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Hope for the environment Gina McCarthy, the former director of the Environmental Protection Agency, delivers her speech about environmental policy, public health and the United States’ environmental legacy at the Lory Student Center on Feb. 28 at Colorado State University. PHOTO BY FORREST CZARNECKI COLLEGIAN

Former EPA head McCarthy speaks at CSU

By Yixuan Xie @YixuanXie1

How to be environmentally optimistic in the current political climate was a focus on former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy’s, speech Wednesday night.

McCarthy spoke to students, faculty and the Fort Collins community attendees at Colorado State University in the Lory Student Center.

Bill Ritter, the director of the Center for the New Energy

Economy (CNEE) at CSU and the former governor of Colorado introduced McCarthy as a real hero in American politics and public life.

“Gina is serving people at the state and at the federal level, making every attempt to be to serve in a manner that really reaches to cross the aisle from one side to the other,” Ritter said.

McCarthy began her speech with a joke, since there were more than 1,000 people who attended the event.

“You guys like looking at the screen or looking at me,”

McCarthy joked.

McCarthy said looking back on the 47-year-history of EPA in delivering clean air, clean water and healthy places, it is an uncertain time now.

“I really want that progress to continue,” McCarthy said. “This country is the best place in the world to live not because of the strongest economy, but because our economy is great because we live in beautiful places like Colorado, so the uncertainty now is whether or not that is going to continue.”

McCarthy said she has great

anxiety at times, because all of that progress may be up in the air.

“Honestly, I am here tonight because I really want you all to take a step back because I do that every single morning myself,” McCarthy said. “Because I am bound and determined that I am not going to be a ‘grumpy Gus.’” McCarthy asked people to stop thinking the world is going to change just because of the current state of Washington D.C. “I’m not suggesting you that you don’t need to make changes and keep pushing, but I am suggesting when Washington is

asleep, the sleepy dog wakes up,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy said partisan politics is dividing America today and it is not true that Republics do not support environmentalism.

She pointed out that Theodore Roosevelt started the National Park System, Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency and George H.W. Bush was behind the Clean Air Act of 1990 - all three were or are Republicans.

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ASCSU discusses bias-motivated incidents, the need for action

By Natalia Sperry @Natalia_Sperry

The Associated Students of Colorado State University formally discussed, for the first time on Wednesday night, biasmotivated incidents that occurred on campus during the 2017-2018 academic year.

In response to the increase of bias-motivated incidents on campus, Senator Tamera Breidenbach opened up the Senate floor for a “real talk” discussion.

“I can no longer stand by and get emails from Tony Frank and the safety emails from campus and not say anything,” Breidenbach said. “We’ve done some great things in Senate, but in the grand scheme of things those were really things we want. I feel like to address this issue is the most important one, because that’s what we’re here to do, represent everyone, right?”

Student body president Michael Wells, citing issues such as the noose found in Newsom, swastikas found in Residence Halls and white supremacist propaganda put up in Clark, said there is a necessity for Senate to take action.

“This is a problem that has affected us all year and I’m sure it hasn’t just been this year, it’s been a problem that’s across the country right now, it’s been a problem that we see all the time.

It is something that shouldn’t be stood for and shouldn’t happen.”

Wells said. “We as students have the opportunity to actually make the difference. Hatred doesn’t belong on this campus, it doesn’t belong anywhere in this world. I think that we have the opportunity to say no and to fight back.”

Wells announced the CSU Administration is hosting an event called CSUnite on March 29 from 3 to 5 p.m., aimed at promoting a community discussion about the issue.

“This is a small opportunity we have, but it’s something where we get to come together as students, as faculty, as staff, as a community to say that this is not about politics, it’s not about right or wrong, it’s not about anything (other) than that people are hurt,” Wells said.

Other Senators, such as Senator Merall Sherif, expressed frustration at the lack of action on the part of the Senate.

Senator Sherif said she encouraged the Senate to

go beyond giving a voice to constituents, to work towards creating a space where students feel comfortable coming to their representatives.

“We always talk about how we’re giving people a voice, but I truly don’t believe in speaking for people who have been formerly silenced. I believe in creating a space to allow those people to feel safe and comfortable and listened to when they come forward,” Sherif said.”We’re supposed to connect those human experiences to this greater conversation.”

In response to this, President of the Residence Hall Association Kyra Ferguson and Director of Residential Events and Programming Wes Taylor proposed collaboration between the two bodies in the form of a joint resolution. Speaker of the Senate Isabel Brown also encouraged all ASCSU committees to discuss the issue further in their sessions next week.

Senator Josh Williams said one of the tangible actions ASCSU can take is not accusing those that disagree with of being biased.

“It’s easy to call those you disagree with racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, whatever, but when

Student body president Michael Wells speaks with ASCSU Senator Tamera Breidenbach to the ASCSU Senate on Feb. 28 about bias related incidents on campus. PHOTO BY COLIN SHEPHERD COLLEGIAN

you call everyone you disagree with a racist ... that portion of the community that wants to help gets alienated,” Williams said. “We want to help with these issues, we really do -- but it’s kind of hard to when you’re already lumped in with those people who would do these terrible things.”

Senator Jennifer Murray said before ASCSU could take on these issues for the broader community, they first need to address bias within the organization.

“I can only say that we need to fix ourselves. There have been moments in the last year that I have lost complete hope in this organization. The culture has been

so toxic in the last year,” Murray said. “If we can’t address ourselves, why do we think we think we have a right to speak out on campus?”

Associate Justice Madison Taylor argued that, while this generalization of people could be damaging to public discourse, that does not excuse people from their contribution to institutionalized issues “At the end of the day, those little things add up, and they become the kindling that allows the fire of bias-motivated instances to ignite,” Taylor said.

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Latinx empowerment promoted through CSU youth legislative program

By Audrey Weiss @Audkward

Colorado State University welcomes Latinx students each summer as part of the Lorenzo De Zavala Youth Legislative Session, with the hope the program will pique their interest in - and potential future attendance to CSU. As of Fall 2017, almost 12 percent of Colorado State University students identified as Hispanic or Latino, according to data from the Institutional Research, Planning and Effectiveness.

The LDZ program welcomes Latinx students for eight days during the summer. David Ruybal, a sophomore agricultural business major, and Luis Loya, a sophomore human development and family studies major, were two of those students, in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

Ruybal worked as a councilor at the Colorado LDZ program every summer since 2014.

“It’s a very complex program,” Ruybal said. “You learn Robert’s Rules of Order, governmental process and … you actually set up your own government.”

Loya’s plans after college included enlisting in the Marine Corps., but said his experience as a junior councilor for the LDZ summer program in 2016 changed

his perspective.

“I really do think that it helps students in many areas in life,” Loya said. “After that program, something kind of switched in me … and I discovered another passion of mine at that program, specifically empowering youth.”

LORENZO DE ZAVALA YOUTH LEGISLATIVE ■ As of Fall 2017, almost 12

percent of Colorado State University students identified as Hispanic or Latino, according to data from the Institutional Research, Planning and Effectiveness.

Ruybal said his school councilor came to him with information about the program, then the NHI called him and expressed interest in him as an attendee. Ruybal said he was surprised by how many people he knew who had participated in the program, considering he was the first student from his school to attend in over 10 years.

Ruybal said he has been able to apply the leadership skills he acquired at the program in several ways.

“It helped me to have a bigger

voice, in my day-to-day life,” Ruybal said. “Before, I’d never done any public speaking, and (that’s) a really big part of the program. It’s taught me to be more social and to say what I think is best and implement it.”

Loya said he loved the program and that the experience at LDZ expanded his perspective of being a leader from his background and his community and taught him more about his community itself.

In addition, Loya said he found more opportunity because of his involvement with the program.

“We teach them lots of ways that they can really support themselves, not only for the program, but for other things in their life,” Jaime-Lujan said.

Connie Jaime-Lujan, associate director for university access and success, said CSU first established the LDZ program through the National Hispanic Institute in 1989.

There are six universities identified as NHIs, both nationally and internationally. CSU is one of those six.

The National Hispanic Institute’s University of the Year was awarded to CSU in 2014, because CSU has a long-standing history of hosting the LDZ program.

“We had a CSU admissions counselor attend one of the NHI’s

Luis Loya, a sophomore human development and family studies major, attended the Lorenzo De Zavala Youth Legislative Session in 2015. PHOTO BY AUDREY WEISS

David Ruybal, a sophomore agricultural business major, attended the Lorenzo De Zavala Youth Legislative Session in 2014. PHOTO BY AUDREY WEISS

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sessions for (the) Lorenzo De Zavala Youth Legislative Session students, and he was amazed by the quality of the students,” JaimeLujan said. “We’ve been really fortunate to be one of those sites since 1989.”

We teach them lots of ways that they can really support themselves, not only for the program, but for other things in their life.” Connie Jaime-Lujan, associate director for university access and success Jaime-Lujan said the program itself is focused on developing strong leadership skills and promoting empowerment.

“The students do learn amazing leadership skills and public speaking skills,” Jaime-

Lujan said. “And (they learn) about the culture and about themselves. They leave feeling really empowered.”

While there is currently not an LDZ alumni program available on campus, both Loya and Ruybal said that students are working to establish a collegiate leadership network on campus.

Loya and Ruybal said they worked closely with the NHI in 2017 to determine the next steps in creating the network.

“Now that we have a stronger presence…we’re able to join forces and make something of it,” Loya said.

Audrey Weiss can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Columbine principal’s advice is sought after Fla. shooting

By Terry Spencer The Associated Press

After school shootings like the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, administrators reach out to former Columbine High principal Frank DeAngelis for advice, since there is no book to teach what he learned after gunmen killed 12 of his students and a teacher in 1999.

There should be no balloons at Stoneman Douglas’ welcomeback ceremony, he told the school’s administrator. The reason: Some balloons popped at Columbine’s reopening, sending students diving for cover. Have substitutes on hand in case teachers need time to compose themselves. Change the sound of the fire alarm, which got pulled at both Columbine and Stoneman Douglas during the shootings, or it will cause some to panic.

DeAngelis, who has spoken to Stoneman Douglas’ principal, said everyone must understand that the staff and students will never return to what they were before the shooting.

“It really is a marathon and not a sprint,” he said in a phone interview from his Colorado home. “There are going to be days when everything seems to be getting back to where it might have been prior, but then something happens to hinder the healing process. One of things people asked me right after Columbine is ‘When is it going to be back to normal?’ I said it never really gets back to normal.”

Stoneman Douglas’ 3,200 students are scheduled to return Wednesday, two weeks after authorities say 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz opened fire on Valentine’s Day, killing 14 students and three staff members. He is charged with 17 counts of murder and could face the death penalty.

School officials say they will have counselors at Stoneman Douglas indefinitely to help students and staff. Extra armed security will also be on campus through the end of the school year.

