In 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a student at Virginia Tech, killed 32 people in one of the deadliest campus shootings in U.S. history. About 1,500 miles away, Ben Reed, a teacher at Standley Lake High School in Westiminster had seen enough. But little did he know what his search for a…
Yesterday, CU-Boulder Police spokesman Ryan Huff called 4/20 on the campus, which was closed for the second consecutive year, a “non-event,” and the description is apt. As a huge crowd gathered at Denver’s Civic Center Park for a rally marred by a shooting, CU-Boulder, which once drew 10,000-revelers-plus on 4/20,…
Last week, CU-Boulder Police’s Ryan Huff outlined plans related to the campus’ closure on 4/20, and said most visitor-pass applications seemed inspired by Friday’s Macklemore concert rather than plans to protest the second consecutive April 20 shutdown. And so it went: While a huge crowd gathered at Denver’s Civic Center…
Earlier this week, we chatted with CU-Boulder Police’s Ryan Huff about the school’s preparations to close campus on 4/20 for the second consecutive year. He said many of the 100 or so people who’d requested visitor passes for tomorrow seemed more focused on attending tonight’s Macklemore concert than protesting the…
Last month, CU-Boulder announced that it would be closing campus on 4/20 for the second consecutive year — and attorney Rob Corry, who unsuccessfully challenged the shutdown in 2012, is encouraging Boulderites to take part in Denver’s 4/20 rally. If many of them do so, CU-Boulder could be quiet this…
At this writing, as we’ve noted, a big snowstorm predicted throughout the week has yet to materialize, but it’s said to be coming around midday. No matter how much white stuff falls, though, a snow day is unlikely to be announced for the Boulder Valley School District, which didn’t grant…
Last month, after CU-Boulder announced that it would be closing campus on 4/20 for the second consecutive year, marijuana attorney Rob Corry, who unsuccessfully challenged last year’s shutdown, said he was exploring the possibility of seeking a permit for a 4/20 event at CU this year as an alternative to…
Update: Tustin Amole, spokesperson for the Cherry Creek School District, told us on February 28 that a decision about the future of Overland High School teacher Carly McKinney, who was put on leave after news broke about controversial photos and tweets sent from her Twitter account, was likely to come…
CU-Boulder recently announced that it would close its campus on April 20 for the second consecutive year in an effort to squelch the annual 4/20 rally traditionally held there. Attorney Rob Corry, who last year took CU to court in an unsuccessful attempt to thwart the closure, has some new…
While speaking about CU-Boulder’s plan to close the campus again on April 20 in an effort to end the 4/20 event there, spokesman Bronson Hilliard stressed the need to communicate clearly about the university’s rationale, and he wasn’t kidding. After we published posts about a threatened lawsuit to block the…
CU-Boulder’s decision to close campus on April 20 for the second straight year in an effort to permanently squash the long-running 4/20 event there has already generated complaints and threats of legal action. Current representatives of Colorado University Student Government (CUSG) aren’t fans of a campus shutdown, either, and argued…
Last year, CU-Boulder closed its campus on April 20 in an attempt to squelch the annual 4/20 event — and the university, whose spokesman deems the 2012 shutdown a great success, plans to repeat the feat next month. Can anything stop this action? Well, the ACLU of Boulder is asking…
Those of us forced to — make that “allowed to”! — read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter in school tend to come away from the experience with disgust for the way society makes heroine Hester Prynne wear the sin of adultery on her clothes in the form of a red…
Yesterday, CU-Boulder announced that for the second consecutive year, the campus would be closed on April 20 in an effort to squelch the annual 4/20 event there; see our original coverage below. Why take this controversial tack again? CU-Boulder spokesman Bronson Hilliard is straight-forward, deeming last year’s approach a “great…
Has there been an uproar among students and staffers at Boulder High today — the first full school session since news broke that principal Kevin Braney had been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and a couple of other charges? Far from it, says Briggs Gamblin, spokesman for the Boulder…
Strange things happen when you poke around the “Ghosts of Auraria,” as we did in this week’s feature on whether certain promises, supposedly made to the community when the college campus was built, were ever kept. This week, one alert reader presented us with a rare copy of a study…
Late last month, Overland High teacher Carly McKinney made international headlines after being suspended in the wake of tweets featuring NSFW photos and jokes about drugs; examples below. Since then, there’s been a month of silence from the Cherry Creek School District. But according to a district spokeswoman, that quiet…
Talk about awkward timing. There’s no direct connection, monetary or otherwise, between CU-Boulder’s proposal for an 8.7 percent tuition hike next year and a plan for a $170 million upgrade to the university’s sports facilities; see graphics and more below. But a CU spokesman concedes that the school is already…
A group of University of Denver students got a surreal lesson last week at the intersection of pop culture and political correctness, social activism and Internet memes. While filming a Harlem Shake video (see it on the next page) with DU’s former mascot, Denver Boone, the group got an earful…
Students in Denver’s public schools will no longer be ticketed by police for minor infractions, such as using bad language or getting into a scuffle in which no one is hurt, according to the terms of an agreement signed today by superintendent Tom Boasberg and Denver police chief Robert White…
Update: Yesterday, we interviewed school board member Denise Montagu, who criticized the press for hyping the tale of Alex Evans, seven, who was allegedly suspended from Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary for pretending to throw a grenade; read it below. But even as the school’s PTO plans twin rallies tomorrow, KHOW’s…
Last Friday, Alex Evans, a second grader at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary, was suspended for playing an imaginary game that included throwing a pretend grenade. Such stories are manna from heaven for those who think political correctness runs amok at schools. But while a local critic of Mary Blair policy…
