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By AUSTIN BRIGGS and KATE SIMMONS The Rocky Mountain Collegian It’s been talked about at length for over a year now, but with less than four weeks until the nation possibly goes over the fiscal cliff, Congress still appears to be no closer to reaching a budget agreement than they were last August, when a committee was charged with crafting a budget deal. The committee failed and if legislators can’t reach a compromise by the end of the month, approximately $500 billion in automatic federal spending cuts and tax increases will be implemented. Lower and middle income higher education students will be impacted more than other groups. According to the State Association of National of State Student Aid Grant & Aid Programs, “If Congress does not act, the cost of attending college will increase by about $5,000, per student, per year, starting with the 2013-14 academic year, for many low and middle income families — and that's before taking into account any increases in tuition, fees and other costs of attendance.” The key question administration officials at CSU asked about the fiscal cliff is what would happen to the federal Pell Grant program, said Tom Biedscheid, interim director of Student Financial Services. “Pell is an integral part of our Commitment to Colorado,” Biedscheid said, referencing one of CSU’s college affordability program for students who come from middleand lower-income families. “Any loss in Pell, any change in Pell, can have a major impact to the institution. So we keep a close eye on that.” CSU students received $22 million out of $33.4 billion in Pell Grants that were distributed nationally in the 2011-12 school year. Most government agencies and programs would see an across the board cut of 8.2 percent.
Spacing Out the Title Rams, Buffs renew rivalry in __________ KATE WINKLE
Pedro Boscan, a Colorado State professor, cleans up the remains of his house after the Rist Canyon fire. Boscan is rebuilding his house with help from neighbors in the community.
Rising through the ashes
CSU professor, Rist Canyon residents still rebuilding after High Park Fire By KATE WINKLE The Rocky Mountain Collegian What was once Pedro Boscan’s home is a giant hole in the ground, surrounded by charred trees that used to be a dense forest. Now the forests’ remnants barely conceal the view of a road and other houses thanks to the summer 2012 High Park Fire. “The reason we moved up here doesn’t exist any more,” Boscan said, who works as a volunteer firefighter and associate professor of clinical veterinary science at CSU. The blaze burned about 89,000 acres by the time it was extinguished. Since the disaster, some areas that were less burned experienced some regrowth and ground cover, while more severely burned areas have been sterilized by the fire. The total structures lost in the fire totaled 274, according to Bob Gann, fire chief of the Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department. Boscan’s home burned the second day of the fire. “It is heartbreaking to the point that for me as a volunteer firefighter, if another fire comes through here I’m going to come to my house. I’m sorry for all
my neighbors and the school and anyone else, but I am never going to do this again in my life.” Boscan said “... I’d still be a firefighter, and I like it and I want to help others, but I will not sacrifice my house ever again.” Boscan is underinsured by about $100,000 and is doing much of the rebuilding work himself, including removing dead trees and controlling erosion by planting seeds in the area. Work on his property and at the university is equivalent to two full-time jobs, he said. Before the fire started, Boscan, his wife and some friends were supposed to go to Beaver Creek for the Tough Mudder run. Instead, they had to evacuate and Boscan was fighting the fire in another area when his house burned. The news was “demoralizing” and “extremely frustrating.” “It was extremely emotional,” Boscan said. “I actually apologized to a couple of the firefighters because I was extremely emotional. I was frustrated, I’m not going to call it angry because it wasn’t really angry, just a moment of desperation.” Boscan estimates that based on the work and money put into his original house and what he received from his
insurance company, he lost $150,0000 to $200,000. Boscan was not the only CSU professor affected by the fire. H.J. Siegel, Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering and professor of computer science, began volunteering for the Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department shortly after moving to the area in 2001. His goal was to get involved with the community and he said he never expected to deal with a fire of High Park’s magnitude. The defensive measures Siegel learned from the fire department helped protect his home during the High Park Fire. He made sure trees were cut away from his house and that the building’s materials were non-flammable. Boscan’s property also had defensible space and his home would have survived if his neighbor’s trees, which were close to the house, had not caught on fire. The only thing Siegel lost in the fire was his refrigerator, which was filled with food that spoiled when the power was off for 20 days. “My job was fighting the fire, not See RIST on Page 3
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“They punked us, I mean, they were more physical, more aggressive and they had us on our heels.” Dorian Green | senior guard
Buffs outlast Rams in Boulder with skilled offense By ANDREW SCHALLER The Rocky Mountain Collegian
After going up 20 points at halftime, it appeared CUBoulder would run away with an easy victory over rival CSU Wednesday night. In the end, CSU made a big run cutting the Buffs’ lead down to one possession, but CU managed to hang on for a 70-61 victory. In front of a Coors Event Center record 11,708 screaming fans, the Buffs did what they had to in order to pull out their biggest victory of the young season. The Rams’ offense struggled to get off the ground in the first half, scoring just 22 points while shooting 30 percent from the field. “It’s just embarrassing the way we came out,” senior guard Dorian Green said. “They punked us, I mean, they were more physical, more aggressive and they had us on our heels.”