Megan Faberman, an 18-year-old senior who plans to study psychiatric neuroscience

at the University of Central Florida, said at a rally outside Stoneman Douglas that she and her friends are going to walk “arm in arm into the school” to defy Cruz.

“We are not going to let him win,” she said.

At Virginia Tech, where a gunman killed 32 people in April 2007, teachers and students were given “the greatest flexibility possible” for determining how they wanted to move forward that semester, spokesman Mark Owczarski said.

When students returned to class, they were allowed to take whatever grade they had at the time of the shooting, accept a pass-fall mark or complete their courses in another semester.

Numerous counselors were assigned to campus and given purple armbands so they were easily identifiable in case someone needed immediate help.

DeAngelis, who retired in 2014, said the survivors will deal with the tragedy in different ways.

“Some people needed

to constantly talk about the experience and their feelings and where they are at any particular day and any particular moment,” he said. “You had others who felt that ‘The sooner I get back to teaching and get back to the activities I was involved with prior to the tragedy, it will help me move forward.’ And then you had those people in between. For everyone, it is a challenge.”

He said administrators and teachers need to recognize subtle signs of trauma among their colleagues.

“These teachers are there to help the kids, but a lot of times they are putting on a strong front, but they are hurting, too,” he said. “It is important for administrators to keep an eye on their teachers, and the teachers need to help each other.”

He said unexpected problems will arise. Many of the police officers who stormed Columbine to confront the shooters wore camouflage, so students were banned from wearing camouflage clothing because it disturbed others.

History teachers had to be

careful when showing videos about war because seeing and hearing gunfire traumatized students.

DeAngelis said Stoneman Douglas administrators will have to decide how to deal with spring rituals like prom and graduation, as those will create strong feelings of loss.

Survivors of other types of tragedies can sometimes choose whether they want to revisit the site of their anguish, but for students and teachers, that usually isn’t an option.

Stoneman Douglas students and staff will be reminded of their loss every school day, some of them for years, he said.

“When they walk down that hallway, it is going to bring them back to that day. They are going to see kids running out of that building. They are going to see kids with their hands up. They are going to hear gunshots,” DeAngelis said. “They are going to relive that day in and day out, and that takes a toll on people.”

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Lawmakers around US take action on gun-control bills The Associated Press The Associated Press

State lawmakers across the U.S. are considering new laws in the wake of the Florida high school shooting, and legislatures from Maine to Alaska took action on Wednesday.

A rundown of what’s happening in statehouses: ALASKA Lawmakers had mixed reactions to legislation that would let authorities temporarily take guns from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. While the measure has been pending for more than a year, it got its first hearing before the House Judiciary Committee and received strong support during public testimony.

McCarthy >> from page 1 McCarthy said although the Trump Administration is suggesting a need for a rollback in basically all environmental legislation that occurred under the Obama Administration, the Trump rollbacks are not going to succeed.

Rather than rollbacks, McCarthy said she is more concerned about the attack on science itself.

“If there is ever reason why the United States is leading, it’s been our ability to innovate, our resilience in (being) human beings and every solution has been based on science,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy emphasized the importance of maintaining science progress and remembering what is a fact and what is not. McCarthy said scientists need to say what normal people can understand.

“Climate change is not just a threat to polar bears, but to human health, to the safety of our communities, to our mental health as well,” McCarthy said. “It is a threat to national security.”

McCarthy pointed out that the current administration will not succeed in repealing environmental policies that have been made because it takes a rule to undo a rule, which is difficult.

At the end of the speech, McCarthy encouraged people to be active citizens, vote and

LAWMAKERS ■ New York

Republican blocked effort by Democrats to force vote on four gun control bills, which would have strengthened background check system.

■ Alaska Mixed reactions from lawmakers on legislation, which would allow authorities to take guns away (temporarily) from those deemed a danger.

■ California Proposal from Wednesday would raise buying age for rifles and shotguns to 21, from 18, and prevent the purchase of more than one firearm within 30 days.

CALIFORNIA A proposal introduced in the state Senate on Wednesday would raise the age for buying rifles and shotguns from 18 to speak up.

“What you really need to do most is put on your big girl pants, put on your big boy pants, put on your gender neutral pants, and get moving - take action, have faith in the United States of America and be obnoxious,” McCarthy said.

Several CSU students asked questions during the question and answer session after the speech, one of which was Max Brown, a senior environmental health major.

Brown asked how to change other people’s minds and facilitate communication when they do not agree.

McCarthy answered this question by pointing out two important things. The first was to not focus on ideologues, but what people can accomplish together, which is beneficial.

The second is to have more face-to-face communication, instead of being addicted to social media.

Jim Cooney, vice provost for International Affairs at CSU, said he was so pleased with the energy.

Cooney said he really liked McCarthy’s message.

“It is so easy these days to have negative messages about what is happening with EPA and climate change,” Cooney said. “I think the direct benefit of these positive messages will be (evident) tomorrow.

Faculty and students can share the energy and optimism.”

Yixuan Xie can be reached at news@collegian.com.

21 and prevent people from buying more than one firearm within a 30-day window. Those restrictions are already in place for handgun purchases in California, and the measure would extend it to long guns.

ILLINOIS The state House endorsed proposals to ban bump stocks, raise the minimum age to 21 for buying assault-style weapons, and create state licensing of gun dealers. The bump-stock ban and higher age for assaultstyle gun sales need Senate approval, but lawmakers expect quick action.

NEW JERSEY Lawmakers advanced a half-dozen measures to tighten the state’s alreadystrict gun laws. The bills include one to require the seizure of firearms when a mental health professional

determines someone poses a threat and another to require background checks for private gun sales.

NEW YORK Republicans in the state Senate blocked an effort by Democrats to force a vote on four gun control bills. The bills would have strengthened the state’s background check system and set aside state funding for research into firearm violence. Others would have banned bump stocks and created a new protection order to bar people considered to be a danger to themselves or others from possessing guns.

MAINE The Legislative Council approved a “red flag” bill allowing police to temporarily confiscate guns of those deemed to be a danger, a bill aimed at raising awareness of

those who could pose a danger and one authorizing borrowing for school security. The approvals mean lawmakers will debate the bills in the coming weeks. Lawmakers rejected bills aimed at banning high-capacity magazines and bump stocks.

VERMONT The Vermont Senate unanimously approved a proposal that would allow police to take firearms and explosives from people judged to be an extreme risk to themselves or others. Under the proposal, a police officer would need to get an order from a judge before seizing any firearms.

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Hugs, tears and police: High school reopens after shooting

By Kelli Kennedy, Terry Spencer & Josh Replogle The Associated Press

PARKLAND, Fla. — Students and teachers hugged and cried Wednesday as they returned under heavy police guard to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High for the first time since a teenager with an assault rifle killed 17 people and thrust the huge Florida school into the center of a renewed national gun debate.

The half-day began with fourth period so that the nearly 3,300 students could first be with the people they were with during the shooting two weeks ago.

“In the beginning, everyone was super serious, but then everyone cheered up and it started being the same vibes we had before the shooting. People started laughing and joking around,” said Kyle Kashuv, a junior who said he hugged every single teacher.

On the way in, teens were guarded by hundreds of police officers. The police were accompanied by comfort animals, including dogs, horses and a donkey. One of the horses had “eagle pride” painted on its side. A nearby woman held a sign offering “free kisses.”

After school dismissed, members of the Guardian Angels wearing their trademark red berets lined the streets at a crosswalk.

Kashuv said he was amazed by the outpouring of support from the community, including the police presence, the animals and many wellwishers. There were letters from all over the world and “banners on every single wall,” he said.

Some of the officers carried military-style rifles, and Superintendent Robert Runcie said the police presence would continue for the remainder of the school year. The heavy arms rattled some students.

“This is a picture of education in fear in this

country.” The National Rifle Association “wants more people just like this, with that exact firearm, to scare more people and sell more guns,” said David Hogg, who has become a leading voice in the student movement to restrict assault weapons.

About 150 grief counselors were on campus “to provide a lot of love, a lot of understanding” and to help students “ease back” into their school routines, Runcie said.

The freshman building where the Feb. 14 massacre took place remained cordoned off.

Students were told leave their backpacks at home.

Principal Ty Thomas tweeted that the school’s focus would be on “emotional readiness and comfort, not curriculum.”

In each classroom, colored pencils, coloring books, stress balls and toys were available to help students cope.

“It’s not how you go down.

It’s how you get back up,” said Casey Sherman, a 17-yearold junior. She said she was not afraid to be return, “just nervous.”

Many students said the debate over new gun laws helped them process the traumatic event and prepared them to return.

Alexis Grogan, a 15-yearold sophomore, was concerned that it might be too soon to go on as usual without slain friends such as Luke Hoyer, who sat two seats behind her in Spanish class.

“Seeing everyone was good, but emotionally I was in shambles. I probably broke down into tears 10-plus times and had to walk out of my classes multiple times throughout the day,” she said.

As classes resumed, Dick’s Sporting Goods, a major U.S. retailer, announced that it would immediately halt sales of assault-style rifles and highcapacity magazines at all of its stores and ban the sale of all guns to anyone under 21. The company’s CEO took on the NRA by demanding tougher

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Students head back to school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, Feb. 28 for the first time after a gunman killed 17 students in the school on Valentine’s Day.

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gun laws. Later Wednesday, Walmart announced that it would no longer sell firearms and ammunition to people younger than 21 and would also remove items resembling assault-style rifles from its website.

At the Florida Capitol, a House committee voted Tuesday in favor of a bill to raise the minimum age to buy long guns from 18 to 21 and to create a program allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons in classrooms if their school district allows it. Those teachers would receive lawenforcement training and get deputized by the local sheriff’s office.

State lawmakers continued their investigation of how the suspected shooter, Nikolas Cruz, managed to slip through local law enforcement despite

previous warning signs.

The Florida House voted Wednesday to subpoena records from Broward County and the school board, as well as sheriff’s offices in Broward and Palm Beach counties and the city of Coral Springs.

Among items requested from the school were documents on a mentoring program aimed at alternatives to the juvenile justice system. Critics have suggested the program led to lenience for Cruz, but the superintendent said Wednesday that the suspect was never was part of the program.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott said he hopes a gun and school-safety bill is passed before the annual legislative session ends March 9. The measures he proposed did not include arming teachers,

but he declined to say Tuesday whether he would veto a sweeping package that includes that provision.

The Broward superintendent has spoken out against the idea of arming teachers.

Marion Hammer, a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association and Unified Sportsmen of Florida, said she supports school security and keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, but “guns are not the problem.”

Kashuv said he was most moved by a tattoo his teacher got that said “MSD Strong” with a giant eagle.

“The shooting doesn’t define us,” he said. “We’re really moving past it and trying to heal right now.”

