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ON-CAMPUS STADIUM

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A DISCIPLINED CHAMPION

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Sophomore nutrition and food science major Mustafa Kabbani from Saudi Arabia poses for a photo at Zone Fitness. Mustafa won his weight class in the

Student triumphs at bodybuilding contests By EMILY SMITH The Rocky Mountain Collegian At 16, Mustafa Kabbani lived in Saudi Arabia and had no interest in working out. Today, the sophomore nutrition and food science major at CSU is the reigning overall champion of the Pacific USA XVIII bodybuilding contest, held Aug. 18, 2012 in San Diego, Calif. He’s one of the top bodybuilders in the U.S., and — as Kabbani puts it — his transformation (both physical and otherwise) came about not from wanting to change his appearance, but to socialize. “One of my friends was kind of heavy and he told me he wanted to go to the gym and get a membership to lose weight,” Kabbani recalled of his life in Saudi Arabia. Kabbani, more interested in hanging out with friends and having fun than working out, reluctantly joined his friend at the gym that day. It ended up changing his life. “I looked around at everyone and was shocked,” Kabbani said. “I had never

seen stuff like that (weightlifting) before.” He couldn’t sleep that night. “The next day in the morning I went to the gym and got the membership,” he said. As it turns out, Kabbani’s friend never got the membership. When Kabbani encountered him six years later, his friend told him he looked like a different person. After winning about five bodybuilding competitions in Saudi Arabia, Kabbani moved to the U.S. in 2010 to attend CSU. Since then he has won two competitions including the Colorado State Championships in his class and the overall title at Pacific USA. Every day, Kabbani eats nine meals. Each one consists of about 60 grams of protein and 40 grams of carbohydrates. Between meals, Kabbani also takes supplements such as amino acids. His training consists of three separate hour-long trips to the gym in one day, five days per week. “I also have my home trainer,” Kabbani said. “He’s a person who can check out and see if I’m doing everything right, if I

Break the silence and vote BY KATE WINKLE The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Failing to register to vote in 2008 silenced 6 million voices. In response, voter registration organizations banded together to create National Voter Registration Day. Sept. 25, 2012 marks the first concentrated effort by businesses, celebrities and organizations across the country to register people to vote, according to the National Voter Registration Day website. The League of Women Voters of Larimer County will register people to vote on campus and provide election information with the help of CSU’s Student Leadership, Involvement & Community Engagement (SLiCE) office. The groups will be in the Lory Student Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Morgan Library from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. “(Voting) should be seen more as a part of your life… sometimes with all the political rhetoric, attack ads and politicians’ different messages out there people forget that and are kind of turned off to the whole process,” said Jessica Reeves, the marketing partnership director for Voto Latino, a group that helped create the event. “What we’re trying to do is

STRIP CLUB

The halftime show at home games nowadays are providing a welcome relief from the seemingly endless display of “StillIn-A-RebuildingYear”-ness. A big part of that relief is the CSU Marching Band, which entertains us with song and formation marching. Now, we love the marching band, but there are still some songs they need to play, such as:

By AUSTIN BRIGGS The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Speaking to a crowd of about 80 community members and no students on Monday, Temple University sports economist Joel Maxcy had some sobering news about revenue for the proposed oncampus stadium. “The bottom line is, looking at the stadium as a direct financial investment, the extra revenue will not pay for the cost of a stadium,” said Maxcy, who was brought to campus by a group opposing an on-campus stadium. “It’s very likely to cost the university money over time.” Using data compiled by the Convention, Sports and Leisure group (CSL) the consulting firm hired by CSU to do a feasibility study of an on-campus stadium, Maxcy pointed out that under the most optimistic economic conditions the on-campus stadium would generate a possible $90 million profit over 30 years. Under the most pessimistic conditions, the stadium could lose upward of $218 million over 30 years. Looking at nine different scenarios outlined with revenue numbers generated by CSU’s hired consulting firm, the on-campus stadium would lose money under seven of those scenarios. Maxcy was brought to CSU by Save Our Stadium Hughes, an organization that opposes the construction of CSU’s proposed on-campus stadium. “Obviously (bias) is a concern,” said SOS organizer Bob Vangermeersch on bringing out a presenter that was paid by SOS for his analysis. “Everything from the university is so one- sided and all he did is use the numbers generated from their study.” Maxcy has researched sports economics for more than 15 years and is also the

the

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Kevin Kruglet, left, is assisted by voter registration volunteer Will Minton while filling out his Colorado voter registration form in 2010 on the plaza outside of

encourage people to educate themselves about the process and remind them that voting shouldn’t be a dirty word,” Reeves said. According to Reeves, 11,000 groups have registered nationwide and pledged to encourage voter registration, whether through campus events like CSU’s or piggybacking off events like the Jason Mraz concert at Red Rocks. To vote in the Nov. 6 election, Colorado voters need to register or update their voter registration by Oct. 9. Updates are needed if a person moved since initially registering or if

he or she did not vote in the 2010 election, according to Pat Griego, organizer for the League of Women Voters Voter Registration Drive. Students who are not from Colorado can register online to vote by mail-in absentee ballot, which is what Nicole Payne, a sophomore equine science and psychology major from Arizona, plans to do. “It’s important to vote as a citizen of our country and be responsible, and important to take advantage of that privilege,” Payne said. “I don’t think See VOTES on Page 6

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look good, if I should change something.” Kabbani’s trainer, Chris Havekost, comes to see him every two weeks to check on his progress, as well as talks to him every few days to make sure his diet and training is staying on par. “It’s hard for me to do everything by myself,” Kabbani said. “Sometimes I see myself and I say ‘I look good’ and the next day I see myself and I say ‘No, I don’t look good.’” Havekost, owner of Iron Prodigy bodybuilding coaching company, approached Kabbani about two years ago See KABBANI on Page 3

