Colgate University
Colgate University Seal
Motto	Deo Ac Veritati
Motto in English	For God and for truth
Established	1819
Type	Private
Endowment	$694.9 million[1]
President	Jeffrey Herbst
Academic staff	315
Undergraduates	2,825[2]
Postgraduates	12
Location	Hamilton, New York, US 42°49′10″N 75°32′11″W / 42.81944°N 75.53639°W / 42.81944; -75.53639Coordinates: 42°49′10″N 75°32′11″W / 42.81944°N 75.53639°W / 42.81944; -75.53639
Campus	Rural, 1,550 acres (6.3 km²)
Colors	Maroon and white[3]
Athletics	NCAA Division I (FCS Football) Patriot League ECAC Hockey
Nickname	Raiders
Mascot	Raider
Affiliations	MAISA
Website	www.colgate.edu

Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York, USA. The school was founded in 1819 as a Baptist seminary and later became non-denominational. It is named for the Colgate family who greatly contributed to the university's endowment in the 19th century.

Colgate has 52 undergraduate concentrations that culminate in a Bachelor of Arts degree. The student body comes from 47 states and 42 countries.^[4] In its 2012 edition, U.S. News and World Report ranked Colgate as the 21st best liberal arts college in the country.^[5] Colgate ranked 37th in the 2011 edition of "America's Best Colleges" from Forbes.com.^[6] It is also listed as one of thirty Hidden Ivies and as one of Newsweek's "New Ivies".^[7]

Colgate is located on a rural 515 acre (2.08 km²) campus in Central New York which was listed as the most beautiful in the country in the 2010 edition of the Princeton Review.^[8] Despite an undergraduate population of only 2,800, Colgate is a member of the Patriot League conference of the NCAA Division I.

History[link]

In 1817, the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York was founded by thirteen men (six clergymen and seven laymen). Two years later, in 1819, the state granted the school's charter, and the school opened a year later, in 1820.^[9] The first classes were held in a building in the town of Hamilton.^[10] Three years later, in 1823, the Baptist Theological Seminary at New York City incorporated with the Baptist Education Society and subsequently changed its name to the Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution.^[11] Among the trustees was William Colgate, founder of a soap company.^[11]

In 1826, the school's trustees bought farmland that later became the focal point of the campus, known as 'the Hill'. One year later, the current students and faculty of the school built West Hall, using stone taken from a quarry found on the land. Originally called West Edifice before being renamed to West Hall, it is the oldest structure on campus.^[10] In 1846, the school changed its name to Madison University.^[9] In 1850, the Baptist Education Society planned to move the university to Rochester, but was halted by legal action. Dissenting trustees, faculty, and students founded the University of Rochester.^[12]

In 1890, Madison University changed its name to Colgate University in recognition of the family and its gifts to the school.^[13] James B. Colgate, one of William Colgate's sons, established a $1,000,000 endowment called the Dodge Memorial Fund.^[11][13] The theological side of Colgate merged with the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1928 to become the Colgate Rochester Divinity School, leaving Colgate to become non-denominational. Colgate became coeducational in 1970.^[14]

Campus[link]

Colgate's Chapel.

Case Library.

Taylor Lake.

The campus is on a steep hill.

Colgate University is located in the rural village of Hamilton, New York. The campus itself is situated on 515 acres (2.08 km²) of land.^[15] The university owns an additional 1,100 acres (4.5 km²) of undeveloped forested lands.^[16]

Colgate's first building, West Hall, was built by students and faculty from stones from Colgate's own rock quarry. Nearly all the buildings on campus are built of stone, and newer buildings are built with materials that fit the style.^[17] Probably the most distinctive building on campus is the Chapel (Colgate Memorial Chapel), which was built in 1918 and is used for lectures, performances, concerts, and religious services.^[18] Old Biology Hall was built in 1884 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[19]

