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Brooke Buchan
April 20, 2020
A visitor enters the Lory Student Center Theatre for the 2020 TEDxCSU event March, 8, 2020. TEDx is a community-organized gathering of people who give TED Talk-like speeches and performances around central ideas. The 2020 TEDxCSU event organized around the theme Momentum and featured key speakers, performers and poets in the Fort Collins community.

[Photo] TEDxCSU comes back to campus in 2022

March 2, 2022
Colorado State Rams women's basketball team lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils 70-30 Sunday afternoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Colorado State Rams women's basketball team lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils 70-30. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Freshman Taylor Mole dribbles the ball during the game against the Arizona State Sun Devils. Colorado State Rams women's basketball team lost to the Arizona State 70-30 Sunday afternoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Colorado State Rams women's basketball team lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils 70-30 Sunday afternoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Colorado State Rams women's basketball team lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils 70-30 Sunday afternoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Lore Devos looks for an opening during a game against the Arizona State Sun Devils Dec. 9. The Rams lost 70-30. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Colorado State Rams women's basketball team lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils 70-30 Sunday afternoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Colorado State Rams women's basketball team lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils 70-30 Sunday afternoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Junior Mollie Mounsey watches a play unfold during the game against the Arizona State Sun Devils. Colorado State Rams women's basketball team lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils 70-30 Sunday afternoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Sophomore Liah Davis shoots a free-throw shot against the Arizona State Sun Devils. Colorado State Rams lost to the Arizona State 70-30 Sunday afternoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

The Animal Sciences building on CSU's campus features an animal handling and education center, a harvest facility, and food process research and culinary areas. Students in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program are now required to take an animal welfare class taught by assistant professor of livestock behavior and welfare Lily Edwards-Callaway. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

The Animal Sciences building on CSU's campus features an animal handling and education center, a harvest facility, and food process research and culinary areas. Students in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program are now required to take an animal welfare class taught by assistant professor of livestock behavior and welfare Lily Edwards-Callaway. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

The Animal Sciences building on CSU's campus features an animal handling and education center, a harvest facility, and food process research and culinary areas. Students in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program are now required to take an animal welfare class taught by assistant professor of livestock behavior and welfare Lily Edwards-Callaway. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

The Animal Sciences building on CSU's campus features an animal handling and education center, a harvest facility, and food process research and culinary areas. Students in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program are now required to take an animal welfare class taught by assistant professor of livestock behavior and welfare Lily Edwards-Callaway. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

The Animal Sciences building on CSU's campus features an animal handling and education center, a harvest facility, and food process research and culinary areas. Students in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program are now required to take an animal welfare class taught by assistant professor of livestock behavior and welfare Lily Edwards-Callaway. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

The Animal Sciences building on CSU's campus features an animal handling and education center, a harvest facility, and food process research and culinary areas. Students in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program are now required to take an animal welfare class taught by assistant professor of livestock behavior and welfare Lily Edwards-Callaway. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Jimmy Richard works the line at Colorocko Taco on the Old Town Square in downtown Fort Collins. The only person on the job, he juggles creating the tacos while interacting personably with each customer at the stand. He is from Wisconsin and has a background in the food industry. "I'm impressed with the quality and care of the food truck world" Richard says. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Jimmy Richard works the line at Colorado Taco on the Old Town Square in downtown Fort Collins. The only person on the job, he juggles creating the tacos while interacting personably with each customer at the stand. He is from Wisconsin and has a background in the food industry. "I'm impressed with the quality and care of the food truck world" Richard says. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Jimmy Richard works the line at Colorocko Taco on the Old Town Square in downtown Fort Collins. The only person on the job, he juggles creating the tacos while interacting personably with each customer at the stand. He is from Wisconsin and has a background in the food industry. "I'm impressed with the quality and care of the food truck world" Richard says. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Odell Brewing Company and the Silver Grill Cafe teamed up to create their annual CinnsationAle: a sweet, autumn ale infused with cinnamon rolls. The ale will be on tap at Silver Grill and Odell until supplies run out. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

[Photo] Silver Grill, Odell Brewing unite for annual cinnamon roll beer

Lyra Wiley
November 10, 2018
Odell Brewing Company and the Silver Grill Cafe teamed up to create their annual CinnsationAle: a sweet, autumn ale infused with cinnamon rolls. The ale will be on tap at Silver Grill and Odell until supplies run out. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

