John Luke Fabian jfabian1@uwyo.edu This Sunday, head coach Larry Shyatt is extending an invite to all UW employees and their families to come and meet the Cowboys men’s basketball team. “I have wanted to do this for years. I wanted to invite every member of the university personnel and their families for a behind the…
The U.S. Forest Service and the UW Ruckelshaus Institute met with members of the Laramie community last Wednesday in the hopes of prompting dialogue about upcoming Pole Mountain road management projects. The Ruckelshaus House Institute is assisting the Forest Service with data collection and public meetings. The project is in the pre-scoping stage. “The Forest…
Changing one’s values or opinions is never easy. It requires setting one’s pride to the side and admitting one is wrong. This is something I’ve come face-to-face with in the past month, and it has been unsettling to say the least. The small Wyoming town I’m from, Pinedale, celebrates the Green River Rendezvous annually for…
Chances are, you’ll be drinking some of the snow that fell last week. Our developed First World society insulates us from the long process that lets us turn on a faucet and get clean water. As far as we can see, the faucet opens and the water appears; we send it down the drain and…
The University of Wyoming Cowgirl golf team started play at the Mountain West Championship on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California on Monday. Senior Samantha Stancato paced UW with an 18-hole tally of 75 (+3). The Cowgirls are tied for eighth place in the nine team field…
The Mountain West and Missouri Valley conferences announced an agreement to renew the annual Mountain West/Missouri Valley Challenge for men’s basketball. “The reintroduction of this Challenge Series is a positive step for both leagues,” says MVC Commissioner Doug Elgin. “Tough non-conference scheduling has always been paramount in improving our league’s stature on the national scene….
Yesterday evening and tonight at the Gryphon Theater, the BANFF Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits Laramie for the 17th year in a row. The Festival has been a Laramie institution since 1999 and has a long history stretching back decades. “It’s cool that this is a free event for the community and students so…