The university's campus was ranked as the most beautiful by The Princeton Review in their 2010 edition.^[8] In July 2008, Colgate was named fifth on Forbes' list of Top Colleges for Getting Rich, the only non-Ivy League college in the top 5.^[20] Colgate is listed as one of America's 25 "new Ivies" by Newsweek magazine.^[7] It is also on the list of "100 best campuses for LGBT students."^[21] In October 2006, Colgate was ranked as the second most fit college in America by Men's Fitness.^[22] Colgate has been ranked third by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education for its success in integrating African-American students.^[23]

Most of the campus's heat is generated from a wood boiler which burns wood chips, a renewable resource. Since the heating facility is fueled by biomass, it produces zero net carbon emissions.^[24] Almost all of Colgate's electricity comes from a hydroelectric dam at Niagara Falls; the rest comes from nuclear sources.^[25] The campus also has a Green Bikes program with over two dozen bikes that are loaned out in an effort to encourage students to rely less on cars.^[26] Colgate Dining Services currently provides organic rice, beans, and other dry foods, and is working to offer more local foods options.^[27] Dining Services take-out containers are also made from natural materials, and are compostable.^[26] On the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card, Colgate earned a C, which was a great improvement from the previous year, when the school earned a D+.^[28] In 2010 Colgate improved to a B, and the administration continues to promote sustainability.^[29]

Outreach[link]

Colgate founded the Upstate Institute in 2003. The Institute was created to connect the Colgate community to its surrounding region, as well as to give back and help economically and socially sustain the area. Currently, they do research on counties in the area, as well as support outreach and volunteer organizations.^[30]

Colgate was an initial sponsor of Partnership for Community Development,^[31] a local nonprofit organization which seeks to support the community through revitalization of buildings and small business development.^[32]

Academics and administration[link]

Case Library seen from the Hill

Colgate offers 52 undergraduate concentrations^[33] leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, all of which are registered officially with the New York State Department of Education. The university also has a small graduate (Master of Arts) program for Education, which graduates 3-7 students each year.

In addition to regular campus courses, the university offers 22^[34] semester-long off-campus study groups each year, including programs in Australia, China, Japan, India, several Western European countries, Washington, DC, and the National Institutes of Health. Approximately two-thirds of Colgate undergraduates study abroad, which is a high proportion considering other colleges and universities in the United States. About 95% of seniors graduate and most alumni proceed to graduate schools in law, administration, engineering, medicine, the arts and the sciences, as well as to financial, administrative or scientific occupations. There is hardly a walk of life where alumni of Colgate University are not represented. However, a significant clustering occurs in business, the media, and the life and earth sciences.^{[citation needed]}

Admissions[link]

Students apply to Colgate from all over the world: most recently from 121 countries. According to Newsweek, Colgate competes most commonly with Cornell, Dartmouth, Middlebury, and Georgetown for students.^[7]

For the class of 2015, 7,834 students applied, and 29% of applicants were admitted. Admitted students had an average GPA of 3.75 (out of 4.0) and an average SAT score of 1397 (out of 1600). Of those admitted, 80% were in the top 10% of their class, and 93% were in the top 20%. International students comprise 8% of the most recent entering class.^[35]

Board of Trustees[link]

Colgate is governed by a Board of Trustees that is composed of 35 members: 31 are alumni of the university, 3 are parents of students, and the current president.^[36] As of March 31, 2012, Colgate's endowment was $694.9 million.^[37]

Student life[link]

Housing and student life facilities[link]

East and West Halls, the oldest residential halls of the university

Colgate has ten residence halls located on its central campus, which is often referred to as "up the hill." Located near the academic buildings, freshmen live in six of these halls,^[38] whereas sophomores live in the other four, or in townhouses or one house on Broad Street.^[39] Juniors and seniors live down the hill in a number of residences, such as theme houses on Broad Street, apartment complexes or in "townhouses" located further away from campus.^[40] Themed houses are available for students who want to explore their interests. The Creative Arts house is geared towards creative students; Asia House is for students with interests in Asian culture. Although the university provides housing for students all four years, students can apply for off-campus housing, of which only 250 are granted the privilege through a lottery.^[41] Students involved in Greek life have the option of living in their organization's house, though they cannot do so until their junior year.^[42]

