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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. 

ASFLC Meeting 2/26
ASFLC Meeting 2/26

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Tiana Padilla

ASFLC Meeting 2/26

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

Martin Luther King Jr. March
Martin Luther King Jr. March

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Junior Parrish

Martin Luther King Jr. March

Fort Lewis students and staff honor the civil rights leader


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FLC Student Passes Away in Car Accident Over Weekend

By Ryan Simonovich

Fort Lewis College student Allen Duke, 23, died from injuries sustained from being hit by an SUV while walking along Main Avenue on Saturday, Lt. Ray Shupe of the Durango Police Department said. Duke died at Mercy Regional Medical Center from severe injuries, Shupe said.

 

Fort Lewis College student Allen Duke, 23, died from injuries sustained from being hit by an SUV while walking along Main Avenue on Saturday, Lt. Ray Shupe of the Durango Police Department said. Duke died at Mercy Regional Medical Center from severe injuries, Shupe said.   “Very sad news as we lost one of our Fort Lewis College family this weekend,” an FLC statement...

KDUR New Music Review: Thundercat and Crystal Fairy

Article by Douglas DuPont Photo by Jarred Green

Greetings, reader. It’s Douglas here, back with some music that’ll hopefully make you uneasy. The Independent News Organization and myself will be bringing you these short-yet-sweet breakdowns of two new interesting records bi-weekly. Today, both records come from very different genres. A testament to the diversity one can hear regularly on KDUR–where these discoveries occur, and where the music matters.

Greetings, reader. It’s Douglas here, back with some music that’ll hopefully make you uneasy. The Independent News Organization and myself will be bringing you these short-yet-sweet breakdowns of two new interesting records bi-weekly. Today, both records come from very different genres. A testament to the diversity one can hear regularly on KDUR–where these discoveries occur,...

City Celebrates Bike Commuting

Story by Ryan Simonovich Photos by Isaac Furtney

A Winter Bike To Work Day event was held from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. last Friday at 1027 Main Ave. The event was held by the city of Durango to recognize, encourage and promote bicycle commuters in the winter.

A Winter Bike To Work Day event was held from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. last Friday at 1027 Main Ave. The event was held by the city of Durango to recognize, encourage and promote bicycle commuters in the winter.   There was food and drink provided by local businesses and free bicycle tune-ups provided by San Juan Cycles, Amber Blake, director of transportation and sustainability for the...

Time to Do Our Part

Opinion by Evan Wick

For a while here at Fort Lewis College we have been hearing a lot of talk about the future of our institution.

For a while here at Fort Lewis College we have been hearing a lot of talk about the future of our institution. In the past year, we have participated in listening sessions, committee meetings, and public forums where we’ve debated fiercely about a phrase: liberal arts education. We became so focused on three words that I believe we can all agree on is important to FLC, that maybe...

Movie Review: Arrival

Article by Roy Adams Graphic by Allison Anderson

With the current trend average sci-fi thrillers being made almost every year, such as Interstellar, Gravity, and The Martian; all laden with the same general story, given over and over again, who wants another one?  

With the current trend average sci-fi thrillers being made almost every year, such as Interstellar, Gravity, and The Martian; all laden with the same general story, given over and over again, who wants another one?  Director Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Prisoners) seems to think people do.  I was skeptical when queuing up his latest work,  Arrival (2016), yet after finishing the...

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