Vol. 127, No. 121 Monday, April 9, 2018
NEWS
OPINION
ANTI MUSLIM INCIDENTS REPORTED ON CAMPUS
REALISTIC SOLUTION TO PARKING
SPORTS
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RAMS LOSE LEADING SCORER
Softball team holds sit-in to protest unequal facilities By Mack Beaulieu @Macknz_James
Members of the group “For Your GenderTainTment” perform on stage Sunday night in the Lory Student Center for the annual Drag Show hosted by PRISM. This year’s theme was “Geek vs. Glam” with all proceeds going to the Pride Resource Center. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN
CSU Drag Show geeks out on glam By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98
Student and professional drag performers came together Sunday evening, dressed in either geeky or glamorous attire, for the Geeks vs. Glam drag show in the Lory Student Center Grand Ballroom. The show, which is organized by the student organization PRISM, featured nearly 30 student and professional drag performers, with a special performance from Raja Gemini, the season three winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Hosts Vivica Galactica and
Evelyn Evermoore educated the audience about gender identity and the differences between cosplaying and dressing in drag. Gemini said the identity of Raja Gemini is not separate from her identity as Sutan Amrull, which is Gemini’s birth name. “Drag for me is not a character. I’m not a separate entity,” Gemini said. “Raja is not a different person. Raja is just Sutan with different clothes on.” At the start of the show, Hosts Vivica Galactica and Evelyn Evermoore announced that they wanted the spring
semester drag show to raise $200 more than the previous show, which was around $1,400, to go towards programming for the Pride Resource Center. By the end of the night, audience members had donated $2,000. Delray Echohawk, the copresident of PRISM and codirector of the drag show, has worked for the drag show since his freshman year, making the “Geeks vs. Glam” drag show his last. “It’s nice to be relieved of all this responsibility, but it’s also been the most important thing to me that I’ve done during my full four years here at CSU,” Echohawk said. “Being
involved with the drag show my first semester, seeing it and being involved was my first time seeing drag ever, so I think even seeing how diverse of an art form that is.” Jame Fuerte, a sophomore dance and nutrition major, performed in the student group, For Your GenderTainMent. Fuerte said performing in the drag show has allowed him the opportunity to perform and have fun. “I continue coming back for the support that I get from all of my friends, and for the opportunity to be surrounded by people who are open minded see DRAG SHOW on page 13 >>
The Colorado State softball team staged a sit-in at the Indoor Practice Facility at 3 p.m. Friday to protest inequality in practice facilities among teams at the University. The team’s main focus is the lack of equality between men’s and women’s sports at CSU. Instead of hosting the New Mexico Lobos, due to snowy weather, the Rams’ softball team hosted a sit-in that ran during the CSU football team’s spring practice. The softball team showed up early, began a player-organized practice and waited for someone to tell them they had to leave. The team protested that they had nowhere to practice when the weather turned ugly, like Friday. “Our coach came in with three executive athletic administrators,” senior outfielder Hayleigh Evans said. “They just let us talk to them and we basically told them every reason why we were doing it. For equality, not just for softball but for women in general. For future generations, we want to see a change and what’s going on is not okay.” Evans specifically mentioned those women’s teams which are not tied to any men’s sports. “This isn’t about the football team,” Evans said. “This is about equality for women’s athletics, we don’t have a place to practice when we need it …. One thing we’ve noticed is that when a women’s sport gets better equality, it’s because it’s attached to a men’s sport … The men got it, so that’s why they have to reciprocate it.” see SIT-IN on page 8 >>