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THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891

Project will move forward if private funding can be secured for half

By ALLISON SYLTE The Rocky Mountain Collegian When CSU President Tony Frank made his decision about the proposed on-campus stadium, he wasn’t thinking about the CSU students know today.

Instead, he wrote in a 3,321 word campus email on Monday that he was thinking of a “significantly larger” university 50 years from now –– one with “stunning” research, a diverse student population and, as its focal point, an on-campus stadium.

“I think a well-maintained stadium located on the main campus, now with decades of tradition behind it, would be a great benefit to the university,” Frank wrote. “And so, with that long view in mind, I support our moving forward to attempt to build such a facility.”

This is the recommendation Frank will make to the CSU System Board of Governors at 8 a.m. on Thursday, after nine months of debate and deliberation and spending hundreds of thou-

sands of dollars in consulting fees, all to realize a dream that Athletics Director Jack Graham pitched to Frank.

Frank’s recommendation, however, is nuanced. The university must be able to garner enough private support to supplement half the cost of the estimated $250 million project.

And if this $125 million fundraising goal is not met within two years, Frank explained that he will have no choice but to begin focusing the university’s energies on renovating Hughes Stadium. The 54-year-old structure needs at least $30 million in renovations over the next 10 years to remain operable.

“It is my belief that if we have not identified a viable financing plan for the new stadium to take forward within two years, we will have to suspend these efforts and make some investments in assuring that Hughes Stadium remains a viable venue for Colorado State football,” Frank wrote.

The initial charge of the Stadium Advisory Committee –– created by

Frank in January –– was to present to him some sort of recommendation on whether to move forward with the proposal. But this became little more than feasibility report on the stadium as the process wore on. “(in this process) you not only need to dream big, you need to question, you need to challenge,” Frank said during the Stadium Advisory Committee’s first meeting on Feb. 3.

Graham offered words of caution.

“The last thing I want through this process is that it polarizes the community,” he said.

Despite his wish, the stadium proposal nevertheless did contribute to a significant amount of controversy. An anti-stadium group, Save Our Stadium: Hughes, assembled community members concerned about its potential to increase traffic, noise and commotion while plummeting property values, academic culture and overall relations with the university.

Some alumni, however, rallied to-

gether and formed a pro-stadium group called Be Bold, complete with its own set of arguments to move the proposal forward: that donations to CSU would increase, alumni would become more connected to their alma mater and the university’s national image would be polished.

Town hall meetings, campus presentations and public forums, provided a venue for community members to hash out their differences, often in opposition to the stadium.

Sixty-seven percent of CSU students are opposed to the stadium, according to an Associated Students of CSU survey released this summer.

Frank addressed the polarization that had taken place over the past nine months in his email to campus.

“As is, in my opinion, too often the case in our modern discourse, the middle ground has been squeezed out of many of these arguments by polarizing rhetoric that tries to force one into picking an either/or outcome selected from the extremes of possibilities.”

Frank finished his letter with a call to focus on the other pressing issues to the university.

“Tomorrow, CSU will, as usual, focus its attention on the reasons we exist: teaching and learning, research and discovery and creativity, service and engagement, and application,” Frank wrote. “Preparing for tomorrow. Ideas put into action. Lives changed.

That, simply put, is the focus of a land-grant university. And tomorrow, Colorado State — stadium discussion aside — will be back at it.”

Editor in Chief Allison Sylte can be reached at news@collegian.com.

ASCSU

Drunk bus to be made permanent

By CARRIE MOBLEY The Rocky Mountain Collegian

NICK LYON | COLLEGIAN

Richard and Julie McDonald stand in front of the UCA because her daughter plays trombone in the CSU Marching Band. They were harrassed when they attended the CSU v North Dakota game at Hughes Stadium to watch their daughter march at halftime.

Football fan behavior in question

By ELISABETH WILLNER The Rocky Mountain Collegian

REPORT AN INCIDENT

Richard and Julie McDonald went to the CSU versus North Dakota football game excited to watch their daughter perform with the CSU Marching Band.

But by the end of the game, they would question their daughter’s choice in schools.

The couple’s daughter, Kaelin, had provided them with student tickets: her own and one from a friend. As the couple sat between rows of students, what should have been a proud moment became an ordeal.

Over the course of the game, the couple said, they were pushed out of their seats, kicked and insulted by the surrounding crowd.

Crowd members took Richard McDonald’s cane, which he uses for his arthritis, and pushed him out of his seat. The same group later kicked and bruised Julie McDonald’s foot, which was in a cast due to a broken ankle.

“We are shocked and disturbed by this behavior,” the couple wrote in a statement following the incident. “We

To notify stadium officials of problems in the stands, students can call 970-988-9886.

The number is subject to change, but will be displayed on the video board at games.

left the game after the halftime show and do not feel comfortable coming back to another Rams game.”

The incident fits into a pattern of negative fan behavior which a newlyorganized CSU task force is trying to curb.

“While generally our game day crowds are well-behaved, we do sometimes get reports of fan behavior – by both students and non-students – that sometimes crosses the line,” CSU Spokesman Mike Hooker wrote in an email to the Collegian. “While this incident is concerning in and of itself, it also speaks to a larger concern about some fan behavior that isn’t what we, as Ram fans, are all about.”

The task force, called the Task Force for Fan Experience, is composed of 14 members including representatives from CSUPD, ASCSU,

Student Affairs, Athletics and the CSU Health Network.

Tony Frank began considering creating a task force at the beginning of the fall semester, following reports of Rams fans chanting vulgar slogans at games. The incident at the NDSU game added to existing concerns and provided context for the kinds of issues the task force will address, according to Hooker.

Currently, the organizations responsible for security at football games are Landmark, a contracted event staff group, and student monitors with the ASCSU sponsored group Positive Impact. Neither intervened during the North Dakota incident.

“During the game, no one reported anything about this particular behavior and our security staff didn’t witness it, so there was not an opportunity for them to intervene,” Hooker said.

The couple said they didn’t call the police at the game because they didn’t feel the students needed to be arrested.

“A police record can be really See BEHAVIOR on Page 3

The Late Night Bus System is being re-examined in order to improve numbers and to make it a permanent addition to services for CSU students, according to Associated Students of CSU President Regina Martel.

Martel added that the bus system, which is still in its tryout year, took approximately 1,254 students home July 2011 and 1,289 in August 2012. On average, that’s about 160 people per night of operation.

By comparison, RamRide drives about 400 students home per night of operation, according to ASCSU reports.

“The (bus) numbers aren’t bad by any means,” Martel said. “Especially since the program is still in its first year, but we definitely are working to improve them and keep this program going long-term.”

The program was created on a one-year contract. Now that contract is up for review by both ASCSU and Transfort to determine its efficiency and effectiveness. Transfort is willing to renew the contract to keep the late night bus system operating, according to Transfort Manager Kurt Ravenschlag.

“We are currently budgeting our portion of the contract,” he said. “Given that ASCSU continues to contribute the same amount, we want to continue renewing it.”

The system, which consists of two routes along See BUS on Page 3

LATE BUS? The Green Route of the bus system runs from downtown to Taft Hill, Drake, Mulberry and College.

