Vol. 128, No. 92 Monday, February 18, 2019

Vol. 128, No. 92 Monday, February 18, 2019

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Man who strangled mountain lion makes public appearance

By Austin Fleskes @Austinfleskes07

cow costumes laid on the ground, outlined in chalk. Masked demonstrators had TVs strapped to their chests as graphic content from inside meat processing facilities played.

Ten days after strangling a mountain lion to death in self-defense, Travis Kauffman, 31, made his first public appearance in good spirits, wearing the same jacket from the day of the incident, at a limited access press conference Thursday.

Kauffman was attacked by a juvenile mountain lion while trail running in the Horsetooth Mountain Open Space Feb. 4.

When the mountain lion attacked, Kauffman was bitten on the face and wrist before strangling the predator to death in self-defense by stepping on its neck after wrestling it to the ground.

“Right when I turned and saw it, it was definitely disbelief (I felt,)” Kauffman said. “The shock of the situation and the fear and finally the instinct to fight, it was kind of that trajectory that those emotions followed.”

Kauffman is originally from Mountain Home, Arkansas, and is currently residing in Fort Collins. He has lived here for five years and works as an environmental consultant.

Ty Petersburg, area wildlife manager for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, commended Kauffman before he came out to speak, saying that he had done everything just right.

“I want to recognize Travis.

It’s an incredible story and he’s a pretty amazing young man with a warrior’s heart,” Petersburg said.

“It really was a fight for survival.”

see PROTEST on page 4 >>

see MOUNTAIN LION on page 4 >>

A protester dressed as a cow lies down in the middle of the Plaza during a demonstration against the new on-campus meat sciences facility Feb. 15.

The new facility recieved financial support through JBS USA. The protestors were protesting the construction of the building.

PHOTO BY NATHAN TRAN COLLEGIAN

Colorado Animal Liberation Forum protests animal processing at CSU

By Meagan Stackpool & Laura Studley @CSUCollegian

Animal processing on campus is being protested yet again.

The Colorado Animal Liberation Forum held a demonstra-

tion on the Plaza Feb. 15 against the processing of animals in Colorado State University’s new JBS Global Food Innovation Center.

Logistics Coordinator Ora Goldman organized the protest on behalf of CALF and the Save Movement, an organization

that raises awareness of animal abuse.

“What we’re here to ask is whether oppressing other beings… (is) in line with our values,” Goldman said.

Protestors dressed in animal costumes accompanied by others in animal masks. Those in

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Gov. Polis talks higher education, renewable energy with ASCSU

By Stuart Smith @stuartsmithws

In his third Northern Colorado stop of the day, Gov. Jared Polis visited Colorado State University Friday afternoon to discuss and receive feedback on his higher education plan with students. The Associated Students of CSU asked him questions from themselves and their constituents.

In his 20-minute event in the ASCSU Senate chambers, Polis spoke largely about higher education and its direction in Colorado, including expanded green energy programs CSU and the University of Colorado, Boulder are pioneering to other universities.

“You really encourage some of the student leaders… at our other public universities, whether it’s Adams State or (the University of Northern Colorado) or Fort Lewis,” Polis said. “Encourage them to take this up as one of their goals too.”

Sen. Milena Castaneda, in the context of CSU’s recent Land Acknowledgement, asked Polis how the state could

help indigenous people benefit from higher education.

One of the ways Colorado supports Native Americans in higher ed, Polis explained, is a tuition waiver that Fort Lewis College has for Alaska Native/ Native American students, a program they began in 1911.

“You really encourage some of the student leaders… at our other public universities, whether it’s Adams State or (the University of Northern Colorado) or Fort Lewis. Encourage them to take this up as one of their goals too.”

JARED POLIS COLORADO GOVERNOR

Jared Polis speaks at ASCSU to address student concerns on higher education and renewable energy.

PHOTO BY NATHAN TRAN COLLEGIAN

“Beyond that, we want to acknowledge the heritage of everybody who has made Colorado what it is today,” Polis said. “My focus is Colorado for all, and that means… Califor-

nians who arrived last week and just became Coloradans, it means our first people, our Native Americans, it means our Spanish settlers in the valley in southern Colorado who have been here for 400-500 years, it

means families like mine.”

After the event, Polis told The Collegian the ASCSU members asked him good questions.

“They’re in student government for a reason,” Polis said.

“They’re obviously not shy and like to be inquisitive and asked a lot of good questions about the role that CSU can play in our renewable energy future.”

Stuart Smith can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Protest >> from page 1 Colorado State University has been awarded one of the most sustainable campuses twice according to SOURCE. Because of the University’s environmental efforts, protestors were questioning the alignment of CSU’s values in correlation to the meat industry and their partnership with JBS USA. “Animal agriculture is the biggest greenhouse gas emitter,” said local volunteer and animal activist Cameron Wylde. “It’s bigger than the entire transportation sector.”

Sophomore conservation biology major Ayaka Paul expressed her thoughts on the CALF protest and the slaughterhouse itself.

“I don’t really know too much about the slaughterhouse or anything that goes with it,” Paul said. “(But,) without protest and without bringing it to the public eye, how can anyone

Mountain Lion >> from page 1

Kauffman’s story started in Lory State Park, as he was planning to do a 12-15 mile run on Feb. 4. He ran along the South Valley trails and eventually linked up with Horsetooth Mountain Park. From there he ran the Towers hill and eventually hooked down to another trail to the south and eventually to Westridge trail, east of Towers.

About a quarter mile into the run down Westridge trail he heard some pine needles rustle and a stick break behind him.

“I turned around and just was pretty bummed out to see a mountain lion chasing after me,” Kauffman said.

He threw his hands up into the air and yelled to try and deter it, but the lion lunged at him, latching onto his wrist.

“I was just kind of screaming the whole time, doing my barbarian yell as best I could,” Kauffman said in a video interview with CPW Monday.

Eventually, Kauffman and the mountain lion tumbled down the south side of the trail into what he called a “wrestling match.” He was able to pin its back-legs and tried to fatally stab the lion in the neck with sticks. When this didn’t work, he managed to grab a rock and hit it in the back of the head a few times, but still wasn’t able to kill it.

“At that point, I knew ... I was probably going to have to do something a little more drastic,” Kauffman said “I was able to shift my weight and get

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know about it or form an opinion?”

JBS USA partnered with CSU to build the new Food Innovation Center, donating $12.5 million dollars to the $20 million dollar project in 2017.

Of the donation, $7.5 million went to construction, and the remaining $5 million is allocated to an employee-education program.

However, some activists and students on campus are against the meat processing facility, in part due to JBS USA’s alleged illegal activities.

“There’s well documented cases of (JBS) bribing public officials in order to keep tainted meat on shelves, breaking regulations (that protect the Amazon Rainforest),” Cameron Wylde said.

Two years ago, JBS USA founders Wesley and Joesley Batista were arrested after a corruption scandal involving the bribing of Brazilian officials to allow tainted meat on the market, according to the New York Times.

However, CSU Director of public affairs and communications Mike Hooker said calling

the facility a “slaughterhouse” is an inaccurate statement because animal processing is only a small part of what the building will be used for.

“This facility is designed to the highest industry and research-proven standards,” Hooker wrote in an email to The Collegian. “We believe this facility is crucial for CSU students and faculty as a land grant institution.”

Last spring, University students were outraged at the prospect of the facility being built, which resulted in a petition with over 60,000 names signed against the meat-harvesting facility.

Major themes throughout the protest were the importance of veganism, sustainability and complete animal liberation.

Victoria Wylde, community member and animal activist for CALF, briefly explained why veganism is not as costly as many people believe.

