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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

The Student News Site of Colorado State University

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

All content by Austin Fleskes
Jairus Crabb drops off their ballot at the ballot box outside of the Lory Student Center on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (Matt Tackett | The Collegian)

Bernie Sanders wins Colorado primary, Biden wins Super Tuesday

Austin Fleskes, Ravyn Cullor, Laura Studley, and Serena Bettis
March 4, 2020
How we are covering George Flyd/BLM protests

LFTE: Ads in our paper don’t mean endorsement

Forrest Czarnecki and Austin Fleskes
March 2, 2020
The Collegian stands with the CU Independent

The Collegian stands with the CU Independent

Forrest Czarnecki and Austin Fleskes
December 12, 2019
Breonna Abuya speaks at the Associated Students of Colorado State University senate session Sept. 18, 2019, during a discussion of the blackface image that has been circulating on social media recently. The senate session was moved to the North Ballroom of the Lory Student Center to a accommodate for an unusually large crowd size. (Forrest Czarnecki | The Collegian)

LFTE: Why we covered the blackface photo the way we did

Forrest Czarnecki and Austin Fleskes
September 20, 2019
People watch and listen to the Associated Students of Colorado State University senate session Sept. 18, 2019, from the overflow room during a discussion of the blackface image that has been circulating on social media recently. The senate session was moved to the North Ballroom of the Lory Student Center to a accommodate for an unusually large crowd size.  (Forrest Czarnecki | The Collegian)

CSU students respond to blackface photo

Austin Fleskes
September 18, 2019
The cover of The Rocky Mountain Collegian on September 12, 2001. (Anna von Pechmann | Collegian)

A silent campus: CSU during 9/11

Austin Fleskes and Ravyn Cullor
September 10, 2019
Illustration by Meg Metzger-Seymour | Collegian

2018 Midterm Election Guide

Austin Fleskes and Natalia Sperry
October 14, 2018
ACLU letter urges CSU to reform campus police after admissions tour incident

ACLU letter urges CSU to reform campus police after admissions tour incident

Austin Fleskes and Natalia Sperry
September 20, 2018
A CSU student relaxes in a hammock between two trees near the oval Sunday afternoon. CSU is allegedly enacting a hammock ban campus wide. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

CSU hammock, slackline ban sees new enforcement

Austin Fleskes and Natalia Sperry
August 30, 2018
CSU professor dies in biking accident

CSU professor dies in biking accident

Austin Fleskes
August 22, 2018
CSU Notebook at the ASCSU Senate meeting on October 4, 2017.

About The Collegian news desk

Austin Fleskes and Natalia Sperry
August 20, 2018
On April 23rd, a crane tipped over on the construction site of the Colorado State University Translational Medicine Institute. (Mackenzie Boltz | Collegian)

Crane tips on CSU Translational Medicine Institute

Stuart Smith and Austin Fleskes
April 23, 2018
The Associated Students of Colorado State University, otherwise known as ASCSU, are located on the bottom floor of the Lory Student Center. (Colin Shepherd | Collegian)

Breakdown of ASCSU budget system

Austin Fleskes
March 28, 2018
More apartments and a brand new parking garage are being built just west of campus on Plum street. The new Union Apartments are set to open fall of 2018.  (Joe Oakman | Collegian)

Campus West expects new housing developments

Austin Fleskes
January 17, 2018
Eco Leaders host Food Waste Audit on the plaza Wednesday to help spread knowledge of recycling and compost rules. (Kaitlyn Ancell | Collegian)

CSU aims to expand composting on campus

Austin Fleskes
November 1, 2017
Construction workers and equipment is pictured along West Plum Street near the Colorado State University Transit Center on Tuesday morning. Workers were replacing and rerouting a condensation line underneath the roadway. (Forrest Czarnecki | The Collegian)

Campus construction update

Austin Fleskes
October 12, 2017
Aylesworth Hall is pictured on Tuesday afternoon. The hall is currently involved in talks of being torn down. (Forrest Czarnecki | The Collegian)

CSU in talks to take down Aylesworth Hall

Austin Fleskes
October 11, 2017
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