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April 11 - 17, 2006 For the students, by the students. Vol. 55 Issue 12

Commission asks for cash

Call for for diversity
money a major source
of contention in admin
Bridget Blanning
Staff Writer
A climate change is needed at
CU, Blue Ribbon commissioners
say, and it has nothing to do with
the weather.
The change to a more diverse
and inclusive campus atmosphere
is not going to happen in a day,
commissioners said. The univer-
sity must put the Blue Ribbon
Commissionʼs recommendations
into action for the windʼs direction
to shift.
On March 1, the BRC released
10 recommendations in its final
report: increase funding for diver-
sity programs, training on diversity
and multiculturalism for students,
faculty and staff, and “unequivocal
support” of diversity from CUʼs
leaders. These are only some of the
steps in a continuing process.
“It has to happen now, and it
has to be constant over time,” said
Commissioner Louise Young of
the changes needed for a climate
makeover.
In the midst of a string of
racially motivated incidents last
year, CU President Hank Brown
established the BRC to discuss
ways to improve diversity on cam-
pus, “with a particular focus on
student recruitment and the aca- CP Photo/Mike Wamsley
demic climate,” Brown said in an CU Tri-Execs Jeremey Jimenez and Mebraht “Mo” Gebre-Michael discuss the Blue Ribbon Commission
invitation to BRC commissioners. recommendations Wednesday, April 5. The commission called for more campus diversity.
The group currently includes 47 “As an individual regent, I Young, a software engineer
said there was a lot of concern in
astute community members and asked President Brown to take the with Raytheon, said that recent
the Denver community about the
13 students. initiative to take a look at diversity incidents at Boulder, which
Boulder campus.
Regent Michael Carrigan at the Boulder Campus,” he said. See BLUE RIBBON, page 4

Mount Princeton rescue risked lives and saved them Bridget Blanning
Staff Writer
The two men huddled togeth-
er in an unsuccessful attempt to
warm up. They dozed for a few
minutes, unable to fight their
drooping eyelids. Realizing they
had to keep moving to maintain
their body warmth, they struggled
to continue trekking down the
gully. They battled hallucinations
of light and sound.
With a headlamp and a cell
phone, the pair of CU students
tried not to panic as they walked
CP Photo/Rachel Berns through the snow in the dark.
(From left) Xuno Gildelamadrid, Marco Bucelli, Ben Conners and Nevertheless, they were lost in the
Ryan Scollard pose in front of Amante Coffee in North Boulder mountains, separated from their
Monday, April 3. The students were rescued from Mt. Princeton
friends and half frozen.
“Our motto was ... we were
never gonna stop moving,” said
Ben Conners, a junior political sci-
ence major.
Conners and three friends,
Marco Bucelli, Ryan Scollard and
Xuno Gildelamadrid, left Boulder
early March 21, with plans to
climb Mount Princeton, the 14,197
foot peak near Buena Vista.
They did not, however, plan to
call and be rescued by the Chaffee
County Search and Rescue Team
after a spiral of events left the four
seperated and lost on the mountain,
their lives in possible jeopardy.
Normally rescues are not done
during the night, especially with
snowy conditions and high ava-
lanche danger, said Carl Bauer, the
search and rescue mission coordi-
nator.
“We felt like they were in
enough danger that we decided to
roll,” Bauer said of the rescue.
The day began when the group
set off at 6 a.m. with CU Recreation
Center rental equipment in-hand.
They had snowshoes, poles, boots,
a tent, two sub-zero sleeping bags,
food and water. The mountaineers
said it was only going to be a day
trip, but they brought the sleeping
bags and tent as a precaution.
“We actually had a lot of equip-
ment and experience,” Conners said,
adding that between himself and
Scollard they have climbed 18 of
Coloradoʼs 14,000-foot mountains.
See RESCUE, page 5

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after almost freezing overnight on March 21.

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