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NEWS Monday, October 3, 2016

By Miranda Moses @mirandasrad

Old Town parking may have seemed even more ridiculously full Saturday morning as the second annual Tour De Corgi commenced in full swing with hundreds of Corgis taking over College Avenue and hundreds of humans eager to witness the ankle-high fun.

Tour de Corgi is exactly what it sounds like. Imagine Fort Collins’ Tour de Fat only minus the drinking, the bikes and the traffic cops. Keep the costumes, but instead of people wearing them, add hundreds of silly looking dogs that are very low the ground and don’t seem to have knees instead.

The event itself began at 10 a.m. Saturday at Civic Center Park. Corgis and their owners met up before the parade to peruse the dog vendors and booths and participate in the costume contest. Costumes were judged in different categories including funniest, most creative, purdiest and most badass. After the contests, win or lose, the Corgis took off to

parade down Old Town in their extravagant attire.

Attendee April Higginson accompanied her Corgi, Mozzy, who was dressed up as Waldo from the “Where’s Waldo?” activity books.

“It’s awesome seeing all the dogs in costumes,” Higginson said. “The costume contest was pretty cool.”

Higginson said that although she and Mozzy missed registration for the costume contest, everyone loves Mozzy’s costume.

The entry fee for the contests and the parade was five dollars, which went to 4 Paws Pet Pantry and the Wyoming Dachshund and Corgi Rescue. The judges included Senator John Kefalas, Mayor Wade Troxell and local publisher Lydia Dody.

Some of the Corgi costumes included spooky Halloween witches, bumblebees, Supermans, peacocks and many land-sharks. Some dog owners dressed up with their pets, with one family dressing up as the prisoners of their doggy policemen, and another family dressing up as Corgis themselves in

fuzzy onesies to match their Corgi dressed as a lobster.

Although the event is Corgi-specific, other dogs made appearances to support their brothers and sisters. One dog had a sign taped to it that said “Corgi For A Day.” Corgi mixes were also extremely common; they tend to look like other dog breeds, but shorter.

Many dog lovers chose to wear Corgi-loving shirts that read things like “I heart my Corgi,” “I kissed a Corgi and I liked it” and “Dogs not dudes.”

Corgi owners Amanda and Danny Pond brought their enthusiastic Corgi, Boomer, for his second year at the parade.

Boomer wore his ribbons from dog diving competitions.

“He can jump 14 feet,” Amanda said. “He’s a ham in general. He loves to walk the lines and get love from everybody.”

Corgis certainly got love throughout their full parade route that traveled all throughout Old Town. The event started at the park and their little corgi legs took them past the Bean see DOGDAYS on page 4 >>

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Corgis in costumes paraded around Old Town at the 2nd annual Tour de Corgi this weekend. PHOTO BY JULIA TROWBRIDGE COLLEGIAN

Top ten cutest puppy costumes from Tour de Corgi

By Maegan Garcia @CSUCollegian

PHOTO BY MAEGAN GARCIA COLLEGIAN

Tour de Corgi took over Old Town on Saturday, and one of the best parts of the event, unarguably, were the adorable pups who sported equally adorable outfits.

Owners everywhere were proud of the outfits that they

had come up with for their beloved friends, and the corgis loved every bit of the attention. Here are some of the cutest outfits seen at Tour de Corgi:

around Old Town in a boat on wheels that his owner made for him. Scupper is from Florida and is 16 years old, which inspired his owner to design this costume.

1. Scupper dressed as “The Old Man and the Sea” (left): see the rest of these adorScupper made his way able pups at CORGI on page 14 >>

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4-year-old Caeden McHale dressed up for Halloween early and ran around campus in his costume. PHOTO BY NATALIE BRANCACCIO COLLEGAIN

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This Wednesday and Thursday almost 2,000 third graders from Poudre Valley School District were brought to Colorado State University’s Agricultural Research, Development and Education Center (ARDEC) to attend Ag Adventure Day. The event is run by the College of Agricultural Students and aims to provide hands-on lessons about agriculture.

The third graders spent time at six different learning centers working on standards-based activities including topics like dairy/ beef, sheep/wool, grain crops, food crops, soil/water, farm safety and equine sciences.

Each spent about 20 minuets at each station, taking two hours altogether. This year, 72 different classrooms were in attendance.

One learning center was a rain simulator where students learned about erosion and how it affects soil. They were also taught about different soil layers and textures. At the sheep/wool center, students got to experience a sheep sheering and spinning wool.

Cam the Ram also made an appearance at the station.

At another learning center students got to explore a fistulated steer. This is a steer with an opening cut into its stomach. Students were able to look in and see the inner workings of the steer. They were also taught about cattle nutrition and breeds.

There was a lesson on farm-to-plate that taught the journey of fruits, vegetables and meat to the dinner table.

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Clown hoax in Northern Colorado: Threats made at local high school, students frightened on CSU campus

By Tony Villalobos @TonyTheGnarly

Clowns are starting to gain national attention as stories are popping up involving suspicious clowns in at least ten different states.

The clown craze reached Fort Collins after gaining attention across the country.

Fort Collins Police Services and Poudre School District were notified Wednesday night, Sept.

28 of a threat posted to Facebook that included images and emoticons of clowns.