“Meat has always been an indication of wealth,” Victoria Wylde said. “To me, eating a heavily meat-based diet, like the standard American diet, is expensive. The only reason you

a foot on its neck and ... after a few minutes I thought I would be getting close and it would start thrashing again. Another couple minutes later it finally stopped moving.”

Kauffman was able to pull his wrist free and scramble back up to the trail.

quired any stitches.

Kauffman was treated at Poudre Valley Hospital, where he said “their stitches were top notch.”

Annie Bierbower, Kauffman’s girlfriend, attended the conference with him and said that when she picked up his call she wasn’t sure if he was serious.

“There was a level of confusion and we didn’t really talk on the phone much after that,” Bierbower said.

She then rushed to the hospital, which she said was the scariest part of the day. When she arrived, she found Kauffman being wheeled into his room.

“I remember saying (to the nurse) ‘can I kiss him?’” Bierbower said.

According to a necropsy conducted by CPW, the mountain lion was estimated to be “approximately 4-5 months old based on tooth eruption.”

The estimated weight of the full carcass prior to scavenging was 35-40 pounds.

The lion was also tested negative for rabies.

“These animals are ambush predators,” said Mark Leslie, northeast region manager for CPW. “These lions are especially powerful.”

Leslie added that encounters like this are a reality for all Coloradans, especially those that partake in outdoor activities. Horsetooth Mountain Open Space was closed on Feb. 5 after increased mountain lion activity in the area was recorded. Two mountain lions in the area were moved to a rehabilitation center. Horsetooth Open Space has since been reopened.

“I want to recognize Travis. It’s an incredible story and he’s a pretty amazing young man with a warrior’s heart.

It really was a fight for survival.”

TY PETERSBURG AREA WILDLIFE MANAGER FOR COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE

“I just kinda had that wave of fear roll over me and thought that I could just end up there and stay there,” Kauffman said.

“And luckily that wasn’t the case.”

Kauffman then ran another three miles until he came across another trail runner, who ran with him until they ran into two more people. One of the individuals then drove Kauffman to the hospital while another brought Kauffman’s truck so he could have his belongings and contact his family.

In the attack, Kauffman did not sustain any broken bones or tendon damage but required over 20 facial stitches as well as wrist stitches. He continues to suffer from swelling, causing him to have limited motion.

He also sustained contusions and puncture wounds to the neck and legs, none of which re-

can buy chicken for $2 a pound is because the government subsidizes it.”

Students gathered in response to Goldman’s speech, including senior animal science major, Gerardo Delao.

“(But,) without protest and without bringing it to the public eye how can anyone know about it or form an opinion?”

AYAKA PAUL SOPHOMORE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY MAJOR

“I feel like (the protest)gives a negative perception of how they see the animal science as a whole,” Delao said. “I think they’re giving false information saying… ‘JBS doesn’t treat their animals right and abuses them.’

If anything, being an animal science student who has actually been there several times… they actually do care for their animals and not just treat them like a dollar menu (item) from

McDonalds.”

Victoria Wylde expressed her views on the controversy surrounding the facility.

“This is supposed to be a safe space for learning and education here, and I don’t really understand how you can combine a safe space for educational learning with something that is so horrible and horrific,” Victoria Wylde said. “Slaughterhouses are going to be built, but if we’re silent about it, we’re complicit.”

After the protest, the demonstration moved to the JBS meat processing facility in Greeley to hold a vigil.

Julia Weingardt, a CSU alumna and CALF member, expressed the purpose of the veganism movement and their protest on campus.

“In terms of animals, we’re not trying to show them as similar to people, but in their capacity to suffer, we are all the same,” Weingardt said.

Meagan Stackpool and Laura Studley can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Travis Kauffman, 31, made his first public appearance ten days after surviving a mountain lion attack by strangling it to death in self-defense.

Kauffman addressed a number of media outlets at the Hilton Hotel on West Prospect on Feb. 14, and talked about the attack as well as his life going forward. PHOTO BY AUSTIN FLESKES COLLEGIAN

Kauffman said that he has not been deterred from trail running and still plans to even run the Dirty Thirty trail run, even though he said “this week (training) got set back a little bit.”

Kauffman’s advise to trail runners in the future is to run with a buddy as well as to not wear any earbuds. He said that if he had been wearing earbuds he never would have heard the pine needles rustle behind him and wouldn’t have been able to fight back.

Kauffman is glad that he will be able to spend Valentine’s day with his girlfriend but said that he hasn’t really been able to do much planning.

While some news outlets

had dubbed him “King in the North” before his name was released, Kauffman isn’t sure that he can live up to the name of Rob Stark himself.

“I think that is going to be the hardest part because I will never be able to live up to the expectation,” Kauffman said with a laugh.

Check out the video at collegian.com Austin Fleskes can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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CITY

City Council to hear electric scooter regulations Tuesday

By Samantha Ye @samxye4

Electric scooters may soon have a path into Fort Collins.

On Feb. 19 and March 5, City staff will request City Council approve a set of updates to the City Code regarding e-scooters and other shared and/or portable mobility devices, according to a press release from the City.

Staff is also finalizing a potential Request for Proposals process and an encroachment permit process, wrote Amanda Mansfield, a transportation planner with FC Moves, in an email to The Collegian.

The RFP would invite e-scooter companies to “submit a proposal for a plan to develop, install, own, operate and maintain an e-scooter share program,” according to a recent press release. It would be administered in cooperation between the City and Colorado State University.

The draft RFP document includes several policy regulations e-scooter vendors would have to agree to adhere to as part of the RPF process. Policy

regulations include: 1. Vendor will ensure that e-scooters operate at a maximum speed of 15 mph.

2. Vendor will ensure that e-scooters are parked only in approved areas: 3. In the section of the sidewalk between the curb and the through zone, 4. Beside a bicycle rack not obstructing the pedestrian walkway 5. In designated e-scooter parking areas.

Vendor will help educate users on how to safely operate the device, encourage parking compliance and keep sidewalks free of device clutter, using innovative technological tools, strategies, and methodologies.

Users will be expected to dismount and walk their scooters at dismount zones, denoted by signs, in Old Town and at CSU. Riders will be strongly encouraged, but not required by law, to wear helmets.

Similar to bike-sharing, an e-scooter share program allows residents to scoot where they need for a small fee, and

then leave the e-scooter for the next rider, according to Vox. The move to include scooters in Fort Collins’ multimodal lifestyle comes as e-scooter programs have sprung up all over the nation’s largest cities, including Denver, “seemingly out of nowhere,” wrote 5280.

With prepared regulations, Fort Collins is hoping to avoid issues of sidewalk clutter and hazardous riding.

If successfully managed, the use of e-scooters in Fort Collins could reduce motorized vehicle emissions, improve air quality and expand sustainable travel throughout the city, according to the press release.

They could also serve as an additional sustainable travel option for those who are mobility-challenged. E-scooters could help fill first mile/last mile geographic gaps in the City’s transit system, which is the distance between someone’s home or workplace and the transit center, according to Marketplace.

“FC Moves is dedicated to promoting alternative, sustainable modes of transportation, and we think of e-scoot-

Scooters from companies like Lime and Bird line the streets of downtown Austin, Texas, a city that has a large amount of electric scooters. The City of Fort Collins and Colorado State University are working on regulations to prevent the same issues that other cities are having with these scooters. PHOTO COURTESY OF KAITLYN TROWBRIDGE

ers as a good opportunity to expand the suite of alternative transportation options,” Mansfield said in an interview with The Collegian. “We think of it

as something that could compliment bike share and compliment transit.”

