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Maroon Migration: Students Return to Colgate

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

Maroon Migration: Students Return to Colgate

Traffic on 12B was, at one time this morning, backed up from the of College Street to the Alliance Branch Bank on Utica Street.

Dozens of smiling young people in pale green T shirts loaded boxes, bedding, clothes, suitcases, mountain bikes, golf clubs and fans onto trucks to be delivered to appropriate buildings.

A half dozen very enthusiastic students banged wooden spoons on pots and pans and tried to drown out loud music coming from speakers the size of sub-compact cars.

Yes, Colgate students are back. The steady trickle of students over the last two weeks became a flood this morning in preparation for the beginning of classes on Monday. First-year students arrived this morning and dorms and dining halls open for upperclassmen open Saturday.

Colgate's amiable new president Jeffrey Herbst waded into the middle of the arrival flood on Whitnall Field. He went from one family to the next to the next, sleeves rolled up, introducing himself and welcoming students and chatting with parents.

Some 41 students -- including many first years -- were moving into 110 Broad Street, the former DKE fraternity house Colgate purchased. The building was refurbished during the summer.

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