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Read/Listen/Watch, Eric Thomas

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Colby faculty members have rich lives that extend beyond the classroom. In this, the first installment of a regular feature, we asked musician and composer Eric Thomas what he's listening to- and why.

A Poem- Inspired By Alex Katz, Margaret Sargent

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Margaret Sargent '14 wrote this poem last year as an assignment in Introduction to Poetry. The project asked students to write ekphrastic poetry, work that collaborates with visual art, inspired by a piece of their own choosing in the Colby College Museum of Art.

Aram Goudsouzian '94 And The Meredith March, Robert Weisbrot

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James Meredith, an African-American Air Force veteran from Mississippi, did not perish during the civil rights protests of the 1960s, but it was not for lack of trying. On Oct. 1, 1962, Meredith became the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi at Oxford, a death-defying step that impelled President Kennedy to send federal marshals and the U.S. Army to keep racist mobs at bay. On June 5, 1966, following passage of a Voting Rights Act that promised federal protection to blacks seeking the ballot, Meredith began a solitary 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis, Tenn., through Jackson, …

Presenting Bernard Langlais, Gerry Boyle

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Hannah Blunt thought she was prepared for the world of Maine sculptor Bernard "Blackie" Langlais.

As a curatorial assistant at the Colby College Museum of Art in 2007, she'd worked with some of his abstract works for a show there. Later she'd used Langlais's (pronounced "Lang-lee") work in graduate school projects at Boston University. But when Blunt moved into the late artist's farmhouse on the Maine coast four years ago, charged with taking stock of the estate left to the College, she was bowled over.

"It was beyond words," said Blunt, now Langlais Curator for Special Projects. "The estimate in …

Faces Of Colby

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After studying the work of renowned portrait photographers, students capture their peers for posterity.

The Sex Pistols, Nietzsche And The Will Of God: Savas Zembillas's Journey From The Profane To The Sacred, Gerry Boyle

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Maybe it was the stately stone building on 79th street, just around the corner from Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Or the shoe-tap echo of the marble floors. Or the woman behind the desk, who said Savas Zembillas '79 was in a meeting with "His Eminence" and invited the visitor to have a seat in the foyer next to a silent chapel where gilded icons hung and votive candles flickered.

But somehow it was completely unexpected that in a matter of minutes Zembillas, chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, would be chatting about, among other things, his short but …

Front Matter

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The Fifty Percent Solution
Chapter 2: Watt's Up, Doc?

Faculty Artists, Bevin Engman, Deborah Randal, Harriett Matthews, Scott Reed

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A sampling from the recent faculty art show.

The Last Page, Bill Roorbach

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Writer Bill Roorbach finds that reality casts a strange light on his fiction.

Making Waves, Frank Bures

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Familiar voices on National Public Radio belong to reports Christ Arnold '92 and Gerry Hadden '89

Front Matter

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The Fifty Percent Solution is the last chapter in Colby's Alumni Fund participation challenge (announced in a special mailing to alumni and parents last fall).

Pursuing The Universal Particular, Sally Baker

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Teaching with passion and precision, Cedric Bryant demonstrates that, like politics, all literature is local.

In Their Footsteps, In Their Words: Special Section, 1964-2013

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Civil rights, the Vietnam War, end of fraternities—Colby explores the past 50 years.