The threat was directed at Poudre High School and police presence of campus has been increased as a result.

Parents were notified by the district of the situation.

“We do not believe it’s credible,” said Jerry Schiager, FCPS assistant chief. “It looks just like

the others to be a hoax.”

Hoax or no hoax, FCPS takes the protection of school students, staff and faculty seriously and increased the number of resource officers on Poudre High’s campus.

Poudre High remained open on Thursday, though many parents chose to keep their children home.

“Poudre School District and FCPS will be providing additional security and continue to be

“We do not believe it’s credible. It looks just like the others to be a hoax.”

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vigilant at Poudre High School,” wrote the Fort Collins Police Services Facebook page.

According to the Coloradoan, a 15-year-old female student is believed to have made the post.

FCPS are conducting an investigation to find the origin of the message.

Stories of these clowns trying to entice children into woods and threaten or scare bystanders have become increasingly common, and could be happening on the CSU campus as well.

Maegen Garcia, freshman theater major, was walking home with friends one night when a man in a mask and a large wig jumped up in front of them as they were walking past the Durrell dining center just past midnight.

Garcia said the man got close to the group and frightened them.

“I’m sure it was just a prank,” Garcia said. “But, I really didn’t want to stay to see what happened.”

These cases are not alone, earlier this week Greeley police said that a post went out online that threatened a shooting on Halloween night. This post turned into a rumor that two clowns would carry out shootings at two Greeley schools.

“I don’t think people should be joking around like that,” Garcia said.

UPDATE: Last Thursday, the Thompson R2-J School District sent out an email to parents regarding a threat submitted to the Loveland High School Community “Safe 2 Tell” program.

The program is designed as a tool for students, staff and community members to re-

port suspicious messages and other activity. “TSD staff and law enforcement will continue to remain vigilant throughout the district. The safety of students, staff and visitors is always our number-one priority each and every day,” wrote Mike Hausmann, Thompson School District Public Information Officer in the email to the Loveland Community.

The schools were not closed or on lock-down, but increased security presence. Like the FCPS, Hausmann does not believe the threats to be credible, but as a part of a national hoax. Rumors of a clown being arrested in Loveland on Saturday night are also circulating, but have not been confirmed by the Collegian.

Tony Villalobos May can be reached online at news@ collegian.com.

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NEWS Monday, October 3, 2016

Warner College of Natural Resources introduces Human Dimensions of Natural Resources major

By Tony Villalobos @TonyTheGnarly

Starting last spring, the Warner College of Natural Resources offered a new major to its curriculum.

The Human Dimensions of Natural Resources bachelor’s degree had its first two graduates in its first semester.

The HDNR major was introduced into the curriculum to help students understand a broad area of environmental communication, conservation, parks and protected areas.

This degree program prepares students in addressing conservation and environmental issue though including a human component to all plans. The HDNR major allows students to explore how to help environmental/conservation issues while understanding the human needs involved.

“Our students love the outdoors and people and have a desire to preserve what is left of our natural resources for future generations,” wrote Brett Bruyere, associate professor for the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources.

The HDNR major was approved by the CSU Faculty Council in October 2015, and began accepting students into the major in January 2016 after receiving approval from the CSU Board of Governors.

The HDNR major was the result of a survey of more than 40 employers in 2012, but had been informally discussed before that.

Students in the HDNR major will explore the challenges to conserving and sustaining resources on the planet that are typically caused by human behaviour.

“It’s human behavior that has typically caused the challenges,

and it’ll take human behavior to solve them,” Bruyere wrote.

These students will gain the skills to see a conservation issue through a variety of perspectives that may be beyond their own. “(It taught me) how to work with different stakeholders, how to get them to work together around different issues,” said Malissa Balthrop, human dimensions of natural resources graduate.

Balthrop was one of the first two students to graduate from this major after switching from a similar program.

The Human Dimensions of Natural Resources curriculum contained many parts that were already offered by Warner, though some courses adapted based on feedback from public, private and nonprofit sectors.

“My classes focused a lot on two things primarily; one was outdoor and environmental education,” said Balthrop. “(I learned)

>> DOGDAYS from page 1

Poudre School District 3rd graders pet Cam the Ram during Ag Adventure at CSU ARDEC Sept. 28, 2016. PHOTO BY LUKE WALKER COLLEGIAN

>> STUDENTS from page 2 The equine leaning center students were taught how to measure a horse and the different breeds. Students were also given stick horses and recreated the Pony Express and learned facts about it. There was also a new center this year that highlighted new technologies to make agriculture more efficient.

This program is planned by a committee of eight students who coordinate the event including the arranging facilities, working with CSU student volunteers, fund raising, curriculum development, publicity and contacting with the Poudre Valley schools.

Different student agriculture clubs are responsible for

each learning center and the curriculum. These clubs are asked to submit proposal for the content they with to cover. Some of the clubs that worked this year include Agronomy Club, Horticulture Club, Agribusiness Association, Sigma Alpha, Alpha Gamma Rho, FarmHouse and more. The program seeks to have a ratio of about four to one third graders to CSU students.

Marshal Frasier, an Agricultural and Resource Economics Professor at CSU, oversaw the event.

“We’ve got a really highly structured event,” Frasier said in an interview for Colorado Ag Today.