The second half gave the Rams hope, however, thanks to timely shooting from Green, who tallied 18 points, and tough defense allowing CSU to get back into the game. The Rams’ offense, which got off to a 17-7 run in the second half struggled to maintain that pace in the second half, with turnovers and, at times, sloppy play dooming CSU. The Rams had a total of 14 turnovers in the game, a season high against a Buffs team that simply outworked their opponent. “We were totally out played, we were totally outphysicaled particularly in the first half,” CSU coach Larry Eustachy said. “I didn’t know what to expect because I didn’t know what to expect in this situation but I do now. “And I told my team after the game, I apologized to them and told them ‘I have not gotten you tough enough to get your game and take it from Fort
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Colorado State forward Greg Smith (44) lunges for a loose ball against Colorado guard Askia Booker (0) during the first half of Wednesday night’s game in Boulder.
Collins in here to Boulder.’” While the Rams’ offense sputtered, the Buffs’ offense showed periods of dominance and managed to continuously answer the bell when they had to while running a fast-tempo
offense led by point guard Spencer Dinwiddie. Dinwiddie, who fired a shot at CSU over the week calling the Rams CU’s “little brother” backed up his words by torching the Rams’ defense
to the tune of 29 points. The issues CSU had Wednesday night brings up painful memories for the Rams from last season, as the they went an impressive 14-1 at home in 2011-12, but posted a mere 3-9 record on the road. The game against CU provided the Rams with a their first difficult road test of the young season and the result was more of the same struggles from last year. “We didn’t handle it well again tonight Eustachy said of his team’s road performance. “To duplicate this in practice, you can’t. So we need games like this.” CSU will now go on its longest road trip of the season so far when it travels to University of Illinois-Chicago, who the Rams will play Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. MT. Men’s Basketball Beat Reporter Andrew Schaller can be reached at sports@collegian. com.
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Lincoln Barron, son of Grant Barron, plays with the metal fish in the center of Old Town on Wednesday while eating a delicious candy bar.
Community Briefs Dead Week Donuts? Yes, please Head over to the Clark A wing to buy $1 donuts Thursday and Friday from the CSU Rams Cycling Team, which is hoping to sell 720 donuts by the end of their Dead Week Donuts campaign. According to the team’s president, Phillip Sommers, the fundraising drive was created to help the cyclists’ traveling expenses and costs associated with attending
a training camp in Tucson, Ariz. from January 12 to 19. This the 30-member team’s second time hosting Dead Week Donuts. The last time was in 2011, when they sold 25 dozen donuts per day. Supporters can buy a dozen for $10.
Earth at night, by satellite A satellite 512 miles above Earth has taken
some of the most detailed images ever of the planet at night, thanks to researchers at the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at CSU (CIRA). The satellite, called the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, is a joint venture between NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It allows researchers to see clouds at night, which could change the way climate research is conduct-
ed.
“This development is exciting and impressive,” said Mary Kicza, assistant administrator for NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service, in a statement. “This could be especially useful to our meteorologists in areas like Alaska, where the winter months have long periods of darkness.” Before Suomi NPP, “noise” and inadequate sensitivity made nighttime image-capture difficult.
CSU biology profs awarded $2 million grant CSU scientists working on crops for car fuel got funding for their research this week. June Medford, Mauricio Antunes and Ashok Prasad, three CSU professors, received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The team studies synthetic biology, particularly that of plants. Their work on
biofuels was chosen from over 4,000 submissions. “While our work has specific near-term goals for bioenergy crops, our regulatory genetic circuits could also find application for biofuels, biomanufacturing and bioengineering, allowing the U.S. to retain technological lead in renewable energy,” Medford said.
