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Thursday, November 7, 2024 | Junior Parrish

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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 

Reclaiming the Written Word
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Sunday, November 3, 2024
Tiana Padilla

Reclaiming the Written Word

How Indigenous authors are finding their voice

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El Centro de Muchos Colores hosts Ballet Folklórico de Los Angeles for Hispanic Heritage Month El Centro de Muchos Colores hosts Ballet Folklórico de Los Angeles for Hispanic Heritage Month

El Centro de Muchos Colores hosts Ballet Folklórico de Los Angeles for Hispanic Heritage Month

By: Alx Lee Indy Staff Writer

Students joined Ballet Folklórico de Los Angeles for a luncheon on Tuesday, Sept.17 at El Centro de Muchos Colores.

Students joined Ballet Folklórico de Los Angeles for a luncheon on Tuesday, Sept.17 at El Centro de Muchos Colores. This event kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month which runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15.  Ballet Folklórico de Los Angeles, a Los Angeles based dance company founded in 2011, visited Fort Lewis for Fiesta on the Mesa.  Ballet Folklorico raised many topics of...

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Q&A with Carson Ingram and Katelynn Simpson, the New Senators for ASFLC

By Barbara Edwards Indy Staff Writer

Carson Ingram, junior, and Katelynn Simpson, sophomore were elected as senators for the Associated Students of Fort Lewis College table Sept. 11 to serve for the 2019-2020 academic year. 

 

Carson Ingram, junior, and Katelynn Simpson, sophomore were elected as senators for the Associated Students of Fort Lewis College table Sept. 11 to serve for the 2019-2020 academic year.  Q: How long is a senator's term? Do senators often get reelected? Senator’s run for a full school year and must be re-elected at the end of the academic year, Ingram said. For the...

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ASFLC Considers Institutionalizing Posters Following Discriminatory Acts ASFLC Considers Institutionalizing Posters Following Discriminatory Acts

ASFLC Considers Institutionalizing Posters Following Discriminatory Acts

By: Taylor Hutchison Indy Staff Writer

The Associated Students of Fort Lewis College discussed transgender rights, and the posters educating students about the discrimination of transgender people in bathrooms, at the meeting Wednesday night.

The Associated Students of Fort Lewis College discussed transgender rights, and the posters educating students about the discrimination of transgender people in bathrooms, at the meeting Wednesday night. First-year-ambassadors, Robert Dennett and Iain McCourt, asked Prism President Xander Hughes to bring attention to the posters.  The posters have repeatedly been removed in the...

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What the citizens of Durango can expect from this year’s fire season

By; Nate DeCreamer

With the fire season approaching, citizens of Durango can expect a much less impactful fire season compared to last year.


 

 

With the fire season approaching, citizens of Durango can expect a much less impactful fire season compared to last year. Throughout the calendar year in Colorado, there is an accumulation of water during the winter followed by a series of drier months throughout the spring and summer, said Jon Harvey, assistant professor of geoscience at Fort Lewis. May and June are the driest out of all...

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Have a Library Fine? Bring a Can of Food to Grub Hub

By: Mandy Lorenson

The Food for Fines Program is a partnership the Grub Hub and Reed Library have created in order to provide another outlet for those who cannot pay their fines for their overdue books in cash.


 

 

The Food for Fines Program is a partnership the Grub Hub and Reed Library have created in order to provide another outlet for those who cannot pay their fines for their overdue books in cash. To get rid of fine a student has, all they have to do is bring in a can of food to the library. “We want to give out patrons [sic]  a chance to pay down their fines in an easier...

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