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Happy Thanksgiving from the Colgate Raider.

The Longyear Museum of Anthropology will celebrate the opening of the exhibition Weaving Identities: Native American Baskets in the Longyear Museum Collection with a reception on Thursday, November 13, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The reception will feature a Q&A by 15 students who researched the baskets as a project for the course Native […]

Ernie Vandeweghe ’49, one of the Mount Rushmore figures of Colgate athletics and the school’s first All-America basketball player, died Saturday. He was 86. Vandeweghe was named to All-America squads in 1947, 1948 and 1949 after setting Colgate scoring records for a game (35), season (397) and career (1,404). He was MVP as a freshman […]

Colgate’s NCAA Graduation Success Rate is 98 percent for the third straight year, placing Raiders student-athletes fourth nationally in Division I for the second year in a row, according to data released last week. The Raiders were joined by Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and Brown universities at the 98-percent mark, just ahead of Columbia, Duke, and […]

Every fall, Colgate welcome families for a weekend-long celebration on campus. Guests can experience campus life by attending classes, seeing presentations, athletic games, concerts, and more. Also this year, Family Weekend included a speaker, former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres, who spoke to more than 4,000 people as part of The Kerschner Family Series Global […]

This Saturday, October 18, Colgate will host the annual Native American Arts and Culture Festival. The celebration of American Indian art, music, and dance will be held inside Sanford Field House from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Colgate’s Wishmakers on Campus club raised more than $12,000 at the Walk/Run for Wishes on September 28. Pictured left to right: Alex Castle ’16, Sarah Weber ’16, Mary Clare Manfred ’16, Katie Guiliano ’16, and Charlie Murphy ’16. The Colgate Wishmakers on Campus raises funds for and awareness about Make-A-Wish throughout the school year. The […]

The peaceful demonstration in support of inclusivity on Colgate’s campus has come to a mutually agreeable resolution, as members of the administration and the Colgate University Association for Critical Collegians (ACC) released a 21-point road map for the future. The document can be found at a new website Colgate for All. The sit-in began at […]

(Update: Demonstration ends with on-campus celebration) Constructive talks between Colgate administrators and student representatives of Colgate University Association of Critical Collegians (ACC) are continuing into the evening on day four of a peaceful demonstration at James B. Colgate Hall.

(Update: Demonstration ends with on-campus celebration.) As students continue their sit-in in James B. Colgate Hall, we’ve been in dialogue with representatives from the group. We have found the conversations to be very valuable and constructive.