A University of Colorado building funded largely through oil and gas revenues played host Tuesday night to an event devoted to ending conventional energy production. The event, titled,“Coming Clean: Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal," was hosted on the Boulder campus's Benson Earth Sciences building, named such because of an $8 million gift from Bruce Benson, who made his fortune off oil and gas.
Whatever happened to former University of Colorado President Betsy Hoffman?
After resigning in March 2005 amid seemingly endless turmoil - including CU's nationally watched football recruiting scandal, CU Professor Ward Churchill calling Sept. 11th victims “little Eichmanns,” and her embarassing state legislative testimony where she described a derogatory reference to the female body as a "term of endearment", Hoffman fell off Colorado's political radar.
Face The State's Kate Melvin and Brad Jones review the week that was in Colorado news. More >
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On this week's Face The State Weekend Edition: The week that was in Colorado news, with a focus on judicial retention elections and local government. The Independence Institute's Linda Gorman disagrees with CU's new push toward standardized testing, and Paul Jacob comes out against Referendum O. The Associated Press can't count, and Colorado's 4th CD is home to one of America's most hotly contested U.S. House races. More >
Generally speaking, student groups tend to be a small and disorganized bunch. Every once in a while, they are able to make a splash, but that’s only when they aren’t flaking on their events or canceling at the last minute.
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The future of Colorado's equal opportunity programs was the source of a two-hour debate Thursday night at the University of Colorado’s law school in Boulder. Experts representing both sides of Amendment 46, a measure that would prohibit race and gender preferences in public education, hiring and contracting presented their case to an audience of about 70 people, mostly law students.
Face The State's Kate Melvin joins FTS managing editor Brad Jones for a look at the week that was in Colorado news. More >
In the aftermath of a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a controversial prohibition on all guns in Washington, D.C., college activists are now requesting that the University of Colorado lift its own on-campus firearm ban. The first stop: Thursday's Board of Regents meeting where members of the Colorado Springs chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus say they will submit a petition urging the board to reconsider the ban.
