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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By Mia McCormick Indy Staff Writer
Running Purgatory means all work and snow play.
How much do we know about what it takes to keep a ski mountain running? What happens after the last chair unloads at 4 p.m.? Purgatory Ski Resort, the closest ski area to Durango, has an array of workers who experience sides of the mountain that the public doesn’t. They are the behind-the-scenes crew, who make sure that the slopes are ready for any rider.
THE TEAM...
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By Mia McCormick Indy Staff Writer
After testing positive for COVID-19, one reporter tells-all about her stay in FLC's COVID hotel
Isolation room 336 smelled like cleaning products and fresh linens the first time I entered it. When I hurried out the door on my fourth and final day in the COVID hotel, the air that followed me was thick with the odor of soggy, untouched food and unhinged boredom.
I got my positive COVID-19 test results on Jan. 28. A few hours after I got the dreaded email from the health...
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By Julian Zastrocky Indy Staff Writer
From coffee-making to plant-care to art, here's how some students on campus pay the bills.
What better way to make a little extra money than a side hustle. Some students at Fort Lewis College sometimes need a little extra money, so they use their interests and skills to make the extra cash they need. But other times that little extra cash can turn into more.
Devyn Valandra is a sophomore at FLC, majoring in entrepreneurship. When he was a senior in high school, he took a...
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By Dorothy Elder Editor-in-chief
Behind a four-day, 232 mile prayer run that stretched all around the Four Corners region to raise awareness and pray for missing and murdered Indigenous women.
For around an hour on a cold, brisk Friday in February, the First Assembly of God’s church parking lot in rural Dove Creek saw the most action it’d probably seen in years, as cars swiftly pulled in, sandwiches were exchanged and runners eagerly drank water.
It was a small pitstop, just off U.S. Highway 491, in a rather large endeavor: a four-day, 232 mile prayer run that...
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