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The 18th annual Hamilton International Film Festival brought together filmmakers from Portugal, New Zealand, Mexico, Ireland and beyond at the Hamilton Movie Theater from July 20-26. Sponsored by Slater Brothers Entertainment, the festival featured documentaries, dramas, thrillers, horrors, comedies and student films. Film screenings were followed by questio
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama will speak at Colgate University on Sept. 18 during Family Weekend. Obama joins an impressive cohort of Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders who have been welcomed to Colgate to promote engaged citizenship and participation in democracy. Attendees can expect to hear from the former president on leadership, public service,
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Graphic warning: The details of the article may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised. Travis J. Longo, 46, the former vice president of the Cazenovia Central School District Board of Education, resigned from his elected position on June 22 and remains jailed without bail on state and federal charges involving child sexual...
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Burt Marshall, the Hamilton businessman convicted in April of running a decades-long Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to four to 12 years in state prison in Madison County Courthouse on Thursday, June 11. Marshall, 74, pleaded guilty in April to grand larceny, securities fraud and scheme to defraud. Prosecutors say he stole more than $90 million...
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When Ursula — a reasonable, logical, plain-Jane female protagonist — pauses mid-survival trek to witness a tiny inexplicable creature pollinate a constellation of glowing pods in the alien wilderness of the planet Vesta Minor, she can’t rationally explain why she felt compelled to stay and watch. Neither can we explain why we rewatched that scene...
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Senior Tabitha Saour first began her social justice leadership journey as the treasurer of the Organization of Asian Sisters in Solidarity (OASIS+) during her sophomore year at Colgate University. Now, as the president of the organization, she reflected on how her personal growth has coincided with the club’s evolution. “I first joined OASIS+ because of...
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The Colgate University softball team has had an outstanding season, currently holding the No. 2 seed in the Patriot League as the playoffs approach. The team consists of 15 players, making them a small but mighty group. Much of their success has been due to the rigorous hours and time spent training. From lifting sessions...
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For senior Grace Ciaravino, Colgate University has been defined by unexpected opportunities. From walking onto a Division I athletics team her first year to becoming its captain, Ciaravino’s time at Colgate has been shaped by discipline and adapting to change. One of the most meaningful parts of Ciaravino’s Colgate experience has been rowing. After joining..
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For decades, Miles Burton “Burt” Marshall was a fixture of Hamilton life — the tax man, the insurance agent, the neighbor. He offered deals that sounded too good to pass up: an 8% annual return on investment, backed by what he claimed was a thriving local real estate portfolio. Nearly 1,000 people said yes to...
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There is nothing more magical in literature than when an author takes an ordinary concept, turns it on its side and transforms it into something entirely new and different. To me, “Frat Girl” by Kiley Roache is a great example of this — she takes Greek life and twists it just enough to create an...
Colgate Political Review
On March 28, over eight million people showed up across the country as part of over 3,300 “No Kings” protests, marking the largest single-day coordinated protest in American history. These protests are part of a wider movement against the perceived rise in authoritarianism in the United States, particularly aimed at President Trump’s broad expansion of... Th
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U.S.-Iran relations have been shaped by decades of conflict, mistrust, and shifting foreign policy, making the current war both new and, in many ways, unsurprising. Although the two nations maintained a working relationship through the early twentieth century, tensions deepened during the Cold War, particularly following the 1953 U.S.-British backed coup tha
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On February 14, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was shut down due to a disagreement over the budget. Democrats wanted limits on immigration enforcement, dedicating less money to specific DHS programs like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Republicans wanted full funding without these targeted r
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One of President Donald Trump’s most common political epithets for Democrats is the “radical left.” He claims that radical left “lunatics” and “scum” are responsible for a range of issues, including increased political violence and comically long TSA lines in airports. The White House even created a “Left-wing lunacy” page on its website to target... The pos
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One of President Trump’s top domestic priorities has been the passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, which aims to target alleged voter fraud in federal elections by requiring strict proof of citizenship and a photo ID to vote. The Senate blocked the bill on April 20—the second time the legislation has... The post The F
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In an unprecedented and controversial move, Sweden’s Liberal Party has dropped its longstanding opposition to a party rooted in neo-Nazi fringe groups, the Sweden Democrats (SD), with a pledge to include SD in its center-right Moderate coalition. The smallest of the parties within its coalition, the Liberal Party nonetheless had previously remained staunch i
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When Will Staton decided to run for Congress as an independent candidate, he knew he would face tough odds. After all, the Mississippi native has no campaign staff, no party infrastructure and no political experience. But what he did not fully reckon with until he was already in the race was that the rules themselves... The post Third Party, Second-Class Bal
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  The Colgate Political Review talked with Rep. John Mannion, D-N.Y., on April 16th. Mannion represents New York’s 22nd Congressional District, which includes Hamilton and the Colgate campus. We discussed issues facing both central New York and the U.S. at large, as well as the role Congress plays in shaping them.   Parts of this... The post
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There is no doubt that the development of nuclear weapons is back at the forefront of world leaders’ minds. Conflicts around the world paired with the collapse of strategic arms agreements have made changes to the world’s nuclear climate unavoidable. For the United States, increased surveillance and intelligence will be key. Following the end of... The post
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“UNRWA schools are infamous incubators of hatred.” That was how U.S. Representative Christopher Smith described Palestinian refugee education during a U.S. congressional hearing on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. He claimed that children in these schools are encouraged toward “martyrdom as suicide bombers” by their teachers. These statements are
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