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Living the Alternative: After you get your first tattoo

Living the Alternative: After you get your first tattoo

Sarah Ross September 28, 2016
You may think it's over, but there is still a little you have to do
George Sanchez, under the pen during his first tattoo (Sarah Ross | Collegian)

Living the Alternative: While you get your first tattoo

Sarah Ross September 22, 2016
What will go through your mind when the needle hits your skin?
Living the Alternative: Before you get your first tattoo

Living the Alternative: Before you get your first tattoo

Sarah Ross September 20, 2016
Everyone who has a tattoo has had their first, and they have some advice on how to prep
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Living the Alternative: Things to do this summer you’ve always wanted to try

Sarah Ross May 9, 2016

Welcome to Finals Week, where it seems points are made up and sleep doesn't matter. It's a week of sweat, blood, tears, and caffeine, but we all know that it is just the gate keeper for the real prize:...

5 places to get tattoos over the summer

5 places to get tattoos over the summer

Sarah Ross May 7, 2016

It seems like the warm weather is here to stay, and as summer approaches, it's time to break out the crop tops and short shorts. With all the extra skin to show off, why not get some new ink to flaunt?...

5 alternatives to Finals Frustration

5 alternatives to “Finals Frustration”

Sarah Ross May 1, 2016

Dead week is upon us, and it feels like everyone I know is burned out. What I like to call "Finals Frustration" has set in: you're frustrated at yourself for not being more put together by now, you're...

5 alternative tattoos to try before you get your tattoo

5 alternative tattoos to try before you get your tattoo

Sarah Ross April 30, 2016

There is one thing that people always tell me about getting tattoos: That they want one, but they are too afraid to get one. There are many reasons: the pain, getting the look right, but for most people,...

CSU Students celebrate Earth Day at the Earth Day Festival in the Lory Student Center Sculpture Gardens.

Save the planet on Earth Day

Sarah Ross April 22, 2016

It's Earth Day, and you know what that means: saving the planet, one habit at a time! Lots of people don't make changes that can help the environment, mostly because they feel like they will have to make...

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Five alternative ways to prepare for finals

Sarah Ross April 14, 2016

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but finals week is a mere three and a half weeks of school away (approximately 18 days of school, to be exact). This may be a relief to some of you, a terrible reality...

A variety of waste waits to be sorted during yesterdays waste audit on the plaza. The annual event acts as a visual message showing passing students a faulty how much of the on campus trash can actually be composted and recycled.

Living Off the Grid: the zero-waste lifestyle

Sarah Ross April 13, 2016

There are many definitions of "Off the Grid." There is off the Internet grid, or technology grid, as many "CSI" shows like to say when someone forgoes their laptop and credit cards while on the run in...

Living the Alternative: seven weird things to clean this spring

Living the Alternative: seven weird things to clean this spring

Sarah Ross April 7, 2016

It's that time of year again. Break out your shorts and sundresses, ladies and gents, because it finally appears that the warm weather wishes to hang around for a while.As we near the semester end and...

Living the Alternative: Ways that cultures celebrate spring

Living the Alternative: Ways that cultures celebrate spring

Sarah Ross April 3, 2016

With the last snow out of the way, the sun has come out and Spring appears to be here to stay. Even as an Agnostic individual, I celebrated Easter with the masses, welcoming the Spring Equinox the weekend...

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