[Photo] New Fort Collins app promises free drinks and adventure

Ty Davis
October 2, 2019
Odell Brewing Company and the Silver Grill Cafe teamed up to create their annual CinnsationAle: a sweet, autumn ale infused with cinnamon rolls. The ale will be on tap at Silver Grill and Odell until supplies run out. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Odell Brewing Company and the Silver Grill Cafe teamed up to create their annual CinnsationAle: a sweet, autumn ale infused with cinnamon rolls. The ale will be on tap at Silver Grill and Odell until supplies run out. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Randy Sloane looks up inside the Danforth Chapel near the CSU oval on Monday, November 5th. Originally from Maryland, Sloane has been staying in Fort Collins for almost a year, and recently began working at Avogadro's Number downtown. He stopped by the chapel for a moment to meditate before his shift began. "You know how if you go bowling, you can put those bumpers up and they stop you from messing up too far to the left or the right? The people in Fort Collins have pretty much been like that for me." (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Randy Sloane rests for a moment inside the Danforth Chapel near the CSU oval on Monday, November 5th. Originally from Maryland, Sloane has been staying in Fort Collins for almost a year, and recently began working at Avogadro's Number downtown. He stopped by the chapel for a moment to meditate before his shift began. "You know how if you go bowling, you can put those bumpers up and they stop you from messing up too far to the left or the right? The people in Fort Collins have pretty much been like that for me." (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Fort Collins resident Camelia Lopez and her son, William, share an ice-cream cone from Little Man Ice-cream's new Old Town Churn. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

People line up outside Little Man Ice-cream's new location, Old Town Churn, during the grand opening Saturday afternoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

[Photo] Old Town Churn sirve helados para la comunidad de Fort Collins

Graham Shapley
November 8, 2018
People line up outside Little Man Ice-cream's new location, Old Town Churn, during the grand opening Saturday afternoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

People line up outside Little Man Ice-cream's new location, Old Town Churn, during the grand opening on Oct. 27. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Bonnie Sims from Bonnie and the Clydes performs at the grand opening of Little Man ice-cream's Old Town Churn on Saturday. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Various flavors of Little Man ice-cream were sampled at the Media Sneak-Peak of Old Town Churn last Wednesday. Flavors specific to Fort Collins include a Matcha Honey green tea ice-cream and a bourbon infused caramel and Cinnamon Toast Crunch flavor, nicknamed the Boilermaker. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Various flavors of Little Man ice-cream were sampled at the Media Sneak-Peak of Old Town Churn last Wednesday. Flavors specific to Fort Collins include a Matcha Honey green tea ice-cream and a bourbon infused caramel and Cinnamon Toast Crunch flavor, nicknamed the Boilermaker. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Claire Fields, the chef behind Old Town Churn's creations laughs as she talks about the different ice-cream flavors. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Owner of Little Man Ice Cream Company Paul Tamburello addresses a crowd at the Media Sneak peak of Old Town Churn's opening. Tamburello discussed the building designs behind the various Little Man Ice-cream locations and thanked those who helped make Old Town Churn happen. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Current National Poet Laureate Natalie Giarratano read her poetry at the Juteback Poetry Film festival Friday night. (Brooke Buchan | Collegain)

Current National Poet Laureate Natalie Giarratano read her poetry at the Juteback Poetry Film festival Friday night. (Brooke Buchan | Collegain)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions helped host the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Mullins is a director of creative writing at Ball State University and a mixed media editor at the Atticus Review. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions helped host the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Mullins is a director of creative writing at Ball State University and a mixed media editor at the Atticus Review. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions helped host the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Mullins is a director of creative writing at Ball State University and a mixed media editor at the Atticus Review. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Current National Poet Laureate Natalie Giarratano read her poetry at the Juteback Poetry Film festival Friday night. (Brooke Buchan | Collegain)

Current National Poet Laureate Natalie Giarratano read her poetry at the Juteback Poetry Film festival Friday night. (Brooke Buchan | Collegain)

Current National Poet Laureate Natalie Giarratano read her poetry at the Juteback Poetry Film festival Friday night. (Brooke Buchan | Collegain)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

[Photo] Gulo Gulo Poetry puts private world of written word into spotlight

August 26, 2019
Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Matt Mullins, co-curator of Juteback Productions and curator Randy Perkins hosted the 2018 Juteback Poetry Film Festival Friday night at the Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick house. Perkins is a filmmaker who began the poetry film festival in 2013 under the name Body Electric. The festival had over 200 international poetry film submissions this year. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

