Letter to the Editor: President Responds to Op-Ed on Colgate’s Cycle of Racism
Brian Casey, President
June 15, 2020
To the Maroon-News editors, I want to start out this message with a note of appreciation and gratitude to the Maroon-News for the work of its editors and staff writers in putting together a thoughtful and comprehensive editorial about the history of racism and racist incidents on the Colgate campu...
Incident, Protest, Email, Repeat: The Exhausting Cycle of Racism at Colgate
Kate Hinsche, Glynnis Harvey, Emily Rahhal, Kelsey McGeough, and Kirby Goodman
June 9, 2020
Last fall, someone wrote the N-word on the whiteboard outside a woman of color’s dorm room. Just days earlier, a Twitter account posing as a Colgate employee attacked the student body with horrifyingly racist language. The community was angry and hurting, and we were the team of student journalists...
Veritati: Taking Responsibility and Moving Forward
The Colgate Maroon-News Editorial Board
June 5, 2020
We stand in solidarity with our Black classmates, professors, administrators, staff and greater Colgate community of color. As a predominantly white staff, we acknowledge that we cannot begin to understand the pain and trauma long-experienced in the face of systemic and very personal racism. The perva...
Fulbright Scholars Unite Digitally to Demand Clarity in Wake of Coronavirus Crisis
Amarachi Iheanyichukwu, Assistant Commentary Editor
May 18, 2020
Forced to return to their respective homes following the growing severity of the COVID-19 outbreak, scholars of the prestigious Fulbright Program have spent the past two months painstakingly collecting correspondence with program officials and personal accounts from displaced fellows in an effort to address...
Luckin Coffee Runs Out of Luck
Richard Favlo, Maroon-News Staff
May 18, 2020
Luckin Coffee, a Chinese coffeehouse chain that has been championed as the potential threat to Starbucks’ success in Asia, recently released damning news to all stakeholders in the company. On April 2, the firm announced that an internal investigation into the intricacies of business operations found th...
Why The Pandemic was Inevitable
Wynter Schnell, Maroon-News Staff
May 18, 2020
After a few days of struggling to find inspiration for my next commentary piece, I found myself hopping around chapter 2 of Environment: The Science Behind The Stories. This was a course textbook from the Environmental Science class taught during my senior year of high school by a teacher named Paul Fr...
The Importance of Reality TV in Quarantine
Ava Wigdor, Maroon-News Staff
May 18, 2020
My name is Ava Wigdor and I am addicted to reality television. We all have guilty pleasures—those things that prompt side glances, judging laughter and possibly alter the way people think about us if it ever came up. Today, I would like to talk to you a little about mine. Some call it embarrassing, tra...
Failure to Launch: How It Feels to Graduate Right Now
Kate Hinsche, Editor-in-Chief
May 16, 2020
As a writer, I love literary essays. I’ve spent my senior year obsessing over the essay “The Opposite of Loneliness.” If you want to know what to read during quarantine, I say read that. Then read it again. If you’re graduating, read it until those words imprint on your every fiber. “The ...
Unpopular Opinion: The ‘Translucent Lining’ of Quarantine
Kara Schindler, Commentary Editor
April 29, 2020
In a stunning resurrection of the math skills I haven’t used since my first-year seminar (FSEM), I recently observed that I’ve been a student for two decades now (that is, if you’re willing to include my formative years of regurgitating sounds and noises verbally plagiarized from Dragon Tales). Whi...
Mental Health and Healthy Habits in Quarantine
Courtney Day, Maroon-News Staff
April 27, 2020
The realities of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine are already enough to bring anyone down, but for those struggling with mental health issues, this period of isolation is an even more challenging time. Across the world, thousands of people have been laid off and loved ones are dying. For students, the ca...
We Can’t Ignore Allegations Against Biden
Kirby Goodman, News Editor
April 15, 2020
I was 17 when Donald Trump was elected over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Just a few months shy of voting age, I was shocked, disappointed and afraid for what Trump’s presidency meant for our country. Now, it is hard to express how disheartened and morally compromised I feel that I must vote for Joe Biden,...
Inequity in the Online Classroom
Nicholas Quinn, Maroon-News Staff
April 11, 2020
Governors across the nation are closing schools, both indefinitely or permanently for the 2019-2020 school year. While these hubs of learning may no longer operate, students must continue to ascertain knowledge to progress through the American education system that shapes many of our lives. I am not t...
The Colgate Maroon-News Editorial Board
June 5, 2020
We stand in solidarity with our Black classmates, professors, administrators, staff and greater Colgate community of color. As a predominantly white staff, we acknowledge...
Veritati: Let Us All Reconvene
April 7, 2020
Veritati: Continuing Coverage and Maintaining Momentum During COVID-19 Pandemic
March 20, 2020