The Rocky Mountain Collegian (Monday February 4, 2013)

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Greek Life “Baskeball has now become a hot-ticket sport at CSU. ” REWIND: CSU BASKETBALL OVER WINTER BREAK

Recruitment

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THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891

Fences up, few affected

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STRIP CLUB

Sports have a way of bringing out the best and worst of humanity.

Our inherent athletic talent, our determination to win at any cost and (of course) our ability to make an excuse for anything. With the Super Bowl now over, the sore losers are coming out of the woodworks and saying:

LSC construction to be endured for another yearand-a-half

By SEAN MEEDS Rocky Mountain Collegian Even with all the fences around the west and south sides of the Lory Student Center, the majority of the the building’s renovation project is not expected to commence until after May. According to Doni Luckutt, director of marketing for the LSC, most of the offices within the LSC will leave after the end of the semester.

“One or two offices will be moving before then, but most will move out after commencement in May,” she said.

Two departments that have been affected by the renovations include the Curfman Gallery and the ASCSU Senate Chambers.

Doug Sink, program manager for the Lory Student Center Arts Program, said that the gallery has been able to adapt to the early close.

“The gallery housed many temporary exhibitions of artwork, so those were returned to the students and artists who designed them,” Sink said.

“Some of the permanent artwork is being relocated to the north end while some is going off campus into storage.”

Sink said the gallery closed early so that construction workers could get a jump start on some footing work underground. He also stated that the student center has made a commitment to keep the artwork in the LSC. “The Curfman Gallery will be back in the new student center, but in a new location,” he said.

The gallery falls under the See LSC on Page 9

The Best Post-Super Bowl Excuses KEVIN JOHANSEN | COLLEGIAN

Professor Melissa Reynolds discusses findings with her graduate research assistants in lab last Thursday. Reynolds’s research focuses on molecular design and fabrication of biomimetic materials that can be used in medical device applications.

Research assets: brains and bucks

CSU Ventures promotes university inventions, sees boom in innovation

By AUSTIN BRIGGS The Rocky Mountain Collegian

A RUNDOWN OF 2006 TO 2012

Nap time paid off for Sue James.

Inspiration struck 20 years ago after the engineer had a dream that led to the idea of developing a hybrid of a natural material and synthetic polymer that would look like cartilage to the body and not be rejected like other artificial materials.

“I literally woke up in the middle of the night and thought, ‘yeah, we should try that,’” James said.

James, now the department head of mechanical engineering at CSU and a professor in the school of biomedical engineering, began a line of research that led to the creation of a biologically enhanced, long-lasting knee implant.

“The ‘aha’ idea was really just a precursor to what was developed,” James said.

Infused with a biological molecule and natural lubricant (hyaluronic acid) the material, BioPoly, has been licensed

515 inventions: up 132 percent from the 222 inventions during the previous five-year period 627 patent applications: a 170 percent increase from the 232 applications during the previous five-year period 165 license agreements: a 184 percent increase from 58 agreements during the previous five-year period $8.22 million in licensing income: an 86 percent increase from $4.42 million during the previous five-year period

to a private company for use as a less invasive alternative to knee replacement.

After eight years from the initial filing, the invention received its patent license in 2010.

BioPoly was one of 56 inventions originating at the university that were patented with the help of CSU Ventures from 2006 to 2011.

CSU Ventures –– the university organization charged with promoting, patenting, licensing and protecting inventions created at CSU –– has seen across the board, record high numbers for technology transfer during that same

time period.

Todd Headley, president of CSU Ventures, said the mission of the private, non-profit organization is to make sure that research and innovation done at the university makes it to companies who can commercialize the technology.

He attributed the success to campus officials investing in the infrastructure needed to get inventions into the marketplace, an increase of “boots on the ground” at the university and word of mouth — both in the marketplace and See RESEARCH on Page 9

Remembering roots

V for Victory

Students celebrate Black History Month with events in February

By KATE SIMMONS The Rocky Mountain Collegian

MADELEINE WILBUR | COLLEGIAN

Junior History major Laura Dallam celebrates while watching the Superbowl at Wild Wings on Elizabeth Sunday night. Read the full story inside of page 2.

In celebration of Black History Month, CSU’s student organizations are putting on events to remember their heritage.

“This is a month for the African American culture to show pride and joy in their heritage, which should be experienced by every culture,” said Destiny Johnson, president of United Women of Color.

While Black History Month events strive to educate and build community, the month signifies much more, according to Johnson.

“I think it is important

to celebrate Black History Month because it is a time to highlight all the achievements and good the African American culture has done,” Johnson said. “As a culture we have been through a lot, but I also think that is important to understand and inform present and future generations of what our culture has overcome.”

According to Ann Little, associate professor of history, African American history is a vital part of the history of the United States and therefore, important to all Americans.

“Enslaved and brought See HISTORY on Page 9

Referees

The perpetual punching bags of football, the referees are always to blame for any loss. If only they’d not been paid off by the other team, or not hated our team quite as much, then maybe we’d have won.

Cheaters

If not the refs, then certainly the other team is the problem!

Playing illegal players, using duct tape on gloves, or just straight up juicing. Those cheating sons of witches don’t deserve to win!

