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Republicans face busy month with tax overhaul

By Lisa Mascaro Los Angeles Times

On Nov. 16, The House of Representatives passed a bill that could make graduate school more expensive for students with stipends and TA positions.

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CSU lobbies against GOP tax bill

By Rachel Telljohn @racheltelljohn

Graduate students at Colorado State University have cause to fear for their academic futures.

The House of Representatives passed a bill on Nov. 16 which would effectively make graduate school more expensive and potentially chase future and current candidates out of their degree programs.

CSU Graduate School responded to the bill over Thanksgiving break, advising students to make themselves aware of the issues and to inform them that CSU has lobbyists working to monitor the issue, as

well as vie for students and their educations.

Assistantships given to graduate students, like teaching assistant or research positions, would be considered taxable income under the bill. Those assistantships, otherwise known as tuition waivers, are separate from the stipends given to graduate students. They range in value but cover the majority of the expenses for graduate school. Currently, students only pay taxes on their stipends, which are similar to how someone might receive a paycheck for working a job.

Vice Provost Rick Miranda and Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs Jodie Hanzlik offered ad-

vice for students.

Miranda expressed concern over the bill for CSU students.

“One provision that we are tracking is the one that would make graduate student tuition waivers (when they are on assistantships) taxable. This would be an additional expense to our students, and would make it more expensive to attend graduate school,” Miranda wrote in an email to the Collegian. “Yes, we are concerned that such a provision would, on the margin, cause fewer students to be able to afford graduate degrees.”

Currently, the Senate is considering a similar bill that does not include the provision on

graduate tuition waivers. Miranda confirmed lobbyists are working on behalf of CSU. The original email to graduate students said CSU is not only watching the developments closely, but is in constant contact with both their lobbyists and the University’s federal delegations.

“We are also trying to lend our support to our professional organizations, notably the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU), to make sure that our collective concerns are being heard,” Miranda wrote.

CSU employs a lobbying firm on a regular basis, Miranda wrote. see TAX BILL on page 4 >>

With a renewed push from President Trump, GOP Senate leaders on Monday scrambled to revise their tax reform plan to win over skeptics ahead of this week’s crucial vote.

Several Republican senators voiced new reservations about the tax bill, a $1.5-trillion package that could become the most significant achievement of Trump’s first year in office, but has low public support among voters.

Some senators fear the bill is too heavily tilted in favor of corporations and the wealthy, and does not do enough for small-business owners or ordinary Americans.

An analysis Monday from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said households with incomes of $30,000 or less would end up paying more or receive fewer federal benefits under the GOP proposal, confirming earlier assessments.

Also Monday, key Republican senators met with Trump for lunch at the White House.

Afterward, they downplayed the mounting concerns but acknowledged the difficulty ahead since they can afford to lose only two votes in the Senate with their narrow 52-seat majority.

“We always have to deal with everybody, so it’s not any one particular person,” said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Finance Committee, told reporters at the White House.

“These are tough times; these are tough issues. They’re hard to deal with, and we intend to deal with them.”

Trump will head to Capitol see TAX OVERHAUL on page 5 >>

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State Senator discusses legislative process for bills

By Joe Manely @joemanely

Colorado State University social work students listened to State Senator Linda Newell discuss her journey to move bills for suicide prevention and misrepresentation of service animals through the legislative process at the State Capitol.

Newell gave a screening and held a question and answer session for her documentary, “The Last Bill,” on Monday in the Lory Student Center at an event hosted by Colorado State University’s School of Social Work. She was joined by State Senator John Kefalas.

Newell said she created the film in response to public misconceptions about the Colorado state Senate. Early on in the film, she mentioned how people would see her senator badge and assume that she was a member of the U.S. Congress. She intended for the documentary to be a form of civic education.

“Something’s got to be done.

It’s time we take the government to the people,” Newell said. “I just wanted to make sure that we were able to get the education out there--so the people would know there’s a difference between a state Senate and the U.S. Senate.”

After the screening, Newell and Kefalas took audience questions about the film, the bills that were showcased and the state legislative process in general. The audience was primarily composed of social work students.

The film focused mainly on SB-147, a bill that would increase measures for suicide prevention in Colorado. The “zero suicide” bill is a response to high suicide rates in the state and gaps in data that show how over 30 percent of individuals are receiving mental health care at their time of death from suicide and 45 percent have seen their primary care physician within one month of their

death.

Newell was the primary sponsor for the bill. It aimed to reduce suicide rates by providing training and strategies in a variety of health care systems.

The film documents the long process that Newell worked through to push the bill forward.

After three months of a bipartisan effort, the bill passed. Governor John Hickenlooper signed the bill into law in June 2016.

Newell considers the bill to be one of her biggest accomplishments. She said that the bill was difficult to move because she was in the minority party at the time. Her first six years were spent in the majority, which made her last two years a “way different experience.”

Kefalas also worked on SB-147 as a co-sponsor, and he agreed that supporting the bill as one of his best accomplishments.

“This issue of suicide prevention is really important to me,” Kefalas said. “What we’re doing now is working out legislation that we’ll introduce in January that’s building on this work, to look at some of the gaps that still are out there with how do we move the dial in the right direction, as far as not having more suicides, but having less suicides.”

Moving into 2018 with elections on the horizon, including the gubernatorial election and all of Colorado’s seven seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Colorado state government looks to be a “feeding frenzy” according to Newell. However, she doubts there will be any drastic changes for the state senate.

“I’m not sure a lot is going to happen because it usually is much slower during an election year but particularly with this election year being a gubernatorial...lots of in-fighting going on with primaries and all that stuff,” Newell said.

Joe Manely can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Senator John Kefalas and filmmaker Linda Newell speak to students and visitors about the process of trying to get a bill passed in Colorado Monday. Newell visited Colorado State University’s campus to show some of her work, educate students about Colorado’s political system and request a few interns to help her with future projects. PHOTO BY BROOKE BUCHAN COLLEGIAN

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SCIENCE

University to remove net carbon footprint by 2050

By Julia Trowbridge @chapin_jules

Colorado State University is working to get on track to reach their goal of 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030 and 100 percent renewable energy by 2050.

According to the Request for Proposals for Renewable Energy, CSU is interested in long-term power purchase agreements or on site solutions to provide renewable electricity.

On Jan. 5, 2017, President Tony Frank signed a climate reality pledge, to commit CSU to running on 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030. According to SOURCE, more than 4,300 students and faculty members signed the petition to encourage CSU to join the climate reality pledge.

Maggie Gilman, a junior studying human dimensions and natural resources, was an integral part of the petition, and said she thinks that this goal is great for the University.

“What’s important is that CSU is going to be a leader and meeting the demand for (energy) production,” Gilman said. “I think this

Tax Bill >> from page 1 “Things come up all the time, and this is an efficient and effective way to stay in contact with our federal delegations (senators and representatives’ offices, primarily) on matters that are special interest to higher education,” Miranda wrote.