Julia Currier can be reached at news@collegian.com.

the Bean Cycle, through Old Town Square, across Mountain Avenue, down to the Drunken Monkey and all the way back to Civic Center Park. Some corgis couldn’t make the whole route, either laying down mid-walk so that their moms and dads would pick them up and hold them the rest of the way or hoping in a wagon that their owners pulled them in.

Although the directions were posted on the Facebook group “2nd Annual Tour de Corgi,” the event lacked the clear indications of one specific route and no roads were blocked, causing many owners and dogs to become confused and begin taking their own route. Regardless, corgis were enjoyed by all.

Young and old, people lined up

how to teach others about nature and how to make them care and change their lifestyles in order to help improve it.”

Balthrop’s experience in the HDNR program brought her to an internship program last summer in the Breckenridge Outdoor Center, an adaptive outdoor facilityWith the skills Balthrop gained from the HDNR program, she taught participants how to help their environment while simultaneously doing activities such as rafting. “(Human Dimensions of Natural Resources) opened the door to be able to discover this field that I am now very passionate about,” Balthrop said.

The HDNR major has allowed Balthrop to continue working in conservation while pursuing a therapeutic aspect for the public, which includes people with degenerative diseases, terminal patients, and children.

up and down College Avenue to enjoy the fluffy experience, and those who did not know the event was going on and just happened to be in Old Town at this time were not complaining.

Colorado State University student Ellie Gould attended the event with a group of friends.

“I love dogs,” Gould said. “It was a little more scattered than I thought it was going to be, but it was still awesome. I saw this 16-year-old corgi, like super old, sitting in a cardboard boat that they made on wheels and it said ‘Old Man of the Sea’. It was so cute.”

The Old Man of the Sea won Most Creative at the costume contest.

The tour circled back to Civic Center Park where the vendors were open until 3 p.m. The

“The thought that we are preparing students to handle contemporary conservation issues that exist at a scale unprecedented on our planet (climate change, biodiversity loss) is exciting, if not a little bit daunting,” wrote Bruyere.

The HDNR may be a generalist path for the students, but it gives them the opportunity to explore their degree as well.

“I am confident in my outdoor leadership skills because of what I have learned at Warner College,” Balthrop said.

The HDNR students gain experience in applying social sciences to conservation problems, and see the connections between human livelihoods and ecosystem services.

“I love it so much,” Balthrop said. “I feel like I haven’t worked a day.”

Tony Villalobos May can be reached at news@collegian.com

booths included Alpine Canines, The Colorado W.O.L.F. Sanctuary,and Camp Bow Wow who also made an appearance at this year’s Pooch Plunge. There was also a booth of corgi art and dog portraits made by Karen Cannon.

After the event, Old Town restaurants with patios filled to the brim with Tour de Corgi attendees, costumes and all.

The Facebook even page flooded with pictures of warn out pooches passed out on their backs from the day’s events.

“This was so much fun,” Erin Conte-Bryant posted on the group. “Had a blast looking at all the sweet fuzzy babies, in costume or not. Thank you to everyone who organized and participated. Already looking forward to next year!”

Miranda Moses can be reached at entertainment@

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Professors once disdained Wikipedia, but now assign their science students to rewrite it

By Rosanna Xia

Tribune News Service

The time had come to choose a major at Caltech, and Alice Michel had a notion that intrigued her. But when she looked it up on Wikipedia, what she got was a whole lot of gobbledygook.

It was, she learned, an “interdisciplinary field of scientific research.” It had something to do with “the biosphere, the lithosphere and/or the atmosphere.”

Here was a subject worthy of an entire area of study on campus, but its Wikipedia entry was “totally useless.”

Lucky for geobiology, Michel wasn’t deterred. And before she graduated, as a senior project, she righted the wrong.

She read through dozens of research papers, reviewed her own notebooks, surveyed her peers and turned the geobiology entry into a 4,200-word article _ complete with diagrams, photos and hyperlinks to related topics.

She was, in fact, one of hundreds of science students in the country who improved Wikipedia as part of their college coursework, in what many see as a boon for both the online encyclopedia and science education.

Immersed in their own worlds of chemical compounds, differential equations and complicated lab reports, scientists have long struggled with translating what they know to the world. But professors are increasingly finding ways to train those entering scientific fields to be better communicators.

After all, how useful is a scientific breakthrough if no one understands it _ or even knows about it?

“It was exciting ... to share what I got out of Caltech with the public, with perhaps people like a younger version of my-

self,” said Michel, who is now in Namibia doing fieldwork.

Chances are good. Wikipedia has 500 million readers across the globe. Its content surfaces near the top of just about any Google search.

Since the crowdsourced encyclopedia first hit the internet in 2001, tens of millions of people around the world have been empowered to anonymously create, edit and write about topics minuscule and enormous, well-known and obscure.

The quantity has been unbeatable, the quality sometimes far less so _ a matter of significance for such topics as medical ailments and prescription drugs that frequently are searched for by those in need of information.

Professors, once averse to Wikipedia, now see its potential.

Midterm papers and literature reviews _ usually read only by the instructor or perhaps a teaching assistant _ can be turned into comprehensive, accurate Wikipedia entries.

