Vol 127, no 106 March 6, 2018

Vol. 127, No. 106 Tuesday, March 6, 2018

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YOUTHS TAKE ON GUN CONTROL

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Arapahoe shooting survivors at CSU tell their story

SEYMOUR COLLEGIAN

By Austin Fleskes @Austinfleskes07

Editor’s note: This story contains graphic details in regards to school shootings, specifically concerning the December 2013 shooting at Arapahoe High School.

It was 12:33 p.m. when Jordan Hess, then a freshman at Arapahoe High School, returned from lunch to take a quiz for class. Before finishing the quiz, Hess had to go to the bathroom, so he got up to leave.

Then, he heard the first gunshot.

“It was unlike anything I had ever really heard up to that point,” said Hess, now a freshman agricultural business major at Colorado State University. “The first flash of a thought that went through my

head was, ‘Oh, god that was a shooting.’”

Following the recent shooting in Parkland, Fla., students such as first year computer science major Hunter Holton reflected on the events at their own high school. At Arapahoe High School in December 2013, 17year old Claire Davis was killed after 18-year-old Karl Pierson rushed into the school carrying a shotgun with the intent to do unimaginable harm. Holton said for him, the day of the shooting felt like any other day.

“It was a pretty quick change of pace that day,” Holton wrote in an email to the Collegian.

Chris Retzlaff, a senior computer engineering major, was in the weight room during the incident. While they did not hear the gunshots, Retzlaff

and his classmates were informed when students in the gymnasium ran in.

“It was a waiting game of not knowing what was going on,” Retzlaff said.

As he was in the weight room, Retzlaff did not have his phone, thus no outside contact, only able to learn news by those students who held onto their phones.

“We felt especially disconnected,” Retzlaff said.

Benjamin Chisholm, a chemical and biological engineering major, was on the speech and debate team with Pierson, the shooter, before the event took place. Chisholm said Pierson started showing some dangerous behavior while on the team.

Chisholm was on the opposite end of the building

when the shooting occurred.

His class waited in their room for over an hour until the SWAT team came into the room.

“I really didn’t know what was going on,” Chilsom said.

“My emotions were just kind of blunted, but when we got to the church and were safe, I burst into tears.”

Hess explained that, for him, the event hit him in waves as he sat quietly in the classroom.

“The first wave was just adrenaline,” Hess said. “The second wave was just, ‘Holy shit, I’m in a school shooting.

I’m trapped in a room with a bunch of targets with nowhere to go, with no defense. With nothing.”

After Hess’ class was released, he witnessed people from local companies handing

out free food and water, as well as blankets and other items.

“We just got out of a school shooting and there are people just rushing to help others they have no idea about,” Hess said.

“You see something like that, not only is it only the coolest thing ever, it makes you want to go out and live.”

Chisholm said he saw the affected community come together after the shooting.

“You experience the worst of humanity, but then immediately see the best of humanity,” Chisholm said.

Holton explained how he still feels following the shooting and how the event intensified his anxiety and created different mental health issues.

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ASCSU continues plans to increase access to overdose prevention drug

By Natalia Sperry @Natalia_Sperry

In the face of a nationwide epidemic, students at Colorado State University are continuing to fight for opioid overdose prevention.

Associated Students of CSU Speaker of the Senate Isabel Brown partnered with Students For Opioid Solutions, a non-profit that works with student government associations across the country, at the start of the spring semester in order to draft legislation aimed at overdose awareness and prevention on campus.

“In the ASCSU Senate, we feel that we have accomplished our initial goal of starting the conversation of how to prevent opioid overdoses among students, and we are excited to be part of the movement in which CSU will set the nationwide standard,” Brown wrote in a statement to the Collegian.

Although the original resolution aimed at equipping resident assistants with Narcan, a prescription medicine that reverses an overdose according to the Center for Disease Control, Brown said that the resolution has evolved into a long-term project in which ASCSU seeks to provide ease of accessibility to Narcan for students across

Survivors >> from page 1

“To this day I am still affected by this, especially when I’m having a bad day or another shooting or something similar happens,” Holton said. “I became depressed after the shooting, because I tried to bottle up the emotions that were caused by the shooting.”

To this day, Hess carries around a green Zippo lighter, with a golden shamrock on it, which was in his back pocket during the incident.

Holton wrote that this event taught him a few different things: that everyone deals with issues in ways that may not be apparent and everyone should be treated with respect.

“I have learned that you really need to cherish everything in life, because you don’t know when it is going to be taken away from you,” Holton wrote.

Retzlaff said the event made him value life more, as well as how people were

the community.

“We are looking at helping the (CSU Health Center) Pharmacy with their standing order for naloxone in purchasing the first units of Narcan that they will be giving out over the counter,” Brown said during the Senate session on Feb. 28.

Brown said during the Senate meeting that those first units of Narcan would be free for students to pick up from the CSU Health Center Pharmacy.

In a statement to the Collegian, Brown wrote that ASCSU is currently evaluating how a portion of the ASCSU budget could be used to cover the cost of the first set of Narcan units.

The opioid overdose prevention project was originally presented as a jointresolution between ASCSU and the CSU Residence Hall Association. However, after the resolution passed unanimously in ASCSU but failed in the RHA Senate, Brown’s project changed in nature.

Despite these changes to the project, Brown said it is still important for ASCSU to work with RHA in this movement.

“While the initial resolution did not pass in (RHA), we are continuing to work with the RHA leadership and a handful of interested

affected by the event, stating that it goes beyond physical damage into mental damage.

“There is lots of pain and hurt that goes on throughout the school community,” Retzlaff said, adding each case of damage depends on the person. “It’s definitely individual.

Everyone is affected in a different way. It’s important to talk to people about it, so people understand if it’s something that is still effecting them really deeply.”

Senior civil engineering major Madison Shultz said that this event changed her perspective on the world, causing her to be more adventurous and live life like every day counted.

“Try to be aware of the people around you. They could be going through things you don’t know about,” Shultz said, adding that every person grieves in different ways, and healing will come in different ways for each person.

Chisholm said while he has an optimistic view on life, not everyone does, and because of this, he hopes others can treat each other well.

Senators to make a difference in the Residence Life community,” Brown wrote.

RHA President Kyra Ferguson said RHA has taken a step back from the project at this time, after two follow-up resolutions were introduced in February to the RHA Senate in response to the initial jointlegislation.

The first resolution, which passed with a vote of 18-1-1, urged the University to include the number of opioid overdoses and deaths in its annual drug and alcohol report, beginning in the 2018-’19 school year, but it contains an amendment that RHA Senate will not approve any future attempts to give RAs Narcan until the data has been published for the 2018’19 school year.

