The College will remain closed on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 due to weather conditions. We expect to reopen on Wednesday, January 8.
Students are encouraged to check their e-mail frequently for any updates or assignments from their professors.
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Winter Quarter Opening UPDATE
Pedestrian traffic conditions on campus are good and we anticipate opening winter quarter on Tuesday, January 7. That said, we will continue to monitor the weather, surrounding transportation conditions, and campus parking in order to make a final decision tonight or early tomorrow morning regarding the opening of winter quarter.
We will inform students, faculty, and staff of that decision tonight or early tomorrow morning.
Even if we do commence winter term classes tomorrow (Tuesday, January 7) we will ask that all faculty and students provide the greatest flexibility, understanding that some may be delayed in their return. Students: if you are not able to be in class, please communicate via e-mail with your professors to let them know. Faculty: if you are unable to make it to campus, please notify your students. Staff: if you are unable to make it to campus, please notify your supervisor.
We know that there has been a great deal of disruption in travel, especially airline and bus cancellations. We ask that everyone use appropriate discretion regarding their travel plans and make your return to campus when you feel it is safest to do so.
College Will Be Closed on January 6
Due to the weather emergency, Kalamazoo College will be closed on Monday, January 6. Only essential employees should report to campus.
Dining Services will be open for students.
Winter quarter will open on Tuesday, January 7, WITH TUESDAY’S CLASS SCHEDULE. Students are encouraged to check their e-mail accounts often because faculty may choose to contact students via e-mail with information pertinent to classes.
Additional snow is predicted for Sunday night and into Monday. Frigid temperatures are in the forecast. Everyone should try to stay inside, stay warm, and stay safe.
Weather and Winter Quarter Start
We have been carefully monitoring the weather conditions locally as well as regionally and nationally. Facilities Management staff have focused their priorities today on clearing roads and parking lots as well as areas around residence halls and the Hicks Student Center.
We have not yet made a determination whether classes will be postponed tomorrow, but we will do so later today or early tomorrow and will communicate any postponement via the K-Alert system as well as on the College website. We know that there has been a great deal of disruption in travel, especially airline and bus cancellations. We ask that everyone use appropriate discretion regarding their travel plans and make your return to campus when you feel it is safest to do so.
Even if we do commence winter term classes tomorrow, we will ask that all faculty and students provide the greatest flexibility, understanding that some may be delayed in their return. Students: if you are not able to be in class, please communicate via email with your professors to let them know. Faculty: if you are unable to make it to campus, please notify your students. Staff: if you are unable to make it to campus, please notify your supervisor.
Thank you for your understanding, and please be safe.
– President’s Staff
“A Year of Food in Kalamazoo” for Only $12!
A group of K students has a last-minute gift idea for you that will keep on giving throughout 2014: “A Year of Food in Kalamazoo” wall calendar. This partner project between K’s First-Year Seminar “Cultivating Community” and the People’s Food Co-op in Kalamazoo is colorful, useful, and full of recipes, profiles of local food entrepreneurs, and great ideas that will feed your inner foodie’s soul for a whole year. It’s only $12 and will encourage the efforts of 17 K students and their professor, Amelia Katanski. Available from the People’s Food Coop, 507 Harrison St. in Kalamazoo. Happy New Year, indeed!
Dean’s List Fall 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 Fall 2013 academic term. Kudos to the entire group of some 300 students.
Fall 2013
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | ||
AAyaka Abe B Shreya Bahl CWillina Cain DAnna Dairaghi EJordan Earnest FRachel Fadler GBridget Gallagher |
HRobert Hammond I Pinar Inanli JNicolas Janssen KKamalaldin Kamalaldin LBryan Lara MLucy MacArthur Jr. NVictoria Najacht OColleen Orwin |
PYunpeng Pang Q
RBrian Raetz SSharayu Salvi TEmerson Talanda-Fisher UVKaela Van Til WRaoul Wadhwa XAnja Xheka YSina Yakhshi Tafti ZLauren Zehnder |
Hornet Teams Display Computing Power in ACM Competition
Two teams of Kalamazoo College students recently competed and computed in the annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Intercollegiate Regional Programming competition. When the dust settled, the Orange and Black left some big competitors feeling blue.
