraordinarily fortunate for that.”

These “voices” have included famous architects like Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed New York City’s Central Park, as well as lesser-known but prominent names such as Arthur Shurtleff, who was chief landscape architect for Colonial Williamsburg.

Olmsted was the creative force behind many of the campus’s signature characteristics, including Oak Drive.

But Ernest Bowditch was the architect who created the campus we know, based on some of Olmsted’s recommendations and Bowditch’s own ideas. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Bowditch oriented the Quad to determine where the chapel should go, guided the creation of Whitnall Field, and gave form to Taylor Lake.

McVaugh discovered the historical proposals and plans in the facilities department. Over time, he and research students have been collecting them so that they can eventually be part of the university archives.

“We are extremely lucky that our facilities department has not thrown out these historical documents,” McVaugh says. “It’s a treasure trove.”

Some of the past ideas for Colgate’s master planning may seem antithetical to how we envision the university today. But this outside thinking is necessary to challenge our conceptions, McVaugh asserts. “Specific campus plans are rarely followed, but they usually provide a seed, a vision, a new way of thinking about the hill.”

Intending to continue archiving these assets from the facilities department, McVaugh says, “We will keep learning about how we became what we are today.”

Plans by Walter Chambers and Hugh Findlay included revisions and extensions to the Quad from the mid-1920s into the late 1930s.

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Repression, Re-Invention, and Rugelach

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t only 16 years old, with a shock of red hair, Noel Rubinton ’43 arrived at Colgate in September of 1939 to embark on his first year. His youth and hair color weren’t Rubinton’s only distinguishing characteristics. He also was in the tiny minority of Jewish students.

His son, Noel Rubinton Jr., provides a brief biography of his father — including the discrimination he faced at Colgate — in the foreword to Repression, Re-Invention, and Rugelach: A History of Jews at Colgate (Colgate University Press, 2018). The book, which highlights significant moments and key figures in the evolution of Jewish life on campus, was supported by a bequest from the estate of Noel Rubinton ’43. “[My father] was on the leading edge of Colgate’s Jewish history,” Rubinton Jr. wrote in the foreword.

Spearheaded by Rubinton Jr., Rabbi Dena Bodian, and Professor Alice Nakhimovsky, the book was written by six students: Amy Balmuth ’17, Emily Kahn ’19, Cameron Pauly ’19, Kim Ravold ’19, Marit Vangrow ’18, and Dominic Wilkins ’17. Repression, Re-Invention, and Rugelach was the culmination of their JWST 411 seminar led by Nakhimovsky, the book’s editor.

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institution at which I’m studying,” Kahn said during a panel discussion launching the book at the Saperstein Jewish Center’s 25th anniversary during reunion.

Each student wrote a chapter on a different theme, based on archival research and interviews with alumni.

Although the topics varied, a common thread appeared throughout: Even in times of adversity, Colgate students demonstrate perseverance. The first chapter tackles the quota system under President George Cutten, which explains why Rubinton Sr. was one of only a few Jewish students admitted. Another chapter deals with discriminatory practices in the fraternities and how Jewish students formed other groups to create bonds.

After the fraternities denied Rubinton Sr., he (like other Jews) became a leader in the Colgate Commons Club, which offered equal membership opportunities.

“That was the thing that was really incredible,” Vangrow said. “Even in the face of oppression, you could still find your community at Colgate.”

Later in life, Rubinton Sr. received apologies from classmates for the way they treated him. In 2003, at the age of 80, he was elected class president — a position he held until he died in 2016.

Acknowledging that the university has made great strides toward inclusion, the student authors agreed that there is still work to be done. “Before any concrete action can happen, students need to take an interest in their own history,” Kahn said. “What I hope comes from this book is that we can take some of the lessons and perseverance of Jewish students throughout time and use their stories to advocate for other groups on campus.”

Below left: Counselor to Jewish Students Moshe Gresser helped establish Jewish life on campus in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

Below: In 1968, the Association of Black Collegians rallied behind a Jewish student who was excluded from Phi Delta Theta membership.

Left: Special Collections and University Archives; Right: Mark DiOrio

Historian Jim Smith ’70, author of the university's new history book.

Becoming Colgate

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s he started working on Becoming Colgate, the university’s new history book, author Jim Smith ’70 thought about the institution’s most enduring feature: the hill.

