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What Republicans have proposed isn’t health care
The battle over health care is literally a life and death struggle. In a piece in the Washington Post, doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie...
Presidential selection transparency issues at the University of Colorado
With the selection of current interim President Todd Saliman as the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Colorado system, CU’s governing...
Campus shortcuts
When you’re ready to step up from just getting around campus to getting around faster Engineering students have most if not all their classes in the Engineering Center, but most majors aren’t that lucky. Students, especially those in the College of Arts & Sciences...
EPA under pressure to protect pollinators
Boulder-area beekeeper Tom Theobald, three other beekeepers from around the country and five environmental organizations filed a joint lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for the agency’s alleged failure to protect bees and other pollinators from ...
Healthy alternatives
I’m sitting in a wooden box, about 5 feet tall, 3 feet deep and 4 feet wide, lined by five infrared heaters that are...
2012 Student Guide | It’s your education, choose wisely
An institution like the University of Colorado Boulder has a diverse range of programs and courses for students to package together into a learning plan. Yet even amidst all of that diversity, from accounting to Yiddish, there is one constant: the Faculty Course ...
2012 Student Guide | CU students: Your tuition includes…
There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but now that you’ve (almost) paid your tuition and fees, there may be things that feel like free services, and you should take full advantage of them...
Better safe
University offers tools to improve student safety Part of the beauty of living on and around a college campus like the University of Colorado Boulder’s is the sense of community it builds. That newness, the feeling of being alone you might experience upon first ...
E-wasteful
While it is exciting to bring that cracked, scratched or toilet-damaged old clunker of a cell phone into the store and walk away with a shiny new gadget purchased with carefully saved pennies, the true cost of that pretty, new device goes beyond the money shelled out...
Boulder Creek’s bacteria battle
Not many sunbathers, tubers or other summer users of Boulder Creek know that for the past nine years the creek has had high counts of Escherichia coli (E. coli). From 13th Street to its confluence with South Boulder Creek, in-stream levels have exceeded Colorado ...
















