The Catalyst Vol. 49 No. 18 March 8, 2019

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Vol. 49, No. 18

March 8, 2019

Tava Quad: Honoring the Indigenous Peoples of This Land

By GABY JADOTTE

The quad surrounded by Cascade Avenue, Armstrong Hall, Tutt Library, South Hall, and Shove Chapel, is a place where Colorado College students enjoy hammocking, slacklining, and laying in the sun when the weather is nice. The majority of students on campus informally refer to this quad as “Armstrong.” However, the quad will now be known as Tava Quad after CC’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved the renaming of it during their February meeting, thanks to advocacy by Indigenous groups on campus.

Tava, meaning “Sun Mountain,” is the name that the Tabegauche Band of the Ute People use for the mountain commonly called Pikes Peak. The word Tava is used frequently around Colorado Springs as the reference

word for Pikes Peak. The quad offers some of the best unblocked views of Pikes Peak, a major reason why Indigenous groups on campus pushed for the renaming of that area specifically. According to Felix Sanchez ’93, the college is invested in continuously naming spaces on campus that reflect the school’s history and values, and naming a space on campus in honor of the Indigenous Peoples that previously inhabited the land is a step in that direction.

The process to rename the quad began in the fall of 2017, when a group of Indigenous faculty and staff met to discuss reclaiming a space on campus that honored the history of Indigenous Peoples and CC. They then reached out to NASU, CC’s Native American Student Union, for

help with the proposal and to gain support within the student body. Within a year, a formal proposal to reclaim and rename a space on campus was submitted to President Jill Tiefenthaler and other campus leaders, which was then presented to the Board of Trustees during their November meeting. The Board approved both the initial and final proposals presented by the Indigenous groups on campus.

In addition to formally renaming the quad, physical changes to the space are also being discussed. These proposed changes include adding a major sign that introduces the quad and defines the word Tava to the campus community and visitors. Other proposed changes would be to add small signs with Ute words for certain objects Continued on pg. 6 Photo by Daniel Sarché

Colorado Lawmakers and Citizens Push for Protective Immigration Policy

The Complexity of Trash and the Importance of Proper Separation

By ISABELLA LAWRENCE

By BAILEY BURROWS In the wake of actions by the Donald Trump administration, immigration policy is sweeping headlines across the country.

Many citizens are pushing for stronger protection for immigrants through policy. In Colorado, a movement to pass Virginia’s Law, which would assist undocumented immigrants who are victims of domestic abuse, is the latest push.

The origin of this law dates back to 2011 when Virginia Mancinas was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after calling police because of domestic abuse by her husband.

After calling, Mancinas feared her husband and the consequences of reporting the incident and chose to deny the event. She was ultimately arrested for false reporting. Next, she was held in county jail for over two weeks, where she was interrogated by ICE on immigration charges. Not only was Mancinas held

and questioned by ICE, she was not allowed medical attention in the aftermath of abuse from her spouse, despite of her physical state.

Eventually, Mancinas was able to prove physical abuse and gain legal status through the Violence Against Women’s Act of 1994 — a piece of legislation created to help women who have experienced abuse navigate the criminal justice system. She was released and returned to her husband, who then abused her again. The impact of ICE’s interrogation and detainment deterred her from calling the authorities again, despite prolonged abuse.

Because of this event, Colorado Representatives Dan Pabon and Susan Lontine proposed “Virginia’s Law” — which would protect all Coloradans and ensure their safety in calling the authorities in emergency situations.

Unlike Mancina’s case, lawmakers want to

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The visibility of waste is actively removed from day-to-day life. Trash is a word used across various contexts that implies an undesirable object with little or no value.

Waste management is, however, an incredibly important aspect of a comprehensive approach to sustainability. In the mind of an environmentally conscious individual, waste takes on a different meaning as an agent for change.

The Colorado College Office of Sustainability’s inaugural Zero Waste Intern, Bryna Coyle, discussed the goals of the office, the reality of waste practices at Colorado College, and areas where each student can

make the biggest difference. “One big project we’re working on right now is bringing compost to the apartments,” Coyle said.

Currently, each apartment has a recycling and landfill bin, but upon request, the office will provide one for compost. According to Coyle, a big component of her position is education towards understanding “waste specific to our campus and how you sort it.”

Coyle explained that “three percent of solid waste on campus” is unfortunately buried in a landfill. Although this might not seem like a lot, underground refuse releases methane gas, which is worse than carbon dioxide in terms of its long-term green-

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Diversity in Design Week Artist Chella Man’s intimate approach to instilling identity in art. Page 3

Toward a More Thoughtful NEDA Week Georgia Grellier ’20 explains why eating disorder awareness posts can have negative consequences. Page 14 The Importance of Common Values Nate Hochman ’21 on how, as Americans, we are no longer united by our common values. Page 15

Wadehra Places at Regionals After winning a SCAC gold medal, Riley Wadehra ‘20 dives at Regionals for third straight year. Page 7

For Stomach and Soul Becca Stine ’19 explains why Carbonella Creations is worth a visit.

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Suffering From a Sports Injury?

Aidan Franko ’19 describes how laser light therapy might be the cure to your pain. Page 10

Keep Manitou Weird Manitou Springs hosts Carnivale parade in anticipation of Lent.

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The Catalyst sits down with visiting professor, founder of Science in the Wild, and NASA astronaut finalist Ulyana Horodyskij, to discuss her work and experiences. Page 5

The Perfect Storm Colorado College’s Environmental Action Summit and its coalition of local environmental activists. Page 4

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Diving Into Wellness A recurring column exploring various statistics related to sexual wellness, mental health, and substance use at Colorado College, brought to you in collaboration with the Wellness Resource Center.

By SUSANNA PENFIELD

19% Following circulation of the Healthy Minds Study in spring of 2018, this is the percentage of Colorado College students who screened positive for anxiety. Individual assessments were based on the General Anxiety Disorder-7 scale, a set of questions that asks participants to rate the frequency of emotions such as worry, restlessness, or genuine fear. Responses were used to unofficially diagnose those who presented with anxiety symptoms.

Symptoms could fall anywhere on a spectrum from “mild” to “severe,” the latter category capturing eight percent of CC respondents.

As is often the case for mental health, anxiety presents differently across various demographics.

Twenty-four percent of female identifying students screened positively while the same was true for only 13 percent of male identifying students. At 47 percent, the rate of anxiety among Native student responses topped all other racial categories. Hispanic/Latinx students presented at the next highest frequency, with 33 percent screening positive, and anxiety was identified among 29 percent of Black students, 20 percent of Asians students, and 18 percent of white students. While a clear pattern emerges out of these numbers, it is important to keep in mind that these are descriptive statistics and certain groups — white students and femaleidentifying students — are dramatically overrepresented. Therefore, not all data may be statistically significant.

The sheer prevalence of anxiety on this campus may be further compounded by the rates of alcohol consumption. All forms of anxiety — including post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia — can reinforce or be reinforced by substance abuse. Research indicates that not only is there correlation between the two, but potential causation. This relationship has been demonstrated through studies that show anxiety predating substance issues, as well as those that show a positive correlation between interventions to decrease anxiety on later incidences of substance abuse.

At the time the Healthy Minds Study was administered, 25 percent of CC students reported three or more episodes of binge drinking in the past two weeks. For women, a “binge” is qualified by the consumption of four or more drinks in a row. For men the number of drinks increases to five, and for non-binary genders the number is either four or five.

Whether through correlation or causation, the rate of students who display symptoms of anxiety is eerily similar to that of those who drink excessively. While we are lacking data that may show what statistical overlap exists between the two, high rates these indicate a problem on both ends.

Substances can serve an escape for those struggling with anxiety, provide a means of self-medication, or simply result through impulsive tendencies that underlie both disorders. Understanding these motivations can help us identify appropriate resources.

Mental health exists on a spectrum; each individual position on that spectrum is constantly shifting. Regardless of official diagnosis, mental health is relevant to everyone. Whether anxietyrelated, substance-induced, or both, recognizing “struggling” symptoms in yourself and those around you will prevent decline into “unwell.”

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The Ties Between Racial Injustice and Environmental Ethics

By JOSIE KRITTER As part of the Colorado College English Department’s Visiting Writer Series, James S. Finley, assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University at San Antonio, discussed his upcoming book project on Feb. 28 with CC students and the Colorado Springs community. His argument focused on abolition, race, and the role of ecology in these topics.

With racial tensions and environmental worries at the forefront of current political discussion, Finley traces these issues back to the 19th century to gain a clearer understanding of the intersectionality at hand. His upcoming book, “Free Soil Abolition: Slavery, Race, and Ecology in Antebellum America,” looks at the environmental ethics incorporated into the campaigns of many anti-slavery, freesoil, and abolitionist groups.

The main argument supported by these groups was the ecologically unsustainable aspects of the slave-holding South. Vast swaths of land dedicated to the monoculture of cash crops across southern America were not only inefficient but depleted the nutrients within the soil to almost nothing. Many free-soilers in this era argued that white farmers would actually benefit the most by tearing down this system and advancing agricultural procedures.

Finley’s thesis focused on three critical situations, the first being the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. During this time, one-fifth of the Irish population starved to death.

Along with the country-wide monoculture of potatoes, the situation was worsened by British colonialism, which oppressed citizens and restricted diversification. Finley emphasized how the plantation systems of Ireland “is no analogy” to that of America’s slave-owning powers but shared the “unhealthy and unnatural” characteristics. “Such a control over production necessitates a control over people,” Finley said.

The second point emphasized by Finley was the Mexican-American War of the 1840s. He explained how “the crisis reflected the slaveholders’ appetite for more territory.” This was not simply a desire for more land, but a bid to save the failing ecosystems and barren agriculture lands of the South. To maintain the system, more arable land was

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needed to support the current bounty of crops.

The last anecdote Finley brought up was the free-soil principle that resulted from England’s Somerset v Stewart case of 1772. In the Somerset case, a slave that was brought from the states to England sued for his freedom by stating that since he was in free territory, he was free. The case was upheld, and England officially became free soil. While the Northern states were “free,” Finley commented how people like, “Frederick Douglass rejected the tendency by white free-soilers as seeing the North as free soil.” It was only when the threats of kidnapping, misidentify, and injustice were fully evaporated that the soil could be considered free.

Finley’s upcoming book emphasizes how “pollution is both material and ideological.” The environmental crisis cannot progress without social justice, and vice versa. By looking at the potato famine, the Mexican-American War, and the free-soil principle, Finley displayed the “human and ecological costs of profit-making.” The intersection of environmental collapse and racial injustice is a concept that affected Antebellum America and is still critically relevant in modern day America.

CCSGA Weekly Not Just a Graduation Checklist: Maintaining Interdisciplinary Perspectives Within the Block

By NAN ELPERS ’20 Vice President of Internal Affairs Two dozen students gathered in McHugh Commons on Feb. 25, marking the first of a series of specialized consultations over the course of Block 6 in which students will continue to voice their opinions on the curriculum overhaul. The all-college Curriculum Executive Committee was put together to address longstanding concerns students have had about the effectiveness of our general education curriculum, specifically after the infamous West-In-Time credit was abolished last year.

The Monday night consultation was an invite-only, students-only dinner hosted by the student members of the CEC as well as the Colorado College Student Government Association’s Inclusion Committee. External Review specialist Dr. Nana Osei-Kofi of Oregon State University fielded a series of concerns and hopes from students about the new general education requirement timeline being amended and voted upon by the faculty this year.

The ideas in this article are paraphrased from the students in attendance on Monday, including but not limited to members of the Black Student Union, Native American Student Union, international student community, and several candidates for the upcoming CCSGA Executive and Student Trustee elections. Areas debated included the Global Cultures (G) and Social Inequalities (S) requirements, the question of integration of ideas across classes, and the challenge of when to introduce issues of racial and cultural inequality to students.

