Josh Brady
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As sheets of rain turned the streets of Laramie into muddied rivers and the wind whipped the trees into a frenzy I jokingly remarked to my roommate that the apocalypse was finally upon us. Half expecting the four horsemen to come thundering out of the clouds, I didn’t know what to think when I heard that a tornado had officially touched down in our relatively small college town.
According to John Griffith of the National Weather Service in Cheyenne the storm that swept across Laramie last Thursday was in fact a weak tornado. Griffith examined the damage the following day and assessed that winds were probably between 95 and 105 miles an hour. Damages included trees being blown over as well as some roofs of buildings being ripped off. Also due to the storm, power was off and on during most of Thursday and was even cause for class cancellations the following Friday at two different schools.
Memorial Day ceremony honors fallen soldiersLaramie’s American Legion officiated a ceremony Monday at Greenhill Cemetery, N. 15th St. Laramie police, firefighters, citizens and members of the Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars gathered around a statue of Union Gen. Logan in the chill of mid-morning. The stars and stripes were raised, and then lowered to half-staff. Earthquake rattles China and overseas student feels wrathAs those of you following international events may know, around two weeks ago the Chinese province of Sichuan was hit by a severe earthquake. On May 12 a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck near the center of Sichuan province, leveling cities, killing over 60,000 and leaving many more homeless.
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Business building construction forces professors' relocation to Crane HallWith construction on the new business building continuing, the business faculty was forced to relocate to the first three floors of Crane Hall. The residents of Crane Hall will have an interesting semester: mere floors away from faculty offices where instructors will advise students and conference with them, seeing faculty in rooms that are so like their own.
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