Volume 126, No. 102 March 21, 2017

Volume 126, No. 102

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

NEWS

Women describe working at CSU PAGE 4

24-year-old Nina Askew had her arm broken by a Greeley officer after leaving a party that had been shut down. She was found guilty of resisting arrest and not guilty of disorderly conduct. Askew will appear back in court on April 17. PHOTOS COURTESY OF NINA ASKEW

Stop blaming civilians for police brutality COLLEGIAN COLUMNIST

Allec Brust @allecbrust

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.

Nina Jenae Askew is not a violent woman.

The modern social issue that plagues America is not reserved to the tumultuous streets of

Chicago or the neighborhoods of Ferguson. ‘Police brutality’ is a phrase that leaves the most unsavory taste in the mouths of Americans. For many, it is abstract; a story only tangible through the screens of our televisions or the shares on our Facebook. We are subject to this violence everyday no matter what city we live in. Yet, we forget the reality of what abusing authority means to our community-- a reality which Nina Askew has been battling for over a year.

On the night of January 16th, the 23-year-old University of Northern Colorado graduate student went home after a long shift at work. Despite her ex-

haustion, Askew perked up and agreed to go to a party with her boyfriend, Lavelle Sanders, and his cousin, Brian Berkley. After drinking one margarita, Askew, Sanders, and Berkley set off on a five minute walk to their friend’s party on 10th Ave The trio walked carefully, as the alleyway was covered in a slick ice.

The night was normal for January. It was cold but the walk was short. The party went on as planned until being busted

by Greeley Police just after midnight. The trio walked among the masses as cops directed party-goers through an alley in the direction of Sanders apartment.

Askew, Sanders, and Berkeley

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Watch the video with the story online at: collegian.com struggled to hold their footing on the icy path, using each other for support as they walked. The group walked towards Sanders’ apartment before hearing an authoritative voice cut through the air.

“We heard cops yelling to stop,” Askew said. “There were probably about 50 people in the see BRUTALITY on page 6 >>

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CITY

City candidates debate student, city connections on CSU campus in anticipation of April election

By Rachel Telljohn @racheltelljohn

Fort Collins regular municipal elections are ongoing and the candidates came to campus to debate Monday night.

The Associated Students of Colorado State University hosted a debate for the candidates running for mayor and for the district five council member position.

ASCSU hoped the debate would offer a way for students to be more involved with the city and local city elections.

There are four mayoral candidates - Kwon Atlas, CSU alumni; Wade Troxell, current mayor; Michael Pruznick, business owner; and Elizabeth Hudetz, activist.

There are two council member candidates for district five - Ross Cunniff, current council member; and Duane Hansen, CSU alumni.

ASCSU moderated the debate and had four questions, all related to how the candidates would better relations between the city and the University particularly, the students.

Many of the candidates ad-

dressed what they feel is a hot button issue for students, which is affordable housing and the city occupancy ordinance, commonly known as U + 2. The ordinance regulates housing to three unrelated adults per property.

Watch the video with the story online at: collegian.com Wade Troxell advocated for many of the policies city council already has in place, as well as using data from studies in order to support policies such as U+2.

“Students are first class citizens in our community,” Troxell said. “The role of mayor is one as a council member (to help make decisions about U+2).”

Elizabeth Hudetz is in favor of using current sustainability policies, as well as going further with policies in order to combat changing climates and leave a better future for the families of

current students.

“The students of today are the citizens of tomorrow. We need to think ahead. There are ways to do things that are creative,” Hudetz said.

Duane Hansen explained that he would use his experience as a recent graduate and a former member of ASCSU as a way to connect the city to the University and the students.

“The way you lead is by collaboration,” Hansen said. “In terms of leadership, I would not be divisive.”

Kwon Atlas also advocated for treating students as a part of the community and incorporating their input, beyond just the outreach from ASCSU. Atlas also said more diversity is needed on city council in terms of younger members.

“The students are not necessarily protected by the city,” Atlas said.

Michael Pruznick advocated for interests of the community and said that students should not be labeled as a group, because then there is either a love or a hate established for that group. Pruz-

STATE

UNC student receives mixed verdict on charges of assault of police officer

By Erin Douglas @erinmdouglas23

GREELEY – A graduate student at University of Northern Colorado received a mixed verdict March 9 in regards to an incident at a college party that led to charges of second-degree assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

According to reports by the Greeley Tribune, the Greeley Police Department broke up a large college party just after midnight in January. Officer Ariel Maes reported that she saw Nina Askew “actively fighting” with a man in the alley behind the house. Maes said that Askew refused to stop walking, so she attempted to arrest her. According to Maes, during the attempted arrest, Askew elbowed Maes in the stomach, causing skel-

etal bruising. After the arrest, as Greeley police put Askew into a police car, her arm was broken in three places.

As a result of the incident, the Weld District Attorney’s office pressed charges against Askew. In the verdict that was delivered before spring break, Askew was convicted of resisting arrest, and found not guilty of disorderly conduct. However, a decision was not reached on second-degree assault on a police officer.

Maes testified in court that in the middle of the struggle, she was not able to explain why she attempted to arrest Askew, and that she had a difficult time with her footing due to the ice in the alley, according to the Greeley Tribune. She also told the court that she heard Askew yell out about her shoulder hurting when they attempt-

ed to place the student in the police car.

However, Askew told the court that she did not hear Maes’ order to stop walking the second time, and that she did not resist arrest. After the incident, Askew spent three days in the North Colorado Medical Center to be treated for her broken arm, and was then booked into the Weld County Jail.

The case was controversial in Greeley – according to the Greeley Tribune, the courtroom was crowded on the first day of testimony, and the jury spent seven and a half hours on deliberation.

Askew will be retried on the charges of second-degree assault on a police officer on April 17, she told the Collegian Monday.

Erin Douglas can be reached at news@collegian. com.

Elizabeth Wilson Hudetz, running for Mayor, Ross Cunniff, running for Council member in District 5, Kwon Atlas, running for Mayor, Duane Hansen, running for Mayor, Wade Troxell, re- running for Mayor, and Michael Pruznick, running for Mayor at a Connect with Candidates forum at CSU. PHOTO BY JULIA TROWBRIDGE COLLEGIAN

nick related the labeling to the way he feels the city is currently labeling homeless persons.

“Focus on impacts (of policies enacted in Fort Collins),” Pruznick said.

There were less than 20 students and community members at the debate.

Election day is April 4 and ballots need to be mailed in or dropped off prior to that date, similar to the presidential election ballots. Voters must be registered in Fort Collins in order to vote in the city elections.

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

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NEWS Tuesday, March 21, 2017

CAMPUS

ASCSU campaign season begins, voting starts April 3

By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98

As students passed between buildings on Monday, the familiar presence of campaign booths filled the Plaza for the first time since November: the Associated Students of Colorado State University elections have begun.

The four campaigns contesting for president and vice president are: -Nick Bohn with running mate Tristan Syron -Edward Kendall with running mate Kyrie Merline -Hailey Morton with running mate Yuval Rosenthal -Josh Silva with running mate Michael Wells

ASCSU Director of Outreach Nick Bohn and College of Liberal Arts Senator Tristan Syron wants to increase transparency between students and members of ASCSU. “ASCSU has an office, but it’s not enough to have an office and invite people in,” Bohn said. “We really have to outreach to people and make sure we’re going out there to find them. It’s ASCSU’s job to impact the University.”

