By Jack Boggs Indy Staff Writer
The Fort Lewis College men’s basketball team experienced a 21-day pause to their season due to contracting the virus when they returned to campus after going home for winter break.
The Fort Lewis College men’s basketball team experienced a 21-day pause to their season due to contracting the virus when they returned to campus after going home for winter break.
While on campus last semester, the team had zero positive cases, but the team fouled out when they went home for winter break, Brandon Leimbach, director of athletics at FLC, said.
Some players on the basketball team tested positive after returning from winter break, causing the entire team to enter...
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By Dorothy Elder Indy Staff Writer
Following a summer of protests for lost black lives and racial inequality, illustrating a grand resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, Fort Lewis College’s Black Student Union brought events to campus to honor Black History Month.
Following a summer of protests for lost black lives and racial inequality, illustrating a grand resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, Fort Lewis College’s Black Student Union brought events to campus to honor Black History Month.
At the beginning of the month, on Feb. 5, FLC students, as well as members of the larger Durango community, gathered outside FLC’s clock tower to participate in BSU’s first big event of the month, a vigil around a bonfire in...
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By Dorothy Elder Indy Staff Writer
It was important to Dr. Joslynn Lee, Fort Lewis College assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, when she received the call that informed her that she was selected to join a national cohort of scientists all chosen to be featured on a STEM Trading Card.
It was important to Dr. Joslynn Lee, Fort Lewis College assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, when she received the call that informed her that she was selected to join a national cohort of scientists all chosen to be featured on a STEM Trading Card.
The call came from Science Delivered, a national science education non-profit, who provides a database of people in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, all featured on their STEM trading cards, Lee...
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By Jackson Zinsmeyer Indy Staff Writer
As Fort Lewis College students have had to adjust to campus life with COVID-19, the staff has had to adapt and overcome this virus as well.
As Fort Lewis College students have had to adjust to campus life with COVID-19, the staff has had to adapt and overcome this virus as well.
Along with COVID-19 changing how the 2020 fall semester would work, budget cuts hit FLC and caused the administration to lay off staff members over the summer.
Without the FLC staff constantly working for the students, this semester would not have been possible.
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By Morgan Reed Indy Staff Writer
With many Americans hurting right now, the Durango community has made many efforts to be there for those who are in need of healthy, nutritional food.
According to Greg Rosalsky, a reporter for National Public Radio, the unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April — the most disastrous figure since the Great Depression.
With unemployment comes poverty, and with poverty comes food insecurity.
With many Americans hurting right now, the Durango community has made many efforts to be there for those who are in need of healthy, nutritional food.
Marissa Hunt, the program services manager at Manna Soup Kitchen, emphasized the...
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