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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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Students participate in the 1983 College Days Mud Bowl, where the intramural fields were transformed into a sea of water and mud for students to drink and play football in. (Photo courtesy of University Historic Photograph Collection )

Looking back at CSU ‘College Days,’ wild springtime behaviors of past

Sarah Ehrlich • May 1, 2018
This is College Days, the weekend of celebrating before finals week that put Colorado State University on the map as the place to party in the Rocky Mountain region. Alumni from the time of this affair will recall large amounts of 3.2% beer, great musical guests and plenty of reckless behavior.
Jesse Neth performs with Write Minded at the kick off event for FoCoMX in the RamSkellar on April 19. (Ashley Potts | Collegian)

The Fort Collins Music eXperiment brings local music to the spotlight

Julia Trowbridge • April 25, 2018
FoCoMX is presenting 360 artists at over 30 locations on Friday, April 27 and Saturday, April 28. Created by the grassroots nonprofit FoCoMA ten years ago, FoCoMX gives the community an opportunity to hear the aspiring local music in the Northern Colorado area.
Fort Collins cannabis culture has expanded rapidly where joints and bongs are only the beginning of a world of consuming this plant. (Sarah Ehrlich | Collegian)

Changing cannabis culture: Fort Collins’ first dispensary, Choice Organics, talks evolution of recreational weed

Sarah Ehrlich • April 18, 2018
Out of the dozens of dispensaries in Larimer County, one of the first ones opened has remained relevant since the legalization of recreational cannabis in 2014. Aside from being able to say they are one of the first recreational dispensaries in the nation, Choice Organics commits themselves to creating safe and quality products and keeping up with changing trends.
Owen Zielinski, a freshman double majoring in Biochemistry and Psychology, creator of the Survivor CSU series talks about the changes made in this season. Zielinski's goal is to unite the residents of Academic Village by breaking down any possible "Engineering vs. Honors elitism." Survivor CSU is in its second season titled Fans Versus Favorites CSU that puts a team of favorite competitors from last season against a team of fans of the first season.  The teams will compete in a variety of challenges around Fort Collins with the losing team having to vote a teammate off the show, the last person left winning a $200 prize. (Matt Tackett | Collegian)

CSU students create game show inspired by ‘Survivor’

Carson Lipe • April 10, 2018

College can be a rewarding experience… if you can survive. Students at Colorado State University created a student-run gameshow titled "Survive CSU," similar to the popular television series “Survivor,”...

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