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Students use marketing skills to help provide affordable products By TAYLOR PETTAWAY The Rocky Mountain Collegian Colorado State students are working with universities around the world to create a market and way to sell affordable products to developing countries. As a part of CSU’s Global Social and Sustainable Use Enterprise (GSSE) MBA through the College of Business, students and staff have connected with students in Africa to create an international entrepreneurship program. The purpose of the program is to educate entrepreneurship in East Africa through Kenya’s United States International University. Students in the program learn how to market products for food and water for those who can’t afford everyday products. Students at CSU get to learn how to market and connect internationally with students around the world. “Smart people design stuff for you and me,” said Carl Hammerdorfer, the director of GSSE. “(The problem is) how do we design for the other four million (people), so it’s affordable and durable. It is not enough to design a product, we have to get it to them, which is how our business comes into play.” “We see enterprise solutions in most viable means to build prosperity in a developing country,” he added. Recently, MIT was granted $15 million to design these products to improve life in Africa; however they needed people to know how to sell it on a market, according to Hammerdorfer. MIT
gave the GSSE program $4.1 million to get their designs sold to the African people. “CSU brings to the party a way to build a business to bring life-changing products to people,” Hammerdorfer said. GSSE student Meghan Coleman and her team are currently working on a project with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to develop a sustainable supply chain for nutritious foods to low income consumers in East Africa's slums. According to Coleman, they are using a model which provides a source of income for the unemployed youth in urban slums while also ensuring last-mile distribution and marketing of these valuable nutrition products. “The hands-on experience of developing a business model then going out and validating whether or not it will be work in the market (is the most valuable thing),” Coleman said. “I can now talk intelligently in business-terms about why a social opportunity is financially sustainable.” The GSSE program started at CSU about five years ago, when Hammerdorfer spent a year going to Africa to recruit students to come to CSU from Uganda, Kenya and South Africa. Hammerdorfer visited a dozen universities and learned that they had an interest in entrepreneurship. “It was a eureka moment,” Hammerdorfer said. “Why bring Africans to Colorado when you could just bring the program to Africa? The expense to bring 100
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Students walk out of a building at the UISU campus in Kenya.
Africans to CSU is millions of dollars. To bring the program there, can get more results for less money, which is what business is all about.” GSSE established a sister program two years ago in Africa, Sustainable Enterprise MBAs for Africa (SEMBAA) through USIU. According to Hammerdorfer, the African students are able to use CSU’s resources, which provide them with technology and opportunities. “It is a semiotic relationship,” Hammerdorfer said. “Students get smart, motivated African entrepreneurs and
that is important when doing business 10,000 miles away, but the African students get to us for resources, like access to our science research.” As of now, the SEMBAA program has about 10 students, while GSSE has 50, but according to Hammerdorfer, there is no pressure to grow in numbers for the future; they are happy with 25 to 50 students involved in the program. “The GSSE community is hands-down the best part of this program,” Coleman said. “I now have a network of intelligent and
action-oriented colleagues who are equally passionate about addressing the same global challenges that I am.” “[I was] attracted to the market-based approach as years of work in the nonprofit and international development sector has opened my eyes to how broken the current aid model is,” added Coleman. “[The program is the] perfect blending of social and environmental sciences with hard business language, and small cohort size meant greater interaction with my colleagues and professors.”