Kendall, the current Speaker Pro Tempore for ASCSU, and his running mate Kyrie Merline want to provide more opportunities for students who are struggling financially.

“Our campaign is about getting back to the basics (and) making sure students have what they need to get by,” Kendall said. “We focus a lot on food in-

security, transportation, things that really might seem like, ‘No duh, why haven’t we done that already?’”

Hailey Morton and her running mate, Yuval Rosenthal, said they want to build more meaningful connections with students.

“We are passionate about building purposeful connections with students from all walks of life, creating an action-driven government that is transparent in serving the student body, and including individuals in decisions of which they have been unfairly denied influence in the past,” Morton wrote in a statement to the Collegian Silva and Wells, both members of ASCSU’s Department of Finance, want to improve student success by increasing openness in ASCSU and provide more

resources for student success.

“I think it’s pivotal for any person who becomes the next president to continue that openness and inclusiveness,” Silva said. “We want ASCSU to cultivate a culture of excellence. We want to make sure every student is excelling on an academic level as well as on a personal level.”

Students can vote from April 3 to April 5 on RamWeb. Campaigns will conclude April 5 at 4 p.m.

Isabel Brown, the current Senate Outreach chair and senator for the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Scienc-

es, was the only candidate for the new Speaker of the Senate position who campaigned on the Plaza the first day of the election season.

Bayler Shubert and Jennifer Murray are also running for the Speaker of the Senate.

ASCSU will hold two debates involving the president and vice president campaigns. The first debate will occur March 23 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on the campus’ plaza, and the second debate will be held on March 29 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Lory Student Center’s theatre.

Students can vote for a campaign from April 3 to April 5 on RamWeb. Campaigns will conclude April 5 at 4 p.m.

Stay with the Collegian for profiles on each campaign and further coverage of ASCSU elections.

Haley Candelario can be reached at news@collegian.com.

CAMPUS

Survey finds CSU female faculty, staff unhappy with work environment

By Stuart Smith @notstuartsmith

An internal study by the University has revealed that, in general, female faculty and staff are not happy with their working environments.

The Colorado State University Standing Committee on the Status of Women Faculty held a forum Monday afternoon to introduce the results of a study conducted by the committee on the environment and working culture that female faculty and staff experience at CSU. During the forum, the Committee went into detail about what the anonymous survey of 76 women said and proposed a set of recommendations to CSU President Tony Frank.

Dr. Nadya A. Fouad, one of the commissioners of the study, said the results were fairly consistent with those conducted at other academic institutions, such as the University of California system, Syracuse, Purdue and the University of Colorado.

But, the CSU survey showed differences in two key areas.

One difference, according to Fouad, was the finding that parental leave is not enforced in the same way across departments in the University.

“I was shocked to hear that (in) almost every single focus group, the women talked about the parental leave, and their experiences were dramatically different,” Fouad said. “The same policy, across the University, was implemented completely differently.”

Another difference, Fouad said, is that department chairs

at CSU were said to have more power than in other universities.

“In a lot of Universities, the department chair and department head ... (have) some level of accountability at the University level to ensure that the chairs are indeed implementing the policies appropriately,” Fouad said.

“But (at CSU), you have the policies, (but) there’s no accountability to make sure that they’re being implemented fairly and equitably across the University.”

Fouad added that when a work environment is more equitable for women, it becomes more equitable for men and faculty of color.

In general, the women surveyed had a negative perception of their pay equity, and the process of negotiating a raise.

“There was a perception that (in) the salary equity exercise… the women had to depend on their department chair, who they already didn’t trust,” Fouad said.

Fouad said that the procedure for negotiating a raise has since changed, but the survey nevertheless collected numerous comments on this topic.

She also stressed that not every woman who was surveyed felt negatively, and that there were several who had had good experiences with their department chairs.

“There were two or three focus groups where somebody came with an agenda to say ‘everything’s fine,’” she said. “And, while I was happy to hear that their experience was more positive, I was very concerned that they (would) silence the other people who were in the focus group.”

During the survey, one woman who had had a good experience with her department chair realized that what she had experienced was uncommon.

“There was one woman who came very eager to say how things had gone well for her, and when she heard the other experiences she realized that (it) was really because her department chair had worked very hard to be equitable,” Fouad said.

The survey also found that there was a major difference in the experiences of tenure track versus non-tenure track professors and faculty.

“The non-tenure track women felt more vulnerable,” Fouad said. “They felt that their expertise was not valued; they also felt more vulnerable in terms of being evaluated by students. There were a couple of comments by women who felt that they were not set up to succeed by the faculty in the department.”

The Committee’s presentation quoted one of the women surveyed about this particular issue.

“As non-tenure track parttime adjunct faculty, I have talent and experience to give, but few opportunities to use and express those talents and my experience,” the respondent said.

Another female faculty member surveyed described the depression and troubles that she had experienced.

“It just kind of reached a point where I was so depressed and I was very worried about my own health,” the respondent said. “... I know that I’m not talking suicidal, but I mean you reach a point in time where you

start getting into that situation.”

Another respondent quoted in the presentation said that the rush and importance of the new on-campus stadium made her feel as if she had a fundamentally different vision of progress than the University.

“I started this career not to make money; it wasn’t my goal.

I wanted to create value in the world and I want to be part of an institution whose primary goals are to create value, whether it’s solving cancer or ameliorating poverty or something like that,” she said. “And so, I feel like right now, my values are just so out of alignment with the University’s values.”

Fouad finished her speech by emphasizing that the survey only gave a voice to one side of the story: that of the female faculty.

“I don’t know the other side of the story; I don’t know what the department chairs said,” Fouad said. “It’s just study… on different experiences of the same policy.”

The report ended with a set of recommendations for President Tony Frank.

The committee also had a primary recommendation for Frank, which was to bring in an outside consultant.

In an email provided to the Collegian, Frank see WOMEN on page 14 >>

The following recommendations were made by the board: Develop accountability measures and training opportunities Develop plans to ensure gender-related concerns are adequately resolved Review and identify policies and procedures that adversely affect women faculty Revise and audit faculty evaluation protocols and processes to better account for potential gender-bias Review and ensure University policies are consistent Centralize and apply parental leave policies to ensure benefits are consistently applied Ensure all rationales for formulas for salary equity are known Ensure search processes are compliant with the Office of Economic Opportunity Audit service contributions of faculty and create adequate measures of service and processes to credit faculty for service work

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CITY

Colorado River losing essential water flow, new research shows

By Ty Betts @Tybetts9

An increase in temperatures has the ability to reduce the flow of water in the Colorado River by 20 to 30 percent by mid-century, according to new research done

by Colorado State University and the University of Arizona.

The research done by Bradley Udall, a senior water and climate scientist for CSU, and UA professor Jonathan Overpeck, found that loss of water is driven by higher temperatures arising from an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

There are a number of reasons that increased temperatures are leading to less water in rivers, Udall said. The first is that there is now a longer growing season for plants to utilize water. The second is that plants demand more water with increased temperatures. Third, more evaporation is taking place on soil, reservoirs and rivers. Lastly, the atmosphere retains more moisture with higher temperatures.

The water in the Colorado River is relied upon by 40 million people, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. The Colorado River provides water to seven U.S. states and makes up half of the water consumption along Colorado’s Front Range, Udall said.

