Monday, February 17, 2020 Vol. 129, No. 43 by The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Monday, February 17, 2020

COLLEGIAN.COM

Vol. 129, No. 43

Rams return after successful meets in Iowa and New Mexico Multiple members of the track and field team set personal bests in meets

By Leo Friedman @LeoFriedman13

well-established field until the last decade, McAllister said. Researchers in different fields would analyze resilience and disaster impact without accounting for the interdependency of different community infrastructure systems. Engineers would look at engineering systems, economists would look at the economy and social scientists would look at the human impact, all in isolation.

After being away for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the Rams track and field teams have returned from their meets in Iowa and New Mexico with successful results. The meet in New Mexico, which was focused on sprints, jumps and throws, brought numerous Rams personal records. Two freshmen, Celyn Stermer and Tom Willems, moved into CSU’s top five records on the first day for pole vaults and 400-meter sprints, respectively. Stermer placed fourth out of 28 athletes, with a height of 12 feet, 8 inches. Willems finished his 400-meter sprint with a time of 47.81, good enough for a top five finish in CSU history. On the second day in New Mexico, CSU placed fourth in the women’s 4x400 relay and third and fourth in the women’s shot put. Junior Tarynn Sieg hit a season-best in that event, tossing the shot put 52 feet, 7.25 inches, and Maria Muzzio finished right behind her teammate with 51 feet, 10.5 inches. The men placed second in their 4x400 relay with a time of 3:12.08.

see RESILIENCE on page 4 >>

see MEETS on page 11 >>

The National Institute of Standards and Technology building in Boulder, Colorado. Colorado State University’s renewed partnership with NIST allows researchers to apply the natural disaster impact modeling system they have developed. PHOTO BY DEVIN CORNELIUS THE COLLEGIAN

Planning for a natural disaster? ‘Resilience science’ is here to help By Samantha Ye @samxye4

From disaster to recovery, a federally-funded research center of Colorado State University is developing multidisciplinary “resilience science” to help communities plan for comebacks after natural hazard events. Funded by the federal National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Center for Risk-Based Community Resil-

ience Planning has spent the last five years developing measurement science for community resilience. NIST recently renewed its partnership with the center for $20 million over the next five years, which it will use in large part to help communities understand and implement these findings. Resilience science is about looking at how well a system restores itself after a major shock such as a flood or earthquake,

center leaders said. Instead of only looking at damage mitigation, resilience thinks about how to invest for recovery. Put another way, disasters are events that cause so much damage that the community struggles to recover, but “if resilience is successful, hopefully it won’t become a disaster,” said Therese McAllister, NIST group leader and program manager. In the case of hazard events, community resiliency wasn’t a

Monday, February 17, 2020

Collegian.com

FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Luna, left, and Juda, right, enjoy the Colorado snow in City Park Feb. 13. Their grandmother Mel, a Fort Collins resident, worked at Colorado State University’s Allison Hall for 13.5 years. She recently bought the American Flyer sled for her grandchildren to use. “Even if it is for a few hours every season, they enjoy it,” Mel said. PHOTO BY SKYLER PRADHAN THE COLLEGIAN

overheard on the plaza

DJ SCHEDULE 9 AM - 11 AM The Hard Count DJ Nordy

MONDAY

“I’m not dating some flat butt person.”

“The concept of killing has really gone downhill.”

“It’s not a cover-up; you’re just being mean.”

11 AM - 1 PM In the Morning DJ Bradley B & DJ Big Craw 1 PM - 3 PM The Place J-Balla 3 PM - 5 PM For the Culture DJ Dallas 5 PM - 7 PM 3.0 Radio Show DJ Carter 7 PM - 9 PM Nick Baker Show LIVE Nick Baker 9 PM - 11 PM The Chop Shop Shane, Moose & Phil 9 AM - 11 AM Hadena Horas DJ-Rakun

“Goofy is kind of a daddy.”

Follow @CSUCollegian on Twitter Like

Rocky Mountain Collegian on Facebook

Follow CSU Collegian on Snapchat

Everybody makes mistakes, including us. If you encounter something in the paper you believe to be an error, email errors@collegian.com.

3 PM - 4 PM Wild West Quiet Cowboy 4 PM - 5 PM Rocky Mountain Review KCSU’s News Directors 5 PM - 7 PM Live and Local DJ Danish 7 PM - 9 PM 2nd Stringers

ADVISING STAFF

KEY PHONE NUMBERS

Jake Sherlock Christa Reed Student Media Senior Advertising Adviser Trainer Kim Blumhardt Maggie Adams Advertising Manager Design Adviser Hannah Copeland Jill Mott KCSU Adviser Photo Adviser

Distribution 970-491-1774 Classifieds 970-491-1683 Display Advertising 970-491-7467

EDITORIAL STAFF | 970-491-7513 Forrest Czarnecki | Editor-in-Chief

Amy Noble | Design Editor

Austin Fleskes | Managing Editor

Matt Tackett | Photo Director

Ravyn Cullor | News Director

Anna von Pechmann | Photo Editor

Matt Bailey | News Editor

David Slifka | Digital Production Manager

editor@collegian.com

managingeditor@collegian.com

CORRECTIONS

9 AM - 11 AM Spice it Up! DJ Fujiwara

WEDNESDAY

Follow CSU Collegian on Instagram

TUESDAY

11 AM - 1 PM Fretted Facts Zant deus umbra Have you recently overheard something funny on campus? Put your eavesdropping to good use. Tweet us @CSUCollegian and your submissions could be featured in our next paper!

Lory Student Center Suite 118 Fort Collins, CO 80523 This publication is not an official publication of Colorado State University, but is published by an independent corporation using the name ‘The Rocky Mountain Collegian’ pursuant to a license granted by CSU. The Rocky Mountain Collegian is a 4,000-circulation student-run newspaper intended as a public forum. It publishes two days a week during the regular fall and spring semesters. During the first four weeks of summer, The Collegian does not publish. During the last eight weeks of summer, The Collegian publishes online Monday through Thursday. Corrections may be submitted to the editor in chief and will be printed as necessary on page two. The Collegian is a complimentary publication for the Fort Collins community. The first copy is free. Additional copies are 25 cents each. Letters to the editor should be sent to letters@collegian.com.

11 AM - 1 PM 1 PM - 2 PM 2 PM - 3 PM 3 PM - 5 PM

The Clean Up DJ Squeegee

news@collegian.com news@collegian.com

design@collegian.com photo@collegian.com photo@collegian.com

Halftime KCSU Music & Sports Teams

Leta McWilliams | Opinion Editor

dslifka@collegian.com

Hidden Gems DJ Monterey

Ryan Loberger | Sports Director

Brett Vandenboogaard | Webmaster

Charlando Rico y Yasmin

5 PM - 7 PM Chromesthesia Landscape MC Asher 7 PM - 9 PM Unit’s Corner Chef Zay

letters@collegian.com sports@collegian.com

Elena Waldman | A&C Director

entertainment@collegian.com Lauryn Bolz | A&C Editor

entertainment@collegian.com

webmaster@collegian.com

Maddie Steele | Social Media Editor

socialmedia@collegian.com

Anna Stewart | Night Editor

copy@collegian.com

News | Monday, February 17, 2020

CAMPUS

It’s Complicated: Healthy relationships and mental health

Spring 2020 Being in healthy relationships has many positive impacts, including better mental health. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SKYLER PRADHAN THE COLLEGIAN

By Charlotte Lang @chartrickwrites

Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a series that explores various issues related to college relationships and how they impact students’ mental health. In a month when romance is a popular topic, it can be important to recognize the effects relationships can have on mental health. Healthy relationships — platonic, familial, romantic, sexual or otherwise — can lead to a healthier mental state. “Healthy relationships have many positive impacts on people’s mental health,” said Reid Trotter, director of Counseling Services at the Colorado State University Health Network. “Healthy relationships are linked to reduced stress via reduction of cortisol levels in the body, a greater sense of purpose, better overall health and even a longer life.” Trotter said healthy relationships have such a positive impact on these things because people are wired to connect with others. “Humans have evolved to live in groups, and a sense of belonging is considered a core human need,” Trotter said. “Given our predisposition to connect, humans have great capacity for empathy, love and compassion.” Trotter said this capacity for connection and belonging can be applied to all types of relationships, including friendships, family and intimate relationships. Elizabeth Amoa-Awuah, assistant director of educational

programs at the Women and Gender Advocacy Center, said people do best when there’s healthy human connections in their lives.

