Spring Scene 2015

scene Spring 2015

News and views for the Colgate community

Compass The $2.5 billion math problem

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Spring 2015

DEPARTMENTS

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Professors point you in the direction of some of the most fascinating places on earth

30 The $2.5 billion math problem

How Bill Lloyd ’80 blew the whistle and saved the retirement savings of thousands

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Colgate Leadership

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13346 — Inbox

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Work & Play

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Tableau: “Canoeing with Ricky”

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Colgate Day: Back2Back

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Life of the Mind

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Arts & Culture

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Go ’gate

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New, Noted & Quoted

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The Big Picture

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Stay Connected

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Class News 62 Marriages & Unions 62 Births & Adoptions 62 In Memoriam

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Salmagundi: “Teamwork” puzzle, Rewind: Remembering “The Camel”

On the cover: Tucker Daddis ’17 (right) consults with laboratory instructor Patricia Jue as he makes -bromostyrene, a compound with a floral odor used in the soap and perfume industry, for Organic Chemistry I. The lab exercise asks the students to characterize the product to determine the mechanism of the reaction. Left: A European Hornbeam, or Carpinus betulus, comes to life outside Memorial Chapel as spring descends on Hamilton. The tree is adorned with catkins, cylindrical flower clusters that allow the tree to be pollinated by wind.

Both photos by Andrew Daddio

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Contributors

Volume XLIV Number 3 The Scene is published by Colgate University four times a year — in autumn, winter, spring, and summer. The Scene is circulated without charge to alumni, parents, friends, and students.

Four-year communications intern Natalie Sportelli ’15 (co-author, “Compass,” pg. 24) has had oodles of Colgate article bylines. She parlayed her collaboration skills through Konosioni, Links, Colgate Women in Business, and as College Democrats president and WRCU program director. An English Department Fellow and London English Study Group participant, she’s heading off to write for Forbes after graduation.

The mixed-media illustrations and paintings of Stephanie Dalton Cowan (“The $2.5 billion math problem,” pg.

30) have been featured in major motion pictures, magazines, book covers, and opera and theater posters.

Among her clients are Showtime Networks, the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Harvard Business Review, and Silversea, as well as numerous university publications.

Joey Bartolomeo ’95 had fun turning the interview tables on entertainment journalist Ken Baker ’92 (“The write life in Hollywood,” pg. 47) and chatting with him about their days at Us Weekly (long before the Kardashians were a thing), as well as the latest on Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus.

Bartolomeo lives with her husband and son in New York City, where she is the executive editor of Seventeen.

Benjamin Gleisser (“Selling baseball across America,” pg.

48) is an award-winning journalist, ghostwriter and co-author of Compassionate Messenger: True Stories from a Psychic Medium and Tango: Lessons for Life. The Ontario Arts Council awarded him two grants to write a book on hospice. He has taught writing and creativity workshops in the United States and Canada.

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Colgate leadership

Full steam ahead

A world-class education

As you may already know, President Jeffrey Herbst has decided not to seek renewal of his contract, which concludes on June 30, 2015. In conversations with the Board of Trustees, Jeff cited his desire to transition at a time that was best for Colgate: after finalizing the university’s 2014-2019 strategic plan, and prior to launching our next fundraising campaign and 2019 bicentennial celebration.

I join my board colleagues in applauding Jeff’s accomplished tenure and extending our great thanks to him and his wife, Sharon Polansky, for their leadership and dedication over the past five years. Jeff’s efforts to significantly build financial aid resources contributed to strengthening Colgate: the Class of 2018 has the best academic profile and the most diverse demographic profile in university history. And the strategic plan that he led will innovate student residential life communities and substantially enhance our educational offerings.

A committee of trustees, faculty, students, and a senior administrator, chaired by trustee Michael J. Herling ’79, P’08,’10,’12 and advised by executive search firm Spencer Stuart, is working to identify Colgate’s 17th president. These dedicated individuals will develop a vision of the attributes we will seek in our next president, in collaboration with members of the campus, alumni, and local communities. Based on that vision, they will select a dynamic individual to lead us forward.

In the meantime, Colgate is moving full steam ahead. I would like to thank Professor Jill Harsin for her willingness to serve as interim president for one year, beginning July 1. We will continue to further integrate academics and residential life through our soon-to-be-launched living-learning communities, and fortify our already robust international programs, including a new center this fall. In addition, we will soon break ground for a new athletics facility, a new building for career services, and the Center for Art and Culture. Colgate continues to provide an increasingly excellent educational experience for our students, and the Colgate community continues to exude strength and optimism.

Five years ago, I observed in my inauguration speech that, especially in an age threatened with anomie, people seek a community whose members work and play together and use technology to connect and be more humane.

I believed then, as I do now, that there always will be value in communities where people take care of one another, welcome back their previous generations, and engage the world while caring deeply what happens on the village green. With the Living the Liberal Arts in Our Third Century strategic plan, we have sought to build on the great strengths of Colgate: talented teacher-scholars, entrepreneurial students, and engaged alumni living and learning through a model liberal arts education in a setting absolutely central to the university’s identity.

Over the past five years, we have made Colgate far more accessible to diverse and talented students through significant increases in financial aid; added great strength to the faculty; and envisioned a new model of residential life through the residential learning communities that will begin to roll out in the fall. We have expanded international initiatives including study abroad as well as the Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs. We fostered career development of all kinds, adding robust networking and mentoring programs, re-engineering the Office of Career Services and creating the Thought Into Action Entrepreneurship Institute. We created a plan to evolve the physical campus to anticipate the needs of Colgate’s third century. Along the way, we streamlined business functions to leverage new technologies, increase productivity, and contain costs.

The liberal arts education Colgate offers is world class, and I am proud to have served with faculty, administrators, alumni, trustees, and friends to ensure that a Colgate education is academically excellent, relevant, and, ideally, accessible for all.

Jeffrey Herbst

Denis F. Cronin ’69, P’09,’10 Chair, Board of Trustees

Meet Interim President–elect Jill Harsin Historian and greatly respected member of the campus community since 1982

Learn more about Jill Harsin, and about the presidential search, at colgate.edu/ presidentialtransition

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• Takes office July 1, 2015 • Teaching: Professor of history; Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Professor of liberal arts studies • Specialties: European history, history of France and the French Revolution, women’s history • Examples of administrative and governance roles: Interim Provost and Dean of the Faculty (2009–10); Division of Social Sciences director

(2007–09); Promotion and Tenure Committee (1991–94, 2006–07); Academic Affairs Board (2007– 09); Faculty Affairs Committee (1990–91, 2011–14); chair of the Bicentennial Committee (current) • Honors: AAUW Scholarship; Alumni Corporation Distinguished Teaching Award, 2012

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Inbox Looking for balance

The Scene welcomes letters. 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.

Letters should not exceed 250 words.

You can reach us by mail, or e-mail sceneletters@colgate.edu. Please include your full name, class year if applicable, address, phone number, and/or e-mail address. If we receive many letters on a given topic, we will print a representative sample of the opinions expressed.

Colgate is dear to my heart, with many lifelong friendships made and cherished. I look forward to receiving the Colgate Scene in my mailbox and reading it. However, your choices for feature stories, I would say pretty much invariably, espouse an overtly left-leaning worldview. The winter 2015 Scene is a case in point: rainforests, sex talk, and the ACLU. I am not in agreement with the aims of the American Civil Liberties Union, but at least your story highlighted a Colgate alumnus.

Please use your features section to report on the many distinguished and mainstream alumni success stories and leave the political moralizing to the Sierra Club, Cosmopolitan, and Mother Jones.

These esoteric features have little relevance to the life of the university.

Colgate University belongs to its alumni; it would be nice if the features you print were to reflect, honor, and promote the alumni community’s diversity and magnificent achievements and creativity, rather than promoting the left’s political agenda.

P.S.: Congratulations to Professor Jill Harsin on being named Colgate’s interim president. I was a student in her first history classes on campus and it is welcome to see her dedication to the school recognized.

Daniel Wiseman ’85 Passaic, N.J.

Pronoun correction I think you misquoted me in “Sex Talk: Beyond Yes and No.” (winter 2015). The gender neutral pronouns were written “hir and zir,” but it is actually “hir and ze.”

Elizabeth “Biz” Yoder ’15

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Remembering Coleman Brown Coleman Brown has gone home (“In tribute,” pg. 63), but he leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of wisdom, love, and intelligence. In my work as a judge, not a week goes by during which I don’t ask myself how Coleman would evaluate a particularly difficult situation.

His mind was like a jewel, his analytical powers exceptional, informed by love but unencumbered by cheap sentimentality. He was a wonderful listener and brought his warm, loving, discerning heart to any conversation — including my frequent requests for advice or insights. I learned from Coleman that while we often view the world in stark colors — good and evil, black and white — there is much ambiguity in life. But notwithstanding that, we have a moral obligation to ourselves, and our communities, to act — to get our hands dirty — with purpose but always with humility.

He was deeply respectful of the religious belief system — or lack thereof — in others. I am not particularly observant, and I suspect he sensed that when he suggested that I read André Schwarz-Bart’s novel The Last of the Just, the story of the “just men” of a family, over eight centuries, the last of whom, Ernie Levy, dies in the Holocaust. I have always believed he wanted, in his own gentle way, to prompt me to take a deeper look into my own tradition [Judaism].

Over the years, I was privileged to come to view Coleman not only as a mentor and a role model, but also to view Coleman and Irene as friends.

I frequently sought his counsel on a wide variety of topics. He was always available and always willing to share his thoughts.

Coleman, thank you so very, very much, for your mentoring, your guidance, your friendship, and most of all, your example of what it means to live a good life as a good man.

Douglas Lavine ’72 West Hartford, Conn.

I can’t imagine my Colgate experience — or my life as a Presbyterian pastor — without Coleman Brown. I had been active in my home church and was eager to make a faith connection at college. After worship on that first Sunday after orientation, Coleman invited me to his home for a meeting of the Outreach Committee. I showed up on the wrong night, and his delightful wife and partner in ministry, Irene, offered me tea while we waited for him to come home.

Coleman became a constant source of inspiration, encouragement, faith, and wisdom. He was there for me during a difficult first year when I was trying to find my niche. He coached me in my volunteer chaplaincy work in the nursing home wing of Community Memorial Hospital. He tracked me down in Case Library and told me the devastating news of my father’s heart attack.

University Church was my sole reason for getting up on Sunday mornings, and it was at Coleman’s services that my faith grew and I found my community of friends. Under his leadership, University Church was a place where students from the black church tradition connected at a deep level with students from mainline Protestant (mostly white) congregations. He

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taught classes each semester, demonstrating in a visible way that faith and intellectual rigor are not mutually exclusive — writing exhaustive comments on our papers in his distinctive script. We never dared to give him less than our best. In him, God and truth truly came together.

I am a better man and a better pastor for having known him.

Jeffrey W. Gibelius ’86 Carlisle, Pa. Editor’s note: Longer versions of the above two letters appear at colgate. edu/scene.

As Colgate’s chaplain, longtime professor, dean of students, and a guide for so many, Coleman Brown led us to wrestle with the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and so many other great thinkers of spirit, civic endeavor, and intellect. As the film Selma emerges, with the controversy about its portrayal of the LBJ/MLK connection, I wish [Coleman] were here to illuminate it, as he undoubtedly would.

Of all things to be grateful for about Colgate, certainly the greatest to appreciate has to be our great teachers.

Coleman stood high, very high, on that ground. His loss is a deep one, and very keenly felt.

Donald C. Wilson ’79 Washington, D.C.

Remembering Ernie Vandeweghe ’49 I liked your piece on the death of basketball star Ernie Vandeweghe ’49 (winter 2015 Scene, pg. 23). While a student, I saw all the Colgate home games in Ernie’s last two years and he was indeed terrific.

Your piece calls him a 6'3" guard, but he always played center. The 7-footers had not yet come to dominate the game, but most centers were from about 6'5" to 6'10", so Ernie crafted his great college career almost

entirely against significantly bigger men. Almost none were quicker, however, and only rarely could he be stopped. In his six years with the N.Y. Knicks, still as a star, he continued to outplay men of all sizes.

One sign of his stature as a college player: In 1949, Kentucky ruled the college basketball world, and four of its players were named starters for the annual East-West college all-star game. The fifth starter was Ernie.

Ernie was preceded at the Knicks by another Colgate star, a wonderful shooter named Carl Braun ’49. Braun also became an all-star at the Knicks, was among the league’s leading scorers, and coached the team his last two years with it. Braun died in 2010.

Ted Stanton ’51 Durant, Okla.

Ernie’s freshman year at Colgate, he played football, baskeball, and baseball. The coaching staff persuaded him to give up football as a pre-med, so he played soccer in the fall. He later gave up baseball as Eppie Barnes, the coach, wanted to spend two hours going over the opposing letters and Ernie had labs to attend.

No obit mentions that Ernie, as a 17-year-old freshman in 1946, was named most valuable player in the East-West all-star game at Madison Square Garden.

What I am about to say is not easy. I have contributed to Colgate at the Presidents’ Club level every year since graduating, participated in all capital fund drives, and made a six-figure gift in memory of my wife. However, I have decided to temporarily suspend further financial support until the university shows evidence of curtailing expenses as other schools are doing.

I have had the opportunity of reviewing Colgate’s audited financial statements. Between 2008 and 2011, operating expenses stayed in the range of $150 million. Colgate’s explanation for rising costs [since then] is so the university can remain competitive in attracting top students; however, administrators tell me they turn away many qualified applicants.

I say rising costs can be attributed to inflated administrative and faculty costs, and there are many other excessive costs, including unnecessary cafeteria offerings and extensive workout facilities. These kinds of administrative costs only add to the charge next year of $60,000 plus. At this price, the university becomes either a haven for foreign students whose governments are willing to pay this kind of cost or a spiraling hole of unconscionable debt for graduating students.

Colgate should be a leader in reducing costs, not an enabler of increasing them. Former White House adviser Lawrence Summers is among the economists arguing that student debt is undermining the housing market and dampening U.S. economic recovery.

Russell C. Buchanan ’50 Mendham, N.J. Editor’s note: Colgate is committed to meeting 100 percent of the demonstrated need of accepted students and has invested in 60 additional aid slots in the last five years. Today, 43.4 percent of students receive financial aid, and the average financial aid award for the Class of 2018 is $45,924. The average debt load for aided students in the Class of 2013 was $15,995. Nationally, debt loads average $28,400 for graduates of public and nonprofit colleges.

In terms of savings, a number of initiatives have been undertaken in recent years, including the extensive OAK (optimization/analytics/knowledge) project that will result in greater administrative efficiency as well as financial savings — see colgate.edu/oakproject. Members of the faculty also look for ways to save; you can read one story, “Lightening lab costs,” on pg. 14 of this issue.

Picture this: stunning Colgate University photography, just a click away Visit our galleries at colgate.photoshelter.com to order customized photographic prints in a variety of sizes. Bring home images you’ve seen in the Colgate Scene and other university publications as well as scenic views from around one of America’s most beautiful campuses.

W. Edwards ’52 Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

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Who let the dogs out? Students fall in puppy love, taking a break from dogged devotion to their academics.

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Austin Sun ’18 monkeys around with ice climbing at Tinker Falls in Cortland County. Photo by Nick Gilbert ’18

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In Arabic class, laughter needs no translation. Photo by Lorenzo Ciniglio

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It was a close game — for fans in the nosebleed seats and in terms of the action — when Colgate challenged Cornell in Starr Rink on January 30. The Raiders lost to the Big Red 2-1 in overtime.

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Smiles in the snow: Zach Harris ’18 (left), Kaitlin Abrams ’18, and Connor Dufort ’17 hiked Rooster Comb Mountain in the Adirondacks. All three will graduate from the OE training program this spring. Photo by senior Outdoor Education trainer Ben Cook ’15

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Food for thought: Leaders from different corners of campus convened for Dining with Diverse Minds to discuss issues of mental health. Public speaker Jordan Burnham came to talk about his battle with suicidal depression. Photo by Nick Gilbert ’18

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The opening ceremony for Colgate’s Martin Luther King Jr. week featured a cappella performances by the Mantiphondrakes (pictured) and the Colgate Thirteen.