To apply to the program, it is the same as a regular MBA, but they are not taking young students who haven’t been in the field. “This is really a foot in the door for the College of Business and the university to provide a high quality education,” Hammerdorfer said. “It is a substantial growth opportunity to look at education as a path toward middle class stable life, and see the real growth opportunities there.” Collegian Writer Taylor Pettaway can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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Get the facts, avoid misconceptions
By Ryan stecker
Because we do not know everything about everything in the world, people will tend to make up things in order to fill in the gap. Think back to your mom explaining things to you after asking “Why?” for the hundredth time over the thousandth thing. She probably did not know the real answer, but made something up to shut you up. Because of this curious human desire to appear all knowing, we sometimes end up with information or perceptions that are totally incorrect. A perfect example of this is something I witnessed last weekend while in Denver. A man was holding a sign outside of a mall that said something along the lines of “Remember what Christmas is about: Christ’s birthday — not the presents.” While the morality of turning the holidays into a capital venture is debatable, I was more fascinated by the fact that this man truly believed that Dec. 25th marked the birthday of the Christian Lord. I wonder how many other people out there believe the same thing, or have fallen victim to other common misconceptions? First, the whole Christmas thing was really an invention of the church to try and integrate previous traditions of other cultures into fledging Christianity. The act of gift giving had been practiced by the Romans during a time called Saturnalia for hundreds of years before Christianity rose. And it was celebrated on — you guessed it — Dec. 25. There are numerous similar examples of other pagan traditions being fused into Christianity, either for Christmas or other holidays. Furthermore, the idea that Christ was born on Dec. 25 has no true historical basis. In the early years of Christianity there were many different days celebrated, and each separate Christian group picked a day they liked most. I understand that it’s more about the idea and spirit of celebrating it than the actual facts, but one should not confuse the two, nor should they ignore the truth. Moving on, there are lots of other common misconceptions that need to be dis-
pelled post haste. And you can check the facts by a quick Google search. First, do not despair about going swimming right after you’ve just had a meal. There is no evidence to suggest that it will increase the chances that you will get muscle cramps. This is essentially an oldwives tale. Another one that may tickle you is that we humans have more than five senses. Everyone knows the five basic ones identified by Aristotle, but there are others that for whatever reason are not as widely taught. The true number is still debated by scientists as is exactly what a sense is; but senses such as being able to sense relative temperature, body and limb position, and time are all other senses that people are capable of. Next is one of my absolutely favorite mistaken comments that people will make; which is that we only use about 10 percent of our brains. To be fair it is true that only a relatively small percentage of our brains is actively firing at any given time, the non-active neurons in our brain are still important as well, for things like memory storage. Sadly, this misconception seems to be so rooted in our culture it is unlikely that it will be defeated anytime soon. Finally, in case anyone that reads this ever has kids, bear in mind that giving kids sugar does not mean that they are all of a sudden going to be bouncing off the walls, at least there is no scientific reason for them to be. Also, if your kids are ever just simply refusing to drink milk, maybe it is because they are lactose intolerant — like the majority of people on the planet. That’s right — not being able to digest milk properly in adulthood is a normal trait of human beings. If a person wants to be taken seriously, they need to know the truth about things before they just spurt out incorrect albeit common information. You’ll be taken more seriously if you know the truth. And, if you want to just show off to someone, remember Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line or the car, and Mac computers can definitely get viruses and malware. Res Stecker is a junior international studies major. His columns appear Thursdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian.com.
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Pushed in front of a train The New York Post ran a front page picture of a man about to get hit by the subway, accompanied with the words “DOOMED.” Don’t look up the photo. It is hardly worth giving the publication the satisfaction. The shocking photo was run to get people’s attention, which happened. But the response was something the editors should have expected: justifiable outrage. Exploiting the last moments of a man’s life for no other purpose other than to increase pick-up rate is highly unethical, and should be condemned by everyone. Media outlets across the country spoke out about the disgusting sensationalization by the New York Post, but most outlets still showed the shocking front page, unable to
resist the temptation to sensationalize the story themselves. Too much blame has been placed
“Instead, the blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the paper’s editors, whose charge it is to be the moral and ethical compass of the publication.” on the photographer who took the picture, many claiming that he
shirked his moral duty as a human being for snapping a photo rather than endeavoring to save the man. The photographer can hardly be blamed, though, it being unlikely that even without taking the photo he’d have been able to save the man’s life. Instead, the blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the paper’s editors, whose charge it is to be the moral and ethical compass of the publication. These editors, and the media at large, have to disconnect themselves from the flash and fizzle journalism that has turned the modern newsroom into a media circus. The only news revealed by the New York Post with that cover was the depths the paper is willing to sink to increase their own readership.
