Kalamazoo College will open for winter term classes on Wednesday, January 8. The Wednesday schedule of classes will be in effect.
Some students and faculty members may not be able to reach campus by Wednesday. Everyone should provide the greatest degree of 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.
The campus is in good shape for pedestrian traffic, thanks to the excellent work by the Facilities Management team. Please check weather reports throughout the week (especially for Wednesday) and dress appropriately.
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.
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.
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.
“A Year of Food in Kalamazoo” wall calendar is only $12 and only at the People’s Food Coop in Kalamazoo!
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!
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.
Ayaka Abe
Michael Allen
Suma Alzouhayli
Katelyn Anderson
Giancarlo Anemone
Timothy Antel II
Jill Antonishen
Tyler Armor
Alberto Ayala
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Shreya Bahl
Katherine Ballew
William Bartz
Abraham Bayha
Zoe Beaudry
Andrea Beitel
Kate Belew
William Bell
Erin Bensinger
Cleome Bernick-Roehr
Yuvraj Bhagat
Anup Bhullar
Mara Birndorf
Alexis Blakley
Reid Blanchett
Allison Bloomfield
Vanessa Boddy
Sean Bolourchi
Kira Boneff
Madeline Booth
Zoe Bowman
Riley Boyd
Andrew Breaugh
Erin Brown
Maxine Brown
Taylor Brown
Joel Bryson
Thaddeus Buttrey
Shanice Buys
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Willina Cain
Robert Calco
Ellie Cannon
Olivia Cares
Sheila Carter
Marissa Cash
Alejandra Castillo
Nicholas Caywood
Katherine Cebelak
Madeleine Chilcote
Christine Cho
Jennifer Cho
Ji Won Choe
Amelia Chronis
Shahzaib Chughtai
Isabelle Ciaramitaro
Josefina Cibelli
Annaliese Collier
Quinton Colwell
Dylan Cramm Horn
Wilson Cross
David Crudder
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Anna Dairaghi
Rachel Dandar
Bonnie Darrah
Sabrina Dass
Natalie Davenport
Corrin Davis
Eric De Witt
Emily Deal
Francesca DeAnda
Cecilia DeBoeck
David Demarest
Ryan DeMorrow
Jeremy DePree
Samir Deshpande
Dana DeVito
Melany Diaz
Miranda Doepker
Rachel Dranoff
Trisha Dunham
Erin DuRoss
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Jordan Earnest
Andres ElAmin-Martinez
Rachel Ellis
Rachel Epstein
Sophia Ernstrom
Andrew Ertle
Michelle Escobar
Rachel Evans
Samuel Evans-Golden
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Rachel Fadler
Michael Faust Jr.
Mario Ferrini
Alexis Fiebernitz
Claire Fielder
Olivia Finkelstein
Marie Fiori
Joshua Foley
Angela Fong
Van Forsman
Caroline Foura
Christopher Francis
Valentin Frank
Anthony Frattarelli
Annah Freudenburg
Gabriel Frishman
Rina Fujiwara
Lydia Fyie
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Bridget Gallagher
Jacob Gallimore
Keith Garber
Brett Garwood
Dominic Gattuso
Kathleen George
Carl Ghafari
Mousa Ghannam
Sarah Ghans
Kelan Gill
Danielle Gin
Sarah Glass
Daniella Glymin
Carter Goetz
Marlon Gonzalez
Cameron Goodall
Kaitlin Gotcher
Adam Gothard
Alexandra Gothard
Claudia Greening
William Gribbin
Alexandra Groffsky
Daniel Grost
Guilherme Guedes
Alyse Guenther
Yicong Guo
Rebecca Guralnick
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Robert Hammond
Nora Harris
Hadley Harrison
Taylor Hartley
Andrew Haubert
Veronica Hayden
Stephanie Heard
Frances Heldt
Ashley Henne
Jordan Henning
Kyle Hernandez
Yessica Hernandez
Alexander Hertel
Jordan Hessbrook
Kelsey Hill
Gabrielle Holme-Miller
Daniel Holtzman
Kaitlyn Horton
Allia Howard
Yuxi Huang
Audra Hudson
Patricia Hunter
Siwook Hwang
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Pinar Inanli
Yohana Iyob
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Nicolas Janssen
Clare Jensen
Jon Jerow
Tibin John
Amanda Johnson
Dylan Jolliffe
Brittany Jones
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Kamalaldin Kamalaldin
Ginny Kang
Daniel Karn
Andrew Kaylor
Nicholas Keen
Jessica Kehoe
Jack Kemper
Allison Kennedy
Spencer Kennedy
Kelsey Kerbawy
Isabella Kerivan
Hannah Kim
Na Young Kim
Siga Kisielius
Benjamin Kochanowski
Younsuk Koh
Mehmet Kologlu
Matthew Kuntzman
Jasmine Kyon
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Bryan Lara
Samuel Larioza
Bo Gyoung Lee
Gunyeop Lee
Hannah Lehker
Jacob Lenning
Rachel LePage
Madeline LeVasseur
Kelsi Levine
Samuel Lichtman-Mikol
Michael Lindley Jr.
