By Scott Callahan
The Rocky Mountain Collegian
As CSU's prominent image as "the green university" becomes more and more visible nation-wide, the school will hit its biggest green stage yet on Aug. 25.
Hundreds of students will go through every scrap of trash at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, ensuring the Democratic Party will reach their goal of recycling, reusing or composting 85 percent of the waste generated by the convention.
Rebecca Allen was an outdoor enthusiast. So much so that everyone who knew her was aware of her passion for physical activity. But it was this passion that led to tragedy early Tuesday morning when she and friend Jen Garvey rode their bicycles along Drake Road and were struck by a man in a 2004 black Saab.
Rebecca Allen, a 2002 CSU graduate and undergraduate program administrator for the Department of Journalism and Technical Communication, died this morning in a bicycle crash, according to the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
According to the report, the police received a phone call at 5:20 a.
Monday night was marked by a euphoric patriotic kick-off to the National Law Enforcement Exploring Conference at Moby Gym.
The conference, which is held every two years, began in 1979 at Michigan State University. Law enforcement exploring is club designed to train teenagers ages 14 to 20 how to pursue a career in law enforcement.
CSU is creating a school for the environment to prepare students for the emerging green economy.
The university's new School of Global Environmental Sustainability will include professors and researchers from multiple CSU departments and could start offering new courses as early as 2010, according to a university statement.
With a higher water level in the Cache La Poudre River this year, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office and river experts warn river rats to use caution when rafting or tubing the stream.
The sheriff's office reports four drowning incidents in Larimer County already this season, two of them from water sport-related accidents on the river.
The CSU budget for fiscal year 2008, which allocates a little over $1 million of new revenue to faculty expansion, has drawn scrutiny from faculty for placing too much emphasis on research and non-academic stretch goals, while not shoring up the academic guts of the university sufficiently.
Did you know that there's an election in just a few weeks? It's OK if you didn't, because you can safely skip it; there's no way your vote could possibly matter.
The elections being held on Aug. 12 are the Democratic and Republican party primaries, to choose each party's candidates for races from U.
How many CSU students does it take to make a green event?
If you're talking about an event the size of the Democratic National Convention, you're looking at a pretty hefty number.
CSU's Live Green Team is looking for 520 able-bodied members of the CSU community to do an unthinkable task in the quest for DNC "greendom:" They want volunteers to root through the political waste -- literally -- in an attempt to reuse or compost 85% percent of the trash generated by the event.
Apparently, it's not just the presidential candidates that are pandering to voters this election season.
On Friday, President Bush released a statement announcing an agreement between the U.S. and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal Al-Maliki to "a general timeline" for the withdrawal of U.