Archive for June, 2009

Alumnus digs owning Breckenridge’s Country Boy Mine

Alumnus digs owning Breckenridge’s Country Boy Mine

Some people spend their whole lives looking for their proverbial pot of gold. Others just buy a gold mine. Meet Paul Hintgen (BSBA ’86), the owner of Country Boy Mine in Breckenridge, Colo. It was established in 1887, and it’s the only mine with an underground tour in Summit County. […]

Alumna prosecuting Charles Taylor for war crimes in Sierra Leone

Brenda Hollis (JD ’77) calls Denver home, but she currently lives in The Hague, Netherlands, serving as principal trial attorney in the prosecution of Charles Ghankay Taylor, the ex-president of Liberia who is accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes for his involvement in the armed conflict in Sierra […]

DU alumna is a photogravure pioneer

DU alumna is a photogravure pioneer

For the past 16 years, Barbara Sanders (BFA ’72) has been pioneering an art form known as “photogravure.” Like pioneers in any field, her path has often been challenging, confusing and, yes, messy. “I like icky inks,” she says with a laugh. Photogravure is actually a centuries-old printmaking technique that […]

Bridge Project volunteer sets kids on a new path

Bridge Project volunteer sets kids on a new path

Scott Steiss says he is creating a “different kind of abundance” in his life as a volunteer for the Graduate School of Social Work’s Bridge Project. The Bridge Project is a nonprofit whose mission is to provide educational opportunities to children living in Denver public housing. Steiss, who is a […]

Historian pens biography of legendary Lakota war chief

Historian pens biography of legendary Lakota war chief

In Gall: Lakota War Chief (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), Robert Larson (BA economics ’50, MA education ’53) provides the first-ever scholarly biography of the leader who fought alongside Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in an effort to prevent the U.S. government from annexing the Black Hills in Wyoming and […]

Interview: Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Executive Director James van Hemert

Interview: Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Executive Director James van Hemert

Q: What does your institute do to promote sustainability? A: We address fundamental land use, transportation policy and regulatory matters on a regional and national scale. We tackle issues that truly will have a long-term impact on sustainability. We also work to oppose “greenwashing” — a veneer placed on an unsustainable […]

Child’s Wish helps terminally ill teen realize hunting dream

Child’s Wish helps terminally ill teen realize hunting dream

Donny and Missy Willis used to have an autumn ritual. They’d polish their rifles, dust off their tent, load the car and head out on their annual hunting trip to the majesties of northwestern Colorado. Every year, they’d have to tell Missy’s son, Jeremy Ledbetter, he’d have to stay home. […]

Jewish pioneers on the frontier trail

Jewish pioneers on the frontier trail

You could say that being a New Yorker influenced Jeanne Abrams to become a Westerner. Abrams, a professor at Penrose Library and director of the Beck Archives and the Center for Judaic Studies’ Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society, moved from New York to Denver in 1973 and embarked on a […]

Course educates students on politics of land management

Course educates students on politics of land management

With the jagged blue outlines of the mountains rising to the west above the sprawling Mile High metropolis, it should be impossible for Denver’s inhabitants to undervalue the vast, wild lands that surround their civilized enclave. But, according to DU lecturer Lisa Dale, many residents of Colorado — both natives […]

Pioneer skiiers win 20th NCAA championship

Pioneer skiiers win 20th NCAA championship

DU has created a skiing dynasty. On March 14 the Pioneers ski team won its 20th NCAA national championship — more than any other Division I ski team and the fifth-highest number of championships won by any collegiate team in any sport. The championship was the team’s first winning meet […]

Grad student Joe Brown focuses on environmental issues

Grad student Joe Brown focuses on environmental issues

While most aspiring filmmakers tend to consider themselves movie buffs, Joe Brown, a first year graduate student studying filmmaking, says he’s never been well versed in pop culture. “I never even saw Home Alone,” jokes Brown, who studied philosophy and history as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado. Then […]

Alumnus Peter Groff to spearhead faith-based initiatives in Obama administration

Alumnus Peter Groff to spearhead faith-based initiatives in Obama administration

Peter Groff’s (JD ’92) final days as president of the Colorado Senate were spent working on a flurry of last-minute bills and preparing for his move to Washington, D.C. At the same time, the executive director of DU’s Center for New Politics and Policy — formerly the Center for African […]

Letters

Four Corners Kudos for the article “A New Direction” (spring 2009). Much of my nonfiction reading has been about the plight of many American Indian tribes. Hopefully, programs such as this at DU’s Graduate School of Social Work will increase awareness of this much-neglected segment of our society and perhaps […]

A lifelong Westerner, C.J. Box (pictured) sets his novels in the landscape he knows best. Photo illustration: Wayne Armstrong

Mystery Man: An authentic Western character himself, novelist C.J. Box knows how to turn a tale

Charles James Box (Chuck to those who meet him face-to-face; C.J. to the legions of crime fiction fans who snap up his every release) often wears a black hat and black leather jacket. In the iconography of the wild and woolly West, that would make him one of the bad […]

Colorado’s College War

Colorado’s College War

In 1919, a series of bombings turned a football rivalry between DU and the School of Mines into all-out intercollegiate war.