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CU vs CSU on TV
There are two broadcast sites to catch the exciting first game of the CU football season vs. Colorado State this Saturday, Sept. 4! They are DirecTV channel 616 and American carriers of the Mountain West Network (CH. 411 on Comcast in Denver/Boulder for example).
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Ralphie runs to the top of Fox Sports’ list of coolest college mascots
Colorado’s favorite buffalo received national attention when Fox Sports named Ralphie the coolest college football mascot on Sept. 1. The stampeding bison beat out other recognizable and popular contenders such as Mike the Tiger of Louisiana State University, Uga the Bulldog of the University of Georgia and Bevo the Longhorn of the University of Texas.
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CU-Boulder Law School Dean Announces Intention to Resign in 2011
David Getches, dean of the Law School at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has announced that he intends to resign as dean effective June 2011.
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CU vs. Hawaii Alumni Association Pregame
Be part of the action as our Buffs take on the Hawaii Warriors for the first game at Folsom in the 2010 season! Bring your family and friends to the CU-Boulder Alumni Association pregame at Benson Field. Starting at 11 a.m., we will be serving a pregame BBQ and drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), provided by Front Range Catering.
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Careers in the Fashion Industry
Hillary Fritz (Engl’78) will share advice and tips about how to get your foot in the door, how to make contacts in the industry and how to find internships and a job. She’ll also talk about the various jobs attainable in fashion: design, merchandising, buying, branding, sales, marketing, account management and so on.
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CU vs. Missouri: Alumni pregame and ticket package
Saturday, Oct. 9:
Be part of the action as our Buffs take on the Missouri Tigers! For only $90, CU alumni and Buffs fans can receive a ticket to the game, a pregame bbq meal and beverages, and a parking pass near the stadium! Individual pregame passes may also be purchased for $25. Let’s help our Buffs say farewell to the Big 12 with a big win over Missouri!
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Boulder climber Glenn Porzak recovering
Glenn Porzak, an experienced climber, fell between 60 and 70 feet when the rock he was scrambling down near Little Pawnee Peak gave way. The accident occurred in the Indians Peaks Wilderness Area near Brainard Lake. Porzak suffered a broken pelvis, nine broken ribs and ‘lots of lacerations’ but is now stable and recovering in a Denver hospital.
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5,215 freshmen attend CU convocation
A veritable herd of new freshmen filled Folsom Field for the 2010 convocation ceremony.
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Buff football captains and new quarterback named
“I’m excited . . . it’s something I’ve worked long and hard for,” said Hansen, who started the final seven games of 2009 after supplanting Hawkins in early October.
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Convocation 2010
CU partners on telescope project in Chile
A planned $110 million telescope in Chile that the University of Colorado at Boulder is partnering on to probe distant galaxies and stellar nurseries has been named as the top construction priority for mid-sized, ground-based telescopes by the National Research Council in the coming decade.
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August 2010 Colorado edition
Dear Alum, We’re thrilled to welcome Deborah Fowlkes as our new executive director. She’s the first female director of the Alumni Association since its inception in 1882. She hails from Temple University in Philadelphia and before that Duke. She grew up in Boulder and went to Boulder High. “I’m delighted to be back home in Boulder as a member of
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I sure do have memories of Sewall Hall!
By Patricia Bianco (MThtr’65) I was a residence adviser for students living on the side of Sewall Hall in 1962-63. My little “apartment” was just off the huge living room. Sewall was an upper-class women’s residence hall. We called it Menopause Manor. The women and I obeyed most of the rules and had wonderful times together. Sewall had beautiful furniture.
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August 2010 National edition
Dear Alum, We’re thrilled to welcome Deborah Fowlkes as our new executive director. She’s the first female director of the Alumni Association since its inception in 1882. She hails from Temple University in Philadelphia and before that Duke. She grew up in Boulder and went to Boulder High! “I’m delighted to be back home in Boulder as a member of
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CU vs. CSU: Rocky Mountain Showdown
Be part of the action as our Buffs take on our in-state rivals in the annual Rocky Mountain Showdown! The game has returned to INVESCO field, and the Alumni Association is hosting the official CU pregame in Lot C near the west-side of the stadium.
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They hiked all the way to Crested Butte!
Our annual Aspen to Crested Butte hike was a great success this year. As for some of the summers between 1995-2008 when he was Alumni Association executive director, the hike was lead by Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80, MPubAd’90) along with his wife, Christine Lanier Zimmerman (Ger’80, MEdu’90).
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Welcome Alumni Association Executive Director
Please join us in welcoming our new Alumni Association Executive Director, Deborah Fowlkes. Deborah formerly served as assistant vice president for alumni relations and executive director of the Temple University Alumni Association in Philadelphia, PA, a post she held since 2005.
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Single game football tickets now on sale
Single Game Tickets: Buy your 2010 CU football single game tickets now!. For all home games, Alumni Association tickets are located in section 215. For all away games, tickets are located in the visitors section.
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Tourism at CU
A student ambassador (in black t-shirt) leads a tour of prospective students and their parents and families on the Norlin Quadrangle. Between 18,000 and 20,000 people tour the CU-Boulder campus every year.
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Archeological site workers are Forever Buff!
Anthropology professor Payson Sheets, in the middle with his arm raised, took Forever Buffs t-shirts to his excavation site at El Ceren, El Salvador last month. Ceren is a well-preserved ancient Maya village that was buried by deep volcanic ash 1,400 years ago. Payson discovered it in 1976.
