Spotlight | Top o' the World

After fiery debate in SGA, opposition prevails on controversial Hawaiian cultural experience funding bill

by Top o the World Staff | Mar 28, 2023 | Spotlight

By Em Tanner A performer at the Polynesian Cultural Center. Photo: Gage Skidmore On Wednesday, March 8 several dozen students, professors, and staff gathered at an emotionally charged Student Government Association (SGA) open forum to discuss funding for an experience...

Alexis Taylor’s Sundrop Flora blooms in its second season, providing beautiful and sustainable flowers to the Gunnison community

by Brian Wagenaar | Mar 12, 2023 | Spotlight

Photos courtesy of Alexis Taylor Alexis Taylor with her hard-earned flowers. Photo: Julia Sams. “[For] us living in this dreadfully capitalistic environment right now, with major corporations running everything — I think a lot of times people throw all business into...

Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk: Ute Mountain Ute community leader, environment advocate, and Western MEM student — voices a Native perspective on Colorado’s wolf reintroduction

by Brian Wagenaar | Mar 6, 2023 | Spotlight

Lopez-Whiteskunk discusses the cultural and ecological importance of wolves, the need to seek out and include Indigenous perspectives, and the reasons some tribes are split on wolf reintroduction. Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk. Photo: Tim Peterson, Jr. “I think we as human...

Mountaineer Market and Food Hub now open to students, staff, and faculty as Western seeks to stamp out food insecurity

by Top o the World Staff | Feb 23, 2023 | Spotlight

Christine Spiers, program coordinator for Western’s department of Student Health and Wellness, on the spectrum of food insecurity, becoming a Hunger Free campus, and why students should utilize the food hub liberally. By Em Tanner Christine Spiers staffs the...