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University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Barack Obama at CU-Boulder: University more excited for POTUS visit than 4/20

    When chatting about President Barack Obama's planned visit to CU-Boulder this evening, university spokesman Bronson Hilliard and Ryan Huff, communications director for the CU Police Department, couldn't sound more different than they did when discussing the last sizable event on campus -- the annual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Videos: Wyclef Jean's bro smokes a bowl and other scenes from CU-Boulder 4/20

    While CU-Boulder prepares for President Barack Obama's visit this evening, memories of the reduced but still passionate 4/20 event there continue to linger like a certain kind of smoke. Below, check out three videos shot by Westword's Britt Chester -- clips of Wyclef Jean's brother, Samuel (seen her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    4/20 at CU-Boulder: Fish fertilizer used on Norlin Quad a favorite of pot growers

    Irony alert: Foul-smelling fish fertilizer of the sort CU-Boulder applied this morning to Norlin Quad, which has been closed as part of a plan to shrink the annual 4/20 event on campus, is a favorite of marijuana growers. Great minds think alike.

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Wilson Chandler: How much will his absence hurt Nuggets playoff chances?

    Denver blog posts are counting the minutes 'til 4:20. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein on how Wilson Chandler's injury impacts the Nugs. Colorado Pols thinks Barack Obama is eager to pick a fight over student loans -- the subject that's bringing him to CU-Boulder on Tuesday. Denver Egotist salutes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    CU-Boulder ranks as top Peace Corps volunteer-producing university

    Over the past few years, Boulder has ranked as America's healthiest, happiest, brainiest, foodiest, most sustainable and worst dressed city -- the list goes on. More recently, the University of Colorado at Boulder was named the top party school. So it's no surprise that CU has topped another list -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Reader: Safe-sex talk is cheap, but giving away condoms is free -- and can save lives

    Our post about Sir Richard's, a Boulder condom company with a one-for-one charity component, was spurred by a condom-giveaway project by CU-Boulder student Sean DePaula. His good deed got a shout-out from one reader.

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    CU Food and Environmental Justice Week serves up a full plate of activities

    http://www.colorado.edu/vrc/bucc/BuCC.htm​With all the great restaurants and the amazing farmers' market in Boulder, you sometimes feel like you're living in some food fairytale here. But when you don't jump down the rabbit hole, it's not hard to see how bleak the situation is around the rest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Reader: CU's possible ban on painting faces black for Black Out games can't be real, can it?

    ​Last week, we published a post about a diversity committee at the University of Colorado at Boulder looking into a possible ban on black face and body painting of the sort seen most often during so-called Black Out games -- the theory being that this form of school spirit is racially insensit ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 18, 2010

    Got Chutzpah?

    ​Last week, we published a post about a diversity committee at the University of Colorado at Boulder looking into a possible ban on black face and body painting of the sort seen most often during so-called Black Out games -- the theory being that this form of school spirit is racially insensit ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 4, 2010

    Out of This World

    ​Last week, we published a post about a diversity committee at the University of Colorado at Boulder looking into a possible ban on black face and body painting of the sort seen most often during so-called Black Out games -- the theory being that this form of school spirit is racially insensit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    In case of apocolypse, arm yourself at the nearest university police department

    Who knew? Several Colorado universities feature gun-storage lockers for students who want to bare arms but can't keep their arsenal on their hip or in their dorm room. From today's Denver Post: On any given day, there may be up to 50 rifles with scopes, shotguns, handguns and long knives stored a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    CU bans Nerf guns: Here's our top five list of other dangers it should nix next

    Beware a fusillade of spongy, padded death.​CU-Boulder has banned Nerf guns being used in an on-campus game called Humans vs. Zombies, ostensibly because cops seeing the handle of the weapon protruding from pants or pockets might think a student was packing a real weapon as opposed to one prim ... More >>

  • Film

    September 24, 2009

    The Escapist, University of Colorado International Film Series

    Beware a fusillade of spongy, padded death.​CU-Boulder has banned Nerf guns being used in an on-campus game called Humans vs. Zombies, ostensibly because cops seeing the handle of the weapon protruding from pants or pockets might think a student was packing a real weapon as opposed to one prim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    CU study: Your shower may be trying to kill you

    Here comes... death!​Oh, great -- another modern convenience that could be speeding us toward an early grave. Who knew that a shower without Norman Bates might be just as potentially lethal as one with him? According to a just-released study overseen by CU-Boulder prof Norman Pace, 30 percent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Here's something those new CU cops can do with their time

    ​With students returning to the University of Colorado at Boulder campus for the fall semester, the Boulder Police Department is stepping up DUI patrols -- and the CU cops will be out in greater force, too. The university department has added six more officers as part of an overall plan to red ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    First on returning CU students' agenda: Getting smashed?

