The Cipher, CC's alternative student newspaper, is available in Special Collections and by request from the library's Creekside location. Recent issues may be available online.

Vol. 1 No. 1, December 12, 1997

M.E.Ch.A. brings Victor Villasenor
The Cipher hits campus
A.C.U.T. protests prison conditions
Imagine a country where…
Steel workers rally for labor rights
Water use questions college's vision
EnAct plans demonstration at Vail
UN votes against U.S. embargo of Cuba
Iraq stands up to American run U.N. policies
Nike's female labor rights disputed
Mexican Labor Confederation forms in opposition to government supporters
"Kick ass, starting with your own"
Keeping hope alive in Tibet
Doug Kirby is not a homosexual (comic strip)
Talking about talking about taking a stand
Glass House responds to campus misconceptions
Police brutality rampant in America
Two papers not exactly a crowd
Professor Giuffre speaks on media, technology, and Big Brother
Two cents worth!

Vol. 1 No. 2, March 6, 1998

Professor Lindau Speaks on the Drug War
Conoco Set for Profit in Escalante
The Global Rogue State
Recycling Times at CC
The Yellow Bike Take-over
This Can's for You Kid
Critical Mass Hits Colorado Springs
City Tears Down Ampitheatre, Youth Incensed
Government Awards Public Lands
Lock Your Windows (just try)
The Final (Commercial) Frontier
Green Killing Machines
Cereal Killers
Buy Nothing Day Tries To Hit Networks
I Remember…I Remember a Girl
The Line Up
Amnesty International Brings Maguire
Student Exposes U.S. Prison Injustice
Thought Treatise for Circumspection
"Desire + Education = Educated Kid"
New Sentencing Fit for the Crime

Vol. 1 No. 3, May, 8, 1998

East Timorese Genocide, the US Connection
Churchill Speaks on Native People
Why It's "Democracy for the Rich"
Nuclear Waste, Bad Policy
The State of the Local Environment
What is a CC Student to do?
Campus Paper Use, "Think Locally"
World Forest Decline
Black Radical Congress Forms, Part 1
The Black Panthers 10 Point Program
Candid Camera They Can and Do See You
Iraq's New Curbside Capitalism
Interview With Carolyn Merchant
Native American Insights
The Making of a Woman, Tits and Ass
It's Better Housebikes and Gardens
Zinn's A People's History of the US

Vol. 2 No . 1, September 16, 1998

Student Protest Nuclear Waste Transport
Liberal Arts vs. Informational Glut
Sierra Club Sues City Over Road
Change is Good, Cost High
Annual AIDS Walk Grows
U.S. Jobs Miracle: Not the Model It's Touted to Be
Why Call It Reform? Russian Future
East Timor's Chance for Peace?
Running with (& from) the Bulls
This ain't no 'Dances With Wolves'
Crisis of Democracy: era of anti-politics
Prospects for the Uhuru Movement
It Ain't No Hippie Commune, Motherfucker
Locals Unite Against AIDS
Pacifists Await Trail for Symbolic Disarming of Nuke Warhead Silo

Vol. 2 No. 2, October 14, 1998

Cambodia, Democracy?
Professor Caught Pissing in the Water
Updike Reading at CC
'Democracy Wall' Disappoints
Bravo Honors CC with Performance
Thursday at 11: Sex, Lies, Politics
Great Minds and Existentialism
Take the Initiative…Vote Nov. 3
Merchants of War: We're No. 1!
The Water Issue: Amendments 15-6
Banned Book Week, Alive and Well
New Deal to Raw Deal to Better Deal
Due Process…What? Free Kevin!
In The Wake of Extra-judicial Killings
Professor Mark Johnson Speaks on the Collapse of the Russian Economy
The International Monetary Fund is Hurting You!
Economics Professor Hecox Confronts the Global Economic Crisis
Madonna: a Role Model for Feminism
Jody Kretzman speaks on community building
"Unity March" Won't Heal Brutal Murder
Will Democrats Retain Office?
Environmental Action
Sex, Girls, and the Nature of the Boner
U.S. Violates Human Rights Codes
Active For Justice Monthly Calendar Events

Vol. 2 No. 3, November 11, 1998

Hightower Interviewed on the Future of U.S. Politics
End the School of America's
CC Library Seriously Underfunded, Ignored
A Right to Privacy? Not Around Here
CC Graduates Take the Colorado Springs Community by Storm
Democrats Exceed Expectations
Buy Nothing Day!
Wal-Mart is Evil, MRR Explains Why
Humour Quotes
Upholding the Status Quo
The Elephant in the Living Room
Did Owens Really Win the Election?
Confrontation And The Whore Who Resides Downstairs
Racism Exposed
Entomophagy: Art of Eating Insects
Sleep Deprivation and College Life…
Fly Wheels Rock the House
Plowshares Indicted as Conspiritors
Terrorists: an accurate label for ELF?
Pseudo-Left…Why they Deserve to be Shot
Exclusive Interview with DJ Spooky
Squarepusher: Kick Ass Music
Women's Film Festival a Success
Book Review: Chomsky, The Man

Vol. 2 No. 4, December 14, 1998

Human Rights in a Changing World
We're gonna Euro like it's 1999
CC Students Blaze Trail to the School of Americas Protest
Report on CC Racial Diversity
A Look at the CC Budget, Financial Aid & Departmental Allocations
The Information Age and CC's Problematic Transitory Education
Clarification by Whitey on Racism
Thoughts on Professor Riker's Talk…Education and the American Character
Who are We Calling American?
Drug Czar gets Goofy on Hemp
U.S. Fails to Observe Human Rights
Expand your Respective Bubbles with BreakOut % Help the Homeless
Are We All Gonna Merge Someday?
The Long Arm of International Law
Monetary Unification: What are the Benefits?
Where Are All the Men to Help?
Crops & Dangers of Biotechnology
Che, the Man and the Revolutionary
Jointly Rubbish: An evening of Art/Trash??
Elizabeth: Virgin Queen has Lotsa - O - Sex
Debauchery, Lies and Republicans
Ulysses Trimble is a Very Angry Man
Bill Clinton the "Playa President" A Condensed Referral - - Office of the Independent Counsel
Impeach Clinton? So What
Love Sucks and You Know It!
Book Review: Castells Three Volume Sociological Masterpiece

Vol. 2 No. 5, February 17, 1999

Reform and the Left: Rorty speaks
Educate Yourself, Whitey
Ludicrous Policy in the Middle East
The Apathy Just Might Be Real
CCCA Asks: Who Are We?
Dr. Minogue gets Down and Dirty on Abstraction and Porn
What ere they thinking?
Conceptions of Islam and the World
Symposium Panelists Discuss Culture, Westernization, & nature of the Individual
Samuel Huntington's Keynote Address: The Declining West
Plowshares Activists Found Guilty
A Vision of a Nuclear-Free World
Sachio Defends Peace, Advocates Change
Richard Skorman's Platform for City Council
Retraial Denied, Musicians Protest
We Recycle, But We Consume More
26 Years of Roe v. Wade: Defend Reproductive Rights
Clinton Allies Keep Poverty Off the Agenda
Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua, the International Politics of the Lack of Aid
Climate Change Legislation, a long way to go…
The AIDS Epidemic in Latin America
Uncovering a Comedian with a Conscience
White Privilege: Seeing through the Invisible
A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet? I Don't Think So…
Retort to Catalyst' Punk Rock Goddess
1999 African American Historical Calendar
Make a Movie and Keep Your Soul
Elliot Smith Makes Me Cry
Racketeering by the Corporate Mob
Why I've Chosen a Quiet, Spiritual Life of Prayer and Celibacy Instead of Prancing Around Like the Rest of You Clueless Fuckers
Book Review: Darwin's Black Box

Vol. 2 No. 6, March 5, 1999

Pushing the Envelope at CC
Rastall Goes "Multicultural"
Bill Gates Attempts to Purchase Federal Government of the US
William Jackson Palmer Found to be a Revolutionary Communist, Loev Claims
Brew Review
Culinary Corner
Stranger Than Fiction: Actual News Stories
Local Squirrels Rally for Higher Pay; Demand New, Smaller Crosswalks
Area Business Owner Not the Man He Used to Be
Why We Shouldn't Be Afraid of Naked Mole Rats Taking Over the World: Parnell and Ryan Sooth Our Fears
Cipher Coward Goes into Hiding! Tough Guy not so Tough Anymore
Johnny Tough-Guy Asks Catalyst Punk Rock Goddess Out On Date to Winter Carnival Dance
Alternative Remedy Explosion: Newest Miracle on the Market: All-Natural Dihydrogen Oxygen
Kathryn Mohrman has Existential Crisis
BABE III: Pig In Your Face
Catalyst Succeeds in Publishing Record Number of Offensive Articles in a Single Issue; Campus Rejoices
More Actual Clips from Newspapers Around the World
Beautification in 2004: Wasted Wampum or Wise Walking?
Vatican out for Blood
Master Plan Update: CC's First 100% Environmentall-Friendly No Building
Please Have AN Apple
Fine Dining Found in Thousands of McDonalds Worldwide
Student Group Accepts Chinese Offer of 2 OZ. of Kind Bud, Changes Name to "Students for a Free Kurdistan"
Public Support of President Erodes Fast Following Sex-Scandal-Free Week
The Backstreet Boys are Modern Tyrants
Aaron is Obsessed with His Dick
Skate Patrol Gets Skate Park, Donuts, & Pro Chimp
Frisbee Golfers Take the Folgers Challenge
Jewel: The Next Emily Dickinson? We Think So!
Trent Lott Admitted to Rehab Center After Becoming Addicted to a Homosexual
A Trip Forward and Then Back Again
Writer Responds to Claims of "Reverse Racism"

Vol. 2 No. 7, April 7, 1999

Kos-Oh No!
Residential Life Announces Extra Cost for Singles
BGALA Identifies with the Word "Queer" in Renaming itself EQUAL
Concerned Citizens Challenge the AP: B Requirements, Policy Changes Coming
CC Women's Violence: Personal Story…
Do You Know Where Your Water's Been?
Abortion Pill's Future in the US
Economic Thoughts on a "Living Wage"
"PC": Time to Redefine the Word
Chairman Omali, Inspirational Man & Leader
Acne and Knitting are Not the Same as Queers
Breaking Down Pat Buchanan's Racist Message
Fighting for Peace is like Fucking for Virginity
Addiction and Existentialism
Rescuing Philosophy at The Colorado College
The Strange History of Vibrators: Dissecting the Female Orgasm
Fiction Review: The God of Small Things
The Project Project: Not just another clever band name…
Book Review: Year of the Heroic Guerilla

Vol. 2 No.8, May 5, 1999

Prof. Rabbin Speaks on the Techno-Science of Politics
Investigations into CC, Hiring People of Color
Hot Thursday Stirs Debate
Have students changed since the 60s?
The Criminal Justice System in Crisis
To Acquiesce is to Ask for Less
Where's The Cipher Goin'?
Nuke King To Speak At Graduation
We are a Culture of Violence & Rape
Students Ideals & Convictions
Columbine Tragedy & The Matrix: Alike in more ways than one…
What is Philosophy?!?!?
Free Spirits and Mental Slaves
Asshole Love, Technology
Built to Spill, Ain't No Secret No More
Fiction Review: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
"Fuck Off You Swine," Retka Bids Farewell to Campus Life for Good.
Book Review: One-Dimensional Man

Vol. 3 No. 1, Sept. 22

Prof. Lindau Speaks on the Ills of Neo-liberalism, Globalism, Mexico
Project-Project: Homespun and Feeling Good
Freshmen: the Good, the Bad & the Abercrombie
Powder Funds: What are we supporting?
Close-minded dominant ideology breeds homogeneity
Guns columbine guns dead kids guns
But Jesus Made Me Hit Her
Should we be buying out our teachers?
In Between: the resistance
The Philosophical Implications of the French Classic The Little Prince
"Astronauts Wife" Heavy With Femininity
Feeble Fingers on the Pulse of Colorado College
Suzanne Foster: the woman, myth, & legend.
Looking Good In The Hollywood Mirror
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) Presentation of the Emmy Awards Dull and Trivial
The Chasm Between the Specialized Educated Caste and the Passively Entertained Masses
Diversity in the Afterlifes
Contemplating Europe: Revenge of the Kulaks
The Critic
Three Cheers For the Wage-Slave in All of Us!
Book Review: Achieving Our Country

Vol. 4 No. 2, October 20, 1999

Class Has It's Privileges, CC Exemplifies Trends
Prof. Rosenthal Speaks on Identity Politics, Marxism and Equality
No Gun Ri Slaughter Brought to Light, War Crimes during Korean War
Interdepartmental Distribution of CC's Money Inbalanaced
From Single Sex Dorms to Urban Schools and Iraq: Separatism Perpetuates Barbarity
Monitored Space, Oppressive Alcohol & Drug Policy Inhibits Student Community
CC's Recycling Crisis
Cc Bookstore Bandits: Who Makes off with the Cash?
A Manufactured Life
CC Pays to Prosper: Exchanging Moral for Money
A Socio-Economic Investigation of the Colorado College Student Body
Lesbian Sexuality Course
Organizing for Disenfranchised, Changes Coming, New Futures
CC and Local Community Leaders Fortify Affordable Housing in Springs
The Man Responsible for the Decline of Distinct Fashion as We Know It - Leslie Wexner
The Transcendence of American Beauty
Musician Tom Waits Hits Denver
A Band With Cosmic Implications
Two Films, Two Companies…Same Frickin' Story
CC Drama/Dance Department Attempts New Theatrical Form
Not Just Matthew Shepard
Caprice Is Totally My Favorite
Book Review: The Works of Foucault

Vol. 3 No. 3, November 17, 1959

Populist Hightower Takes Campus by Storm
Interfering with Political Dialogue
Students on Path for Seattle for World Trade Organization Summit
Robert Hayden Speaks on Balkins Conflict & US Policy
Why Water the Campus Endlessly
Local Activists Arrested at Albright Event for Protesting Iraq Sanctions
Fight the Drug War
The Physicist, A Play with Success in All Areas
Christmastime Crafts Sale on December 3 & 4
Twisted Thoughts on a Twisted Hollywood
A Story of Discovery: Kit Carson, Colorado
Book Review: The Unknown City
Ruthless Capitalism…Asset or Flaw?
Capitalism is Becoming its own Government
Eat Shit and Die, David Geffen
Speak Up For Yourself, Young One
Mili-Lez sez: I am the truth and the light!
Campus Pagan Association is Back
Book Review, Novel Prize Winning: The Captive Mind

