Sui­cide for Dummies

Sui­cide is the answer. Go ahead, what are you wait­ing for? Nobody loves you, you’re all alone and don’t for­get, It’s cold out­side. There is one catch to keep in mind while attempt­ing to escape the mor­tal world, if you fail you go straight to jail (after being dis­charged from the hos­pi­tal of course).

Of all the per­sonal free­doms that we have in this coun­try, sui­cide is not one of them. Chris­t­ian morals have shaped every­thing in our lives, from the words printed on our money to our right of self-elimination. The bible says sui­cide is wrong; so by God we made laws against it. Legally you can com­mit sui­cide if you sac­ri­fice your own life to save some­one else’s. While self-sacrifice is legal and tech­ni­cally eth­i­cal, it is not prac­ti­cal because the oppor­tu­ni­ties are gen­er­ally unpre­dictable and scarce. … Con­tinue Reading

Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming Pro­fes­sor killed in head on Collision

Sept. 7, 2010 — Adrian Ban­t­jes, an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor in the Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming Depart­ment of His­tory, was killed in a head-on auto­mo­bile crash at approx­i­mately 8:15 p.m. Fri­day about 11 miles south of Saratoga on Wyoming High­way 130.

“The tragic death of Pro­fes­sor Ban­t­jes is a tremen­dous loss for the Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming. He was an excel­lent scholar and a val­ued mem­ber of the fac­ulty who was well-liked by stu­dents and col­leagues alike,” UW Pres­i­dent Tom Buchanan says. “He will be missed by all who knew him. Our thoughts and prayers are with his fam­ily at this dif­fi­cult time.”

Ban­t­jes’ wife, Mary Hen­ning, and daugh­ter Aida, 8, were injured in the crash and both were hos­pi­tal­ized. Hen­ning remained in the hos­pi­tal as of Tues­day morn­ing. Aida has been released from the hos­pi­tal. … Con­tinue Reading

Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming stu­dent killed on HWY 287

Sept. 6, 2010 – One Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming stu­dent was killed and three were injured Mon­day when the vehi­cle they were in went off High­way 287 in Col­orado shortly before 5:30 a.m.

Killed was Ruben Nar­cisse, 19, of Miami, Fla. Injured were Trey Fox, 19, of Glen­wood Springs, Colo.; C.J. Mor­gan, 18, of Aurora, Colo.; and J.J. Quin­lan, 19, of Everett, Wash.

The four were in a Toy­ota Tun­dra pickup trav­el­ing north approx­i­mately six miles south of the Wyoming state line when the dri­ver of the vehi­cle appar­ently fell asleep at the wheel, accord­ing to the Col­orado State Patrol. Col­orado State Patrol spokesman Sgt. John Hahn said there is no evi­dence that drugs or alco­hol were a fac­tor in the crash.

Nar­cisse and Mor­gan were taken to the Med­ical Cen­ter of the Rock­ies in Love­land, Colo. Mor­gan remains in the hos­pi­tal there in fair condition.

Quin­lan and Fox were taken to Ivin­son Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal, in Laramie, Wyo., where they were treated and released.

All stu­dents involved in the acci­dent are on the UW foot­ball team. … Con­tinue Reading

Wyoming Cow­boys strug­gle with South­ern Utah Thunderbirds

In a close game, Wyoming 1–0 pre­vailed over a tougher-than-expected South­ern Utah 0–1 squad. The Cow­boys had a con­vinc­ing lead going into the fourth quar­ter, but the Thun­der­birds shut down the Cow­boy offense to end the game. The ‘Pokes had a less deci­sive vic­tory than they had hoped for, but were happy to walk away with a win – no mat­ter how they got it.

Head Coach Dave Chris­tensen com­mented, “It’s always good to get a win under your belt to start the sea­son. We were lucky to come away with a win today.”

Saturday’s crowd wel­comed the Cow­boys onto the field under a set­ting sun. The Cow­boys stepped into a much improved sta­dium this evening in front of over 20,000 fans dressed in gold.

Wyoming seemed to be feel­ing the crowd’s energy and used that momen­tum to get to the end zone in dra­matic fash­ion on their first pos­ses­sion. Austyn Carta-Samuels rolled out of the pocket and tossed a 36 yard jump-ball to Zach Bol­ger which was pulled in for the first score of the night. … Con­tinue Reading

Pre­dic­tions — Pokes vs. Thunderbirds

The Wyoming Cow­boys were 7–6 (4−4 MWC) last sea­son with an amaz­ing vic­tory against the Fresno State Bull­dogs in double-overtime of the New Mex­ico Bowl. This sea­son, the Cow­boys hope to do at least that well again and become eli­gi­ble for another bowl game. Head Coach Dave Chris­tensen is ask­ing a lot from his young play­ers, but he thinks that his Cow­boys can ‘Bring the Wood’, come game day.

The Cow­boys kick off their sea­son at home on Sep­tem­ber 4^th against the South­ern Utah Uni­ver­sity Thun­der­birds. The Thun­der­birds went 5–6 (2−2 Great West Con­fer­ence) in 2009. Last sea­son SUU lost to their only MWC oppo­nent, San Diego State, 19–35. … Con­tinue Reading

Jazz Per­for­mance Begins UW Cul­tural Pro­grams Fall 2010 Con­cert Series

Sept. 3, 2010 — Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming — Jazz musi­cian Cyrus Chest­nut will start the Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming Cul­tural Pro­grams fall con­cert series at 7:30 p.m. Fri­day, Sept. 10, in the Fine Arts Cen­ter con­cert hall.