Paul Ryan makes stop in Fort Collins Wed. By ELISABETH WILLNER The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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been up to Fort Collins this year,” Dick said. “It’s going to be great for students who are supporters of Romney.” Dick said the College Republicans are especially looking forward to having a member of the Romney campaign in the wake of Pres. Obama’s visit earlier this semester. “Obviously when President Obama comes to speak on campus, you really want your guy to be up there as well,” Dick said. “But it’s not as though Romney has not been to Colorado.” Romney was in Boulder a few weeks ago and in Pueblo on Monday. Ryan is expected to speak and answer questions on Wednesday for about an hour. He will then attend an afternoon rally in Colorado Springs. News Editor Elisabeth Willner can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Songs We’d Like the Marching Band to Play Chariots of Fire

In addition to being the theme song of an award winning British film, “Chariots of Fire” is probably one of the most inspirational sports-related songs to have ever been composed. The CSU student body desperately needs an inspirational shot in the arm after the last few football games.

The Lumberjack Song

Because we know that the marching band has a load of talented people, it would be pretty cool to see them try and adapt this classic (mostly vocal) Monty Python song. It has a great build-up, a well-timed middle, and a sudden and abrupt end. Kind of like most of Garret Grayson’s running plays.

Gangnam Style

This one (hopefully) needs no explanation. Seeing all of, most of, or just some of the marching band performing the signature dance for Gangam Style would be glorious. Marching band, make it happen. The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff and designed by Design Editor Kris Lawan.

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Professional sign shaker Tim Farnsworth gets down at the corner of College Avenue and Harmony Road Monday afternoon. Tim occupies the corner on a weekly basis where he dances, flails and goes crazy in an attempt to gain attention from passing cars.

Community Briefs CSU’s largest donors honored in Donor Walk On Sept. 21, CSU honored its most generous supporters in a private ceremony by dedicating the Donor Walk. The Donor Walk features bricks engraved with

names of donors who have given $1 million or more to the university in donations. Located in the center of CSU, the monument was created to celebrate the conclusion of the Campaign for Colorado State, a seven year campaign that has raised more than $537 million in private funding to support

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Music history needs two By CANDICE MILLER The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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Dr. Joel Maxcy, sports economist from Temple University, speaks to a small crowd of most Save Our Stadium Hughes supporters in the Cherokee Park Room in the Lory Student Center Monday night. Maxcy spoke on the ﬁnancial possiblites and downfalls of the proposed on-campus stadium.

Revenues will be less than projected by admin. STADIUM | Continued from Page 1 vice president of the international association of sports economists. Data compiled by CSL shows three tiers of possible revenue streams should an on-campus stadium be built. The revenue streams include money generated from ticket sales, donations, parking, advertising, naming rights and a facility development fee. Under the low-case scenario, grand total of all revenue generated would be approximately $12,832,000 in the first year of operation. This is a 119 percent increase, or double, over the last available year that revenue was generated at Hughes Stadium –– $5,865,082 in 2010 to 2011. The base scenario forecasts $18,186,000 in revenue to be generated in the first year of operation, an increase of 210 percent, or triple the revenue from 2010 to 2011. On the high end, revenue is calculated to quadruple to 342 percent — a total of approximately $25,948,000. The data relies on “extremely optimistic” increases in premium seating and advertising revenue as well, Maxcy said. Under the base scenario, premium seating would have to increase 624 percent from $387,475 in 2010 to 2011 to $2,028,525 during the first year of operation of an on-campus stadium. Vangermeersch said that those numbers, especially revenue generated from ticket sales, are artificially inflated. “Some of the numbers from Hughes stadium were tickets that were part of sponsorship packages, so

with its own on-campus stadium. There are also “spillover” costs like traffic, public safety, congestion parking and environmental concerns including trash and litter removal, according to Maxcy. Citizens may also chose to avoid the downtown area altogether on game day, meaning area businesses might lose money. “New stadiums are not allowing cities to pave their streets with gold,” Maxcy said. Quite the contrary, the last 20 years of extensive research has shown “the myth is slowly being debunked” that bringing a stadium to an area has a positive economic impact. There are some benefits that CSU could see with an on-campus stadium, “It’s not fair to completely focus on the negatives,” Maxcy said. If the university was to move into an elite conference, broadcast revenue could increase five to 10 times greater than what it is now. Along with that would come more exposure and advertising dollars. Fort Collins resident Liz Preussner believes the university hasn’t done an accurate cost benefit analysis of an on-campus stadium. Bringing Maxcy to speak allows a more accurate picture of possible financial pitfalls to be looked at. “This should have been from the beginning,” Preussner said. “Of course the people that did the feasibility study would say ‘let’s do it’. They have a lot to gain, while this person (Maxcy) doesn’t have anything to gain.” Senior Reporter Austin Briggs can be reached at news@collegian.com.

they’re carrying those over to the new on-campus stadium and using them as a way to forecast attendance,” Vangermeersch said. The research firm CSL foresees a 22 percent attendance increase the first year followed by a four percent increase in the subsequent four years. According to Maxcy, this is an “exaggerated assumption.” Based on analysis of other stadium projects, the attendance boost usually occurs only in the first year during the “honeymoon” phase. Most problematic, Maxcy said, is a survey done by the firm asking potential ticket buyers whether or not they would purchase tickets at the new stadium. The survey results were used to determine future attendance and revenue at the on-campus stadium. “As an economist, we don’t like survey data,” Maxcy said. “We like hard data on how people are spending money.” Only 9.4 percent of surveys were returned and many of those are assumed to be people with a high interest in CSU football. Under the hypothetical scenario of whether or not they would buy tickets, respondents might be more inclined to say “yes” even if they may not actually purchase tickets. He added that in two situations on other campuses where an on-campus stadium was built, both at the University of Akron and the University of Minnesota, neither one came close to matching even the lowest attendance or revenue increases predicted by CSU’s hired firm should the university move forward

