Campus Events Council

Message from the Director
All college students need special things to keep them sane: Starbucks coffee, Panera paninis, Facebook, TV on DVD, a pencil behind the ear. These unite to form a unique experience that is known by any student of higher education. While the atmosphere may vary from campus to campus, a universal college culture can be recognized from Harvard to UCLA to Westmont and back to Gordon.

The Gordon College Campus Events Council, a staff of students ourselves, recognizes this culture on our own campus. We also recognize our potential ability to influence it through our programming; the ability to break it or reform it or steer it in a different direction. It is with this idea, a vision for a college culture unique to Gordon in mind, that we plan and implement campus events.

The result? Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and Searching for God Knows What speaking in chapel. A formal awards ceremony for short films made by students, hosted by students, called the Gordon Globes. Indie Rock pioneers Starflyer 59 performing in the Easton Dining Hall. Jars of Clay speaking in convocation on the importance of providing clean water to Africa and performing a leg of their latest tour in the chapel. Gordon graduate and nationally known comedian Pete Holmes in a night of stand-up featuring our own comedy improv group. The longest running Gordon tradition, Golden Goose, making its eighth appearance on the chapel stage. And these are just a few events for this past year.

We hope that as a result of our work Gordon students can claim a culture a little more unique than Starbucks and Facebook.

David DeBaere
CEC Director, 2008-09