On Jan. 22 students, faculty and prestigious members of the community witnessed the grand opening of the newly completed Event Center. The grand opening was followed by the second annual Blackout Night, where an estimated 1,337 fans gathered to support the Mountain Lions men’s and women’s basketball teams.
Jan. 22 marked a very special date for UCCS athletics with the opening of the Gallogly Event Center. To celebrate, the athletic department hosted a tailgate followed by a men’s and women’s basketball double header.
As the city of Colorado Springs welcomes more new retail land development, especially in the very near proximity of UCCS, many wonder if this will mean more jobs available to students.
Grade forgiveness has long been a topic of debate at UCCS, but a decision made last March by CU-Boulder’s Faculty Assembly may have ended the discussion for the foreseeable future.
After five years of service to Colorado Springs residents, the Front Range Express (better known as the FREX) will be shutting down on Feb. 12 due to lack of funding.
Ethics education in the College of Business received a boost Jan. 19, accepting a $1.25 million grant from the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative to further the study of business ethics.
The search to replace former Vice Chancellor of Student Success and Enrollment Management (VCSSEM) Robert Wonnett ended Monday with the selection of Homer “Bucky” Wesley from the Mississippi University for Women.
“All types of blood are needed…unless you’re gay,” read the flyers posted around campus by Queer Student Union (QSU) last Wednesday. The group was protesting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule prohibiting gay men from donating blood.
If your vagina could talk, what would it say? “The Vagina Monologues,” the notorious and celebrated play written by Eve Ensler, seeks to answer that question through a series of monologues about various women’s vagina-centric experiences.
UCCS student Nina Peterson spent over 60 hours using a thread, fiber and a ballpoint pen creating a work of art entitled “Judas,” currently on display in the Business of Arts Center (BAC) in Manitou Springs.
Thanks to the generosity of private donors, the School of Public Affairs will be hosting its first scholar in residence this spring semester: Colorado Attorney General John Suthers.
Held without the bells and whistles of most celebrations was the faculty/staff Pride committee’s “Night of Pride,” a Jan. 29 event celebrating diversity and inclusiveness.
The Science and Engineering building once boasted three HD, flat-screen TVs for student entertainment. Now, the building’s walls can only boast thick, multi-colored wires sticking out of sockets–attached to nothing.
The Pub may become a thriving campus hotspot for students next September when it starts serving full strength beer and wine shortly after a complete renovation and name-change.
Disney’s Approach to Business Excellence, the Disney Institute’s traveling professional development program, will be coming to UCCS on March 23. For $395 ($345 with promotional code), the program will offer students and professionals insight into the business practices and principles that have been the backbone of Disney’s success for the past 75 years.
UCCS’ Relay for Life, an annual, nationwide event created to honor those battling cancer and remember those who have passed, will be held at UCCS on April 30 at 4 Diamonds from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
UCCS is teaming up with local high schools in District Two to create a new initiative intended to help prepare students to start thinking about college realistically at a younger age.
With the support of the Pikes Peak Gay and Lesbian Community Center, the GBLT Resource Center and campus community, gender neutral bathrooms have come to Columbine. The installation means UCCS will join its sister school CU-Boulder, where unisex/single user restrooms are all over campus.
Self-defense training teaches women to act confidently, fight back, and never do as the attacker wants or says. On Feb. 1, one UCCS student effectively resisted and escaped her aggressor.
Student clubs hoping to obtain student fee funding for events and activities this spring may be out of luck, as the Student Government Association’s (SGA) club and organization funds have dried up for the year.
The opening of the partially student fee-funded Gallogly Events Center has brought with it the attendant costs of maintaining a large building. With those costs, however, are potential revenue sources that could benefit the university and, in the long term, help alleviate budget problems, according to administrators.
Colorado Springs is hoping to begin a new program that will have city residents donate money to keep neighborhood and arterial streetlights running. The “Adopt a Streetlight” program comes only weeks after the city shut off approximately 10,000 streetlights, or about a third of the city’s lights, in order to help shore up its imbalanced budget.
At exactly 4:11 p.m. on Monday, March 8, Campus Police dispatch received a call that sent them running to The Pub. They arrived to find a student lying on the floor beneath a pool table, unresponsive.
With the slew of construction projects in recent years, old furniture and equipment is being replaced and sent to a nearby storage building as part of Facilities Services’ furniture recycling plan.
The 19-page SGA Constitution is under revision once again. One reason being that the current by-laws are in contradiction with the SGA constitution. The other is to create less time-consuming, complicated processes and better serve UCCS students.
On Feb. 24 the Sustainability Office piled all of the trash from the day in the El Pomar Plaza creating Mt. Trashmore. Students from SEAS then sorted through the trash to see how much could have been recycled.
Last December loyal hardback readers, book collectors and avid page flippers shook with fear. Amazon, America’s largest online retailer, had just hit a startling milestone: Kindles had taken over top sales figures, and physical books had been thrown to the back burner.
UCCS Business School teams with Better Business Bureau to help create award for ethical practices
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Southern Colorado and UCCS’s College of Business recently teamed up to create the GE Johnson Award for Marketplace Ethics, an award which recognizes community businesses that exhibit ethical business practices and commit to maintaining a fair marketplace.
