Growing up in North Denver, I have watched gentrification blossom over the past years. Gentrification is when the character of a poor urban area is altered by more affluent people moving in. This changes all aspects of this neighborhood and makes it new. An example of this is changing the Northside to the “Highlands.” The problem with gentrification is that it usually results in the absolute uprooting of a community and a people.
Read MoreThe Origins of Witchcraft
By Austin Price, Editor-In-Chief
Warning: This article contains mentions of torture, death, sexual misconduct, and abuse. Please read at your own discretion.
Hocus Pocus. Double, double toil and trouble. Abracadabra. Expeliarmus. Bippity Boppity Boo. I’m sure you’ve all heard one or more of these phrases before. The above phrases are in connection to witchcraft and sorcery seen in different forms of media including books, movies, television, and entertainment industries. What are now known as common, everyday phrases that are populated throughout the year, primarily in the time of Halloween, the origins of these phrases all lead to the Holy Bible.
Read MoreStolen Ideas: A Historic Misinterpretation
By Paige Robinson, Staff Photographer
This photo is of a place called Old Saint Charles in Missouri. It is a historic area where the city is preserving the old value it has. Although it is just one photo, it is significant to me, because what you are seeing was built by African Americans in the early 20th century. Today, the area is surrounded by wealthy, white people. This is a common trend we see today where African Americans built areas but are taken over by the white majority. Many beautiful things we create are taken from the original creators, and others are given the credit. I want people to be more aware of accurate history and not marginalize certain stories.
Read MoreScammed by the Bell
By Sandra Vo, Staff Writer
Year after year, the American Revolution dazzles young elementary schoolers with stories of heroic battles and paintings of the Founding Fathers’ voluptuous wigs. However, no unit is complete without a segment about the famed Liberty Bell, the symbol of resounding freedom and everlasting justice.
Except…it’s not.
What the Liberty Bell really represents is an agglomeration of poor engineering, shoddy attempts at repairs, and a hardworking public relations team that has manipulated the narrative for over two hundred years.
Its functional failures started at the beginning of its inception in 1751. The Pennsylvania Assembly commissioned a bell for the Pennsylvania State House, but the bell cracked upon its first test ring, causing it to be melted down and reformed into a new one. While theoretically more functional than its predecessor, the overwhelming criticism surrounding the sound of the new bell forced it to be recast again.
With the sound fixed, the new leaders of the Liberty Bell Public Relations Team (unknowingly or not), gathered a multitude of fictionalized stories about the important role the Liberty Bell played during the American Revolution. The most famous story is that the bell rang to signal the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, although this was a fictionalized tale written by George Lippard. In 1846, the bell attempted to leave another mark on history by ringing on George Washington’s birthday, only to promptly crack irreparably forever. An attempt to repair the bill using a technique called “stop drilling” ended up creating a new, larger crack that further marred an already damaged surface.
Yet even so, the bell served as a symbol for both the Abolitionists and Women’s Suffrage movement. What better way to imprint something into the American consciousness than making it a mascot? For the Liberty Bell enthusiasts, this was certainly a win. Their poorly-engineered, faulty, non-functional shoddy excuse of a bell had ingrained itself into American history textbooks everywhere.
Now, the bell resides in the National Historical Park of Pennsylvania, smugly basking in the attention it receives from gullible tourists and visitors, who fail to realize what it truly is: a hunk of scrap metal.
Making of a City: Denver
By Sandra Vo, Staff Writer
From a small mining town to a cultural and economic stronghold of the United States, Denver’s ever-changing landscape reflects the shift in its role as a city throughout history. Below are historical photos of Denver from the late 1800s and early 1900s and photos of the same location in 2022. These photos are separated not by space, but time. This is the making of a city.
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Celebrating Thirty Years – Loretto Heights School of Nursing
Source// https://www.regis.edu/About-Regis-University/History-and-Mission/Loretto-Heights-College.aspx
By: Hazel Alvarez, Staff Writer
As Loretto Heights School of Nursing (LHSON) celebrates thirty years at Regis and the #1 spot of nursing schools in Colorado (Niche.com 2019), we take the time to look back at the history of the nursing program here at Regis.
