WHEN THE MAGIC STOPS
ENTERTAINMENT | PAGE 5
NEW MEXICO HALTS CSU’S HOME WIN STREAK
FIND OUT WHAT YOU MISSED FROM LAST NIGHT’S OSCARS
SPORTS | PAGE 8
NEWS | PAGE 3
GARDEN GONE GRAFFITI:AFTER TODAY
THE RO CKY MOUNTAIN
Fort Collins, Colorado
Monday, February 25, 2013
COLLEGIAN
Volume 121 | No. 109
www.collegian.com
THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891
CSU silent on stadium funds
If It Snows, They Will Throw
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STRIP CLUB
Snow and CSU President Tony Frank have a tenuous relationship, much like the Grinch and Christmas. Every time there is a halfdecent snow, we imagine that President Frank rolls his eyes and laughs maniacally as he deletes hundreds (nay, thousands!) of emails begging for a snow day. We, the student body, may need to change our approach.
By KATE SIMMONS The Rocky Mountain Collegian As of now, CSU students and the Fort Collins community are in the dark about how much money has been raised in the fundraising effort for the $246 million on-campus stadium. According to Ann Kaplan, survey director at the Council for Aid to Education, a “silent phase” is the norm in big fundraising campaigns. Administrators work behind the scenes, collecting money from large donors before asking the public for additional donations. This process usually lasts about one to two years, Kaplan said. “There’s always a period in which the university is talking to supporters before they announce (anything),” Kaplan said. “When they do they will already have a large amount of the gifts donated to get the fundraising campaign running.” According to CSU’s Executive Director of Public Relations Mike Hooker, the CSU Board of Governors established October 2014 as the designated time they wish to receive a report from President Tony Frank about where the fundraising effort stands. “That is really the significant date that we are aiming towards,” Mike Hooker said in an email to the Collegian. “We will announce updates as we reach milestones, but there is not a timeline set for those announcements.” October 2012 Tony Frank announced his decision that the university would begin exploring the possibility of
AUSTIN SIMPSON | COLLEGIAN
New Ways to Ask Tony Frank for a Snow Day Black Ice
ABOVE: Dan Smith dodges a snowball during an intense snowball fight near Allison Hall yesterday afternoon. Smith is a freshman graphic design major. LEFT: Undeclared freshman Frank Denny adds snow to the top of the fort constructed by himself and friends from Newsom Hall on the IM fields Sunday afternoon. DYLAN LANGILLE | COLLEGIAN
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Bribes
“It’s an environment that doesn’t let you sit there and go into a powerpoint fog.” Hunt Lambert | associate provost of continuing education
Virtual classes bring in real money PHOTO COURTESY OFMOTOR ENGINEERING PROGRAM
Engineering students work on their EcoCar 2, a project that originates from the Department of Energy and General Motors. The fully electric car is helping America secure its energy for the future.
Imagining the future of autos
Students building electric cars By BAILEY CONSTAS The Rocky Mountain Collegian Saturday morning, the history of motor vehicles appeared to be on display at the Motorsports Engineering Research Center in Fort Collins as a handful of students surrounded a Formula SAE car, and an all-electric car. Side by side, students in the Ram Racing club and the EcoCAR 2 Project stood in a
garage to build cars. Today, a nationwide program will launch in the center of this Mecca of technology. Today at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, CSU will be helping to launch the first-in-the-nation initiative to establish an electric vehicle deployment community. A student project called EcoCar 2 will be at the launch. See CARS on Page 5
By CORRIE SAHLING and AUSTIN BRIGGS The Rocky Mountain Collegian The last decade has seen people transition a large part of their lives to the digital world –– from shopping to finding old friends,to the perfect job, a large percentage of the population has come to see the Internet as an integral part of their lives. Not surprisingly, many students in higher education are opting to take their learning into the digital realm. A 2011 study by the Babson Survey Research Group, an organization that tracks trends in higher education, found exponential growth in the number of students taking online, or “distance” courses. The study found that over six million people and nearly one-third of all students in higher education were taking at least one online course. At CSU, this trend is re-
flected in the amount of students enrolling in the university’s online component: CSU OnlinePlus. In the fiscal year of 2012 enrollment topped out at 10,500 unique students, with 5,300 students enrolled in 14,892 credit courses. “Enrollments in credit courses is our most important metric,” said Hunt Lambert, the associate provost of continuing education. Likewise, between 2010 and 2013, revenue increased 53 percent from $21.9 million to a projected $33.5 million. To enroll in a class using OnlinePlus, the student must first be accepted into the university, just like any other CSU student must do. Last year, people from every state and 34 countries were taking courses through the program. Unlike CSU Global which is a separate entity within the CSU system, CSU OnlinePlus is contained within the CSU
With lots of snow, comes lots of ice. And every day mobs of students drive, bike and walk across fields of the stuff on their way to campus. How many slips and slides will happen if classes aren’t canceled?
Fort Collins campus. Taylor Jackson, a senior biological and chemical engineer, has taken two classes through CSU OnlinePlus. Last summer, she enrolled in a 300-level course through CSU OnlinePlus while working a full time job. She said it made her life easier to take it online at her own pace and the level of learning was the same as the in-classroom experience. This semester, she has an online course in addition to full credit hours. Her only complaint is she had to pay full tuition for the three extra credits when she was already enrolled full time at the university. “I think online is better for the stuff I’ve used it for because it’s very scientific and a lot of memorization,” Jackson said. “I don’t have to be in class and learning it. It’s been a lot better to learn it at my See ONLINE on Page 3
Grovelling and begging clearly isn’t working. We need to change our approach. Namely, find out what Tony Frank likes to drink and send him a “complimentary” bottle of it.
Little Children’s Smiles
There is nothing that melts the heart of a miserable miser like the smiles of little children having fun in the snow. Nobody can resist that, right? Unless Frank’s heart is a Grinchy two sizes too small.
The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff.