Campus News Briefs – Fall 2015

CU to Host Presidential Debate

CU-Boulder will host a debate this fall among contenders for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.

Called “Your Money, Your Vote: The Presidential Debate on the Economy” and co-sponsored by CU and CNBC, the event is scheduled for Oct. 28 at the Coors Events Center on campus.

It is believed to be the first-ever presidential debate held at CU-Boulder and will be televised nationally.

Candidates will address jobs, taxes, the deficit and the economy generally, the university and CNBC said in a summer announcement.

At the time there were 16 major announced Republican candidates; many are expected to participate in the Republican Party-sanctioned primary debate.

Tickets will be available for students. At press time, organizers were still assessing how many total tickets would be available and how to distribute them. 

More information will be available closer to the event at www.colorado.edu.

Heard Around Campus

“With the recent history of the Midwestern United States as our guide, it can be presumed that it will infest and kill nearly every untreated ash tree in this city.”

— Vince Aquino, CU-Boulder’s lead arborist, regarding the emerald ash borer, a foreign beetle attacking ash trees around the U.S. CU arborists working with state and federal officials have released thousands of stingless wasps to kill the borers and their eggs.

Goodbye Colorado Bookstore, Hello Walgreens

A Walgreens drug store will move into The Hill space occupied for half a century by the Colorado Bookstore.

The Walgreens is expected to open this fall at 1111 Broadway, according to a Boulder city spokesperson.

The Boulder Daily Camera has reported that plans call for reinstalling some of the huge windows that once faced Broadway but were replaced with cinder blocks after riots in the early 1970s.

The Colorado Bookstore closed in May. It had been operated most recently by Barnes & Noble College.