Oct 28, 2018
A Fresh-Eyed Look at Empires
By Bill Landauer In the first half of the 20th century, two world wars shook the planet to its core. The handful of empires that controlled the largest…
Lectures
Oct 27, 2018
Hunting Ghosts in the Stacks
By Stephen Wilson Consider your relationship with books. If that proves difficult in this age of reading on phones and tablets, consider your parents or…
Sep 23, 2018
5 Ways to Keep Your Brand’s Mojo
You may remember Dockers. That brand launched in 1986 just when start-ups were popping up on the West Coast. Those workers were not interested in wearing…
Sep 19, 2018
Inspiring Quotes from Founder of Me Too
Civil rights activist Tarana Burke, founder of the Me Too movement, delivered a powerful speech to a packed house in Colton Chapel on Sept. 5. Burke…
Apr 24, 2018
“Lafayette” Visits Lafayette
By Katie Neitz Daveed Diggs catapulted into stardom portraying a founding father. But not just any founding father: our founding father. Diggs, who won…
Apr 20, 2018
Not Doomed Yet
By Justin Ungerleider ’19 and Noah Decker ’19 Princeton University’s Stephen Pacala believes there is still hope when it comes to climate change…
Apr 12, 2018
Legendary Artist Christo Visits
By Bill Landauer For two weeks in summer 2016, Lake Iseo in the mountains of Northern Italy was born again. People strolled along thoroughfares made of…
Apr 9, 2018
Entrepreneurial Insights
By Stephen Wilson The Dyer Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship invited three guests to the College to share their diverse entrepreneurial wisdom…
Apr 8, 2018
LGBTQ, Sneaky Pie Brown, and Betty Friedan
By Kathleen Parrish Ever wonder how certain speakers find their way to campus? In LGBT activist and author Rita Mae Brown’s case, it was Cosmopolitan…
Apr 3, 2018
Borders Within and Without
By Stephen Wilson On a night when snow was falling several inches an hour, Morocco seemed a world away, yet Laila Lalami stood on the stage of Colton Chapel…