An assessment by the Bureau of Reclamation found that the Colorado River will face little to no change in levels because they anticipate an increase in precipitation to offset higher temperatures. Udall disagrees.

He said that the issue with their model is that they are combining a multitude of factors that are not necessarily certain. The bureau’s calculations combine warm and hot projected climates with precipitation decreases and increases as well as varied emission scenarios.

“When you come up with one number and you blend certain and uncertain outcomes, you can get a rosier picture than we think is warranted,” Udall said.

Udall and Overpeck’s research instead isolated these variables and achieved their estimates with confidence that tem-

perature is increasing.

Udall said with changes in water levels expected, regulations will have to be adapted. The 1922 Colorado River Compact currently regulates the amounts of water that Colorado has rights to. Udall believes that with a 20 percent reduction in flow, it would be difficult for Colorado to meet the output requirements set in place by the act.

The seven states that make up the Colorado River basin Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming have to work together to negotiate new water agreements. Udall said that while negotiations usually take a lot of time, these states are good at coming to agreements.

“I would argue that this basin, perhaps compared to any other basin in the world, has a good track record of settling water disputes,” Udall said.

Other considerations Udall mentioned are that less water flow equates to less hydroelectric power. Hydroelectric power does not make up a large portion of total energy generation in the southwest, but is it essential to irrigation. Udall said farmers get inexpensive energy rates while using hydro-power generated from the Colorado River.

“Agriculture often runs on very small margins and increases in energy rates can cripple profits,” Udall said.

Udall said he believes new sources of water will not come easily or be feasible. California’s desalination work, or the process of extracting minerals from water, is too expensive for agricultural purposes. Furthermore, importing water into the Colorado River from other parts of the country is halted by high costs political push-back.

Udall and Overpeck’s research points to one solution to the problem: the reduction of greenhouse gasses.

“The water cycle is driven by heat,” Udall said. “When you add extra heat to the Earth as we are now doing because of greenhouse gas emissions, you change the water cycle in fundamental ways.”

Ty Betts can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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OPINION Tuesday, March 21, 2017

>> BRUTALITY from page 1 alley we were walking through, so we didn’t think they were talking to us.”

That was when the group was approached by officer Ariel Maes. Maes was a young, small woman who had started working at the Greeley Police Department about five months prior to this date. Due to her stature, she had to wear a custom made ballistics vest in addition to her utility belt. Maes approached the group and asked if there was anything troubling happening. Officer Maes said she was worried, as it looked as though Sanders was acting abusively toward Askew.

“I came to the conclusion there was the possibility of a criminal act going on, and I needed to further investigate it,” Maes testified in court on March 6th.

Askew came to the defense of her boyfriend, saying if he had hurt her she would have notified the police already. According to Askew, it was the ice that was to blame for what the officer had seen, because right before Maes had approached, askew had slipped. It was at this time that officer Maes called for backup, and with the help of a male officer handcuffed Askew and put her under arrest.

“As we walked through the alley I just kept asking why I was being arrested,” Askew said.

“They kept saying they did not have to tell me.”

As both Askew and the two officers approached the vehicle, all parties were slipping. Askew had limited mobility as her hands were handcuffed behind her back. The officers attempted to hoist Askew into the vehicle, but this limited mobility and the small stature of officer Maes made this an issue. The male officer went around to the other side of the car, reached into the back seat, grabbed Askews upper right arm, and pulled her into the vehicle. It was at this point Askew hear a loud “crack.” Askew fainted briefly because of the pain.

When Askew regained her consciousness, her right arm was in intense pain and the officers were still pulling her into the vehicle.

“I started screaming.” Said Askew. “They told me to shut up and do what I was supposed to do, and they shut the door.”

Askew was terrified and in pain. She knew she needed medical assistance immediately, so she began to kick at the door in an effort to communicate her need for medical attention. At this time, an officer opened the door and threatened to hog tie Askew before realizing her pain was not an attempt to escape or disrespect the officers. At this point, an ambulance was called.

Askew was brought to an ambulance and was examined with her handcuffs still holding both her hands behind her back.

Medical examiners realized the extent of the injury when Askews

right humorous nearly protruded through her skin. It was at this time she was taken to the hospital, and her handcuffs were finally taken off.

When Askew awoke in the hospital, she was told she needed to go into emergency surgery immediately, because the break was damaging her radial nerve. After undergoing emergency surgery, Askew was in the hospital for two days. Upon her release, she was immediately arrested.

“They arrested me on suspicion.” Said Askew. “They gave off all these random charges like minor in possession, which just didn’t make since because I was 23 at the time.”

Askew was taken to jail immediately after leaving the hospital. Despite having a plate and screws in her arm, she was told to take her cast off and was not allowed to take any pain medication during her overnight stay in the county jail.

“I was in excruciating pain.”

Said Askew, “Not to mention they [the police] were roughing me up and taunting me as I walked through jail.”

It was not until after her night in jail that Askew was told what the charges were. Minor charges included resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Askew was also accused of second degree assault on a police officer, which is a felony.

Askew and her family were wrought with confusion. It was Nina who had to deal with massive bodily injury. It was Nina who had been arrested with no explanation. It was Nina who was faced with medical bills and limited use of her right arm; an injury she will deal with the rest of her life. Nobody could explain what was happening. Nobody could explain why Nina, a woman who had no prior charges, was now facing a life changing felony charge.

Nobody was aware at this time that when Askew was being walked to the patrol unit on January 16th, 2016, she had allegedly elbowed officer Ariel Maes below her ballistics vest, causing some skeletal and muscular bruising.

A story of a confused and mistreated woman arrested with no justification had spun full circle.

In a striking turn of events, officer Maes had become the victim of a felonious crime. She was allegedly attacked by a handcuffed Askew on a slippery alleyway. Askew’s recount of a blatant abuse of authority has come full circle. Askew would now have to defend herself in court despite indisputable evidence that her arm was broken by a police officer. To be clear: the woman whose arm was broken by a police officer was now being sued by that same officer. A trial would proceed, highlighting the injuries of officer Maes. The 5’2” officer was allegedly elbowed by 5’8” Askew between her utility belt and her ballistics vest. No physical evidence of the attack would

X-Rays from after Askew’s encounter with a Greeley police officer which show her arm was badly fractured.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF NINA ASKEW

be presented, because skeletal and muscular bruising does not show up on an X-ray or in photos.

The trial began on March 6th, 2017. Defended by Andy Gavaldon, Nina Askew fought tooth and nail to profess her innocence. The trial was riddled with “he said, she said” testimonies.

So many questions were asked, but moral questions remained that span far beyond the reach of lawful power.

Askew was found guilty of resisting arrest, but not of disorderly conduct. However, the jury was unable to reach a decision regarding the felony, second-degree assault on an officer.

As I sat in the back row of the gallery throughout this case, the details seemed to become less and less important. The questions I wanted to ask were strictly non-judicial, but the true morality of the case was not being recognized. Nina Askew had her arm broken by a police officer. Nina Askew was arrested on unjustifiable charges. Nina Askew was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now her charges would be a constant reminder of what it means to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ariel Maes may or may not have been elbowed by Askew, but there is no room for doubt that the rights of the defendant were brutally neglected.

In Greeley, where Askew attends UNC’s graduate program,

police brutality has been a pressing issue. According to Askew, her case is not a black sheep.

