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News and Updates

  • First and foremost, I must tell you about my weekend with a prospective student. I was immensely excited to host (as I’m sure you all knew), and the prospective student, Mabel, and I were a perfect match. We got along so well. I gave her a mini-tour of the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓÆµ campus, I ate dinner with […]
    October 29, 2010
  • Even politics-as-usual requires analysis and explanation. ¸Ô±¾ÊÓÆµ community members heard the historical perspective on the 2010 elections and current U.S. political climate from FOX News contributor and Washington Examiner columnist Michael Barone during a lecture and debate Wednesday night.
    October 28, 2010
  • Once again, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓÆµ is No. 1. The university recorded a 100 percent graduation success rate for its student-athletes, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
    October 28, 2010
  • The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium, of which ¸Ô±¾ÊÓÆµ is a member, has received a $600,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support collaborative programs in the areas of library collections, information technology, faculty and student development, and diversity.
    October 27, 2010
  • This week was filled with excitement! On Tuesday, the Chinese Interest Association brought the Golden Dragon Acrobats to perform at the Chapel. The event was unbelievable, the stunts were Herculean, and the show was spectacularly executed.
    October 22, 2010
  • The landscape of violence in Africa is as varied as the continent’s physical topography. Scott Straus, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, brought this message to ¸Ô±¾ÊÓÆµ during the second annual Schaehrer Lecture, sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program on Thursday.
    October 15, 2010
  • The last time I wrote was before break and let me just say that I had an amazing time in New Jersey. I took the time to shop, eat and sleep (which I often lack these days!). Coincidentally, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓÆµ was playing football at Princeton University on the same Saturday that I was in New Jersey […]
    October 15, 2010
  • Laughing and exchanging contact information, students left the ALANA Cultural Center on a recent Friday afternoon chatting about continuing their conversations, which centered around student empowerment, advocacy, retention, and their personal experiences. These students weren’t only from ¸Ô±¾ÊÓÆµ, but came from several upstate New York liberal arts institutions to gather at the first Student Diversity […]
    October 14, 2010
  • The oppressive summer heat envelops Glenn Volk ’09 as he squats on the crude concrete floor at a clinic in the Punjab region of Pakistan. Beside him, a mother cradles her lifeless-looking baby, who seems to have barely any strength left to make it through the night, in her arms. Volk quickly diagnoses the child […]
    October 11, 2010