The Gold route of the bus system runs from downtown to Laurel, Elizabeth, Prospect and College.

Departures occur every fifteen minutes from the corner of Mountain and Remington Street on Friday and Saturday nights, starting at 11:30 p.m.

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STRIP CLUB

With the announcement of the new on-campus stadium, there remains one very important question: What do we do with Hughes?

The administration has no plans as of yet.

Things we could use Hughes for: Giant Paintball Course

Sitting at the bottom of Hughes Stadium is roughly 6400 square yards of vacant space, which affords some extreme flexibility when it comes to inventive paintball course layouts.

The sheer size of the field also allows for there to be a massive number of players, too. Rocky Mountain Shootout anyone?

Concert Amphitheater

Think of it as the Red Rocks of Fort Collins.

Lots of space on the field means lots of space for bigger stages, bigger effects and bigger speakers.

And who knows?

Maybe it will let ASAP bring in a band that people will actually go see.

The New Football Training Field

Since we are providing the CSU Football Team with a shiny new stadium, and since they don’t appear to have made much use of the Indoor Training Facility, it may be a good idea to have them practice in Hughes all the time so that they can “get used” to playing in a stadium. It’d be less expensive than building a new training facility, anyway.

The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff and designed by Design Editor Kris Lawan.

2 Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Art sculpture graduate student Anthony Gunteen welds the base for a sculpture inside the Visual Arts building Monday afternoon. Gunteen, who creates metal sculptures, works as much as possible to create works of art to fulfill his degree. Photo by Dylan Langille.

Community Briefs Homecoming parade will cause street closures Colorado State University’s Homecoming and Family Weekend parade will be held on Friday, Oct. 5 at 4:30 p.m.

The parade will start at the intersection of Howes Street and Oak Street in downtown Fort Collins before travelling around the Oval and across the Lory

Student Center Plaza, before finally ending on the West Lawn of the LSC. Beginning Friday at noon, streets in the staging area and the parade route will be closed. Cars that are parked in the staging area will be towed beginning at noon on Friday.

Streets impacted by the noon closing include Howes Street (Mountain Avenue to Oak Street), Oak Street (between Howes Street and Sherwood Street), Sherwood Street (Mountain Avenue to

Oak Street) and the intersections of Oak Street and Meldrum Street.

A Centri-Bration of Entomology Oct. 6 A highlight of CSU Homecoming, the Centi-Bration of Entomology, will occur from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, in the Plant Sciences Building.

Scheduled between the Homecoming 5K and the Rams football game, the

event will feature a multitude of insects and arthropods for viewing and holding. This includes a giant African millipede, Chilean rose hair tarantulas and giant mantids.

The interactive bug display is being put on for the community to mark the 100year anniversary for CSU’s Gillette Entomology Club, the oldest student group on campus.

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The Rocky Mountain Collegian | Tuesday, October 2, 2012

English Dept. faces backlash for discriminatory ad Ad worded poorly, excluded qualified adjunct professors

BY AMANDA ZETAH The Rocky Mountain Collegian

KEVIN JOHANSEN | COLLEGIAN

The Late Night Bus makes its way to one of the several bus stops around Fort Collins during a snowy night last year.

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ASCSU looks to improve marketing

Continued from Page 1 downtown Fort Collins, was part of a program largely created by the last ASCSU administration, and put into effect under Martel.

“We actually had ASCSU members canvas all of Old Town to try to create this program,” Martel said. “We had them surveying people to determine where people like to go and how this system could best serve the students of CSU. There was a lot

of work put into this and we hope to keep it going for as long as possible.”

The bus system, which consists of two routes, hits most major roads in the downtown area, such as Mulberry Street, Taft Hill Road, College Avenue, Elizabeth Street and Laurel Street, and can be accessed every 15 minutes on the corner of Mountain Avenue and Remington Street.

According to Martel, ASCSU intends to improve

the sustainability of this program by improving marketing strategies and communication with the larger Fort Collins community.

“We’ve been communicating with the Fort Collins Police Department a lot on this front,” Martel said.

“We’ve also been talking to the city council and the Downtown Business Association on ways to improve the bus system and how it serves the community.”

Transfort is not currently considering adding any service improvements, but they are considering moving its start time from 11:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the request of student government.

“We do need to continue to think about the money aspect of that and where that money would be coming from,” Martel said.

ASCSU Beat reporter Carrie Mobley can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Romney’s ‘47%’ remarks overserved but damaging

By PAUL WEST The McClatchy Tribune

WASHINGTON — Many voters think news organizations have given too much attention to Mitt Romney’s surreptitiously recorded remarks about the “47 percent,” a new national opinion survey found.

At the same time, the new poll by the independent Pew Research Center confirms what politicians in both parties have said: Most voters had a negative reaction to what the Republican presidential candidate had to say at his private fundraising event.

Two out of three voters knew that Romney was the source of comments that 47 percent of the population is dependent on government and pays no federal income taxes, according to the poll.

The question was open-ended: Respondents were asked if they happened to know who had made the remarks.

Most of those who correctly identified the GOP candidate also said they had a negative reaction to his remarks (55 percent).

Democrats and those with lower family incomes (under $30,000 a year) were overwhelmingly negative. A ma-

BROOKE LAVALLEY | McCLATCHY TRIBUNE

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney waves to the crowd at Westerville South High School in Westerville, Ohio on Wednesday, September 26, 2012.

jority of independent voters (55 percent) also reacted negatively. Most Republicans (54 percent) had a positive reaction, according to the survey, released Monday by the independent polling organization.

The poll was conducted between Sept. 27 and Sept.

30, a period that coincided with swing-state airing of an Obama attack ad on Romney’s remarks. It employs Romney’s recorded voice as the soundtrack, while blackand-white still pictures of individuals — meant to symbolize those he was speaking about — flash by on the TV

screen.

Though the poll makes clear that Romney’s words have sunk in, it also found that a plurality of registered voters believe the news media have gone overboard in covering the story.

Nearly half of those who knew Romney made the remarks — 49 percent — thought that his words had been given too much coverage. Another 28 percent thought the media had got it about right, while 13 percent said Romney’s words had received too little coverage.

All told, the fallout from the remark resembled the

impact of negative ads: Voters often recoil at them, but they tend to absorb their message nonetheless.

An unrelated finding in the poll may well reflect the intensely negative tone of this year’s presidential contest. Less than half of the U.S. electorate (46 percent) gave Obama a grade of “A” or “B” for his efforts in convincing them to vote for him; four years ago, that figure was sharply higher (65 percent graded him with an “A” or “B”).

Romney got even lower marks, with only 31 percent of voters grading him “A” or “B.” His efforts to persuade voters were more in line with grades that were awarded in 2008 to the campaign of Republican nominee John McCain (34 percent) and in 1996 to GOP nominee Bob Dole (29 percent).

The Pew poll also found that Democratic voters are giving Obama higher marks (78 percent gave him an “A” or “B”) than Republicans are grading Romney (62 percent gave him an “A” or “B”).

The poll’s margin of error was 3.7 percentage points, with higher error margins for smaller subsets of respondents, such as registered voterss.