Police injuring citizens, lying about intoxication, and blatantly abusing their power has been an issue in Greeley long before Askew’s case. Nina may not have found justice yet, but her goal is not to be vindictive towards police, but rather to bring attention to the issue of abuse of authority.

She hopes her case will reach the greater Weld County community, and let the public know this issue is relevant. The first steps; implementing a system that will be beneficial to everyone.

“I hope that [this case] will make Chief Gardner implement body and car cameras.” Said Askew, “It’s necessary, and it helps both cops and civilians.”

Necessary measures have not been taken. For change to begin, it must be started by those with the most power to spark it.

Police need to take necessary steps to ensure civilian safety.

Police brutality is often a touchy subject that can be interpreted differently based on individual values. However, when a woman who got her arm broken by an authority faces three felony charges, interpretation regarding police brutality is ridiculous.

Nina Askew is a reminder that police have the authority to marginalize citizens through obvious abuse of authority. Nobody

injured wrongly by the government should pay this heavily for potentially elbowing someone.

Car and body camera policies have been adopted by neighboring cities including Fort Collins. Body Worn Cameras (BWCs) are worn by Fort Collins police officers to attain an unbiased view of any event. Police brutality has made itself a motif in our history; a motif that can be halted by the perpetrators themselves. Accountability comes first. Citizens should not live in fear of the institution meant to protect them, and since that is the reality, it is the duty of law enforcement to take the necessary steps to ensure our safety. It is not a matter of choosing sides.

There are always exception in both parties that make us want to choose. However there is no reason to doubt that change should be sparked at the source.

Nina Askews trial is a reminder that some situations could have been resolved if there were one additional factor. If an officer had footage of what happened on January 17th, there would have been clarity for both sides. If no major change is to come any time soon, then small changes should be made on step at a time. Nina Askew is not a violent woman.

Her story was heard but not seen, and it very well could have been.

Allec Brust can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

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OPINION Tuesday, March 21, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Eating less meat has far-reaching impacts

By Becca Bleil

Intern at the Humane League and a member of Rams Organizing for Animal Rights (ROAR)

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.

Want to change the world?

Here’s how. It’s easier than you think. If you’re anything like me, you may be frustrated about how rapidly the environment is deteriorating. However, there is so much we can do that benefits our Earth, even when we feel like the power is out of our hands. It’s easy to feel like just one person can’t make a difference, but if everyone thought that all the time, we would not be where we are today with all the positive changes and progress that continues to occur. It all starts with just one person.

So you may be wondering, ‘what can I really do that will make a difference?’ Let’s take into account the water footprint that the average person has in just one day. It takes a lot of water to produce just one pound of beef. And by a lot, I mean 2,500 gallons. It’s hard to think about just how much water this is. Try to imagine a large table with 25 one-gallon containers of water on it. Even this number is a lot.

25 gallons is how much water it takes to produce 1 pound of wheat. Now think of 100 of these tables. That’s how much water it takes to produce 1 pound of beef.

Around CSU, there are numerous campaigns for being more environmentally friendly. In the showers of some of the residence halls, there are even posters reminding you to take a short shower to save water. Yet, you can actually save more water by not eating 1 pound of beef than you can by not showering for six

months. Cows are big animals, and big animals require lots of resources and produce lots of waste and greenhouse gases. 51 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to animal agriculture.

With these statistics, we can probably start realizing that one person does make a difference. What one person does can set up the change for this world that we need to see in order to heal our environment.

If you’re looking to reduce your meat consumption or cut out meat completely, Meatless Mondays are a great start. It’s very simple. Every Monday, you try your best to eat vegetarian for every meal. If every person in the United States ate no meat or cheese for just one day a week, it would have the same environmental benefit as taking 7.6 million cars off the road. We already learned that livestock and their byproducts

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The new healthcare plan hurts reproductive rights

produce a lot of carbon dioxide which contributes to greenhouse gases. By choosing not to eat animals and/or their secretions, we can make a conscious decision to better our Earth.

It’s very easy to disconnect from these animals by looking at the packaged meat we see in grocery stores and not associating what we see as “food” as previously being a gentle, sentient being.

The reality of it is that they are exploited and abused. 98 percent of packaged meat comes from factory farms, where “farm” animals (cows, chickens, pigs, etc.) are crammed into small spaces and forced to live in unsanitary conditions. These animals suffer a miserable life and are killed in extremely inhumane ways. Not to mention, eating animal protein is not the best thing we can do for human health. For just one example, eggs contain high levels of cho-

lesterol, pollutants, salmonella, carcinogens and many other harmful elements. Eggs lack antioxidant phytonutrients that plant foods such as fruits and vegetables contain. There are so many people on Earth who live a full, thriving, healthy life from eating a plant-based diet.

With this information, we can change the world. Animal agriculture causes species degradation and decreasing biodiversity, and if we want Earth to thrive and have an abundance of plants, beautiful landscapes, intriguing animals and everything else that makes nature so breathtaking, then we have to learn to coexist in a way that is evolutionarily advantageous for us as humans. In the long run, we cannot live in this way and continue depleting our Earth because this is the only one we have.

Letters can be sent to letters@collegian.com.

NOPE DOPE Having a headache. #Weaklings Wearing a dress because it’s nice out.

By Katie Kaylor Junior, Psychology

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.

Recently there’s been a lot of talk from the current administration about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. Even if you oppose the ACA, I urge you to look critically at the proposed American Health Care Act. The plan that the current administration is proposing is an attack on everyone.

This plan includes defunding Planned Parenthood for one year, which would have detrimental effects on many

people in the United States. Not only will it make it more difficult for people to obtain safe and legal abortions, but it will also reduce the number of people that have access to contraceptives, STI testing and the family planning services that Planned Parenthood provides.

Although the proposed healthcare plan affects only the United States, the Trump Administration is also attacking reproductive rights abroad in the form of the Global Gag Rule.

The Global Gag Rule cut funding to organizations in other countries that advocate for the decriminalization of abortions or that provide abortion referrals. I believe that every person should have access to reproductive healthcare, regardless of where they live

in the world. An attack on reproductive rights anywhere is an attack on reproductive rights everywhere.

I urge all of you to call your representatives and let them know that you oppose the proposed healthcare plan.

In addition, I encourage you all to support the Global HER Act, which is aimed at overturning the Global Gag Rule. If you want to get more involved with the Global HER Act, look for the #Fight4HER campaign at Colorado State University and other campuses across the nation.

Trump may say that no one cares about women as much as he does, but the legislation he supports clearly disproves that.

Letters can be sent to letters@collegian.com.

Getting a painful sunburn.

At least nobody can see your sunburn under your clothes.

When people make connections about your personal life that you don’t want them to know.

When you find time in your busy schedule to cook.

Wearing down your brake pads all the way on a five hour road trip. #UseYourGears There are fishing shows on Netflix.

Catching up on the emails you put off during break.

The semester is exactly halfway over. #GlassHalfFull

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FOOTBALL

Experience and expectations surround CSU in 2017

By Chad Deutschman @ChadDeutschman

Colorado State University has 158 days to prepare itself for the unveiling of the on-campus stadium. After a 7-6 season in 2016, that preparation begins Tuesday with spring football kicking off.

Heading into the 2017 season, CSU will no longer be the inexperienced group that took the field in 2016. CSU returns nine starters on defense, which accounted for 67 percent of the team’s tackles in 2016. On the offensive side, the Rams return just under 75 percent of team’s yards gained in 2016.

