NEWS OPINION A&C TONY FRANK ADDRESSES EXPERIENCING BACK TO SCHOOL FOR FIRST RACIAL TENSIONS HOMELESSNESS TIME SINCE THE ‘70S Volume 127, No. 30 Thursday, September 21, 2017 PAGE 6 PAGE 8 PAGE 18

From fire-fighting to essay writing Cat dad returns to CSU Cole McCullough and his 6-month old cat Sequoia pose for a photo, Sequoia goes hiking with McCullough and rides on his shoulder. PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS MAY COLLEGIAN

By Miranda Moses @mirandasrad hours of the morning after a after his plans fell through Within just a day from their hard goodbye. spur-of-the-moment climbing McCullough found himself return, McCullough moved into “I have organic chemistry trip to Banff National Park in back in Fort Collins, but not his new house and returned to and some horticulture classes After 20 bags of hot Canada. before he spent the summer Colorado State University as a and entomology,” McCullough Cheetos, Redbulls, perhaps McCullough took off last immersed in the wilderness as a horticulture major after taking said. “So, yeah, it has been some delusions and the open spring semester with full wild land firefighter, something the past spring semester off. For a pretty brutal transition.“ road, Cole McCullough and a intentions of never returning he has been doing every McCullough, leaving months of band of friends finally made it to CSU. The goal was to attend summer since he graduated being in the wilderness to go back to Fort Collins in the early mountaineering school, but high school. back to tests and studying was a see CAT on page 18 >> COLLEGIAN.COM 2 Thursday, September 21, 2017 FORT COLLINS FOCUS CORRECTIONS In the article “Abortion should be safe, not illegal” published Wednesday, Sept. 20, the information reading “...anywhere between 200 thousand to 1.2 million women would die annually from having an unsafe abortion.” This was a misinterpretation of data. The statement has been changed to, “Estimates of the number of illegal abortions in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s range from 200 thousand to 1.2 million per year, according to the Guttmacher Institute. In 1950, the death toll from illegal abortions was just over 300.” Everybody makes mistakes, including us. If you encounter something in the paper you believe to be an error, email [email protected].

overheard on the plaza

“I’m just feeling ... a lot of lust.”

“I believe in God; I just don’t think he’s on our side.”

“How old does this guy look?”

“Um, not old enough to do anything legal.”

“I’m the villain in a PSA about drugs.”

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