Vol. 3 No. 4, December 15, 1999

World Trade Organization and the Third World
Free Trade & Quiet Beneficiaries
Democracy and Efficiency
Changes Ahead for Rastall, Bemis - Are you Informed?
Corporations Versus Countries: The Top 100
Confronting Queer Conference - Broad Range of Topics Discussed
FBI's Counterintelligence Program
Bush, Worse than just a Republican
Medicaid: A Funding Paradox
Environmental Issues: Forests, Rives, & Sprawl - Speak Up and Take Action!
Spinning A Sound All His Own…
"With Liberty and Justice for Few"
…And Now For Something Completely Different
McAlevy's Fort: 1999

Vol. 3 No. 5, February 9, 2000

Creative Expression in Movements for Social Change & Anarchist Thought
Maria Varela: community organizer & teacher
CC's "Minority Satisfaction Survey" Breeds Dissatisfaction
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
Renowned Speaker Promotes Love, Courage
Taking Away Our Backyard: Colorado's Land For Sale
CC Alum Aids in Self-Educatino of Inmates
Colorado College Student Is Discriminated Against by Episcopalian Church
Open Letter from Assata Shakur
Too Dangerous for The Ballot
California Strawberry Farmers Outraged at Biotechnological Trend
I Like Southern Vegan Christian White Boy Music, i.e. Moby
Book Review: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Hip-Hop Education & How to be a Cool Rich Kid - Review of No More Prisons
Graffiti Writers Interviewed, Incognito
The Fat Chronicles Official Graffiti Glossary
Local Police Overstepping Boundaries
The Critic: U.S. Needs to Butt Out
Elian Gonzales: Go Home to Father in Cuba, or Stay With Relatives in US?
Here, Have Some Glaring Factual Errors

Vol. 3 No. 7, April 14, 2000

There is a Silent Menace Creeping All Around You Right Now
Colorado College Releases Minority Student Satisfaction Survey Results
Wire Fences Make Good Neighbors: The Myths & Realities of Prison Towers
USWA Condemns Bank
Stop That White-Built Shit: It's Tired
Resurrecting MAYDAY and Radical Politics
New Nationalism: Destructive or Valuable
U.S. Arms Bazaar: To Infinity and Beyond
CC Invents in Three Tents for Glass House
Study Reveals: Feral White Homo-Sapiens Devastate Ecosystems.
All Apologies
NRA Proposes "Arming our Young Children to Curb School Shootings"
Cc Introduces New Yellow Car Program
Is Film a Performance Art? Should it be?
Book Review: Jihad vs. McWorld

Vol. 3 No. 8, May 11, 2000

Get up, stand up! Stand up for your labor rights!!!!!
We The People Want to Decide
CC Student Business Plan Spawns Record Label
Pioneer & Public Educational Programs Await Approval
The Big Payback
Why Would a News Company hire Psycologoical Warfare People?
Hi I'm human but I also happen to be an editor, so I edit.
Chameleon Nature, Rainbow Country Trans-planetary Santeria: Response to Jose Vasconcelos' La Raza Cosmica & Mestizo-global Culture
Fiction, Poetry, and Non-fiction works to read over the summer
The Seduction of Androgyny

Vol. 4 Issue 1

Free Trade: the best of shaky options
Sodexho investing in for-profit prisons
Columbia: The Drug War's real loser
The Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship
Mexican Environmentalists still held by government
Iran and the sales of Identity
Dream a little dream
'Patience is a Virtue' but not in America
Student Artist Profile: Jonathan Horvath
Nader Speaks in Denver
Movie Review: Nurse Betty & Three Kings
Parnell and Ryan's Horoscope
Book Review: Beyond Beef

Vol. 4 Issue 2

Dick Cheney: Foreign Policy or Foreign Atrocity
Amendment 20: Facts on Marijuana
The Ethic Button
Surprise: Bush has bad grammar
Bush and Gore Make me Wanna Ralph
Amendment 24: Against Urban Sprawl
Tough-Times, Teeth Gnashing, and Reality
The Tongass Roadless Initiative
Checks Hit Progressives Hard in 2000
Jazz Mandolin Project
A Voters Guide to State Issues
Anarchy: We don't need no government
World-wide-waste of space
Scary Science Presents: Stem Cells
Together/Working' featured at CU Gallery
Student Artist Profile: Lesley Siegel
Movie Reviews: Almost Famous & The Exorcist

Vol. 4 Issue 3

Corporate globalism continues to screw ljaw nation
First-year experiments with future of Colorado College
Conflict: the Human Condition
The Roundup: Monstanto and the War on Drugs
Conflict: the Human Condition
Rise Campaigns to Raise Sodexho Standards
Stuber's Scary Science Watch: Contraception
Federal funds overlooks third party, a disservice to democracy
China starts counting, How many kids is enough?
Drug Study: Price more effective than punishment.
Expedition One Crew Brings ISS to Life
Student theater delivers amusement and intrigue
Student Artist Profile: Becky Geller
World-wide-waste of space
Folk/Rock singer Martin Sexton to grace CC
Like Dick and Bush in 2000

Vol. 4 Issue 4

1st anniversary of the WTO Protests
Chemtrails Theory Sheds Light on Line in the Sky
A Brief History of Future of the WTO
Rise 2000: The Future Subject to Change
The "Bread Box"
IMF: Truly helpful or ulterior motivies?
New Tech to electrify near future
Student Artist Profile: Jon Christensen
A bitch-slap from author Tom Robbins

Vol. 4 Issue 5

Headlong into Folly
Western Force Meets the Islam Wall of Thought
The Party of Principle
An exercise in press relations from the new master of vagueries White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer
Right-Wing Alliance Challenges Climate Justice
A Sunny Day
Socialization vs. Globalization

Vol. 4 Issue 6

Changing Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Prostitution in Thailand
Winds of Change
Bush Junior to Reopen Conflict With Saddam Hussien
Cocaine Use Perpetuating Columbian Violence, War, Civil Unrest
Vandals Depreciating Staff, Student Body, School
Declining Union Membership Troublesome
Giant, freaking surprise: students don't like Western Ridge
Students, faculty meet to discuss Marriot
The Parked Car Dog Wars

Vol. 4 Issue 7

Bush "Wows" International Community
Terrorism: People making a difference
Gun Control, or Fun Control?
How the Market Made Us Stupid: Financial Crisis in the United States and Japan are about to Teach the World an Awesome Lesson: Merry-go-round Must be Regulated
Students still dissatisfied with campus corporation presence
Mathias turned into Prison; Marriot Gets More Money
The Slip surpasses trendy dismal pop in (surprise) talent, ability
More things on Western Ridge that we can't change
God-Exists, Tequila-inspired scientists say
Student Artist Profile: Sabra Jenks Graham

Vol. 4 Issue 8

Education, Homogenization, and National Security
Hip-Hop Hits CC
Quebec: An insider's look at the conflict
Bush ignores treaties, offends international community
American Spirits: Big Man, Little Tobacco
Here's lookin' at you, CC
The Case for Apathy
Klein condemns brand name society
A Look at Where Free Trade Needs to Go in Light of the Quebec Protests
J's Restaurant to Leave
Bush positively impacting World, US
It's the end of the Cipher as we know it…but I feel fine…

(here begins the second book of Ciphers)

Vol. 8 No. 1, Sept 2001

Nation Responds to Attack with Hope, Hate Crimes
In The Beginning and in the End, It's All The Same, my Friend
Bush Pushes Pakistan into Political Peril
Professor Mediates Awareness
Noam Chomsky Speaks on Bombings
Exerpts from Michael Moore's Public Letter, Post 9/11
S. African Racism Conference Fails
Castro Condemns Terrorism, Military Action
Columbus Day Celebration is Challenged by History
Local Artist Interview: Colin Hu
Activist Resources! That's Right, Fun! Coalitions! Revolution! Networking! Rise up!

Vol. 8 No. 2, Oct 2001

Legislation Infringes on Civil Liberties
Airlines struggle to secure cockpits, jobs
First, Last, Outer, Inner; Only That Breath Breathing Human Being
City Council Railroads Affordable Housing
Rent Control: Helping or Hurting
Nation Cannot Afford Rent, According to HUD
Nevermind the Vail Resorts - Here's Silverton Ski Area
Fly Away in your Very Own Earthship
Michigan Man Molests First Amendment
In Praise of the Penis
Hawaiian History Retold
Four Directions March in Denver
Billy Bragg's Music Will Save Us
Resources for the Modern Radical

Vol. 8 No. 3

US Invades Switzerland in Crusade Against Terror
War Reminds US of Bad Action Movie
Plants? Okay, Whatever
The Penultimate Question: Is Utah Heaven?
Know Your Cores: A Guide to the "New Thing" in the Music Scene
Bad Religion Takes it to DU at Home: A Short, Non-Satirical Show Review

Vol. 8 No. 4, Feb. 2001

"You can't do this with bombs and bullets alone"
Radical of the Month: Carlos Belo
Enron Goes Down in Flames
Suburban New Yorkers Show Weak Support for WEF Protests
Students for Fair Labor Protests
Here's What They're Saying
The Mainstream Media and Our "War on Terror": What They're Not Telling You
Letter from workers of Iran: Wages Unpaid, Justice Now!
Top 1% earn as much as the poorest
Dismantling the European Union
CC Professors Speak Out About the War on Terrorism, George Bush, and the State of the Union Address
Roll This
Cuba: Neither Heaven nor Hell
The Hijacking of History
Planned Parenthood
Rogue State: Adventures With The CIA
Independent Computer Games Attack big Business and Global Capitalism
Vincent Galo and His Ego Write, Produce, Rercord, Mix and Distribute Revealing New Album, Went
Black History Month Celebration

Vol. 5 No. 5 March 2002

Drug Courts Offer Controversial Alternative to the Drug War
Radical of the Month: Fellow Journalist John Pilger
Hey, Kids: We Need To Talk
Local News Investigates Colorado College
Hey Hot Stuff!! The Drag Ball Comes to CC This Friday
Something New and Different: School Makes a Difference, Students Change Lives.
Wisdom and Insights from Zen: A Block Break Sesshin
American Examines Environmentalism in Japan: Money, Factions Divide Efforts
Pope Asks Lawyers to Object
Yet Another White Guy Thinks He Knows What He's Talking About
ACLU Holds Meeting to Discuss Civil Liberties
Copy Write: A Beginning Guide to Digital Democracy
Resistance is futile…You Will be Assimilated
What Kinds of Technology?
Coca-Cola Can Kill You, Baby
Ninety Percent of the World's Languages to Disappear
A Review of the new 'Sector One' EP, Plus a Spotlight Look at Roni Size
Bad Religion Stops in Denver on Their Process of Belief Tour
Tigerastyle Records: Taking Over the World
A Ciphered Crossword

Vol. 5 Issue 7

Pleaing for Change at CC and Around the World: A Discussion of Politics, Morals and Humanity
A Cipher Retrospective
Earth Week Is Coming
Colorado Springs Responds to Catalyst
Colorado College Rallies Against Hate
Ceasefire in Angola Brings Hope
Colombian Terrorism and Drug War Destroy Governmental Stability
Bush Visits Peru Amid Fatal Terrorist Attacks
Controversial Campaign Finance Reform Bill Signed
Fighting for Equality? Equality for Whom?
Anarchists Organize? Yes Indeedy!
How Dumb White Aristocrats are Screwing Us All - -A Book Review
Death to Smoochy: A Study in Corporate Satire
Music Review: Loxy and Ink Drop Twisted Third Mind EP
The New Menace of the Slopes: The Snow Deck

Vol. 5 No.8 May 2002

Presidential Candidates' Backgrounds Challenged by CC Students
Letter to the Editor: Lessons Learned from a Close Call
Local Muslim Community Leader Fights Intolerance through Education
Financial Aid at Colorado College: How it Happens
Search Committee Members Explain Rationale Behind 'Secret Search'
Israel Accused of War Crimes in Jenin
Out of sight, Out of Mind? No, Not At All
Recent Abercrombie & Fitch T-Shirts Example of Blatant Racism, Ignorance
A Backyard Feast: The Wonderful World of Permaculture
Keep Gas Wells Off Plateau
Student Profile: Ashwin Jumaria
Us Gets Tough on Immigration Under Guise of Anti-Terrorism
Le Pen Inclusion in French Presidential Elections Sparks Passionate Protests
Preserving Privacy in the Digital Age
How To Get Through CC With Your Dignity and Mental Health
Bureaucracy and the CC Student: Eduardo's Retrospective
Letter to the Editor: Life is Short. Take Advantage of It While You Can
Is There a Holy Apartheid In The Middle East?
The Man Behind the Mole
Randomly Ordered Summer Listening List
Up, Up and Away…

(here beings the third book; Cipher 2002-2003)

Vol. 6 No. 1 Sep. 2002

Letters to the Editor: Chaplain praises Symposium, speaks out against gender bias
Keynote addresses failed to enlighten
Responding to the Symposium: Dimensions of Dialogue and Democracy
Keynote speakers disappointed those who sought dialogue
Mrs. President Jacqueline Lundquist, Mother, Wife, Fashion Queen, Businesswoman, Social Activist Extraorinaire
Since 9-11 in Nepal: terrorism in Everest's Shadow?
Dining with a mentalist
Food for Thoughtr…
Freshman Disillusionment
Misha knows her shit
Savory Moroccan cuisine

Vol. 6 No. 2 Oct 2002

Letters to the Editor
Amid protests, local Republicans gather to hear Vice President
"This is what democracy looks like!"
Protest: Chilean Style
What make a hero
Behind the posters of the peer social norming campaign
Some CO alcohol laws
Did you ever wonder why? The psychology of being drunk
Regrettable sex and sexual assault at CC: what the posters and statistics don't tell you
The evolution of the brew
Do-It-Yourself Brewing
Beer vs. Religion
The Best of…Organic Foods and Brews
Beer from a Biological Perspective: what does it really do to our bodies?
32 Bleu Extraordinary
Let's Hear from Everyone's Favorite Anti-Socialite
Farewell Ben Hoyler, May Your Light Shine Brilliantly On

Vol. 6 No. 3 Nov 2002

Hosting blind prospective student adds to CC student's experience of disabilities awareness week
MOSAIC hosts international education week
Getting to know professor Own Cramer - an intellectually baffling journey
CC musicians bring the funk to local jazz club
Media Analysis Tools
Combating hunger & homelessness at CC
Buy Nothing Day
The meaning of 'no buy day' abroad
Peace begins when the hungry are fed.
An alternative Christmas
Do we practice what we peach?
A week of fun in the springs for almost nothing!
Stopping the war before it starts
Getting there: speaking peace across the nation
Raptivism: Hip Hop for Peace
What's it like to be green?
"A new way to hold the U.S. hostage:" CC students respond to the sniper shootings
US Navy exempt from upholding endangered species act
"This is art" : reviewed
More words of wisdom from CC's favorite cynic, Misha Calvert!