“In the U.S., we talk a lot about independence and really uplift independence as the end-all-be-all, but people really thrive with other healthy human connections.” ELIZABETH AMOA-AWUAH,

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, WGAC

Amoa-Awuah said such connections don’t simply help the individual. Support and interdependence with others help entire groups thrive. “In the U.S., we talk a lot about independence and really uplift independence as the end-all-be-all, but people really thrive with other healthy human connections,” Amoa-Awuah said. Amoa-Awuah said these connections often lead to more general support for everyone involved, which, in turn, leads to better mental health. Signs of a healthy relationship are more than the lack of unhealthy traits, Amoa-Awuah said. “It shouldn’t be ‘I know it’s healthy because I know it’s not a problem,’” Amoa-Awuah said. “It

should be ‘I know it’s healthy because I’m also happy and that I’m thriving as a result of this bond with this person’ — again, whether that’s platonic or romantic.” The WGAC maintains a webpage that explains important traits of a healthy relationship, such as communication and boundaries. It also explains what an unhealthy relationship can look like. Trotter said a few important aspects of a healthy relationship include a strong sense of trust, open and consistent communication, healthy boundaries, a contribution from everyone involved and a sense of respect for each other. “These aspects can look different based on a variety of factors that could be considered broadly as values that differ due to culture and/or community,” Trotter said. When it comes to looking at a relationship from the outside, it can be tricky for people around a relationship to understand the impact on those involved, Trotter said. “The key piece is to avoid making assumptions,” Trotter said. “The most direct way to understand the impact of a relationship is to ask — from a place of caring — the person or people involved. This not only allows space for the person to discuss the relationship, but shows that you care about the person or people involved, which can often lead to improving your own relationship with them.” Charlotte Lang can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Grad Fa i r

Wednesday, February 26 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Inside the Bookstore’s Main Entrance, 2nd Level LSC Important information on Commencement, Cap and Gowns, Class Rings and more!

News | Monday, February 17, 2020

Resilience >> from page 1 “There wasn’t anyone at the time that was really bringing all those pieces together in an integrated way to look at how they affect each other,” McAllister said. As resilience science became more recognized, communities were similarly struggling to understand how to measure or improve their recovery ability. An example McAllister gave is how a city government might plan to station the Red Cross recovery services in an older building that, in the event of a hazard, is at high risk to be unusable. After the 2011 Joplin Tornado and the 2012 Superstorm Sandy — two major natural disasters NIST investigated, as they both claimed significant human and economic tolls — the need for a new approach became clear. NIST put out a request for proposals, and from that, CSU was selected to establish a NIST-funded

Center of Excellence focused on community resilience. The CSU center is composed of over 90 researchers and partners from various disciplines and 12 other universities.

“If resilience is successful, hopefully it won’t become a disaster.” THERESE MCALLISTER NIST GROUP LEADER, PROGRAM MANAGER

Since 2015, the center has been developing a computational software to measure resilience, taking into account the interdependence of economic, engineering and social systems. NIST just released the first version of their program, called the Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment or IN-CORE. While it was originally intended for research purposes, it has since evolved into a platform where any-

one can model the impact of natural hazards on a community and measure its resilience, said John van de Lindt, CSU professor and center co-director. IN-CORE is an open-source computational environment, meaning it is free to use. “Ultimately, we feel like this makes sense since these are America’s tax dollars at work, and so this gives back to them,” van de Lindt said. At this point, the center is working toward making the platform available for city and community use in about 18 months, according to van de Lindt. IN-CORE incorporates data from past natural disasters and the center’s own field study of recovery efforts in Lumberton, North Carolina, a city flooded by Hurricane Matthew in 2016. The Lumberton field study is the first time anyone has done multi-year documentation of post-hazard event recovery using a multidisciplinary approach, McAllister said. “We really think this is the model for the future in doing field studies,” McAllister said.

Now that a solid knowledge base has been developed, the center will shift focus to working with real communities “so they can take advantage of what we have learned and perhaps can learn to use some of the software to make their own decisions,” said Bruce Ellingwood, CSU professor and center codirector.

“Ultimately, we feel like this makes sense since these are America’s tax dollars at work, and so this gives back to them.” JOHN VAN DE LINDT CSU PROFESSOR, CENTER CO-DIRECTOR

Over the next five years, the center intends to work with four to six communities to learn about what they need to conduct resilience planning. It will be “a give-and-take relationship,” van de Lindt said, as cities will share their information and goals to help improve the com-

putational environments, and in turn, the center will build them an IN-CORE model so they may plan for natural hazards. Hopefully, van de Lindt said, Fort Collins will be able to serve as one of those cities. Most areas are aware of what they’re at risk for, the center’s leaders said. In Fort Collins, for instance, that includes floods, fires and tornadoes. But IN-CORE allows governments to optimize its recovery plans while accounting for budgetary and feasibility constraints. It makes them strategize for different situations in ways they were not able to before thanks to new measurable data. “In the (chaos) after natural disaster like a flood or a hurricane or a tornado, everything is basically done ad hoc, and there’s very little rational decision-making,” Ellingwood said. “Our vision for IN-CORE is that it will be used by real communities as a planning tool so they can enhance the resilience of their communities by taking timely actions in the years before a real event occurs.” Samantha Ye can be reached at news@collegian.com.

CAMPUS

SVO honored at Statehouse for Peeping Tom reported being top chapter in the country on campus Saturday By Ravyn Cullor @RCullor99

“Thank you for your service” is one thing; awarding student veterans for working to improve each other’s lives in higher education is another. Colorado State University’s chapter of the Student Veterans Organization was honored at the Colorado Statehouse on the school’s 150th birthday for being named the top chapter in the nation. The CSU SVO was awarded Jan. 5 as the “Chapter of the Year” out of over 1,500 national chapters, according to the Statehouse award. CSU chapter president and senior psychology major Josh Johnson said the CSU SVO is not just a social organization, but a professional development organization for student veterans. The award was requested by Sen. Rob Woodward (R-Colo.) on the recommendation of his legislative aide Kurtis Cunningham, a CSU alumnus and U.S. Air Force veteran, Johnson said. “That was very exciting, knowing that it came from a student veteran helping put Colorado State in the front of the news around the nation for being a destination university for student veterans,” Johnson said. Heather Kent, a CSU senior chemical and biological engineer major, member of the SVO and the president of CSU’s chapter of the national honor society for student veterans, SALUTE (Service,

