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the STRIP CLUB Dec. 21 is only three weeks away; human- ity’s tenure on planet Earth is ticking away as the end of the Mayan calendar ap- proaches. Odd, considering all of the ways in which the Earth itself can shorten that tenure. COLLEGIAN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ursday, November 29, 2012 Fort Collins, Colorado Volume 121 | No. 77 www.collegian.com THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891 e Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff. Get published Undergraduate research journal plans to expand internationally PAGE 6 Loyola trounces CSU women’s basketball 69-52 | Page 5 Supervol- canoes Yellowstone National Park may look all majestic and serene, but beneath it lies a dormant supervolcano that can blan- ket the Earth in boiling lava and poisonous ash. Thanks a lot, Yellow- stone! Animal science major Ashlee Shelly sits with her dog, Tilly, in the LSC plaza. Tilly the chihuahua has been training for four years to be a guide dog. MADISON BRANDT | COLLEGIAN Amendment 64 impact, logistics still laregely uncertain Earth- quakes Remember the massive earth- quake that devastated Japan a couple years ago? Well that just may have been a warm-up act for 2012. There has never been a 10.0 earth- quake before, and no one is sure just how much dam- age one can cause... Drought Not exactly the most dramatic of disasters. Do not scoff, though; if a drought is severe enough it will lead to famine, starva- tion, rampant disease and outright civil war. A bad enough drought start- ing on the 21st would make the Biblical 10 plagues look like a push- over. By KEVIN RUBY The Rocky Mountain Collegian For most of an average day, Tilly, a Chihuahua cross-breed owned by a CSU student, acts like any dog. She can get skittish with loud noises, trusts uncon- ditionally and begs for scraps at meal- time. But when Ashlee Shelly, a senior animal science major and Tilly’s owner, puts the dog into her service vest, Tilly knows it’s work time. “You can tell that her whole de- meanor just goes calm,” Shelly said. Shelly adopted Tilly her senior year of high school and has been training her as a service dog for two years. “She originally came from a shel- ter in south central LA,” Shelly said. “She ended up being brought up to my hometown, which is about two hours outside of LA.” There are roughly 10,000 people who use dogs for assistance in the U.S. and Canada, and some of those 10,000 are seen around the CSU campus. Assistance dogs can come from breeding programs, with volunteer pup- py raisers caring for them until they are old enough to start formal training, or in some cases the dogs are rescued from animal shelters. Training a service dog requires countless hours of work; Shelly said she has spent 100 plus hours working with Tilly. Training a shelter dog can be particularly challenging because they aren’t bred to be service dogs, Shelly said. Tilly was very skittish at first about loud noises, but learned to be comfort- able with Shelly. “Shelter dogs are amazing with the trust that they give and the people that adopt them, and so she’ll listen to me through thick and thin. A lot of shelter dogs just run off, but she’s learned to trust me,” Shelly said. People train and use assistance dogs for many different purposes, not just for helping those with visual im- pairments. According to Assistance Dogs In- ternational, there are three types of as- sistance dogs: Guide dogs for the blind and the visually impaired, hearing dogs for the deaf and hard of hearing and service dogs for people with dis- abilities other than those related to vi- sion or hearing. Training a service dog requires tak- ing classes and getting the dog certified. “We went through one of the train- ers through PetCo,” Shelly said. The next step was to go through a program presented by the American Kennel Club (AKC) called the Canine Good Citizens (CGC) program. The AKC’s CGC Program is designed to recognize dogs that have good man- ners at home and in the community, ac- cording to the AKC website. Some therapy dog groups require passing the CGC test as a prerequisite. All dogs who pass the 10 step CGC test may receive a certificate from the American Kennel Club. “We went through that class, regis- tered and went through it last January. And then once you pass that class then you send your certificate to the AKC,” Shelly said. “And so she’s a registered AKC canine good citizen.” But not all of Tilly’s life is spent training to be an assistance dog. She lives in a house with Shelly and her three roommates. According to Shelly, Tilly is quite the beggar. “Between the four of us, there is always free food for Tilly.” For now Tilly is still in training and is always being taught new things. “Right now she’s involved with some therapy stuff,” Shelly said. “And we’re trying to get in with a couple of the elderly homes around town, to put in hours.” Collegian Writer Kevin Ruby can be reached at [email protected]. Sitting and staying for students By KATE WINKLE The Rocky Mountain Collegian It has been 23 days since voters passed Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana in Colorado. But many are still asking: What now? By July 1, 2013, Colorado’s Attorney General, the Health Department and other depart- ments will put together rules and regulations for marijuana, including how it will be sold and advertised. These regulations have to be established before mari- juana can legally be sold, dis- tributed and transported, ac- cording to Larry Abrahamson, District Attorney for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District. Amendment 64 has yet to be signed by Gov. Hickenloop- er, at which point possession and private use by those 21 and older will be legal. Abra- hamson predicts the governor