The Orange Hornets team of seniors Lucas Kushner, Fayang Pan, and Kyle Sunden solved two of nine problems and placed 34th out of about 126 teams from 61 colleges and universities throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, eastern Ontario, and Indiana. The Black Hornets team of seniors Tibin John and Will Reichle and sophomore Sarah Manski also solved two of nine problems and finished 40th.
“It’s a combination of both time and correct submissions, with penalties for incorrect submissions,” explained K Associate Professor of Computer Science Pam Cutter who accompanied the teams to the competition held at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids.
She said the Orange Hornets solved the first problem in 50 minutes with three incorrect attempts and solved the second problem in 2:30 with one incorrect attempt. The Black Hornets solved the first problem in 1:41 with two incorrect attempts and solved the second problem in 3:39 with one incorrect attempt.
Last year, K teams placed 39th and 53rd out of 131 teams.
The 2013 competition included teams from big institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, University of Toronto, and University of Michigan—some of which finished behind Cutter’s Hornet squads.
“I am quite proud of our teams,” she said. “If you see this gang, give them a “Good job!”
ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
Symphonic Band Does Spin
The Kalamazoo College Symphonic Band presents its Fall 2013 concert: SPIN CYCLE: A Concert of Theme and Variations. The concert takes place on Friday, November 15, at 8 PM in the Light Fine Arts Dalton Theatre on the Kalamazoo College Campus. The event is free and open to the public. The Symphonic Band is directed by Professor of Music Thomas Evans and functions as a beloved creative outlet for woodwind, brass, and percussion students. The Symphonic Band holds one concert each quarter playing exciting arrays of band music both challenging and simple but–as Dr. Evans attests–never “simple-minded.” The band is a great favorite for both its members and its audiences, as the programs are usually coordinated around greatly diverse themes that allow for performances of much-loved pieces, both classic and new. SPIN CYCLE selections include Fantasy on Yankee Doodle (Mark Williams), Pachelbel’s Canon (Calvin Custer), Variations on a Korean Folk Song (John Barnes Chance), Themes from Green Bushes (Percy Grainger), Variations on Scarborough Fair (Calvin Custer), Variations on a Shaped Note Tune (Johnnie Vinson), First Suite in E-flat (Gustav Holst), and Joyful Variations-Ode to Joy (Brian Beck). The concert is sponsored by the Kalamazoo College music department.
Music Down in My Soul
The Kalamazoo College Singers and Women’s Ensemble presents the choral composition, Music Down in My Soul, on Sunday, November 17, at 3 p.m. at Stetson Chapel on the Kalamazoo College campus. The concert is free and open to the public. Music Down in My Soul was arranged by Moses Hogan, an African-American composer and arranger of choral music best known for his settings of spirituals. The concert also features selections by Benjamin Britten, Anders Edenroth, Joan Szymko, Randall Stroope, and Eric Whitacre. The songs evoke a spiritual theme within oneself–understanding the emotions within and celebrating them through music. The Kalamazoo College Singers and Women’s Ensemble consists of some 60 students and under the direction of Professor of Music James Turner. The event is sponsored by the K music department.
REGENERATION Features Four Last Songs
REGENERATION, the Kalamazoo Philharmonia’s Fall 2013 concert, features soprano Rhea Olivaccé, whose work as a concert and recital soloist has been widely recognized for her versatility of repertoire and medium. REGENERATION occurs Saturday, November 16, at 8 PM in the Light Fine Arts Dalton Theatre on the Kalamazoo College campus. Tickets are $5 general admission and $2 for students. The concert is free to Kalamazoo College students. Olivaccé and the Philharmonia will perform the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss. The content of Four Last Songs features a solo soprano voice given remarkable soaring melodies against a full orchestra, and all four songs have prominent horn parts. The combination of a beautiful vocal line with supportive brass accompaniment references Strauss’s own life. His wife, Pauline de Ahna, was a famous soprano and his father, Franz Strauss, a professional horn player. The Kalamazoo Philharmonia will also perform Mahler’s First Symphony, referred to as “The Titan.” The symphony lasts around just under an hour, making it one of Mahler’s shortest symphonies. The Kalamazoo Philharmonia is under the direction of Associate Professor of Music Andrew Koehler. The event is sponsored by the Kalamazoo College music department.