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The Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Colorado State University is accepting nominations to fill two positions as assistant professor of music history. “(Students) want a teacher that is interesting and relevant,” said Todd Queen, chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance. “They want teachers to challenge them and offer dialogue back and forth.” The requirements of this job include a Ph.D. in musicology, teaching experience at the college level, a record of research, the ability to work collaboratively and a commitment to continue professional development. “I look for a professor who can apply musical concepts to all genres of music,” said Bethany Homan, a sophomore music major. Any potential professor will need to be able to teach a course in western music and are expected to advise students –– especially graduate students –– and have an expertise in something different, in another area of music outside of what they will be teaching. “I’m enrolled in music history right now,” said Ashlyn Dunn, a vocal music education major. “It’s one of my favorite subjects.” These new assistant professors will be responsible for teaching every music major, which comes out to more than 350 students. The department plans on going to the AMS Conference in New Orleans to

search for teachers, and has 12 hours of interviews scheduled to meet people. Queen said there is a lot of interest in these positions “to say the least.” “We pull from all over the world,” Queen said. “We’re looking for dynamic classroom teachers, we’re looking for people beginning to publish and we’re looking for people with the potential for a national research profile.” The University Center of the Arts has experienced a lot of retirements in the last 10 years, which makes the staff at CSU a very young group of teachers. Queen said this enhances the UCA’s programs. “It’s a small community of people within the huge community of CSU. There is always a familiar face as you walk down the hallway,” Homan said. As they await the arrival of two new assistant professors, an adjunct professor, who is actually a CSU alumnus, as well as Joel Bacon are helping to teach all music majors in music history at the time being. Adjuncts are responsible for teaching to all 350 music majors. They teach three three-credit classes per semester. Queen said there’s no guarantee that adjuncts become assistant professors. After six years as an assistant professor, the teacher can go up for tenure. “I think it’s the poor job market. There’s been a hiring freeze across all institutions,” Queen said. Despite the negative numbers, the program has grown in number of students as well as number of faculty. In 10 years, the

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program has doubled the number of undergraduates and quadrupled the number of graduate students, gaining eight tenure track professors. The program has added a music composition degree and this year, they are adding a jazz studies major. “The professors in the music department are balanced in making sure we understand the information and teaching us in a variety of ways,” Dunn said. “They have a passion for preparing students.” The UCA offers a wide variety of visual and performing arts programs. It sees about 1,100 students and 100 faculty members each day. “We want to get more people involved so they can relate their knowledge to actual music experience,” Queen said. The UCA not only offers educational courses in the music department, but it also serves as a venue for performance, creative production and design, therapy and research. “We’re committed to hiring two new great teachers and we’re excited,” Queen said. Collegian Writer Candice Miller can be reached at news@collegian.com.

KABBANI | The bodybuilder’s dream Continued from Page 1 when he saw him at 24 Hour Fitness. “I just knew he was going to be something special,” Havekost said. “The reason I approached him is I think if Mustafa can stay focused he’ll be one of the best in the world.” According to Havekost, Kabbani is successful in bodybuilding because he is very genetically gifted, trains very hard and is disciplined with his diet and supplements year round. His commitment to the sport, however, has

made the most difference. “He left a really great job and his family to chase his dream of becoming a bodybuilder,” Havekost said. Kabbani’s next step is preparing for the Arnold Classic amateur bodybuilding contest in March in Columbus, Ohio. “If I look the way I want I’m going to do it next year,” Kabbani said. “If not, it’s going to be March 2014.” Pamela Bishop, key adviser in the School of Social Work, met Kabbani when he began dating her daughter, who also does bodybuilding. “He’s just the most dis-

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Concealed carry: I don’t feel safer

By CALEB HENDRICH

April 20, 1999: Two young men dressed in trench coats arrive at Columbine High School and open fire. Fifteen people were killed and 21 were injured. April 16, 2007: A single student armed with two handguns opens fire at Virginia Tech. 33 people were killed and 23 were injured. January 8, 2011: A lone gunman arrives at a Tucson Safeway and opens fire on a crowd. Six people were killed, and 14 were injured, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. July 20, 2012: A lone gunman opens fire in a crowded movie theater in Aurora. Twelve people were killed and 58 were injured. In each case, someone after the fact has speculated that if only someone had put the shooters down before they could start shooting, the shootings would never have happened. This is the “concealed carry makes us safer” argument. Proponents of this argument argue that the best way to either stop or deter potential shooters is to allow concealed weapons into as many places as possible. The theory being that lone gunman will not bother attacking because they know that they may be shot themselves, or that if they actually do, the situation can be ended before anyone dies. In some cases, this might actually work. In the VT shooting, for instance, there was a period of some two hours where someone could have stopped the shooter. In some cases, a concealed weapon might have just made things worse. There was a concealed carrier at the Tucson shooting, who was about to shoot the man he believed to be the shooter, only to stop with the realization that he was instead about to shoot the man who had tackled the shooter. Does it actually make us safer? Nobody knows. Gun rights advocates say yes, gun control advocates say no. Neither side has overwhelming concrete proof that they are correct. There are only incidents; — incidents that are largely situational and do not set a definite trend. There are those who will undoubtedly be quick to provide examples of either case. Believe me, I’ve seen most of them and I am not convinced either way. Each incident has its own unique series of events and

