Thursday, September 5, 2019
COLLEGIAN.COM
Vol. 129, No. 7
City ‘frees the nipple,’ strikes topless ban Unanimous decision follows ruling by federal court
By Samantha Ye @samxye4
The Colorado State University lagoon is undergoing a large renovation project that includes a complete relandscaping of the entire area . It is planned to be done during the summer of 2020. PHOTO BY DEVIN CORNELIUS COLLEGIAN
CSU’s lagoon renovation hopes to add character to the West Lawn By Ceci Taylor @cecelia_twt
Colorado State University geese are getting a stomping ground upgrade in the form of a new lagoon. As many students may have noticed, CSU’s lagoon, located on the West Lawn of campus, has been undergoing renovations. David Hansen, the University
landscape architect, said the lagoon has been needing an upgrade for quite some time. “The lagoon was originally constructed in the ‘60s with the Student Center,” Hansen said. “It had only been renovated one other time since that original installation, and there were a lot of issues with it.” Hansen said the old lagoon leaked quite a bit and needed to
be updated from a general maintenance perspective. The original lagoon was almost an acre in size, and Hansen said the renovation will reduce the body of water by half. This will give students, faculty and visitors more space on the West Lawn and will be a more maintainable solution. “From an evaporation and sustainability standpoint, having
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that much water just sitting isn’t a very sustainable practice,” Hansen said. “We wanted to scale the size of the water down, and in doing that we’ve created an entirely new system that will more or less have a wetland component to it. The water will be circulated through the pond, cleaning the water from any pollutants.”
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Fort Collins will remove their defunct women-only topless ban in adherence with the U.S. District Court’s decision, finalizing the end of a several hundred thousand dollar legal battle. City Council unanimously approved cutting the language from their public nudity ordinance that forbade women over 10 years old from exposing their nipples and breasts in a public or publicly visible space. Privately owned spaces such as churches, schools and businesses can still ask people to leave if they are topless and call the police to report trespassing. “The revisions simply mean City police can no longer issue citations for women going topless,” City Attorney Carrie Daggett said. The ban has been unenforceable since 2017, when the City lost the ordinance to a lawsuit filed against it. “It became clear to me that (the court case) wasn’t going to go where we wanted it to go and would continue to cost the city
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