Colgate has three dining facilities on campus that are run by Colgate Dining Services, which in turn is run by Sodexho.^[43] There is also a cafe located in Case Library that serves Starbucks coffee.^[44]

The O'Connor Campus Center, commonly referred to as the Coop, serves as the center for student life and programming. Renovations on it were completed in 2004,^[45] and it now houses the offices for student organizations, a cafeteria, post office, printing center, a computer facility,^[46] as well as the new Blackmore Media Center, home to WRCU, Colgate's radio station.^[47]

Fraternities, sororities, and social life[link]

About forty-five percent of sophomores, juniors and seniors belong to fraternities or sororities at Colgate.^[48] Students are not allowed to pledge until the fall semester of their sophomore year.^[48] As of 2009, there are six fraternities (Beta Theta Pi, Delta Upsilon, Theta Chi, Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta, and Phi Kappa Tau) and three sororities (Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Delta Delta, and Kappa Kappa Gamma) that are active on campus: .^[49]

Following a number of incidents related to fraternities and sororities on campus, in 2005, the university decided to purchase the Greek houses.^[50] All but one of them agreed to sell their houses. The hold-out, Delta Kappa Epsilon, was subsequently derecognized.^[51] Students were forbidden from living in the house or participating in the fraternity's activities.^[51]

Student groups[link]

Colgate has more than 180 student groups and organizations.^[52] The groups cover a wide array of interests, including academic organizations, personal interests, student government, honor societies, and cultural and religious organizations. Among its more notable groups are the a cappella groups The Colgate Thirteen, The Swinging 'Gates, and The Dischords, and the improv group Charred Goosebeak, the latter of which was founded by the members of Broken Lizard. Many students can also be seen performing at the Barge Canal Coffee Shop in the village on special "open-mic" nights.^[53]

Media[link]

WRCU is Colgate University's student-operated radio station, broadcasting through central New York on 90.1 FM. The Colgate Maroon-News, is the oldest college weekly in America. The first student newspaper was the Hamilton Student^[54], launched on November 2, 1846. The Monthly Rag, founded in 2007 by 13 writers with 13 stories after 13 beers. The Colgate Scene, the Alumni publication.

Traditions and legacies[link]

The "Willow Path"

The number 13 is considered to be lucky to Colgate.^[9] It is said that Colgate was founded by thirteen men with thirteen dollars and thirteen prayers. This manifests itself in a number of ways, such as Colgate's address (13 Oak Drive); zip code, 13346, which begins with 13 and the last 3 numbers add up to 13.^[55] The number shows up in student organizations such as Konosioni, the senior honor society, which is composed of thirteen men and thirteen women.^[56] Alumni are asked to wear Colgate apparel on every Friday the 13th.^[55]

In 1936, the Colgate swim team made its first trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break training at the Casino Pool. This became a regular tradition for Colgate that caught on with other schools across the country, and proved to be the genesis of the college spring break trip.^[57]

Ellis Island National Monument displays an anti-immigration statement by George Barton Cutten, Colgate's eighth President, warning that "The danger the 'melting pot' brings to the nation is the breeding out of the higher divisions of the white race...."^[58] The topic of how to come to grips with the legacy of a former university president who espoused such views, but also presided over a long period of expansion for the University, has been a topic of debate at Colgate in recent years.^[59]

Athletics[link]

Approximately 25% of students are involved in a varsity sport, and 80% of students are involved in some form of varsity, club, or intramural athletics.^[60] There are 25 varsity teams, over 40 club sports teams, and 18 different intramural sports.^[61] Colgate is part of NCAA Division I for all varsity sports.

The football program competes within the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The athletic teams are nicknamed the "Raiders," and the traditional team colors are maroon and white, with a more recent addition of gray in the 1970s. Colgate is a member of the Patriot League for all varsity sports except for hockey, in which both its men's and women's teams are members of ECAC Hockey.