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Retailers Dick’s and Walmart take harder line against guns

By Damian J. Troise The Associated Press

Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart took steps Wednesday to restrict gun sales, adding two retail heavyweights to the growing rift between corporate America and the gun lobby.

Dick’s said it will immediately stop selling assault-style rifles and ban the sale of all guns to anyone under 21. Its CEO took on the National Rifle Association by demanding tougher gun laws after the massacre in Florida.

Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, followed late Wednesday saying it will no longer sell firearms and ammunition to people younger than 21. It had stopped selling AR-15s and other semiautomatic weapons in 2015, citing weak sales.

The announcements from the major national retailers came as students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, returned to class for the first time since a teenager killed 17 students and educators with an AR-15 rifle two weeks ago.

“When we saw what the kids were going through and the grief of the parents and the kids who were killed in Parkland, we felt we needed to do something,” Dick’s Chairman and CEO Ed Stack said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Several major corporations, including MetLife, Hertz and Delta Air Lines, have cut ties with the NRA since the Florida tragedy.

None of them were retailers who sold guns.

Sporting goods chain Bass Pro Shops, which owns Cabela’s, didn’t respond to requests for comment. Nor did the Outdoor Retail Association or Gander Outdoors.

The announcements from Dick’s and Walmart drew hundreds of thousands of responses for and against the moves on the companies’ social media accounts.

Dick Sporting Goods had cut off sales of assaultstyle weapons after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. But sales had resumed at its smaller chain of Field & Stream stores, which consisted of 35 outlets in 16 states as of October.

On Wednesday, Stack said that would end, and he called on lawmakers to act now.

He urged them to ban assault-style firearms, bump stocks and high-capacity magazines and raise the minimum age to buy firearms to 21. He said universal

background checks should be required, and there should be a complete database of those banned from buying firearms. He also called for the closing of the private sale and gun show loophole that enables purchasers to escape background checks.

“...we have to help solve the problem that’s in front of us. Gun violence is an epidemic that’s taking the lives of too many people, including the brightest hope for the future of America — our kids.”

ED STACK DICK’S CHAIRMAN & CEO

“We support and respect the Second Amendment, and we recognize and appreciate that the vast majority of gun owners in this country are responsible, law-abiding citizens,” Stack said in a letter.

“But we have to help solve the problem that’s in front of us.

Gun violence is an epidemic that’s taking the lives of too many people, including the brightest hope for the future of America — our kids.”

Walmart said it was also removing items from its website that resemble assaultstyle rifles, including airsoft guns and toys. “Our heritage as a company has always been in serving sportsmen and hunters, and we will continue to do so in a responsible way,” Walmart said.

One industry analyst said that other retailers that devote a small percentage of their business to hunting will probably follow suit.

While guns can be bought from sporting goods stores or department stores, they can also be purchased online, at gun shows and from small local gun stores.

The NRA has pushed back aggressively against calls for raising age limits for guns or restricting the sale of assaultstyle weapons. Calls to the NRA were not immediately returned.

Stack also revealed that Nikolas Cruz, the 19-yearold arrested in the Florida attack, had bought a shotgun at a Dick’s store within the past four months.

“It was not the gun, nor type of gun, he used in the shooting,” the CEO wrote. “But it could have been. Clearly this

indicates on so many levels that the systems in place are not effective to protect our kids and our citizens.”

The vast majority of Dick’s business is selling sporting goods like basketballs and sneakers. Joseph Feldman, a senior managing director at the Telsey Advisory Group, estimated that guns and ammunition account for 8 percent of the company’s sales.

Dick’s, which had net sales of $7.92 billion in the fiscal year that ended in January 2017, has a much bigger stake in youth sports.

“The longer-term positive perception that they create a more welcoming environment will offset any lost sales in the year,” Feldman said.

Dick’s is based just outside of Pittsburgh in a state where the first day of deer hunting season is an unofficial holiday for many families. Stack said Dick’s is prepared for any backlash but will never allow the sale of such guns in its stores again.

“This is the moment when business leaders across the country get to decide if they want to stand on the right side of history,” said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Acton for Gun Sense in America. “Mothers make the majority of spending decisions for their families, and we want

to shop with businesses that care about the safety of our families — making this a smart business move, too.”

Pam Platt of Louisville, Kentucky, said she was thrilled to hear about Dick’s move and called the store’s customer service line to offer her praise. She said she told the representative who answered that she wanted her to “hear something good from somebody.”

“She perked up,” Platt added.

Platt said she now plans to start buying more at her local Dick’s store, including a pair of sneakers this week.

“When I go to the store, I will let them know why I am here,” she said. “I care about this issue.”

But many others were unhappy with the company’s move, some posting on the Dick’s page that they would stop shopping at its stores.

“I was sad to hear they would pull them off and bow to these people that have no understanding of what a gun is,” said Gerald Jaeger, outside a Dick’s in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Dick’s stock ended Wednesday up 22 cents at $32.02.

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GUEST COLUMNISTS

The Colorado Governors Race is the perfect storm Josh Silva @jsflix

Editor’s Note: All opinion section content reflects the views of the individual author only and does not represent a stance taken by the Collegian or its editorial board.

When Politico released its updated list of top ten governors races in 2018, Colorado, oddly enough, wasn’t included. But make no mistake: not only is Colorado one of the top governors races, it also sets the bar for what a competitive election in a democratic society should look like.

The Colorado Independent has referred to the gubernatorial election as the “race of a generation.” With incumbent Gov. John Hickenlooper leaving office due to term limits, the race has received national attention as a barometer for the direction in which Colorado and national politics will go. The outsized role of the next governor in infrastructure and education spending, as well as approving newly drawn congressional districts, only increases the significance of the race.

Thankfully for Colorado voters, both parties offer a variety of quality candidates across

the ideological spectrum in the primaries. And thanks to the newly-passed Proposition 108, ideological diversity is encouraged, as unaffiliated voters can now participate in party primaries to select nominees for what is expected to be a competitive general election.

Rep. Jared Polis and State Treasurer Walker Stapleton are listed as the favorites in the primary, though the race remains highly fluid. As of February, the Democrats are slight favorites, according to the Cook Political Report, Inside Elections and political betting markets, while Sabato’s Crystal Ball has rated the race as a tossup. Midterm elections tend to favor the opposition party, and the Republican nominee will likely struggle to distance themselves from President Donald Trump, who sported a meager 36 percent approval rating in Colorado last December.

However, Colorado is known for its independent streak (which both parties demonstrated in the last presidential election), and available polling has demonstrated a high number of undecided voters. In a state where Democratic, Republican and unaffiliated voters are split nearly evenly, the quality and variety of candidates in the governor’s race makes it the ideal election.

On the Republican side, FiveThirtyEight lists the election

as one of the seven potential GOP pickups. Following lackluster fundraising and fears that he would win the primary but throw the general election to a Democrat, proto-Trumpian perennial candidate Tom Tancredo dropped out of the race, leaving the field wide open to several quality candidates.

DECLARED CANDIDATES: ■ Declared Republicans:

Steve Barlock, Cynthia Coffman, Lew Gaitor, Greg Lopez, Victor Mitchell, Doug Robinson, Walker Stapleton ■ Genre Noel Ginsburg, Mike Johnson, Cary Kennedy, Donna Lynn, Jared Polis State Treasurer Walker Stapleton is running on being the only two-term statewide elected Republican, and his ties to the Bush family have proven useful for fundraising. Walker is hedging his bets on his credentials and aspiring to the governorship using the same path taken by the last Republican to hold the office, Gov. Bill Owens.

Attorney General Cynthia Coffman is taking the common path of running for governor as the next step following four years as the state attorney general.

Businessman Doug Robinson

is positioning himself as an outsider, though his personal wealth and connections to the Romney family create a unique political dynamic running against the other candidates.

Larimer County Commissioner Lew Gaiter and former state legislator Victor Mitchell have chosen to distance themselves from President Trump, choosing instead to run on their credentials as opposed to ideology. Mitchell has committed to spending at least $3 million of his own money for the election.

The Democratic field offers a similar quality and diversity of candidates, though it remains to be seen in the vigorously contested primary if Democrats will opt for the more moderate candidate, in the mold of Hickenlooper, as they traditionally have, or pursue a more ideologically dedicated candidate in the era of Trump.

Representative Jared Polis, whose district contains Fort Collins, is one of the wealthiest members of Congress and has expressed willingness to heavily spend from personal funds to secure the nomination. He has made a point in his campaign of opposing Trump and serving as a “vanguard of the opposition.”

Former State Treasurer Cary Kennedy, who was defeated

by Stapleton in the 2010 midterms, has snagged several crucial endorsements that will be essential for drumming up

COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

Colorado needs a healthcare overhaul Michelle Fredrickson @mfredrickson42

Editor’s Note: All opinion section content reflects the views of the individual author only and does not represent a stance taken by the Collegian or its editorial board.

Healthcare is expensive. But, here in Colorado, healthcare is even more expensive. Healthcare costs in Colorado are 17 percent higher than average, according to a new study.

The entire state is more expensive than the average, with the highest costs found on the eastern plains and the Western Slope. Fort Collins is just about average in healthcare spending for Colorado, but that’s still significantly higher than the averages. The study, done by the Network for Regional Healthcare

Improvement, compared Colorado to Minnesota, Oregon, Utah, and Maryland, and found that Colorado had the worst costs.

Two factors tend to drive up the cost of healthcare: High levels of use, and high costs of services.

Usually, as one goes up the other goes down. In some regions healthcare costs are high which drives up spending. In other regions the frequency with which people use them are driving costs up.

Colorado has been an area in need of a major health system overhaul for a while, because something needs to be done to keep these prices down.

People are being priced out of healthcare. That is something that should not be happening in the 21st century. Last year, the Colorado Commission on Affordable Health Care wrote that state officials would need to show “extraordinary public leadership” to keep health costs

from becoming so high nobody could access health services.

The fact is that Colorado’s skyrocketing health costs are not solvable by single acts of policy.

Increasing transparency would help; the lack of transparency in hospital costs makes it difficult to find low-cost providers.

Increasing subsidies for insurers so more people could access care would help, too. But it won’t solve the problem.

The government could try to pass some individual pieces of legislation that will address segments of this issue, but the solution that would be best for the people is a complete healthcare overhaul in Colorado.Colorado tried to pass ColoradoCare in 2016, a universal healthcare measure for the state. Though the bill failed, activists are working to find other solutions that would still guarantee everyone access to healthcare.

Jared Polis, a Democratic candidate for governor, is

using universal healthcare as a platform for his gubernatorial race. He proposes a multi-state alliance with other Western states suffering from the same things causing Colorado costs to skyrocket.

