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������ϲʹ��� students had a chance this week to meet with director, actor, writer, and producer Harold Ramis, who spent two days on campus talking shop and showing special previews of his upcoming movie. Ramis, whose son is a first-year at ������ϲʹ���, is a veritable Hollywood heavyweight with many popular movies under his belt such as […]

Charles Simic, 2007 poet laureate, delighted an intent audience with his dark humor on Tuesday night in the Robert Ho Lecture Room. “The corpses like cigarette butts. In a dinner plate overflowing with ashes,” he read from the title poem of his latest book, That Little Something.

Darryl Hunt and Kirk Bloodsworth, exonerated after spending decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit, will share their stories with the ������ϲʹ��� community as part of a three-day symposium about wrongful convictions. During their campus visit April 19-21, Hunt and Bloodsworth will discuss how their unwavering determination to prove their innocence combined with […]

When Ingrid Hale, director of ������ϲʹ���’s Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE), looks up from her desk to see who has walked through the center’s doors, odds are it is a female student. “There is a gender disparity in volunteering not only on our campus, but also at colleges across the country,” said Hale. […]

This past weekend marked ������ϲʹ���’s fourth annual Big Gay Weekend, a three-day event that provides LGBTQ and allied students with the opportunity to socialize and network with peers. The keynote speaker was bestselling author, film producer, and gay rights activist Perry Moore, who is best known as executive producer of The Chronicles of Narnia film […]

Ret. Gen. Colin Powell — former U.S. secretary of state and one-time leader of 350,000 troops — knows how to make an entrance. “Sit down, you’re making me nervous,” barked the general in the good-natured tone perfected over five decades of Army leadership, politics, and diplomacy. Having stared down world leaders and stood up to […]

Geoffrey Canada, nationally recognized for his pioneering work helping children and families in Harlem and as a passionate advocate for education reform, will deliver the keynote address at ������ϲʹ���’s 188th commencement exercises at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 17, in Sanford Field House. During the ceremony, ������ϲʹ��� will award Canada a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary […]

Paul Ridley ’05 is back on land. The 25-year-old alumnus completed his solo rowing trip across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday afternoon after nearly 3,000 miles of rowing. Ridley’s record-setting trip, which raised funds for cancer research, was highlighted today in a CNN.com story, which for a time was among the top ten most viewed news […]