Starting in 1932, Colgate athletics teams were called the "Red Raiders" in reference to the new maroon uniforms of that season's "undefeated, untied, unscored upon, and uninvited" football team, which was the first to use the moniker.^[62] Apocryphal explanations for the name include the team's ability to defeat its much larger rival, the Cornell University Big Red, or that a rainstorm caused one Colgate football team's maroon jerseys to blend into a reddish color.^[63] Regardless, after the adoption of a Native American mascot, the school debated changing the name and mascot in the 1970s out of sensitivity to Native Americans. At that time the nickname was retained, but the mascot was changed to a hand holding a torch.^[63] In 2001, the administration acknowledged concerns that the adjective "Red" still had an American Indian implication, and the school shortened the nickname to the "Raiders" starting in the 2001-02 school year.^[64] Some local TV outlets still use the logo with "Red Raiders" on it. A new mascot was introduced in 2006.

Colgate University's football was given a Division I first place ranking by Parke H. Davis in 1916 and 1932,^[65] and appeared in the Associated Press Division I polls in 1942 and 1977. The 1932 team was "unbeaten, untied, unscored upon, and uninvited", as it registered shutouts against all nine opponents, but was not invited to the 1933 Rose Bowl.^[66] Colgate began playing in NCAA Division I-AA, now known as Division I FCS, in 1982, and made the Division I-AA (now FCS) football playoffs in 1982, 1983, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, and 2008.^[67]

In the 2003 season, the Raiders made it to the NCAA I-AA championship game in football for the first time, where they lost to the University of Delaware. At the end of the season, their record was 15-1.^[68] At the time, they had the longest winning streak in all of Division I football, including one win over a Division I-A (now Division I FBS) team, Buffalo.^[69]

Cornell is a common rival in all sports; hockey games against Cornell are major events on campus, with students lining up for hours before the game in order to secure tickets.^[70] Colgate's teams (with the exception of football, golf, and men's hockey) also compete annually against Syracuse University. Cornell and Syracuse are both within two hours of Colgate's campus. Colgate and Syracuse were once bitter rivals in football (there are some old traditions related to their games),^[71] but a variety of factors, including the splitting of Division I football into Division I FBS and Division I FCS in the late 1970s, helped end the annual game, with some exceptions (such as 2010) over the years. Their men's lacrosse rivalry remains fierce.^[72]

Whitnall Field - the site of many intramural games

Outdoor education[link]

Colgate makes use of its rural location by having a full outdoor education program. A Base Camp is located on campus and allows students to rent equipment for skiing, camping, and other outdoor events.^[73] Each year, twelve to fifteen students are selected to become staffers for Outdoor Education. The training takes more than six months and includes a Wilderness First Responder certification.^[74] Incoming first-year students are offered a week-long trip called Wilderness Adventure, where they spend a week backpacking, canoeing, kayaking, tree climbing, caving or rock climbing in the Adirondacks.^[75]

World War II[link]

During World War II, Colgate University was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.^[76]

Alumni[link]

Colgate has more than 34,000 living alumni.^[77] Colgate alumni have a median starting salary of $48,700 and have a median mid-career salary of $119,000.^[78] Among small schools, Colgate is the 10th largest producer of alumni who go onto the Peace Corps.^[79] Alumni in journalism include Howard Fineman,^[80] the Chief Political Correspondent of Newsweek, Andy Rooney,^[81] Monica Crowley,^[82] Chris Hedges,^[83] and Bob Woodruff.^[84] In the entertainment industry, Colgate alumni include Ted Griffin,^[85] writer of the 2001 version of Ocean's Eleven, Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car?,^[86] filmmakers Ralph Arlyck and Joe Berlinger, and all five members of Broken Lizard, the comedy troupe behind Super Troopers and Beerfest.^[53] Ed Werner and John Haney, the creators of Trivial Pursuit, are also alumni.^[87] Colgate alumni in sports include Joe Castiglione, radio announcer for the Boston Red Sox,^[88] Adonal Foyle,^[89] Greg Manusky, Cory Murphy, Mark H. Murphy, Marv Hubbard, Mark van Eeghen, Andy McDonald and Kyle Wilson of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• The Colgate Maroon-News

