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Meet Taylor Powers. The college student, 21, had to be rescued yesterday afternoon off a Colorado mountain after she ingested mushrooms, stripped off her clothes, and scuffled with two classmates with whom she had been hiking. After receiving a 911 call that a female hiker was “high on mushrooms and in distress,” Boulder County Sheriff’s Office deputies and other assorted rescue personnel (35 in total) responded to Chautauqua Park. Powers, seen above, was located by a park ranger who discovered that the University of Colorado undergrad had “removed all of her clothing and was being restrained” by two male companions....

Two students have been arrested after they brought brownies laced with marijuana to class and shared them with their unwitting professor and colleagues, authorities said. Thomas Ricardo Cunningham, 21, and 19-year-old Mary Elizabeth Essa allegedly made the snacks for “bring food day” at Colorado University on Friday. A female professor was taken to hospital after she began to lose consciousness while teaching at the Hellems Arts and Sciences Building. …

In what has become an annual rite of passage, University of Colorado students are being subjected this month to a round of diversity workshops preaching that all whites are racist. The latest round, hosted by the university's women's resource center last Friday, was titled "White on White Taskforce: Acting to Dismantle Racism." According to organizers, it was "designed to give White people tools to dismantle racism on campus." At the workshop, students received a handout espousing the "underlying assumptions" of its leaders. Most notably, it read "reverse racism is impossible," meaning that non-whites cannot be racist. And also of interest,...

University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill has drawn widespread public attention before for brash statements he made about 9/11 victims in an essay he wrote following the terrorist attacks in 2001, when he compared those who died in that attack to the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. The controversial essay went fairly unnoticed until January 2005, when it came up before a scheduled speech at Hamilton College. The investigation into allegations of research misconduct and plagiarism ensued shortly after the speech surfaced, in March 2005. The Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of...

The majority of the University of Colorado committee investigating ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill recommended firing him for academic misconduct on June 13. Churchill is most famous for calling the victims of terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center “Little Eichmanns.” The committee investigated seven separate allegations concerning Churchill’s academic misconduct: Misrepresentation of General Allotment Act of 1887 (A), Misrepresentation of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (B), Captain John Smith and Smallpox in New England (C), Smallpox Epidemic at Fort Clark and Beyond (D), Plagiarism of a Pamphlet by the Dam the Dams Group (E), Plagiarism of...

Hey Colorado Freepers! Announcing a Freep at the CU campus around the Michelle Malkin Speech on March 1st. This event is being organized by the CU republicans GOPCollegeRepublicansThanks so much for your interest in the upcoming event, “The War on Terror.” Michelle Malkin and Dinesh D’Souza will visit the University of Colorado at Boulder on March 1st at 7pm. This event is free, but you do need a ticket to attend. This event is being sponsored by the Cultural Events Board, the University of Colorado Student Union and the College Republicans. For your free tickets, visit the CU Connection in...

Lost oaths, lost jobs? By JOSEPH THOMAS and MATT WILLIAMS Colorado Daily Staff Midterms are in full swing at CU, but at least one CU professor said Wednesday there was a time this week when he wasn't sure he would be back for the second half of the semester. English professor Paul Levitt told his class Wednesday that there was a 50-50 chance he would be fired by the University before he had a chance to grade his students' term papers. The reason? Levitt said he didn't want to re-sign a faculty loyalty oath that CU administrators are trying to...

CU's out-of-state applicants drop 19% Decrease may mean $15 million loss in tuition revenue By John C. Ensslin, Rocky Mountain News February 22, 2005 BOULDER - The number of out-of-state students applying to attend the University of Colorado this coming fall has dropped 19 percent compared with last year, school officials said. If actual enrollment figures for the next school year follow that trend, CU officials project the decrease could translate into a loss of $15 million in tuition revenue. Advertisement CU and higher-education officials differ on the reason for the drop. Some cite a grueling year of bad press...

Clinton, N.Y. - A University of Colorado professor who suggested the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were justified and those who died in the World Trade Center were not innocent victims has ignited protests on an upstate New York college campus where he's been invited to speak. Ward Churchill, an expert on indigenous issues and chairman of the ethnic studies program at CU-Boulder, will take part in a panel discussion Feb. 3 at Hamilton College. Administrators defended Churchill's appearance but admitted his views are considered "repugnant and disparaging" by many people. "Hamilton, like any institution committed to the free exchange of...