first word of the book Finnegans Wake, which starts in the middle of a sentence. The beginning of the sentence is at the end of the book.
== Notable students, alumni, and staff ==
Max Aaron - 2013 U.S. national champion figure skater
Steve Bach (B.S. in business) - former Colorado Springs Mayor, first "Strong Mayor"
Jason Brown - 2015 U.S. national champion figure skater and Olympic bronze medalist
Teresa A. H. Djuric (M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction, 1994) - U.S. Air Force Brigadier General
John Herrington (B.A. in mathematics, 1983) - first Native American to go to space, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2002
Jugal Kalita - computer science professor, Language Information and Computation (LINC) Lab
Yusef Komunyakaa (B.A. 1975) - first African-American to win Pulitzer Prize for poetry
Mary Lou Makepeace (M.P.A. 1979) - first female mayor of Colorado Springs, serving from 1997 to 2003
Charlee Minkin (born 1981), Olympic judoka
John Morse (B.S. in business, M.P.A. 1996) - former president of the Colorado …
