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What to do at Horsetooth Reservoir

5 places to take your parents during Homecoming weekend

Ty Davis October 11, 2018

Maybe football games aren’t your thing, or you just don’t want to spend most of the time with your parents either sitting in a restaurant or a hotel room this homecoming weekend. Fort Collins offers...

This past week, Omega Psi Phi fraternity hosted a seminar between CSU and UNC black students to discuss "black love" in a predominantly white area. (Photo courtesy of Henry Cooper)

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity explores Black love

Isabelle Rayburn October 10, 2018
The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity hosted a seminar to discuss black love on Tuesday night. The purpose of this seminar was to have a healthy conversation between students of color at CSU and UNC about what black love is and how these students of color feel about black love at predominately white institutions.
#WorldMentalHealthDay recognizes student health needs

#WorldMentalHealthDay recognizes student health needs

Linc Thomas October 9, 2018

With national student debt climbing, bills to pay and a GPA to maintain, mental wellness often takes a back seat in student's daily lives.  A recent study conducted by the National Alliance on Mental...

Anne Fenwick tells a story about her late husband, Professor Jack Fenwick, in front of the tree planted in his memoriam behind the Plant Sciences building. (AJ Frankson | Collegian)

CSU community reflects on life of late professor Jack Fenwick

Linc Thomas October 8, 2018
Fenwick was a professor in the soil and crops department for 42 years, teaching numerous courses, developing curriculum, recruiting and building lasting relationships. At the tree dedication, attendees spoke fond memories of Dr. Fenwick. Friends, family, and alumni all resounded the same theme: Jack would go out of his way for anyone.
Former president and CEO of the NAACP, Cornell Brooks, speaks in the LSC theater on October 3rd, 2018. Brooks is a graduate of both Head Start and Yale Law School, as well as an ordained minister, civil rights attorney, and social justice activist. Brooks' Keynote address is a part of the diversity symposium. Mackenzie Pinn | Collegian

18th annual Diversity Symposium highlights University subcultures

Henry Netherland October 7, 2018
From October 1 to 5, the Lory Student Center hosted the Diversity Symposium where students could attend a myriad of presentations dealing with issues in diversity on campus. The presentations were held open to the general public and were separated into digestible time blocks allowing students to attend them in between classes.
The finished tacos. The shipping container-sized space gives the taco shop a food-truck-like atmosphere.

4 spots to grab a bite on National Taco Day

Graham Shapley October 3, 2018
National Taco Day is undefined and vague in its terms: do you just have to eat a taco? Do you have to make one or can you just purchase one? What if you’re too lazy to make a home-cooked taco? Can you just go to the Taco Bell in the LSC?
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