will certify the amendment within the next few weeks. What is largely uncertain is how the federal government will respond to Colorado’s Amendment 64. The govern- ment can force Colorado to behave differently by poten- tially withholding funding for the state, which could affect CSU, according to Dawn Nan- nini, Evaluations Specialist for Team Fort Collins. “As far as what students need to know, they need to wait and see really how this is going to play out in Colorado,” Nannini said. Students do need to real- ize that because the use of marijuana is a violation of fed- eral law, it could affect federal funding like Pell Grants, ac- cording to Abrahamson. However, federal law pro- See AMENDMENT on Page 3 Before Amendment 64 is certi- fied by Gov. Hickenlooper: Marijuana possession, sale and transportation will be illegal After certification: Individuals over 21 may possess, for private use, up to 1 ounce of marijuana After July 1, 2013: Guidelines will be established for the sale, distribution and transporta- tion of marijuana AMENDMENT 64 By CARRIE MOBLEY The Rocky Mountain Collegian Jenn Penn began her stu- dent career here at CSU as a biology major and senator for the Intra-university through the Associated Students of CSU. Years after graduating, she is still playing a vital role in student government, albeit a much different one than she might have once envisioned. Today Penn works for ASCSU in the state capital, as a lobbyist advocating for issues that support higher education funding and work to make life easier for students. Penn loves her job, but admits that it is one she never really consid- ered upon entering college. “I started college as a biol- ogy major,” Penn said. “I never thought I would go into poli- tics and love it so much or be so passionate about what I do.” Penn, who got her start in politics through professor John Straayer’s legislative intern pro- gram as well as her leadership roles within ASCSU, owns her own lobbying firm, Dome Strate- gies, LLC. “I do the same thing with ASCSU as I do with all my other clients,” Penn said. “I represent them and communicate with legislators about their position on things. I am their voice on these issues.” According to Lindon Belshe, Director of Govern- mental Affairs for ASCSU, Penn is an invaluable tool for student government. “She has connections that we can’t hold,” Belshe said. “She is there every day, and knows what’s going on, and she can relay that to us and also re- lay information from us to leg- islators.” ASCSU either creates its own legislation or supports an- other piece of legislation, ac- cording to Belshe. “ASCSU has a history of legislation,” Penn said. “Higher education is always going to be a priority, and it’s important that we continue to try to make it more affordable to students.” This year, ASCSU is writ- ing its own bill to allow for a one-day tax holiday on text- books in order to help stu- dents with costs, as well as at- tempting to impact any other relevant legislation, accord- ing to Penn. “We’ve secured a sponsor for the bill, and we will be work- ing with him over the next leg- islative session,” Penn said. “We will try to do some grassroots organizing to gain support for the bill to get it passed.” Other legislation previ- ously sponsored by ASCSU in- cludes legislation that would allow for a CSU student seat on the Board of Governors, as well as previous bills to increase higher education funding. “As a former member, I have a passion for ASCSU,” Penn said. “It’s great to be able to work with them to impact higher education, and have that connection with them.” ASCSU Beat Reporter Car- rie Mobley can be reached at [email protected]. ASCSU CSU alum now lobbies for ASCSU in Denver Textbook tax holiday A CSU student seat on the Board of Governors Any bills supporting higher educa- tion funding ASCSU SUPPORTS Ways The Earth Can Destroy Us “I never thought I would go into politics and love it so much, or be so passionate about what I do.” Jenn Penn | Lobbyist for the Associated Students for CSU CSU student trains Chihuahua to be a service dog
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Volume 121: No 77 of The Rocky Mountain Collegian (Thursday, November 29th, 2012)
Transcript of The Rocky Mountain Collegian
theSTRIPCLUB
Dec. 21 is only three weeks away; human-ity’s tenure on planet Earth is ticking away as the end of the Mayan calendar ap-proaches. Odd, considering all of the ways in which the Earth itself can shorten that tenure.
COLLEGIANT H E R O C K Y M O U N T A I N
� ursday, November 29, 2012Fort Collins, Colorado Volume 121 | No. 77
www.collegian.comTHE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891
� e Strip Club is written by the Collegian sta� .
Get publishedUndergraduate research journal plans to expand internationally
PAGE 6
Loyola trounces CSU women’s basketball 69-52 | Page 5
Supervol-canoes
Yellowstone National Park may look all majestic and serene, but beneath it lies a dormant supervolcano that can blan-ket the Earth in boiling lava and poisonous ash. Thanks a lot, Yellow-stone!
Animal science major Ashlee Shelly sits with her dog, Tilly, in the LSC plaza. Tilly the chihuahua has been training for four years to be a guide dog.MADISON BRANDT | COLLEGIAN
Amendment 64 impact, logistics still laregely uncertain
Earth-quakes
Remember the massive earth-quake that devastated Japan a couple years ago? Well that just may have been a warm-up act for 2012. There has never been a 10.0 earth-quake before, and no one is sure just how much dam-age one can cause...
Drought
Not exactly the most dramatic of disasters. Do not scoff, though; if a drought is severe enough it will lead to famine, starva-tion, rampant disease and outright civil war. A bad enough drought start-ing on the 21st would make the Biblical 10 plagues look like a push-over.
