The Catalyst

Over the last decade, representation of disabled people in the media has risen significantly. From Paralympian long jumper Beatriz Hatz being the first amputee to appear on “Love Island” to wheelchair user Aariana Rose Philip’s landmark modeling at the Met Gala, disabled people are becoming increasingly visible in popular culture.

We’re well into the swing of things now. But in some ways, it feels like the year hasn’t quite started yet: Block 1’s deplorable lack of intramural sports has left us waiting. The extension of our offseason into the year feels quite unfair and without being able to report on intramural sports (IM), we have felt like the Love Island contestants who return from the island and try desperately to stay relevant.

The Colorado College women’s soccer season is underway with a five-game nonconference stretch, to mixed results. The team finished in eighth place in 2025, but hopes are higher for the 2026 season. In the Mountain West Conference preseason coaches poll, the Tigers sit in fifth. To back up the preseason talk, CC got off to a flying start in its first two games against the Creighton University Bluejays and Drake University Bulldogs.

By: Ava McCormick (Staff Writer) Over the last few years, I have cycled through nearly every wearable fitness tracker on the market — Apple Watch, Oura Ring, Garmin and Fitbit — each one promising to track every variable known to man: Heart Rate Variability, VO2 Max and of course, sleep. I became obsessed with the metrics. Some mornings, I would roll out of bed feeling refreshed and grab my phone. “50 Sleep Score. Are you feeling okay, Ava?” “Your heart rate is high.

With just eight games remaining in the regular season, the Colorado Springs Switchbacks of the United Soccer League (USL) Championship sit just barely above the playoff line. Seventh out of 12 teams in the Western Conference, the Switchbacks have been marred by inconsistency throughout the 2026 season, as evidenced by their evenly split 9-9-4 record.

Last year, one of my friends and I compiled a list of 50 things all CC students should do before they graduate. We tried to think of the traditions and events that make this place special and the events we couldn’t imagine missing. Now, with another year of experience under our belts, I spent the summer thinking about all the things I wanted to do in my last year at Colorado College. My CC bucket list grew to over two pages, and suddenly, I felt like there was just too much to do.

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Just before students arrived on campus for New Student Orientation week, Assistant Professor Juan Miguel Arias in the Education Department tackled a longstanding feature of the Colorado College campus: the desire path cutting across Tutt Circle behind Palmer Hall. Armed with photographs of his corgi, Maya Papaya, and two makeshift gates, Arias blocked the entrances to the path in an attempt to discourage students from using the shortcut.

As classes got underway, President Manya Whitaker sat down to discuss the college’s future with Vice President of Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer Lori Seager and Vice President of Enrollment Tony Cabasco in a video interview. The interview was emailed to the campus community on Aug. 26. The main idea? How the college will continue to “claim its space in higher education,” a tagline Whitaker has used to describe her goals for the college since the beginning of her administration.

Dear Catalyst readers, We met when we sat across from each other in an Introduction to Journalism class freshman year. After class, having spoken only a couple of words to one another, we walked to the bookstore to pick up our textbooks together. We were decidedly attached at the hip from that moment onward. Many, many journalism classes and published articles later, we’re taking on a challenge slightly bigger than a walk to the bookstore: serving as Co-Editors-in-Chief of The Catalyst.