Colgate manages 1,059 acres of forested land in addition to the trees on campus.

We have a dream

MLK Week kicked off with an opening ceremony and student keynote address by Kori Strother ’15.

She discussed the tenets of a liberal arts education and how activism comes in many forms. Strother also addressed the continued struggle for racial equality on a national scale and issues surrounding inclusivity at Colgate. “Let’s take this first day of the semester to acknowledge both how far we’ve come and the extensive amount of work that needs to be done to move us forward,” she said.

Dean of the College Suzy Nelson echoed that sentiment: “My hope for this week [is] that we will embrace the ties that bind us because they are much stronger than those that try to tear us apart.”

The week’s schedule offered events that focused on King’s mission. Professors Charles Banner-Haley and Engda Hagos led workshops on topics including civil rights and King’s dream; a panel of international students discussed the fight for human rights across the globe; and there were film screenings, student-led brown bags, and musical performances. The week concluded with an afternoon of community service by students, professors, and staff volunteers.

— Natalie Sportelli ’15

The song “Glory” from the critically acclaimed film Selma played as people filled Memorial Chapel on January 22 to hear Joyce Ladner, the keynote speaker for Colgate’s Martin Luther King Jr. Week. A civil rights activist, Ladner shared her experiences during her address, “Freedom Summer and Beyond: The Roles of Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement.”

“The people cast aside, those on the bottom, the people on the fringes of society are those who make the tough sacrifices,” she said.

The scholar and sociologist shared personal stories, notably meeting King on several occasions, attending his “I Have a Dream” speech, and participating in the March on Washington.

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Colgate has launched management practices for its on- and off-campus forests to reduce the university’s car-

“To try all of the Gilligan’s burgers before I graduate.

I went for the first time last summer and I’m halfway there.”

— Jerod GibsonFaber ’16, a history major from Canastota, N.Y.

“To go on an extended study.

It builds so many connections… I’m trying to do an extended study every year.”

— Sharon Nicol ’17, a peace and conflict studies major from Silver Spring, Md.

“To pitch a tent on the old golf course and watch a meteor shower or the stars… I really like astronomy, and we always use that space for outside observing sessions because it’s so beautiful.”

— Mac Baler ’15, a computer science and Japanese major from Albany, N.Y.

Student media outlets go digital

This spring, all three of the major student media organizations are undertaking a digital transformation.

The Maroon-News, the country’s oldest college weekly newspaper, recently launched a redesigned website and has committed to reducing the number of paper copies on campus in favor of a digital audience.

“Having an online presence is vital in 2015,” said Luke Currim ’15, co-editor-in-chief. “[The website] allows students and alumni to browse campus news from their phones, tablets, and computers, no matter how far from campus.” Currim hopes that this move will make reading the Maroon-News a more interactive and engaging experience for its readers.

WRCU, the student-run and operated radio station since 1951, is broadcasting a whole new sound in 2015 thanks to a new state-of-the-art automation system. The NextGen broadcasting software will create a digital database of music, public service announcements, and audio recordings that can be programmed to play automatically on air, even if a DJ is not in the studio.

“Automation opens up creative space in our production department to create a unique sound that listeners can identify with WRCU,” said General Manager Zac Lomas ’15. “In further developing our brand, we can become a more dynamic and effective media force not only on campus, but also throughout the entire Hamilton community,” he added.

CUTV has also reacted to the changing tide of digital media since its founding in 1981. The student television station has recently moved from cable access to instant access in a transition to an online provider.

“We want to revamp CUTV’s image on campus and the best way to do that is through changing our tactics,” said Dave Purdy ’15,

Back on campus Health care careers

When Carolyn Baker ’05 came to Colgate, she had her sights set on medical school. “I had never wanted to be anything but pre-med,” she told the roomful of attentive students in Lathrop 207. “I was in the tunnel-vision mindset of wanting to be a doctor.”

But Baker changed her goals in college after working with a dermatologist whose practice included a physician assistant. Now a physician assistant herself, with a plastic surgeon in New Hartford, N.Y., she joined three alumni on campus March 6 to tell students about alternatives to medical school.

The other panelists included dentist Bob Raiber ’68; Erin Murray ’11, a health care administrator; and Rachel Stahl ’13, a clinical dietitian.

Julie Chanatry, chair of the campus health sciences advisory committee, moderated.

Panelists talked about their Colgate coursework, their graduate school experiences, and the paths they took after graduation. Students furiously took notes, asked questions, and soaked in every word.

The alumni urged students to get involved with Peer Health Educators; Dr. Merrill Miller at the Student Health Center; and alternative break trips through the Max Shacknai Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education. Additionally, they advised students to pursue independent studies. The panelists highlighted

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campus since the President’s Climate Commitment was signed in 2009, promising carbon neutrality by Colgate’s Bicentennial in 2019.

— Kellyann Hayes ’16

Carolyn Baker ’05, a plastic surgery physician assistant, participated in the allalumni panel on “Alternatives to Medical School.” Baker also has Colgate students shadow her at Slocum-Dickson in New Hartford, N.Y.

the importance of doing challenging coursework outside of the sciences, to gain critical-thinking skills, research techniques, and writing skills.

“I appreciated their various perspectives,” said Rachel Goldberg ’16, a behavioral neuroscience major. And, they “reinforced the value of experiences gained outside the classroom — doing internships, speaking to individuals working in your field of interest, and participating in extracurriculars.”

This event was sponsored by the Health and Wellness Professional Network, one of eight career advancement networks available to Colgate students and alumni.

— Emma Loftus ’16

CUTV co-president. The new website features original content as well as free movie streaming tailored to Colgate students.

“We’re moving, well, flying, into a more digital age every single day,” said CUTV’s Lizzie Marino ’16.

— Natalie Sportelli ’15

Students $tart $mart

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bon footprint, another important step toward achieving carbon neutrality.

“Most campuses are completely ignoring their forests, and don’t count them at all in the analysis of their carbon footprints,” explained John Pumilio, director of sustainability. “We can’t get through this climate crisis, as a country or as a planet, without preserving and properly managing our forests.”

In addition to its 575-acre campus, Colgate owns 1,059 acres of forested land, including off-campus sites such as the Bewkes Center, Beattie Reserve, Parker Farm, a parcel on Johnnycake Hill, and more. The university’s goals for managing this land include using it for research and teaching; outdoor recreation and aesthetic value; conservation of ecosystem services and biodiversity; and timber production. Careful management of the forest will sequester approximately 1,500 tons of carbon from the atmosphere per year, according to Pumilio.

The first steps of the forest sequestration project were implemented in 2013, when measurements were taken from 174 sample plots of trees to determine the amount of carbon stored there. In 2018, the same plots will be measured again, allowing the sustainability office to determine the actual sequestration of the forest since 2013, and how much carbon has been taken from the atmosphere since then.

As part of this project, Colgate’s forest has been certified by the American Tree Farm System for long-term sustainable management, with the goal to maintain the forest so that it can exist indefinitely. Along with regular measurements of sequestration, the sustainable management of the forest also includes careful logging processes. “Harvesting select trees can be healthy for forests, and we do it in the most environmentally friendly way,” said Pumilio.

The sustainability office is also taking these harvested trees into account when analyzing the university’s carbon footprint, tracking how much carbon was stored in them, how the timber is going to be used, and how its use, such as for furniture or paper, dictates whether that carbon is stored or released into the atmosphere.

There have been 27 carbonreducing projects implemented on

Students are learning how to get even.

In terms of salary negotiation, that is.

We often hear about the wage gap in news, politics, and even Hollywood — with actress Patricia Arquette’s Oscar acceptance speech this year, the topic, once again, launched into national conversation.

Although the discussion about how to close the wage gap persists, at Colgate, the career services department is giving the next generation en-

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tering the workforce a better chance at bridging the divide. Offered each semester, the $tart $mart program teaches the ins and outs of negotiating a salary or compensation package.

Participants learn about the reality of the wage gap in the professional world, how to gather research about what an offer should look like, discover strategies for negotiating a salary, and become familiar with how to make a budget.

“We’re trying to teach students how to be confident in who they are, what they’re doing, and what they bring to the table,” said Teresa Olsen, director of operations and strategic planning for career services.

The workshop focuses on helping those most affected by the wage gap — namely, women and minority groups — learn how to negotiate for a salary reflective of the value of their work. The American Association of University Women created The WAGE Project (Women Are Getting Even) to address gender inequality in professional compensation. WAGE started to work with universities to build programs and train facilitators to bring education and advocacy to college students. Career services, in concert with The Wage Project, brought $tart $mart to Colgate in fall 2013.

“We try to help students under-

Real World events designed for the senior class include the $tart $mart salary negotiation workshop and networking receptions like this one in the Hall of Presidents.

stand the [professional] landscape, what questions they should be asking, and that they should tap into all their resources when they go into a salary negotiation,” said Olsen.

Aimed at helping seniors prepare for life after Colgate, $tart $mart is part of the Real World Series, which offers opportunities to build and exercise professional skills and ease the transition from the classroom to the boardroom. Other events include

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Featuring a fantastic mix of characters and a score that contains some of the world’s most cherished arias, Il Trovatore served as the starting point for this year’s Grand Opera Series at the Hamilton Theater. Members of the Hamilton community were able to view this stunning opera, written by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi and performed in Berlin, Germany, from the comfort of their own town via high-definition screens and surround sound. Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Turandot rounded out the winter lineup this year.

Headstands, handstands, and even shoulder stands were common sights during an Inversion Workshop at the Zen Den in January. Featuring guest instructor Eric Phamdo, the event allowed people to take yoga to the next level by practicing upside-down poses, which are said to improve circulation.

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workshops on apartment hunting and personal finance.

“I went in feeling like a blank slate and I left feeling like I was prepared,” Mallory Wagner ’15 said of her $tart $mart session. “I learned how to make a budget, and how to negotiate a salary in terms of how far to push boundaries and what is realistic for someone my age.”

— Natalie Sportelli ’15

Building upon success Village Green over the summer, the Hamilton Public Library again hosted Lego Fun in February. Inspired by programs at other libraries across the nation, the event encouraged creativity, exploration, and learning among people of all ages. Participants could build whatever they liked with the popular blocks, and the library put out a display of books about Legos, building, and design for inspiration.

Even though years have passed since his death, Dr. Seuss’s 111th birthday vied for his most celebrated one yet. News of his forthcoming book What Pet Should I Get? surfaced and produced international buzz in late February. The Hamilton community designated February 28 as “Seuss Saturday” in his honor and kicked off the festivities with a proclamation by the mayor on the Village Green. The Colgate Bookstore, which had Seuss-inspired crafts and a visit from the Lorax, was just one of several locations that hosted a Dr. Seuss event that day.

— Meredith Dowling ’17

The Sigma Chi fraternity at Colgate will be suspended for five and a half years, according to a decision announced in February by President Jeffrey Herbst. Last October, the fraternity was found to be in violation of the university’s Hazing Policy, the Student Organizations Relationship Statement, and the Code of Student Conduct.

Herbst’s decision is less severe than the sanction of “permanent withdrawal of recognition” that was recommended by the University Student Conduct Board, but more severe than the three-year suspension the fraternity requested in its appeal contesting the duration of the sanction.

“I believe that this lengthy suspension recognizes the severity of the behavior of the chapter’s members, while also allowing the chapter an opportunity to rebuild in the future,” Herbst said.

After the suspension term, which will end on June 30, 2020, the alumni of Sigma Chi, in conjunction with the Sigma Chi national organization, may petition Colgate’s president for permission to recolonize the chapter.

According to Herbst’s announcement, “If, at any point during the period of this suspension, students engage in activity that is determined to violate Colgate’s Policy on Unrecognized Organizations (outlined on pg.

49 of Colgate’s Student Handbook), the suspension may, at the discretion of the vice president and dean of the college, be continued indefinitely, or the sanction may be amended to an immediate and permanent withdrawal of recognition.”

Summit provides constructive atmosphere to address hazing

Within the last 15 years, there has been a marked increase in awareness about hazing in college. This year, several reprehensible hazing-related incidents at schools around the coun-

Go figure . . .

The law of averages favored Colgate spirit on Friday, February 13, 2015. That day, the Dow closed at 18019.

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Sigma Chi suspended until 2020

In with the old, in with the new. Lawrence Hall, erected in 1926, houses a range of academic departments, from the Classics to the high-tech Keck Center for the exploration of language and culture.

try have made national news, and many schools have made a conscientious push to eradicate such damaging behaviors in Greek-letter, athletic, and extracurricular organizations.

Colgate uses an educational approach to opening up discussion about the serious problems of hazing.

On February 28, approximately 30 members from all eight of Colgate’s Greek-letter organizations gathered in Olin Hall’s Love Auditorium to participate in the New Member Education Summit. Students discussed what qualifies as hazing, and how to ensure that new members experience a healthy transition into Greek life.

The summit centered on a lecture

by Timothy C. Marchell, the associate director for health promotion and director of mental health initiatives at Cornell University. Marchell shed light on the variety of reactions that a person can have to a given situation with relation to past experiences and personal traumas. He also discussed the importance of marketing events to new members as fun bonding activities, rather than mandatory events shrouded in secrecy. For example, events such as scavenger hunts and skits may seem harmless, but, if framed incorrectly, can leave new

members feeling uncomfortable or humiliated. After the lecture, each organization broke off into small groups for open dialogue, relating the points covered to their specific members.

“Not only did we have a chance to reflect on things that can be unintentionally harmful,” said Olivia Bankuti ’16, Delta Delta Delta’s vice president for chapter development, “but also on the things that we do to positively foster relationships between members.”

The plan is to hold workshops for all student groups, said Scott Brown, dean of students. “We started with fraternities and sororities because they have done the most work; have the most defined leadership structure, new member period, and program; and also have robust support from alumni.”

The summit was part of an annual series of anti-hazing events organized by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs and sponsored by the individual chapters. Additionally, Colgate has instituted mandatory Safe Zone Training and Bystander Intervention Training for all Greek-letter organizations in an effort to proactively prevent unacceptable behavior.

— Emma Loftus ’16

Meet Cole, the newest addition to the Colgate religious life family, and quite possibly the owner of the smallest Colgate sweatshirt ever. The Office of the Chaplains introduced their new mascot via Facebook on February 1. This particular animal was chosen to pay tribute to the students who affectionately refer to themselves as “chapel rats.” For them, the chapel’s basement (sometimes called the “Garden Level”) is a home away from home where they can spend free time studying, relaxing with friends, napping, and attending events.

To introduce Cole, the chaplains’ office staff launched a weeklong scavenger hunt. Every day, they hid Cole in a different place. They asked those lucky enough to discover him to post a selfie with him on the Office of the Chaplains’ Facebook page in order to win a prize.

“I went to make myself a hot cocoa to warm up in the chapel basement, and I found Cole sitting on the mug!” said Christine Bachek ’17. “That was one rat I didn’t mind finding in the cabinet.”

— Emma Loftus ’16

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Canoeing with Ricky

By Jim Warren ’73

In thinking about the manner of one’s death, in this modern age, no consideration is given to being eaten alive. And yet, on our last canoe trip, we were five seconds and two long bounds from three hungry polar bears who were stalking us for breakfast. This trip, we exchanged polar bears for countless black flies. Poor Ricky was their especial target.

Two canoes, four seats. My nephew Myloh Villaronga, my son William ’08, and I signed on. Who would be the fourth? Gazing at a campfire one April night, Myloh floated a name: “Ricky. He’s almost 8.” I thought, 7 or 8; he is still very young to make this trip. Although Will was cool, I deferred to Myloh’s judgment, and the quartet was formed.

