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Urine for a good time

Urine for a good time

Kazuo Salazar March 14, 2024

"Urinetown” is a ragingly raucous and hilariously heartful musical. It was written in 1999 by Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis. It first debuted on Broadway in September of 2001. “Urinetown” opened...

BSA's take on Black History Month

BSA’s take on Black History Month

Elias Born March 4, 2022

It’s a busy month for Colorado Mesa University’s (CMU) Black Student Alliance (BSA). Black History Month, which is February each year, is what’s known as a “significant month” for BSA. Each...

Culture: Grand Junction: Where the dinosaurs roamed

Ryan Biller February 6, 2020

Consider this: the same route that you take from your dorm to class every day could have been the very same route that the Stegosaurus once walked (except the Stegosaurus likely wasn’t going to class).  A...

Culture: Utah’s Loch Ness Monster

Ryan Biller November 1, 2019

About a seven-hour drive from Colorado Mesa University (CMU), Bear Lake is a scenic weekend getaway for students who have a car and plenty of friends who are willing to pitch gas money. From boating...

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Culture: Remnants of the Holocaust: The Dachau concentration camp

Ryan Biller October 23, 2019

31,951 31,951 is the recorded death toll of prisoners who were in the Dachau concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.  This high amount of death that came at the hands of Dachau’s concentration...

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Culture: through a different lens

Ryan Biller October 17, 2019

The stairs of this Hindu and Buddhist temple weren’t just steep, but they seemed to perpetually spiral into the dense forest that lay before me. The squawks from hordes of monkeys and chants of Buddhist...

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