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Jeffrey I. Herbst is the 16th president of Colgate University,^[1] taking office July 1, 2010. He was the former Provost, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and professor of political science at Miami University. He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1983, M.A., M.Phil from Yale University in 1985, and Ph.D. in 1987 also from Yale. He is married to Sharon Polansky, with whom he has three children, Matthew, Spencer, and Alana.

Herbst has also written extensively on political and international affairs in Africa, an area of inquiry in which he has published two books. States and Power in Africa, received the Gregory M. Luebbert Prize for the best book in comparative politics for the year 2000 from the American Political Science Association in August 2001. It was also a finalist for the 2001 Melville J. Herskovits Award for the best book in African studies awarded by the African Studies Association.^[2]

References[link]

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Mark Ravenhill
Born	1966 England
Occupation	Playwright
Nationality	British

Mark Ravenhill (born 7 June 1966) is an English playwright, actor and journalist.

His most famous plays include Shopping and Fucking (first performed in 1996),^[1] Some Explicit Polaroids (1999) and Mother Clap's Molly House (2001). He made his acting debut in his monologue Product, at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He often writes for the arts section of The Guardian. He is Associate Director of London's Little Opera House at The King's Head Theatre.^[2]

Biography[link]

Ravenhill is the elder of two sons born to Ted and Angela Ravenhill. He grew up in West Sussex, England and cultivated an interest in theatre early in life, putting on plays with his brother when they were eight and four, respectively. He studied English and Drama at Bristol University from 1984–1987, and held down jobs as a freelance director, workshop leader and drama teacher.^[3]

In 1997, Ravenhill became the literary director of a new writing company, Paines Plough. In 2003, when Nicholas Hytner took over as artistic director of the National Theatre, Ravenhill was brought in as part of his advisory team. In the mid-nineties, Ravenhill was diagnosed as HIV+, his partner of the early 1990s having died from AIDS.^[4]

Although he was at the heart of new British playwriting in the 1990s and 2000s, Ravenhill is very respectful of historical theatre and has claimed that he would like to see directors focus more on the classics and stop producing new plays that don’t have as much substance or meaning.^[5] In the same article, Ravenhill posits that directors have forced themselves into the “eternal present”, rather than expanding their reach to the many different cultures and genres of the past that they have to choose from. Further evidence of his interest in traditional theatre forms lies in Ravenhill's love of pantomime; he presented a Radio 4 documentary about the form and wrote Dick Whittington for the Barbican Theatre in 2006.

Ravenhill's work has transformed and developed in the 2000s. While his work in the 1990s - Shopping and Fucking, Handbag, and Some Explicit Polaroids for example - may be characterised by directly attempting to represent contemporary British society, his work has become more formally experimental and abstract. His one-man show, Product, which toured internationally after its premiere at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is both a satire on our post-9/11 attitudes to terrorism, and also a minutely observed reflection on the limits of language and form to capture contemporary reality. His play, The Cut, opened in 2006 at the Donmar Warehouse starring Sir Ian McKellen and divided critics with its portrait of a world dominated by the administering of a surgical procedure: the country, the year and the procedure are all unspecified. A similarly ambiguous and politically indirect style characterises the seventeen short plays that make up Ravenhill for Breakfast.

Ravenhill's former style continues to get an airing in the short plays he has written for young people, Totally Over You and Citizenship, both written for the National Theatre's National Theatre Connections Programme.

