By Patricia Bianco (MThtr’65) I was a residence adviser for students living on the side of Sewall Hall in 1962-63. My little “apartment” was just off the huge living room. Sewall was an upper-class women’s residence hall. We called it Menopause Manor. The women and I obeyed most of the rules and had wonderful times together. Sewall had beautiful furniture.
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By Finn Thye (Psych’01, MLing’09) A bottle rocket launched in my mind the night I first thought of going to learn Arapaho by living with an elder on the  Wind River Reservation in central western Wyoming. I lay there thinking about how it would be to visit the old heart of our continent, experiencing a different side of the culture
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“Where to next?” my family and friends asked me after I returned home in April 2008 from a four-month stay among the cloud forests of Monteverde , Costa Rica. “I don’t know, maybe Antarctica is next on the list?” I would sarcastically answer.
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“Hey Tom, you’re an engineer. Come over and talk to this lady. She wants to bring clean water to a village in Madagascar,” my friend Steph Cohen Stoddard (EnvCon’96) said as I ambled down the Pearl Street Mall.
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The year was 2006. I had just finished my marketing degree at the Leeds School of Business and was getting ready to set out into the “real world.” Like many of my friends, I was eager to live the dream and go somewhere completely new.
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Most students probably select institutions of higher learning based on majors, research or scholarships available. Perhaps my method was not the most analytical , but it did get me to Boulder in the fall of 1976: Ralphie the buffalo.
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Sometime early in my junior year at CU in 1966 I came to the cold realization I would drop out of school. A full load of courses, working 25 hours a week at the old Crockett and Renalde Bit and Spur factory on West Pearl Street, the challenges of early married life, the pressure to keep grades up to maintain a Regents scholarship and the fact of my student draft deferment had run up against my simple immaturity (I was 20). By the time I was deep into the semester, it became a foregone conclusion that I would become another college dropout statistic.
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The University of Colorado at Boulder has become one of the most gay-friendly campuses in the nation, ranked in the top 100 by the nationwide observer, “The Advocate College Guide.”
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First thing this morning I took a brief jaunt to Pearl Street, and people were wearing shorts and biking happily down the block. A few seconds later I watched folks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains stop for coffee at Schat’s Bakery in June Lake, Calif. My nimble footwork and enabled nostalgia came courtesy of a webcam of course.
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By Dan Hawkins, CU-Boulder football coach This fall will be my fourth at Colorado, and alumni support for the program has been growing every year.  I’d like to thank you for that support and the rebirth of pride and interest in the Buffs.  After rising to a national power for most of the 1990s, the 2000s have seen a few
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By Geary Larrick (PhDMus’84) I have wonderful memories from the two years when I studied at CU-Boulder, where I earned my doctorate in percussion music. Now, 25 years later, I regularly utilize the skills that I developed during that time. Music performance was at the heart of my study, as well as classroom work and research. I lived in Willard
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By Jackie Garcia (Span’08) and Marc Killinger

In October Alumni Association staffer Jackie Garcia (Span’08) made her first trip to New York, and it wasn’t just to catch a Broadway show. As an undecided woman voter she was invited by NBC to watch and comment on the vice presidential debate between Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Delaware Sen. Joe Biden.

Several days earlier, NBC had called the CU-Boulder communications office in search of an undecided likely woman voter. The office contacted CU staffer Peter Simmons (Psych’73, MPubAd’76). As it turned out, someone in his office had attended the Michelle Obama rally on campus with Jackie, who had confessed her indecision regarding the election.

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By Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80, MPubAd’90)

Amazing, amazing, just amazing. Every single turn in the Dolomites prompt the same response. After weeks of relentless sun and heat in Southern Italy we swallowed hard and rented a tiny Smart car that just fit us and this bag we never really opened but kept with us for 5,000 kilometers (and which we called the albatross) and headed north.

Our last experience with a rental car in Italy had been an unmitigated disaster. Twenty years at rental car desks refusing the additional insurance had become a habit. I did it again, not considering that I was no longer employed or that my home car insurance was in sleep mode. Anyone looking at all the dented brand new cars in Italy would recognize that this is a hazardous place for smooth metal panels.

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I really enjoy traveling! Beyond the excitement of planning the trip, I always learn so much. My fellow traveling companions and I often wish for an atlas or history book.
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Strong bonds of friendship lasting 50 years or more drew a group of alumni who had all worked on the Colorado Daily CU newspaper staff between 1957 and 1961 to meet in Denver on May 7.
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By Clint Talbott (Jour’85) On a fundraising ride for Children’s Hospital six years ago, Woody Eaton (DistSt’62) and Todd Gleeson, dean of arts and sciences at CU-Boulder, wondered why they couldn’t launch a bicycling event to fund scholarships at CU-Boulder. Since then, their conception has become the Buffalo Bicycle Classic, which has raised $800,000 for scholarships that go to good
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By Walt Blankenship Every fall semester on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons starting at 4 p.m., a very loud group of students get together to make noise. Not just any noise, but a myriad of recognizable sounds. ‘Glory Colorado’ and ‘Fight CU’ to name a few. They are the students of the CU Golden Buffalo Marching Band. One of the
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by Rebecca Ernst Lange Remember the students walking around in a military uniform on Thursdays? They marched on Balch Courtyard regardless of the weather; they sat beside you in calculus, ate lunch with you in the UMC and lived in your freshman dorm. Ever wonder what happened to them? In this edition of “CU Voices,” I am honored to highlight
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by Kim Egan My family’s “CU voice” began in Boulder in 1934 when my grandfather, Martin Schmidt (Bus’34, MS), graduated from CU. His commitment to CU continued for 45 years as a professor of transportation, management and organization at what is now the Leeds School of Business until he passed away in 1981. In 1980, a perpetual scholarship was established
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I set sail from San Diego onboard the MV Explorer last August as one of more than 600 college students set to go around the world through the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea program. As a soon-to-become circumnavigator, I had one goal in mind – to change the world, to change myself. Having grown up in Hiroshima and Okinawa,
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… to draw a smiley face on your burger. Of course the big icy Pepsi or better yet, the mug of beer was just waiting there on the side half empty by now because it was always delivered first thing. The juke box was never intrusive and had music you hadn’t heard in awhile, Otis Redding, James Taylor, even John
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…the entire Thanksgiving week off! Officially it’s the combining of Thanksgiving and fall break. The latter began a few years ago in October as a way to let students take a two-day time out and catch up — despite what we say about students “getting soft,” classes really are much more intense now. But it’s always been hard to keep
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Continued… …it was still so pertinent to her – the whole idea of every check being a contract. Howard Higman, at left, (BFA’37, MSocSci’42) (sociology professor and creator of the Conference on World Affairs) was another, along with Reuben Zubrow. And who could forget Sam Zakhem. Today, Dennis Van Gerven, Tom Zeiler, Kristi Anseth (PhDChemEngr’94). All of them make their
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Continued… “Jessica, you put a lot of this material together for us. Come up here, and explain the significance of this artist whose art was chosen to adorn the Capitol.” That’s exactly what happened to Jessica Bralish, a student chosen to accompany our Alumni College trip called “Hank Brown’s Washington: The History of the U.S. through the Art of the
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