A warm welcome to the Class of 2014, the largest in Skidmore history. New students arrive on campus beginning this week; classes start Sept. 7.

With SGA support, 30 Skidmore students this summer are serving in unpaid internships in such far-off places as Tanzania, Indonesia, and Alaska. They're working for such organizations as the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and the Martha's Vineyard Museum.

Three Skidmore students have received Davis Projects for Peace grants to translate their dreams into reality through work in Swaziland and Iraq.

Award-winning author Jennifer Roy will help Skidmore mark Holocaust Memorial Day in a visit that begins at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 13, in the Intercultural Center, Case Center.

The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life is hosting a lecture and meditation session with Konrad Kyrushin Marchaj, Sensei and Abbot of the Zen Mountain Monastery.

A panel of four women administrators representing Skidmore, Uion and the College of St. Rose will explore how the civil rights movement and the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. has influenced their lives.

Holiday season terms and religious symbols are offensive to some, inclusive for others.

The sixth annual "Beatlemore Skidmania" gets under way at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, in Filene Recital Hall.

Skidmore's annual celebration of Black History Month will feature an array of events open to the campus and general public, many of them free of charge.

Issues of race and class are the subject of renewed academic discussion this semester at Skidmore, with composer Richard Daniel celebrated new opera Margaret Garner as the focal point for an ambitious campus-wide project.

Godfrey Smith goes by the name "Godfada" when he spins records and takes to the mic on WSPN FM 91.1 Skidmore College radio.

The votes are in for the Saratoga Reads book of choice for 2007, and the winner is Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros.

Robert Malley, Middle East and North Africa program director for the International Crisis Group in Washington, D.C., will give the talk, scheduled at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.

Ujima, the student organization, has announced several events to celebrate Caribbean Awareness Week on campus.

Activist and author Tim Wise will speak Thursday, Oct. 12, in Gannett Auditorium. Free and open to the public, the event gets under way at 7 p.m.

The "Human Dilemmas" cluster of the First-Year Experience will host several public events in the coming weeks.

Skidmore will celebrate Latino Heritage Month throughout November with a variety of activities designed to promote Latino culture and history.

Saratoga Reads, a community program designed to foster a shared reading experience, has announced that of 138 novels nominated by the community, 10 have been chosen as finalists for this year's book of choice.

Best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza will give a lecture titled "America through Muslim Eyes: Why the U.S. is Loved, Why the U.S. is Hated, and Who is Winning the War on Terror" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.

Skidmore students will host several opportunities for Halloween fun this weekend, and invite children of faculty and staff to participate in the festivities.