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CSU needs a gender neutral housing option Every year that I have been at CSU, I have heard at least one story about an openly LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer) freshman whose randomly assigned roommate backed out of living with them because of their sexuality or gender identity. This is not exactly the most welcoming way for a freshman to start out their semester at college. Colorado State takes pride in being an institution that is inclusive of students from diverse backgrounds and identities, yet there is no residential living option that explicitly caters to the needs of students who may not feel comfortable having their housing assigned based on a male/female binary. Universities across the country — ranging from Princeton to CU-Boulder — have implemented gender neutral housing options in their dorms. I believe that this is something that needs to be implemented at Colorado State as well. A gender neutral hall in the dorms would be an excellent alternative for incoming students who are required to live on campus, but do not feel comfortable or safe in the traditional sex-binary housing assignment situation that we currently have. CSU already offers some diverse housing options and living communities based on students’ interests. The list of residential living communities listed on the Housing and Dining Services website is extensive and tailors to a wide range of different personal and academic interests: art,
engineering, equine sciences, international community, health and exercise science, honors, natural sciences, academics, community service, leadership and development, living green and substance-free living. If you’re interested in any of those things and more, CSU offers a place where you can live and build community with other people who are interested in the same things as you. If you are interested in living in a hall where you are guaranteed acceptance regardless of your gender identity or sexual orientation, on the other hand, there are no definite options available. I do not mean to imply that people interested in horses or engineering deserve a dorm situation that allows them to build community any less than LGBTQ students — but the implications of living with someone who does not accept your gender or sexuality is far more serious than the implications of living with someone who does not accept your interest in horses. Given all of the diverse housing options we already have it seems especially bizarre and wrong that the university does not already offer a gender neutral living community. A gender neutral housing option means that students who choose to live in these communities could live in the same room as students of the opposite birth sex. This is not to say that it would be a place where all LGBTQ students are required to live, nor would it be a place
that restricted to only LGBTQ-identifying students. Instead it would be a great option to students who do not feel comfortable living in the traditional dorm style and/or who are interested in building a community with their peers that is welcoming and inclusive of LGBTQ students and allies. Discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation is something that faces the LGBTQ community on campus and in society as a whole — which is why related roommate-switches happen in the first place. I think that a gender neutral housing option is a great way to battle discrimination against LGBTQ students because it would guarantee a safe and supportive living environment, and it would guarantee a welcoming community for students. LGBTQ students and allies are already very active on campus, and SOGLBT does amazing things and puts on inspiring events. No student should be scared away from attending CSU and taking part in the great and supportive community that we have because of discriminatory housing. Everybody deserves to feel comfortable and safe with their on-campus living situation, and more inclusivity is something that CSU should strive for. Tyanna Slobe is a senior English Language and Spanish double major. She can be reached at letters@collegian. com or @TySlobe.
guest column
Whenever abortion is defended, pregnancies from rape and incest are typically utilized to silence opposition. Thanks to misconceptions that these abortions are the norm, the tactic is often successful, wrongly painting “choice” as compassion and unborn rights as oppression of the raped. Statistics paint another picture. According to the Guttmacher
Institute — a “pro-choice” group that “advances sexual and reproductive health and rights” – the total percentage of abortions linked to rape and incest was only 1.5 percent in 2004. The percentage was the same back in 1987. (Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives (2005), http:// www.guttmacher.org/pubs/jour-
nals/3711005.html. These were the most recent, reliable statistics found.) What does this mean? 98.5 percent of the time, women (and men) of America, you have choice. You control your bodies and when you get pregnant. What you really pursue is sex without responsibility, regardless of the cost to others. To focus on the 1.5 percent for
that cause is to manipulate the suffering of raped women, treating them like objects instead of people. These human beings have been traumatically violated, and deserve honest help and compassion. Killing their children doesn’t erase the brutality from history; it serves the goals of those who exploit these women for abortion revenues or who seek to defend the modern
misunderstanding of choice. My fellow students, we can’t keep abusing the 1.5 percent as a catch-all defense for abortion. We have choice. We control our own destinies. Rather than complaining about responsibility and exploiting the suffering of others, we should embrace that power. Cole Buckon, Junior, Environmental Engineering
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“If we do see these kinds of potential reductions, we have to work with the agencies to try to protect the programs that are most important to us. Who knows if we’ll be successful.”