This past week, the English department at CSU posted an ad urging qualified professors to apply for a job as a Pre-1900 American Literature assistant professor.

The qualifications entailed: A “Ph.D. in English or American Studies or closely related area awarded between 2010 and time of appointment.”

“It was not ideal language for us to approve, it should have read entry-level, because that was the English department’s intention,” said Diana Prieto, director for the Office of Equal Opportunity at CSU, which approves ad postings.

An abundance of protests soon came after the initial release of the ad, forcing the Office of Equal Opportunity to reword the job ad. The ad angered many adjunct professors with qualified master’s degrees that somehow fell in the window before 2010.

This is where the job ad becomes discriminatory.

The fact that the department asked specifically for professors with degrees awarded in 2010 and sooner excludes a large majority of interested applicants.

“Last week, in light of

the response to our initial ad, we examined how we could better describe the parameters of our search,” said Louann Reid, chair of the CSU English department in a statement. “We posted an updated position announcement that informs applicants that the position is entry-level and removes the restriction date of degree. We invite all qualified and interested applicants to apply for the position.”

After the upset over the job ad, it has been altered to avoid discrimination against specific adjunct professors. It now reads “entry-level” so that all adjunct and interested professors are able to apply.

“We misstepped, but this was a good learning point. It shouldn’t have been approved by my office,” Prieto said.

Jeffrey Amparo, office manager of the English department, declined to comment.

Adjunct professors are temporary hires without tenure at the university.

The number of adjunct professors is actually on the rise at CSU, as budget cuts continue to limit resources available.

Student Life Beat Reporter Amanda Zetah can be reached at news@collegian.com.

BEHAVIOR | Dean of

students issues apology Continued from Page 1 damaging to somebody’s record and that’s not a decision I want to make,” Richard McDonald said.

Following the incident, the couple wrote an open letter to Colorado State University addressing their experience and met with Nik Olsen, the assistant director of Administrative Communications, on Sept. 10.

Their daughter also posted a note on the class of 2015 Facebook page asking students to be more respectful, which led to a personal apology from Dean of Students, Jody Donovan. Kaelin McDonald said she hoped students would read her post.

“What I really want is for people to respect each other,” McDonald said.

“No matter what age. No matter where you sit, no matter how old you are, no matter how much you drink, just leave each other alone.”

Julie and Richard McDonald hope that their sto-

ry will grow beyond what happened: They would like to see the atmosphere of football games change.

During the game, they noticed that in the stands around them students were passing around bottles of what “wasn’t water,” and chanting “F*** you” at the other team.

“It wasn’t just a few people; it was the whole section,” Richard McDonald said.

But in spite of their negative experience, the McDonalds didn’t think that what happened to them represented all of CSU or the Fort Collins community, which has generally welcomed them.

“We were disappointed at how we got treated, but I can see now that it wasn’t a reflection of the whole student body,” Richard McDonald said. “It was a reflection of a certain group of people who had too much room to party.”

News Editor Elisabeth Willner can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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OPINION Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | Page 4

YOUR TWO CENTS

YESTERDAY’S QUESTION: How are you going to vote on Amendment 64?

22% 30%

48% In favor.

30% You mean pot legalization? Then yes!

22% Against.

48% TODAY’S QUESTION: How will the new stadium affect your attendance?

*40 people voted in this poll.

Log on to http://collegian.com to give us your two cents.

This is an unscientific poll conducted at Collegian.com and reflects the opinions of the Internet users who have chosen to participate.

“I am saying it is time for CSU students to stand up and do something about the fact that we are getting taken advantage of.”

Battle tuition fee increases or be consumed by them

By BRIAN FOSDICK

Those of you who follow national news may be aware of a stunning victory by the students of Quebec to keep their college tuitions the lowest in North America.

Through two straight seasons of creative protest, whether it be picketing the streets en masse, or wearing squares or red felt to symbolize their protest of rising tuition costs, the students managed to keep their tuition the lowest in North America.

I suspect they always will, in fact, not because Quebec is a godless socialist Canadian province, but because Quebec’s students symbolize something that college students can be and that is peaceful protesters in search of change.

I’d like to point out that even before this protest, Quebec had the lowest tuition in North America because they kept this kind of pressure on the powers that be. Their tuition fees for the year 2012 would be on average around $2,168 per year.

I would also like to note that you WISH your tuition was only $2,168 per year. You may be thinking this is great for the students of Quebec, but let’s look at this in context of our own lives.

I found it humorous how easy it is to look up how the tuition fees of Colorado State University have grown over the past 60 years. There’s a very nice chart posted on the CSU website that displays just how much we are getting shafted.

We were paying what Quebec students are paying now, in the year 2000.

That may make it seem much better than it is, until you realize that tuition has been raised over 220 percent since that time.

In the 2010-2011 school years we paid $5,256 in tuition each year. Even more humorous is the fact

that our student fees are around $1,728, a number much closer to the number which the Quebec students are paying for their tuition.

So you have the numbers and the context, but I suppose my underlying message here is that this is insane. I am not merely lamenting the dying of the light, of the days when college students stood up for their rights to be able to afford higher education without selling their dog, their sister and their future to the money grubbing institutions that colleges have become.

I am saying it is time for CSU students to stand up and do something about the fact that we are getting taken advantage of.

Regardless of what school of thought you come from, it’s hard to deny that education is the key to a brighter future. Education opens so many doors for students and allows for a more compassionate and understanding society.

Lack of education breeds hatred, ignorance and fear of that which people don’t understand.

This isn’t a simple fight for whether you can afford to get a better job; this is a fight for whether you would like to see a better society.

For many of you, this is not the first time you’ve heard that higher education is the fastest growing cost in America. The cost of obtaining a college degree has grown 1,120 percent since 1978.

The question each person should be asking themselves is: Are we prepared to deal with the implications of making higher education inaccessible for many Americans? I am not prepared to deal with this fact and I don’t think any of us should be.

From this day on you will be able to recognize me around campus because I’ll be wearing a red felt square. Let’s speak with our actions, let’s speak with our words, and let’s speak with a voice that announces that we are done paying more.

Brian Fosdick is a junior journalism major.

Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian.com.

OUR VIEW

Waited nine months for that?

Yesterday our campus received Tony Frank’s ultimate decision regarding the construction of an on-campus stadium. After nine months of careful planning and consideration, the president announced his support for the new stadium, a stadium that the Editorial Board has endorsed.

For a process that has been claimed to be transparent throughout the decision, there has been little to no access to public officials making the decisions since the stadium was first proposed.

Tony Frank issued his proclamation in the standard way that students have become accustomed to interacting with their president — through an email so long that many college students have neither the time nor determination to scroll to

the bottom.

At the end of Frank’s wordy email, though, many questions remained completely unanswered.

“After nine months, why don’t we have a plan for what we’re going to do with Hughes stadium?”

First of all, the stadium is conditional because we still have no idea if we’re even going to be able to get enough funding for the project.

Tony Frank, if you’re not confi-

dent that you’ll receive enough private funding for the stadium itself, how do you expect to come up with an extra $30 million for a parking facility or $16 million for an alumni welcome center?