Ricky Snowball, Myloh’s stepson, is an Inuit youth from Kangiqsualujjuaq on the coast of Ungava Bay, northern Quebec. It was on Ungava Bay (without Ricky) that we repelled the bears. This upcoming trip looked south, to the Moisie River, which descends 420 km from headwaters at the boundary of Labrador and Quebec, through the Canadian Shield, to the St. Lawrence River.

On July 2, 2014, we drove to Ottawa to gather Myloh and Ricky, then headed east and north, a trip of 2,000 km, the last leg on gravel road. In Labrador City, we planned to ship the car by train to Sept Isle. But when we pulled into the train station, we found that the station master had taken an early quit. What to do? The river starts in Lac de Mille, 20 km away. We knocked on doors and windows and roused two young fellows who gave directions like railroad men: “Follow Route 500 until it crosses the tracks three times; then de Mille is a big lake on your right.” Ah, yes, I’m sure we’ll recognize de Mille, but how will we send our car back to the station? The pair, long may they flourish, offered to retrieve the car after their shift.

(Eighteen days later, the car would be waiting for us. This is why I return to canoe the big waters of Canada: Problems are solved directly, and people are helpful. May we emulate this in our own lives.)

We launched Friday at 6:00 p.m., paddled south in a honking tailwind, and blew down the big lakes, Menistouc, Opocopa, and Felix, for three long days of sweet cruising.

The only time Ricky gave any cause for concern about his suitability for the journey came on the first night. When we arrived late at a dank campsite, Ricky said, “I want to go.” As a lawyer, I’m trained not to ask a question unless I know the answer. “Go where?” He responded, “Home.”

“We are going home, Ricky,” I replied. “We’re on our way now,” seconded Myloh. “We’ll be there in three weeks,” chimed in Will. I built a blazing fire, Myloh pitched the tents, Will cooked supper, and Ricky forgot about going home.

Ricky was alert and retentive; he always knew what was going on. One afternoon at camp, I was searching for a section of map to write up my journal. “Ricky, where’s map 17?” He promptly replied, “In your blue jacket, right-hand pocket.” And there it was! I had worn the jacket that morning in a drizzle of rain, put it in the pack, and forgotten it. But Ricky remembered.

On another occasion, we had finished lunch on a stony shore and started downstream in a strong current. Ricky cast his eyes to shore and spotted Myloh’s gray camera case, the size and color of the stones. “The camera!” he exclaimed. We quickly paddled to retrieve it — both the camera and the trip’s pictures saved.

Ricky’s great desire was to be one of the guys. One day, as the rain fell and dark descended, we arrived at the top of a Class III rapid that coursed directly into falls. We had no choice but to get off the water and make camp. The shoreline was a steep bouldered slope surmounted by dense alders — just the type of terrain we had rejected for the last 20 km. We excavated two tent sites by rolling the big rocks aside and smoothing the gravel. Will managed a rudimentary supper of black beans and tea, and there the four of us sat: tired, soaked, under hats and hoods, but Ricky was content because he was shoulder to shoulder with us in a half circle around the fire.

Ricky never whined or complained. He was hardened to irregular mealtimes. At one point, we were negotiating a long stretch of difficult rapids and falls by paddle, line, and portage. A little after noon, Ricky asked, “What about lunch?” I told him, “In a while, when we’re through the rapids.”

That answer sufficed; the grown-ups weren’t eating and neither would he, although it is a greater deprivation for a child. Lunch came at 4:00 p.m.

Ricky had begun the journey rambunctious, but soon came to understand that a party of voyageurs organizes itself into a tiny society with rules, for order and safety. One rule for Ricky: Don’t go near the fire while we’re cooking.

Reason: Nothing is easier than kicking sand into a frying pan of falafel. A corollary: Don’t throw wood on the fire. But, as inveterate firebugs ourselves, we repealed it.

The second rule: Don’t drown. At the start of one portage trail, on the sheer verge of roaring falls, we pulled the canoes partly ashore to unload.

I heard Myloh holler, “Ricky, you’re chest deep in water at the top of the falls!” He was — but he didn’t drown. Second rule obeyed.

Ricky gained the great gift of self-discipline.

From that, we gained confidence in our young companion, and the campsite harmony that reigns when chastisement is banished.

As the trip progressed, and the difficult rapids were accomplished, it became clear that there was a benign force supporting us. Against conventional wisdom (and who could say it was false?), Ricky was with us, and of us, and all went well.

Ricky’s only discontent was that we would not let him smoke.

Jim Warren ’73 and Ricky Snowball, an Inuit youth from Kangiqsualujjuaq, adventured down Canada’s Moisie River.

Warren is president of The National Bank of Coxsackie.

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SHOW YOUR LOVE

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It was an affair to remember. Colgate community members stepped forward in droves to show their love and to support the university during the first weeks of February. Trustee Christine Chao ’86 matched all qualifying gifts received between February 1 and 13, dollar for dollar.

The grand total: $1 million from more than 1,100 alumni.

Colgate responded by honoring each participant with a heart placed on the window of the Persson Hall bridge. Visit colgate.edu/showyourlove for more.

With sponsorship from the Presidents’ Club and the Common Good Professional Network, Colgate Day became a Day of Impact for alumni, parents, students, and staff.

More than 1,700 people completed 2,300 acts of kindness!

Good deeds included food drives, volunteer service, solo acts of impact — and one Hackathon in New York City to advance Children & Youth First, a nonprofit start-up launched by Amanda Brown ’15. Congratulations to Greg Casagrande ’85, founder of SPBD Microfinance Network and winner of the first Colgate Day Impact Award. See more at colgate.edu/dayofimpact.

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Core 108SA: The Story of Colorants Core area: Scientific Perspectives Patricia Jue, lab instructor in chemistry TR 9:55 a.m., Wynn B31

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Matt LeGro ’15 and Professor Ken Segall are using helium in their research studying the behavior of Josephson junctions (small electrical circuits) to see if they can model neuron behaviors in the brain.

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Lightening lab costs

Party balloons can no longer be taken for granted: there’s a worldwide shortage of helium. Prices quadrupled between 2000 and 2012, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. But a new helium-recovery system will put Colgate’s science laboratories at the forefront of efforts to conserve the dwindling supply of this increasingly expensive gas.

One of the world’s critical and finite raw materials, helium is the second-lightest element and is chemically unreactive. It has a boiling point just 4 degrees above absolute zero, making it ideal for cooling superconducting metals. When those metals are cooled below a critical temperature, their resistance drops to zero. As a result, huge currents can flow through without heat loss. The magnetic fields that result from these currents can be used for research or for medical imaging in MRI machines.

Because of these special properties, physicists and chemists on campus use approximately 2,000 liters of liquid helium annually as a refrigerant to conduct cutting-edge research at low temperatures. During the process, the liquid boils off and escapes into the atmosphere in gaseous form.

“The cylinders are really expensive, and once we use the helium, it is gone,” said Ken Segall, associate professor of physics and chair of the physics and astronomy department.

Segall and his student Matt LeGro ’15 are using helium in studying the behavior of networks of Josephson junctions. Powered by superconducting currents and cooled by helium, Josephson junctions are small electrical circuits that are used for sensing applications, digital processors, and electrical standards. Because they also have a unique pulsing behavior, Segall is studying them to possibly model neuron behaviors in the brain.

“Compared to both traditional computer simulations and biological neural networks, Josephson junction neurons would be orders of magnitude faster,” Segall explained. “This research will be a stepping stone to understanding larger regions of the brain with a wide range of potential applications. For example, in braininspired computer learning, processors might be able to complete tasks like group identification and sift through data at a faster rate.”

The new equipment — which includes a liquefier and a recovery system — will collect the evaporated helium gas and condense it back into liquid. The liquid will then be stored in special cylinders and transported back to laboratories for re-use.

Although the full system, located at the dock of the Ho Science Center, costs about $125,000, the savings will be significant. “[It] should pay itself off in five or six years,” Segall said.

— Quanzhi Guo ’18

Course description: Throughout history, humans have employed colors in artistic and creative expression. Some colorants occur naturally. Other colorants are manufactured, and thus the result of scientific and industrial development. In this course, the interplay between artistic expression and science/technological discovery is considered.

Key assignments and activities: 1. Field trips to: − Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica − Colgate Picker Gallery collection − Golden Artist Colors, Inc. (paint manufacturer) 2. Narrative research paper, and poster presentation 3. Hands-on exercises with dyes and pigments On the reading list: The Chemical History of Color, Mary

Virginia Orna The Brilliant History of Color in Art,

Victoria Finlay Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from

the Creation of Fire to the Production

of Plastics, Kevin M. Dunn The professor says: “Colors are so fundamental that we start asking about them as children: What makes the sky blue? What is a rainbow? How is this crayon ‘burnt sienna’? We look at the physical and chemical properties of colorants, and how their interaction with light obtains the characteristic we describe as color. We consider a variety of colors including those found in the ‘natural world,’ synthetic colorants such as the chrome yellows loved by van Gogh and Perkin’s mauveine (one of the first synthetic dyes), and the richness of metal alloys and patinas.”

It’s not every day that a Colgate professor gets to interview a former president. Steven Kepnes, chair of the religion department and director of Chapel House, had the opportunity to do just that when he interviewed Jimmy Carter at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion on Nov. 24, 2014.

The conference’s theme was climate change, and Carter’s keynote panel — which drew a crowd of more than 5,000 people — focused on the role of religion in climate change and women’s equality.

“Jimmy Carter was one of the first world leaders who recognized the issue of the energy crisis,” explained Kepnes.

Carter began by discussing his latest book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, as well as the role he played in promoting environmentalism during his term as U.S. president. Kepnes and his colleague Mary Evelyn Tucker, senior lecturer and research scholar at Yale University, then posed questions for Carter and delved deeper into the effect that religion may have on these controversial, contemporary topics.

The two interviewers were also interested in the way that Carter had incorporated morality and religion into politics. “He was known for adding a moral dimension to public policy and to foreign policy,” explained Kepnes. “We wanted to ask him how he did that, how he saw that.”

Although it may seem like a daunting task to speak with a former president about such big issues in front of a large audience, Kepnes said that Carter “was a warm guy, he had a good sense of humor, he was down to earth, and we had a wonderful conversation beforehand. It was certainly one of the high points of my academic career.”

Kepnes said the event served “to raise the issue of the environmental crisis — it’s not a future issue, it’s a present issue.” He emphasized that “scholars of religion who are worried about the world, who are worried about ethics, need to take [climate change] into consideration, need to learn about it as every intelligent, educated person should, and [scholars] need to teach about it.”

Kepnes himself gained additional insight into how to address these important issues while teaching his classes, namely the core course Legacies of the Ancient World, and Religious Faith and Social Ethics, where religious concepts are discussed in terms of their significance today.

— Meredith Dowling ’17

Tripping the light fantastic

Some people look at the sunlight wandering across the bottom of a swimming pool and see only glare.

Kiko Galvez, Charles A. Dana Professor of physics and astronomy, sees the fascinating effect of electromagnetic beams bouncing and sliding through watery matter.

“It was exhilarating,” Steven Kepnes, chair of the religion department and director of Chapel House, said of interviewing former President Jimmy Carter at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion.

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Kepnes interviews Carter

Professor Enrique “Kiko” Galvez, the first to recreate a monstar optical fingerprint in the lab

The innate curiosity that leads Galvez to look beyond the obvious has served him well. Last year, for the first time, he and his fellow researchers intentionally created a light pattern known as a “monstar” by polarizing a beam of light and feeding it through a series of carefully placed lenses.

The physics community knew monstars existed. “But no one could figure out how to make them, and it’s one of those things that bugs you,” Galvez said. “I started trying one thing or another, and eventually I figured out the mathematical complexity underlying the pattern — the mathematical structure — so I could convert that to something I could use in the laboratory.”

His work was so revolutionary that it was featured in the Optical Society of America’s (OSA) retrospective on major advances of 2014. Here’s how Galvez described it for publication: “Human fingerprints contain patterns of ridges or lines that converge in loops or stars known as line singularities. Nature also contains ‘fingerprints,’ patterns of line singularities that describe flow and geometry, mathematically revealing topology and representing indefinite quantities.”

Light is a wave. It can flow up and down, side to side, or a combination of the two. Physicists have learned to polarize light — to strip out waves that flow in a horizontal direction, for example, leaving only the vertical waves intact. Galvez faced the challenge of polarizing the wave while

controlling its magnitude and phase in a way that would cause the beam to create a particular fingerprint pattern: the ever-elusive monstar.

Galvez and his student researcher, Brett Rojec ’14, worked in tandem. In his spare moments, Galvez thought about the math behind the monstar, trying to envision the algorithm that would describe the light pattern he needed. Once he thought he had the answer, he began to write computer code to process the algorithm.

Rojec set up a table in Galvez’s lab, positioning lasers, lenses, polarizers, polarization-manipulating wave plates, beam splitters, modulators, and a device known as an interferometer at specific points. A beam of light would run the gauntlet and enter a box that would photograph the wave pattern and send the picture into the computer where the newly written program waited to do the analysis.

“By maintaining such exquisite control over the parameters of the light beam,” Galvez wrote for the OSA, “this new type of optical fingerprint can lead to innovative ways to encode and recognize information.”

Manipulating light waves can have a number of practical implications — just think of your favorite polarized sunglasses that keep you from squinting while you drive or windows that protect priceless works of art from UV damage. Think about it hard enough and you, too, might start seeing monstars in your swimming pool.

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Props for college-in-prison program

A microscope, test tubes, and dissected organs — these aren’t typically found in a prison. But, when Colgate professor Jason Meyers signed on to teach a human biology course at a local correctional facility, these learning materials made their way into a rather unlikely classroom.

The Mohawk Consortium Collegein-Prison Program began its three-year pilot program this year, sponsored by Mohawk Valley Community College.

Both Colgate and Hamilton College participate in the grant-funded program, which offers college credit– bearing courses to more than 30 inmates in the Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, N.Y. The program, initiated by Hamilton professor Doran Larson (English and creative writing), aims to reduce the number of inmates (65 percent) who finish their sentence and are later incarcerated for other crimes.

Post-secondary education has proven to reduce recidivism rates for inmates — between 9 and 13 percent for those who earn two-year associate degrees, according to the program proposal.

a dry topic preserved on the pages of a book,” said Williams. “This is a talking book, this is a living book. People are interacting with that history, there is always dialogue with regard to that history, there is always tension with regard to that history.”

A question-and-answer period following the lecture sparked conversations about race in America today and about issues surrounding systematic racial discrimination, opportunities for minority groups, and personal responsibility. Some questions drew a consensus of opinion, including the damaging effects of police militarization on community relations.

Others yielded opposing viewpoints, like whether America today offers opportunities for African Americans to break away from historically oppressive structures and pursue the American dream.

“Mr. Williams had some very insightful things to say with regard to the way that time and the past have had an effect on what happens today,” said David (D.J.) Jordan ’17, president of Brothers. “But I have a lapse in understanding how someone like me and someone like him can come from very much the same place…. He believes that [success] is possible for anyone and everyone, when in reality, no, America is not equal opportunity.”

“I think that a lot of different opinions were heard,” said Hannah Loiacono, president of College Republicans, “and that’s what is important.”

— Natalie Sportelli ’15

Fox journalist on race relations

Journalist and Fox News political analyst Juan Williams called the relationship between race and police forces in America one of the most central issues in American life when he spoke on campus in February, in a lecture titled “Are You Baffled? Race and Law Enforcement in America.”

He asked the audience to be open to real dialogue about the modern civil rights movement, a conversation he finds is often divided along racial lines and political expression.

“I understand how the history of black people in America is not simply

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Professor Jason Meyers, pictured here in a Colgate classroom, lends his expertise to teaching a biology course at a local correctional facility.

When Colgate was invited to join the program, Meyers, a biology and neuroscience professor, jumped at the opportunity. “I was interested in the important service that this would be bringing to an underserved population,” he said.