Samantha Ye can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Author of homophobic slur among 8 ousted in Broward sheriff’s purge

By Charles Rabin Miami Herald

Since Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel was suspended last month by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his agency’s response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting, most of his command staff has either been forced out, resigned or been demoted.

Yet this much is clear: Newly appointed Sheriff Gregory Tony is not done with his housecleaning.

The latest to leave is Capt. Ira Goldberg, a tough-talking former Broward corrections officer who was criticized for an anti-gay Facebook post he made last year.

It was directed at the leader of the Broward County Log Cabin Republicans, an organization that works within the Republican Party in support of LGBT rights.

In May, Goldberg suspected that Log Cabin Republican Gilberto Montalvo hired protestors to face off against Israel at a political event. In a Facebook comment directed at Montalvo, Goldberg wrote: “I hope you offered them money instead of sexual favors. Those men deserve better.”

Criticized at the time, Goldberg said he had no intention of taking down the post and invited Montalvo to complain to the news media, which he did. A sheriff’s office internal affairs investigation criticized Goldberg, finding that he had violated the department’s social media policy.

He was docked a day’s pay, ac-

cording police records.

Goldberg couldn’t be reached for comment this week. Asked about his departure, sheriff’s office public information officer Veda Coleman-Wright forwarded a form showing that Goldberg left on his own accord last Tuesday.

Also removed from their posts, according to a memo obtained by the Miami Herald, are seven members of a civilian community outreach group created

by Israel, each of whom had takehome vehicles. Some are expected to get other positions with the county; others may be let go.

“It’s a political arm of the sheriff’s office at the expense of the taxpayers.”

JEFF BELL PRESIDENT OF THE BROWARD SHERIFF’S OFFICE DEPUTY ASSOCIATION

The outreach group was formed to be the eyes and ears of the sheriff’s office at events like homeowner gatherings or townhall meetings. But, according Jeff Bell, president of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputy Association, it shifted into the political realm, often showing up at fund-raising events to promote Israel.

“It’s a political arm of the sheriff’s office at the expense of the taxpayers,” Bell said.

The political fallout at the

Gregory Tony, the newly appointed Broward Sheriff, attends a news conference at the Broward County Courthouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Feb. 13. PHOTO BY MATIAS J. OCNER MIAMI HERAL/TNS

sheriff’s office since Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and staff members and wounded 17 others on Feb. 14, 2018, has been extensive.

On Jan. 11, DeSantis suspended Israel, calling the sheriff negligent and incompetent and claiming that he “egregiously” failed in training his deputies to respond to the attack on Stoneman Douglas. Deputies took cover behind their cars rather than enter the freshman building to confront the shooter, which has become the standard response to a school shooting.

Israel said he was devastated at what happened in Parkland and that he is fully responsible

CITY

Platte River Power Authority signs agreement for solar installation

By Julia Trowbridge @chapin_jules

Platte River Power Authority is making headway on its 2030 zero carbon emission goal.

PRPA signed a purchase agreement to install 20 megawatts of new solar power energy Feb. 14, according to a press release. The new solar power energy is predicted to start operating in 2020.

The purchase agreement was signed with GCL Energy and DEPCOM Power in order to build solar panels at PRPA’s Rawhide Energy Station in Wellington. PRPA, GCL Energy and DEPCOM power have submitted an application with Larimer County to obtain site permits for the facility. County planners will review the

plans and make recommendations to county leaders before any plans are finalized.

“This project has been in the works for some time, and we look forward to providing additional non-carbon energy resources to our owner communities and their customers.”

JASON FRISBIE GENERAL MANAGER AND CEO OF PLATTE RIVER

The 20 megawatts worth of solar panels follows PRPA’s 2016 Rawhide Flats Solar installation, which provides

PRPA with 30 megawatts of solar panels and powers 6,000 homes per year.

“This project has been in the works for some time, and we look forward to providing additional non-carbon energy resources to our owner communities and their customers,” wrote Jason Frisbie, general manager and CEO of Platte River, in the press release.

The proposed facility will cover 150 acres with silicon-based solar panels for generating electricity. PRPA will receive all of the energy generated from the solar panels, and the energy is predicted to power 4,000 homes per year in the Fort Collins, Longmont, Loveland and Estes Park area.

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

for the actions of his officers.

But he wasn’t willing to take the blame for the students and teachers who were killed or injured.

“Like any good sheriff, I’m responsible for anything that goes on in BSO, good or bad,” Israel said. “But no one, not you, not me, is responsible for the deaths of these 17 people and 17 others shot, but this evil, evil person.”

After DeSantis stepped in, more dominoes fell immediately, with five command staffers resigning the day Israel was removed.

Israel has been raising money to fight for his job before the state Senate, which has the power to

reinstate him but is unlikely to do so. He said that if the Senate or the courts don’t restore him to office, he has every intention of running for the sheriff again next year. He said the governor’s decision to suspend him was nothing more than keeping a campaign promise.

“I don’t know what the Senate or state or the federal court will do. I can’t see into the future,” Israel said. “But I’ve done absolutely nothing to warrant a suspension. And whether I get reinstated or not, I will run again.”

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Lawmakers expect vote to block Trump’s emergency order

By Mark Niquette & Christopher Condon Bloomberg News

U.S. lawmakers said Sunday that there may be support in Congress to disapprove Donald Trump’s order declaring an emergency to secure funding for a border wall, but not enough votes to overturn an expected veto.

Trump issued the order Friday to divert certain military funding for wall construction, after Congress approved only $1.375 billion of the $5.7 billion he sought in a bipartisan budget bill to avoid a second partial government shutdown.

House Democrats may soon pass a resolution opposing the declaration, and Democrats in the Senate, while in the minority, could force a vote on it.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, both said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that they expect a resolution in Congress opposing Trump’s order to have enough votes to pass their respective chambers by simple majorities.

White House aide Stephen Miller suggested on “Fox News Sunday” that Trump would then issue the first veto of his presidency.

“He is going to protect his national emergency declaration, guaranteed,” said Miller, one Trump’s most hawkish advisers on immigration. He said U.S. law gives Trump the power to make the declaration.

Jordan said on ABC’s “This Week” that while he thinks the resolutions will pass, “when the president will veto them, I don’t think there’s any chance that the veto will be overridden.” Duckworth also questioned whether a Trump veto

could be challenged.

“Now, whether we have enough for an override and veto, that’s a different story,” Duckworth said. “But frankly, I think there’s enough people in the Senate who are concerned that what he’s doing is robbing from the military.”

At least three lawsuits have already been filed to block Trump from diverting funds previously approved by Congress. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that his state “definitely and imminently” will be suing to challenge the emergency declaration.

“But frankly, I think there’s enough people in the Senate who are concerned that what he’s doing is robbing from the military.”

TAMMY DUCKWORTH ILLINOIS SENATOR

“We are prepared, we knew something like this might happen,” he said. “And with our sister state partners, we are ready to go.”

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said the president may have doomed his legal arguments in any court challenge by asserting, during a rambling press conference in the White House Rose Garden, that he declared the emergency simply to make his border wall project move faster.

“I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn’t need to do this. But I’d rather do it much faster,” Trump said Friday. “And I don’t have to do it for the election. I’ve already

done a lot of wall for the election. 2020.”

Trump is “pretty much daring the court to strike this down,” Schiff said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It’s hard to imagine a poorer case.”

Trump’s emergency declaration will allow him to redirect $3.5 billion Congress approved for the Defense Department’s military construction budget. He’ll also use ordinary executive authority to reprogram $2.5 billion from the Defense Department’s drug interdiction efforts and $600 million from the Treasury Department’s drug forfeiture program, a senior administration official said Thursday.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said he’s heard from Republicans concerned that Trump’s declaration is unconstitutional and might take money from government projects they’ve supported.