Academics, Leadership, Unity, Tribute, Excellence), said she was proud to represent student veterans at the Statehouse and felt the award was a recognition of the CSU SVO’s “push towards excellence.” In an emailed statement to The Collegian, CSU President Joyce McConnell said the award was “richly-deserved” and praised the leadership of Johnson and the mentorship of Adult Learners and Veteran Services Director Marc Barker. “We are so proud of these extraordinary members of the CSU community — they make us better,” McConnell wrote. SVO Vice President Acacia Mohr, a senior biological science major at CSU, said she believes the award helped to bring awareness to the work and value student veterans are bringing to campuses and is helping destigmatize issues like mental health. Johnson said the award recognized work the SVO is doing in the area of mental health and suicide prevention. The award specifically references Operation Bear Hug, an obstacle 5K the organization brings to campus annually to educate on suicide prevention. Stigmas around mental health in the veteran community can drive a belief that those who suffer from mental health problems are “broken, in a sense,” Mohr said. She also said this belief is untrue. Mohr and Johnson said the CSU SVO’s efforts to create a community of support for fellow student veterans is one of the reasons the chapter was nationally recog-

nized. “That’s what this award represents,” Johnson said. “That we’re taking care of our veterans, post-military service and military-connected families better than other schools. We’re benchmarking success stories, and we want to share it with other schools.” Johnson said the CSU SVO’s efforts to help SVOs across Colorado also plays into the state and national recognition. “This tribute was the most public way that we could be honored in state government for our work in suicide prevention and also stand out to other universities in Colorado and in the nation (so) that they could do the same,” Johnson said. Johnson, Mohr and Kent said the CSU SVO has been able to succeed at such a high level because of support across campus. Support from not only an active student veteran population, but the administration, the ALVS, staff, faculty, traditional students and the community as a whole have had a hand in the strength of their program, they said. Johnson said the state and national awards give them “a platform and recognition for the hard work we’ve done to make CSU a destination for veterans.” Woodward couldn’t be reached for comment. Editor’s note: Josh Johnson is a member of the Board of Directors for Rocky Mountain Student Media. Ravyn Cullor can be reached at news@collegian.com.

By Marshall Dunham @gnarshallfunham

The Colorado State University Public Safety Team is warning the public to report suspicious activity following reports of a peeping Tom incident on campus Saturday. According to an email from the CSUPST, the incident occurred in Summit Hall Feb. 15 at approximately 10 p.m. The incident involved a man looking into a woman’s window. “When she saw him, he showed her his phone, which displayed adult pornography, and he yelled and made sexually suggestive gestures at her,” reads the email. Although police were un-

able to locate a suspect in the area, he was described as a “middle-aged man, darker (complexion), race unknown, with a beard, wearing a flatbrim baseball cap,” according to the email. In an email to The Collegian, CSUPD Public Information Officer Dell Rae Ciaravola explained there were no additional details as of 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call CSUPD at 970-491-6425, and anyone who witnesses suspicious activity outside of their residences are encouraged to dial 911 immediately. Marshall Dunham can be reached at news@collegian.com.

News | Monday, February 17, 2020

CAMPUS

CSU among 5 schools to earn Platinum sustainability rating By Serena Bettis @serenaroseb

Colorado State University really does bleed green and gold — or maybe it’s more like green and platinum. CSU received its third Platinum rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System this week, one of only five universities out of the 993 registered with STARS to do so. “We are so very proud to have earned the designation of Platinum — for the third time!” wrote CSU President Joyce McConnell in a Feb. 10 email to the University. “It took everyone at CSU to reach this benchmark and proves that sustainability is a fundamental value we all share.” STARS is a program of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. AASHE launched in December 2005 as the first professional higher education association for campus sustainability across all of North America; the STARS Pilot Project followed in 2008. Tonie Miyamoto, the director of communications and sustainability for Housing & Dining Services and STARS liaison, said CSU has participated in the reporting program since it became available.

CSU has submitted five reports since Sept. 12, 2011, receiving a Gold designation twice and Platinum designation three times, the first in 2015. “It’s a process that takes at least six months, and it’s a really comprehensive assessment of sustainability across all aspects of the University,” Miyamoto said.

“It’s not one thing; it’s everything. There is no point that we get an absolute zero on.” CAROL DOLLARD ENERGY ENGINEER

The report looks at a few main categories: planning and administration, academics, engagement, operations and innovation and leadership. The University received a full 58 points in the academics category this year and was 0.94 points shy of a perfect score in the engagement category. Miyamoto said members of the President’s Sustainability Commission input thousands of data points for each report, and an algorithm generates point totals. While the STARS program is

self-reported, AASHE reviews all Platinum institution reports, and CSU uses a third party consultant, GreenerU, as well. GreenerU Vice President of Change Management Dallase Scott said GreenerU’s purpose is to provide universities with another set of eyes that is familiar with the reporting structure and reduce the “post-submission headache” that can come from reporting errors. “We’re trying to push the University to think about each of their credits to make sure that they’re submitting the highest quality report that they can,” Scott said. “We’re always using that third-eye view of trying to ensure that everything that is being reported is putting it into the standards that AASHE expects.” Carol Dollard, an energy engineer on campus, said because the reporting platform allows for anyone to challenge the data, CSU strives to provide information that is as accurate as possible. “Imagine you took a test in a class, and the professor graded it, and you got the grade,” Dollard said. “But then the professor put your test online for everybody to see, and everybody is allowed to challenge his grading. Anyone can challenge our data. There’s a lot of checks in the system to make sure that people

The Warner College of Natural Resources building received its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certification in 2019. PHOTO BY ANNA MONTESANTI THE COLLEGIAN

are reporting valid data.” The University participates in STARS to review its sustainability levels and create goals for the future. For example, both Miyamoto and Dollard explained that the University implemented campus-wide sustainable learning outcomes, which boosted its academics and engagement scores, after the report in 2017. “It’s not subjective; … it’s a really valuable self-tracking tool for us,” Miyamoto said. “It helps us track

how we’re doing, allows us to compare ourselves to peer institutions and it helps us set sustainability goals.” Scott said the success of CSU compared to other universities has to do with CSU’s broad sustainable reach all across campus, which Dollard echoed. “The short answer is — it’s not one thing; it’s everything,” Dollard said. “There is no point that we get an absolute zero on.” Serena Bettis can be reached at news@collegian.com.

CAMPUS

Temple Grandin Equine Center to lead equine therapy research By Serena Bettis @serenaroseb

After breaking ground on the Temple Grandin Equine Center Feb. 10, Colorado State University is ready to make history. The TGEC will open in time for the spring 2021 semester and focuses on education and research. At the center, CSU equine science majors will receive hands-on learning experience and have the chance to participate in internships and externships. “The intent of the facility is very much hands-on learning,” said Adam Daurio, director of administration for the center. “There’s the viewing area where students can observe during their labs, but then we are also very hopeful that the students will engage and be a part of the programming.” Daurio said that while equine science classes will have first choice for scheduling in the center, it will feature a large lecture hall open to all departments. Additionally, anyone can participate in community programming at the center, which will include physical, occupational and speech therapy, mental health counseling and adaptive and traditional horsemanship lessons. Equine science students will

have the opportunity to participate in community programming as well. Daurio said students may be assigned to manage and exercise the horses as well as volunteer at therapy sessions. The center’s namesake and CSU animal science professor Temple Grandin said horses saved her life and taught her valuable skills.

