Paige Backman pbackman@uwyo.edu Any first-year student at the University of Wyoming is encouraged to meet with an advisor to begin registering for classes to help with academic goals. Often remedial students are placed in a 0900 math class for one reason or another. The benefits and pit falls of these remedial classes are often unclear….
Paige Backman pbackman@uwyo.edu The name “Happy Jacks” is well known across campus and the state of Wyoming. The all-male singing group has even performed in the state of Washington in previous years. The group typically consists of 8 to 10 vocalists but this semester the veterans returning are dwindling in number. The boys are…
Brett Maciech bmaciech@uwyo.edu The WyoCourses user interface has been recently upgraded to allow for greater flexibility and easier access for both students and faculty. Canvas, developer of WyoCourses software, introduced its newest version of the user interface (UI) at the same time when the WyoCourses steering committee was looking into further implementing updates…
Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu With all the new bits coming out about marginalization of groups and people I would like to point out something that is very hard for young, college-aged adults to believe: just because someone does not like the things you do or treats you like a huge tool, because you…
Andrew Server aserver@uwyo.edu Those rights that are outlined by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution ought not be limited by any degree on public premises. Yet we see many public and land grant university campuses setting in place First Amendment zones or safe spaces where students might be able…
Austin Morgan amorga14@uwyo.edu When ideology enters, reason evacuates and, in the power vacuum, fascists mobilize. The American public, transfixed with the spectacles created by political ideology and its anti-intellectual machinery—Donald Trump, climate change denial, the war on drugs and others— have become zombified lobotomites. With a hypnotic fervor, the public is lullabied…
Taylor Hannon thannon@uwyo.edu “Stephanie you suck! Glad they put you back on this court so you can help your team lose!” This is just one example of some of the phrases heard at a recent women’s basketball game directed towards the other team. When did cheering for your team’s player become putting another…
Matt Rooney Mrooney3@uwyo.edu “The Good Dinosaur” is the kind of movie that makes you feel like running into the wilderness and hugging every tree until you break it in half with your love. However, it may also cause people to run through a forest, spitting on everything in sight and kicking squirrels that give…
Alec Schaffer aschaff3@uwyo.edu Ponder this description of a standard college party: an over crowded, loud, sweaty, sloppy and odorous gathering, relieved of all moral and normative inhibitions; fueled by a mysterious and potentially dangerous house blend of bottom shelf intoxicants. This degradation of drinking culture is essentially a trademarked trait of the…
Nathan Forest nforest@uwyo.edu While Allison Waldvogel is quite an approachable person to sit down and talk with, the way she plays volleyball is anything but tame. Waldvogel is a soft-spoken person who is majoring in physiology and wants to be a pharmacist one day. Waldvogel has only been on the Cowgirl…
Rachel Jane Allen rallen19@uwyo.edu “In 2011, the American College Health Association–National College Health Assessment… found that about 30 percent of college students reported feeling ‘so depressed that it was difficult to function’ at some time in the past year.” Since that year, the number has gone up to 44%. It’s time to face…
Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu We open on the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico City. A lovely tracking shot follows the celebrating, skeleton-dressed crowd, landing on a man in a suit with a girl on his arm as he tails another man dressed all in white. The man is James Bond (Daniel Craig) and he…