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The good news: Federal Pell Grants will still be fully funded through the 2013-14 school year, so any reductions in the program wouldn’t occur until the 2014-15 school year. The bad news: If sequestration is still in effect in 2014, then the Pell Grant program would get hit especially hard, with a projected $6 to $9 billion shortfall the first year. Other programs impacted at CSU would be: Federal work study decrease from $923,000 to $847,314. That equates to about 31 jobs. Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant decrease from $632,000 to $580,176. This grant is used to supplement very low income freshmen aid packages. Other programs administered by the Access Center like TRIO and GEAR UP would also see an 8.2 percent cut. Despite these cuts, Biedscheid said enrollment at CSU probably wouldn’t drop the first year, because the Commitment to Colorado ensure access to Pell-eligible students. If there’s still sequestration after a year, lower-income students might have more difficulties in attending a public university. “If Pell does take a hit, maintaining the Commitment to Colorado becomes difficult because any loss in federal funding to the Commitment to Colorado would have to be backed by institutional money,” Biedscheid said. “So there is that long term concern.” Cynthia Santos, a senior psychology and spanish double major, works 12 to 14 hours a week in her work study job at the RamCard Office in the Lory Student
Center. She said the work study program is perfect because her employers are understanding of the stresses students have and are willing to accommodate them, like with finals week. She said she works another job and sends money back home to help out her parents. She expressed concern about 31 work study positions being eliminated if an agreement isn’t reached. “That would be so hard and stressful if they took that away from us,” Santos said. “They make it easier and give you more breaks than a regular job.” Although it’s hard to gauge how much money CSU would lose from the federal government, the impact to research would be significant, said Bill Farland, the vice president of research at CSU. Seventy-six percent of the $340 million in research funding CSU receives comes from the federal government. Farland estimated that the university would see research funding decrease by about $23.5 million, with the drop coming about a year after the fiscal cliff. “That’s a pretty significant impact if it were to come about,” Farland said. The across-the-board cuts would mean all universities and the federal agencies that support them with research funding would be hit hard by the cuts, meaning there would be significantly less money for research and a marked increase in competition for the remaining federal research dollars. “Our investigators have been very successful in terms of their ability to get funds in a tough budget climate. This would be an additional reduction of funding for competitive programs,” Farland said. “It would have an impact on our ability to
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BY THE NUMBERS $22 MILLION out of $33.4 BILLION: The amount CSU
students received in Pell Grants that were distributed nationally in the 2011-12 school year.
$847,314 to $923,000:
The amount that CSU’s Federal Work-Study would decrease. The $75,686 decrease equates to about 31 jobs.
$580,176 to $632,000:
The amount that the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant would decrease. This grant is used to supplement very low-income freshmen aid packages.
compete and garner those awards.” Those awards, Farland said, support faculty salaries, research associates, graduate and post-doctoral researchers, among other things. Although he doubted faculty would be cut, there could be a “ripple” effect into other research infrastructure. A few weeks ago, Farland spent time with the members of the Colorado Congressional delegation and discussed the importance of higher education and research to keep the country vibrant and competitive. They also talked about contingency plans in case the nation were to fall off the fiscal cliff and how to continue working with federal agencies to ensure funding. “If we do see these kinds of potential reductions, we have to work with the agencies to try to protect the programs that are most important to us,” Farland said. “Who knows if we’ll be successful. But we’ll certainly give that a try.” Senior Reporter Austin Briggs and Student Life Beat Reporter Kate Simmons can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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“From the point of starting it (a brew) to drinking a finished beer is roughly about four weeks.” Luke Schwerdtfeger | senior biological sciences major and home-brewer
Brewing the old fashioned way: in your living room By KEVIN RUBY The Rocky Mountain Collegian With multiple brewing companies in Fort Collins, it is no secret to students at CSU that beer is a big deal in the city. New Belgium, Odell, Equinox, Coopersmiths and Pateros Creek are just a few of the breweries in the area. That has sparked interests in many students at CSU to start brewing their own beer at home. Students have learned to brew the old-fashioned way, but have also learned about brewing from a course called Brewing Science and Technology (FTEC 460) at CSU. The course teaches scientific and technical aspects of brewing, fermenting, finishing and evaluating microbrewed style of lagers and ales. Luke Schwerdtfeger, Chris Holt and Michael Miller are a few of the many home brewing students at CSU. Schwerdtfeger started brewing about two years ago in his home in Fort Collins. He learned to brew not from taking FTEC 460, but instead, from Tony Rau. “A good friend of mine, Tony Rau, is an assistant brewer at Odell,” said the senior biological sciences major. “He was the TA (teaching assistant) for the brewing sciences class at the time and he said, ‘Hey man, we’re home brewing this weekend, do you want to come?”’and I said ‘sure’ and the rest is history.” Schwerdtfeger learned from Rau by sitting down with him and learning it step by step. “He literally sat me down … and just said here’s what we’re doing … this the chemistry behind it,” Schwerdtfeger said. “This is what we’re doing and that’s how it
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CSU senior Michael Miller cleans a tub used to help ferment beer. Miller and several other CSU students have began to brew their own beer.