“I think it’s going to help people in a lot of ways. ... The science is very clear. There’s a lot of evidence that (therapeutic riding is) very, very helpful.” TEMPLE GRANDIN ANIMAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR

“High school was the worst part of my life, and when I was a teenager, I got bullied, and the only places I was not bullied was when we went riding and did activities with the horses,” Grandin said. “I was not a good student when I was in high school. So, they put me to work taking care of the horse barn. The thing that (horses) taught me was really good working skills and

responsibility.” Grandin said she thinks that the job and career opportunities the center can provide students with are very important. With this center, Grandin said, there can be more communication and cross-discipline work between CSU science departments as well. “I think the center will draw the equine world and the animal science world closer together and strengthen the research done in the (equine-assisted activities and therapies) community,” said Rozie Nobe, a CSU biological sciences sophomore. “I’m super excited for the research that could stem from this center.” Along with student education, the TGEC aims to be a leader in the research field for equine-assisted activities and therapies. “The goal of much of our research right now is to determine the difference and the effectiveness of including the horse or the equine environment into a therapy,” Daurio said. “(For) example, you would have a more traditional route of occupational therapy being provided to an individual, and then we would show through research that by incorporating a horse or the horse environment that it is more effective occupational therapy.” Grandin said that while it is

Renowned Colorado State University animal science professor Temple Grandin speaks at the President’s Commission on Women and Gender Equity celebration Oct. 3, 2017. COLLEGIAN FILE PHOTO

clear therapeutic riding is beneficial for children, there is no knowledge on which children will respond positively to it, and that type of research is what CSU will focus on. According to a media advisory, CSU will break ground on the second facility, the Temple Grandin Equine Center at Spur, as part of the CSU System campus at the National Western Center in Denver in April. Daurio said the focus of that center will be community

outreach, while the Fort Collins programming’s primary purpose is education. “I think it’s going to help people in a lot of ways,” Grandin said. “You’ve got veterans with PTSD, you’ve got autistic kids, individuals with other developmental problems. The science is very clear. There’s a lot of evidence that (therapeutic riding is) very, very helpful. I think it’s really good that CSU can become a leader in that.” Serena Bettis can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Opinion | Monday, February 17, 2020

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

KCSU IS OUT OF THIS WORLD

Response to ‘beer lovers rejoice’ By Guest Author @CSUCollegian

Editor’s Note: All opinion section content reflects the views of the individual author only and does not represent a stance taken by The Collegian or its editorial board. Letters to the Editor reflect the view of a member of the campus community and are submitted to the publication for approval. To whom it may concern, I’m responding to Noah Pasley’s article in The Collegian titled “Beer lovers rejoice: CSU proves hops can grow yearround,” published on Feb. 3. This article brought up some interesting points about plant growth and the specific conditions that most plants require to grow efficiently. While I agree that lighting is a critical part of crop productivity, this article

also made me think of another often overlooked aspect of any crop growth: the pollinators. I consider myself an environmental advocate and an activist for wildlife conservation. Many people are not aware of the pollinator crisis that we are currently dealing with, and it continues to affect citizens in Colorado, whether they know about it or not.

“I hope I can start an educated discussion with my fellow Collegian readers about our little pollinators.” Bees, specifically, are dying off at twice the sustainable rate at the moment. According to Yale Environment 360, we are

losing 30% of our colonies in the United States every year, while the sustainable rate is calculated at under 15%. We rely on bees to pollinate all the crops that Colorado and Fort Collins hold in high regard, including hops for our beer, corn for our beef and dairy and marijuana for our blunts. I hope I can start an educated discussion with my fellow Collegian readers about our little pollinators. I look forward to seeing others’ perspectives on this pressing issue. Thank you, Allie McGirk Colorado State University soil and crop sciences intern The Collegian’s opinion desk can be reached at letters@ collegian.com. To submit a letter to the editor, please follow the guidelines at collegian.com.

Soul Squared All Types

$9.69 6pk cans

Aggie Discount Liquor 429 Canyon Ave. 482-1968

Pabst Blue Ribbon

SAVE $2.00 per 18pk

Aggie Discount Liquor 429 Canyon Ave. 482-1968

NOPE

COMIC ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN GREENE @TFOGDOGS

People who say “Let’s get this bread.”

Cheap chocolate after Valentine’s Day.

Reminiscing on bad early 2000s trends.

Reminiscing on great childhood memories.

Doing nothing all weekend.

COMIC ILLUSTRATION BY SCOTTY POWELL @SCOTTYSSEUS

DOPE

Doing nothing all weekend.

Hitting every single red light on your way to work.

“Stranger Things” season four.

Finishing your favorite TV show and feeling empty inside.

Getting homework done on the weekend. #productivity

Opinion | Monday, February 17, 2020

HEAD TO HEAD

2020 Candidates: How Bernie Sanders stacks up In the weeks leading up to Colorado’s primary, the opinion desk will be going head to head on individual candidates’ policy choices. We’ll be focusing on some of the issues we think will aff ect student lives and whether or not we think that individual candidate’s plan has what it takes. This week, two columnists are discussing Bernie Sanders’ policies on the environment, education and immigration.

Bernie Sanders is a good choice for students Kenia Ortiz @kenia_ortiz_

Editor’s Note: All opinion section content reflects the views of the individual author only and does not represent a stance taken by The Collegian or its editorial board. Environment: According to Bernie Sanders’ website, “Climate change is a global emergency.” Current students are part of the generation that knows this all too well. When it comes to climate change, Bernie wants to stop building nuclear power reactors, ban fracking and impose government regulations to reduce all dangerous greenhouse gases. As a student who cares about the environment, I agree with banning fracking everywhere because, even though it has its benefits, fracking has a negative effect on the surrounding environment and on one’s health. This is especially important to students at Colorado State University, considering surrounding cities and northern Fort Collins have active wells. One of the main chemicals released from fracking is methane. It’s estimated that 4% of it goes into the atmosphere during the extraction process. Fracking increases air pollution, which increases the “production and long-term lingering of smog, which decreases the availability of clean air for workers and local residents.” While there are many more beneficial points to Bernie’s environmental policies, such as the support of the Green New Deal, his stance on fracking is enough to be a benefit to students. Education: While many of Sen. Sanders’ educational policies are important to look at, I will focus on Bernie’s policy that public college should be free, and student debt should be canceled. This is a great policy for students to get behind because college was not originally made for everyone — college was made only for upper-class, white men. The first university was Harvard University, where the graduating class was made up of “young men of good hope.” Early colleges in America were established by various religious denominations, and their central purpose was training men for the ministry. Now, universities are made up of all demographics. Universities weren’t made with marginalized communities in mind. According to Sen. Sanders’ website, “We are going to end the racial and class disparities that persist throughout higher education. We will close these gaps and ensure all Americans, no matter their race, income, zip code or immigration status, receive a high quality education.” Marginalized communities face systematic obstacles when applying to, thriving in and graduating from college. For example, Black first-gen students take out more student loans than other college graduates. The

