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Editorial: This is how The Collegian covers ASCSU, accepts letters to editor

Editorial Staff • May 8, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is an editorial. Editorials do not reflect the view of all employees of The Collegian but instead represent a stance taken by The Collegian’s editorial board, which consists of...

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Ward: Goodbye, The Collegian, you absolute beaut

Emma Ward • May 3, 2024

Editor’s Note: Traditionally, graduating seniors working at The Collegian are given the chance to write a farewell note at the end of their tenure at CSU. Fresh on Colorado State University’s campus,...

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LTTE: Student engagement makes ASCSU better

Michael Stella, Guest Author • May 2, 2024

Editor’s Note: All opinion section content reflects the views of the individual author only and does not represent a stance taken by The Collegian or its editorial board. Letters to the Editor reflect...

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Pallemaerts: All my love to The Collegian

Lauren Pallemaerts, Executive Editor • May 2, 2024

Editor’s Note: Traditionally, graduating seniors working at The Collegian are given the chance to write a farewell note at the end of their tenure at CSU. Joining The Rocky Mountain Collegian changed...

LFTE: From creeds to classics: Lets talk cults

LFTE: From creeds to classics: Let’s talk cults

Ivy Secrest, Content Managing Editor • May 2, 2024

Dear readers, What makes a cult? We've all heard the term, whether in the joke "drinking the Kool-Aid" in reference to the Jonestown Peoples Temple movement, talking about a passionate sports team or...

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Secrest: A letter to my 1st-year self

Ivy Secrest, Content Managing Editor • May 2, 2024

Editor’s Note: Traditionally, graduating seniors working at The Collegian are given the chance to write a farewell note at the end of their tenure at CSU. The Collegian has been the most time consuming,...

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Gladstein: Say goodbye to 3 years of short-form content

Milo Gladstein, Photo Director • May 2, 2024

Editor’s Note: Traditionally, graduating seniors working at The Collegian are given the chance to write a farewell note at the end of their tenure at CSU. I have spent five years at Colorado State...

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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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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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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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