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CMU President Tim Foster’s DACA statement

Tim Foster September 5, 2017

A core CMU value is that we welcome all students to our campus--regardless of their country or origin or their immigration status. A diverse student body, including ASSET and DACA students, enrich our...

Politics in natural lands of beauty

Jared Rouse April 9, 2017

Our national parks and monuments are pristine gems of beauty and history scattered throughout our nation. According to the National Park Service website, in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic...

Trump’s connections to Russia

Jared Rouse March 1, 2017

There have been many claims throughout President Donald Trump’s campaign about his connections with Russia. The most notable were the Russian hacks into the Democratic National Committee. These accusations...

ASG considers statement on Trump immigration ban

Carley Litten February 28, 2017

President Donald Trump’s immigration ban brought forth discussion within the Associated Student Government (ASG) meeting on Feb. 22 about how the ban may affect students at Colorado Mesa University. The...

Kellyanne Conway and the Bowling Green Massacre

Crite Staff February 12, 2017

by Jared Rouse On Feb. 2, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, referred to a nonexistent event on MSNBC in an attempt to defend President Trump’s temporary travel ban on seven Muslim majority...

The Great Wall of Trump

Crite Staff February 6, 2017

Lehua La'a President Donald Trump ran on a campaign promise to “build a great wall and have Mexico pay for it.” During his campaign Trump estimated the wall would cost between $8-12 billion. However,...

Trump’s Inaguration

Crite Staff January 25, 2017

by Jared Rouse On a gray and rainy day in Washington D.C. on Jan. 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. The crowds filled the steps of the Capital Building,...

Dump Trump

Crite Staff October 31, 2016

by Gerogia Mclellan This might come as a surprise to many of you, but I will be voting for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. What? A gay woman isn’t a Donald Trump supporter?...

“TrumpTowerLive” still needs work, but not a bad idea

Crite Staff October 31, 2016

by Whitney Robinson On Monday, Oct. 24, the Donald Trump team aired its first ever nightly Facebook live program that is supposed to air every night at 6:30 p.m., on Trump’s Facebook page...

Trump rally a disgusting excuse for politics

Crite Staff October 23, 2016

by Maddie Parise I was shaking all day before I attended the Donald Trump rally on Oct. 18. My anxiety ran rampant as I thought about how my experience would look when I got there. Though I expected to...

Protesting in the wrong setting produces the wrong results

Crite Staff October 23, 2016

Donald Trump’s rally in Grand Junction gave the people of our city a taste of how polarizing the presidential candidate can be. There is no middle ground when it comes to the support of Trump, and that...

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