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  • What’s the Score?

    What’s the Score?

    Well, that didn’t take long. Following the short burst of SAT-optional college admission policies spawned by the pandemic, the testing race is back at full throttle, at least at some Ivies. Among the rationales this time around is the preposterous claim that SATs actually enhance diversity. The argument goes like this: Not submitting test scores prevented many Black students from showing how capable they are, causing many swell Ivy League schools to miss identifying diamonds in the rough. Minority students too often lack other opportunities to shine, so high scores serve as proxy to represent probable success. This theory was

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  • Front Range gets abysmal air quality rating as lawmakers strike deal with oil and gas industry

    Front Range gets abysmal air quality rating as lawmakers strike deal with oil and gas industry

    By Lucas Brady Woods and Rae Solomon, KUNC (Via AP Storyshare) Several Front Range counties received a failing grade on the American Lung Association’s air quality report card last week, even as state lawmakers back off of regulations for the fossil fuel industry. Gov. Jared Polis and the state’s top two Democratic lawmakers, Senate President Steve Fenberg and House Speaker Julie McCluskie, announced a deal Monday with the oil and gas industry and environmental advocates that would raise money for public transit and increase air quality regulations, if it passes the state legislature by the end of this year’s lawmaking

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  • Students, parents speak out as Poudre School District closures loom

    Students, parents speak out as Poudre School District closures loom

    By Rae Solomon, KUNC (Via AP Storyshare) Lilian Moore is just 10 years old, but she’s already clear on how she feels about shutting down local schools. “You throw this amazing place where many children have thrived – you just throw it into the garbage can,” Lilian said, standing just outside the auditorium at Poudre High School in Fort Collins, where a public listening session about proposed school closures in Larimer County’s Poudre School District was stretching on for hours. “It’s super sad.” Declining enrollment is behind those proposed closures. In March, the district unveiled draft plans to close some

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  • Yellow Scene Magazine takes home 12 SPJ Top of the Rockies Awards, 3 First Places

    Yellow Scene Magazine takes home 12 SPJ Top of the Rockies Awards, 3 First Places

    Yellow Scene Magazine was incredibly honored to receive 12 Society for Professional Journalism awards in the 2024 Top of the Rockies contest. Media organizations of all sizes from across four states competed in numerous categories covering design and editorial content. The awards ceremony itself was in the iconic Denver Press Club with attendees flying in from across the country, and even one of YS’s writers from Canada was able to attend, making it an international event. Several members of YS attended the event, with six individual people there in person to collect their awards! We are so proud of our

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  • “The Stone Harp” Makes its Debut at Dairy Arts After Four-Year Wait

    “The Stone Harp” Makes its Debut at Dairy Arts After Four-Year Wait

    Composer John Clay Allen and pianist Er-Hsuan Li collaborated to bring the concerto to the stage for the first time In April 2020, John Clay Allen was preparing for the premiere of his original piano concerto, ‘The Stone Harp: Concerto for Piano and Strings,’ when the world went silent.  Nearly four years to the day and a pandemic later, Allen finally brought his music off the sheet and onto the stage of the Gordon Gamm Theater at the Dairy Arts Center on April 13, 2024.  “I’m really pleased with how it went,” Allen said afterward. “I’m happy with how everyone

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  • Red Shadows Brings MMIR “Artivism” to Lafayette

    Red Shadows Brings MMIR “Artivism” to Lafayette

    Editor’s Note: There are over 5,000 missing and murdered Indigenous women reported in 2022. 4,000 of them are under the age of 18. There were 658 active cases at the end of 2022. Art brings attention to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous people across North America If you’re in old-town Lafayette this month, allow the hand-lettered fabric swaying in The Collective’s tall front windows to catch your eye, and let its poetry and statistics sink in. It’s a work of art by Tanaya Winder, one of more than a dozen Indigenous artists exhibiting in “Red Shadows: The Crisis

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