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The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium, of which ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University 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.

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.

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 ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ during the second annual Schaehrer Lecture, sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program on Thursday.

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, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ was playing football at Princeton University on the same Saturday that I was in New Jersey […]

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 ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, but came from several upstate New York liberal arts institutions to gather at the first Student Diversity […]

A series of events is planned over the next few days to encourage discussion about LGBTQ issues and to help celebrate National Coming Out Week.

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 […]

Homecoming weekend was a blast! I went to the game, and celebrated a sweet victory over the Georgetown Hoyas. I also was present at President Herbst’s inauguration, and I surely enjoyed that. Because fall recess is coming up, my friends and I had to endure the mid-term exam rush. I could tell the atmosphere was quite different; most […]

Speaking to a packed house at Memorial Chapel, Kwame Anthony Appiah charged his audience with but one task: see one foreign, subtitled film per month. After all, he pointed out, others around the world must do this any time they wish to see popular American movies. Such was the theme of the philosopher’s Oct. 4 […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kiera Crowley ’13) Close to 200 people gathered at ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ’s community garden recently for a long-awaited open house. Homemade foods, including bruschetta, fried zucchini, and baked squash — all made from the garden’s produce — were displayed under bright-red tents. The Sept. 23 open house also featured garden […]