Lindsay Lammers, president of the Graduate Student Council, wrote in an email to the Collegian that most graduate students have their tuition waived, and the bill will significantly increase the tax burden of graduate students.

“For example, my taxable income would increase by 40 percent. It is already expensive to live in Fort Collins, and this would cause (graduate) students to struggle even more,” Lammers wrote.

Under the House bill, interest paid on student loans would no longer be tax deductible, according to The New York Times.

More than 12 million people used that deduction in 2015.

Another student on the Graduate Student Council, who wishes to remain anonymous, said they are considering a second masters in student affairs in higher education, but are counting on an assistantship. If the bill passes, they said they will have to look for a job instead.

aligns with the values and morals the University has.”

There are multiple steps to getting CSU to 100 percent renewable energy, according to Scott Denning, an atmospheric science professor. On a fundamental level, the infrastructure of CSU has to become more efficient in the energy uses in buildings. In addition to creating more efficient buildings by creating with buildings with more windows for natural lighting and more efficient insulation and air flow, CSU is working on renovating the older buildings on campus.

Surplus renewable energy off sets remaining greenhouse gas footprint.

“We’re building more efficient buildings, our new buildings are on track to be LEED gold,” said Carol Dollard, an energy engineer at CSU. “We’re also putting retofits in the old buildings. Most of our energy portfolio is already here, so we’re working on making those more efficient.”

In order to run on renewable electricity, the renewable energy must be obtained. CSU has put in a request for proposals for renewable energy in order to reach In terms of support from the University, the source said they would ask if the current stipend given to graduate students will be raised if the bill passes. Some students would be forced to take out more student loans in order to pay taxes, but some students do not wish to further their debt.

Additionally, the source said many of the TAs on the graduate council are upset, as many count on those positions to help pay for their schooling and would be unable to pay the taxes proposed by the bill with the current stipend they are given.

The email sent to the graduate students urged them to educate themselves about the issues regarding the tax bill. Websites given included the Council of Graduate Schools and the National Association of College and University Business Officers.

The email also encouraged graduate students to involve themselves appropriately as private citizens, and to voice concerns to representatives.

“As I’ve spoken with other graduate students, we are disappointed that the federal government thinks so little of the grad students that are the foundation of innovation and research in this country,” Lammers wrote.

The Senate is expected to vote on their proposed version of the bill in the weeks following Thanksgiving.

Rachel Telljohn can be reached at news@collegian.com.

this renewable electricity goal by 2030. The proposal is looking for a vendor that can either provide 100 percent renewable electricity for CSU, multiple projects to provide renewable energy or a physical delivery of the purchasing power agreement, which would physically deliver the renewable energy to the University.

So far, CSU has received 27 proposals, and a vendor decision will be made in mid- January.

“I’m hoping that through this, CSU has more access to renewable electricity,” said Farrah Bustamante, the associate director of CSU’s Procurement Services. “I looked at the request for proposals earlier in the year, and they look very promising. I wanted to take the next step forward.”

Eliminating the rest of the greenhouse gas footprint is significantly harder.

“CSU would have to rip out the heating system in the buildings, the furnaces and hot air vents, and replace it with something that doesn’t set carbon on fire,” Denning said.

According to Vox, the solution to eliminating the carbon emissions from natural gas is to “elec-

CSU’s greenhouse gas footprint for the fiscal year of 2017, statistics received from Energy Engineer Carol Dollard.

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trify everything.” After replacing electricity sources with renewable energy, transferring as much of the carbon emissions to the electric grid is the optimal way to eliminate the carbon footprint.

At the same time, it would be difficult to eliminate the entire carbon footprint, especially with factors like air travel, which is 10 percent of CSU’s carbon footprint, and agriculture, which is 3 percent. By generating more renew-

able energy than used, CSU can obtain “renewable energy credits,” which can offset a small amount of carbon emissions.

Through the request for proposal, creating more renewable energy and energy efficient buildings, CSU will be on track to reach 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030 and 100 percent renewable energy by 2050.

Julia Trowbridge can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Penn State professor talks stress intervention

By Audrey Weiss @Audkwerd

Joshua M. Smyth, a professor of behavioral health and medicine at Penn State University, spoke about ambulatory and real-time intervention in daily life to the Colorado State University community on Monday in the Behavioral Sciences Building.

Smyth’s studies have led him to focus mainly on the effects of stress on well-being and the processes by which people deal with stress.

Currently, he is researching new intervention methods specific to triggers, such as stress, addiction and habit.

“I can ask you right now how you’re feeling, and figuratively flip through that and see a movement of your dynamic state,” Smyth said, comparing data to a flipbook.

By observing a large portion of data over a short period of time, it is possible to use that information to structure interventions in response to context, said Smyth.

Smyth said that historically the reach of implementation of intervention was extremely narrow—beginning with face-to-face diagnoses. Over time, face-to-face shifted to phone, to audio, to video and finally to mobile devices, or mobile health, referred to as mHealth.

Smyth uses this new technolo-

gy to not only asses, but intervene throughout the day. He uses structures based on patterns and implements them “just in time.”

“The context is changing,” Smyth said. “You start to cut up these little slices of life into ways that are relevant.”

Ecological momentary assessment or the process of sampling based situationally is mainly carried out by self-reporting. By incorporating this into intensive longitudinal data tests, or tests with repeated measurement over a short period of time, they show ecological validity, Smyth said.

Smyth discussed differences in between-person and within-person validity to show how people differ from each other on average, how we differ from ourselves over time, and how we differ from each other on how much we differ from ourselves.

“You take lots of assessments of stress on lots of people, and now I can start to say ‘why are these people more or less variable?’ We can start to use these sources of information to unpack it,” Smyth said.

Smyth stressed that inferences about some person cannot be made based on information from another, because people are variable. Through understanding of these internal variables, adaptive interventions can be formed specific to a person. Smyth re-

ferred to this as ecological momentary intervention.

Implementation complexity is variable in accordance. It can include anything from simple rules, fixed rules, dynamic rules and dynamic processes, Smyth said. All of these relate to reminders, extensions and reach in response to some triggers.

“It allows you to think of ways where you can ideographically tailor interventions to moments of risk,” Smyth said.

Through these procedures, Smyth studied obesity and stress and found that in obesity EMI increased daily steps by over a thousand, and reported stress was cut in half from the average level.

Smyth, however, recognized the growing points or risk factors for this method, including the lack of reliability of self-reporting and high start-up costs. Yet, he believes this method is a great option for tracking and adapting to individuals and their specific diagnoses.

“Interventions differ in how you need or even the capacity to break them up,” Smyth said. “I think the idea is if you capture these data, you can use them to design theoretically and clinically informative interventions and get the right stuff to the right people at the right time.”