Frank claims that no student tuition or fees or proceeds from any tax will be used to finance the stadium, but doesn’t go into any detail as to alternative sources of revenue other than philanthropic gifts.

After nine months, why don’t we have a plan for what we’re going to do with Hughes stadium? Frank’s email only says that’s a “discussion for another day.”

Yesterday was the day for discussion, the day to reveal all the plans.

Yesterday didn’t look like the result of nine months of careful decision making.

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This used to be a nice neighborhood

By SARAH ROMER

The issue of the new stadium has been beaten to death over these past months. There are large movements both for and against building the new home for rams football. In my opinion, it’s a poorly thought out plan.

I’m not saying the plan for a new stadium isn’t feasible. It is. According to President Tony Frank’s requirements: The stadium wouldn't be placed on existing open green space.

It wouldn't hinder views of the mountains.

The committee take into "serious" account any impact on neighbors adjacent to or near a new stadium.

Funding the project would not rely on appropriation, tuition, fees or taxes.

The project is incredibly feasible.

But if there is anything I’ve learned in my engineering courses it’s that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Facts. I know they are ignored a lot but I am pretty fond of them. We hang out sometimes.

The new stadium will cost more than $250 million and seat around 40,000 people. To renovate the old sta-

dium to hold the extra 10,000 people the new stadium would hold would cost around $100 million. Average attendance according to www.csurams. com is, rounding generously, 24,000 attendees.

That means we are building a larger stadium when the one we have now doesn’t even fill up.

Now realistically, how many of you picked what college you wanted to go to because of the football stadium?

How many of you would want to go to a different university if they had a shinier stadium?

I could understand choosing a university for the football team if they actually won games and you liked football, but if you go to CSU, I’m assuming that isn’t why you are now a student.

One of the projected areas to build this stadium is the southwest corner of campus. You know where that is because it’s probably where you park, which brings me to practicality.

You want to take away parking in an area that desperately needs more in order to build a stadium that will at times be full of drunk people on campus next to the underclassmen dorms?

That couldn’t possibly cause problems.

I understand that bringing the stadium on campus is also a way to get more students to attend the games, and maybe in small numbers it would work.

But it is also true that if people want to see something, they will. For Broncos games, fans fly in from out of state. They drive hours and hours just to see one game. If 15,000 more students wanted to see the football game instead of doing something else, they would.

Another issue I have is that sure,

the stadium would be built by sponsors, but will they be the ones paying to maintain it? It’s bigger than our current stadium and will be more costly to maintain.

Generally, I wouldn’t really mind a new stadium. It still wouldn’t make me want to go to a football game, but I wouldn’t be so against it if it wasn’t for location.

You know who else lives near that southwest corner of campus besides underclassmen? Thousands of people in houses and apartments. With cars.

Who like being able to park them.

The idea that the stadium will bring in new money for the school is silly to me. Maybe for the first few games alumni might want to come see their old team play. Maybe. But then the ‘new’ effect wears off and all you have is one huge empty stadium right next to everything for most of the year. If illicit happenings don’t occur in the stadium in the off season I will be shocked.

According to those random signs I saw in Weber, 70 percent of the campus is against the new stadium. President Tony Frank obviously has the final say, but that is a lot of people against it; a lot of people paying to attend this university.

To sum up, CSU will be fine either way. We are a strong university with some of the finest programs in the nation and whether or not we have a stadium close to class isn’t a big deal in the long run.

But in the short run, I’m not its biggest fan by far.

Sarah Romer is a senior electrical engineering major. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian.com.

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OPINION TUESDAY Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | Page 5

Yays and Nays Yay | to homecoming. Come for the bonfire, stay for the new stadium. Hail to our

Nay | to closing down a huge section of I-25 for the presidential debate. Traffic’s bad enough as it is.

Nay | to CSU losing again. They can break our quarterback’s collarbone, but not our spirit.

Yay | to getting a new stadium for our football team! All we ask in return is a win

Yay | to DU hosting the debate. Welcome to Colorado, presidential hopefuls. We

NAY |

alma mater.

want answers.

or two.

to the new Myspace. This social media site won’t go away. Basically it’s a zombie. Myspace will eat your brain.

“Who receives discounts should not be determined by the riskiness of the job.

If you can’t put a price on a life, then you can’t put discounts on it either.”

Leave political correctness to politicians Discounts should

By BRITTANY JORDAN

Have we gotten so afraid of offending people that we have stopped saying anything of consequence?

I think we have. With every speech you hear — especially by the politicians of modern day — you will hear some very “inclusive language,” but you may also notice that within all of that talk of making everyone feel special, they haven’t really said anything.

They can’t take a stand on anything because, Lord forbid, they might offend someone, and that would mean losing votes. And that would be the end of the world.

So what is the difference between using “inclusive language” and being politically correct? I’m here to tell you right now: there isn’t one.

For those of you that may not be familiar with inclusive language, it means just what common sense tells you it does: use language that will include everyone, and avoid using words or phrases that leave people out.

It sounds good — in theory. However, in practice it has gotten to the point of stupidity.

“Hey, guys.” It’s a common phrase ut-

tered by men and women alike on a daily basis, no? And yet inclusive language tells me that I just excluded all females.

How about the term “sportsmanlike conduct?” Inclusive language is telling me that this is a term that can only be applied to men. “All men are created equal” means that women are chopped liver.

Does anyone else find this ridiculous?

As a female, never have any of the above phrases offended me, and I don’t think I’m alone.

Can we take a step back and learn to actually say something of consequence, instead of being so concerned with being politically correct?

We have been preached to by everyone and their mother to the point that we are expected to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. Things that I don’t agree with, I am at least expected to be tolerant of.

Who says? Who was the first to say that tolerance is the new black? Because I don’t agree.

I admire people that will take a stand. I admire people that will defend their beliefs. I admire people that will say what they want, even if that means excluding people.

Politicians are not the only ones that have failed to take a stand on anything.

We, as the American people, are so afraid of another person taking offense to something that comes out of our mouths that we have become a people with a language of fluff vocabulary.

Why do you say “um” and “ah” and “like” every other word? Because you have been trained to think about everything twice before you say it, to make sure it’s inoffensive.

I, for one, would love it if someone ac-

tually said what’s on their mind. If someone out there would actually say what they think, instead of what they have been trained and programmed to say.

Screw inclusive language and political correctness. Say what you mean and mean what you say.

As we watch the politicians on TV recite their speeches that have been combed over again and again in the interest of gaining votes, remember that they aren’t the only ones that have failed to say anything worth listening to. If you want to make an impact on anyone, stop walking on eggshells around people’s feelings.

I was listening to a man not too long ago that was a newly converted Christian. He had been a Muslim, growing up in his father’s mosque and facing Mecca when he prayed. Then he met a friend who showed up wearing a “Jesus Saves” T-shirt when he asked him to church.

He later said, “I’m not a Christian because my friend tiptoed around my feelings. I am a Christian because he confronted me.”

Confront people. Maybe they’ll take offense, but is that really the end of the world? Worst case scenario of saying what you want is that people’s feelings might be bruised. Best case scenario: You can make a difference in someone’s life.

