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...

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.

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? 

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.

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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Editor’s Note: This is a satire piece from The Collegian’s opinion section. Real names and the events surrounding them may be used in fictitious/semi-fictitious ways. Those who do not read the editor’s...