Vol. 4 No. 4 Dec 2002

Letters to the Editor
Religion at CC
What is a Jesuit?
The story of "p"; not Ishmael, but close
Sex, drugs, and violence
Striking a personal relationship with Jesus
Reflections on Zoroastrianism
Oy gavalt! How to rationalize stripping with your Jewish heritage
Calculating the divine
Greek new testament meets the block plan
Top 10 under-appreciated deities
Politics and art in the bible
Nuns attempt to beat swords into plowshares, arrested
A just war
The ins and outs of Unitarian universalism
Mission: Mormonism
God as the source of all being
Why I don't eat pork
Are we playing God?
Growing up without god
Shopping for god
Mall replaces god
Be still and know that I am god
Protesting American mentoring of oppression
Looking beyond the uniform: getting to know CC security guard Mike Sanchez
VOX: new student voice on campus
Film review: 8 mile
Misha Calvert: cynic, anti-socialite, goddess

Vol. 6 No. 5 Feb 2003

Letters to the editor & opinions
The world speaks out
Big brother INS starts tracking international students
Old but new: the draft may not be a piece of the past much longer
Prison reform panel addresses problems, incorporates community
New wages for low-wage workers?
Everything you buy is already obsolete
Real economics: farmers driving the rolls royces
American consumerism really is taking over the world: reflections from Chile
The children of the street: a fresh perspective
Pope creates new mysteries and new hope
Campus Sustainability
Good vibrations: best of c-springs sex shops
Son of god found in loomis
Sophomore releases new album
Bowling for columbine
A simple new year's resolution
Mischa Calvert: cynic extrordinare

Vol. 6 No. 6 March 2003

Sexist rush posters irresponsible
Tofu flavored vegan condoms at the sage?
National security strategy will only breed more hate and terror
Posters raise awareness of sexual assault
To fight or not to fight…that is the question
Living non-violence
CC ahimsa film series
Nuclear peace?
Islam in political cartoons
Cinematic archtypes
Dodging the draft: Canada and beyond
International students on a war in Iraq
Beer and progress: working towards a brighter future
Here comes the drag ball
Growing student movement gives a ray of hope
Mtv cartoon portrays a new Gandhi
New holiday born out of hypocrisy
Recipe: vegan marinara
Misha's got all the answers

Vol. 6 No. 7 April 2003

Monster chili fest rocks CC
KRCC-are you listening?
Fighting racism with humor
Affirmative action please
Labeling lifestyles
Losing diversity with college
"hippies" at CC
Classroom diversity
Consequences of April fools
4-1-03: rally against hate
4-2-03: rally against fear
Comedians confront date rape
America's obsession with war
War and ice cream in Argentina
I wish I was proud to be an American: arts, crafts, & the Iraq war in Mexico
Supporting the troops or the war? Living in a military community in Germany
Mixed feelings on war from Massachusetts
Top ten ways to think outside the box at CC
Recipe: banana foster
Misha, little miss know-it-all

Vol. 6 No. 8 May 2003

Da Vinci, eat your heart out
Reflections from the chief
Courage under fire
Where does the money go?
Film examines CC socioeconomics
Best ways to save money at CC
Debt: the burden of graduation
Money for thought
Workers march on may day
How much financial aid can you get?
Want to be invisible at CC? try working here
Cutting taxes…health care, education
The search for identity: wealth or the world community
Slavery thrives in America
Synergy house
Supporting troops while protesting war?
A cool soup for a hot dat
Dear mrs. Cynical: no money, mo problems

(here begins third Cipher book; 2003-2004

Vol. 7 No. 1 Sept 2003

Editor's note: saluting sustainability
The power of heart: Celeste and sustainability
Synergy: living on campus in sustainable community
Gender segregation in Saudi Arabia
Rollin' on Justice
Sustainable
CC enacts new recycling program (but does it work?)
Bush nominates fishy friend for EPA
Too close to home: sexual violence and the CC campus
Staying Sane: the story behind Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners
NSO trips: making Rastall burgers look oh, so good
Student Life in Tanzania
Hold onto your tastebuds: CC gourmet gives Rastall a makeover
Dear Misha, sustainably savvy self-proclaimed advice whore
Saul Williams slams into performance art scene

Vol. 7 No. 2 Oct 2003

Letter to the editor: punishing the victim of a CC stalking
Rediscovering war - rediscovering futility
Fear and the media
The end of a frightening legacy
Howard Dean wants change
Death and the CC campus
Havana - city of paradox
Why trash Greek life? A new look at CC sororities
Fighting good phobias: the Dale Street café
On being ultra hard-core: two CC students conquer a marathon
NATO protest: many hope for change amidst a lame protest
NATO in a nutshell

Vol. 7 No. 3 Nov 2003

White supremacy in Colorado Springs
How escaping the meal plan and hot stock tips can make you rich, just like Bush
No bus to miss: why sprawl sucks the steam out of C-springs public transit
Rabid republican spotted on campus
You may say that I'm a dreamer…
Slavery today
No water is your water
It's naked time
Adventures in biodiesel
Saudi Arabia Scoreboard
A walk down alternative media lane
Generous beyond empathy
Then god created breakfast - and it was good

Vol. 7 No. 4 Dec 2003

Vouchers: a broad vision for public schools that might just destroy them
Detainees caught in U.S. government's legal black hole
Auschwitz survivor brings courage and compassion into hearts of CC students
Protesting the school of Americas
Bush signs controversial act to ban partial birth abortions
Religion inc - corporate Christianity in Colorado Springs
Healthy forest act smacks lumberjacks
In a Muslim country with Bush in the white house? Not as bad as you might think
Transatlanticism: we've heard better

Vol. 7 No. 5 Feb 2004

The new voters project this Colorado College
Pikes peak media reform
Rhythm and brews at the coffeehouse
Francis Bok is speaking for the silenced
Nigger: investigating the exportation of slang through hip-hop
Arte con la vida: Cuban art is alive and well
Cd baby: go ahead, spoil the little delinquent in you
Does audio theft pay? To whom, how much, and should you care?
Music and freedom in the Czech Republic
C. Springs music isn't dead: scenester Adam Leech tells you why.
Punk's long, slow death
Apathy and activism in music today
What's love got to do with it?

Vol. 7 No. 6 March 2004

Gay Marriage
The end is near: pentagon report offers no solutions
One man's castle haven
Escaping paradise
CC's silent habit; cocaine use on the Colorado college campus
Man versus monument
Call of the wild; mission: wolf bring wolves back to Colorado College
Taking the low road?: Subaru sneaks by emission standards
Humanity in a salt crystal: Colorado salt monument puts life into perspective
Hotornot.com for the meaning of life
Want to break out of the CC music bubble?

Vol. 7 No. 8

Laverkin's Inception
Welcome to Laverkin
The other, sinister Laverkin
A profile of the laverkin worldview
Ecotourism invades Machu Pichu
Ode to Delia: how to fail in the Peruvian dating scene
Trip yields greater appreciation of US legal system
Chiquita bananas and consumer power
…of a white girl in Harlem
Christianity and change in Mexigo
Finding faith in faith
Social implications of glass
Book review: "pigs at the trough" tackles corporate greed
Can nonviolence work?
Superbia! The sustainable answer to suburbia
Steal my face? Getting your identity stolen
Steal your face! And how to steal it back
Rally for reproductive rights: Washington, D.C.
Rally for unity in diversity: Colorado College
The peace candidate: Dennis Kucinich speaks in Manitou Springs
Hilda's Peace: after a war-torn childhood and a marriage wrecked by cancer, Hilda finds peace mopping Mathias.
Fighting fires brings insight

(here begins next book sept. 2004-may 2005)

Vol.8 No. 1 Sept. 2004

The third man: Ralph Nader
Paradoxes of the election
Deaths at the border
The confrontational evangelist: Jed Smock meets head on with CC
Tejon Street market: a healthy alternative
What does "certified organic" mean?
Working for the man
Silver night
Film review: silver city
Bringing back the barbeque
Traveling to find a deeper understanding
Records you ain't heard (of)

Vol. 8 No. 2 Oct 2004

So ma, who ya votin' for? A look at what determines how CC is voting
Colorado becomes a swing state
Who's who on the ballot
Profiles of local candidates
Beyond Bush & Kerry
You go girl! Candidates' wives get their share of the spotlight in this year's election
Youngster voters rally
For political clout
In praise of Bush
Rebel with a cause
Senator mountains?
Conquering Columbus day
Making voices heard
(wind) power to the people
Exploring some of the ballot's fine print
Out Foxed
Japanese vampire princess miyu battles the Transylvanian count Dracula
Punk and Politico
Film review: what the fuck is what the bleep?

Vol. 8 No. 3

Manifest your own destiny
Reflections on self-delusion
CC responds to the elections
Twilight democracy: canvassing incites disillusion and passion
Tell me this isn't fraud 2004
Partnership for civic engagement helps protect election integrity
Michael Merrifield - heartened democrat
Coffeehouse? Coffeehome!
Church and state: the evangelical vote
Investigating the future of sustainable agriculture
A political where's waldo?
Richard Florida's creative class
CC profile: Al Smith
Records you ain't heard (of)

Vol. 8 No. 4 Dec. 2004

Urban peak launches new outreach shelter downtown
Problem as platform: dialogue with senior GOP enthusiast Mathew Placzek
Facilitating peace in downtown Colorado Springs
Community Profile
The ethics of class 3 arms dealing: cipher speaks to the "dragonman"
Cara Degette - empassioned editor
Joe Rosemblum soccer tournament '04
Environmentalists & community churches unite for a healthy future
Recycling is no joke
School of the Americas protest
Plan Colombia, to end internal strife
Oil: start thinking about it before it's too late
Combating holiday consumerism
Art review: Robert Doisneau
The war on squirrels

Vol. 8 No. 5 Feb. 2005

Racing with an Iditarod champion
Life on the ice: a CC student recounts adventures in Antarctica
Iqbal Akhtar - cultural commentator
Vietnam day to day: CC student learns to cross the street
Through the cracks of the world
Rio's other side: a visit to Brazilian favelas
Women in Thai Buddhist society
Investigating disabilities in the Czech Republic and at home
Finding companionship in piazza castello
A place called home
Anecdotes on cultural insensitivity
Sappho pulled from winter ball
Le bouffant electric showcase faux fabulousness at CC
International album review

Vol. 8 No. 6 Mar. 2005

What's left unsaid
What you don't know about the g-word
Thinking like a soldier
Respectfully discussing race!
God, song & love in Chicago
Eating disorders at CC
Affirmative action at CC: beyond checking the box
Roma: a nation without a homeland
Interview: Cari Davis - devoted advocate
Silent sex: voicing what goes unsaid
The next round's on CCCA?
The toilet paper: no dumping ground
Housing faq's
Photo essay: landless rural workers movement of BrazilNew perspective at the world social forum
Growing up CC
Leave your clothes behind
Costa Rica: the land of eternal water
The dhrupad tradition brings classic Indian music to CC
Accidental racism
Records you ain't heard (of)
Peace happens: April 9th-17th

Vol. 8 No. 7 Apr. 2005

Cultural ignorance must end
Housing beyond the gender binary
Learning from the world: CC civic engagement initiative
Consent
Financial facts: the skinny on financial aid
Class conflicts confront campus
Peace happens: a conscientious dialogue
Patricia Verdugo: journalist, author and human rights activist
Must science and culture clash?
Deconstructing graduation
Cash and class: Colorado College and the problem of money
Abortion
Humanizing abortion
Keeping condoms in the classroom
Catalyst runs pro-life insert
Interview: Michael Sheridan - faithful leader
The senior thesis experience
Pastor/activist John Fife discusses evangelical renewal and NGO smuggling
Join my music revolution
Iron and wine: one man band
Thievin'; crime and scandal in the shadow of pikes peak
Hey Mr. iPod, how 'bout a conversation
Indie is, indie ain't: examining an oft-misunderstoof notion
Records you ain't heard (of)

Vol. 8 No. 8 May 2005

Furniture
Two Nights at the Navajo Hogan
Pitchin' tents for free speech
Thoughts and actions
Arab, the new black.
Jewish remembering, Jewish forgetting
God cured my hangover
Your body is a stage: and you perform
Mason Jennings Interview
Readership survey demands improvement
Opposing visual realities of U.S. - Mexico relations
The elephant in the corner: CC employee brings suicide support group to campus
Wild children of wine country
Dreaming the impossible dream
Listen up and tune in
Five girls and a lot of white cloth: installation art and the film fest
Records you ain't heard (of)

(here begins new book; Sept. 2005- May 2006)

Vol. 9 No. 1 Sept. 2005

Museum of misinformation
Behind the brochure: putting race on the table
Interview with Dick Celeste
Raising the bar: CC's push towards prestige
Corporate smart street art
Victory day in Russia
Victory gardens for 2005
Relief effort gone wrong: a response to disaster (mis) management
Slinging mud in a drowning city
"This is a desperate SOS"
Where's my shadow government
Religion in Washington, DC
Car talk: interview with Dave Solon, car dealer
Volunteering in Peru
Charles Price serves up more than just omelettes
Not the hindenburh
Infinite regress
Life is getting better, thanks to R. Kelley
Jazz wasn't dead but you just killed it

Vol. 9 No. 2 Oct. 2005

Back to school: John Gudvangen runs for district 11 school board
Abstaining from campaigning
Out with the "rachet" - the deal on referenda c & d
Crashing the party
In the middle of the aftermath
The Africa center: a holistic approach to a new Zimbabwe
Standing up to genocide in Darfur
Organic is…
Small farms make a big difference
Addressing the organic craze
The lesser of two evils?
Not your average herb 'n' farm; urban agriculture in Chicago
Herman hamburger
Four reasons to go vegan
Vegan recipes to make your mouth water
Getting gourmet
Viva la agricultural revolution
Faith, fasting, celebration
Hot pocket: a philosophical inquiry
King of the wild frontier
Foxily, furtively, futuristically
Infinite regress
The inherently false question of public space
Considering Tutt
Techno that doesn't go boompty-bomp in the night
Aih is aok
Jazz wasn't dead but you just killed it