Don’t be afraid to take a stand and defend that stand. Say things that are worth listening to. Leave political correctness to the politicians.

Brittany Jordan is a sophomore Psychology major. Her column appears every other Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@ collegian.com.

GUEST COLUMN

Temple Grandin wrong about disability pride On Saturday, Colorado’s 1st Annual Disability Pride Parade & Music Festival was held in Fort Collins. The keynote speaker, CSU professor Dr. Temple Grandin, did not seem to fully understand the purpose — promoting disability pride.

Grandin spoke for 40 minutes about the need for people with disabilities to focus on what they “can do” and not primarily on their disabilities.

Disability pride is about working against socially systemic shame by embracing our disability identities. Only then can we maximize our potential.

While sharply criticizing the value of the liberal arts, Grandin failed to recognize twenty-first century social constraints on disabled people today.

Grandin applied a 1950s perspective on disability that is reminiscent of the old “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality.

She told everyone at the event about how she just had to “go through the doors” of opportunity, working in small jobs before building her way up

to where she is today.

The “doors of opportunity” she spoke of are no longer so easily entered, as any college student looking for employment knows.

The baby boomer generation is not retiring, low-end jobs are being replaced by machines or being shipped overseas.

And the economy is not helping.

She talked about how her stay-athome mom made her work in a sewing job when she was 13, whereas many young people today with aspergers/autism are sitting in their basements playing video games.

This perspective is problematic because it places the burden of responsibility on people who have little autonomy to act. They are constrained by society.

The stay at home mom is no longer the social norm, and as Grandin stated herself, early intervention for autistic people is the most important step in socializing an autistic person.

But it takes a lot of time and effort. Parents used to have that time, but no longer.

To expect a kid to overcome his/her

socially imposed shame without the same level of social support Grandin had is unreasonable. Through disability pride, the disabled population tries to fill that gap.

When Grandin was young she faced many cultural roadblocks like overt sexism and ableism. But today, in a world where almost every job is totally scripted down to our typing rates, people with “different abilities” are not benefited.

Discrimination is no longer so overt; it is systemic through the old and stiffly bureaucratized organism that is society today.

Grandin has a disability (autism) and she has a valuable voice that should be heard within the disabled population.

But, she encouraged us to make our disabled identity secondary to what we can actually do. This is not a bad perspective, but at a disability pride festival it missed the point — disability empowerment.

Sociology senior Kevin Fleming is the president and founder of the Ability Club at CSU. He identifies as dyslexic.

be for all service, not just military

By NICOLE FRAIZER

Every time I see a sign taped to the cash register or to windows of businesses that says something along the lines “10 percent military discount,” a wave of indignation passes through me.

I do not think that discounts from businesses should be restricted to military personnel. Let me explain.

First off, I believe when businesses, such as Banana Republic, Lowe’s, Apple and Disney World hand out military discounts, they are doing two things. They are establishing an uncouth definition of what it means to serve this country and encouraging a hierarchy that discredits the work of other heroes in our country — treating military personnel better based on their willingness to volunteer.

It isn’t that I am appreciative of the risks they have taken. It’s that I recognize that the military is not the only group of people serving this nation.

I am advocating for reconstructing our definition of what it means to serve this country. I am thinking of the word “serve” in the sense of yielding a service or product for others, not limiting it to just those who have enlisted in the military.

I figure that if we were to think of it in those terms, we would discover that millions of people are serving their country; millions of Americans who are equally deserving of discounts as any soldier.

This also brings into question where our values lie, or in other words, what does it mean to be hero in this country?

The United States functions through a military lens, where our fears and hubris have limited our scope of heroes to be only soldiers. And I am not saying that they aren’t in some regard. I am just disappointed that our teachers, firefighters and nurses aren’t held with the same esteem.

Personally, I believe that a collaboration of education, patience and

an open mind is key to improving a lot of the world’s problems. I think by glorifying the military profession with discounts is reiterating the long-held notion in this country that a strong military presence is the way to go about encouraging change. To put it more simply, encouraging a forceful approach over what I believe to be a stronger and powerful, and perhaps more peaceful one.

I feel that if any Country Buffet or 4’ x 8’ discount is to be given at all, the firefighter who worked around the clock to maintain the raging summer flames deserves it as much as a single mother in the Army.

It isn’t just a matter of “supporting the troops,” respect, or debts to society at this point — the system rewards, as I said, individuals on their willingness to volunteer for one job instead of another. In other words, by not paying homage to other professionals in this country who do equally valid work, we create a dangerous hierarchy in our system that treats people as if they are more deserving of discounts than another who, due to medical reasons, couldn’t enlist or was more passionate about serving their country as a counselor at the public middle school.

Businesses are stratifying our society (further than it already is), with military discounts by putting the group of individuals who serve in the military at the cusp, based on what I deem to be irrelevant factors — such as the riskiness of the job, annual pay and respect.

Those are not justifiable reasons to offer a military discount. So not handing out discounts isn’t a sign of disrespect; it’s a sign of unequal recognition of all.

From my standpoint, enlisting in the military was a personal choice, just as much as it was for everyone else to choose another profession.

Besides, who decided that if a business doesn’t offer the 10 percent military discount they don’t support troops?

We should not offer a 10 percent discount off the price of a movie ticket as a consolation discount for volunteering for the military.

If a discount for those who have chosen risky professions is insisted upon, then we need to offer it to all or none.

Who receives discounts should not be determined by the riskiness of the job. If you can’t put a price on a life, then you can’t put discounts on it either.

Nicole Frazier is a senior English and Spanish major.

Her column appears every other Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian.com.

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‫@‏‬Kkuhl41 “Shout out to @CSUTonyFrank for granting CSU a new on campusstadium!! #GoRams”

@Lackey9133 “Just saw someone say they are against a new stadium for #CSUbecause he’s afraid people might try to profit off of it. #seriously”

@jess_stadler09 “@PeezyTaughtMe2 that and it’s a lot of money and we already have a stadium we can fix and make better. We don’t need a brand new one.”

@SteveFrawley “Wow, what a surprise! Tony Frank is going to build a new stadium in Fort Collins.”

CAMPUS VOICE

What do you think about the on-campus stadium proposal?

Hughes may still be renovated

Next decade will take $10 million in maintenance costs

By AUSTIN BRIGGS The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Well, I would say the football team is 1-4 this year, which is no change from the past three years I’ve been here. So obviously all the investments we’ve already made have made no difference about how the football team performs. So why waste money on a bad team?

NATE ORBOCK, senior forestry major

In all honesty, I don’t think the on-campus stadium is such a good idea because it costs a lot of money. And I realize that the money that they would be getting is coming from private donations and such. But just about the fact that we can take that money and create other buildings, dorms, other services, that would actually be more beneficial than an on-campus stadium. Because the on-campus stadium is just more likely to congest traffic on campus. Where would they put it?

Where are people going to park?

BY MATT MILLER The Rocky Mountain Collegian

science major

I think that the on-campus stadium idea is foolish. I don’t think that our football team deserves a new stadium.