The gist of the discussion about revising our G and S credits established that we need to address both white U.S. colonialism within the States and imperialism in countries abroad. Members from NASU stressed the need for early discussion of settler colonialism — colonialism that decimates Indigenous Peoples to replace them with foreign settler societies that gain dominance over time — as a foundation for the revised S credit, which is intended to address inequalities within the U.S., including the slaughter of Native peoples and the enslavement of African peoples.

In terms of imperialism, several members of our inter-

national student body stressed the need for white students to be educated in the violent and abrupt ways in which international students are often raced for the first time in their lives upon matriculating. Another attendee argued that U.S. students will be better served in studying U.S. invasions into foreign countries than in studying the social inequalities existing in other countries outside the realm of U.S. involvement.

One student suggested that each major should teach a class reflecting critically upon issues of race and gender within its field, jumpstarting a discussion about the degree to which integration of topics is helpful. One student urged against extreme interdisciplinary methods and offered, tongue-in-cheek, that a discussion of gender inequity hardly fit into eyeball dissection during a human anatomy course. While the tedious uncovering of the optic nerve is perhaps too consuming to entertain a simultaneous discussion of inequality, I think it is important to note that Colorado College has a particular challenge of encouraging students to integrate classwork when we take only one class at a time.

Along these lines, the students in attendance debated the optimal timing for the S and G equivalent courses. Because we can only mandate two courses strictly engaging in critical racial studies, one student offered, it’s important that white students are not allowed to consider racial and socioeconomic issues in the first two months of their first year (if taken during FYE) and then forget about our Native, international, and students of colors’ daily lived experiences on this campus for the remainder of their undergraduate experiences. One proffered solution would be to introduce language and issues within critical race studies into the online courses first-years take before arriving on campus. Relatedly, it’s important that student orientation gives race its own place in discussion rather than introducing it as an addendum to Title IX and other central topics covered.

If you have ideas for the curriculum overhaul, please send them to ccsga@coloradocollege.edu

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Chella Man: A Highlight of CC’s Design Week “Chella Man: 20-year-old, deaf, trans, jewish, artist/activist,” read the opening slide to a Design Week presentation on Tuesday night.

Man, an Instagram celebrity and current student at the New School, talked with students about the intersections of artwork and identity.

Bradley Bollag-Miller ’21, one of the event’s organizers, was thrilled with the opportunity to bring Man to campus. Speaking about working with the Design Week Committee, Bollag-Miller said, “It was awesome because they really took student suggestions into consideration.”

“We wanted more representation of the actual design world,” said Bollag-Miller. “More identities than just white men.” They turned to Man “because of his art activism around identities,” as well as “his focus on ability, gender, and mental health.”

Man began his talk by sharing various works with the audience — which spanned mediums from drawing to film to virtual reality — before sitting down with Joy Armstrong, curator of contemporary art at the Fine Arts Center, and professor Rushaan Kumar of the Feminist and Gender Studies Department for

a dialogue. “There was a specialist in art, so we also wanted someone to address issues of gender and identity and that’s [Dr. Kumar’s] specialty,” explained Bollag-Miller.

Man spoke about his deep-seated belief that “everything operates on a spectrum or a continuum.” Identifying as genderqueer, Man sees gender as a spectrum, but takes this notion further to apply to other binaries as well.

Professor Kumar pointed to the way Man’s artwork echoes this notion; the continuity of line in his drawings, as well his refusal to be categorized as an artist by using such a wide array of mediums.

Man’s work included intimate pieces. One was a video compilation of his first year on testosterone, documenting changes to his voice and appearance. Another showed his mother reading a letter she wrote to him about her experience and self-reflection when he came out as transgender. The audience reciprocated Man’s vulnerability when the time came for questions. Student audience members asked for advice on how to handle topics of gender identity with their own families, and how to support loved ones who have come out as transgender.

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Bollag-Miller appreciated the peer-to-peer aspect of interactions with Man. “It was cool to bring someone young, unique, more relatable, less professional, [and] not necessarily an academic,” he said. Before the event, they also organized a luncheon for Man and queer students at CC. “We got to sit with him, and

talk as a queer community,” said Bollag-Miller.

Overall, Bollag-Miller expressed satisfaction with the way the event turned out. “It was big for student agency,” he said. “it shows what listening to students and bringing what students want can look like. Maybe more departments will follow in these footsteps.”

Exploring Our Duties and Bad Samaritan Laws

By KERRY YANG

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New Greek Leaders Discuss Path Forward

By RORY LOWE As Greek organizations at colleges around the country face mounting scrutiny, Colorado College’s fraternity and sorority leadership aims to set a bold example of what Greek life can be. A new generation of leaders in CC’s fraternities and sororities met with the outgoing leaders and college administrators at the Greek Leadership Summit in late January to discuss their visions for their organizations and CC’s Greek culture at large.

In email correspondence, the Greek leaders explained their views of the summit and the conclusions they had reached from participation. According to Kappa Kappa Gamma President Emily Kressley ’20, many participants at the summit recognized the negative imagery that surrounds Greek life on a national scale.

“Many of the leaders in the room recognized that Greek Life has had or still has sexist, racist, classist, and otherwise exclusionary undertones,” said Kressley. “This is a reality that needs to be continuously problematized and critically examined.”

Many members conveyed their opinion that Greek life at CC is not the same as Greek life elsewhere. “CC Greek life is very different in that while we hold our individual organi-

zation’s traditions as incredibly valuable, we are working to transcend typical stereotypes of Greek organizations,” said Phi Gamma Delta President Sam Pfeifer ’21.

“CC Greek Life must step up and provide a model for other schools to learn from,” said Kappa Kappa Gamma Vice President of Finance, Isabella Mcshea ’20. “In the 21st century, there is no excuse to not be brave and bold in our goals.”

The leaders shared their valuation of Greek life as being a supportive and welcoming environment for them at school. “To me, the most beneficial aspect of Greek life is the consistent support system it provides members,” said Sigma Chi President Mitchell Ukropina ’20. “Given how stressful the block plan can be, having a group of people checking up on you is invaluable.” Ukropina hoped that moving forward, the Greek community could provide this same kind of support to non-members and spread its benefit.

A unifying sentiment through each leader’s statement was a desire for their organization to exemplify the best of what Greek life can be, in part by establishing stronger and more meaningful ties with the larger CC community.

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In the time of the #MeToo era, discussion regarding the prevention of sexual crimes is extremely important, especially on college campuses. Dr. Zachary Kaufman, a Stanford University lecturer, visited Colorado College to educate the student body on sexual assault.

His talk, given on March 1, discussed the dire need for a stronger approach to decreasing sexual violence.

Kaufman presented in Gates Common of Palmer Hall, which was attended by students and faculty of the political science department, along with members of the Student Organization for Sexual Safety. A highly decorated academic, he currently serves as a senior fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, as a lecturer at Stanford Law School, as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and as a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Additionally, he is a fellow of the Truman National Security Project, an organization that advocates for national and foreign security issues, attesting to his active role in social justice.

Before exploring the framework of a “bad Samaritan” law that criminalizes bystanders and incentivizes upstanders, Kaufman asked the audience, “In a time of crisis, what, if any duties, do we owe one another?”

Kaufman defined the law as “statutes that impose a legal duty to assist others in peril through intervening directly, also known as the duty to rescue or notifying authorities, also known as the duty to report” and said they are “distinct from good Samaritan laws, which provide legal protection for upstanders.”

He differentiated between bystanders and upstanders, explaining how “bystanders are people who are aware of an incident but don’t take part, and upstanders are those who intervene to help others in need.” He further emphasized the importance of creating new laws that punish bystanders who passively watch as “criminalizing sexual abuse is clearly inadequate. Calling on third parties, including

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men and boys to combat this epidemic voluntarily, has likewise proven insufficient. We must consider new strategies that prevent and punish such heinous crimes.”

Kaufman discussed the controversy bad Samaritan laws face. “They punish character rather than conduct, that they are typically vague, and thus difficult to prove, and infringe individual liberty,” such as the loss of agency for victims, he said. They are also “criticized for potential negative effects such as they may prompt a constitutional self-incrimination if the witnesses are involved in a same or related crime and may even be counterproductive.” But Kaufman countered that despite the controversy, “these statutes already exist all over the United States.” Kaufman continued that the “situation is that there is a patchwork of bad Samaritan laws, their existence is little known,” and that the issue lay within the legal scripture of the laws, not the law itself.

Furthermore, he argued that even without the active enforcement of the law, civilians have played a role in promoting upstanderism using technology. “Recent revelations and outrage over sexual misconduct in the United States coincides with technological advances that facilitate upstanders,” Kaufman said. He also commented on the widespread use of social media and noted that it “can be and has been used to increase awareness of emergencies, to decreased justification of not reporting them and strengthen evidence of witnesses.”

Kaufman pointed out that “the #MeToo movement has shown not only how brave survivors of sexual abuse are, but also how often third parties disregard or even enable them.”

These instances demonstrate how “Americans are appalled at simultaneous revelations of numerous cases across the country including some such as [Harvey] Weinstein and [Larry] Nassar that involve many victims. As such, it places an opportune moment to revisit the question of criminalizing bystanderism.” So again, as Kaufman asked, “In a time of crisis, what, if any duties, do we owe one another?”

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Weekly Rundown

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ON CAMPUS • Rishi Ling ’18 received the highly competitive Princeton in Asia Fellowship to teach English at the University of Macau. (CC News) • Professor of English Claire Garcia was named Colorado College’s next dean of faculty, and will begin a five-year term on July 1. (CC News)

C-SPRINGS • Colorado Springs Mexican restaurants, including Taco Star and Monicas, were accused of money laundering with ties to El Chapo. Federal authorities have seized more than $1.5 million from seven restaurants.

All remain open. (Gazette) • A new ranking puts Pikes Peak Community College on top in Colorado for nursing education with a 100 percent pass rate for three consecutive years. (Gazette) • A man was stabbed while hiking at Red Rock Canyon Open Space in an attempted robbery. (KOAA5)

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Sociology and the Environment Intersect at the First Environmental Action Summit Extending environmentalism past the "CC Bubble"

By ELLEN LOUCKS There is a direct correlation between our environment and society, and the implications between these two subjects are massive. In fact, the parallels affect nearly every portion of daily life. The Environmental Action Summit sought to bridge the connection between environmentalism and all academic disciplines, demonstrating to attendees that environmentalism is not solely limited to certain individuals, but that it is accessible to anyone who wishes to participate.

Colorado College’s first Environmental Action Summit occurred on Tuesday, March 5 from 6–8 p.m. in Gaylord Hall. The EAS had individuals in attendance from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the Colorado Springs chapters of the Sierra Club, 350.org, and Empowerment Solidarity Network.

The EAS was the brainchild of Mark Scaggs ’18, paraprofessional for the Department of Sociology. During his time as a CC student, Scaggs took note of the passion among CC students for environmentalism. Yet, Scaggs also noticed a large problem: the student body’s passion for environmentalism did not extend outside of the “CC Bubble.” That is, while students themselves are progressive in improving the environment and combatting climate change, the local community beyond CC did not embody similar values. Scaggs hoped to create a means through which students would be able to engage in environmentalism with the Colorado Springs community.

The EAS was organized by the Department of Sociology and the Office of Sustainability. In their collaboration for this event, both offices hope to offer attendees a deeper understanding of the ways in which social structures

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have a direct impact on climate change.

But how does sociology relate to environmentalism?

Sociology is a lens for interpreting social phenomena.

Climate change is a direct consequence of the ways in which humans have chosen to use natural resources for social growth. Therefore, in order for humans to combat climate change, it is necessary to first change fundamental societal structures.