The second resolution, which failed with a vote of 3-15-2, collaborated more with ASCSU to modify the original joint-resolution. It proposed that the Office of Housing and Dining Services and Residence Life train RAs in recognition of an opioid abuse and overdose, in addition to requesting the opioid overdoses and deaths data be published.

With these changes, Brown wrote that Residence Life, HDS, the CSU Police Department and a number of leaders in CSU’s Administration have expressed their support for the project. Additionally, Brown

Speaker of the Senate Isabel Brown counts votes during the Jan. 31 senate meeting. PHOTO BY COLIN SHEPHERD COLLEGIAN

said a number of community members have reached out to ASCSU regarding this project, including the CSU Health Network and the Health District of Northern Larimer County.

“The Health District of Northern Larimer County recently came to an ASCSU Senate Session to present their findings in the Northern Colorado community,” Brown wrote. “From what we have found, there have been a handful of student overdoses leading to death in our community but solely with students who live off campus.”

Brown wrote that she looks forward to increasing

awareness and working with the University in finding a way to report this data in a more accessible manner for the project’s future.

“The time is now for our nation’s student leaders to join together and take a stand.

We are the generation that will, together, change how our campuses prevent opioid overdoses on campuses,” Brown wrote in an email to the Collegian. “Here in ASCSU and across the country, we are student leaders dedicated to setting a nationwide standard for this fight.”

Natalia Sperry can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Chris Retzlaff is a current senior at CSU, but was a senior at Arapahoe High School during the shooting that took place on Dec. 13, 2013. He mentioned that although it was all over in less than 3 minutes, it felt like it dragged on for hours. PHOTO BY MAYA SHOUP COLLEGIAN

“People need to be good to each other. It’s important to be kind to each other,” Chisholm said. “That’s what this event reveals more than anything else.”

Austin Fleskes can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Student Fee Review Board hears proposals

By Charlotte Lang @chartrickwrites

Representatives from Ram Events and the Lory Student Center (LSC) met with the Student Fee Review Board Monday afternoon to propose fee increases.

External Relations and Public Relations Director Jensen Woods and Campus Activities Director Lance Wright were among the groups proposing an increase in fees for Ram Events.

Woods said this increase comes from the expectation for Colorado’s minimum wage to increase as well. It will allow the group to cover mandatory costs and pay their staff members.

“This is a six-cent increase for our full-time students and a two-cent increase for parttime students,” Woods said.

This is the second year in a row Ram Events increased their fees as a result of the minimum wage Woods said.

At this time, they are unsure if next year will see

another fee increase as the budget relies on the outcome of their programs.

“Maybe … I mean, last year we asked for a 50 cent increase,” Woods said. “This year we asked for six. So it might not be much.”

Representatives for the LSC, Robert Peters, Business and Dining Services Director and Jennifer Fisher, Manager of Business Services, also proposed a fee increase.

“Our student fees (and) our mandatory costs have gone up,” Peters said. “So, there is a mandatory student fee increase of 2.61 percent … We are not asking for any further fees from the students.”

In addition to a prospective fee increase, the LSC made other adjustments to their budget. These include a continued self-generating revenue and a drop in expected expenses for areas, such as dining services.

They also made a goal to strictly follow their current budget for this year, seeing as how game days for the past

year led to an overspending on the budget by $11,000.

“We budgeted $25,000 last year. We spent $36,000,” Peters said. “We hope not to do that ever again.”

Another change is a bond payment decrease which will allow funds to be placed into reserves for future renovations. Specifically, they look to renovate the North end of the LSC. Despite the planned renovations, the LSC does not intend to ask for another increase next year.

“We’re trying not to increase fees,” Peters said, when asked about possible fee increases and the renovations.

“I put forth a request … to renovate the North end of the LSC. We’re not going to ask for any fees … We’re going to take about $3 million of our reserves and do a bond sale of about $12.5 million. The total renovation might cost us $15.5 million. And we intend to do this without coming back to ask for an increase … It’s not a good business practice.”

Cole Wise, vice president of ASCSU, speaks at the Student Fee Review Board Monday afternoon. In the meeting, budget costs for Ram Events and Lory Student Center were discussed.

PHOTO BY CHARLOTTE LANG COLLEGIAN

Last week’s proposals were addressed after the two presentations. Both OffCampus Life and Ram Ride’s requests passed. Accordingly, there will be no fee increase for either group.

Voting for Ram Events

and the LSC will not occur until the meeting after Spring Break. This meeting will also contain proposals from SLiCE and Campus Recreation.

Charlotte Lang can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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RHA passes funding for WGAC event, Corbett Hall t-shirts

By Jorge Espinoza @ jorgespinoza14

Residence Hall Association passed two funding bills Monday evening. One bill was to fund an upcoming Women Gender Advocacy Center event and the other was a funding bill to fund Corbett Hall’s 3rd Annual T-Shirt Design Contest.

The first bill RHA voted on was a funding bill to fund an upcoming event hosted by the WGAC. The event plans to create a sex-positive space that teaches consent to

students via a variety of games.

They need the money to buy t-shirts, tie-dye equipment and food for the event.

In a 23-0-0 vote, RHA voted in favor of the funding bill. This means they will be able to fund the event, and Kyra Ferguson, president of RHA, said the event will allow students to learn about the importance of consent.

“It’s really important in the residence halls especially because they are freshman that they learn about the importance of consent. It’s usually overlooked and it’s

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not talked about in a regular context,” Ferguson said. “It’s important that we address consent within this space and within this manner so that it becomes more normalized.”

Jordan Tehila, president of National Residence Hall Honorary, also said this event gives students the ability to learn about consent in a fun and memorable way.

“I think it’s really eyeopening and it also does it in a really fun format, so I feel like it’s a very memorable event,” Tehila said. “It sticks around with people.”

The second item RHA voted on was a funding bill to fund Corbett Hall’s 3rd Annual T-Shirt Design Contest. The event allows Corbett residents to submit t-shirt designs.

Corbett residents then get to vote on which one they like best. They need the funding to purchase the shirts and then print them for Corbett residents.

RHA passed the bill in a 23-0 vote, which will allow for the coordinators of the event to buy and print the t-shirts.

Ferguson said passing the funding bill was important

because it helps to provide a sense of community within Corbett Hall. “(Corbett) is a really big group and it’s really spread out, so they don’t necessarily have the opportunities to meet each other and interact like many of the other halls do,” Ferguson said. “Those bills are really important because it provides to that community, while also giving a sense of continuity in RHA and in hall council.”

