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The personal ongoing effects of coronavirus.

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Hand sanitizer has become a hot commodity that you’ll rarely find in stores now. [Photo by Kaleigh Arciniega]

The last days approaching finals week at the University of Denver, are a little different this quarter. What’s usually a library filled to the brim and not a single unreserved study room, the campus is now blanketed with an eerie emptiness. Thousands of kids are now cramming for their cumulative tests from their hometown. 

There’s no excitement surrounding the festivities of Spring Break next week. Instead kids are fleeing home to be with loved ones to quarantine themselves in a familiar place, leaving DU seemily uninhabited: a ghost town. DU student Mia Winans also thinks campus feels different. 

“The library is empty which is super weird for finals and there’s nothing going on socially. Morale is low.”  

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Using sales as a tool for the greater good: Carolyn Bishop

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Carolyn Bishop on her first international mission in Pakistan [Photo by Hotes].

Carolyn Bishop wakes up every morning greeted by the Seattle dew and breathtaking view of Lake Washington. She’s in the office by 6 a.m. that sits on the water front of the infamous lake and she sips her daily mocha while checking on the space needle. Not a bad place to endure ten hour days.

But Bishop didn’t always have it like this. For the first 14 years of her career she was the first one in the office and the last one to leave. She even worked full days at home on Saturdays. 

“I didn’t even see a movie in theaters for over ten years because I was so focused on my work.” 

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DU film students argue the criticism of film auteurism

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The classroom where Jiminez screens a movie every Tuesday morning [Photo by Kaleigh Arciniega]

DU students trudge into their 8 am film criticism lecture after another frigid walk to class on Wednesday, February 19th. After a long haul across campus and through the neighborhood of Gaylord St., it’s clear that no one enthusiastic about the long lecture that lies ahead. But, in typical Carol fashion, professor Jimenez manages to get everyone’s brains stimulated from in depth discussions about film. 

“Is Todd Haynes an auteur?” Jimenez opens up the subjective question to the class.  

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Richy Mitch and the Coalminers: on air

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Art by Richy Mitch and the Coalminers.[Photo by: Kaleigh Arciniega]

If you tuned in to 103.9 RXP last Friday you would have been lucky enough to hear up and coming indie/folk group Richy Mitch and the Coalminers play their hearts out for all of Colorado. They’ve had about 10 live performances, in places around Colorado Springs, Boulder and Denver, as a group since 2017; but playing on the radio was a first for them.

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Cigarettes are making a come back

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A typical college night out. [Photo by Kaleigh Arciniega]

Seen as a safer alternative than cigarettes, highschool and college age kids around the globe are increasingly using vape products. Vape pens can include nicotine and THC having different effects depending on what it contains. A study found that the use of vaping products, or e-cigarettes, to vape marijuana as well as nicotine, doubled between 2017 and 2018 (Wolf). Due to it’s convenient nature having no smell, different flavored pods and disposable pods, products such as JUUL became especially trendy. 

University of Denver student, Parker Smith, started using vape products in 2016. “I don’t remember having a specific reason for using them other than how popular they were.” 

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