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Finding comfort in being yourself

March 23, 2022

Kaz explained that it's okay if someone starts doing something to affirm their identity and it doesn't feel right. Telling them, out of fear, to not pursue a path that may or may not help them be who they...

Practicing inclusivity

March 23, 2022

Ash Powers, a Colorado State University fifth-year social work major, said that being more conscious before speaking would help inclusivity. “We do not know people’s gender the way that gender...

Relief

March 23, 2022

After surgery, Kaz felt one emotion: relief. “If you have a cold and you notice you have a cold because your nose is stuffy, you miss being able to breathe properly through your nose," he said....

Colorado’s creative market shreds Canada’s

Grayson Acri, Cannabis Reporter • March 21, 2022

Colorado, along with Washington, is the oldest legal recreational cannabis market in North America. Amendment 64 to the Constitution of the State of Colorado legalized recreational cannabis in 2012,...

Canada’s legal market hoses Colorado’s

Grayson Acri, Cannabis Reporter • March 21, 2022

There is no beating the Canadian cannabis market. Canada was the first G-7 country to legalize cannabis, since the Cannabis Act went into law in 2018, granting federal-level legalization of cannabis...

‘A place for everybody’: Understanding CSU Spur, the new Denver campus

Serena Bettis, Content Managing Editor • March 21, 2022

In January, the Colorado State University System opened the first of three buildings on the CSU Spur campus, the System’s venture into the state capital. CSU Spur is — and will become — a lot...

Bongs are the choice of the sophisticate

Grayson Acri, Cannabis Reporter • March 9, 2022

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Only one superior method of cannabis consumption incorporates all four elements: the humble bong. A water pipe, much like a nice vase or lamp, both serves a necessary function...

Pipes bring convenience that can’t be beat

Elizabeth White, Cannabis Reporter • March 9, 2022

For centuries, presidents, literary legends and college students alike have relied on one device: the pipe. Since bongs were introduced after the pipe was first invented by Egyptians in 2000 B.C., the...

Seriously: Keep doodling on bathroom stalls; you’re an artist

Callum Burke, Collegian Columnist • February 22, 2022

If you’re too self-absorbed and shallow to look up every once in a while mid-bathroom break, then I suggest you stop reading this at once and go reassess your life decisions. The bathroom stalls here on campus are riddled with years of art and words of expression that even the rarest museums in the world would salivate at the comprehension of seeing, let alone owning.

Seriously: Free art is an abomination; don’t support vandalism

Bella Eckburg, Opinion Director • February 22, 2022

In the age of non fungible tokens and cyber art, many Colorado State University students have made the decision to connect with their roots and graffiti campus bathrooms. First, print is dead, assholes. Everyone knows that — my grandpa says it all the time. These liberal-arts losers are just that: too liberal. Since when did art become a means of expressing the human condition?

Eckburg: The Stump stands as a memory of free speech’s past

Bella Eckburg, Opinion Director • February 7, 2022

It is true that the round tree stump that sits just outside the Lory Student Center stands as a University wide acknowledgment of upholding students’ rights to free speech and protesting. The Stump rests atop the concrete season to season, bearing the cold and heat of Fort Collins weather. In 1964, The Collegian’s former editor John Hyde and former Reach editor Shelton Stanfill bought The Stump for less than $5 to be used as a platform for free speech on campus, and it even traveled to the state Capitol two years later for a women’s rights protest.

Blouch: The Stump is still a symbol of free speech

Cat Blouch, Collegian Columnist • February 7, 2022

Number 18 on the list of 70 things to do before you graduate from Colorado State University is to “Make a statement on The Stump in The (Lory Student Center) Plaza.” The Stump, an aptly named tree stump in The LSC Plaza, has been on campus since 1964 when two student media employees bought it for $4.50 and etched the word “Collegian” into the side as a symbol of free speech. The Rocky Mountain Collegian and The Stump have a long-standing, inherent relationship. It is this relationship that cements The Stump as a symbol of free speech even today. At the core of free speech is lack of censorship, which is what The Collegian strives for in providing unbiased news to the student body, and thus, The Stump can be seen as a tangible representation of not only the truth being told but also the exchange of ideas.

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