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Winter is coming… With winter season approaching, more and more students will be skiing. University of Colorado Boulder students live in close proximity to the mountains. Easy access and a love for skiing can be both beneficial and harmful. Some students will be skipping class or procrastinating homework to ski. Skiing can negatively affect students’ academic focus and performance. However, as long as students can keep up with their studies, it seems to be more beneficial than harmful. Students ski for a variety of reasons. Some skiers enjoy the rush, the feeling of flying, being outside, hanging out with friends, the community, or simply the fun. Every skier has a different reason to ski. Sean Fearon, a CU Boulder junior and the president of the Backcountry Skiing club, said that he likes to ski because “it’s a really fun way to get outside and enjoy the mountains and it gives that adrenaline rush.” Condor O’Brien, a CU Boulder May 2017 graduate and former team o...

A prominent latina journalist said Tuesday that democratization and digitalization have changed media by increasing competition and opportunity and by amplifying diversity of voices.   Veronica Villafañe said that media are competing now, more than ever, for money, advertisers, credibility, and audience views. Companies need to produce better content in order to capture a viewer’s attention. Villafañe said that democratization has greatly influenced monetary income and expenses for media companies. Although it is now cheaper to publish content because there are less printing expenses, media companies have more money issues to worry about. She said that advertisers prefer to pay for print advertising rather than online. So digital media have to compete more for advertisers. Another issue is that media consumers today are so used to free news, they have come to expect it. Villafañe said that it is hard to support journalism when people want the content for free. Increas...