“Republican after Republican is telling us that privately,” Brown said on CNN. “We will have a vote on this, likely in the next two or three weeks, to see if those Republicans show the backbone they’ve generally haven’t shown in standing up to the president in the past. This is more serious because it’s a constitutional question.”

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., echoed other Republicans who said the president has the authority to declare an emergency to stop human trafficking, and drugs and migrants from crossing the southern U.S. border.

“It is a crisis and emergency along our border,” McCarthy said on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

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Opinion | Monday, February 18, 2019

COLLEGIAN COLUMNIST

Despite trends, assigning genders at birth is okay Katrina Leibee @KatrinaLeibee

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.

In 2018, NBC news released an article about two children that were raised genderless.

“Theybies,” as some call them, are children raised with no gender and allowed to choose their gender later in life. While there are still few parents who raise their children as genderless, it is becoming a more and more popular method of parenting.

Even with this trend increasing, it should still be seen as okay to assign babies genders at birth. Raising children inside a gender norm is not a bad thing as long as parents give their children the opportunity to push the boundaries of their gender, change their gender and explore their own

identity freely.

The topic of gender is discussed and debated everyday, even on Colorado State University’s campus. “Gender in our lives” is an honors seminar this semester, a class within CSU’s honors program that has brought up a lot of discussion, especially regarding this topic. The syllabus describes the course’s objectives.

“Raising children inside a gender norm is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as parents give their children the opportunity to push the boundaries of their gender, change their gender, and explore their own identity freely.”

“In my class I heard someone say it would be really nice to raise someone without gender, but they don’t really see it as possible with our current

society,” Amy Meredith said, a first year communication studies major who is currently in the honors seminar.

Gender is something that is constantly expanding, as society has pushed the boundaries of the gender binary and discovered that there are more than two genders. Every exploration of gender is valid, and gender is always something that we should respect. However, it might be more confusing to raise a child without a gender than helpful.

Having a gender gives us a foundation to build our identity off of, whether we stick to it or stray from it completely.

The American College of Pediatricians calls it “an essential characteristic of our identity as human beings.” Gender often gives us groups to identify with and people to look up to that a genderless society would not.

When we are children, we are just beginning to make sense of the world, and we have little understanding of what an identity is, let alone what the fluid scale of gender is or where we stand in it. It is okay

SERIOUSLY

CSU is a great school, but its toilet paper situation is the craps

By Marshall Dunham @CSUCollegian

Editor’s note: This is a satire piece from The Collegian’s opinion section. Real names may be used in fictitious/semi-fictitious ways. Those who do not read editor’s notes are subject to being offended.

In an explosive fit of rage and disgust, multiple Colorado State University students are raising a stink over the fact that CSU seems to only stock single-ply toilet paper in its bathrooms.

“My dad pays a lot of money for me to go to this school and don’t get me wrong, the faculty and classes are great,” said junior biology major Mexidankus Lorkohol. “But then I use the toilet paper in the bathrooms, and the whole magic of CSU just gets flushed down the freaking latrine.”

Lorkohol went on to say that quality toilet paper is a necessity for a college student, especially for a college student with his eating habits, and lat-

er argued that access to twoply toilet paper is a natural human right.

“I don’t care if CSU has to make staff cuts or demolish their stadium and sell the property to a housing division, but toilet paper just isn’t the thing to be cutting corners on.”

MEXIDANKUS LORKOHOL JUNIOR BIOLOGY MAJOR

“Look man, I get it. Colleges want to save funding wherever possible, but I drank four white Russians and ate a pizza with french fries on it last night,” Lorkohol lamented. “I don’t care if CSU has to make staff cuts or demolish their stadium and sell the property to a housing division, but toilet paper just isn’t the thing to be cutting corners on.”

Sophomore communica-

tion studies major Lauren Matheny pointed out that, with the dining options available on campus, double-ply toilet paper is practically required.

“CSU has a Carl’s Junior and a Panda Express in the Student Center alone,” Matheny said.

“Hell, the Ramskeller serves bourbon barrel-aged stouts.

Do you have any idea what orange chicken and 11 percent beer will do to a woman’s gastrointestinal tract?”

Matheny said that CSU has some great amenities and accomplishments under its belt, but that the institution consistently fails to see where the wind really blows.

“Sure, being a highly-esteemed, award-winning university offering more than 150 degrees, and existing for 149 years is great,” Lorkohol said.

“But offering your students double-ply toilet paper in your campus bathrooms? Now that’s the shit.”

Marshall Dunham can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

to assign a gender to a child based on their sex in order to give them a sense of identity, as long as we allow them to explore outside of that assigned gender as they grow older.

“Using a feminist theoretical lens, students will learn about historical and contemporary social movements that have influenced the evolution of gender roles, psychological theories of gender and identity development, family and intimate relationships, and representation of gender in the media.”

“I think a lot of us strongly identify with our gender, so being genderless would just wipe away a lot of our identities,” Meredith said. While it is true that not everyone strong-

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ly identifies with a specific gender, this is often something that is not truly understood or identified until later in life, not as a young child.

Some argue that it is better to not assign children genders at birth, and that assigning gender can often lead to gender dysphoria. While gender dysphoria is a very real and present thing, we shouldn’t deprive children of genders in fear of it.

Further, this matter should be one that is relatively private. If someone wants to assign their daughter the gender of female and raise her in a pink room with dolls, that is their choice and there is nothing wrong with it as long as they always allow that child to explore outside of their gender.

Gender is often one of the most important ways someone identifies themselves, and assigning gender gives a child a starting point to figuring out who they are.

Katrina Leibee can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

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DOPE

Doing all of your laundry every weekend.

Finishing all of your laundry every weekend.

Anything made out of gel.

Gel pens. Gel nail polish.

Anything made out of gel.

Stuffy noses that won’t go away.

Buying art supplies.

Walking outside and seeing the snow.

Learning how to be a good public speaker.

People who quit their job before starting.

Engaging with your community to solve issues.

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Sports | Monday, February 18, 2019

FOOTBALL

The nation’s new football league impacts CSU greatly Luke Zahlmann @lukezahlmann

The first two weeks of the nation’s new football league— the Alliance of American Football—have been completed successfully, creating a new avenue for former Colorado State Rams to succeed.

As a semi-pro league, the AAF is designed to give another avenue outside of NCAA football to pursue a future in the game. As of the first weekend, three former Rams are on rosters: Jake Bennett, Trae Moxley and Nick Callender.

Along with the Rams, three former University of Colorado players are a part of a roster.

The trio are a part of the San Diego Fleet.

After successful careers as collegiate football players, all six players—as well as out-ofstate players—are being given another chance to prove their worth. All three former Rams were given chances with NFL teams but failed to catch on in the league.

The AAF is going to be a boon for the success of players who weren’t able to capture a professional roster spot in their first few attempts.

According to the NCAA website, of the 73,063 football players that inhabit the gridiron, only 16,236 are draft eligible. Of the latter figure, only 253 are drafted: a mere 1.6 percent.

With around 10 undrafted free agents being signed per team following the draft, an astounding number of athletes are left to either move on or seek another venue. The actual number is roughly 72,490 when deducting both the

Fresno State

drafted and undrafted additions to professional football’s highest level.

That’s where the AAF comes in.

Despite being signed by multiple practice squads, training camp invites and workouts, the three Rams previously mentioned were sent to find another venue for their talents.

“The AAF provides the NFL a way to keep fans interested in football in the offseason, with the hope that new fans will also develop during that time period.”

Started by Bill Polian, Hines Ward and several other former NFL members and front office leaders, the AAF’s mission statement is simple: giving both players and fans alike another way to experience the nation’s most popular sport.

