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THE RO CKY MOUNTAIN
Fort Collins, Colorado
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
COLLEGIAN
Volume 121 | No. 21
www.collegian.com
THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891
the Eye to Eye STRIP CLUB gives new perspective
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CSU students help middle schoolers embrace disabilities BY TAYLOR PETTAWAY The Rocky Mountain Collegian Students with disabilities at Lincoln Middle School don’t always have access to the resources they need to get ahead. That’s where CSU’s Eye to Eye program comes in. Eye to Eye, a national mentoring organization, allows college students with a learning disability to mentor junior high students who have ADD or ADHD through art. “It is like organized chaos,” said Kim The, co-coordinator of the CSU chapter. “[The program chose art] because you can’t go wrong with art. These kids are told so often that they are always wrong and now they can finally be right.” Students create projects like dioramas of their ideal learning environments to help with their disability. By taking this approach, students learn more about their disability and what resources are available, The said. CSU’s Eye to Eye chapter is only in its first year, and hopes to have at least 10 college mentors signed up for the program. Recruiting members who fit the requirements and the time commitment is the biggest challenge. “The hardest part is definitely recruiting members,” Co-Coordinator Kim Cara said. “It is also finding people who fit the criteria. Some people want to do it, but don’t realize that it is for students with disabilities, or students who have disabilities don’t want to come forward.” The mentors don’t need to be artists, as long as they just want to have fun and learn about their disability, Cara said. "There is a need in K-12
KATIE THOMPSON | COLLEGIAN
Construction employees work to finish the renovation and fourth-floor addition of Braiden Hall, a dormitory that currently stands at 50% occupied. The completed building will feature a new lobby, landscape and entrance as well as lofted ceilings and air conditioning.
Braiden Hall renovated over other dorms because structure can support renovation By KATE WINKLE The Rocky Mountain Collegian Using last year’s Parmelee renovation process as a blueprint, Housing and Dining Services is working to update Braiden Hall one semester at a time. Students currently living on the south side of the building will move to the north side when it is completed before winter break, according to Tonie Miyamoto, director of Communications and Sustainability. The Parmelee and Braiden projects cost approximately $13 million each, and are financed by room and board revenues. “Our goal is that every penny that comes in helps all the pennies that go out, so we have a balanced budget each year,” Miyamoto said.
Braiden Hall was selected for renovations this year because, like Parmelee, it is a “keeper,” Miyamoto said. The dorms’ locations and suitestyle rooms make them popular with students, and their structures are stable enough to support renovations. Rooms in the newly updated Parmelee were in high demand this year, according to Miyamoto. “We had some students move into Parmelee who thought it was a new residence hall,” Miyamoto said. “Parents are blown away--they can’t believe it’s the same building.” Braiden’s lobby was completed by this year’s August move-in, and achieved part of the goal to provide more student lounge space and improve the interior and exterior. “It was a lot different last year. In some ways I think it’s better overall, al-
though the construction is kind of annoying,” said Christian Mast, a junior psychology major. “There’s more open room, it seems upgraded, I guess, and a little bit more lively.” Renovating an existing building is a sustainable avenue, according to Miyamoto, and 90 percent of Braiden’s original structure was retained. New heating and cooling systems, energyefficient windows and better insulation improve sustainability. Additionally, construction crews are building a fourth floor which will include 120 additional beds, according to Miyamoto. When sophomore equine science and animal sciences double major Rebecca Sonn, who lived in Braiden last year, saw the dorm’s updates, she had one question: “Where was this when we lived here?” “All I know is that it is absolutely beautiful now,” Sonn said. “It sucks that we missed out on the renovations, See CONSTRUCTION on Page 5
See DISABILITIES on Page 5
Student fees explained
The average full-time student pays $886.80 in fees
How changes in student fees are determined
See FEES on Page 3
University Facility Fee
$ 225.00
University Technology Fee
$ 20.00
Student Legal Services
$ 5.95
$ 15.85 SLICE
School of the Arts
$ 10.64
$ 5.26 Off-Campus Life
$ 4.00 Interpersonal Violence Response and Safety
$ 0.50 Committee for Disabled Student Accessibility
Adult Learner and Veteran Services
$ 6.60
Conflict Resolution and Student Conduct Services
ASAP
$ 9.21
$ 4.27
Lory Student Center
$ 99.18
$ 27.77 Career Center
University Counseling Center
$ 38.88
Campus Recreation
$ 133.63
$ 142.00 Hartshorn Health Service
Athletics
$ 103.85
The university’s student government, ASCSU, creates a special board –– the Student Fee Review Board (SFRB) –– that meets once a week over the school year to discuss where fees are at and how they’re being used. Students from across campus are part of the board and the student body vice president chairs it. Fee-funded areas around campus submit budget proposals to SFRB for review. The
Here is how it breaks down:
ASCSU
Editor’s note: Rocky Mountain Student Media Corporation, the Collegian’s parent company, received $520,000 of its budget last year from the Associated Students of CSU. This was funded by student fees.
proposals may ask for an increase, decrease or the same amount of money. SFRB then reviews the proposals, asks for student opinions and votes on them. After the Student Fee Review Board hears all fee proposals and each one has been voted on individually, the SFRB puts together the “Long Bill” –– a compilation of all fee proposals that SFRB has heard and approved –– to be sent to the ASCSU Senate. The Senate then votes on the bill twice before it is passed. They have the power to amend the bill to their liking, changing the way a fee increase proposal’s revenue would be spent, or cutting it entirely.
$ 35.92
By CARRIE MOBLEY The Rocky Mountain Collegian
Infomation courtesy of the Student Fee Review Board, Graphic by Kris Lawan
The CSU campus is almost constantly under construction. Some building, somewhere, has construction workers diligently building away, even if we do not really understand why. With that in mind, here are some things that we would not mind seeing built on campus.
Construction projects we’d like to see A Monument to Tony Frank’s Beard Hey, if ASAP can lose $67,000 in student fees on a concert that nobody wants to see, then why can’t we erect a monument to President Frank and his rocking beard, which something we all really, really want to see?
Inter-Campus Subway System Winter is just around the corner. And it can get really cold — cold enough to close everything except campus that is. To make it easier on students who have to walk from Yates to Engineering, the university should put in an underground subway system to ferry them around. It’s quick, convenient, and best of all, a total waste of money. Buildings that Actually Need Renovating Remember when a pipe burst in the Education Building? Ever wonder why Allison and Newsom Halls don’t have fire sprinklers? There are buildings that do actually need renovation, and badly. Can we start with buildings that need renovating more than others? The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff and designed by Design Editor Kris Lawan