Men Win Close, Women Put up Five in Green/White Scrimmages
Reggie Thompson The Paw Print Adams State’s men and women’s 2011 soccer teams took the field in a game setting for the first time this season Friday evening in the annual Green and White Scrimmage or “Black and White” scrim-mage as is it turned out to be. These scrimmages were intended to evaluate both the […]
Women’s Volleyball Sweeps Alumni In 4th Annual Scrimmage
Reggie Thompson The Paw Print Saturday night marked the night of the fourth Annual Adams State Alumni Volleyball Scrimmage, in which the current Grizzlies swept the alumni in the five games played. In it’s fourth year, this match is still enjoyable for those involved. Head Coach Lindy Mortensen, who coached many of the alumni players […]
The Heart of La Puente
By Stephany Nellessen Saturday, July 30, approx-imately 8 p.m. I finally made it to Colorado and although I am just approaching Denver I have an alluring view of the sun setting over the mountains. The sky is dark with a hint of orange and that bright ball of fiery light hardly revealing itself behind […]
College Is About More than Just Getting a Good Job
By David Mazel One of the lessons of global warming is that our planet is becoming more and more of an artifact. More and more, our world is not what nature made it but what we are making it. What kind of world is it that we are making? And what kind of world […]
Construction Continues on the McDaniels Project
Will Cameron The Paw Print Beginning (what will hopefully be) my final undergraduate semester at Adams State College I am inclined to ponder the flurry of activity on campus that seems to promise wonderful things for the classes of the future. However, it seems that I will miss many of the improvements and spend my […]
NFL Lockout Now More Likely Than Ever
Jesse Medina The Paw Print Football is one of the most popular sports in the entire world. One could go about anywhere and find some trace of NFL regalia. Super Bowl Sunday itself has become a national holiday, effectively shutting down most of America.
Bin Laden’s Death Beneficial for Humanity and Peace
Lance Hostetter The Paw Print About a year ago I wrote a column centered on the basic idea of John Donne’s “Meditation 17.” In the meditation, Donne writes a rather poignant paragraph pondering the loss of human life and the correlation to the rest mankind: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man […]
Bin Laden Death Celebration Inappropriate, Hypocritical
James Williams The Paw Print On Sunday evening, an undeniable sense of relief washed over the majority of the nation as President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan. That sense of relief is justified. Clearly, he was an evil man who celebrated violence against any and all whom he deemed […]
Lovato, Payne Lead Six Grizzlies on All-RMAC Softball Squads
Eric R. Flores The Paw Print Adams State College sophomore centerfielder Katelyn Lovato continues to make history for the Grizzlies as she was named as the 2011 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Player of the Year. The selection was announced Tuesday by conference officials who conducted a vote of the league’s 12 head coaches. Redshirt freshman […]
Male Paw Print Athlete of the Year
Ryan McNiff Adams State College senior cross country runner Ryan McNiff has been named as the Paw Print Male Athlete of the Year for the 2010-2011 academic school year. McNiff started the season as being the first collegiate finisher at the Joe I. Vigil Open before being the first D-II runner in the Rocky Mountain […]
Female Paw Print Athlete of the Year
Katelyn Lovato Adams State College sophomore outfielder for the softball team Katelyn Lovato has been named as the Paw Print Female Athlete of the Year for the 2010-2011 academic school year. Lovato, who was named as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Player of the Year, leads all players in the conference with a .505 batting […]
Grizzly Softball Earns Sixth Seed in RMAC Tournament
Chris Day ASC Sports Information After not being able to play because of inclement weather in Alamosa and doubleheader splits in Durango, Golden and Kearney, Neb., the Adams State College Grizzlies have earned the sixth seed in the upcoming Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament. They will take on the host and third-seed Colorado School of […]
Hall-led Grizzlies Wrap-up NCAA Regional, Finish Ninth
Chris Day ASC Sports Information Sophomore Samantha Hall took her turn at leading the Adams State College women’s golf team posting an 86 in the third and final round of the NCAA Division II Central Regional Championships, which wrapped up Tuesday at the 6,047-yard, par-72 Hillcrest Golf Club.
Disney Princesses to Blame for Lack of Boyfriend
Elizabeth Young The Paw Print Most—if not all—fairy tales end with, “…and they all lived happily ever after.” This is a simple way tao end the story if you were reading it to a five-year-old, but it gives the child the impression that if she finds Prince Charming, everything in life will be hunky-dory for […]
Westboro Baptist Church Represents Everything Wrong with Humanity
Lance Hostetter The Paw Print Almost two months after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Westboro Baptist Church could legally protest soldiers’ funerals, the church members finally got what they deserved – to be beaten, physically. Two weeks ago, while attempting to protest a soldier’s funeral in Rankin County, Mississippi, the citizens of […]
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