Polis doesn’t provide enough details on his plan to really assess its feasibility, but the overall message is a good one. This study illustrates once again the need for some kind of universal healthcare system, whether that is a singlepayer system, a Medicare-for-all system, a subsidized individual mandate system, or something else.

Colorado needs to recognize that its healthcare foundations are broken, and start from the bottom up to create a healthcare system that doesn’t price out its citizens. As we head into midterm elections, keep Colorado’s high costs in mind when you cast your vote.

Michelle Fredrickson can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

support.

Former state legislator Mike Johnston is running primarily on his education experience, which involves advising former President Barack Obama, and on presenting himself among his grassroots supporters as being able to balance progressive values with pragmatic solutions.

Lieutenant Governor and former Kaiser Permanente executive Donna Lynne is similarly running on experience, though her areas of expertise include healthcare serving as the Chief Operating Officer of Colorado.

Finally, businessman Noel Ginsburg is presenting himself as the outsider moderate candidate for the Democrats, also highlighting his efforts in education.

No election is perfect, and the prolific fundraising and spending by candidates in this election is not ideal. Ultimately, however, money does not buy votes, and it does not diminish the fact that both parties feature a large field of candidates who could be capable governors.

As the governor’s race ramps up, the quality and diversity of candidates in both parties, combined with Colorado’s status as a battleground state, make the upcoming election a model for what democratic elections should be.

Josh Silva can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

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OPINION Thursday, March 1, 2018

EDITORIAL

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It took too long for ASCSU to talk Blame for Parkland is on about bias-motivated incidents local school officials, FBI

By Collegian Editorial Board @CSUCollegian

Editor’s note: This is an editorial. Editorials do not reflect the view of all employees of the Collegian, but instead represent a stance taken by the Collegian’s editorial board, which consists of the editor-inchief, the managing editor, the digital production manager, the news editors, the opinion editor, the sports editor and the arts and culture editors.

During Wednesday night’s senate session for the Associated Students of Colorado State University, Sen. Tamera Breidenbach started a conversation about biasmotivated incidents on campus – nearly seven months after the first one occurred.

While The Collegian respects the student government’s decision to start the conversation on biasmotivated incidents, it is long overdue. Why did it take so long?

The Collegian has reported on numerous incidents of this nature on campus throughout the academic year, starting with the fake noose discovered outside a Black resident assistant’s door in August and most recently reporting

By Stephen P. Halbrook

on white supremacist flyers distributed on campus.

We estimate we’ve written over 20 news articles related to white supremacy this academic year. This is not normal.

We covered hate so much on our campus that after the first six incidents, we partnered with ProPublica on a national non-profit project gather better data on hate crimes and bias incidents in the U.S. for use by journalists and civil-rights organizations.

Wednesday was the first time we heard it mentioned by our student representatives.

ASCSU President Michael Wells announced Wednesday night that the organization and the CSU Administration have plans to hold an event called “CSUnite” to bring attention to and work against bias-motivated incidents on campus. Wells and the ASCSU vice president, Cole Wise, wrote a Letter to the Editor before conservative speaker Charlie Kirk’s speech on campus in anticipation of the presence of white supremacists. It’s not enough.

While ASCSU has plans to bring campus-wide awareness and support to the issue in March, it still took the organization seven months to

act.

Despite President Tony Frank’s numerous emails and despite The Collegian’s coverage, the student government failed to take any real action, or even make a statement of support, throughout the course of the fall semester. Now, they’ve merely started a conversation.

We realize that the chambers of the student government are a politically charged space. But, it does not excuse them from having tough conversations.

We play a role in this. The Collegian has not done nearly as much as we could have. We wish we had started taking a strong stance against these types of incidents from the beginning, in addition to reporting them. We wish we had started calling it white supremacy instead of “bias-motivated” sooner. We implore ASCSU to do the same. It is important that this conversation started in the student government Wednesday night, and we commend the leaders in that room for doing so. But let’s – all of us– do better, sooner.

The Collegian Editorial Borad can be reached at editor@ collegian.com.

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OAKLAND – No sooner had the smoke cleared when the canned clamor for more “common sense gun safety measures” began.

Those are Orwellian code words for further criminalization of law-abiding gun owners in violation of the Second Amendment. But it did not take long for the actual facts to emerge behind the horrible murders of 17 innocents at the high school in Parkland, Florida.

“I’m going to be a professional school shooter,” said one “Nikolas Cruz” in a YouTube post five months ago.

The FBI couldn’t locate the person. Then in January a tipster identified Cruz and related his apparent plan to shoot up a school.

The FBI failed to forward this explicit threat to its Miami office.

At the local level, police were called 39 times for service involving Cruz. One school kicked him out for fighting and another for misbehavior. His new school, apparently fearing he might bring a weapon, forbade him from having a backpack. Fellow students feared what he might do.

Criminal charges for terrorist threats, assault and shooting at a neighbor’s chickens could have been brought; convictions would have made him ineligible to buy

firearms. Yet no prosecution was brought.

Cruz planned carefully and picked the ultimate soft target - a “gun-free” school zone.

There were no trained teachers with hidden firearms to defend against an armed intruder bent on murder. Defenseless victims were gunned down.

The countless Americans who recoiled in horror and mourned include good citizens who own firearms and who have children in schools. Yet instantly, preprogramed attacks were launched against the NRA for its support of the constitutional rights of lawabiding gun owners.

Under federal law, a person aged 18 or more who passes the background check may purchase a rifle from a gun dealer. Eighteenyear olds can vote and join the military.

Yet because negligent government bureaucrats failed to prevent a massacre, the cry goes out to ban rifle sales to millions of responsible citizens age 18 or over.

American students deserve better than to live in an authoritarian regime in which only the military, the police and criminals possess firearms. And they deserve to live in a society where those who claim to be law enforcement actually do their jobs.

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NATIONAL

Parents spooked by abuse in youth sports set more limits

By Sally Ho

The Associated Press

Shannon Stabbert said her 6-year-old daughter wants to be a gymnast, but the Seattle mother decided to put her in a martial-arts program instead.

“I have no doubt she will be quite amazing at gymnastics,” Stabbert said. “I just don’t feel like it’s a mentally, physically, emotionally healthy sport for girls.”

High-profile cases of sexual abuse and other predatory behavior in gymnastics, swimming and other sports have jolted many parents who believe athletics can be an important part of their child’s development. Some now feel compelled to be more cautious in monitoring their child’s contact with coaches and other adults.

Experts say the spotty rules and certifications for coaches and glorification of sports culture can make children who feel pressure to achieve even more vulnerable. No longer a casual pastime, sports teams can leave kids as young as 5 in the care of undertrained, undersupervised coaches.

Emmett Gill, a professor at the University of Texas and expert on the personal development of studentathletes, said success often means children leave their communities to compete, which can leave them at more risk.

“It’s clear that the coach’s responsibility, and their permanent goal, is to win, and that can sacrifice protecting vulnerable children,” Gill said.

“We really have forgotten about that good old neighborhood team. Now youth sports is a bunch of strangers on teams with the best athletes, with the purpose of winning.”

One national organization trying to prevent abuse of young athletes is the U.S. Center for SafeSport, a Denver-based nonprofit that formed last year.

It launched following the initial allegations of sexual abuse against Larry Nassar, the disgraced sports doctor for USA Gymnastics who will spend his life in prison for sexually assaulting some of the

nation’s top gymnasts under the guise of medical treatment.

The U.S. Olympic Committee developed SafeSport, but it’s now an independent organization that works with law enforcement to investigate abuse allegations for the 49 Olympic and Paralympic sports.

In addition to offering an online link for anonymous abuse reports, SafeSport also provides educational and training material for youth leagues nationwide. The goal is to prevent abuse altogether.

“We have got to get upstream and do more to educate athletes, to educate parents, to educate coaches and to educate sport administrators,” SafeSport CEO Shellie Pfohl said. “I want every parent to know what questions they should be asking when they sign their child up.”

Since its inception, SafeSport has received 470 reports of either emotional or physical abuse, including 165 reports this year and 222 active investigations overall. In some cases, the organization didn’t have jurisdiction over a youth league to investigate an allegation.

Youth leagues outside Olympic and Paralympic sports don’t have a national organization to investigate reports of physical abuse, harassment, hazing and other issues. Many of those leagues have spent years trying to mute overreaching parents through codes of conduct but now have to walk the line between input and child safety.

“There’s a balance between appropriate parental involvement and engagement, meaning are there overzealous parents who may upset the team dynamic or be inappropriate in terms of their treatment of the coach or athletes, and balancing that with parental due diligence,” Pfohl said. “We want parents to be empowered to not only ask these questions but to hold people accountable.”

Gill, the expert on studentathlete development, urges

Keller Youth football is trending downward and catching up to middle school and high school levels.

PHOTO BY STEVE NURENBERG FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM/TNS

all sports programs to create safety guidelines that clearly indicate the protocol for adults who suspect abuse.

Though teachers and doctors must report it, coaches and volunteers do not.

“If we’re really about youth development and character development, this is going to be in front — and the most important part — of our bylaws,” Gill said.

Even the regulators are not immune. The chief safety officer of USA Swimming, Susan Woessner, announced last week that she was resigning after revealing she had kissed a coach accused of sexual abuse and later assisted in the governing body’s investigation of him.

Sean Hutchison is under criminal investigation after

Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors said he abused her as a minor. Woessner said she wasn’t in a relationship with Hutchison.

USA Swimming also issued a letter to parents saying it had failed members and its system was “not flawless” and vowing to “ensure that there is never a lapse of a support system again.”

For many parents, they say they will look to set more boundaries and ask more questions.

“Sometimes you kind of wonder: Am I missing something as parent? Am I not looking? Am I not asking the right questions?

Am I trusting too much?” said Lara Mae Chollette, a Seattle mother of three.

Chollette, who works in human resources, said she’s also wondered lately whether

parents should stay for lengthy practices. If someone else is watching her kids, she finds out the ages of the other siblings who may come along. Her husband also has made a rule against taking responsibility for another child for overnight trips.

As a coach herself of youth soccer and basketball, Chollette said she knows the schedules, other parents and how people come and go from the sports facilities, which is helpful.

“It’s truly a commitment for us,” Chollette said of attending every practice, game and trip. “We see it as an educational element for our kids. There are things in sports that a teacher can’t teach.

There are things in sports that life can’t teach.”

Article courtesy of The Associated Press.

SPORTS Thursday, March 1, 2018

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Defensive woes lead to lopsided defeat

By Colin Barnard @ColinBarnard_

Fourteen seconds – that’s how long Colorado State didn’t trail against New Mexico Wednesday night in a regular season-ending beat down in Moby Arena.

Two days after learning of former head coach Larry Eustachy’s resignation, the Rams (11-20, 4-14 Mountain West) turned in its worst defensive performance in years, culminating in a 108-87 loss.