The Coach

He can’t call plays, he doesn’t get angry enough, he isn’t hiring the right people. From college teams to pro teams, the coach is always a reliable scapegoat for players that can’t scrape a win.

The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff.

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Ravens hang on, beat Niners at Super Bowl

By JEFF ZREBIEC McClatchy-Tribune NEW ORLEANS –– Ray Lewis’ last ride has ended with a Baltimore Ravens coronation.

Twelve years after they won their first Super Bowl with Lewis and the defense leading the way, the Ravens reigned again, finishing off a surprising playoff run in dramatic fashion. Behind the arm of Joe Flacco and the legs of Jacoby Jones, the Ravens held off the San Francisco 49ers in a 34-31 victory in Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

Completing one of the best postseasons for a quarterback ever, Flacco threw three first-half touchdown passes to three different receivers. Jones, who caught one of those touchdowns, then provided the exclamation point by returning the opening kickoff of the second half for a 108-yard score. That gave the Ravens a 28-6 lead.

The victory gives the Ravens their second Super Bowl title and their coach, John Harbaugh, significant bragging rights over his younger brother Jim, the coach of the 49ers. It also provides a fitting end to the Lewis era, which spanned 17 seasons, and established the identity of the franchise.

Now Lewis, the only remaining player from the team that blitzed the New York Giants to win Super Bowl XXXV, and his teammates will get one more ride, a trip through the streets of downtown Balti-

more for a parade to celebrate their achievement.

The Ravens, who limped into the playoffs by losing four of their last five games, proved once again that it isn’t always the dominant team in the regular season that captures Super Bowl glory. It’s the team that is at its best when the games matter most, and the Ravens left little doubt that they were that team.

They overwhelmed the Indianapolis Colts and their rookie phenom quarterback Andrew Luck in the first round. They needed two overtimes and one miracle 70-yard touchdown pass from Flacco to Jones to beat the Denver Broncos and Peyton Manning in a pulsating divisional-round game. They then bullied Tom Brady and the New England Patriots to win an AFC championship game rematch.

In front of an announced 71,024 and with the football world watching, the Ravens took a 21-6 lead into halftime and led 28-6 when the power went out in the stadium, causing a delay of more than 30 minutes.

When play resumed, the 49ers grabbed all the momentum. Kaepernick hit Michael Crabtree, who spun off tackles from Cary Williams and Bernard Pollard to complete a 31-yard score.

The 49ers got the ball right back, and two plays after a 32-yard punt return

by Ted Ginn, Frank Gore ran it in from 6 yards out to make it a 28-20 game and give San Francisco two touchdowns in two minutes, 23 seconds.

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Villiage Vidiot Employee Scott Shepherd re-shelves DVD’s Sunday night at the local video store.

Community Briefs TILT Short Courses registration open Registration for the spring semester Short Courses at The Institute for Learning and Teaching is now open. The first course, “A Short Course in Teaching Sustainability,” will be taught by Bill Timpson beginning Feb. 5 at 4 p.m.

Short Courses meet for two or more sessions

on dates designated within the semester and cover teaching-related topics.

Other Short Courses will be offered at various different times during the semester.

Registration is free on a first-come, first-served basis with limited seating. Attendance of all Short Course sessions is expected. Additional information and a link to register for TILT’s Short Courses can be found on the TILT’s website.

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1098-T tax forms now available on RAMweb The 1098-T tax forms for the year 2012 are now available on RAMweb and have been mailed to any students who have not yet opted for electronic delivery of their forms. CSU is required to provide eligible students annually with an IRS Form 1098-T, which is used to determine the eligibility of the student

for education tax credits.

In order to obtain your form, you can log into Ramweb, click on Tax information, and then 1098-T Reporting Form. Additional information is also available on Ramweb under Tax Information, 1098-T Detailed Information link, which will show you all of the transactions that sum to your totals for the year.

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“It’s so much more realistic instead of putting on fake smiles and pretty dresses, and selling yourself to girls.”

Chris Jarret | Sophomore Environmental Engineer

Spring recruitment Greek Life is underway at CSU

By Bailey Constas The Rocky Mountain Collegian Six sororities are currently looking for new members as part of spring recruitment, along with all fraternities, who recruit throughout the whole year.

There are four councils at CSU including the Panhellenic Council, the National Pan-Hellenic Council, the Multicultural Greek Council and the Interfraternity Council.

The Panhellenic Council is composed of nine sororities, six of which are participating in spring recruitment: Alpha Delta Chi, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Alpha and Zeta Tau Alpha.

According to Gabrielle Ligotke, the Panhellenic vice president of recruitment, spring recruitment is a “less formal” process than the fall formal membership recruitment process.

“Chapters are able to host events at different times and potential new members can pick and choose which events they are interested in attending,” Ligotke said.

According to Amy Bell, Greek Life coordinator and Panhellenic advisor, fall recruitment can be intimidating.

“A lot of times students are overwhelmed with classes and a lot of women

choose not to affiliate in the fall,” Bell said.

In the fall, about 500 women rush and 350 get placed or accept bids for a sorority. In the spring, numbers are significantly lower, with 80 to 90 women rushing.

Christin Slaughter, the Tau Lambda chapter president of Delta Sigma Theta, enjoyed her experience of being recruited.