caveats, which determine whether concealed carry actually works or not. But this is all academic, and is ultimately irrelevant to my view on the subject. I know that there is not going to be an intelligent discussion on the subject, because frankly people just are not interested in having an intelligent discussion. So I will just say this: I do not feel safer because of concealed carry. If there is a shooting situation that happens on this campus, I want to be sure where the bullets are coming from. If someone starts shooting (assuming that I’m not killed in the first volley), I’m falling to the ground behind something. I have no idea, at this point, who the shooter actually is. And if people around me start shooting back, then there is no way for me to know how many shooters there are. All I know is that I am caught in the crossfire, and there is a very real chance for me to end up as a casualty. Also, I would like it if the first responders are actually be able to do their jobs to the best of their ability. I want them to know exactly who the shooter is, and if there is an all out gunfight between people with concealed weapons and the shooter they cannot be sure who the perpetrator is. And if they are not sure who the perpetrator is, then it is just slowing them down, which makes it all the more likely that civilians like me are going to end up dead. I do not feel safer because of concealed carry. It does not matter to me if all concealed carriers are all ex-Marine marksmen that have never missed in their lives. It does not matter to me if other people believe that concealed carry is some sort of deterrent for future shooters. I only know that there will always be people willing to kill as many people as they can. But I do not want to be in the middle of a gun battle when that happens. I have no interest in taking your gun away. I’m not interested in banning anyone from ever getting a gun ever again. I’m not interested in arguing the legality of concealed carry laws, because that has been settled. That is your Second Amendment Right; period, end of story. All the same, I do not feel any safer knowing that I am on a concealed carry campus. Editorial Assistant Caleb Hendrich is a senior political science and journalism double major. His columns appear Wednesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian. com.

OUR VIEW

Stadium’s not just revenue Monday, Save Our Stadium, Hughes (SOS) — the group opposed to CSU’s proposed on-campus stadium — brought a sports economist to analyze the projections made by consultants hired by the university. Joel Maxcy, brought by SOS, said the financial and attendance projections CSU provided were overly optimistic. This argument about financial projections, which made up a majority of Maxcy’s presentation, completely misses the point of what CSU hopes to accomplish with an on-campus stadium. Focusing on financial projections simply moves the discussion in the wrong direction and acts as a way for SOS to spread useless rhetoric. Should the stadium be built, the university has made it clear that the success of the on-campus sta-

dium will be judged in more than just revenue — it’s about improving the football program, increasing the

“It’s important ... to realize that the proposed oncampus discussion doesn’t begin or end with potential revenue.” visibility of the university and much more. Revenue is only part of the package.

The truth is, revenue projections are just that, projections, and no one — neither SOS or CSU — knows how much the stadium will make. Logic alone says an on-campus stadium will make more than Hughes Stadium currently does. It’s important for both supporters and opponents of a potential on-campus stadium to realize that the proposed on-campus discussion doesn’t begin or end with potential revenue. As long as the funding for a possible on-campus stadium comes from private donations and not from students’ already increasing tuition — as President Tony Frank promised — the stadium is a great idea for CSU regardless of projected revenue. It’s about boosting CSU as an institution and making that diploma we work so hard for a little more valuable.

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Colorado State defies concealed carry fears

By KEVIN JENSEN

Colorado State University allows citizens over the age of 21 to carry concealed weapons with a proper permit and identification. And so it should remain to protect Coloradans’ rights. Supreme Court decisions in 2008 and 2010 established without a doubt that a citizen's right to own a gun is protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. For Coloradans, though, owning a firearm for self defense is also protected by Article II, Section 13 of Colorado's Constitution, which reads: "That the right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question." Interestingly, however, our state constitution continues on to say, "but nothing herein contained, shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons." The issue of concealed weapons, at the time of our

state constitution’s framing, was left to various local authorities — which invariably led to inconsistencies in the enforcement of concealed carries throughout the state. To solve these inconsistencies, the Colorado State Legislature passed the Concealed Carry Act (CCA) in 2003. The act states that a person with a permit may carry a concealed weapon "in all areas of the state," except those areas explicitly included in the language of the act. Exceptions to the CCA include government buildings with fixed security checkpoints and schools K-12. The Colorado State Legislature created this legislature “since the issuance of a concealed handgun permit is based on a person's constitutional right of self-protection and there is a prevailing state interest in ensuring that no citizen is arbitrarily denied a concealed handgun permit." The University of Colorado (CU), however, has had a gun ban in place on its campus for more than 40 years — which stands in direct contradiction to the CCA. Students for Concealed Carry brought a suit against the University of Colorado for its prohibition of legally concealed guns on campus. On March 5 the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the regents of CU had indeed overstepped their authority and were operating above the state law allowing concealed firearms.

The assertion that a state university has the right to arbitrarily prevent law-abiding citizens from obtaining and carrying concealed firearms with a permit on campus stands in direct contradiction to Colorado statute, the Colorado Supreme Court found. The regulation of firearms is a power that resides with the state's legislative body, not the administration of the school. Even if CSU did have the authority to obstruct a citizen's right to self-defense through the use of concealed carry, CSU should never seek to impose those restrictions. As one of the few campuses in the United States that allows the concealed carry of firearms, we are a shining example to the rest of the country that the fallacious notion that allowing concealed carry increases violence, deaths and gun accidents on campus is absolutely incorrect. CSU can hardly be said to have a violence or gun problem. Our campus is just as safe or safer than every other university in the country — even while allowing concealed carry. Nothing has shown that allowing concealed carry will make campuses more dangerous, and Colorado State University is real-world proof of this. Does concealed carry make us safer as a whole? I wouldn't say that concealed carry will help prevent school shootings, but it in no way will increase the likeli-