Historically, environmental activism has been limited to the domain of science. Yet, as stressed at the EAS, all parts of society have a firsthand impact in environmentalism. The intended purpose of the EAS was to connect students to a wide range of community groups who are combatting climate change.

One way this happened was by bringing representatives to the event from various fields within the sustainability and environmental industry. The keynote speaker for the EAS was Kevin Mitchell from Empowerment Solidarity Network. Mitchell addressed environmental concerns from the lens of social justice.

Additionally, the panelists explained how they incorporated environmental justice principles into their daily line of work. In particular, the panelists emphasized the importance of community cooperation in making a difference in environmental issues.

"As with any issue that students are involved with at CC, it's easy to talk about and discuss [environmentalism] but fail to actually engage in as much meaningful action as it warrants," Benjamin Swift ’21, the Buildings and Grounds Intern at the Office of Sustainability said.

"When students do take meaningful, tangible steps to enact environmental change, that's great, but, owing to the magnitude of the environmental issues facing humanity, these actions aren't as large as they need to be. Thus, through this summit we're hoping to connect people working in the environmental space and inspire and empower more ambitious action.”

Mutual accountability and “ambitious action” were highlighted in the roundtable discussions, which were a highlight of the EAS. Each table featured an organization that was represented at the event, along with a discussion facilitator.

At the tables, attendees were encouraged to pledge themselves to take action toward a specific environmental issue. Then, attendees were instructed to pair themselves with a buddy, with whom they exchanged pledges.

Each pair of buddies were urged to follow up their respective pledges in order to keep one another accountable.

For example, attendees who were interested in energy consumption pledged themselves to partake in a Utilities Policy Advisory Committee meeting, which occurred the morning after the EAS, at 8 a.m..

Though the organizers of the EAS are unsure of whether the summit will become an annual event, they anticipate CC and the Colorado Springs community collaborating to combat climate change.

• Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper declared his official run for the Presidency. (FEC) • Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who faced a legal battle when he refused service to a same-sex couple, agreed to drop his case against the state in exchange for the state dropping this year's case against him for refusing service to a transgender woman. (Hill) • An avalanche covered part of a highway near Copper Mountain in Colorado on Sunday, shutting down the pass for a few days. (CBS) • Colorado joined 19 other states in suing the federal government over the Trump Administration’s new obstacles for women seeking abortion. (Gazette)

USA • The House voted on Wednesday to require background checks for all gun purchasers, including those at gun shows and on the internet. This is the first significant gun control bill to clear the chamber in a quarter of a century. (NYT) • There were no charges brought in the killing of Stephon Clark, an unarmed Black man shot and killed by police in his grandmother's driveway in California.

(CNN) • Robot-makers shipped 35,880 robots to U.S. factories last year, 7 percent more than in 2017. (Robotics Industry Association.)

• Tornadoes in southeast Alabama killed at least 23 people. One man lost 10 family members, and at least three children are dead. (AP) • Documents revealed by Florida Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch show that the Department of Health and Human Services received 4,556 complaints of sexual misconduct from minors and adults from October 2014 to July 2018, with an additional 1,303 complaints to the Department of Justice. (CBS) • The HBO chief executive is leaving after heading the company for 27 years. (NYT) • The Food and Drug Administration approved an anti-depressive nasal spray derived from Ketamine.

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WORLD • A hoodwinker sunfish washed up on a beach in California. This is the first time one has been seen around North America.

• Bolivia launched free and universal health care, which expands coverage to people without any form of insurance. (TeleSur) • Negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea ended with no agreement. On March 6, satellite images showed North Korea rebuilding the missile site it began dismantling in July. (CNBC) • SpaceX docked a commercially built and operated spacecraft designed to carry a human crew at the International Space Station, the first company to do so.

(Axios) • A patient appears to have been cured of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, for only the second time. At the earliest, a new treatment could be available in five to 10 years. (Reuters TV) • The Jonas Brothers reunited, releasing a song and video. (Joe Jonas)

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Ulyana Horodyskij, a visting professor in Colorado College’s environmental department, is the founder of Science in the Wild, and a finalist in NASA’s astronaut program. When not teaching, Horodyskij travels to some of the most remote places on Earth, conducting research in the field known as “extreme science”. This week, The Catalyst sat down with Horodyskij to discuss her experiences and work.

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The Catalyst: How did you wind up at CC? Ulyana Horodyskij: So a few years back, I was living in Katmandu, in Nepal, and Brot Coburn, who teaches here as adjunct faculty, said I should meet Miro Kummel. They happened to be in Nepal the same time I was there, so I gave an impromptu lecture to the class and Miro wanted to hire me. It was really cool.

TC: What is Science in the Wild?

UH: Science in the Wild is something I started a few years back after I finished a Ph.D. When I lived in Nepal, I’d be working in the dining area of a teahouse and a lot of tourists would come by and they’d ask me, ‘computer, ice ax, raft — what is all this stuff? What are you doing?’ And then I’d tell them about my research and show them photographs from the day. So people wanted to come along; they wanted to come in the boats, they wanted to come trekking with us. And so I was like, let’s turn this into a business. The reason being that I’m going to continue to go to all these places post-Ph.D., and I want people to be educated on science, literally in the wild, to realize how these landscapes are changing and what they can do to lessen their impact. Since they want to travel to these places anyhow, what can they learn about the land and how can they change their own practices when travelling through those lands?

TC: What keeps you ticking?

UH: It’s not coffee; I don’t really drink coffee. Wanting to make a difference. I mean, it sounds cliché, but I truly believe that if we all are putting forth the effort and making a difference that we can change this planet. It’s like the ripple effect — you do one thing and then you have a ripple effect of how many people you impacted. That’s what I love about teaching here. What I am lecturing about may not always strike everyone as that exciting, but when I share stories of my research and of my travels, that strikes a chord. Change from me personally, like anyone else, is going to be really tiny. With teaching and Science in the Wild, I am reaching a lot more people who will also start to make impacts, and then you have that big ripple effect that may quite change the world.

TC: How do you balance living sustainably with travel and doing research?

UH: That’s an excellent question. I don’t actually own a car and so I borrow when needed. I use the bus when I go from Colorado Springs to Denver Union Station, for example. I

also try to eat many vegetables. As far as the long duration flights, which I do a lot of every year, I buy carbon credits or offsets.

TC: What are your favorite accomplishments?

UH: Throughout high school, I did science fair projects, and I won a lot of awards through these fairs that wound up paying for my college; that was huge for me. I came from a family that couldn’t afford it, so being able to have scholarships to attend college made my dreams come true.

As far as attending the college I wanted to attend, that happened to be Rice University in Houston, Texas. In more recent history, I would say living a year abroad in Nepal. I had a Fulbright scholarship, and I really maximized it by traveling around to all the mountain communities that I love to work with when applying science. I was really trying to track how glacial floods happen. Essentially, these lakes form on the surfaces of glaciers, and they occasionally come down and take out villages. So my work was trying to figure out when that’s going to happen and how we could prevent it. Being able to connect with communities and being able to teach them science and having them care about it was huge for me.

TC: How do you deal with defeat?

UH: I deal with defeat through going outdoors. I think that’s what really drives me to hike and to climb — just kind of understanding what’s important in life and getting perspective. We’re going to experience a lot of loss and tragedy throughout life and I feel like the best way to center myself is to be outdoors.

TC: What was it like working with NASA? UH: NASA had a program called HARA — it stands for Human Exploration Research Analog. They chose four of us to live in a habitat that is on the ground in Houston, Texas.

It was kind of like Big Brother style — cameras watching everything; they’re listening in; they’re watching how strangers interact with each other in a very stressful and confined environment. The point was a simulated mission to an asteroid. There is an actual asteroid between Mars and Jupiter and the mission, if NASA were to do it, would be about 800 days and they compressed it into a 30-day scenario. So we had to go through the launch and the rendezvous with the asteroid to do all the science — they wanted us picking up samples. All of that’s done in virtual reality with simulators. They were also depriving us of sleep on occasion — one time was 40 hours, and then testing us to see how we were reacting. These long dura-

tion missions will require very different personalities than those who went to the moon because that was a mission where to get there is pretty close to Earth. But Mars is a two-year journey, so you have to have personalities that mesh and blend. They’ve been testing many different people — we were the 12th campaign.

TC: What is the craziest thing you have ever done?

UH: Skydiving, because that’s totally out of my control. I went tandem though. I risk, but I risk in a smart way ... calculated risk taking. Oh, in Nepal for my birthday, I went in this open cockpit aircraft to fly over the mountains.

The aircrafts there have to be careful because of thermals coming up from the mountains, and it was this super light aircraft, open cockpit, with very cold temperatures because it was in February. That was really exciting.

TC: What’s it like being on Everest?

UH: I was supposed to climb Everest in 2014 when the avalanche came down and actually killed one of our team members — one of our Sherpas — so I have not gone beyond the icefall: the first part, which is also the most dangerous. But from that experience and knowing what I know about glaciers and how fast they move through those ice falls, I’d say it is a game of Russian roulette. I’d love to have a chance to go up there again because I am studying the impacts of pollution on high mountain snow packs. It was an incredible experience; you’re surrounded by people who have a love of mountains. The Sherpas I’m also very close with since I worked with them for so long during the course of my Ph.D. But it’s also sad what’s happening because you see melting up there. You also see these huge glacial lakes forming, kind of pockmarking the glacier.

And so it’s like what can I do to stop that, other than providing the research and the results to the people who can make the difference.

TC: What has been your greatest challenge?

UH: Professionally, I’d say finding funding for the research — especially since I work in climate science which, with this current administration, has become very challenging.

Creating my own company has allowed me to go more freelance in science which is not really done and it’s very challenging. I see why it’s not done, but I’m making my way. Personally, just striving to continue to maintain physical fitness for the things I do. These treks that we lead are very demanding, and I’m the leader on them. Being able to keep up with the training on top of all the work demands is a challenge. I train six days a week.

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Instances When Technology Has Been Good, Bad, or Both Incarcerated Writers Series

This series features writing from inmates at the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center. The articles stem from weekly programming facilitated by the Colorado College Prison Project. Through contact between the CC community and Colorado Springs, this series aims to simultaneously broaden CC’s perception of incarceration issues and provide a platform for incarcerated writers. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office requires approval of written material prior to publication and the removal of authors’ last names. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the EPCSO or the Prison Project.

By CAE Technology. The mark of our “digital age.” In many ways, technology is a good thing, as it leads to various forms of advancement. However, it sometimes can be bad because it discourages direct contact. A prime example of both of these points is the advent of internet-based social media. Facebook, just one of many, is a very well-known social media platform. It allows anyone, from anywhere, to collate the thoughts of many into a cohesive form. This is great, as it allows many people to put their minds together across great distances and in vast quantities. Alternatively, it also permits the

removal of what many deem “the human aspect” of interactions. For example, a person can post a thought or concern on a subject and then many other individuals can, from anywhere, comment both positive and negative reactions. They can post these reactions instantly. This can create a detachment from the repercussions of these reactions. Many times, people make a negative comment online that they would never say directly, simply because of the lack of interaction. There is also much to be gleaned from the vast encouragement that can occur from people you don’t know. Complete strangers who know nothing about you can reach out, from anywhere, and show an interest in your thoughts.

