On Oct. 11, university officials filled a time capsule with contemporary items and placed it in the Macky cornerstone to be reopened in 100 years. The previous time capsule was removed last year and was filled with turn-of-the century news clippings and records. Here are a few items, including an iPad, that were included this fall.

Time capsule placed under Macky Auditorium keystone

A few of the items placed in the time capsule:

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Apple iPad

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2011 Macky Time Capsule content

• iPad with 115 volt wall charger and solar charger
• Macky Auditorium 100th anniversary commemorative holiday ornament
• Macky Auditorium 100th anniversary video in DVD format
• Holiday Festival 2003/2004 CD.
• Photos from 1910 time capsule opening
• Conference on World Affairs photos
• Pamplet: CU Astronauts
• Brochure: Engineering International Programs
• Coloradan alumni magazine September 2011
• Pamphlet: College of Music Fall 2011 calendar
• Brochure: CU Presents 2010-2011 season
• Brochure: Boulder Philharmonic 2011-2012 season
• Program: Conference on World Affairs 63rd season
• Brochure: Colorado Summer 2011
• Brochure: Colorado Winter 2011
• Newspaper: Colorado Daily, 10/12/2011
• Newspaper: Denver Post, 10/11/2011
• Newspaper: Daily Camera, 10/11/2011
• Newspaper: Boulder Weekly, 10/6/2011 – 10/12/3011
• Newspaper: Denver Post, 10/6/2011
• Floyd Walters Postcard
• 1941 postmarked postcard
• Pamplet: Why CU? Graduate Education
• American Music Research Center Journal, Vol. 18, 2010
• PAC12 Inaugural Season 2011 Colorado Football, 10/1/2011
• Center of the American West, Annual Report, 2010-2011
• Program: CU Present, Sep. – Oct. 2011
• AMRC: Nadia Boulanger and American Music, Oct. 7 – 9, 2004
• Magazine: Bylines, School of Journalism, Spring 2010
• Pamphlet: Leeds School of Business
• Brochure: Organic Business Initiative Report 2010
• Deming Center for Entrepeneurship Annual Report, Sep. 2010
• Magazine: Portfolio, Leeds School of Business
• Magazine: Colorado Engineer, Summer 2010
• Brochure: CU Engineering, 2010-2011
• Brochure: Engineering 2010: Vision for Excellence
• Chancellor Phillip DiStefano State of the Campus, 10/11/2011
• President Bruce Benson Budget Update, 1/19/2010
• Governor Bill Ritter State of the State, 1/14/2010
• Magzine: CU Engineering 2010
• Pamphlet: College of Music 2011

The time capsule placed in the Macky cornerstone on October 8, 1910 had these contents:

• University catalogue, 1909-1910
• University View Booklet, June 1910
• Regents Report, October 1908
• Commencement Addresses, 1910
• Register of Alumni, 1882-1906
• University of Colorado Studies, Volume 7 No. 4
• Journal of Engineering, No. 6
• Programs of Commencement Week, 1910
• High-School Day Programs, 1910
• Silver & Gold, October 6, 1910
• Copy of the Will of Mr. Andrew J. Macky
• Photograph of Andrew J. Macky
• Photograph of the building as it is now (1910)
• Photograph of completed building (rendering)
• Photograph of the Regents
• Denver Post, October 6, 1910
• Denver Times, October 6, 1910
• Denver Republican, October 7, 1910
• Rocky Mountain News, October 7, 1910
• Daily Herald, October 6, 1910
• Daily Camera, October 6, 1910
• Proceedings of the Grand Lodge A.F. & A. M. of Colorado
• Program of Cornerstone Laying
• Copy of Contents of box deposited in the cornerstone.

The program’s aim is to give students focused experience in a specific discipline that will enhance their professional work. Journalism majors will be required to complete 28 hours
in a journalism discipline, along with 30-36 hours in a chosen field of study. Journalism Plus is being developed in the wake of the university’s discontinuance of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in June.

In addition, a steering committee and eight discussion groups, made up of faculty from diverse fields, are taking steps toward creating a school or college in information, communication, journalism, media and technology (ICJMT). The steering committee will submit a report in May 2012 of CU-Boulder’s formal plan for a new school, college or network of research centers and institutes.

Built to a high Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design or LEED standard, the Williams Village North building has numerous sustainability features and houses two Residential Academic Programs.

Don’t let Williams Village’s 1960s architecture fool you into thinking the complex is stuck in yesteryear.

Using 39 percent less energy than a same-sized building constructed without green standards, Williams Village North, the new kid on the block, welcomed students this fall with its occupancy sensor lighting, efficient appliances and native landscaping.

Located adjacent to Williams Village’s two high rises, the $46.5 million residence hall includes 500 beds, five classrooms and — get this — one faculty apartment, among other features. Architecture assistant professor Matthew Jelacic serves as faculty-in-residence for the building’s two innovative Residential Academic Programs.

The two Residential Academic Programs’ theme will be food. Local chefs, farmers and others involved in sustainable food production will visit and share their experiences.

