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Campus protest demands administration speak out on Palestine

Aubree Miller, Staff Reporter • April 30, 2024

A crowd of students, faculty and community members showed up 1 p.m. April 29 in The Plaza for a protest calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war along with other demands detailed in a letter...

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Masia: Greek life is a cult on CSU’s campus

Sophia Masia, Collegian Columnist • April 30, 2024
The issue with labeling a group as a cult is that its followers rarely ever openly identify as cult members — they’re just members, believers or followers. For the purpose of this article, I’m defining a cult as devotion to a person, idea, object, movement or organization because there’s nothing wrong with devotion.
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Horoscopes April 29 to May 5

Abby Flores, Staff Reporter • April 30, 2024

Horoscopes can be applied to your sun, moon and rising signs. Dear stars, Mercury retrograde came to an end April 24, leaving us with new introspections for the rest of the month. Having an eclipse...

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CSU hurdlers run in remembrance of Colton Kaase at Doug Max Invitational

Adam Gross, Staff Reporter • April 30, 2024

Five Rams competed in heat one of the men’s 110-meter hurdles at the Doug Max Invitational in Fort Collins on Sunday. All five set personal records. None of them did it without Colton Kaase running...

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Pavelko: Cultish fandoms are unwelcoming, polarizing

Hana Pavelko, Collegian Columnist • April 30, 2024
People flock to the theaters, desperately trying to buy tickets for opening night so they can claim they were one of the first ones to see it. Some wear their official merch shirts with the movie poster on them; some wear costumes they spent weeks on to ensure that each detail was correct. Everyone stocks up on popcorn and candy so they can stay until the very end of the movie because are you really a fan if you leave before the end-credits scene?
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Thorn: Stop making cult classic movies into musicals

Astrid Thorn, Collegian Columnist • April 30, 2024
The entertainment industry has entered an era of creative burnout. Very few new ideas are being made into blockbuster box office hits, and most of what is being promoted in mainstream media consists of remakes or overused and predictable plot archetypes. One major side effect of this mass burnout is the ever-increasing phenomenon of cult classic movies being remade as musical adaptations.
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Psychology explains occurrences of alien abductions

Hana Pavelko, Staff Reporter • April 30, 2024

In September 2019, a new internet sensation swept across the nation: Storm Area 51. With the motto, “They can’t stop all of us,” millions of people became obsessed with the idea of discovering secrets...

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Colorado breweries are home to cult of specialty beer lovers

Sophia Masia, Staff Reporter • April 29, 2024

Colorado has been known to attract a variety of specific cult followings: the obvious winter sports fanatics, pothead transplants, outdoorsy mountain lovers and, of course, the elite craft beer drinkers. “I’ve...

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LTTE: Are you better at restoring democracy than a 20-year-old from 1895?

Guest Author • April 29, 2024
Since November, I’ve been part of a fantastic team of other students, recent graduates and one 52-year-old Emmy award-winning producer and cinematographer gathering material for a feature-length documentary about Colorado State University’s role in our democracy.
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Seriously: Temu sued following alleged lobotomies from VR headsets

Addy Dollaghan, Collegian Columnist • April 29, 2024
Over a dozen plaintiffs are coming forward and suing online shopping forum Temu for $420 million after allegedly getting unintentionally lobotomies by headsets manufactured and sold by the company. Temu’s new virtual reality goggles gave plaintiffs both partial and full lobotomies to users who bought the goggles to try and save some money.
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Souza: Drive a Subaru? Congrats — you’re in a cult

Emma Souza, Collegian Columnist • April 29, 2024
Subaru drivers have formed a cult, and I have been inducted. There’s a whole bunch of stereotypes about Coloradans that range from inaccurate to spot on. People here are supposed to be adrenaline junkies, nature freaks and Patagonia obsessed. No stereotype, however, is as perfectly detailed and beautifully accurate as Colorado, the Subaru-driving state.
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Forest Congress inspires future natural resources leaders

McKenna Van Voris, Staff Reporter • April 29, 2024

The Women's and Minoritized Genders' Forest Congress is an annual gathering centered on minoritized genders in natural resource fields. According to the National Association of State Foresters, fewer than...

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