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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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Opinion

Letter to the Editor: slowing immigration

Letter to the Editor: slowing immigration

May 1, 2014

The prevailing wisdom holds that America is a “nation of immigrants”. It is taken for granted that immigration can only improve this country, giving our economy the fuel it needs to continue the last...

Rams' Rede: HIV conversation

Rams’ Rede: HIV conversation

May 1, 2014

Rams’ Rede, I have been seeing this girl for a couple weeks and everything is going really well. We are starting to get serious, and we just had sex a few days ago. The problem is that I’m HIV positive...

Geneva Mueller

Don’t just spring clean your house

May 1, 2014

The flowers are blooming, the sprinklers are coming alive, the grass is restored to its usual color, girls are trading in their leggings for sundresses and it’s time to get serious in these next three...

Take a stand on involvement in Crimea

Take a stand on involvement in Crimea

April 30, 2014

It might be old hat to you to find out that Russia invaded a section of Ukraine known as Crimea in March. The reasons for the seemingly random land grab dates back to the Cold War and the end of the...

Unsettling precedent with student fees

Unsettling precedent with student fees

April 30, 2014

Last night the Student Fee Review Board, among other increases, voted in favor of raising student fees by $5.75 per credit hour. That's a lot of money that we will now be paying, and many students didn't...

Jake Schwebach

Alternative ways to cope with finals

April 30, 2014

If someone asked you to rattle off ways to charge through finals, the weeks before, coming out relatively unscathed, what might you list? There’s the “how to prepare yourself for a standardized...

Banning Affirmative Action improves equality

Banning Affirmative Action improves equality

April 29, 2014

There is always a wave of indignation that passes over me when I'm filling out a form that is not medically-related in any way and it asks for me to choose a race out of a list of four or five options. Let...

Res Stecker

Fixing the American middle class crisis

April 29, 2014

Last week, The New York Times published a report which found that the United States no longer holds the distinction of having the world’s wealthiest middle class. Long has this nation prided itself...

Our View: Remember the tornado victims next door, CSU

Our View: Remember the tornado victims next door, CSU

April 29, 2014

Tornadoes have been plaguing our nation and leaving tragedies of various sorts in their wake. The casualties are climbing, and hundreds of people have lost their homes. Although here in Fort Collins we...

Aaron Kolb

Affirmative Action levels the playing field

April 29, 2014

In my first year here at CSU I have become aware of a common complaint. It mostly comes from white, middle-class students and goes something like this: “If my parents weren’t so rich I would have...

Shanel Hughes

Don’t be afraid of marrying young, college students

April 29, 2014

We can all look around at our friends and see that they are different places in their lives. Whether they are in college or not, they are all doing different things with themselves. Some may be working...

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