Vol. 127, No. 115 Wednesday, March 28, 2018
OPINION
SPORTS
A&C
HATE SPEECH ACTUALLY IS FREE SPEECH
CSU BRINGS HOME SWIMMER OF THE YEAR
WHY YOU SHOULD GO TO THE FEMINIST CONFERENCE
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24 years of progress Colorado State University professor Laura Jones poses for a portrait in the theater seating at the University Center for the Arts. Jones has been a professor at CSU for 24 years and has directed numerous plays and taught acting, directing and theater history. Jones will retire at the end of the spring semester. PHOTO BY FORREST CZARNECKI COLLEGIAN
CSU’s first female theatre professor to retire By Maddie Wright @maddierwright
Colorado State University’s first female theater professor will retire at the end of the semester, but her influence will not be forgotten. Professor Laura Jones started her job at CSU
24 years ago, and her hard work and love for theater have defined her time at the University. “I was the first woman on tenure track in theater,” Jones said. “I mean, it was the first time they had a woman theater professor. Isn’t that amazing? I mean it’s ridiculous. I’m not really proud of it, but OK. And
you know when I came, it was like ‘well she’ll do the women’s plays, and she’ll do the children’s theater.’ I was just like, ‘no no no no no, excuse me?’” Jones has exceeded the expectations people set out for her when she originally came to CSU. Most recently, she won a gold medallion from
The Kennedy Center during the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in February. “It is the most prestigious regional award given by KCACTF and is considered one of the great honors in theatre education,” said J. Nick Taylor, director at the Community of College of Denver, during his
speech introducing the award at the festival. During the festival, the last production directed by Jones at CSU, “Love and Information,” was invited to compete. “Our production didn’t have to win; it had already won.” Jones said. “I mean they see THEATRE on page 20 >>