Dear Editor: An incident I had on August 30 at UCBA reminded me that OLLI students need to thank all the students at UCBA. After the videotaping session I was in, the interviewer and I were leaving the Muntz Hall.  A student who was already out the door came back […]

In 2003, concern for a stable Middle East led both houses of the U.S. Congress to pass overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis the Syria Accountability Act, which dealt in part with the importance of preventing the use of chemical or biological weapons by Syria and meeting it with whatever force necessary. In […]

According to Psych 1001 Professor Anna Romero, PhD., there are a few distinct differences in the behavioral responses of “new” students and “old” students when exposed to the college environment. To clarify, by “new” students we mean more recent high school graduates. “Old” or “returning” students are older students returning […]

Remember back in the 90’s when Hip- Hop was really poppin? We had Tupac, Biggie, Ice Cube, and Snoop Dogg-four mainstream rappers who always knew how to get the party started. Back in the 90’s hip- hop wasn’t just about girls and money. It was about life and things that […]

When I started at UCBA in the fall of 2012, I was unsure of what to expect. From what I had heard from various friends and family, commuting to college was made out to be an entirely different experience from living on-campus, a short walk away from your classmates and […]

For this issue, we asked students what famous person, living or dead, they would most like to meet and what they would like to do with them. Morgan Woodson Michael Jackson: Go to Neverland Ranch for one day. Ending in dinner for me to ask him about his life of […]

Millions of individuals across the globe have died from or have been affected by the HIV virus. Researchers and scientists have put in years of work trying to find a cure for this horrible disease. But recently, a baby born with the HIV virus appears to have been cured. Researchers […]

Colorado’s House Judiciary Committee passed House Bill 114 on February 26. Under this bill, people caught driving with five nanograms of THC in their blood stream would be deemed “driving under the influence of marijuana.” The bill next goes to the House Appropriations Committee. If it passes there, it will […]

In May I’ll be studying abroad as part of the 2013 UCBA Summer British Study Abroad program in Vienna, Prague, and England. On my own, I’ll also be spending three days in both Ireland and Amsterdam. My mom’s side of the family is from London, England, and I’ve been lucky […]

Our brains are always working with the world around us. Our senses, though we don’t notice, are always being overloaded. Think about all the “hustle and bustle” we are immersed in daily-all the noises, smells, sights, and even our sense of feeling and touch. The brain is always processing these […]