The 108 points surrendered is the third-most in the history of CSU basketball, and the first time a team has eclipsed the century mark on CSU since a double-overtime game in 2015.

“I didn’t think we came out ready to play which was disappointing,” interim head coach Jase Herl said. “I didn’t think we were ready to play and it showed. That game was lost in the first eight or ten minutes.”

One week removed from its worst loss of the season against Boise State, CSU displayed the same lack of energy in the opening minutes as New Mexico (16-14, 11-6 MW)

jumped out to a dominating 21-5 lead less than six minutes into the game.

CSU’s lackadaisical approach on the offensive end led to turnovers and easy buckets for New Mexico.

The Lobos forced 13 firsthalf turnovers which they translated to 27 points. After pushing their lead to double digits just four minutes into the game, the deficit only expanded throughout the contest.

The Lobos utilized an unfathomable 93 percent (14of-15) shooting mark from inside the arc during the first half to extend their lead to 5831 at halftime.

“We just didn’t keep them in front of us,” Herl said. “You’ve got to be able to guard the basketball and keep it in front of you and stay in rotations ... something we wanted to do was get them off the 3 (3-point line), but they played extremely well inside the 3.”

Frustrations continued to build in the second half as defensive inefficiencies only worsened and the Lobos crept closer to the century mark.

Despite the defensive

performance, the Rams’ offense straightened its ways to briefly cut into the lead. In all, CSU pushed its field goal percentage to 50 percent while committing just six secondhalf turnovers. CSU’s scoring tally was just three points shy of its highest total this season.

After the first half, though, it was too little, too late.

“We just kind of played on our heels the first eight minutes,” guard Prentiss Nixon said. “We played tentative, didn’t want to attack and that forced seven turnovers in the first five or six minutes.”

“We were scrambling a lot on defense and we didn’t play our way of basketball,” forward Deion James added. “They started scoring down low and started dropping it off so it was a lot of easy baskets for them.

Once you get easy baskets, the flow of the game gets better.”

New Mexico forward Joe Furstinger, infamous to CSU fans after his hard foul late last season, led the charge with 22 points and seven rebounds. He made 6-of-7 attempts from the field and all 10 free throws.

Six other teammates joined him with at least 10 points as

NATIONAL

Nolan Arenado says Carlos Gonzalez greatly missed in Rockies’ clubhouse

By Patrick Saunders The Denver Post

Something big is missing from the Rockies’ spring training clubhouse. There’s no denying it.

That something is Carlos Gonzalez.

“I think it would be safe to say that everyone here misses him, really badly,” all-star third baseman Nolan Arenado said Monday. “Don’t get me wrong, I think we have strong group of guys, but we miss CarGo’s energy and laughter. I know a lot of guys miss him -- even if they won’t voice it -- because we have talked about it since we all got here.

“CarGo kept things light.

He was a good balance for guys like me; guys who are kind of serious. I mean, CarGo could be serious, but at the same time, he kept everyone loose.”

Gonzalez was the king of the Rockies’ clubhouse. The all-star outfielder was a leader and a confidant, and perhaps

the team’s most magnetic personality.

Players were drawn to him.

“I miss him a lot,” 23-yearold right-hander German Marquez said. “He’s a good person and he’s a veteran guy and he was my friend. He gave me confidence. He was good to the young guys, all of the young guys, not just the Latin guys.”

But Gonzalez is not holding court in the corner of the Salt River Fields clubhouse this spring. Instead, he remains a free agent, working out in Florida while he waits to hook up with his next team. Rockies general manager Jeff Bridich has remained in contact with Gonzalez and his agent, Scott Boras, but there has been no indication that Colorado is going to re-sign Gonzalez.

Nor has there been any recent movement toward resigning veteran first baseman Mark Reynolds, who also remains a free agent.

“Those are two guys that we have spent a decent amount

of time staying in touch with, but other than that, there is nothing new to talk about,” Bridich said recently.

Gonzalez is coming off a down season. He was paid $20 million in the final year of his contract, but batted just .262 with 14 home runs and 57 RBIs, and needed a big September to salvage even those numbers.

Arenado, however, thinks that Gonzalez still has a lot left in the tank, even at age 32.

“Absolutely,” Arenado said. “He had a down year, unfortunately. But CarGo is a great player. I want him on my team. I’ll voice that. I would love to play with CarGo again.”

And what if the Rockies were to bring him back?

“It would be the greatest thing ever,” Arenado said.

“That would be huge for us.

Like I said, I think he’s a great player and I still think he can do some damage.”

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Prentiss Nixon makes a pass mid fall during the last home game of the season on Feb. 28. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN

only two Lobos failed to reach double digits in the scoring outburst.

Nixon paced CSU with 27 points, his second consecutive game scoring 27. Raquan Mitchell scored 21 points, shooting 7-of-12 from the field.

He set a new season high in points, besting his previous mark of 17 points.

Lone senior Che Bob was honored in a pregame ceremony on Senior Night.

He finished with eight points, five rebounds and two assists

before fouling out late in the game.

CSU now turns its attention to the Mountain West Tournament, something that remains a sliver of light at the end of the tunnel.

Locked into the 10 seed in the tournament, the Rams will play Wyoming, UNLV or Utah State on Wednesday, March 7 at 2:30 p.m. MT in Las Vegas, Nev. Colin Barnard can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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Denver weighs Olympics bid years after withdrawing as host

By Colleen Slevin The Associated Press

It promised ample snow and sunny weather on a normally bare, rocky peak easily accessible by “super highway,” thousands more hotel rooms than existed and a cross-country ski course that looked good on paper but would have cut through some people’s backyards.

The airbrushed pitch worked, but after Denver won a bid to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, its plan unraveled amid questions about the environmental impact, ballooning costs and logistics of hosting such a big event in a quickly growing state.

Now, over four decades after Denver became the only city to withdraw as an Olympic host after winning a bid, it is exploring whether to try again after many cities have decided it’s just not worth it.

The city is again growing, with low unemployment and a booming economy, and this time has a bigger airport, light rail, more hotels, seven professional sports teams and multiple stadiums. But the highway touted in ‘76 — Interstate 70, which connects Denver to the Rockies — has essentially remained the same.

As the population of outdoorloving Colorado has grown, the largely four-lane route is often gridlocked on weekends.

Meanwhile, the city also is trying to lure Amazon to open its second headquarters in the metro area, which already has many worried about growth, tax breaks and the rising cost of living.

The Olympic exploratory committee convened by Mayor Michael Hancock — which includes leaders of companies like Vail Resorts and Liberty Global, along with former Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and exDenver Nugget Chauncey Billups — is mulling a privately funded games, estimated to cost $2 billion, without any mega projects. Organizers say the strategy could even leave

the state with a surplus to fund I-70 improvements or other work.

Denver already faces stiff competition from Salt Lake City, which became the first U.S. city to announce its plans to bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics this month.

Salt Lake said it could host without losing money thanks to existing venues and its expertise in putting on the 2002 Olympics. Reno, Nevada, is also considering a bid.

While some worry the Olympics will distract Denver from urgent problems like affordable housing and transportation, committee members stress that the games won’t take money from those priorities and could potentially net $100 million to $200 million thanks to proceeds from ticket sales, sponsorships and merchandise.

The panel had been in a rush to decide in March whether to pursue the 2026 or 2030 games but is now focused on 2030. The U.S. Olympic Committee announced in Pyeongchang that it will not pursue a 2026 bid unless the International Olympic Committee decides to award bids for both years at once.

Denver’s group now plans to make a recommendation to the mayor and governor by late April or early May, although chairman Rob Cohen said the exploratory committee would readjust its timeline if a dual bid becomes a possibility.

The International Olympic Committee is encouraging fewer billion-dollar projects and more facilities already in place after the lavish 2014 Olympics in Sochi. The three venues that would need to be built for a Denver-based Olympics — for Nordic skiing, ski jumping, bobsledding, luge and skeleton — would be temporary structures, said Cohen, CEO of insurance and wealth management company IMA Financial Group. The events could be spread around the state or concentrated along the Front Range.

The exploratory committee

After Denver declined to host the Winter Olympics in 1976, the city is once again considering the possibility of hosting the winter games. Heading up the Olympic exploratory committee is Mayor Michael Hancock which includes leaders of companies like Vail Resorts. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN

has been criticized for its lack of grassroots representation for meeting behind closed doors, but it recently invited community activists to serve on advisory groups and held online meetings with the public.

Architect Michael Wenham pondered the prospect of a Denver Olympics recently while at a park near downtown, noting it could be interesting to come up with environmentally friendly ways to host the Olympics.

But he reconsidered when he thought about I-70 traffic. He can’t remember the last time he headed to the mountains to snowboard on a weekend because of its traffic jams.

“High-speed buses with their own lane. That is the only way they’re going to be able to do it,” Wenham said.

Cohen said buses would be one possibility for moving people to the mountains quickly during the Olympics, as would giving truckers

incentives to bypass I-70.

He said some of the surplus could be used to improve the interstate or on another project that would benefit the state long-term, and noted the federal government helped pay to fix highways for Salt Lake City’s 2002 Games.

In the years since Denver said no thanks, more cities have become wary of pursuing the Olympics in the face of public opposition and financial concerns.

Innsbruck, Austria, which hosted the 1976 Games after Denver backed out, decided against pursuing a 2026 bid when its promise to organize low-cost and sustainable games failed to convince residents. Other cities that have considered but dropped Olympic aspirations in recent years include St. Moritz and Davos, Switzerland, Krakow, Poland and Oslo, Norway.

Former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm, whose political career took off after he helped fight

the 1976 Olympics, is trying to keep an open mind about Denver’s latest go-around. The committee studying the issue includes savvy people with a track record of successful economic development projects, he said.

But even if Denver could pull it off, he’s not sure what’s in it for the city.

Lamm thinks officials tend to get seduced by the Olympics’ glamour when they could spend their attention on the mundane things that support the economy, such as finding money for education and roads. That takes more campaigning and alliancemaking in Colorado because of its strict tax and spending limits, which require voters to approve any tax hikes.

“There’s many opportunities to make this a better state, and I don’t see how the Olympics fit into that,” he said.

Article courtesy of The Associated Press.

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MW to host first conference-sponsored eSports competition

By Austin White @ajwrules44

Next week, the eyes of Mountain West fans will turn to Las Vegas as both the women’s and men’s basketball tournaments will begin with a trip to the big dance on the line.

All 11 schools will send a team to try to hoist the trophy and prove they are the best in the west.

But basketball will not be the only sport with a title on the line in Vegas. Or should I say eSport title?

For the first time, the Mountain West will host an “eSports Showdown” with teams from Boise State and UNLV going head to head for the crown. Each squad consists of 15 players and they will compete in three of the video game industry’s top competitive titles: “League of Legends,” “Rocket League” and “Overwatch.”