Jacob Lindquist
Emily Lindsay
Gordon Liu
Megan Loyer
Chenxi Lu
Riley Lundquist
Liam Lundy
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Lucy MacArthur Jr.
Lucy Mailing
Megan Malish
Sarah Manski
Scott Manski
Maxim Marino
Helena Marnauzs
Elizabeth Martin
Robert Martin
Jack Massion
Takumi Matsuzawa
Mindze Mbala-Nkanga
Madison McBarnes
Karly McCall
Mallory McClure
Sophia McFadden-Keesling
Aaron McKay
Sara McKinney
Molly Meddock
Roxanna Menchaca
Joshua Miller
Abigail Miner
Daniel Moore
Aliera Morasch
Cody Mosblech
Hagop Mouradian
Chloe Mpinga
Stuart Murch
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Victoria Najacht
Alissa Neff
Audrey Negro
Miss Anne Nielsen
Nicholas Nizzardini
John Nocita
Mackenzie Norman
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Colleen Orwin
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Yunpeng Pang
Veeral Patel
Bronte Payne
Elizabeth Penix
Marlisa Pennington
Madison Perian
David Personke
Adam Peters
Caroline Peterson
Monysakada Phal
Thanh Thanh Phan
Katherine Pielemeier
Jasmine Policherla
Ayesha Popper
Emily Powers
Beau Prey
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Brian Raetz
Malavika Rao
James Reuter
Jenna Riehl
Melinda Rietkerk
Danielle Riffer-Reinert
Philip Ritchie
Annika Roberts
Sophie Roberts
Annalise Robinson
Megan Rochlitz
Jakob Rodseth
Stefanie Roudebush
Elinor Rubin-McGregor
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Sharayu Salvi
Alejandra Sanchez
Keenan Sanford
Eri Sawai
Katharine Scheck
Jennie Scheerer
Ashley Schmidt
Natalie Schmitt
Sarah Schmitt
Aaron Schoenfeldt
Aaron Schwark
Rachel Selina
Lauren Seroka
Dylan Shearer
Cameron Shegos
Ke Sheng
Alec Sherrill
Sonam Shrestha
Brandon Siedlaczek
Petar Simic
Kaylah Simmons
Kathryn Skinner
Alexandra Smith
Caitlyn Smith
Emily Smith
Grace Smith
Sarah Smith
Cassandra Solis
Anika Sproull
Jordan Stainforth
Vethania Stavropoulos
Collin Steen
Hailey Stutz
Thomas Stuut
Michelle Sugimoto
Muyang Sun
Shang Sun
Kyle Sunden
Matthew Suter
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Emerson Talanda-Fisher
Kiyoto Tanemura
Aidan Tank
Miss Farrell Tatum
William Tauke
Abigail Taylor
Kaitlyn Thiry
Brett Thomas
Eric Thornburg
Karen Timm
Nadia Torres
Alexander Townsend
Madeleine Tracey
Brooke Travis
Dakota Trinka
Minhkhang Truong
Ken Tsuchiya
Shelby Tuthill
Elizabeth Tyburski
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Kaela Van Til
Erica Vanneste
Gregory Vasilion
Natalie Vazquez
Jordan Veillette
Madeline Vermeulen
Rachael Vettese
Julia Villarreal
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Raoul Wadhwa
Reid Wagner
Kyra Walenga
Bailee Wallis
Emily Walsh
Jessica Walters
Samantha Weaver
Perri Weiderman
Paris Weisman
Clayton Weissenborn
Cameron Werner
Sarah Werner
Scott Wharam
Caitlyn Whitcomb
Jacob Whitney
Elijah Wickline
Arshia Will
Kieran Williams
Rachel Williams
Krystal Wilson
Camille Wood
Jenna Wood
Lindsay Worthington
Kate Wynne
Orange Hornets (l-r) Kyle Sunden, Lucas Kushner, and Fayang Pan, all seniors.
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.
Black Hornets (l-r) senior Will Reichle, sophomore Sarah Manski, and senior Tibin John.
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.
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.
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.
