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Regency full of empty promises
By Geof Wollerman
The Regency student housing community – located in a once-condemned hotel that was home to a variety of vagaries, including drug dealing and squatting – may be having trouble escaping its shady past.

We saw your blog, you're fired!
By Jessie Yale
Websites like MySpace provide people with places to share their thoughts, keep in touch, meet new friends and, for some, a chance to get sued, get passed over for a job and maybe even do some jail time.

Sustainable future vote on horizon
By Brandon Daviet
The Auraria Board decided March 14 to allow students to vote on renewing and raising student fees to continue the sustainable-campus program.

Urban opportunities for migrant students
By Mellisa Blackburn
Migrant students can receive support from the College Assistance Migrant Program at Metro, which provides scholarships during these students’ freshman year.

Faculty Federation defeats darkside of education
By Ruthanne Johnson
Metro’s tenured faculty gained renewed job security March 8, as the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that a 2003 change in policy violated the constitutional rights of Metro’s veteran faculty.

Facebook documentary seeks personal diaries
Fanatical Facebook users have a chance to bring a video of their making to the mainstream in a new endeavor called Facebook Diaries.

Library of Congress creates website for old news in digital age
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced the debut of “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers,” a new website with more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910.

Nurses Club looks for assistance in sending troops needed support
Americans know more about basic science today than they did two decades ago, a find that is good news, but is tempered by a growth in the belief of pseudoscience, such as astrology and visits by extraterrestrial aliens, according to the Associated Press.