“As a conference, we have never been reluctant to try new and different things, and I appreciate the encouragement and support of our university presidents in bringing this exciting new initiative forward,” MW Commissioner Craig Thompson said.

“Globally, eSports is enjoying a boom in popularity – particularly among young people who are in the

same age bracket as the students on our campuses. We are also seeing universities add eSports programming, technology and business to their curriculum offerings.”

The events begin March 8 and 9 when the two schools will hold exhibition matches to show off their skills to fans attending the basketball games. Every fan with a ticket to the MW basketball tournament can attend these matches as they will be held in the Strip View Pavilion of the Thomas & Mack Center.

“While over 41 universities have an eSports team, only one out of the 11 universities participating in the MWC has one, which is Boise State,” Global Gaming Capital Coodinator Nicole Schultz said to The Scarlet and Gray Free Press. “With a push from UNLV President Len Jessup and our Mountain West collaborators, a committee was formed to organize the inaugural Mountain West Conference eSports Showdown.”

Boise State is the first university in the Mountain West to have a varsity sponsored competitive gaming team, meaning they could offer scholarships for students through eSports. They are also building the largest gaming facility in college eSports that has a 100seat training center along with a

spectator arena.

As for UNLV, their team, titled 8-Bit, was founded in 2012 and is recognized as a member of the Riot Games Collegiate Program, the makers of “League of Legends.” The program has had former members go on to compete professionally and UNLV is one of a select few universities that offer academic programs that encompass the eSports world.

In Fort Collins, Colorado State has their own team as well.

The CSU eSports Association is home to over 300 active members and is the largest student organization on campus. They have done particularly well in the game “Hearthstone” and were the only Colorado team to qualify for a tournament last year where each one of the members of their “CSU Wranglers” squad took home $1,600 in scholarships.

CSU also competed against Boise State in the Denver DreamHack competition back in October. The two schools competed in several titles at one of the biggest events for eSports in Colorado.

The popularity in Colorado cannot compare to growing environment in the entertainment capital of the world, Las Vegas. The city has already become a hub for the eSports industry and the city is

The audience watches a match between the University of Maryland, left, and the University of Illinois in the Big Ten Network League of Legends championship in the Battle Theater at North American League Championship Arena at Riot Games in Los Angeles on March 28, 2017.

Maryland won the best of five contest by a score of 3-0.

PHOTO BY MEL MELCON LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS

also set to open eSports Arena Las Vegas on March 22 in the Luxor Hotel and Casino. The stadium is a collaboration between the Luxor and Allied Esports.

“Esports Arena Las Vegas will be the iconic destination in eSports and complement the city’s incredible appeal, attracting video gaming competitors and fans from around the world,” CEO of Allied Esports Jud Hannigan said to The Free Press.

The popularity in Las Vegas made a pairing with the basketball tournaments a perfect combination for the Mountain West to showcase not only their on-court talents, but also their growing interest in eSports.

“We are excited to connect the tradition of our successful MW Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships with something innovative and different like the MW eSports Showdown,” Thompson said.

The main event will take place March 10 beginning at 10 a.m. MT and tickets are on sale for $10. The event is scheduled to end at 2:30 p.m. with the men’s basketball title game following right behind at 4 p.m.

Both the exhibition matches and the championship can be viewed online on the Mountain West’s Twitch channel.

Austin White can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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College basketball is entering forbidden territory Luke Zahlmann @ajwules44

The game of college basketball is on its way to drastic changes at the hands of several programs utilizing tactics against National Collegiate Athletic Association guidelines to lure high school graduates to their stomping grounds.

An undercover FBI investigation recently found that multiple Power Five programs have resorted to paying recruits to attend their university and play on one of their various sports teams.

The probe included programs such as the basketball programs of the University of Arizona, North Carolina and Duke among others according to a report published by Yahoo! Sports.

Tabbed as a breaking news event, the discovery of coaches using currency to lure players is blatantly obvious. The players, many from underprivileged

situations, should not be the brunt of the conversation.

Schools such as Duke and North Carolina have continuously signed multiple top recruits, including the Blue Devils’ latest class that features all three of the top players in the nation. Mike Krzyzewski, one of the top college coaches of all time, even fails to make it look like a coincidence.

The odds of any single program being able to recruit multiple top recruits with professional aspirations after a single year at the university are slim to none.

Without extra incentives, top players would have no reason to commit to a university with other top recruits, in turn dwindling their own exposure.

NCAA Division I basketball at its highest level is now a bidding war for players, with the highest bidder reaping the benefits. The issue is not one that is a revelation, nor one that should be surprising to fans.

Organizations such as booster clubs have long been on board with supporting the ill-wishes of the head coach of their alma mater’s sports team and opening

their wallets for the success of the university they called home.

Group of Five schools such as Colorado State University are left to pick up what remains of each years’ recruiting class due to their lack of leverage to go under the table financially for recruiting. The difference in the two renditions of college basketball, Power Five and Group of Five, leaves each season to be decided by the elite, with the exception of a handful of earlyround upsets in the post season.

The lack of competition posed

by CSU’s men’s basketball program in recruiting has resulted in a reliance on the transfer market, with former coach Larry Eustachy being the leader. The reliance on players with college experience already is a mixture of Eustachy’s preference towards established players, as well as the non-existent nature of CSU’s recruiting power in the top echelon of the sport.

On the other hand, at the helm of the aforementioned University of Arizona men’s basketball program is Sean Miller.

Due to a wiretap through the FBI, Miller was caught discussing the payment of future lottery pick

and unanimous top-five recruit, DeAndre Ayton.

The 7-foot-1 big man from Phoenix, Ariz. was given $100,000 for his commitment to be a Wildcat. The problem for the association that oversees the athletic programs of the nation, is that the NCAA failed to realize the infractions sooner.

As a program that only reached the Final Four a total of four times with a single championship to show for it, Ayton committing to play under the tutelage of Miller should have raised red flags immediately.

Instead of accepting offers from Kentucky, a breeding ground for elite inside players, or Duke, who has a storied history of greatness in college and professional basketball, Ayton took his talents to the second-most known school in Arizona. That fact alone should have told the judiciaries of collegiate athletics that something was amiss.

The difference in the philosophies of the two programs is a glaring example of the corruption taking place in collegiate athletics, specifically on

the hardwood.

The obliviousness shown by those around the corrupt programs, as well as their fans, is striking. The veil of ignorance being placed over the eyes of those who support the largest programs in the nation makes them blind to the facts so openly available.

As commissioner of the highest level of basketball on the globe, Adam Silver has already come to the forefront of the recruiting issue and discussed the remission of the one-anddone rule. The New York Times reported the proposal last year, prior to the investigation.

If the corruption continues, the National Basketball Association will have nary a choice but to sever its ties with the NCAA as a whole, leaving their G-league to train and elevate players out of high school.

Without swift justice and an in-house sanitation of those that tarnish the beloved sport of college basketball, the slippery slope will take the entire sport into extinction.

Luke Zahlmann can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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AP Oscar predictions: What will win, what should win

By Lindsey Bahr & Jake Coyle The Associated Press

Ahead of Sunday’s 90th Academy Awards, Associated Press film writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle share their predictions for a ceremony that — at least at the end — should be a nail biter.

Expanded predictions by Bahr and Coyle are available here .

Best Picture The Nominees: “Call Me by Your Name,” ‘’Darkest Hour,” ‘’Dunkirk,” ‘’Get Out,” ‘’Lady Bird,” ‘’Phantom Thread,” ‘’The Post,” ‘’The Shape of Water,” ‘’Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” BAHR: Will Win: No controversy, timely messages, a dash of fantasy and a love of movies, “The Shape of Water” seems to be the safe, if a little boring, front-runner.

Should Win: “Lady Bird” is the movie I want to watch over and over again. It is such an effortlessly perfect slice of life film that will be around far after this awards season noise comes to an end.

COYLE: Will Win: There are five movies with a legitimate shot to win, which makes this year more difficult than usual to call.

I’m going to say Jordan Peele’s cultural sensation “Get Out” wins because it has two crucial things going for it: the all-important SAG ensemble nomination and a good shot at a recently highly predictive screenplay award. That, and it

did more to re-energize genre filmmaking than anything in a decade.

Should Win: “Call Me By Your Name” stood apart for me. It’s a movie that feels like it has the windows open, and life just flows through it.

Best Actor The Nominees: Timothee Chalamet (“Call Me by Your Name”), Daniel Day-Lewis (“Phantom Thread”), Daniel Kaluuya (“Get Out”), Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”), Denzel Washington (“Roman J. Israel, Esq.”) BAHR: Will Win: Gary Oldman has won most of the major awards so far and there’s no reason he wouldn’t continue the streak at the Oscars, much to the chagrin of the internet’s darling, Timothee Chalamet, who will definitely get another shot at this award down the line.

Should Win: Gary Oldman’s full and complete transformation into Winston Churchill is something they should teach in acting (and makeup) classes forever.

COYLE: Will Win: Oldman has this one in the bag.

Should Win: I wouldn’t begrudge Oldman his moment in the sun. But I’ll say Day-Lewis is simply the best there is. Maybe a surprise Oscar would coax him into rethinking retirement.

Best Actress The Nominees: Sally Hawkins

(“The Shape of Water”), Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”), Margot Robbie (“I, Tonya”), Saoirse Ronan (“Lady Bird”), Meryl Streep (“The Post”) BAHR: Will Win: It’s funny how uninspired the acting categories can seem when the same people win every award. This is Frances McDormand’s year, plain and simple.

Should Win: This is an extremely tough category, but out of this batch, it was Margot Robbie who stretched herself beyond anything I might have assumed her capable of as the proud, defiant and unapologetic Tonya Harding.

COYLE: Will Win: McDormand is a virtual lock.

Should Win: The most deserving is Ronan, who’s perpetually playing a jumble of emotions, most of them contradictory, at once.

Best Supporting Actor The Nominees: Willem Dafoe (“The Florida Project”), Woody Harrelson (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”), Richard Jenkins (“The Shape of Water”), Christopher Plummer (“All the Money in the World”), Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) BAHR: Will Win: Sam Rockwell went big in “Three Billboards” as the racist cop who decides to (maybe) start rethinking (some of) his ways.

Should Win: It is Willem

Dafoe who gives “The Florida Project” its beating heart. He makes every moment he’s in memorable, whether he’s escorting a suspicious character off of the property of a low-rent motel on the outskirts of Orlando, or just trying to count the rent money.

COYLE: Will Win: Rockwell is the favorite but I smell an upset.

There’s not much evidence for it.

I just think good sense will prevail and Dafoe will win his first Oscar.

Should Win: Would it not be great to see Jenkins win?

