Monday, February 3, 2020
COLLEGIAN.COM
Vol. 129, No. 39
Chipper's Lanes rolls retro with Live on the Lanes The local bowling alley took an unconventional route for their weekly student nights
By Monty Daniel @MontyDaniel_
Keynote Speaker Patrice Palmer talks about the importance of activism and what it means to be an activist at the first Black Student Activist Conference Feb. 1. Palmer is a Business Diversity Leadership Alliance coordinator, an undergraduate academic adviser and a College of Business adjunct lecturer at Colorado State University. PHOTO BY ADDIE KUETTNER THE COLLEGIAN
sity Leadership Alliance, spoke to the importance of the conference being the first ever at CSU. They reflected on a message of connection and what it truly means to be an activist, which, to them, is so much more than simply protesting. “Protesters are singular-minded,” Palmer said. “Activism is intentional research about dismantling different social structures. It can be as small as just sitting or as big as removing.” To other speakers, activism can mean different things.
Walking into Chipper’s Lanes on a Thursday night, one is greeted by the sight of flashing rainbow lights, spinning disco balls and the sound of a live band performing. This is not the typical scene you would expect from a bowling alley at night, but Chipper’s Lanes is changing the game with Live on the Lanes, a live music and bowling experience. Serving as their college night, Thursdays from 9-11 p.m. is when Chipper’s Lanes turns into a concert venue. Rising from the middle of the lanes is a stage that patrons are invited to bowl around. Sarah Slaton, the general manager and talent buyer for Chipper’s Lanes, is quite familiar with booking artists and providing quality concert experiences. Although Slaton has only worked with Chipper’s Lanes for one year, she has been instrumental in the process of making Live on the Lanes what it is today.
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1st Black Student Activist Conference Power in ‘being present’ By Graham Shapley & Gerson Flores Rojas @CSUCollegian
Sixty years ago, four men sat down and changed the nation. The Greensboro Four performed their famous sit-in in a North Carolina Woolworth’s on Feb. 1, 1960. This event sparked similar protests against segregation and against the refusal to serve Black individuals — and it was all started by a group of college students. On that day 60 years later, dozens of Black students gathered for the first Black Student Activist Con-
ference at Colorado State University. Students from the University of Northern Colorado of Greeley and the Metropolitan State University of Denver traveled to Fort Collins to find themselves among other student activists looking to make a change. “Our theme this year is ‘Ti Koro Nko Agyina’ — two heads are better than one,” said Emerald Green, assistant director of the Black/ African American Cultural Center, translating a Twi proverb. “It means ‘One head does not go into council.’” The conference, the first of its
kind at CSU, played host to several smaller sessions consisting of discussion over student activism. The theme of the event encouraged activism as something to be thought about and discussed between activists as a community rather than as an individual. CSU professors, directors, assistant directors and coordinators were present in explaining the importance of activism. Keynote speaker Patrice Palmer, who works in the College of Business at CSU as an adjunct lecturer, academic adviser and faculty coordinator for the Business Diver-