Vol. 9 No. 3 Nov. 2005

Problems with protest: college questions camp case on legality of protests
Biodiesel: greasing the way to a veggie-powered future
Megan Vasquez: night out complicates campus race issues for CC student
Reporting from Iraq
Real estate : rentals and sublets
Homeless, teenage, and pregnant
Greek life in strife
New TESSA programs focus on ending gender violence before it starts
Savio house lends a hand keeping Colorado families together
Communal lives of love - Manitou community brews strong mate
Synergy home
Criminalizing poverty?
Caught on tape: filming pandhandlers and fleeing from the police in Chicago
On life and law
The eleventh night of rioting in Paris, France
Home in Colorado, home in Russia
The real Latin America
It's cheaper in bulk: tales of the socially responsible shopping cart
Infinite regress: experiments and trash boundaries
Sounds of liberation
Sing in the temple of the lord Packard

Vol. 9 No. 4 Dec. 2005

God hates windmills
Lost in immigration
Re-evaluating woman's labor
Economics of cannabis 101
I'm spiritual, not religious
The labyrinth: not just for David Bowie
Actively Christian at Colorado College
No sex(uality) in church
Voices on faith speak out for choice
Scientology for sale
Conversion is conformity
Faith-based investing
Free healthcare for uninsured
Comrades of America
Not your typical Sunday mass
Spreading Judaism in Colorado
Christ cashes in
Budding Buddhists at CC
Earthquake in Pakistan and Kashmir
Unsilent night
Jazz wasn't dead, but you just killed it
Master of the spoon and four track
Artsploitation

Vol.9 No. 5 Feb. 2006

Boobs to ascend the west buttress
A history of justice and abortion in America
Funding equal education
What the travel brochures don't say
When Buddha looks into a microscope
Fashion show '06
CC Style
Comdomania: everywhere except the bedroom
Take two steps towards you
N'a deja pas vu
Energy aesthetics
Beauty alive, kicking in Caucasus mountains
It's the journey, not the sicky gnar
They yelled fire and nobody fled
Buscando en la basura
The victory of hamas
In cold blood
A brief excursion in the avant-garde
Extremely overrated and incredibly manipulative
Melt your face
Whole, 2003
Behind enemy lines, 2001

Vol.9 No.6 March 2006

KRCC at a crossroads
Printer from the past
Mardigras in Manitou
BDSM and feminism?
Experts at play
HA HA HA: the psychology of laughter
Mom, I'm majoring in religion
Soy what?
Cash for coffee
The cinema of kiarostami
Peter max sux
Part eurotrash part future: euromotion defies all logic
Le principe de plaisir: from paris with vocoders

Vol. 9 No.6 Apr. 2006

Not what the doctor ordered
Nonsense (nbrenner)
Show me the money
Orcs, elves, and dwarves, oh my!
Peace corps fights off military
Sioux falls, South Dakota and the abortion ban
Professors obsessed: passions of faculty
Jesus was a punk
Dragball '06
Listen to the music
And the music changed me
Candy freak-out
Wolf eyes: the interview
Memoir madness: tips for living a lie and writing about it!
Insomiac fever
Unleash the drum machine?

Vol. 9 No. 8 May, 2006

Two students discuss the war in Iraq
English in America
Making a habit of peace
Rally to end genocide
Joysticks for justice
Baghdad zoo
Self abuse
Bacchae in Baghdad
Peaceful jihad
Fighting for the right to farm
Down and derby
Colorado College film festival 2006
From the future and back again
Llamapalooza
Llamas in carhartts
Top 10 hip-hop albums of all time
If she were any quieter she'd be dead

Vol. 10 No. 1 Sep. 2006

When god turns green
Colorado elections: a jump to the left?
Viva la raza
The worst place on earth
Memorializing creativity
Covering war
This is Alex and that it me
Who died a virgin or…broke as a joke
"shutup before icut your face and nobody gonna want to fuck your ugly cunt"
JV's advice on the music industry
Contextual sex

Vol. 10 No. 2 Oct. 2006

Capturing Columbus: his legacy in the new world today
The grim safari
Single house, many hands
Jerusalem at dawn
Fighting for gay rights from the right
Out of left field
Choose your own laws: a guide to referendum votes for this election
Resolve
Ask me about 9/11
All in the family
Running in circles
The whorled cup
Hipsters to hippies
LOW
Your mom doesn't want to know about your blowjob technique
Contextual sex
Reflections of Chicago

Vol. 10 No.3 Nov. 2006

Ted is haggard…but God still loves him
A student and the cc conduct committee struggle to uphold justice
Dangerous laughs
Crossing: part 1: in spitting distance of the American dream
Gossip
Old ghosts never die, they only get crazier
Remembering tragedies, dispelling rumors
Beyond romancing at Rastall
Noel Black, phoenix of Colorado Springs media dusts himself off and tries again
The achingly beautiful films of Brent Green
Contextual sex

Vol. 10 No.4 Dec. 2006

If you believe in equal rights, clap your hands!
Why Christianity has failed us
Crossing: part two: in America
The travels of Jacqueline Lundquist: an interview with CC's first lady
"Has superior crayola expression"
Reaching long range
Follow the LEED-er
The annals of CC discipline
Regarding student conduct; students write in
The block and the rock: CC admissions shifts its vision
We keep our genius exclusive
Not to learn, but to unlearn
Buy well, feel good
Golden eggs and ground beans
Abstinence-only sex education is only trying to fuck you
Fallout shelters do it better
Contextual sex

Vol. 10 No.5 Feb. 2007

The fair trade farce
Life after war
Why male, why white, why Patagonia, why gnar?
Fags and families
Notes from S. Africa: drafting a family's historical roadmap
The dilapidated American dream
Rig sick
Names contain multitudes
White gold: I laugh so I don't have to cry
Contextual sex
Towards a progressive marsalistics
The first boy band to waste all of their earnings on cigarettes, since 1933

Vol. 10 No.6 Mar. 2007

And there is evening and there is morning, and next come the creatures
In defense of fair trade
The problem with STAND
Divestment in Darfur
Alanza's spellwork: an interview with Manitou's clairsentient psychic
America's sweetheart Charlotte Moroz interviews Ted Haggard's better half
Boron-brenner lets his freak flag fry
Tulsa succumbed to a case or historical amnesia, and then came the Dictaphone
Postcards from Costa Rica
Ad caelestis per aspera
A map and two ships passing
Counting the pounds and melting your face
If you get hungry, you can make a tortilla out of your earrings
Did you ski every 14er in Colorado last year?
Scavenger extraordinaire
Disneyland on a daily basis
Speed bus: Leath Tonino rides the free shuttle
Anna Hines journal entries
Wearing your heart on your Nalgene
God can be erotic
Asteroid 2004 MN4 or 99942 Apophis?
In the stacks

Vol. 10 No.7 Apr. 2007

David Mason on his new verse-novel
The cost of silence
The definition of empowerment
On the historiography of sexuality
Its time to take back the night
Anna Hines journal
Those hallowed years when sex allegedly flows free and liberated like refuse in Monument Creek
From the mouth of babes
Third rider
A doctor's visit unlike any other
Radio conspiracy against circumstance
All the titty-shaking you could ask for
But you can't wipe your friends
As revulsion by candlestick
Contextual sex
Birth control without the pills

Vol. 10 No.8 May, 2007

There is no liberty, only Columbia
Lost House
The elephant and the chain
Interview with Jose Raul Esquibel
Lost: identity, found #26
Random stuff
The Denver Odyssey
Lost and found: St. Petersberg
Letter to Sheena
New-Life's Easter Pageant
Contextual sex
Pongo-dog

Vol. 11, No. 1, Sept. 2007

Out of Context
On the Constitution(s), protests, police in a "city of hate"
Pining for Pinon Canyon
A fated portrait of the city dying
Nevada Avenue
Mistakes can be fixed easier than you'd think
Eating with integrity
This is how we is
The King and Queen of the Prince of Blades
The City that Built God
Magic Hour
CC student filmmakers out on the town
Album review and history lesson too

Vol. 11, No. 2, Oct. 2007

Out of context
Responding to institutionalized racism at CC
Living between lines
A Cipher Interview: Lesbians can get pregnant, too; a mid-nineties homemade insemination
Landing Liberal Learning
The Future of the Human Race
Mr.Penrose's Giraffes
Under the Radar and Inside the E.R.
The Cost of Birth
A History of Illegitimacy: Nine Deadbeat Fathers (and One Mother) Throughout History
Rethinking the Springboard

Vol. 11, No.3, Nov. 2007

Out of Context
Nuclear Power and the Battle for Western New Mexico
Colorado's Uranium News
Coming to You: A letter from CC alumnus Thomas Barry: International Admission Counselor
Professors Reflect on the Soap Box in History
Controversial Investments: how a college takes a stance on national and international matters
Summer 1968: Colorado College supported two of its students to travel, research, and photograph in Vietnam, Southeast Asia. The war was still moving.
Leaders of the Packs?
Sex Offenders in Colorado Springs
A Cipher Interview: Gary Gilson on the current state of media in the U.S. and ethical dilemmas it faces
Spray it, Don't Say It
Gray Matters: how we talk and think about rape
The advantages of soap: a critique of science education at CC
Advice
Big Problems: interviews with preschoolers at CC Childrens' Center
Declaracion de Derechos

Vol. 11, No.4, Dec. 2007

The Cipher Concordance
Out of Context
A Story about Meth
Fog of War: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the consequences of the U.S.'s uncertain mission in Iraq
Letter from Iowa: Body talk and how to be the next president
Beasts among Kin
La Lengua Sin Fronteras/ The Boundless Tongue
Speak, Monkey
Blast from the Cipher Past! On Psychoanalysis and Speech Therapy
Traveling Words: An etymological expedition concerning English words of Arabic and Persian origin
Christian Duelism: how progressives are taking back the bible
Speechless: activism and the art of silence
Clique-tionary
Cipher Book Reviews
Cat Got Your Tongue? Lessons in the semantics of quantum mechanics
Beowulf: the movie
Una Vida Sola: un cuento breve para los ninos

Vol. 11, No.5, Feb. 2008

Out of Context
Drilling Threatens Baca national Wildlife Refuge
Soy: the cultural and economic impact of genetically modified soy on small farms in Northern Argentina
City of Doors: crossing arbitrary borders on the disputed island of Cyprus
Small Wonder: the seductive little Nano
Riding That Train
Slow Train Coming
T-Town's Tendrils
Pikes Peak Motors: a photo essay
Tejon Goes Two Ways
Cold Case Cooper
A Cipher Interview: Thirty years of walking across the Atlantic
Toll Roads on the Internet Super-Highway
Everything Old Is New Again

Vol. 10 No.6 March 2007

And there is evening and there is morning, and next come the creatures
In defense of fair trade
The problem with STAND
Divestment in Darfur
Alanza's spellwork: an interview with Manitou's clairsentient psychic
America's sweetheart Charlotte Moroz interviews Ted Haggard's better half
Boron-brenner lets his freak flag fry
Tulsa succumbed to a case or historical amnesia, and then came the Dictaphone
Postcards from Costa Rica
Ad caelestis per aspera
A map and two ships passing
Counting the pounds and melting your face
If you get hungry, you can make a tortilla out of your earrings
Did you ski every 14er in Colorado last year?
Scavenger extraordinaire
Disneyland on a daily basis
Speed bus: Leath Tonino rides the free shuttle
Anna Hines journal entries
Wearing your heart on your Nalgene
God can be erotic
Asteroid 2004 MN4 or 99942 Apophis?
In the stacks

Vol. 10 No.7 April 2007

David Mason on his new verse-novel
The cost of silence
The definition of empowerment
On the historiography of sexuality
Its time to take back the night
Anna Hines journal
Those hallowed years when sex allegedly flows free and liberated like refuse in Monument Creek
From the mouth of babes
Third rider
A doctor's visit unlike any other
Radio conspiracy against circumstance
All the titty-shaking you could ask for
But you can't wipe your friends
As revulsion by candlestick
Contextual sex
Birth control without the pills

Vol. 10 No.8 May, 2007

There is no liberty, only Columbia
Lost House
The elephant and the chain
Interview with Jose Raul Esquibel
Lost: identity, found #26
Random stuff
The Denver Odyssey
Lost and found: St. Petersberg
Letter to Sheena
New-Life's Easter Pageant
Contextual sex
Pongo-dog

Vol. 11, No. 1, Sept. 2007

Out of Context
On the Constitution(s), protests, police in a "city of hate"
Pining for Pinon Canyon
A fated portrait of the city dying
Nevada Avenue
Mistakes can be fixed easier than you'd think
Eating with integrity
This is how we is
The King and Queen of the Prince of Blades
The City that Built God
Magic Hour
CC student filmmakers out on the town
Album review and history lesson too

Vol. 11, No. 2, Oct. 2007

Out of context
Responding to institutionalized racism at CC
Living between lines
A Cipher Interview: Lesbians can get pregnant, too; a mid-nineties homemade insemination
Landing Liberal Learning
The Future of the Human Race
Mr.Penrose's Giraffes
Under the Radar and Inside the E.R.
The Cost of Birth
A History of Illegitimacy: Nine Deadbeat Fathers (and One Mother) Throughout History
Rethinking the Springboard

Vol. 11, No.3, Nov. 2007

Out of Context
Nuclear Power and the Battle for Western New Mexico
Colorado's Uranium News
Coming to You: A letter from CC alumnus Thomas Barry: International Admission Counselor
Professors Reflect on the Soap Box in History
Controversial Investments: how a college takes a stance on national and international matters
Summer 1968: Colorado College supported two of its students to travel, research, and photograph in Vietnam, Southeast Asia. The war was still moving.
Leaders of the Packs?
Sex Offenders in Colorado Springs
A Cipher Interview: Gary Gilson on the current state of media in the U.S. and ethical dilemmas it faces
Spray it, Don't Say It
Gray Matters: how we talk and think about rape
The advantages of soap: a critique of science education at CC
Advice
Big Problems: interviews with preschoolers at CC Childrens' Center
Declaracion de Derechos

Vol. 11, No.4, Dec. 2007

The Cipher Concordance
Out of Context
A Story about Meth
Fog of War: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the consequences of the U.S.'s uncertain mission in Iraq
Letter from Iowa: Body talk and how to be the next president
Beasts among Kin
La Lengua Sin Fronteras/ The Boundless Tongue
Speak, Monkey
Blast from the Cipher Past! On Psychoanalysis and Speech Therapy
Traveling Words: An etymological expedition concerning English words of Arabic and Persian origin
Christian Duelism: how progressives are taking back the bible
Speechless: activism and the art of silence
Clique-tionary
Cipher Book Reviews
Cat Got Your Tongue? Lessons in the semantics of quantum mechanics
Beowulf: the movie
Una Vida Sola: un cuento breve para los ninos