Would anyone not cheer seeing Harrelson at the podium? But Dafoe’s low-rent motel fatherfigure will go down as the iconic performance of the bunch.

Best Supporting Actress The Nominees: Mary J. Blige (“Mudbound”), Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”), Lesley Manville (“Phantom Thread”), Laurie Metcalf (“Lady Bird”), Octavia Spencer (“The Shape of Water”) BAHR: Will Win: Allison Janney, who is very excellent as the caustic, complicated mother LaVona in “I, Tonya,” and everyone has noticed.

Should Win: Lesley Manville upstaged Daniel Day-Lewis (in a good way) as the steadfast Cyril, who can be sometimes terrifying and often funny and without whom “Phantom Thread” would have come crashing to the ground.

COYLE: Will Win: Janney, a riot in “I, Tonya,” is the favorite.

Should Win: I’d cast my nonexistent vote for Metcalf, in her first film in almost a decade. Her character in “Lady Bird” is one of the finest working mothers I’ve ever seen in movies.

Best Director The Nominees: Christopher Nolan (“Dunkirk”), Jordan Peele (“Get Out”), Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”), Paul Thomas Anderson (“Phantom Thread”), Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”) BAHR: Will Win: Affable, undeniably talented, quick to drop an expletive and “in love with love and movies,” Guillermo del Toro is the likely pick for this year’s best director. Also, “The Shape of Water” could only have been made by him.

Should Win: Christopher Nolan really should be getting more awards for his achievement with “Dunkirk.” Nolan made a masterpiece of suspense like we’ve never seen before.

COYLE: Will Win: Del Toro seems to have this locked up.

Should Win: I really have no idea. The filmmakers in this group are impossible to compare against each other; all of the movies are so singular to the director. Anderson’s impeccable comedy? Gerwig’s richness of lived-in detail? I don’t like choosing but Nolan’s feat in “Dunkirk” is a majestic creation of sight and sound.

Article courtesy of The Associated Press.

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In patriarchal Japan, saying ‘Me Too’ can be risky for women

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press

TOKYO — Japanese women who say “Me too” do so at their own risk.

Online comments accused Rika Shiiki of lying and being a publicity hound when she tweeted that she lost business contracts after refusing to have sex with clients. Some said that by agreeing to dine with a man, she led him on.

“The comments I received were disproportionately negative,” the 20-yearold university student and entrepreneur told a TV talk show in December. “We need to create a society where we can speak up. Otherwise sexual harassment and other misconduct will persist forever.”

The #MeToo movement has not caught on in Japan, where speaking out often draws criticism rather than sympathy, even from other women.

In a patriarchal society where women have long taken the blame, many victims try to forget attacks and harassment instead of seeking support and justice, said Mari Miura, a political science professor at Sophia University in Tokyo.

“Japan lacks such a sisterhood,” she said. “It’s an exhausting and intimidating process. ... It’s quite natural that victims feel reluctant to speak up.”

One woman, journalist Shiori Ito, went public last year.

She held a news conference after prosecutors decided not to press charges against a prominent TV newsman whom she had accused of raping her after he invited her to discuss job opportunities over dinner and drinks in 2015.

Many online comments criticized her for speaking out, looking too seductive and ruining the life of a prominent figure. Some women called her an embarrassment, she told The Associated Press.

The October release of Ito’s book “Blackbox”

detailing her ordeal came as the #MeToo phenomenon was making headlines in America.

It prompted some discussion in Japan, but only a handful of other women came forward.

“Many people think Shiori’s problem has nothing to do with them ... and that’s why #MeToo isn’t growing in Japan,” said lawyer Yukiko Tsunoda, an expert on sex crimes. In Japan, sexually assaulted women are traditionally called “the flawed,” she said.

Nearly three quarters of rape victims said they had never told anyone, and just over 4 percent had gone to police, according to a 2015 government survey. The study found that one in 15 Japanese women had been raped or forced to have sex.

Victims often shy away from going to court out of fear, privacy concerns or losing jobs, Tsunoda said.

Justice Ministry statistics show only one-third of rape cases go to court, and punishment is not severe.

Of the 1,678 people tried for sexual assault in 2017, only 285, or 17 percent, were sentenced to prison for three years or longer. In November, Yokohama prosecutors, without saying why, dropped the case against six students from a leading university who had been arrested for the alleged gang-rape of a teenage female student after getting her drunk. The university expelled three of them.

Popular writer Haruka Ito, who goes by the pen name Ha-Chu, was criticized after revealing in December that she had faced sexual and other harassment by a senior male employee when both worked at Dentsu, Japan’s largest advertising agency.

The alleged harasser, whom she identified by name, apologized in a statement and quit as head of his own company, though he denied the harassment was sexual.

Ha-chu said in a statement that she initially tried to endure and forget the ordeal,

fearing that exposing it would hurt her image and cause problems for her former colleagues. After news of the journalist Ito’s case and the #MeToo movement, “I decided to speak out,” she said.

Conformist pressure in Japan discourages women from speaking out or saying “no” to many things, including unwanted sex, said Saori Ikeuchi, a former lawmaker and gender diversity activist.

That mindset has silenced virtually all of Japan’s so-called “comfort women,” who were sexually abused as prostitutes for the wartime military, while Japan has shown little sympathy to victims from Korea and elsewhere, she said.

Ito, the journalist, said that after she became dizzy and passed out in a restroom, her alleged attacker, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, took her to his hotel room and raped her while she was incapacitated.

The alleged assault was just the beginning of her ordeal, Ito said. The women’s clinic she visited the next day lacked expertise on rape, and a rape victim support center refused to give her advice on the phone. Police required her to recount the ordeal repeatedly and to demonstrate it with a life-sized doll, she said.

Ito said it took three weeks to get police to accept her criminal complaint and start investigating. She held a news conference in May, announcing that she had requested a court-appointed citizens’ panel to review the decision to drop the case. The inquest in September agreed with the decision not to indict.

Yamaguchi has denied any wrongdoing in published articles and on Facebook. Ito has filed a civil lawsuit against him, demanding 10 million yen ($93,000) in compensation for her suffering from the alleged rape, and seeking any clues as to why he was let go and never arrested.

“I thought about how I could change the situation, and I had no choice but to speak

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out about my experience,” she said.

A group of opposition lawmakers has started its own investigation, seeking to find if the charges were dropped because of Yamaguchi’s connections to powerful political officials.

National Police Agency official Junichiro Kan told the lawmakers at a recent hearing that Ito’s case was properly handled. Police say they have tried to be more sensitive to the feelings of victims while guarding against wrongful accusations.

Mika Kobayashi, a rape victim, runs a self-help group that has exchanged thousands of #MeToo experiences, but only anonymously among themselves.

She said she was pushed into a car and raped on her way home in 2000. She reported

the attack to police, but the attacker hasn’t been found.

She has since published books about her recovery from the ordeal, to raise public awareness.

Her focus is on providing support and understanding for victims, rather than being an activist.

“I used to think of myself as someone hiding a big secret, a sex assault victim and unclean,” she said. “I’m so grateful I could connect with fellow victims. They gave me strength.”

The knowledge that others also blamed themselves and lost self-esteem has helped her to heal slowly, Kobayashi said.

“I think it’s also OK not to speak up,” she said. “I respect any decision that makes a victim feel most comfortable.”

Article courtesy of The Associated Press.

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COLLEGE

Why it’s OK that you didn’t make spring break plans

By Miranda Moses @mirandasrad

Without fail, the fall semester is the longest thing to ever happen, ever, every time. Spring semester, on the other hand, is a whirlwind of weeks passing by with no warning, impending graduation dates and erasing “2017” after accidentally writing it on papers and notes months into the new year.

SPRING BREAK ■ 1.5 million students go on spring

break every year and collectively spend over one billion dollars.

Because the beginning of March has now smacked us right in the face, it is understandable, under the circumstances, that there are more than a few Colorado States students who might have forgotten to make plans for this upcoming Spring Break. If this is the case, here are some reasons why your altered conception of time may be a blessing in disguise: 1. Your dog misses you.

Dogs’ perception of time is way different than humans’ perception of time. So, if you have not made it back to your parent’s house since winter break, your dog might think you have been gone for 472 years.

While you have been drowning in lab reports and struggling to cite papers on easybib, your pup has been going through the stresses of figuring out where the heck you went after your family got rid of the tree in the living room full of balls they weren’t allowed to fetch or the shiny stick that was on fire eight times but never chewed on.

This spring break, the only lab you should be focused on is the fuzzy, slobbery one that will not leave you alone if you open a bag of cheese.

2. You already go to school in Colorado.

People from other states

travel to Colorado for spring break to ski, hike and get altitude drunk, so essentially all CSU students are always on spring break depending on how you choose to utilize your time. You aren’t really missing out on the fun because you can literally live it any weekend if you strategically ignore your responsibilities.

3. You won’t go into shock.

By avoiding highly sought after stereotypical, toasty, nautical Spring Break destinations like Cancun, Miami or South Padre Island, your body will never have to come to terms with the fact that instead of the lovely 8-degree weather Colorado blessed us with the past few weeks, you will now be on fire. While some may be craving summer sun, you can find solace in the fact that many of your friends will come back from spring break with a fresh lobsteresque sunburn and a liver screaming for water instead of Malibu Rum. 4. You don’t have to spend money on big vacation plans.

Plain and simple, you’ll have more money for late night Krazy Karl’s and beer runs than anyone else after spring break. You will essentially keep many of Fort Collins’ stores in business until your peers financially recover. You are vital to the economy.

5. It’s called a break.

There’s no shame in sleeping for a week after academic turmoil and hard work causes you to forget what year you are in. Spring break is only an equally fleeting week amongst the hectic ones of the spring semester, especially compared to the impending summer to come, so if you made your break into a literal break of life, then relax away. May you rest peacefully by canceling out any inkling of FOMO by eating 16 bags of Doritos and then sleeping until 3 p.m. every day in the name of self-care.

Miranda Moses can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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4 CSU freshmen pursue music career together MUSIC

By Isabelle Rayburn @Seiss_Diosaa

Music can be seen as a universal language to many people, but for these musicians, music is their life.

Four freshmen Colorado State University students started jamming together in a music room in the dorms about a month ago. One day, they made a song, and it flowed nicely without trying. Now they plan to make a band.

“Music has got me through a lot of stuff,” undeclared freshman Angel Salazar said.

“I always put on a song to kind of take me down from all that stress and anxiety. Or when I’m happy, I always have a happy playlist. It’s molded me in a sense because music is an art like poetry, and the lyrics always have a message.”

Salazar isn’t the only one who feels this way about music.

“Music is an escape for

me from the real world,” undeclared fresman Andy Truong said. “Music is sort of the thing that you don’t stress about. You could pretty much do anything with music.”