“When I was recruited I was very excited but also eager to learn all of the history and traditions of my sorority,” Slaughter said. “It was a lot to learn but it was very worth it. I also value the relationships I formed with all of the women I was going through recruitment at the same time I was.”

For Chris Jarrett, a sophomore environmental engineer, the recruitment process led him to join Kappa Sigma.

“I just ran into one of the members and thought he was cool and wanted to know people, so he invited me to broomball,” Jarrett said. “It’s just a good brotherhood bonding experience.”

“It’s so much more realistic instead of putting on a fake smile and pretty dresses and selling yourself to girls,” Jarrett said. “It’s more like, lets have fun, play football and hang out because that’s what we end up doing.”

Jarrett said that the rush

FRATERNITY AND SORORITY EVENTS Kappa Kappa Gamma

Feb. 10, 2 to 3:30 p.m., house tour, casual attire

Alpha Delta Chi

Feb. 13, 7 to 9 p.m., bowling, casual attire Feb. 15, 7 to 9 p.m., Bible study and chai at Mugs, casual attire

process for him made it clear that his dues were going to brotherhood events and philanthropy events.

“We’re showing the kids this is what we do, when you pay your dues it’s not going to be buying friends, like some people think,” Jarrett said.

The rush process wasn’t a negative experience for Jarrett as much as it was just finding a place where he fit and felt welcomed.

The Greek council’s are fairly secretive in their recruitment process because of history and tradition, Bell said.

If a student is interested in joining Greek Life, they are expected to do research to determine which chapter would be the best fit before the recruitment process.

The Interfraternity Council, made of 20 fraternities, recruits 365 days a year, but according to Bell they do

Delta Delta Delta

Feb. 2, 3:30 to 7 p.m., enjoy appetizers with the ladies of Delta Delta Delta followed by a CSU men’s basketball game, casual CSU attire Feb. 6, 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., dinner and decorate cards for children at St. Jude, casual attire Feb. 7, 6:15 p.m., bowling, casual attire

a significant push in the beginning of each semester.

According to Jaron Maggard, rush chair of Alpha Gamma Omega Christian fraternity, Greek Life at CSU is quite small compared to other colleges.

“Not many men join fraternities overall, and even fewer would want to join a Christian fraternity,” Maggard said. “Because we stand between two ideologies that at times seem to be entirely opposed to one another, AGO focuses on finding men that have had contact with our members already.”

Alpha Gamma Omega primarily focuses on making themselves a public entity by chalking the plaza and handing out fliers.

“Our actual rush process typically consists of one and a half to two weeks of nightly activities that are designed

Don’t you even try to park in Corbett

By Katie O’Keefe The Rocky Mountain Collegian On Monday, the Corbett Hall parking lot will be closed — for good.

The closure will allow builders to proceed with the construction of a new student housing project, Laurel Village, that is expected to be ready by fall 2014 semester.

Laurel Village will house more than 600 undergraduate students and offer both standard and suite rooms, wrote Rick Pott, Housing and Dining Services facility planner, in an email to the Collegian via Tonie Miyamoto, director of communications for Housing and Dining Services.

“The Village will feature two LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold residence halls, including a Residential Learning Community for the College of Natural Sciences, similar to the Engineering and Honor communities at Academic Village, as well as a pavillion community building that is slated to be CSU’s first LEED Platinum building,” Pott said.

According to the website new.usgbc.org, LEED is a voluntary program that grants “third-party verification of green buildings.”

LEED provides building owners and operators an outline in order to recognize green building standards. In

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Junior Business major Isaac Oguin hands out flyers on the plaza encouraging students to rush his fraternity Thursday. Spring Rush is another opportunity to get connected with CSU’s 23 fraternities and 14 sororities with over 1,500 members total.

to both allow rushees to meet and interact with the active body and give actives a chance to evaluate the rushees,” Maggard said.

When the events are over, the fraternity holds a voting session that is based on the rushees’ spiritual, social and academic merits.

“We have over 40 chapters that provide unique experiences,” Bell said.

Each chapter has a dif-

ferent philanthropy project which can also determine which chapter is right for students.

According to Bell, spring recruitment is for those who want leadership experience, are looking for a good fit and relationships that will last for a lifetime.

Student Life Beat and Entertainment Reporter Bailey Constas can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Freshmen Mark Currie, left, and Ben Boucher walk past the Corbett parking lot to their dorm Sunday evening.

Starting today, the Corbett parking lot will be closed to make room for Laurel Village, the new student housing project scheduled to be completed in fall 2014.

LEED certification, specific requirements must be met and buildings must earn at least 40 points on a 110-point rating system scale.

The new student housing project is also part of CSU’s next step in the ongoing efforts to create a more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly campus, according to Pott.

“In the university master plan, as the student population increases, there are proposals to add additional parking structures on the

campus bike and pedestrian friendly,” Pott said.

For current Corbett Hall residents, this means having to haul that laundry just washed at your parents house a little further.

Residents will have the option to park in the Westfall Hall parking lot (Lot 115) or the Moby Arena parking lot (Lot 195), Pott said.

The lots are about one block from the current Corbett parking lot and offer a large number of available

versities do not allow first year students to bring cars to campus, and/or require that first year students enter a parking pass lottery or park in remote lots,” Pott said.

