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"We start here."
Director
of Intercultural Affairs Jeri Roseboro,
to the Class of '03, quoting the summer reading ("Why Are All the Black
Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"), which advocated breaking
the silence about racism.
"Real places are not defined by arbitrary political
boundaries."
Gary Snyder, Pulitzer prize-winning
poet,
pioneering environmentalist and Zen Buddhist, at a roundtable discussion
on poetry and the bio-regional voice.
"Courage and endurance."
Didier
Kamundu Batundi, Colby's 1999-2000 Oak Human Rights Fellow, when asked
what resources he had to build and run a human rights organization in
war-torn Zaire.
"The fat is in the fire."
Brian
Wiercinski '92, to Charlie Bassett, lamenting both the sixth unanswered
varsity goal and the girth of some of the alumni players in September's
annual alumni men's soccer game.
"It only took you 20 years to graduate!"
Benjamin Humphreys '00, Student Government Association
president, upon making Bill Cotter an honorary member of the Class of
2000 following the State of the College address. (And before the hall
cleared, plans were in motion to
sign up Cotter for the Senior Pledge drive.)
"If you bring an apple for lunch, don't put it on
your head."
Dean of the College Earl Smith,
explaining that, though the campus is an official Wildlife Management
Area where hunting is banned, new signs were being posted in the wake
of a new Maine law that permits archers to hunt deer in city limits.
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