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Mud for Kids

Mud for Kids

Suzanne Curtiss ′14 has been running things at International Child Care (ICC). Literally, running. Curtiss is the ICC student intern working out of the Christian health development organization’s headquarters in downtown Kalamazoo this summer. ICC is partnering with the Warrior Dash II mud run in Walker, Mich., near Grand Rapids on an event in September, and […]

Summer in the Zoo

Summer in the Zoo

What do students do at Kalamazoo College during the summer? They are certainly here—some 200 or so. Students from around the world enjoy these hot months on campus. They work as interns, they continue work-study jobs, they spruce up the infrastructure with Facilities Management (FacMan) colleagues, they conduct research in the Dow science building, they […]

K Grad Successfully Petitions Case for Supreme Court Hearing

Christian Grostic ’01 was counsel for petitioner in the Tennessee civil rights case Burnside v. Walters, No. 12-7892, which the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear this past May. The Supreme Court’s decision to review the case spurred the lower court to overrule its 15-year-old precedent restricting equal access to the courts for indigent plaintiffs. […]

Kalamazoo College Guilds Reach 1,833rd Member

At tonight’s Major League Baseball all-star game, players from the National and American Leagues will contend to make their team number 1. But it takes someone really special–like Gail Raiman–to be number 1,833. Today (July 16) Raiman became 1,833rd member of the global professional network known as the Guilds of Kalamazoo College. The special number […]

Travel Writers on Campus

Travel Writers on Campus

  They have toured the Michigan state capitol, met the WWMT weatherman, and had the opportunity to fly in a small plane—all while writing a magazine. They are participants in the Tate-Stone Travel Writers Academy for girls. The girls are leading a structured lifestyle during their week on the Kalamazoo College Campus. “They have been […]

Avon Helps K Promote Healthy Dating Relationships

Avon Helps K Promote Healthy Dating Relationships

The Avon Foundation for Women has awarded Kalamazoo College a $5,000 grant to promote healthy sexual relationships on campus.  The grant will allow K to begin training in the Green Dot Campaign. The Green Dot Campaign is a new way to help prevent sexual assault. The program is designed to teach bystanders and peers how […]

A Commitment to Human Depth

A Commitment to Human Depth

Rachel Kushner, the 2009 Summer Common Reading author, returned to Kalamazoo College for the 2013 commencement, where she received an honorary degree (Doctor of Humane Letters) and delivered an important speech about the future and “movements of the young.” Kushner asked the Class of 2013 many questions. The most important: “How has this experience of […]

Last Look Back

Last Look Back

Graduating seniors of the Class of 2013 completed an anonymous survey titled “First Destination.” As the name implies most of the questions look forward. But at least one looked back: “What was your most meaningful or transformative experience at K?” The majority of the 2013 graduating students reported that study abroad was the most meaningful […]

Dean’s List Spring 2013

Congratulations to the following Kalamazoo College students, who achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or better for a full-time course load of at least three units, without failing or withdrawing from any course, during the Spring 2013 academic term. Spring 2013 A B C D E F G H I J K L M […]

Strong Tradition

Strong Tradition

Kalamazoo College retired faculty members meet weekly on Thursdays. Every quarter the group has a special dinner (including spouses in the fall). And once a year they meet with new faculty members. “There are no papers or program for our weekly meetings,” says Joe Fugate, professor emeritus of German and director emeritus of the foreign […]

K History Professor Will Deliver Public Lecture in Berlin

David Barclay, History, will deliver a public lecture at the Free University of Berlin. The title of his talk is “Old Glory und Berliner Baer: Die USA und West-Berlin 1948-1994 [Old Glory and the Bear of Berlin: The USA and West Berlin 1948-1994].” The event commemorates the collaboration of the German Studies Association (GSA) with […]

Habitat Home Honors Alumnus’ Memory

A new Habitat for Humanity home will be built in the Roosevelt Park neighborhood of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the name of the late Andy Angelo ’78, editor of the Grand Rapids Press. Construction will begin in July and complete in November, requiring an estimated  45 volunteer days to make “The House That Andy Built”. […]