Perhaps the biggest thing CSU returns to the field in 2017 is senior linebacker Deonte Clyburn. Clyburn missed the entire 2016 campaign due to blood clots, but has been cleared for play entering spring football.

Clyburn is tasked with filling the void left by graduated middle linebacker Kevin Davis — Davis led the team in tackles with 110 in 2016. Clyburn last played in 2015, where he saw the field in all 13 games, starting seventh at middle linebacker, and finished the season ranked fourth on the team with 69 tackles (35 solo).

“We got a hell of a guy back, Deonte Clyburn,” said defensive coordinator Marty English

onMonday. “It would have been great to have both of those guys last year because of the maturity and the communication, that kind of stuff, but Kevin was a good player and Deonte is a very good player, and I think that’s the role where Deonte’s going to be able to step in there and kind of take back over some of the things and help move us forward.”

The contributions that Clyburn brings to the defense on the field are easily matched by the contributions he brings off it, according to English.

“We keep preaching to everybody how important football has to be to you, to extend beyond normal hours that we ask you to do things and go do things on your own, and he’s that guy,” English said. “He does that stuff and he demands it out of his teammates … It says everything that he is the leader of the defense already.”

Clyburn rejoins a linebacker group that gained substantial experience last season. Josh Watson (11 starts in 2016), Tre Thomas (10 starts) and Arjay Jean (12 games played) return to the corps after an up and down 2016 season. Watson finished with 90 tackles in 2016 — second only to Davis’ 110 — and added seven tackles for loss. When Clybrun was healthy in 2015, he averaged 9.8 tackles per-game as a

starter.

“I’m extremely excited for Deonte Clyburn,” head coach Mike Bobo said. “Really can’t imagine, or comprehend myself personally of what he’s personally been through the last year.”

Key offensive starters returning: QB Nick Stevens WR Michael Gallup C Jake Bennett RT Zack Golditch Key defensive starters returning: DT Jakob Buys LB Deonte Clyburn LB Josh Watson DE Evan Colorito S Jake Schlager

On the offensive side of the ball, the CSU offensive line will see some new faces as only center Jake Bennett and right tackle Zack Golditch return as starters.

All-Mountain West performers Fred Zerblis (first team), Nick

RAM

Callender (honorable mention) and Paul Thurston (honorable mention) all graduated, however Bennett (second team) and Golditch (25 career starts) bring valuable experience to the line.

Joining Bennett and Golditch, CSU returns Colby Meeks (four starts in 2016), Trae Moxley (three starts) and Jeff Taylor (10 games played).

In addition to the returning members, CSU signed seven linemen in the 2017 recruiting class. Last season, the Rams’ offensive line finished eighth in the FBS with 13 sacks given up on the year — one in the final six games.

“We lost a guy that can finish, with Fred (Zerblis). I thought we lost some toughness for our team with him and somebody has got to get better at that role,” offensive coordinator Will Friend said. “Some guys that really haven’t played a lot are going to have to try to become those type of guys for us. And we will see over the next 15 days. They’ll get their chance right here to prove that they can play, and if not, then the new people will get a chance.”

In terms of skill positions on offense, Michael Gallup will be back at wide receiver after posting 14 touchdowns in 2016, the second most in CSU history. In addition to Gallup, CSU will feature the three-back system with

Dalyn Dawkins, Izzy Matthews and Marvin Kinsey all returning. Kinsey suffered a torn ACL in 2016 and will not practice in spring football, but is on schedule in his injury rehab, according to Bobo.

Quarterback Collin Hill, also recovering from a torn ACL, has been cleared for individual drills and 7-on-7 play, according to Bobo.

Spring football marks the beginning of a new era for CSU football. The Rams return key starters on both sides of the ball, and with that experience comes greater expectations. For Bobo, the expectation is a Mountain West championship.

“We all know that’s a goal of ours, to compete for a championship. It’s been the same way every year. That’s going to be our goal this year,” Bobo said. “We talk about what’s going on at this University with all of these other sports that are winning championships or in the race to win a championship. We talk about our basketball team, how (they had) a chance to win a championship in season and in the tournament and how exciting that is and how the feeling is to be in that race.

That’s where we want to be, so what are we going to do?”

Chad Deutschman can be reached at sports@ collegian.com.

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SPORTS Tuesday, March 21, 2017

SPORTS FOR DUMMIES

Mascot Madness: Fake your way through tournament season

By Michelle Fredrickson @mfredrickson42 March Madness is a tough time of year for those of us who don’t know anything about sports, because everybody is talking about basketball and their brackets. And now that ‘The Bachelor’ is over, we don’t even have our Bachelor brackets to get us through it.

It’s impossible to avoid conversations about March Madness, but it’s equally impossible to figure out what’s going on if you don’t already understand the game. Well, fear not, sports dummies. I’m here to help you out with a sneaky trick I figured out a few years ago.

I figured this out a few years ago when my uncle back in Washington started a conversation with me about Gonzaga’s basketball team. I know less about basketball than I do about football, which is saying something, but I didn’t want to be rude, so I politely chimed in with a fun fact about the Gonzaga mascot, the bulldog – namely, that it is the 3rd most common mascot for colleges in America, and several colleges in Washington had the same mascot.

This allowed me to chime in with a fun fact without being rude, or giving away the fact that I had no idea what he was talking about, and no interest in it either. So here I will provide for you some fun facts about March Madness school mascots.

In fact, learning about mascots is pretty interesting. According to the International University Sports Federation (FISU), the word ‘mascot’ actually originates from a French word for ‘lucky charm.’ The French got that word from an older form of the word, which means ‘charm,’ ‘spell’ or ‘amulet’ and was used as a derogatory term to refer to witches. So in a linguistic way, mascots are sort of witchcraft.

The stories behind individual schools’ mascots are always really interesting. Mascots used to typically be predators to intimidate opponents – but if that were still the case, them the Oregon teams the Beavers and the Ducks wouldn’t be effective mascots at all. According to FISU, when the Muppets became popular in the 60s, mascots became more fluffy and cuddly and stopped always being live animals.

I lack the room to discuss all the remaining schools in the

tournament, so we’ll stick to seven of the top ten as ranked

by CBS. I will give you one bitesized conversation piece about each school’s mascot so you can chime in when your friends are discussing March Madness.

1. Gonzaga Bulldogs I already mentioned this one – it’s the third most common mascot in the country. There are 40 four-year schools to claim this as their mascot.

2. Kansas Jayhawks The ‘jayhawk’ makes me think of the Mockingjay from ‘The Hunger Games.’ It’s a mythical amalgamation of a blue jay and a hawk, first coined in 1848.

Alternately loud and obnoxious and stealthy and aggressive, the University of Kansas website says their message is, “Don’t turn your back to this bird.”

Feeling intimidated yet?

3. Arizona Wildcats Another very common name, the University of Arizona differentiates itself by having a pair of mascots with a cute love story. The mascots, male and female, named Wilma and Wilber Wildcat. Wilma was introduced in March 1986 on a blind date with Wilber, and the two were married later that year, accord-

ing to the university’s website.

4. UCLA Bruins This is one that’s always confused me. Joe Bruin is the mascot, though there has been a female rendition named Josephine, and he is a bear. The school mascot was a bear for a while, but in the 1950s mascots were a bit tumultuous and the bear was taken officially by Berkeley, leaving UCLA to claim their unique bear’s name.