Tick­ets cost $22 for the pub­lic and $18 for stu­dents and senior cit­i­zens. Tick­ets can be pur­chased online at www.uwyo.edu/finearts or call (307) 766‑6666. Tick­ets are also avail­able at the Wyoming Union infor­ma­tion desk and Fine Arts box office. The Fine Arts box office hours are Mon­day through Fri­day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and one hour before each sched­uled per­for­mance. … Con­tinue Reading

New Edi­tion of Wyoming Almanac Now Available

Sept. 3, 2010 — Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming — Who drove the first car in Wyoming? What was the first radio mes­sage received in the state and who was the doc­tor who removed an arrow from Jim Bridger’s back?

The answers to these and scores of other ques­tions rang­ing from the triv­ial to the sig­nif­i­cant can be found in the sixth edi­tion of the Wyoming Almanac, writ­ten by broth­ers Phil, David and Steven Roberts and pub­lished by Sky­line West Press.

Phil is a Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming his­tory pro­fes­sor. David teaches jour­nal­ism at Mis­souri Val­ley Col­lege in Mar­shall. He founded the Med­i­cine Bow Post news­pa­per and also taught jour­nal­ism classes and served as a stu­dent pub­li­ca­tions adviser at UW. Steven taught his­tory and social stud­ies at Vet­eran and Moor­croft high schools and retired last year after a career in the U.S. Postal Ser­vice human resource division.

The book pro­vides a handy guide to Wyoming cul­ture, his­tory, pol­i­tics, sports, peo­ple, media, art and many other cat­e­gories. … Con­tinue Reading

War Memo­r­ial Sta­dium gets a new look

Changes abound, both at War Memo­r­ial Sta­dium and through­out the Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence. In Laramie there’s new box seats and a new look to the exte­rior of the sta­dium. In the Moun­tain West, a few teams are on the outs (Utah to and BYU to in 2011) – while some new blood is being added to the con­fer­ence (Boise State from the WAC and pos­si­bly Nevada and Fresno State, also from the WAC, in 2011).

War Memo­r­ial Sta­dium is enter­ing its’ 61^st year as home of Wyoming Cow­boys foot­ball. The newest facil­i­ties at the sta­dium are box seats on the east side of the stands. The project has taken over a year to com­plete and will be in full use this week­end to open the 2010 sea­son. Not only do the new boxes greatly increase the num­ber of lux­ury seats at the sta­dium, but there has also been addi­tions to increase the longevity of the stands on the east side and changes to have more access points for the fans convenience.

The Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence will be mak­ing ren­o­va­tions next sea­son as well. Utah has accepted an offer from the Pac-10 and will change con­fer­ences in 2011. BYU has also decided to leave the MWC. The Cougars will play foot­ball in the Inde­pen­dent league, but all of their other sports will com­pete in the WAC. The new blood com­ing into the MWC next sea­son is the foot­ball jug­ger­naut, Boise State Bron­cos. Not only will they bring some more atten­tion to them­selves in the national spot­light, but they will only increase the pres­tige of the Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence among other top con­fer­ences nation­ally. There could be even more teams brought into the con­fer­ence in the future, but noth­ing else has been set in stone.

[RECAP] New Mex­ico Bowl Stunner

In case you missed it, the Wyoming Cow­boys fin­ished their sea­son in spec­tac­u­lar win­ning fash­ion. In one of the first games of Bowl sea­son, the Cow­boys took on the Fresno State Bull­dogs in Albu­querque, NM. In front of a national audi­ence on ESPN, the Cow­boys came back in the fourth quar­ter and sent the game into over­time. Lead­ing the Cow­boys back into con­tention was fresh­man quar­ter­back Austyn Carta-Samuels. Carta-Samuels used his head, his legs and his arm to keep the UW drive alive on mul­ti­ple fourth down con­ver­sions, which brought the Cow­boys into scor­ing range.

The over­time period was even more dra­matic than the fourth quar­ter had been, if you can believe that. In over­time, the Cow­boys hog-tied the Bull­dogs on four con­sec­u­tive downs inside the 5-yard-line to pre­vent Fresno St. from scor­ing. Wyoming then scored on a per­fect touch pass to the cor­ner of the end­zone to give the Pokes the advan­tage of forc­ing Fresno St. to also score a touch­down. The defense did exactly what they had done through­out the fourth quar­ter and first over­time pos­ses­sion. They com­pletely smoth­ered the Bull­dogs offense.

The Cow­boys came away with a thrilling Bowl vic­tory for first sea­son Head Coach Dave Chris­tensen. The MVPs of the game were fresh­man quar­ter­back Austyn Carta-Samuels for the offense and senior line­man Mitch Unrein on the defense. With an incred­i­ble start to a Head Coach­ing career, Dave Chris­tensen is already among some of the most élite coaches that the Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming has had in their 113 years of existence.

Yel­low­stone unveils new vis­i­tor center

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK,
Wyo., Aug. 25 PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Yel­low­stone National Park unveiled its new, state-of-the-art Vis­i­tor Edu­ca­tion Cen­ter at Old Faith­ful, cre­at­ing a focal point of inno­v­a­tive learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties in the heart of Yellowstone.

“While there are more gey­sers and hot springs in Yel­low­stone than in the rest of the world com­bined, most vis­i­tors were leav­ing the park with­out a basic under­stand­ing of the amaz­ing hydrother­mal won­ders they had just encoun­tered,” explained Karen Bates Kress, Pres­i­dent of the non­profit Yel­low­stone Park Foun­da­tion. “Now, thanks to many gen­er­ous donors, we can open this Cen­ter — and the minds of nearly 3 mil­lion vis­i­tors annu­ally — to the won­ders of the park.” … Con­tinue Reading