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CSUPD scoots around campus
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The CSU police department is trying out a fleet of four new electrical scooters to contribute to the school's "green" image and create a safer, friendlier environment for students. The three-wheeled "electrical chariots," as Assistant Chief of Police Frank Johnson called them, were purchased in July.
Bush announces $1 billion in aid for Georgia
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WASHINGTON - Pushing back against an increasingly aggressive Moscow, President Bush said Wednesday the U.S. will send an extra $1 billion to Georgia to help the pro-Western former Soviet republic in the wake of Russia's invasion. "Georgia has a strong economic foundation and leaders with an impressive record of reform," Bush said in a statement.
CSU leaders weigh in on faith, policy
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As the presidential campaign trail heats up, so does the issue of religion, but not with the religious right. Sen. Barack Obama underscores faith as a regular item on his campaign docket -- while the GOP largely ignores it at campaign stumps. Bobby Carson, the editor-in-chief of the Ram Republic, a monthly conservative newsletter on campus, said the Democrats are trying to steal the GOP's stereotypical thunder as "the religious right.
ASCSU to spend $20,000 on expo
Student government brings state snowboarders and skiers to campus
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Student government voted in favor of an "emergency status" bill to allocate $20,000 from the Senate General Fund, which comes from student fees, to pay for the 2008 Homecoming Rail Jam Wednesday. The bill passed 10-2. Because the Student Fee Review Board, a student organization responsible for allocating $32 million in student fees, does not convene until spring, the financial decision fell onto the shoulders of the Associated Students CSU.
Local org. pressures city to expand transit
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Community for Sustainable Energy, a local non-profit, is not waiting around for Fort Collins city government to act on its commitment to implement a "grid route" bus system by 2010. Instead, volunteers are going door-to-door, soliciting letters and surveys from residents to determine what people want in mass transit.
Palin casts herself Washington outsider
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ST. PAUL, Minn. - Sarah Palin delivered. An embattled vice presidential candidate, a novice on the national stage, the head of a family suffering its "ups and downs," the first-term Alaska governor rocked the GOP convention with a star-turning performance.
Odell donates an innovative brewing system to CSU
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Odell brewing donated a $5,590 "pilot" brewing system to the department of food science and nutrition, Thursday. The brewery announced its contribution to the program last week. The new system will be used by students in Brewing Sciences and Technology, an upper-division food science class.