Where the league is different than past failures like the United States Football League, XFL and the United Football League is the desire to go alongside the NFL, rather than against it.

The NFL season runs from Aug. 2 to Feb. 3 if preseason matchups are included. For half of the year, the NFL is king, drawing ratings that bypass all other programs on national television.

During the periods when the NFL isn’t in session, the league relies on fans following the NFL Combine, Pre and Post-Draft coverage and attending teams’ training camps.

Their viewership remains high

Former Colorado State University football player Jake Bennett (77) is now pursuing a career in the Alliance of American Football. Bennett is playing in the AAF along with two other former CSU players, Trae Moxley and Nick Callender. COLLEGIAN FILE PHOTO

in the offseason, with the Draft being the largest source of following.

The AAF provides the NFL a way to keep fans interested in football in the offseason, with the hope that new fans will also develop during that time period.

As a league, the AAF’s inaugural season started six days after the Super Bowl took place. The final game of the season is April 27, the day of the AAF championship game.

That day coincidentally is the exact same day as the NFL Draft’s final rounds, the lowest viewed portion of the three-

day bonanza. In other words, the AAF is taking place when respective NFL fanhoods are yearning for content most.

With a large population seeking entertainment on the football field, the AAF has already begun to garner large ratings, beating out the NBA. The populations that choose to invest their time into the league may also include NFL scouts. With several players being signed from foreign places, even off of professional rugby teams, the league’s talent evaluators are scouring the globe for hidden talent. The AAF will be no different.

Moxley, Callender and Bennett will all be under the watch of professional talent evaluators, with their national broadcasted games giving more people viewing privileges.

Not to mention, the league will also give players that fail to make it in college athletics another chance. A greater sum of both collegiate and non-collegiate Colorado athletes are set to be given a second wind.

With multi-million dollar NFL contracts on the line, the stakes of the AAF’s survival are high.

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

CSU PLAYERS DRAFTED TO NFL SINCE 2009

Year

Round

Pick

Team

Player

Position

2018

3

81

DAL

Michael Gallup

WR

2016

5

172

CLE

Rashard Higgins

WR

2016

6

194

OAK

Cory James

OLB

2015

2

59

DEN

Ty Sambrailo

T

2015

3

75

NOR

Garrett Grayson

QB

2014

2

43

NYG

Weston Richburg

OL

2014

3

99

BAL

Crockett Gillmore

TE

2010

6

187

HOU

Shelly Smith

G

2009

4

134

SDG

Gartrell Johnson

RB

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Sports | Monday, February 18, 2019

CLUB SPORTS

Rams finally beat Buffs in overtime thriller at EPIC

By Ryan Loberger @LobergerRyan

Anytime the Colorado State University and University of Colorado, Boulder are used in the same sentence you can bet there’s gonna be trouble. Saturday night at Edora Pool Ice Center was no different as CSU men’s hockey hosted CU on senior night. As is typical in rivalry games, the building was packed for their last rivalry matchup of the season.

The two teams met in Boulder the previous night and the Buffs were able to come out with the victory in overtime.

CU scored with .34 seconds remaining in OT to ice the game, and get their second overtime victory over the Rams this season. CU led the season series 3-0, winning Friday night and taking both games last semester. CU won 8-3 in a blowout at Pepsi center Dec. 2 and at EPIC Nov. 30 where they again won in the last minute of overtime, 3-2.

The game started with the Rams honoring their five graduating seniors. Seniors Brien Caseria, Sam Thrutchley, Yuval Rosenthal, Corey Taylor and Max Legere were all celebrated prior to the start of the game.

The first period was a loud one and the Rams seemed to feed off that energy just a lit-

tle too much. The Rams took a costly penalty just over a minute into the game when defenseman Grayson North was called for hitting from behind. The Rams received a misconduct, North was ejected and the Buffs had a 5-minute power play to start the game.

“It’s always fun playing in front of (that many) fans. When the crowd gets involved if there’s a big hit or any big play, it’s always good to hear them screaming and (it) help(s) get our energy back.”

COREY TAYLOR SENIOR CAPTAIN

The Buffs converted on the man advantage, scoring just .54 seconds into the power play.

However, the Rams were able to draw two penalties while down a man and killed off the rest of the penalty. CU forward Joe Kinsella added a shorthanded goal with 10:36 remaining in the first, scoring his second of the game and giving the Buffs a 2-0 lead heading into the second.

Second-period action saw

the Rams settle into the game and get back into the contest on an effort led by forward Ben Joseph. EPIC was rocking when Rams’ forward Tito Moreno was able to catch a pass from Joseph while on a rush. Moreno shot the puck five-hole, getting the Rams on the board 7 minutes into the second.

CU kindly gifted the Rams a returning major penalty, similar to the one CSU gave them to start the game. CU were called for an elbowing major and the Rams scored to even the game at 2-2. A crazy carom off the boards on a dump-in from defenseman Noah Miller popped out to a wide-open Joseph who netted the tying goal, and set up a winner-takes-all third period.

Rams goaltender Joe Morgan stole the show in the third, making key saves to keep CSU in the game. Despite his efforts, the Buffs outshot CSU 19-6 in the final period.

“I think our season kinda goes out to Joe,” Taylor said.

“Joe and Avery (McDonnell) both; goaltending has been our strong suit this year, we go through phases as a team where we play really good and bad, and we rely on them a lot. We wouldn’t have won the games we did this year without them.”

With the game still tied nearing the halfway mark of the third, Ben Joseph worked his

The Colorado State University men’s ice hockey team celebrates their overtime win against CU Boulder Feb. 16. The Rams beat the visiting Buffs 4-3. PHOTO BY JOSH SCHROEDER COLLEGIAN

magic again—this time finding forward Jonathon Johnson on a rush. Johnson scored on a backhand shot, giving CSU a 3-2 lead, scoring three unanswered goals to come back from a 2-0 deficit. However, the Buffs struck on the powerplay and send the game to overtime for the third time in the season series.

After an exciting four minutes of three-on-three overtime, CSU found a story-book ending from their captain in the dying seconds of OT. Corey Taylor scored off a shot-deflection for Sam Cote with only 5.8 seconds remaining in OT and seal the win for the Rams on senior night.

“I was so tired, I wanted the game to be over,” Taylor said.

“Cote made a great play, he drew the defense with him and just shot the puck. I don’t know if it hit me or if it hit (off ) him but it was a great play.”

The Ram’s picked up their first win over CU this year and have momentum rolling into their last game of the season.

Taylor and the other four seniors will play in their final contest on Thursday when they take on UNLV at EPIC at 8:30 p.m.

Ryan Loberger can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

CLUB SPORTS

CSU women’s hockey downs Denver in senior night matchup

By Ashley Potts @ashleypotts09

The road has been rough for the Colorado State women’s hockey team this season. Their record currently sits at 6-12, with a handful of those losses being double-digit fashion. But that hasn’t stopped the women on the team from doing what they love and taking the ice with confidence each game.

That confidence paid off when it needed to: Senior Night.

The Rams are a very young team—which is something they’ve attributed their struggles to throughout the season— they’re set to lose only two seniors in Alex Reda and Maria King. After acknowledging the two senior’s work with kind words and gifts, the Rams took on the University of Denver for the fifth time this season, the most meetings between the Rams and any team.

The Rams came out strong in the first period. DU scored first and the Rams used it as motivation. Defender Kristen Perry got the scoring start-

ed for CSU just over halfway through the period on an unassisted drive. Forward Amanda Seltzer added her own goal four minutes later, assisted by King.

After another two minutes, Perry and Seltzer combined for another goal, Perry’s second.