One major downside of technology in our society takes the form of smartphones. Oftentimes, you see groups of people on a bus, in a restaurant, on the subway, or even at home just sitting and staring at their phone. Many don’t even wear a watch to tell time. Some people are reading emails, others playing games, some even watching TV or movies. No longer do you see people interacting with one another when they are sitting right next to each other. Instead, you see many downturned heads and hear no conversations. Many situations that used to result in people automatically interacting with one another due to mere proximity no longer exist. Nowadays, these are missed opportunities as more people ig-

nore their surroundings in favor of their phones. This disconnectedness can be very dangerous in a mental and physical sense. A perfect example was showcased in the Marvel movie Doctor Strange. In this movie, a very skilled surgeon merely glances at his phone to look at a patient’s information and this glance results in a terrible car accident that causes his permanent disfigurement. I have personally seen many people step off a sidewalk without checking for oncoming traffic because they are focused on their phones. Conversely, the level of convenience brought by smartphones is quite astonishing. Convenience is all well and good, as long as it doesn’t overshadow life itself.

The Complexity of Trash and the Importance of Proper Separation Continued from the front page

for us to take full advantage of sustainable systems in place, the responsibility begins house effect. “Diversion rate” is the term with students as active, thoughtful particiCoyle uses to describe “when we properly pants in the waste disposal process, taking sort our waste and things go to recycling and the time to ask and understand what goes compost rather than to the landfill.” Having where.

Potential reasoning for the lackadaisical higher diversion rates directly correlates with approach to waste disposal are the recent rudecreasing our greenhouse gas emissions.

Each category of waste takes a similar jour- mors circulating around the sorting practices ney to its respective destination. The waste of Sodexo employees. Coyle confirms the bigbins are first collected from campus buildings gest complaint she receives is that a student

by Sodexo, the hospitality company to which will see an employee take out “all three bins CC outsources waste management. Bestway — compost, landfill, and recycling — and put them all in the same bin,” disposal services then resulting in the belief that collects the waste from “it doesn’t even matter if each dumpster. Recycling we sort our waste if it’s all is taken to the Colorado “Colorado College going to the same place.”

Springs Material Recovery as a campus is one Although this is perFacility, bundled by matehaps how it appears, if rial type and sold for reof Bestway’s worst you walk through with an use. Compost is delivered offenders when it employee of Sodexo, they to Midway Landfill, where it is placed into windrows. comes to contaminated have systems in place to keep those bags separate.

Finally, landfill waste is recycling.”

For example, many emburied. ployees will put one knot This outcome trifecta in the recycling bag, two seems simple enough, but it becomes complicated when students in landfill, and leave the compost bag open. dispose of waste without the necessary in- These bags are then re-sorted at the Bestway tentionality. “Colorado College as a campus collection dumpsters.

During a Sodexo waste collection walkis one of Bestway’s worst offenders when it comes to contaminated recycling,” said through on March 4, Don Shalley completed his usual routine. This included going the exCoyle.

What this means is that the bins meant to tra mile to manage student mistakes by helpcollect recyclables also contain landfill and ing to eyeball and re-sort improperly handled compostable items. When the contaminate waste. Currently, Bestway has an 80/20 single material exceeds 20 percent, the entire bin is stream plan, allowing for bags containing 80 then diverted to the landfill and buried, cre- percent recycling or compost and 20 percent ating avoidable methane emissions. In order contaminate to remain divertible. According

Tava Quad: Honoring the Indigenous Peoples of This Land Continued from the front page along the perimeter, a garden filled with sacred plants for Native students, and circular walkways within the quad to reflect the initial proposal’s attempt to find a circular space on campus to rename.

The renaming of Tava Quad will be officially introduced to the CC community during the 2019 CC Commencement Ceremony, while a blessing and renaming ceremony will take place during Homecoming in the fall. Indigenous representatives from the college are in contact with the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Tribes to provide the blessing or participate in the renaming cer-

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to Shalley, this is a great development, as it was formerly required that our recycling and compost be 100 percent pure, resulting in greater percentages of landfill waste.

The first bag Shalley sorted was from a recycling bin, but contained 50/50 landfill and recycling waste. This unfortunately meant that the entire bag had to be placed into the landfill dumpster. This is a problem he’s seen a lot more this year, as well as liquids being dumped in all types of collection bins. “This really kills the whole process,” Shalley said.

For example, if recyclable material is too wet when it reaches the Material Recovery Facility, it will be rendered unusable.

One final misconception revolves around

Colorado Lawmakers and Citizens Push for Protective Immigration Policy

emony. The college hopes that many Nativeidentifying alumni are able to attend the Continued from the front page blessing and renaming ceremony.

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the fact that Colorado Springs does not have the capacity for industrial composting. As a result, a narrative has risen claiming that all of CC’s compost ends up in the landfill.

This is incorrect. All adequately sorted compostable waste is sent to the windrow system, apart from the eco-cups used by Bon Appétit, which would require industrial composting capabilities to adequately break down the material. Instead, these are sorted out by Sodexo and recycled. Coyle said that “there are certain efforts to address that infrastructure, whether it be purchasing an industrial composter” or through Bon Appetit’s ultimate goal of moving towards higher usage rates of reusables.

ensure that victims of abuse would feel they can alert police no matter their legal status. The law would provide protection for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients on college campuses, survivors of domestic violence, families at hospitals, families at schools, and victims of crimes and witnesses at court.

Many Coloradans throughout the state agree with Representatives Pabon and Lotine and are calling their state legislators to encourage the law to be pushed for-

ward. Colorado College students have been equally involved in this process and have hosted events on campus to call their lawmakers. The CC Refugee Alliance and CC Dems cosponsored an event with community members and organizations, including the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, to create a phone bank event on Feb. 27.

The event was held in Tutt Library and encouraged students to reach out to citizens in Boulder to support the law.

If you are interested in advocating for Virginia’s Law, write, call, and Tweet to your state legislator now.

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Tigers in Sixth Place in NCHC Heading Into Final Regular Season Weekend

By Arielle Gordon The Battle for the Gold Pan is on. After tying No. 6 University of Denver in January and falling 1 — 0 on Feb. 26, the Tigers hosted National Collegiate Hockey Conference foe No. 20 University of North Dakota on March 1 and 2 in their final matchup before they head north to Denver on March 8.

The Tigers defeated UND 3—1 on Friday but fell 2—1 on Saturday night. All four Tiger goals were scored in the third period of the games.

Colorado College is in sixth place in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference with 24 points. University of North Dakota is one spot ahead of them with 31 points. Denver University sits in third place with 39. St. Cloud State University is No. 1 in the conference with 56 points, and is also ranked No. 1 in the country, with 49 of the 50 possible votes.

“I think we were just focused on our game more than anything going into the weekend,” forward Grant Cruikshank ’22 said. “We wanted some revenge after what happened at UND earlier this year. It felt great to win on Friday night, but we have to figure out how to bring 60-minute team efforts for both Friday and Saturday games, and I’m sure that will be one of our main focuses heading into Denver this coming weekend, playing for the Gold Pan.” The Fighting Hawks won both of their previous Tiger matchups this season, securing both victories in overtime.

Forward Chris Wilkie ’20, who transferred to CC from UND, did not play in either game and is currently listed as day-today with an injury.

The first game started slowly, with a 0—0 tie after two periods. Cruikshank broke open the scoring just two minutes into the third period, opening the gates for a scoring effort from the whole team. He was assisted by forward Troy

Conzo '21 and forward Trevor Gooch '19. Eleven minutes later, defenseman Bryan Yoon '22 scored a power play goal with assists from forward Trey Bradley '19 and forward Westin Michaud '19. The final goal was an empty-netter scored

by Bradley and assisted by forward Ben Copeland '22 and Yoon. Goalie Alex Leclerc ’20 recorded 31 saves in his 100th career game for CC. Head coach Mike Haviland was pleased with his team’s performance, praising Leclerc’s performance, and also complementing Cruickshank and the other first-years on how they have improved this season.

The Saturday night game was an uphill battle for the Tigers. They played more aggressively, but were not able to find the back of the net until it was too late. University of North Dakota jumped out to an early lead with two goals in the first period. The sole Tiger goal came with just 2:09 remaining in the game, as forward Christiano Versich ’21 scored on an assist from Michaud.

“We want to make the NCAA tournament and still feel like we can accomplish that,” Cruikshank said. “We know we can beat anyone in the conference when we play our game. We obviously have a couple more games here for the regular season and then head into playoffs where anything can happen. And we are confident that we can beat whoever we are matched up against. It’s going to be an exciting final stretch.”

The Tigers will travel to Denver for the NCHC quarterfinals on March 15—16. The Tigers faced the Pioneers in the first round last year and won the first playoff game 2-0, but dropped the final two games 3—2 and 6—1 and were eliminated from the playoffs.

The Tigers will take on the Pioneers March 8 at 7 pm and

will host their final regular season game Saturday March 9 at 7 p.m. at the Broadmoor World Arena. With the Battle for the Gold Pan standing 1-0 in favor of DU, the Tigers will have to sweep the weekend series to take the Pan.

Wadehra Makes (Little) Splashes at Regionals for the Third Straight Year

By Claire Tobin Flipping gracefully though the air and barely leaving a splash is no problem for Riley Wadehra ’20, who proved her skill at NCAA DIII Diving Regionals last weekend.

As a former gymnast, Wadehra is not afraid to vault off the diving board and land in the water below. Wadehra finished her diving season by placing No. 12 in the 3-meter and No. 13 in the 1-meter. This is her third time qualifying for Regionals.

If you start being scared, then you’ll never stop being scared. Allow it to be fun and point your toes.

Claire Tobin: Can you give me a recap of the weekend?

Riley Wadehra: On Friday, we did the 3-meter, and I started out pretty strong. We started with the easier dives and worked up to the harder ones. By the end of the day, there were some things that got a little iffy, but I feel good about

my performance. On Saturday, we did the 1-meter, which I like better. The 1-meter went a lot better. I hit one of the dives I’ve been really nervous about.

with class, but I had a moment, an existential crisis, where I realized I only have one more season of diving. I’m sad everything is coming to an end so soon!

CT: How do you feel about how you did?

CT: What is next in your training?

RW: I’m proud of my performance, but there is definitely a lot to work on. There is a lot I wish I could have done better but that’s always the case with diving. At the end of the day, I’m happy I got out there and competed and hit some dives I was nervous about.

RW: We will continue lifting and have captain’s practices.

It’s mostly drills and foundational work between seasons.

CT: What do you think about when you are on the board?

RW: I talk to myself when I’m on the board. I’ll walk down the board to do my dive, and I’ll talk to myself under my breath. It’s a lot of encouraging words and sometimes some counting.

CT: Are you glad the season is over?

RW: I’m happy the season is over only because I’m so busy

CT: Do you have any goals for next season?

RW: My coach and I have been talking about changing my whole list, especially on 3-meter. We want to make it a lot harder. I’m on the verge of getting a lot of bigger dives, so I want to start throwing them.

CT: Do you have any advice for new divers?

RW: Don’t be scared. If you start being scared, then you’ll never stop being scared. Allow it to be fun and point your toes.

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Women’s Lacrosse Dominates UCCS in Season Opener

By Anna marcus

Colorado College women’s lacrosse was led by captains Olivia Steiner ’19, Ellie Meyer ’19, and Nikki Blair ’19 to an 18–13 victory over cross-town rival University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in the Tigers’ home opener on Feb. 27.

Attacker Eva King ’20 led the team, scoring four goals. The last of these ignited a 5–1 run midway through the second half, which led the CC to their victory.

The Tigers led 12–7 after sophomore midfielder Avery Bell ’21 scored right away in the second half, but the Mountain Lions rattled off three goals in quick response, pulling back within two goals for the first time since late in the first half.

King put an end to theUniversity of Colorado Colorado Springs surge when she took a feed from attacker Maggie

O’Donnell ’22 from behind the cage into the left side of the net.

O’Donnell finished with four assists and scored the final goal of the game.

Goaltender Alena Stern ’21 finished with nine saves for the Tigers. She made back-to-back stops to open the second half, continuing what has been a great season so far for the shutdown keeper.