works. It’s pretty easy to pick up.” Holt later came in six months ago to brew with Schwardtfeger and then Miller. “The first time I home brewed was with Luke about a week ago,” said the senior
biomedical sciences major. “I took the class expecting it to be kind of a home brew class but it was all about the industrial side, which was great because it taught me all about the chemistry and all the stuff behind it. So whenever I brewed with
Luke … I knew exactly what he was talking about and so it was more direct and really easy to pick up.” Each brew day takes about three-and-a-half to five hours depending on how quick you are doing it or how rushed you are,
Schwerdtfeger said. “From the point of starting it (a brew) to drinking a finished beer is roughly about four weeks,” Schwerdtfeger said. They have no plans to start a brewing company in the future, but instead are
concentrating on their studies. New Belgium and Odell brewing companies both have their roots as home brewed beer. Collegian Writer Kevin Ruby can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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US insists world will not end this month By MICHAEL MUSKAL The McClatchy Tribune
In this July 21, 2009 file photograph, jazz composer Dave Brubeck performs live during ‘An Evening of Performance and Conversation;’ at the Apple Store Soho in New York City. (Photo by Dennis Van | McClatchy Tribune)
Brubeck made the most of his time By CHRIS BARTON The McClatchy Tribune
LOS ANGELES—When thinking about Dave Brubeck, you can’t help but also consider time, which is ultimately the foundation of any form of music. Although jazz primarily swung through a 4/4 rhythm, Brubeck expanded the music’s palette and became one of the true giants of the genre for looking outside of the genre’s influences to that point and carving into someplace new. Part of the reason is “Time Out,” the aptly named 1959 recording that stands with Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue,” Charles Mingus’ “Mingus Ah Um” and Ornette Coleman’s “Shape of Jazz to Come” as a groundbreaking album during a pivotal year in the evolution of jazz. Where Davis explored modal structures and Coleman blazed into a new world of saxophone, Brubeck was equally inventive for his experimentation with jazz’s heartbeat. Written by Brubeck’s saxophonist Paul Desmond, the immediately recognizable “Take Five” was in 5/4; “Blue Rondo a la Turk” — a song inspired by Turkish folk music Brubeck heard while on State Department-sponsored tour — shifts between 9/8 and 4/4; and the whole album continues the theme, shifting between waltz, double waltz and straight time
with impossible ease. To casual music listeners, such information can look like a fractions exam, but these songs upended the idea of what a jazz song could do. Despite fundamental structure changes (most jazz ticks along at 4/4), Brubeck still swung, and beautifully so. Even at Brubeck’s most inventive, he remained approachable. “Blue Rondo a la Turk” might have drawn a line in the sand as an album opener with its stuttering, almost manically paced beginning, but the song hardly sounds jagged as it gives way to a more familiar, blues-oriented section. The approach was new but never unwelcoming. The proof is in the album’s reception. Although Brubeck’s label Columbia feared he might have gone too far out, the record became one of the bestselling jazz recordings of all time, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard pop charts, and “Take Five” became a Top 40 single. The song’s appeal endures, having even appeared in an otherwise blandly elegant TV commercial for a Japanese luxury sedan in the ’90s. The ad might not have sold a lot of cars, but it inspired many to go record shopping (this writer included). Of course, with a life that found Brubeck performing high profile gigs well into this century — including a recent run of shows cele-
brating his 90th birthday— it’s difficult to summarize his impact and appeal in the context of one album. A titan of West Coast jazz, Brubeck was linked with California for much of his career. He was born in Concord, studied at what is now is the University of the Pacific in Stockton and eventually recorded for Berkeley-based Fantasy Records, which helped forge the Bay Area’s sound in the ’50s. But regardless of where a listener was based, the Dave Brubeck catalog was an inevitable destination. If you wanted to get to know jazz or play jazz piano, you had to know Brubeck. His reputation was established years before as he became only the second jazz artist to be featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1954 (though Brubeck questioned the honor and was reported to have said he thought Duke Ellington was more deserving). Brubeck continued to further explore exotic meters with his “Time Out” quartet until 1967. A live recording from one of the band’s last dates, “Their Last Time Out,” was released in 2011 and still shows the pianist full of invention before shifting focus to composing more orchestral pieces. But Brubeck remains most memorable for his timing, and over such a long, fertile career it always seemed right.
