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A Creative Approach to Raising Awareness A Creative Approach to Raising Awareness

A Creative Approach to Raising Awareness

Tiarney Andreas

Thousands of indigenous women go missing, are murdered, or are sexually assaulted in North America every year.

Thousands of indigenous women go missing, are murdered, or are sexually assaulted in North America every year. In honor of these Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, Kelsey Lansing, the Cultural Outreach Coordinator for the Sexual Assault Services Organization has begun an artistic initiative in hopes of raising awareness for these fallen sisters. Touched by the efforts of Tanaya...

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How FLC Students Prepared for the Midterm Elections

Kimberly Cassels

Fort Lewis College students who voted in the midterm elections shared how they gathered information about candidates, amendments and proposals prior to casting their vote.

Fort Lewis College students who voted in the midterm elections shared how they gathered information about candidates, amendments and proposals prior to casting their vote. Many students used Google and the election booklets but also conversed with friends and faculty to educate themselves before casting their votes. CNN and NPR were online sources that FLC Will Berger used. Matt...

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Fort Lewis College Replaces Old Parking Meters

Max Rodgers

Old parking meters were replaced in August for card-friendly meters that can be monitored remotely by Fort Lewis Police.

Old parking meters were replaced in August for card-friendly meters that can be monitored remotely by Fort Lewis Police. The previous meters were 18 years old and due for replacement, said Brett Deming, police chief of Fort Lewis College. The new meters have SIM cards so information ranging from malfunction diagnostics to time expiration can be monitored from a computer in the campus...

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Q&A: Mountain Bike National Champion Cole Paton

By Ryan Simonovich

The Independent sat down with Cole Paton to learn more about what it’s like being a national champion. 

The Fort Lewis College Cycling Team raced to their 24th national title in team history at the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships in Missoula, Montana Oct. 19-21.  In addition to the team title, Skyhawk mountain bikers were victorious in four individual events and the team relay race. Cole Paton won the men's cross country and short-track cross country...

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Stemming out: Research beyond the classroom

By Kimberly Cassels

Senior seminar students at Fort Lewis College have the opportunity to work on professional projects for the geoscience and biology departments. 

Senior seminar students at Fort Lewis College have the opportunity to work on professional projects for the geoscience and biology departments.  Geoscience students are working with NASA to create a satellite that will measure the water in snowpack on Red Mountain Pass.  A group of biology students is working on the early stages of the established lung-on-a-chip project, where...

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