“College students are in this great sweet spot where they’re picking up a lot of knowledge about science in their field, but they’re also still connected to that sense of not knowing.

That’s a great time to write for the general audience,” said Eryk Salvaggio of the Wiki Education Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, spun off from the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, whose goal is to train professors to improve the quality of Wikipedia’s content.

The depth of knowledge on Wikipedia is uneven. A lot depends on how many people are passionate enough about a topic to volunteer their time, Salvaggio said.

“Wikipedia has great coverage of military history, for example, but it doesn’t have great coverage of women’s health,” Salvaggio said. “Those are the types of gaps where students

can go in _ they have academic resources, they have textbooks, they have access to their library, to medical journals, academic journals.”

So far this year, 240 college science classrooms in the U.S. and Canada have improved the content of more than 2,500 articles and created 247 new ones, he said. All told, these webpages have been viewed more than 81 million times. The foundation’s goal is to double these numbers by the end of 2016, which it has dubbed the Year of Science.

To accomplish this, Wiki Ed, with the help of Google and the Simons Foundation, which seeks to advance research in math and basic sciences, has been recruiting at conferences held by professional groups such as the American Society of Plant Biologists and teaming up to host Wikipedia-editing marathons with the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Also helping the cause is what seems to be a generational shift in the perceived value of clear, accessible science communication.

In past decades, the attitude was “real scientists don’t talk to the public about their work. You’re not awarded for popularizing science,” said Deborah Blum, director of MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program. “And we’re not past that entirely.”

But, she said, “we’re all going to be better off if thinking about how we talk about science in an open, transparent, understandable way is integrated into the way we train scientists from the beginning.”

In her intro to biochemistry class at UCLA, Heather Tienson assigns about a dozen honors students each quarter to find a topic _ biological membrane, dehydrogenase, voltage gated ion channels, protein aggregation _ that needs improv-

ing on Wikipedia.

A good article, Tienson tells her students, should be simple enough that someone in high school can understand it, but also well-defined and comprehensive enough that she can get something out of it too.

With the help of online tutorials and on-call experienced entry writers known as Wikipedians, students first learn how to follow the website’s (surprisingly) strict protocols. Citations, for instance, are crucial.

For the final version of an entry _ about two pages long, single-spaced _ Tienson requires at least 10 references. To track down the most reliable sources, students usually have to read many more.

Tone is key _ just the facts, no arguing a particular hypothesis. Then there’s clarity.

“You have to know the jargon well enough to be able to replace it with a more simple, concise explanation,” Tienson said.

Since she introduced the assignment last fall, 33 students have expanded articles on Wikipedia. Before publication, each article was peer-reviewed by two classmates.

The assignment has led to unexpected discoveries. Last quarter, one student found that the page for Mary Bernheim, the British biochemist who discovered monoamine oxidase, an enzyme in the human body that prompted new studies on how it might affect disorders such as schizophrenia, was four sentences long.

Tienson plans to encourage students this fall to expand more pages on women in science, whose entries often include little more than “who they married, how many children they had.”

At the University of California, San Francisco’s School of Medicine, Amin Azzam teaches a Wikipedia course that he sees

as a call to action.

“It is part of our social contract with society, as physicians,” he said, “to be contributing to Wikipedia and other open-access repositories, because that is where the world reads about health information.”

A student, Michael Turken, pitched the idea to Azzam in 2012. Turken’s friend had asked him how long someone with HIV could get false negative readings on a test. Wikipedia said two weeks, but Turken checked medical references and realized that was wrong.

Since all the accurate information was already in front of him, he edited the page.

Together, Turken and Azzam developed the course as an elective for fourth-year medical students. For an entire month, they work to improve the information available for high-traffic topics such as opioid overdose and vascular dementia.

In March, during his most recent class, Azzam had seven students work together on the article for hepatitis, a massive topic with inconsistent information on Wikipedia.

The class forces his students to think about medical information in a new light.

Should they, for example, list the symptoms in alphabetical order or by most common or most serious? Should they include all the symptoms, even the ones that rarely occur, or would that raise undue alarm?

“That wrestling with what to include and how to include it, that is exactly the reason why med students should be doing this work,” said Azzam, who co-authored a report recently published in the journal Academic Medicine, titled “Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia.” “This is how doctors have to talk to patients.”

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OPINION Monday, October 3, 2016

Stettner: Meat consumption is selfish and damaging to the environment Alexandra Stettner @CSUCollegian

Last week, scientists reported that carbon dioxide emissions this September held above 400 parts per million, according to an article in the Guardian.

Normally September is a time of low CO2 emissions, and this change is being interpreted as a turning point in the battle against climate change.

However, lowering CO2 emissions will not solve the problem we are facing today.

CO2 lasts for hundreds of years in the atmosphere, meaning that much of what is being calculated is “leftover” from the early industrial revolution.

Simultaneously, this means that we have much more to enter the atmosphere and what is being emitted today will last us far past many of the limits that have been set by climate scientists.

The key to what is changing our climate so dramatically is methane. Methane, like CO2, is released naturally by the

world’s environments, but is normally able to be absorbed by other natural environments.

However, human activity has skyrocketed the two gases to unnatural levels, and these levels cannot be counteracted by the environment.

