Articles by author: Wiley Combs

The University of Wyoming’s Board of Trustees will soon review a proposal to bump up the university’s assured admissions requirements. “What we’re talking about is not changing the overall group of students that gets admitted,” Professor of [more]

Experts explain ASUW’s budget, fees

In order for students to better understand the nearly $1 million allocated to different programs and services, ASUW’s resident budget experts explained some of the different expenditures student fees pay for. ASUW budgeting process Meghan Kolf, ASU [more]

ASTEC holds open mic night

Local artists and performers, take note: Associated Student Technical Services, or ASTEC, will host its first open mic night of the school year tonight. Those interested in showcasing their skills can drop by the Gardens at 7 p.m. for their 15 minute [more]

Garner: Mobilization and individualization needed to work with media

Political Science Department Assistant Professor Andrew Garner thinks, unless the “Occupy Wall Street” movement gets more people participating, the movement will fizzle out. Garner has been teaching at the University of Wyoming for four years. He [more]

Despite an early de facto mass media blackout and lower-than-expected turnout, a group of protesters, appropriately known as the “Occupy Wall Street” campaign, remains firmly protesting among the towering monoliths of the US symbolic financial ce [more]

Laramie initiates curbside recycling program

  The blue-lidded bins that seem to have spontaneously appeared in front of private residences in Laramie signal a change in waste-collection for the city: a new single-stream recycling program operated by the city’s solid waste division. City [more]

‘Slut Walk’ intends to protest victim-blaming, stop sexual violence

If you’ve ever heard someone referred to as a “slut,” then you are likely aware of the negative connotation the term carries; however, tonight at 5 p.m., members of the University of Wyoming and Laramie communities will gather in Simpson Plaza [more]

UW holds first mock trial event of year

The University of Wyoming College of Law is currently holding their first mock trial event of the college year to determine who will represent UW at the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition next February. The law school has been successf [more]