“The most inspiring thing that happened in the game was probably Alena [Stern] making lots of saves,” King said. “It brings up everyone’s energy when the defense does a good job, and it always makes me feel like the offense now has a job Photos by Alli Moon to complete.”

“We didn’t have the strongest start to the game, with UCCS scoring the first goal,” Bell said. “But our team immediately switched our attitudes and cheered each other on to get more focused. Our bench energy was incredible the entire game and even when we were down, everyone stayed positive and uplifting, which helped us pull through and display what we were really made of. It was really awesome to see support from every single player and to see the team work together as a cohesive unit.”

The team practices every day of the week from 3–5 p.m. and lifts three times per week after regular practice in the varsity gym with Head Weightlifting Coach Kevin Cronin.

“We always start practices warming up our bodies, then

warming up our stick skills,” Caroline Keller ’21 said. “Normally after that, we will do drill stations. We always incorporate sprinting and conditioning into practices. Last, we almost always end practice with a scrimmage or just playing 7 v. 7 on one end of the field to make scenarios game-like.”

The team incorporates weekly time with the sports psychologist, as well as yoga once or twice a week. Their bond is what makes the team so successful.

“We spend so much time together both on the field and off the field, which really establishes tight friendships,” Bell said “This team constantly has each other’s backs. As a team, we really emphasize positivity and unity and that shows on the field when we work together to make things happen.”

The team’s early successes have made women’s lacrosse excited for what the season has in store. The team resumes play today taking on their first Division III game of the season against rival team Chapman University.

Track & Field Kick off Season With School Records

By Mikey Wright The men’s and women’s track teams traveled to Long Beach, Calif. on March 2, for the Long Beach State Opener Meet. Despite a consistent downpour throughout the meet, the Tigers were able to power through with some great performances.

For the first-years, it was a great opportunity to start off the season on of a high note, and many took the opportunity and ran with it, setting season and personal bests almost across the board.

Megan Koch ’22 and Lucy Wagner ’22 placed highly in the 1500 meter, with Koch finishing No. 10 with a time of 5:00.86, and Wagner finishing No. 16, just four seconds behind her teammate. Gillian Foley ’21 and Lee O’Dowd ’21 finished at No. 22 and 23, respectively, filling out a strong women’s

1500m. Wagner continued her great day by placing highly in the 3000m, along with her teammate Leah Veldhuisen ’19 only a few moments behind. In the field, Grace Tagtow ’22 scored at No. 8 in the high jump and completed the jumping “triple” in the long and triple jump, placing at No. 13 and 19, respectively.

The men competed well, especially Max Blackburn ’20, who set a new school record in the 3000m. He finished the race in 8:58.55, and teammate Tony Calderon ’20 was only a second behind, also beating the former record set by alumnus Nick Hall ’15 back in 2013.

The Tigers ran well in the 800m, with Josh Fry ’22 leading the way at No. 14, at 2:02.12, with teammates Paul Olsen ’21

and Josh Raizner ’20 finishing just behind him at No. 21 and 23. Olsen and Fry went on to compete in the 1500 meter, where they placed at No. 28 and 29, respectively. In the field, senior Henry Baldwin ’19 stole the show, finishing at No. 3 in the high jump, with a height of 6 feet 1.25 inches. The mark is one Baldwin will be improving on later in the season, as the school record holder made the NCAA DIII National Championships last year.

While the team is excited about a batch of great performances, these Tigers are hungry and look to improve on their marks when they head down to Colorado State University at Pueblo on March 15 for the Colorado State Univeristy Pueblo Early Bird Meet. Good luck, Tigers!

Upcoming Events Friday, March 8

Wednesday, March 13

Men’s Track & Field All Day. Colorado State University Peublo

Men’s Ice Hockey 7:30 p.m. University of Denver

Women’s Lacrosse vs. Wocester State University 3 p.m. Stewart Field

Women’s Track & Field All Day. Colorado State University Peublo

Women’s Lacrosse 6 p.m. Chapman Univeristy Women’s Tennis vs. Southwest Minnesota State University 4 p.m. Burghart Tennis Courts

Saturday, March 9 Men’s Lacrosse vs. Rhodes College 1 p.m. Washburn Field

Men’s Lacrosse vs. Salve Regina Univeristy 3 p.m. Washburn Field

Friday, March 15 Men’s Ice Hockey t.b.d. NCHC Quarterfinals Men’s Track & Field All Day. Colorado State University Peublo

Men’s Tennis Amherst College in Orlando, Fla. Men’s Lacrosse vs. Elmhurst College 1 p.m. Washburn Field

Sunday, March 17 Women’s Tennis Bethel University in Orlando, Fla. Men’s Ice Hockey t.b.d. NCHC Quarterfinals

Men’s Ice Hockey vs. University of Denver 7 p.m. Broadmoor World Arena

Women’s Track & Field All Day. Colorado State University Peublo

Women’s Lacrosse 11 a.m. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges

Women’s Lacrosse vs. Illinois Wesleyan Univeristy 3 p.m. Stewart Field

Sunday, March 10

Saturday, March 16

Men’s Tennis Hamline University in Orlando, Fla.

Women’s Lacrosse 12 p.m. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges

Men’s Ice Hockey t.b.d. NCHC Quarterfinals

Women’s Tennis Illinois Intitute of Technology in Orlando, Fla.

Men’s Tennis Bethel University in Orlando, Fla.

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Women in Freestyle Skiing: Part Two: Making a Living

By Anna Grigsby

“The United States alone uses 34 trillion gallons of water a year for cow raising”

How do we expand professional opportunities for women in freestyle skiing without role models, sponsorships, and media exposure? How can we increase sponsorships and exposure with so few women competing at the highest levels? The first article in this series explored these questions with a discussion of the experiences and challenges of growing as an elite female skier.

This article continues the series by addressing professional obstacles women face in taking up freestyle skiing.

The fact that there are more men than women participating in freestyle skiing is obvious. The question of whether it is harder for women to make a living as a freestyle skier, however, is up for debate. “As soon as [slopestyle skiing] becomes your job, I guess it’s harder for a girl to actually stay in it. Girls probably have less chances of getting into a movie, less chances of sponsorships – just less fortune of ease,” Alice Michel said.

Additionally, women have fewer role models than men in freestyle skiing. “Maybe that’s one of the reasons there’s less girls … look at every ski movie [out] there, only sometimes there’s a girl,” Michel says.

While the general consensus is that it’s more difficult for women to compete in the sport, some skiers think women match men’s athleticism. “For sponsors, I think guys are more interesting [to brands] for campaigns [and] TV commercial – they want to see a boy because it’s more of the ‘wow’ effect when a boy does a trick,” said Giulia Tanno.

After reflecting on the smaller number of elite women skiers competing for sponsorships, Tanno added, “It’s probably easier

for a girl at a good level to make money, than a guy at the same level.” Casey Davis, a former member of the University of Colorado at Boulder freestyle ski team, agrees.

“In a sense it seems easier [for women to get sponsorships] since there are so few girls in freestyle skiing,” said Davis.

“I think that it’s easier [at this moment in time] for women to make a living because

there are so many good men now that it's harder for all of them to be picked up by sponsors,” said Coline Ballet-Baz. “That does not mean it is [in reality] easy for girls.”

“At the same time, not many companies seem to want to have a girl freestyle skier as the face of their company,” said Davis.

Playing devil’s advocate, she added, “Girls have all the opportunities that boys do if

they want them. It's all about confidence.”

Izzy Atkin ’21, Olympic Bronze Medalist in skiing, points to the difference between gaining a foothold and making a living: “I think it’s harder [for women] to get the recognition that leads to sponsorships, which leads to money, which can allow you to pay for flights to go somewhere to train. But I think because there are less girls competing in the sport, it’s usually pretty easy to start out and get into competitions.”

Rosina Friedel, an Austrian freestyle skier and the first female finalist for the SuperUnknown ski edit competition, says that freestyle skiing is dominated by males on and off the slopes – the majority of brand managers, agents, and judges are men.

Friedel also points out the more sexualized portrayal of women in freestyle skiing media outlets. “You can´t really make money with it … only when you are naked.”

Other skiers agree with Friedel’s take.

“I think sponsorships are more based on look. And I think that’s society’s fault, I mean how do you change that? I don’t know,” Hoefflin said. Tanno went further, saying, “Brands care more about if you look good. And then it’s going to be a portrait shot, not an action shot – which sucks because you’re a skier and you don’t want to just show your face.” Bertoncini agrees as well: “A woman probably [has] to be pretty and work on her image more than on her ski skills for a good sponsorship."

The idea that women as a group are second class in the freestyle skiing industry is evident. When the discussion of equal prize money came up, however, all of the skiers agreed that while money was a worthy goal, they could understand counterarguments.

“Me, myself, would like to get the same prize money as the boys,” Tanno said. “But I can see when boys are bothered when girls get the same prize money, because the field is larger and the competition more fierce. Yet it’s not really our fault that there are [less] girls doing what we do. [Still] you kind of get punished.”

Stay tuned for the final article of this three-piece series, in which the skiers discuss the effect of social media and offer ideas on how to create more opportunities for young women to get involved in freestyle skiing!

Photos courtesy of Laura Obermeyer

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Pain Doesn’t Have to Be the Name of the Game: Low-Level Laser Therapy Could Be the Answer

By Aidan Franko After suffering from injury or disease, the healing processes of the body can be long, drawn-out, and perhaps never complete.

People learn to live with their pain, cope with the symptoms that plague them, and become reliant on prescription drugs to ease their daily struggles.

All those who deal with these kinds of medical conditions want is to alleviate their pain without constant drug use, reliance on doctors, or remaining forever caught in the merry-go-round of the health care system.

Often, those answers never seem to come.

Low-intensity laser light therapy, however, offers a hopeful and non-invasive alternative to traditional medical options.

Low-intensity laser light therapy, commonly known as low-level laser therapy, ap-plies lasers with low power to the area of injury or disease on the body. The type of laser used, and the parameters to which it is set, are of utmost importance. The vast majority of research shows that low power lasers can provide the most benefits to healing — not the high-powered lasers often manufactured and sold in the U.S. The necessary tools are “laser systems manufactured and utilized in Canada and Europe [called] ‘Class 3B’ lasers — lower power settings of around 90mW-300mW with certain specific wavelengths,” Melinda Couch, a physical therapist at Peak Performance Physical Therapy, said.

Dr. Norman Doidge explains in his book, “The Brain’s Way of Healing”, that the low power light from these lasers “triggers adenosine triphosphate production (ATP), which is why it can initiate and accelerate the repair and growth of healthy new cells.”

In cells, there is a light sensitive molecule called “cytochrome.” As photons from the laser light meet the cytochrome, they stimulate the creation of ATP, which stores energy in cells. Since ATP provides energy for cell’s work, it can be used by the immune system and for cell repair, initiating the healing process.

Extensive research has shown that when low-intensity laser light is utilized properly, with carefully calculated wavelengths and durations of treatment, symptom relief occurs more quickly than with common medical treatments. A recent large-scale review of studies on LLLT showed that “the

utilization of LLLT for pain management and osteoarthritic conditions may be a complementary strategy used in clinical practice to provide symptom management for patients suffering from osteoarthritis and chronic pain.”

Recently, the use of LLLT has broadened to head injuries and diseases as well, such as concussions, strokes, and traumatic brain injuries. Peak Performance Physical Therapy in Colorado Springs, owned by Melinda Couch. She and physical therapist Jeff Bickford, Feldenkrais Practitioner, have recently begun to treat these types of brain traumas in addition to the sports injuries and post-surgical healing they were already treating.

Peak Performance, currently the only practitioner of LLLT in the state of Colorado, purchased a Bioflex laser in 2015. Since the purchase, the clinic has seen a great deal of success in treatment with LLLT. Patients have healed 40 to 60 percent faster than they would have using traditional medical treatments.

