Blog 1. Bumpersticker and Summary

While biking along the road and through campus it seems as if every other car if not every car has some sort of small decal or sticker placed on its rear end. Every vehicle seems to range in the variety of stickers. They range from CSU rams, to religion, to Broncos and even the wandering CU Boulder stickers here and there. Most of the cars around old town and campus seem to share one thing: Colorado State University ram’s stickers, the Colorado state flag, as well as “Coexist” stickers. The towns seemingly deep appreciation for Colorado and CSU itself is apparent. Colorado is known for our great outdoors, mountains, and high altitude. We are the mile-high state. The Colorado stickers show the community’s love for the outdoors of Colorado itself. It helps show the appreciation and pride that Coloradans take in living here. The CSU stickers also show support and pride towards CSU and being a ram. With around thirty six thousand students attending Colorado State University this year, no one should expect a shortage of pride or stickers all throughout Fort Collins and Colorado. The “Coexist” stickers seem to send the most powerful message of the three most common. I say this because though I have only been a student here at CSU and a new Fort Collins resident for 10 days, I see that the campus and the whole city of Fort Collins seems to support diversity and embrace it whether it be through religion, race, or different cultures. With the common sticker examples showing up just about everywhere you look, I can come to conclude that community around CSU and the city of Fort Collins show great pride in living here and have a deep love for the outdoors and nature. They show that people are getting involved and celebration diversity and coexistence with everyone around us.

            In “ Open letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi”  Nathan Brown expresses his disapproval of the U.C. Chancellors to his audience, the public readers. His strongest argument is his hated and enragement towards how student protestors are being treated by the police and the law enforcement. He is angered and in disbelief of the brutality of it all. While giving his opinion and thoughts about the Chancellor he blames the safety problems on Linda Katehi and explains how she can say what people would like to hear but she must act upon her words to make them actually mean something.