“One of the things that was challenging, but also incredibly rewarding, was working to design lab exercises that could be done in prison,” said Meyers, “The students were so engaged in these exercises, it was fun to watch how excited they were.”

The experience “opened my eyes to some of the challenges and needs of our criminal justice system, and showed me how much impact education can have on the guys participating,” said Meyers. “I hope that with the continued success of the program we can encourage bigger conversations about the role of colleges in participating in education of inmates.”

This past fall, the program was recognized for its contributions with the Continuing Education Association of New York’s James C. Hall Exemplary Credit Program Award.

— Natalie Sportelli ’15

Juan Williams, journalist and Fox News political analyst

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Turkey, Professor Peter Balakian has been touring the United States to speak about the atrocities. Colgate’s Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the humanities, Balakian is a leading international expert on the subject and a descendant of a genocide survivor.

He has moved many people with his heartfelt narration of an almost-forgotten history about the first genocide of the 20th century.

On April 24, 1915, the arrests of 250 cultural leaders in Constantinople/ Istanbul set in motion the mass killing of more than a million Armenians in Turkey. The Armenian genocide became the template for genocide in the 20th century.

Balakian has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show and on 60 Minutes

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Professor Peter Balakian in the classroom

with Bob Simon. He is the author of numerous books including The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response. Balakian’s Black Dog of Fate — winner of the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for the Art of the Memoir, a New York Times Notable Book, bestseller of New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly — was recently issued in a 10th-anniversary edition.

At press time, several campus events were being planned for April to observe the anniversary.

journal managed by the New York Botanical Garden.

The team named the fern Pteris xcaridadiae after Caridad Zúñiga Calvo, the matriarch of a Costa Rican family that owns and protects the area where the fern grows. The place where they made the discovery is one of the most endangered biomes in the world. “The name was perfectly appropriate,” Watkins said, “because neither the fern nor the forest would be there without Caridad and her family.” It is also a fitting name because Caridad translates to charity in English. Watkins quipped, “What is more charitable than saving a rare piece of nature for future generations?”

Fern find

Admiral Stavridis advocates ‘smart power’

Focusing on the idea of “building bridges rather than walls,” retired Admiral James Stavridis spoke about

Wes Testo ’12, a student of Professor Eddie Watkins, photographing ferns in Costa Rica

Got Happiness?

In an environment rampant with intellectually challenging exams, busy schedules, depressing world news, and the occasional subzero temperature, it can be hard not to let stress and negative thoughts cloud our minds. When this happens, it’s important to take a step back and question: Are we happy?

Several groups on campus have been talking about different approaches to happiness this year.

1. Global “The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness,” “Traditional Roots of Happiness and What Public Policy Can Do to Enhance It,” and “The Myth of Happiness: What Should Make you Happy, but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make you Happy, but Does” were just a few of the discussions sponsored by the Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs, “where intellectual life gets real.”

In 2014–2015, the institute’s themed programming shed light on loaded questions about happiness.

2. Spiritual “Does Religion Make People Happier?,” “How are Physical and Emotional Wellbeing Connected?,” and “What is the Role of Relationships in the Pursuit of a Happy Life?” were some of the Heretics Club lunchtime series talks sponsored by the Office of the Chaplains. They focused on different themes related to happiness, wealth, and the relationships people have with faith.

3. Academic Psychology professor Rebecca Shiner is teaching a spring 2015 course titled The Good Life: Psych Science. Students explored the nature of human happiness, joy, and pleasure, altruism, material wealth, spiritual practice, and kindness.

— Emma Loftus ’16

Jarmilla Pitterman

Professor Eddie Watkins was part of a team of researchers that found a rare new hybrid fern in Costa Rica.

“The new fern we discovered is an unusual hybrid between two quite different parental species, and is in fact the only known hybrid in this particular section of the genus,” he explained.

“Hybrids tell you something about the evolutionary history of the two parental species … more distantly related species are less likely to cross.

It also tells you something about the reproductive biology of the species,” said Watkins. “In our case, the parents are not closely related, but they can still form a hybrid. This suggests something unusual about reproductive isolating mechanisms in the group.”

Watkins discovered this “huge plant with leaves over one meter wide” along with Rehman Momin ’15,Wes Testo ’12, and Jarmilla Pitterman, a professor at UC Santa Cruz. Their findings were published in Brittonia, a specialized botanical

current challenges to global security and opportunities for international collaboration during his visit to Colgate in February.

As NATO’s former Supreme Allied Commander-Europe, an accomplished member of the Navy, and the current dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Stavridis is a well-known voice in global affairs.

He discussed some of the current hot topics in global security, such as terrorist group ISIS, weapons of mass destruction in Iran and North Korea, tensions in Syria and East Asia, and the fragility of the European economy.

He also covered more general topics such as pandemics, cyber crime, poverty, and inequality.

Stavridis pointed to collaboration as the best solution to each of these threats: “These are the bridges: alliances, coalitions, partnerships. We don’t have to do this by ourselves.

We [the United States] cannot be, nor should we be, the world’s policemen, but we can be leaders.”

Stavridis advocated for the use of “smart power” as a major opportunity moving forward. This combination of soft power — benevolence enacted to advance a certain set of values — and hard power, such as use of the military, is what he believes will truly make a difference.

“The lecture certainly dispelled any stereotypical images an audience might hold about the militarist orientation of top officers of the armed forces,” said Fred Chernoff, Harvey Picker Professor of international relations and director of the International Relations Program.

— Meredith Dowling ’17

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arts & culture

Yamai Tsunao leads a workshop in Japanese Noh theater, one of the world’s oldest theatrical forms.

Tsunao is a distinguished Noh actor and a member of the Komparu School. For him and many others, Noh is a family tradition passed down through the generations. His grandfather encouraged him to do his first performance at age 5, and his first major performance at age 12.

Tsunao’s Colgate performance was followed by an interactive workshop.

First, audience members were given lyrics to Takasago, a celebratory song often performed at weddings.

Through listening to Tsunao and reciting along with him, the audience learned to sing the song. Then, he invited people on stage to receive a basic dance lesson. Volunteers learned the slow, methodical actions that make up Noh theater, at times visibly struggling not to rush the movements.

“Trying Noh for myself was far more difficult than I expected,” said Monica Hoh ’16, a theater major. “It required a discipline of my entire body that I was not used to having. But due to that, I was far more aware of what my body was doing in each moment while onstage.”

— Emma Loftus ’16

An ancient art

An architectural model of David Adjaye’s design for the Center for Art and Culture, which will be set in downtown Hamilton, across from the Colgate Bookstore

The curtain in Brehmer Theater opened to reveal Yamai Tsunao kneeling under a single spotlight on stage.

He was dressed in a stiff, dark-colored Hakama costume, and his only prop was a brightly colored fan. He sang in a deep, full voice, moving through a series of deliberate, careful gestures.

The audience watched intently, and there was a sensation of suspense in the dimly lit theater on February 10.

Tsunao’s expression and poise made it clear that this type of performance required intense concentration and advanced memorization.

This rendering was part of an interactive performance about Japanese Noh theater, one of the world’s oldest theatrical forms. Noh differs greatly from Western drama. The performers are storytellers whose movements on stage suggest the essence of a story rather than a plot, thus creating a style of theater that is inherently subtle.

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Construction will begin this summer for Colgate’s new Center for Art and Culture (CAC) in the Village of Hamilton. The $21 million, 17,000-squarefoot structure — designed by renowned architect David Adjaye — will consist of three connecting “volumes” that will be used as flexible and spacious galleries. A sculpture court and walkway will connect Utica and Madison streets to the site, which will be in the space formerly occupied by Parry’s

hardware store (18-20 Utica Street), across from the Colgate Bookstore.

The building and the exhibitions it will host will serve as a resource for Colgate’s curriculum and for the Hamilton and wider communities.

“Relocating our museums is a monumental task,” said Anja Chávez, director of university museums, who has been planning for the relocation of works from Colgate’s Picker Art Gallery and Longyear Museum of Anthropology. She said the new center will ensure the long-term stewardship of Colgate’s collections and provide access for research and study.

“Students from many disciplines also will have the opportunity to curate exhibitions there and to learn from the museum’s staff and from Colgate’s faculty.”

Crucial financial support and expertise for the project have come from Colgate trustee Nancy Crown P’10 and trustee emeritus Mark Falcone ’85, P’12. Crown is a trustee at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she has helped lead the charge for arts education in that city. Falcone, who chairs the CAC board of advisers, has a personal and professional passion for art and the ways it connects people and cultures. As a trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, he led the way in 2003 for construction of a new permanent home for the museum.

Colgate has also purchased the adjacent property, currently home to the 22 Utica Street Café, which had been listed for sale privately by the owner.

It will connect to the CAC and house a community room, offices, and a café.

The CAC — which received a $750,000 grant from the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council — will have an estimated annual economic impact of $4 million in the community and create many jobs in central New York.

Tongues afire

Devil’s food cupcakes, chili said to be hotter than Hell, and Adam’s apple turnovers were just a few of the extra touches that brought the story of Satan, Adam, and Eve to life during the reading of Paradise Lost on March 1. The “Miltonathon,” as such events have been dubbed worldwide, was a marathon of more than eight hours.

Students and professors took turns

Animal Krackers

At first glance, the shapes that Roger Birn ’68 photographs might just look like chipped paint on a building or a newspaper littering the street. But Birn sees a menagerie, and not only lions, tigers, and bears — but also exotics like a sea horse, cockatoo, charging elephant, and an anteater.

Charging Elephants by Roger Birn ’68 is part of the menagerie that he's photographed around the world.

A lifelong professional photographer, Birn started snapping his Animal Krackers series a few years ago after he and his wife took a trip to Vietnam. There, he captured a wildebeest, a rooster, and a whitefish.

His collection has since grown to several hundred photos of “animals” found everywhere, from New Mexico to Mexico, and Binghamton to the Bahamas.

The pictures represent a confluence of two of Birn’s longtime interests: artistic and cultural depictions of animals, and his take on trash.

“Globally, humanity is composed of throw-away societies, and consequently, one of the great visual contributions nations have made are mountains and canyons of refuse that

populate landscapes,” Birn wrote in his artist’s statement for his upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Art in Newport, R.I. Birn, then, makes the most out of the debris — for example, collecting a discarded Dum Dum lollipop wrapper that resembles a dog and a torn red roof shingle that looks like a parrot.

In addition to these found objects that he saves for exhibition, Birn’s photographs portray abstract animal shapes resembling folk and nomad art.

“If there is less time and inclination for makers to depict animals in spiritual settings, they nevertheless endure in other, less formal and established settings,” he explained.

“I’m always looking down or up, left or right, trying to make sense and elegance from the visual racket of that which is discarded or demolished or left to slowly weather.”

So, where do you look, and what do you see?

If you’re in the Newport area, you can see Birn’s exhibition starting May 23 and running through the summer.

Professor Morgan Davies (forefront) read several sections of Paradise Lost in a 19thcentury Welsh translation during the Miltonathon.

fessor Peter Balakian. She read an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, Ordinary Light, and poems from her published collections, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Life on Mars.

Family memories inspired many of Smith’s works. Her mother died from cancer shortly after Smith graduated from Harvard, and “that trauma was something that I’ve written about quite a lot,” she said. The death of Smith’s father, who was an engineer working on the Hubble Space Telescope, spurred her third book, Life on Mars. “Thinking about space as a real place helped a lot in dealing with that grief,” said Smith, who is a creative writing professor at Princeton.

Smith explained that she “stole” the title of Life on Mars from musical artist David Bowie. She said she loves the fact that Bowie “does think about life on Earth and the distances and the heartbreak of that.”

The name of her second book, Duende, came from the Spanish poet Federico Lorca. Ever since Smith was a student, Lorca’s concept of duende — which she defined as “a passionate and relentless, and potentially destructive creative energy that the artist is seeking to unleash from within” — fascinated her. A trip to Spain and her divorce furthered this idea for Smith, so many of the poems in this book are different metaphors for “that same struggle as duende,” she said.

As she wrote in her memoir, “I wanted to write the kinds of lines that I carried from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.” And Smith has lived that out.

— Iris Chen ’17 Poet Tracy K. Smith

Zoe Zhong ’17

Out of [the] Ordinary

French philosopher Pierre Hadot believes that an ancient philosopher wasn’t someone who wrote masterpieces, but who lived philosophy as a way of life. Likewise, Tracy K. Smith is a poet who lives a life of poetry. Her experiences, observations, and even her favorite singer have become her source of creation.

On February 11, students, professors, and community members filled Persson Auditorium for Smith’s poetry reading — introduced by English pro-

Marlene Lillian

reading John Milton’s 10,000-line epic poem aloud in the Fager English Lounge.

“I was moved by the turnout and the enthusiasm shown by many readers,” said English professor Deborah Knuth Klenck, who initiated the Miltonathon.

The event served in part to honor George Hudson, the late professor of English emeritus who had taught Milton at Colgate for more than 40 years before his death in November 2013. Klenck, who now teaches the class, also “hoped the event would make more members of the Colgate community aware of the energy and accessibility of Milton’s verse.”

“Paradise Lost distills many aspects of the classical epic tradition, and it is, really, all by itself, a crash course, not only in language and literature, but also in history and geography,” Klenck explained.

Although the Colgate group had to abandon their project after nine of the epic’s 12 books because of a blizzard, there is hope for next year; Klenck plans to turn the Miltonathon into an annual event.

— Meredith Dowling ’17

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Record-breaking basketball

Men’s basketball made history on February 28 with its 12th Patriot League victory of the year after defeating Lehigh 61-55.

That mark broke the old record of 11 wins, which was achieved only once in the team’s prior 24 seasons in the league. (The Raiders registered an 11-3 conference record during the 1995 season before going on to win the league title.)

Fans at Cotterell Court also witnessed another impressive accomplishment at the February 28 game: Damon Sherman-Newsome ’15 reached 1,000 career points, Colgate’s 30th men’s basketball player to hit that mark. He finished the game with 11 points, as did Matt McMullen ’15 and Ethan Jacobs ’15. The three, along with classmates Luke Roh, Pat Moore, Nic Lane, and Anthony DeRiggs, were all honored prior to the start of the contest because it was the seniors’ last regular season game on home court.

The following Monday, the Patriot League honored Roh, Sherman-Newsome, and Jacobs with conference accolades. Roh was named the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year, while Sherman-Newsome earned allfirst team honors and Jacobs scored all-second team praise.

The versatile Roh averaged 9.7 points, 6 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game for the season; and 11.0 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 2.8 assists during Patriot League action.

He became Colgate’s first Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year honoree, and the first major award recipient for the university since Mark

Anniversary accolades

Men’s basketball had a lot to celebrate the first weekend in February.

The Raiders were not only victorious over American, 59-43, but they also honored two magical teams in program history.

The Colgate family welcomed back the 1995 and 1996 Patriot League championship teams on the 20th anniversary of the first title-winning season. It was a remarkable run, with

the Raiders capturing league titles and making back-to-back appearances in the Big Dance. In those two seasons, the Raiders both compiled a 20-6 Patriot League record and advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time.

Colgate acknowledged many members of those teams, including notables like Adonal Foyle ’98 and Tucker Neale ’95, during halftime of the February 7 game. Foyle starred for 13 seasons in the NBA, and Neale remains Colgate’s all-time leading scorer.

Two more special guests at the ceremony were the wife and son of the late head coach Jack Bruen, who guided the Raiders to those two championship banners (he died in 1997).

Prior to the featured event that day, many of the former players laced up their shoes and threw on Colgate gear to participate in an alumni game.

Later, family and friends gathered to honor the two teams at a banquet, which featured a highlight video from those years. Among those who spoke at the banquet were Colgate Director of Athletics Victoria M. Chun ’91, MA’94, along with Brendan Tuohey ’96 and Nate O’Neil ’94.

