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By: The Scribe

Financial aid is a little like beer: Most of us can't imagine getting through college without it, but we're pretty sure that it's going to cost us somewhere down the road. Of course, as with all dependencies, it is important to recognize that dependenc...

Last spring, UCCS students voted in favor of passing the and lsquo;Take Back the Tap' initiative, a project of SEAS that will phase out selling bottled water on campus over the next three years. The ide...

We all have something to say, but we usually don't think of the newspaper as the place to say it. For one thing, newspapers tend to be little more than inert objects, largely unnoticed decorations in our daily lives. ...

Most people enter college just after graduating high school. They move into the dorms and get a chance to be free from mom and dad for the first time in their lives. I am not one of those people. I joined the Army right after high school...

It's a tradition at The Scribe that the last issue of the year is filled with the reflections and farewells of graduating writers. In the almost four years I've worked for this paper, I've read a great many columns of advice, nostalgia and bittersweet ...

My mom told me something once that I think I'll always remember. This must have been two years ago, at least, long before I ever took this job. We were at a play, an old-fashioned classical melodrama, during which the audience is supposed to cheer the ...

Let me begin by saying that this column will probably make my managing editor, Jessica Lynch, just unutterably sad. You see, Jess loves her some sports. I do not. Nevertheless, she and my athletics editor, Matt Crandall, have been trying for mo...

Apparently, 'Jersey Shore' is actually a thing. I mean, I knew it was a reality show, and I knew it was at least relatively popular, because 'South Park' mocked it roundly last season, but apparently our national attention is actually dedicated to this...

A few years ago, in a time when I was little more than a worker bee for The Scribe, I had some sort of incredible lapse of reason that caused me to run for student body president. Or, more accurately, student body tri-executive (a type of ticket that h...

Indiana Jones lied to me my entire young life. Because of him, I got into archaeology, expecting it to be all gold and giant boulders, epic global adventures and rapidly decaying Nazis. Well, it's not. It's hours upon hours with a toothbrush in th...

Today is Mardi Gras, when New Orleans steps into the cultural limelight and the national colors become purple, gold and green. Bourbon Street, Uptown and the French Quarter will play host to the largest, most flamboyant festival in the country, with do...

Last Thursday, a friend of mine pulled an all-nighter preparing for a midterm, and sent me some rather unique texts. They said things like, 'I'm sitting in the library. I don't remember getting here,' 'I think I've been incepted,' and, 'I stood in the ...

Everything that follows is true. It's a selection that I wrote last year, forgot completely and stumbled across a few days ago; you're reading it now because I think these are words that need to be said every once in a while. Saw a man in Manitou t...

When I'm not at The Scribe, working to assemble and run this lovely publication, I work part-time at a candy store. A chocolate shop, actually. And because Valentine's Day was this week, I spent about 20 hours over the last ten days or so, doing n...

To observe the representations of college in popular culture, one would think that we students occupy our time entirely by thinking about, preparing for, pining over, regretting, relishing or actually having sex. ...

Let me tell you, dear readers, a little story and lsquo;bout a boy named Bruce. Bruce was born in Los Angeles. He graduated high school at sixteen and took two bachelor's degrees from Pomona College; with his graduation from the Gould School of Law in...

Sometime about two thousand years before the birth of Christ, men in what was then Mesopotamia looked at the sky and determined to decipher the will of the gods according to their celestial representatives, the stars (and also with the livers of sacrif...

College was the first chance for many of us to discover who we are. Some of us left home for life at UCCS; others still exist in the homes of our families; not a few have families of their own. But however it happened for you, your journey into an...

Last week, Facebook was overrun with cartoon characters. This was a digital wave designed to increase awareness of child abuse by replacing all the human images on Facebook with those of the cartoons we cherished in our youths. Somehow, Lion-...