The difference between methane and CO2 comes from how they interact with the

Human methane emissions are largely caused by large scale animal agriculture and harvesting fossil fuels, primarily natural gas. atmosphere. Methane does not last nearly as long in the atmosphere, but can be up to 86 times more damaging than CO2, according to an article in Scientific American. According to the Environmental Defense Fund, methane and gases like it are controlling how fast global warming is occurring, and its occurring fast. This means we

have another chance to curb climate change by cutting methane emissions rapidly, which would result in a swift decrease in the damage done to the atmosphere.

Human methane emissions are largely caused by large scale animal agriculture and harvesting fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, according to a 2006 article in Nature. Cutting both direct causes down would be ideal, but thinking realistically, meat and animal product consumption are things that could be stopped tomorrow by consumers, whereas natural gas harvesting is extremely integrated into society.

Additionally, meat consumption is not only backwards in regards to efficiency, and is 100 percent a selfish desire on the part of humans.

There is no logic to eating animals on a large scale. There is a ridiculous amount of land, water, and electrical and gas resources used to produce the food that is just given to animals, not to mention the equally ridiculous amount of land, water, and electrical and gas resources used to sustain and raise the animal. This

essentially doubles the amount of resource consumption used, and the logical conclusion is to cut the extra step of feeding perfectly good food to food.

So why do we eat meat?

It’s clearly unsustainable in regards to resource consumption, not to mention the impact that animals themselves have on the environment and how that contributes to global warming. There are several other sources of protein and nutrients to replace meat and other animal products (that are often significantly cheaper than meat itself ), and overall science has proven that humans aren’t meant to eat meat as much as we do.

The answer is simple, you probably answered it yourself reading that paragraph.

It’s tasty. It’s good. It’s seen in society as “masculine” and vegetarians are seen as “weak”.

And it’s simple. It’s what most of us have been raised on.

The issue with this thinking is that it’s selfish, and it is not good enough to say “oh well,” because quite literally, our future is dependent on what happens with climate change.

Media refuses to explain how bad it is, but the science of how

severe climate change will be is there. The most likely changes in climate to be seen are severe storms, flooding of coastal cities and of island nations (which are likely to be completely wiped out with sea level rise), unsurvivable heat waves, increases in droughts, which all will contribute to humanitarian crises, not only in regards to lack of resources, but conflict between peoples as well. These will all be seen increasing dramatically over the next century, even if we stay below the 2 degree Celcius threshold, which would require cutting back emissions by 40-70 percent by 2050, according to science news site phys.org.

I don’t care about your preconceptions of someone who does not eat meat, or your opinion on the ethics of animal consumption, none of the social aspects matter in this conversation. The reality is that everyone needs to take responsibility for their unsustainable lifestyle with conditions as severe as they are, and if you consume meat, you fall into that category as well.

Alexandra Stettner can be reached at opinion@collegian. com.

OPINION Monday, October 3, 2016

Deflategate is a scam Brody Trujillo @CSUCollegian

Yes, Tom Brady and the training staff illegally deflated balls, making them a tiny bit easier to catch and throw. Yes, Brady said in 2011 interview that he loved when Gronk spiked the ball because it deflated the ball and made it easier to throw. Yes, Brady threw his phone in a lake. This was all funny and continued to convince me that Brady and Belichick are cheaters and petty in general.

Brady was suspended for four games, and is now expected to return to the Patriots.

But really, four games? Greg Hardy got 16 and he threw a woman into a shower, dragged her into another room, threw her onto a couch full of loaded guns, choked her, and then blamed her for the whole incident. Is two PSI really worth ¼ of what Hardy did? The simple answer is no, but the NFL doesn’t care about the PSI, really.

There were two reasons for which the NFL were especially hard on Brady and the Patriots.

One of those reasons is that they wanted the Patriots to atone for past transgressions.

The Patriots are no strangers to scandals. They taped multiple teams’ defensive coordinators so when they played those teams in the future they knew what the defense was running. They were accused of tampering with Steelers headsets. They also employed a murderer.

But most damning of all was the taping of opposing defensive coordinators. They taped 40 games from 2000 to 2007. During that time, they also would send a low level staffer at the stadium into opposing locker rooms during warmups to steal the play sheet. Opposing coaches started leaving fake play sheets in the locker room because they knew this was happening.

We only found out about all of this when ESPN published an article in 2015 detailing everything the Patriots did.

Roger Goodell and the NFL worked hard to cover it up.

They destroyed documents and stomped on tapes. They then made sure some of the teams that were affected by the cheating came out and supported the NFL’s investigation and said those actions didn’t affect games.

So when Deflategate happened, the NFL had to use that to punish the Patriots.

They came out with a four

game suspension early in 2015 and an appeals process took until September of 2016 to conclude. The first appeal was nullified, allowing Brady to play in 2015, one day after the ESPN article about the Patriots cheating came out.

The Deflategate case not only distracted everybody from the Patriots cheating, but it also helped distract from the NFL reneging on their agreement to perform a concussion study.

They had promised to donate $14 million to a study that aims to find a way to diagnose CTE. CTE is the degenerative

The Deflategate case not only distracted everybody from the Patriots cheating, but it also helped distract from the NFL reneging their agreement on a concussion study. brain disease that is affecting 100 and counting NFL players.