Courage Classic

Longtime foes Colgate and Cornell put their hockey rivalry aside for a great cause when they joined forces January 31 to play in the inaugural Courage Classic. The game was dedicated to the children of Camp Good Days, whose theme is “Where Courage Knows No Boundaries.”

Attracting more than 4,200 fans, the contest took place at Cornell’s Ly-

Randyll Butler ’16 (#3) made seven of nine shots from the field and led all scorers with 18 points when Colgate bounced past Boston University 67-54 on February 11 in Cotterell Court. The Raiders concluded their season at 9-22 after losing to second-seeded Army in the Patriot League Quarterfinals (48-45). The Raiders won their last three Patriot League games to finish with their most conference wins (7-11) since the 2003–04 championship team. Colgate won four straight games for the first time since the start of the 2009–10 season, and also set a program record for free-throw accuracy.

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Matt McMullen ’15 (#22) chipped in 14 points toward the Raiders’ 59-43 win over American on February 7 in Cotterell Court.

Linebaugh ’04 was named Rookie of the Year in 2001.

Sherman-Newsome led the Raiders with 15.4 points per game in league action and 14.8 for the season.

At press time, the sociology and anthropology major from Anchorage, Alaska, had posted 49 double-digit– scoring games. He was also leading the team with 66 makes from behind the arc and 166 field goals this season. Helping out on the glass, Sherman-Newsome pulled down more than 100 rebounds during the season.

Jacobs was Colgate’s second player on the top two teams — he averaged 13.8 points per game in league play and 12.6 for the season. The psychology major made a tremendous impact in Colgate’s scoring. At press time, he had five 20-plus games, including a career-high 26 points against Columbia this year and a career-best 10 rebounds against Lafayette in 2014. In his two years, he notched 748 points, 274 rebounds, 59 blocks, and 43 double-digit–scoring contests.

Jacobs also hit 39 shots from behind the arc. He was third on the team in rebounding.

Raider Nation Rich Butler

Chicago, Ill. Game: Women’s basketball vs. Boston University (W, 67-54) on 2/11/15

The Post-Standard/Stephen Cannerelli

What brings you to the game today?

My daughter, Randyll [#3, guard], is a junior, and we don’t get the chance to come to too many of her games.

We’re here to cheer them on.

The hockey team met their honorary coaches from Camp Good Days before the Courage Classic with Cornell.

nah Rink during the second leg of the team’s annual home-and-home series.

Each team was assigned three “honorary coaches,” who were all participants in Camp Good Days’ programs and services. In advance of the game, the three children met the team at Colgate, where they received jerseys, watched practice, and ate pizza with the players. On game night, they joined their teams in a VIP area before warmups and were at center ice for a ceremonial puck drop.

“Many of our campers would never have the chance to play a sport in college,” said the camp’s chairman and founder, Gary Mervis (whose wife is its executive director, Wendy Bleier-Mervis '88). “Having them be part of an annual game with such rich tradition and rivalry in college hockey is truly a blessing for our campers.”

“Cancer is a disease that affects everyone, and the Colgate men’s hockey program is no exception,” said head coach Don Vaughan. “We are honored and humbled to have the opportunity to play the sport we love in support of so many courageous individuals and families.”

Scholarly swimmers

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams received recognition from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) for their hard work in the classroom this season.

Both squads, led by head coach Andrew Waeger, garnered a spot on the 2014 Fall CSCAA Scholar All-America Teams. The all-America program recognizes teams that have achieved

a combined grade point average of 3.0 or higher during the fall semester.

The men’s team earned a cumulative GPA of 3.17 for the fall term, while the women had a 3.11 GPA. Colgate is one of three Patriot League teams to have both squads recognized by the CSCAA (the others are Lafayette and American).

The CSCAA Scholar All-America Program, which is supported by Nike Swim, presents the award both in the fall and winter/spring.

For their good work in the pool, Morgan Cohara ’16 and Lindsey Sagasta ’16 were named All-Patriot League Second-Team. Cohara garnered all-league honors for the third time in her career; she was a firstteam honoree as a sophomore and a second-team selection during her first year. The Sagamore Hills, Ohio, native posted a pair of fourth-place finishes in the 200 backstroke (2:00.21) and 500 freestyle (4:54.33) and took 15th in the 200 freestyle (1:52.18) during the championships at the end of February.

Sagasta, meanwhile, earned allconference accolades for the first time in her career after advancing to the final heats in three freestyle championship events. Hailing from Tonawanda, N.Y., she placed third in the 200 freestyle (1:49.45) and also turned in top 16 finishes in the 100 (51.18/6th) and 50 (23.89/14th) freestyle sprints.

Both Cohara and Sagasta played a key role in the team’s success in relay competition, swimming in the 200, 400, and 800 freestyle events. The duo swam the final two legs of the 400 freestyle relay that took third place with a time of 3:24.90.

Colgate’s currently trailing BU 29-28. What do you think’s going to happen?

This game is awesome. I think they’re going to overcome BU. The cheering and the enthusiasm from the crowd is really going to help us win tonight!

What’s your favorite part about watching this sport?

The plays, and the strategy of the team — how they talk effectively to overcome their opponents. Their communication has improved a lot over the past few seasons. I’m looking forward to next season — we’re really going to kill it!

Michael James ’17

Hometown: Petit Valley, Trinidad and Tobago Game: Blue for Q (LGBTQ awareness), men’s basketball vs. Navy (L, 70-69) on 2/14/15 Why are you at the game today?

I’m at this game because I’m queer, and I’m a Colgate student. I like to be present on campus, and also, it’s a great event. I’m here to show support.

What do you think of the game so far?

People are getting into it… And, we’re winning, so it’s a good day.

Do you have any suggestions for LGBTQ students at Colgate?

There’s LGBTQ Initiatives, and Advocates, but not a lot of people seem to know about Lambda, which is a group specifically for queer and questioning students.

We meet once a week and it’s a really good time. It’s easy to reach out.

Emily Brand

Hometown: New Canaan, Conn.

Game: Women’s tennis vs. Binghamton University (L, 6-1) on 3/1/15 What brings you to the match today?

My friend, Kelly, is a freshman on the team. I wanted to come watch her because this is the first home match.

What other Raider sports do you follow?

I write for the Maroon-News, so I followed the field hockey team first semester and now I follow women’s basketball. I go to the hockey games the most.

What do you like best about Colgate sports?

There’s definitely a sense of camaraderie with the fans. Even if there’s not a huge cheering section, people are there because they’re interested and because they want to see the team do well.

— Interviews by Meredith Dowling ’17

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Books, music & film Information is provided by publishers, authors, and artists.

Arts Integration and Special Education Alida Anderson ’87, editor (Routledge)

This is the first book to posit explanations for how and why arts integration facilitates learning in students with language and sensory processing disorders and those at risk for failure due to low socioeconomic conditions. It connects developmental and educational psychology, special education, and speech/language pathology research and practice with primary action research by special educators trained in arts integration. Conducted with middle school–age students from a diverse range of abilities and needs in an inclusive urban charter school, this work contributes to the relatively understudied field of upper elementary to middle-grade–level student learning.

Lessons of Labor: One Woman’s Self-Discovery Through Birth & Motherhood Julia S. Aziz ’96 (MSI Press)

In telling the intimate birth stories of her three children and miscarriage, Julia Aziz shows readers how giving birth can be one of motherhood’s — and life’s — greatest teachers. Instead of advice on how to proceed with labor or how to parent, she offers the message that a woman can grow through the challenges that life presents her and learn to trust herself. For women who share an inclination for “getting it right,” her memoir is a reminder that the pretense of control is no match for the freedom of letting go.

Fantastical: Tales of Bears, Beer, and Hemophilia Marija Bulatovic ’98 (SOL)

Marija Bulatovic’s debut takes readers on an adventurous tour through her childhood in Yugoslavia — a country that has vanished from the map but lives on in this collection of stories set in the 1980s.

Bulatovic weaves a colorful tapestry of bears, gypsies, quirky family members, foiled plans, and unusual and unorthodox neighbors in this book that captures the Slavic spirit. Part memoir, part love letter to a place and a people, Fantastical is resplendent with humor, magic, and whimsy.

The Good Life and other Philosophical Essays on Human Nature Robert Craig ’63 (Tate Publishing)

Robert Craig’s long essay and its companion essays contain insights into the difficulties in setting specific prescriptions and proscriptions for normative behavior, for understanding our nature and what is meant by virtuous behavior, and for leading “the good life.” He develops his discussion along five human life modes: health, work to satisfy our basic and secondary needs, morality and the quest for equality or fairness, political implementation, and aesthetic and religious experience — couched in the understanding that our good life must be consistent with our nature, in the classical Greek sense. Craig shows confounding conflicts among the five categories, such as that between the ethical dictum not to kill and our need to protect ourselves from harm, and seeks to elucidate how they ought to be resolved.

Waiting for Today Steven A. Craig ’83 (Self-published)

Waiting for Today is the story of Jacob Hartman, a man who loses what he loves most and must somehow rediscover his faith in life and the joys it has to offer. Author Steven Craig asks universal questions about the meaning of human suffering and replies with answers that he hopes will truly make the reader believe in life again.

The History of Classical Music for Beginners R. Ryan Endris (For Beginners)

Music history is not as complicated as it seems, and anyone can learn the origins of Western classical music, according to author R. Ryan Endris, an assistant professor of music and director of choral activities at Colgate. In addition to learning how to better understand (and enjoy) classical music, readers can learn some of the more interesting stories behind the music and composers.

For example, only a small portion of “classical music” is even technically classical.

City of Liars and Thieves Eve (Weiss) Karlin ’88 (Alibi)

A crime that rocked a city. A case that stunned a nation.

Based on the United States’ first recorded murder trial, Eve Karlin’s debut novel recreates early 19thcentury New York City, where a love affair ends in a brutal murder, and a conspiracy involving Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr erupts in shattering violence. It begins on the bustling docks of the Hudson River, where Catherine Ring waits with her family for the ship carrying her cousin, Elma Sands. Their boardinghouse becomes

In the media a haven for Elma, who has escaped the confines of her hometown and the shameful circumstances of her birth.

But in the summer of 1799, Manhattan remains a cesspool of stagnant swamps and polluted rivers. The city is desperate for clean water as fires wreak devastation and the death toll from yellow fever surges. Political tensions are rising, too. It’s an election year, and Alexander Hamilton is hungry for power. So is his rival, Aaron Burr, who has announced the formation of the Manhattan Water Company. Their private struggle becomes public when Elma Sands’s body is found at the bottom of a city well built by Burr’s company. Resolved to see justice done, Catherine becomes both witness and avenger. She soon finds, however, that the shocking truth behind this trial has nothing to do with guilt or innocence.

The Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice Nina M. Moore (Cambridge University Press)

The race problem in the American criminal justice system persists because we enable it, asserts Nina Moore, a Colgate associate professor of political science. The Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice is the story of how the national crime policy process continually enables the race problem in criminal justice, and why. Moore offers a behind-the-scenes look at how America’s much-criticized drug laws and incarceration policies came to be.

She illustrates a cross-racial public consensus that is more concerned about a non-existent crime problem than a real race problem confronting the criminal justice system. Finally, she debunks the conventional wisdom concerning the pivotal role of the War on Drugs, and paints a much more complex picture.

Also of note:

throwback to a punk-rock past, still roaring at the future.

Small Dreams of a Tarantula: The Musings of a Brazilian Lost in the American Midwest (Mpress Media) by Bruce Healey ’84 is a compilation of his published columns, in which he’s written about life’s lessons and issues ranging from immigration to world politics.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1961, Healey lived all over the globe before finally settling in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In her recent memoir, Leaning into Love: A Spiritual Journey through Grief (Larson Publications, 2014), Elaine Mansfield shares stories of her late husband, Vic Mansfield, a physics and astronomy professor at Colgate for 35 years. The book talks about her husband’s experience with fatal cancer, how she dealt with her grief, and the poignant moment Vic shared with the Dalai Lama during his 2008 visit to Colgate. Elaine also worked at the university, teaching fitness classes from 2003 to 2006.

While working and vacationing in Liberia, Philip S. Salisbury ’65 kept a diary, which he’s turned into A Time That Was… A Peace Corps Volunteer’s Experiences of Pre-revolutionary Liberia, West Africa, 1962–1964 (Xlibris).

The book chronicles his day-to-day experiences and offers insights into Liberia.

Footnotes:

Jasmine Bailey ’05 received a 2014 Central New York Book Award in poetry for Alexandria (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2014) last December. At Colgate, Bailey is a lecturer in university studies and was previously an O’Connor Creative Writing Fellow.

For his book The Calls of Islam: Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco (Indiana University Press, 2014), Colgate professor Emilio Spadola won honorable mention in the Society for Anthropology of Religion’s 2014 Clifford Geertz Prize for the best book in anthropology and religious studies.

“[Western Sahara is] viewed as being historically part of Morocco, and today the nation obviously benefits from the occupation in terms of certain mineral wealth and other sorts of things.”

— Jacob Mundy, assistant professor of peace and conflict studies, discussed the conflict over territory determination between Morocco and Western Sahara for the Guardian

“There’s always a part of me that I leave behind.”

— Tucker Neale ’95 about visiting Colgate in February when he and his 1994–1995 basketball teammates were honored 20 years after their back-to-back appearances in the NCAA tournament, reported by Syracuse.com

“Saudi Arabia is a status quo power; the Saudis provide a rock of stability.”

— Bruce Rutherford, associate professor of political science at Colgate, commented to BBC News on the role and power of Saudi Arabian rulers in the region

“Can you scale up that kind of an intimate education?

We don’t know, but we’re willing to try and see what happens.”

— Kevin Lynch, Colgate’s chief information officer, spoke to the Chronicle of Higher Education about the university’s experimentation with online classes, including The Advent of the Atomic Bomb, where alumni learn alongside current students

“I look forward to working with all constituencies to provide opportunities for transformational learning for our students.”

— Denise Battles ’85 on her appointment as president of SUNY Geneseo, as quoted on GeneseeSun.com

“But when you bring an object into the public that appears to be dangerous or doesn’t follow a conventional sense of what art is, anything can happen.”

— DeWitt Godfrey, Colgate art professor and president of the College Art Association, weighs in on Inside Higher Ed’s article on how professors balance art students’ creativity with public safety

Patrick Bobst ’84 and his band Mask Factory (Bobst on vox, guitars, Andy Meltzer on bass, and Pat Fitzgerald on drums, percussion) have released a self-titled EP after spending time at the storied Inner Ear Studio in Arlington, Va. Mask Factory is an unabashed

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C O M PA S S Six professors point you in the direction of some of the most fascinating places on earth Interviews by Natalie Sportelli ’15, Aleta Mayne, and Rebecca Costello

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The monuments of India so inspired Padma Kaimal (art history) as a college student that ancient stone temples and architecture in south India became the locus of her career. Beyond her research and family visits, she’s led Colgate Benton Scholars as well as professors on educational travel throughout the country.

So whether you wish to delve deeply into India’s art and architecture, or learn how best to experience its tried-and-true tourist spots, Kaimal has tips galore.

GOLDEN TRIANGLE (north) This is the first tour most people get talked into: from Delhi to Agra to Jaipur. It’s easy to do and worth going.

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Taj Mahal tips: arrive the night before so you can wake up early and see it appear from the mist. Pearly grey at dawn, it’s magical, and won’t be so crowded then. (Go more than once; it changes with different light effects.)

In the afternoon, move back in time at Agra Fort, with beautiful courtyards and stone pavilions.

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Don’t miss: On the way from Agra to Jaipur, visit Keoladeo National Park, which has amazing birds and fascinating mammals like sambar and jackals. Go at sunrise and sunset — that’s when all the action is happening.

You can hire a bicycle rickshaw driver or rent a bike. Stay nearby at The Bagh, a heritage hotel on a royal country estate. Also, stop in Ajmer, where the kings lived before they built Jaipur. You can walk around the fort, and ride an elephant if you like.