One of the most exceptional examples of recovery at the local clinic is a youth volleyball player, who has been treated for a knee injury, broken nose, labral tear, and shin splints. Typically, the knee injury or labral tear would have kept her from playing competitively for six to eight months or more. However, because she started LLLT immediately after her injuries and kept up with them regularly, she was back to her high-level play within weeks.

Other success stories include a Colorado College volleyball player with lower back pain and a broad-based disc bulge, who returned to playing after eight weeks

of LLLT. Also, a 65-year-old with migraine disorder was also treated at Peak Performance; after nine weeks of LLLT treatments, she stopped experiencing migraines. Six cases of concussions have also recently been treated with LLLT at the clinic, and all cases saw a reduction of symptoms.

The success of these local cases, along with the extensive research conducted on LLLT, show potential for this non-invasive treatment to heal people faster and better than other methods. If institutions like hospitals and universities embrace the technology, those battling injuries and diseases could be spared a lot of pain.

Photos Courtesy of Aidan Franko

Catalyzing Solutions: Is Your Paracetamol Right for You?

By Prakhar Gautam One of the most widely used overthe-counter medicines in the U.S. is paracetamol, better known as its brand name “Tylenol.” This drug has variety of uses, such as treating aches, pains, and fevers. However, what most people don’t know is that this molecule exists in multiple forms.

The fact that all solid matter is crystal is generally not that exciting to most. To me, a future chemist, however, this fact is incredibly exciting. At this point you might say, “But Prakhar, this solid chair I’m sitting on isn’t a crystal.” To that, dear reader, I would respond that we’re about to go on a journey through science.

A crystal in chemistry is an arrangement of atoms in an ordered, microscopic structure that repeats in all directions to make the solid matter you see. Now you might say, “But Prakhar, why do I care about crys-

tals?” If you’re asking me this question, you haven’t spent any time waiting for a full moon to recharge a crystal necklace.

Another reason would be that most pharmaceutical drugs made today are crystals.

One of the hardest things to do as a big pharma company is to crystalize a drug in its bioactive form.

Paracetamol has three distinct ways it can crystallize, or stack up in several thousand layers.

Currently, it most often stacks up in a distinct shape called Form I, which is not as bioactive, and uses more space than shape Form II. Getting the molecule to stack up as Form II is incredibly difficult and is one of the biggest challenges pharma companies face.

To battle this challenge, Professor Eli José Monge and I spent the summer creating a mechanism that allowed for an electric field to pass through it. Our hopes were

We’re about to go on a journey through science.

that this electric field would influence the way a crystal would be aligned, so that we could help pharma companies develop cheaper and more efficient drugs for diseases, such as cancer and HIV. Currently, we’ve been successfully able to change the way organic reactions happen using the electric field. Starting in Block 8, we will work on influencing how paracetamol stacks to make better Tylenol for everyone.

Illustration by Cate Johnson

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Photo by Angel Martinez

Film and Media Seniors Prepare for Thesis Showings Next week, the senior Film and Media

film and media.

advises the seniors as they make films

By Noelle Edwards ity.

Studies majors will present their theses.

This year’s film and media program

and craft screenplays, and professor

Each student or pair of students has

The thesis event spans two days and

senior class marks the largest class size

Scott Kryzch advises the film seniors as

chosen a unique topic to explore in their

showcases a range of fiction and docu-

to date, totaling 22 students. The film

they write critical essays. The seniors are

thesis project. The documentary films

mentary short films and feature-length

seniors proposed their ideas last May

further supported by the film and media

range from contemporary witchcraft to

screenplays. In addition to this, some

and eagerly awaited approval from the

program paraprofessional, Lila Schmitz,

wild horses, while the fiction films exam-

seniors are writing critical essays analyz-

steering committee to begin their year-

who works with the students to ensure

ine stories of adoption, trivia obsessions,

ing unique and contemporary aspects of

long endeavors. Professor Dylan Nelson

that their theses are of the highest qual-

and leaving life up to chance.

Below is a preview of the thesis essay,

“The Reflexive Lens: Participatory Envi-

screenings, and screenplays by this year’s seniors.

ronmental Filmmaking” Jesse Metzger

The film seniors will perform a dramat-

An examination of how different levels

ic reading of a scene from their screen-

of reflexivity affect the impact of messag-

plays or read an excerpt of their essays

ing in environmental documentary.

on Monday, March 11 at 7 p.m. in the Cornerstone Screening Room; dessert

Thesis Films: Documentary

Thesis Screenplay Dramatic Readings

and coffee will be served afterwards. The

“By Any Other Name” Meron Afutu

“Seal Eggs” Emmett de Maynadier and Kai Cinto-

An Ethiopian adoptee removed from her cultural heritage explores diasporic ties.

rino Ambient pop musician Gwen navigates finances, mental health, and trans identi-

“Chance”

ty on her first-ever national tour with two

Ben Sommers and Willis Zetter

childhood best friends.

A young couple uses a coin flip to help

thesis films will be shown on March 12 at

“La Stessa Cosa”

7 p.m. in Celeste Theater, predated by a

Geoffrey Hartley

“The Witching”

their relationship. As time goes on, the

Caught between warring identities, a

reception in Cornerstone Main Space.

Thesis Critical Essays “Documentaries on Sexual Assault:

make the menial and trivial decisions in Lily Green and Noelle Edwards

coin begins to take on new meaning.

gay mob boss attempts to balance the

Over 300 years after The Salem Witch

What was once a fun way to pass the time

family he’s always wanted with the only

Trials, Salem’s witches are now manifest-

family he’s ever known.

ing change through magic(k).

Sensationalizing Survivors and The Fantasy of 'Starting Conversations'”

soon becomes a destructive obsession.

“Clearing”

“New Glory”

“Fuel, Fire and Wild Horses”

Logan Coleman

Jabu Ndlovu and Sam Suzuki

Micah Robin

An investigation of the dramatizing

The superpower country of New Glory

A short documentary film that explores

techniques of the documentary form in

has closed off its borders, and the Body

the complex issues of the American wild

film's pertaining to sexual assault, and

Corporation controls who comes and

horse and its relationship with wildfire

“The Actress”

their place within Jodi Dean's theory of

goes. Will a pair of ambitious and idealis-

abatement in Northern California.

Griffin Mansi

communicative capitalism.

tic youths be enough to bring about real change?

John-Henry Williams

A short fiction film about losing your best friend.

Inspired by the song, “Taxi” by Harry Thesis Films: Fiction

"Film as Future: Can the Silver Screen Be Revolutionary?"

Mary Sorich and Will Stockton

Chapin. Former high school sweethearts, Harry and Sue, meet again after 25 years

“The Weight We Carry”

“As We Were”

apart. They come to terms with the fact

Ethan Royal

Angel R. Martinez and Fengyi Xu

that life didn’t turn out how they hoped it would.

If Contra Point's Natalie Wynn is cor-

What begins as a mother’s heartfelt

On a winter afternoon, Alex must realize

rect, then we are in the midst of an aes-

journey in search of a better life with her

the importance of family and her respon-

thetic era. In a world where aesthetics

two daughters becomes a Mexican im-

sibility for her grandfather, remembering

“Trivial”

matter, can film be used to shape thought

migrant group’s struggle for survival at

he had done the same for her when she

Addison Knight and Josh Lauer

and people's actions, perhaps even rival-

the hands of traditional pollero practices,

was little.

ing some of the great influencers of the

brutal desert conditions, and minute-

woman obsessed with trivia and her quest

enlightenment?

men.

to find a friend.

A quirky romantic comedy about a

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Five Groups Advance in Annual Battle of the Bands Photo By Joe Keat

By Abigail Russel

Friday night as “pretty exhilarating.” “The

For Cortés, “the fact that it was competi-

more engaged the crowd become, the

tive added significantly to the entertain-

more we became, creating a positive feed-

ment value.”

back loop which made for an exciting set,” Cortés continued.

ing what they love,” Yang said. “There was just so much positive energy.”

“Honestly, I was having more fun than I

However, Strigel said the competition

expected,” Sarah Stamp ’22 said. “I wanted

“really wasn’t a factor for [her group] ...

to see all the groups go.” Stamp also ex-

peted in the first round of the Sounds Of

Similarly, Izzy Strigel ’22 of ADAZE, ex-

we were more looking just to have a good

pressed the tough time she had voting at

Colorado College-sponsored, Battle of the

pressed how gratifying the Battle of the

time, and if we had advanced that would’ve

the end of the night: “I couldn’t decide

Bands competition. Bemis Hall became

Bands was for a young band: “We’re a

been awesome, but we were happy with

cause everyone had such genuine talent.”

a center of commotion March 1–2 as stu-

group that just started [Block 1] and we’re

what we did.”

In the end, however, only five of the 14

dents shuffled in and out to see the perfor-

still trying to build an audience, so it was

The students in the audience also had

mances and vote on their favorites. At CC,

really rewarding having everyone come

great things to say about the event. Many

the Battle of the Bands is an annual spring-

out.”

students reported coming in the first place

Fourteen student-based bands com-

time tradition. In a sense, the Battle of the

A unique feature of a Battle of the Bands

to support a certain friend or group, but

Bands kicks off the much-anticipated Lla-

setting is the competitive element. Most

ultimately stayed longer than they had

mapalooza, as the bands are competing for

musicians aren’t accustomed to perform-

planned.

a chance to perform at the festival.

ing in such a directly competitive environ-

The scene on Friday night captivated

ment, and this affected the performers in

Kerry Yang ’22. “I just loved seeing what a

different ways.

great time the musicians we’re having do-

Daniel Cortés ’22, a member of Luscious Expansion, described his performance

bands were able to progress onto the second round.

This year’s winners were Frettchen, Loafy Breadpath & The Yeasty Boys, Parents, Public Indecency, and SWSHR & Ddub. These five groups will continue in the battle for a spot at this year’s Llamapalooza.

Carbonella Creations: Spaghetti That Sings Straight to the Stomach and the Soul By Becca Stine When we think about Italian cuisine in Colorado Springs, several restaurants come to mind immediately. On Tejon Street alone, there are several Italian dining options to choose from, such as Panino's, Fratelli's, and Bambinos. Pizza and pasta can be found pretty much anywhere, so we must ask ourselves the question: what makes for a good and authentic Italian meal?

At 1169 N. Circle Dr., there is a small restaurant called Carbonella Creations. From the outside, it gives the impression of a basic Italian restaurant chain in a strip-mall setting, with the giant letters, “Carbonella” underlined by the colors of the Italian flag. In this way, the restaurant may be one of Colorado Springs’ best kept secrets, serving some of the most genuine, fresh, and flavorful food.

The red walls and simple aesthetic make the restaurant feel like a drop-in café in Italy, serving affordable food of incredible quality.

So often we judge a restaurant by its décor, gaging the quality of our dining experience through the intricate art covering the walls, the eloquent furniture, or the comfortable mood lighting. Carbonella Creations reminds us that sometimes the best food is found in the most unsuspecting places.

The restaurant advertises itself as a takeout destination, as the dining space itself only holds a few bar stools, and a small booth for customers to sit and eat if they so desire.

There are restaurants we go to for the aesthetic, and there are restaurants we visit ex-

clusively for the taste. Carbonella Creations is about the cooking, more than the dining experience.

“The ambiance in the restaurant is sparse,” Paulina Ukrainets ’19 said. “It doesn’t do the food justice, but in a place like this, it does not need to — the food shines all on its

paying authentic homage to culture through food matters more than ever.”

Carbonella Creations is a project run by a talented duo. The chef, Enrico, is from Ancona, Italy, and many of the recipes used are those passed down by his grandmother.