hood of school shootings. No school shooter committed their horrid acts under the guise of a concealed carry permit. Banning concealed carry will do nothing to prevent sociopaths from walking onto campus armed to the teeth in the future. In essence, all banning concealed carry would do is take weapons out of the hands of law abiding citizens rather than criminals. This fact is magnified given that CSU has a large number of veterans that attend our university everyday. These men and women have fought overseas to protect our freedoms. I, for one, am unwilling to obstruct our veterans’ right to self-defense on our campus — especially since arguments against concealed carry are often nothing more than a series of hypothetical fears. The squeamishness of a few individuals regarding firearms is not enough to arbitrarily deny a law abiding Colorado citizen the right to self-defense through concealed carry — as recently affirmed by the Colorado Supreme Court. There is neither a clear nor urgent need to ban concealed carry from CSU. Why then, would we ever wish to circumvent the edict of our great state?

Editorial Editor Kevin Jensen is a senior English major. He can be reached at kjensen@collegian.com or on Twitter @kevinrjensen.

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Yays and Nays Yay | to fall foliage. The leaves are turning colors and temperatures are getting

Nay | to a projected dry winter. It’s almost time to hit the slopes and we’re tired of riding on ice.

Nay | to midterms. We just made it through two weeks of these freak-out inducing tests/papers, but the next ones are already on the horizon.

Yay |

lower — sweet relief to those of us without AC in our homes.

to registering to vote. Yeah if you register to vote you’ll have to do jury duty, but that is a small price to pay to participate in our constitutional republic.

“As a student of Dr. Grandin, I know I’m studying from the best in the world, a true living legend.”

An inspiration A look at Iran’s failed ‘economic jihad’ for every mind Yay | to Paul Ryan visiting this Wednesday. Larimer County will have an extremely formative role in this upcoming election: Get informed.

By BROOKE LAKE

For the average Iranian citizen, buying chicken for a meal is a luxury, common only to the wealthy. Imagine your parent’s 25th wedding anniversary is approaching and you want to surprise them with chicken at a dinner celebration. Realistically, you understand the financial sacrifice involved, as prices for groceries — like many things in Iran — are terrifically inflated and unstable. Meticulously, you save 840,000 rials for the poultry purchase, but when you go into the grocery store you find that the price of chicken has doubled since the day before. You cannot purchase the amount of chicken needed to feed your family for the celebration, and you walk away defeated. Doesn’t sound too overwhelming, because it’s just chicken, right? This time, imagine the same conditions apply, except you must obtain

NAY | to the Broncos and Rams. Colorado football has been weak as of late. CSU ranked in the 25 worst D1 teams as well, but at least we outranked CU.

cancer medicine for your mother. You can’t afford the soaring price for the drug, and your mother dies. Welcome to the reality in which most Iranian citizens must face due to the sanctions President Barack Obama signed into effect last December. Imposing sanctions comes with the knowledge that everyday citizens will be bearing the blow. With this comes the assumption that the government will act on the side of suffering citizens and eventually succumb to demands. Supporters of administering sanctions upon Iran for its nuclear energy program failed to recognize the reality of the Islamic Republic of Iran — the government does not act on the side of its citizens but rather on the side of selfish gain. Thus, Iran's wealthy elite continue to take advantage of Iran's intrinsic wealth in oil, while the majority of Iranian citizens are dealing with high unemployment, high cost of living, a decreasing value in their dollar, and unstable inflation. Ironically enough, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, announced back in March 2011 that he will bring his country through an "economic jihad." This plan for structural reform — once praised by the IMF — now stands as an afterthought in an economy now sweltering under sanctions. By signing sanctions on Iran's Central Bank, Obama essentially signed off on a lower

standard of living for Persian people. Even with international pressure to forgo nuclear development, Iran will maintain its sovereignty at the expense of its people. Along the same vein, the United States will not back down from the sanctions. What’s left is a stalemate. The people of Iran must brace themselves for a long period of economic decline which means outstandingly high prices for foreign consumer products. How long will the United States and other international participants continue to impose sanctions which have the greatest effect on everyday citizens of Iran? How long will the Islamic Republic continue to throw millions of dollars into its Uranium enrichment program while its citizens are starving for basic necessities? The government of Iran does not hear the sound of a child screaming from hunger or a dying woman crying from a lack of medical care. No, they are deaf except to the sound of gold falling into the petroleum sea. Bottom line: someone needs to concede or the people of Iran will continue to suffer. Editorial Assistant Brooke Lake is a senior international studies major. Her column appears every other Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian.com.

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Disability Pride Parade and Festival We've come a long way since the last of the so-called "ugly laws" died in 1974. No doubt most people have forgotten the days when disabled people were prohibited from appearing in public, but the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990 was intended to grant the disabled the rights and privileges denied them in the past. One measure of how far we've come is the upcoming First Annual Disability Pride Parade and Music Festival scheduled for next Saturday the 29th of September here in Fort Collins. This event is being sponsored by Disabled Resource Services, a small nonprofit agency which has achieved a fantastic record of service to disabled persons of Northern Colorado. DRS, under the able management of Nancy Jackson, has responded to needs ranging from bus passes to employment counseling, help with Social Security issues and many other problems faced by disabled persons every day. Until this year, DRS was funded mainly by the United Way, with an annual wine tasting fundraiser as their main outreach to the community. This year, however, United Way went to a new system allowing donors to des-