5. Kentucky Wildcats Another Wildcat. They are a less exciting rendition of the popular mascot than Arizona, but rumor has it that their team name goes back to 1909 when students, who were cavorting in a chapel after a particularly impressive football game, likened the athletes’ performance to wildcats.

6. North Carolina Tar Heels This is an interesting one.

The actual mascot for North Carolina is a ram named Rameses, but they adopted the moniker ‘tar heels’ as a tribute to the nickname given to anyone from the state. Tar was the main product produced in the early days of North Carolina. Some legends say the name Tar Heel comes from a British mockery claim-

ing you’d get tar on your heels by walking through North Carolina.

Others say the nickname comes from the Civil War, where men from North Carolina were said to stick to their units like they had tar on their heels. No definitive answer has been provided on the origins of this one.

7. Purdue Boilermakers Nothing so intimidating as a boilermaker, isn’t that right?

This comes from the handson approach to engineering taken at universities in the late 1800s. Being called a ‘boiler maker’ was a colloquialism of the time akin to likening someone to a blacksmith – strong and not afraid to get dirty. A headline in 1892 was the first time the team was referred to as boilermakers, and the nickname stuck.

Well, there you have it, seven conversation pieces to help you redirect the conversation when March Madness inevitably comes up. If it were up to me, I’d be deciding the winner based on the fun facts of their mascots, and I’d award the win to Kansas or Purdue.

Michelle Fredrickson can be reached at sports@ collegian.com.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

CSU eliminated in second round of NIT by red-hot Road Runners

By Justin Michael @TJustinTMichael

Editor’s Note: Story will be updated at Collegian.com After the top three seeds in the quadrant were each eliminated in the opening round of the NIT, the Colorado State men’s basketball team knew that they controlled their own destiny.

With an opportunity to secure a third postseason home game, the Rams came out in front of the hometown crowd and got run off the court by California State University-Bakersfield, losing 81-63 in the second round of the National Invitational Tournament.

The Rams struggled to get anything going on offense early, missing the first five field goal attempts of the game and taking a 20 point deficit into halftime. CSU would ultimately go the opening five minutes of the first half without recording a field goal, before sophomore guard Prentiss Nixon was able to break the scoreless drought by making a layup.

Contrarily, the Road Runners came out clicking. CSU-Bakersfield finished the first half 10-of-13 from beyond the arc (76.9 percent) and 18-of-33 from the field overall.

Three Road Runners would

(Top) Gian Clavell (3) bows his head after a hard fought foul in the 2nd half of the Rams loss against CSU Bakersfield. (Bottom) Emmanuel Omogbo (2) battles with a Roadrunner defender trying to go past him on the sideline. PHOTO BY JAVON HARRIS COLLEGIAN

J.D. Paige (22) walks down the court during the Rams 2nd round NIT loss against CSU Bakersfield.

PHOTO BY JAVON HARRIS COLLEGIAN

finish the first half in double-digit scoring totals, but Jaylin Airington (14) and Damiyne Durham (12) did the majority of the majority of the damage. The duo missed only one field goal attempt each, totalling a combined 26 points on 9-of-11 shooting.

Much like the Rams run through the Mountain West Tournament, much of the offensive weight was shouldered by Nixon and senior guard Gian Clavell.

Nixon scored seven of the team’s first eight points and fin-

ished the first half in double digits (13 points). The Illinois native has seen his numbers rise exponentially throughout the season and scored in double digits in the final three games.

Clavell closed his collegiate career with a fitting performance, leading all scorers in the game with 21 points and recorded eight rebounds.

Besides Clavell and Nixon, the Rams as a whole failed to create any sort of rhythm offensively. It took 37 minutes for a player other than Clavell or Nixon to record a second field goal, a 3-pointer from redshirt freshman guard Anthony Bonner.

Of the five starters, only three made more than one field goal in the contest, and as a whole, CSU barely shot 30 percent from the floor (34 percent).

Subsequently beating Colorado State late Monday night, the CSU-bakersfield will travel to No. 6 Texas-Arlington University Wednesday night. UT-Arlington is coming off of victories over BYU and Akron. Time and TV info have yet to be determined for wednesday’s quarterfinal matchup.

Justin Michael can be reached at sports@ collegian.com.

ARTS & CULTURE Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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MUSIC

Local spotlight: Americana singer-songwriter Mitchel Evan

By Brody Coronelli @brodycoronelli

Singer and songwriters are in no short supply, but truly achieving success as a solo performerisnoteasy.Withpoeticand forthright songwriting that manages to create a portrait of himself as an artist while also reaching listeners on a highly personal level, Colorado-based folk Americana singer-songwriter Mitchel Evan is on the verge of success.

Born and raised in Virginia, 22-year-old Evan has been playing music and writing songs since he was 13 when he started playing in a punk-rock band despite the hurdles along the way. Alongside struggling through his brief time in college, Evan dealt with addiction in his late teens, which uprooted him from Virginia and sent him somewhere new.

“I went to rehab in Virginia, so I wanted to get out of that environment and start somewhere new, so I came to Louisville, Colorado and lived in a sober living setting for awhile and just stuck around afterwards,” Evan said.

He has been in recovery for several years, but his experiences with addiction are still a common theme in his songwriting. The song “Hypocrisy Blues” off his former band’s first extended play “A Place of Love,” deals with these experiences in stark, poetic confession, with the help of soaring, low-down guitar leads and a graceful Hammond organ.

“I played the song [in Dallas], and it’s pretty blatant about that experience,” Evan said. “There was a guy in the crowd who was in recovery, and he sent me a nice message the day after saying the song helped him.”

Until recently, Evan sought out this personal expression and connection through his band Mitchel Evan and the Mangrove. During their time, they released two EPs: “A Place of Love” and “Higher Ground.”

The band called it quits earlier this year, leaving Evan to pursue music on his own. He did not let the breakup stunt his creative output.

“The band’s split knocked me up a gear,” Evan said. “It was inspirational and motivating.”

He is still working on The Mangrove’s debut full-length “Back and Forth,” set to release

later this year. A soulful blend of Americana, blues and rock ‘n’ roll, “Back and Forth” is a portrait of a band that is no longer, but still very much alive in influence, spirit and range.

“Musically, the album was a discovery process for me,” Evan said. “I was intentionally writing songs in different genres. While I was writing, I was trying to figure out if I could write a good country song, or a good funk tune. So at one point, I spent a week listening to James Brown. I think it’s amateur in that way though. It’s an artist who’s trying new things and can do them to a level that’s passable, but where is the artist? It was a journey of trying to figure out my voice—becoming realized— and I’m super young, so I think it’s supposed to happen this way.”

Instead of scrapping the band’s work, Evan wants the music to be recognized.

“I felt the need to spend the money to release an album by a band that doesn’t exist anymore,” Evan said. “It’s worth it to me to close the door behind this chapter and not let everything I did with the band be buried with this album. It needs to be heard.”

Evan’s transition into a full-time solo musician has been smooth, and he sees merit in the independence and self-motivation it takes, using it as a means to further his output and energy as an artist.

“I’ve realized since parting with the band that what I do is very personal to me,” Evan said. “I don’t necessarily need to share the experience with other people on stage for it to be meaningful, which is the opposite experience for a lot of people.”