Jorge Espinoza can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Councilwoman Kristin Stephens talks at first ASCSU Women’s Caucus event

By Austin Fleskes @Austinfleskes07

The newly formed Women’s Caucus at Colorado State University, part of the Associated Students of CSU, held its first official event on Monday, hosting Fort Collin’s Councilwoman Kristin Stephens to talk about being a woman in a predominantly male career.

Merall Sherif, the creator of the Women’s Caucus, said the purpose of the event was to hear Stephens’ insight on getting elected into a male dominated field, as well as being the only woman on Fort Collins city council.

“Our purpose is to try and encourage as many women as possible to get excited about politics, representation and student government,” Sherif said, adding that the event is also meant to encourage women to run in the upcoming elections.

Sherif said seeing the caucus get to a point like this was like a dream for what she wants to see on campus.

“It’s entirely humbling,” Sherif said. “I’m so grateful and so honored. It’s almost like a dream to me.”

The idea to bring Stephens to campus came from one of the provisional meetings held by the Women’s Caucus, and soon after the event was proposed it was put into planning.

“I am a firm believer of speaking things into existence, working them into fruition and seeing them manifest, and that’s what we did,” Sherif said.

Councilwoman Stephens has been a city councilmember for District 4 of Fort Collins since April 7, 2015, according to her biography on the City of Fort Collins Website. She originally ran in 2011 and lost against the current mayor, Wade Troxell.

After losing in 2011, Stephens began to work on her campaigning skills so that she could run again and win.

“I really wanted to serve my community, I really thought that I had a unique perspective to bring,” Stephens said.

Stephens raised $25,000 and

talked to hundreds of people for her campaign. Stephens won by 140 votes and took her seat.

“If I lost, it wasn’t because I didn’t try hard enough,” Stephens said.

Stephens said she felt that a lot of people did not expect her to win, even mentioning she had to reach out to the Coloradoan to give them her statement, as they were not present at her victory celebration.

Stephens discussed what women looking to run for office could do to reach their goals, emphasizing the value of campaign training and surrounding themselves with those they trust.

Stephens added that she felt there can be a tendency for women not be listened to in positions of power, but with more women in student government they could be more protected.

“I think there is sometimes a tendency not to listen to women. I’m not saying it happens all the time, I’m just saying that it sometimes happens,” Stephens said. “You guys can have each others’ back in student government.”

Stephens also took input from the audience about worries or questions they had for her as a woman in her position.

Madison Taylor, an associate justice for the supreme court of ASCSU, said the ability for women to empower one another in the field was what she would takeaway from the talk.

“Women have different political opinions or different opinions on legislation we might have here, but we should empower each other just the same,” Taylor said. “I hope to see that we all really empower each other.”

Stephens said she hopes those who came are empowered and excited.

“I hope they are excited about being women leaders. I hope they are ready to face the challenges that come with that,” Stephens said. “I want to make sure that they have a way to deal with any issues that come up because of the fact that they are women.”

Austin Fleskes can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Professor talks microaggressions, settler colonialism in education

By Samantha Ye @samxye4

Microaggressions can inhibit academic success, which explains social work’s growing interest in the treatment of students and faculty of color in the academic setting. Dr. Roe Bubar, an ethnic studies professor at Colorado State University, discussed as much at the kickoff event for Social Work Month.

The event, hosted by the School of Social Work, discussed the impacts of microaggressions in higher education on indigenous students and faculty.

Microaggressions are brief, commonplace comments or actions which suggest hostile or derogatory attitudes toward a marginalized group, according to Merriam-Webster.

Burbar talked about the negative impact of stereotyped images of Native Americans, particularly in sports mascots such as the Loveland High School Indians.

“When indigenous students and adolescents see images of mascots as well as other demeaning ways in which indigenity is portrayed, it impacts self-esteem, it impacts educational attainment rates,” Bubar said.

“That seems really wild to say,

but we have studies that actually suggest that’s the case.”

Even CSU is far from immune to these issues. Bubar pointed to the “Cowboy vs. Indians” incident from 2010, where in a Facebook post, a CSU basketball fan asked students to wear American Indian clothes to a game against the Wyoming Cowboys.

Native students who raised concerns over this suggestion were met with escalating hostility, especially the women, Bubar said.

“We’re not the Indians; we’re the Rams,” Bubar said. “It’s really interesting to see how the student body can take up this new trope ... that (is) really remnant of settler colonialism.”

Settler colonialism is defined by writer and historian Patrick Wolfe as a sociopolitical structure meant to destroy the indigenous people in order to replace them with the colonizer’s culture, population and ideology.

Bubar said all these issues are particularly important for native students, who as a group have some of the lowest achievement scores and high school graduation rates in the country, according to U.S. News.

“I think the ways in which children, adolescents, college students get positioned in education is a particular sight of microaggression and racialized

ways in which settler colonialism comes back into the classroom and into our lives,” Bubar said.

After the lecture, ethnic studies graduate student, Erica Lafehr said although the lecture information was not particularly new to her, she still thought it was interesting from an interdisciplinary standpoint.

“It was really interesting to see the way social work students are processing this kind of information,” Lafehr said. “The thing that’s really interesting about a lot of the questions that were asked (after the lecture) is that they’re all ... institutional and outward. To me it seemed people weren’t connecting with ... the part of her talk where a lot of this is actually the self too.”

Whitney Gustafson, senior ethnic studies and sociology major, said she thought the lecture was awesome.

“It’s a really important topic to be talking about, particularly at a land grant university, and it’s something that we don’t talk about very often,” Gustafson said. “Dr. Bubar was really clear in saying how settler colonialism comes up in every part of our lives and it’s time to evaluate the ways that that shows up in your own life and in the classrooms we’re at at CSU.” Samantha Ye can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Florida senators pass gun restrictions; House yet to act

By Brendan Farrington, Terry Spencer & Gary Fineout The Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In response to a deadly Florida school shooting last month, the state’s Senate narrowly passed a bill that would create new restrictions on rifle sales and allow some teachers to carry guns in schools.

The 20-18 vote came Monday evening after three hours of often emotional debate. Support and opposition crossed party lines, and it was clear many of those who voted for the bill weren’t entirely happy with it.

“Do I think this bill goes far enough? No! No, I don’t!” said Democratic Sen. Lauren Book, who tearfully described visiting Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after 17 people were fatally shot on Valentine’s Day. She also would have liked a ban on assault-style rifles, like many of the students who traveled to the state Capitol to ask lawmakers to go even further to stop future mass shootings. But Book said she couldn’t let the 60day legislative session end Friday without doing something.

“My community was rocked. My school children were murdered in their classrooms.

