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Third Annual "What Were You Wearing" Exhibit

Third Annual “What Were You Wearing” Exhibit

Letter to Editor May 10, 2023

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The Center for Children, in partnership with Colorado Mesa University, aims to raise awareness and dispel myths regarding sexual assault. “The intent of the What...

Two Student Perspectives on Eco Flight

Two Student Perspectives on Eco Flight

Letter to Editor April 18, 2023

About a week ago, I participated in a student program with EcoFlight in which eight students flew over the Colorado River Basin in small Cessna 210 planes. The aerial perspective left me with an unavoidable...

Letter to the editor: Its come to my attention that the "coronavirus" issue has been taken quite seriously by CMU

Letter to the editor: Its come to my attention that the “coronavirus” issue has been taken quite seriously by CMU

Letter to Editor September 10, 2020

Updated on 9/15/2020: Originally published with CMU students email in signature block, updated to provide name. Every day I have an egg salad sandwich with a great deal of black pepper. While I eat...

Letter to the editor: Response to Epstein

Letter to the editor: Response to Epstein

Letter to Editor February 23, 2020

The Green New Deal will be genocide, according to Alex Epstein in a talk presented Thursday, February 20. He also warned against the exaggerated doomsday rhetoric coming from those concerned about a warming...

Op-ed: Western slope youth demand climate action

Op-ed: Western slope youth demand climate action

Letter to Editor September 17, 2019

The Western Slope of Colorado is a region inhabited by a wide and expanding range of citizens. From hard working ranchers & farmers with roots stretching back to the late 1800s, retirees searching...

Letter to the editor: The First Amendment is more important than our feelings

Letter to the editor: The First Amendment is more important than our feelings

Chris DeLeon May 7, 2019

I will open with full transparency: I am the editor in chief of The Criterion. Although it may seem somewhat silly for the lead editor to write a letter to the editor, I am doing so to fully separate...

Letter to the editor: Where does it all go?

The Editorial Board September 18, 2018

Have you ever heard of the biennial process? Hmmm… I’m guessing not. The Associated Student Government (ASG) is in charge of a small portion of YOUR student fees. Yes, you heard that right – the...

Linzey: Why you should vote

Ben Linzey April 13, 2018

For those of you that have been asking the question “Why should I vote?” I have an answer for you. Serving in the role of Student Body President for the past 2 years and serving in the organization...

Letter to the Editor: A different Yachty perspective

Ta'Lor Jackson March 28, 2018

Ok, I think we all have read numerous opinions about how Yachty isn’t a “real rapper," that CMU PAC made a horrible decision, and that this event is and will be a failure. I am here speak a different...

Letter To the Editor: My beef with Lil Yachty

Caroline Gallegos March 26, 2018

To the Editor:   What’s my beef with Lil Yachty? First of all, allow me to clarify and say that I do understand that PAC is on a budget that can’t afford most artists. Second, I understand that...

RE: Jan. 30 editorial “At what cost does progress come”

Beau Flores February 6, 2018

Dear Editor: RE: Jan. 30 editorial “At what cost does progress come”. When I first read this editorial, I was perplexed about why this topic was chosen. Is the presence or...

CMU President Tim Foster’s response to “CMU is boring”

Tim Foster September 3, 2017

So CMU is boring? Hmmm. I was a little dismayed to learn from the editorial in The Criterion’s last edition that at least some students find that to be true. Boredom, like beauty, may very well be...

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