Loretto Heights wasn’t always based in Regis. First founded by Mother Pancratia and other sisters of Loretto, it was intended as a Catholic academy for girls, situated on a hilltop, thus naming it “Loretto Heights.” Mother Pancratia found support from local banks and, with the Sisters of Loretto, helped established Loretto Heights Academy, an all-girls Catholic elementary and secondary school, by 1891. The liberal arts boarding school attracted many daughters of pioneers at the time when the West and Denver were being developed (Historic Denver).
By 1916, Loretto Heights College for women was established.
During World War I in 1917, Loretto Heights became a military training ground for over 200 women (Historic Denver).
American Red Cross students and sisters of the Loretto Heights Academy sit as they work on bandages on the Loretto Heights service camp, which was a training center at the time of WWI, in Denver, Colorado 1917-1918. Photo by George L. Beam.
By 1926, Loretto Heights College gained accreditation, while the Loretto Heights Academy was still in cooperation (Historic Denver).
In 1948, the nursing program at Loretto Heights was established (Regis University & Historic Denver).
In 1980, Loretto Heights College launched the Health Records Information Management program.
By the summer of 1988, Loretto Heights College closed due to financial reasons, and Regis University purchased the Loretto Heights nursing program.
This time was one of uncertainty for both students of Loretto Heights College and Regis College. “When we heard that Regis College was taking over Loretto Heights,” stated Elizabeth Howard, a staff writer at the time of the transition, “many people [especially Loretto students] wondered which Loretto programs would Regis continue.” Many of the faculty and students, especially from the medical and nursing department, transitioned from Loretto Heights College to Regis College.
The Loretto Heights nursing program was housed in the basement of Main Hall, having been a part of the new health care management program at Regis. The nursing program had its own dean, meaning it was equal to any other campus program despite it being a different school than Regis College. The program at the time of the transition was estimated at 80 registered students.
By early 2000s, a nursing graduate from Regis University donated to reestablish facilities such as labs and equipment for educational development. The College for Health Professions thus became the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Profession (RHCHP), naming the institution after the donors. The RHCHP not only includes the Loretto Heights School for Nursing, but the School of Pharmacy and the School of Physical Therapy as well.
The nursing program became the foundation for the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions (RHCHP), helping improve enrollment for Regis. When I came to Regis, our numbers were nearing the 200s, and that was just my freshman year. Granted, many have left the program for various reasons, but there are many transfers students who wish to join the program to this day as the demand for nurses is expected to near 1.09 million by 2024 due to veteran nurses retiring (American Association of Colleges of Nursing).
To prepare students to enter the ever growing field of nursing, Regis offers the following undergraduate degrees:
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, both in Traditional (you start as a pre-nursing student and graduate with a BSN) and Acceleration (you graduate with a degree that is not nursing and go through the acceleration program to obtain a BSN).
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, also known as CHOICE, for working students in the healthcare field.
RN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing Completion (which is an option for Registered Nurses that wanted to complete their four-year study to obtain a BSN).
SIDE NOTE: You can be a Registered Nurse (RN) and not have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). You will know how much a nurse’s schooling if you see on their I.D. “RN, BSN…” etc.
and RN to Master of Science in Nursing: Education/Management Focus
For graduate degrees, Regis offers:
Master of Science in Nursing - Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
Master of Science in Nursing - Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP)
Master of Science in Nursing - Leadership in Health Care Systems
Master of Science in Nursing - Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Master of Science in Nursing Completion
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Doctor of Nursing, Post BSN to DNP (MS-DNP)
On March 7 of this year, the Loretto Heights School of Nursing celebrated thirty years at Regis University.
To think, this is the same college that nurses back in California would recommend to me for nursing school. In a city where nursing programs known were University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) or California State University - Long Beach (CSULB), I couldn’t believe that this college out in Colorado was widely known among nurses in my home city of Torrance, California, or at least some of the nursing faculty of Torrance Memorial Hospital. I was used to my peers in the same city not knowing what Regis University was about or where. I wasn’t expecting California nurses to know about LHSON at Regis University. It’s amazing to look back and see how much LHSON has come so far, and to kind of feel the weight of those celebrated thirty years. I’m sure just as the nursing field itself is expanding, so will Loretto Heights School of Nursing, and I can’t wait to see where it leads.