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Working from the basement to cure cancer
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Weina Wang takes off her jean jacket and lays down on the grass in the Oval to "soak up some Vitamin D." She lays on her stomach, picking blades of grass out of the ground one by one. "I spend most of my time in the basement of the Engineering Building, so I love to get out in the sunshine," she said.
Fort Collins to address energy progress
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James Jones, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy, will present the "Blueprint for Securing America's Energy Future" in Fort Collins today at 1:30 p.m. to address clean and sustainable technology in the face of America's looming energy crisis.
Amid overhaul, key CSU auditors departed
Overseers took large financial incentives, signed confidentiality agreements
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As CSU President Larry Penley launched an overhaul of administration -- drastically boosting high-level administrative budgets and salaries -- four top-level financial overseers departed the university because of disputes with the president's financial philosophy, sources said.
Community members meet to discuss 18 ballot initiatives
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Democratic State Representatives John Kefalas and Randy Fischer joined a room packed with about 60 people at the Coloradoan's Community Room Monday night to listen to and inform Fort Collins residents on one of the longest ballots in Colorado history. The audience was made up of amendment campaign leaders, union leaders, business representatives, local voters and a handful of students there to discuss the 18 ballot initiatives with Kefalas and Fischer, who acted as moderators.
CSU steps closer to wind farm development
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Larimer County approved regulations last week that will allow CSU to begin the application process to build a wind farm north of Fort Collins to keep up with the university's goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2020. The farm, dubbed the Green Power Project, will eventually reside on university-owned Maxwell Ranch, a 9,000-acre lot located on the Colorado-Wyoming border.
Shots fired in north Foco, man arrested
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Fort Collins resident Adrian Allen Fuller, 30, was taken into custody Sunday night after allegedly firing several rounds at a 28-year-old male at 401 N. Timberline Road. No one was injured during the incident. According to a Larimer County Sheriff's press release, Fuller held the gun to the unidentified male's head, but the man knocked the gun away just before shots were fired.
Bailing on Bailout
House vote kills $700 billion rescue plan
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WASHINGTON - In a vote that shook the government, Wall Street and markets around the world, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation's financial system, leaving both parties and the Bush administration struggling to pick up the pieces.
Construction delayed by Ritter's temporary freeze on state money
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The renovation of the Clark building C-wing is delayed after Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter temporarily froze state-funded capital construction at Colorado higher education campuses Thursday. University officials said the freeze, a precautionary decision made by the governor in response to the current economic crisis, affected only the Clark renovation construction project.
