Tag: Colorado College
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March was the month of city founder Gen. Palmer’s death and his burial in Evergreen Cemetery
The headline atop Page 1 of the Colorado Springs Gazette on March 14, 1909, told the sad story: “General William J. Palmer, Colorado’s Foremost Citizen, is Dead.” “Springs Loses Founder and Chief Benefactor” the story continued, saying he had died a day earlier, at 1:15 p.m.,at his home, Glen Eyrie. The general, an avid horse…
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Major gifts, famous artists behind the Fine Arts Center’s historic permanent collection
For the next year the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College will spotlight the “Gifts That Shape Us,” a special look at the top works of art, the donors and acquisitions that helped make the museum what it is today, leading into the future. The museum’s Lane East Gallery at 30 W. Dale…
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EDITORIAL: More work to do balancing ‘speech,’ tolerance on Colorado campuses
As a news report in The Gazette this week reminds us, what passes for political activism at plenty of the country’s higher-ed institutions continues to escalate, all too often, into repugnant antisemitism. Some of those campuses, unfortunately, are in Colorado. The national Anti-Defamation League has compiled its third annual “Campus Antisemitism Report Card,” an evaluation…
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Colorado history told through poetry, spoken word by poets laureate
Young poet and social justice activist Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, was just 22 when her “The Hill We Climb” launched the literary art back into a major worldwide spotlight with her 2021 Joe Biden inaugural poem. Her now famous words: “If only we’re brave enough to be it. For there is…
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Ahead of Gold Pan showdown, DU Pioneers may have found No. 1 goaltender in freshman Quentin Miller
With the Lawson Lunatics yelling at him for six straight periods, Denver freshman goaltender Quentin Miller shut down the defending national champions with a smile on his face. After feeling like Western Michigan stole two trophies from them last season with double-overtime wins in both the NCHC Frozen Faceoff and the NCAA Frozen Four, the…
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New Springsteen film worth a watch but doesn’t match level of the book it’s based on
By Steven Hayward, Special to The Gazette One of the great detours of contemporary music was made by Bruce Springsteen in the late 1970s. Fresh off a massive tour following his double album, “The River,” Springsteen eschewed a return to the studio, opting instead to move back to New Jersey where he rented a drab…
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No. 1 Denver Pioneers sweep Yale and join elite company with 1,600th program win
Good luck beating the top-ranked Denver Pioneers. It hasn’t happened since early March.
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Colorado College students break sound barrier — with a ping-pong ball
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In a classroom at Colorado College’s Barnes Science Center on Thursday, several CC students and a small group of observers from the National Society of Professional Engineers watched as the air pressure built inside a…
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Liz Cheney: Bruised tiger with a mission | Tom Cronin
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Liz Cheney is a Ford-Reagan-Bush-Romney-Dick Cheney Republican. But she is not a Trump Republican. She served as the U.S. representative from Wyoming from 2017 until January 2023. Earlier, she had worked for Fox News for a while after she was a State Department official. She…
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From the forgotten front: Organizations adapt to the war’s challenges
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This article is the second in a series of reports on the war in Ukraine’s effect on bordering Eastern European countries. It is written by two Colorado College students traveling through the region and details how local organizations have refocused their efforts to support migrants fleeing the conflict. BANSKÁ BYSTRICA, SLOVAKIA • Zahrada is a bar,…