LOS ANGELES — Those of you who take everything that the U.S. government says and does with a large grain of salt, be afraid, be very afraid, because the government has now made it official that the world will not end this month. In a blog post on its official portal, the U.S. government dismisses reports of the coming end of the world, predicted by the Mayan calendar this month. “Scary Rumors about the World Ending in 2012 Are Just Rumors,” the government reassures its citizens and presumably the rest of the world as well, because in the Marshall McLuhanesque sense, we are indeed all in this together. Reports of the imminent demise of the planet are based on the Mayan prophecy of the end of time
when the current calendar expires. In some popular interpretations by doomsday adherents — fed in part by the usually reliable Hollywood blockbuster — the expiration signals the end of time, hence the destruction of the world. How the world will end is a little vague but a collision with a comet or a planet is among the favored exit strategies. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it is. Destruction by comet is a favored trope seen when one of those heavenly ice balls fall toward Earth from the depths at the edge of the solar system. NASA has recently reassured everyone that neither of those celestial catastrophes is in the immediate works. NASA released a video earlier this year explaining why the Mayan calendar doesn’t accurately predict the apocalypse. Common sense dictates that when one calendar runs out, you
just flip the page and start a new cycle, which was likely the Mayan response. “False rumors about the end of the world in 2012 have been commonplace on the Internet for some time. Many of these rumors involve the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 (it won’t), a comet causing catastrophic effects (definitely not), a hidden planet sneaking up and colliding with us (no and no), and many others,” the post on the U.S. government’s website notes. “The world will not end on December 21, 2012, or any day in 2012,” it says definitively, begging the question of just how accurate most of the government’s predictions really are. While most people will accept the government reassurance, there are always some who will never agree. Just think back to the Y2K fears and the survivalist boom it spawned.
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CSU women’s basketball blown out in Boulder 72-46 By Kyle Grabowski The Rocky Mountain Collegian Digging early holes and being unable to climb out of them has become a habit for the CSU women’s basketball team. The Rams lost 72-46 at CU-Boulder Wednesday evening after falling behind by double digit points just over five minutes into the first half. “We felt like we had had to come out early. It’s CSU: our rivalry game. They could play their best game or come in here and play their worst game,” CU guard Brittany Wilson said. “If we didn't punch them in the mouth, they’d try to punch us first.” CSU provided little offensive punch throughout the entire game outside of Sam Martin and Caitlin Duffy, who scored 16 points and 19 points respectively. The rest of the team scored 21 total and the Rams shot 28.6 percent from the field for the game after being constantly pushed outside by CU’s defense. “It’s really hard to go back and play defense time after time after time when you’re that far away from the basket,” CSU coach Ryun Williams said. “It’s a frustrating thing.”
CU’s size and aggressiveness on the boards bothered the Rams all night. The Buffs out-rebounded CSU 59-26 and blocked seven shots. The Rams missed senior Megan Heimstra, who usually provides determination and grit in the paint. “There were times we needed to compete better on the glass tonight and that’s a disappointment. You have to be willing to go to war in there,” Williams said. CU lead 37-17 at halftime after holding the Rams to 25 percent shooting from the floor and 11 percent from behind the three point line. The Buffs took a 10-4 lead with 16:08 remaining in the first half then went on a 12-2 run to extend the margin to 16. CU bolstered its excellent field goal percentage defense in the opening frame by not fouling. The Buffs didn’t commit their first team foul until there was 8:28 remaining in the first half and only fouled twice in the opening period. CSU’s biggest positive and improvement from past games was the fact that the team only turned the ball over nine times. The loss was CSU's fourth straight and dropped the
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Colorado State forward Kara Spotton (20) attempts to steal the ball from Colorado’s Lexy Kresl during the first half of last nights game in Boulder. The Lady Rams fell short to the Buffs 72-46.
Rams to 2-5 on the season. CU, on the other hand, extended its season-opening winning streak to seven games. CSU will continue its
string of road games Saturday when they travel to Tulsa to take on the Golden Hurricane at 1:30 p.m. “We can sit around and
mope because we lost to CU because it does stink, but we have another game on Saturday that we want to win,” Duffy said. “We are growing,
we really are.” Assistant Sports Editor Kyle Grabowski can be reached at sports@collegian. com.
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