By KEVIN RUBYThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
For most of an average day, Tilly, a Chihuahua cross-breed owned by a CSU student, acts like any dog. She can get skittish with loud noises, trusts uncon-ditionally and begs for scraps at meal-time.
But when Ashlee Shelly, a senior animal science major and Tilly’s owner, puts the dog into her service vest, Tilly knows it’s work time.
“You can tell that her whole de-meanor just goes calm,” Shelly said.
Shelly adopted Tilly her senior year of high school and has been training her as a service dog for two years.
“She originally came from a shel-ter in south central LA,” Shelly said. “She ended up being brought up to my hometown, which is about two hours outside of LA.”
There are roughly 10,000 people who use dogs for assistance in the U.S. and Canada, and some of those 10,000 are seen around the CSU campus.
Assistance dogs can come from breeding programs, with volunteer pup-py raisers caring for them until they are old enough to start formal training, or in some cases the dogs are rescued from animal shelters.
Training a service dog requires countless hours of work; Shelly said she has spent 100 plus hours working with Tilly. Training a shelter dog can be particularly challenging because they aren’t bred to be service dogs, Shelly said.
Tilly was very skittish at fi rst about loud noises, but learned to be comfort-able with Shelly.
“Shelter dogs are amazing with the trust that they give and the people that adopt them, and so she’ll listen to me through thick and thin. A lot of shelter dogs just run off, but she’s learned to trust me,” Shelly said.
People train and use assistance dogs for many different purposes, not just for helping those with visual im-pairments.
According to Assistance Dogs In-ternational, there are three types of as-sistance dogs: Guide dogs for the blind and the visually impaired, hearing dogs for the deaf and hard of hearing and service dogs for people with dis-abilities other than those related to vi-sion or hearing.
Training a service dog requires tak-ing classes and getting the dog certifi ed.
“We went through one of the train-ers through PetCo,” Shelly said.
The next step was to go through a
program presented by the American Kennel Club (AKC) called the Canine Good Citizens (CGC) program.
The AKC’s CGC Program is designed to recognize dogs that have good man-ners at home and in the community, ac-cording to the AKC website.
Some therapy dog groups require passing the CGC test as a prerequisite.
All dogs who pass the 10 step CGC test may receive a certifi cate from the American Kennel Club.
“We went through that class, regis-tered and went through it last January. And then once you pass that class then you send your certifi cate to the AKC,” Shelly said. “And so she’s a registered AKC canine good citizen.”
But not all of Tilly’s life is spent training to be an assistance dog. She lives in a house with Shelly and her three roommates.
According to Shelly, Tilly is quite the beggar. “Between the four of us, there is always free food for Tilly.”
For now Tilly is still in training and is always being taught new things.
“Right now she’s involved with some therapy stuff,” Shelly said. “And we’re trying to get in with a couple of the elderly homes around town, to put in hours.”
Collegian Writer Kevin Ruby can be reached at [email protected].
Sitting and staying for students
By KATE WINKLEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
It has been 23 days since voters passed Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana in Colorado. But many are still asking: What now?
By July 1, 2013, Colorado’s Attorney General, the Health Department and other depart-ments will put together rules and regulations for marijuana, including how it will be sold and advertised.
These regulations have to be established before mari-juana can legally be sold, dis-tributed and transported, ac-cording to Larry Abrahamson, District Attorney for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District.
Amendment 64 has yet to be signed by Gov. Hickenloop-er, at which point possession and private use by those 21 and older will be legal. Abra-hamson predicts the governor will certify the amendment within the next few weeks.
What is largely uncertain is how the federal government will respond to Colorado’s Amendment 64. The govern-ment can force Colorado to behave differently by poten-tially withholding funding for the state, which could affect CSU, according to Dawn Nan-nini, Evaluations Specialist for Team Fort Collins.
“As far as what students need to know, they need to wait and see really how this is going to play out in Colorado,” Nannini said.
Students do need to real-ize that because the use of marijuana is a violation of fed-eral law, it could affect federal funding like Pell Grants, ac-cording to Abrahamson.
However, federal law pro-
See AMENDMENT on Page 3
Before Amendment 64 is certi-fi ed by Gov. Hickenlooper:Marijuana possession, sale and transportation will be illegal
After certifi cation:Individuals over 21 may possess, for private use, up to 1 ounce of marijuana
After July 1, 2013:Guidelines will be established for the sale, distribution and transporta-tion of marijuana
AMENDMENT 64
By CARRIE MOBLEYThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
Jenn Penn began her stu-dent career here at CSU as a biology major and senator for the Intra-university through the Associated Students of CSU. Years after graduating, she is still playing a vital role in student government, albeit a much different one than she might have once envisioned.
Today Penn works for ASCSU in the state capital, as a lobbyist advocating for issues that support higher education funding and work to make life easier for students. Penn loves her job, but admits that it is one she never really consid-
ered upon entering college. “I started college as a biol-
ogy major,” Penn said. “I never thought I would go into poli-tics and love it so much or be so passionate about what I do.”