“We are fortunate at CSU that first year students can not only bring cars to campus but have access to parking lots on main campus.”

Collegian Writer Katie O’Keefe can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Who’s going to win the Super Bowl?

92% San Francisco 49ers.

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Today’s question: What did you do for the Super Bowl?

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Denied entry: We need new athletic event staff As a senior gearing up for graduation in the spring, my tenure at this university is quickly coming to a close. With the vestiges of nostalgia already forming in the back of my mind, I decided to attend what would have been the last CSU Wyoming Border War basketball game I’ll ever get to see in the student section, and marveled at my newfound ability to print a ticket online to the

By Kevin r. jensen game at my own convenience for a small $2 fee.

I registered myself on the website using my student information and was able to print out my ticket in the privacy of my own house rather than making the trek to McGraw, thinking to myself as I did so that the simplicity of the whole process was too good to be true.

It was.

Unbeknownst to me and many other shocked and outraged students, spending 10 to 15 minutes importing all your student information online to reserve a student ticket ahead of time was an absolutely useless endeavor if you showed up to the gates of Moby without your student ID in addition to your ticket.

“Sorry, orders from above say no students get in without student IDs,” the event staff woman stated plainly, wielding the power of her scanner gun, “just go back and get it real quick.”

Unfortunately there could be no “real quick” trip to get my ID from my house. In order to avoid Moby’s postgame traffic and responsibly consume a few beers before the game, I had decided to forgo driving and had walked the half hour to Moby from my house.

I tried reasoning with the event staff, arguing with her, even pleading with her. But as I spoke more fervently of the injustice of being turned away at the door she stone-faced me — her face becoming expressionless and her eyes drifting off, making it quite clear she was no longer listening to me.

Piqued, I demanded to see her manager, but had even less success with the supervisor, who walked up with a swagger reticent of his frat-days and regarded me with a smirking condescension.

Becoming frustrated in less than a few minutes talking to this supervisor, I was soon demanding to see his manager as well. After an extended amount of time, a pockmarked and weathered man approached and began explaining that there just wasn’t anything they could do.

“Nothing you can do? I pay thousands of dollars to attend this school. There is a scanner in that woman’s hand and a ticket in mine. I am a CSU student, let me through that door.”

“We need your student ID, we’ve been having a lot of problems with scalpers,” the pockmarked man curtly replied.

Oh of course! I just need to prove I’m a student and didn’t get this ticket off of Craigslist, easily fixable, I assumed.

I quickly pulled up my class schedule for the current semester on my cell phone, which features my full name, the date, and my full class load and pulled out my driver’s license to supplement my class schedule, thus proving that I am, indeed, Kevin R. Jensen, a CSU student paying thousands of dollars to attend this university.

But even that wasn’t good enough. Citing orders “from above,” the pockmarked manager said his hands were tied.

Enraged, I demanded to speak to somebody higher up that could do something to solve this obvious grievance. “It’ll take a while, wait over there out of the way,” he said.

I was being brushed off.

I understand why the student ID policy was implemented, but the policy was in no way communicated to students — I was but one of a number of students who were turned away at the door Saturday evening.

There was nothing on the website that indicated a student ID would be required, and the tickets that were printed didn’t say a single word about an ID being necessary for entry.

CSU Athletics have done a deplorable job communicating with students about the implementation of their new policies, but I was more shocked at the absolute lack of respect that I received from the event staff when trying to enter the game.

Any event that takes place at CSU is a reflection of the university itself, and even the contracted event staff should embody the spirit of this campus, which I’d like to believe is open, welcoming and respectful. If the event staff is detrimental to this atmosphere, then our athletic department should find another company to contract with.

Content Managing Editor Kevin R. Jensen is a senior English major. His column appears Wednesdays in the Collegian. He can be reached at kjensen@collegian.com or on Twitter @kevinrjensen.

our view

Reexamine drinking laws The United States has one of the highest legal minimum drinking age requirements in the entire world, set at what has become the iconic 21st birthday for Americans. Few realize, however, that our drinking laws aren’t that black and white. In fact, in Wisconsin, New York, Nevada, Texas, Massachusetts, Wyoming and five other states, underage children can even be served liquor in a bar or restaurant with their parent or guardian’s consent.

When examining alcohol laws around the country, it turns out that 40 out of 50 states have exceptions to the minimum legal drinking age, with Colorado itself having a number of circumstances when underage

consumption of alcohol is legal.

So where did 21 come from?

The short answer is the Nation-

“We should come together ... and rationally decide the extent to which legal adults have control of their own lives and decisions.” al Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, in which the federal government essentially said that if your state wants the federal

money you’re entitled to to build roads and transportation systems, then you have to raise the drinking age to 21.

But with all but 10 states essentially subverting this edict from the federal government, and with the stench of hypocrisy that lets our 18-year-olds die in war but not buy a beer, maybe it’s time that we took another look at our legal drinking age in Colorado.

We should not leave the restrictions that our state was strong-armed into accepting on the books. Instead, we should come together as Coloradans and rationally decide the extent to which legal adults have control of their own lives and decisions.

The Collegian Editorial Board is responsible for writing the staff editorial, “Our View,” and for the views expressed therein.

Letters and feedback in response to the staff editorial can be sent to letters@collegian.com.

