Kip DeCastro kdecastr@uwyo.edu First student leadership summit: “A resounding success” Members of ASUW said the past weekend’s leadership summit was a resounding success. According to a press release from ASUW’s Director of Governmental Affairs Grant Rogers, the Student Leadership Summit was held to discuss student issues, focusing upon student email privacy, faculty recruitment and retention…
Point: Common Core Increases Efficiency Paige Backman pbackman@uwyo.edu When someone says “Common Core” out loud, the reaction of a Wyoming audience is fairly predictable. People suddenly become like Pap from Big River ranting and raving about the “dag gum guv’ment” saying that the education standards don’t take individuals into account or don’t let the teachers…
Carter Henman chenman@uwyo.edu The Fencing Club hosted a fencing tournament on the University of Wyoming campus on Sunday, which members are calling a great success. “This was the biggest tournament in the history of the University of Wyoming,” Amanda Markus, sophomore and secretary of UW’s Fencing Club, said. “We had 34 registered fencers, which was…
Michael Rotellini mrotell1@uwyo.edu Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) is one of the biggest sororities on the University of Wyoming campus and was founded on friendship, leadership and scholarship. Abi Cohen, social work major and KKG member, said KKG was created before the term was in existence and has many different chapters in the U.S. and…
Jeremy Rowley Jrowley1@uwyo.edu Nowadays, superheroes are a mainstay of our generation’s culture. With comic book movies coming in as some of the highest-grossing films in the world, it is undeniable that these stories no longer belong to the nerdy and unpopular. Comic book characters have become mainstream. Knowing this, it is not unreasonable to…
Michael Rotellini Mrotell1@uwyo.edu Plans have been brought to the Wyoming legislature’s Joint Appropriations Interim committee and Joint Education Interim committee for new residences halls. These plans will not be acted upon in the near future but will look to replace the existing dormitories. Five plans have been put in place with one looking to…
Josh Barta jbarta@uwyo.edu As an outdoor enthusiast and UW student, I understand why College Values Online made Laramie their top small college town. From rock climbing on boulders that look like giant unicorn feces in Vedauwoo to camping in the Snowies, with wide-open spaces so beautifully dark, the stars are more visible than your…
Austin Morgan Amorga14@uwyo.edu I am a member of the radical left; an advocate for social, political, and economic justice and a critical theorist—I have an investment in political correctness. However, I am also a cynic, and in my cynicism, I am wary of political correctness in certain contexts. It was once said that all ideologies…
Andrew Server aserver@uwyo.edu I would like to start off this column by acknowledging that the University of Wyoming is, in relation to other college campuses, only rather moderately liberal. We might attribute that to being the only four-year institution in a reliably republican state. Here you see no “free speech zones” or radical professors dressing…
Jeremy Rowley Jrowley1@uwyo.edu The Gardens bar in the basement of the Wyoming Union has been implementing new business strategies following attempts last year to shut the location down. “The Gardens financially wasn’t covering its costs,” Executive Director of the Wyoming Union Eric Webb, said. “So, as with any operation that is not covering its costs…
Brooke Schmill bschmill@uwyo.edu Breaking stereotypes of the accounting profession is something Janice Benson, a senior lecturer for the Accounting Department in the College of Business, hopes to accomplish. “I have students who take my class and tell me they never knew this is what accounting actually entails,” Benson said. A faculty member for fifteen years…
Jamie Hampton jhampto6@uwyo.edu Last year if you asked me what I was most excited about in the upcoming year, I would have said moving into my own apartment. Little did I know, I would have to put up with the annoying thing we call the bus system. We are only halfway through the fall semester…
