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Students Face Mounting Debt
- Durango Herald (new window)
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206-08-12 |
| "Thirty years ago, we were talking about one-third of students taking out loans to pay for school and two-thirds getting government grants. Now, it's totally flip-flopped," said Cory Nadler, a campus organizer for Colorado Public Interest Research Group in Denver. PIRG chapters around the country are sponsoring the Student Debt Alert project. | |
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Cleaner, Greener, U
- E Magazine (new window)
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2008-03-04 |
| Students are driving the campus climate movement, fighting Big Coal and putting legislators on notice | |
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Whippersnappers
- The Colorado Daily (new window)
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2008-02-11 |
| Young people are breaking poll turnout records this primary season. | |
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Young Voters Have Clout
- Daily Camera (new window)
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2008-01-14 |
| Colorado is considered by some public-interest research groups as a key state in this year's presidential election, and they say a high number of eligible college-aged voters here could help break national records for turnout among 18- and 19-year-olds. | |
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Interest Builds in Colorado Caucus
- Denver Post (new window)
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2008-01-10 |
| Interest is high for Colorado college students. CoPIRG, working with student government and another group, New Era, had signed up 3,000 University of Colorado at Boulder students since August — and all of them before the caucus deadline. | |
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Climate Change: The Next Generation
- E Magazine (new window)
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2007-11-05 |
| It was with some sense of detachment that I approached the Powershift 2007 conference at the University of Maryland two weeks ago. Honestly? I would have expected a lot of students to attend simply to party somewhere new for the weekend; to make friends, escape embarrassing hook-ups, or find new connections for pot. Not, I guessed, to actually learn. But I met student after student who cared passionately about climate change. Student after student who could talk at length about why we need to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, without making “clean coal†part of the mix. Kids had traveled from across the country to attend this conference, listen to speakers, attend workshops and petition their Congresspeople, and the most potent thing they drank were enormous cups of coffee. | |
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Student Group Reaches New Voters
- Boulder Campus Press (new window)
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2007-11-02 |
| The Boulder chapter of the Colorado Public Interest Research Group has been working to activate the student vote at CU. | |
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Spreading the Word
- Colorado Daily News (new window)
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2007-10-18 |
| What's your plan? That's what CU-Boulder Colorado Public Interest Research Group (COPIRG) members were asking their peers Thursday during its first "What's Your Plan Campaign." | |
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A Convenient Screening
- Colorado Daily News (new window)
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2007-08-14 |
| Dan Omasta, the CU-Boulder Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) chapter chair, believes students have the power to tackle global warming. With enough knowledge, and education as to how to put it into action, Omasta said that college students in Boulder - and across the country - should be taking a leadership role in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | |
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Auraria Campus Goes Green
- Denver Westword (new window)
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2007-05-17 |
| Students on the Auraria campus are trying to build the largest solar-energy project on a college campus outside of California, and the fifth-largest in the country. By placing photovoltaic panels on the roofs of the Central Classroom and library buildings, they plan to generate 750 kilowatts of solar power, which would offset about 3 percent of the energy used on campus -- on top of the 45 percent that already comes from wind. | |
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Campus support comes up short
- The Metropolitan (new window)
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2007-02-20 |
| A general lack in student participation in elections and special referendum measures is affecting the administrative support that campus projects and programs need for implementation. | |
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Eye on Auraria
- OCD Advocate (new window)
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2006-10-25 |
| The New Voter's Project, part of CoPIRG, managed to register 1,490 students to vote in the Denver area. These students not only were able to register on campus, but depending on the district they registered to vote in, can also vote on campus. | |
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CU Registers 2,500 Voters
- The Colorado Daily (new window)
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2006-10-15 |
| Students at CU say they're quite satisfied with the outcome of a voter-registration drive that ended last week that registered 2,500 students. | |
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Young Voter Project Registers 1,300
- The Greeley Tribune (new window)
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2006-10-12 |
| Volunteers with a voter registration project signed up about 1,300 people at the University of Northern Colorado before Tuesday's deadline. | |
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"An Inconvenient Truth" to be Screened on Campus