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Big 12 commissioner hints at CU’s exit in 2011
It has been up in the air since CU left the Big 12 for the Pac-10 in June exactly when the move would take place. But on July 26 Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe made several points at a Big 12 media day that suggested things are moving along and the jump would take place in 2011, not 2012.
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Stump leaves the grind
After two and a half years as interim executive director of the Alumni Association, Ron Stump will retire in mid-August. Prior, he worked in the office of student affairs, most recently as vice chancellor for student affairs, for 12 years. In the photo he shows off his classic hand gestures at a party thrown by the alumni staff for him in July. Staff person, Eva Kruger who organizes senior auditors registration, is at right.
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Crested Butte Hike 2010
Here’s a photoset from the Crested Butte Hike this year with Kent Zimmerman! See the photoset at Flickr.
Arctic more sensitive to warming than thought
A new CU-led study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about significant, irreversible shifts in Arctic ecosystems.
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Your alumni calendar is on its way
For those of you who have bought the 2010-11 Alumni Association wall calendar or those of you who are Lifetime Members and will receive it for free, the calendar will be mailed Monday, July 26. Please check your mailboxes in the next week – they’re on the way!
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Buffalo Bicycle Classic set for Sept. 12
Shervin Rahimpour’s family, which follows the Baha’i faith, fled religious persecution in Iran when he was 5 years old. He and his sisters could not have pursued higher education in Iran. In the United States, the Rahimpours were free to learn. Though finances could be a “tremendous obstacle,” he found financial help.
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July 2010 Colorado edition
Dear Alum, Ah, summer! A time to hang out and do very little, or maybe it’s your time to be active in the great weather. The campus is languid, though there are occasionally small groups of students slacklining or playing golf with tennis balls (which my dog often finds in Varsity Lake). And there are also the inevitable groups of
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July 2010 National edition
Dear Alum, Ah, summer! A time to hang out and do very little, or maybe it’s your time to be active in the great weather. The campus is languid, though there are occasionally small groups of students slacklining or playing golf with tennis balls (which my dog often finds in Varsity Lake). And there are also the inevitable groups of
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Rookie linguist learns more than Arapaho
By Finn Thye (Psych’01, MLing’09) A bottle rocket launched in my mind the night I first thought of going to learn Arapaho by living with an elder on the Wind River Reservation in central western Wyoming. I lay there thinking about how it would be to visit the old heart of our continent, experiencing a different side of the culture
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Discovering Facebook
Drag, beaming with the glow of the newly hired, hails Click from across the hardware store to regale him about his adventures in finding a new job as a farrier. His adventure follows a new path where pounding on the keyboard is more successful than pounding the bricks in the job hunt.
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CU vs. CSU: Rocky Mountain Showdown
Be part of the action as our Buffs take on our in-state rivals in the annual Rocky Mountain Showdown! The game has returned to INVESCO field, and the Alumni Association is hosting the official CU pregame in Lot C near the west-side of the stadium. Just look for our 20-foot inflatable buffalo “Alphie.” Breakfast burritos and beverages will be served.
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Let your light shine!
Klauder chose black wrought iron embellishments to contrast with the “red and white” architecture of the buildings. Doors, window sashes, shutters, balcony railings, and lamps were painted black, consistent with the character of the buildings Klauder saw in Tuscany.
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Buffalo gals
A tour director and jewelry artist, Anna Yvette Sole Kaplan (Hist’61) of Accord, Mass., wrote that she received the June issue of the Coloradan just before leaving Boston to meet her friend Nancy Neece Cranton (Edu’58) of Abingdon, Va., and the Seattle area to go traveling. The photo was taken in Zion National Park.
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Get your season football tickets here
Buff football season tickets are now available! Read more for details on schedule, pricing and much more!
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Zeta Beta Tau fraternity reunion a hit
A reunion of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity May 21-22 in Denver, Boulder, Nederland and Black Hawk drew 70 members and spouses from across the country.
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Get your season football tickets here
Buff football season tickets are now available. The Buffs will be playing the following home games: Colorado State (at Invesco Field in Denver Sept. 4), Hawai’i (Sept. 18), Georgia (Oct. 2), Baylor (Oct. 16, Family Weekend), Texas Tech (Oct. 23, Homecoming), Iowa State (Nov. 13) and Kansas State (Nov. 20). Season tickets start at $235. Go here to order tickets online or call 303-49-BUFFS.
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Alums pack Alumni College
The Great Recession of 2007-10: Causes, Consequences and Cures was the topic of the two-day Alumni College held earlier this month at the CU Law School.
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Joanne Easley Arnold 80th birthday
Joanne Arnold celebrated her 80th birthday at the Koenig Alumni Center, surrounded by friends and mementoes of her amazing career.
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Unforgettable Boulder
What’s unforgettable about your CU-Boulder experience? Check out Chris Dea’s (Jour’09) entertaining music video, “Boulder the talented, creative and bold.” It will bring you back to your good ol’ CU days.
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Pac-10 picks Utah after CU
After CU accepted its offer of membership, the Pac-10 conference returned to the Rockies this week and recruited the University of Utah to become its 12th member after the Texas and Oklahoma members of the Big 12, lead by powerhouse University of Texas, spurned membership in the powerful West Coast-based conference.
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