The number one roller derby team in the state and Laramie’s own Naughty Pines Derby Dames defeated Denver’s Wreckin’ Roller Rebels 235 to 113 in their first competition of the season. Fans filled the Laramie Ice and Event Center on Saturday for the match, dubbed Wheels for Meals, decked out in green to represent the…
Summer classes. Just the term elicits nervous sweating and panic attacks. In grade school, that term meant not getting to have a fun-filled summer vacation with the rest of your friends, and usually meant you were failing. However, at the university level, summer classes actually mean the opposite. Many use it as a way to…
One of the nation’s most talked about young writers came to visit the University of Wyoming on Wednesday. Dinaw Mengestu, a highly acclaimed nonfiction article writer for Rolling Stone and other publications, came to speak with students about writing. With awards like the MacArthur Genius Award, the Lannan Fiction Fellowship and the National Book Award…
More women than men are earning college degrees. With that, it appears we are near gender equality. In reality, we are not even close. Workplaces still discriminate against women due to wrongful assumptions ability and unwarranted stereotypes. These practices lead to a wage gap between genders. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics survey for…
Glass panels with underlying topographic maps decorate the walls of Gallery 234, but it is the story behind the art that captures the viewer’s attention. In “A priori,” artist Alex Gibson, tells the story of his friend, James, who disappeared in a remote area of Southeastern Alaska. The mystery of James’ disappearance took a strange…
With summer on their minds, many students are forgetting that the end of semester often brings with it a multitude of in-class speeches and presentations. Before you begin to sweat and anxiously bite your fingernails, here are some no-fail tips to combat speech anxiety and achieve speaking success. Get straight to the point with a…
In the final game of March Madness, the UConn narrowly won against Kentucky, an exciting game for fans and a $1 billion money maker for CBS and Turner Broadcasting, according to Forbes. Though March Madness might be over, the enormous sum of money made off college sports has spurred discussions of whether student athletes should…
Vibrant reds and yellows grace the slates dispersed around the room, Indian culture embodied through each piece. In the exhibit, “East Meets West.” Gallery 234 invites visitors to discover the diverse culture of India through the eyes of artist Felicia Follum, a former religious studies and philosophy student at UW. Follum uses a variety of…
Since the Ark shattered Laramie’s glass recycling program, proper glass disposal has become nonexistent. At the Laramie Glass Recycling Forum in November, Ark Recycling Services coordinator Bill Vance, said Ark used to collect roughly 19 tons of glass a month from the Laramie community to be freighted to Denver. This service simply cost Ark too…
“I just feel despair; at 70 years old I’m finally a grandmother and I’m just so scared about my grandbaby’s future on this earth,” said Janet Cunningham, audience member and advocate of preventing the Keystone XL pipeline at a recent workshop protesting the pipeline. The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would funnel tar sand to be…
While recent DUI laws are helping to crack down on drivers under the influence, Wyoming laws could be achieving more when it comes to preventing drunk driving from occurring in the first place. Federal data shows alcohol-related crashes make up more than 65 percent of traffic deaths in Wyoming. New DUI laws include a 2012…
Our generation is a guinea pig to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). According to the Non-GMO Project, GMOs are in approximately 80 percent of conventionally processed food and more than 90 percent of the soy, cotton, canola, corn and sugar beets sold to United States consumers. Genetically modified foods are banned in more than 60 developed…
