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The Orion

Chico State's independent student newspaper

The Orion

Chico State's independent student newspaper

The Orion

Honoring voices and tradition: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women speaker and Big Time celebration
Merri Shiger and Caden Huntley
Error screen does not allow students to access their Canvas account through their Chico State Portal. Photo taken by Josephine Bowman May 7, 2026.
Breaking News: Dead week, dead Canvas
Alexa Lima and Josephine Bowman
Silence and support was brought as survivors shared their stories. Photo taken by Aiden Masson, April 30, 2026.
From silence to sound: Take Back the Night gets loud in Chico
Lucy Bakowski, Reporter
These red dresses also serve as a personal reminder to never forget those lost to Indigenous peoples violence. Photo taken by Merri Shiger on May 5, 2026.
Raising awareness: Campus honors National Day for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Merri Shiger, Reporter
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This week’s episode of The Sideline Sitdown, we go over Chico State baseball and softball narrowly missing the CCAA playoffs. We also have Wildcat men's golf, and track and field bringing home CCAA titles. For national stories, we hit on the NBA playoff picture as well as a sub-2-hour marathon world record being broken, and finish with how the NBA can fix tanking. Of course, we always end the pod with MVP and LVP.
Students Anna Jewel and Valerie Reyes are the first to approach the kind letters table, taking a note that coincides with their mental health struggle or battle they might be facing. Photo taken by Elizabeth Perez, May 6, 2026.
Take a letter, take a rose
Elizabeth Perez, Reporter
Photo created on Canva by Arlette Valdivia.
Navigating faith in college life
Arlette Valdivia, Reporter
Chico residents pull out all the stops to make native bees feel at home
Raquel Frohlich, Reporter
Stories by Starlight calms a group of stargazers as they look up towards the darkening summer sky. Photo by Laurie Thiede, May 11, 2025.
Written in the stars
Elizabeth Perez, Reporter
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Psychedelic legal highs have made their way onto the shelves of gas stations, offered in pill, gummy and chocolate forms.  Graphic made by Kai Anderson on March 15, 2026.
Ego death, over the counter
Kai Anderson, Reporter
The Consolidated Course Fee and the Student Learning Fee were grouped together until 2019. Information gathered from CSU fee documents from the past decade. Graphic created in Canva by Raquel G. Frohlich.
What are we paying for? A breakdown of student fees at Chico State
Raquel Frohlich, Reporter
Freshman Buddy Miller was carried on one of his friends’ shoulders and ended up jumping on stage, waving his arms up in the air before crowdsurfing back to ground level. This was during YouthQuake's song "Daisies." Photo taken by Aiden Masson, April 8, 2026.
How is live music in small towns evolving in the face of a shifting industry?
Caden Huntley, Reporter
“Drought refugee living in a camp on the bank of an irrigation ditch”, from the Library of Congress, photo taken by Dorothea Lange. She is famous for her striking photographs of economic ruin and the lives of ordinary people during the Great Depression. The photos from this desperate period would become seminal works, influencing photographers for decades to come.
At least we’ll get some good art from this
Kai Anderson, Reporter
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The Orion Magazine Fall 2026