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“So I have to wonder, when it comes to dating, are we really just grown up kids?”

Lessons learned: kindergarten valentines

By Brittany Jordan

I work with kids and have never loved any job as much as this one.

It is stressful and tiring, but it keeps me on my toes; one day is never like the other. My favorites are the kindergarteners, who make me feel like a superstar just by walking in

the door.

But the more I see these kids, spend time with them, and the more I am up here at this university, the more I realize that while we label ourselves as adults, we’re really just big kids.

The striking similarities occur when adults get angry, and when adults decide they are in love. We point our fingers at the youngsters, rolling our eyes at the temper tantrums that they throw in the middle of the grocery store, muttering words like “brat” and “indulgent parenting.”

However, I was in class the other day when some guy decided to throw his notebook at the wall shouting obscenities. Over what, I don’t know, but it seemed like a temper tantrum to me.

And girls, we haven’t come very far ourselves. We bicker and fight over what so-and-so told so-and-so, and vow that we will “never speak to her again.” But then we smile and nod when that same girl tells us that “we really should catch up sometime.”

We have our best friends and our

enemies. Remember when we were five, and you’d be best friends in the morning, be fighting by lunch, and be best friends again by the time school let out? While it may not be exactly the same, our acquaintanceships seem to have the same up-and-down style.

So I have to wonder, when it comes to dating, are we really just grown up kids?

As a childcare teacher, I have performed countless weddings in which the bride and groom exchange vows such as, “I promise to always share my Oreo cookies with you,” and “I promise that I will always give you my swing.”

People think it’s cute and then brush it off, because apparently fiveyear-olds know nothing about love, right? However, I’d challenge that we do not know much about love ourselves.

For those of you that are in loving and committed relationships, congratulations. Relationships are hard and get harder as time passes. If you have found a way to make it work, good for you.

I am on the other side of the coin.

In the aftermath of a break-up, I have turned back to those same five-yearolds for advice. Because, really, I just want someone to share his Oreos and swing with me.

Young love is so much easier without this adult nonsense. Before things like sex and jealousy get in the way, we got “married” because we liked the other person. These kids say that they love everything and everyone, and I really think that they do.

So when was it that our love got conditional? When did we start saying “I will love you until this happens,” or “I will love you as long as you do this for me?” Even worse: “I will love you until I find someone else”? When did we start wondering if our significant other loved us, instead of assuming that this was the case?

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, love is on everyone’s mind.

Everything is pink and red and heartshaped; chocolate and flower sales are at an all-time high. But remember when we were kids and just had to write on a little valentine with a DumDum attached to it?

Wasn’t that much easier than deciding what kind of extravagant gift we can give, as if that is the measure of how much we love another person?

A couple months ago, a first grade boy flew me a paper airplane with “open me” written on the side. When I spread it out, it read, “you luk pritee.”

The beauty of it is that spelling can be taught, but the romantic gesture cannot.

This Valentine’s Day, go back to when you were young and in love.

Remember that in a lot of ways, we really haven’t grown up all that much.

Let your inner kid out to play, and you might be surprised at how much easier life gets.

And, most of all, get advice from some of the wisest people around: kids.

Brittany Jordan is a Junior Psychology Major. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegain.com.

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Continued from Page 1 LSC Arts Program, which encompasses many other parts of artwork in the student center, like the Gallery, which features many student artwork exhibitions.

Meanwhile, the ASCSU Senate had their last meeting in the Senate Chambers in the LSC on Wednesday, Jan. 30. According to Robert Duran, communications director for ASCSU, Senate meetings will take place in the Computer Sciences Building in Room 130.

“The renovation hasn’t affected our day-to-day operations much,” Duran said.

“We’ve had to start moving our supplies into different storage units, but other than that there’s been nothing negative other than the construction outside our windows.”

ASCSU is scheduled to move to its new location in the MAC Gym in May. Despite the move away from the “academic center” of CSU, Duran believes that the new move might attract a new selection of students.

“We’ll be in a good location since so many students utilize the Rec Center,” he said. “The Rec Center might give students more reason to go to our offices, especially

since all the other departments will be there in a centralized location.”

Other offices that are scheduled to move into the MAC Gym in May include SLiCE, the GLBT Resource Center, the Career Center and Greek Life. ASCSU President Regina Martel also hopes the offices in the MAC Gym will be inviting to students.

“The offices are supposed to be next to each other, which will make it convenient to talk to the other departments,” she said.

Despite the plans to move many offices to new locations for next year, Luc-

kutt assured that many departments within the LSC would not be moving, “The bookstore, Adult Learner Center, Student Legal Services, Cam’s Lobby Shop, Bagel Place II, the Transit Center and the north Ballrooms will not be affected by renovations,” she said.

“Everything north of the bookstore will still be available.”

Luckutt also said there would be new food options available in the LSC next year, but she could not say what exactly.

Senior Reporter Sean Meeds can be reached at news@collegian.com.

LSC CONSTRUCTION TIMELINE Building project is expected to be completed in 16 months from the beginning of construction in May 2013. The renovated portion of the Student Center is anticipated to open for Fall semester 2014. Surrounding building landscape work will take an additional three months to complete.