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

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Tax Overhaul >> from page 1 Hill on Tuesday to meet with all GOP senators about the tax plan.

Over the weekend he called Sen. Steve Daines after the Montanan became the second GOP senator to oppose the tax overhaul, putting it at risk of defeat. Daines raised concerns similar to those of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) over the bill’s treatment of small-business owners, who they argue do not benefit as much from the bill as corporations.

The Senate bill follows a legislative structure as the measure approved by House Republicans in lowering corporate and some individual tax rates, but doing away with many popular deductions.

Johnson and other senators suggested a way to improve the bill for so-called pass-through businesses would be to clamp down on deductions for corporations and using those savings to provide more assistance to smaller firms.

“I told the president this would be a great solution to help out these Main Street businesses in America,” Daines said Monday.

Critics have pointed to the ability of corporations to continue to write off state and local taxes. By contrast, individuals or those filing as pass-throughs would no longer be able to do so under the House and Senate bills.

Eliminating the state and local tax deduction has been a constant source of debate in Congress because it brings in more than $1 trillion in revenue over 10 years. But eliminating the write-off would

hit residents in high-tax states like California, who use it to lower their tax bills.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine prefers the House approach, which retained the local property tax deduction, capped at $10,000.

She is trying to reinstate that in the Senate version of the bill.

Collins also objected to a provision that repeals the Affordable Care Act mandate that all Americans carry insurance, which the Congressional Budget Office report estimated would leave 13 million more Americans uninsured by 2027. She wants that provision offset by a separate bill that aims to help stabilize Obamacare insurance markets.

To make up for the lost revenue, senators may consider increasing the corporate tax rate, which under the bills would be reduced from 35 percent to 20 percent. Under the Senate plan, corporate cuts are permanent, but individual cuts expire in eight years.

“I am confident we’re gong to get this done soon,” said Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.).

Pushing ahead on tax reform has become tangled by other looming agenda items. Congress must reach a budget accord soon or risk a government shutdown next week.

But, it got a boost Monday when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced he would be backing the package.

“This bill is not perfect,” Paul wrote in an op-ed on FoxNews. com. “The next few weeks in Washington will be important.

Will we keep our word and cut taxes?”

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Student creates web company

By Julia Trowbridge @chapin_jules

While juggling his education and soccer practice, Jonathan Emig added one more thing: starting his own company.

Jonathan Emig, a junior studying engineering science, started Flux Teck, a web developing company that designs websites and mobile applications for small or large businesses. His company got its first recognition after Emig’s freshman year of when he was contacted by Science Application and Research Associates to create two websites.

“I was inspired by Elon Musk and what he was doing, and I wanted to do something similar in magnitude,” Emig said.

Flux Teck focuses on web design, but Emig hopes to grow the company into the broader field of creative engineering. According to Emig, most young engineers find excitement in using their creativity to build things out of Legos, and he wants to bring that excitement aspect to the professional world.

“I think starting a creative company will work well because people on the projects will be inspired by their own ideas,” Emig said. “And because of that, (employees) would be more motivated to get the project done.”

Flux Teck is in its beginning growth stages, but according to Nick Bosso, a junior studying marketing and Flux Teck’s marketing manager, the company quickly ex-

Jonathan Emig is a CSU student and the founder of Flux Tech. Emig started learning how to program right after high school and has learned many programming languages in addition to how to create websites.

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panded. Emig has two other programmers and is working on a few projects in addition to completing his education.

Bosso said he has faith that the company would take off and wants to stay with the company for as long as he can, knowing Emig is an intelligent and motivated student.

“I’ve had people come to me with project ideas before and ask me to help them,” Bosso said, explaining that he turned down previous offers. “I knew Jonathan was passionate and knew he was smarter than most people I’ve met. (Flux Teck) is going to take off and it’s going to be big, and I want to help as much as I can.”

In addition to his professional work, Emig has computer programming experience. Based on a class project where the group

created a device that translates pixel brightness into sound waves as an aide to those with blindness, Olivera Notaros, a professor in the College of Engineering, is not surprised that Emig has started his own web design company. “(Emig) is a motivated and hard worker,” Notaros said. “It’s not surprising that he’s starting a company on the side, he’s shown that motivation. I wouldn’t be surprised if he succeeds.”

Emig and his employees are confident that the company will be successful, even though it is in its beginning stages. “(Emig) is really talented,” Bosso said. “I have full faith that he will find a way to make this work.”

Julia Trowbridge can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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The House tax reform bill will make graduate school unattainable

By Michelle Fredrickson & Mikaela Rodenbaugh @mfredrickson42 & @mikarodenbaugh

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The newest tax plan approved by the House of Representatives could have a terrible effect: destroying the accessibility of graduate school. Over the recent break, the CSU Graduate School sent an email to students detailing these issues.

Although the Republicans claim that lowering taxes is a priority, the tax bill passed in the House does the opposite, taxing grad students for income they never see.

Changing what’s considered taxable income: Graduate students often receive a tuition waiver in exchange for teaching classes and conducting research. In addition, they receive a small stipend in order to pay for living expenses, because universities recognize that the research these students do is too intense to allow them to hold another job.

This is a fair system because graduate students contribute to the universities by advancing scientific research and teaching undergraduates.

Graduates perform a great deal of academic heavy lifting to the financial benefit of their universities. Even with assistance, many low-income graduates have a hard time making ends meet, often needing loans, family assistance or outside jobs even after receiving a stipend and tuition waivers.

In the current system, the tuition waiver is tax-exempt, meaning it is not considered a part of the student’s taxable income. The GOP bill approved by the House would remove that protection and require graduate students to pay taxes on their tuition remission. This would gouge graduate stipends by as much as 50 percent and could make graduate school unaffordable to all but the wealthiest students.

CSU estimates that a nonresident graduate student’s tuition amounts to nearly $27,000 a year. This tuition is waived and the graduate students are given a sliding scale stipend depending on department funding and whether they work full-time. As an example,

in the journalism department, a full-time graduate stipend is about $13,500 a year. Health insurance is deducted from this number and all stipends are considered taxable, meaning that the total is actually closer to $12,000 a year.

This stipend is taxable income, while the $27,000 tuition waiver is not. Under the new bill, the tuition waiver would be taxed. This could have devastating effects on students in Colorado, especially as the cost of living skyrockets.

FUNDING VS. EXPENSES FULL-TIME GRAD STUDENT ■ Full-time stipend

Journalism Department ■ $12,000 a year (after health insurance) ■ Cost of living Estimated $10,000 anually ■ Transportation and other fees Estimated $7,000 anually ■ Defecit

Estimated $5,000 anually (before tax)

The already hefty price tag of a graduate degree: Attending graduate school is a financial burden for most students, as the stipend is often not sufficient to cover both housing and food, while housing and textbook costs continue to rise, not including the baseline cost of attendance.

