“When the settlers came to America, the stubborn ones stayed on the East Coast, the smart ones went to the West Coast, and the one’s that got lost along the way ended up in Colorado”-Joe Rogan To end passion blogging for the year, I have decided to discuss my personal favorite region of Colorado. This Read More…
Issue Brief Introduction
A Bad Bet for “Sin City” and the Raiders Las Vegas, the city of lights. Regardless of how you feel about gambling, “Sin City” is truly a testament to American ingenuity, an oasis in the desert. To quote the film Dodgeball “it’s the home of sand, broken dreams, and five-dollar lobster.” It will soon also Read More…
Southern Colorado: An American Treasure
“O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!”-Katherine Lee Bates atop Pikes Peak Colorado has so much more to offer than just Denver and skiing. The southern portion of the state is a unique character in and of itself. As a bridge between the Mountain Read More…
The Heart of the Rockies
“He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below He saw everything as far as you can see And they say that he got crazy once and he tried to touch the sun And he lost a friend but kept his memory”-John Denver; Rocky Mountain High As many of us can remember from playing the Oregon Read More…
Reflection on Deliberations
The two deliberations I participated in were my own deliberation cyberbullying deliberation and one discussing sustainability in regard to plastics here at Penn State. I found both deliberations in some ways similar, however, there were certainly some stark differences between the two. The cyberbullying deliberation was better at the distribution of speaking time. In all Read More…
Denver, the Mile High City
Colorado is a vast and varied state in landscape, however the vast majority of the population lives in the Greater Denver Area. Of the 5 million people who live in Colorado, 3.5 million of them live in this region. To have any understanding of Colorado, one must first get a grip on Denver. Denver is Read More…
What South Park says about Colorado
Continuing on the theme of Colorado, this will blog will look at Colorado’s impact on pop culture. Colorado isn’t a huge state and is geographically isolated, therefore it’s role in the media is fairly small. Shows such as Last Man Standing and Everwood along with movies such as Red Dawn have taken place in the Read More…
How I fell in love with Colorado
“When the air is thin, it makes your heart bigger”-John Denver In February of 1999, the Denver Broncos, led by the greatest quarterback ever to play football (sorry, it’s not Tom Brady) won their second consecutive Superbowl and Elway retired, ending his 16-year long career with the Broncos. Six months later and 1,500 miles away, Read More…
Ziplining!!!
“If you want a blank spot on the map, you got to leave the map behind”-Jon Krakauer Our last full day in Colorado began with a pancake breakfast at the KAO. Since it was Sunday, a few Catholics in our group decided to head into town to attend mass. However, since this was southern Colorado, Read More…
Rafting the Royal Gorge
“If you fall out of the raft and end up on the riverbank, don’t go wandering around to find yourself. That’s for people in Boulder”-Alfredo the Guide Showered, shaved, and rested, we eagerly anticipated our rafting trip as we took the short drive to the outfitters. Once we were fitted for life jackets, we were Read More…