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A Community Builds a Bookstore A Community Builds a Bookstore

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Tiana Padilla

A Community Builds a Bookstore

Maria’s Bookshop celebrates 40 years in Durango  
Vibrant Voices Vibrant Voices

Friday, May 24, 2024 | Kiiyahno Edgewater

Vibrant Voices

The past, present and future of representing diversity on campus.
Paying the Price for Sustainability Paying the Price for Sustainability

Friday, May 24, 2024 | Perspective By: Rusty Frank

Paying the Price for Sustainability

Yes, plant-based milks are more expensive. Fort Lewis should foot the bill.  

Debunking Fungiphobia: Don't get in truffle

By: Zoe Coughlin Indy Staff Writer

A look into mushrooms growing in the area, where to find them and why they are so important.

Have you been walking in the woods in Durango or even your yard and stumbled upon a patch of mushrooms growing? If you have, that's because mushroom season is right now.   Did you ever wonder whether these mushrooms were edible or poisonous?    Mushrooms, which are part of the fungi kingdom, are decomposers and get their nutrients from organic waste material....

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Gerald Shorty: Indigenizing Psychology Gerald Shorty: Indigenizing Psychology

Gerald Shorty: Indigenizing Psychology

By Alx Lee Indy Staff Writer

FLC welcomes Shiprock local who aims to help Indigenous students succeed.

The Counseling Center added a new staff member, Gerald Shorty, assistant director of diversity and Outreach Initiatives, this semester.   Born in Shiprock, Shorty attended Nenahnezad boarding school in his childhood, he said. It was an adjustment coming from that academic setting to Shiprock High School, and later, college.  Shorty focused his studies in criminology at San...

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What’s fueling high gas prices? What’s fueling high gas prices?

What’s fueling high gas prices?

By Kealey Meyer Indy Staff Writer

How the conflict in Ukraine is impacting your commute to campus.

In Durango, you can stroll through downtown and find plenty of donation cash jars in businesses, window paintings, and street art in support of Ukraine. If these elements don’t serve as a large enough reminder of the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, a trip to the gas station might.  The war not only put countless Ukrainian citizens in danger and constant fear but is...

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The Powwow Returns The Powwow Returns

The Powwow Returns

By Tiara Yazzie and Cameron Maroney Indy Staff Writers

PHOTO ESSAY: Two years after a pandemic hiatus, Hozhoni Days is back.

With suitcases in hand and braids in place, people of all ages stood in line at the Whalen Gymnasium on April 1, eager to take in the excitement of The Hozhoni Days PowWow at Fort Lewis College after two years of its absence due to the pandemic. ‘Honoring those who never made it home’ was the theme for the 56th annual powwow at FLC,   in regard to the boarding schools where...

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From half-pipe dream to paradise From half-pipe dream to paradise

From half-pipe dream to paradise

By Julian Zastrocky Indy Staff Reporter

How two students pushed for a portable park and gave a growing community a place to skate.

A skatepark on campus. That was an idea that FLC Students Lleyton Hull and Joey Borer had when they came to Fort Lewis College in the fall of 2021. “It's a cool college,” Hull said. “But why is there not a skatepark when there are so many skaters?” So, Hull and Borer began to work towards building an on-campus skate park. Step one was to organize themselves as...

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