ignate the agencies they wished their donations to support. The unfortunate result for DRS was the loss of 90 percent of their income, meaning they have been forced to cut back on some of their services. That, however, is not the end of DRS's story, but rather is the beginning of a new phase of their operations, one in which their clients will play a big part. The Disability Pride Parade and Music Festival is the brainchild of Sherri Reichow, event coordinator for Disabled Resource Services. With limited time and money against her, she has assembled a team of volunteers, most of whom are disabled in some way, and has provided an opportunity for them to "give back" to the agency which has done so much for them. The planning meetings for the event have been full of enthusiasm and creative thinking, which I am certain will put a new perspective on the concept of "disability." The day will begin early sunday morning as volunteers converge on the Old Fort Collins Heritage Park to set up booths, tables, seating, stage, sound systems and a host of things too numerous to describe. Shortly before noon, parade participants, which will

include anyone, disabled or not, who wishes to participate, will board shuttle buses and other transportation to the Main Library at 201 Peterson St. The parade will leave from there at one o'clock, and the Music Festival will begin at about 1:30, with the Stone People Drummers, followed by Lee Holiday and the Time Off. At four o'clock, CSU Animal Science Professor Temple Grandin will take the stage. Dr. Grandin, internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work in the cattle industry, is herself autistic and has been the subject of an HBO filmography. She will speak for about a half hour and will be signing copies of her new book, being sold at Barnes & Noble. Music will resume after her talk with The Seers. All this — plus parking and food & drink from local businesses — are free to the public, except for some beverages to be sold, with proceeds going to DRS. There will also be plenty of collection jars for donations. The festivities are scheduled to end at 6:30 p.m. For more information, go to www.drsgrassrootsfest.org, or call 970-449-6973. Persons with goods or services to promote are still welcome to call! Guest column by Rev. Russ Jones.

By MALINDA DeBELL

I came to CSU chomping at the bit to get away from my boring highschool years and to study things that interest me. During the summer before I got to campus I enrolled in my first college classes, expecting to get nothing but the basic requirements. So I was ecstatic to find out that I’d be taking a class with Dr. Temple Grandin, the world-renowned animal welfare advocate — and one of CSU’s most famous professors. Dr. Grandin, a professor in the CSU Department of Animal Sciences, is a woman who has revolutionized the entire livestock and meat production industry — almost single handedly. She has done this with unique insights into animal behavior and with facility designs to handle livestock humanely. For these advances, she has won praise from both consumers and people working in animal agriculture. Well-known in the agricultural and scholarly worlds, Dr. Grandin is also an inspiration in the world of autism because she has overcome her own struggles with autism to make an impact with her work. Dr. Grandin’s unique and brilliant mind makes her story remarkable. Being autistic, she had no speech until she was 3 and a half years old, did not like to experience new things and did not like surprises. She often describes herself as a visual thinker, who thinks primarily in pictures. In her bestselling book, “Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism,” Dr. Grandin writes that her mind is like an “Internet search engine that is set to find images.” (This book is the basis for the HBO movie, “Temple Grandin,” which won seven Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.) Her autism and unique way of thinking gave Dr. Grandin a talent that she would use to transform the livestock industry. She describes the thinking of many animals as being similar to hers. Animals think based on their senses and visual impressions, Dr. Grandin explains. Visual inputs, along with sound, smell, taste and touch, determine animal behavior. She advocates work-

ing which these behavioral inclinations, rather than against them, to greatly reduce livestock stress. In the 1970s, Dr. Grandin started working with beef cattle. At a beef plant, she witnessed a handler’s brutal force with cattle that were not moving though pens and chutes because they were uncertain of the surroundings. This angered Dr. Grandin, and also motivated her to understand why the cattle were not moving on. Her ability to think in pictures allowed her to discover why the cattle were moving slowly and becoming distracted. Dr. Grandin got right in the chutes and on the facility floors to get a cow’s-eye view and to identify problems. She quickly eliminated shadows, light gleams, silly misplaced objects and other factors that distracted cattle and prevented their relaxed movement. These kinds of insights about individual and herd behavior led Dr. Grandin to develop facility designs that put cattle at ease and allowed them to move naturally through a facility. I was fortunate to take her animal handling class in fall 2011, when she shared her revolutionary ideas and the reasons for her passion in animal agriculture. As a student of Dr. Grandin, I know I’m studying from the best in the world, a true living legend. She is training this generation of animal scientists about humane animal handling strategies — so that we can take her ideas into the future. Dr. Grandin is my inspiration because she maintains an advocacy role in every area of her life –— agriculture, facility designs, animal behavior, autism, and teaching her students at CSU. Her “simple logic” has been a revelation to foodanimal producers, and she has become a hero to people inside and outside autism circles because she has not let obstacles stop her. Dr. Grandin excited me because she helped me focus on what I want to achieve in my professional life: I want to be an advocate for agriculture. Her example helps me see that I can accomplish my goals and dreams if I have enough determination and passion. She is an inspiration who has helped me find who I want to be. I now have a goal in mind, and the motivation to become the young professional and person I want to become. I encourage you to find something or someone in your college career to help turn on a light for you, to inspire you to be the person you want to become.

Malinda DeBell is a sophomore animal science major. Her column appears every other Tuesday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@ collegian.com.

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can register to vote by mail, email and fax Continued from Page 1 it matters how people vote as long as the vote is well-educated.” Although it is tempting to believe that voting in Colorado produces a greater effect on the election because it is a swing state, ultimately every vote in every state counts, according to Griego. Julia Imhoss, a junior chemical and biological engineering major from Texas, registered to vote in Colorado instead of her home state because of Larimer County’s swing status. “I really wanted to feel like (my vote) counted — voting in Colorado seemed like a better thing to do,” Imhoss said. According to Reeves, part of the difficulty of encouraging people to vote is that some think that single votes do not count because of the electoral college system. Often in a lot of traditional Republican or Democratic states, elections are won by a few thousand votes in communities where thousands of people did not register or participate, Reeves said. “That kind of thinking of ‘Your vote is only going to matter in places where the race is close,’ I think

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discounts the power that your vote really does have,” Reeves said. “If every single person turns out, I think that a lot of the states that traditionally vote one way or another (would have a surprising result).” The League of Women Voters of Larimer County came to campus Sept. 17 and registered 40 people with paper registration forms and more online, according to Griego. This year the organization has registered or updated registration for 340 people in person, but couldn’t estimate how many students will be registered today. Students can also register to vote online, by mail, fax and email. Politics Beat Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at news@collegian.com.

