Metropolitan State College (Metro) trustees voted yesterday in favor of a new name: Metropolitan State University of Denver, after DU and Metro reached an agreement on the name.
The $32 million remodel of Penrose Library, which will house the new Academic Commons, will cost another $450,000 due to a new west-side addition that will be built along with the rest of the project. DU hopes to have the most substantial portion of the project completed by December, according to Nancy Allen, the dean of the library.
Approximately 160 DU students came together last Wednesday and Thursday to donate blood to Bonfils Blood Center. By the end of the two days, students donated 122 units, equaling 500 mL of blood, which has the potential to save up to 366 Colorado lives.
A Jostens Company employee reported last week that 10 class rings, valued at approximately $6,000, were stolen from inside a locked display case in the food court of the Ricketson Law Building, according to a Denver Police Department (DPD) report and Department of Campus Safety (DCS) Captain Mike Holt.
Religious Life at DU will host events beginning tomorrow and ending on Feb. 9 to celebrate Interfaith Harmony Week, a tradition recently established by the United Nations to spread awareness about students of different faiths. University Chaplain Reverend Gary Brower has outlined several events that DU will host in celebration of Interfaith Harmony Week, which are aimed at getting students of both religious and non-religious backgrounds involved.
Sodexo's new, larger comment board is generating a lot of student commentary, such as new ingredient and equipment requests, and is assisting the company in improving students' dining experience, according to Gary Southard, Nelson Hall's Chef Manager.
Eric Noji, a triage physician, epidemiology and tropical disease specialist, called for the U.S. government to put a mechanism in place to go beyond spending money when a natural disaster occurs in a speech at the Korbel School of International Studies last Thursday.
An Occupy DU committee developed an early draft of a mission statement declaring that Occupy DU seeks to give people a voice to protest income equality and corporate influence over politics during the first week of meetings, which began last week. About 20 participants attended the meetings each time, one on Monday, Jan.
Medical On Friday, Jan. 27, at 3:09 p.m., Campus Safety responded to a call from a faculty member in Craig Hall regarding a student in need of medical attention. Upon arrival at the scene, officers made contact with the student, who refused medical attention from paramedics.
A group of students began working last fall and are continuing this winter quarter to start a chapter of Alpha Phi Omega (APO), a co-ed, service-oriented fraternity at DU APO would serve as a philanthropic fraternity and would not have a house. Rather, it would function more as a service-oriented interest group that also includes social events.