Graduation is coming up. Graduation is, for many, the end of an era; the end of “adult adolescence” where frat parties and exam anxiety and we become real adults. I never did understand all that. Before the situation concerning the pandemic, I wasn’t going to walk. Sit through some speech that will try to be…
School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic are affecting people of all ages in schools, teachers, and families. At the University of Wyoming, online classes continue in earnest, with the end of the semester rapidly approaching. Governor Mark Gordon and the Wyoming Department of Health have public health orders to keep school buildings closed to…
COVID-19 – a disease caused by the novel coronavirus – has been spreading rapidly around the world at an alarming rate, but by now, this is old news.Old or not, though, the virus is still affecting the lives of many, including those unemployed, ill, homeschooled, and families with children. Children are having to adapt to…
Keeping up relationships during the distance created due to COVID 19 Keep your distance! Stay six feet away from each other! For some, this is easy. For some, it’s much more than just six feet away.The coronavirus has come with many restrictions and struggles. Stores have closed or are only allowed ten people inside at…
University of Wyoming’s annual fraternity and sorority life (FSL) awards commenced this Thursday on Facebook live. The event acknowledged outstanding chapters and members of the FSL community. “During the past year, we have had successful recruitments, philanthropy events, socials, retreats and more. We also welcomed a new sorority and a new fraternity to campus,” said…
COVID-19 has halted many upcoming events this spring, but the University of Wyoming Intramural Sports considers it the perfect opportunity for a trail running league. “With the Wyoming weather, we usually cannot do any outdoor activities until after spring break, so we had not originally planned on having any trail running league activity,” Recreation Sports…
The seamy underbelly of celebrity culture and its fusion with capitalism has been slowly revealing itself in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Celebrities have been angering the public more than usual lately: their incapability to relate to average people has shown them to be impressively unaware of themselves and their privilege. Celebrities continue to…
If you are amongst those who are being counted as “essential,” how you work and live is been compressed into a single place and space. We all are living in a different world than three weeks ago, with the situation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. People live in a radically different reality as millions of Americans…
Amidst the COVID-19 self-quarantining of the country, many people have resorted to following internet trends to escape from isolation boredom.As a somewhat avid social media user myself, I have scrolled past many of such trends as I try to pass the time away. Memes, of course, are a common ground in the social media realm….
