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Freshman year offers a bright beginning for many new students

The fall 2012 incoming freshmen gather in the Coors Events Center prior to Global Jam. Students were given a different color shirt based off what dorm they lived in: Williams Village in gray, Kittredge and the engineering quad in Black, and the dorms around Farrand Field and Sewall in Gold. (CU Independent/Amy Leder)

CU welcomed 5,600 first-year students to campus last week, and the new experience of college is proving to be equally exciting and difficult for many. Alyssa Davies, an 18-year-old freshman political science major, said her decision to leave her home in England for life at CU has been a positive one so far. “I kind of thought I’d be upset …

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Know your care: Affordable Care Act

"More and more young adults are discovering that they have this opportunity to get on their parent’s insurance. And also that they’ll be able get preventative care without a co-pay."

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College column: How to embrace change

The opinions represented in this article do not necessarily represent those of the staff of the CUIndependent or any of its sponsors. It’s 10 p.m. and I am done with my homework. I open my web browser and go to Facebook. My chat bar is up, and a friend from Arizona is online. I click on his name, start a …

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Opinion: Disappearing act

My ears hurt and it has nothing to do with the strange man at the bus stop yelling profanities at me, or my professors lecturing me on how poorly I did on my last assignment. Rather, it has everything to do with the current state of music.

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The “What’s Up” weekly

Each week we bring you the best of what’s going on around town. Free events, happy hours, bar events and on-campus events: we have tons to keep up with in B-town.

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Zombies invade CU

Organizers say they are disappointed in the level of participants in the Humans vs. Zombies game held on the CU campus last week.

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