Molly, a Colorado Springs native, is the sous

Photo By Daniel Sarché own. The freshly-made pasta with a variety of homemade sauces, the focaccia, the porchetta ... all of Carbonella Creations’ delicacies transport me, for a moment, away from the food desert that the Springs sometimes feels like, and into a bigger world, in which

chef, and is also well-acquainted with real Italian cuisine. No dish costs more than $15, and portions are tastefully large and filling.

Each day, Enrico and Molly offer a different special dish, or set menu, to encourage customers to try something new.

Each item on the menu at Carbonella Creations is homemade; the pizza and pasta dough is folded from scratch, and sauces are stewed fresh each day. In fact, customers must order the focaccia or regular pizza 24 hours in advance, as the restaurant owners believe the dough tastes better after sitting for a full day. The truth is, the restaurant menu offers such a variety of Italian food that pizza and pasta become the least exciting option. Not only is the food made fresh daily, but the menu also changes constantly, depending on the ingredients in the kitchen and whatever spices or vegetables are available. Usually the restaurant offers six different pasta sauces, from the popular pomodoro and ragu, to the more unique olive e oregeno, or lardellata bianca, a sauce with bacon, onion, garlic, and bay leaf, cooked in white wine.

To make it all even better, Enrico and Molly host cooking classes occasionally to share the meaning of real Italian food with the Colorado Springs community and to invite customers to take the exquisite flavor into their own kitchens back home.

Carbonella Creations is an absolutely delicious surprise to the stomach and the soul. It takes us back to what really matters in a dining experience; it’s not about the hanging lamps, high-rise wooden tables, and abstract paintings hanging on the wall. It’s all about the food, and the taste alone is more than enough!

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Story Time With Georgia Welcome back to Story Time with

but your friends are sick of hearing?

Georgia, where I share weird bite-

Is there a weird little anecdote deep

sized stories from members of the

in the recesses in your mind you want

Colorado College community. Do you

the world to know? Email me at g_grel-

have a story that you think is funny

lier@coloradocollege.edu!

When: New Year's Eve 2018

Who: Leah Barazani ’21, Part Two

over and said, “Oh! You know, I met Jonah

When: 2007

Hill once.” Barazani “thought he was joking

What: Invented Jonah Hill

because I invented that person.” She’d even used his name as the title of her sonnet, and

By Georgia Grellier

Who: Kendal McGinnis '19

her headphones in.

Sophomore Leah Barazani’s seventh

just kind of awkwardly laughed because she

grade english class at Maplewood Middle

thought he was attempting humor. Twelve

School in New Jersey was doing a unit on

years later, the disappointment of learning

Shakespeare, and one of her homework

he already existed still stings, but she will

assignments (a middle school classic) was

always have invented him in her heart.

to write a sonnet. As she brainstormed the perfect name for her poem’s love interest

Takeaway: I personally wish she’d used

that night, she struggled to find one that

McLovin instead.

“felt right” but still had the

The thing about fireplaces is that they

correct amount of syllables.

What: Kendal, You're Doing Amazing

are hot when they have fire in them, and

After coming up with and

Sweetie

McGinnis was starting to get a little toasty.

discarding a baby book

Naturally, she got naked to regulate her

amount of names, she

Everyone knows going out on New Year’s

temperature, and pragmatically asked

experienced a stroke of

is overrated, which is why CC senior Ken-

her mother to have an impromptu nude

genius:

miraculously,

dal McGinnis spent

photoshoot.

She

the name “Jonah Hill”

hers at home in

sent the pictures

popped into her head,

California watching

“to

and it was perfect. Also,

“When Harry Met

as jokes” with the

she said, “it sounded kind

Sally” and drinking

caption “[political-

of dramatic so I used it.”

champagne

ly correct] mom,”

with

her parents. They finished the movie and

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[her]

friends

which is funny, so good job, Kendal.

watched the ball drop in Times Square,

Sure that she’d invented the name “Jonah Hill” as much as J.K. Rowling

had

originated

“Hermione

and many glasses of champagne later she

Takeaway: Kendal’s mom is coming for

Granger,” she proudly submitted her poem

was simply lounging by the fireplace with

Kris Jenner’s “momager” position

to her teacher the next day. He looked it

Illustrations by Lee O'Dowd Photos Courtesy of B Powers

Jesters in the Snow: Mardi Gras in Manitou Three days before Mardi Gras, it was 29 degrees outside and starting to snow. The sky was overcast, and everything was frosted in a thin layer of silver ice. Manitou Springs, however, was a happening place, despite the cold and the threat of snow. Strains of live music spilled out onto the street from the open doors of restaurants and bars, while people in fluorescent orange, jester’s hats, bejeweled masks, and beads tugged dogs and pushed floats toward the main street.

This year was Manitou Springs’ 27th annual Carnivale Parade. Celebrated every year on the Saturday before Fat Tuesday, everyone is welcome to build a float or dress up in costume and march along the street.

The community lines up on the sidewalk to watch, and prizes are given for the best-costumed and most spirited groups. The event this year was preceded by “MardiBall” on Friday night, and a gumbo cookoff on Saturday morning.

The idea of Carnival dates back centuries.

It’s thought to have originated as a Christian tradition in the Middle Ages in Europe, as a way for people to throw off some of their winter frustrations and eat the last of their

By Heather Rolph

This year, musicians played from a flatbed food stores before the fasting season of Lent. stage on the street for most of the morning, It combines features of Germanic folk rituwhile artists gave demonstrations on the als to chase away winter spirits and welcome sidewalks to passerby. Even the Girl Scouts spring. The Lenten fast, where people tradiwere in attendance, with cookie stands set up tionally give up things like meat, fat, dairy, at strategic intervals along the parade route. and sugar, lasts from Ash Wednesday until The parade kicked off the day before Easter Sunaround 1 p.m., as announcday. The Carnival season ers replaced the musicians preceding Lent was his"Let the good times to declare the parade’s torically a time of reversed sponsors and nominate social roles and relaxed roll!" they said, the royalty (a king and queen, behavioral standards, catchphrase of Mardi as well as several dukes where people feasted, dressed up in costume, Gras celebrations. SStay and maids). “Let the good partook in fertility rituin town for the music, times roll!” they said, the catchphrase of Mardi Gras als, and engaged in social food, and fun!" celebrations. “Stay in town satire. The tradition confor the music, food, fun!” tinues to the present day, A police car blasting most famously in loca“We All Shine On” led the tions like Venice, Italy and parade, followed by costumed people dragNew Orleans. ging a massive balloon arch. Artists wearing In Manitou Springs, the Carnivale Parade giant paper mache animal heads danced by started decades ago, with local artists simply next, followed by a float with “Keep Manitou walking down the sidewalks and carrying Weird” emblazoned on the side. There were their art. After several years, it moved into people in jester hats throwing beads at the the streets and became the town-wide celcrowd, women dancing with hula hoops, a ebration it is today.

man on a tall bike, a music group with yellow capes, saxophones, and kazoos. Some of the groups were put together by local businesses and institutions, while others were just friends and family in costume. One such family group was dressed as unicorns, including a toddler in a stroller and a dog with a pink horned hat; another sported tiny sparkling fairy wings tied to their backs.

The parade is very different from Manitou’s more famous Emma Crawford Coffin Races, which happens every October. The streets weren’t nearly as crowded, and the vibe was more local. The parade periodically halted as small children ran into the middle to grab candy and necklaces. Parents held kids on their shoulders to see, and dogs in costume were everywhere. As the parade ended, a police officer called, “Free hugs!” through his megaphone, directing people to hug his grinning colleague.

“Love each other, party hard, and really enjoy yourselves!” the announcers called as the parade ended as people cleared quickly from the cold sidewalks, drawn toward the warmth and music emanating from restaurants lining the street.

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The National Cartel of Collegiate Athletics

By Owen Carlson Athletes can be worth a lot of money these days. That’s why it was such a scare when Zion Williamson, Duke University’s top forward and the projected first pick of the NBA draft, went down after his Nikes opened like a banana peel. Thankfully, he came out of the ordeal with only a sprained knee, but the image of a star athlete injuring himself due to the failure of his school sponsor’s product perfectly encapsulates the present economic state of college sports.

Players are expected to risk an incredible amount for the benefit of their schools.

We can think back to the time that Jaylon Smith, now a linebacker in the NFL, tore multiple ligaments in his knee while playing in a pointless Fiesta Bowl game. He was projected to go top five in the draft, which would have earned him around $25 million over four years. But it was uncertain that he would ever run again, and his salary dropped to one fourth of its potential. He is lucky to still be playing.

In response to this glaring issue, many college players, forbidden by the National Collegiate Athletics Association to receive pay, have been arguing that they should receive fair compensation given the revenue they generate, risk of injury they face, and lack of education they actually receive. Despite their demands, the NCAA adamantly holds that, “The rules enforcement process is designed to ensure integrity and fair play among NCAA schools and a level playing field for participating student-athletes.”

This rule has much more to do with profit margins than fairness.

Be it through revenue generation, maintaining competitive recruitment, or to receive funding from boosters, universities ultimately do receive a service from their athletes. This being America, two sports tend to be more valuable than the others. Division

I college football and basketball programs are criminally underpaying their athletes, taking advantage of artificially cheap labor to reap insane profits. Players get little out of their educations, while universities make millions.

As per NCAA regulations, the only compensation athletes may receive is through scholarships, the true value of which is questionable, since athletes are often expected to

University of North Carolina is not alone in its transgressions, as the majority of schools with big sports programs have fake classes that athletes can take to keep an eligible GPA, when in truth they are learning nothing. In defense of the lack of classroom value, many argue that just having a diploma is valuable enough in itself, and status as an athlete will get you in the door with alumni.

Even if this is true, relying on the world not

Illustration by Lee O’dowd

be competitors first and students second.

The rules attempt to mislead you, requiring players to hold a certain GPA. The issue is that schools benefit more from having good football and basketball players than they do from having good students, which leads them to artificially inflate athlete grades.

Almost as a parody of the system, a University of North Carolina basketball player once turned in a 147-word paper and recieved an A-minus. In fact, a Chapel Hill learning specialist, Mary Willingham, estimated that between 2004 and 2014, 70 percent of UNC football and basketball players read at below an eighth-grade level. These players were not admitted to be students; they were admitted to serve the needs of the university.

being a meritocracy is intensely unsatisfying and hiring someone because they played a sport is ridiculous.

In contrast to how little student athletes receive, universities are making out like bandits.

For example, take one of the most exciting sports events of the year, the NCAA basketball championship tournament. College basketball’s March Madness brings home a whopping $1 billion off marketing rights alone. The math here is easy: if we overestimate the cost of each scholarship to be around $50,000, and there are 68 teams in the tournament with 13 scholarships allowed per team, the total amount that schools spend on its players in the tourna-

ment comes in at about $44.2 million. Students received less than 5 percent of profit, and that is likely overstated.

Individual programs can make ridiculous amounts of money — Texas A&M University football alone makes over $100 million per year, and the University of Louisville basketball team turns a profit of $44 million per year. The massive revenues produced by these athletes bypass them almost entirely, and instead are funneled to the people at the top. Power conference commissioners and NCAA executives receive salaries over $3 million per year, while head football coaches tend to be the state government’s highest paid employee. Coaches for “amateurs” are valued more than professors, university presidents, and even governors.

American universities are unique globally in their disproportionate emphasis on athletics; nowhere else do schools actively pour money into something that has no educational value and therefore little benefit to students. Colleges, just like people, respond to incentives, and the reality is that running athletics programs is a calculated business decision. The concept of amateurism allows universities to collude, creating a price cartel to cap athletes’ potential wages.