I think the money could be used to better other parts of the campus. And I know it’s privately funded and all that jazz, but I feel like the money could be put to better use like renovating the actual academic part of the campus.

I don’t know, I think it’s going to not look good on the campus, I think it’s going to be crowded, I think it was not a great idea. Not at all.

SAM DUGAN, junior social work major

DEREK ANDERSON, sophomore

biomedical sciences major

Collegian: Obviously Tony Frank green-lit the on-campus stadium today, as student body president what were your initial thoughts, and do you agree with his decision?

Associated Students of CSU President Regina Martel: I think that Dr. Frank followed a process that he laid out at the very beginning and after the stadium advisory committee forwarded a yes, I think he took his time making a decision about something that is very controversial. So I support the process a lot. I think he made a really good decision.

Collegian: So you agree that this is something the university should be moving forward with?

Martel: ASCSU is not taking a stance on the stadium. I think at this point it seems kind of moot not to take a stance, but I think we need to support the university with what they want to do.

Collegian: With this decision made today, why is it still ASCSU’s choice to not have a stance on this?

Martel: I think that at the end of the day whether or not we take a stance on it, it’s happening right? We want to support Dr. Frank in that, and I think we still need to support the other students who still don’t want a stadium. How do we address those concerns of students who are unhappy with it?

Collegian: As student body president and the voice for the students, what’s your role in this moving forward and how can you play that role without a stance?

DECEMBER 1, 2011: CSU athletic director Paul Kowalczyk is fired and replaced with former CSU quarterback Jack Graham.

2005: Associate Athletics Director Doug Max told RamNation that $100 million will not be enough to build a new stadium.

somewhere between $90 and $105 million for the expansion alone plus $30 million for renovations.

The number was reached by taking a 1999 estimate for seat expansion and multiplying it by a factor of 1.7 to adjust for inflation, according to the feasibility report.

The report doesn’t directly address the options for Hughes should the on-campus stadium be built.

A Denver based commercial construction and demolition firm, who wished to remain anonymous for competitive reasons, estimated the cost of tearing down a 32,500 seat stadium would be less than $1 million. Most of the material from the stadium would be recycled.

Senior Reporter Austin Briggs can be reached at news@ collegian.com.

SOS Hughes continues fight against stadium

By NIC TURICIANO The Rocky Mountain Collegian

DECEMBER 12, 2011: Alabama offensive coordinator Jim McElwain is hired as CSU’s head football coach.

Martel: As far as ASCSU’s role, I don’t know that we have one now. I think that if there’s an opportunity for students to be involved, as of right now I don’t know the next step for the university so I don’t know where ASCSU would be involved.

Collegian: As the voice for the students on the Board of Governors, how will you ensure that the administration is advocating for us?

Martel: Dr. Frank followed a process that involves students, that involves a lot of stakeholders at the university and I can advocate for that. I can also advocate for the students who didn’t approve of it. I think that it would be wrong for me to ignore the voice of the people who didn’t want the stadium. I hope to go to the Board of Governors and represent both sides of what I’ve heard from students.

Collegian: In terms of funding for the stadium, how do you plan to ensure that students aren’t footing any of the bill like Frank promised in his email today?

Martel: I guess honestly I don’t know right now. I’m still in a little bit of a shock that it’s an official yes. So as far as things go I don’t know.

Collegian: How do you see this decision impacting the future of this university?

Martel: Dr. Frank kind of laid it out in his statement that he is looking 50 years down the road for the university. I think this is a good step forward for the university. The short term is the really, really hard part and I think that’s something that we all have to take into account — how is this stadium being built, how are we affecting student’s lives.

FEBRUARY 3, 2012: The Stadium Advisory Committee holds its first meeting to a near-capacity crowd in the Lory Student Center North Ballroom.

President Tony Frank made his announcement in favor of the proposed on-campus stadium Monday, but that doesn’t mean that the advocacy group Save Our Stadium Hughes will stop pushing against its construction.

“We will continue to fight it. We will make our voices heard in front of the (CSU) Board of Governors,” said Bob Vangermeersch, founder of SOS Hughes.

Following President Frank’s recommendation, the stadium proposal will now be presented to the BOG, which Tyler Shannon, co-founder for the pro-stadium group Be Bold CSU, believes will listen to Frank’s recommendation.

“We expect them to listen to Frank; we think he was very reasonable in his expectation of fundraising,” Tyler said. “Our only goal now is to support the university.”

Tyler said that he and other supporters are looking forward to helping the university meet its fundraising goal of $125 million before ground can be broken on the new stadium (as outlined in Frank’s announcement).

“All the supporters I’ve spoken with have been waiting for the go-ahead so they can donate what they can, when they can,” Shannon said. “Once we find out from the university how they are going to

On-campus stadium by the numbers ON-CAMPUS STADIUM

BY THE NUMBERS PRIVATE DONATIONS $45 million to $220 million CORPORATE NAMING AND SPONSORSHIPS $3.45 million to $4.8 million PREMIUM SEATING $3.7 million to $6.7 million

$246 million total cost August 2015 target opening 640,866 Gross Square Feet of Stadium & extensions I would not be more motivated to go to football games because I feel like it would be way more crowded. I think that, if anything, they should renovate the bus systems to go to the old stadium and renovate that so people are more compelled to go and not have to change the entire setup.

42,000 Number of seats 8,000 priority seats Note: All numbers are estimations.

I would not be more likely to go to the stadium just because of the traffic.

AUSTIN PENA, sopho-

more health and exercise major

ANNA GOODHART, junior

On-campus stadium divides faculty

By KATE SIMMONS The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Source: colostate.edu/stadium DESIGN BY GREG MEES

MARCH 29, 2012: Stadium Advisory Committee meets at the Hilton in Fort Collins.

nior wildlife biology major

I probably would, just because it’s more convenient, I feel like. I live off-campus now, but I know when I lived on-campus it would be a lot easier because I didn’t have a car until my sophomore year. So I guess it would be more convenient.

I think it would motivate me more to go to home games because it’s closer. You wouldn’t have to drive there, so you wouldn’t have to have a D.D. KENDALL LLOYD, junior

international studies major

KELCY SHANAHAN, senior health and exercise science major

Faculty react to stadium decision

STADIUM EXPENSES $2.8 million to $4 million

MARCH 11, 2012: CSU announces that it has hired the architectural firm Populous as consultant on the project.

Probably not if it was on campus. I don’t think it would motivate me to go any more than it does now … I don’t know, I mean, maybe I would go more just because it would be closer. But the fact that we’re not very good anyways, I don’t think it would motivate me to go more.

JENNIFER MCCABE, se-

communications and german double major

TOTAL PROJECT FUNDING SOURCES $173 million to $437 million

CONCESSIONS, MERCHANDISE AND PARKING $.96 million to $3.2 million

to evaluate financial projections for the stadium. There are factors in that decision that go well beyond that.”

Maxcy was not surprised by President Frank’s decision to support the stadium, saying, “There were strong feelings and arguments coming from both sides of this.”

According to Shannon, SOS Hughes has helped to keep the stadium process transparent, but now that Frank’s announcement has been made, he expects the organization to eventually support the stadium’s construction.