“When sewing for another, you enter into the realm of the social and psychological aspects of clothing.” Diane Sparks | Department of Design and Merchandising professor

CSU students turn their rags to riches By AMANDA ZETAH The Rocky Mountain Collegian CSU student Lucy Horrall spends her winter and summer breaks furiously stitching cloth on her mother’s 1970 sewing machine. This past summer, she finished a nude dress with a cutout back, completing her summer clothing line. Horrall, a double major in graphic design and apparel design, prefers to make her own clothes at home. She then sells them at a discounted price on her personal website, www.pie-designs.com, to people all over the country. “I’ve always been really into art and fashion, so I wanted to see what I could come up with,” Horrall said. Horrall is not the only CSU student who experiments with a sewing machine. It's very common for students in the Department of Design and Merchandising to create their own clothes, according to Diane Sparks, a professor in the department. The department encourages students to create a variety of pieces, so that they can eventually use it to participate in the senior capstone fashion show. “What most students are interested in is getting a really good internship and then a job,” Sparks said. In their classes, students learn how to weave, print and dye fabric to increase their understanding. During their senior year, students put on a fashion show that features

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four to six of their outfits. “I think it is a fabulous opportunity for creativity,” Sparks said. “When sewing for another, you enter into the realm of the social and psychological aspects of clothing." Horall began making her own clothes at age 14 and created her website less than a year ago. On it, she sells a variety of pieces for a discounted price of $40. These pieces include dresses, pants, shirts and some artwork. “I mostly sell knit wear and casual wear,” Horrall said. “But knits are my favorite to make because they are stretchy and fit more people.”

Yani Ortega, sophomore history major, has been making her own clothes for a few years. Unlike Horrall, her pieces are not for sale, but are for her own personal enjoyment. “The good thing about making clothes [for yourself] is that you don’t have to do it all at the same time,” Ortega said. It usually takes Ortega about one month to complete a piece. Her entire collection includes 20 total outfits, ranging from Halloween costumes to shorts. Her proudest moment was when she made her own Prom dress. “It was a strapless yellow ball gown,” Ortega said.

INTERESTED? Visit Lucy Horrall’s fashion website to view her complete line at www.pie-designs.com.

Both Ortega and Horrall are self-taught and create their pieces in their spare time. They see it as a hobby that can eventually turn into something more. “I hope to open my own boutique and participate in trade shows,” Horrall said. Student Life Beat Reporter Amanda Zetah can be reached at news@collegian.com.

‘Zombie bees’ expands to Wash. state KENT, Wash. — Mark Hohn didn’t pay much attention to the dead bees scattered outside his shop when he got home from vacation a few weeks ago. He just pulled out a leaf blower and blasted away the mess. It took him a few days to realize he had an invasion of the living dead on his hands. “I joke with my kids that the zombie apocalypse is starting at my house,” said the novice beekeeper. The dead and dying honeybees from Hohn’s 1.25-acre spread in Kent are the first in Washington confirmed to be infected by a parasitic fly that causes the bees to lurch around erratically before dropping dead. The discovery expands the range of the so-called “zombie bees” first discovered in California in 2008 by San Francisco State University biologist John Hafernik. Through his website, www. ZombeeWatch.org, Hafernik is recruiting a network of citizen scientists, like Hohn, to help determine how wide-

spread the parasite is and whether it is contributing to the demise of bee colonies across the country. “We really would like to get more samples from Washington and from all over,” Hafernik said. Unlike healthy bees, which spend the night tucked up in their hive, infected bees fly after dark and tend to congregate at lights. Hohn noticed bees buzzing around the light in his shop, flying in jerky patterns and finally flopping on the floor. He remembered hearing

about the zombie bees, so he collected several of the corpses and popped them into a Ziploc bag. “Curiosity got the better of me,” he said. The fly’s life cycle is gruesomely reminiscent of the movie “Alien” — though they don’t pose a risk to people. Adult females, smaller than a fruit fly, land on the backs of foraging honeybees and use their needle-sharp ovipositors to inject eggs into the bee’s abdomen. The eggs hatch into maggots. “They basically eat the insides out

of the bee,” Hafernik said. After consuming their host, the maggots pupate, forming a hard outer shell that looks like a fat, brown grain of rice. When Hohn looked in his Ziploc bag a week later, he saw several pupae — the smoking gun evidence that his bees were infected. He’s still waiting for the first adult flies to emerge from the shells, a process that takes three to four weeks. It’s hard to know what effect the parasite is having on his hives, Hohn said. “I don’t really have a way to quantify how bad it is, which is the scary part.” In a twist on the typical horror movie plot, it’s the parasite that’s native to North America, not the bees. Honeybees were imported by European settlers. The flies, called Apocephalus borealis or scuttle flies, are common coast to coast. But until Hafernik picked up dying honeybees outside his San Francisco laboratory four years ago, the flies had never been known to infect anything but bumblebees and certain types of wasps.

