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Fast FAFSA Facts Fast FAFSA Facts

Thursday, December 12, 2024 | Tiana Padilla

Fast FAFSA Facts

What students should know about the new financial aid form.

Social Gaming with Skyhawk Pride Social Gaming with Skyhawk Pride

Thursday, November 7, 2024 | Junior Parrish

Social Gaming with Skyhawk Pride

Gamers join each other for a night of fun at the LAN Part
Costumes at the Fort Costumes at the Fort

Thursday, November 7, 2024 | Tiana Padilla

Costumes at the Fort

Students show spirit for Halloween 

New Executive Order Prohibits Smoking on State Grounds New Executive Order Prohibits Smoking on State Grounds

New Executive Order Prohibits Smoking on State Grounds

by Benjamin Mandile

Effective Jan. 1 2019 smoking will be banned on state campuses due to an executive order signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper on Nov. 2. The use of any substance including marijuana, tobacco and cloves will be prohibited.


 

 

Effective Jan. 1 2019 smoking will be banned on state campuses due to an executive order signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper on Nov. 2. The use of any substance including marijuana, tobacco and cloves will be prohibited. Due to federal law marijuana is already a banned substance on Fort Lewis College’s campus. In an email sent to FLC students FLC President Tom Stritikus said that the...

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A Creative Approach to Raising Awareness A Creative Approach to Raising Awareness

A Creative Approach to Raising Awareness

Tiarney Andreas

Thousands of indigenous women go missing, are murdered, or are sexually assaulted in North America every year.

Thousands of indigenous women go missing, are murdered, or are sexually assaulted in North America every year. In honor of these Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, Kelsey Lansing, the Cultural Outreach Coordinator for the Sexual Assault Services Organization has begun an artistic initiative in hopes of raising awareness for these fallen sisters. Touched by the efforts of Tanaya...

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How FLC Students Prepared for the Midterm Elections

Kimberly Cassels

Fort Lewis College students who voted in the midterm elections shared how they gathered information about candidates, amendments and proposals prior to casting their vote.

Fort Lewis College students who voted in the midterm elections shared how they gathered information about candidates, amendments and proposals prior to casting their vote. Many students used Google and the election booklets but also conversed with friends and faculty to educate themselves before casting their votes. CNN and NPR were online sources that FLC Will Berger used. Matt...

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Fort Lewis College Replaces Old Parking Meters

Max Rodgers

Old parking meters were replaced in August for card-friendly meters that can be monitored remotely by Fort Lewis Police.

Old parking meters were replaced in August for card-friendly meters that can be monitored remotely by Fort Lewis Police. The previous meters were 18 years old and due for replacement, said Brett Deming, police chief of Fort Lewis College. The new meters have SIM cards so information ranging from malfunction diagnostics to time expiration can be monitored from a computer in the campus...

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Stemming out: Research beyond the classroom

By Kimberly Cassels

Senior seminar students at Fort Lewis College have the opportunity to work on professional projects for the geoscience and biology departments. 

Senior seminar students at Fort Lewis College have the opportunity to work on professional projects for the geoscience and biology departments.  Geoscience students are working with NASA to create a satellite that will measure the water in snowpack on Red Mountain Pass.  A group of biology students is working on the early stages of the established lung-on-a-chip project, where...

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