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"We sold a ton of sweatshirts and blankets Sunday morning. And we sold out of umbrellas. All of the hats and mittens we didn't sell this winter, we finally got rid of them this weekend."
Colby bookstore manager Bruce Barnard, on the effect of windy, cool and showery weather on graduation day sales.
"The simple answer to 'why trust in government' rose is the rally-round-the-flag effect: We love government more when government is threatened. But that's like desert rain, it evaporates very quickly."
Cal Mackenzie (government) quoted in the May 31 Washington Post.
"I hope that isn't symbolic. The president starts talking about the future and the lights go out."
President Bro Adams at an all-staff retreat on campus June 11, after an electrical problem caused lights to go off temporarily in the tent where staff had assembled on Dana lawn.
"Madagascar has moved towards nearly being Balkanized at this point . . . there really are two governments."
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Richard Marcus, on the television show Africa Journal on March 21, talking about "Madagascar: Democracy at the Crossroads."
"It's just unbelievable, some of the behaviors. I'm not saying all the lawyers; I would say . . . 15 percent of your lawyers are kind of out of control. But a lot of the skills you learn as a third-grade teacher you can apply to lawyers. So the answer is 'yes.' And time out? Yes. We do time outs a lot."
Federal District Court Judge Ann Claire Williams, recipient of the second Morton Brody Distinguished Judicial Award (and a third grade teacher before she took up the law), answering a question from Marilyn Mavrinac (education emerita) on similarities between teaching third grade and running a courtroom.
"When we talk about the nature of our culture as a melting pot, I think we're moving towards a puree, not a stew. We live in a culture where there are more shopping malls than high schools, and I want my children living in a melting pot."
Activist and vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke in a lecture at Colby April 25.
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"Now I'll pause for the Ripley's-Believe-It-or-Not section of this talk--the salary that Pat received [in 1963-64, his first year at Colby] was $6,000."
Peter Harris (English), introducing retiree Pat Brancaccio (English) at the annual faculty-trustee dinner.
"He's a really down dude. Casper knows how to be with students."
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes (sociology), quoting students whom she had referred to Tom Longstaff (religious studies). This after she revealed that a black minister had called the white-robed Longstaff, an ordained minister himself,) "Casper" during a civil-rights march in New York City.
"I know Frances will miss the battles with the pizza and the Chinese food and the beer deliveries."
Director of the Colby Libraries Suanne Muehlner at the annual faculty-trustee dinner, introducing retiree Frances Parker (libraries), who for 28 years stood sentry against food and drink incursions into the stacks and cubicles.
"The war was a pretty tough enterprise."
Dr. Merrill S. F. Greene '20, commenting on his service in World War I in an interview in the Lewiston Sun Journal. Greene was honored by the Maine Legislature on the occasion of his 102nd birthday.
"Being a cartoon is an immense advantage."
Richard J. "Pete" Moss (history), introducing the end-of-semester 24-hour "Simpsons Marathon" sponsored by the Colby Film Society. Moss said The Simpsons is the best television show ever because it "lives up to the classic axiom of literature" by presenting characters and a world that are fully developed.
"When asked to speak to you tonight, I checked to see who had spoken at the Lipman Lecture in the past and found that previous lecturers included Amos Oz, Elie Wiesel and Leonard Fein, and I thought, Are you talking about me? Did you make a mistake? But big egos being great among lawyers, and even more so among judges, I accepted."
U.S. District Court Judge George Singal delivering the Lipman Lecture for Jewish Studies.
"Sometimes the student body is criticized for being apathetic, but such turnout demonstrates that students and student leaders alike are committed to bettering the student government."
Jennifer Coughlin '02, Student Government Association president commending student turnout at an SGA meeting regarding revisions to the SGA constitution.
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"First impressions aside, Mundy's talk was tremendous."
Whitney King (chemistry) after describing colleague Brad Mundy's enormous "Bozeman" belt buckle and the cowboy boots he wore when he came as a candidate for a position in chemistry.
"When the violence was at its height, negotiations were still taking place. I think that contains a lesson for the world."
Cape Town educator and former anti-apartheid activist Alistair Whitten, speaking at Colby April 5 on the challenge of education in urban South Africa.
"Unfortunately not many people are aware of how lightly Colby walks on this world."
Arnie Yasinski (vice president for administration) speaking at the Women on Campus luncheon March 14 on the subject of the "greening of the campus."
"The truth is, this is not a huge market. Opening up Cuba could be significant for some individual companies and farmers. But it would not have a major impact on the American economy as a whole."
Ken Rodman (government) in a May 22 Investors Business Daily story on the economic effect of lifting of U.S. economic sanctions on Cuba.
"You will hear over and over again that people were tiny 200 years ago, and that comes from the surviving clothing. I'll be the first to tell you that it's not true. The reason the clothing we have today has survived is because it was too small for its owners and never wore out."
Edward Maeder, curator of textiles at Historic Deerfield (Mass.), speaking at Colby April 22.
"Smallpox is probably the most dangerous bioweapon around right now, it is easy to make, and the former Soviet Union holds large quantities of it in its laboratories."
David Shlaes, vice president of infectious disease research at Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals, during a lecture titled "The National Response to Bioterrorism" on April 8.
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