Smith lays the foundation in the first chapter by chronicling the geology of the land, from the creation of the bedrock to the Chenango Sandstone that built the university’s oldest buildings. It speaks of the cave bears and saber-toothed cats that roamed the grounds long before students arrived. And it details the plight of the Iroquois tribes that were the valley’s first human inhabitants.

“Historians want to know what came before,” Smith says. Just as glaciers sculpted the hill, the broader academic landscape and global events shaped the institution’s changing structure. Throughout the book, Smith places the university against this backdrop colored by wars, a shifting religious climate, philosophies about education, and attitudes on inclusion.

“We can speak of ivy-covered walls and the detachment of universities from wider society, but we can’t tell the story of an institution without putting it in a broader historical context,” he says.

Some of these changes over the years, Smith has personally witnessed — both as a student and as an engaged alumnus who has served on the Board of Trustees, Alumni Corporation Board, and Bicentennial committees.

It was during a 2014 board meeting when former President Jeffrey Herbst asked Smith to accept the

monumental assignment of writing Colgate’s history, which had not been formally updated since 1969 (A History of Colgate University, Howard C. Williams ’30).

Smith’s background made him the perfect candidate. A historian, he’s the Rockefeller Archive Center’s vice president and director of research and education. Among his published works, he penned Brookings at Seventy-Five, tracing the evolution of the Brookings Institution, and he oversaw the Rockefeller Foundation’s digital history project.

He began the Colgate book four years ago, aided by the university’s archivists, the Bicentennial research fellows, and students.

Not shying away from controversial issues over the years or whitewashing history, Smith calls attention to times of crises as well as times of celebration. “A bicentennial is the chance to look back and reflect,” he says, “and part of that reflection is to look at difficult historical moments.”

But, Smith acknowledges that Becoming Colgate is his telling of the university’s history, which will be different from others’. “Colgate’s story is inevitably plural and diverse, and no single-authored narrative can hope to capture the full range of the varied experiences of students, faculty, and staff who have been associated with our university,” he writes in the introduction.

“I hope this book will prompt many others to reflect on their experiences, perhaps to contribute new perspectives and help construct a more robust and encompassing history of Colgate.”

This invitation not only encourages the Colgate community to participate in the current conversation, but also to build upon Smith’s work, especially as we develop a better understanding of issues with which we’re still grappling.

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Visit colgate.edu/ magazine to learn how to access these Bicentennial projects.

Path of Duty

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haring common values of faith, community, and education, three alumni are the focus of Path of Duty, a new documentary based on research by Diane Ciccone ’74, P’10 and Jason Petrulis, former Bicentennial research fellow. Ciccone’s research began as the basis for a book about African American influencers at Colgate over the years.

“I wanted to write about those who came before me,” says Ciccone, who is aiming to publish in time for her 2019 Reunion. “So fifty years from now, people won’t have to wonder who was here before them and what contributions they made.”

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the documentary in 2016 and brought Atlanta, Ga.–based filmmakers Zeron Turlington and Nicole Watson on board. Turlington and Watson selected these three men (pictured on next page) from Ciccone’s research because of their impact on the South in the post-slavery era.

“We looked at the journeys they took and their abilities to make a difference in such tough environments,” Turlington explains. “Each of them accepted the challenge and responsibility of making a difference in their communities.”

The documentary also shows how, in addition to having similar fundamental beliefs, the three men demonstrated a lasting Colgate connection. Archer, for example, gave Morehouse College its colors — maroon and white — in honor of alma mater. “You can see that they appreciated what they received from Colgate,” Turlington says.

Ciccone says: “As we celebrate the Bicentennial, this film reminds us of the great American legacies left by these forgotten Colgate men.”

Henry Livingston Simpson, 1853 (AB) and 1855 (theological degree) → The first-known African American student to graduate from Madison University → Believed to be among the first African Americans to graduate from a U.S. college → Frederick Douglass cited him as a positive example in support of expanded higher education opportunities for African American men. → Ordained a Baptist minister in 1856, he traveled to Ohio, Georgia, and Canada to preach and serve as a missionary. He primarily worked at churches associated with abolitionism. → Acted as president of the American Baptist Consolidated Missionary Convention, an African American church organization intended to promote missionary work, from 1869–1871 Below: Diane Ciccone ’74

Excerpted from “Henry Livingston Simpson: First known African American graduate,” Annalise Simons ’21, 200.