Bernie Sanders is a hard choice for students

price for a college education is extremely high, despite it being a “necessity” in our Corrine country. Neustadter If college is a necessity, then it should be accessible. If this country really cares about @corrinen14 education and making sure future generations are more educated than the last, makEditor’s Note: All opinion section content ing college accessible should be a priority. reflects the views of the individual author only Overall, I believe Bernie’s education poliand does not represent a stance taken by The cies are in the interest of students. Collegian or its editorial board. Immigration: Environment: When it comes to immigration, Bernie Bernie Sanders’ environmental proposal believes that there should be an easy path is the Green New Deal, the polarizing resoto citizenship for Dreamers, young undoculution first proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocmented immigrants whose parents brought asio-Cortez and Sen. Edward Markey. The them to the U.S., and he wants to repeal the goal is ambitious: to reach 100% renewable “improper entry by alien” section from U.S. energy for electricity and transportation by Code. 2030 and decarbonize the economy by 2050. Bernie’s belief that Dreamers should To do so, Sen. Sanders proposes investing have citizenship is a great thing for students trillions of dollars into different sectors, because Dreamers are individuals who ofincluding creating a climate justice resiliency ten want — and are working hard — to get fund, specifically combating environmental an education. They’re people who have been racism. raised in America and The plan is comprelikely want to contribute hensive — creating 20 milto their communities. lion jobs by implementing Immigrants and their “Perhaps the most clean energy sources, children are sometimes well-known candidate, reinstituting the Civilian stereotyped to be lazy and Bernie Sanders is a selfConservation Corps to living off the government protect America’s pubproclaimed democratic while not contributing lic lands and instituting anything in return. In socialist who is running money-saving features reality, that’s a false and on changing the for working-class families. racist assumption made Bernie’s plan is one structure of government to look down on marginof the most progressive entirely. He is currently alized communities. among the Democratic According to the An- in his third term and candidates and would ti-Defamation League, “A help rectify the severe 2017 national study re- previously served for inequality of climate vealed that 91% of DACA 16 years in the House of change. However, the marespondents are current- Representatives, both jority of funding allocated ly employed. ... Forty-five likely would be under expositions in the state of percent of respondents ecutive order, which could are currently in school, Vermont.” be easily reversed once and among those currentout of office, contrary ly in school, 72% are purto the structure of Ocasuing a bachelor’s degree sio-Cortez’s and Markey’s Green New Deal, or higher.” which is a congressional resolution. Republican Rep. Steve King states that While Sen. Sanders’ financial levies on he watched “as these packs of marijuana are fossil fuel companies and the generation of on the backs of young men that are walking clean energy would help defray the cost of his across the border. They’re hauling an averplan, at least some of the money would have age of about 65 pounds, and some of them, to be approved by Congress, potentially makevery day they take another load. They ing it harder to implement. would qualify (for DACA), too.” However, two-thirds of Americans beSen. Sanders has the opposite of this lieve that Washington isn’t doing enough to mindset. combat climate change, with the majority alThe first issue listed on his website is “a ready seeing the effects of it in their own lives. welcoming and safe America for all.” In this If it can get the support, Sen. Sanders’ section, it states, “As president, Bernie will climate change plan stands to remake the reverse the actions President Trump has economy. However, partisanship remains a taken to harm our immigrant communities. major barrier to any climate legislation. Be... And he will reject the hate and divisiveness cause of this, it stands to be a difficult one to spewed by some and ensure America is a accomplish. welcoming and safe nation for all. Bernie beEducation: lieves that love will conquer hate.” Bernie’s proposal in higher education is For students that care about immigracanceling student debt and making public tion, Sen. Sanders’ policy is a good choice. college free for everyone. Not surprisingly, Kenia Ortiz can be reached he has amassed a youth following in part beat letters@collegian.com. cause of this.

Bernie plans to achieve free public college for all by passing the College for All Act, which would provide $48 billion per year to eliminate tuition and fees at four-year and two-year institutions, as well as tribal colleges, trade schools and apprenticeship programs. He also plans to cap all federal student loan rates at 1.88% to lessen the burden of debt taken out for non-tuition purposes. One area of concern is attaining the support of Congress. While this would prove to be a more permanent solution to college tuition prices, politicians of both parties may object to it. Sen. Sanders has the most progressive educational platform in the primary, meaning other Democrats may not support such an expansive piece of legislation — nevermind Republicans who currently hold the Senate, which would kill Bernie’s central education bill. The stipulation of Bernie’s plan is its total cost. He intends to institute a tax on Wall Street speculators, which would raise $2.4 trillion over 10 years, completely offsetting the cost of student loan forgiveness. However, some argue that student loan forgiveness disproportionately benefits the wealthier classes. As Charles Lane from the Washington Post argues, “Every tax dollar Sanders extracts from the plutocracy to pay off student debt is a dollar that won’t be available to pay for other programs, including some that would disproportionately benefit lower-income people.” While Sen. Sanders’ plan would benefit students, it’s important to realize its limitations in addressing educational attainment disparities. Even if Democrats gain the Senate, his policies could prove polarizing within the party, potentially making them unlikely to pass. Immigration: Bernie’s immigration plan centers around reshaping the immigration system. He plans to break up Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol — the former being cited as a perpetrator of human rights abuses at the United States-Mexico border. Sen. Sanders intends to reverse Donald Trump’s executive orders on day one, helping to alleviate the humanitarian crisis at the border. The majority of his reforms intend to counteract Trump’s actions and reinstate protections, such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Sen. Sanders, like three of his rivals in the Democratic primary, intends to decriminalize border crossings, making it easier for immigrants seeking asylum to make their case. Bernie’s policies could be beneficial for students, especially since most of it entails the use of executive action. Moreover, since some of his policies’ features are reflected by other Democratic presidential candidates, they may be easier for congressional members to swallow. Overall, Sen. Sanders’ immigration policies are feasible, having the potential to positively impact students. Corinne Neustadter can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

8 Monday, February 17, 2020 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian

SPONSORED CONTENT

MEET MEET THE THE CSU CSU GYMNASTICS GYMNASTICS TEAM TEAM RACHEL RASMUSSEN The CSU Club Gymnastics Team is one of the newest clubs at CSU. It was founded last semester by first-year Chloe Brekhus and Jess Moser, one of the coaches of the team. Last September, Moser's boss decided they wanted a gymnastics team at the club level so that people could continue to do gymnastics after high school without worrying about getting scholarships for colleges with D1 gymnastics teams. Currently, there are 13 women on the team and two coaches, Moser and Tariq Syed. Moser has been a coach for 10 years now and Syed has been coaching for 20 years. Each athlete comes to the team with varying years in the sport. The practices, which are from 2-3:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at Timberline Gymnastics, have less structure than some teams and gyms. But they still have a general plan for the athletes to follow for each practice. The team is part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs and they compete against CU, DU, Utah State, Arizona State and 5280 Alumni. Not every athlete will compete in all four events (Balance Beam, Uneven Bars, Floor and Vault) for women’s gymnastics, so during practices, they will usually just practice on the events that they compete. The goal of the team is to “provide an opportunity for current and former gymnasts to keep doing what they love in a welcoming and fun environment while representing CSU.” For more information on the team, you can email them at csuclubgymnastics@gmail.com. ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT

RAMS OUTDOORS

10 |

| Monday, February 17, 2020

| 11

Sports | Monday, February 17, 2020

Meets >> from page 1 Other Rams that added personal records in New Mexico were Amelia Harvey in the women’s 200-meter with a time of 24.50, Yolonda Johnson (57.69 seconds) in the women’s 400-meter, DeVon Washington (48.48 seconds) in the men’s 400-meter and John Fulton (21.91 seconds) and Will Domier (22.01 seconds) in the men’s 200-meter. “I thought we had some highlights in most of our event groups,” said head coach Brian Bedard about the Don Kirby Elite Invitational. “Several season and lifetime bests, but we also had some rough spots we need to iron out before the Mountain West Championships.” Ideally, the Rams left New Mexico with a greater understanding of the facility for the Mountain West Championships and an idea of how to prepare better for the future competition. In Iowa, the distance runners also set some major CSU records. Redshirt senior Ali Kallner, who stood at number 20 on the CSU all-time list for the 3,000-meter race, broke her previous PR by 30 seconds to top the 3,000-meter race re-

cord with a time of 9:26.93. “(Kallner) rarely runs the 3K, but she was ready for the challenge, and she ran a perfect race,” said head distance coach Art Siemers. “She started off in the back but worked her way up diligently and capped it with a great finish. It was funny; they were doing a new system of timing chips, and at first she didn’t get the record, but it recalculated, and she was ecstatic. ... It takes a lot of coachability to improve like she has time-wise.” On the men’s side of the Iowa meet, CSU 5K invite record holder and senior Eric Hamer placed third, notching a time of 13:43.62 seconds. While he didn’t beat his own record set earlier this season, it still is better than the second place mark on the CSU all-time list, adding to his already successful 5K career. “He didn’t get PR, but he showed that his Boston performance (school record in December) wasn’t a fluke,” said Siemers on Hamer’s race. “He had a tough race at CU the other week and has really rebounded. He went up against some of the best in the country today and still did very well. It’s a big confidence booster for him.” On the final day of the Iowa State meet, the Rams added three more names to Colorado State’s all-time record lists. Redshirt junior Jacob Brueckman notched a personal record

