The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stephenson: CSU emergency text alerts should be mandatory

Leah Stephenson, Collegian Columnist • November 14, 2024

Emergency alerts for students at Colorado State University are not mandatory via text. However, keeping phone notifications optional can jeopardize student safety during times of danger. Making text alerts mandatory for all CSU students is the best way to keep everyone on campus safe.

Waskey: It’s time to demand a Democratic Party that fights for change

Chloe Waskey, Collegian Columnist • November 13, 2024

The results of the 2024 election have left me disappointed. I am disappointed that this nation chose the prospect of a good economy over human rights. I am disappointed that my generation voted for former President Donald Trump, proving that we are no different from the ones that came before us. I am saddened to picture the long-term impacts of another Trump presidency. But most of all, I am disappointed in the Democratic Party.

Seymour: Searching for off-campus housing is demanding

Charlotte Seymour, Collegian Columnist • November 13, 2024

As the semester comes to an end, most first-year students are thinking about completing assignments, taking holiday breaks and seeing family. Searching for off-campus housing is doubtlessly at the bottom of everyone’s to-do list.

Thorn: Sexually explicit media pushes harmful dynamics, sets unrealistic expectations

Astrid Thorn, Collegian Columnist • November 12, 2024

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Seriously: Humor is in the eye of joke-teller

Leah Stephenson, Collegian Columnist • November 11, 2024

Stand-up comedians have it all wrong. Telling a story or having a good punchline isn’t what makes someone funny. Even when people aren’t comedians, they like to be funny because it helps make friends. I often find that in social scenarios, the people who fare the best are the funny ones. However, most don’t go about humor in the right way.

Waskey: 3rd-party voting is possible but not successful

Chloe Waskey, Collegian Columnist • November 10, 2024

In a time where basic political engagement can mean voting against your own ideologies, it is understandably tempting to vote third party. Why vote for the lesser of two evils when there is an option that doesn’t seem evil at all? I am admittedly sympathetic to those that vote third party. If I believe that complacence equals violence, how can I vote for a candidate that is complacent in the face of a genocide? As a more left leaning democrat, I have had issues with the Biden administration and I have issues with Kamala Harris’s policies. It feels like I am contradicting my own ideologies by voting for Harris.

Souza: To women: It’s OK to not be OK

Emma Souza, Collegian Columnist • November 7, 2024

You do not owe your composure to anyone. Not to the men who remain indifferent to your rights but detest your anger. Not to the politicians who speak over you in conversations about your body. Not even to the 47th President of the United States, who, despite having a mother, a wife and a daughter, will never respect a woman enough to let her live with the fraction of a man’s freedom.

Weishaar: Fat girls deserve cute clothes, too

Audrey Weishaar, Collegian Columnist • November 4, 2024

I like to say I am a fashionable person. I like to wear nice clothes, and I generally have a good time putting together an outfit. The process of picking out accessories is fun.

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