The two teamed up for yet another goal 20 seconds before the first intermission—right after an unassisted score from DU’s Brighid Martin—giving Perry an impressive first-period hat trick.

Both team’s defensive efforts stepped up after that, with only three more goals scored through the second and third period combined. DU scored one more about halfway through the second, but would never manage to regain their footing. King and Kallie Clements added their own respective goals to the Rams tally, sealing the deal on an important win.

Multiple Rams recorded multi-point performances in the contest. Perry totaled an impressive six points with her hat trick accompanied by three assists. Seltzer came away

with three points with a goal and two assists. King had two points with a goal and an assist.

Goaltender Teagan Ries played the full 60 minutes and came up with a number of big saves, though the stats to back it up aren’t up-to-date on the ACHA website.

The Rams will end their season heading to Las Vegas, Nev. for the league tournament. The Rams are promised two games—one against Midland University Feb. 22 and one against Grand Canyon University on Feb. 23.

The Rams are 1-2 against GCU this season and 0-3 against Midland. Midland will be the big challenge for the Rams in Vegas, as two of their previous three losses this season have been those double digits deficits and one ending in a shutout of the Rams entirely.

The team will hope to continue the positive momentum and offensive efforts in Vegas and try to end their season on a high note.

Ashley Potts can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

Maria King celebrates after scoring a goal in the game against the University of Denver Feb. 15. The Rams beat the visiting Pioneers 6-3 on senior night. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN

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Sports | Monday, February 18, 2019

NATIONAL

Why Michael Malone “wouldn’t back down from anybody”

By Sean Keeler The Denver Post

He’s happy to yap about Michael Malone, but Mark Lezanic wants you to do him a solid first. See, when the Nuggets were in Philadelphia last week, he couldn’t make it over to the Wells Fargo Center, and the dang guilt won’t shake. Sometimes you own the schedule, and sometimes the bugger owns you.

“It was my fault not reaching out to him,” Lezanic says of the Nuggets’ coach. “When you see Mike, tell him next time he comes to Philly, I’m going to be reaching out to him. I’ve got kids playing, I’ve got a business. It’s tough. But I’m going to make an effort next time.

Hell of a win for the Sixers, beating them. They didn’t expect that.”

“If anybody gave him a hard time, he never backed down. He would never turn the other cheek. If a guy was 6-9, 220, he wouldn’t back down. He wouldn’t back down from anybody.”

MARK LEZANIC SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND SENIOR FINANCIAL ADVISOR WITH MERRILL LYNCH

Lezanic is a senior vice president and senior financial advisor with Merrill Lynch, where the day job can become the night job, too.

Some three decades earlier, he was an assistant men’s basketball coach at Loyola University Maryland when his boss, Tom Schneider, told him to go check out this kid from Seton Hall Prep in West Orange, N.J., the son of an old buddy of his.

“Very solid, cerebral, high-basketball-IQ type guard,” Lezanic says of Malone The Teen Baller.

“Had that Jersey toughness to him, New York-New Jersey toughness to him, that made him good. He would do anything to win. If we had eight more of him, we would’ve won a lot more games, let’s put it that way.”

Tough ain’t born. It’s built, one brick at a time. Before he coached in today’s NBA All-Star Game; before he turned the Nuggets into the Western Conference’s mama badger; before the Kings stabbed him in the back; before he became pals with LeBron James and Chris Paul and Isaiah Thomas; before he found his feet in the pro ranks; before Pete Gillen made the phone call that changed his life; before he applied to be a Michigan state trooper; before he was washing windows and working at Foot Locker, he was ...

Moe. Moe Malone, the Greyhounds point guard who’d give you a wedgie or run your undies up a flagpole if you crossed him.

OK, well, maybe not so much the last part.

“I don’t know where the nickname came from,” Joe Logan says.

After Moses Malone?

“Little different height,” laughs Logan, the current women’s basketball coach at Loyola and a freshman student manager for the ‘92’93 men’s hoops team that featured Moe as a senior point guard. “Same sort of ability.”

Same chutzpah, same confidence, same engine, same sense of humor.

“More hair then,” Logan notes.

“Maybe a little louder.”

“Same size,” Lezanic counters.

“But without the goatee.

“If anybody gave him a hard time, he never backed down. He would never turn the other cheek.

If a guy was 6-9, 220, he wouldn’t back down. He wouldn’t back down from anybody.”

The guy at the wheel for Team LeBron today in Charlotte played his last college game 25 years ago, on a March Friday in Albany. Young Moe was a facilitator, Monte Morris minus the Monte Morris hops.

He finished his career at Loyola, now of the Patriot League and then of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, with 279 assists. As a senior, he ranked among the MAAC’s top 10 in assists (100) and dimes per game (3.7) on a squad that got wracked by roster attrition, didn’t win a league game at home, finished 2-25, and saw Schneider—who passed away in 2015—resign after a 1-10 start. Athletic director Jim Boylan finished out the slate on an interim basis and steered what was left of the chassis back to the drawing board.

“He certainly deserves (the recognition); he’s worked his (expletive) off,” says Boylan, now an analyst with the Rutgers radio team.

“It was a challenging time and I thought he handled it in a very mature manner and he always played hard. Played with passion. He wasn’t the most talented player but he got the most out of his ability.”

Moe let you in, but only so far.

He never let on that he was the son of coaching royalty, that his father Brendan was one of the guys pulling the strings for The Bad Boys in Detroit at a time when the Pistons ruled the NBA with an iron fist. Or that his pops worked for Jim Boeheim, Rick Pitino, Hubie Brown and Chuck Daly, that he had giants on speed dial. Or that his old man was the only guy on the planet other than Dean Smith who knew how to stop Michael Jordan.

“I don’t know,” Logan says.

“Maybe one night we were up talking and Mike said, ‘One day, I’m going to coach the All-Star game.’

“You learned real quick watching him that he was a coach on the floor. When he came back and played intramurals, he played it with the same passion he had as a Division I player. He was always

Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone watches from the bench during the first half against the Chicago Bulls at the United Center in Chicago Wednesday, March 21, 2018. The Nuggets won, 135-102. PHOTO BY ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ CHICAGO TRIBUNE/TNS

thinking the game, always talking the game. Back when we were younger, I wish I could’ve written some of this stuff down.”

Moe was a history major and a sociology minor, wise before his time, a student of people, a listener. A tough guy blessed with three traits that would sail him through the rough seas to come: certainty, curiosity and empathy.

“He has his dad’s toughness about him, but his mom’s social skills,” says Gillen, the CBS Sports college basketball analyst who ended Malone’s foray into law enforcement in 1995 by adding him to his Providence staff. “His mother had superb people skills. He has a mixture of toughness and relatability with people.”

As a teacher, Moe knew instinctively, from the jump, when to bring the fastball and when to change it up. One of his earliest projects came as a graduate assistant at Oakland University, his first job out of school, when he was charged with teaching gifted off-guard Kevin Kovach—1993 Ohio Division I Associated Press Player of the Year as a prep—how to play the point.

“He had a way of being able to verbalize it without making me feel small, making it feel like it was my fault,” notes Kovach, who would

later work with Ohio State and NBA center Kosta Koufos, paying Moe’s words forward. “That’s what Mike really instilled in me: Finishing moves, especially in my weak hand. We would drill day after day, month after month, just finishing moves. To have a coach who says, ‘Hey, we’re going to get up at 6 in the morning to work on your game,’ it’s probably understating rather than overstating that (he) got me to the point where I was later in my career.”

Kovach went into this winter still ranked among the Grizzlies’ alltime top 10 in career assists (507), a club that includes Kay Felder (788), currently with the Raptors’ G-League affiliate, and South Florida coach Brian Gregory (905).

