As a part of April’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this year’s Denim Day celebrated 25 years of impact. Since 1999, the Peace Over Violence campaign has sought to inspire survivors and change attitudes towards sexual assault victims. Now, as an international event, Denim Day is now the longest running sexual violence prevention education campaign in…
This year there are three teams running to be the representative of the student body in the form of Associated Students of the University of Wyoming (ASUW) Student Government President (P) and Vice President (VP). Brooke Culp (P) and Cole Schliebe (VP) (hereafter C&C), Gabe Saint (P) and JW Rzeszut (VP) (hereafter S&JW), and Kameron…
Sabrina Geller was found dead on Feb. 13, 2024. At the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming (ASUW) Student Government weekly meeting, at approximately 10:12 p.m., a student announced that Sabrina Geller had been found on the morning of Feb. 13, 2024, and announced her as deceased. “I’m here to actually tell y’all something…
Annually, first-generation college students are celebrated nationally on or during the week of Nov. 8 in tandem with the anniversary signing of the High Education Act of 1965. This is the third year that Dean Peter Parolin and the Honors College has held an event honoring first-generation students, faculty, and alumni at the University of…
Last Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, through power of succession, Kameron Murfitt rose into the position of Vice President of the 111th Senate of the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming (ASUW). “Stepping into this new position, it really is a massive change for me. But still, I’ve been in this organization long enough to…
“And beyond that, people’s minds are made up more by group chats they have with each other and their personal friendships than they are made by the interests of their other senators or the work that’s done in committee or the interests of student larges or anything that might have a degree of pertinence to…
On Oct. 24, at 7:20 p.m. approximately 20 protestors got up and left the Speaker Louder with Riley Gaines event on UW campus. The protestors, whose numbers averaged 20-25, stood up, ripped up the posters provided at the event (which said phrases like ‘Cowgirls stand with Riley Gaines’ and ‘There are only two sexes’), and…
On Tuesday, Oct. 9, the 111th Associated Student of the University of Wyoming student government (ASUW) Senate voted to overturn President Saber Smith’s veto of Senate Bill #2898 Office Move Approval Act. Not only was the Senate in a disparity over the issue, there were plenty in the gallery who came to voice their concerns…
Recently, the Branding Iron was contacted by the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming (ASUW) student government regarding our reporting of their weekly meetings. It was stated, conveyed by ASUW Vice President Jessica Petri via email, that according to the ASUW bylaws the “processing” portion of the meeting is not allowed to be reported…
This editorial was originally published in the September 26, 2023, edition of the Branding Iron. Although I have only found myself operating in the world of journalism for about two years, going on three, one industry concern has been made clear from the very beginning: print is dying. The question of survival for the journalism…
The University of Wyoming continues to maintain its faculty levels by welcoming over 136 new faculty hires for the 2023-2024 academic year, of which Provost Kevin Carman notes is necessary to maintaining student success. “First and foremost, the fundamental objective is to make sure that we have the faculty that we need, that provide the…
With payments expected to restart on October 1st, 2023, millions of borrowers are seeking alternatives to their student debt since the federal pause of student debt loan repayments ended as of September 1st, 2023. In addition, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the proposed student debt loan forgiveness plan by the Joe…