Jaipur gems: Behind Amber fortress, there’s the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing, built in a revived old mansion. Their gift shop is filled with scarves and all kinds of woodwork and stationery. The Jantar Mantar astronomical garden is picturesque.

Why go: It’s a beautiful landscape — heart catching sometimes, and the historical antiquities are wonderful.

You’ll get an appreciation for a small culture and begin to understand its resilience and richness.

Read before you go: The Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Y Pedair Cainc Mabinogi), particularly Lady Charlotte Guest or Sioned Davies’s translations

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TAMIL NADU (south) Thanjavur The Royal Palace Museum has beautiful bronzes. Brihadeeswarar Temple is lovely. Bring cheap socks to wear or you will burn your feet. You have to take your shoes off, and by late morning, the pavement is blazing hot.

Stay: Parisutham Hotel, an Indian-style hotel, is welcoming to foreigners.

Mahabalipuram The ancient Pallava heritage site south of Chennai is where I do most of my research. Scenic, beautiful, relaxing. My first article was on the cliff covered in narrative relief. Climb up the hill to the lighthouse; leading up to it, there are gorgeous rock-cut cave temples with sculpture inside that tell stories, like Krishna rescuing his cowherds and their cattle.

Stay: There are luxurious hotels, and also simple guest houses where hippies and hitchhikers stay for cheap.

KERALA (southwest) The southwest coast is a beautiful part of the country: green, lush, with coconut trees and canals.

My family lives near Kochi. It’s very touristy, but worth it. The old town is lovely for walking around, with lots to see like Christian churches, docks with cool Chinese fishing nets, and the Mattancherry Palace. The ancient Paradesi Synagogue and graveyard are right next to it.

Stay: Coconut Lagoon. Not cheap, but a lovely heritage hotel with quiet outdoor pathways between old Kerala-style buildings — beautiful woodwork, steeply pitched roofs

How to experience it: Early Welsh and Irish literature is very rooted in particular landscapes. How well you understand the literature makes a difference in how you can experience the Welsh landscape. In Welsh poetry and prose, there is a kind of exaltation of freedom that writers feel is framed by the landscape.

Keep in mind: When booking a trip to Kochi, a town in Japan has the same name! Also, don’t get sucked into long backwater boat tours; they are only great for about an hour.

General Tips What to pack: Mosquito-repellent wipes, a hat (whatever works with your camera), completely sealed snacks.

What to buy (or not): As soon as you arrive, go to a Fab India store (there are dozens around the country) and buy loose, thin cotton clothing that covers your arms and legs. It’s affordable and can be readily laundered at every hotel. The people who work there will show you how to put together an outfit that suits you. People appreciate it when you wear those clothes, and Fab India is a charitable organization that helps street kids. Don’t buy anything old: it’s illegal to export cultural property.

Buy new art, from living artists!

Language and gestures: In the south, don’t speak Hindi.

They’d much rather hear English. When you ask a question and the person wiggles their head, it looks like “no,” but it means “sure.”

Ashlee Eve ’14

Local fare: Thali comes on a tray with little cups, each with a different vegetable curry. You start with poori (fried bread) and they give you rice to mix with the curries. Although in the north you drink tea, in the south, drink coffee. They make it with water buffalo milk, and usually with sugar, and it is amazing.

The great-grandfather of Morgan Davies (English) immigrated to the United States from Wales in 1870.

Davies’s father grew up in a Welsh neighborhood in Pennsylvania, and Davies’s own pride in his heritage sparked his interest in the country.

In his studies of later Medieval Welsh literature, Davies finds that it centrally connects with the country’s landscape and native tongue. (He focuses on the Welsh poets of the gentry, as well as pre-Norman Irish narrative literature and sagas.) He has visited Wales nine times, including leading Colgate study groups, and while researching, he pores over aged manuscripts in the Welsh National Library in Aberystwyth.

In Llandeilo, visit Carreg Cennen castle, the most dramatically situated castle in Wales. It’s easy to get to, and you get spectacular views, east to the Black mountains and west to Tywi Valley. You can also stop and see Dinefwr Castle. You can fish in the River Tywi and hike to see all the lakes in the Black Mountains in Brecon Beacons National Park. Nearby is the Penderyn Distillery and the regimental museum for the South Wales Borderers.

Snowdonia is a region and national park. It’s small enough that if you had a couple days, you could see a lot of it. It’s magnificent — an incredible landscape, especially the northern area. I would recommend, under good weather conditions, climbing Mount Snowdon.

It’s 3,560 feet high and the tallest peak in the British

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Isles, outside of Scotland and any peak in Ireland. The Llanberis path is a good option because it’s the easier one, clearly laid out and easy to stay on. The hike is 9 miles round-trip; it would help to be generally in good physical shape. The views from the top on a clear day are incredible.

MOROCCO

North Pembrokeshire. There are a lot of places to see in this region. You can visit St. Davids and see a beautiful cathedral, St. Non’s Chapel, and the Bishop’s Palace. It’s on the ocean and there are trails along the cliffs. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path takes up a lot of the Pembrokeshire coast. In good weather, try sea kayaking. The Preseli Mountains are good for hiking. Legend (unfortunately, recently debunked) has it that when the French were about to invade nearby Fishguard Harbour, they mistook women in traditional red Welsh attire for British soldiers and so decided not to land there.

Visit prehistoric sites including Bryn Celli Ddu, Pentre Ifan, and other burial and passage tombs.

Local fare: Eat some Welsh salt marsh lamb, steak, Welsh cheeses, Welsh cakes (made with butter, not shortening), shellfish including cockles, and other locally produced food.

General Tips When to go: May through September Getting around: The best way to get around Wales is by car; public transportation leaves a fair amount of Wales underserved.

Pack: Rain gear, warm layers, Welsh-English dictionary Buy: A wool sweater, a bottle of Penderyn whiskey, and the classic Welsh love spoon Act like a local: Although English is the first language for most people in Wales, in quite a few areas, Welsh is the language a lot of people live. The Welsh language is not a window dressing, and it is not superficial for the benefit of tourists. People have great pride in it. Make an effort to speak the language and the locals will be receptive.

Janna Minehart ’13

Accept people’s generosity and return it, and you’ll be welcomed as a friend.

FES: The Heart of Morocco Cosmopolitanism You absolutely must go to Fes, and stay in a “Riad,” an elegant mansion in the old city (Medina). Walk around and get lost in the Medina. It’s unlike any place on earth. It’s an architecturally, structurally preserved medieval city. It is connected with the world via Wi-Fi, but it was physically built in the pre-colonial manner. It’s a labyrinth. The way the streets are narrow and small, and the fact that it’s a walking city — for the most part with no cars — means that it fosters interactions between people that are really special.

MARRAKECH: Arabian Atmosphere Marrakech is what we think about for typical tourist luxury.

It’s called the “Red City,” and you see these landscapes like the white peaks of the High Atlas mountains, palm trees, and red city walls all at once. This is the place to soak in the atmosphere of a city that is very cosmopolitan. If you want to stay at a luxury hotel, drink cocktails, and play golf, Marrakech is your place. This city has the Jemaa el-Fnaa (nighttime circus) that has snake charmers, storytellers, acrobats, and many food stands. It has a Thousand and One Nights quality to it.

CHEFCHAOUEN: Relax and Rejuvenate Chefchaouen is an idyllic, small city/large village, and it lends a mellow vibe. It’s sometimes called the “blue city.” It has a combination of Spanish and pre-colonial architecture and it’s also in the mountains. It’s stunningly gorgeous. This is a good city for walking around, talking to people, hiking, drinking tea, shopping, and seeing a soccer game. Don’t miss the public bath, or spa, called a hammam.

Stop and see: Essaouira on the coast for the ocean, and Rabat, the country’s capital, to see the Roman ruins called “Chellah” and their sacred pool General Tips Act like a local: Tourists act afraid to get ripped off. Instead, encounter people with a lack of suspicion. Be willing to spend a little money, and give generously to get the warmest experience. It’s a give and take. Accept people’s generosity and return it, and you’ll be welcomed as a friend.

Good eats: Make sure to get Friday couscous in Fes, freshsqueezed orange juice in Marrakech, and an avocado milkshake in Chefchaouen.

Don’t miss: Head to “the door to the desert,” Ouarzazate, to go for a camel ride.

Read before you go: Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding, edited by David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb Buy: A carpet from Fes and blue and white ceramic wares When to go: spring and fall

John Palmer (educational studies) grew up in small-town Iowa, but his roots in South Korea run deep.

Adopted as a baby, Palmer first visited his homeland in 1991 and has been returning almost every year since, including graduate school at Yonsei University.

Co-editor of a book on globalization and internationalization of East Asian universities, now he’s studying how the vast numbers of North Koreans resettling in South Korea have changed the schools.

He’s led trips for Colgate’s study group, the Benton Scholars, and other professors. On one of those trips, in 2004, he met his wife, Woolim Cho. Her parents still live in Seoul, and the couple is raising their three sons to be bilingual/bicultural.

SEOUL: Gwanghwamun Square I consider this the central part of Seoul. In between is city hall and the statues of Admiral Lee Sun-shin and King Kojong. Visit the palaces: Kyongbokkung, Changdeokgung, Deoksugung. Insadong Street sells antiques, has tea shops; Namdaemun Market is an old-style outdoor market; and Cheonggyecheon is a nice walk.

Courtesy of John Palmer

Emilio Spadola (anthropology) first visited “magical”Morocco on a solo adventure in 1992. Six years later, he returned in pursuit of his doctorate in anthropology. Next fall, he will live there again for six months with his wife and children. Recently, he traveled with other professors to scout out potential study-abroad programs for Colgate students and continued his research on Sufism — the mystical field of Islam that centers on closeness to God and purity — in modern areas of Morocco, particularly Fes.

How to experience it: Seeing this country is one thing, but what’s great about Morocco is doing more than just seeing, it’s, ‘How can I get to know and integrate into one place, even in a short time?’ I recommend spending longer periods in one or two places rather than dashing around. For some people, Morocco is less appealing in the kind of tourism where you have to “see” places. When people love it, they love that they have experienced the country and have gotten to know shop owners along a street they walked every day for a week. Going to Morocco is about getting to know people, being open minded, and being able to meet people with the same open heart that they meet you.

Local fare: Restaurants in Seoul mostly serve one specialty (if it’s a meat restaurant, they only serve meat as the main dish). You find your favorite restaurants by the quality of the side dishes. There’s wide variety of soups. There are hundreds of kinds of kimchi.

Most foreigners enjoy bibimbap (rice with vegetables, beef or pork, and fried egg on top). Colgate students like Dakgalbi (stir-fried spicy chicken), Samgyetang (chicken soup), Pajeon/Bindaeduk (pancake with vegetables and/or seafood), ChiMaek (fried chicken and beer). Soju is the national drink. Be careful; it is has a higher alcohol content than most wines.

Stay Getaway: residential/long-term hotels. You get a kitchenette, and they’re always a little bigger. They are cheaper because they’re away from the glitz of the city. The Benton Scholars stayed at Fraser Place Central.

There is also Somerset and Fraser Place Namdaemun in the same location.

In the heart of the city: Hotel Lotte is the top choice, followed by Hilton Namdaemun. If you like luxury, look

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for the major international hotels (Marriott, Hyatt). There are boutique hotels rising up throughout Seoul (Hotel Aventree); they tend to be a bit smaller and have fewer amenities, but are less expensive.

Traditional: some people have maintained the traditional-style Korean houses (with rice paper windows) and upgraded them. You can have a room with a shared bathroom. Find them through the Korean Tourist Organization.

Be aware of: the hustle and bustle. There’s no “right” side of the road while walking — you’re weaving, bobbing.

People are more conscious about bumping into you (these days), but older people can push hard.

Subway civility: The subways are quiet, clean. It is not good etiquette to bring food or drink, and no loud talking.

Born in southern Trinidad, April Baptiste (environmental studies) casts her research net studying the fishermen and women of the island states of the Caribbean, particularly her homeland and Jamaica. She examines their attitudes, concerns, knowledge, and behaviors toward environmental problems. The self-described “Trini” suggests three themes for experiencing her country of two quite different islands: cultural, natural, and relaxation.

CULTURAL

If you are interested in Trinidad and Tobago’s culture, consider two seasons when you can attend festivities.

ANDONG HAHOE FOLK VILLAGE

More than 500 years old, it has the old style of living. If you are adventurous, locate a house that hosts overnight guests. They do a traditional outdoor play there as well.

You must locate a tour guide because it is difficult to find transportation.

THE EAST COAST

To get there: Trains, buses. Once there, you can taxi pretty much everywhere.

Courtesy of John Palmer

If you have time: Gyeongju City, the ancient capital of the Shilla Dynasty. Visit the many historical sites (burial mounds, museums) and dine with a local family.

General Tips Climate: It’s the same latitude as New York. You can swim in the ocean in the summertime — it’s beautiful, clean.

It can get snowy in the wintertime. There are nice ski resorts throughout Seoul. They’re having the [2018] winter Olympics in PyeongChang.

Don’t go: June through August — the rainy, hot, muggy season. Fall and winter can be absolutely beautiful.

Buy: Green-tea sets with the tea pot and cups. They’re beautifully designed. You can get those in Insadong (a neighborhood in Seoul). They also have bookmarks that are made in traditional designs, as well as letter openers and business card holders.

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Take a cable car to the top of Seorak Mountain, watch the sunrise over the East Sea, and visit Naksansa, a famous Buddhist temple on the seaside. Eat fresh fish from the market — there are tanks, you point at the fish you want, and they chop it right there and put it on your table raw.

Carnival on our islands is considered “the greatest show on earth.” You’d get the most engaged experience in Port of Spain (Trinidad’s capital): Calypso tents, steel pan orchestras, and bands with thousands of masqueraders.

If you can’t go for the whole season (day after Christmas until day before Ash Wednesday), go from Carnival Saturday through Tuesday, when you’ll get the final competitions and the Parade of the Bands. You can watch, or engage in the revelry — we call it “playing Mas.” Christmas is big in the Caribbean, especially in Trinidad and Tobago. We get the mixture of Christian traditions along with our indigenous and cultural heritage, such as parang, a type of music, often in Spanish.

NATURAL

the touristy part of the country. If you go, I recommend a local guide and a private taxi; ask at your hotel. Stop at the Temple in the Sea and the 85-foot statue of Lord Hanuman at the Dattatreya Yoga Center in Waterloo.

You’ll also want to do an ecotour at Caroni Swamp at dusk.

It’s the home of one of our national birds, the scarlet Ibis, a daily migratory bird. In the morning, they fly to Venezuela (it’s only about a 10-mile flight), then fly back to spend the night in Trinidad. It’s a magnificent sight — a mass of red coming toward the swamp.

RELAXATION

The best beaches are on Tobago. For good marine excursions, Buccoo Reef on the southern part is the secondlargest barrier reef in the Caribbean. You take a boat to get there, and you can get out and swim in the Nylon Pool, a shallow pool in the middle of the ocean. Speyside Reef has the largest brain coral in the world and deep water that’s good for diving. For a nice beach in Trinidad, go to Maracas Bay or Las Cuevas Bay on the northern coast.

General Tips Where to stay, getting around: In Trinidad, it is best to stay in Port of Spain, at a familiar hotel like a Hyatt or Marriott Courtyard. It’s a big, bustling city and you can do lots of things; once you get your bearings, it’s easily walkable.

Tobago has the resorts, as well as villas for short-term rent.

You can rent a vehicle if you want to explore. Bear in mind: we drive on the opposite side of the road!

Good eats: You’ll find callaloo (dasheen bush leaves, okra, pumpkin, carrots, pigs’ tails or crab, steamed in coconut milk) and pelau (rice and peas, sometimes with chicken) on both islands.