“It’s time to realize this is going to happen and support CSU — it’s time to move forward,” Shannon said.

For Vangermeersch, though, the stadium debate doesn’t end with Tony Frank or even the CSU Board of Governors.

“I suspect somehow, somewhere, someone is going to start a citizen’s initiative — sign a petition to put on the ballot for April whether the city can spend any money to support the stadium,” Vangermeersch said.

He did not say that a member of SOS Hughes would be responsible for such an initiative, stating that a petition is nothing more than a possibility at this point.

Entertainment Editor Nic Turiciano can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

Would an on-campus stadium motivate you to go to more games?

REVENUE STREAMS ANNUAL REVENUE: $7.6 million to $13 million FINANCED: $128 million to $217 million

TICKET REVENUE $4.3 million to $9.8 million

collect funds, I’m going to go to those people and tell them how they can donate.”

The proposed stadium will have a total of roughly 42,000 seats, with 8,000 allocated for priority seating, making it roughly the same size as the stadium at Princeton University.

“They’re not bold — they’re looking for something half-baked. The average stadium size (for a top-20 football program) is 83,000,” Vangermeersch said.

“It’s a lousy investment no matter who pays for it, but you can’t get it back.”

Up to five SOS Hughes members are currently assembling an argument focusing on the economics of the proposed stadium to be presented to the BOG, Vangermeersch said.

Joel Maxcy, a sports economist and associate professor of economics at Temple University, was brought to Fort Collins by SOS Hughes on Sept. 24 to present his feasibility report for the proposed stadium. In his report, which can be viewed on the SOS Hughes website, Maxcy claims that projected revenues for the stadium are unrealistically high.

The decision to go ahead with the stadium takes into account various factors other than financing and revenue, such as boosting recruitment for the CSU football team, Maxcy said, and those benefits are very difficult to predict.

“My role in coming to campus was

CAMPUS VOICE

EVENT FEES AND OTHER REVENUE $.44 million to $1.4 million

Q & A with Regina Martel

LORA ELLIOTT, junior political

I think it’s kind of a waste of money, and it’s money that could be used in various other places that would be a lot more beneficial. I think, honestly, that the stadium that we have now is proficient for what we need. And, as well as a waste of money, it’s a waste of on-campus space to be honest. We just don’t have enough room here.

With president Tony Frank’s announcement Monday that CSU plans to tentatively move forward with an on-campus stadium, the question arises about what will be done with 32,500 seat Hughes Stadium.

“It’s still early in the process and we’re nowhere near making a decision on what will happen to Hughes,” said CSU spokesman Mike Hooker. “Nothing’s changed since the release of the feasibility report.”

The report, released in early August and conducted by the Stadium Advisory Committee to look at the viability of building an on-campus stadium, had a separate study assessing Hughes Stadium. The report concluded that 45-year-old Hughes Stadium has a back-

log of $30 million in “deferred maintenance.”

In Frank’s email announcing his decision to campus and community, he stated that the new stadium will be contingent upon financing. If enough money for a new stadium isn’t generated in the next two years, the university would consider renovating Hughes.

“It is my belief that if we have not identified a viable financing plan for a new stadium to take forward within two years, we will have to suspend these efforts and make some investments in assuring that Hughes Stadium remains a viable venue for Colorado State football,” Frank wrote.

If the university decided not to move forward with an on-campus stadium and expand and renovate Hughes by adding an additional 17,000 seats, the cost would jump to

@_bulletproof818 “disappointed w/ on campus stadium decision.

Say goodbye to the stadium I’ve been cheering @ since I was 3.#tonyfrankcanshavehisbeard”

@HumBEARTOcruz “Tony Frank is going forward with this stadium. Seems to know what he’s doing.”

IF YOU BUILD IT...

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The polarizing on-campus stadium debate didn’t stop with the Fort Collins community or CSU students –– faculty at the university are as divided on the issue as everyone else.

Some argue that focusing on athletics inhibits academic progress. Some worry that additional traffic and loss of green space would be detrimental to the campus environment. Others think an on-campus stadium presents a revenue stream that would benefit CSU’s landgrant mission in a time of extreme budget cuts.

“There are way more important things to a university, like how good the teachers are and what you’re going to learn, than going to football games with nice seating,”

APRIL 20, 2012: Stadium Advisory Committee has public meeting at Lory Student Center.

said Jessica Cox, a graduate teaching assistant.

Part of that involves maintaining reasonable class sizes that allow instructors to spend time on students’ work and be available during office hours. The on-campus stadium, however, could increase student interest in CSU, increasing the demand on faculty.

“There has been no move to hire full-time faculty,” said Ann Magennis, an associate professor of anthropology.

“It is only an increase in adjuncts. They have no job security, lousy pay. They are third-class citizens and that’s who is teaching a quarter of all the classes on campus.

How do they expect to support the influx of students without adequate faculty to teach them?”

But it wouldn’t be just in-

MAY 31, 2012: ASCSU survey shows that 67 percent 3,553 students oppose on-campus stadium.

JULY 31, 2012: Public Forum with Tony Frank. Last opportunity for public input.

structors who would suffer, faculty said. An on-campus stadium, they said, could potentially change the university’s entire culture by shifting its focus off of academics.

“I’ve done my small part to make this place a highly ranked university for research and teaching,” physics professor Carl Patton said.

“I’d hate to see that dominated by a football mentality. It will change the whole culture of our campus.”

Graduate teaching assistant Bradley Kaye agreed.

“I’m a huge football fan, but I’m a huge opponent of the stadium,” Kaye said. “I think it shows a distinct predilection to a certain type of atmosphere that privileges athletics over academics.”

But not all faculty were quick to oppose CSU President Tony Frank’s proposal.

Some viewed it as a revolutionary step in fulfilling the land-grant mission of CSU.

“Tony Frank has a longterm vision and we’re moving forward according to that vision, and I see that has a positive,” said James Pritchett, an associate professor of agricultural economics.

Pritchett said that higher education has been stuck in a stage of victimization and supports the university pursuing new avenues of funding outside of the state. That way, it can support its land-grant mission –– providing individuals access to higher education.

“The next stage for us is to say we’re going to find other revenue streams to fulfill the land grant mission even if those avenues are unconventional,” Prichett said. “The first 150 years was about the state supporting us and now we’re looking at new ways to accomplish what we’ve always set out to do.”

Senior Reporter Kate Simmons can be reached at news@collegian.com.

AUGUST 9, 2012: Stadium Advisory Committee releases feasibility study that on-campus stadium is feasible and $13 million to $26 OCTOBER 1, 2012: million could be generated in the President Tony Frank first year the stadium is open. announces plan to build on-campus stadium.

2014: DECEMBER 4, 2011: CSU football coach Steve Fairchild is fired following three consecutive 3-9 seasons.

JANUARY 1, 2012: Jack Graham first presents the idea of an on-campus stadium in an interview with the Fort Collins Coloradoan.

FEBRUARY 14, 2012: CSU President Tony Frank fields questions from the Fort Collins City Council about the on-campus stadium proposal.

