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McBride: A student's call for cooperation

McBride: A student's call for cooperation

To those of you who care about the future of the McBride Honors program, please keep reading. To the rest, Fool's Gold is on the previous page.


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CSM 101: Essential for freshman success?

One enters college with certain preconceived notions, and these notions protect us from the initial shock because, for many of us, college represents a drastic change of pace. Still, a pervasive feeling of uncertainty remains, uncertainty in one's future, uncertainty in one's success, uncertainty in where one fits into the framework of the campus community.
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What are Obama's values? Rev. Wright controversy raises questions

Barack Obama has been called eloquent, inspiring, charismatic, and clean. He has been called the "first woman President" (Bill Clinton being called the first black President). He has even been called Alfred E. Neuman-esque (ok, maybe he hasn't been called that- but the resemblance is uncanny).


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Paternal altruism: Fee increase gives students no options

On Thursday, March 20, the ASCSM Senate deliberated for 90 minutes over the future of the Intermodal Transportation Fee. The discussion regarded ASCSM Resolution 2008-06, which calls for a student vote to increase the Intermodal Transportation Fee to $40 per semester on the spring 2008 ballot. As a concerned and informed student, I would like to impart some of my opinions onto the student body in this article, and I welcome your responses.


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Gravedigger: 3/24/08

March Madness - the biggest tournament in sports. There is nothing like the "win or go home" attitude that is the NCAA. Unfortunately, when I asked a kid on my floor, "So, who did you pick to win it?", he replied, with a degrading and overpowering manner, "Win what?" I casually informed him that I was talking about the NCAA tournament, to which his only reply was, "what sport?" Don't you guys think that, as college students, we have a responsibility to keep up with sports of our peers - to do stupid stuff and act like college students should? I'm not saying that you should go out and get really drunk every night, but start becoming more social.
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Shocked and awed

I have avoided commenting on the war in Iraq because I don't think the events themselves warrant the hysteria that surrounds them. But it has been five years of the same mistakes, and something has to change.


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Breaking News

• On Thursday April 24, 2008, ASCSM heard formal arguments in the contested MAC Presidential election; the ASCSM Senate voted and confirmed Jessica Bowser as the next MAC President.

• Gov. Ritter and Sen. Salazar announced a new solar energy group at the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory that will focus on solar power; CSM, NREL, CSU and CU-Boulder will work collectively on the project.

• The CSM Emergency Alert System (MEA) recently conducted its first test, sending 1,567 voice messages and 1,151 text messages to subscribers in the CSM community.






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