2012

June: Theatre renovation complete December: The contractor mobilized with trailers and fencing. Utility work started on the Plaza near the RAMtech entrance. Exterior work on the west side will begin.

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with trailers and fencing. Utility work started on the Plaza near the RAMtech entrance. Exterior work on the west side will begin.

May: Affected offices will be moved by the end of May 2013.

August: The renovated portion of the Student Center is anticipated to open for Fall semester 2014.

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“I don’t think there can be anything more rewarding.”

Melissa Reynolds | Professor in Chemistry and the School of Biomedical Engineering

Govt. grants reach millions

RESEARCH | Continued from Page 1

among researchers and faculty at CSU. An influx of money for research at CSU didn’t hurt either. The campus has seen an increase in research funding per year over the last five years, culminating with a record $340 million in 2012.

“There’s definitely a correlation,” Headley said.

BioPoly is one of nine inventions James has patented during her 19 years as a faculty member. She said technology transfer at the university has come a long way since the late 1990s.

“They’ve added a lot of staff and gotten a lot smarter about how it all works,” James said. “In the early days I certainly didn’t feel like they were really on top of their game.”

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Headley said he’s optimistic the next five years will see continued, if slightly slower, growth.

“It’s probably not going to be as dramatic because we really did come a long way in the last five years,” he said.

Melissa Reynolds, a professor in Chemistry and the School of Biomedical Engineering, has two inventions making their way through the patent process and a startup company, Diazamed, that’s licensed to use the technology.

CSU Ventures helped with getting her company up and running and guiding the inventions through the complicated patent process.

Reynolds said she worked in private industry before coming to CSU in 2009 and one of the major

reasons she decided to come to CSU was the “user friendly” nature of technology transfer at the university.

“The notion of being able to go in and talk to someone here and figure out the best way to get technology patented is very exciting,” Reynolds said.

Both her inventions involve making molecular coating for medical devices. One, designed to degrade in the body over time, leaves no leftover polymers or plastics in the body. The other is meant to last in the body forever.

Reynolds has received multiple grants and awards to continue research in this area, including a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Cardiovascular devices like stent coatings, ar-

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Both James and Reynolds said the most rewarding part of the research process is working with students in cutting edge research and creating products that can improve people’s lives.

“I don’t think there can be anything more rewarding,” Reynolds said. “Graduate and undergraduate students, they’re the ones that actually make the discoveries and create the innovation that we can then convert into products so they’re part of that process.”

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rying our shared movement for social justice into the present day,” Nelson said.

Kayla Tolbert, president of Black Definition, is aware of the struggle her ancestors endured to create a better future, and she acknowledges that their fight led the way for other discriminated groups to speak up and demand equal rights of their own.

“With our policies now as far as not discriminating against people, I feel that it brought other people to want to speak up,” Tolbert said. “Now you have the GLBTQ community fighting for their rights.”

“It’s important to remember that this country was built by people with African American heritage, and I think that people forget where we came from and forget to acknowledge it, so I think it’s important to remember that,” Tolbert said.

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Continued from Page 1 to the Americas in chains, African people were systematically robbed of their labor and their children for nearly 300 years,” Little wrote in an email to the Collegian. “Nevertheless, African Americans persisted and as Americans, were inspired to fight for their liberty on the basis of that radical Jeffersonian declaration that all men are created equal.

“African American history embodies both the best and the worst that America can be,” Little wrote.

Eric Nelson, professor of ethnic studies, said he celebrates Black History Month by recognizing African Americans who have worked tirelessly and sacrificed their lives to bring equality and diversity to the United States.

“Dr. (Martin Luther) King's spirit lives on. After his assassination, millions of people picked up the torch and continued to fight for a better future, car-

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Feb. 4: Movie Monday: “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” showings at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m., LSC 204 Feb. 5: “Reverse Diverse” Career Fair, 4 p.m., LSC Theater Feb. 6: Lunch with CSU Black faculty and staff. Noon, LSC Rooms 224-226 Real Talk: “Are Black Women the Mules of the World?” 4 p.m., LSC Room 204 Eddie Moore, Jr.: “The Nigga(er) Word: Is There a Message in the Madness?” 6 p.m., LSC Grey Rock Room

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that wasn’t quite what the scouting report said,” Wyoming forward Chaundra Sewell said. “They were shooting lights out for the first four minutes and we just had to weather the storm.”

The first half couldn’t have been any more evenly matched, numerous tie scores and lead changes had all 4,053 people in attendance either on the edge of their seat or standing on their feet.

“They just kept matching us, that three-ball kept them in that first half,” CSU coach Ryun Williams said. “They will always have five great shooters on the floor at all times.”

Both Wyoming and CSU tallied six threes in the first half, the final one coming from CSU’s Mandy Makeever, as she shot over two Wyoming defenders to barely beat the buzzer.

“It felt very, very physical and close the whole time, when that girl hits the three at the end that doesn’t help it,” Wyoming’s Kayla Woodward said. “When they do make their little runs it gets hard, but we stuck with them.”

That shot brought the Rams within one at halftime,

down 38-37, but that would end up being the smallest deficit for the rest of the game.

The Cowgirls started the second half on a 10-2 run, taking control of the MW matchup, and not looking back until after the game clock expired.

