Just like fashion trends and reruns of “Friends,” elements of life from the 1990s are making a comeback in Fort Collins’ local music scene.
For the last six months, fans of Fort Collins artists, local punk rock and hardcore musicians and visual media have embraced Scrapped Magazine, an independent, monthly “zine” that operates under the banner of nonprofit Blast N Scrap.
For half a century, Mary Ontiveros dedicated herself to Colorado State University.
Ontiveros worked as a CSU employee for 45 years, retiring a little over a year before her death this February. In that time, she took on many roles, advocated for accessibility for students — especially those from marginalized backgrounds — and helped build CSU into the institution it is known as today. 
Fort Collins: known for bikes, beer and the Colorado State University Rams. 
The city has a lot more to offer than that, of course, but beer — and the model of a local craft brewery in particular — is so central to the city’s culture that we decided to make an entire newspaper edition dedicated to the topic. 
The Colorado State University Plaza saw multiple celebrations Oct. 11 as the University community recognized both Indigenous Peoples’ Day and National Coming Out Day.
CSU’s Native American Cultural Center celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day with tabling on The Plaza and a virtual speech given by Indigenous artist and activist Tanaya Winder.
As Colorado State University sees its students return to campus by the thousands, the ever-present preachers on The Plaza have made a comeback as well. 
Nearly 100 people gathered at the center of campus just south of The Plaza Wednesday afternoon as members of the campus community found themselves in heated arguments with two preachers for the second day in a row. 
Colorado State University celebrated its 150th anniversary in February, but the land the University sits on has a much longer history. 
CSU adopted its land acknowledgment statement in 2019 as a way to respect the land the University occupies and recognize the ties Indigenous nations have to their traditional homelands.
A pro-police rally outside the Fort Collins Police Services building on Timberline Road turned into an event that featured both violent altercations and productive conversations.
Members of the Larimer County community refuse to let the Black Lives Matter movement be a short trend, as they are continuously organizing protests for local and national incidents. 
Come April, tropical meteorologists across the world look to the Colorado State University department of atmospheric science for its annual extended range forecasts on Atlantic hurricane season activity. 
Suicide was the seventh leading cause of death for Coloradans in 2018, with men across all ages representing 76% of deaths by suicide. 
In 2009, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Office of Suicide Prevention brought the issue of high suicide rates in working-aged men to the Denver-based marketing agency Cactus, founded by Colorado State University alumnus Joe Conrad. 
Colorado State University really does bleed green and gold — or maybe it’s more like green and platinum. 
CSU received its third Platinum rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System this week, one of only five universities out of the 993 registered with STARS to do so.
The Holocaust ended 74 years ago, but for many, its horror remains fresh in their memories.
Survivor Eva Schloss shared her story of these horrors as a young Austrian Jewish girl during World War II with the Colorado State University community on Nov. 18 as part of Holocaust Awareness Week. 
Her story began thousands of miles away and several decades ago in a fenced-off compound designed to kill. But even in the time since the fall of Nazi Germany, Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss argues that the lessons she brought to campus Monday afternoon are timeless. 
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