Vol. 11, No.5, Feb. 2008

Out of Context
Drilling Threatens Baca national Wildlife Refuge
Soy: the cultural and economic impact of genetically modified soy on small farms in Northern Argentina
City of Doors: crossing arbitrary borders on the disputed island of Cyprus
Small Wonder: the seductive little Nano
Riding That Train
Slow Train Coming
T-Town's Tendrils
Pikes Peak Motors: a photo essay
Tejon Goes Two Ways
Cold Case Cooper
A Cipher Interview: Thirty years of walking across the Atlantic
Toll Roads on the Internet Super-Highway
Everything Old Is New Again

Vol.11, No.6, March 2008

Out of Context
The Little Country that Could
Molecular Machines
Revolting
Micro-Michelangelo
Our Little Friends
Eggs-as-People
On Microfinancing
Prefab Shipping Containers
"You're No Nadir, M'Dear"
A Short Treatise on Micro-Sleep
Strings and Things

Vol.11, No.7, April 2008

Out of Context
Pollen Nation
Una Caminata en el Camino de Santiago: In Praise of Slowness
The Bridge Over the Sana
Watson Winners
Searching for the Gay Gene
Queer Labelling
Generational Terminology
Two Cipher Interviews On: Being a Man's Man, Anonyminity, & Gender
Album Review: Antony and the Johnsons
From Exploited Subculture to Demographic Target
Pregnant Paternity
Self-Portrait Nudes
Conversation: What does it mean to be politically queer?
A Place for All: Colorado College's Gender-Neutral Housing Program

Vol.11, No.8, May 2008

Out of Context
Language as a barrier to news
Cold Case Cooper: A Tantalizing Update
The twenty-four-hour mate stint ends at fifteen hours after much hubbub with the regulars
Photo essay on the Whitney Electric Building
Tuition Hike
Free Food! A "Freegan's" Next Meal
2.5 bolivares Fuertes to the dollar: on spending money to save money in Venezuela
Funding Solar Energy: a student's effort to green campus
Of Pear Trees, Goats, and Entrepreneurship
When Plastic Takes Over: credit cards and gold cards factor into student purchases
Changing Perceptions of Change

Vol.12, No.1, September 2008: The Appetite Issue

Out of Context
Don’t Shut the Doors: A Look at the Past, Present, and Future of African Storytelling
A Journey to the West: The Other China
The Research Journalism Initiative: Images from the Heart of Palestine
Dining in the Post-Sodexho Era: Bon Appetit’s Time to Shine
Hunting: Blood Sport or Wildlife Management Tool?
Good to the Earth: Sustainability in the Oregon Wine Country
Pilgrimage to Lough Derg: Two Pilgrims’ Journey to Ireland
The Colorado College Farm: A Look at Backyard Sustainability
For the Bible Tells Me So: Film Draws Attention to Religious Responses to
Homosexuality
A Disorienting Walk in the North
Hip-Hop Hippie

Vol.12, No.2, October 2008: The Polis Issue

Out of Context
Denver Airport Goes Solar (kind of)
That Rain Doesn’t Belong to You
The Cow is a Climate Bomb
In Search of the Lost Frontier
Of Portraiture, Porn, and the President
Framing the Generations in Light of the Elections
The Personal is Political
Obama from the Ground
Putting the “Fun” in “Fundamental Difference”: The Presidential Debates as Popular
Culture
Welcome to Dragon Man Country
Death in the Mind of Politics
Misinformation Complicates Voting Process for CC Students
The ABCs of the Financial Crisis

Vol.13, No.3, November 2008: The Creature Issue

Out of Context
The Election in Numbers
The Green Page: Solar Sailing and Conserving in the Springs
Book and Restaurant Reviews: American Earth and Holy Trinity
Mad Style in a Plaid World
My Time in Benares
Under the Rainbow
A Generation’s Scars
D’ya Wanna Devotchka?
The Not-So-Simple Mind: Reckoning with the AD/HD Creature
What’s in a Creature?
In the Land of the Wild Things
Indiana Bones
Haute Bestiary: One Collector’s Take on Designer Toys
Teen’s Dream, Feminist’s Nightmre
Speaking to Space Creatures: Explanations of Sound Waves from an Extraterrestrial Expert

Vol.12, No.4, December 2008: The Hinterland Issue

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Two Shades of Green: How Less Cash Equals More Trees During the Financial Crisis
Clean Coal’s Dirty History: Is “Clean Coal” Just the Lesser of Two Evils?
Wolves on the Range: The Impact of Wolf Reintroductino on Wyomng Ranchers
Rebuilding Bolivia: A Creative Alternative to the Traumas of War and Poverty
Interpreting Olympians: CC Students Translate for the USOC in Beijing
Couch Surfing: Experiencing the World, One Couch at a Time
Infinite Possibilities: The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics
The Pacific Trash Monster: A Post-Consumer Creature Rises from the Deep
The Gypsy Paradox: Why do Americans Romanticize the Wanderer?
Living in a Toxic World: The Fight Against Uranium Unites Communities in New Mexico
Antarctica: The Continent that Belongs to No One

Vol.12, No.5, February 2009: The Labor Issue

Out of Context
The Irreversible Catastrophe
The Baca Debacle
Opening Shots: Inaguration Day in Washington, DC
Finding Love in Five Minutes: Speed Dating Offers a Romantic Alternative
TWIG Acquires a New Branch: The State of Improv-Comedy at CC
Origins of Someplace
La Relégation Continuée
The Cost of a Job: A Glimpse into Worker-Management Relations at CC
Bros and Dinos: The Rise of the T-shirt Industry at Colorado College
Dancing in the Margins: Choreographers Comment on the Hierarchy of the Dance Floor
The Labor of Life: Holistic Support for Pregnant Women

MISSING from bound volume: Vol.12, No.6, March 2009: The Extinction Issue

Vol.12 No.7, April 2009: The Climax Issue

Out of Context + Haikus
The Human Factor: A Look at the Impact of CC’s Staff Cuts
Bidding Controversy: A Student Faces 10 Year’s Jail Time After Igniting Debate Over Utah’s Natural Resources
The Face of Space: New Campus Organization Addresses Design and Planning
A Brief History of the Condom: From Magical Potions and Pomegranate Shells to Latex
The Triple Surprise Orgasm: Four Performers Reflect on Moaning Their Way Through The Vagina Monologues
Media Masturbation: The Spectacle of Political Sex Scandals
The Missing “O”: Taoism and the Balance of Sexual Energy
Women Aren’t the Only Ones…Men Fake It, Too
Doing it Monkey Style: The Perks of Being a Bonobo
Seven to See: The Best Big O’s on the Silver Screen
La Petite Mort
Photo Essay by Geneva Sills
Back to Buffalo: Revitalizing a City in Refraction

Vol. 12, No.8, May 2009: The Firsts Issue

Out of Context
The Eco-Internet Demystified: A Simple guide to the Top Ten “Green” Websites
Heinz Geppert: Showgirl ‘til the End
‘Til Divorce Do Us Part: The Rise and Rise of Serial Monogamy
Our Town: Development and Design in a Changing Colorado Springs
Film Fest Frustrates: The Problem With Student Filmmaking at CC
A National Nightmare: The Impact of Methamphetamines
Change Wins Again: CC Student Observes El Salvador’s First Legitimate Election
Legalizing Love: When Will Colorado Follow Iowa’s Lead?
First in the Family: Three First Generation Students Reflect on Their Experiences
Revisiting Ludlow: Searching for Voices Lost in the Southern Colorado Coal War

Vol.13, No.1, September 2009: The Rage Issue

Out of Context
Eight Years Later
Heady Hypocrisy: The Story of a Rotten Barrel of Organic Apples
Vicariously Pissed: CC Alumni Express Anger on Behalf of Former Football Players
Let’s Rage: How to Rock First Block
Reconsider the Lobster: For One New England Town, The Recession Threatens to Become a Storm Too Rough to Weather the Old-Fashioned Way
Rage in the Modern Age: How the Internet Redefines Gossip, Scandal, and Controversy
The Post-Traumatic Family: War’s Complicated Effects on Spouses and Children at Fort Carson
Abusing Health Care: What You Don’t Know Does Hurt You
Feminists Say the Darndest Things: Rage Meets the Rom-Com
Turmoil at the Town Hall: Losing Minds and Fingers in the Debate Over Healthcare Reform
Pacing the Cage

Vol.13, No.2, October 2009: The Pop Issue

The Last Laugh: Meditations on Humor at CC
Hunting Hanson: The Life of a Superfan
The Boston Pop Party: Obama Ruffles Feathers with a Soda Tax Proposal
Jesus is My Homeboy: And New Life Thinks He Should Be Yours, Too
Three Minutes of Fame: Karaoke Returns to the Springs
Jujubes in my Cavities: The Art and Science of Composing a Pop Song
A Fantasy Fulfilled: A Cipher Writer Gets an Interview with her Celebrity Crush
Once Upon the Internet…
Popping the Pill: Are Men Next?

Vol.13, No.3, November 2009: The Best Of Issue

Out of Context
Letter from Tom Robbins
Active Consent
Single House, Many Hands
Running in Circles: A profile of Tony Krupicka, maybe the fittest man west of the Mississippi
Hipsters to Hippies
Contextual Sex: An erotic peer review with Joanna Bradley
Old Ghosts Never Die, They Only Get Crazier
Rig Sick
Anna’s Diary
Lost: Identity, Found: Rank #26
Two Cipher Interviews on Being a Man’s Man, Anonymity, and Gender
Queer Labeling
Freedom of Expression
Teen’s Dream, Feminist’s Nightmare
Infinite Possibilities: The many worlds of quantum mechanics
Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s First Newspaper, Dies at 150

Vol.13 No.4, December 2009: The Generation Issue

Pacing the Cage: Jane Hilberry uninvited to speak at CSS
The Writing on the Wall: The plight of the bookstore
Getting Some: And other cosmic preoccupations
Squirrel Talk: Photo essay
The Price of Pregnancy Prevention: A dollar for every day
Standing Up and Speaking Out: Facing Sexual Discrimination at CC
2010-2013 Demystified: A visual breakdown of the current CC generation
A Post-Punk Primer: Eigh essential debuts from extremely influential bands
The Five-Year Generation

Vol.13, No.5, February 2010: The Secret Issue

Out of Context
Pacing the Cage: CC considers a new writing requirement
The Anatomy of a Culture: Religion and science in James Cameron’s Avatar
Cute Little Hooters: A night with the Flammulated Owls
CC Hooks a Snapper: An internet legend finally arrives on campus
What Your Parents Don’t Know About You: CC student confessions
I’d Tat That: The stories behind CC ink
Secret Spaces: A campus map
Secret to Success: The rise of prescription drugs
Got a Secret?
You Don’t Know Dick: Jacqueline Lundquist reveals the President’s secrets

Vol.13, No.6, March 2010: The Adaptation Issue

When in Florence…: One man’s trials and tribulations in a pretty city
C. Springs’ Budget Struggles: Measuring the effects of small government
A Jew to Two Borders: Exploring the gray area between Arabic and Jewish thought
An Amorous Debate: CC’s new consensual relations policy arouses controversy
Capetownian in Cowboyland: A South African’s perspective on Colorado Springs
Harmful or Humane?: Colorado Springs outlaws camping on public land
When Frosh Attack: The pleasures and perils of the freshman experience
Colorado Thirsts for Change: Can adaptive management solve the state’s water crisis?
Man-Eaters of the Plant World: The adaptive advantages of sexual trickery
Living the Block Break Dream: Or, a lesson on mooching
Pacing the Cage: If you could adapt your body in any way, what would you do?

Vol.13, No.7, April 2010: The Love/Lust Issue

I Love You, Joanna Newson: And I don’t care if the whole world knows it
Savage Sexuality: Why we should we let Dan Savage tell us how to have sex
Balls to the Wall: Waltzing for purity
Gay After Dark: When CC’s liberal beliefs go to bed
Sorry, Not Interested: What if you’re not into men or women?
A Queer Time of Year: CC’s gay community celebrates
The Art of Sex: Ancient art and modern eroticism
A Hard Storm: The short Moby about a long Dick

Vol.13, No.8, May 2010: The Ruckus Issue

Fighting Fire with Fire: The drug that ends addiction
The Chalk Guy: How Corbin Hillam won our hearts, one sidewalk at a time
Campus Doppelgangers: Sorry, I thought you were someone else
In the Clinker: An insider’s impression of life behind bars
Home Sweet Twomp: The life of the Twomp’s living, breathing residents
He-Wolf: Grappling with Shakira, her body, and feminism
Community Development: Is Res Life undermining its own goal?
Pheromones of the Fire Crotch: Why CC gingers have more fun
More Than A Piece of Paper: Fem-gen interns discuss the Monthly Rag

Vol.14, No.1, September 2010: The Origins Issue

Out of Context
A Nation Divided: The proliferation of anti-immigrant legislation
Lustin’ for Justin: Fighting or a piece of the Bieb
Darkness in Darwin: Exploring the uglier side of human nature
The Origins of Yoga: Stretching back to the beginning
The Trout that Almost Was: Two mascots throw down in 1994
Bandz that Bind: An elastic obsession
Stuck on a Yo-Yo: Southern Origins, Diasporta, and Homecoming, Part 1
The Original Environmentalist: Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking Silent Spring
The CC Hippie Revival: Is it possible to be a real hippie in the modern world?
The Ghost of Ciphers Past: Looking back to the start of it all
The Origin of a Word

Vol.14, No.2, October 2010: The Machine Issue

Out of Context
Pacing the Cage: Disgruntled student vs. machine
It Gets Better: CC’s contribution to the campaign to support LGBTQ youth
Trannies in Paradise: Transfer students talk about life, love, and CC
Ping: Apple blows its chance to create an online music community
The Other Side of the Desk: Learning to navigate French bureaucracy
Rotten Eggs: Cracking the shell of factory farming and public health
Advertisement: Solutions for the modern housewife
Bowed Piano: A look inside CC’s world-famous instrument
The Masses: Pontifications on a machine-ridden future
Godfucked: A rant about organized religion

