Enjoyed the sidebar (\u201c\u2019Gate Slang,\u201d spring 2026, p. 19). Chob is all well and good, but we spent a lot of time at the previous Case Library snack spot, a room full of vending machines that was located in the belly of the building and went by the name Smoke & Coke. I guess we were allowed to smoke in there? And if you stopped in hoping to catch a glimpse of your crush, it was called by its other name, the Scope & Hope.
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– Anne \u201cMilan\u201d Geluardi \u201989 Louvau<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The article surveying novels that feature Colgate (\u201cAn Enchanted Haven: Colgate in Contemporary Fiction,\u201d spring 2026, p. 8) has added some interesting titles to my reading list. I wanted to point out an omission: Joyce Carol Oates\u2019 2020 novel, Night. Death. Sleep. The Stars. <\/em>follows an upstate New York family in the aftermath of a tragedy. The eldest son, Thom, is a Colgate graduate with a degree in business administration and fond memories of Greek life. Oates also included a Colgate student as a character in her short story collection Night, Neon<\/em>. – Noah Benner-Potash \u201915<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In response to \u201cA Decade on the Hill\u201d (spring 2026, p. 30) where President Brian W. Casey reflects on his first 10 years at Colgate: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What an amazing decade it\u2019s been! Ah, to be a Colgate student again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n – Nazma Muhammad \u201996 Rosado<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Comments on \u201cTo Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Expected\u201d (fall 2025\/winter 2026, p. 40):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What a wonderful read. So glad to know your story, Solomon (as a fellow alum and daughter of greater Buffalo, I\u2019m glad that Buffalo IS where you landed, and can\u2019t wait to check out your parents\u2019 restaurant on my next visit home!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n – Chrissy Hart \u201905<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So wonderful to see the skinny kid from class become this amazing young man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n – Associate Professor of History Noor-Aiman Khan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colgate Magazine readers weigh in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1263,"featured_media":23212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[135],"class_list":["post-26558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-6Um","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/fallback-colgate-c-white-on-plum.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26558"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27513,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26558\/revisions\/27513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26558"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=26558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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