In Trinidad, try roti and curry. Eating bake (flatbread) and shark is part of the beach experience; Maracas Bay has the best. At Christmastime, you should try pastel (sweet, boiled dish of corn meal, meats, and raisins) and black cake (made with fruits soaked in alcohol). To drink, there’s sorrel (red fruit punch), or punch à créme (rum, condensed milk, egg).

In Tobago, you must try curried crab and dumplings. For street food, try doubles (curried chickpeas in flatbread) and aloo (potato) pie.

Buy: A replica of a steel pan. Touted as the only instrument developed in the 21st century, it was developed in Trinidad.

Pack: Swimsuit, sunblock, reusable party cup, and a sense of humor!

There are many fascinating places to go on both islands, from waterfalls to nature preserves.

Read before you go: V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas

The La Brea Pitch Lake is the world’s largest naturally producing asphalt lake. It’s in the south, which is not

Word to know: When a Trinbagonian invites you to hang out, they will say, “Come, let’s go for a lime.”

Traveling around the Southern Cone on skis, the backs of trucks, and her own two feet, Maureen Hays-Mitchell (geography) has 30 years of fieldwork under her belt, specializing in Peru.

Since the early 2000s, she’s been looking at the role of women’s organizations in post-conflict reconciliation. Her current project, “Memory on the Landscape,” explores how Peruvians honor those who have died.

PERU

Insider’s tip: Machu Picchu has become crowded. If you stay two nights, you can get to the ruins the afternoon of your first day and visit again early the next morning before the tourist trains arrive. You can stay until it closes and either walk down, jumping from switchback to switchback and then across the river — that’s fun — or take one of the biodiesel minibuses that zip up and down the sharp mountainside. It is also possible to climb up to Huayna Picchu and look back on Machu Picchu and up and down the Urubamba River Valley. If you give yourself two days, you stay in Aguas Calientes, the access town. There are a lot of different hotels, from nicer tourist places, to hostels, and everything in between.

General Tips Be mindful of: flaunting your privilege. Wear a simple watch and basic jewelry. Not so much for security, but to not call attention to yourself.

Pack: Inquisitiveness. Sense of humor. Journal. Ibuprofen or hard candies to help with the altitude.

Travel time: Don’t go during the holidays. In December and early January, essentially all offices close. The week of July 28, national independence day, most everything closes.

Tourism today: Peru has gone through a soul-searching process. Its economy is doing well, at least at the national scale, and the government has been promoting tourism.

So it’s a terrific place to visit and very safe.

LIMA: coastal desert Must see: the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion. This museum commemorates the brutal internal conflict that rocked Peru from 1980 to 2000. It’s built into a cliff that overlooks the Pacific Ocean, so it’s a dramatic setting, and the museum is stark in its design. There’s a terrace where people are welcome to gaze out on the ocean.

Good eats: At Astrid y Gastón [#18, World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2014], you can have many different experiences, from simple tapas and a drink, to spending three hours on a culinary journey throughout Peru, with food that is indigenous to the various regions prepared in a haute cuisine manner.

Local fare: - Try guinea pig. The national dish is cuy picante [spicy guinea pig], but you can have the meat grilled, in a stew, or sliced very thin, like prosciutto.

- Quinoa originated in Peru, and there are certain varieties that can only be cultivated there because of the ecology.

- The potato is indigenous to Peru; there are all sorts of dishes. My favorite is papa huacaína (the way it’s prepared in the city of Huancayo), with a spicy, creamy sauce.

- Pisco (brandy) sour, the national drink, is made from a grape cultivated in the arid desert region south of Lima.

In each ecological zone, the culture is distinct.

If you have time: Walk the Inca Trail so that you enter Machu Picchu through the Sun Gate. It’s supposed to be how the Inca entered it themselves.

MADRE DE DÍOS: the rainforest Eco-lodges offer a range of eco-experiences. I recommend Madre de Díos; it’s a vast region in Peru’s southern Amazonia.

Advice: Have your hotel and restaurants arrange your taxis. If you flag one on the street, you don’t know if it’s licensed or not.

CUZCO AND MACHU PICCHU: the Andean Highlands Cuzco was the center of the Inca Empire. It is the terminus city for getting to Machu Picchu, which can only be accessed by train and is a mystical experience. It’s possible to travel through the Sacred Valley, which is sprinkled with important Inca and pre-Inca sites.

Courtesy of Maureen Hays-Mitchell (2)

Bike Barranco. It’s fun to do a bike tour of Barranco, an artistic, bohemian district along the Pacific coast.

The Peruvian winter (our summer) is overcast and damp in Lima, but it’s the ideal time to be in the Andes Mountains because the air is clear. In their summer, Lima is warm and sunny, humid — but it’s the rainy season in the mountains.

Buy: Anything made from baby alpaca: sweaters, scarves, gloves, socks, hats. It’s the first shearing (why it’s called “baby”), which is the softest, so luxurious. It’s known as Peruvian cashmere.

Read: Deep Rivers, by Jose Maria Arguedas. Referred to as “the novel of all Peruvians,” it’s about a boy who has a foot in both the indigenous and Western cultures.

OH, THE PLACES THEY GO!

Beyond research that takes professors to places near and far — often with students — Colgate’s faculty-led studyabroad programs have been immersing students in new cultures, perspectives, and experiences off campus since the 1930s.

See study-abroad locales at colgate.edu/scenecompass and check out students’ photos at instagram.com/ colgateuniversity

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HOW BILL LLOYD ’80 BLEW THE WHISTLE AND SAVED THE RETIREMENTS OF THOUSANDS

BY REBECCA COSTELLO | ILLUSTRATIONS BY STEPHANIE DALTON COWAN

It started like all their other monthly annuity study sessions. Bill Lloyd ’80, a financial adviser and certified financial planner at MassMutual in northern Virginia, had gathered with a dozen colleagues to discuss one of their products.

The group leader was puzzled by something with a new annuity that they’d been using.

It was July 30, 2008, a year when Americans invested $1 trillion in annuity products. The guarantees that annuities provide make them popular retirement investment options, especially during major economic turmoil like the Great Recession of 2008. In what some called an annuity arms race, companies were frequently changing or adding riders, and the study group was trying to keep up so they could match their clients with the right products.

MassMutual had just introduced a living benefit rider for its variable annuities — its first — the previous September. In a nutshell, it promised no less than 6 percent compound interest on retirement income, up to a cap of 250 percent, based on the initial investment. With the option to draw an income stream at any point, at any age, the product offered liquidity and guaranteed, if limited, growth. Flexible, and safe — right?

But the markets were tanking. The group leader had a client who was very worried, a 62-year-old man who’d invested $100,000 when the product opened, and his principal had dropped to $60,000. To assure his client, he had used the new software provided to reps to illustrate how the product would protect his investment. The results were unexpected, so he had brought it to the study group.

He ran the illustration of the $100,000 investment through the 16.2 years it would take to reach the cap ($250,000, the guarantee at 6 percent growth), and then simulated regular income withdrawals with a worst-case scenario in declining principal. The protected value began decreasing at the same rate as the actual principal, right on down to zero.

“We’re like, ‘What’s going on?’” Lloyd said. “The illustration contradicted everything we had been trained on. I thought the technology was flawed.”

That day, Lloyd embarked on a herculean quest. Over six years, he would risk his career — and endure 21 crimes committed against him — to not only solve a $2.5 billion math problem but also get his company to halt impending financial devastation for thousands of customers.

THE A-HA MOMENT Puzzlement quickly became concern. “I had sold a couple of million dollars of this product, including to a family member,” said Lloyd, a man with a boyish visage and penchant for speaking in metaphors whose easygoing demeanor almost belies the gravity of his story. He’d had two decades of experience in the field after a first career teaching high school math and coaching college-level swimming.

Lloyd went to the wholesalers for clarification, but they were stumped; the internal guy at headquarters said he’d look into it. In the meantime, Lloyd began asking trusted colleagues: “Am I clueless?” Universally, folks told him they saw a discrepancy between the illustration and their training. He spent a couple months studying the problem, both the mathematics and the parameters, while awaiting word from headquarters.

Then, it dawned on him. The decline in the protected value mirrored that of the underlying investment value because the product was designed such that, once the cap was reached, every dollar withdrawn would reduce the protected value at the same rate. But nothing — not the sales materials, the prospectus, or the training — said that.

On the day the cash value hit zero, there would be nothing to annuitize. No retirement income stream. The only way to preserve the protected value would be to begin withdrawing income before reaching the cap, which defeated the whole reason to buy the product. And customers likely wouldn’t realize this for at least 16.2 years.

He began thinking about the harm to his clients. One in particular came to mind.

“There was an older fellow, a blue-collar guy outside New Orleans, named Leroy. A good man.” He worked in construction. Had put his kids through school, and supported both daughters and their kids after divorces, while taking care of

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his wife. She was in for surgery when Hurricane Katrina hit. Her scans were lost on the medevac to Baton Rouge, and she died. Leroy had invested $60,000.

“This guy had entrusted me with what was a big investment for him. I was raised by a Colgate graduate who’s a Marine, a Marine grandfather, and a mother who’s one hundred percent German and the toughest of the three.

Gray areas did not exist,” said Lloyd. “There was right, and there was wrong. There was no way in hell I was going to let Leroy’s retirement get destroyed. Not on my watch.”

SOUNDING THE ALARM It was now September 2008. The internal wholesaler finally called Lloyd back and confirmed his suspicions.

Lloyd pointed out the omission in the materials and training. “I’m sorry. That’s the way it is,” he was told. So Lloyd went to his direct superior, the general agent responsible for all the sales reps in his territory. “He had this ‘Oh my God’ look on his face, and began contacting people at his level,” said Lloyd, who, meanwhile, talked to the wholesalers and the MassMutual Agents Association.

Eventually he was referred to a VP in the variable products division, but he heard nothing but crickets — “until I sent an e-mail with three little words in the subject line: Class Action Lawsuit. Suddenly, I was Mr. Popular. When they first responded, I noticed in the e-mail thread that one of them had a JD after his name.

I thought, great, they want to solve the problem.” Lloyd asked to include two well-versed colleagues in the call.

“No. We just want to talk to you,” he was told.

“I’m thinking, this is not about exchanging Christmas presents,” said Lloyd. He told his general agent, who insisted on joining the call.

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jumped down his throat. He declared that nothing was wrong with the product, that Lloyd had mis-sold it and should have been better supervised — and that all of the clients should have received illustrations. Lloyd knew the attorney was blowing smoke. By law, annuities do not require an illustration for sale.

“Don’t shoot the messenger,” Lloyd said. “These clients are going to get hurt. The reps will get sued.

You’re about to let the financial equivalent of the Toyota car explosions happen.” After the VP responsible for the prospectus insisted they could not possibly have foreseen every circumstance, Lloyd said, “They told me I was the problem.” But he knew he wasn’t.

He found respite, and encouragement, in “chasing down my kids” (Palmer in middle school, Will in high school, and Kelly at University of Virginia) at their events.

Parked outside a natatorium, he saw a friend who does class action law, and described what was going on. “I asked, ‘Am I imagining this?’ He said, ‘Oh, no, it’s very real. It will involve large sums of money and people’s reputations.’ I walked in to watch my daughter dive at regionals and miss all-American by a point, and then came back a week later at States, and she nailed it.”

Lloyd began collecting information — sales materials, prospectuses, notes from other offices — and continued trying to motivate agents association officers to bring the problem to MassMutual’s leadership. “The attorney kept trying to block me,” he said.

Lloyd also began recording the name of every person he knew had knowledge of the flaw in the product on a sheet of paper — his “sacred tablet” that he carried around for the next several years. On the back, he soon began keeping track of the crimes being committed against him.

THE PLOT THICKENS Just a few weeks before that call on December 4, around Thanksgiving, the problem also became personal — and the situation more complicated — when the relative to whom Lloyd had sold the product (we’ll call him ‘Pete’) paid him an unexpected office visit.

‘Pete’ was in the commercial real estate market, which was floundering. He was in significant debt. He had a child in college. And the cash value of his annuity was down around 50 percent. With a history of violence, he was more than agitated. They argued about the promises made about the product. Although Lloyd could cite detailed notes proving he had not misled him, ‘Pete’ requested Lloyd file a claim on his own errors and omissions insurance to recoup the investment loss for him.

“He would not have known the phrase ‘errors and omissions insurance’ for all the tea in China. He was obviously coached,” said Lloyd. Things exploded, and ‘Pete’ filed a complaint against Lloyd (the first in his career).

MassMutual investigated, and after Lloyd was cleared, ‘Pete’ threatened in front of others to take a baseball bat to his kneecaps. Lloyd got a protective order; sadly, the two became estranged, starting a rift in the family.

By December 2009, several top association officers, and many general agents, understood there was a problem. At that point, MassMutual gathered 25 top reps and general agents, executives responsible for the annuity, and one of the people “who has a lot of Os in his title.” When the variable annuities VP claimed that Lloyd (not by name) and an office colleague had been mis-selling the product, the agents association president protested and handed out Lloyd’s illustration showing the flaw — essentially what Lloyd had already provided. An hour-long argument ensued.

“Finally, the O-man said, ‘Stop,’” said Lloyd. “He asked the agents, ‘Is this how you understood the product to work?’” They confirmed: yes, and that was also how they had been trained, and what they had sold their clients.

“Then we need to do what’s right and fix the problem.”

Close to victory, Lloyd thought. But unbeknownst to him, another huge monkey wrench had been thrown in. Lloyd had recently fired an employee, and it was an ugly scene. ‘Greg’ had significant short-term debt and was living on bonus earnings, which, given the recession, Lloyd could no longer pay him. When Lloyd requested he start repaying money he’d loaned him, ‘Greg’ exploded, verbally and physically, and then wrote an e-mail to Lloyd that gave cause for firing him.

Lloyd consulted on the termination process with a Colgate friend who’s a top labor attorney, Mike Stevens ’81. ‘Greg,’ now on probation, had access to Lloyd’s online calendar. He saw the appointment with Stevens and deduced he was going to be fired. ‘Greg’ was aware of the annuity issue, and Lloyd’s estrangement with ‘Pete’ over it, and he knew how to use it.

On November 5, it turns out, he broke into Lloyd’s office at 5:45 a.m., erased his business calendar, and, in addition to other documents, stole his annuity research file, copied it, and later returned it. He took the annuity information to ‘Pete,’ who used it to extort a six-figure sum in hush money from MassMutual.

‘Greg’ used the other stolen information to falsify nine counts against Lloyd to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), four to the Virginia Securities Division,

and three to the Virginia Insurance Bureau, and sought to have the Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards de-credential him. And, he committed identity theft using Lloyd’s credit card numbers and PINs. Not until ‘Greg’ was gone did Lloyd’s boss tell him he had an FBI record: arson, armed burglary, assault with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy, and more. It’s a FINRA violation for anyone with a felony conviction to be in an office where securities are tendered. The company had known for five months; Lloyd’s boss was eventually removed for his inaction. Lloyd would have to pursue ‘Greg’ in federal court on his own.

BRINGING IN THE CAVALRY Reality was setting in: Lloyd’s credibility, and his job, were in peril. He asked MassMutual to defend him against the false charges; he was told to get his own attorney. “I need help,” he told a lawyer friend at his son’s basketball game.

The friend told him, “There’s a guy named Jason Pickholz up in New York. That’s who I’d get.” Lloyd went to meet Pickholz. Must have been kismet. A top expert in securities law, he was also a fellow Colgate grad, Class of ’91.

Pickholz, who worked for years as a partner in large firms, said his financial law career was “in the genes.”

His dad was assistant director of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement division; mom is an SEC branch chief, and a cousin who worked for the SEC became an elected judge. With the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and its SEC Office of the Whistleblower Award Program in 2010, Pickholz had seen the opportunity to open his own firm to focus on cases just like Lloyd’s.

“Bill was my first client in the door,” he said. “I immediately recognized there’d been a securities violation, and that the SEC should be aware of it. When Bill explained the extensive efforts he had undertaken to make this problem known internally, I understood he was a decent person who was not out to glorify or enrich himself.”