“It’s amazing what people can do when they believe in something greater than themselves” BRONSON RIVERA UNDECLARED CSU STUDENT

The group plays alternative music, but undeclared frshman Bronson Rivera said they didn’t choose the genre, it chose them.

“When I listen to music and just let it consume every atom in my bones, I become more than myself,” Rivera said.

“I become the voice that is singing in the lyrics. I become

the person it was written for” At the end of the day, the band has some advice to others who want to start making music. They all believe that the music industry doesn’t see many minorities and that they can fight that and pave the way for other minorities.

“Work hard at it, practice makes perfect,” Rivera said.

“Make music that you would listen to, and create it from the heart use any spontaneous idea. The wilder, the better.

Give it your own voice. And lastly, believe. It’s amazing what people can do when they believe in something greater than themselves” Rivera is a poet, so he helps with song lyrics. Salazar and other group member, undeclared freshman Sophia Luna, sing. Truong and Luna play guitar.

The group is in contact with Jered Lish, the person who guided actor William Shewfelt.

MUSIC

Undeclared freshman Bronson Rivera, undeclared freshman Sophia Luna, undeclared freshman Angel Salazar and undeclared freshman Andy Truong started writing music about a month ago. They have written five songs, and have been working on an untitled EP. PHOTO BY SETH BODINE COLLEGIAN

He told them to make an EP, and they are hoping that he paves the way for them to get their career started.

“The greatest obstacle is yourself; many people can tell you that you’re great and

you’re good, but at the end of the day, if you don’t believe in yourself, you’re going to bring yourself down,” Salazar said.

Isabelle Rayburn can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com.

EVENTS

Ravyn Lenae pairs with producer ‘Lebowski’ screening to tie the community together Steve Lacy on ‘Crush’ EP

By Miles Parrish @parrishm20

Ravyn Lenae’s third release is undoubtedly some of the best music to come out in the month of February.

Released on Feb. 9, “Crush” can be seen as an exhibition between the Chicago singersongwriter’s R&B stylings and the guidance of Steve Lacy, a Grammy-nominated producer who worked on each of the five tracks on Lenae’s EP.

RAVYN LENAE ■ Toured with SZA ■ Born in

Chicago, Illinois and attended the Chicago High School for the Arts ■ Some of her musical influences include OutKast, Timbaland, Eminem, India.Arie,and Erykah Badu The duo show incredible chemistry on this EP as Lenae’s voice rides beautifully overtop of Lacy’s funky, guitar-led production. Steve Lacy even features as a vocalist for a couple of the tracks on the EP, and adds to the feeling of those tracks just as much as he does with his

By Nick Botkin

production, and by that I mean a lot.

On “Computer Luv” Lacy provides the necessary vocal addition to a song based on a story of two online lovers that have yet to see each other in person as he sings “When will I meet you, I’m down to see you, I wanna see you right now” in unison with Ravyn.

Each song on “Crush EP” dives into different aspects of relationships, and does so in a way that doesn’t feel done before. It is both fresh and highly accessible without risking the artistic effort involved to make room for that accessibility.

A highlight of the EP comes from “Sticky,” a song about a failing relationship the two parties are trying to repair.

Featuring one of the most contagious choruses in recent memory, “Sticky” brings an upbeat yet clearly distressed approach to its subject matter that blends wondrously.

Because “Crush EP” is only five songs and 16 minutes, there isn’t much of a problem with the overall consistency of quality. Although it is similar to a full album in terms of consistent concepts lyrically and production wise, those concepts become much more compartmentalized into each

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of the songs instead of bleeding into each other. There is a clear broad aspect of love or infatuation across each of the tracks and the projects title makes that even more evident.

That being said, “Crush EP” is not something that you need to dive deep into in any aspect to understand; it is just a quick compilation of uniquely produced and well-sung love songs.

Should you listen to it? Yes While this project will not be anything of lasting effect for me, it definitely inclines me to look forward to Ravyn Lenae’s future endeavors, and that might just have been the intention. If it is, then it succeeded miraculously.

Miles Parrish can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

Intruders pee on a man’s beloved rug. Said rug really ties the room together. The aggrieved man wants compensation for said act.

Thus begins the plot of 1998’s “The Big Lebowski,” a Coen Brothers classic.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the screening, the Lyric Cinema is holding a special showing of this classic.

The date?

March 6, 2018, the exact anniversary of the original release.

The date is sometimes known as the “Day of The Dude” to Lebowski fanatics, or achievers, to use the preferred nomenclature.

The cult classic centers around Jeffrey Lebowski, better known as “The Dude” and played by Jeff Bridges. The Dude is mistaken for a magnate with the same name, hence the intruders and the rugpeeing. The Dude, along with his friends Walter and Donny, are subsequently investigating a kidnapping plot. The plot is both comedic and surreal. German nihilists, marmots, and even a severed toe are involved. Copious amounts of White Russians and pot are also consumed.

The movie includes an eclectic cast besides Bridges, such as John Goodman, Julianne Moore and Steve Buscemi.

You might want to obtain tickets fast.

‘LEBOWSKI’ ■ Where

Lyric Cinema, 1209 N. College Ave., Fort Collins ■ When March 6, 7 p.m.

“We are expecting a couple hundred people or so showing up and countless gallons of White Russians being consumed,” said Dillon Cole, cinema manager.

He added that they anticipate screening the movie in an additional theater.

There are two ticket options, including one that includes a White Russian with purchase. The Lyric also offered an option that included a White Russian and custommade bowling shirt, but that is no longer available.

Cole said he expects a sense of “comedic camaraderie” from the screening.

“People love throwing out Lebowski quotes,” Cole said. “And when you find someone else that can play ball with you, you are friends instantly.”

Nick Botkin can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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BOOKS

19th century female authors you should read this month

By Claire Oliver @claire_oliver21

With Women’s History month kicking off today, it is the perfect time to sit down with a book written by a strong female writer. Here are some suggestions of novels written by women who changed the game during the 19th Century.

As we all know, most of history has been dominated by men. And this also included the world of literature. But three Victorian female authors stand out from the crowd for their tenacity as well as popularity: Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and Mary Shelley.

Jane Austen Jane Austen was the first writer out of the group. Her most popular book to date is “Pride and Prejudice,” which was published over 200 years ago. There are movies, TV shows and even musicals based off of the novel and fascination for her romances grows every year.

Mr. Darcy from “Pride and Prejudice” is the ultimate literary crush. With his riches and good looks mixed with a brooding attitude and mysterious life he is a total

catch. But Darcy, sorry ladies, is a jerk, and the best part of the book is Elizabeth Bennett, the women Darcy is obsessed with.

A cheeky and well spoken woman who doesn’t really care about societal conformity and deliberately does what she wants, Elizabeth fights against the traditional 19th century female troupes.

It is truly shocking for a Victorian woman to have a backbone, but Elizabeth’s character is what makes the books such a wonderful contribution to the world of female literature. Austen may be a hopeless romantic, but her female characters are anything but ordinary.

Her books have become a staple of the romance genre, and to this day, Austen remains a household name.

Abbie Hanawalt, a Colorado State University alumna, has been reading classic female literature since she was a kid.

“Jane Austen, firstly, is entertaining, and I just enjoy her writing,” Hanawalt said. “I think her stories are challenging, but readers can connect with the characters.”

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë is the next female in the lineup. She wrote her book, “Jane Eyre” under a male name so that publishers would actually read her writings.

Her sisters, Emily and Anne, were also writers and published first under male names.

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“Beloved” ■ Jhumpa Lahiri “The Namesake” ■ Diana Gabaldon “Outlander” ■ Harper Lee “To Kill a Mockingbird” ■ Zora Neale Hurston “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

Charlotte Brontë’s book “Jane Eyre” is impressive and long, but don’t get scared by the length. The main character is Jane, and is extremely radical in terms of breaking down gender sterotypes.

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for the main characters lack of “feminine qualities.” But in reality Jane represented a whole class of women who fought against stereotypes that defined being ‘feminine’ as wealthy, beautiful and married.

“Working at this fine line where the social and the familial and the marital kind are of undermined and taken apart by other forms of desire and disaster that often the proprieties of marriage are meant to tamp down in a way,” said Dan Beachy-Quick, an English professor at Colorado State University. “And so one feels in something like ‘Jane Eyre’ the sense that some residual primary destructive force that somewhere within love continues to exist within love.”

Mary Shelley Another novelist from this time period is Mary Shelley.

Her novel “The Modern Prometheus,” better known as “Frankenstein,” sets her to a completely different tune than both Austen and the Brontës.

Firstly, Shelley’s main protagonist is a male and her novel centers on darker questions that deal with

mortality and the human condition. Also, she was only 19 when she wrote the book.

“There is something going on in Mary Shelley,” BeachyQuick said. “And her husband and Lord Byron and that whole milieu of romantic writers that is genuinely radical in terms of their experiment not just on the page but in life.”

Shelley did live a very radical and different life then the previous writers. She was married and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was an esteemed writer himself. They were representatives of the counter culture in the 19th century and Shelley’s work reflects that lifestyle.

“Part of what’s remarkable about her is that in the midst of these kind of overwhelming masculine personalities she was able to forge a visionary work of fiction that was also social commentary that’s also mythological rewriting,” Beachy-Quick said.

“No one can go wrong reading any of the three,” Beachy-Quick said.

Claire Oliver can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

Daily Horoscope Nancy Black

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY

(03/01/18). Explore new horizons this year. Tight team coordination widens the range of possibilities.

Pursue a personal dream. Unexpected funding sources arise.

Summer romance and a refreshing pause lead to surging physical health and fitness.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — 8

— Reach a turning point in your physical health and fitness, with this Virgo Full Moon. Are you having enough fun?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — 7 — Change directions with a romance, passion or creative endeavor under this Full Moon in Virgo.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — 7 — Domestic changes require adaptation under the Virgo Full Moon.

Renovate, remodel and tend your garden.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — 6 — A new phase in communications, connection and intellectual discovery dawns with this Full Moon.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — 7 — A turning point arises around income and finances. Seek profitable opportunities under the

Full Moon. Gain strength from the past.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — 8 — This Full Moon in your sign illuminates a new personal direction.

Push your own boundaries and limitations.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — 5 — You could get grumpy without some downtime. This Full Moon shines on a spiritual fork in the road.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — 7 — Keep things respectful and practical. This Full Moon illuminates a new social phase, with changes between friends and group projects.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — 7 — This Full Moon sparks a turning point in your career. Shift focus toward current passions.

Expect a test.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — 8 — Begin an exploratory phase.

This Full Moon illuminates a new educational direction. Experiment with new concepts and philosophies.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — 6 — Take a new direction with your shared finances under this Full Moon. Balance old and new responsibilities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — 7 — Love is your foundational support structure. A turning point arises in a partnership with this Full Moon.

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