CSU-Pueblo Today On Break Until Fall Semester

The staff of the CSU-Pueblo Today thanks all of its readers for their support during the summer semester.
We will be returning at the end of August to provide new content for the school, and we hope that you all will return as well.

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News

CSU-Pueblo and PCC celebrate 75th anniversary

July 23rd, 2008 by Joel Bowlin

Sunday, July 13 marked the 75th anniversary for Colorado State-Pueblo and Pueblo Community College; the schools threw a celebration party at the PCC campus, with over 1,500 Puebloans showing up to help celebrate the event. read more »

New Enrollment Tactics Pay Off at CSU-Pueblo

July 22nd, 2008 by Adena Page

New recruitment strategies at CSU-Pueblo have paid off with a ten percent enrollment increase over last year, according to Joe Marshall.

The majority of the increase constitutes new student freshmen as CSU-Pueblo has almost doubled enrollment of new freshmen since last year. read more »

Features

Local band “Son of Man” now recording

July 22nd, 2008 by Audrey Lundahl

A local Pueblo band has caused quite the stir among Pueblo fans and has begun recording this month. The five members of Son of Man have been playing together for five years now.

Members Brandan Bustamante, lead singer, Mo Valdez and Matty Herrera, guitar, Josh Ewing, Bass, and Brandan Gonzales, drums came together so many years ago out of what was at first seemingly a mistake. Son of Man began with all original members except for Bustamante. read more »

Part II: Meet the REV 89 DJs

July 7th, 2008 by Today Staff

You’ve heard their voices on the radio, now meet the second group of REV DJs face-to-face, courtesy of TODAY’s multimedia producers Matthew Maes and Tracy Thompson. read more »

Opinion

My space or yours?

July 1st, 2008 by Audrey Lundahl

audrey-photo-edited.jpgWe’re probably all guilty of it. Even I have to come clean that I have a Myspace page, but what effects is this global social networking community really having on us? 

We’ve all heard the problems of Myspace: the inappropriate pictures, the online bullying, etc. but have we really thought about how much these things really do happen in real life?  read more »

Sports

Hopeful thoughts of an optimistic editor

August 6th, 2008 by Brandon Hopper

Well I’ve been missing for the past two weeks and totally spaced out my writing. It happens. Isn’t the summer semester over already?

Anyways I really have nothing to rant about, so I’ll touch on a few things I have opinions about. And really, my opinion should be your opinion because I’m right about 90% of the time. read more »

Pack baseball inks help, Pueblo players

July 24th, 2008 by CSU-Pueblo Sports Information

The Colorado State University-Pueblo baseball team has added nine new players for the 2009 season, included two former Pueblo-area high school standouts, Tony Pechek (Pueblo South HS, Pueblo, Colo.), and Zach Hoffman (Pueblo West HS, Pueblo West, Colo.).

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Entertainment

Not all superheros start out nice

July 23rd, 2008 by Joel Bowlin

hancock1_large.jpgDirty, stinky, smelly, crotchety, unshaven, hung over and sleepy are adjectives one might use to describe a bum, or in this case, the superbum “Hancock.”Will Smith’s new film, “Hancock,” has him portraying a character of the same name. Audiences find Smith playing the role of the swearing, drunken, grouchy, carefree anti-hero trying to find a sense of self-identity. For most of the movie, Hancock searches for his identity because he believes he is the only person on earth to poses superhuman abilities. read more »

Beer Review: Dead Guy Ale

July 23rd, 2008 by Eric Salagovic

deadguy.jpgHello everyone, and welcome back to yet another CSU-Pueblo weekly beer review. My name’s Eric, I drink beer, and I’ve been working far too hard recently.

For those of you who don’t know, a law has been passed recently allowing liquor stores to stay open on Sundays. It’s a great triumph for the masses, for they will no longer have to stock up on Saturdays for football games, barbecues, etc., or suffer the indignities of 3.2 beer if they forget. A whole new era of happy weekends has opened up to them. read more »