To the Editor: Yesterday, after six months of studying abroad in Spain, I unexpectedly returned home. In the span of a week, my plans — and the stability of an entire country — were upended by COVID-19. Given Europe may be a harbinger of the situation developing in the US, there are several lessons from…
Gathered behind a scale model of the University of Wyoming campus made of tiny plastic buildings covering a table-sized satellite image, members of the consulting firm Sasaki presented the fruits of the first phase of campus master planning to a Union East Ballroom audience Thursday. The consultants gave the highlights of a 360-slide report on…
Whether it’s pondering the consequences of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report or picking the next president of the University of Wyoming, we the people deserve transparency from our leaders. Pundits, politicians and ordinary citizens alike have added their voices to the uproar and general hullabaloo that erupted last Thursday after Mueller released a redacted report…
Someone drew a line in the sand. Then people fought over it for centuries, where it should go and who should be able to cross it, who could change it and who would guard it. Borders bring more destruction than peace. Humanity’s history of territorial disputes and warfare makes that clear, as do deadly border…
One way to pick out Americans from the crowd abroad is our fascination with old things. I certainly felt this fascination the first time I traveled to Europe, at 14 years old. Coming from Wyoming, where most towns were founded in the last 100 years, the centuries- or millennia-old buildings on every other street corner…
Conservation policy needs more carrots and fewer sticks if we are going to create a long-lasting and effective model of protecting the natural environment, says[1] former Natural Resources and Environment undersecretary at the United States Department of Agriculture Robert Bonnie. Bonnie, currently the Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University, spoke Thursday at the College of Business to a…
Tearing down Confederate statues and gendered bathroom signs is more than a political act to Jack Halberstam. To him, that act is grounded in the idea of anarchitecture, an art form and the belief that changing physical spaces also changes the discriminatory social structures they support. Halberstam, a Columbia University professor and international expert…
Outrage has erupted across the country after federal prosecutors announced 33 wealthy parents participated in an elaborate cheating scheme involving tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to gain their children entrance to elite colleges including Harvard, Yale and the University of Texas at Austin. It’s no secret that wealth influences college admissions in covert…
There are a lot of things about Catholicism I find useless as a former Catholic. To name a few: shame around sex, guilt for the apple-eating sin of my supposed female ancestor, not being able to eat breakfast before mass (the Body and Blood of Christ can’t be mixed with Cheerios, of course). Oh…
Julie Loisel is wary of expert scientific opinion, but not because she’s a climate change denier. She researches expert opinion, when it is useful and when it is potentially harmful. The Texas A&M University geography professor outlined the difference in a talk at the University of Wyoming Geology building Monday. Expert opinion, compiled by asking…
When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called on Feb. 19 for a reconsideration of the 1964 case New York Times v. Sullivan, probably only Supreme Court historians and journalists cared. That’s because the case was a landmark for First Amendment rights, setting the precedent for how journalists can talk about public figures. The case…
What do a sloth, oyster and a banjo have in common with a wheelchair, mechanical leg and service dog? Each is one of 59 new emojis and their variations approved by the Unicode Consortium this year. Among these, a bevy of disability-inclusive emojis are making waves. The new additions representing people with physical…