CSU estimates that off-campus rent will cost graduate students more than $10,000 annually, with textbooks, transportation and other fees costing another $7,000.

So, for a CSU journalism graduate student, the estimated costs for just these basic necessities, not including food and personal products, exceed their salary by about $5,000. Additionally, student fees are not covered by any assistance made available to graduate students, typically around $800 per semester for full-time graduate students.

Even without the tax reforms proposedintheHousebill,graduate students are strapped, stressed and falling into debt. Making the tuition waiver taxable would deduct from an already small stipend and push graduate education even further out of reach. More students will have to take loans.

Student loans are the only form of debt that is not forgivable under any circumstances. Neither

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bankruptcy or even death provides an escape from student loans.

Unpaid loan debt will transfer to the deceased’s family, should the person die before paying them off. It is unreasonable to subject students and their families to this paralyzing debt. Instead of addressing this growing problem for Americans in their tax reform bills, Republicans are pushing legislation that worsens these problems and further adds to our epidemic levels of national student debt.

This is incredibly hypocritical coming from a party who relies on a platform to reduce taxes. The fact that the tax bill is advertised as reducing the burden of taxes on the American people, yet somehow manages to make taxes higher for several segments of the population—not just grad students—is despicable.

Changing the face of research and perpetuating elitism in higher education: The tax bill approved by the House is nothing more than a scam to keep the extremely wealthy coffers overflowing and stop middle and lower class Americans from being able to pursue their dreams.

Moreover, these cuts to those pursuing graduate degrees will have lasting effects on the scientific community, making research harder to complete and ensuring researchers are less representative of the population. If Republicans are truly concerned about elitism in higher education, with this legislation, they are writing a selffulfilling prophecy.

Diversity among American graduate students is already a problem; while international students often have support from their home country, students from within the United States may have no other funding help. This leads to the average American graduate student being a very specific type of person: white, female and upper-class; not a reflection of the average American. This lack of diversity among American students is something that will be compounded by the new tax plan and could lead to a narrowed perspective for those answering the research questions of our time.

Navigating the decision to drop out or take on loans: Austin, a graduate student at the Ohio State University is among the impacted students.

“If the GOP tax plan goes through, me and many of my colleagues would not be able to

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afford to go to graduate school any longer,” Austin wrote in a Facebook post.

Her family does not assist her financially. If this bill passes, her tuition stipend will be slashed. She won’t be able to afford the costs of school, fees, books, rent and food.

Her only option will be to leave graduate school.

Austin is a student in Ohio, but this is an issue that impacts graduate students nationwide, including both of the authors of this column.

Mikaela might drop out of school: As a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Science in Public Communication and Technology, if this tax reform is passed, I may face dropping out of school.

I graduated with very little family support with my undergraduate degree in Journalism and Media Communications and decided to pursue my graduate education with the understanding that I would finally have the assistance I needed to get through school without the same financial insecurity.

During my time as an undergraduate, I experienced a lot of financial hardship. I funded my degree exclusively through scholarships, grants and personal income from jobs. At the same time, I was working and going to school full-time, I was also paying for my living expenses.

A large part of my decision to attend graduate school was the tuition assistance and small stipend available.

Under these tax reforms, I would likely need to drop out as the government would consider my taxable income to be almost $30,000 a year, making me accountable for thousands of dollars in taxes (nearly half of what I receive in actual spendable income).

Throughout my time as an undergraduate, I sometimes worked three jobs to stay afloat and almostdroppedout.Now,IfeellikeI am reliving this painful experience.

Watching the proceedings of this tax reform bill has gutted me, and left me feeling as though a rug was pulled from underneath my feet.

The House has already passed this bill, and the Senate is considering a version that does not have the same ramifications for graduate students. They will have to reconcile between the two bills, should the Senate bill pass.

I am waiting with baited breath, hoping that Americans will Entering the competition for a fake news trophy, presented by (our favorite president.)

see that this is the wrong choice for our students.

Michelle would be surrounded by people just like her: My experience differs from Mikaela’s, as I am in a professional program - a master’s in public health (MPH).

Professional degrees like an MPH, an MD and a DVM rarely receive tuition stipends.

The GOP bill approved by the House would remove that protection and require graduate students to pay taxes on their tuition remission.

This would gouge graduate stipends by as much as 50 percent.

I don’t have a tuition stipend helping me through my MPH, so I would not see a tax increase because I already pay full tuition. I am fortunate to have a supportive family helping me get through. I also work as close to full-time as I can in order to make ends meet myself, but I recognize that I have an enormous amount of privilege.

This tax bill would limit graduate school attendance across all fields to people like me— largely white, upper-middle-class Americans from fairly affluent backgrounds.

Nobody benefits from that. Some of the most valuable perspectives I’ve gained in my studies are from people of drastically different backgrounds.

We need diversity or the way we see the world will become skewed.

I don’t need to be directly impacted by this bill to realize how wrong it is—my good friend Austin, mentioned above, and I applied to all our graduate schools together.

She is going to make a fantastic professor someday, and I would not be content to see the GOP take that opportunity away from her.

This is a bill that has farreaching consequences, even for people with families in a position to fiscally support them. Maybe I could survive this cut, but that will not stop me from fighting for those who wouldn’t.

Michelle Fredrickson and Mikaela Rodenbaugh can be reached at letters@collegian.com Listening to Jewel songs with your mom.

Decorating for the holidays.

Being brainwashed by the liberal institution of higher education.

Professors who are just as done with the semester as you are.

CSU She Jumps

Luke Koppa shredding through some powder up on Cameron Pass.

Photo by Chris Fuller

She Jumps is a non for profit organization who partners with clubs and organizations to help increase participation of women and girls in outdoor activities. To learn more about their company and involvement here at CSU, I would visit their website and email them at: shejumps.csu@ gmail.com. Here is a little more info about them provided by their website: “Everything we do is mission-based and is designed to create opportunities to Jump In, Jump Up, and Jump Out. This is your chance to get involved with the life you’ve always dreamed of—and share the one you’re living—with women and girls in your local community and all over the world! We are here to create and share the new ‘cover girls;’ the new inspiration of what it means to ‘jump’ to reach your highest potential.”

THE THRILL OF

SKIING

By Jonny Jessup When temperatures drop, roads get slick, and the time comes to wear layered jackets, many people opt to stay indoors. But being outside at altitude with a brisk wind nipping at your exposed skin makes skiing a thrill. It feeds your adventurous side longing to be felt. Living in Colorado, there’s no shortages of places to get hooked on this feeling.

Arguably, there no better day in the world then a powder day, but taking the time to reach powder by skinning up a mountain, or hiking while lugging your skis on your back makes it all worth the effort. Being in Fort Collins, we’re only a short drive away from Cameron Pass which boasts wonderful backcountry skiing. North Diamond Peak, South Diamond Peak, and areas around Mount Lulu and Nokhu Crags offer endless glades, wide bowls, deep powder, and gorgeous scenery.

