NEWS
Vol. 127, No. 59 Wednesday, November 8, 2017
FORT COLLINS UTILITY RATES TO INCREASE PAGE 4
SPORTS
EUROPEAN PLAYERS AID CHAMPIONSHIP PROSPECTS PAGE 8
A&C
THE AGGIE’S PUERTO RICO RAISING CONCERT PAGE 14
City to study U+2 By Stuart Smith @notstuartsmith
Police officers sweep through “The Cube” in the Colorado State University Morgan Library during a bomb threat Nov. 7. Officers covered both floors on multiple sweeps, some carried assault rifles during their searches and they later led a K-9 unit through the building. PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS MAYCOLLEGIAN
Bomb threat made in Morgan Library By Erin Douglas @erinmdouglas23
Students evacuated Tuesday evening after a bomb threat was made at the Colorado State University library. An all-clear was issued by the CSU Police Department at 9:47 p.m. following the evacuation around 7:30 p.m. There was no device found in the building, according to CSUPD. Police could not confirm an arrest as of 12 a.m. Wednesday. About 100 students stood
outside of Morgan Library around 7:30 p.m. watching as the CSU Police arrived on the scene. Students were evacuated by a fire alarm, but the University later sent out an alert at 7:42 p.m. informing the campus that a bomb threat was made. The suspect is a 30-40 year old white man with a red beard, according to CSUPD. The Morgan Library was the only building on campus under the bomb threat. No other buildings were evacuated. Officers were seen clearing
the library room by room with assault rifles after the building was evacuated.Many students waited outside the library, held back about 150 feet away from the building. According to eye witnesses, students were slow to evacuate and several thought it was a drill or a prank. “People were packing up pretty slowly,” said Saskia Czura, a freshman biochemistry student. “Everyone evacuated, though. I was kind of surprised because I really thought it was a drill, but I’m glad everyone
is safe.” Students will not be charged library late fees Tuesday night or tomorrow morning. The library remained open as scheduled until midnight. “Our first priority is that the students who are working in the building, both our employees and students studying, are safe,” said Amy Hoseth, an interim assistant dean for the library. Erin Douglas can be reached at news@collegian. com.
At their latest Senate meeting, the Associated Students of Colorado State University, Colorado State University’s student government, passed a bill advocating for $10,000 from the ASCSU discretionary fund for a study that would look at U+2. Specifically, the occupational study will “focus on the city’s existing occupancy ordinance (U+2),” in an effort to determine if U+2 has had any impact on neighborhood quality or housing affordability. ASCSU President Josh Silva will also be allocating $3,000 from the President’s discretionary fund to the study, bringing the total to $13,000 from the student body. Silva also said the University administration is willing to donate to the study. U+2, originally called “threeunrelated,” has been part of Fort Collins since the 1960s, when the city passed the ordinance to fight what citizens then saw as growing pains. In an interview with the Collegian in 2015, Dale Wood, the city occupancy inspector at the time detailed the history of the ordinance. Previously, when Fort Collins was still mainly an agricultural town, European immigrants would come every harvest season for work, and residents were unhappy. Many of these families were poor and had large families, and because of this the city council wrote up what was then a criminal-level ordinance that would prevent them from housing multiple families in each household. When the city shifted away from its agricultural roots, the ordinance stayed on the books, but was largely ignored by all parties involved. see U+2 on page 5 >>
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