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Thursday, February 20, 2020
Vol. 129, No. 44
Blodgett the Great proves sky’s the limit The ‘barkour’ dog has racked up over 4,000 followers with cool tricks
By Elena Waldman @WaldmanElena
but one is told women tend to do worse than men, which can lower the women’s results. “If that task is important to you, then it affects your performance,” Chavez said. When students are victims of discrimination or prejudice, they cannot just go to class and forget it because it affects them, Chavez said.
If you’re familiar with the famous and talented hoopshooting Air Bud, you might want to prepare yourself for Colorado’s own Blodgett the Great — but this canine isn’t out of a straight-tovideo children’s Disney flick. Blodgett, a Blue Heeler well known in the Fort Collins and Denver areas as a “barkour” dog, has racked up over 4,000 Instagram followers in the last year, performing impressive stunts in any terrain he can get his paws on, from the Rocky Mountains to the pillars outside the Morgan Library. On Tuesday, Blodgett, accompanied by his owner and operator of Instagram account @blodgettthegreat Ian Krammer, came to Colorado State University to take over the CSU Instagram account for the day. While Instagram fame is a relatively new feat for Blodgett, the two have been training together for nearly eight years, partnering for intense mountain climbs and finding new ways to navigate obstacles. Since Krammer adopted Blodgett in eastern Colorado after hitchhiking around all 50 states in the U.S., the two have been inseparable.
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After multiple racial and bias motivated incidents at Colorado State University during the 2019 fall semester, many students still feel the effects to this day. PHOTO BY MATT TACKETT COLLEGIAN
Prejudice and discrimination: Effects of race and bias incidents on Rams By Gerson Flores Rojas @GersonFloresRo1
When incidents of bias hit Colorado State University in the fall semester, including a blackface photo, a swastika drawn at Aggie Village and the N-word found written in the IM field bathrooms, CSU responded to the situation, but the aftermath for some students is ongoing. While determining the steps
CSU would take next, one question came up among students: How do incidents of bias and discrimination affect students on campus, especially students that come from marginalized identities? The stress that comes from dealing with incidents of bias can create different effects on students at CSU. One of the effects can come in the form of the stereotype threat. Ernest Chavez, a pro-
fessor in the psychology department at CSU, describes the stereotype threat as a person having their results affected by others believing stereotypes about them. “There is more prevalent overt prejudice than there used to be,” Chavez said. “It was more covert (and) more implicit rather than explicit.” One example Chavez presents is a test — two groups of women are given the same test,
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