“Sustainable food production is a very difficult problem to solve, but it is also something that students can relate to and learn about with a hands-on approach,” says professor Susan Clarke, faculty director of the Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Equitable Development and Sustainability, or SEEDs, Residential Academic Program.

Fast facts:

1. Number of residents: 500
2. Height: Six stories tall
3. Residential academic programs (RAPs): Sustainable by Design and Social Entrepreneurship for Equitable Development and Sustainability
4. Total number of RAPs on campus: 12
5. Perks of getting to main campus: Five minutes on the Buff Bus, which has free Wi-Fi

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There are many ways of dealing with anxiety or emotional pain, but one of the least understood is self-injury, says CU-Boulder sociology professor Patti Adler.

Her leading research offers new insights into a practice that has long been considered an addictive behavior practiced by mostly privileged, white teenage girls. Previous studies on individuals who deliberately injure themselves by cutting, burning, branding or bone-breaking were conducted by psychologists or physicians who studied subjects in hospital or therapeutic settings.

Yet, after conducting in-depth interviews with 150 self-injurers, as well as examining between 30,000 and 40,000 Internet posts in chat rooms during a 10-year period, Adler and Peter Adler, a sociology and criminology professor at the University of Denver, found completely different results.

Self-injury occurs mostly among those in their teens and 20s, can occur in the 30s and grows more rare after age 40, according to the Adlers. Furthermore, rather than an addictive behavior or a suicidal gesture, self-injury is a coping mechanism that gives people a sense of control because they can “self-soothe.”

“Although society was initially shocked to discover that people might harm their bodies intentionally, when compared to other ways that people seek relief from pain [self-injury] offers several benefits — it’s not illegal, it’s not addictive, it doesn’t hurt others and the body eventually heals,” Patti Adler says.

• Go to Internet self-injury chat rooms, which can provide a safe place to share experiences.
• Follow the Adlers’ blog in Psychology Today.
• Find a therapist who you can work with and trust.
• Look into specialized clinics that offer inpatient treatment.

Lokalite co-founder Graham Christy, right, and Harrison Fast, of Boulder, work together to put up a banner outside The Sink during a Lokalite party. Christy and three other classmates started the online interactive events calendar as part of a class assignment last year.

Have a problem?

Start an innovative tech-based business to fix it, say some CU-Boulder entrepreneurial students and young alumni who have started companies to help pay their tuition or to launch a class assignment into the business world.

For instance, lokalite.com, an online interactive events calendar, is a class-project-turned-business that features a constant stream of Boulder events. Stusbooks.org is a site designed for students to buy from and sell textbooks to each other. Theskilift.org is a carpooling and social networking site for skiers and University Parent Media at universityparent.com, is a college-specific visitor’s site designed to give parents information about their student’s university.

Not that it’s easy to start a successful business. Sophomore Vanessa Gabriel spends weekends secluded in her apartment focusing on her website asociete.com, which will be an online store to sell brand-name clothes to college students for half price. But she says it’s better than finding a low-paying, part-time job.

“I’m hoping this will allow me to pay some of my own tuition and expenses during college and provide some stability after graduation until I find something else,” Gabriel told the Boulder Camera.

Did you know?

During 2009-10, the nation’s entrepreneurial activity reached its highest levels since 1994. An estimated 565,000 new businesses started every month.

People ages 20-34 increased their entrepreneurial activity about 10 percent during the same period, despite the fact most age groups remained steady.

Glenn Asakawa (Jour’86) captured this beautiful view of the Continental Divide from Davidson Mesa where the Denver-Boulder Turnpike crests before descending into Boulder.

Other than drinking coffee in the UMC and beer at The Sink, is there any more widely-shared experience among CU-Boulder alumni than driving up the turnpike from Denver and seeing Boulder and the university from the top of Davidson Mesa?

For most of us, it was our first view of the university. Chances are the view from the top of the mesa is in everyone’s mental photo album.

Actually, the Denver-Boulder Turnpike, which will celebrate its 60th anniversary on Jan. 17, was invented at CU.

CU civil engineering professor Roderick Downing first proposed a direct Denver-Boulder highway connection in 1927, a year after he joined the faculty. Downing used to send his students out to survey candidate routes for the highway and lobbied the state government to build it.

After World War II, then Gov. Ralph Carr (A&S’10, Law’12) took up the cause. It was Carr’s idea to build the highway as a toll road — a radical thought at the time.

After considerable controversy the idea was accepted, and the road was financed with bonds to be paid back over 30 years with receipts from a 25-cent toll (10 cents if you got off at Broomfield). Cost of the 18-mile, four-lane divided highway was the princely sum of $6.3 million.

When the road opened on Jan.17, 1952, its supporters were sweating over whether enough cars would use it — 3,000 to 4,000 a day — to service the bonds.

Heh.

By the time the bonds were paid off in 1967 —15 years early — the turnpike was handling 13,750 trips a day. Now it’s 120,000 trips on some days.

The toll always grated on Boulderites. They accepted it in no small part because the road’s advocates swore on a stack of Bibles that the day the bonds were paid off the toll booths would come down.