Penn, who got her start in politics through professor John Straayer’s legislative intern pro-gram as well as her leadership roles within ASCSU, owns her own lobbying fi rm, Dome Strate-gies, LLC.
“I do the same thing with ASCSU as I do with all my other clients,” Penn said. “I represent them and communicate with legislators about their position on things. I am their voice on these issues.”
According to Lindon
Belshe, Director of Govern-mental Affairs for ASCSU, Penn is an invaluable tool for student government.
“She has connections that we can’t hold,” Belshe said. “She is there every day, and knows what’s going on, and she can relay that to us and also re-lay information from us to leg-islators.”
ASCSU either creates its own legislation or supports an-other piece of legislation, ac-cording to Belshe.
“ASCSU has a history of legislation,” Penn said. “Higher education is always going to be a priority, and it’s important that we continue to try to make it more affordable to students.”
This year, ASCSU is writ-ing its own bill to allow for a one-day tax holiday on text-books in order to help stu-dents with costs, as well as at-tempting to impact any other relevant legislation, accord-ing to Penn.
“We’ve secured a sponsor for the bill, and we will be work-ing with him over the next leg-islative session,” Penn said. “We will try to do some grassroots organizing to gain support for the bill to get it passed.”
Other legislation previ-ously sponsored by ASCSU in-cludes legislation that would allow for a CSU student seat on the Board of Governors, as well as previous bills to increase
higher education funding.“As a former member, I
have a passion for ASCSU,” Penn said. “It’s great to be able to work with them to impact higher education, and have that connection with them.”
ASCSU Beat Reporter Car-rie Mobley can be reached at [email protected].
ASCSU
CSU alum now lobbies for ASCSU in Denver Textbook tax holiday A CSU student seat on the Board
of Governors Any bills supporting higher educa-
tion funding
ASCSU SUPPORTS
Ways The Earth Can Destroy Us
“I never thought I would go into politics and love it so much, or be so passionate about what I do.”
Jenn Penn | Lobbyist for the Associated Students for CSU
CSU student trains Chihuahua to be a service dog
2 Thursday, November 29, 2012 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian
FORT COLLINS FOCUS
David Borne with the CSU Colleges Against Cancer promotes Relay For Life on the Plaza Wednesday afternoon. People can sign up now at csurelayforlife.org for only 10 dollars to celebrate, remember and fi ght back against cancer.
KEVIN JOHANSEN | COLLEGIAN
Community Briefs
It’s the end of clothing as we know it
Students wondering what to wear in a post-apoc-alyptic world may have their questions answered by visit-ing the Lory Student Center Main Ballroom this weekend, according to a university press release.
On Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7
p.m., a fashion show called “The Last Runway: What Will You Wear If There Is Nothing Left?” will be hosted by stu-dents from Fashion Group International in Denver and CSU’s Department of De-sign and Merchandising. The theme plays on the popular notion that the Mayan cal-endar predicts that the world will end in late December,
said FGI student group Sarah Esparza.
Garments will refl ect a “futuristic, militant/surviv-al-based civilization.”
Tickets are $7 for stu-dents with IDs.
Study: blood pressure and stove use linked
A study performed by CSU
professor Jennifer Peel and re-search scientist Maggie Clark revealed that there are signif-icant health benefi ts from us-ing clean burning cookstoves, said a CSU news release.
“We know from the ambient air pollution lit-erature that some people are more susceptible to adverse health effects of air pollution exposures,”
Clark stated in the release. “We wanted to know if that meant that certain subgroups might be more likely to benefit from re-ducing those air pollution exposures. Are some peo-ple more likely to see health benefits as compared to the rest of the population?”
Specifi cally, the bene-fi ts include reductions in
blood pressure, particularly among older women.
“Cleaner burning stoves have the potential to have a huge impact on global public health,” Peel said. “We need to fi nd a solution that will reduce exposures but also one that meets the families’ needs.”
— Collegian Staff Report
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hibitions are potentially temporary, according to Rob Lowrey, a staff attorney for CSU’s Student Legal Ser-vices. As more states legalize marijuana, legalization may occur federally as well.
It is too soon to measure Amendment 64’s impact, according to Jason Johnson, Deputy General Counsel and Special Assistant Attor-ney General who heads the Offi ce of General Counsel at CSU. CSU is currently eval-uating Amendment 64 and its potential legal and poli-cy impacts, and will update policies accordingly, but it is unlikely marijuana will be allowed on campus.
“We do not expect that marijuana use and posses-sion will be permitted on campus because its potential health and behavioral im-pacts don’t fi t with our mis-sion as an academic institu-tion and a safe, fast-paced, high-functioning work envi-ronment,” Johnson wrote in an email to the Collegian.
Johnson also does not ex-pect to see signifi cant increase in marijuana use at CSU be-cause it is prohibited by uni-versity policy, federal law and the student conduct code.
On a federal level, the Controlled Substances Act criminalizes the growth and use of marijuana, and fed-eral enforcement agencies can prosecute both users and growers of marijuana. The use of marijuana in the workplace is also restricted federally by laws such as the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988.