I cannot live with a choice to put party politics above an opportunity to get something done that inches us closer to the place I believe we should be as a state,” she said. “This is the first step in saying never again.”

The bill now goes to the House, which has a similar bill awaiting consideration by the full chamber.

Earlier Monday, families of the 17 Florida high school massacre victims called on the state’s Legislature to pass a bill they believe will improve school security.

Reading a statement outside Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Ryan Petty implored legislators to pass Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to add armed security guards, keep guns away from the mentally ill and improve mental health programs for at-risk teens. Scott also opposes arming teachers.

“We must be the last families to lose loved ones in a mass shooting at a school. This time must be different and we demand action,” said Petty, reading from the group statement.

Petty’s 14-year-old daughter, Alaina, was killed in the Feb. 14 shooting, along with 13 schoolmates and three staff members.

If just one more senator voted no instead of yes Monday evening, the bill would have died.

Republicans and Democrats alike said there were parts of the bill they didn’t like. Democrats didn’t like the idea of letting teachers carry guns, even if the bill was amended to water down that proposed program. And many pro-gun rights Republicans didn’t like the idea of raising the minimum age to buy rifles from 18 to 21 and to create a waiting

Protesters attend a rally at the Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to demand government action on firearms, on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. Their call to action is a response the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. PHOTO BY MIKE STOCKER SUN SENTINEL/TNS

period on sales of the weapons.

The Senate amended its bill to limit which teachers could volunteer to go through law enforcement training and carry guns in schools. Any teacher who does nothing but work in a classroom would not be eligible for the program, but teachers who perform other duties, such as serving as a coach, and other school employees could still participate. Other exceptions would be made for teachers who are current or former law enforcement officers, members of the military or who teach in a Junior Reserve Officer’s Training Corps program.

The bill would name the

program for slain assistant football coach Aaron Feis, who has been hailed as a hero for shielding students during the school attack.

Republican Sen. Bill Galvano said he got the approval of Feis’ family to name the program for him.

Galvano, who took the lead on the bill, said he recognized there was bipartisan opposition to it but said that was a good thing.

“You know what that means in my experience? That we’ve gotten somewhere,” he said.

“We’re hitting nerves. We’re going into areas that may not be our comfort zone.”

In addition to the gun restrictions and arming some school personnel, it would

create new mental health programs for schools, improve communication between schools, law enforcement and state agencies, create a task force to look at mistakes made during mass shootings nationally and then make recommendations on how to continue to improve law, and establish an anonymous tip line where students and others can report threats to schools.

“This bill will make a difference now. When it becomes law, things will start changing,” Galvano said. “We listened and we’re trying. We’re trying hard.”

Article courtesy of The Associated Press.

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COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

Colorado leads fight against opioid addiction 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.

It’s a new era in pain management, and states like Colorado are leading the charge.

President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in one of his first presidential acts. Last week, I got an email from the White House encouragingly titled, “How to win the war on opioids.”

In Colorado, the opioid epidemic is a major public health crisis, with more people dying in 2015 from opioid-related deaths than homicides. So I was intrigued by this email.

Unfortunately, the email itself contained no information on how to defeat the opioid crisis, rather containing stories emphasizing how important it is. It did link to a page regarding specific strategies, most of which were declaring a public health emergency and

distributing funding.

For something titled, “How to win the war on opioids,” this was a little disappointing.

Declaring a public health emergency doesn’t have much power anymore, because the public health emergency fund is all but gone. Distributing money is wonderful, but without a clear plan on where to use it, this falls a little flat.

It’s time to look at what states and individuals are doing to beat opioids. Washington is asleep, so states and the people living in them need to wake up.

Colorado, for example, piloted a project in ten emergency rooms across the state, including one in Fort Collins, to reduce opioid prescriptions by 15 percent. The emergency rooms did better, reducing prescriptions by an average of 36 percent over six months.

The fundamental point of this exercise was to see if hospitals could change the way they approach pain. Opioids are a fast band-aid for most types of pain, which is often what brings people to emergency rooms.

Instead of using drugs like Vicodin, Percocet, oxycodone, morphine, or fentanyl, pain that couldn’t be treated with NSAID

painkillers like Ibuprofen or Aspirin was targeted with other non-addictive alternatives like lidocaine.

Lidocaine was the major new treatment applied to pain management in these emergency rooms. Most people are familiar with lidocaine; it’s the anesthetic injected into gums at the dentist.

Its usage rose more than 450 percent over the six-month pilot program.

The program was part of a state initiative called Colorado Alternatives to Opioids.

Reducing opioid use by 36 percent meant emergency rooms distributed 35,000 fewer doses of narcotic painkillers.

People involved in implementing this program said most of the pushback came from the patients, not the doctors.

“They say ‘only narcotics work for me, only narcotics work for me.’ Because they haven’t had the experience of that multifaceted care, they don’t expect that ibuprofen is going to work or that ibuprofen plus Tylenol, plus a heating pad, plus stretching measures, they don’t expect that to work,” said Claire Duncan, a clinical nurse at the Swedish emergency department in Englewood, in an interview

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I have first-hand experience with multifaceted approaches to pain, because I’m allergic to opioid painkillers. To combat a painful back injury I used physical therapy, normal painkillers, heating pads, and stretches, as well as targeted workouts designed to bring me back to full mobility.

It isn’t always easy, and sometimes the pain is still bad, but it’s a treatment designed

to heal the injury causing the pain, not just to cover up the pain. Maybe it’s more work than taking heavy-duty painkillers, but it’s working toward a longerterm solution where I won’t need any pain treatment at all.

There are some lessons everyone can take away from this. First, people need to push states to implement programs like Colorado’s.

Second, people need to be responsible consumers and be open to alternative approaches to pain.

Ask for non-opioid treatments, or at least be willing to try them if your doctor suggests it.

Michelle Fredrickson can be reached at letters@collegian.

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COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

Parkland shooting activists set precedent for the future Ethan Vasser @ethan_vassar

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.

The new activist group that emerged in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida had a name just four days after the tragedy: Never Again.

PARKLAND SHOOTING ACTIVISTS: ■ Following the school shoot-

ing on Feb. 14, students from Marjory Stoneman High School have successfully organized a protest. The goal: create a nationwide protest and fight for gun regulations.

The attack that killed 3 staff members and 14 students, and left 14 injured at Marjory Stonewall High School is the first to have students involved highly in the gun control discussion. The shooting has ushered in an unprecedented movement for gun control, inspiring other high school students around the nation to participate in walk outs, protests, and actively engage in finding a solution. This response has given the American youth something they’ve never collectively had: a voice.