This independence has found a home on his upcoming solo debut titled “It’s A Hell of a Drug, Nostalgia.” A stripped back, personal endeavor influenced by the likes of Ryan Adams, Jason Isbell and Damien Rice that takes the full-band arrangements of The Mangrove and tones them down to forthright simplicity. This will be Evan’s first official release as a solo artist. “[The album] is a very different record than “Back and Forth,” and I think that it’s much more realized,” Evan said. “It’s honest, stripped back and it’s very focused on myself.

PHOTO BY DONA LAURITA. PHOTO COURTESY OF MITCHEL EVAN.

It means a lot to me.”

A connection to the audience and the ability for listeners to relate to his songs is something Evan constantly seeks, as he sees it as one of the most important elements of success. He recently began hosting “Songwriters in the Round,” a regular, interactive show at the Dona Laurita Art Gallery in Louisville that spotlights multiple local songwriters and allows them to tell their stories and explain the inspiration behind their music.

“I think the idea is to dissolve the barrier between audience and performer,” Evan said. “I’d be open to audience members asking the audience questions about a certain line, what something means or where it came from. I wouldn’t feel like it’s invasive; I like being asked questions like that.”

Evan talks about his music with peaceful fervor, and it is clear that there are not any frills in his creative process or performance. At this point in time, it is just him, his stories and an acoustic guitar. In

a similar vein to songwriters like Josh Ritter, Evan’s music is centered around his lyrics rather than instrumentation or a sense of bravado. He simply tells his stories, warts and all, with the hope that they will reach his listeners.

“There no gimmicks or frills to what I do,” Evan said.

“It’s not centered around showmanship or trick. I’m not a guitar virtuoso, and I can’t do vocal acrobatics, but I have my words.”

Contrary to many musicians, Evan sees financial success as secondary, instead aspiring to make enough to sustain a living and a continued life in art.

“I would never compromise the integrity of my art for the sake of making money,” Evan said. “The goal is to connect with as many people as possible, not to make as much money as possible. That’s the only way it should be. There are people who deserve your money more than those who are in it for fame, girls or money, and that’s wrong— give your spot to someone who cares.”

You can find Evan’s music and other information of the shows he is playing on his social media and website.

Brody Coronelli can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com.

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FOOD AND DINING

Chipotle vs. Qdoba

By Mareena Winchell @mareenaaaa_

There have been some heated debates over which Mexican food restaurant has earned the name of THE go-to place. Some say Chipotle, others say Qdoba.

Where is the line drawn to decide which place is better? Is there even a line to be drawn? Is there even a Mexican food smack down to be fought, or is there a clear winner? Or no winner? Despite all the questions out there about these very similar, but oh so different places, which one is superior?

Let us start with Chipotle.

Chipotle opened in 1993 and has been a game changer ever since.

Chipotle’s fan base are die-hard supporters. Chipotle’s guacamole is their signature item, it has won the hearts of many. These fans do not mind getting told over and over that guacamole costs extra. This is considered music to their ears.

“It’s just so creamy and fresh,” said Jennifer Edwards, a Chipotle lover. “There isn’t a competition to what place is better, the winner starts with a ‘C.’ I don’t think I have ever heard of anyone trying to make Qdoba’s guacamole in their free time.”

“I don’t mind paying the extra money at Chipotle,” said customer Randy Adams. “As a broke college student, it takes a lot for me to genuinely splurge on an item, and I would gladly splurge at Chipotle… anytime, any day.”

Qdoba opened their doors in 1995. Opening two years behind Chipotle means nothing to these admirers because they live for that melted queso, which has created the reputation that Qdoba has earned. Supporters of

Chipotle located at 649 S. College Ave. PHOTO BY CJ JOHNSON COLLEGIAN

Qdoba love to watch the workers pour queso onto their meals, it gets their hearts beating a little faster.

“Once I tried Qdoba, I never even laid an eye back on Chipotle,” said Andrew Lopez, a Qdoba aficionado. “Qdoba never disappoints, it has always been there for me.”

Qdoba’s queso has a recipe that cannot be replaced in the hearts of their fans.

“Chipotle’s staple item is their guacamole, but you have to pay extra for that… at Qdoba you don’t need to pay extra for that delicious queso… and that to me just proves that Qdoba is better,” said customer Daniel Hunter.

“Qdoba’s menu also contains more choices than Chipotle… this isn’t even a debate, Qdoba clearly wins.”

To the people who either do not care for either, or just

genuinely like both, congratulations for being the third party.

Open-minded people like you are important to our society.

“Chipotle is my summer burrito and Qdoba is my winter burrito,” said Tori Cervi, a student at Colorado State University “Something about that queso at Qdoba makes it warmer and cozier, which is more comforting during the winter time.”

Both places have their pros and cons, which leads to this debate never being settled. There will probably never be a clear winner. To the die-hard fans or either or the people who cannot decide or just do not care for either: eat what you want and where you want.

Mareena Winchell can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com.

LOCAL EVENTS

Headliners announced for 2017 Taste of Fort Collins

By Alec Erickson @CTV_Ace

Fort Collins is still a few months away from binging on food, but music fans will have a chance to binge on some music in preparation for the food festival that is Taste of Fort Collins.

Fans can get excited about who they will get to see preform at this year’s event, as the headliners have finally been announced for Taste of Fort Collins that will run from June 9 to 11 in Old Town.

Plain White T’s will headline on Friday, June 9. The Illinois-based rock band is marking their 20th year as a band in 2017 and with seven studio albums under their belt, they should have plenty of music to go around.

Moving on to Saturday, June 10, we have two bands set to headline. One of the headliners is St. Lucia, a South African electronic artist who has been making waves in the scene for a few short years. We also get the country music duo of Waterloo Reviv-

al to help round out the fun.

Closing Sunday, fans of `90s music will rejoice when Gin Blossoms takes the stage. For some who have been around a while, this will be Gin Blossoms’ second time taking the stage at a Taste of Fort Collins.

You can pick up your weekend pass now for $20. To buy your tickets and for more information about the event you can visit tasteoffortcollins.com Alec Erickson can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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Mayday Parade releases anniversary edition of ‘A Lesson In Romantics’

By Alec Erickson @CTV_Ace

As an artist, one thing you always hope for is that your work will stand the test of time.

No matter how long, 10 years, 50 or even 100, you want your work to have a lasting impression on everyone that comes across it.

That is exactly the kind of thing that comes to mind when musicians release anniversary editions of their albums. We have not seen many contemporary re-releases compared to the classics, but that is exactly the case now with Mayday Parade.

The band is re-releasing the album that started it all, to celebrate 10 years of “A Lesson In Romantics.”

Pop-punk band Mayday Parade who are based out of Tallahassee, Florida started in 2005.

From there, the band released their first extended play “Tales Told by Dead Friends” without a label in 2006. The next year they released their debut album “A Lesson In Romantics” under Fearless Records. Not long after

the album’s completion, vocalist Jason Lancaster left the band citing a lack of writing credits as the leading factor. This led other members of the band to pick up on backup vocals while Derek Sanders remained lead vocals.

From there, the band released an additional E.P. and their fifth-studio album “Black Lines” in 2015. Now in 2017, the band is going on an anniversary tour to celebrate “A Lesson In Romantics” and released an anniversary edition to celebrate. Here is how it holds up 10 years later.

“A Lesson In Romantics (Anniversary Edition)” is for the most part the same record.

