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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

The Student News Site of Colorado State University

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

The Student News Site of Colorado State University

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Opinion

Res Stecker

Death to the Death Penalty

December 3, 2013

When discussing the lively topic that is the death penalty, there are usually two sides to the argument. Either fry them or let those scum rot in prison, costing us all tons of money. Today, the death...

Brooke Lake

Exchange to change

December 3, 2013

AMMAN, Jordan — We have all seen them: depressing 30 second clips of starving children with flies crawling over their face, with wide eyes staring at you through the camera with tragic music playing...

Brittany Jordan

Capital punishment and appropriate consequences

December 3, 2013

We learn through consequences. Positive and negative outcomes have dictated our behavior since we have had the capability of getting ourselves into trouble. And, as adults, we still have consequences....

Aaron Kolb

Wolves should remain on the Endangered Species List

December 3, 2013

*CORRECTION: The original column stated that the Environmental Protection Agency as the government entity that enforces the Endangered Species List. This is incorrect. The agency that enforces that law...

The community that we want to be

The community that we want to be

December 3, 2013

Coming to terms with who we are is an important part of growing into adulthood. For some, the person that they become can elicit a negative reaction from the community. For people who are gay, lesbian...

Geneva Mueller

Humanity is community

December 3, 2013

With Thanksgiving just passed and the holiday season quickly approaching, this seems as good a time as any to stop and consider the aspects of our lives for which we are thankful. I believe it to be...

Isaac Morley

A politically correct war on the holidays

December 3, 2013

Spoken in hushed tones in the privacy of homes, there are words that are being uttered in America that are considered to be some of the most dangerous that can be vocalized in our society. These words...

Letter to the Editor - December 1, 2013

Letter to the Editor – December 1, 2013

December 2, 2013

To the Editor: Zane Womeldorph recently wrote that he is uncomfortable with the idea of abortion, that it is a simple fact that abortion snuffs out a potential life, and that there are plenty of convincing...

Black Friday shouldn't interrupt Thanksgiving

Black Friday shouldn’t interrupt Thanksgiving

December 2, 2013

The days after Thanksgiving have become the unofficial start of the sales extravaganza that is the Christmas holiday season. Black Friday deals lure out thousands, if not millions, of people at the wee...

Brian Fosdick

An open letter to holiday Facebook posters

December 2, 2013

I don’t really enjoy policing Facebook and I’ll probably never say this to my friends personally, but every year around holiday season there is a certain type of person who believes that is their...

Sean Kennedy

Don’t buy into consumerism

December 2, 2013

What did you do over Thanksgiving break? Many people, like me, went camping. But whereas I slept in a yurt up in the mountains, many others slept on the ground outside big-box stores. I guess people...

Brian Fosdick

The smell of a fresh new paper weight

November 22, 2013

My original plan for the week was to write about the NSA and Google and how your inbox is slowly becoming everyone’s favorite hangout spot. That was until I realized that all of the new gaming consoles...

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