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The 13th floor Haunted House in Denver is home to a haunted house tour that takes you through a maze of equally creative and frightening rooms. Each is filled with actors - fully disguised in makeup and costumes - equipped with chainsaws, drums and plenty of shrieks to scare the you-know-what-out-of-you. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

An employee in The 13th Floor Haunted House gets his makeup sprayed on before the touring of the house opens to the public. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

An employee in The 13th Floor Haunted House stands in front of a fan after getting her makeup and hair done before the touring of the house opens to the public. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

An employee in The 13th Floor Haunted House gets his makeup done before the touring of the house opens to the public. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Employees in the 13th Floor Haunted House wait for their turn in the makeup chair. They dress in costumes resembling soldiers, priests and monsters to prepare for their next shift inside the house. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Employees in the 13th Floor Haunted House wait for their turn in the makeup chair. They dress in costumes resembling soldiers, priests and monsters to prepare for their next shift inside the house. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

An employee in The 13th Floor Haunted House gets his makeup sprayed on before the touring of the house opens to the public. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

[Photo] All trick, no treat: 13th Floor Haunted House frightens visitors with chainsaw-handling monsters

Elena Waldman
October 18, 2018
Madison Gould, an Art major at CSU, decorates the Lory Student Center with green and yellow balloons for homecoming weekend. She is part of Colab: the Lory Student Center Marketing collaboration and enjoys getting to be a part of all the various projects that take place there. Gould says, "We decorated in order to make the LSC a more festive and inviting place for visiting families. " (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Officer Matt Snyder and Officer Steven Eckelberry stand in front of the Colorado State University Police Department. CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement, and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Officer Matt Snyder and Officer Steven Eckelberry stand in front of the Colorado State University Police Department. CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement, and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Officer Matt Snyder and Officer Steven Eckelberry stand in front of the Colorado State University Police Department. CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement, and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Officer Matt Snyder and Officer Steven Eckelberry stand in front of the Colorado State University Police Department. CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement, and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Officer Matt Snyder and Officer Steven Eckelberry stand in front of the Colorado State University Police Department. CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement, and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Officer Matt Snyder and Officer Steven Eckelberry stand in front of the Colorado State University Police Department. CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement, and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Officer Matt Snyder and Officer Steven Eckelberry stand in front of the Colorado State University Police Department. CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement, and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement, and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement, and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement, and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

CSUPD provides services on campus like SafeWalk, bike safety enforcement and ride along programs. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

[Photo] CSUPD chief publishes open letter with active threat advice

Stuart Smith
November 13, 2018
Students travel to class near the Colorado State University Lagoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Students travel to class near the Colorado State University Lagoon. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

In the former location of 39-year-old Italian restaurant Bisetti's, a new record store has set up shop. Sean Fogerty (pictured) and his father (waiting on name) started All Sales Vinyl, located in Downtown Fort Collins. The shop primarily sells vinyls, CD's, posters, and record players, but also features a mix of ukuleles and other unique percussion novelties. Doors open this Saturday, September 1st. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

[Photo] All Sales Vinyl spins into Old Town music scene

Walker Discoe
September 9, 2018
Students walk under the Colorado State University Cam the Ram logo on the ceiling of the Lory Student Center. Colorado State will celebrate I Love CSU day on Wednesday, April 18th.(Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

[Photo] CSU scores highest among Colorado colleges in Washington Monthly ranking

September 3, 2018
Sean Hershfeldt, a manufacturing lab facilitator and student mentor in mechanical engineering at Colorado State University, operates a steel cutting machine in the mechanical engineering lab. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Senior Philosophy major and Nuance Chocolate worker Joshua Jarrott stands behind the case of truffles in Nuance Chocolate Saturday afternoon. Jarrott has worked in the Fort Collins location since its opening three and a half years ago, under co-founder and certified chocoholic Toby Gadd. Nuance Chocolate serves customers their bean-to-bar chocolates, truffles and drinks in their retail location, which are delivered from their factory nearby. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Sophomore Biochemistry major Sarah Alfieri stands waiting for the other team to throw a ball during a coed, inter-mural dogdgeball game Wednesday night. The inter-mural dodgeball season consists of teams of 5 who play for the best out of 9 games. Along with dodgeball, Sarah participates in inter-mural soccer and water polo. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Sharon Smith paints an electrical box with yellow and purple flowers for the Transformer Cabinet Mural Project last Sunday. The project seeks local artists to paint over graffitied objects around Fort Collins. (Broke Buchan | Collegian)

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