Great skiing doesn’t need to be found in the backcountry either. Ski areas west of Denver such as Arapahoe Basin, Keystone, Breckenridge, and Winter Park offer fantastic skiing with corduroy ready to be shredded. Corduroy is the newly groomed snow from snowcats that makes for fast skiing and perfect carving. For me, I love to get up early and get to first chair to reach those groomed runs before they get skied up.

Skiing comes in many forms, but spending time and putting the effort forward to reach that untouched powder or early corduroy is the best part about skiing for me.

Focusing on zooming down the slopes and feeling your edges in the soft snow is an experience unmatched.

We’re fortunate to live in a unique place where snow can always be found throughout the mountains. Across all the seasons, we are always able to enjoy skiing and always have an adventure waiting for us. Form your own adventure, form your own tracks.

Photo taken on the Y Couloir of Mt. Mahler above Lake Agnes.

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Photo from the Nokhu Crags up Poudre Canyon.

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CLASSIC. MOUNTAIN. MODERN.

By Michael Berg Are you interested in finding a group of like minded snowboarders here at CSU? Well if you are then look no further, this wild group of snow hounds prefers one plank of wood attached to their feet not two, and are sure to be seen having a good time regardless of the conditions. I would recommend googling the “CSU Snowriders” to find out more info however here are a few snippets from their website: “Snowriders is THE club at CSU that caters to those who love to ski and ride. We offer socials, BBQs, movie premiers, ski trips to Crested Butte and A-Basin, and annual trips to Jackson Hole (God bless the hole). If you want to get involved with a group of people who share an unspeakable love for riding the mountain, dressin’ up like a bunch of jerrys, carrying on traditions, and meeting the best people on the CSU campus, then the CSU Snowriders are your club.

In order to get involved come and chat with us. We have office hours every week in the downstairs LSC. It’s called the student org office, but a lot of us have never even heard of that place before. Well young padawan here’s what you gotta do: go downstairs in the LSC and find the skeller, once at the skeller continue directly east toward the door that takes you into the student org office. Say hello to the fine young man or woman at the front desk and continue on past the pac man machine; your destination will be on your right.”

Competitive skiing at CSU is offered by our Alpine Ski Team, and they really know how to rock two planks of wood rather than one if that is more up your alley. Here is some info taken from their campus recreation website about this great sport club opportunity we have: “The Alpine Ski Team was established at Colorado State in the 70’s. The team competes for the National Collegiate Ski Association, which includes competition with University of Colorado, Colorado College, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado Mountain College, University of Denver, Fort Lewis, Air Force Academy, and University of Wyoming.

Races start the third week in January and continue for four weekends after that. Each weekend has two races, one

per day, for a total of 8 races. The team competes in Giant Slalom and Slalom events. Regional Championships are held at the end of February with National championships following in early March, pending qualification. All ability levels are welcome, and earning USSA points in the rage of 125-20 is considered competitive.

Training sessions are available at Eldora Mountain Monday through Friday once the season is underway. All Training sessions are an additional fee. Team dues are typically between $900 and $1,000, which includes lodging, food, transportation, lift tickets, and race entry fees. All racers will need to get a USSA license, this will be explained and purchased in the fall.

EMAIL US AT CSUSKITEAM@GMAIL.COM TO BE ADDED TO THE MAILING LIST AND RECEIVE SKI TEAM INFORMATION.

RAMPAGE 4

Upcoming

Registration has just begun for the Online Fantasy Sports Bowl Game Pick ‘Em, and for the Table Tennis Tournament. Registration for both activities will end December 3rd at 11:00pm.

Stay updated on all all information regarding scores and standings as we enter playoff season!

Current

Men’s 3v3 Basketball

Women’s 4v4 Soccer

Notable: You’ve Cat to be Kitten Me is the highest scoring team in the league with an astounding 19.33 goals per game.

Fall Bowling Tournament

Notable: Congratulations to Bowl So Hard for coming in first place in Bowling tournament at Chipp Lane’s on the 16th.

Coed Dodgeball

If you are looking for a teammate, stay posted on the IM Men’s basketball page for free agents.

Notable: “*dodges ball” and “Doggy Style” earn an automatic bye going into the playoffs because of their outstanding records in the regular season.

Notable: Cash Money Records remains the best team in the league at an undefeated 4-0

Notable: The “Wrench Dodgers” will face “Half-Saturnese Afro-Ducks” at 6:30 to begin the playoffs.

Women’s 3v3 Basketball Coed 4v4 Soccer

Notable: Joseph Maxie scores 6 goals in a 12-7 blowout against the Ballnappers. The Ballhandlerz are now 2-2 after that victory.

Men’s 4v4 Soccer

Notable: Dream Team destroys the Fat Four in the Tuesday 9:45 division in a 17-1 blowout. Dream Team remain without a loss at 4-0.

Men’s Dodgeball

Coed Tube Water Polo

Notable: Two 500 teams “Hurricane Lems” and “Splash Drip Drip Splash” will face on Wednesday.

Both teams needing a victory to advance in the playoffs.

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The view atop Marry Jane at Winter Park Resort.

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SPORTS Tuesday, November 28, 2017

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Colorado State finds shooting star in Sofie Tryggedsson

By Luke Zahlmann @lukezahlmann

In a parade of shots for CSU women’s basketball, a true firework emerged and lit up the gym for the Rams coming off the graduation of two stars.

With the loss of roughly half their total scoring from last season, CSU women’s basketball has found their new offensive fire starter in junior Sofie Tryggedsson and embraced the power of the well-timed 3-pointer in the face of adversity.

In college basketball, graduation serves as the doomsday for many teams, an ultimate test of a culture. With the loss of key players, new leaders are expected to emerge without missing a beat. Leading such a young team, Tryggeddson and her fellow upperclassmen have continued the tone of winning and excellence in Moby Arena.

As a team that dominated in the mid-range and post game last year, the Rams have lost some of their size this year and in turn adapted a new mindset, one of finding the open player and getting the best shot possible, inside or out.

A common trend in basketball, the 3-point shot has become the spark plug for the engine that is offense in present day play.

Tryggedsson, the Rams fifth-leading scorer from last season, has risen to number two on this year’s team to this point, with a large lead in 3-point makes.

“When we need a three, she’s one that can give it to us,” senior guard Hannah Tvrdy said. “We always know if we give it to Sofie, more than likely it’s gonna go in so when we are having (hard) times offensively where we can’t get a shot, we know that Sofie is a really good option for us.”

A sniper from beyond the arc, Tryggedsson makes a living over 20 feet from the basket and serves as the pilot of each crowd the team draws. On the road, Tryggedsson can bring silence over a crowd with a dagger from deep, while the Moby faithful come to their feet with a stalwart roar with each made shot.