    "Um, do you have your license and registration?"​ Today, students start returning to the University of Colorado at Boulder for the fall semester, and school officials and local cops plan to greet them somewhat differently. CU's got a range of activities on the schedule, including an "Ice and D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario: Dismissed professor summer bromance

    "Smutty" UNC theater professor Vance Fulkerson and "Nutty" CU-Boulder Ethnic Studies professor Ward Churchill are no longer welcome in the classroom. Despite their differences, they will always have each other. Look for them enjoying the anonymity and autonomy of big city life as they pal around f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    CU scientists identify Mars fishin' hole

    Image by Gaetano Di Achille/University of ColoradoWhat Mars' Shalbatana lake might have looked like 3.4 billion years ago. Even as an Atlas V rocket built by Centennial's United Launch Alliance blasted off yesterday on a mission that may lead to man's return to the moon, University of Colorado at B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    Top graduation gifts include... private DJ lessons?

    A Flickr photo The University of Colorado at Boulder's commencement ceremony took place on Saturday, where grads laughed in the face of swine-flu fears with a little help from Purell. But the folks at Boulder's Cloud 9 Living, which specializes in "world-class experience gifts," know that plenty of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Avoid the swine flu and keep those hands clean, CU grads

    Oh, to have the Purell franchise at the University of Colorado at Boulder graduation ceremony, taking place at Folsom Field at 8:30 a.m. this morning. Earlier this week, reports surfaced about three possible swine-flu cases at CU, but officials decided against canceling the celebration, pimped in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    CU Chancellor, obviously high, sends students finger-wagging e-mail about staying clean on 4/20

    Photo courtesy of Flickr.Imagine this, Chancellor... times three! For some genuine comedy today, I wanted to share with you the e-mail I just received as a student at CU Boulder. It states that I shouldn't go to the famous CU 4/20 event -- where students gather in the center of the campus to "celeb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    It's almost 4/20 -- and here comes Mason Tvert

    A Flickr photoMason Tvert hasn't turned narc. He's seen wearing a Halloween costume. April 20 isn't only the anniversary of the killings at Columbine High School. It's also 4/20, a national celebration of cannabis culture -- something long supported by Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Today's Night & Day featured event: The Goldberger Week of Jewish Culture brings it all together at CU-Boulder

    David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it's come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And he's starti ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 8, 2009

    Jewish Culture 101

    David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it's come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And he's starti ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 21, 2008

    Fight for Your Rights

    David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it's come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And he's starti ... More >>

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    January 10, 2008

    The Sun's Day

    SunWorks celebrates the life-giving fire in the sky.

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    January 3, 2008

    Trivial Pursuit

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    October 4, 2007

    Razing a Ruckus

    SunWorks celebrates the life-giving fire in the sky.

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    October 4, 2007

    Spaced Out

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    September 20, 2007

    Aussie Tale

    Ten Canoes tells an age-old story.

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    March 15, 2007

    Dancing Machines

    Ten Canoes tells an age-old story.

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    September 1, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

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    April 15, 2004

    Flip Out

    Pinball Showdown pits game fanatics against machines

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    October 30, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Pinball Showdown pits game fanatics against machines

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    April 10, 2003

    Free For All

    Highlighting the week's greatest gratis event

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    March 27, 2003

    Best Radio Station

    KVCU/Radio 1190

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    March 29, 2001

    Best Musical Education on Radio

    KVCU-AM/1190

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    March 29, 2001

    Best Street Promotion Team

    3Deep Presents

  • Sports & Recreation

    March 29, 2001

    Best Web Site for Slow Modems

    All About Glaciers

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best hip-hop show

    Basementalism, KVCU-AM/1190, 4 to 7 p.m. Saturdays

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best local recording

    Local Shakedown

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best radio station

    KVCU-AM/Radio 1190

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    March 4, 1999

    Night & Day

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    October 18, 1995

    THRILLS

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    April 19, 1995

    THRILLS

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    March 8, 1995

    CRITIC'S CHOICE

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    THRILLS

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