And with that voice comes a

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massive audience.

At the forefront of this call for change are three of the survivors: Emma Gonzalez, Cameron Kasky, and Jaclyn Corin. The three recently appeared on the Ellen show, garnering over 1 million views on each clip they were featured in on the Ellen Show YouTube channel.

“You’re all amazing,” DeGeneres remarked to the group, praising their efforts, action and passion for change in Washington.

Many would agree with DeGeneres’ praise. Not only does it take a special person to find a silver lining in such a violent act, but the survivors and activists that banded together after the Parkland shooting have done more for the conversation of gun control in a few weeks that others have done in years. Even in Fort Collins, students from Poudre Valley school district walked out of their classes to show their support following the Parkland shooting victims.

The students were smart to organize so quickly, just four days after the shooting the group had a name and a cohesive goal: stricter background checks for gun buyers and a plan for a nationwide protest.

“Had they waited even a week to start advocating for change, the reporters would have gone home,” writes New Yorker news writer Emily Witt. The timeliness of their protest was spot on.

Americans have a nasty habit of moving on from the news of any kind of tragedy quickly. The Ellen YouTube channel is even guilty of this, the interviews with the three survivors are followed by a video titled “Heidi Klum Doesn’t Feel Too Old To Model.”

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Much of this habit is learned, partly because life is so saturated with events like these. This was the seventh school shooting this year alone.

“It’s not like a new, fresh horrible thing that’s happening, it’s been preexisting even before we entered the world,” says Corin.

An old journalism saying, “Dog bites a man is not news. Man bites a dog is news,” comes to mind.

Today, mass shootings appear to be as mundane as a dog bite, it takes something really extraordinary to collect more than thoughts and prayers.But the survivors seem like they’re aiming to change that.

They organized quick before reporters left. They made shirts to fund and spread their cause, they’re using social media to spread their names, faces, and

message. They’ve turned grief into action. Most importantly, they’ve given the American youth a voice.

Young people now see not only their views represented, but someone who is the same age as them with the same views getting the same amount of attention as an adult. A week after the shooting, Kasky made an appearance on CNN and confronted senator Marco Rubio face to face, asking him about his relationship with the NRA. This attention may be nothing new for the student leaders, many were dedicated members of Douglass High’s drama club. Kasky was a theatre kid, so there is no doubt that every aspect of his questioning of Florida Senator Rubio was calculated.

Not only are these kids amazing, as DeGeneres said, but brave as well. Much of their innocence was taken by the gunman, Nikolas Cruz, and they’re giving away the rest to the media. Everything they do is under a microscope. Corin admits to having not even been “a little bit” active in politics before the shooting. Your average American would probably trust a seasoned policymaker or government official over a girl who’s biggest worry was missing out on seeing 21 Savage up until last month.

How these teens handle their fame could set a precedent for how we react to tragedies in the future. They got their audience, and American is watching.

Ethan Vassar can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

SERIOUSLY

Local man defending supremacy realizes he’s a white supremacist

By Tatiana Parafiniuk-Talesnick @TatianaSophiaPT

Editor’s note: This is a satire piece from The Collegian’s opinion 21st birthdays. section. Real names may be used in fictitious/semi-fictitious ways.

Those who do not read editor’s notes are subject to being offended.

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Colorado State University on Sunday. By Monday afternoon, Nice Bob Miller commented on the mechanics local newspaper’s online coverage who change Too much your tire for you the week of the event several times, noting on the side of before spring that white supremacists should

Missing internship deadlines.

Students from the Poudre School District hold signs they made to protest gun violence in schools. The protest was held by students, parents and community members to pay respects to the children killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting in Parkland, Florida, and to demand better gun safety laws and regulations.

have the same rights as anyone else, and that it doesn’t even seem like that big of a deal to have a white rights group anyways.

“White people deserve spaces to protect ourselves from becoming a marginalized group, just like those marginalized groups,” Miller said. “I also think it’s really important to maintain white culture.”

According to sources close to The Collegian, there is no such thing as “white culture,” but some experts pointed out it could include a general lack of flavor and rhythm.

Miller is a middle-class Fort Collins resident and said he has faced minimal difficulty in his life in the small college town. Despite this, he managed to muster enough angst and fear to become

a full-blown white supremacist.

Friends close to Miller suspect the new identity comes from a long history of being a generally mediocre and unpleasant person.

“You know, after seeing so many people respond online calling me a white supremacist, I realized that I should just say it,” Miller said. “I’m a white supremacist.”

Miller made the big announcement in the middle of the Lory Student Center Plaza, surrounded by (very) few friends and family members, all dressed uniformly in polo shirts and khaki shorts to show their support.

“Bob was always really aggressive about how the first amendment applies to Nazis, but I didn’t think he was ready for the big leap until he started saying

white people should only date white people,” said Chad Johnson, leader of a local extremist group.

Like most white supremacists, Miller and Johnson have not had any trouble with interracial dating, since no person of any race has ever expressed interest in either of the two, romantic or otherwise.

“I’m really impressed that Bob chose to be so upfront about his racist leanings,” said Becky Reming. “I don’t personally consider myself a white supremacist, but I do think white people deserve to feel proud for who they... Oh. Well, I do see their points. I’m not racist though.”

Tatiana Parafiniuk-Talesnick can be reached at editor@collegian. com.

SPORTS Tuesday, March 6, 2018

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CLUB SPORTS

Women create their own legacy for CSU wrestling

By Tyler Johnson @TylerGjohnson20

Two women are changing the culture of Colorado State club wrestling – a space traditionally dominated by men.

Juniors KaMele Sanchez and Kendal Davis are leading the way on one of the most successful seasons in CSU history.

Sanchez and Davis’ wrestling journeys have led them on juxtaposing paths to become officers for the team as well as two of the most successful wrestlers to ever compete in the program.

Sanchez came from a small farming community on the Hawaiian Islands and started wrestling in high school in order to become a more well-rounded person going into college. Her passion for wrestling only intensified when she discovered that her father also wrestled.

Meanwhile, Davis’ journey began in California. Her competitive nature drove her to start wrestling in the eighth grade and compete against her borthers, who already wrestled.

“I’ve always been super competitive with them,” Davis said. “I didn’t want them to be able to beat me up.”

In Hawaii, Sanchez competed in the women’s division while Davis wrestled both males and females in California. There are currently six states that have sanctioned women’s wrestling in high school. Nearly two decades after becoming the first state with women’s wrestling in 1999, Hawaii’s women’s division is now as large as the men’s “One year there were more girls wrestling in Hawaii than men,” Sanchez said.