On a team where Ellen Nystrom and Elin Gustavsson led the team in scoring by a wide margin and aided the Rams on the boards each game, Tryggedsson still stood second on the team in made 3-pointers. Though she only started 17 games last season, she has yet to come off the bench this year, serving as a staple in the fluctuating Rams lineup.

Tryggedsson has pushed the Rams to top five in 3-point field goal makes on the season (43).

As a junior, Tryggedsson was able to spend two years next to two of the premier stars in Colorado State women’s basketball history in Nystrom and Gustavsson. Learning from their tutelage and applying their game to her own was vital

to the success that Tryggedsson is experiencing to this point.

“They brought different qualities to the team,” Tryggedsson said.

“Ellen really led by example, she always said the right thing at the right time. Their mind set was always, ‘We’re gonna win this game and do as well as we can,’ and that’s something they definitely (left) with this program.”

Not to be ignored, a silent but deadly aspect of Tryggedsson’s game is her perimeter and interior defense. As a bigger guard for the Rams, coach Ryun Williams placed extra responsibility upon the shoulders of Tryggedsson and relied on her to set the tone defensively for a young Rams team.

“She guards the shooters for us which is really important,” senior forward Veronkia Mirkovic said.

“Since we’ve seen film and we know what (other teams) can do, they’re not able to since she’s got them. It makes us think, ‘Hey I need to step up, my player is not going to score either.’”

In a year where the Rams have dealt with losing two of their longer and taller players, Tryggedsson has kept the culture of excellence intact and propelled the Rams to hold their opponents to a .337 shooting percentage from the field, and the lowest points allowed as a team in the Mountain West Conference.

With an added dimension of perimeter defense, Tryggedsson has also aided the Rams in their feat of holding opponents to the third lowest 3-point percentage in the conference (.280). Being on the court has become a necessity for a young Rams team and Tryggedsson.

“Everybody looks at Sofie and they look at a shooter,” Williams said. “Sofie’s a really good defensive player. She’s our best perimeter defender, I’m not sure (it gets noticed). That’s why it’s so hard to not have her on the floor a lot.”

As a newfound leader for the Rams and their young nucleus, Tryggedsson’s fire on both sides of the court continues to push the mindset of consistency forward and add a new level of maturity to a team seeking guidance.

Being recruited out of Denmark, Tryggedsson was brought to the Rams to continue the same game she featured prior to college. Williams sought to allow her the freedom to shoot, while pushing lessons upon her from the CSU women’s basketball lesson plan. Atmosphere and culture were the main draws for a foreign player looking for a basketball home stateside.

“There was a good culture around here,” Tryggedsson said.

“We have a lot of fun with the team and we just play hard and just want to go out and win. There was a tradition of winning with this team and it’s something I wanted to be a part of.”

A mainstay in the starting lineup currently, Tryggedsson started on the bench her freshman year, taking lessons from the players who took the court every night. Instead of getting down on herself, Tryggedsson used it as a learning opportunity and a drive for the future.

With another year remaining after this one, Tryggedsson will be relied upon heavily to overcome two large and influential graduating classes. Tryggedsson will look to become the stabilizer and harmony of the Rams.

“It’s a good pressure, I want to take more responsibility,” Tryggedsson said. “We’re not gonna grow if we don’t get more responsibility so it is a good kind of pressure and it’s been on a lot of us because there was no, ‘Oh this is gonna be our new Ellen.’ It’s kind of open for everybody.”

With a 3-2 start for the Rams,

Junior guard Sofie Tryggedsson takes a 3-pointer during the second quarter of play against the Idaho State Vandals on Nov. 10. The Rams fell to Vandals 83-69 during the home opener at Moby Arena.

PHOTO BY ELLIOTT JERGE COLLEGIAN

including an upset over Gonzaga that was led by daggers from Tryggedsson, the Rams have continued their winning culture. As the season continues, they will

lean upon their returning players, including new, every-game starter Tryggedsson.

Luke Zahlmann can be reached at sports@collegian.com

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SPORTS Tuesday, November 28, 2017

VOLLEYBALL

Katie Oleksak headlines list of award winners for CSU volleyball

By Austin White @ajwrules44

The end of November means time for award season and the Colorado State Rams added quite a bit of hardware to their already full mantle. Sophomore Katie Oleksak was named the Mountain West Player of the Year, head coach Tom Hilbert took home MW Coach of the Year honors and redshirt freshman Breana Runnels was named Newcomer of the Year.

In addition to Oleksak and Runnels, redshirt sophomore Kirstie Hillyer, sophomore Paulina Hougaard-Jensen and senior Jasmine Hanna were all selected to the All-Mountain West team.

Oleksak becomes the 10th different CSU player to take home the Player of the Year honor in the 19-year history of the Mountain West Conference.

The award is also the 13th time a Ram has taken home the title in Mountain West history.

Oleksak’s total of 1,310 assists led the Mountain West in the category by more than 200 sets. She also placed first in conference play with 12.16 assists per set.

The sophomore took home Freshman of the Year honors last season after recording 1,250

assists and 11.26 assists per set.

Her 12.02 assists per set this year is a new CSU modern era record in a season, breaking the 11.76 mark by Deedra Foss in 2013. The 1,310 total assists also breaks the CSU modern scoring record in a season set by Foss in 2014 of 1,293.

Not only does Oleksak pass with ease, but she does well in almost every aspect of the game. Her 83 blocks is tied for the third most on the Rams and she has the second most digs on the squad with 216. Oleksak’s ability to read other team’s defenses also allows her to excel on dumping the ball on fake sets, leading to her 59 kills this season from the setter position.

Runnels took home Newcomer of the Year honors by leading the Rams in kills with 347 and ranking seventh in the conference in kills per set with 3.21. The redshirt freshman has already become well known for how hard she can spike the ball which is why the Rams set her the most this season with 857 attempts.

Another player made CSU history this season as HougaardJensen broke the all-time hitting percentage mark. Her .473 hitting percentage beat out Angela Knopf’s .456 clip back in 2001 and is currently ranked

second in the nation in the category. The Denmark native’s 257 kills are third on the team this season.

Continuing with the offensive theme, the outside attacking duo of Runnels and Hanna made the All-Mountain West team, Runnels’ first honor and Hanna’s second (2016).

Runnels led the Rams in kills with 347 and Hanna finished right behind her with 328 in the regular season.

Hanna set the record for most career kills in Rams’ modern-scoring history after her sixth kill against the San Jose State Spartans on Oct. 12.

