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.
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.
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?Â
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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