California joined the group in 2011 but does not require women to wrestle other women like Hawaii. Since Davis was the only female on her team for some time, she chose to wrestle in the men’s division.

Both came to CSU to pursue their education and joined the club team to continue the sport they love. Since joining the team, both have excelled despite struggling to see time on the mat. Sanchez became an All-American two seasons ago and Davis fell just short last season.

The pair put together an impressive regular season with a combined record of 21-1 heading into Division II Nationals this weekend. Head coach Kendall DeJonge praises both as important members of

Junior Kendal Davis wrestles an opponent in Las Vegas, Nevada during the 2017-18 season.

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the team and role models for their teammates.

“They have had a tremendous impact on the team,” DeJonge said. “Not only are they a power duo of fantastic wrestlers, and what we hope to be the beginnings of a growing women’s program, but they are also true leaders on the team.”

Both currently hold officer positions on the

team with Sanchez serving as club president and Davis holding the position of team treasurer. Along with their accomplishments on the mat, both are members of the National Collegiate Wrestling Association’s All-Academic Team.

Sanchez and Davis are major contributors in the development of women’s wrestling at the college level,

particularly in Colorado. CSU is currently the only college wrestling program in the state of Colorado with female athletes. With just one more season left in their collegiate careers, Davis and Sanchez have already left a legacy on women’s wrestling and CSU athletics.

Tyler Johnson can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

CLUB SPORTS

CSU splits weekend series in Oregon

By Evan Grant @EGrantSports

The Colorado State men’s lacrosse team traveled to Oregon to face off against The Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State Beavers in a two-game road trip this past weekend.

The weekend did not start off as the Rams hoped, dropping the first game to Oregon 13-4 in Eugene. After Oregon’s goal five minutes into the first quarter, the Rams never found a way to stop them.

Oregon added seven more goals to their tally taking an 8-0 lead against the Rams before Grant Alfred found the back of the net with 47 seconds left in the quarter.

The second half never got much better for CSU. Oregon came out of the gate scoring almost immediately taking a 9-1 lead with 12:55 remaining in the third. In the next three minutes, Oregon scored twice more to open a 10-point lead with eight minutes left in the quarter.

The Rams got on the board again after Alec Womack’s goal with four minutes left in the third, cutting the Ducks lead to 11-2. Pete Aplet was the next to get on the board for the Rams, followed by Deryk Delahanty in the final seconds of the game to give the Rams some salvation after losing 13-4, their first loss of the season.

“We were excited to play, came out 0-0 until about two minutes in the first quarter when we fell apart,” coach Ryan MacDonald said. “We never really came back from the hole we dug. We have a really good team, we just didn’t show up that day.”

The second game ended up much better for the Rams when they traveled to Corvallis to take on the Beavers of Oregon State.

Oregon State gave the Rams a tough battle, but CSU came out victorious in the closely contested game.

CSU’s Gabe Remshardt opened the scoring just minutes into the first quarter. Oregon

State responded with two goals of their own before CSU’s Pete Aplet scored with 1:15 left.

The game went back and forth with goals until CSU found some separation from the Beavers, taking an 11-8 lead with 2:55 remaining in the third.

Oregon State made a comeback during the fourth; however, the Rams held them off and finished the victory with a score of 13-11.

“We showed a lot of character against Oregon State to bounce back after the tough loss against Oregon,” MacDonald said. “The guys came together as a family and played as a team. We really grew over the weekend, only onward and upward from here.”

CSU’s next games will be on the road against Georgia Tech and Georgia on March 9-10. CSU will return home to the Lagoon field on March 18, where they will face off against the Arizona State Sun Devils in the first home game of the season.

Evan Grant can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Tvrdy, Colaivalu receive year-end accolades from MW

By Christian Hedrick @ChristianHCSU

On the eve of their 201718 Mountain West Women’s Basketball Championship debut, senior guard Hannah Tvrdy and freshman guard Grace Colaivalu of the Colorado State women’s basketball team each earned annual accolades from the Mountain West Conference.

The conference selected Tvrdy to both the All-Mountain West team and the Mountain West All-Defensive team, while Colaivalu received a spot on the Mountain West All-Freshman team.

A native of Seward, Nebraska, Tvrdy joins Ellen Nystrom and Meghan Heimstra as the only Rams in program history to make the All-Defensive team. The senior’s 6.4 rebounds per game led the Rams and helped CSU to a league-leading 56.2 opponents’ points per game average in conference play. Tvrdy’s 5.3 defensive rebounds per game rank fourth among all players in the Mountain West.

Along with Tvrdy’s awardwinning defense, the senior guard led the Rams with 13.2 points per game in conference play. Tvrdy was the lone Ram to crack the 20-point threshold three times,

highlighted by a 28-point doubledouble versus San Diego State on Jan. 27. Tvrdy followed up her career night against the Aztecs by knocking down a game-winning triple in overtime against New Mexico, earning her Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week on Jan. 29.

Colaivalu joins Tvrdy on the year-end accolade list as a member of the All-Freshman team.

Colaivalu is the first Ram to earn All-Freshman honors since Ellen Nystrom and Elin Gustavsson in 2013-14. The Sacramento, California native burst onto the conference radar with 26 points in her Mountain West debut versus Boise State. The freshman topped that performance one week later with a career-high 29 points against San Diego State, featuring the game-winning layup as time expired. Colaivalu finished her first season in green and gold leading the team with a .478 field goal percentage. Her eight points per game average ranks third.

Tvrdy and Colaivalu open the 2017-18 Mountain West Championship with a first-round matchup against Fresno State Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. MT in Las Vegas.

Christian Hedrick can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

Redshirt freshman Grace Colaivalu (23) backpedals with redshirt senior Hannah Tvrdy after making a 3-pointer against New Mexico. The Rams beat the Lobos in overtime with a score of 74-71 on Jan 27.

PHOTO BY JOSHUA CONTRERAS COLLEGIAN

TENNIS

Rams add two wins for best eight-game stretch since 2004

By Michelle Gould @Michellegouldd

In their first home match of the 2018 spring season, the Colorado State Rams walked away with two successful victories over Omaha and Presbyterian, giving the Rams their seventh and eighth wins of the season.

CSU’s first day of action came against Omaha at the CSU Tennis Complex. To begin the day, Emily Kolbow and Emily Luetschwager paired up against Omaha’s Rylee Tucker and Emily Behling, beating the duo swiftly, 6-0, and setting a strong tone for the day. Following behind their teammates, Riley Reeves and Emma Corwin secured the Rams’ doubles team point with a victory over Marie Kapelevich and Janelle Wilson, 6-1.

As the sun continued to shine, the 60-degree warmth enhanced performances in singles competition.