Vol.14, No.3, November 2010: The Boundaries Issue

Out of Context
Draping Over Nature’s Boundaries: A look at Christo’s controversial Over the River Project in Cañon City
Southern Origins Part II: An interview with CC Sociology Professor Jeff Livesay
Driving to the Middle: The Hertz Connect program comes to CC
Full of Hot Air: A photo essay on the Arkansas Valley Balloon Festival
Sound of the Police: A CC Student takes a ride with a Colorado Springs police officer
Love is Dope: Discovering the chemical components of the soul

Vol. 14, No.4, December 2010: The Underground Issue

Out of Context
A Portrait of the Pit: Some super swole dudes in a woman’s world
Celebrinati: The people we love are not what they seem
Burdened with a Brand: The stigma of mental illness
Heating Up: One man’s foray into the inferno of hot sauce
The Freshmore Experience: Coping with CC’s cold shoulder
Break it Down, Now: Turning composting dreams into realities
The Future of Film: The ultimate anticlimax
Confidential Critters: Ferrets and hedgehogs and rats—oh my!
A Rant on Muffins, Existentialism and Kilamanjaro
Ghosts on the Subterraneo: Brushing shoulders with the phantoms of Buenos Aires
Jiggers in my Knickers: A love-hate relationship with African insects
Shattering Public Health: A gas extraction method threatens water supplies across the country
A Toke a Day Keeps the Pain at Bay: A year-long foray into the world of legalized marijuana
Weather Underground: An interview with activists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn
Notes from Underground: A manifesto for the obscure and the secret
D-22: The rise of Beijing’s underground music scene
The Age of Auto-Tune: What’s the cost of automating the human voice?
How to Have a Unique Intellectual Adventure

Vol. 14, No.5, February 2011: The Wild West Issue

Out of Context
Manifest Destiny, with Cheese: Go West, young man, and teach your intestines a lesson
Cowboy Boots and Popped Collars: CC’s coastal conglomerate
An Uphill Battle: Colorado Springs fights for its right to water
A Pain in the Aspen: Snipping the stigma of a swanky town
Teach for America: A post-grad quandary
Divded We Stand, United We Fall?: The rise of secessionist movements across the country
Arrivideci, Jersey Shore!: Jersey Shore goes to Italia
Uranium Mining in New Mexico: The Wild West culture clash continues
Horses in Flair: Saddle up, partner
A Second Look: An overview of essential Westerns

Vol.14, No.6, March 2011: The Beast Issue

Out of Context
Pacing the Cage: Fiends, Not Friends!
Outsourcing Safety: The insecurities of the CC security system
The Faux in France: A journey through Paris
War of the Words: An exploration of the ties between language and community creation
Social Control in the Windy City: Chicago’s crisis of poverty, gentrification and incarceration
Bluecifer: DIA’s scandalous stallion
An Animal Counterpart: A guide to discovering your spirit animal
On the Wild Side: Satisfying the untamed elements of human nature
Fangs to be Banged: The evolution of the vampire from the coffin to the bedroom
The Essential Predator: Why we need the wolf in the West
Born this Way, Baby: The rebirth of Mother Monster Gaga
A Second Look: An overview of entertainment

Vol.14, No.7, April 2011: The Hot ‘n’ Heavy Issue

Out of Context
Pacing the Cage: Major problems in Bed
A Socialist Disillusioned: Broken promises abound in a Nicaraguan barrio
Selling Sex in the Springs: A CC student finds a sugar daddy and reexamines sex work
Baby Makin’ Music: Conduct your ultimate sexual symphony
Sex-Speal: The power of voluptuous vowels and seductive syllables
Power Imbalance in the Church: A CC professor’s fight against sexual misconduct
What is Sex? The CC student body responds
The Quip Behind the Strip: In defense of burlesque
Getting Sexty: The pscyhological underpinnings of romantic texting
A Second Look: Googling the unthinkable

Vol.14, No.8, May 2011: The Collapse Issue

Out of Context
The Long Collapse: Senior year at Colorado College
Watering the Quad with Blood Money: Lessons from the student divestment movement
Time is of the Essence: What makes the human clock tick
Body Politics: Deconstructing the fat body
Swiping into Opportunity: Money, power and more money at CC
Beating the Blues: Speaking out about depression
Ecological End Days: Climate change is real, but makes for good science fiction
Steps to the Apocalypse
Azkaban for the Taliban: Casting the Cruciatus curse on America’s Voldemort

Vol.15, No.1, September 2011: The Interview Issue

Out of Context
Pacing the Cage: Stayin’ alive at a nine to five
In this Bright Hour: Recollections and ruminations on Iceland
Last Cries of the Xingu: Finding narrative in the Amazon’s largest hydroelectric project
(Green)peace of Mind: Putting up with and learning from CC’s canvassers
Gorgeous and Frightening: J Henry Fair speaks about his work
Questions for Quam: Student government’s new president emphasizes transparency, participation
Running Down a Dream: There is a lot to learn about your neighbors

Vol.15, No.2, October 2011: The Plastic Issue

Out of Context
Pacing the Cage: Have you read the book?
Modern Menstruating Women: A brief history of the tampon
Teach Your Children Well: Finding meaning in the trials and tribulations of teaching
The Necessary Circle-Jerk: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the Occupy Wall Street protests
The Curse of Control: Exploring the physical and emotional struggles of those living with eating disorders
Fired without Known Cause: Why did Alan Davis lose his job?
Sick for Synthetics: A CC student goes three days without plastic
Polyester Memories: A discursive kaleidescope of synthetics and briew
Mushrooming Possibilities: How fungus could change the material world as we know it
Cyberplastic: Facebook demands a plastic performance
Plastic Bottles
The Plight of the Poet: It’s not just glitter and metaphors
Toying with Identities: How Barbie dolls and G.I. Joes shape children’s gender outcome
The Burning Smell of Memories: Exploring new ways to look at plastic in East Africa
Swimming in Garbage: How the plastics we discard end up in the ocean—and our seafood

Vol.15, No.3, November 2011: The Media Issue

Out of Context
Why Are You Wasting Your Time with this Magazine?: A response to an open request for criticism
Let Them All Burn: Re-imagining the Colorado College media landscape
Are You There, Mars?: It’s me, Nikola Tesla.
Sensitive Press: How Colorado College media should approach news of a sex scandal
Weezer-World: Why the band can go anywhere at all—but isn’t going anywhere soon
I Am 18, Going on Seventeen: How to examine beauty culture
Pseudofeminist Advice: Do you really want what Cosmopolitan is selling?
Enter Virtuality: A discourse on role-playing games
Till 72 Days Do Us Part: The only reason to keep up with the Kardashians
Something to Keep: Colorado College seniors bind local poetry and prose
Bowie//Bowie: On history, nostalgia and two very different multimedia works of art

Vol.15, No.4, December 2011: The Forgotten Issue

Out of Context
Critique of the Critique: Why Cipher is a necessary publication
On Sexualized Language: A response to Kieffer Katz, and an apology to readers
Make Jew Friends, But Keep the Old—One is Silver(man) and the Other Gold(berg): 15 inquires for anyone curioust about Jewish, Socialist, Labor Zionist summer camp in Southern California
We Can Do It!: Feminist blog sites make the movement accessible
If it Makes You Sappy: More romance, less grinding
Barack Obama Pepper-Sprayed Me in the Face: And didn’t say a word about it
In Memory of Ben Brubaker, ’11: Two Rememberances
Fatal Forgetting: How we fool ourselves into thinking war is a good idea
The Past is Not Dead: Why we need a queer history of Colorado College
The Oil Still Sticks: You may have forgotten about the BP oil spill but the Gulf hasn’t
Free-Falling: A memoir on language and sky-diving
Forgotten Spread
Taking it Without the Team: Have we forgotten CC football?

Vol.15, No.5, February 2012: The Night Issue

Out of Context
The Success of “The Failures of Feminism”: “Find out where you stand and don’t back down.”
Day in Night: How night vision technology shapes the battlefield in Afghanistan
Download Here: Threats to a free and open Internet
Breaking out (of) the Chains: Musings on sex positivity
The Ron Paul Revolution: Freedom . . . to lead a shitter life
Osa-what-omie?: A story of American decline
The Blue Republican: A reflection on Ron Paul and his visit to the Springs
(Neo-)Liberal Arts College: Why the endowment scandal comes as no surprise—and how doing something about it means thinking bigger than Colorado College
Starch & Sugar: A record of excess
Meet Doris: She goes to bed at 3 a.m.
Phisomnia: Who needs sleep? Everyone, obviously
The Ninth Block: The current and future bar culture of Colorado College

Vol.15, No.6, March 2012: The Fury Issue

Out of Context
Women in Combat: Rethinking paradigm and policy
Selling an Atmosphere: The Colorado Springs Flea Market
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: The war over the web goes global
On Narcolepsy: “Is that the thing where you fall asleep in the street?” and other questions answered
Red Dirt Road: The origins and future of the Zuia Project
Oh Fury, Where Art Thou?: Searching for the inner fuel for change
Angry Animals
Censoring Diversity: Arizona school district book ban disregards First Amendment
Anger through the Ages: Reconsidering a “negative” emotion
You’re [sic] Worst Pet Peeves
On Stealth Feminism: Exploring the bitch/babe dichotomy
Sightings on Tejon, 7-10 a.m.
The Zombie in Us: The human element of the living dead
Cut out a Candidate!: Paper dolls of the next student trustee

Vol.15, No.7, April 2012: The Fast Forward Issue

Out of Context
Fight for a Fair Wage: Part II: Why we must demand a standard of self-sufficiency
Alumni Donorship: Giving back to Colorado College (or not)
An Appeal to Heart
The GOP Circus: A look back, a look forward
CouchSurfing: Getting local in a globalized world

Vol.15, No.8, May 2012: The Ivory Tower Issue

Out of Context
“What is that? Give it to me.”: An unexpected visitor
Destroying Weapons of Mass Destruction: Prosperity and permanence at the Pueblo Chemical Depot
For the Love of Reading: An open letter to an e-reader
Pass/Fail Pulitzer: A bad year not to choose a winner
Speak and Condemn: Gender dysphoria in Dakar, Senegal
The Battle for Diversity: Prioritizing and specifying a campus initiative for diversity
The Cupcake Doctor: From biophysics to baking
Hunters and Symbolic Space: Negotiating status and legitimacy in a field of power
“The Nights I Worked It Was Kind of Lesbian”: Lesbian bartenders and quiet queer spaces
Opportunists: A sculptural investigation of individuals and populations
Human Curiosities
Salt of the Earth
Todos Somos Naufragos: A translation of poetry from the Cuban Diaspora
Fred Martinez is Punk: An excerpt from Rivers McKenzie’s self-published zine
Colorado River Water: An analysis of alternatives for water distribution between municipal and agricultrural users
Money Talks: How capitalism is silencing the San Juan and Chama Rivers
Hybrid Cluster Proteins: Cloning the hybrid cluster protein in Escherichia coli
Effects of DE-71 Exposure on Spatial Learning and Reference Memory in Rats: Attentuation by thyroid hormone supplementation

Vol.16, No.1, September 2012: The Revolution Issue

Out of Context
Is This Our Revolution?
Los Campos Divididos: Religion, Racism and Immigrants in the Dominican Republic
Hot Air: Welcome to the Springs
When a City Burns: Will you light the match?
A New Food Revolution: Local is the new organic
Tension in Tradition: IDEA Space features an unknown world
Occupy University: Why are you paying so much?
The Dark Knight Sinks: The hollow philosophy of the Batman legacy
Cipher Reader: Learn about “Homestuck”
How Big Money Stole Wisconsin: Is revolution possible in a post-Citizens United era?
An Age of Access: How Internet freedom deepens the divide
Pacing the Cage: This is the shit
Portrait of an Anarchist
Vol.16, No.2, October 2012: The Pandora Issue

Out of Context
#JIMSUX
Join the Conversation: The facts we need for community involvement
Everyone Lost on Oct. 3: The First 2012 Presidential Debate
The Booths are Open: Keeping informed in an age of apathy
Looking Down the Barrel: A mustache sticks to its guns
Pandora’s Hotbox: Stick to binge-drinking
Silence Speaks
Insta-Artiste¬: It’s a sepia party
Enwhitenment: Critical Whiteness comes to Colorado College
Google
On Happiness: No wait, keep reading
Pandora and Eve
Little Flame, Big Fire: The Waldo Canyon Fire hits too close to home

Vol.16, No.3, November 2012: The Graphic Issue

Out of Context
A Story in Emoticons
A Divestment Campaign: Q&A with the co-coordinator of Divest Harvard
The New Era: How to sway a swing state
The Illusion of Choice: A rhetoric of exclusion in the prostitution industry
The Other Side of the Skate Blade: Hockey players set the record straight
Ordinary Moments in Extraordinary Detail: How one Cipher editor took a trip to 7-Eleven and back
Taking it to (from?) the streets: Reclaiming public spaces with graffiti art
Slugs Do it Better: Pornographic encounters of the animal kind
V for Anarchy: Destroying the “good enough”
Some Really Big Things: Unearthing a collective self from the depths of a complex culture
Peter the Insect Boy, Chapter Four: Home (an excerpt)
This Article Has Not Yet Been Rated: 1 nipple + 2 instances of the word “fuck” = R
Learning How to Write
The Failure of History and the (t)Autological Queer Archive
Read This Aloud
A Place Far From Home

Vol.16, No.4, December 2012: The Borrowed Issue

Out of Context
The Ethi(cool) Slut: CliffsNotes by Teddy Tinnell
“Do the Math”: Student voices add up
Adderall, Anyone?: The line between aiming high and getting high
A House Divided: What I learned from 30 days in the West Bank
I Am Debt, Hear Me Roar: Roaring Jubilee takes the load for free
How Not to Remember David Foster Wallace: Every love story is an adulation story
A Nonfictional Account of the Modern-Day Dubliners: 75 days, 60 interviews, 400 cups of coffee, not enough pints of Guinness
Deadlocked on Climate Change: The Tragedy of the Commons: Kyoto 2.0
Linguistic Drift: The history and future of borrowing words
“Can’t Touch This”: Hip-hop and you don’t stop sampling
Collegiate Survival Guide: Colorado College Dept. of the Army
Creative Mimicry: Writers adopt style and ideas from others, from Pound to Hemingway
Myths of the Maasai: Folktales transcribed from Arusha, Tanzania
Reel for Real: Classics adapted into contemporary film
Catan: Empathetic Empires: Why not to settle for video games
Pilfering Pages: Your hand is already in the literary pickle jar
Time is Money: How to cash out