Pickholz began working to clear Lloyd’s name with FINRA, which would begin rebuilding his credibility with the other entities, and with the MassMutual annuity issue — because, at the same time, MassMutual’s law division began claiming Lloyd had been engaged in wrongdoing.

Suddenly, Lloyd’s allies stopped answering his e-mails, wouldn’t take his calls. Then his new boss told him, “I wouldn’t spend any more time on that annuity problem.

MassMutual will deal with clients one by one.” Lloyd saw that as a veiled threat to drop his quest.

With no other recourse, Lloyd agreed that Pickholz should contact the SEC. It was early December 2010.

The Dodd-Frank law was so new, its rules wouldn’t even be in place for another eight months. A week later, Lloyd walked “deep into the bowels of the SEC” with Pickholz and met with the enforcement assistant director, senior

investigative counsel, and an actuary. Of the two giant satchels of evidence he’d collected (training notes, more than 1,000 e-mails, recordings of conversations), Pickholz instructed him to bring only the most important items. If the SEC was interested, they’d tell them there was much more to follow. Lloyd found himself giving a math lesson to explain the problem. It took an hour and a half.

“I was never so thankful for having been a math teacher after Colgate,” remarked Lloyd, who said he’d “majored in Al Strand and Dan Saracino. Were it not for those professors teaching me how to think in a logical and mathematically progressive style, there is no way I could have recognized the flaw in the product, and the consequences.” It took another hour to elucidate the prospectus’s problems. He’d made two illustrations, using dummy names with a sardonic twist.

“In ‘I’m Screwed,’ I showed how the product would zero out if the flaw was triggered. In ‘I Was Fooled,’ I showed what MassMutual said was supposed to prevent that from ever happening.” Unfortunately, the dramatic drop in the markets would prevent the fail-safe from ever kicking in; they’d need to average an unprecedented 16 percent gain or greater for 15 consecutive years.

Compounding the flaw was the fact that, in their haste to bring it to market, the product’s creators failed to explain properly how it worked to the marketing people.

The SEC representatives “could see Bill’s conviction,” said Pickholz, “that he’s intelligent, and he clearly knew what he was talking about.”

“Thus began the whistleblowing,” said Lloyd.

JUSTICE SERVED The SEC investigation went on for months. Other than a few requests for documentation, “It’s silent. That’s the killer,” Lloyd said. “Periodically, a friend would imply they had just been interviewed.” From that, he could tell where they were in the investigation.

In April 2011, with Lloyd outed as a whistleblower, a company regulatory attorney told Pickholz that Lloyd’s employment agreement superseded the protections of Dodd-Frank. Unless he agreed to participate in the company’s defense, they saw possible grounds for termination.

If that happened, “I would no longer be employable in the securities industry,” Lloyd said. So he resigned, on Tax Day. The case against ‘Greg’ also picked up steam. “We ended up in the Alexandria Federal Court with Judge Claude Hilton, who had ruled on the 9/11 bombings and the Unabomber.” The proof against ‘Greg’ was incontrovertible: he’d e-mailed the stolen documents to his wife at her workplace, through Department of Defense servers.

Under a consent order, ‘Greg’ admitted everything, and Lloyd was cleared by FINRA and the other entities.

The big victory came on Nov. 15, 2012, when the SEC finally posted its findings: MassMutual had committed securities law violations, “failing to sufficiently disclose the potential negative impact of a ‘cap’ it placed on a complex investment product” that involved $2.5 billion in variable annuities. MassMutual settled, removed the cap, and paid a fine of $1.625 million. It was the first time Dodd-Frank was used proactively: no investor lost a dollar.

“The SEC did their job, and they did it well,” said Lloyd.

But would Lloyd receive an award? After months of waiting, and having lost more than seven figures — his income, benefits, and 401(k), with attorneys’ fees loom-

ing — the news was terribly disappointing. He’d been denied. But Dodd-Frank allows for appeal. In November 2013, Lloyd and Pickholz had an intense three-hour meeting with Sean McKessy, chief of the Office of the Whistleblower, among other representatives. He’d later learn that an award committee member had drawn the wrong conclusions about whether Lloyd had voluntarily disclosed. About nine months went by.

On the afternoon of July 30, 2014, exactly six years after that annuity study meeting, Lloyd was with his bookkeeper, taking stock of his financial challenges. “I figured ‘I’m never going to get back what I lost. But it’s OK. I’m alive. I’m going to make it work.’” The phone rang. It was Pickholz: “McKessy wants to talk to you.”

“I go to my office and sit down. I’m shaking,” said Lloyd. “The phone rings, and McKessy says, ‘Bill, first, I want to thank you. You’re the reason I took this job. You were the guy who was willing to put his hand up and not let the parade go by without trying to fix it. It’s my pleasure, on behalf of the Office of the Whistleblower, Commissioners of the SEC, and the entire commission, to inform you that you’ve been awarded 25 percent of MassMutual’s fine, $406,250.’ It didn’t catch up to what I lost, but it filled in all of the divots. I was back on terra firma.” Inside Counsel named the reversal (the first and only) as one of the five milestones of the Dodd-Frank whistleblower reward program.

“Bill fits my definition of a hero,” said Pickholz. “He put his career and his own money and relationships on the line to protect people he didn’t even know. And he didn’t ask for anything.” The Colgate compadres agreed to celebrate with a beverage at the Inn during Homecoming Weekend 2014. More Colgate kismet: Lloyd was the 13th whistleblower to receive an award, which was wired to him on August 13.

“It was a long road,” said Lloyd, who in 2012 cofounded an independent firm, Parkway Financial Strategies. “It cost me a great deal. There were times, because I needed something to go right, I was too tough on my kids, whether it was athletics or academics. I regret it, and I’ve told them it wasn’t fair to them. It had a big impact on my marriage. But every time I hit a tough spot, Leroy would pop into my brain cells. If you don’t step up and protect other people, who’s going to do it?”

The Colgate community got to hear Bill Lloyd ’80 share his saga on campus in January. He gave a public talk sponsored by the Robert A. Fox ’59 Management Leadership Skills Institute, moderated by classmate Lauren Ferrari ’80, managing director of the office of business integrity & compliance for Alcatel-Lucent. And students of the Rick Stone ’81 Business Ethics Seminar taught by Professor David McCabe discussed the case with Lloyd and Ferrari over dinner. They plan to continue the conversation at their 35th Reunion in May. Watch a video from Lloyd’s time on campus: colgate.edu/whistleblower.

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Alumni programs, volunteer opportunities, career networking, and more at my current job if I hadn’t taken part when I was a student.”

Nearly 2,500 miles from Manhattan, the Colgate Entertainment Group welcomed nine students from its own campus group to Los Angeles for tours and meetings with entertainment industry alumni. Students visited with grads at 20th Century Fox Television and Creative Artists Agency.

“I am so glad to have had a firsthand look into so many different aspects of the entertainment world,” said Sara Hinton ’16. “I realize the breadth of the industry and the many opportunities available, and I am thankful to have seen how graduates paved their individual paths to Los Angeles — how Colgate prepared them for their positions.”

Learn more about all of Colgate’s Professional Networks by visiting colgate.edu/networks.

The Colgate Thirteen helped warm up the stage for the Rockettes on December 12.

The Office of Alumni Relations is pleased to offer many ways for alumni to stay in touch with each other, and with Colgate! E-mail me with questions or concerns at tmansfield@colgate. edu. — Tim Mansfield, associate vice president, institutional advancement and alumni relations Questions? Contact alumni relations: 315-228-7433 or alumni@colgate.edu.

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The Spectacular Thirteen A Christmas wish came true for the Colgate Thirteen on December 12 when they joined the likes of Al Roker of the Today Show, Nick Cannon of America’s Got Talent, and Rosie Perez of The View as preshow entertainment for the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular in New York City.

The invitation arrived via e-mail from Kristina Heney ’95, senior vice president of marketing and sales at Madison Square Garden Entertainment, to Thirteen member Alexander Rojek ’15. Heney is in charge of bringing in outside groups to perform as opening acts for the show.

On the cavernous red-and-gold Great Stage, the Thirteen gave their audience two holiday favorites: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.”

“When the curtain came up and we saw all the seats filled with cheering people, it was a surreal experience,” Rojek said. “It was absolutely unbelievable to be on the same stage that so many great performers have crossed.”

Although this was the Thirteen’s debut at Radio City Music Hall, they are no strangers to the spotlight. The group has performed the national anthem at Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox and in Miami for Super Bowl

XIII. In January 2013, they sang on the nationally syndicated Ricki Lake Show.

— Quanzhi Guo ’18 Professional networks sponsor winter break immersion A pair of trips kept nearly 30 students busy during winter break 2015. Coordinated through the Center for Career Services and supported by alumni and parents in Colgate’s Professional Networks, these two-day seminars help undergraduates begin to clarify career goals and build their professional connections.

The Colgate Real Estate Council (CREC), led by Cushman & Wakefield partner James Nelson ’98, hosted 22 students in New York City. “Attendance jumped from eight participants in 2014 due to buzz from last year’s trip and a newly developed real estate student group on campus,” Nelson said. The students got “an industry crash course from a who’s who of Colgate alumni speaking on various aspects of the business. Then, they toured a luxury condo project under development in the city.”

Professional connections that are developed on immersion trips pay off. CREC member Charlotte Myers ’13, an associate at Cushman & Wakefield, proved the point: “Without a doubt,” she said, “I would not be

Confab on the new Congress Where will the new U.S. Congress lead us? A panel in Washington, D.C., considered the question on February 26, sponsored by Colgate’s Common Good Network.

Panelists included Amy Dudley ’06, communication director in the office of Senator Tim Kaine; Elizabeth Oblinger ’10, staff assistant for Senator Rob Portman; Dave Smith ’88, a political consultant at GMMB; and Paul Lobo ’89, founder of the Policy Integration Partners LLC. Amanda Terkel ’04, a Huffington Post political reporter, moderated.

Students from the campus Colgate Entertainment Group (CEG) visited the alumni CEG in Los Angeles and toured famous studios including 20th Century Fox Television, where Modern Family is filmed (pictured here).

The panel touched on the current relationship between the two parties as well as between the two chambers; difficulties in the process of lawmaking; the potential shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security; and the possible future of Congress in the 2016 election. The panelists reflected on their own experiences and shared their opinions.

A Q&A session concluded the event, which was attended by alumni and students on the current Washington, D.C., Study Group. On campus, students gathered in Case Library to watch the Livestreamed conversation and pose questions. Among them, Justin LoScalzo ’16 asked if they thought that the upcoming presidential election serves as a distraction from policy making or if it will encourage parties to work toward a solution to use as leverage in the election. Smith remarked, “You’ve got a lot of senators who are interested in being that next president, and every move they make is going to be through that lens.”

Dudley added that “in 2016, Democrats are going to be vying for control again and Republicans are going to try to hold on to it.” All panelists agreed that this will be an important year to make progress for both parties.

You can watch the discussion at http://www.colgate.edu/newcongress.

— Iris Chen ’17 Internationalism at Colgate In February, the Chenango Valley Alumni Club heard from Nicole Simpson, associate dean of the faculty for international initiatives and associate professor of economics, at its

monthly luncheon at the Colgate Inn. The audience asked about Colgate’s international students (approximately 10 percent of the student body), and they were interested in the accessibility of study abroad programs.

“As of last year, any Colgate students who study abroad can take their financial aid with them,” Simpson explained. “The portability in financial aid is a major change for Colgate, and will allow more students to study abroad.”

Konosioni coffee talk In February, for the first time in recent memory, Konosioni’s current and alumni members gathered for brunch in New York City. They shared experiences, traded campus news, and discussed ways to sustain engagement beyond graduation.

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The Common Good Network sponsored a panel in Washington, D.C., to discuss the new Congress. L to R: Paul Lobo ’89, Elizabeth Oblinger ’10, Amy Dudley ’06, Dave Smith ’88, and Amanda Terkel ’04

On March 7, Club of Philadelphia members were taken on a private guided tour of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

They saw treasures from the Signature Galleries, including Egypt (Sphinx), Egypt (Mummies), Greece, and Rome. This piece is the Statue of Sitepehu, 18th Dynasty (ca. 1479–1458 BCE). A block statue, Sitepehu, Overseer of Priests is constructed of sandstone with hieroglyphic inscriptions listing the virtues of the deceased.

Student members, led by President Emily Hawkins ’15 and Vice President Annie Hoefler ’15, shared updates on current projects and Konosioni activity in recent years, such as launching a crowdfunding website for local nonprofits called Madison County Gives, distributing Torch Medals, and leading a campaign to Current and past members of Konosioni in New York City bring back the Colgate hello.

Alumni recalled their own experiences with the organization, noting first-year van stuffing, leading convocation, and their induction ceremonies.

As an organization committed to service, leadership, and tradition, Konosioni members hope to continue

to learn from the experiences of prominent alumni members (including Maggie Dunne ’13, Bart Hale ’04, Melissa Coley ’79, and Frank Hearn ’86), reaffirm their mission, and strengthen relationships with members on campus and off. They will have the chance as they plan future gatherings.

— Natalie Sportelli ’15 A new way to get noticed The Colgate Bookstore is pleased to offer a special opportunity for alumni to promote their businesses in front of thousands of fellow grads, parents, and friends while contributing to the bookstore’s annual online catalogue.

Alumni can sponsor up to a half-page in the catalogue and use that space to publicize your own ’Gate-Made products, books, or services.

The bookstore offers three different levels of sponsorship. To find out which level best suits your needs, call 315-228-6944, or e-mail Lauren Cassulis at lcassulis@colgate.edu.

Colgate University reserves the right to review all submissions prior to publication.

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Teamwork

Place each of the 24 words and phrases about sports at Colgate into the grid so that they interlock in crossword fashion (ignore any spaces or punctuation in the entries). When you’re done, transfer the letters in the shaded boxes to the correspondingly colored boxes below the grid to spell a phrase relevant both to sports and to the process of solving this puzzle. See pg. 57 for the answer key.

Rewind The Camel

By Bob Meehan ’65

Remembering Coach Olav Bernt Kollevoll ’45 (Ole, the Camel) is a lot easier than trying to forget him. It was eminently clear to us from the get-go why he was referred to as the “Camel.” Once we got on the team bus, the Camel just would not stop — Coach Ole Kollevoll ’45 and there were no facilities on the bus. Indeed, if we played a hockey game in Cairo, Egypt, on a Saturday night, the Camel would have had the bus driver head for Hamilton and not let him stop until we got there.

As for the bus, if you’ve seen the movie Slap Shot, some of which was filmed at Starr Rink, you realize the bus depicted in the movie was far superior to anything we ever rode in. In fact, ours was a yellow school bus.

As a result, there was many a night returning to Hamilton coming across Route 20 from Albany where the driver couldn’t see the hood ornament through the snow, with Coach telling him, “Keep goin’… Keep goin’…!”

Coach Kollevoll coached us in so many ways. Not only on how to play hockey, but [also] about the game of life, about never giving up, and about ourselves. Which explains why both his legend and his legacy still live on!

— excerpted from Legacy, the Class of ’65 50th Reunion yearbook Do you have a reminiscence for Rewind?

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Sals online Curious what Colgate students looked like in the 1880s? What was the cool place to hang out in the 1930s? And, just how many people have been thrown into Taylor Lake? Look no further than the Colgate University Libraries Digital Collections for the scoop on all those who came before us. The Salmagundi yearbooks from 1884 to the present are now available online at colgate.edu/ yearbookarchive.

Above: As Apollo looks on, Seth Holm, a visiting assistant professor of the classics, engages with a student during his Elementary Classical Greek II course, taught in the W.H. Gifford Classics Center in Lawrence Hall. Back cover: Crab trees flower into bloom as spring emerges at McGregory Hall. Both photos by Andrew Daddio

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