Marijuana incidents will become a campus policy issue instead of a criminal record issue, according to Lowrey. Marijuana use will still be against policy in the residence halls and student conduct code.
Point 17 of the Prohib-ited Conduct section of the student conduct code states that the use, pos-session, manufacturing or distribution of illegal drugs such as marijuana or pos-session of paraphernalia is prohibited.
The District Attorney’s Offi ces in Boulder, Denver and other areas around the state have begun dropping pending cases of mari-juana possession, and the Grand Junction police are no longer citing people for possession of marijuana, according to Mason Tvert, co-founder of the Cam-paign to Regulate Marijua-na Like Alcohol.
The 8th Judicial District, which Larimer County is a part of, has not dismissed pending court cases related to marijuana because the incidents occurred before the amendment was passed. The DA will look at each case individually to determine appropriate actions to take.
Although those who pos-sess up to one ounce of mar-ijuana will no longer be tick-eted, Abrahamson predicts police will encounter other problems, such as more in-stances of driving under the infl uence.
“Alcohol is a signifi cant problem when it comes to law enforcement. A lot of people get in trouble after drinking
and being intoxicated. Fight-ing starts, poor decisions are made and now we’re just add-ing one more substance to society that’s going to have an effect on people’s judgment,” Abrahamson said.
Marijuana may become more prevalent in Colorado communities, even if they decide to not allow for the sale of marijuana, according to Nannini.
Team Fort Collins, which provides alcohol and drug prevention services, plans to work hard to increase people’s awareness of the risks associ-ated with marijuana use.
“The decision not to use marijuana in Colorado is going to be much more dif-fi cult for young people than it ever has been before, and I think we need to be up front with young people about that,” Nannini said. “We’re going to have to have some really serious conversations in our communities about this.”
Tvert said marijuana use might increase, especially recreationally, but not sig-nifi cantly.
Ultimately, CSU works to promote the health and safety of its students and em-ployees, according to John-son.
“CSU’s health profes-sionals are always con-cerned about the potential health impacts of substance use and abuse,” Johnson wrote. “Even legal substanc-es can have detrimental and lasting effects on health and academic performance.”
Senior Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at [email protected].
AMENDMENT | Tvert: marijuana use to increase, but slightly
“We do not expect that marijuana use and possession will be permitted on campus because its
potential health and behavioral impacts don’t � t with our mission as an academic institution...”
Jason Johnson | Deputy General Counsel and Special Assistant Attorney General at CSU
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I really enjoy this time of year, just because everyone usually tries to be friendly, the snow makes the days look great and all the pretty girls are wear-ing scarves and boots — which I am just a sucker for.
Another awesome part of the yule-tide times is getting presents for every-one and seeing the look of utter delight on their faces. Thankfully, through shrewd investing and working at my job, I have enough money for really anything I want.
However, this comfortable status of living did not come from an outside source; it is from my own fortitude and ability, something which I feel a lot of others cannot say.
Some students are still not quite independent, and continue to rely on parents to take care of them. And the care seems pretty dang good, indeed.
Every classroom I walk into, I see people with their thumbs buried in a laptop or an iPhone, while also dressed head to toe in the newest and snazziest designer clothing. The parking lots are filled with cars that no one in college can realistically afford of their own accord.
Don’t get me wrong, it is nice to
look good, have nice things, but the level of appreciation that should come from having this stuff is nonexistent.
The endless moaning of, “Oh, I am so broke,” or the countless utterances of something along the lines of, “I am so poor, I just wish I had more money!” These are the statements that are hilar-iously accurate only because the lack of discipline and drive.
I have friends that, instead of work-ing as a necessity, simply get a check of four hundred to eight hundred dollars a month from their parents, in addi-tion to paying all of their rent.
It’s incredibly awesome now, but unless you have an eternal trust fund somewhere, eventually the checks will stop coming and the bills will start piling up, at which point the obvious solution for your monetary woes is to turn to credit cards.
Even students without affluent parents usually have never learned to spend responsibly, often gorging them-selves through the use of credit cards — the cause of private debt in America.
There is no jealousy, nor envy from my standpoint; I do not need the monthly stipend from my parents just to keep myself afloat because I have learned how to manage my finances.
It is not because I am ultra-special or anything, anyone could do it, it’s just a matter of actually doing it.
The friends that get the month-ly checks from their parents are also, ironically — but not unsurprisingly — the same people who complain about being broke. Money has no value to them since they did not earn it.
I would make the argument that the whining of being broke is due to being incapable of managing money like an adult and being used to hav-ing mommy or daddy be there to con-
stantly help you out.If you were serious about making
it in the real world, you would cut the umbilical cord now that you are in your late teens or early twenties. Parents should be there for advice and special occasions, but not for paying your rent, phone bill, or car payment.
Those are things you got when you were a child. Now that that you’ve been alive for two decades, it is time to make it for yourself.