Vol.16, No.5, February 2013: The Trans Issue

Out of Context
OKStupid: The virtual adventures of ggkitty
Got Questions?: The Student Revolutionary Committee speaks out
Sleuthy and Slutty: Losing layers to go undercover
Hollywood Homogeneity: The Academy of Arts and Biases
She Can See for Miles: Years of Listening, Planning and Innovation
Words Without English Equivalent: A glossary of “untranslatable” words
Found in Translation: Crossing linguistic fronteras
Flying the Coop: Making the transition into the professional world
From Lead to Gold?: The Western logging of Eastern “-woods”
TransAppalachia: Returning to life after living
Go Long, Guv’nor!: The future of the NFL in London

Vol.16, No.6, March 2013: The Inevitable Issue

Out of Context
“I don’t know you very well, but…”: An interview with CC Compliments
Do You Know the Garlic Man?: An interview with writer-farmer Stanley Crawford
Gangnam Style Gone Global: The last thing you want to hear in a Costa Rican jungle
Cotillion Horrors: So you think you can’t dance?
It’s All Turned to Mush: Dogsledding on thin ice
Eco-Technology: The unlikely duo that’s molding modernity
Apocalypse Right Now: And we’re all drinking the Kool-Aid
You Killed Walter Cronkite!: Sensationalism in modern journalism
Suspended Over Banal Platitudes: A fragmented glimpse of death
Privatizing the Skies: Manifest Destiny in outer space
“Hey, sorry I’m late…”: No you’re not, you’re operating on CC Time
A Zombie Love Affair: Media and consumer obsession with catastrophe
32 Blocks Later: How to have a unique intellectual adventure redux

Vol.16, No.7, April 2013: The Adjustment Issue

Out of Context
GAY MARRIAGE LEGALIZED: SCTOUS hands down historic decision on LGBTQ rights
Sedimental Fool: Geologist by day, singer-songwriter by night
“Confessions” Confesses: From funny to frightening
The “Big Idea” Results Are In: CC innovators think big, win bigger
Out of the Closet, Off the Bench: The stigma against gay athletes in professional sports
Religion in the Brain: How microscopic neurons can answer life’s big problems
A Major Problem: Complicating the choice between passion and pocketbook
I Am the Help I Need: This is my abortion
Before We Boil: Asking Americans about climate change
“Beat It, Old Boy!”: CC through the eyes of a transplanted time traveler

Vol.16, No.8, May 2013: The Horror Issue

Out of Context
A L*ve Letter to Columbia
Cite After Reading: How the Honor Council
Confronting the Uncomfortable: A campus discussion on pedophilia
Watchability: This person has been formatted to fit your screen
Boiling Point: Telling Americans about climate change
Chiroptophobia and Conservation: I like small bats and I cannot lie
Visceral and Viewable: Rape/revenge film: where women are feared
The Banishment of Horror: Prescribing ignorant bliss
Baking News in Boston: Reckless reporting in the wake of tragedy
Cutting a Red-Tape Lifeline: Medicaid snubs children with special needs
Alicia Hates Me: A personal account of telecommunicative terror
The Heart of Pic: An intermedial translation of La Coeur de Pic
If the Lady is Not for Burning: Re(e)valuating the discourse of sati in British Colonial India
A Comparative Analysis of Barack Obama and Frantz Fanon
The Cheer Heard ‘Round the Tele: The Million Little Pieces scandal and the contemporary reader
Competing Realities: The power of maps in the South China Sea
An Inescapable American Dream: Countercultural responses in 20th century literature

Vol.17, No.1, September 2013: The Anatomy Issue

Out of Context
What Not to Care: Fall fashion social causes
How to Be a Huge Success Like Me: The process of a (maybe) genius
Remote Control: The implications of a Syria intervention
Pacific Crest Tale
Embracing Fat Acceptance: The movement to unlearn self-loathing
Dead Body Politics: Cadavers over computers
Who Runs This Shit?: The anatomy of your local government
Abstaining from Common Sense: Our country’s struggle with sex education
Yes, it Happens Here: Human trafficking in our midst

Vol.17, No.2, October 2013: The Fairy Tale Issue

Out of Context
Cum as You Are: CC students touch on their fantasies
Are You There, Sheryl?: It’s me, Kate
You’re Driving Me Crazy: The secrets of Safe Ride
A Different Kind of Relief: Rana Plaza disaster raises question of mental healthcare
Becoming Bo(u)lder: Grassroots efforts in corporate America
In the Line of Fire: Mental health as a scapegoat for gun violence
The End: Self-destruction and the creative genius
Less Money, Mo’ Problems: I loved my internment—er, internship
Beware the Spider-Dragon: Congress has you in a cave with your firstborn
Sex on the Screen: Blue is the Warmest Color’s honest romance
Blue Sky Badlands: Breaking Bad and the American Southwest
“Aloha” Means Goodbye, Too: The consequences of Westernization in Hawaii

Vol.17, No.3, November 2013: The Uncomfortable Issue

Out of Context
The Pubic Sphere: Living in the post-bush era
Gender-Based Violence in India: What is missing in the mainstream dialogue?
Anonymous Racism: How CC Confessions reveals white privilege
Corporeal Canvas: Bodybuilding as an art form
Queerness Abroad: CC’s international LGBTQ+ community
Consuming Heroes: The problematic construction of American masculinity
Sex Tourism in Southeast Asia: Razor blades, ping pong balls and a live turtle
“You All Deserve Hell!”: Someone has threatened your beliefs—now what?
You Gained 10 Pounds: An experiment in radical honesty
Prison or Peace: The line between isolation and solitude
(Block) Breaking the Bank: CC adventure culture and socioeconomic disparity
Putin Got Punk’d: The evolution of Pussy Riot
Vol. 17, No.4, December 2013: The Space Issue

Out of Context
My Gap Year Sucked: Misery for the sake of maturity
Diverting Divestment: The Board’s response to milennial activism
Expand Your Sources: Where do you get your news?
Downward Facing Dollar Sign: Western yoga and the pursuit of a guru
“But Where Are You Really From?”: The exclusion of Asian Americans in our national narratives
Clean Cruelty: Imprisoning the mind in solitary confinement
A To-Do List For One: Dealing with the death of a loved one
Selective Memory: Reflecting on Oakland’s violent history against activism
Love From Afar: Long distance relationships at Colorado College
“E” is Not an Option: Find your campus personality type! Rawr!
From the Atacama to Outer Space: What astrobiology can teach us about life’s limits

Vol.17, No.5, February 2014: The Insider/Outsider Issue

Friday Night Sights: Sober in a promiscuous sea
Beyond Inclusivity: An investigation of CC’s new trans-inclusive healthcare
Three-Prong Adaptor: Navigating identity as an international student
Hall of Blame: Baseball’s steroid scandal according to the writers
Bow Ties and Judging Eyes: Exploring the third space androgyny offers
School Spirit(uality): A look at campus culture and religion
Conservation Conundrum: The hyena-human conflict in the Masaai Mara
Strangers in a Wooglin’s Booth: Mental health investigation turned conversation
Not Buying Dallas Buyers Club: The subpar representation of trans women in media
Let’s Talk Money: Assumptions on socioeconomic status at CC
Antarctica: Pondering our place at the edge of the world
Please Don’t Drop the Bass: Being an outsider to EDM culture

Vol.17, No.6, March 2014: The Green Issue

Slocum the Lecher: The troubling history of our dorm’s namesake
A Short History of Zak Kroger: Atheist, magician and RLC
Flying Under the Gaydar: The story behind CC’s new group for queer women
Activist Burnout: Pick your passion
Reclaiming Roots: A reflection on being Irish in America
King Kale: An exclusive interview with the hottest new vegetable
The Grass is Greener on the Other Campus: Or is it?
Green is the New Black: How many stickers are on your Nalgene?
Insistence of Place: Rethinking our relationship with the land
A Different Kind of ARC: Reconciling religion and environmentalism
Divestment Revitalized: A new wave of environmental activism
A Different Green Light: American literature in first-generation hands

Vol.17, No.7, April 2014: The How-To Issue

One Day: Thinking about my not-baby
Redifining the West: The American Dream on fire
How-To: Leave Your Faith
Ungulates and Dinosaurs: The problem with de-extinction
Nosebleeding Love: Lamps, taped nipples and eye injuries
Strawberry Fields For Never: Is music taste a deal-breaker?
A To-Do List for One: Dealing with the death of a loved one
Disagreements in the Desert: How do we protect Utah’s Canyonlands?
A Safe Space: My experience with EQUAL and QCC
Flatlands and Golden Arches: Convenience can be uncomfortable

Vol.17, No.8, May 2014: The Beginnings & Endings Issue

Seniors and Freshmen Answer the Tough Questions: Kill, Marry, Fuck: Rastall, Benji’s,
the Preserve
The Process of Recovery: Four students’ stories
Race and Racism at Colorado College: Revealing microaggressions and institutional
negligence
Nothing Will Change: How to remember a divorce
In Memory of Laura Padilla (1974-2014)
Gather Ye Rosebuds: Tribulations and euphoria over four years at CC
The End of Culture?: Exploring the globalization generation
Down with Small Talk: I don’t care what block you’re taking
Dear Google: Am I in Love?
Don’t Write it Off: Handwriting in the 21st century
From the Perspective of my Cage: One student’s experience with anorexia
A Summer in Dixon: Where time slows down
In(finite): Finding meaning in a symbol
The C-Word: Why “crazy” is not okay

Vol.18, No.1, September 2014: The Intimacy Issue

Oscar Scandal: Addressing a culture of dogmatism and privacy
Aren’t You my Mother?: A loss of intimacy between parent and child
A Summer of Kink: When BDSM mirrors misogyny
Just Friends: How I unlearned the rules of intimacy
That Time I Was in a Woody Allen Film: Such small portions and all over much too
quickly
Dear Cigarettes: An ode to addiction
Man to Man: Confronting the fear of coming out
Home is where the Malls Are: Experiencing hometown gentrification
Empathy and Alienation: A photo can’t capture it all
To the Beet of my Heart: What a root vegetable taught me about my identity
Clothing Optional: Before you visit your local hot springs…
Addie was More than a Nanny: On the loss of a maternal figure
Destabilizing Self: Lost and Found in Crestone
Why War Needs Intimacy: The danger of detached warfare
My Overbearing Relationship: I just need some (cyber) space

Vol.18, No.2, October 2014: The (Un)Censored Issue

Who Holds the Monkey Wrench?: Exchanging self expression for quality
Muggles and Fan Fiction: We don’t wanna sued
Between a Cock and Hard Place: Can pornography be ethical?
He Didn’t “Retire”: The story of Roberto Garcia’s termination from CC
The Purity Ball: A promise I don’t understand
Hannah Arendt and Colorado College: The political theorist’s connection to campus
Sense and Invisibility: A Black woman’s perspective on hookup culture
Man in the Mirror: Destigmatizing male body image issues
Taxi Ride-Along: The view from Terry Gibson’s driver seat
Denied Accommodations: Coping with a learning disability at CC
Breathe In, Breathe Out: Stories of anxiety
The Word That Must Not Be Said
A Sisterhood of Sorts: Why I accidentally miss Catholic school
A Culture of Censorship: Penal codes and societal norms in India
Text Speak Explained: Tell me what u rly mean
All Hail Lloyd: Drawing the line btween boyfriend and God
The Evolution of Flow: Hip-hop from Wutang Clan to Eminem
Life in Jail: A censored existence
One-and-a-Half Years Later: Confessions of a former Monthly Rag editor
Get Your Grind(r) On: An exploration of the gay “dating app”
Uncensoring Voies: Interviews with men in combat
Demanding History: Why the Jefferson County school students are protesting
Trustees and Transparency: We want more from our representatives

Vol.18, No.3, November 2014: The Food Issue

Machiavelli and a Bag of Chips
Shaking in a Park: That time I got too high with a guy named Lake
The Sexualization of Meat: What it means to be an “ass man”
The Endangered Heart of Wine Country: Climate change in Napa Valley
Cooperative Consumption: Working with AVOG from farm to table
Behind Kitchen Doors: What I learned while making your food
Evolution of a Body: Fat shaming and the art of vulnerability
Ode to the Microwave: A radiating relationship
Quest for a Compassionate Plate: The journey from meat to mangos
Gaining by Going Without: Fasting as a spritual rite of passage
The Importance of Disgusting: Digesting a Revolting Food Paradigm
Searching for Mole: The loss of a Mexican tradition
Food Literacy among Millennials
Tongue Twisted: The miracle of miraculin

Vol.18, No.3, December 2014: The Cult Issue

Abducted by Veganism: It all started with a carrot
“The Hope We Seek”: I read it so you don’t have to
Idleness and Creativity: Losing free time to screentime
Hey, it’s Cory: Why they love me, and why you should too
The Fourth Party: UKIP’s Earl Grey politics
Kawaii: The Japanese infatuation with cuteness
Four-Star Cults: The Kool-Aid was lukewarm
Cult of Complacency: From Ferguson to the Soup Kitchen
Before you Jump off a Cliff
In Love with a Serial Killer: Our obsession with the macabre
638 White Guys: Preserving the literary canon
Camp Kairos: Real tears, false intimacy
Commodifying Culture: The myth of the authentic experience
Leaving Lacrosse: We were more than just a team
Branded: Perspectives on sisterhood

Vol.18, No.5, February 2015: The Voice Issue

“Don’t You Bite my Butt!”: An interview with local animal communicator
Yiddish and the Grateful Dead: What in the world ever became of Palo Alto?
From Southside to Skate City: A branch on the Rink Family Tree
And Let it Be Enough: In search of Joe Bolton
Speaking Between Breaths: A story stuck on words
I Don’t Speak American: The myth of the neutral accent
Turning Off Cruise Control: How I stopped going through the motions
The News in 140 Characters: Six degrees of inaccuracy
A Story of Transitions through One-Way Tickets
Living in the Shadow: The buried threat of our nonexistence
Speaking to the Nation: The craft of our American Story

Vol.18, No.6, March 2015: The Anonymous Issue

Suspenders of Disbelief: The curious case of real-life superheroes
Gone Girl: Incidental invisibility
My Mother’s Tongue
Beginnings
Talk Baby to Me: Inside the world of willies and whizzes
Breathe In, Sing Out: Behind the open mic
Dragon Man: Repurposing artifacts of the American past
Obituary
Uncomfortable Underground: Subway Blues
Writing for Strangers
How to be Lonely: Solitude and distraction on the Block Plan
Unmasking ISIS: Behind the black shroud
Vancouver Fog: Breaking a nation’s silence
Are You Listening?: Reconsidering the art of communication
Searching for Endless Dicks: A satisfying (auditory) experience
Urvan Voice, Rural India: Domesticity and progress in the Himalayas

