Chelsea Sonksen
Blog Editor
- Class year: 2012
Brown & Dancers give lively weekend performance
This was a group of dancers with spunk and visible passion for their craft.
To Do: Weekend of October 21
Friday at 6:30pm at the Hathaway Creative Center is the annual Pecha Kucha night. There will be a series of presentations by creative people including Colby's own Heidi Blair '12. It's free with a student ID, and there will be refreshments provided by Barrels (and a cash bar provided by Silver Street Tavern).
To Do: October 15, 2011
Participate in Johnson day and help the CVC and PPD beautify our campus. It's a great way to give back to Colby and PPD. This year, some of the projects including planting bulbs, painting benches, and raking.
PLAYED
Played: Introductions
Meet Kevin Mahoney. Kevin is a senior at Colby and absolutely perfect for the job. He is the chair of the Concert and Live Music Committee and is responsible for the Wiz Khalifa show last spring.
College approves new writing requirement
Faculty members recently voted to approve a universal writing requirement, which will require every student to take a writing-intensive course, thereby fulfilling the English 115 requirement already in place.
No Hate Conference
This evening there is a panel at 7 pm. in Diamond 142 on Confronting Hate and Violence. In light of recent activities and conversations on campus, this panel has the potential to be very beneficial to our community.
The 'CAC
Good morrrrrning Colby-- or, afternoon rather...I guess it is 4:20 in the afternoon. Where in the world did this day go? Forgive me. It's a slow moving Sunday. But I'm battling through my mild exhaustion at the library, with plenty of Starbucks to keep me company. And, of course, my productivity is plummeting with every passing minute.
A Big Day for Colby Sports
Alright everyone, put aside your books for the afternoon. We have some serious cheering to do. It's an important afternoon for Colby sports teams.
THEATER
Students’ new art pieces
“The New Works Festival is a really all encompassing show,” says Ali Reader ’12, a dancer in the collaborative company. “This festival has been a huge undertaking, and it has brought together a variety actors, directors, writers, dancers and tech crew at Colby and given them a chance to work together on one project.”
Irish Drama Comes to Colby
As nighttime approaches, you're looking for something different to do this weekend. Well, look no further. The Theater & Dance Department is putting on Cuchulain, and it is certainly something different...
FILM
Reduced Price Movie Tickets at Pulver!
They are now selling REDUCED PRICE movie tickets at the Info desk in Pulver.
Johnson Day
Saturday morning there was a strange sight to be seen in Cotter Union. Roughly seventy Colby students were congregating, shaking off their sleepy stupor, ready for a morning of volunteer work-- all before ten am. It was Johnson Day-- a day of on-campus community service projects.
The Atmosphere in the Alfond Gym
Gray tee shirts are three shades of sweat on the other side, they grimace, they grunt, creating a soundtrack of cave-man clamor.
2011- 2012 SGA Presidents
Congratulations to Justin Rouse '12 and Laura Maloney '12, Colby's newest SGA Co-Presidents!
Competition among women
It was four o’clock at the Harold Alfond Athletic Center. Prime exercising time. And it was even more packed than usual. Everyone must have been in a last minute crunch to get a Bahaman beach bod.
First lady: Mary Low's legacy
Mary Low was the first female to enroll at the College, and she graduated valedictorian of her class in 1875.
Icicles on Offense
This past Tuesday was the first time I have ever felt like I was in danger walking across campus.
Living in a cargo box: the new architectural phenomenon
“Cargotecture,” the newest trend in the design world, has found a home here in Maine.
My Sneak Peak at the World of Machismo
As I looked out the window of the airplane and saw the snow swirling around the runway, I felt like I was cheating the system. Every Mainer knows that if you suffer through the months of bitter cold and excessive snow, you will be rewarded with the sunny, breezy summer days that follow shortly after. But I was escaping avoiding one full month of chapped lips, dry hands and staticky hair trading it in for a month of warm sunshine. Thank you, JanPlan. I spent the weeks that followed in Quito, Ecuador with 15 other Colby kids learning Spanish, how to barter with indigenous people, that guinea pig is served with whiskers intact, that one can blame the altitude for every ailment, that turning signals are not in fact necessary (the horn is far more effective)- oh, and all driving laws are mere suggestions.