It will be hard at first. You’ll proba-bly have to stop buying all that alcohol and going out to eat or getting the new Apple product the day it comes out, but in the long term it will be infinitely better for you, as you will no longer be reliant on someone else.
Financial aid from parents is not a necessity. Everyone is capable of mak-ing it for themselves if they work hard both in and outside the classroom, but there is a definite distinction between personal or federal loans for yourself and aid from parents.
Getting financial aid from the govern-ment is based on merit and need, and is an investment in an individual; one that will hopefully be paid back to society. Si-phoning money off of parents is a sepa-rate, and less worth-based action.
While this column is in no way meant to alienate any readers, if this frivolously spending describes you at all, think about going out on your own for a while.
The holidays are about giving right? Well give something to yourself: the satisfaction of becoming financial-ly independent.
Res Stecker is a junior internation-al studies major. His columns appear Thursdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].
President Obama’s reelection has set in motion policies that will be beneficial to every level of the American public, especially college students. In fact, many went to the ballot box to support Obama’s message and the direc-tion he envisioned for the country, which emphasized increasing the accessibility of post-secondary education.
Now that the campaign is over, it has been revealed that President Obama has already cut students’ access to Pell Grants by one third –– cutting the number of semesters a student could receive the financial aid from 18 semes-ters to 12.
By most standards, 12 semes-ters should be plenty of time to finish a degree, so the only peo-
ple who would face serious ram-ifications are non-traditional stu-
dents. If they’re unable to earn a degree in six academic years, they may lose out on funding.
In addition, adults who go back to school or retraining for new jobs might see serious reduc-tions in access to Pell Grants.
Given the state of the debt and deficit, however, Obama’s policies are fiscally responsible. In that case, the problem with this is the fact that nobody brought up this cut when both candidates were shamelessly pandering to college aged students during the election.
We must also ask ourselves why our commander in chief is willing to look us straight in the eye during his campaign, claim credit for increasing funding to the Pell Grant program, when he had actually signed an education bill into law in 2011 that decreased accessibility to Pell Grants by 33 percent.
When you go hiking in the mountains, you are often warned not to cross rivers because they are fre-quently deeper than they look. If you misjudge the depth, you can be swept un-der and drown.
The situation in Israel is very similar to that river.
I’m tired of people saying outright that Israel is wrong or the Palestinians are wrong. Those people are misjudging the depth of the situation se-verely, and ignorance is often very dangerous.
Reading the news has been hard for me because it all seems so incredibly bi-ased against Israel. I under-stand that Israel has done some very bad things. Some of the Palestinian people are in horrible living situations. I feel for them.
The civilian attacks from Israel are wrong and hurting innocent people who only want to go about their day. The barricade on Gaza that prevents eco-nomic growth is only hurt-ing the innocent, while terrorists get resources elsewhere.
But there is another side to the coin. Terror-ist attacks in Israel have killed thousands of Israelis. I should note that Israelis can be Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. When your little sister goes to a coffee shop in Israel, your parents won’t just worry about bad influ-ences, but a bomb explod-ing and killing everyone inside.
The question comes down to, “How do you han-dle terrorism?” We’ve seen how America handles it. Eleven years in the middle east, killing innocent peo-ple and putting our service men and women at risk. I am not making any com-ment on whether it was worth it or not, but only pointing out that is what happened.
Israel handles it dif-ferently. They have tried blockades, walls, tighter security, and yes, even vio-lent retaliations.
Is this the right way to deal with it? No. But I would also argue that there isn’t a “right way” to handle terrorism. Ameri-ca refused to do nothing when the twin towers and pentagon were hit. Israel refuses to do noth-ing when coffee shops, malls, highways and sup-posedly safe places are hit.
Hating the actions of a country is one thing, but why this translates to people being against the idea of Israel is be-yond me. Most, if not all, of the readers are Amer-icans, so how would you feel if someone told you they thought America shouldn’t exist because of what was happening in the Middle East?
I may be opposed to many of the actions Israel has taken to fight terror-ism but I am still strongly in support of the Jewish state. No one agrees one hundred percent with the American government’s decisions, so hopefully this makes sense.
Israel has built a fertile land from a desert. They are the only country in the area with a democra-cy. They support freedom of religion and speech and have managed to maintain order within its boundaries where car bombs and shooters are common.
What I want you to take away from this is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is way more com-plicated than most people think.
You can’t expect ei-ther side to not retaliate and do nothing with the affronts against them, so taking sides now is nar-row-minded. The media is beyond biased and tends to report only on certain issues.
Stop taking sides in something you don’t un-derstand.
Sarah Romer is a se-nior electrical engineering major. Her column appears Thursday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].
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By BAILEY CONSTASThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
This weekend virtually every student in the music department will be in the Griffin Concert Hall for the third annual Holiday Gala.
From the Chamber Choir to the Jazz Band, all facets of CSU’s music will be repre-sented at the performance. This year they will be featur-ing all types of music — both religious and traditional sec-ular holiday music.
Carrie Care, the publici-ty coordinator for the UCA, said that while they have been connecting the Gala with other holiday events, this weekend is specifi cally a treat involving the marching band.
