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Erskine: Goodbye — thank you for helping me believe in myself

Erskine: Goodbye — thank you for helping me believe in myself

Maddy Erskine, Arts and Culture Editor • May 4, 2022

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. Saying goodbye to this incredible newspaper...

Meltzner: Thank you, CSU, for not being what I wanted but what I needed

Meltzner: Thank you, CSU, for not being what I wanted but what I needed

JD Meltzner, Opinion Editor • May 4, 2022
As I was preparing to write this column, I had no real idea about what I wanted to say about my time in Fort Collins. Procrastinating, I began thinking ahead to the week's schoolwork, as I've done so many times before, to plan out my week. I filled with that signature Sunday scaries feeling and begrudgingly went over all the assignments I needed to complete with disdain. And then I realized this will be the last time I will be thinking of school in my life. I realized I will be graduating in a few weeks, and my time as a Colorado State University student will be over. Suddenly, I felt a surge of nostalgia, and as I sat reminiscing over the past four years, I realized what the time I've spent at CSU has truly meant to me.
Noah Pasley is The Collegian's 2021-22 breaking news assistant. (Cat Blouch | The Collegian)

Pasley: I found my purpose at this paper

Noah Pasley, News Editor • May 4, 2022

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. Well, it's finally here. The end to one of...

Thorpe: Thank you, Collegian, for showing me what I love

Thorpe: Thank you, Collegian, for showing me what I love

Kadyn Thorpe, Arts and Culture Reporter • May 4, 2022

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. Before I started writing for The Collegian,...

Bourland: To all who have allowed me to see further

Bourland: To all who have allowed me to see further

Luke Bourland, Photo Director • May 4, 2022

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. Coming from someone who always has a lot...

Bailey Shepherd poses for a portrait on the campus of Colorado State University.

Shepherd: Thank you — Bailey’s final recap

Bailey Shepherd, Sports Reporter • May 4, 2022

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. Friends, the time has come. After three...

Cornelius: Thank you, Collegian, for the best experience of my life

Cornelius: Thank you, Collegian, for the best experience of my life

Devin Cornelius, Digital and Design Managing Editor • May 4, 2022

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. For the past five years, working at The...

Babcock: Goodbye, Collegian — thank you for changing my fate

Babcock: Goodbye, Collegian — thank you for changing my fate

Kota Babcock, Arts and Culture Director • May 4, 2022

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 officially came to The Collegian the summer...

Seriously: Who wants to be the new CSU mascot?

Callum Burke, Collegian Columnist • May 4, 2022
Picture this: You’re under the bright lights of Canvas Stadium awaiting yet another action-packed football game. The crowd is chanting thunderously over the music playing on the loudspeakers. The football team is warming up eagerly on the field as the cheerleaders and dancers edge the sidelines to rile up the fans. Where are you, you ask? Right in the middle of the action on the field, with all eyes on you. You’re the school mascot, and you’re living the goddamn dream of showing off your school spirit to everyone attending. I mean, who doesn’t want to be the mascot, right?
Heaven Old Coyote puts a beaded feather piece in their hair at the Native American Cultural Center's 37th Annual Pow Wow, hosted by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, in the Lory Student Center

Stella: CSU needs to show more appreciation for Native people

Michael Stella, Collegian Columnist • May 3, 2022
The campus tour is a vital part of the decision-making process of future college students deciding which university or college they should attend. There is one element of tours at Colorado State University that is crucial and should go much further in-depth: Native American representation. Tours at Colorado State University follow a defined route that can go either way, forward or backward. A tour typically starts at the iconic Oval and makes stops at Morgan Library, the Student Recreation Center, a residence hall and an academic building. 
(Graphic illustration by Sophia Sirokman | The Collegian)

Tusinski: CSU students find the perfect way to protest campus preachers — comedy

Dylan Tusinski, Collegian Columnist • May 3, 2022
There is a holy war brewing on Colorado State University's campus. It's not nearly as bloody, violent or fierce as the holy wars of generations past, but there is a recurring theological battle that keeps propping itself up in Fort Collins and on college campuses nationwide. Just over a week ago, CSU once again became the latest battleground in the ongoing campus preacher parade. The now-infamous campus preachers returned to The Plaza with a smattering of Bible-wielding, cargo short-clad, middle-aged white men shouting at students passing by on their way to class.
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McMillan: Take my online data, I don’t need it

Adah McMillan, Collegian Columnist • May 2, 2022
They say "If something is free, you’re the product." When it comes to online data, we’re all very lucrative products.  Companies like Meta, formerly Facebook, sometimes called data brokers, are “in the business of farming your data,” according to an article from The Conversation.
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