Tag: Denver University
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DU law students issue vote of no confidence in school leaders after DEI cuts
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Members of the Sturm College of Law on Wednesday issued a vote of no confidence in University of Denver Chancellor Jeremy Haefner, the second such move against the school leader in as many months. This time, students criticized Haefner and the institution’s provost, general counsel, and…
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Protesters not finding much support among Americans, or Coloradans | Vince Bzdek
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I keep harking back to the lessons of my “War and Violence in the 1960s” class in college as I watch the protests over Gaza and Israel sweep across the country and into Colorado. I…
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New ready-to-drink vodka beverage VAQIT finds success in Denver market
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A young Denver-based beverage company named Vaqit, pronounced (vock-it) could be on the precipice of big sales numbers as it recently inked a deal with concert and sports promoter AEG Presents. That deal comes on the heels of a recent partnership deal with the University…
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Gun violence claims seven over weekend along Colorado’s Front Range
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Seven people died in eight separate shootings along the Front Range this past weekend. The incidents occurred in Denver, Aurora, Adams County, Louisville and Johnstown. The Louisville and Johnstown incidents were officer-involved shootings which ended in two deaths of suspects brandishing knives. The incidents seem unrelated, but represented a higher-than-normal amount of gun violence deaths…
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Denver’s closest ski area breathing new life — after many starts and stops
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY • In the summer of 2016, Fred Klaas remembers a call “out of nowhere” from a college buddy, Peter Burwell. The two had graduated from Denver University’s business school in 2011. At the time of the call, Klaas was working for a start-up in Boulder. Following his father’s death, Burwell had ascended to…
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Former Colorado College running back, NFL Films pioneer Steve Sabol to be inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame
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Steve Sabol was the subject of a fascinating article in Sports Illustrated in November 1965. That issue, which featured Muhammad Ali on the cover of the weekly magazine, told the story of how Sabol, a Colorado College running back via Philadelphia marketed himself as “The Tot from Possum Trot,” a fictional town in Mississippi, “The…
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Loss of U.S. Space Command a ‘missed opportunity’ for Colorado Springs; what next?
John Suthers has plenty of economic development wins as mayor — a massive Amazon distribution center and Southwest Airlines expanding to Colorado Springs to name two — but he called the loss of the U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Ala., his biggest setback. “We haven’t had a whole lot of economic development bad news, but…
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Broncos’ Phillip Lindsay supporting sister, Cheri, as she chases coaching dream
Phillip and Cheri Lindsay didn’t always get along. “Phil was a crybaby,” Cheri said of her younger brother, now a Broncos running back. “He’s going to hate that I said that, but, oh man, he was a crybaby.” But now, like most brothers and sisters, the two would do anything for each other, including helping…