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Students Test the Waters Students Test the Waters

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | Nels Christensen

Students Test the Waters

Students take leaps for public health.

Home Away From Home Home Away From Home

Monday, April 14, 2025 | Anja Tabor

Home Away From Home

Exchange students at Fort Lewis shared their experiences. The ups, downs, and learning curves that come with studying abroad.
Listen to your Gut
 Listen to your Gut

Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Tiana Padilla

Listen to your Gut

How food insecurity impacts your stomach microbiome

ASFLC Meeting 3/12
 ASFLC Meeting 3/12

Monday, March 31, 2025
Nels Christensen

ASFLC Meeting 3/12

What students should know about the weekly meeting of the Associated Students of Fort Lewis College

Catalyzing Creativity
 Catalyzing Creativity

Monday, March 24, 2025
Manhattan Adams

Catalyzing Creativity

Undergraduate Students Get Hands-On Research Experience at Fort Lewis College
ASFLC Meeting 3/5
 ASFLC Meeting 3/5

Monday, March 24, 2025
Kylie Small

ASFLC Meeting 3/5

What students should know about the weekly meeting from the Associated Students of Fort Lewis College. 

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What made the Game Stop? Recent trading controversy sparks national conversation about the stock market, echoed in the halls of FLC

By Travis Dalenberg Indy Staff Writer

After a frenzy of dizzying digits, totals tallied, integers imputed and decimals dotted, purchasing shares on the popular stock trading and investment app, Robin Hood, was abruptly halted.

After a frenzy of dizzying digits, totals tallied, integers imputed and decimals dotted, purchasing shares on the popular stock trading and investment app, Robin Hood, was abruptly halted. For months before the event, retail investors loosely organized on the Reddit forum, WallStreetBets, to coordinate a collective purchasing of AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC), Nokia (NOK), and most...

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Men’s Basketball confronts Covid-19

By Jack Boggs Indy Staff Writer

The Fort Lewis College men’s basketball team experienced a 21-day pause to their season due to contracting the virus when they returned to campus after going home for winter break.

The Fort Lewis College men’s basketball team experienced a 21-day pause to their season due to contracting the virus when they returned to campus after going home for winter break. While on campus last semester, the team had zero positive cases, but the team fouled out when they went home for winter break, Brandon Leimbach, director of athletics at FLC, said. Some players on the...

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Black Student Union uses Black History Month as an opportunity to look forward Black Student Union uses Black History Month as an opportunity to look forward

Black Student Union uses Black History Month as an opportunity to look forward

By Dorothy Elder Indy Staff Writer

Following a summer of protests for lost black lives and racial inequality, illustrating a grand resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, Fort Lewis College’s Black Student Union brought events to campus to honor Black History Month. 

 

Following a summer of protests for lost black lives and racial inequality, illustrating a grand resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, Fort Lewis College’s Black Student Union brought events to campus to honor Black History Month.  At the beginning of the month, on Feb. 5, FLC students, as well as members of the larger Durango community, gathered outside FLC’s clock...

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Beyond Chemistry: FLC professor, Joslynn Lee, works to increase Native American representation in the sciences Beyond Chemistry: FLC professor, Joslynn Lee, works to increase Native American representation in the sciences

Beyond Chemistry: FLC professor, Joslynn Lee, works to increase Native American representation in the sciences

By Dorothy Elder Indy Staff Writer

It was important to Dr. Joslynn Lee, Fort Lewis College assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, when she received the call that informed her that she was selected to join a national cohort of scientists all chosen to be featured on a STEM Trading Card.

It was important to Dr. Joslynn Lee, Fort Lewis College assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, when she received the call that informed her that she was selected to join a national cohort of scientists all chosen to be featured on a STEM Trading Card. The call came from Science Delivered, a national science education non-profit, who provides a database of people in science,...

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Campus Heroes: How FLC make do with COVID-19 and budget cuts

By Jackson Zinsmeyer Indy Staff Writer

As Fort Lewis College students have had to adjust to campus life with COVID-19, the staff has had to adapt and overcome this virus as well.

As Fort Lewis College students have had to adjust to campus life with COVID-19, the staff has had to adapt and overcome this virus as well. Along with COVID-19 changing how the 2020 fall semester would work, budget cuts hit FLC and caused the administration to lay off staff members over the summer. Without the FLC staff constantly working for the students, this semester would not have...

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