So when it was announced in 1966 that the bonds would be paid off in 1967, folks were waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Woody Hewett, Boulder’s state senator at the time, dropped it. He suggested the toll remain and the revenue be used to create a six-lane highway.

Months later, he concluded that running for re-election was an idea whose time had passed.

But up in Valhalla, deceased state legislator Hewett is getting the last laugh. Last September it was announced that the two express lanes added to the east end of the turnpike a few years ago would be extended from I-25 to Broomfield and later to Boulder. The lanes are reserved for high-occupancy vehicles or for solo drivers willing to pay a toll. Extending the lanes will turn the turnpike into a six-lane road, paid for in part with tolls, just as Woody wanted.

Paul Danish (Hist’65) recalls former CU President Roland Rautenstraus helped choose whether the road should go over Davidson Mesa or around it to the north. The northern route was considered a bit safer but longer and without the view. In the end the committee said the view was worth the risk. Amen.

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Do you ever wonder why you have a difficult time paying attention? Or why some people are more sensitive to pain?

CU-Boulder researchers will be seeking answers to these questions, along with larger ones regarding the causes of mental illness and how the brain evolves from childhood to adolescence, thanks to a new 25,000-pound, $3 million machine on campus.

The state-of-the-art neuroimaging scanner allows scientists from Boulder, the Front Range and New Mexico to study the links between brain activity and behavior. CU-Boulder partnered with the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., to bring the scanner to campus. It is housed in the same off-campus building as Janus, one of the world’s fastest computers, which will aid scientists working with the scanner.

The research should lead to new avenues for mental health and behavioral treatment, says Donna Caccamise, associate director of CU-Boulder’s Institute of Cognitive Science.

Astrophysical and planetary sciences associate professor Mark Rast spearheaded efforts to land the National Solar Observatory, drawing support from Colorado’s legislators, U.S. senators and Gov. John Hickenlooper in addition to numerous CU academic departments. It will relocate from Arizona and New Mexico by 2016.

As one of the world’s leading institutions in solar research, CU-Boulder was selected this fall to serve as the headquarters of the National Solar Observatory.

Bringing unrivaled opportunities for students and an estimated 70 scientists, engineers and staff with a payroll totaling around $20 million, the observatory is the nation’s leading scientific research program in ground-based solar astronomy.

To be located on east campus, the observatory will provide scientists access to the world’s largest collection of solar telescopes and other instruments to observe the sun, a driver of Earth’s climate and weather. Observatory scientists will conduct research ranging from space weather prediction to the environments of extra-solar planets.

In related news, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which launched last year and carried $32 million worth of CU instruments, is revealing that energy from solar flares is stronger than previously thought. This energy can affect Earth-orbiting communication and navigation satellites. The new information will help better predict solar events and their effects on these satellites.

In other space news, a $670 million NASA orbiting mission to probe the past climate of Mars, led by professor Bruce Jakosky of geological sciences, reached a major milestone in the summer when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review by the space agency. This means the team is ready for fabrication, assembly and testing of all of its mission elements for a November 2013 launch.

Students and faculty also played a key role in NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter that launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center in August. Their computer models and research will play an important role in data analysis when Juno reaches its orbit around Jupiter in five years.

Lofts on The Hill on 13th Street, even with some letters missing on its sign, is a dramatic departure for The Hill, as it has commercial space (burger chain Five Guys) on the ground floor and residential units above.

For decades The Hill has been the place for students to buy coffee, record albums or a burger. The Sink, formerly Sunken Gardens and Herbie’s Deli, has managed to outlive every business on the strip. While Tulagi’s doors shuttered, the Tulagi sign remains.

This year marked significant changes on The Hill, as a community group charted a long-term vision for The Hill while developers poured millions into building mixed residential/commercial buildings.

Here’s a look at your favorite haunts. As the saying goes, the more things change, the more they, well, you know where we’re going with this.

Still spinning vinyl Albums on the Hill lives. While almost every other music store in town has folded, this quirky shop, founded in 1973, sells concert tickets, CDs and yes, vinyl albums. And, of course, the legendary Fox Theatre, opened in 1991, still attracts great musicians to its stage. The space has been an entertainment venue since 1924.

Movies to Mary Jane? Dates at the beloved Flatiron Theatre spawned countless romances. Today it is home to Medicine on the Hill, one of many medical marijuana dispensaries in Boulder since voters legalized the drug for medicinal purposes in November 2000.

Living a lofty life style The Lofts on College at 14th and College replaced Jones Drug and General Store this year. Silver & Gold barber shop, College Optical and a restaurant will occupy the first floor. The Lofts on The Hill sit, in part, above where the former clothing company Kingsley & Co. was.

Where can I get a cup of joe?

• Antica Roma, founded in 1985, 13th and College
• Buchanan’s Coffee Pub, founded in 1995, Pennsylvania and Broadway
• Starbucks, University and Broadway
• Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café, founded in 2010, 13th and Pennsylvania