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Feb. 23—A working group is unanimously recommending building a new school for New Vista High on its current site across from the University of Colorado Boulder. The group, which includes teachers, students and community members, made the recommendation after determining that renovating the existing, aging building would cost almost as much as building new — and still wouldn't fully address the .
You re Drawing Icebergs All Wrong
Photo: Johan Ordonez (Getty Images)
Megan Thompson-Munson, a geologist and climate scientist, has seen your drawings of icebergs and had enough. It’s time for a scientific reckoning.
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Thompson-Munson is currently studying for a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder and recently took time away from studying to make clear up the iceberg confusion. In a Twitter thread, the young scientist explained what should be obvious: An iceberg with a little pointy peak on top that descends in an ice cream cone shape would float on its side. That is to say that an iceberg shaped like this would look more like this when it’s floating.
Jason Gonzales
Chalkbeat Colorado
Fearful of extensive layoffs and potentially deep cuts to student services, leaders of Colorado’s public colleges and universities are pressing lawmakers to restore $493 million the state chopped off their budgets last year.
Metropolitan State University of Denver President Janine Davidson said college presidents are presenting a united front on the restoration of funding because “at some point you have to say this isn’t working.”
And Adams State University President Cheryl Lovell said colleges did their part in balancing budgets last year and a return to the 2019-20 funding level would be a positive step for colleges and their students.
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