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CSU Recreation Center ranked 3rd in country

CSU Recreation Center ranked 3rd in country

December 3, 2013

http://youtu.be/x3DpXDI-srg Colorado State University's Campus Recreation Center has been ranked as the 3rd best Rec Center in the country by the Best Value Schools. The Rec ranked highly due to criteria...

Christmas Decorating: How to Keep it Cheap

Christmas Decorating: How to Keep it Cheap

December 3, 2013

http://youtu.be/z2yKwUAAu5M I feel like I am perpetually running low on money, but I like getting festive over the holidays. For all broke college students, here are some quick tips on how to decorate...

Transgender identity at CSU

Transgender identity at CSU

December 3, 2013

Most people prefer to be called “he” or “she”, but Lo Luthro, a junior psychology major, prefers the gender-neutral terms “ze” and “hirself.” Born female, Luthro is genderqueer and identifies...

A train barrels through Fort Collins along College Avenue around noon on Thursday. There is a debate in Fort Collins whether or not to restrict trains from blowing their horns through the middle of town.

U.S. Sen. Bennet addresses train noise in FoCo

December 3, 2013

It shakes buildings. It rattles cars. It can cause everyone in a blocks radius to cover their ears. The train horn in downtown Fort Collins has been causing issues for residents for years, and has caught...

Colorado Christmas Gift Guide

Colorado Christmas Gift Guide

December 2, 2013

Despite the fact that 78 percent of CSU students are in-state, everyone knows at least one out-of-towner. Often making the adjustment to living in Colorado can be overwhelming between the unpredictable...

CSU has one of the largest wheat breeding programs

December 2, 2013

CSU’s wheat breeding program is one of the largest of 27 university programs in the nation, thanks to the support from the Colorado wheat industry. “The wheat industry in Colorado saw a need to...

A Brief Guide to Robin: Carrie Kelley

A Brief Guide to Robin: Carrie Kelley

December 2, 2013

This is the part 6 of the 6 part series “A Brief Guide to Robin”. For links to previous Robins, click on their names: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Damien Wayne Even though...

President of the Fair Trade University, Lindsey Earl, holds up one of the protest slogans "When you buy, you vote" in Sweet Sinsations, who sell fair and ethically traded coffee. Earl and her student organization believe that our buying power as consumers has political power that can change unethical business practices.

CSU is on its way to be a Fair Trade University

December 2, 2013

Coffee, chocolate and apparel all have one thing in common - they are all made in a factory, often not operating under fair trade conditions. CSU students in the Fair Trade University Club are seeking...

Final Schedules correlate to normal class times

Final Schedules correlate to normal class times

December 2, 2013

Final exams that last two hours blocks are hard enough without having to take them at 7:30 a.m. However, there seems to be no other solution to scheduling finals into a five day period than having early...

Students sitting in a mostly empty lecture hall. (Matt Tackett | Collegian)

University professors justify giving finals

Josephine Bush December 2, 2013

Five days of coffee, library time, study groups and two hour final blocks oriented in discombobulated array is what some of us like to call finals week. Finals are supposed to be the measurement of how...

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