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Katrina Leibee, Devin Cornelius, and Serena Bettis sit on the steps of the Administration Building at Colorado State University. Leibee is the editor in chief at The Rocky Mountain Collegian while Bettis is the content managing editor and Cornelius is the digital and design managing editor May 31. (Cat Blouch | Collegian File Photo)

Editorial: With pride, The Collegian stands with students

Devin Cornelius, Katrina Leibee, and Serena Bettis • September 15, 2021
To the Colorado State University community: The editorial board of The Rocky Mountain Collegian stands with you. 
The Colorado State University Administration Building Sept. 9, 2019.

Cooke and McKissick: Criticizing CSU is good but should be grounded in reality

Cody Cooke and Nathaniel McKissick • September 15, 2021
Last Wednesday, preacher Keith Darrell and an unnamed associate took to Colorado State University's Plaza to spew hateful rhetoric against women, racial minorities and, most viciously, members of the LGBTQ community. Following this incident, a social media account took to Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #CallOutCSU to blast the University for not arresting or silencing Darrell and his cohort.
Climate Column (Graphic Illustration by Abby Flitton | The Collegian)

Meltzner: Climate change is hurting Colorado’s outdoor industry

JD Meltzner • September 14, 2021
Between the rampant forest fires and record-breaking temperatures that have plagued Colorado for the past several years, it's impossible to ignore the impact climate change has had on our state. The negative impacts of climate change are quickly bleeding into Colorado’s economy.
(Graphic illustration by Colin Crawford | The Collegian)

Seriously: The microchip in my vaccine is malfunctioning

Bella Eckburg • September 13, 2021
Early last week I finally reached full-immunity against the original COVID-19 strain, and you can’t even imagine how excited I was. I have been researching everything there is to know about this virus on 4chan, and the knowledge that I could now fight it inside my body was game-changing. 
Students walk past the Curfman Gallery in the Lory Student Center at Colorado State University which has an ongoing exhibition titled 'Some Time Later'. (Pratyoosh Kashyap | The Collegian)

Tusinski: Student art is back on campus — don’t miss out

Dylan Tusinski • September 12, 2021
Walking through the southern wing of the Lory Student Center, there's a sharp contrast between two sides of a small hallway. Just inside the southern entrance of the building, there's the often-crowded Intermissions café on the western side of the hallway, with a line that stretches most of the way down the hall. On the opposite side of the hall, there's the Curfman Gallery, which holds Colorado State University art students' artwork and is usually devoid of people, with the exception of the front desk attendant typing on their laptop.
A student walks towards the Durrell dining hall from Laurel Village Feb 2. (Devin Cornelius | Collegian)

Blouch: The Great Resignation has reached Fort Collins

Cat Blouch • September 9, 2021
Times are changing. The COVID-19 pandemic has created irreversible shifts in our ways of life and the workforce is no exception. Citing the the U.S. Department of Labor, Philip Kane from Inc.com writes that "during the months of April, May and June 2021, a total of 11.5 million workers quit their jobs" in what is being colloquially referred to as the Great Resignation. 
Eckburg: We deserve to feel neutral in our bodies

Eckburg: We deserve to feel neutral in our bodies

Bella Eckburg • September 8, 2021
Moving to college and adapting to a new, more self-sufficient environment can be extremely difficult. Whether it’s struggling to meet new friends or experiencing changes mentally, physically or emotionally, this part of growing up can be uncomfortable. Being a freshman is scary! One of the more notable uncomfortable topics is the dreaded freshman 15, where incoming students gain weight as they adjust to a new lifestyle as college students. 

Meltzner: We need to stop taking journalists for granted

JD Meltzner • September 8, 2021
The ongoing Taliban takeover of Afghanistan impacts many different groups and parties, one of them being Afghan journalists working for American-funded news organizations. After being promised aid and evacuation from America by the August 31 withdrawal deadline, many of these journalists have seen no such help from the United States government, and have been abandoned; desperately seeking protection and evacuation.
Conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter speaks at CU Boulder’s campus on March 21, 2018. Coulter was invited by CU’s Turning Point USA Chapter to speak to students and community members. In her speech, Coulter spoke on topics such as immigration and liberal ideologies. (Colin Shepherd | Collegian)

McKissick: It’s not conservatives being censored, it’s misinformation

Nathaniel McKissick • September 8, 2021
For years, conservatives have denounced college campuses as institutions that silence and censor conservative students and activists. They claim that colleges are places of liberal indoctrination, and that conservatives lack a voice in academic environments.
A partially scratched off Patriot Front sticker on a bike work stand next to the tunnel under Prospect Road outside the University Center for the Arts Nov. 16. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls Patriot Front a “white nationalist hate group.” (Matt Tackett | The Collegian)

Tusinski: Fort Collins is not exempt from the alt-right

Dylan Tusinski • September 8, 2021
If you spend some time walking around campus, one of the things you'll notice is the prevalence of the Colorado State University Principles of Community. The five pillars of our community are everywhere: on t-shirts, wall plaques, stickers, signs and more.
(Graphic illustration by Colin Crawford | The Collegian)

Seriously: CSU to add multiple roundabouts across campus

Dylan Tusinski • September 6, 2021
Colorado State University's administration prides itself on its ability to listen to its students. Which is why when students began calling for the University to renovate the Clark building, fix the cracked brick sidewalks on the plaza and install air conditioning into the University's dorms, CSU decided to roll up its sleeves and put its construction team to work.
Colorado State University president Joyce McConnell stands on a podium for the Fall Reflection speech Sept. 1. McConnell covered a variety of topics, but focused mostly on her excitement over the campus returning to in-person operation following the COVID-19 pandemic. "There is nothing better than seeing all of you on campus," Joyce Said. "I said at the very beggining and I'll say it now- when I get runover by a bike or a skateboard I know we're back."

Blouch: Dear Joyce McConnell, watch your hypocrisy

Cat Blouch • September 1, 2021
The Fall Address is a long-standing Colorado State University tradition wherein the president of the university gives a presidential address recapping the past year. That’s a tall order this time around — how exactly do you summarize the collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic over a casual lunch?  No matter which angle Joyce McConnell, the current CSU president, took at the reflection, it was bound to fall short of truly encapsulating the hurt this community faced over the past eighteen months.
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