She ends the regular season with 1,199 career kills as the Rams head to Palo Alto, California to take on the Michigan Wolverines in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Defense also had representation from the Rams as Hillyer’s 1.49 blocks per set led the conference and her 1.36 blocks per set in conference matches ranked second. Hillyer earned Newcomer of the Year honors last season, but did not have the same numbers this season after a knee injury sidelined the middle blocker for the Rams’ final six nonconference matches before she returned for the start of

Sophomore Katie Oleksak sets a teammate during the CSU vs. Fresno State volleyball game. The Rams swept the Bulldogs on Nov. 15.

PHOTO BY JOSHUA CONTRERAS COLLEGIAN

conference play.

Last but certainly not least is Hilbert who takes home the Mountain West Coach of the Year award for the 10th time. He reached a personal milestone of 700 career wins after the Rams defeated SJSU on Oct. 12 and led the Rams to their 14th Mountain West title in the 19-year history of the conference.

A nod went to the Rams on the Honorable Mention team in the form of senior Sanja Cizmic. The senior Croatia native dominated in the Rams’ non-conference schedule,

highlighted by an AVCA Player of the Week honor back on Sept. 12.

The award came after her 35-kill weekend that included a 13-kill, .550 hitting clip against the thenNo. 16 Michigan Wolverines.

The season is not over yet for the award-winning Rams who are set to take on Michigan this Friday, Dec. 1 in Palo Alto.

The Rams will be making their 23rd consecutive NCAA tournament when the rematch against Michigan begins at 5:30 MT. Austin White can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Rams eyeing first road win of 2017 in MW-MV Challenge

By Eddie Herz @Eddie_Herz

The Colorado State Rams will look to pick up their first victory away from Moby Arena this season when they face Missouri State in the 2017 Mountain West-Missouri Valley Challenge Tuesday evening.

Just as all of their games away from home have this season, Tuesday’s matchup with the Bears presents the Rams with an opportunity to pick up a resumebuilding win.

Missouri State began the 201718 season in a desirable manner, currently sitting at 5-2 with a win over Western Kentucky. The win over WKU continues to look better and better for the Bears, as the Hilltoppers have gone on to beat No. 18 Purdue and SMU. Missouri State is also only a few buckets away from being undefeated.

Its losses to North Dakota State and Georgia Southern were by a combined four points.

After returning four of five starters from last season’s team, the Bears were picked to win the

Missouri Valley this season. As the senior forward did last season, Alize Johnson is leading Missouri State in both points and rebounds in the early portion of the season.

Johnson has picked up three double-doubles so far this season and is averaging 14.7 points per game to go along with 10.7 rebounds.

In addition to returning their key contributors from last season, graduate transfer J.T. Miller has been a valuable asset to the Bears in the first seven games of 2017.

Miller transferred from Howard and is currently Missouri State’s second-leading scorer, averaging 11.6 points per game.

Statistically speaking, two major advantages the Bears hold over CSU are depth and experience. Seven of Missouri State’s 12 rostered players are playing at least 20 minutes per game this season. All seven are juniors or seniors. In fact, only three players on the Bears’ roster are underclassmen.

The Rams are coming off a bounce-back victory over

Northwestern State after losing three straight games. Picking up a win over Missouri State and getting back over the .500 mark would be very significant for CSU. Considering the fact that CSU has three consecutive Power Five opponents on the schedule after Missouri State, Tuesday’s game is that much more significant.

Hanging with Missouri State on the glass will be crucial for CSU. The Bears are currently averaging 43.6 rebounds per game, tied for 12th most in the country. The performance from senior forward Che Bob on the glass so far this season has helped the Rams create a 1-2 punch down low.

The senior forward is averaging 9.3 rebounds per game while Nico Carvacho is averaging 9.5.

However, Carvacho’s rebounding numbers have dropped since collecting 35 boards in CSU’s first two games of the season. The redshirt sophomore is only averaging 5.5 rebounds per game over his last four games.

Bob earned a double-double in each of CSU’s last three games,

averaging 16 points and 10.7 boards during that stretch. He has collected at least 10 rebounds four times this season. Effective rebounding from both Bob and Carvacho will be a necessity for the Rams against Missouri State.

CSU is 3-3 all-time in the MWMV Challenge and holds a 1-0 record over Missouri State. The

Rams defeated the Bears 76-61 in the 2014 Alaska Shootout.

CSU and Missouri State are set to tipoff at 6 p.m. MT at John Q. Hammons Arena in Springfield, Missouri. The game can be seen on ESPN3 as well as listened to on KARS 102.9 FM. Eddie Herz can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

Che Bob (10) attempts to shoot the ball through Northernwestern State defenders on Nov. 24. PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS MAY COLLEGIAN

ARTS & CULTURE Tuesday, November 28, 2017

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ART

Global Village Museum of Art and Culture celebrates community

By Zoe Jennings @zoe_jennings4

The Global Village Museum of Art and Culture has been home to artifacts such as a four foot jade boat from China, a Mongolian yurt replica, a collection of Ethiopian umbrellas and a peace mandala crafted by Tibetan monks.

For the past six years, the museum has displayed international items all belonging to members of the Fort Collins community.

Located in Old Town on Mountain Street, the museum is a non-profit organization and is not supported by the city, according to director LaVon Blaesi. It runs on community donations, gift shop purchases and volunteer work.

Their most popular exhibits have been those that display international nativity sets, Blaesi said. This year’s nativity exhibit includes nearly 300 nativities built from various materials. Some sets displayed in the exhibit come from places as far as Germany, Thailand,

Denmark and Czech Republic.

The museum was conceived by several community members who first displayed their personal artifact collections in the museum. Now, the museum serves as a ‘home base,’ for the community of Fort Collins with international connections or interests. Visitors often point out where they are from on a map displayed in the lobby of the museum, Blaesi said.

Although the museum rotates through exhibits, there are several permanent collections including the hall of international textiles and a gallery showcasing miniature international folk art.

Arthur Santos moved to the U.S. from Brazil this year. He has volunteered at the museum for the past two months.

Working at the museum has exposed him to many different cultures that he did not know much about before, he said. The experience has also helped him connect with the Fort Collins community.

“It’s very nice because this is a museum made by the people

of Fort Collins, so it depends on help from people here,” Santos said.

Janete and Bruce Harshberger and their daughter Jennifer Zachman visited the museum to see the nativity exhibit.

“We were just intrigued by the idea that people had donated all kinds of things, and we thought it would be a homey thing to do, and we were really impressed,” Janete Harberger said.

For them the importance of celebrating international culture is important.

“We are fighting isolationism from the top these days,” Bruce Harshberger said.

The museum isn’t too flashy and doesn’t bring in elaborate exhibits from outside organizations. The museum staff and volunteers spend weeks collecting artifacts donated from the community and carefully arranging them.

The result is a space that is welcome for visitors to explore culture through art.

“I like the idea of celebrating

A model of the nativity scene from Oaxaca, Mexico. Different renditions of the nativity scene from various parts of the world are on display until January at the Global village museum.

