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CU Buff TV
Oct 31st

Below is CU SPORTS MAGAZINE:
C.U. Boulder Channel 1 is looking for a C.U. Student, broadcast interns to host “This Week at C.U.” A 3 minute video blog for 6+ months. This channel is also open to student 3 minute party videos, send to: CU@boulderchannel1.com
CU, Boulder, Ride da spooky bus Halloween
Oct 28th
The City of Boulder and University of Colorado Student Union are inviting the community to ride the HOP and Late Night Transit Service for free this Halloween. The HOP is free from 7 a.m. to midnight Monday, Oct. 31. The Silver, Black, Gold and Brown Late Night Transit service, which typically operate on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights only, will continue with free transit service from midnight to 3 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 1.
This free HOP Halloween service is sponsored by GO Boulder/City of Boulder and the University of Colorado Student Union and is operated by Special Transit.
For more HOP information, call 303-447-8282. For maps and other information, visit www.GOBoulder.net. For real-time bus arrival information, visitwww.NextBus.com.
CU hosts aerospace geek event
Oct 24th
‘SPACEVISION’ CONFERENCE OCT. 27-30,
FEATURING BILL NYE, INDUSTRY LEADERS
Aerospace engineering students at the University of Colorado Boulder will host the annual Students for the Exploration and Development of Space conference, SpaceVision 2011, in Boulder Oct. 27-30.
Bill Nye, who serves as executive director of The Planetary Society and is well known for his “Bill Nye the Science Guy” TV series, will open the conference with a keynote talk Thursday night starting at 7:30 p.m. at the University Memorial Center’s Glenn Miller Ballroom. Nye’s presentation is open to the general public; tickets can be purchased for $10 each on the conference website at http://www.spacevision2011.com.
The conference, which will continue Friday through Sunday at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder, is the largest student-organized space conference in the nation. More than 300 students from around the country are expected to attend sessions exploring the future of aerospace engineering, entrepreneurship and government policy.
Other high-profile speakers will include Col. Chris Crawford, commander of the 21st Space Wing at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado; Simon “Pete” Worden (Brig. Gen., retired), director of NASA Ames Research Center; and George Nield, associate administrator for the Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration.
Representatives of Virgin Galactic, Google, SpaceX and Southwest Research Institute also will participate in addition to primary conference sponsors Sierra Nevada Corp., Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance, The Space Foundation and the CU-Boulder Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.
The general public also is invited to participate in the conference. Online registration, which starts at $50 for students (any grade) will continue through Wednesday. For more information go to http://www.spacevision2011.com.