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Samantha Lauckner, a full-time Chinese student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, uses scholarships, grants, loans and works full time during the school year in order to pay tuition. During the summer, Lauckner, 25, works about 72 hours per week to save for the next school year. “When I first started attending, I thought tuition would be more doable. Then when attending and also having to pay full on living expenses, I realized damn this school costs a lot,” she said. Over the last ten years, the Board of Regents at the University of Colorado has approved tuition increases of an average of 52.7 percent for in-state students at the Boulder campus. Tuition increases because of state mandated employee raises, school improvements and decreases in state funding. The increase in tuition affects who applies to and attends CU Boulder, how much debt students incur, and how much students can enjoy their college experiences. According to CU Vice President of Communications Ken ...

Therapy Dogs Video At a Boulder Valley School District elementary school, a young boy stood in the corner of the principal’s office screaming, yelling, and banging his hands on the wall. A therapy dog team at the elementary school went to the office to calm the boy down. The dog sat right next to the boy. The boy quieted for a minute and looked down at the dog, only to go back to crying. Then, he turned his head and took a good look at the dog. The handler asked the boy if he’d like to meet Cadie, the therapy dog. He stopped crying, turned around and got on all fours next to the dog. Shortly after, the boy was cuddled up with the dog on the floor laughing and playing. Within a few minutes, he was back in class as if nothing had ever happened. Therapy dog teams around Boulder County work hard to bring happiness to people in hospitals and schools. Many people realize that dogs make people happy, but don’t exactly know why. There is scientific proof from numerous studies which sh...

LDS Church and Media Video May, 2018

On the morning of May 31st, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier lured their friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times. Leutner crawled to a closed off path, where a cyclist happened to be riding, and he called 911. Although Leutner survived the attack, the two twelve-year-old girls, whom she thought to be her friends, still committed this gruesome act of violence. It was all done in the name of Slenderman. In 2017, Geyser and Weier were tried as adults in this case, diagnosed with mental illnesses, and sentenced to a mental hospital for 40 and 25 years respectively. The mental health crisis is rising dramatically in America, especially in children. Such children are struggling in their own minds and going unnoticed. Medical professionals diagnosed Geyser with schizophrenia and Weier with shared psychotic disorder. Both girls went untreated for years; Geyser’s mother said her daughter told her she had been having hallucinations sinc...

As a child, Andrew Pfefer loved to go with his father, Vic, to Take Your Child to Work Day at Ford Motor Company. Pfefer especially loved to design cars at the event. He became very inquisitive and curious about the world of engineering. According to Pfefer’s parents, he would build models with popsicle sticks and Legos. Pfefer’s love for cars has grown, and his creativity and curiosity continue to aid him in engineering structures. This love eventually inspired his interest in aerospace engineering, and led to his involvement in the Miura Project. The Miura Project is an aerospace engineering project that ran through 2017 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Miura is a form of origami that inspired the project’s structure. The project’s team created a soft-shelled structure that can collapse and expand again. The lightweight, small and reusable structure could be used to make spaceflight more efficient and cost-effective. Pfefer’s father’s line of work first exposed...

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...