“I’m hoping to see him in the NBA Finals one day,” Oakland coach Greg Kampe says of Malone.

“I told his dad, ‘Your son’s got a chance to be really good.’ I haven’t been right about many things in life.

But I was right about that one.”

Moe stood his ground. In the paint. On the bus. Always. You can take the man out of Queens, but you’ll never sandblast the Queens off the man.

“We didn’t have cell phones, so you actually talked,” Logan recalls.

“And you would talk trash. ‘The

Pistons are better than the Knicks.’

‘No, they’re not.’ Telling stories of who’s better than whom.”

Moe had the backbone to take it, but he was a master at dishing it out. Same as it ever was.

“You know how he felt about who he was playing. And I’m thinking that it happened in practice quite a bit. But there wasn’t any malice.

“He wasn’t giving me a wedgie or running my underwear up a flagpole. It was fun. And even when I talk to him today, it’s like he’s 23 and I’m 19 and we’re getting ready to go to history class.”

Less hair. Same Moe. Lezanic has caught the Nuggets a few times on television, and can spot the fingerprints of that Jersey toughness all over the dang place, even from afar.

“I love the way his team plays through big guys,” Lezanic says.

“Defensively, they play like him: Very tough and physical. And yeah, his team’s a reflection of him, no question. There was a lot of stuff that went on (at Loyola) and Mike persevered through it all and came through the other side. He’s done great things for a lot of people. I’m very proud of him.”

Content pulled from Tribune News Service.

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Arts & Culture | Monday, February 18, 2019

CULTURE & COMMUNITY

Annual Step Show brings culture, energetic dance

By Maddie Wright @maddierwright

The energy coming from the Bring the Culture, Hip-Hop Explosion Step Show was infectious.

Four different fraternities and sororities performed at the annual Step Show Saturday Feb. 16. The event invited lots of competition, with Pi Lambda Chi Latina Sorority taking home first place, and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority winning second place.

The Step Show was hosted by the Black Student Alliance and the Black/African American Cultural Center. The title of this year’s Step Show followed the theme of what the significance of dance is to culture.

“We made it ‘Bring the Culture’ because we wanted to encompass all the diversity that we have on this campus,” said Jaleesa Roberson, the public relations officer for the Black Student Alliance. “Everybody has a different story so we wanted everybody to bring their culture and represent it in the way that they thought was best.”

As a part of the introduction for the show, there was a lesson about the history of stepping, its South African roots, how it transferred to the United States and how it is celebrated and practiced now.

“The origins of stepping come from South Africa. It was originally called the...African gumboot dance,” said Ally Johnson, a performer in the Step Show and member of Zeta Phi Beta. “And then...the first historically African-American (Greek Life) orga-

nization was Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. From there, stepping was kinda found in the 1900s.”

Following this introduction, there was a powerful spoken word performance about race to start the acts for the night. It was followed by LIFE—Love Is Finding Everyone—a group of high school performers. The last performance before the competition was by members of the Black Student Alliance.

“We made it ‘Bring the Culture’ because we wanted to encompass all the diversity that we have on this campus.”

JALEESA ROBERSON PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER FOR THE BLACK STUDENT ALLIANCE

Nate Jackson of “Wild `N Out” and “All Def Comedy” served as the show’s host, filling in with lots of jokes and encouraging high energy throughout the show.

In addition to educating audience members on the history and cultural significance of stepping, the Step Show also informed people on the different fraternities and sororities within the National Pan-Hellenic Council, the “divine nine” as they are often called.

The audience was full of students, alumni, faculty and families.

Late in the event, there was an opportunity for the children in the audience to win some money do-

Members of Pi Lambda Chi and Zeta Phi Beta celebrate and pose for photos on stage after the Hip-Hop Step Show Feb. 16. PHOTO BY MADDIE WRIGHT COLLEGIAN

nated by the audience by coming up on stage and stepping.

Participants in the Step Show generally spend lots of time and effort preparing for their performances. Johnson said the process can take up to two months for everything to come together.

“I would say a good prep time is probably two and a half months, but with school and winter break right between, it can be hard with people going home,” Johnson said.

“I’d say a lot of organizations usually plan within a month and a half to two months just because that’s a little bit more realistic for us.”

Johnson said preparation of-

ten includes late-night practices due to all the details that must go into the performance. These details include choreographing the steps, coming up with a theme and creating a storyline to go with the movements.

Not only do the performers spend a lot of time creating and practicing their show, but the organizers also spend a lot of time planning and putting the event together.

“The second last year’s (Step Show) ended, we started (working on) this one,” Roberson said.

“I would say we started seriously working on it October of last se-

mester.”

With the “Bring the Culture” aspect of this show, stepping can hold a lot of significance for multiple members of the NPHC. Johnson said while doing service and supporting the community is important, the Step Show also emphasizes having fun and celebrating culture.

“For me, it’s just showing my culture,” Johnson said. “I think it’s one of those things of making sure that while we do service... that fun aspect is also really important.”

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

CULTURE & COMMUNITY

Jess Dugan talks age, gender in new UCA gallery

By Ty Davis @tydavisACW

Diversity took center stage at the University Center for the Arts Friday with the presentation of photographer Jess Dugan’s work on gender issues.

Dugan presented and discussed her most recent work, “To Survive on this Shore,” a book and traveling art installation focusing on the lives of older transgender and gender non-conforming individuals.

The night started with an introduction from Dugan where she explained her background, upbringing and transition. From there, she went on to discuss her career, from photographing classical paintings to her decision to focus on older subjects.

It was during her early portrait work where she began to change her artistic direction.

“I very quickly realized that my interests had shifted

somewhat significantly,” Dugan said. “I was no longer interested in photographing people of one particular identity … I was much more interested in photographing the process we each go through.”

Dugan and her partner, Vanessa Fabbre said the goal of “To Survive on This Shore” was to photograph as much diversity as possible.

“We were very committed to seeking out a diverse group of subjects,” Dugan said. “So we sought diversity in various ways; age was one of them, our youngest requirement was 50. We also sought diversity in terms of race and ethnicity, gender identity and expression. We sought diversity in terms of socio-economic status, geographic location and life narrative.”

The presentation then opened the floor to audience members to ask questions. The audience asked Dugan several questions about her work, the

art world and the politics of gender in today’s climate. Finally the night concluded with a display of the photographs and interviews from “To Survive on this Shore.”

According to Dugan, the gallery was a way to combat the underrepresentation of older gender non-conforming individuals in visual mediums.

“When Vanessa and I were starting the project, we were aware that there was a lack of representation of transgender and gender non-conforming people,” Dugan said. “We had heard from younger transgender people that they had never seen an image of an older transgender person and they didn’t have a road map for what their life might look like as they aged.”

Dugan has been featured in numerous renowned galleries such as The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, The Museum of Fine Arts and The Harvard Art Museums. She re-

Jess Dugan speaks at the UCA gallery about gender and age. Dugan presented and discussed her most recent work, “To Survive on this Shore,” a book and traveling art installation focusing on the lives of older transgender and gender non-conforming individuals.

PHOTO BY TY DAVIS COLLEGIAN

ceived a Master’s of Fine Arts in photography from Columbia College Chicago and a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Her book can be purchased

on her website. Live portraits can be seen in the University Center for the Arts in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. Ty Davis can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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CULTURE & COMMUNITY

Downtown Artery’s Art Night comes to colorful conclusion

By Dominic Brazeau @DomBrazeau

Creativity flowed throughout The Downtown Artery at the gallery’s final Art Night.