JANUARY 25, 2012: Save Our Stadium Hughes hosts its organizational meeting.

MARCH 22, 2012: CSU announces that ICON Venue Group will serve as consultant to help study the feasibility of an on-campus stadium.

FEBRUARY 21, 2012: The university announces a series of 10 public forums facilitated by the Center for Public Deliberation to field public opinion about the proposal.

MAY 2012: Consultants hired by CSU recommend building the stadium near Lake Street, where the Plant Environmental Research Center is located. Cost for the stadium is estimated at $246 million.

APRIL 16 TO 17, 2012: Public input forums allow community members to ask questions and provide input.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012: Fort Collins city council rejects non-binding ballot referendum for yes/no vote on on-campus stadium.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012: Sports economist Joel Maxcy says under worst case scenario stadium could lose $218 million over 30 years.

Frank’s deadline for securing stadium fundraising before devoting his efforts to Hughes.

DESIGN BY KRIS LAWAN

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Donating: fast, easy and safe way to earn money

By SEAN MEEDS The Rocky Mountain Collegian Donating plasma is quick money: Recline in a chair twice a week, get stuck with a needle and earn up to $300 a month. It’s not hard to see why the process might appeal to a college student.

In fact, the financial incentive has been the main allure for most student donors.

“I don’t like needles, so I donated purely for the cash,” said sophomore Brady Huntzinger, who has donated both plasma and blood multiple times. “It’s also a good feeling knowing that I helped someone.”

And he isn’t alone.

“I wanted some extra cash to buy my boyfriend a gift,” said CSU alumni Leah Smith. “I get paid to relax for an hour, and I also get to have nice conversations with the other people there too.”

Those aspects are so alluring to Smith that she donates twice a week at CSL Plasma, a Fort Collins plasma donation center located at 1228 W. Elizabeth St. CSL Plasma is a subsidiary of the national plasma group CSL Behring.

Christopher Florentz, manager of corporate communications for the company, said that student donors do more than just earn cash –– they support a worthy

cause.

“It’s not just a matter of donating plasma,” he said.

“It’s what we do with it that counts.”

Plasma is used to treat such illnesses as hemophilia, severe burns and shock.

It is also used in products for people who have suffered heart attacks or have been exposed to rabies and can be administered to patients undergoing heart surgery or organ transplantation.

Plasma is extracted from a donor’s blood through a process called plasmapheresis. When the donor is reclined and the blood is gathered, the plasma is then extracted from the rest of the blood. When it’s fin-

ished, the remaining blood is returned to the donor through the same needle.

According to Florentz, a sterile kit is used on every donor and the blood does not leave the plasma extracting system.

In an email to the Collegian, phlebotomist Elaine Padron from the Poudre Valley Hospital Garth Englund Blood Donation Center said that donors run no risk of serious injury from donating plasma.

“You cannot get AIDS from donating plasma,” she wrote. “Everything used to collect plasma or platelets is sterile and discarded after each donation.”

She also noted that a do-

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nor can develop scar tissue around the area that is used to gather plasma, but it only occurs if someone donates on a regular basis.

In order to donate, each participant must have an initial medical evaluation to see if his or her blood is healthy enough to be donated. The evaluations include a brief physical, which is repeated annually.

“We monitor the donor’s health right up front to make sure he or she is in good health,” Florentz said.

Along with the medical evaluations, there is a medical director for each center plus a medical staff consisting of nurses and paramedics. The entire process is approved and regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

According to Florentz, CSL Plasma operates one of the largest plasma collection networks in the world. Millions of people have donated plasma since the process was started in the 1950s.

Collegian Writer Sean Meeds can reached at new@ collegian.com.

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Garret Grayson looks up towards the scoreboard during the fourth quarter of Saturday’s loss to Air Force. Grayson broke his collarbone during the second quarter of play, and is out indefinitely.

CSU missing key players due to injury Injuries come with the territory in football, but CSU has been victimized by likely season-ending injuries to key players on both sides of the ball.

Senior corner back Momo Thomas is scheduled to have surgery on his shoulder Wednesday, which he injured during the San Jose State game Sept. 15 while returning a punt, according to coach Jim McElwain.

McElwain did not say whether or not Thomas would miss the rest of the season until the surgery was completed. Recovery time for shoulder surgeries can take “several months”, according to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons website. Thomas was granted a medical hardship

by the NCAA during his junior season in 2010 for a right shoulder injury.

Starting quarterback Garrett Grayson underwent surgery for a broken collarbone Monday afternoon.

Grayson sustained the injury in the first quarter against Air Force Saturday.

Backup quarterback M.J. McPeek will start in place of Grayson going forward,

and redshirt freshman Connor Smith will assume the backup role.

“Obviously we’ll miss Garrett and as you know Momo was a guy that was really playing well,” McElwain said. “Those two guys being out for a while is something that you don’t foresee … I thought M.J. came in and did some good things, you know he did, and proved

that he’s ready.”

Another injury during Saturday’s game against Air Force was to defensive tackle Zach Tiedgen. Tiedgen sprained his knee and will miss 2-3 weeks. His injury is another to a position lacking in depth with the week-toweek status of John Froland along the defensive front.

Returning to action for the homecoming game against Fresno State will be starting safety Austin Gray, who missed last week, and guard Brandon Haynes, who saw limited action versus the Falcons.

“When you look at it from an injury standpoint, basically mid way through, five games through your season, really it’s not that bad,” McElwain said.

Sports Editor Cris Tiller can be reached at sports@ collegian.com.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (10/02/12). You’re beginning a learning phase, in which travel, education and communication expand your mind to new levels. Your spirituality flourishes this year. Living sustainably within your means is your mantra. Simple joys delight.

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Share a powerful vision.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ––6–– It’s easy to get distracted, if that’s what you want. Consider all the opportunities now, and get to work. All it takes is commitment and the first step.

Persuade very, very gently.

CANCER ( June 21-July 22) ––8–– Words have great power now, so watch what you say. Listen for extra points. Prepare for a gathering of friends. Your credit rating’s going up.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ––8–– Balance mind, body and spirit. Meditation helps you stay present. Create enough room for big changes, even if they come in slowly. Think about what you love.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ––8–– New opportunities present themselves. It’s best to stay true to yourself. Your imagination could distract or provide a solution. Keep fixing what you have, and provide support.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ––6–– Your mind is full of creative ideas; apply them to the job at hand. Inspiration stirs your heart. The more you learn, the more attractive you become.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ––8–– It’s a good time to make money, but keep it in the bank. You can find what you need for your home. Repair plumbing and everyone benefits.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)––7–– Your imagination soars. You’re learning quickly, in control. Repeat the essence of your message. Run the numbers for yourself, and find out where to save money. Spiritual values emerge.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ––9–– An opportunity seems too good to be true. Wait for the final signature. Finish an old job, and keep most of your treasure hidden. It pays to recycle.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ––9–– Share what you’re learning, and provide support. Keep digging to find the clue. Know who has what. Test all statements of fact. Confer about what you’ve discovered.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ––8–– Sort out the facts you need. Put together a strong pitch. You have what you need, with more work coming in. They’re saying nice things about you.

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