Four different shows, four different writers, a new play each night. This week the local group Relative Theatrics will be performing their Playwrights Voiced festival that will feature four different plays over the course of four nights. The plays were picked out of 66 submissions by Anne Mason, an alumnus from UW who graduated from…
Gardening, crafts and recipes about bugs. This year’s Laramie Local Food Gathering will have it all. This Saturday at the new Laramie High School the Laramie Local Foods Committee has set up some exciting and benefiting workshops for the whole community to come and attend. Members of the planning committee include Sonya Moore, Suzanne Lewis,…
Ablany County Courthouse recently released a set of fees that the public is required to pay in order to obtain public records. The Albany County Commissioners office voted to add printing fees for public document requests last week. As of now, the decision has been passed by the board and is under a 30 day…
Vice President of Student Affairs, Sara Axelson, is retiring this year meaning that new candidates are being voted upon for the job. The finalists have already been decided and will be undergoing interviews and public presentations April 27 to the middle of May. Axelson has been working at UW for 18 years, 12 of those…
The U.S Department of Labor has awarded Wyoming a National Dislocated Worker Grant of $2 million to assist coal workers who have been recently laid off. . Workers laid off in Campbell, Converse, Crook, Johnson, Niobrara, Sheridan and Weston counties will be able to receive the funds. Applications are available online for those who are…
The International Student Association (ISA) of UW will be presenting their very own talent show April 15 in the Arts & Sciences Auditorium. “I am really excited,” Akriti Subedi, ISA president, said. “We usually get like eight to 10 performances and we have 18 performances [this year].” Subedi is a junior studying computer science. She…
Next week UW will be hosting the eclectic Drag Queen and well-known comedian Charlie Hides. Currently on RuPaul’s Drag Race season nine, Hides has had a long and successful career in drag and entertainment. As the oldest contestant on the show thus far, Hides has done well, receiving a “safe” status for the first three…
After working on Wyoming’s local schoolboards for about 16 years, local pediatrician David Fall has decided to take on a position as a member of the Board of Trustees at the University of Wyoming. Fall attended the University of Wyoming as a pre-med student, eventually graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Zoology. From there he…
It all started in Laramie, Wyoming at Ann’s Pawn Shop with a little guitar and a girl who decided to teach herself how to play. “I started playing music my sophomore year of college at UW. I was always intrigued by songwriting,” Alysia Kraft, the front woman of band The Patti Fiasco, said. Now she…
One of UW’s Policy Debate Teams recently attended the National Debate Tournament in Kansas City, Kansas. Carter Henman, a senior studying Philosophy, and Spencer Culver, a senior in Communications, qualified to compete against 71 of the other best-in-the-nation policy debate teams this year. “When I was younger I had a habit of arguing with my…
University of Wyoming’s Board of Trustees recently rejected a proposal for new student fees. The plan would have called for an increase of current mandatory student fees and a plan for new programmatic fees. “Over spring break we found out the university was proposing a whole new fee called the ‘Student Success Fee’ into the…
When it comes to “slamming” things, “words” are not typically the first thing that comes to people’s minds. Despite this, there is a good amount of students on campus who do enjoy the occasional slamming of words, specifically in relation to things like rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Those students will have the opportunity to get…