Art Night has been a staple event for the Artery over the past few years, but Feb. 15 was its final affair. The Artery could not be reached for comment on the Art Night’s conclusion, but many visitors are disheartened that the monthly tradition will not continue Many people who had been to the Artery before returned to enjoy the event one last time, as well as many people who were experiencing it for the first time.

Visitors like Finnegan Mahoney say every experience is full of interesting characters.

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“I’m very sad. I feel like I was just getting into it and looking forward to it.

I feel like the rug’s been pulled out from under my feet, but I hope that in some way, shape or form it will continue.”

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“I’ve been to the Artery once on another Art Night, and it was goddamn amazing,” Mahoney said. “The atmosphere is great here. I mean everybody is just a person to talk to, everybody’s a total personality.”

The more people that arrived, the more the Artery came to life. Musicians were encouraged to play their instruments on stage. The audience was just as involved in the musical process. Once one audience member started dancing, others began to join in.

In addition to the artwork that can typically be found upstairs, guests were encouraged to draw their own art on the walls. One wall allowed guests to draw whatever came to mind, while another urged visitors to contribute to a garden-themed motif. The garden-themed mural allowed visitors like Lacy Lichtenhan to build off of oth-

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An attendee of the last Art Night paints on the wall at the Downtown Artery Friday, Feb. 15. PHOTO BY AJ FRANKSON COLLEGIAN

ers’ ideas.

“I saw some red paint, and I was like ‘That’s a good color,’” Lichtenhan said. “I was just embellishing art that was already started, vines and flowers that people had just left.”

In addition to the beautiful visuals that can be found at the Artery, many people love the experience of making new connections. To some, the social aspect is just as much of the experience as the artistic aspect. Veteran guest, Ally Bormann loves bonding with new and familiar attendees over their creations.

“I feel like it’s a really good way to bring people together, and have a good time making art,” Bormann said. “I’m not an

artist, but it’s a cool way to get together with a lot of people and make cool stuff.”

Lichtenhan also loves the social atmosphere of Art Night.

“It’s just a bunch of people hanging out, very relaxed and social and bonding over the fun of making art,” Lichtenhan said.

The decline of Art Night is a disappointment to many, but there is still a sense of optimism.

“I’m very sad,” Mahoney said. “I feel like I was just getting into it and looking forward to it.

I feel like the rug’s been pulled out from under my feet, but I hope that in some way, shape or form it will continue.”

Dominic Brazeau can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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CULTURE & COMMUNITY

Adventurist Backpack Co. brings quality bags to Colorado

By Walker Discoe @wdiscoe

Backpacks are almost as numerous in Colorado as river guides or Chacos. Ranging from tiny hand purses to massive, multi-day backpacking bags, Coloradoans use backpacks for everything from grocery shopping and schoolwork to mountain climbing and skydiving.

That’s why 2014 Colorado State University alumnus Kelly Belknap and his wife Matilda Sandstrom founded the Adventurist Backpack Co in 2017, with the goal of providing backpacks while doing charitable work.

Belknap and Sandstrom wanted to make quality bags but leave behind the expensive price tags that many backpacks have.

“I believe that if every business in the country were to give back in some way, we could truly solve real problems.”

KELLY BELKNAP CO-FOUNDER OF ADVENTURIST BACKPACK CO.

“We couldn’t find a backpack for our own travels that was high quality, fashionable and affordable,” Sandstrom said. “We wanted to take the minimalist style from my home country in Sweden and use that as inspiration to create a backpack that filled the gap we had found in the market.”

Affordability was an important distinction both Belknap and Sandstrom wanted the Adventurist Backpack Co. to embody so their products

would be more accessible to the public.

“Every backpack we could find was $150 or $200, which I think is really a lot to be spending for something simple like a bag,” Belknap said. “What we really want to do is like what Warby Parker did with glasses, making a backpack that was high quality and fashionable for under $100.”

Their bags are manufactured in China in a factory owned by Coloradoans, but Belknap doesn’t want that to diminish the quality of the bags or the ethos of their brand.

“To put it as plainly as I can, we would obviously love to manufacture in the U.S.,” said Belknap. “But even though there is this view that American quality is the best, it’s not exactly true in our experience.

If we wanted to have our backpacks cost the same as they do right now, like the one we have now is at $65, American factories need to start being a little more competitive.”

But the Adventurist backpack Co. isn’t just a backpack retailer. The company partners with Feeding America, “the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization,” according to their website. In their partnership with Feeding America, the Adventurist Backpack Co. has helped provide around 65,000 meals in the short year and a half they have been in operation and plans on doubling their contribution within the next year.

“We’re trying to make [food donations] sustainable, not just something that is like ‘50,000 meals here, 50,000 meals there,’” Belknap said.

“We want to be making it so that people who have struggles in life…or especially kids who haven’t had a choice to be born poor… we want to help feed them so they can focus on

Adventurist Backpack Co. backpacks are for sale at the Colorado State University Bookstore.The company was started by a Colorado couple and CSU graduate. Their backpacks are meant to look fashionable and hold up on an adventure, while the company provides 25 meals to people in need for every backpack sold.

PHOTO BY MATT BEGEMAN COLLEGIAN

things like education and doing something for themselves.

We’re not really trying to give people a crutch for the rest of their lives. We want to show kindness and support, and help feed them so they’re able to go off and focus on doing something for themselves.”

Ultimately, Belknap and Sandstrom want their company to be part of a larger trend in emerging, millennial-founded businesses that practice “com-

passionate capitalism.”

“We want to be part of the new generation of businesses that give back,” said Belknap. “Making it known that it’s a company’s responsibility to give back in some way, that its not good enough just to provide a great product or service…we need to be doing something that matters as companies...I believe that if every business in the country were to give back in some way,

we could truly solve real problems.”

with the Pisces Sun. Practice to refine your technique. Consistent efforts win over the long run.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — 8 — A professional opportunity takes focus. Distractions include someone attractive. You’re especially lucky in love this month, with the Sun in Pisces.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — 7 — Explore and study options. A month-long domestic phase dawns with the Pisces Sun. Make home improvements, repairs and upgrades.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — 8 — Make plans together, and

adjust budgets to suit. Writing and communication projects flourish over the next month, with the Sun in Pisces.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — 9 — Collaboration proves fundamental. Work together to get farther. Lucrative opportunities develop this month. Direct energy under the Pisces Sun to pull in a profitable harvest.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — 9 — Nurture your health and energy. Begin a power phase, with the Sun in your sign this month.

Advance personal dreams and objectives. Find a satisfying purpose.

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Walker Discoe can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

Daily Horoscope Nancy Black

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY

(02/18/19). Team participation satisfies this year. Nurture yourself to provide your best efforts.

Summer energy inspires your physical performance, leaving you ready for rest to consider what’s next. Next winter an inspiring new possibility leads to healthy changes.

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

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — 8

— Relax and enjoy the company.

Ponder big questions this month

under the Pisces Sun. Philosophical inquiries engage you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — 7 — Domestic matters have your attention. Succeed with teamwork this month. Community efforts flower, with the Sun in Pisces. You can get what you need.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — 8 — Edit your expressions before sending. Professional creativity flourishes this month under the Pisces Sun. Advance in your career through communicating passion and inspiration.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — 9 — A profitable idea develops.

Talk about your dreams. Educational pursuits and discoveries expand, with the Sun in Pisces.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — 9 — Get a lucky personal break. Contribute to expanding joint financial ventures. Coordinate with your partner for mutual benefit.

Share considerations, wishes and ideas.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — 6 — Rest and make plans. Share the load over the next month as a partnership flowers under the Pisces Sun. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — 8 — Get out with friends. You’re physically energized this month,

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