Certified Hippie (CU Boulder)

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Boulder is full of hippies... I'm one of them.

Marijuana Supporters: "Obama's Website Should Be Called Same.Gov"

Marijuana Supporters: "Obama's Website Should Be Called Same.Gov"

The fine hippies over at StopTheDrugWar.org are furious with President-elect Barack Obama.

 

Why? Because he doesn’t plan to legalize marijuana in the foreseeable future—if ever.

 

Their red-eyed outrage began with Obama’s homepage, Change.gov, which solicited questions from Obama supporters and determined the popularity of each one based on the...

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Great American Smokeout: Not What It Sounds Like

Great American Smokeout: Not What It Sounds Like

For college students, “smoking out” may have a slightly different interpretation than the American Cancer Society intended. Today is the 33rd annual Great American Smokeout but it’s not the 4/20 experience that it sounds like.
 

Instead, the American Cancer Society promotes this day as a way to help people quit smoking. The Smokeout was created ...

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House Firebombed at CU-Boulder

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House Firebombed at CU-Boulder

Early Friday, an unidentified individual tossed a Molotov cocktail-esque concoction into the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. While no one was injured in the blaze, a 30-man brawl ensued that did send one student to the hospital.

According to the police, the firebomb, a jug filled with charcoal starter fluid, did not cause significant dama...

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CU Boulder Scientists are in on the Large Hadron Collider Action

CU Boulder Scientists are in on the Large Hadron Collider Action

Those scarily brilliant people at CU Boulder know what’s up when it comes to physics. Ten CU Boulder researchers are working on the Large Hadron Collider project, of the Large Hadron Collider rap fame. Today the LHC, a particle accelerator, was successfully activated, and soon it’s gonna show scientists what the Big Bang was like.


The CU Boulde...

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Don Gorske Loves the Sauce-- the Special Sauce

Don Gorske Loves the Sauce-- the Special Sauce

The stereotypical college student subsists on Ramen Noodles, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, and fast food. Now, Don Gorske, a McDonalds fanatic, is publishing a book covering his McDonalds exploits. Gorske was featured in the documentary film Super Size Me, in which he admitted that once when paid $5 to eat a Whopper, he spent his winnings to buy a ...

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McCain's Acceptance Speech: Good, Bad, or Ugly?

McCain's Acceptance Speech: Good, Bad, or Ugly?

Last night John McCain accepted the republican nomination at the Republican National Convention. Now, we want to know, How did you feel about McCain's speech?

Eli Broad Could Pay Your College Tuition Several Times, Gives $600 Million to Harvard and MIT Medical Research

Eli Broad Could Pay Your College Tuition Several Times, Gives $600 Million to Harvard and MIT Medical Research

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but apparently there is such a thing as a free $600 million. In 2004, Eli Broad launched a joint initiative with Harvard and MIT to find solutions to genetically inherited disorders called the Broad Institute. Establishing the Broad Institute cost $100 million, but Broad contributed another $100 million aga...

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Oklahoma State University Grad Randy Couture Returns to UFC To Beat Ass

Oklahoma State University Grad Randy Couture Returns to UFC To Beat Ass

Back when he was a student at Oklahoma State University, Randy “The Natural” Duane Couture” was a three-time NCAA Division I All-American and a two-time NCAA Division I runner up. In 1997, he began appearing as a UFC fighter. Then last year, he announced that he would no longer fight for UFC so that he could try to eff up Fedor Emelianenko, a fi...

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CSU Students Trash Talk At The DNC

CSU Students Trash Talk At The DNC

Inside the Pepsi Center, the DNC delegates are treated to inspiring speeches from important political leaders. Outside the Pepsi Center, Colorado State students are treated to piles and piles of garbage.
 

During the four-day convention, more than 460 student, staff and faculty volunteers sort through trash and separate the recyclable from the ...

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Scorpion + Spider = Camel Spider?

Scorpion + Spider = Camel Spider?

Calling all linguistics majors, WTF were they (they meaning whoever comes up with organism names) thinking when they named the camel spider? Neither a camel nor a spider, but a combination of a spider and a scorpion, the camel spider is also called the sun spider and the wind scorpion. If you want to be legit, call it a solpugid.

 

According to ...

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