A new smartphone app called “Jodel” provides a new form of communication among students. “Discover the hottest news, events, stories and jokes in the community around you! On Jodel, you can post messages and photos known as “Jodels” in real-time,” as stated in Jodel’s description on Apple’s App Store. The app provides an anonymous public…
New beer sales at this year’s UW vs. CSU: Border Wars football game generated about $62,000 after sales tax according to University of Wyoming Athletics. The university has recently introduced beer as a sale product at all of the big athletic events on campus, providing a new form of revenue and entertainment for students and…
On Sunday, Nov. 5, Laramie’s Walmart was evacuated for an unknown reason and closed for about an hour to an hour and a half while the police investigated the situation. “I’m not sure who spoke over the intercom but he politely asked all employees and customers to exit the building immediately,” Ashley Hagel said. Hagel…
Annual Homecoming parade presented by the UW Alumni Association in connection with the WYO-GOLD Student Alumni Association occurring Saturday morning. The theme of Homecoming 2017 is “Wyoming Spirit: Wild as the West” and a lot of the focus will be on recognizing distinguished alumni of the school, many of whom will be featured in the…
Recently the Wyoming Department of Transportation auctioned off five “Welcome to Wyoming” signs to the public, accumulating $33,005 in profits. “WYDOT officials had decided to hold a sign auction because we were getting a lot of interest from the public who were interested in obtaining these decommissioned signs,” the departments senior Public Affairs Specialist, Aimee…
Nineteen-year-old Cameron M. Campbell was recently taken into custody in a domestic strangulation case filed by the Laramie Police Department. A press release was put out on Oct. 11 and stated as a headline “Laramie Man Arrested for Strangulation of a Household Member.” The dispute took place on Oct. 6 at noon on the 2000 block…
The Wyoming Lottery has finally produced enough net proceeds to give a substantial amount of money back to the state. As their website states, WyoLotto was officially created in 2013 after the governor’s signing of House Bill 77. Beginning without any appropriated state funds and selling the first tickets in 2014, the lottery has now…
The weekend of Oct. 6-8, one of the University of Wyoming’s campus ministries Chi Alpha held their first retreat for its members and friends at Table of the Wilderness in Centennial, Wyoming. The new annual camp is intended to invite those who aren’t familiar with the campus ministry to join together with members for a…
The Cowboy Parents Emergency Fund endowment has recently been updated. The endowment is joined together between the ASUW President Ben Wetzel, Cowboy Parent’s Council and Vice President of student affairs Sean Blackburn. The endowment has been around since 2002, but has been rewritten to make it easier for the group of three to figure out…
Recently a poll was posted to a local Laramie Facebook group asking the question, “Who thinks having a homeless shelter in Laramie would be a good idea?” There are many responses to the question. Kaitlyn Reed-Mercer has lived in Laramie her whole life and currently works as the life enrichment director at the Spring Wind…
This Saturday, Sept. 30, the University of Wyoming’s marching band, Western Thunder, will be hosting an annual “Band Day” for high school band students all over the region. The event will take place on the University’s football field where later in the day at 2:00 PM the Wyoming Cowboys will be hosting a home game….
A graduate student won $15,000 at the University of Wyoming’s Start-Up Competition for his new Artificial Intelligence Software project. Levente Pap is a graduate student working on his PhD in Chemistry. He comes from Hungary where he received his Bachelor’s Degree. Pap then traveled to England on a scholarship to attend the University of Leeds…