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Samuel Howard Archer, Class of 1902 → Taught at Wayland Academy in Virginia before enrolling in Colgate at age 27 → May have been the first African American football player at Colgate; president of the junior class → New York State awarded him with a professional teaching certificate. → In 1905, he joined Morehouse College in Atlanta and spent the next 36 years as a faculty member, football coach, dean, vice president, and ultimately, president of the historically black men’s college. → When he died in 1941, Mr. and Mrs. W.E.B. Du Bois sent a letter to his widow expressing their own sense of “personal loss at the death of an old friend.” → Colgate awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1932.

Excerpted from “Inspirational educator,” Jim Leach, Colgate Scene

Andrew Daddio

Everett Booker Jones, Class of 1905 → At Colgate, he played baseball, was a member of the German Club and Chemistry Society, and is believed to be the first African American member of Phi Beta Kappa. → Earned a master’s in science from the University of Iowa in 1907 → 1906–1924: taught chemistry and biology at Florida A&M University → Organizer and first president of Florida A&M’s alumni association → Created the “College Witts,” Florida A&M’s first literary society → Florida A&M named its science building in his honor. → 1924: became head of the biology department at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo. Autumn 2018

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How Colgate’s campus has developed over 70 years

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Artistic interpretation by illustrator Katherine Baxter

Endeavor

e’s shot pool with Sean Penn, road tripped with Wes Anderson, and courted Carmen Electra.

In his new book, L.A. Man, Joe Donnelly ’86 takes readers along on past adventures with some of the most recognizable people in the world. He also introduces readers to underground artists, surfers, skaters, and even some outlaws who have made their marks on the cultural landscape, as well as an intrepid wolf who changed California. This anthology of profiles represents mile markers in Donnelly’s journalism career with publications like the L.A. Weekly, Bikini, Los Angeles Times, Slake, and The Surfer’s Journal.

“Joe Donnelly gravitates toward characters who have heart and portrays them with insight and humanity,” writes the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf.

As the book title suggests, L.A. Man is as much about Donnelly as the stars he spotlights. And just as he has no qualms with reporting his subjects’ shortcomings (he once facetiously asked Olivia Wilde why, as a vegetarian, she wasn’t skinnier and told Christian Bale he didn’t like his new movie), Donnelly freely exposes his own vulnerabilities.

So, when we invited Donnelly to interview himself, we knew he wouldn’t pull any punches.

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Joe Donnelly ’86 Interviews Himself Finding career perspective in a self-guided retrospective

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Despite the marquee names, half of the profiles focus on lesser-known subjects, like the epic story of redeemed outlaw Eddie Padilla. How’d you pick whom to include? Well, I was fortunately limited by what was readily available on the Internet.

I’m old enough that a lot of my career predates the digital age and while there were some worthy nuggets from back in ye olden days, tracking those pieces down would have been more work than what I was getting paid for (which, so far, is

Henry Cherry

You’ve said you hope this book could add to the canon of bathroom reads.

Everyone knows you’re an egomaniac; don’t you think more highly of your work? I’m glad you ask that, Joe. When I said that, it’s precisely because I think so highly of my work. Let’s be real, anyone who lives in a busy household knows the bathroom is a sanctuary. I’ve done some of my best reading in there. What an honor if someone thinks this collection is worthy to occupy that precious space and time (it is!).

Plus, I learned about narrative journalism and profiles by sneaking the sports pages off to the bathroom. Maybe someone can have the same experience with this book. It’s gotta’ be better for you than Instagram.

I learned about narrative journalism and profiles by sneaking the sports pages off to the bathroom. nothing — so buy the book!). Also, the digital era coincided with the lion’s share of my Los Angeles–based journalism career, so it’s only natural that a certain amount of it would be based on the entertainment industry.

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You use author’s notes to provide context to a lot of the stories. What’s a behindthe-scenes tidbit about the book? The hidden secret of some of these pieces is that I was driving around town in a battered, metallic blue, Ford F150 with a camper top.

If anyone got a look at me, they would think I was a modern-day Beverly Hillbilly — which won’t surprise some of my Colgate contemporaries. It was not a cool ride in L.A.

Brandon Ramcheran ’06 aims to improve durability in gaming products.

In the Christian Bale piece, you say you’d previously pledged to never do another celebrity interview. Why? I always think I’m going to hate doing them.

