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    Weekly how-to: Keep it green

    by CU Independent November 6, 2007
    by CU Independent November 6, 2007

    Keep it green Easy tips for making the environment just a bit cleaner By Cameron Naish Students are often asked the same question when they are going to class: “Do you have a minute for the environment?”

    While many students may not have the time to stop and hear about Boulder’s environmental issues, it’s important to know that it really does only take a minute to make the environment a better place.

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    Get off the bandwagon, hop on the fan wagon

    by CU Independent November 6, 2007
    by CU Independent November 6, 2007

    Don’t abandon the Colorado Rockies just because they got booted from the World Series.

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    Electile dysfunction

    by CU Independent November 3, 2007
    by CU Independent November 3, 2007

    Officials are cautiously touting the turnout for this semester’s University of Colorado Student Union elections, and they’ve got a good reason.

    Compared to semesters past, the turnout wasn’t so bad this time. Voter apathy has been near epidemic in recent student government elections.

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    Wade's world: Bzdelik easy to root for

    by CU Independent November 2, 2007
    by CU Independent November 2, 2007

    If a poll were to be taken of people that live in the Boulder area, probably less than five percent of those surveyed could pick CU men’s basketball coach Jeff Bzdelik out of a lineup of faces. The former Air Force coach has made the trek up Interstate Highway 25 more quietly than a fall leaf settling on the ground.

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    Three's a crowd: Just get out

    by CU Independent October 31, 2007
    by CU Independent October 31, 2007

    Living in the dorms as a first year college student is full of exciting encounters: freedom to keep a fridge stocked with drinks that only you like, flirtatious elevator rides and, of course, having the ability to invite someone over to “your place.”

    Most dorm rooms are doubles, and most roommates are friends, so what happens when your friend wants to have a guy who is “more-than-a-friend” over to your place?

    You leave.

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    A bum's lot

    by CU Independent October 27, 2007
    by CU Independent October 27, 2007

    So read an advertisement for Ace Discount Liquors that ran in the Sept. 20 edition of The Onion. Next to the caption is a minstrel-like photograph of a white man made to look like Ace’s idea of a bum: week-old beard blacked and yellowed teeth, crazy eyes and a deranged expression.

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    Video games should become bored games

    by CU Independent October 25, 2007
    by CU Independent October 25, 2007

    It is very interesting when gamers are made to challenge all the principles on which modern video games are welded. Last week, Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s told Electronic Design his take on modern video games. “Video games today are a race to the bottom.”

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    Torre steps down before he gets Yanked

    by CU Independent October 25, 2007
    by CU Independent October 25, 2007

    Last week, the story in Major League Baseball was not the Colorado Rockies’ incredible run to the World Series or the Cleveland Indians’ commanding 3-1 lead in the America League Championship Series.

    The story was Joe Torre declining to manage the New York Yankees next season.

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    Free money? No way

    by CU Independent October 23, 2007
    by CU Independent October 23, 2007

    The Colorado Opportunity Fund. Student stipend. We’ve all heard of it. For struggling college students like you and me, COF is a gift – yet another example of the government’s overwhelming generosity and benevolence for in-state students. But is it? Take a closer look.

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    A green campus needs green students

    by CU Independent October 22, 2007
    by CU Independent October 22, 2007

    Being known as one of the most environmentally friendly campuses in the nation is a big deal.

    CU definitely seems to understand the importance of fighting global warming through its various programs, ideas, projects and blueprints in place to keep the school green.

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