It looks like Columbus Day is here to stay in Wyoming. While the state of Minnesota just changed the name of the holiday to “Indigenous People’s Day,” it doesn’t look like Wyoming is going to follow the trend. The day is not popular among students at UW. Dakota Friesth, a fourth year criminal justice major…
Let’s talk about “dead” week, aka the busiest week of many students’ lives. Rumor has it, this week is supposed to be one with no classes (or optional classes) and no assignments or projects due in order to give students a full week to prepare for finals. Hence the name “dead” week. At UW, this…
The millenials are killing the Bible. If the current decline of readers continues throughout the coming generations, the themes and messages of this historical book are doomed to be lost and forgotten. Cassandra Herndon, a freshman marketing student and member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority agrees that there has been a decrease of millennials…
Lights glared brightly on the faces of models and artists in the show. With an eye toward creating fashionable, eco-suave clothing, the participants were prepared to strut their stuff in pursuit of saving the planet. The American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS), and Phi Upsilon Omicron (Phi U) put together an Eco Chic…
One in every 68 people is affected by autism. This seemingly unremarkable statistic may not mean much to you or me, but to a mother with an autistic child, it can be heart wrenching. For Nancy Marlatt, whose son Cooper was diagnosed with autism, it was enough to inspire her to pick up her camera…
The Arts and Sciences Auditorium went “Redneck Crazy” Wednesday night as Missouri country artist Tyler Farr brought his own brand of honky tonk to the University of Wyoming this week. Best known for songs including “Hot Mess,” “Whiskey in My Water” and of course, “Redneck Crazy,” Farr was nominated for Academy of Country Music’s New…
Laramie coffee fans were treated to more than espresso Tuesday night when Seattle folk musician Ian McFeron performed at the downtown Coal Creek Coffee and Brewery. McFeron, often compared to iconic artists such Bob Dylan and Ryan Adams, visited the Laramie community in hopes of promoting his newly released album, Time Will Take You….
It’s Thursday night in the Union Ballroom at the University of Wyoming. “Footloose” is blaring out into the hallway. Slip on some cowboy boots – it’s time to dance. Hunter Christensen is the founder and president of the Cowboy Country Swing Club (CCSC). Christensen started the club during the spring semester of 2012 and…
Adam Ray, known best as the sizzling drug dealer LeSoire in the comedy “The Heat,” came to UW promising comedic impersonations and jokes…and he definitely delivered. His act had every student in attendance laughing during almost all of its segments. Ray opened his show with a demonstration of his research on UW, which included poking…
There’s only one lifestyle that is supposed to be taught in schools: the heterosexual lifestyle. This statement seems to be the opinion of the state of South Carolina’s legislature that led them to cut funding to colleges for including books that feature homosexuality in their freshman required texts. The books causing this fiasco are “Fun…
Life, death and each rise and fall in-between. All are explored in Will Eno’s “Middletown” directed by Landee Lockhart, a play that opened in the Buchanan Center for the Performing arts on Monday. The characters explored and illustrated the lives of average people and the questions that we all have in our journey toward the…