And celebrities can be boring. I got into journalism to write about the struggles of real people trying to live in an oftendaunting world, not about Christian Bale’s ability to lose or gain weight for different film roles. The celebrity thing became kind of a side-hustle that ended up just being the direction the horse was going in for a while. But I learned that these folks are real people too, with struggles and stories. If you show up and actually listen, you’ll get to those stories and they can be illuminating, entertaining, and even inspiring. ●

Facts about Donnelly ⚫ Favorite person he’s interviewed: Can’t pick just one: Craig Stecyk, Sean Penn, Lauren Weedman, and Werner Herzog. ⚫ Colgate major: History ⚫ His short story “Bonus Baby” was included in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016. ⚫ Teaches journalism and English at Whittier College, where he sometimes plays acoustic guitar in class. ⚫ To make ends meet: has worked as a short-order cook, cleaned houses, and even swept a few chimneys.

The cover design of L.A. Man (Rare Bird Books) features palm trees that are intended to form a Y between the A and the M. “It was meant to subliminally [read] ‘layman’ ... the message was, journalists are laymen,” Donnelly says.

For many college students, video games can be a distraction from studying. But Brandon Ramcheran ’06 can draw a line from his undergraduate leisuretime obsession all the way to his current work as co-founder and co-CEO of JoyTops, a Los Angeles, Calif.–based start-up with products in video game stores nationwide.

At Colgate, Ramcheran formed some of his closest friendships playing FIFA Soccer.

Among Ramcheran’s friends, a legend grew up around his powerful video-game controller, nicknamed Excalibur. But when the analog stick wore out, he had to throw it away. “When Excalibur broke, I felt like I lost my strength,” Ramcheran says.

That experience sparked an idea that would grow into a full-fledged business plan years later, when Ramcheran was working on the showroom floor at Tesla Motors in Los Angeles.

Keeping up his gaming habit, Ramcheran had recently worn out two additional controllers.

Again and again, it was an analog stick (or “joystick,” to older gamers) that failed.

Talking to fellow Tesla product specialist Carlos Montoya about the design weakness that kept turning his prized controllers into trash, Ramcheran hatched an idea that would define the next four years of his life: stylish protective caps that extend the life of analog sticks and provide new opportunities for customization and feel.

The initial product offerings from JoyTops, the company founded by Ramcheran and Montoya, are analog stick thumb grips fabricated with the same materials used to make footballs, basketballs, and baseballs.

The products debuted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June 2017 and have been in demand ever since. The national video-game outlet chain GameStop sells the products in its top 500 locations, and Ramcheran recently launched a partnership with the LA Clippers for a VIP courtside giveaway.

Ramcheran sees room for growth for his business in the increasingly lucrative industry of competitive video gaming, or esports, where skilled gamers can make millions of dollars by letting viewers watch them navigate tricky in-game scenarios on platforms like Twitch. “It’s huge,” Ramcheran says of esports.

Looking ahead for JoyTops, Ramcheran is dreaming big.

“The master plan is to become the Fitbit or Nike of the esports segment,” he says. “We want to become synonymous with technology as well as performance in esports.”

— Mike Agresta

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Film

The A–Z on RBG Julie Cohen ’86 does biopic justice to Ruth Bader Ginsburg

he may be diminutive in physical stature, but Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a.k.a. Notorious RBG — has become a huge pop icon.

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How did this distinguished dissenter become the subject of internet memes, a Saturday Night Live skit, an action figure, and crowds of adoring millennial feminists?

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Meal Ticket David Kelly ’86, Steve Olejarczyk ’86, and Greg Koerner ’87 create Anxiety Stew

Some songwriters begin with a melody; others find inspiration in a catchy phrase. For David Kelly ’86, writer and composer of the new musical Anxiety Stew, it all started with a little too much dessert.

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With the recent biopic RBG, filmmakers Julie Cohen ’86 and Betsy West show how Ginsburg was breaking glass ceilings before that was even a thing.

“Women sticking up for their own rights — that’s a message Ruth Bader Ginsburg was spreading way before it was popular,” Cohen says. “At the time, the idea that women not only should be treated equally but also that the Constitution protects their equal treatment was incredibly radical.”

It’s a story people want to hear. At press time, RBG was climbing the list of top 25 highest-grossing documentaries of all time, bringing in $12 million. The film also was praised by critics. The New York Times described it as “loving and informative.” Cohen and West have been tapped for interviews by every major media outlet.

