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Fresno State's student-run newspaper

The Collegian

Fresno State's student-run newspaper

The Collegian

Social Issues

Let Kaepernick protest in peace

Let Kaepernick protest in peace

By Amber Carpenter Sep 13, 2016

Before a preseason game last month, San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand during the national anthem. His decision to sit during “The Star-Spangled Banner” did not...

Malia Obama attends a state dinner at the White House on Thursday, March 10, 2016, in Washington. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

America’s unhealthy work ethic

By Megan Bronson May 3, 2016

Why do people care so much that Malia Obama is taking a gap year before she attends Harvard next year? The biggest reason — America has an unhealthy obsession with work. Malia has every right to...

Gender nuetral bathroom in the University Center at Fresno State.
Troy pope / The Collegian

Target creates inclusive spaces

By Megan Bronson Apr 26, 2016

Target showed that it is on the side of progress once again. Last year Target desegregated the toy aisles, and this year it’s creating inclusive bathroom policies. Target’s recent blog post announced...

California Governor Brown signs a minimum wage bill at the Ronald Reagan State Building on Monday, April 4, 2016 in Los Angeles. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Debunking minimum wage raise myths

By Megan Bronson Apr 7, 2016

By 2023, California will have a $15 minimum wage. Thank God. It is time for minimum wage to become a livable wage. There are many criticisms floating around about this measure. Some of them have merit....

Khone Saysamongdy/The Collegian

Time to trash timed essays

By Megan Bronson Apr 3, 2016

The way we look at writing tests has got to change. It is no secret that students hate timed essays. They put extreme pressure on us to perform our writing, and often do not give us the opportunity...

Fresno State students protest the Evangelical preachers that came to the Free Speech Area on Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2016.
(Photo credit to Cinthia Quesada)

Don’t thump the bible thumpers

By Megan Bronson Mar 9, 2016

The radical Bible thumpers on campus have raised their stakes this week at the Free Speech Area. And it is annoying. They disrupt our academic learning environment and impede student traffic. This...

Opinion editor Megan Bronson, looks for love on the mean streets of the Tinder app. Troy Pope/The Collegian

A guide to ‘love’ on the swipe

By Megan Bronson Feb 29, 2016

How to get those matches: Do not post a picture with a dead animal. I don’t care how proud of it you are — I just got sad looking at dead Bambi. Save photos like that for when we are on like date...

Opinion and politics editor Megan Bronson recoils in the Speech Arts Building after someone tells her that “vagina” is a dirty word. Troy Pope / The Collegian

Vagina is not a dirty word

By Megan Bronson Feb 16, 2016

The amount of fear associated with the word “vagina” is absurd. Tampon commercials completely skirt the word, even though companies are making a profit off of vaginas and their needs. In public schools,...

Kristine Menas, 26, (left) and her sister, Courtney Menas, stand by their cocktails at Funky Buddha in Chicago, Illinois. Ten years after the date-rape drugs came onto the clubbing scene, women are drinking with more caution.  DAVID ZENTZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/TNS

The CDC’s sexist advisory

By Megan Bronson Feb 7, 2016

Women are now asked to live on some form of birth control from the time they are 21 until they encounter menopause because they hold the capacity to possibly give birth. Is this a dystopian novel? No....

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