A Publication by the Students of the FRCC-Larimer Campus
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―It‘s awesome, I love it,‖ said student Ashley Owen, 20,
about the newly renovated Longs Peak Student Center. Owencrinkled her nose in response to what she thought of the old
student center. ―It is more welcoming now,‖ she said. Owen
spends a couple of hours between classes on Mondays andWednesdays at the student center, which underwent a significantrevamp over the summer break.First built in 1998, the Longs Peak Student Center hadremained mostly the same since its completion, with its aqua-marine, purple and gray décor. This is exactly what led to director of Student Life Erin Fink-
Smith‘s cause to remodel the studenthub. ―It was time for a facelift. The old student center felt coldand stark,‖ said Fink
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Smith. Those ―cold‖ colors have been re-
placed with warm, earthy tones.Talk began in 2005, after an upgrade to the now Studyand Art Lounge. Fink-Smith met with the Student Center Advisory Board, consisting of students, faculty and staff. Shespoke with the 2007-2008 Student Government Association aboutfunding the $750,000 project with student fees. Both the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 student bodies were assessed by theadvisory board. They surveyed the students throughout the schoolyear, asking them what they would like to see in a new studentcenter. After final approval from Interim President MichaelKupcho, Vice President Dr. James C. Butzek, and dean of Student Services Kris Binard, construction began on MemorialDay.
―FRCC is in need of more space. Enrollment iscurrently up by 20 percent,‖ said Fink
-Smith. An increase instudents means not only an increase in people, but is also a boostin student fees, allowing for such a project to be undertaken.
While the project didn‘t involve any expansion, it did,however, ―make better use of the space we did have,‖ according
to Facilities director and design team member Scott McKelvey.With better organization and relocation of storage space, the project allowed for an additional office that was not there before.
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A term often heard is ―sustainable living,‖ but do you
truly understand what it means? The Rocky Mountain Sustain-able Living Fair was held on Sept. 19 and 20 in Fort Collins.Sustainable living is as simple as recycling every week, or ascomplex as converting your whole home to run off of solar energy. There were many booths set up across the open farmingfield located on Lemay Avenue and Vine Drive that representedvarious forms of sustainable living. This was a community event,and all the booths were run by volunteers and employees of thevarious businesses, local farms and schools represented at thefair, including FRCC. The Front Range booth was powered byfaculty and staff volunteers who were busy talking about thechanges to come, starting with the Sustainable Living Committee.The woman responsible for these volunteers was PatriciaSpears-Taff, who is the recruitment specialist at Front Range.
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Left to right:
Mohammed Alghadeer, Mohammad Alnassar,Mohamed Own, and an unidentified student stand by one of themany tables displaying information about Arabic culture at theArabic Awareness Dinner held on campus on Friday, Sept. 25.
Photo by James Neuhalfen
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