Colorado Daily

This week once again marks the return of the University of Colorado's student body, an annual late-summer ritual in Boulder that the Colorado Daily -- both under that name and its original moniker, the Silver & Gold -- has been documenting since 1892. Full story »

The University of Colorado is on a roll, there's no question about it. Last year, donors contributed $133.5 million to CU, a high mark for the system. This year's efforts proved to be even more lucrative. University fundraising efforts netted a whopping $162.5 million, the most in the history of the university. But when you look at the breakdown of the university's total budget, the picture gets a little uglier. Financial gifts make up 6.8 percent of CU's total annual budget of $2.4 billion. And it's a good thing, too, since Colorado's contribution is only 8.8 percent, one of the smallest state contributions to a public university in the nation. Full story »

Conservatives will argue the Colorado Equal Rights Initiative is not deceptively named. It does, after all, call on the voters to prohibit state institutions from considering gender, race, color, ethnicity or national origin when evaluating students. Essentially, no matter if a prospective student is black or white, male or female, Jewish or Muslim, he or she wouldn't get any special treatment if the initiative passes. Full story »

Once again this week, we witnessed first-hand the tangible value of teamwork. Full story »

This week, CU Regent and Colorado Senate candidate Cindy Carlisle dropped a small bombshell in the midst of an otherwise bland Senate District 18 campaign: if elected, she said, she would introduce a bill allowing undocumented students the opportunity to attend college -- with conditions attached -- at in-state tuition rates. Full story »

As concern over global warming grows, urban planning advocates have jumped on the bandwagon by claiming cities should reduce their carbon footprints by investing more in transit and compact development. However, these claims are not supported by the data, most of which show that transit and dense development are no more environmentally friendly than autos and low-density suburbs. Full story »

We'd like to start this piece with a call for unity, but not the kind that you're probably thinking of. It's not about unity in the Democratic Party now that Barack Obama is its presumptive presidential nominee. It's not a call for the Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens and - the Unity Party - to unify and try to fix some of the major problems facing the nation. Full story »

We're not too proud to beg, so we're begging locals to start taking the 2008 elections seriously now, due to the sheer volume and magnitude of things at stake. Full story »

Believe it or not, the Colorado Daily is nearly 116 years old. That's a lot of candles, especially when you consider that rumors of the impending death of the newspaper industry have been floating around ever since the first blogger geekpopped up on the Internet like a pimple on the face of, well, a blogger geek. Full story »

If you're reading this editorial then you're probably what is known as a townie. That is to say you live here, in Boulder, all the time. You don't necessarily come and go with the changing semesters and holidays. You are not a student. Full story »

As far as we're concerned, Joshua Moran is a saint. Here's a guy, minding his own business, standing outside a CU dorm when out of nowhere a full-length mirror comes crashing down on his head. Now the man responsible for Moran's injuries, which included a nasty bump on the head and glass shards imbeded in his scalp, will serve only a year of probation and no jail time thanks in part to a plea for mercy by Moran himself. Full story »

Most spiritually aware Boulderites have probably at least heard of the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy - that people should consider the impacts of a decision on the next Seven Generations. But when it comes to higher education, it has seemed in recent years as if the State of Colorado's vision quest hasn't looked far beyond one-seventh of a generation into the future. That's been a shame, because despite the occasional scandalous warts, higher ed and the research done at its institutions quite simply leads to development of cutting-edge technology, useful products and educated professionals. Students also gain exposure to new cultures, systems of government, literature, art, and discourse. Full story »

When a lot of us here at the Daily were young, anti-drug messages were everywhere, and they were out of control. "Just say no" was the big idea of First Lady Nancy Reagan, a concept that assumed kids were being seduced by drug dealers at every turn, not bored and looking for something to enliven the monotony of their lives, as was too often the case. Full story »

Politics at CU-Boulder could stand a little controversy. Full story »

The passing of David Parrish has rippled throughout the Boulder community, but not in terms of distinguishing those who knew him from those who did not - as is often the natural course of events in death. Full story »