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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

The Student News Site of Colorado State University

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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The Fort Collins Best Western University Inn on the corner of Elizabeth Street and College Ave has been converted into dorm rooms for 150 first-year Colorado State University students Aug. 23

Enrollment numbers increase demand for temporary housing

Portia Cook September 7, 2022

Editor's Note: This is a follow-up story to The Collegian's piece on students living in the Best Western University Inn. To read more about the temporary living situation, go here. For most college...

The construction zone on the future lot of Meridian Village, a new housing community on campus that was scheduled to be completed in 2025, Dec. 16, 2019.

Meridian Village construction on pause since March 2020

Samy Gentle August 31, 2022

The construction site for the Meridian Village residence community has sat untouched since March 2020, as the project was put on hold when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. In 2022, as Fort Collins and Colorado...

Students look through posters at the Poster Invasion tent on the Colorado State University Plaza

Poster Invasion brings creativity to CSU, college campuses nationwide

Rachel Baschnagel August 30, 2022
Campus and community organizations and student groups frequently table on Colorado State University's Plaza, but this week brought a new type of tabler to town. Instead of giving out free merchandise or informational flyers, this tent-covered business is selling various-sized posters, tapestries and postcards alongside poster tubes and poster- and postcard-sized frames. Poster Invasion is a social enterprise that sells art exclusively through pop-up sales on college campuses in more than 40 states around the nation. The enterprise was founded by CEO Mandi van Hill, and its website states Poster Invasion is "the first woman-owned business to successfully make it in the pop-up poster sale space."
Best Western interior lobby

A look inside living at the Best Western University Inn

Portia Cook August 24, 2022

Every year, residence halls like Braiden Hall and Corbett Hall are filled with the exhilarating buzz of parents and students personalizing dorm spaces and settling in for the semester ahead.  For some...

illustration of attention-deficit/hyper-activity disorder

You are not alone in managing ADHD in college

Samy Gentle August 15, 2022

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder affects about 4.4% of adults in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Applied to the 28,000 students on the Colorado State University...

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