On Tuesday night, ASUW held the first reading of Senate Resolution #2539 “ASUW Support for LGBTQIAA+ Pride Flag Flown in Prexy’s Pasture for the Month of June.” According to the resolution, authored by Vice President Wolfgang, “[ASUW] wishes to collaborate with the University of Wyoming Physical Plant to post the LGBTQIAA+ Pride Flag, provided by…
Dear President Nichols, Thank you so much for your university wide communication about how UW will try to prevent sexual assault in the future. Thank you for addressing that there is in fact a problem and we, as a community, have to do something about it. I’m here to tell you that, unfortunately, it’s a…
Senate Bill 129 will protect minors who are sexually assaulted in the second or third degree by employees or volunteers in public or private schools, after passing the senate and is now introduced to the House. It will also apply to minors who are in adult or juvenile correctional facilities. “This will provide a safe…
From the first time Mark Jenkins visited Tibet in 1984, he would go back 10 times in a thirty year period. “I spent over a year in my life in expeditions in Tibet and China,” Jenkins said, when adding all the time up. Jenkins, a writer in residence at UW and National Geographic journalist, will…
Growing up on a small farm in Minnesota, Teena Gabrielson found herself interested in politics at a young age. “I was exposed to politics from an early age given the level of discussion within my family,” Gabrielson said. Before she attended Macalester College, Gabrielson had served as a U.S. Senate page in high school, which…
Vice President of Administration Bill Mai addressed ASUW Tuesday night about the rise in tuition for the 2017-2018 school year. “The trustees passed a general tuition policy where tuition would raise four percent per year until other action was taken,” Mai said. “They voted on it this year in November.” Tuition will rise four percent…