With the original 12 tracks, the re-release also carries an additional six tracks that are all demo versions of songs on the record. This means original fans can rejoice in the fact they can still hear Jason Lancaster’s voice on the demos. The re-release clocks in around 70 minutes in length. From front to back it is the same record that everyone fell in love with back in 2007. We should talk about

the demos to get a good grasp on this record, and how they give us a stark comparison to what we have been listening to for years and what Mayday Parade originally recorded.

Starting us out with the demos is “Coming Back With Winter,” which is a track that was not on the original record. This track

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has so much raw emotion and energy to it you cannot help but wonder why it did not make the original cut. While it has the classic Mayday Parade style of building upon layers of vocals, it manages to have some decent guitar riffs and a

memorable melody. Then we have the demo version of “Black Cat,” which is rough around the edges. While Sanders’ vocals on the demo may not be what they are on anything else, Lancaster’s voice carried the track well.

This just shows how much they cleaned up by the time they released the original album. Then we get demos like “You Be the Anchor That Keeps My Feet On the Ground…” which is the closing track on the original and anniversary edition of the record. This ballad, even as a demo, shows just how emotional the songwriters were when they started. While they have improved upon this in the 12 years since, the demo version of this track is arguably in some ways better than what made it on to the original record.

Should you listen to it? Yes. What this comes down to is how big of a fan are you of Mayday Parade? If you have been around since the original release of “A Lesson In Romantics,” then you should pick this up with no question at all. The demos add another layer that make you appreciate how far the band has come since 2007.

If you are looking to get into Mayday Parade, there is no etter introduction than this anniversary edition right here.

“A Lesson In Romantics” is still as strong and emotional as it was 10 years ago. We should wait and see how it holds up on the 25th anniversary.

Alec Erickson can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com.

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Real Estate returns with new guitarist, new album ‘In Mind’

By Jonny Rhein @jonnyrhein

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Real Estate had a game-changing year in 2015.

After the release of “Atlas” in 2014, the indie heroes decided to temporarily go their separate ways to work on their own projects. Lead vocalist and guitarist Martin Courtney released his solo soft-rock masterpiece “Many Moons,” former lead guitarist Matt Mondanile released “St. Catherine” with his band Ducktails and bassist Alex Bleeker came out with “Country Agenda” under his Deadhead band Alex Bleeker and the Freaks.

Somewhere along the way, Mondanile decided to leave Real Estate so he could focus on Ducktails. It was a no brainer to recruit fellow New Jerseyan Julian Lynch to replace Mondanile and his simplistic, yet perfect riffs. Lynch had played clarinet on “Atlas” and worked with Courtney on “Many Moons.” He also has four albums of his own under his belt that are as calming and laid back as any Real Estate album.

The result of the band’s short separation and return is “In Mind.” As a whole, it sounds like an extension of Courtney’s solo album “Many Moons” and that is totally fine. “In Mind” is filled with Courtney’s “Here Comes the Sun” style chord progressions. What is missing from this album is Mondanile’s contribution that is captured beautifully on “St. Catherine.”

Combine “Many Moons” with the sound and style of “St. Catherine” and you would get what “In Mind” would have sounded like if Mondanile were still in the band.

Amazon: $9.49 iTunes: $9.99 Best Buy: $11.99 The first track “Darling” is Real Estate’s way of saying, “Hey, I know we just had a drastic personnel change, but we are still the same Real Estate.”

“Darling” is on par with previous singles like “Talking Backwards” and “Crime” as far as songs that can easily be stuck in your head for days, maybe even months!

Lynch is not properly introduced until the second song, “Serve the Song.” Within the first three seconds, Lynch comes in with whaling distortion that would catch any Real Estate fan off guard. The song ends with a chaotic guitar solo that goes well outside the boundaries of Mondanile’s comfort zone we have heard in his previous works.

The somewhat bleak “Time” is saved in the last 45 seconds when Lynch interrupts Matt Kallman’s keyboard solo to add some charm to the slow track.

To make up for the absence of Mondanile, Kallman utilizes the keys on “In Mind” more than any previous Real Estate album. The keyboard could easily be overlooked on “Days” and “Atlas” if you are not listening closely, but on “In Mind” it cannot go unnoticed. “Saturday” starts with a day-dreamy piano intro that is far from anything Real Estate has ever done. After the rest of the band joins, they quickly snap out of the slow mellowness and come back to consciousness. The tempo

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speeds up and it starts to sound like a classic Real Estate tune.

Real Estate brings back the style of their debut album “Real Estate” on “Two Arrows.” The beginning can be compared to “Suburban Beverage,” with Courtney pleasantly strumming a similar chord progression and Bleeker playing a repetitive bass line that never manages to get on your nerves. Halfway through the song, it takes a significant turn and the pleasantness is gone. In its place is a haunting psychedelic jam session that could be a product of Bleeker’s time he spent touring with the Freaks.

Should you listen to it? Yes. Like all Real Estate albums, “In Mind” succeeds in taking the listener to a different place.

The phasers, reverb, tone, lyrics and melodies work together to dig into your brain and take you out of the moment to a simpler time, especially in one of the best tracks “Same Sun,” as Courtney exposes his own nostalgia. He sings: “When does one thing ever end and the next begin? Every day back then felt like a hyphen. I do not wish to retrace the steps I’ve taken.”

He then makes a reference to the song “Green River” off their 2009 self-titled debut. “There will always be a trace of this place in me. Green River still runs under that same sun.”

With this it is safe to say that Courtney has accepted Mondanile’s departure, and “In Mind” is proof that Real Estate is capable of moving on.

Jonny Rhein can be reached at entertainment@collegian. com.

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(03/21/17). Collaboration thrives this year. Your partnership reaches new heights.

Careful planning realizes research and travel goals. Love feeds your spirit.

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

ARIES (March 21-April 19) —

8 — Today could be good for business. Make an important connection. Stay flexible to navigate unexpected barriers or miscommunication. Ignore rumors and gossip.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — 9 — Explore and investigate. Go for action over talk.

Postpone idle chatter or even romance. Move quickly, and accomplish your objective.

There’s not a moment to lose.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — 8 — An opportunity to advance a dream project appears. Actions speak louder than words.

Financial arguments spark easily.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — 8 — Together, you and a partner set the stars alight. Shine like bold diamonds. Faith and dreams inspire you to make your move.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — 9 — The time for talk is past.

Physical action is called for.

Raise your heart rate and work up a sweat. Realize a fantasy by working for it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — 8 — Practice your game and get closer to realizing a dream.

Don’t talk about it; just get moving. Express your passion through your actions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — 7 — A family dream seems within reach. Move quickly to grab a fleeting opportunity.

Keep your part of the bargain.

Do what you can to help.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — 8 — Physical magnetism is part of the fun. Others appreciate your decisiveness. Plunk down the money, and make dreams come true.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — 9 — Profitable possibilities require quick action.

Water may be involved. Avoid distractions or arguments, and take advantage of a lucrative opportunity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — 9 — You’re energized and attractive. Go for a personal dream while the door is open.

Stop talking and get moving.

Make changes, and watch the road.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — 6 — Ignore criticism or gossip now. Focus on productivity behind closed doors.

Catch up on projects, and plan what’s next. Rituals soothe your spirit.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — 8 — Get help building your dream. Your team has the energy to go for it. Let another do the talking.

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