“Our coach reminded us that we were winning at halftime. We all kind of had our heads down, for whatever reason, we expected to come out and be leading by 10 points going into the locker room at halftime,” Sewell said. “But a one point lead is still a lead.”

Wyoming stretched its lead to 16 points while outscoring CSU 44-30 in the second half. It had four players scoring double digits, who accounted for 67 points. Sam Martin was the only Ram to score more than 10 points, as she posted up 30 for CSU. The conference loss drops CSU to 6-14, 2-5 MW while Wyoming climbs to 174, 6-2 MW. “I liked the way we played, especially in the first, boy the chemistry was good,” Williams said. “Lot of positive things tonight.”

Women’s Basketball Beat Reporter Quentin Sickafoose can be reached at sports@ collegian.com.

“When we are edgy on defense and ready to go, we are difficult to score on.”

Dorian Green | Senior Guard

MBBALL |

CSU too offensive for Wyoming

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performance.

“It changed the complexion from we’re in control, we stayed the course, it’s 24 to 21 at half,” Wyoming coach Larry Shyatt said. “And then I think everybody, maybe except me, said no, no it’s 30 to 21, it’s a completely different game.”

In the second half, it was senior guard Dorian Green that led the Rams scoring 10 points while chipping in five assists as the Rams cruised to victory.

While CSU utilized a balanced attack to dismantle Wyoming, the Cowboys failed to answer the bell on the offensive end, as they only had one player, senior guard Derrious Gilmore, who scored in double figures.

The Rams had a hard time containing Gilmore, who scored 26 points, 18 of which came in the second half, but it simply wasn’t enough to stop CSU’s bid for a 26-game home winning streak.

As Gilmore shined, the rest of the Cowboys struggled, shooting just 29.8 per-

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Colton Iverson (45) makes a dunk as fans go crazy in Moby Arena at the soldout game against Wyoming Saturday night in the annual Border War game.

cent from the field.

“It takes five guys on defense playing together, everybody doing their assignment, not breaking down, contesting shots and trying to make shots as difficult as possible,”

Green said. “I think when we are edgy on defense and ready to go, we are difficult to score on.”

Continuing their play as a team and not just individuals will be key in allowing the Rams to contin-

ue their success into their final nine games of the season and into the postseason.

Assistant Sports Editor Andrew Schaller can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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“official” sellout last year (Wyoming) and has also only filled Moby to the brim once this season (also Wyoming) but the atmosphere has regularly been electric, particularly once the student population returned for the spring semester.

7,626 people officially attended the Jan. 19 game against UNLV, but you would have been hard-pressed to find space for 1,000 more people in that arena.

More important than the individual numbers though, was that game created an atmosphere at Moby, an ambiance that fans from all backgrounds replicated and exceeded Saturday evening against Wyoming.

General public tickets for the game sold out by Wednesday and students took advantage of their new ability to pick up basketball tickets early, gobbling them up by Friday.

That would have been unheard of, a pipe dream in just about any previous CSU basketball season.

I once walked in at halftime of a game against then No. 6 New Mexico my freshman year because the score was close and I wanted to see how it ended.

I guarantee no one

could have pulled that off in Saturday’s Wyoming game.

By selling out this game so (relatively) far in advance, that increases the urgency of anyone wanting tickets to the next home game next Wednesday against San Diego State.

Basketball has now become a hot-ticket sport at CSU. It’s partly because of the win streak and partly due to the atmosphere fans have created, but more than anything the two feed off of each other.

As the team wins more fans show up and cheer louder and as more fans show up, and cheer louder the team wins more.

Consecutive sellouts at Moby are about as rare as unicorns, but if Saturday’s game was any indication, the arena will be rocking again next Wednesday for the Aztecs.

Don’t squander the opportunity to be a part of that atmosphere.

CSU may have leaps and bounds ahead of it before it can jump into the upper echelon of basketball schools with Kansas, but creating a raucous home court advantage and building a lengthy winning streak are great places to start.

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The Big GraBowski

Rams owe Moby streak to fans, themselves Anytime you can move past Kansas at anything basketball related, you know you’re doing something right.

After the Jayhawks’ 85By Kyle Grabowski 80 loss to Oklahoma State at Allen Fieldhouse and CSU’s 65-46 win over Wyoming Saturday, the Rams now boast the nation’s third-longest active home winning streak at 26 games.

Syracuse leads the clubhouse with 35 straight wins at the Carrier Dome and South Dakota State ranks second with 28 in a row at Frost Arena.

The last time CSU lost a home game, current coach Larry Eustachy was roaming the opposite sideline, Boise State and San Diego State looked poise to jump to the Big East and “Gangam Style” was just a twinkle in Psy’s eye.

In that game, then-Southern Miss junior LaShay Page buried 1115 shots, including 8-11 from behind the three-point line, for 30 points to lead the Golden Eagles to victory.

He has since transferred to South Carolina and was declared academically ineligible in January due to what the university and coach Frank Martin are calling an “academic glitch.”

What a difference more than a year makes.

That CSU team had chronic issues playing on the road and siphoned as much energy as it could from the home crowd, relying on accurate field goal shooting and low-error basketball to win.

This year’s squad, though with similar personnel, has undergone a philosophical metamorphosis.

They grind out possessions on the defensive end and attempt to play “every inch of the floor.”