“Each year our march-ing band goes to Denver for the Parade of Lights, but the day or two before that, they do a preview in Fort Collins,” Care said.
Care said that this year the timing of the parade now coincides with the Holiday Gala.
“Come to the parade preview at 6 p.m., and then come in for hot chocolate and cookies before 7:30 when the Gala will start,” Care said.
Working with CSU alum-ni in Denver, the show will take place at 7 p.m. at the Trinity United Methodist Church on Broadway.
“It is new and very ex-citing thing for us to do this year,” Care said. “Anything that travels is certainly a
good educational experi-ence.”
Going on the road and “being a professional mu-sician,” according to Care, “is the musician’s bread and butter.”
To keep the show mov-ing between sets, Santa Claus will be the MC for the night.
“We do usually have a special host; we have a very good Santa Claus host,” Care explained.
“People love it – we tell silly Christmas jokes and snowman jokes – it’s just really bantering with the audience and giving them a little entertainment,” said Tom Kres, program manag-er for the music department and this year’s Santa for the event.
Kres said that the Gala is the best way for the commu-nity to see the music depart-ment’s potential.
“We don’t do anoth-er thing like it in the year,” Kres said. “It’s like the best of what we have to give.”
According to Care, the show usually sells out every performance, filling up the 500 seats in the Griffin Hall.
“It’s not a tradition-al concert,” Care said. “We have an MC, we have fun, we have great music centered around holidays.”
Emily Camel, a fourth year triple major in appar-el merchandising, business and theatre, is a member of the University Chorus. Camel has been a part of the chorus for three years after a friend of hers recruited
her.“It was a one credit class,
and I love to sing. What’s a better opportunity than that?” Camel said.
The chorus will be sing-ing Feast of Carols as well as Hallelujah.
“I think it’s the best way to put together all the types of music that CSU offers, and its holiday music that brings everyone together,” Camel said. “It’s a great way to showcase the differ-ent talents and variety we have.”
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By KYLE GRABOWSKIThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
Loyola Marymount hit the floor running, and the CSU women’s basketball team couldn’t keep up.
The Lions defeated the Rams 69-52 Wednesday night in Los Angeles behind 14 fast break points.
CSU turned the ball over 23 times in the game, which led to 22 points for Loyola –– a team known for their defensive pres-sure.
“We underestimated their pressure as a team; we haven’t seen that kind pres-sure, and for our younger girls it was something that shocked us,” senior Megan Heimstra said. “We were being tentative and not ag-gressive.”
Loyola led by as many as 23 points in the second half, taking a 69-52 ad-vantage on a jump shot by freshman guard Deanna Johnson.
The Rams fell into a 16-1 hole early and never pulled within single digits for the rest of the game.
“In the fi rst half I thought we scratched and clawed. Their lead could have been 25 points at half-
time,” CSU coach Ryun Wil-liams said. “I don’t think our kids hung their heads. We were a little overwhelmed by their quickness, and they had some better play-ers on the fl oor than we did tonight.”
CSU’s loose control of the ball also resulted in a poor shooting percentage. The Rams shot 25.4 percent from the fi eld and only 13 percent from behind the three point line.
No CSU player shot bet-ter than 50 percent from the fi eld, but sophomore LeDeyah Forte and senior Megan Heimstra scored in double digits for the Rams with 11 and 12 points re-spectively.
“Their pressure forced us to take some rushed shots in the beginning,” Heimstra said. “We have great three-point shooters who got great looks, and those just weren’t falling. All it took was a couple threes to get us back in the game and we couldn’t get those to fall.”
The Lions shot 40.8 percent from the fi eld and were lead by 16 points from preseason all-West Coast Conference performer Alex Cowling.
CSU trailed Loyola 16-28 at halftime after shoot-ing 0-11 from the three point line and 20 percent from the fi eld.
The Lions lead by as many as 16 points in the fi rst half, taking a 28-12 lead with 1:12 remaining in the fi rst half on Cowling jumper.
The Rams have now lost two consecutive games af-ter a 2-1 start and will play their next three games away from home.
CSU will not return to Fort Collins before their next game Saturday at Bowling Green.
“I think we need to look in the mirror and say, ‘that’s something that should never happen,’” Heimstra said. “We should have been with this team. We’ve gotta focus up and keep our heads up.”
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By Alex SteinmetzThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
The Journal of Under-graduate Research and Schol-arly Excellence is going global.
The publication, which is by students for students, is working to open more branches internationally so that undergraduate students will have the opportunity to submit work and in turn see other submissions from all over the world.
According to Kendall Hershey, the administrative director for JUR Press, this is truly unique to undergradu-ate students.
“This is important be-cause we are giving this amazing opportunity to un-dergraduate students who want to submit a piece or be a staff member, because we are really expanding and growing,” said Hershey. “We are always in transition be-cause we are always thinking of ways to grow and expand.”
There are several publi-cations provided for graduate students to submit their work.
