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ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Athletics will offer free entry to home games for Indigenous community members. The policy, meant to engage Indigenous youth in collegiate athletics, came about in a meeting between a panel of SunUte Community Center employees and Travis Whipple, director of Athletics.

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Josh Emerson (Economics, ‘19), a citizen of the Navajo Nation, has not-so-quietly entered Denver’s bustling stand-up comedy scene. Emerson’s career goals are to educate his audience on political issues through humor and make it big. “I’m going to buy a house with ‘ha-ha's,’” Emerson said.

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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket! William Nollet, chair and associate professor of Physics & Engineering, confirmed that the massive streaks in the sky observed last month were from a rocket launch at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. These launches are visible in Colorado and are more noticeable shortly after sunset.

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Voter turnout blew past optimistic projections in La Plata County for the 2022 midterm elections. Paul DeBell, associate professor of Political Science, believes that the increase in turnout was due to voters’ concern over threats to democracy and women’s reproductive rights.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to award nearly $3 million to help fund seven community air monitoring projects across Colorado. Part of the proposed budget will go toward funding a student worker at ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ in the lab of Joanna Gordon Casey, an assistant professor of Physics & Engineering.

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Writing for The Durango Herald, Andrew Gulliford, professor of History, illustrated one of the most picturesque scenes in the American Northwest: Steens Mountain, Oregon. With a grounded perspective, Gulliford waxed poetic with tales filled with ranches, buckaroos, and gunfights.

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Charles Hakes, a senior lecturer of Physics & Engineering, helped The Durango Herald identify a UFO. Spotted near Grandview Ridge, the small anomaly had many wondering if the Southwest had been visited by extraterrestrial life or a cheeky drone pilot. Hakes also provided tips for any astronomical endeavors this month.

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ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ was featured in Outside magazine as one of the best schools in the country to study Adventure Education. Outside cited ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s broad range of programs that help students become wilderness therapists, guides, experiential educators, and public-lands employees.
Photo by Holly Rossman, www.hollross.com.

Fall Back

As daylight savings time ends, how experiencing awe can expand our sense of time.

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White Horse: A Novel was recently published by Erika T. Wurth (English, ‘97). Wurth’s narrative recreates the “Old Denver” that Gen X knew with a central focus on the titular White Horse bar, and laments its passing into history. 

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Paul DeBell, associate professor of Political Science, discusses voting districts that have a one-party regime in a Colorado Public Radio article. Elections may be about winning, DeBell said, but a lack of competition results in a lack of innovation and policy stagnation.
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