Vol.18, No.7, April 2015: The Home Issue

Beer and Loathing: Calling Las Vegas home
Oy Vey, CCSGA: Misplaced priorities, misplaced communication
Home Away: Transience in my year away from home
My House is Your Home (For $220 a night)
Wanderlust
I’ve Been Everywhere With You
Havana: 50 Years Later
“I am from Lesotho”: Dismantling represetnations of my country
Packing Boxes
Stranded in Mexico: The tale of tequila sunrises and Coyote John
Officially Wanked: A brief history of hacktivism
Aisle-by-Ailse
Leave a Shell Behind
Home and Identity: Relationships across geographical borders
Local Food: Digging into the movement
“Outsideaboston”

Vol 18., No.8, May 2015: The Bones Issue

The Domino Effect: Picking bones with strangers
Labor Laws: Natural birth and obstetric violence
Who Killed Dylan Redwine?: A cold case file
The Dead Dogs of Dale Street: CC’s favorite ghost stories
Six Things: Remembering Emily Spiegel
26.2 Miles: From Athens to Leadville
Sleeping Beauty: What a mortician can do for you
Take Me to Church: The pearly gates at the Sedlec Ossuary
From Referral to Referral: A Lyme disease diagnosis
Found Objects: The human urge to salvage
The Holy Foreskin: The tradition of relics
Cost-Benefit Analysis: RAs and Financial Aid
Gym Junkies and Exercise Fiends: Why aren’t you at El Pomar right now?
How to Break a Bone: A lyrical guide
Uprooted: Left right, left right
Leaving College: Portrait of the undergrad as a young woman

Vol.19, No.1, September 2015: The Plastic Issue

Thicker Than Water: Nalgenes and ethical consumerism
The Real Dr. Miami: An interview with the Snapchat surgery phenomenon
Flashbub Memories: Where were you when--?
My Fallen Bunion, My Fallen Comrade: Learning to say goodbye
Plastics Are the New Ivory: You’re welcome, elephants
The Devil in the Details: Betty Draper’s cheesecake box
What the Fire Left Behind: Artifacts from the Black Forest
Unlimitless: This is your brain on nootropics
Still Here: The brain’s ability to heal
Plastic Love: Your place on the Kinsey scale
A Day Without Plastic: Or what happens when you try
Cosmetic and Qualified: The healthy reality of plastic surgery
Closed Circuit Daoism

Vol.19, No.2, October 2015: The Twin Issue

“Ulysses” Today: On the trail of the world’s most difficult novel
A Night in a Twin Bed: An illustraed guide to sleeping with someone
Good Company: Motorcycle culture and one club’s efforts to do things differently
Into Thin Air: The mountains as medicine
Eat, Stray, Love: Letting go of the chick-lit label
Mirror Twins
Speak No Evil: Sheltered discourse on campus
Masked
Twin Strangers
Bury My Heart in Kyrgzystan: The sister cities of Colorado Springs

Vol.19, No.3, November 2015: The Rebel Issue

The Origin of Us: The history and experience of gender fluidity
Forest Fables: The origin of eco-tourism in Costa Rica
God’s Children: The power of Christ compels you
Along Came Poly: Accepting the open love lifestyle
Silenced: Navigating queer rights in Senegal
Copernicus on a Budget: Searching for the multiverse
Sex, Lies and Ampersands: We know it when we see it
The Evolution of Angst
“Because We’re Insane”: New generation of dirtbags

Vol.19, No.4, December 2015: The Re-Issue

Sleight of Hand: Storytelling and impossible objects
The View From Naomi’s House: The aftermath of recent shootings in Colorado Springs
Cut From the Herd: A torrent of racism on Yik Yak and the administration’s response
Cipher Rewound: A sample from the archives
For the Record: Three reissued albums
Words, Words, Words: The catharsis of writing
Super Rich Kids: Drugs and privilege at Colorado College
Apocalypse Soon: Flashlights, batteries and subterranean tunnels
Reevaluating Recovery
Live and Let Die: Colorado’s relationship with doctor-assisted suicide

Vol.19, No.5, February 2016: The Daddy Issue

A Dream Deferred: My father’s sacrifice
Give Daddy Some Sugar: How to graduate from college debt free
Your Father Went Here Too?: Why it might not be a coincidence
Revelations
Daddy’s Boy
Who are you wearing?: A conversation about gender identity and fashion
A Letter to My Father
In Search of Middle Ground: Unlikely arguments between Liberals and Conservatives
Behind the Heart-Shaped Sunglasses: Lolita and Lana
Animal Dads
Stay at Home, Dad: Paternity leave in the United States
First They Killed His Father: Living in the shadow of the Khmer Rouge

Vol.19, No.6, March 2016: The Animal Issue

It’s in Our Bones
Tongue Tied: Rethinking free expression at CC
Lonely Business: 14 years on the stripping circuit
Friends or Food: The debate on 4-H
The Dismal Science: Why tuition continues to rise
Would You Rather
Uncivilization: The Dark Mountain Project grieves for the world we’ve destroyed
Lions on Leashes: The dangers of the exotic pet trade
Birds of Prey: The art of falconry

Vol.19, No.7, April 2016: The Pseudo Issue

One Man Race: America’s uncontested political battles
Nothing But the Truth: The blurred lines between fact and fiction
Mercurial: The difference between well-being and being well
Story Day
The Part’s Over: The future of the American political establishment
Kendrick and Kanye: The men behind the music
To Thine Own Selves Be True: In search of Shakespeare’s true identity
Control Freaks: The psychology of conspiracy theories
Strawberry Hills Forever: A contentious land deal spurs public outcry
Benchwarmers: Jury duty as an honest symbol of our democracy
Nature Versus Nurture: The ORC faces a leadership drought
Re-Living Pocket Power: A Southern Californian Manifesto
Face the Vaxx: Cognitive bias and the science of disbelief
When The Trumpet Sounds…: The first in a two part series on the death of Whiteness

Vol.19, No.8, May 2016: The Technicolor Issue

Endlings: Mass extinctions in our lifetimes
I am Not a Robot: The mechanics of meaning in robot poetry
We are Not a One-Man Band: A Response to “When the Trumpet Sounds”
God’s Name in Flashing Lights: The new Christians
The Chink in the Nation
I See the Light: Colorblindness and LSD
…The Call is Heard: The second in a two part series on the death of Whiteness
Desert Story
What Remains: Memories in living color
Psychedlics as Psychiatry: The prescribed benefits of LSD
The Excess of Tech: There’s no such thing as free lunch
The Perfect Shade of Orange

Vol.20, No.1, September 2016: The Almost Issue

Prison in the Heart of Paradise: Teaching yoga at Kerobokan
The Bernie Sanders of El Paso County: Electra Johnson poses a local challenge from the
left
Seeing is Believing: David Foster Wallace spent a decade trying to transcend boredom by
facing it head on. But did he succeed?
Wild Pitch: TV shows that nearly made the cut
The Cats of Kol
Coming Soon to a Black Market Near You: The birth, life and death of Kratom, a little-
known drug
City in Flux: You can’t step in the same Springs twice
The Business of Life: Colorado Democrats attempting to pass universal healthcare face
an uphill battle
The God Particle: At the intersection of science and religion

Vol.20, No.2, November 2016: The Faith Issue

Psyched
Praying Through the Storm: Buddhism in the modern world
Stan VanderWerf Wants Your Vote: And yes, he’s voting for Trump
The Long Fall: That time WFR actually came in handy
No One Dies Alone: A faithful hand in life and death
Two Ways of Seeing Five People
For Victoria
Irish Not-So Catholic: The Catholic Church’s powerful legacy lives on in the
school rooms of Ireland
Islam in America’s Christian Mecca
Thinking Toward God: The many voices of Shove
Hello Kimberly, Goodbye Kimberly: Dead identity thieves and the people who love them

Vol.20, No.3, December 2016: The Desert Issue

Soul Food
Below the Belt
Desert Kinks
This Land
Business as Usual
Suicide Station
Vacationland
Our Mother Who Art in Heaven
Drought

Vol.20, No.4, January 2017: The Toxic Issue

Possibly Robots: The Akito van Troyer story
The Making of a Merchant of Doubt: Myron Ebell: The CC grad engineering Trump’s
EPA
Man Up, Man Down: The casualties of hyper-masculinity
Something in the Water: Is the water in Olin cleaner than Monument Creek?
No Church in the Wild: Faith and love in the virtual age
Re: Request for Extension
The Lord is My Shepherd: A Christian Cult, 30 years later
Lions, Tigers and Elks: The death of fraternal organizations in America
She’s Not Faking It: The imposter syndrome in academia
Depressed Sexuality: The effects of antidepressants on the LGBTQ community

Vol.20, No.5, March 2017: The Red Issue

Mind the Gap
Today Will Be a Better Day
Beyond Bernie: A visit with the Colorado Springs Socialists
Craigslist, Polyamory and the Apocalypse: There’s more to Craigslist than hookups and
used couches
12/28/16
Two Minutes to Midnight: Interrogating the new Red Scare
From Cuba With Love: Getting arrested in Havana
Conversations on Menstruation: Breaking the taboo
A House Divided: Colorado Hispanics reckon with Trump’s election
Deal Me In: A look into the panty selling business

Vol.20, No.6, April 2017: The Ritual Issue

King and Kubrick: The Stanley Hotel, 40 years after “The Shining”
The Flag Man’s Last Stand
Forever Mad: The long history of infinity and insanity
Static
Portraits for Palmer
Searching for Smoke
Switchbacks
The Long Way Home
Prying Eyes

Vol.20, No.7, May 2017: The Obvious Issue

Getting What I Want: A late arrival to hookup culture
Your Friendly Neighborhood Sasquatch
Unearthed: A history of bones at Colorado College
You and Me and Him
Visitor-in-Residence: Rashna Singh’s thirteen years at Colorado College
Moanin’: Charles Mingus’ tribute to freedom
Dumb Idea:
Deus Est Machina
The Diversity Myth
When Wood Sings: Juan Mijares and the craft of violin making

Vol.21, No.1, October 2017: The Ego Issue

“Ute Prayer Trees”: The revival of an Indigenous tradition that never existed
Inked: The histories behind tattoos
Tu Hija
The Day My Life Changed Forever
Views from Combate
“Is it really real, son?”: The construction of identity in hip-hop
Everything Changes: A conversation on identity with Zenki Christian Dillo, Zen Priest
The YouTube Shaman: Soorena Sedhigi’s persistent online quest to enlighten us all
The Thing About Floating
American Anatomy: Unopened letters to Congress

Vol.21, No.2, November 2017: The Four-Letter Word Issue

Jared Polis’ Pink Ceiling: Inching towards a righteous world
A Practiced Disrespect: When sex becomes a social currency
The Price of Progress: Can we engineer our way out of the climate crisis?
The Brotherhood of Luigi and the Bad CGI Rats
Studies from Cheap Allegories
On Punching Nazis: Antifa reflects on their battle with the far-right
The Stone Girl
Put Down Your Phone!
Write How You Want: Encounters with antipoet Nicarol Parra
Infinite Jawn: What to do with a word that can mean anything

Vol.21, No.3, December 2017: The Do-It-Yourself Issue

The Endless Death of Prog Rock: On falling in love with the most belitted genre in the
history of music
Come as You Are: Changing the conversation about sexual pleasure
The Accidental Anarchist: How an anti-capitalist artist makes a living
Our Lady of Mercy
Art Feature: Weaving
Performing for Ourselves
Michael Sawyer’s New Canon: What one professor learned from doing it all
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Identity-based violence in liberal spaces
“I literally go here”: Reflections of an almost-grad
An Art of Crisis: The rise of DIY bookmaking from Buenos Aires to Paris

Vol.21, No.4, February 2018: The Deep End Issue

A Bloody Exchange: Selling plasma to get by in America
The Long Run: An Eritrean refugee’s story of survival
The Word You Don’t See: A letter on sexual assault and how it remains hidden
Dancer: Featured artist
This is Also What it Looks Like: Fiction
Born of Necessity: Organic agriculture and community in Cuba
The Other Minimum Wage: The exploitation of migrant sheepherders in Colorado
Laugh with Me: The dark humor in a family member’s suicide
The Nine Types of People: Overthinking a personality system (because that’s the kind of
person I am)

Vol.21, No.5, March 2018: The Neighbor Issue

Behind Birthright
Mad Wallace Rolls On
The Real Food Fight: A closer look at CC’s role in the global food supply chain
The Bird is Gone: A cartoon on the history of carrier pigeons
Notes from the Neutral Ground: Growing up in New Orleans
Life in the Rio Grande Valley: Photos from the US-Mexico border
Dear Lehna: Fiction
A Good Scare: The Scary Guy’s gospel of aggressive love
Hearing Without Listening: Shifting spaces between a father and daughter

Vol.21, No.6, April 2018: The Silent Issue

Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Donna Shugrue’s approach to love has brought hundreds of
couples together
The Blinds Pulled Down: Humanizing hoarding disorder
Away: Fiction
Open Source Sovereignty: How GIS mapping helps indigenous communities resist
exploitation in Mexico
It Cuts Both Ways: Changing the conversation about circumcision in America
Fighting Words: Using “fascist” as an insult is more dangerous than we think
Lost Sheep: Members of the Twelve Tribes insist that they’re not who you think they are
Vinegar and Ash: Grappling with sexuality and faith in Russia and the Deep South

Vol.21, No.7, May 2018: The Fault Issue

On Floating
The Value of Value: CostCo chicken and the meaning of life
Understanding Title IX: Survivors of gender-based violence share their stories of seeking
closure
Before You Forget: Fiction
Barely a Trace: The decade-long search for the cause of two plane crashes and 157 deaths
Sweet Escape: How I make myself feel better through pop music
Behind the Fish and the Fly
Scrolling Through the Spectacle: How Venmo’s social feed could monetize our identites
Going Home: The housing-first approach takes root in Colorado Springs

Vol.22, No.1, October 2018: The Stranger Issue

What’s Yours is Mined: How data mining works and why you should be worried
Crossing the Divide: One CC student examines her longtime friendship with an unlikely
Trump supporter
Breakfast with James
Shopping for Secrets: The ethics of eBay’s used diary market
How to Be Urself (For Someone Else): Comic
We Don’t Like Olivia: Fiction
Reincarnation Feels A Lot Like A Seizure
The Man From Iquique
Just Checkinh In: Navigating the stigma around counseling at CC
The Intimacy Industry: How professional cuddling can change our understanding of affection and consent
One Night Stands: A photo series