![Minutes before the Activities Fair in the gym, president Abhi Gowda ‘26 prepares the stall for his club Helping Hands, Sept. 4. A relatively new club, Helping Hands was co-started by Gowda and focuses on assisting the homeless, and just last year they succeeded in raising a couple hundred donations to send to shelters. This year, they have goals to expand, with hopes to increase volunteer opportunities and take in-person trips to shelters, as well as extend their help beyond just homeless people. “The Activities Fair gives a lot of underclassmen the opportunity to really get to know the Canyon culture, and it gives them many opportunities for service and volunteering,” Gowda said. “[Through the Activities Fair,] I hope to find a bunch of new and passionate members about our club and just get our name out there and spread awareness to the cause that we’re fighting for.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1-2-1200x885.jpg)
![The winter guard team makes fifth place at the state championship finals in the Denver Coliseum, March 30. The team performed to Barnes Country's “Glitter and Gold,” lead by coaches Margo Sanford, Blair Bickerton and Anna Orgren. In their class there were a total of nine groups participating, and the top five who made it to finals received a plaque. “[Walking onto the stage] is very nerve-wracking, but also very exciting as well. When you first start color guard there's a lot of anxiety and uncertainty when you first perform in front of an audience, but once you've done it for a while, it starts to become the best part of the season,” Ella West ‘25 said. “It's very fulfilling to see an audience react to something you've put your heart and soul into.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Both-socal-media-nd-website-main-1-1200x846.jpg)
![April marks the 25th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, created by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). This month is to spread awareness of the harassment, assault and abuse that happens around the world. The symbol that represented the month was a teal ribbon; however, some survivors of assault create different symbols and movements like the TikTok trend in 2022, where survivors would tattoo Medusa on their body, in honor of her backstory in Greek Mythology. “I don't think [this month is known] at all. I rarely see anybody talk about it. I rarely see much of an emphasis on posting it online, or much discussion about it, and I feel like there needs to be way more discussion,” an anonymous source said. “I think just validating every experience that a person has gone through, regardless of the degree of it, the severity, is an essential step into making sure that people are aware that this is a very real problem in a society and that we need to do better in addressing it.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_0011-1200x900.jpg)
![Lesbian Visibility Day is April 26, and it’s a holiday to celebrate the lesbian community of the world. Lesbian Visibility day was established in 2008 by many queer activists and organizations who sought to raise more awareness for lesbian history and culture. “So this is why during Lesbian Visibility [Day] we celebrate and center all lesbians, both cis and trans, while also showing solidarity with all LGBTQ+ women and nonbinary people,” Linda Reily, in an article written by her, said.](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Lesbian-Visibility-day.jpeg)
College Frenzy
Are you applying to college and stressed out on what to do? Here are 5 tips to help you get into the college of your dreams.
October 28, 2018
- Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are all apart of the Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) program. Depending on the schools in those states and certain majors you can be able to get a reduced tuition. This tuition is not instate tuition but it will be lower than out of state tuition.WUE enables students from one of 16 WICHE states and territories in the Western U.S. to enroll as nonresidents in 160+ participating public colleges and universities and pay 150 percent (or less) of the enrolling school’s resident tuition—which annually saves students an average of $9,000 each on the cost of nonresident tuition. (WICHE) Graphic from WICHE
Map of all the states and regions that are part of the WUE program. - Apply for scholarships/grants even if you don’t fit the requirements. If you are the only one that applies they have to give you the money. Fill out FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid), without filling it out you can not qualify for federal student aid. “The U.S. Department of Education uses the FAFSA to determine your eligibility for federal student aid, including low-cost loans, grants, and work-study. The FAFSA may also determine your eligibility for state and school aid as well.” (Education Planner) “1 and 2 is good information I didn’t know [them] but the rest I knew,” Max Buhler ‘20 said.
- Only apply if you are for sure you could see yourself living there. Either go visit the campus or look around it online make sure it has everything that fits your needs. This will be your home for around 4 years, make sure you have enough to do on the weekends and enjoy what is around.
- Make sure you have all the requirements needed to get in so you know you have a better chance. Also make sure you have everything they made need for the application on hand. On the college websites if you go to admissions there should be apart that says freshman or requirements. There you will find what the school needs to be accepted. Example. from CU Boulders website. “I didn’t know the fourth one, so it did end up helping me,” Lexi Brabec ‘19 said.
Where on CU Boulders website that you can find the information needed to apply. 
- Know the deadlines, make sure you turn in everything before the deadline. When you get into the college you want to go to make sure that you know all those deadlines and what you need to do before the school year starts. Example from CU Boulder website.
Deadlines for applying to CU Boulder.