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Discipline, execution needed for Rams to improve By ANDREW SCHALLER The Rocky Mountain Collegian The growing pains early on for the CSU football team and new head coach Jim McElwain have been noticeable throughout the first four games of the season. On both sides of the ball, the Rams still have a lot of work to do in order to erase the memory of three straight 3-9 seasons. And what does McElwain say the team needs to work on? “The fundamentals,” McElwain said. “Match the execution (of other teams), match the effort, match the discipline and detail and exceed that, that’s what we

need to do.” Particularly on offense, the Rams have struggled to execute — especially in the first half. The Rams scripted the first offensive plays for the upcoming game all week, but still failed to send a man in motion on the first play of the game last week against Utah State, in what was the start of a night to forget for CSU’s offense. “By the time the game comes, they’ve actually done it nine times,” McElwain said. “Is that an excuse for play one forgetting the motion? Well, maybe we shoulda done it 10. But I guess (why) I say that is you know, (scripting plays is) something that

we’ve done everywhere I’ve been and we’ve been real successful getting off to fast starts.” The Rams have yet to get off to a fast start in any of their first four games as their combined score in first quarters this year stands at only 10 points, an average of 2.5 points per game. According to wide receiver Marquise Law, much of the Rams’ struggles early on in the game have come at the hands of complacency and a lack of urgency when CSU has the ball early on in games. “I think if we can change our mindsets to either realize that we need to get things going early or to realize like

‘Hey, we’re already down’ at the beginning of the game when it’s 0-0 I think that would make a huge difference,” he said. Defensively, the Rams have shown what McElwain has referred to as “flashes” of good play, forcing three turnovers last weekend. However, the defense has failed to consistently stop an opponent for an entire game. The Rams are ranked No. 86 in pass defense and tied for No. 67 in rushing defense this season among division-I FBS schools. “We as a defensive core have to be sound for the run and the pass no matter what team we play or what big rivalry game it is,” de-

fensive back Trent Matthews said. “No matter what, we still have to do our job even though in the past we have given up rushing yards or passing yards or so forth, we still have to go out there and try our best, and we will.” Although the Rams have struggled getting out of the gate in 2012, the season is still only four weeks old, and Mountain West Conference play begins next week against Air Force which will be an opportunity for CSU to get its season back on track. “Right now, I’m bound and determined to give this fan base some excitement in the win column,” McElwain said. “And that’s the direction we’re headed.”

STRUGGLING RAMS Offense: Rushing yards per game: 98.3 NCAA rank: 115 Passing yards per game: 216.3 NCAA rank: 77 Points scored per game: 17 NCAA rank: 80 Defense: Opponent rushing yards per game: 159 NCAA rank: T-67 Opponent passing yards: 983 NCAA rank: 86 Points allowed per game: 27.5 NCAA rank: 80

Football Beat Reporter Andrew Schaller can be reached at sports@collegian.com

Redefining the Rams’ big band Largest marching band ever at CSU looks to make history By CHRISTOPHER BOAN The Rocky Mountain Collegian If the CSU marching band seems a bit louder at Hughes Stadium this year it might be for good reason — the 300 member band is the largest it’s been since its inception in 1901. One reason for the band’s growth is the scholarship drive that helps more prospective students join the band, which increased by 40 members from the 2011-2012 school year. The growth follows a trend. Each of the past four years have seen record enrollment, a fact that excites Band Director Christopher Nicholas. “Our enrollment figures in 2009, 2010 and 2011 each set records as the largest (or second largest) band in CSU’s history,” Nicholas said in an email to the Collegian. “Each year we have been delighted to write a new chapter in the growth of this tradition-rich organization.” Scholarships have been given to each band member eligible for financial aid since 2009, according to Nicholas. Additionally, 2012 marks the third year that band members in their sec-

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ond, third and fourth years of service are provided extra scholarship funding. Band members say this year will mark a new era, as they try and mesh together new songs with the pageantry and spirit of the past. “The 2012 CSU Marching Band has taken upon themselves to enhance the game day experience at Hughes Stadium,” said drum major and senior political sciences major Steven Contreras in an email to the Collegian. “This new initiative gives the crowd new music to enjoy and allows the band members to learn more exciting music throughout the entirety of the fall performance season.” This enhanced experience includes added shows at the Lincoln Center on Sept. 29 and a trip to perform in the 2013 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland. “We play many events already, and try to select a repertoire that is adaptable to each of those environments,” said Associate Band Director Richard Frey in an email to the Collegian. “The band started here over 100 years ago, they have worked incredibly hard with the sole

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The CSU Marching Band performs berfore last Saturdays football game at Hughes Stadium. The band has record enrollment this year, a record which has been broken the past three years in a row.

purpose of supporting our teams, entertaining crowds and representing CSU in the very best way.” The band’s storied history includes numerous awards and performances with bands like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Contreras believes the band’s future is bright and to expect more and more major events in the future. “The 2012 season is setting the foundation for a

new exciting time for the CSU Marching Band,” Contreras said. “Our future is a chapter that we are truly excited about and will be a testament to our hard work and performance of today.” This foundation has been built around a sense of school pride that aims at showing off CSU to a new audience. “We want the CSU student body to know that we take the mission of representing them and the university to heart in everything we

do,” Contreras added. “We hope that our efforts and recognition does not only showcase the marching band, but introduces the power of CSU to a new audience of fans.” Senior Assistant Melissa Gross says CSU students should support the band either at an event or during rehearsals. “The band is a great organization to be part of here at CSU! The atmosphere is welcoming and inclusive,” Gross said. “We love supporting the

BAND BY THE NUMBERS Number of members in this year’s band: 300 (all-time high) Number of people who attend the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin annually: 500,000 Year that the CSU Marching Band was founded: 1901

team and we take pride in our role as a part of the CSU community.” Collegian Writer Christopher Boan can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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