In November 2007, he announced in the Guardian that for the moment, he would concentrate on writing about heterosexual characters.^[6]

In 2008 the Royal Court, The Gate Theatre, the National Theatre, Out of Joint, and Paines Plough collectively presented the seventeen short plays Ravenhill wrote for the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe under the title Ravenhill for Breakfast, retitled as Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat.^[7]

In 2009 Mark Ravenhill presented a staged reading of transcripts of conversations with actor, drag queen and equal rights activist Bette Bourne A Life In Three Acts at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 2009, and at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn NY and the Soho Theatre in London in 2010. Bourne worked with Ravenhill previously on a short play, Ripper, playing Queen Victoria at the Union Theatre in London in 2007.

He is also working on a TV series.

Ravenhill is a regular contributor to the annual Terror Season at the Southwark Playhouse in London, England. His short play The Exclusion Zone premiered in October 2010.

Ravenhill was appointed Associate Director of London's Little Opera House at The King's Head Theatre in September 2010.^[2] He played an active role in the venue's relaunch as London's third Opera House along with patron Sir Jonathan Miller, Robin Norton-Hale and Artistic Director Adam Spreadbury-Maher.^[8]

In 2012, Mark Ravenhill is to become the Royal Shakespeare Company's Writer in Residence.^[9] The same year, he was commissioned by the London Gay Men's Chorus for a piece to mark the choir's 21st anniversary. With composed by Conor Mitchell, the piece, entitled Shadow Time, explores the evolution of mentalities in respect of homosexuality in the life time of the Chorus. The piece will be premiered at the Royal Festival Hall, on 6 May 2012 during the Chorus' summer concert: A Band of Brothers.^[10]

Plays[link]

• Fist (1995)
• Shopping and Fucking (1996)
• Faust Is Dead (1997)
• Sleeping Around (1998)
• Handbag (1998)
• Some Explicit Polaroids (1999)
• Mother Clap's Molly House (2000)
• Feed Me (Radio Play) (2000)
• Totally Over You (2003)
• Education (2004)
• Citizenship (2005)
• Product (2005)
• The Cut (2006)
• Pool (No Water) (2006)
• Ravenhill For Breakfast (2007)
• Scenes From Family Life (2007)
• Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (2008)
• Over There (2009)
• The Experiment (2009)
• Ten Plagues (2011)

Opera translations[link]

• The Coronation of Poppea Monteverdi (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Biography at the Barbican homepage.
• Mark Ravenhill at the website of the British Arts Council. Author's page, incl. "critical perspective." (Compiled and written by Dr. Peter Buse, 2003.)
• Mark Ravenhill at the website of In-Yer-Face Theatre.
• Ravenhill 10. A symposium celebrating the tenth anniversary of Shopping & Fucking, The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London.
• Audio interview from open2.net
• Literary Encyclopedia
• Contemporary Writers, British Council
• New York Entertainment
• The Guardian
• Barbican, Mark Ravenhill
• At the Playwright Database

Ladette Randolph is an American author and editor.

She has been the editor-in-chief of Ploughshares and a professor at Emerson College since 2008.^[1]

Awards[link]

She has been the recipient of a grant from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, as well as a Pushcart Prize, a Virginian Faulkner Award, and three Nebraska Book Awards.^[2] Her work has been reprinted in Best New American Voices.^[2]

Works[link]

• A Sandhills Ballad. University of New Mexico Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8263-4685-8. 
• This Is Not the Tropics. Terrace Books. 2005. ISBN 978-0-299-21510-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=JiWE4_WpJLcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Ladette+inauthor:Randolph&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

Editor[link]

• The Big Empty. University of Nebraska Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8032-9011-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=_F1CxEGfWAIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Ladette+inauthor:Randolph&cd=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• A Different Plain. University of Nebraska Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8032-9002-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=hkoiJTdI21gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Ladette+inauthor:Randolph&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

Notes[link]

1. ^ http://www.emerson.edu/writing_lit_publishing/faculty.cfm?facultyID=2750
2. ^ ^{a b} http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/randobib.htm

External links[link]

• Official website
• Ploughshares website
• Nebraska Center for Books
• Boston Phoenix profile of Ladette Randolph