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Pre-game your trick-or-treating with this playlist.

KCSU Review: Trick-or-Tracks for Halloween

Jake Schwebach October 30, 2015

The KCSU DJs are dead ... serious about this Halloween playlist.  Chilling choruses, dreary drops and haunting hums - this playlist is sure to kill wherever you go this Saturday. "Dead Walker Texas...

KCSU Review: cozy songs for autumn

KCSU Review: cozy songs for autumn

Jake Schwebach October 12, 2015

Hot chocolate or tea. Scarves. Wind. Gray Skies. Crunching leaves.Cozy up with the KCSU DJs' favorite songs of fall. "Welcome Home Son" by Radical Face - DJ Mac: The beginning of the song with the...

KCSU Review: Guilty pleasure songs

KCSU Review: Guilty pleasure songs

Jake Schwebach October 1, 2015

The KCSU DJs plead the fifth. We are charged with guilty pleasures: A criminal offense against better consciences. You know you love them, too."Diver" by AlunaGeorge — DJ Waylo: But basically all...

KCSU Review: 20 songs to get your party on

KCSU Review: 20 songs to get your party on

Jake Schwebach September 25, 2015

It's Friday! Get ready to get down with a little help from your friends at KCSU. The playlist can also be accessed on Spotify here.Oh Sheit It's X by Thundercat off Apocalypse – B-RAD: I don't know...

Jake Schwebach

Revisiting anti-anxiety medication on campus: The good, the bad, the ugly

Jake Schwebach September 17, 2015

I published a column last June responding to a New York Times report that “anxiety has now surpassed depression as the most common mental health diagnosis among college students.” I cautioned my readers...

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem

KCSU Review: Songs that make us feel gooood

Jake Schwebach September 16, 2015

Who doesn't like to feel good? Start your day or night off right with this feel-good playlist brought to you by your student DJs of KCSU. The full playlist can be accessed on Spotify here."Fishies" by The...

Jake Schwebach

How to remain patriotic this Independence Day, despite all the pain

Jake Schwebach July 2, 2015

Gun violence. Racism. Economic and social inequalities. Sexual assault. Political agendas. All you have to do is open your newsfeed to see that our country is still violent and divided. It is almost...

Kevin Figurski serves beer to festival-goers as a volunteer at the Brewers Festival.

‘Drinking with thinking’ at the Colorado Brewers’ Festival

Jake Schwebach June 29, 2015

Editor's note: A previous version of this article misstated that Adam Glaser is the head brewer of Fort Collins Brewery. The Collegian regrets its error. People buzzed with excitement as the smell...

Rachel McAdams: A new voice for women on HBOs True Detective

Rachel McAdams: A new voice for women on HBO’s ‘True Detective’

Jake Schwebach June 24, 2015

Noir characters reappeared with angst, violence and internal struggles in the season 2 opener of HBO’s "True Detective."  It was to be expected. What was new, apart from the all-star cast, is a female...

Wasteland Hop MC Mickey Kenny looks out from in front of the Sage Francis concert poster. Wasteland Hop opened for Francis Thursday night at the Aggie Theatre.

Wasteland Hop MC, CSU alumnus Mickey Kinney open up about art

Jake Schwebach June 22, 2015

Fort Collins indie-hop group Wasteland Hop opened for Sage Francis Thursday night at the Aggie Theatre. The Collegian sat down with the group's MC, Mickey Kenny, who graduated from Colorado State...

Antidepressants should be a last resort for anxiety on college campuses

Antidepressants should be a last resort for anxiety on college campuses

Jake Schwebach June 17, 2015

The New York Times last month reported "anxiety has now surpassed depression as the most common mental health diagnosis among college students." Pharmaceuticals tailored for anxiety and depression...

1977. CSUs little-known second mascot, Sam the Ram, butts the head of a tackling dummy held by owner, Gerald Rice at Hughes Stadium.

Colorado State University’s lost traditions

Jake Schwebach June 10, 2015

We identify ourselves as Colorado State University students through the traditions we follow. But traditions are not everlasting, and CSU traditions are not immune to the rule. Here are some of CSU’s...

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