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FLC Athletics will offer free entry to home games for Indigenous community members. The policy, meant to engage Indigenous youth in collegiate athletics, came about in a meeting between a panel of SunUte Community Center employees and Travis Whipple, director of Athletics.

Josh Emerson (Economics, ‘19), a citizen of the Navajo Nation, has not-so-quietly entered Denver’s bustling stand-up comedy scene. Emerson’s career goals are to educate his audience on political issues through humor and make it big. “I’m going to buy a house with ‘ha-ha's,’” Emerson said.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket! William Nollet, chair and associate professor of Physics & Engineering, confirmed that the massive streaks in the sky observed last month were from a rocket launch at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. These launches are visible in Colorado and are more noticeable shortly after sunset.

Voter turnout blew past optimistic projections in La Plata County for the 2022 midterm elections. Paul DeBell, associate professor of Political Science, believes that the increase in turnout was due to voters’ concern over threats to democracy and women’s reproductive rights.