DU landscaping and the substantial water cost

The University of Denver with towering shade trees. [Photo by Alexandra Welch]

While strolling through a college campus one might expect to see beautiful shade trees and lush green grasses with students lounging underneath. At schools like the University of Denver, which is naturally a grassland landscape, these idealistic landscaping trends can have a huge cost- in water usage.

DU photography professor Roddy MacInnes shares enticing life story and its relation to photography

 Professor Roddy MacInnes in his office holding his camera. [Photo by Alexandra Welch]

[DENVER] With developments in digital technology people today can now take high-quality photos with minimal expertise. This shift in photography has made aspiring photographers doubt the viability of photography as a career.

Careers in photography have many different avenues ranging from wedding photographers to documentary photojournalists. The average photographer makes between $51,793 to $733,651 a year, but finding a reliable job in photography is becoming harder with each iPhone update. 

Bernie Sanders rallys supporters in Denver

A crowd at the Bernie Sanders rally waiting for Bernie to take the stage. [Photo by Alexandra Welch]

[DENVER] Within Sanders speech he addressed key issues that are fundamental to his policies such as health care, taxes and wealth disparity. Sanders declared to the Coloradan crowd that he is going to be the president to make a change, and how this change was going to start with the working people.

“The only way that change ever takes place in this country is from the bottom on up not the top down,” said Sanders.

Slow Hollows gets the Larimer Lounge grooving at an intimate concert

Slow Hollow backup singer/trumpeter Daniel Fox faces the excited crowd at the Larimer Lounge. [Photo by Alexandra Welch]

[Denver]- Ten minutes before the concert is set to start, there appears to be only 50 or so people in the backroom concert venue of the Larimer Lounge. The anticipation does not appear to be high as the audience casually chats with each other and sips on beer. 

The place is less crowded than a bar on Monday night, and I worry this might be it for the number of concertgoers. The people in the audience fit a typical earthy, “crunchy” profile, wearing a variety of jean jackets, beanies and nose piercings. 

DU students agree with Denver County Judge Ruling that homeless should be allowed to camp on streets

Denver county judge Johnny C. Barajas recently ruled the City of Denver’s camping ban of 2012 unconstitutional deeming it “cruel and unusual punishment.” The camping ban prevents homeless from staying overnight on the streets in Denver and instead requires they sleep in shelters.