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The Rocky Mountain Collegian
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The Rocky Mountain Collegian
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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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Seriously: I’m a Collegian editor from 1924 — I have some thoughts

Chloe Waskey, Collegian Columnist • December 6, 2024
After spending hours trying to figure out what a “website” is and how it works, I have successfully navigated through The Collegian catalogue and I have some notes.
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Cook: Death, taxes, missing The Collegian when I say my final goodbye

Damon Cook, Sports Editor • December 6, 2024

Editor’s Note: Traditionally, graduating seniors working at The Collegian are given the chance to write a farewell note at the end of their tenure at CSU. When I first started school, I wasn’t...

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McMillan: Goodbye, The Collegian, my babygirl

Adah McMillan, Executive Editor • December 6, 2024

Editor’s Note: Traditionally, graduating seniors working at The Collegian are given the chance to write a farewell note at the end of their tenure at CSU. I came to Colorado State University with...

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Weishaar: History provides quirks that make it extremely interesting

Audrey Weishaar, Collegian Columnist • December 6, 2024
History is awesome. I think it is, at least. Everyone has to learn history, right? We’ve all gone through the basics and learned about the Roman Empire and the American Civil War. And maybe something stuck out and caught your interest — or perhaps not. Perhaps you were uninterested or bored or didn’t see the point in learning about stuff that happened a few hundred years ago.
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LFTE: Dear Collegian, 133 years later

Allie Seibel, Editor in Chief • December 4, 2024

In the basement of the Lory Student Center, a large framed photo hangs right in the entryway of the Rocky Mountain Student Media Corporation offices. It's hard to miss for anyone coming in, whether they...

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Lopez: Opinion desks offer students a voice

Dominique Lopez, Opinion Editor • December 4, 2024
As someone who has predominately worked on an opinion desk for just about seven years, I have always found it to be the best outlet for me to get out all of my frustrations and thoughts. And that even played a large role in my decision to go to Colorado State University in the first place.
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Seymour: Print newspapers still deliver importance to communities

Charlotte Seymour, Collegian Columnist • December 3, 2024
How many times have you sat in a recliner chair on a Sunday morning, sipping coffee while reading the newspaper? I am sure most people have recently found themselves in that situation — or a similar one — fewer than a dozen times.
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Seriously: I time traveled to write for The Collegian’s 1st edition

Emma Souza, Collegian Columnist • December 2, 2024
I awoke one morning to a quill in my hands that folded over my body the way a Victorian child would lie — with sickness and boredom but also a roguish Ozempic look.
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Seriously: Thanksgiving football game ends in injuries, several ER visits

Emma Souza, Collegian Columnist • November 20, 2024
Thanksgiving isn’t just a holiday about gratitude. At its core, it’s a holiday about bloodshed. Long have we normalized — even memorialized — a tradition not meant for regular, everyday humans like us. We try to mimic the gods, these untouchables who dominate the upper echelons of their careers. We pretend our 55-year-old fathers can still throw touchdowns like Aaron Rodgers without throwing out their backs. We wash down our pain and torment with gravy and pumpkin pie afterward.
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Seriously: What your birth control says about you

Astrid Thorn, Collegian Columnist • November 19, 2024
Birth control is a hot topic, especially among female-bodied individuals in college. The beauty of pregnancy prevention lies in its customizability, with modern medicine giving us numerous great ways to keep the babies away. What a lot of people don’t realize is that birth control is almost like medical astrology — the kind of birth control you choose can reveal who you are to your core. 
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Souza: Continuing to celebrate women’s joy is important

Emma Souza, Collegian Columnist • November 19, 2024
To be completely transparent, the current state of our government — more specifically, the recent loss of Vice President Kamala Harris for president — has discouraged me. Pure joy is the last thing I’ve felt in the past couple of weeks, and I’ve gone through practically every emotion in the book. Each day since then has blurred into one long, continual mess of 4 p.m. sunsets and 10 p.m. bedtimes. I’ve logged nearly 20 hours on my Nintendo Switch.
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Seymour: Fall break is around the corner to cure your homesickness

Charlotte Seymour, Collegian Columnist • November 18, 2024
Picture this: It is a Sunday evening, and you are lying on the couch at home with your family. You just got home from catching up with your old friends, and a family-favorite movie plays on the TV while the aroma of a home-cooked dinner crowds your nose. Sounds great, right? Well, just remember that this image is almost a reality.
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