In creating and dominating an illiberal market, the NCAA system allows the powerful to exploit their workers for monetary gain, a system both capitalists and Marxists should oppose. Since colleges are essentially running minor league football and basketball, players who wish to compete professionally are required to play for free. To reconcile this, student athletes at a minimum should be able to negotiate contracts that reflect the service they provide to their schools. College sports is an industry just like any other. Why should we treat it differently?

For the Love of NEDA Week: Please Don’t Instagram Your Skinniest Photo for Eating Disorder “Awareness”

By Georgia Grellier Happy belated National Eating Disorders Awareness Week Week! Yes, a week late, but still relevant. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is an incredibly important recognition of the shame and stigma behind these life-threatening illnesses. It shines light on the devastating impacts of eating disorders and the diverse groups of people they harm (not just wealthy white women).

With NEDA Week always comes an onslaught of related Instagram posts, especially from those in recovery.

For the most part, I think that’s awesome. Down with stigma, up with openness and body positivity! However, there’s still a talk we all need to have about eating disorder awareness social media, because there are those in “#recovery” who make NEDA week actually kind of the worst. As someone with many dear friends in recovery and who is in recovery myself, I’ve observed that the classic NEDA Week Instagram post has taken a problematic turn over the past several years. The eating disorder recovery community seems to have slipped into an unfortunate trend of posting one’s thinnest photos as, through a very convoluted logic, proof of one’s illness and a way to represent its horrific consequences.

There are more things wrong with that approach to recovery than I care to count, and especially to the delicate art of the recovery Instagram post. Unpopular opinion: if you post a photo taken at the height of your illness where you look attractive by Western patriarchal beauty standards (and you tell us that it’s from the height of your illness), you’re already doing it wrong.

Here’s a less subjective take on this ED-Instagram epi-

demic: weight loss can be an alarming indicator of many eating disorder subtypes, but so can weight gain. Additionally, weight loss doesn’t need to result in visible emaciation or an “underweight” BMI to be incredibly dangerous. Size alone is not what defines these illnesses, especially because the physical consequences of them are very much internal — heart and organ health, dental health, bone density, etc. — not weight as an isolated symptom. The self-perpetuating source of each of these is the emotional suffering of the victim, and is equally as valid for a high-functioning student as it is for someone whose illnesses has landed them in a hospital bed. So, if you’re body positive, in recovery, or neither but want to be (or don’t want to be, for that matter), let’s stay away from the weight-oriented, fatphobic recovery posts.

“But it’s my body!” you might say. Or, “Don’t skinny shame me!” Or, “I shouldn’t be ashamed of my illness!”

All very true, and this is not an op-ed about skinnyshaming (which is kind of the “All Lives Matter” of the ED recovery world). This op-ed is about the fact that we, as a society, have hallucinated a relationship between illness and size, and even those harmed by that false logic often perpetuate it. The myth that to be sick is to be small can make the difference between seeking help and not, and, in turn, between life and death (out of any mental illness, anorexia specifically has one of the highest mortality rates).

Awareness is not for the thin-bodied only; pictures of the rhetorical you at your thinnest is an inherently fatphobic invalidation of those who suffer and are not thin.

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Kris Jenner, Our Lord and Savior

By Josie Kritter

As my group chat discussed the latest Kardashian scandal, Cate Johnson ’20 asked the simple question: “Is Kris Jenner … God?” A minor statement, sure, but it left me reexamining everything I thought I knew for weeks. I spent nights staring up at the ceiling, wondering how and when Kris Jenner was going to overtake Jeff Bezos and become a global overlord.

Don’t get me wrong, I do believe that many of the Kardashians are quite intelligent and are simply villainized due to the reclamation and monetization of their sexuality. The selling of women’s bodies was traditionally a man’s job, and the Kardashians broke this norm by doing the exact same thing, but on their terms. Yet, their worldwide, billion-dollar empire cannot simply exist by chance. A larger force is at hand, and that force is Kris Jenner. Through a combination of various scandals, reality-TV shows, and lip kits, Jenner took a relatively unremarkable group of girls and turned them into one of the most wellknown and profitable families in the world.

The “momager” is certainly not a new phenomenon. Andy Warhol’s mother, Julia, was a momager, Kanye West’s mother, Donda, managed him through his first three albums, and I still send Catalyst articles to my mother for editing. Mothers inherently have their children’s interests at heart, and the trust runs deep; therefore, it makes sense for your birth-giver to be in charge of you to a certain extent.

Where Kris Jenner differs, however, is in the immense success she has had as a momager. Nearly ev-

ery scandal that has occurred in the family, Kris has found a way to monetize later down the line and only increase the family’s net worth.

The newest one, over the cheating scandal of Khloe’s boyfriend, Tristan Thompson, and Kylie’s best friend, Jordyn Woods, is muddled and messy,

and no one knows who to believe. Yet, the larger issue remains of what Kris is going to do about it. Is this a setup to start Jordyn Woods’ career, independent of Kylie and the rest of the empire? Did Kris Jenner want Kylie to get a new best friend? Is there going to be a lip kit launch with names about cheating? Whatever the master plan, Kris Jenner will profit.

The main question that is yet to be answered, then, is how? How did she make this empire? How is she 63? At what age did she sign away her soul? When did she develop omnipotent abilities? How tall is she?

These are the questions that come to mind as I space out in class.

Her youngest daughter got pregnant, and what did Kris Jenner do? She released a video that outshone the Super Bowl. That same daughter is the youngest “self-made” billionaire in history. Her other daughter is one of the highest-paid supermodels in the world.

Another daughter literally “broke the internet.”

Yes, Kris Jenner is incredibly intelligent, talented, and hard-working, but the abilities she demonstrates seem to be genuinely divine. Her birthday, Nov. 5, 1955, is the same day that Marty McFly returned to in Back to the Future. Coincidence? I think not. The moment that Kris Jenner came into this world changed the cosmos, and popular culture, forever.

Could she be sent here to save us all? Maybe she is God, maybe she isn’t. All I know is that “the devil works hard, but Kris Jenner works harder.”

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What Unites Us?

By Nate Hochman

American values. We hear them talked about a lot.

Politicians like to say that their legislative priorities uphold American values while their opponent’s legislative priorities are diametrically opposed to them.

But how often do we seriously discuss what these values are? Why are they important? What do they really mean? Too often, these foundational questions are left unanswered in the age of soundbites and political gotcha culture.

America is unique. It is exceptional. Ours is a creedal nation, the first and only of its kind: we are the only nation in the history of the world that is derived not from geographical homeland, ethnic identity, or religious uniformity, but from ideas.

These are good ideas, important ideas, revolutionary ideas, ideas for which people have died. They are ideas about equality, freedom, and human dignity.

The American founding asserted the historically unprecedented concept that we are born with certain unalienable rights. The government does not give us these rights. We are naturally endowed with them. The government is simply our collective project to secure these rights.

We are not, nor have we ever been, a country which

Illustration by Annabel Driussi

draws its identity from blood and soil; in this way, we are unique. To be an American, one must not be of a certain ethnicity or race, nor must they subscribe to a particular religious ideology or even share a cultural history with their fellow countrymen and women. To be American is something much richer. What we ask of our fellow citizens is subscription to the American idea: a commitment to the universal dignity of persons everywhere.

As a creedal nation, we traditionally overcame our lack of shared history, culture, racial identity, or religion by uniting in our commitment to upholding these ideals and securing the American experiment for the next generation. We are the most diverse, pluralistic, multicultural society in the history of the world, but we hung together on the strength of our belief in our shared values.

This is, in the words of U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, “why Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. are essential American ‘Founders’ … When Lincoln freed millions of slaves from their shackles, and when King loosened the bonds of segregation and inequality, they were lifting America up — toward those ideals it has always held forth but not always lived up to …

Lincoln and King appear not to reject but to carry forward the Founders’ dream: to more perfectly realize the marvelous American idea of liberty and justice for all. This, and nothing less, is what America means.”

Martin Luther King Jr. referenced our founding documents often, and with reverence. In a 1965 speech in Atlanta, he said of the Declaration of Independence: “This is a dream. It’s a great dream … Never before in the history of the world has a sociopolitical document expressed in such profound, eloquent and unequivocal language the dignity and the worth of human personality. The American dream reminds us … that every man is an heir of the legacy of dignity and worth.”

A more powerful affirmation of the American idea cannot be found.

For most of our history, we haven’t always succeeded in living up to these eternal values. However, throughout our shared history it was commonly understood that our founding ideals were worth pursuing. Progress was justified in terms of our common belief in liberty, equality, and fundamental human dignity. There was a powerful unifying force in this: we shared a core set of values, even if we might disagree sharply on the means through which they would best be fulfilled.

However, this is changing.

As a nation, we have failed to educate our youth about what it means to be American, and more im-

portantly, what America itself means. We take for granted that America will always survive, but we are collectively losing the creedal glue that holds our republic together.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction,” Ronald Reagan famously warned.

“We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.

It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

Does the generation currently coming of age know about the exceptional nature of America? The statistics are deeply concerning: Forty-one percent of Americans under the age of 30 believe the First Amendment is “dangerous.”

Thirty-eight percent of young Americans do not agree that “America has a history that we should be proud of.”

Only half of Americans under the age of 35 believe that our country is “special,” compared to 83 percent of Americans over the age of 55.

One in eight millennials believes that “America was never a great country and it never will be.”

The polling goes on, ad nauseam. The results, however, are clear: our republic’s young people no longer believe in or affirm our collective national commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The

Only 19 percent of Americans under the age of 45 can pass our citizenship test.

American idea is in serious danger.

This can be directly linked with a national failure to educate the next generation about America. A full 40 percent of Americans can’t name a single freedom enumerated in the First Amendment, the beating heart of the American experiment. Only 12 percent can name two. The numbers plummet from there.

Only 19 percent of Americans under the age of 45 can pass our citizenship test (NBC News).

This is something we should all be concerned about.

Without a shared history, culture, religion or any other factor that holds most nations together, we have always relied on a shared belief in the ideals set forth in our founding. If we no longer buy into our creed, what reason do we have to remain unified at all?

Together, we must rediscover what it means to be American.

Spring Break

By Cole Simon Please email cole.simon@coloradocollege.edu with any questions or comments.

Answers can be found on catalystnewspaper.com.

Springs Break - 3/8/19

by Cole Simon

Across

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22. Nickname for the Simpson’s dog, perhaps 24. Advanced degree for achievement in humanities 25. Squirrel family 28. Part of DJ Casper’s “slide” 29. Fourth Wednesday 31. Gender-neutral pronoun used as him/her 32. Colorado Springs luxury hotel 34. Although, informally 36. Hither and — (scattered) 37. A ResLife student employee 38. Former president of Brazil 41. Four blocks, abbr.

43. Hawaiian flower wreath 44. 0° in Greenwich 47. Call, call for help in Morse code 48. Italian psychedelic rock band 49. Consuming food online, perhaps 50. Long lock of hair

Down 1. Colorado Springs Garden 2. ‘More accurate champion from CBS crime show’ 3. “I’ll get you the —“ (payment, I swear!)

4. Units of plywood thickness or artillery caliber 5. Restlessness disorder 6. Google Maps, informally 7. It was — party (bright, fun) 8. Impolite 9. Three-lettered internet messaging pioneer 11. Group of children of one’s aunts and uncles

13. People who stood to benefit from recent Singapore Summit 14. Mexican steak dish with “carne” 16. Colorado Springs avian coffeeshop 21. Mountain — (working dog breed) 23. 100,000–350,000 on the Scoville scale 26. Eve’s provenance 27. Structural diagram in database design 30. E.U.’s FDA 31. Secure website prefix 33. Central Nepalese municipality 39. River in Thuringia, Germany 40. Regarding Netflix two-letter drama with “the” 42. Small water droplets suspended in air 45. (43-across) minus seven hours, familiar to Colorado Springs 46. Membership organization for women related to American independence