Ah, the Olympic Games; a time-honored celebration of athletics, competition, glory and national pride. It’s an event that brings the world together in a harmonious two-week period that shows off the best of us. The 2022 Beijing Olympics were deemed by many to be a mockery of these values, but simply put, that’s just a crock of shit.
I’ve seen a lot of commentary lately saying the location choices for some of the events were questionable. I’m here to tell you that making these athletes compete surrounded by a toxic-looking, dystopian landscape was a purposeful decision.
Brendan Henry, Collegian Columnist
• March 1, 2022
At the beginning of last year, COVID-19 vaccines were released with the intent that the world would soon return to normalcy after a year of enduring the pandemic. A year has passed and little has changed by means of mask mandates and restrictions, yet many people in Larimer County are vaccinated and have a much lower infection rate than folks that are not. With students at Colorado State University being required to have both the vaccination and a booster, it should be just fine to no longer have to wear a mask.
College diversity statistics often play an important role in how students decide where they want to spend the next chapter of their life, as well as where they feel the most comfortable.
As a student of color, this is something I searched for when it came to finding a college to attend. Colorado State University doesn’t have a very high racial diversity rate, with only 30% of the University's population reported as nonwhite; however, I still chose the school, feeling that I had found a place where I belonged.
The 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, China, brought us an array of events full of exemplary athletic prowess. As millions of people tuned in to watch, a clear shift emerged in how we all consume Olympic content — with TV ratings at an all-time low and significantly more people watching on different streaming services and devices.
If you were active on social media, you would have seen the surplus of commentary and reactions to the events, but one group of athletes took center stage — unfortunately, it had little to do with their incredible athleticism.
Serena Bettis, Content Managing Editor
• February 24, 2022
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Michael Stella, Collegian Columnist
• February 24, 2022
Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines announced Feb. 7 that they will be merging to form the fifth-largest airline. Frontier and Spirit are both low-fare airlines, and part of their plan to merge was so they could offer even better fare rates for their customers. It is hard to trust the word of major corporations, especially when they merge and eliminate competition — a contributing force of lower prices.
Having one less airline to employ workers means that there are fewer competing airlines to provide the best wages and benefits to attract workers to their companies.
Brendan Henry, Collegian Columnist
• February 23, 2022
All right Vladimir Putin, how about we cool it for a bit? This whole invading and annexing sovereign nations thing is a little outdated. Do you really want your future war crimes to be livestreamed to the entire world?
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed at the end of 1991, resulting in the USSR losing its economically important satellite nations and the gained independence of Ukraine, among others. Now the only thing exported by Russia on a major scale is oil and petrol, and this, coupled with the desire to regain previously held land, seems to lead their president, Putin, to want to annex Ukraine.
When the world began to reopen following the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020, there was a need in many industries and sectors for support systems — both in the aspects of finance and general operations — to help these industries reemerge from the worldwide closures amid the pandemic.
Many industries, like business, entertainment and service, received ample support plans from the government and other industry-specific associations to help jump-start their individual economies. However, one industry in America has been woefully under-supported during the past two years of restimulation: the education sector.
Dillon Gross, Collegian Columnist
• February 22, 2022
When it comes to the climate, there are numerous tipping points that human society is nearing or even already passed. A tipping point is defined as a threshold that, when passed, results in irreversible changes.
When applying this concept to the environment, it's easy to see why understanding the impact of these climate tipping points and how we can avoid passing them is of utmost importance because, after all, this is irreversible damage we are now dealing with.
Dylan Tusinski, Collegian Columnist
• February 21, 2022
There's been a recent flurry around voter suppression across the United States. In many states, lawmakers are introducing legislation to make it more difficult for people to vote, whether through limiting ballot drop-off locations, criminally charging people who help disabled and elderly people turn in their ballots or preventing people from handing out water to those in the long lines for the polls, there's been a steady stream of anti-voter legislation taking root across the country.
While these laws have their hearts in the right place, they're going about voter suppression in the wrong way.
Callum Burke, Collegian Columnist
• February 17, 2022
There are very few traditions that show American pride more than camping around a hole in the February cold, awaiting a clueless groundhog to predict the weather for the upcoming six weeks. At least, that’s the case for fans of Punxsutawney Phil, the unsung hero of weather predictions in the United States and arguably the most well known of all the weather-predicting animals.
Although cute, it is time to move on from a groundhog predicting the weather — or at least time to elect a new mascot.
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