Colorado State University track and field thrower Mariano Kis takes part in competition at a meet during the 2019-20 season. PHOTO COURTESY OF CSU ATHLETICS

and placed at number 11 on CSU’s all-time men’s mile list with a time of 4:05.76. On the women’s side of the mile, junior Lauren Offerman just made it onto the CSU top 20 list at number 19, record-

ing a time of 4:57.38. This beat her previous record by five seconds. Full results for both days of both events can be found on the CSU track and field website. The Rams will hopefully

keep their momentum in the next meet on Feb. 21 at Air Force and the Mountain West Indoor Championships soon after, beginning Feb. 27. Leo Friedman can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

Odell’s

Hammer Chain & DDH Myrcenary

$11.49 6pk cans

Aggie Discount Liquor 429 Canyon Ave. 482-1968

SPRING 2020 COUPON BOOK

RAM DEALS

12 |

Sports | Monday, February 17, 2020

SOFTBALL

CSU suffers setback at Puerto Vallarta College Challenge By Savvy Rafkin @SavvyCollegian

A week after a successful trip to Texas, where Colorado State softball won four out of five games, the Rams suffered a tough weekend against their competition at the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge in Mexico. The Rams ended the weekend with a five-game losing streak in Puerto Vallarta, and this tournament record drops the Rams to No. 8 in the Mountain West Conference, topping only the University of Nevada. The Rams faced a tough schedule against the University of Tennessee (No. 12 ranked), the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), California Baptist University, the University of Utah and Team Mexico. Offense proved to be a weak link in their playing, and despite an unsuccessful weekend only tallying eight runs, the Rams totaled up 22 hits this weekend, eight of which were doubles. For their first game on Thursday against Tennessee, the Rams kept the game close,

only allowing the Lady Volunteers to pull away with a 6-4 victory. CSU fought hard with eight hits, including four doubles, and Danielle Serna got her first home run of the season. Unfortunately, this was not enough to top the Lady Vols, and the Rams earned their first loss of the tournament. Colorado State came back later that night to face Ole Miss, and the Rams kept the game tied for seven innings. Jessica Jarecki battled Ole Miss pitcher Molly Jacobsen for the entire eight-inning contest. Jarecki allowed five hits and walked only one batter, but Jacobsen allowed only two hits and four walks. The Rams tragically came up short again by a two-run margin accomplished by Ole Miss in the eighth inning, and they fell 2-0. The Rams again fought hard until the last moment, going into an extra inning, but they still fell short of a victory. On Friday, the Rams faced the California Baptist Lancers in their only game that day. CSU held onto a 2-1 lead for the first three innings, but the Lanc-

ers scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to pull ahead of the Rams. Despite scoring one more run in the top of the sixth inning, the Rams couldn’t recover and dropped the game by a score of 4-3. They later suffered their fourth loss of the tournament in a 3-0 defeat from Utah the following day. For their final game of the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge, the Rams faced Team Mexico Sunday morning. Colorado State scored a run in the first inning but struggled to bring in additional runs for the rest of the game. Team Mexico started the game hot, scoring two runs in the first inning and steadily accumulating five more runs throughout the remaining innings to top CSU 7-1. Team Mexico accumulated 10 hits throughout the game, overpowering the three hits by the Rams. The Rams are on the road again on Feb. 21 for another five-game tournament at the Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose, California. Colorado State

Colorado State University outfielder Tara Shadowen prepares to come up to bat at the beginning of the third inning against the San Diego Aztecs April 26, 2019. COLLEGIAN FILE PHOTO

is scheduled to play California Baptist again, followed by California Polytechnic State (Cal Poly), Yale, the University

of North Dakota and Canisius College. Savvy Rafkin can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

CSU’s Lauren Jones and diversity in soccer By Sydney Wicker @Sydney_Wicker

Black History Month is defined as “an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of Blacks in U.S. history,” according to history.com. For a celebration that has been going on for several decades, there are still many barriers around race. In 2018, according to the NCAA, only 5% of female soccer players were African American. The numbers have been reflected on the field for CSU defender Lauren Jones’ whole life. “Growing up, I have been the only African American on my team, until (we) recently got Kendra Gipson,” Jones said. “(In) club (soccer), I was the only African American, (as well as for) the two first years of college, so I hope that I can be the role model for younger generations. I hope there are more that come into the sport, and I hope that they can achieve what they want to achieve by looking at us as role models.”

Sydney Leroux, Crystal Dunn and Lynn Williams are just some of the women who have made a difference at the professional level of soccer, but they are still a minority on the field. With statistics so low at the college level, the numbers do not get any better at the professional level. Despite Gipson and Jones being the only two African American women on the CSU women’s soccer team, it has never affected the way they view the sport. “Color is not really something we look at on the team,” Jones said. “I’ve never felt out of place or different than my teammates. I show up, and we are a family. We love each other. We definitely learn from each other and (our) different cultures — food is a big topic, (and) ... I have definitely talked a lot about hair. But no, I have never felt out of place.” To honor Black History Month and the lack of diversity on the field, Jones challenges herself to learn one thing about one new historical African American person each day. “You go on Twitter and you find out peanut butter, a stoplight, the radio that sits on the

desk in your bedroom (were invented by African Americans),” Jones said. “You know, I didn’t know those things were invented by African Americans. But I think that’s super cool.” The importance of Black History Month holds a special place for Jones not just to learn about new people, but also to celebrate all their accomplishments. Taking a page out of Jones’ book, challenging yourself to learn a little bit each day is one way to honor Black History Month, and it helps her be the figure that she wants to be for a younger generation. But Jones is making a difference in the representation in her sport just by putting on her uniform. “Black History Month is important to celebrate because it’s an opportunity for us to get the chance to learn about some of our accomplishments,” Jones said. “I think, historically, some of it is taken for granted, so I think this month is really to learn about what we bring to the table.” The full interview with Jones can be found on CTV 11’s YouTube page. Sydney Wicker can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

Colorado State University soccer player Lauren Jones (12) has possession of the ball during the game against Air Force Oct. 5, 2018. COLLEGIAN FILE PHOTO

Arts & Culture | Monday, February 17, 2020

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Representation at the rink: BAACC brings winter fun

Colorado State University students Bridgette Reyna, left, and Andrea Henriquez, right, link arms and skate across the plastic ice rink simulator in The Plaza Feb. 13. PHOTO BY GABY ARREGOCES THE COLLEGIAN