The NIH, who are in charge of the study, selected Robert Stern (who helped coach Chris Borland, a promising linebacker for the 49ers, to retire) to conduct the study. The NFL didn’t like that, so they took their money out of the study.

Deflategate’s ridiculousness was absolutely welcomed by the NFL. They needed to show that they weren’t going to let the Patriots do whatever they wanted just because their owner is one of Roger Goodell’s best friends.

They needed to make the offseason chatter of 2015 about PSI, not cheating. And they needed the offseason chatter of 2016 to be about PSI again and not how they wanted to control the CTE research. So yes, Tom Brady deserved punishment, but his four game suspension had nothing to do with some under-inflated footballs.

Brody Trujillo can be reached at opinion@collegian.com.

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Wyoming runs through CSU 38-17 in Border War blowout

By Chad Deutschman @ChadDeutschman

The Bronze Boot has a new home.

Riddled by mistakes, Colorado State (2-3, 0-1 Mountain West) squandered any hope of retaining the Boot, falling 38-17

CSU defensive back Shaun Johnson (17) attempts to tackle Wyoming running back Antonio Hull (21) at Hughes Stadium during the Border War. CSU lost 38-17 Oct. 1, 2016. PHOTO BY LUKE WALKER COLLEGIAN

to Wyoming (3-2, 1-0 MW) in the 107th edition of the Border War. In front of 33,500 fans — the 11th largest crowd in Hughes Stadium history — CSU was gashed up front by Wyoming star running back Brian Hill.

Hill ran loose for 166 yards and one touchdown on 19 carries, on his way to becoming the all-time rushing leader for the Cowboys.

As a team, Wyoming rushed for 269 yards on 49 carries. “(Hill) is a great back,” CSU linebacker Kevin Davis said. “He definitely plays behind his pads.

We just have to stop backs like him. We are going to continue to play great backs the rest of the season, we just have to get it fixed.”

Things didn’t fair much better for CSU on the offensive side of the ball.

CSU attempted to establish the run early, but what is usually the team’s strength was absent.

CSU finished with 33 carries for 111 yards, well below their season average of 176 yards per game.

Quarterback Collin Hill saw success through the air, completing 23 of 41 attempts for 370 yards and one touchdown, but the performance was overshadowed by

mistakes and the offense’s inability to finish off drives.

The biggest blows of the day came off two CSU turnovers.

Freshman Marvin Kinsey fumbled the ball at the CSU 30-yard line on the first play following a 5-yard touchdown run by Wyoming’s Shaun Wick. The fumble set up a 30-yard flea-flicker reverse play, where quarterback Josh Allen found a wide-open Tanner Gentry to put the Cowboys up 17-14. The play marked the second Wyoming touchdown in a span of 22 seconds.

Two drives later, freshman quarterback Collin Hill was intercepted by defensive lineman Chase Appleby after throwing the ball while falling down. Appleby returned the ball 55 yards for a touchdown, pushing the CSU deficit to 24-14. “(That) was the classic, what I say all the time, don’t turn a bad play into a catastrophe,” CSU Head Coach Mike Bobo said.

“That was a catastrophe. Just take the sack and punt the ball.

That happens, it wasn’t pretty that it happened tonight, but there is a lot of football left. We don’t want that to happen but

there is still enough time to respond in the ball game and continue to make plays.”

Rams’ kicker Wyatt Bryan was able to add a 36-yard field goal, cutting the Wyoming lead to 24-17 at the half.

Wyoming went up by two touchdowns with 3:17 left in the third quarter as Brian Hill continued to dominate. Hill powered through the CSU defense for a 49-yard run, setting the Pokes up on the CSU 1-yard line, with Hill punching it in one play later.

CSU’s fate was sealed late in the third quarter. Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen scrambled for an 18-yard touchdown, putting the lead to an unreachable 38-17 and sending much of the sold-out crowd packing.

“We did what teams that aren’t very good do,” Bobo said.

“We turned the ball over, don’t tackle, don’t execute. That’s how you get beat 38-17.”

Colorado State’s next game will be Oct. 9, where they faceoff with the Utah State Aggies at Hughes Stadium.

Chad Deutschman can be reached by email at sports@ collegian.com.

Inconsistency, turnovers hurt Rams’ soccer in 2-0 defeat to UNLV Rebels

By Colin Barnard @ColinBarnard_

Behind the Mountain West Conference’s leader in total points, Lily Sender, the UNLV Rebels defeated the CSU Rams 2-0 Sunday afternoon.

Another game that saw the Rams (3-8-1, 1-3-0 MW) outshoot their opponent, this time 17-12, resulted in a loss to the Rebels (10-3-0, 3-1-0 MW). The two teams are on opposite ends of the conference standings as CSU falls to last place, losing to the first place Rebels.

Following their double-overtime victory on Friday, the Rams came out confident, leading to opportunities throughout the first half. A counter attack from CSU in the first 20 minutes of action resulted in possibly their best chance all game. Kaija Ornes shot a laser from just outside the box that UNLV goalkeeper Jordan Sallee punched out to Janelle Stone, who fired another one on goal to no avail. The strong start drew notice from senior Amy Eckert.