In further efforts to attempt to thwart cheating and improve academic honesty at UCCS, the educational policy and university standards committee has come up with a revised code of ethics. Intended to not only help faculty deal with cheating students but also provide students whohave unfairly been accused of cheating with a clear recourse of action.
An estimated 700 students marched from Auraria Campus to the Denver Capitol Building on Wednesday, March 3, demanding that Colorado lawmakers find alternatives to raising college tuition. Those gathered at the capitol worried that when federal stimulus money runs out next year, higher education will be hit hard, leading to tuition increases and restricted access to education.
Six finalists are left after UCCS’s Battle of the Bands opening round last week. They will compete March 13 at the Blacksheep for a chance to open for the 3OH!3 concert this April.
A common belief among students is that Faculty Course Questionnaires (FCQs) hold little power. Consequently, many students feel that the evaluations are a waste of time and effort.
After worries that the concert might be called on account of lightning, 3OH!3 took the stage last Thursday in the harsh weather. The concert was well received by the crowd and 3OH!3 made the night.
K.Flay’s performance was riddled with technical difficulties after anticipation built on stage, and then lightning interrupted the performance. Yet, K.Flay still proved that girls can rap too.
It’s no secret that textbooks are expensive, even the used ones. It’s also no secret that a parking permit is pretty pricey (why else would students risk life and limb running across Austin Bluffs?). A lot of students have probably thought their money would be better spent on other things. Here are two lists of what you could buy with all the dough you don’t have any more.
At 6 p.m. on April 30, the UCCS Step and Dance Team UNIQUE will be hosting the first of what it hopes to be many successful talent shows. Held in the school’s old gym, the competition will kick off with a performance by the team’s skilled dancers.
This past Friday, the 2010-11 SGA election results were announced, with the big race for President and Vice President between Kristina Achey and Samantha Carty and Daniel Garcia and James Burge turning out in Achey and Carty’s favor.
UCCS students, along with students around the nation, compete for internships every year, hoping for any possible advantage from the experience. Unpaid internships, however, are now being questioned as a violation of labor laws.
Last October UCCS student Cherise Fantus set out to capitalize on her passion for words at Cripple Creek’s Wheelmobile event. The wheelmobile, a 32-foot Winnebago, tours the nation in search of contestants for TV’s number one game show, Wheel of Fortune.
Not your mother’s vending machines What’s with all the new dispensaries in Colorado Springs?
Amendment 20, approved by Colorado voters in 2000, allows patients with qualified conditions, such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV/AIDS and severe pain to use medical marijuana and outlines the protocol for registering medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado.Licensed patients may have up to two ounces of loose marijuana and six plants. Patients, according to Amendment 20, may also choose primary caretakers to help them.
In 1936, the movie “Reefer Madness (Tell Your Children)” was released. It was part of an alleged government push that began in the ‘20s to sway public opinion against marijuana. The following year, the Marijuana Tax Act passed, starting the nation down the path towards ultimately criminalizing the growing, buying or selling of cannabis in the U.S.
*Nevada has laws decriminalizing cannabis possession for adults age 21 and over; non-medicinal cannabis possession remains a felony with a minimum one-year and a maximum four-year prison sentence for adults under age 21. Thus, Nevada is not considered to have decriminalized marijuana.
*Maryland has an active medical marijuana program, but this is really an affirmative defense law rather than an active program. Therefore, it is not included above. Information acquired through the Drug Enforcement Agency records.
The stories are often similar. A person suffering from chronic pain as a result of injury or illness seeks help. The pharmaceutical drugs they receive either do not help, or are too laden with side-effects to make their use worthwhile. So patients look for alternative treatments, some black-market, some legal, for solace. Many end up using marijuana.
It’s election time again, and that means you, the students, get the chance to choose your representation in student government for the 2010-2011 school year.
The CU system is upgrading its Student Information System (SIS) to the new Integrated Student Information System (ISIS) in time for registration of Fall 2010 classes. SIS is being discontinued after 20 years of use due to the current software vendor no longer supporting the system.
Take Back the Night is a longstanding event that encourages awareness about violence against women. UCCS will be hosting a Take Back the Night event on April 15 that is open to anyone interested in the cause.
The business school has received the seal of approval from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). This accreditation ensures that the College of Business and Administration will remain competitive for the years to come.
Once a private institution owned by the City of Colorado Springs, the Beth-El College of Nursing merged with UCCS in 1997. Now a college within the university, Beth-El continues to offer both undergraduate and graduate programs and is up for accreditation this year.
Student clubs hoping to obtain student fee funding for events and activities this spring may be out of luck, as the Student Government Association’s (SGA) club and organization funds have dried up for the year.
On March 30, Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak addressed the staff and faculty of UCCS for a long-awaited campus budget update. The University Center theatre was at full capacity when the Chancellor began her presentation by saying, “We are going to make it. We are going to get through this time.”
Available apartments around Colorado Springs are filling up relatively quickly due to an influx of military personnel and a slow-down in city-wide apartment construction.
Mountain Metropolitan Transit, Colorado Springs’ public transportation provider, is conducting a study on the possibility of implementing a streetcar system in Colorado Springs.
Although the April 22 3OH!3 concert ran a deficit of over $60,000, the event was still a success from the student life perspective, according to Office of Student Activities and student life leaders.
Despite being placed amidst cotton candy and carnival games, the computers used for this year’s SGA election saw few votes and left a candidate for Senator off the ballot.
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