Elisabeth Willner, Author at Rocky Mountain Collegian

Elisabeth Willner

News editor Elisabeth Willner is a senior majoring in Journalism and Technical Communications and Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She has interned at the Fort Collins Coloradoan and La Provence, the regional newspaper of Provence, France. To contact Elisabeth, send an email to news@collegian.com

In defense of inclusive language

Oct 112012

Tweet In an opinion piece titled “Leave political correctness to the politicians” that ran Oct. 2, Brittany Jordan argues against using politically correct and inclusive language, saying that Americans “cannot [more...]

Posted by Elisabeth Willner on October 11, 2012 at 12:00 pm Opinion Tagged with: All men are created equal, Declaration of Independence, Language, Lord, Political correctness, Politics, United States, United States Declaration of Independence No Responses »

First Presidential Debate in Denver fails to impress students

Oct 032012

Tweet By Kate Winkle and Elisabeth Willner There were no fireworks at the first Presidential Debate at the University of Denver — not outside, and not in Magness Arena. For [more...]

Posted by Elisabeth Willner on October 3, 2012 at 11:21 pm News, The Well Tagged with: Barack Obama, First Presidential Debate, Jim Lehrer, Mitt Romney, Students, University of Denver No Responses »

CSU examines fan behavior following harassment incident

Oct 022012

Tweet Richard and Julie McDonald went to the CSU vs. North Dakota football game excited to watch their daughter perform with the CSU marching band. But by the end of [more...]

Posted by Elisabeth Willner on October 2, 2012 at 4:00 pm News, The Well Tagged with: Colorado State University, CSU, Dean (education), Julie McDonald, McDonalds, North Dakota, North Dakota State University, Tony Frank 1 Response »

Q&A with VP of Diversity Mary Ontiveros

Oct 012012

Tweet By Elisabeth Willner The Rocky Mountain Collegian Collegian: Let’s just start with a big question, and I know this is big. What do you think the state of the [more...]

Posted by Elisabeth Willner on October 1, 2012 at 9:00 am News Tagged with: Colorado, Colorado State University No Responses »

Blane Harding on Diversity at CSU

Sep 202012

Tweet At the end of the Spring 2012 semester, Blane Harding, the director of Advising, Recruitment and Retention for the College of Liberal Arts, retired from CSU to become the [more...]

Posted by Elisabeth Willner on September 20, 2012 at 8:00 am News Tagged with: Colleges and Universities, Collegian, Colorado State University, CSU, Education, Liberal arts college, United States, University of Kansas No Responses »

Police crackdown on drunk driving over Labor Day weekend leads to 139 arrests

Sep 062012

Tweet The Larimer County DUI Task Force spent Labor Day weekend trying to stamp out drunk driving. Numbers released Thursday showed that the effort, part of the national “The Heat [more...]

Posted by Elisabeth Willner on September 6, 2012 at 1:30 pm Breaking News, News Tagged with: Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado State, Driving under the influence, Labor Day, Larimer County DUI Task Force, Task Force, The Heat is On No Responses »

Crowd members share stories from Obama’s Colorado State visit

Aug 292012

Tweet A presidential visit brings a lot of baggage: secret service, traffic, political ideologies of all kinds, the national eye, and, most importantly, stories from a crowd that will never [more...]

Posted by Elisabeth Willner on August 29, 2012 at 8:59 am News, Obama, The Well Tagged with: 2008 election, 2012 election, inauguration, Obama, President, Republican Convention No Responses »

Crowd members at the Colorado State President Obama speech share stories from 2008 and 2012

Aug 292012

Tweet A presidential visit brings a lot of baggage: secret service, traffic, political ideologies of all kinds, the national eye, and, most importantly, stories from a crowd that will never [more...]

Posted by Elisabeth Willner on August 29, 2012 at 12:36 am News, Obama Tagged with: Barack Obama, Fort Collins Colorado, Martin Luther King, Obama, Republican National Convention, Ron Paul, Scott Phillips, Washington D.C No Responses »

Locks cut, bikes cleared to make way for President Obama at Colorado State

Aug 282012

Tweet Students who hadn’t gotten around to registering their bikes or reading posted notices between Clark A and Clark C might have learned the hard way to pay attention. Beginning [more...]

Posted by Elisabeth Willner on August 28, 2012 at 12:34 am News, Obama Tagged with: Bicycle, Bicycle lock, Bike, Colorado State, CSU, CSU Police Department, CSUPD, Obama No Responses »

Colorado State releases class relocation list for Obama visit

Aug 272012

Tweet Buildings surrounding the Monfort Quad will be closed or restricted on Tuesday, due to the campaign stop of President Barack Obama. During and preceding Obama’s speech at 5 p.m., [more...]

Posted by Elisabeth Willner on August 27, 2012 at 6:04 pm News Tagged with: class relocation, Colorado State, Monfort Quad, Obama No Responses »

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