“I thought we came out actually pretty strong,” Eckert said. “We had a few on goal, which is pretty good.”

Current MW points leader Lily Sender broke the tie in the 22nd minute after she gathered

a pass from teammate Susie Bernal, cut across the box and finished with her left foot in the upper right-hand corner, just out of the reach for Paige Brandt. The goal took its toll on the entire Rams team.

“They got the first goal which kind of hurt our confidence I feel like,” Eckert said.

After sticking around in the first half, the Rams could not find the same momentum in the second. CSU was hurt by turnovers in crucial parts of the field that halted many promising scoring chances. Even in the defensive zone, Rams players were unable to put the ball where it needed to be, leading to constant pressure from UNLV. “We kept turning the ball over,” head coach Bill Hempen said. “Unbelievable, just looking right at them and passing the ball right to them. It couldn’t stop, no matter who I put out there, it never stopped …The first half, I thought we were doing fine. And the second half just went right in the tank for us.”

It was one of those turnovers that led to UNLV’s second, game-clinching goal in the 58th minute. Sender played a pass off her chest to Jordan Magnin who sent a through ball to Dakota Blazak in the Rams zone.

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fore shooting it passed Brandt for the goal.

Eckert and Hempen both know what it will take to get back on track.

“I think we just need to work on playing together as a team,” Eckert said. “Even if we get scored on, we can’t put

our heads down because that’s what is gonna hurt us in the end.

I know we can do this, that’s what’s so frustrating. We have the talent, it’s just putting it together at this point.”

“It’s back to what we do,” Hempen said. “Training on Tuesday and try to fix as many

things as you possibly can and go at it again next weekend.”

CSU continues their fourgame home stand on Friday Oct. 7, as they take on Colorado College at 3 p.m.

Colin Barnard can be reached by email at sports@ collegian.com.

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Rams’ cross country hangs with nation’s best at Washington Invitational

By Eddie Herz @Eddie_Herz

With the bright lights of ranked competition shining on the Colorado State men’s and women’s cross country teams, both teams put on impressive showings at the Washington Invitational over the weekend.

Amongst a talented playing field, the CSU men once again were led by redshirt junior Jerrell Mock. After taking the gold in the Roy Griak Men’s 8k, Mock’s time of 23:25.5 was good for second place at the Washington Invitational. The only runner to beat Mock was Oregon’s Edward Cheserek.

“Jerrell did a great job,” Head Coach Art Siemers said. “He just looked strong again, that’s just Jerrell. He’s `Mr. Consistency’ and when you have him as one of your top guys going into every race, you know you’re going to have a low stick and that’s huge

for our team.”

The CSU men finished in 2nd place overall with 39 points, just behind No. 3 nationally ranked Oregon (26 points). The Rams, who entered ranked No. 29 in the country according to USTFCCCA, handily beat No. 21 Washington (64 points) and No. 24 Washington State (127).

“On the men’s side, Coach (Scott) Dahlberg and I thought we were a top-10 team this year,” Siemers said. “We really didn’t run well at the Griak, so the guys were motivated to show what we’ve been doing all summer.”

“I thought we ran tough against Washington and Oregon,” Siemers continued. “Our fifth man beat Oregon’s fifth man, so we’re getting closer, and they’re one of the top-four teams in the country. We’ve been training at a high, high level, but to go out there and execute was great for us.”

The Rams men also placed

five runners within the top 11 of the men’s 8k. Grant Fischer, the second-fastest Rams finisher, clocked a seventh-place finish at 23:35.2. Erick Hamer also finished in 9th place at 23:41.1. All-American Jefferson Abbey and Cole Rockhold rounded out the top 11, with times of 23:43.6 and 23:44.

“Jeff (Abbey) and Cole (Rockhold) had outstanding races,” Siemers said. “Grant (Fischer) and Eric (Hamer) have been consistent in training and Jeff and Cole really closed the gap on those guys. It was just fun to see.”

The CSU women also turned in their best team performance of the season. For the second time in three meets, senior Janelle Lincks was the first Ram to finish. Her 11th place finish in the women’s 6k (20:22.2) was 28.8 seconds faster than her previous race at the Roy Griak Invitational.

The Rams were able to squeeze one other runner into the top 25 as well. Ali Kallner’s time of 20:48.3 earned her 25th place overall. Alex Hess (20:56.8), Darby Gilfillan (20:58.8) and Kate White (21:00.7) wrapped up CSU women scorers in 28th, 29th, and 30th place.

“Janelle did a really great job of moving up,” Siemers said. “She was pretty far back the first lap and just moved up to 11th place.

I think the women competed really hard and we’re getting closer to where we need to be. They did a great job.”

The CSU women scored 115 points, finishing in fourth place.

Washington won the women’s side of the meet with 24 points overall. They entered the meet ranked 12th in the country according to USTFCCCA. Harvard (who is receiving votes to be ranked) and fourth ranked Oregon were the only other teams to finish in front of the

CSU women.

“This was our best race so far this year, but we still need to work on going out a little bit harder,” Siemers said. “We moved up really well as a team on the women’s side and had a tight pack of runners. But, the ranked teams — Oregon, Washington and Harvard — were in the front pack ahead of us and we were kind of trailing them the whole race. We slowly caught up, but just gave up too much ground early.”

