Category: Stories
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CU Boulder Kicks Off Black History Month
By Shaun Smith On Monday, Feb. 2, the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) conducted its fourth annual ‘CAAAS Day,’ an event filled with a buffet for guests and celebrations to kick off Black History Month alongside the University of Colorado Boulder’s Alumni Association and Ethnic Studies department. In…
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CU Students hold “useless” Protest
The so-called “United States” saw mass protests and a general strike initiated by labor unions and community leaders on Jan 30 in response to the killing of two white protestors by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including one at CU Boulder. Sophia Grossman, a junior in aerospace engineering, planned this walkout and march at…
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CU bans Indian students for reheating food, students win $200,000 in lawsuit
In September 2025, two Indian students at CU Boulder filed a civil rights lawsuit against the university over racist remarks, and four months later, they won their case. Although they won the case, their academic careers at CU have been forcefully ended due to the events that transpired. The incident took place on Sept 5,…
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CU Boulder Celebrates 150 Years of Native Genocide
CU Boulder Chancellor Justin Schwartz sent out a mass email and announcement on Jan 12 at 7:15 a.m. containing an invitation for students to attend his “State of the Campus Address” as well as a video welcoming students back, bringing to attention CU’s 150th year anniversary. Some students believe this celebration of 150 years is…
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Fire Alarm Halts CU Boulder Event With Lockheed Martin Space President
A fire alarm at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Aerospace Building interrupted a scheduled campus event Monday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of the facility and halting a talk that featured the president of Lockheed Martin Space, according to an email sent to students and faculty in the department. The message, written by Aerospace Chair Hanspeter…
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CU’s Money Is Moving Through ICE’s Flight Network
The University of Colorado Boulder is financially linked to the federal deportation system through its long-standing contract with Key Lime Air, a Colorado airline now confirmed to operate flights for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That relationship, critics argue, means CU funds help sustain an aviation network used to move detained migrants between ICE…
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Theory: Creative Workspaces In A Democratically Planned Economy
By Ludwig Yeonan Introduction The reconciliation of Individualism and Democratic Economic Planning is based on a distinction between different types of labor, and how work is done and income is allocated for each type. In particular, it has been shown that creative labor must not be accounted for in an economic plan, and all should…
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CU DEI Center Threatens Native Event with Forced Removal
On Nov. 18, at 11:33 am, student groups Oyate Native Student Org, United Mexican American Students (UMAS) y Mecha received emails from the Center for Cultural Connections and Community (formerly Center for Inclusion and Social Change) that their planned “Thankstaking” potluck and panel event was at risk of being shut down. This event, which is…
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CU Bans Student Protestors and Journalists from Campus
Updated 11/24/25 at 1:45 pm Following the Oct. 16 career fair disruption , in which students from Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) successfully kicked Lockheed Martin out, 10 of them were banned from the CU Boulder campus, alongside three of our reporters. These students, who received their Student Conduct & Conflict Resolution (SCCR) charges…
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CU Nazi Student Loses Fight to Hockey Stick
UPDATE: 10/27/25, 6:51 pm In a new Oct. 27 post on TPUSA’s Instagram, the far fight group reveals they have open positions for secretary and treasurer. Given Ellis’ previous position was secretary, this announcement reveals that campaigns to remove Ellis from the campus community have been semi-successful. It is unknown at the time of writing…