- The Campus Press (new window)
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2006-09-28 |
| The International Film Series will screen Al Gore's summer movie "An Inconvenient Truth" twice in Muenzinger Auditorium at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. A discussion panel will immediately follow the 7 p.m. screening with speakers from the City of Boulder Climate Action Plan, CoPIRG and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. | |
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Eye on Auraria
- UCD Advocate (new window)
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2006-09-27 |
| In an effort to get students' voices heart, the Auraria Campus has been selected to be a polling station for the 2006 election. | |
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New Voters Project aims for 4,000
- The Campus Press (new window)
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2006-09-26 |
| In an effort to engage students in politics, the New Voters Project aims to register thousands of CU students around campus to vote in the upcoming November elections. | |
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One Month to Register
- Colorado Daily News (new window)
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2006-09-11 |
| According to Kristin Grabarek, CU's campus organizer for the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG), a major on-campus voter registration drive is already underway in light of the registration deadline of October 10. | |
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'Challenge' Promotes Clean Energy
- The Daily Camera (new window)
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2006-09-06 |
| University of Colorado students participating in Wednesday's Campus Climate Challenge were among thousands of students at hundreds of high schools and colleges nationwide committed to slow global warming. CU took the challenge before and won in 2004. The victory was marked by the goal to use 8,800 megawatt hours per year of renewable energy and plan to power three buildings with renewable energy. | |
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Eye on Auraria
- UCD Advocate (new window)
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2006-08-30 |
| The Auraria campus has moved into the no. 1 spot in the state for renewable energy. This year's Fall Fest will be powered by renewable energy, and SACAB, along with Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG), plan on getting the word out about the use of renewable energies on campus | |
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Students Graduate to Higher Debts
- The Denver Post (new window)
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2006-08-04 |
| The average debt of U.S. college students increased by more than 100 percent in just over a decade, nearly three times faster than the rate of inflation in the Boulder-Denver area, according to a report released by the Colorado Public Interest Research Group on Thursday. | |
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Election Code to be Revised
- Colorado Daily News (new window)
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2006-03-05 |
| CU-Boulder student groups, large and small, are pleased with the outcome of the legislative council decision Thursday that will now consider a variety of factors when providing funding to student groups - and not simply the popularity of the student group. | |
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Students Involved in 'Roadless' Debate
- UCD Advocate (new window)
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2006-03-01 |
| The UCDHSC student chapter of the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) has worked to generate the support of the Auraria students for their pro-roadless stance, and inform them about the issue and its potential environmental ramifications, according to Keiren Valentine, a member of CoPIRG. The group has encouraged students to sign petitions and to send the task force post cards reading: "Dear task force members, I urge you to uphold the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule." | |
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Save the Trees (Not the Bears)
- UCD Advocate (new window)
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2006-02-22 |
| This Friday, the UCDHSC student chapter of the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) will host a meeting about conserving 4.4 million acres of Colorado's national forests and roadless areas. CoPIRG is recruiting students to show their support in preserving these pristine areas. There are important reasons why these areas should be kept wild, including preserving water quality, preserving wildlife habitat and conserving open land. The purpose of this meeting is to gather comments from the public, which the Colorado Roadless Areas Review Task Force will share with Gov. Owens. | |
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House Votes to Cut Billions From Student Aid
- UCD Advocate (new window)
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2006-02-08 |
| The House of Representatives voted 216 to 214 to cut roughly $12 billion from student loan programs as part of the budget reconciliation bill Feb. 1, the largest cut in the history of the loan programs. The bill is now headed to the president's desk, where he is expected to sign it into law. | |
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SGA Hosts Student Debt Alert Campaign
- UCD Advocate (new window)
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2006-01-25 |
| Several members of SGA tried to give a voice to students who are facing increasingly higher debt by collecting signatures last week to send to Congress. | |
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Tsunami Symposium, Vigil Today
- Colorado Daily (new window)
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2005-01-26 |
| It was exactly one month ago today that earthquakes and tsunamis ravaged the coasts of Southeast Asia, and today, CU faculty and students are making sure no one has forgotten. | |
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