Senators met last night in the business building for an “away meeting” to discuss upcoming bills, RSO requests and events for the following weeks. They also invited two special guest speakers on behalf of the Student Athletics Advisory Committee to discuss the athletics program statistics for Fall 2013. – The speakers discussed the 492 athletes…
“No matter where you are from your dreams are valid”- Lupita Nyong’o Nyong’o epitomizes this quote. Celebrations were held everywhere yesterday in Kenya after one of their own, Nyong’o took home the prize of Best Supporting Actress from the Oscars on Sunday night, the first ever to do so. The president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta,…
With the Martin Luther King Days of Dialogue and Black History Month happening so close together on the calendar, the UW community has had a lot of time to think about issues of equality lately. Part of the Days of Dialogue week, the Black 14 panel, highlighted a specific instance of racial prejudice that took…
The Cowgirl golf team ended the second round of the Kiawah Island Classic in 22nd place after finishing on Monday with a team score of 327 (+39) to bring their total team score to 639 (+63). Wyoming had to adjust to the Scottish-American style course after each golfer finished the second round with more strokes than…
“Citizen groups” are proving to be a thorn in the side of both the Wyoming Board of Education and the Wyoming Department of Education’s attempts to adopt new education standards in the state. The Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) standards committee is in its final stages of reviewing and recommending to the Wyoming Board of…
UW is accepting a $3 million donation from the Halliburton Company to go towards building a new energy and engineering research complex and funding energy research. University President Dick McGinity, Governor Matt Mead and others joined Halliburton CEO Dave Lesar yesterday at the capital building in Cheyenne to make the announcement in front of legislators…
Wyoming set multiple school records and won three events while finishing second as a team in the WAC Championship this past weekend in Pal Alto, California. The Cowboys scored 702 points which put them safely in second place as the third-place team, Air Force, only managed 625 points. “I was proud of the way our…
