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…
By Rachel Allen rallen19@uwyo.edu UW College Republicans RSO claims that the university’s anti discrimination policy undermines the integrity of political clubs. According to the UW Regulation 8-234 concerning RSO’s, “membership in a University RSO shall be open to any student of the University community who is willing to subscribe to the stated aims of the…
Brett Maciech bmaciech@uwyo.edu Despite the recent state-hiring freeze, a position is being created for a UW sexual assault investigator. A vacancy in the university staff is being filled with the sex assault investigator position, as Dean of Students Sean Blackburn has been responsible for the duties until now, he said. Because the job is being…
Thomas Garvie tgarvie@uwyo.edu Issues with credits not transferring from Wyoming community colleges to UW will be less of a problem, as the university has articulated new agreements with the colleges to assure credit transfer. According to a UW press release, this will help transfer students in popular majors to meet the bachelor’s degree requirements. The…
Legislators are reworking a bill to protect private student emails from the public record, taking into consideration the concerns of journalists, students and UW administrators. The task force on digital information privacy, a committee of the Wyoming legislature, proposed the original bill because legislators saw the state’s public records laws as so open to interpretation…
To the Editor: Concerning the article “Transfer students dodge alcohol ed requirements,” there are few points we would like to clarify. Letter to the editor in response to AlcoholEDU The University of Wyoming encourages all new students to participate in AlcoholEDU and Haven when they come to campus. Since 2008, all incoming freshmen have been required…
All incoming UW freshman are required to complete an alcohol education program that spans several hours, however transfer students are exempt from the program. While many Wyoming community colleges offer similar alcohol educations programs, students are not required to take them. Northwest College in Powell does not require any alcohol education program for incoming freshman….
Students of the University of Wyoming will now pay a convenience fee if they pay their tuition with a credit card. As of June 1, any payments made with credit cards will be subjected to a fee of 2.75 percent in addition to the total cost of tuition, according to a university press release. Aaron…
A study by The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) ranked Wyoming as the state with the fourth highest number of students referred to the police, and also found black students in Wyoming are three times more likely to be referred to the police than white students. Published on April 10, the study looked at data…
The number of secular students on college campuses is at an all-time high and the number of religious students is at an all-time low, according to a University of California survey published in the fall of 2014. The Higher Education Research Institute at University of California, Los Angeles has surveyed college freshman for the past…
Wyoming ranks fourth nationally in law enforcement referrals, according to a study by the Center for Public Integrity, The studies were conducted by polling 2011 through 2012 Department of Education data. According to the study approximately 12 out of every 1000 students were referred to the police. A referral means that the school either called…
A WyoVocal petition to build a parking garage or add a permit parking lot raised enough votes to prompt further research and development by ASUW. ASUW charged the Student Outreach and Policy Committee, headed by Kadi Cooley, with the issue. According to the report released by the committee, “the main problem with a parking garage…