PHOTO BY BRANDON MENDOZA COLLEGIAN

the world and the people in it,” Zachman said. “Fort Collins has so many folks with so many different backgrounds and nationalities, and it’s celebrating everybody, not just one particular group over another. We’re all humans. It’s all of our stories.”

The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from

11 a.m. until 5 p.m. The cost for admission is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and students and $1 for children.

The Nativities & Trees: Global Traditions exhibit will be open until Jan. 20, 2018.

Zoe Jennings can be reached at entertainment@collegian. com.

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ARTS & CULTURE Tuesday,November 28, 2017

CSU REACTS

FOOD AND DINING

Does smoking weed Ginger and Baker adds help you study? homely vibe to Fort Collins ByMir-Yashar Seyedbagheri @dudesosad

Can you puff the magic dragon and study at the same time?

In spite of increasing support for legalization, smoking marijuana is still a source of societal polarization. Some sources have claimed marijuana stimulates the mind and creative abilities. In particular, a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital and Tufts University claim that marijuana smoking results in improvements in cognitive performance.

Others warn that marijuana is potentially damaging to brain cells. A 2015 study published in “Molecular Psychiatry” posits that regular marijuana users experience issues of memory loss. The study claims these memory issues are similar to those experienced in the aging process.

Even among the marijuanasmoking community, experiences vary. Colorado State University students are no exception.

Jennifer Hudler is a junior economics major and occasional smoker. Hudler has studied high on certain occasions. It is most helpful when reading textbooks in particular, she said.

“It alleviates stress and gives me an opportunity to relax and catch smaller details around me,” Hudler said. “I will retain info more.”

“It alleviates stress and gives me an opportunity to relax and catch smaller details around me,” Hudler said. “I will retain info more.”

Smoking also helps her organize her thoughts.

“My notes are somewhat

more detailed,” Hudler said.

Hudler prefers smoking hybrids, one of three main categories of marijuana. She says they offer the best balance of both sativas and indicas.

Sativas offer more of an energy high, whereas indicas create a more mellow, relaxed experience. Indicas have lovingly been nicknamed ‘indacouch’ because of this effect.

However, others have a different experience with marijuana and academics.

Alex Carpenter is a senior environmental engineering major. Carpenter considers himself a once-a-week smoker.

However, marijuana and studying do not go hand in hand for him.

“I cannot be productive and be high,” Carpenter says. “It is just not compatible with the way I like to think I feel.”

Carpenter said he has studied sober his entire life and making that switch seems foreign.

“I do not smoke enough to smoke all the time,” Carpenter said.

Carpenter also prefers smoking indicas, he said. Sativas are too energetic for Carpenter’s tastes.

Andrew Wright, a senior math major, occasionally studies and smokes. He describes the results as “somewhere in the middle,” he said.

“It is like a one-track mind,” Wright said. “It is hit or miss.”

Colorado State University policy on marijuana: Possession, use of or sales of marijuana are prohibited on campus. Students in possession are subject to disciplinary measures.

Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri can be reached at enterainment@ collegian.com

Colorado is celebrating its fifth year of marijuana legalization.

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By Ty Davis

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If you travel north on Linden Street in Old Town, you will see a startling juxtaposition of exterior style between sleek contemporary and American farmhouse. At first glance, you may assume these are two separate buildings, but on further inspection, it’s revealed to be one large building. On the left, you have The Cache, a casual dining restaurant, and on the right, the new bakery, Ginger and Baker.

Walking into the bakery, it is akin to having sugar directly injected into your veins. The atmosphere is full of woodgrain, cast iron decorations and ceramic dishes culminating in the image of a middle American farm-house-kitchen.

Immediately, feelings of homely sweetness are invoked along with images of colonial style homes against the backdrop of expansive wheat fields. You also see the bright red hair of owner Ginger Graham darting around to talk to guests.

If you asked people a few years ago what would be a good replacement for the Northern Colorado Feeder Supply, a few ideas may have come to mind, but a bakery was likely not at the tops of anyone’s list. Yet, when the building was bought in 2015, a bakery is exactly what Graham had in mind.

Graham grew up on a small farm in Arkansas where, she says, they made most of their own clothes and grew most of their own food, including raising poultry, cattle and pork.

According to Graham, baking was always present growing up in her house.

Her mother owned her own catering business and would bake for an assortment of events.

“She and friend started what they called The Sugar and Spice Catering Company, and they did primarily weddings, so I grew up decorating wedding cakes, making wedding mints, and petit fours and homemade candies for receptions and openings,” Graham said.

She would constantly be in the kitchen helping her mother, and because her mother was so hospitable, there was constantly something that needed to be made, Graham

Ginger and Baker is a new bakery in Fort Collins located at 359 Linden Street. In addition to the bakery, the building houses a market, café and teaching kitchen. PHOTO BY ABBY FLITTON COLLEGIAN

said.

Since those times, the idea of owning her own bakery never stopped.

“I always thought it would be fun to own a small pie shop and flower shop, almost like a European market,” Graham said.

Neither one having a college education themselves, Graham’s parents were determined to see to it that both she and her brother received one. When the time came, Graham chose to attend the University of Arkansas where she received her degree in agriculture.

After college, she took a sales representative job at Elanco LLC., at the time one of the biggest agricultural chemical companies in the world, according to Graham.

After five years, she was elevated to marketing, by which point she had come to enjoy the business world and decided to go to business school to pursue further ambitions.

Since then, she has gone on to run a Fortune 500 company and a Nasdaq 100 company while also serving on several boards of directors.

Fast forward to 2011, and Graham along with her husband had moved to Fort Collins. Her husband was the athletics director at Colorado State University. As such, they were heavily involved in the community.

Once they settled down and began to decide what they were going to do, Graham decided now was the time to finally open up that little pie shop. The search for a building began in 2013 and ended in 2014 when

she discovered the Northern Colorado Feeder Supply was for sale.

When Graham came to Fort Collins, she fell in love with the community and Old Town especially. So when she saw the over 100-year-old building up for sale, she thought it was the perfect opportunity. This was an opportunity not only to fulfill a dream but to also add something to the town she began to adore.

“We fell in love with Fort Collins,” Graham said.

“Old Town is a very special community. It’s fun. It’s unique.

It has a personality.”

One of her goals in choosing the location was to bring to people together and be an addition to the community.

“We feel like this is a great gathering place for Fort Collins,” Graham said.

“We love the engagement the community has here. There’s every age group and so many things to do, and we thought this building represented a fun place to gather in Fort Collins and make memories together.”

Dan Dreyfuss, director of operations, has been in business for 34 years.

“I’ve worked corporate,” Dreyfuss said. “I’ve worked private sector businesses for people all over the country that have multi-million dollar operations, and I’ve never come across ownership that just demands perfection seek perfection and will do anything along with the team to achieve all those goals.”

Ty Davis can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com

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