Daily Camera Stories: News
Group questions Boulder council members' pops, scrapes
Commissioners to consider modified sugar beets
Welcome concert draws in thousands of new students
Student Spotlight: Porter DeFrees
Man dies while hiking Arapaho Pass Trail
Freshman experience not so ‘fresh’ with social networking
The students formed fast friendships over the summer on Facebook.com. Ryan also started chatting on Facebook with an upperclassman before she moved to Boulder, asking him how long it takes to walk between certain buildings and for other college advice.
“It’s nice to have already-built friendships,” she said.
Social networking has drastically changed the age-old tradition of moving into the dorms and starting a school year on an unfamiliar campus. Today’s generation of college students can take virtual tours of the campus, get candid glimpses of student life on YouTube and see Facebook photos of their roommates before they formally introduce themselves and flip a coin for the top bunk.
Boulder photographer sues Apple
NREL gets super-sized turbine at wind center
Motorcyclist hits deer on N. Foothills Highway
Bennet fields students' questions
Woman sentenced for stealing from mother-in-law
CU reports 8 'probable' cases of swine flu
Police search for missing Longmont man, CU-Boulder employee
Invoking South Park, CU-Boulder welcomes freshman Class of 2013
Born in 1991, Class of 2013 has never known pre-Nirvana world
CU ranks No. 34 on list of best public universities
CU adding 6 police officers, studying late-night parking
CU tops Sierra Magazine's green honor roll
Buff Buses that shuttle University of Colorado students around the campus run on vegetable oil.
Football games at Folsom Field are trash-free, and those who arrive on bikes get free "valet" service.
Now, the Boulder campus has another green accolade: The Sierra Club's magazine named it the most "eco-enlightened" college in the country. CU jumped up a spot from last year's No. 2 ranking.
CU ranks No. 34 of best public universities
CU Foundation promotes Richard Lawrence to chief operating officer
Current weather
CO - Denver, Denver International Airport
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- Temperature: 30.2 °F / -1 °C
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- Pressure: 1012 hPa
- Rel. Humidity: 59 %
- Visibility: 16.1 km
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