Hershey explained that the hope is to create inter-nationalism for any under-graduate student that wants to be involved, which could be beneficial for students af-ter graduation when they are
looking into career options.“When students go to ap-
ply for jobs, they can say that their work was published in a journal that is recognized in-ternationally,” Hershey said.
JUR gives any undergrad-uate student the opportunity to submit any piece of work that they are interested in having published.
“We accept admissions from every discipline all around the world. Specifically, we only have branches in the United Kingdom, Chile and India right now,” Hershey said.
Tasha Lookin, the editor in
chief for JUR Press, explained that they are also in the pro-cess of setting up a branch in Mexico City in addition to the other three branches.
Any students that be-come involved with JUR and JUR Press, whether through submitting a work or work-ing in the offices, are given more than just a bullet for a resume, according to Lookin.
“The great thing about this opportunity is that this is all based on internships. Our CSU students are given intern-ship credit and the abroad stu-dents are on a volunteer basis
right now,” said Lookin.Lookin explained that
the process for submission is moderately lengthy, but that the main process includes three steps.
“We have our editors go over the submissions as they come in, and then we have a graduate editor and a faculty member as well,” Lookin said.
For more information re-garding JUR, the submission policies, or other opportuni-ties refer to jur.colostate.edu
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BP suspended from federal contracts following oil spillsBy SeAn CoCkerhAmThe McClatchy Tribune
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is sus-pending oil giant BP from winning new federal con-tracts or oil leases, saying the company’s “lack of business integrity” makes it an unfit partner in the wake of the 2010 Deepwa-ter Horizon oil spill.
The Environmental Protection Agency says the suspension is indefinite. It will last “until the company can provide sufficient evi-dence to EPA demonstrat-ing that it meets federal business standards.”
The action stems from criminal charges against BP for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that began on April 20, 2010, killing 11 workers and leading to a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP this month agreed to plead guilty and pay a $4.5 billion penalty. The government also is pursu-ing a civil lawsuit against BP over the spill.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s de-cision suspends BP from new federal leases and contracts, but the compa-ny will be able to contin-ue existing arrangements with the government. The British oil company is the leading supplier of fuel to the U.S. military, with a contract worth more than $1 billion a year.
It also is among the top drillers in Alaska and the largest producer of oil and gas in the Gulf of Mex-ico. BP’s suspension was announced just before a lease sale Wednesday in the western Gulf of Mex-ico. Tommy Beaudreau, director of the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Manage-ment, said the government would not award “any bid for which BP was the high bidder until the suspen-sion was resolved.”
But Beaudreau didn’t join the EPA in slamming the company. “BP has gone through significant internal reforms,” he said. “I believe BP is genuine and sincere about reforming the way it does business offshore and making real changes not only to its practices but its culture.”
Assistant Attorney Gener-al Lanny Breuer has said the Deepwater Horizon disaster
was a result of BP’s culture of “profit over prudence.”
EPA officials would not say what exactly BP needs to do to show that it meets fed-eral business standards and have the suspension lifted.
BP released a statement saying the EPA indicated a draft agreement would be out soon on what has to happen to end the suspen-sion. The company said that following the Deep-water Horizon disaster, it made leadership changes, reorganized its business and adopted voluntary drilling standards.
“In the two and a half years since the Deepwater Horizon accident, the U.S. government has granted BP more than 50 new leas-es in the Gulf of Mexico, where the company has been drilling safely since the government moratori-um was lifted,” the compa-ny said in its statement.
Federal contracting suspensions usually don’t last more than 18 months. But the government could hold off on lifting the sus-pension until court action against BP is resolved.
The United States ac-counts for more than 20 percent of BP’s global pro-duction. The impact on BP depends on the length of the suspension and if the company gets a waiv-er from the Department of Defense to allow it to pro-vide fuel, said Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan government watchdog or-ganization.
He said some suspen-sions last just a few days and others more than a year.
“We’ll have to wait to find out what the long-term impact is,” Amey said. “I think that this is a sign the government is taking its re-sponsibilities seriously.”
Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey applauded the sus-pension, saying that BP be-haved recklessly in the Gulf of Mexico and now has to pay the penalty.
“This kind of timeout is an appropriate element of the suite of criminal, civil and economic pun-ishments that BP should pay for their disaster,” said Markey, the top Democrat on the House Natural Re-sources Committee.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)––6–– You have more than enough encouragement, and romance, too, if you know where to look. Keep searching and you will fi nd the answer. Optimism rules. Get the contract down in writing.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ––8–– Whatever you do, it’s better with the help of someone you trust. Continue to push ahead in the areas important to you. You’re not always about fun and games, but that doesn’t mean you cannot enjoy it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ––8–– There’s no time to waste. The trick is to accomplish goals without losing track of ideals, and while making time for love and passion. It’s a good time to diversify.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ––8–– You get carried away by fascination. Don’t get so distracted you forget your responsi-bilities. Your friends are there for you. A new opportunity for passion arises.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ––9–– Revisit the idea you were working on and make it profi table. Others are happy to have you on their side. Inspire them. If you’ve done the home-work, you’ll prosper.
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