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At the forefront of a large crowds of spectators, three sports fans wearing cowboy hats, green shirts and sunglasses smile widely and look past the camera.

CSU Outlaws cult-ivate strong Ram spirit

Liv Sewell, Staff Reporter • May 1, 2024

Outlaws are not just the villains in "Red Dead Redemption 2." For a group of friends, they are a collective of cowboy hat-toting superfans who represent school spirit reminiscent of Colorado State athletics’...

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These 3 iconic movies are Coloradans

Sananda Chandy, Staff Reporter • May 1, 2024

Colorado, the home to many beautifully diverse landscapes and scenery, has been the backdrop for various cult classic movies that fans continually go back to. Colorado fans can visit their filming locations,...

An illustration of a woman looking into a pink mirror with several figures in white hooded cloaks to her right. The background of the image is a bunch of scattered Greek letters.

Masia: Greek life is a cult on CSU’s campus

Sophia Masia, Collegian Columnist • April 30, 2024
The issue with labeling a group as a cult is that its followers rarely ever openly identify as cult members — they’re just members, believers or followers. For the purpose of this article, I’m defining a cult as devotion to a person, idea, object, movement or organization because there’s nothing wrong with devotion.
A graphic of a ram with the phases of the moon around its head to the left of the words, Horoscopes by The Collegian, on a blue background of little constellations.

Horoscopes April 29 to May 5

Abby Flores, Staff Reporter • April 30, 2024

Horoscopes can be applied to your sun, moon and rising signs. Dear stars, Mercury retrograde came to an end April 24, leaving us with new introspections for the rest of the month. Having an eclipse...

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Revisiting the morbid fascination of ‘Re-Animator’

Sophia Pruden, Staff Reporter • April 30, 2024

Stuart Gordon's 1985 film "Re-Animator" is a cult classic science fiction film that perfectly fits every convention of the genre. Loosely based on the short story "Herbert West-Reanimator" by H.P. Lovecraft,...

A graphic of CAM the Ram speaking into a microphone to the left of the words, Collegian Columnist.

Pavelko: Cultish fandoms are unwelcoming, polarizing

Hana Pavelko, Collegian Columnist • April 30, 2024
People flock to the theaters, desperately trying to buy tickets for opening night so they can claim they were one of the first ones to see it. Some wear their official merch shirts with the movie poster on them; some wear costumes they spent weeks on to ensure that each detail was correct. Everyone stocks up on popcorn and candy so they can stay until the very end of the movie because are you really a fan if you leave before the end-credits scene?
An illustration of two dramatic masks, one depicting joy and the other sadness, among strips of film and next to a movie projector.

Thorn: Stop making cult classic movies into musicals

Astrid Thorn, Collegian Columnist • April 30, 2024
The entertainment industry has entered an era of creative burnout. Very few new ideas are being made into blockbuster box office hits, and most of what is being promoted in mainstream media consists of remakes or overused and predictable plot archetypes. One major side effect of this mass burnout is the ever-increasing phenomenon of cult classic movies being remade as musical adaptations.
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