All six Rams in singles defeated their respective opponents. Luetschwager picked up a win over Janelle Wilson, 6-0, 6-2. Luetschwager’s win marks

a streak of five straight singles victories.

Kolbow beat Natalie Lorentz, 6-3,6-4, and Grijalva followed suit, improving her singles record to 8-2, with a win over Kapelevich. Corwin, recently named Mountain West Player of the Week, secured the fourth win, beating Behling 6-3, 7-5. Reeves and Priscilla Palermo claimed the final two team points with wins over their opponents.

After 10 matches spent traveling, the home court advantage and the Colorado sun proved to be beneficial for the Rams.

“We had a very good crowd and couldn’t have asked for better weather to begin March,” coach Jarod Camerota said in a news release. “We started well in doubles and kept it going into singles. We can still get better, but any 7-0 win is a good win.”

The next day for the Rams concluded with another win over Presbyterian at the Fort Collins Country Club.

Despite Presbyterian besting the Rams in doubles play to secure the initial team point, the Rams utilized their

depth in singles play to turn the match around. Five out of the six Rams were victorious in their respective singles competitions to outlast Presbyterian, securing their seventh win in eight matches.

Palermo began the streak defeating Brittany Nuttall, 6-2, 6-2. Luetschwager continued her reign with a win over Tracy Johnson, 7-5, 6-1. Grijalva claimed yet another win in a lengthy matchup against Samantha Calais, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.

To conclude the day, Corwin and Reeves bested Caroline Ferrari, 6-1, 0-6, 6-4 and Katie Thompson, 6-2, 6-0, respectively.

“We got up in singles and we learned our lesson from doubles,” Camerota said. “We closed it out and didn’t take anything for granted or assume someone else was going to get the point. That’s a lesson learned in team tennis.”

The Rams’ impressive execution during spring season sets them up well for Mountain West play. CSU’s 7-1 record in the last eight matches is the best eight-match stretch since 2004.

“I think the changes we

Sophomore Alyssa Grijalva hits against her opponent from Omaha during the Rams’ first home matches of the season on March 3.

PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN

are making are paying off,” Camerota said.

The Rams’ next action will be March 15 at UC San Diego with a quick turnaround against

Creighton March 24 at the CSU Tennis Complex.

Michelle Gould can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

ARTS & CULTURE Tuesday, March 6, 2018

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EVENTS

New chapter of DimeStories to open in Fort Collins Friday

By Maddie Wright @maddierwright

DimeStories is a poetry reading without the poetry.

DimeStories, a new monthly event taking place at the Bean Cycle on the second Friday of every month, opens this Friday, March 9 at 6 p.m.

It is an opportunity to listen to and read 3 minutes worth of prose.

As an organization, DimeStories has chapters around the country. The Fort Collins chapter is hosted

by Amanda Martinek, who recently moved from San Diego. As a writer and editor herself, Martinek was tasked with beginning the Fort Collins group.

“It’s a great way to get some validation for your creative work. The worst that can happen if a writer reads his or her 3-minute story is they will be applauded.”

JENNIFER SIMPSON DIMESTORIES MANAGER

“It’s basically a really short, concise, fun way to share stories, and anyone can get up and read them, whether

you’re a published writer or you wrote something funny in your notebook that day,” Martinek said.

DIMESTORIES INFORMATION ■ DimeStories Opening:

March 9 at 6 p.m.

Formatted like an open mic, people can sign up to read starting at 5:30 p.m., and performances begin at 6. Martinek said DimeStories started 10 years ago in San Diego by novelist Amy Wallen.

“Hosting DimeStories was also a bit of response to the popular 3-minute slam poetry format,” said DimeStories manager, Jennifer Simpson, in an email to The Collegian.

“But DimeStories was never seen as a competitive battle like the slam scene, it was the time limit that was attractive.

With a tight time limit, each reading can go quick. And for it to stand out, the writer needs to craft a story that is revised to its essence.”

The time element provides a challenge, Martinek said.

“There’s a lot of different ways to tell stories,” Martinek said. “With the open mic style event, it’s usually poetry based; this event specifically is to invite all types of writing genres, and to make it a little

Bean Cycle Roasters is located off College Avenue in Old Town Square Fort Collins. COLLEGIAN FILE PHOTO

more prose based while still remaining that short snappy entertaining short story kind of narrative.”

Martinek said the friendliness and welcoming environment that this event seeks to create should put nervous writers at ease and will hopefully give the platform for experience.

“I hope that writers and authors use this as an event to get some public speaking experience, get their work out there into the community

(and) feel more comfortable sharing,” Martinek said. “This is a very open and welcoming environment to do so.”

The sense of community is something that shines through with events like this, through the support and affirmation from peers Simpson said.

“It’s a great way to get some validation for your creative work,” Simpson said.

“The worst that can happen if a writer reads his or her 3-minute story is they will be applauded.”

As this is new to Fort Collins, DimeStories is wishing good luck to Martinek and the community as the organization prepares for its Fort Collins opening on Friday.

“I’m super excited that Amanda is going forward with this,” Simpson said. “The entire DimeStories community will be rooting for her success. It will be a great addition to the Fort Collins community.”

Maddie Wright can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com.

MOVIES AND TV

‘Red Sparrow’ will confuse, bore you at the same time

By Ty Davis @tydavisACW

I now know the official run time for any film is from the first distributor logo to the final frame of the end credits; I discovered this because not even half-way through “Red Sparrow,” I looked up what run time meant, so I would know how much longer I had to sit through the film.

“Red Sparrow” is a spy thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika Egorova, a former ballet dancer recruited into the Sparrow program after a sabotage planned by her fellow dancers leaves her with a career ending injury. To keep her apartment and her sick mother’s health plan, Egorova takes up an offer by her uncle, Vanya Egorov, played by Matthias Schoenaerts, to seduce and manipulate a powerful politician and swap his phone

with a bugged phone. Except, when she does manage to seduce him, an agent comes to kill him without her knowing, then she is escorted to an abandoned warehouse, where it is revealed killing him was the plan all along.

“Spy stories just do not work well with a film format, unless the story is straightforward enough or the film takes the time to explain explicitly what is going on.”

Egorova’s uncle then manipulates her into joining the Sparrow program, a group of intelligence agents specifically designed to use

their bodies and psychological evaluation skills to extract intelligence from targets.

Eventually, she is tasked with tracking down a mole in the Russian government who’s only known contact is American C.I.A agent Nate Nash, played

by Joel Edgerton.

As you can tell, “Red Sparrow” has a lot of set up.