By Gabe Hyde @Saigonjon

Students taped up their hockey sticks and practiced their turns in honor of Black History Month. On Feb. 13-14, Colorado State University’s Black/African American Cultural Center took Rams on a journey through African American history with a chilly spin by bringing an ice rink to the Lory Student Center Plaza. An idea over a year in the making, the BAACC office and the Associated Students of CSU teamed up to bring students a fun new tradition that highlighted African American culture in areas that they aren’t normally represented in. A portable artificial ice rink was constructed in the middle of The Plaza where students could get together to socialize with their friends, meet CAM the Ram, learn about Black history and, of course, try to keep their balance. Lining the perimeter of the rink were numerous posters of Black and African American figures who made their mark on history while gliding across the ice. This included Hockey Hall of Fame stars Willie Eldon O’Ree, Grant Scott Fuhr, Michael James Grier and Jarome Iginla. Other posters were of famous skaters Rory Flack, Mabel Fairbanks and Debra Janine Thomas. Being able to have events such as these at our university are monumental in challenging social norms, as they provide a unique way of spreading more awareness for prominent Black and African American figures who have lived their lives on the ice. “It’s this kind of event that’s reversing stereotypes,” said Adrian Jones, a member of the BAACC office for six years. “(The

event is showing) that it’s not just basketball and football.” One of the figures that stood out to Jones was a French figure skater named Surya Bonaly. Aside from being among the most talented skaters in all of history, Bonaly’s legacy is fantastically encompassed by her defiant attitude against oppression toward the Black community. One of her most significant acts is her figure skating program during the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. During her routine, working through an Achilles injury from a past season, Bonaly performed an illegal backflip and landed on one foot. Bonaly received large point deductions because of the daring and groundbreaking move. She remains the only skater to have successfully landed a backflip on one foot at the Olympics. “This is all about being together, and this is about everybody,” said CSU student DeJanay Smith. “It’s amazing showing that we’re not subjected to one sport.” “Representation of Blacks in other areas, not one, is important,” said a freshman who only identified themselves as Andrew B. He said that he liked what the BAACC and ASCSU were able to accomplish and collaborate on in order to bring the rink to The Plaza for Black History Month. The ice rink at The Plaza was one small part of an entire month honoring and remembering Black History. For the rest of the month, ASCSU and BAACC will continue to work together to promote awareness of the accomplishments of the Black and African American community. A full calendar of important events for this month can be found on the BAACC’s website. Gabe Hyde can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

| 13

14 |

Arts & Culture | Monday, February 17, 2020

Daily Horoscope

ENTERTAINMENT

Alisa Otte

‘Color Out of Space’ loses soul amid sarcasm By Scotty Powell @scottysseus

Watching the cast in Richard Stanley’s “Color Out of Space” trying to convince the audience that their characters are regular, relatable humans feels a little bit like watching a man covered in cotton balls trying to convince you he’s a cloud. “Of course we’re a typical American family; we get mad at each other sometimes and also complain about our dad cooking pot roast.” “Of course I’m a cloud; there are puffy white things all over me. What else could I be?” A solid half of the scenes in this movie seem to be included for absolutely no reason apart from signaling to the audience that these people we are watching are indeed fun Americans just like us and not the dry, one-dimensional stock characters described in the short story upon which the film is based. We see them going to work, milking alpacas, getting in trouble for smoking weed in the barn and all those other activities that we standard humanoids engage in. Honestly, if Stanley was so desperate to show the audience that these people were indeed people, he might as well have suspended neon signs above each actor with an arrow pointing down and the word “average Homo sapien” spelled out in flashing green light bulbs. This would have been much subtler and would give him more time to actually tell the story that he’s trying to tell. Instead, the audience is forced to sit through 8,000 different scenes showing the Gardner family acting normally. But it’s not just the aggressive, contrived character development that makes “Color Out of Space” the cosmic, chromatic flop that it is. Rather, these scenes are demonstrative of a much greater failing: the film’s lack of understanding of its source material. The original story by H.P. Lovecraft is not a character-driven piece. Lovecraft was not a character-driven writer, and it was not his characters or our concern for them as readers that made his stories so frightening. Rather, in his work, including “Color Out of Space,” Lovecraft’s characters were mere accessories to a much larger world that was, as a whole, terrifying. There was no distinction be-

tween them and the unfeeling, uncaring horror that they faced, unlike in traditional horror movies. They were deliberately flat and soulless because that soullessness added to the all-encompassing, inescapable sense of dread that defined Lovecraft’s style. The problem with “Color Out of Space” is that it equates Lovecraft’s distinct brand of horror with that of classic Hollywood then tries to flip it into a self-referential, over-the-top, trashy mockery of the latter. But the two styles are vastly different. The horror flicks that came out of the Hollywood studio system centered around themes relating to the individual vs. the natural world. Their impact was derived from the audience’s empathy for the hero and fear of the extreme odds that hero was up against. They were far more mythic and folkloric in structure, driven by character and story rather than the atmosphere. Lovecraft’s work, on the other hand, is not terrifying because of what its characters are up against, but rather the uncanny, inescapable strangeness and wrongness of the world they inhabit. He took the sense of desperate insanity that traditional ghost stories and folk tales conveyed through narrative conflict and that Gothics such as Poe and Shelley conveyed through language and translated it into images, environments and visual landscapes. The horror did not arise as much from his characters’ conflicts with the worlds they inhabited, but his readers’ conflicts with that world and the creeping, squirming discomfort it instilled in them. While this “weird fiction” style caught on quickly in horror fiction, it took some time for it to be translated to the silver screen. The films that came to define the classic horror genre, though sometimes inspired by the work of writers like Poe and Lovecraft, were more oriented toward narrative over style. They were B-movies designed to inspire shock in their audience through well-made plots, not haunting visual spectacles. It wasn’t until the ‘60s-‘80s, with films like “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Exorcist,” “Psycho” and “The Shining,” that horror movies began experimenting with more enigmatic, introspective film techniques that evoked emotions more akin to those inspired by Lovecraft’s fiction. “Color Out of Space,” however, doesn’t recognize, appreciate or respect this distinction. From a stylistic standpoint, the film is composed as a brazenly ironic quasi-parody of traditional horror movies and their all-too-familiar tropes: a movie in the vein of “Cabin in the Woods,” “Zom-

bieland” or “Rubber.” The problem is that the original Lovecraft story doesn’t conform to these conventions in the first place, so the film’s irony doesn’t have any ground to stand on. Humor comes from exposing the meaninglessness of the symbols and practices that we have come to consider sacred through years of repetition, but the atmospheric, expressionistic style that defines Lovecraft’s writing is relatively new to horror cinema. It’s a style that, when properly translated to the screen, is still very impactful and resonant with modern audiences — just look at Ari Aster’s “Hereditary” or “Midsommar.” Like Lovecraft’s fiction, the terror of these movies is conveyed almost entirely through atmosphere rather than plot. The characters aren’t up against the traditional antagonists of conventional horror films, like zombies, werewolves or aliens. Instead, they are simply existing in a world that, for some undiagnosable reason, seems deeply, terrifyingly wrong or a world that is haunted by an aggressive, prying emptiness and silence that we simply can’t bear. It’s this torturous, eternal calm that is captured in Lovecraft’s fiction, especially in “Color Out of Space.” The villain is literally the color pink. This is not your conventional jump scare-inducing baddie. It’s simply something that’s there, something that does nothing but lurk, but whose sheer unfamiliarity is nonetheless powerful enough to instill in us a deep sense of dread. It makes us self-aware. The simple fact that there is something bigger than us, beyond our control and that can very easily kill us is enough to drive us insane, especially in today’s society where we have become so certain of our own autonomy and power over the forces of nature. In the film, however, the sublime horror of this villain is dampened and recharacterized as nothing more than a flashier version of “The Blob,” a villain that terrorizes its victims with explosive ambushes rather than silent, foreboding psychological torment. Thus the weight of its power is replaced with cheap, gimmicky tricks, made all the more cheap and gimmicky by their awareness of their own cheap gimmickiness. Despite its solid source material, “Color Out of Space” fails to effectively understand or capture the psychological dread of Lovecraft’s original story and relies instead on trite tongue-in-cheek antics to justify its existence. It could have been a captivating piece of cinema but is nothing more than a clunky, unambitious disappointment. Scotty Powell can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

Alisa Otte is a Gemini and a fourth-year English major with a concentration in creative writing and a minor in philosophy. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (02/17/20). ARIES (March 21-April 19) You are somewhere between too much and not enough. That somewhere should be a comfortable place. Investigate to find out why it’s not. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Everything old is new again. You’re the best at giving second chances. But don’t turn your back on the novel. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Is it possible for memories to change? You’ve always understood the truth to be malleable. This week, take time to see if you’re sure of what you remember. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Every person you meet is so dreamy to you. You could see a life with any of them. Don’t get too swept up. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) It’s time to let go. An apology may be in order, but that doesn’t matter anymore. VIRGO (Aug. 23- Sept. 22) What was your dream three years ago? It’s time to revisit that. You never fully lose who you were.

