The UW golf team concluded their spring season on May 3 with the Women’s Mountain West Golf Conference in California. “I had a hole in one which was my first one and there were a few tournaments towards the end of the season that I played pretty well I thought. I’m happy my career ended…
Haydon has been a professor of art specializing in ceramics at UW for 20 years and teaching since 1990. She is retiring at the end of this semester. “Teaching is a vocation to me. It goes hand in hand with the studiowork I do. For the first year I’m probably just going to chill and…
The Laramie Public Art Coalition (LPAC) has brought art from artists across the nation for art in the Snowy Range Rotating Sculpture Program. “Our main focus is we help the community through administering public art projects for Laramie and Albany County. We are hoping to enhance the cultural vitality and vibrancy of our community through…
While wrangling thumbtacks as she and Shelby Shadwell hung up 4×4 panels for the Student Art League Silent Auction, Anna Naig talked about when she started art. Naig, an art major and BFA candidate, said she has been practicing art for over five years. While she was deployed, Naig said she’d bring watercolor paints. The…
On April 15, the new ASUW elections were announced at noon. Hunter Swilling and Colter Anderson will be the president and vice president respectively for the next year. “We are honored that our fellow students have chosen us for these crucial positions. Our campaign was based on our core platform values of advocacy, community, and…
Ryan Fourt, the jazz guitar teacher, has been teaching guitar for 20 years and playing for 26 years. “At the time I was a teenager in the 1990’s and rock music was pretty prominent. The popular music of that era was guitar driven,” Fourt said. Fourt said he was drawn to guitar and rock music…
UW recently announced classes would be in person during the upcoming fall semester. “I’m very excited to be returning to a more ‘traditional’ way of learning and attending classes, as well as a more ‘normal’ college experience,” Megan Cockett, an english major with a minor in creative writing and honors, said. “I think Zoom classes…
The Student Art League is looking to recruit more members and reopen activities that have been closed due to COVID in the upcoming fall semester. The club has been meeting virtually for general meetings and critiques. “The big plan right now is reviving things and since we’ll be in person we won’t be so Zoom…
The mask mandate was recently lifted in Wyoming, but that does not mean the pandemic is over. Many people still were not wearing masks during the state mask mandate, but now it’s even more obvious how many people are not wearing masks or happen to forget. I see it in my classes where students and…
After a petition directed at the university to consider a socially distanced graduation, the university made the decision to have two days for graduation as well as an online option. “I, like so many others, have worked so hard to be able to graduate and walk across the stage at that graduation. I watched last…
Will Laegreid, the director of the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory and overseer of the COVID-19 testing for UW, said that only the students visiting campus will be required to take the weekly testing. “Testing is only required to be on campus. If they’re fully online and aren’t coming on campus to use the library or…
The new social center located on Fraternity Mall will remain open until April 9. Activities and games are offered throughout each week and are free to attend. “In response to feedback from students and parents as well as the number of recent tragedies, we wanted to do something,” said Jeremy Davis, the Director of the…