Unfortunately, the story only becomes more difficult to follow as time goes on. “Red Sparrow” is a grounded spy film, meaning despite the plot not having a very bombastic scope, the in-universe consequences are huge.

This means the film is more concerned with delivering what feels like a realistic depiction of what would happen, than offering over the top set pieces.

You go through the motions of characters collecting information, meeting with their superiors, trying to figure out previously mysterious

clues, yadda yadda; this film is more boring than watching a plant grow.

Spy stories just do not work well with a film format, unless the story is straightforward enough or the film takes the time to explain explicitly what is going on. Spy stories work best in a novel format, where information can be slowly delivered and processed. The entire second act is dedicated to a diverging plot that has almost nothing to do with Egorova’s main assignment and makes no sense what-so-ever.

The pacing is all over the place. The film will switch between an intense action scene and a slow investigating scene sporadically, giving the film no proper pacing or build up to the end. As a matter of fact the film gets so enamored with its side plot, the only reason Egorova figures out the identity of the mole is because the person comes right out and

says it. It is clear the film loves spies and all things espionage, because it forgets to craft a functional story along the way.

Can everyone stop pretending Jennifer Lawrence is a good actress? She has only ever put out one good performance and that was in X-Men first class. Even then her performance can hardly be credited to her acting prowess, and more so to the film’s great direction. Every film she’s appeared in has been the same performance, a dead pan stare where she occasionally moves her mouth to make an expression. “Red Sparrow” is no different, except this time we have to listen an insufferably bad Russian accent that sounds like an SNL impression of Vladimir Putin.

If you can, just ignore this movie all together.

Ty Davis can be reach at entertainment@collegian.com.

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NATIONAL

90th Oscars dance between honoring and correcting the past

By Lindsey Bahr The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Held one year ago, the 90th Academy Awards would have very likely been a rose-colored nostalgia fest.

But this year, with a culturewide reckoning over decades of sexual misconduct, a film business in decline, a volatile political climate and the fact that last year the esteemed show couldn’t even manage to present its biggest award correctly, the film academy and host Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday staged a complex and sometimes incongruous dance of attempting to both honor and atone for the past.

In many ways, the show inside the Dolby Theatre went exactly as planned—scripted, tight, full of past-looking montages, forwardthinking speeches and produced to appeal to all. Presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty got a best picture redo, (“What happened last year is Waterhouse under the bridge,” Kimmel quipped) and 86-year-old Rita Moreno got to wear her dress from the 1962 ceremony again.

The Walt Disney Co. sneaked a fair amount of promos (“A Wrinkle in Time,” and “Mary Poppins Returns”) and selfcongratulations (for “Black Panther”) into its ABC broadcast and the production did its best to appeal to the “regular moviegoer” by trotting out Gal Gadot and other stars to literally give candy to a theater full of people.

The awards also effectively skirted the awkwardness of having an accused man in the spotlight by shifting around long-held presenter traditions and having Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence present the best actress award instead of Casey Affleck. Emma Stone got her Natalie Portman moment, presenting the directing award to “four men and Greta Gerwig.” Activists like #MeToo

creator Tarana Burke were included in a song segment.

And three Harvey Weinstein accusers, Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra, were given a moment to themselves on stage for nothing more than the fact that they were brave enough to speak up before a hopeful video played highlighting a changing industry, post #MeToo. The video highlighted Greta Gerwig, the fifth woman to ever be nominated for best director, Yance Ford, the first transgender nominee for “Strong Island,” Dee Rees, whose “Mudbound” scored a historic cinematographer nomination and the Pakistanborn Kumail Nanjiani, nominated for “The Big Sick.”

The nominees signaled a renaissance. The winners told a slightly different story.

With a more diverse, more international and younger infusion of voting members into the film academy, the movie in love with movies still won the top awards. Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy romance “The Shape of Water” won best picture, director, score and production design.

“Growing up in Mexico, I thought this could never happen,” del Toro said. “It happens.”

The acting awards, which have been locked for three months, went to the expected winners — all esteemed veterans and three of whom had never been nominated before: Frances McDormand won best actress for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and her costar Sam Rockwell won for his supporting performance. Gary Oldman picked up the best actor prize for transforming into Winston Churchill in “Darkest Hour” and Allison Janney for becoming Tonya Harding’s mother in “I, Tonya.”

At 89, James Ivory became the oldest Oscar-winner for his adapted screenplay for “Call Me

By Your Name.” And Christopher

From left, Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand, Allison Janney and Gary Oldman backstage at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 4 in Hollywood, Calif. PHOTO COURTESY OF SCOTT VARLEY TNS

Nolan’s ambitious World War II nail-biter “Dunkirk” picked up three technical awards.

But Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” left empty handed, Rachel Morrison did not become the first female cinematography winner (the long-snubbed Roger Deakins got that honor finally for “Blade Runner 2049” after 14 nominations) and Ford was not the first transgender Oscarwinner.

There were glimpses of progress, when Chile’s “A Fantastic Woman,” which starred the transgender actress Daniela Vega, won best foreign film.

Disney and Pixar’s celebration of Mexican culture, “Coco,” took best animated feature, as well as best song for “Remember Me.” “The biggest thank you of all to the people of Mexico,” said director Lee Unkrich to loud applause. “Marginalized people deserve to feel like they belong.

Representation matters.”

Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win best

original screenplay for his horror sensation “Get Out.” Peele said he stopped writing it after “20 times,” skeptical that it would ever get made.

“But I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone would let me make this movie, that people would hear it and people would see it,” said Peele. “So I want to dedicate this to all the people who raised my voice and let me make this movie.”

Even McDormand used her moment on stage to make a statement on behalf of women.

“If I may be so honored to have all the female nominees stand with me,” McDormand said.

“We all have stories to tell and projects we need financed,” she added, before uttering the phrase “inclusion rider,” referring to actors signing contracts that mandate a film’s gender and racial inclusivity.

Everyone seemed to take this moment of an industry in flux to heart.

“We can’t let bad behavior slide anymore,” said Kimmel at the show’s start. “The world is watching us.”

And indeed as the last show in this very long season, made even longer thanks to the Olympics, and with an unprecedented pressure to address all the ills of society and 90 years of movies it was perhaps always going to be too big a feat for one group of entertainers to tackle in a single nearly four-hour production.

There’s only so much they can do, after all, and there is no one like Kimmel to remind everyone that it is still the movie industry.

In an aside about the pay disparity between Mark Walhberg and Michelle Williams for “All the Money in the World” reshoots, Kimmel said upon discovering that both actors were represented by the same talent agency that, “This one shook me.”

“If we can’t trust agents, who can we trust?”

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