LIBRA (Sept. 23- Oct. 22) Everything is slowing down and things are in your way. Take this opportunity to rest– you really don’t have any other options. SCORPIO (Oct. 23- Nov. 21) Someone is waiting to speak with you. You might be looking right through them. Try to work on your listening skills. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22- Dec. 21) There is so much to sit and remember. But look at what’s right in front of you. You’ll miss this one day too. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22- Jan. 19) Today, your energy is unmatched. Everyone notices you when you walk in a room. Everyone listens to you. Don’t forget to have compassion. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20- Feb. 18) You may have to force yourself to calm down so much is happening right now. But you’ll feel better for it. It’s nice to do things on your own terms. PISCES (Feb. 19- March 20) This is no time to be shy. Use every connection to your advantage. Even the ones you think won’t pan out.

Malibu Splash Variety

$12.99 8pk cans

Aggie Discount Liquor 429 Canyon Ave. 482-1968

CLASSIFIEDS www.collegian.com 970-491-1146

FOR RENT

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

3 BEDROOM, 2 BLOCKS FROM CSU - AUG. 1

Sweet place, hardwood floors, sunny kitchen, fenced yard for friendly pet. ONLY $1600. Call or visit thebrandtcompany.com | 970.227.4000

2 STORY, 2 BEDROOM & 2 STORY, 3 BEDROOM FOR AUG. 1

Great value, open floor plan, nice private yard. $1080 and $1350. Call or visit thebrandtcompany.com (970) 482-4000

2 BED NEAR CSU FOR AUG. – $1190

Great location, well cared for, fireplace, washer, dryer, nice sunny deck free parking. Call or visit thebrandtcompany.com (970)482-4000 for showings.

CLASSIFIEDS

Housing is available!

Apply online: www.collegian.com townofmountainvillage.com/ community/town-services/careers/ Rent our beautiful furnished 3-bed 970-491-1683 for semester. $1665.00 - $555 per person. Questions?

6 MTHS. AVAIL. FOR FALL

Start May or Aug.thebrandtcompany.com Call Lory: (970) 729-3410 (970)227-4000

1 5 7

Monday, February 17, 2020

Crossword 1

PuzzleJunction.com Puzzle Junction Crossword Puzzle 2

13 17

21 24

23 26 32

44 47

39 42 45

46 49

Across Antares, for one 164 Locomotive 65 Hardy heroine compartment Price word 466 Wallop 8 Seize suddenly Down 12 Location 13 Ornamental purse 141Tricks Eyelashes 162Martians, Listing maybe? 183Bury Honey maker 19 Zippo 4 Alaska-Siberia 20 Unctuous strait workers 21 Feudal And planet others (Abbr.) 225Giant Desi loved her 246Thomas Crown 7 Dead heat actress Rene 268Badgers One of 10 down 289Ike’s WW Germanic II Ancient command letters 29 winks 10Forty NASA traveler 32 Horned goddess 34 Clan emblem 36 High card

37 Enthralled 11 Dinner 38 choice Slippers 37 Bemoan 12 Without39 (Fr.) Mountain 38 lionAtomizer output 15 AARP members, 39 Falafel bread 40 Actress Merkel briefly 41 Agrees 41 Largest planet 17 Novelist42Ephron 42 Piece of cave art Speck 43 Computer46 keyPlumber’s snakes and fictional 44Charles Computer48 portFood inits.from character Drawn tight heaven 23 Building45block 47 Vacuous 50 Gullible 24 Take back to the 49 7th planet from the 51 Absolute lab sun 25 Shoshones 52 Oracle 53 Very, in music 53 One ___ time 27 Short and 55 blunt Forum wear 30 Pinnacle57 Dined 54 Guided missile 31 Soup type types (Abbr.) 58 Tease Orbit inhabitant 55 Gentle 32 Fleming59and 61 Nitrogen compound Woosnam 56 Elevator inventor 62 Arab chieftain 59 Gel 33 NASA apparel Affi rm 60 Race unit 35 Bullring63cheer 64 Antares, for one 65 Hardy heroine 66 Price word

TFOGDOGS RYAN GREENE, @TFOGDOGS

Down 1 Eyelashes 2 Listing 3 Honey maker 4 Alaska-Siberia strait 5 And others (Abbr.) 6 Desi loved her 7 Dead heat 8 One of 10 down 9 Ancient Germanic letters 10 NASA traveler 11 Dinner choice 12 Without (Fr.) 15 AARP members, briefl y 17 Novelist Ephron and fi ctional character Charles 23 Building block 24 Take back to the lab 25 Shoshones 27 Short and blunt 30 Pinnacle 31 Soup type 32 Fleming and Woosnam 33 NASA apparel 35 Bullring cheer 37 Bemoan 38 Atomizer output 39 Falafel bread 41 Largest planet 42 Piece of cave art 46 Plumber’s snakes 48 Food from heaven 50 Gullible 51 Absolute 52 Oracle 53 One ___ time 54 Guided missile types (Abbr.) 55 Gentle 56 Elevator inventor 59 Gel 60 Race unit

2 9 44 9 6

2 3 1 4 2 3 3 5 1 9 7 8 3 8 9 4 9

3 1

82 3

7 4

2 6

5 6

2 6

A C H E

E M I R

A R E N A

S S T C A H Y

P A A E D F R O W I A R T L E C I D A T O T E C R A H S A T O L C A U P O P T H L L S D E

Last edition’s solution

R I N G T H E B E L L

I A N S S T H E T O R O G R A A R E G A D I N N T B G A L S R A A Y E S E B L E E L A U D I S M S

3 7 9 6 5 8 1 2 4

8 4 5 2 1 9 6 3 7

S C O O P S

M O W T H E L P A O W E N

D O N

O G R E E L S

1 7 4 L L 2 I E N E 6 E R 9 S 8 SSolution E E 3 I N G L I O 5 O D S

6 1 2 3 4 7 5 8 9

9 5 3 8 7 1 4 6 2

7 2 1 5 6 4 8 9 3

5 2 6 3 8 7 4 9 1

4 6 8 9 3 2 7 1 5

Solution on next page

“BEARLY HUMOR” MIKAYLA RUST, @MIKAYLA_RUST

| 15 1

To solve the Sudoku puzzle, each row, column and Collegian.com box must contain the numbers 1 to 9.

A 90.5FM STREAMING AT KCSU.COM

1 9 4 7 8 3 2 5 6

9 8 3 4 5 1 2 6 7

2 8 6 4 9 5 3 7 1

8 5 2 9 7 4 6 1 3

7 4 9 6 1 3 5 8 2

5 3 7 1 2 6 9 4 8

6 3 1 8 2 5 7 4 9

2 9 7 1 4 8 3 5 6

4 1 5 7 3 6 9 2 8

3 6 8 5 9 2 1 7 4