Colorado State University's daily student-run newspaper, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, is dedicated to serving and covering the CSU and Fort Collins communities.
This is the Collegian's design blog. In each post we will feature some of the paper's best design elements, other non-design work done by the staff and new or exciting happenings in the design world.
At six years old, as Dustin Lance Black watched an older boy play with a newly spray-painted black toy car, he realized he had lost a red one just like it earlier.
The thing was, it wasn’t that his toy had been stolen that stopped his breath. It was the fact that a boy he had a crush on had done that to him.
And in that moment of clarity, Black said he realized something: He was different, and that disparity now made him one of the many bad words his Mormon church and conservative military lifestyle had said.
As he threw his wig into the crowd, Minor Misdemeanor brought Britney Spears’ and other pop artists’ flair to CSU, stripping out of a makeshift Target bag dress down to straps of leather and bold dance moves on the Lory Student Center Main Ballroom’s stage Saturday night.
A performer from Tracks, Denver’s premiere GLBT nightclub, Minor Misdemeanor, or Sebastian Mazur, brought sex to the stage, whipping glitter into the air and onto the crowd as the “place about to blow” from Ke$ha’s song “Blow.”
By Greg Mees With time running out at Moby Arena, everyone’s focus is on the women’s basketball game. While the crowd applauds CSU’s growing lead against Air Force, Pep Band Director Joe Spina removes his wallet and cell phone from his coat pocket, preparing himself. Officials blow the whistle for the final media timeout and the band begins belting Green Day’s “Holiday.” Spina begins his dance and Moby Madness is reborn. Over the past two basketball seasons, his gyrating, coat-whipping, high-kicking, tie-flinging, four-minute crowd rejuvenator has become wildly popular.
Known as the “Sally Tally,” counting the number of years same-sex couples have been together has become a beloved tradition at the Freedom to Marry Day in Fort Collins.
As same-sex couples of all ages crowded the stage in Old Town Square, the rainbow flag blowing in the wind behind them, their years of commitment were added together.
The final count: 214 years.