“We had high expectations, and it exceeded all of them,” says Cohen, a three-time Emmy Award winner who had a long career at Dateline NBC before starting her own production company, BetterThanFiction.

The film premiered at Sundance in January 2018 and hit theaters last May — perfect timing as Ginsburg’s popularity soars and the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have risen.

Fittingly, women were the key figures in bringing the documentary to life. Female

“I happen to like cannolis a lot, good ones,” says Kelly, who grew up in a Sicilian family.

“Once, I had too many, and I woke up in a cold sweat because I had a dream I was trying to swim my way through a cannoli shell.”

A less creative person might simply have told someone about the anxiety dream.

Kelly went further. A Wall Street quantitative analyst by day who has performed original rock ’n’ roll songs in “just about every dive in New York,” he wrote a song about the dream. The song in turn grew into a stage musical set in the office of a psychologist who specializes in food issues. Other original songs in the revue include a sexy vamp about hors d’oeuvres and a rap based around the hook from the children’s classic “On Top of Spaghetti.” The sum of these

CNN Films executives signed on as producing partners and provided financial backing. The crew also was predominantly women. “Since we were making a film about a woman who had spent her career focusing on the rights of women, it seemed like a natural extension to involve as many women as possible in the top positions,” Cohen says.

RBG follows Ginsburg’s hard-fought path from law school, to balancing a career and family, to working for the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, to her nomination as a Supreme Court justice. It tells the touching love story between Ginsburg and her supportive husband, Martin. And it humanizes Ginsburg even further by letting the audience into her personal life, including moments with her granddaughter, a peek at her lace collar collection, and footage of her famous, buttkicking workout.

The film also outlines the factors that contributed to this cultural phenomenon — starting with Ginsburg’s professional reputation and growing with the social media groundswell that resulted in the book Notorious RBG (2015, Dey Street Books).

“That people are celebrating her for her lifelong persistence and her intellect, and that people are idolizing an 85-yearold woman — I think that’s so cool,” Cohen says. — Aleta Mayne

compositions is Anxiety Stew, which made its New York City debut at Cherry Lane Theatre in June.

When Kelly finished writing the show, he brought in college friend (and partner in ’80s rock act Then Omaha) Steve Olejarczyk ’86 to serve as musical director. Greg Koerner ’87 later joined as bassist of the on-stage Anxiety Stew band, the Stew-Nods.

Kelly says the sensibility the three collaborators share as alumni informed the show’s sneaky-smart sense of humor. “They added a whole other set of colors to what I wrote,” he recalls. “With these guys, I know that what they end up doing will be cool and tasteful. That’s the Colgate profile — you can have confidence that they’ll get the joke.” — Mike Agresta

Endeavor

Book Review Shadowed by Deep Time

by Paul Pinet, professor of geology and environmental studies emeritus AuthorHouse, 2017 In these 16 essays, Paul Pinet calls on decades of experience as a geologist, mountaineer, and Colgate professor. He uses the geologic concept of deep time to understand how our inner and outer worlds mirror and echo each other in myriad ways.

His insights can help us find meaning despite the contingency

and brevity of our lives as individuals, even in the absence of religious faith.

Each of us carries in our DNA the encodings of an evolutionary past that we share with earth’s other organisms; the landforms and ecosystems that surround us on all sides embody the same common history. Pinet finds hidden interconnections between seemingly disparate phenomena: from long-forgotten geologic cataclysms that have left their traces in Australia’s coastal rock formations and aboriginal cave drawings, to a jazz riff that emerges for a moment and then disappears forever in a nightclub.

He situates these connections against the flow of a deep time

that subsumes and transcends all our lived moments. His argument lies within a school of thought — developed by writers, scientists, artists, and others — that scientific and humanist approaches are complementary and interdependent, not competitive.

Some of the most interesting essays center on Pinet’s musings about self-perception.

Despite our fervent sense of unique personhood, each of us represents a collection of so many microbes and microorganisms that we are equally akin to the rich ecosystems we seek out,

admire, and too often destroy. The best passages are reminiscent of Aldo Leopold’s seminal ecological work A Sand County Almanac (1949) and Bernd Heinrich’s The Trees in My Forest (1997) — in which deeply thoughtful authors bring their expertise to bear in a highly personal way on ecological, environmental, and existential topics they have pondered for a lifetime.

Ian M. Helfant, associate professor of Russian and Eurasian studies and environmental studies; director of environmental studies

Film

Evil at Heart?

