Vol. 127, No. 65 Thursday, November 16, 2017
OPINION
SPORTS
U+2 STUDY IS A STEP FORWARD
FOOTBALL SENIOR NIGHT
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SPORTS
RAMS SWEEP FRESNO STATE PAGE 16
Rams’ shine on offense against Fresno State By Austin White @ajwrules44
Silva impeached
Josh Silva, ASCSU president, during the Senate session on Nov. 16. PHOTO BY COLIN SHEPHERD COLLEGIAN
ASCSU votes to remove student body president By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98
After 12 weeks of impeachment petitions and proceedings, Colorado State University’s student government decided to impeach Student Body President Josh Silva at Wednesday night’s senate meeting.
Silva was removed from office with a secret ballot vote of 22-4-0. A two-thirds vote is required to remove an official from office, according to the Associated Students of CSU’s impeachment procedures. The decision on the impeachment of Silva lasted early into Thursday morning. The senate body of the
Associated Students of CSU reviewed evidence for the impeachment of Silva that was provided by the impeachment committee during a special session. Over 100 pages of evidence were provided to the senate body. A motion to allow senators 30 minutes to review the evidence on their own passed, but Sen.
Cerridwyn Nordstrom raised a concern regarding accessibility. Nordstrom said she is legally blind and would need more time to review the evidence and motioned to end the 30 minutes in order for the impeachment committee to present the evidence out loud verbatim. see ASCSU on page 4 >>
A block party at Moby Arena figured to be the likely outcome when the Fresno State Bulldogs took the court against the No. 24 Colorado State Rams. Instead, the Rams dominated on offense with a .451 hitting clip, needing only 4.5 blocks in their sweep of the Bulldogs (25-21, 25-22, 25-12). The top two teams in the Mountain West in blocks per set, CSU and FSU have dominated with their defense throughout the year. The Bulldogs did not match their 2.81 blocks per set mark Wednesday night, picking up two denials in the match. Their offense had no bite either with a .183 hitting mark and only 29 total kills. However, the Rams kept the first two sets close due to their continuing struggles in the service game. Through two sets, CSU already had 11 service errors along with four receiving errors on FSU’s serves. “There were some words said,” sophomore setter Katie Oleksak said about head coach Tom Hilbert’s message between the second and third set. “He said the stats, he said how good our hitting was and our passing was those first two games but it was just so tight because of our errors so we really closed that gap by making our serves that third set.” Oleksak stepped up on offense by picking up a career-high five kills in the match as she continued to dump balls into the holes of the Bulldogs’ defense.
She also had eight digs to go along with her 44 assists. “(Hilbert is) also just wanting me to focus in on (dumps) so that we can prepare for the future so that I can be more of a threat in the offense,” Oleksak said on
see VOLLEYBALL on page 16 >>