Jocelyn Adams’s ’15 love for crossword puzzles drove her to explore the linguistics department as a first-year. With a long family tradition of collaboration — and the occasional competition — over the New York Times crosswords, she says she doesn’t know why
Alison Koziol ’15 comes from “the land of beer.” The sociology major’s hometown of Fort Collins, Colo. is home to 15 breweries — some of which were founded by the parents of her childhood playmates. So when she proposed a sociology thesis
This August, the Task Force on Sexual Misconduct submitted a 33-page report presenting its findings on campus attitudes and policies related to issues of sexual abuse and violence. Incorporating insights from 16 months’ worth of open dialogue, document-based research and private conversations
Sociology and anthropology major Mireille Guy ’15 is combining her interest in the economics of consumption and her love of vintage clothes in a thesis exploring consumer culture in secondhand shops, both in Philly and the virtual world. In addition to her
At 7:30 this Monday morning, close to 300 students occupied Colgate University’s admissions office in response to instances of racial intolerance in the first three weeks of classes. Immediate catalysts to action included racist remarks made to students on the campus shuttle,
Nestled behind clusters of flowers, the college’s quaint Off-Campus Study Office is a hive of activity this time of year. Director Pat Martin and Assistant Director Rosa Bernard, who have over fifty years of combined experience, have their hands full not only
Molly* ’15 came into college without ever having been in a long-term relationship. She was a virgin and the least sexually experienced of her female friends — but she had plans to change that. “I actually came to Swat and was like,
When Laura Fitzgerald ’14 first began seeing a nutritionist, she was terrified of gaining weight. It was the summer after her junior year at the College, and she’d been struggling with restrictive eating for over a year. This year, however, the end
As a two-sport varsity athlete from a fitness-oriented family, Sarah Eppley ’14 never thought she’d have an eating disorder. But in the fall of her sophomore year, she was swimming for two hours a day on a breakfast of Greek yogurt, no
Last spring Laura Fitzgerald ’14 published an article in the Daily Gazette describing her suicide attempt in the fall of her junior year. At the end of the piece, which describes feelings of hopelessness, cutting and the night she overdosed on sleeping