Brian Douglas, courtesy of Voltage Pictures

In his new film, Joe Berlinger ’83 examines serial killer Ted Bundy

In much of his work, filmmaker Joe Berlinger ’83 has provided a voice for the wrongfully accused. But in his newest narrative project for the silver screen — Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile — the subject is Ted Bundy, the infamous kidnapper, burglar, necrophile, and rapist convicted of killing more than 30 people.

The film pushes the audience to consider Bundy’s complex character separately from his horrific acts. “I think the big mistake in dealing with psychotic people is assuming they’re just evil and two dimensional,” Berlinger says. “People have multiple sides to them.”

The audience experiences the story through Bundy’s girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who views Bundy not as a sadistic serial killer, but as an attentive boyfriend who’s a surrogate father to her young child. “[Bundy] convinces her that he’s a victim of circumstance, and throughout most of the movie she believes him, because he’s a good salesman,” says Berlinger, who traveled to meet the real-life Kloepfer and her daughter.

Much of Berlinger’s documentary work has focused on supporting victims of crime and defending the wrongfully accused, but

Joe Berlinger ’83 (standing, right) on the set with Zac Efron (seated, right)

Kloepfer is different from the people he’s advocated for in the past. "[Manipulative people like Bundy] can disguise themselves and be the person you trust the most,” he says.

“For me, this is a film about how one can be seduced by somebody and become a victim.”

Berlinger takes the audience through Kloepfer’s emotional journey, from believing wholeheartedly in Bundy to realizing his deception.

“She’s a courageous woman,” Berlinger says, “and as you see in the film, in the end, she had a dramatic final reckoning with him.”

Bundy denied his heinous actions for decades, especially in the courtroom. This scene in the film, Berlinger says, is the first time the audience realizes just how evil

Bundy is. The camera zooms in on the killer, from a wide shot of his body, with the whole courtroom in view, to an extreme close-up of his eyes.

“I think it’s an award-winning moment from Zac Efron [who plays Bundy],” Berlinger says. “He’s such a heartthrob; it’s a bold and risky choice to be allowed to be seen as an evil person.”

Making a movie about someone who was executed nearly 30 years ago leaves lingering questions. For Berlinger, the most pressing one also drives the film: “Was Ted Bundy actually capable of love despite having killed women in the most horrific of ways? That’s what I want people to ponder.”

— Rebecca Docter Autumn 2018

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SALMAGUNDI 13 Words (or fewer) I scream, you scream, we all scream for Colgate Magazine. Here are the winners from our spring ’18 caption contest.

Yes, Colgate has a diversified student body, but I’m sorry, you aren’t qualified.

— Richard Johnson ’55

You think I want his ice cream, but I’m going for his nuts.

— Jon Goldstein ’76

The squirrel says, “You’re not the real Bullwinkle — but I’m not real either.”

— Rev. Gordon Strunk ’78

Yes, it’s a fine cone.

But I asked you to get a PINECONE! — Mark Swingle ’93

Thirteen Hundred Alumni Attend Centennial Celebration That Marks Close of First Hundred Years

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From the Colgate Maroon, Oct. 15, 1919

The past week has seen the Colgate campus transferred from the quiet routine of college work into a veritable metropolis of activity. With the arrival of over 1300 Alumni and friends of the University to attend the Centennial Celebrations, Colgate men commemorated the founding of their Alma Mater one hundred years ago.

Meetings, addresses by various Alumni, an Alumni Banquet, the Alumni Dance, and the Brown-Colgate football game all combined to make successful the Celebration of the Centennial. The reunion of various classes, the meeting of old friends and brothers, and the sight of the familiar scenes made each Alumnus renew his former love of his Alma Mater and his honor to Colgate.

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In This Issue

Find out where million-year-old animals left their marks on campus

Plan to see the RBG biopic by Julie Cohen ’86 p.34

Travel back in time with an immunologist p.13

Run a sub-3-hour marathon p.6

Join a book club with Professor Margaret Maurer p.39

Ride a unicycle with our new AD p.10

Walk through the newest building on Oak Drive p.11

Treat yo’ self after work p.73

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Fly through Colgate’s woods with rare migratory birds p.8

Experience Colgate like it’s 1938 p.64

Peer into the campus future p.30

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Meet some of the first alumni of color p.28

Delve into the mind of a serial killer p.35