Regardless of style, however, both teams won and won and won.

Last year’s CSU team knocked off three ranked teams at Moby Arena and a CU-Boulder squad that made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The 2012-13 Rams may finish undefeated at home while intimidating the hell out of every opponent that steps through the doors.

Both teams are good to be sure, but award at least some credit to the legions of Ram fans filling the seats on a regular basis.

CSU only registered one See Grabowski on Page 10

26 and counting th

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Dorian Green (22) and Pierce Hornung (4) fight for the ball against a Wyoming player at Moby Arena Saturday night in the annual Border War game. The Rams beat Wyoming 65-46 for their 26th straight home win.

Team effort pushes Rams past Wyoming

By Andrew Schaller The Rocky Mountain Collegian The mark of any great team is how well all five players play together on the floor at any one time.

As CSU has gotten off to an 18-4 start to the 2012-13 season, the play of the complete team has been an emphasis in an effort to get them back to the NCAA tournament.

The Rams put that team effort on display Saturday night against their rival Wyoming, as CSU had five players score in double digits and three players grab eight or more rebounds in a dominating 65-46 victory.

“I think we had a complete team effort if you look across the board,” senior forward Pierce Hornung said. “We have five guys in double figures, so that is the mark of a good team when we have the depth that we can do that.”

The Rams pulled out some of that depth early on in the game.

Towards the end of the first half, CSU found itself in a 24-21 game with just under three minutes to play until halftime.

That’s when sophomore reserve guard Daniel Bejarano took over the game.

Bejarano scored the final seven points in the first half for the Rams, including a three pointer he banked in with 1.8 seconds to play as he was fouled by Wyoming senior forward Leonard Washington.

“I don’t know I just tell them, `Get in the hole, there’s only five seconds left,’” Bejarano said. “I just get the ball and I just shoot.

Dylan Langille | COLLEGIAN

Dorian Green (22) directs play during Saturday nights game against Wyoming at Moby Arena.

It happens to be at the last second but it is just a shot.”

Bejarano missed the ensuing free throw, but the damage had been done.

CSU recaptured the momentum that propelled them to a dominating second half See MBBAll on Page 10

Women’s Basketball

Rams burn out after first half

By Quentin Sickafoose The Rocky Mountain Collegian

The CSU women’s basketball team traveled across state lines into Laramie on Saturday looking for a Border War victory against Mountain-West rival Wyoming.

However, the Rams weren’t able to find what they were looking for.

CSU left the Arena Auditorium, also known as the Dome of Doom, with a 82-67 loss and an understanding of the venue’s nickname.

Unlike much of their season thus far, the Rams wasted no time getting things going early.

Immediate baskets from Hayley Thompson and Sam Martin gave CSU an 8-0 lead only two minutes into the game.

“It hurts your confidence when

Colorado State forward Sam Martin (12) drives to the hoop for a layup during the first half of Saturday afternoon’s game in Laramie, Wyo. Despite leading for most of the first half, the Rams were able to holdoff the Cowgirls and fell 82-67.

See WBBAll on Page 10

CSU BREAKDOWN First half

Scored: 37 points Outscored by: 1 point FG percentage: 50 percent 3 point FG percentage: 60 percent

Second half

Scored: 30 points Outscored by: 14 points FG percentage: 34.6 percent 3 point FG percentage: 16.7 percent

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Ram’s balanced attack Pierce Hornung: 12 points Greg Smith: 0 points Colton Iverson: 12 points Wes Eikmeier: 13 points Dorian Green: 15 points

“We kept up our strong defense ... they had a good goalie but we ended up pulling it out.”

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CSU hockey takes two steps closer to nationals

By Haleigh Hamblin The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Head Coach, Kelly Newton was all smiles after the 3-1 win over DU Saturday and the 9-2 triumph over CU–Boulder.

Coming off a three game losing streak in Oklahoma, CSU started the Friday night game against CU– Boulder with a 1-0 lead in and continued to boost their confidence with a seven point victory.

Dominating from the start, CSU put up the first points within the first five minutes of both games.

Letting up in the second period against DU, CSU goalkeeper put himself on the line and blocked the Pioneer’s charging defense on and off his skates.

“We needed to put up the third goal sooner,” Newton said. “We kept letting them back in, and it is something to work on.”

Looking to the upcoming week, Newton and the team must regain their focus to ensure a win in the upcoming games in Utah.

“It was good to come in with

the quick goals, but then we took our foot off the gas,” Newton said.

“It is hard for us to stay motivated.”

With the season coming to a close at the end of the month, the Rams have no room for error at this point. A challenging schedule awaits CSU as they head to Utah this weekend and then challenge DU and CU–Boulder again at home.

“We need to knock them off one at a time,” Parker Harrison said. “It is about tightening up and focusing.”

CSU will plan to focus on defense in its upcoming practices as well as tightening down the hatches and continuing to put up points when they are in control.

“I thought we played really well,” sophomore goalkeeper Alex Steidler said. “We kept up our strong defense … they had a good goalie but we ended up pulling it out.”

CSU will challenge Division I Utah this weekend for an automatic bid to Nationals in St. Louis, Mo. Men’s Hockey Beat Reporter Haleigh Hamblin can be reached at sports@collegian.com.