Coming up for the Rams, the men’s and women’s squads will split up to each compete in distinguished meets. The women will travel to Terre Haute, Indiana to compete in Pre-Nationals on Oct. 15. The men’s team heads to Madison, Wisconsin for the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational on Oct. 14.

Eddie Herz can be reached at sports@collegian.com

Mile retains its allure in track and field

By J. Brady McCollough Tribune News Service

Jim Ryun fires the small shiny gun into the air, and the runners take off.

“OK,” Ryun said. “Here we go.”

Ryun’s eyes immediately seek out Alan Webb, the American record holder in the mile who has come to the Kansas Relays to begin his outdoor season.

Ryun and Webb first crossed paths when Webb was a sophomore in Reston, Va., after Webb broke Ryun’s record for a high school sophomore. They would meet again two years later after Webb broke Ryun’s 36-year-old high school record with a 3-minute, 53.43-second mile.

Ryun, a United States congressman representing Kansas’ second district at the time, invited Webb to join him at the White House. They hobnobbed with President George W. Bush and talked about their craft.

Back then, in 2001, Alan Webb was the biggest name in middle-distance running. He had taken the baton from Glenn Cunningham, Roger Bannister, Ryun and others, and Ryun knew better than anyone what that meant _ celebrity status and the expectations that come with breaking barriers in what was once America’s signature track

and field event.

Now, eight years later, Webb is a 26-year-old who has not won an Olympic medal and failed to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Games. He will be 29 when the 2012 Olympics come around. But Webb refuses to stop running.

“It would be wrong of me,” Webb says. “I don’t have a choice.

This is me. This is who I am. This is what I was meant to do. If I didn’t get the most out of that, I feel like it would be wrong.”

That’s why he’s here at Memorial Stadium on this Saturday afternoon, trying to break another one of Ryun’s last standing records _ a 3:54.70 mile run at the 1967 Relays. He is also hoping to be the first runner to break 4 minutes in the mile at the Relays since ‘97.

With so much on the line, it’s no surprise that Ryun, the honorary starter for the event, is on his tippy toes. He says he actually wants Webb to break his record.

“Records are intended to be broken,” says Ryun, a KU graduate and resident of Lawrence.

“Forty-two years has been a long time. It’s time to move on.”

Alan Webb wanted to be a swimmer. He’d wake up at 4 in the morning every day during junior high to train, and he’d practice twice a day. Yes, Webb was going to be a great swimmer.

To stay in shape, Webb de-

cided to run cross country during the fall of his freshman year.

“I didn’t think I was going to be that good,” Webb says.

In his first varsity race, he finished fourth in the regional meet. He finished second at state. As soon as that was over, Webb went back to the pool.

After all, he was going to be an Olympic swimmer. In the spring, Webb ran track and won the mile in the state meet.

“I discovered this thing,” Webb says.

Going into his sophomore year, Webb expected that he’d continue to run and swim. But a rigid school schedule forced him to make a decision. He picked running. Then, six months later, he broke Ryun’s sophomore record with a 4:06.94.

“I was like, ‘Good choice,’ “ Webb says.

Webb has a miler’s story. The best milers don’t choose; they are chosen. At least, it feels that way when you hear the story of Glenn Cunningham, who ran at KU during the 1930s and eventually held the world record.

When Cunningham, a native of Elkhart, Kan., was 8 years old, his legs were severely burned in a schoolhouse fire. The doctors wanted to amputate his legs _ they thought he would never walk again _ but his parents said no. They would massage his legs

back into action. Two years after the accident, Cunningham would walk again. He’d go on to become a runner so decorated he was given three nicknames.

“His is a remarkable story,” Ryun says.

Ryun’s story is more like Webb’s. Ryun never saw himself as a runner. In fact, it seemed as if he tried out for every other sport first.

“I was trying to find my place in life,” Ryun says. “I tried out for the church baseball team and got cut from that. I tried out for the junior high basketball team and got cut from that. I didn’t make a team until the cross country team.”

During track season, the longest distance they offered was a mile.

“That’s how I became a mil-

er,” Ryun says. “The distance I had excelled in was 2 miles. It was a disappointment for me that they had a mile.”

As a freshman, Ryun, who grew up in Wichita and went to East High, was timed running a 5:38 mile. But by his sophomore year, he set the high school record for a sophomore with a 4:07.

Still, he wished he was better at other sports.

“I loved baseball,” Ryun says, “but that was not the talent God gave me.”

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Rams left searching after Border War debacle

By Eric Wolf @Eric_Wolf5

In his post-game press conference after Colorado State’s 38-17 loss to Wyoming, coach Mike Bobo said that anytime you lose, you take a step backward.

He may have said that after Saturday’s loss, but by the way he reacted after the team’s loss to Minnesota the week before, it did not seem that this team was moving in the wrong direction.

Bobo said he had seen his team improve every week leading up to the Minnesota game, and even in that game itself.

If anything, the coach finally thought his team was getting close to where he wanted them to be.

And then the Cowboys came into Hughes Stadium and effectively made any signs of progress obsolete.

Wide receiver Robert Ruiz bluntly summed up the game for the Rams.

“We got hit in the mouth.

That’s it. That’s the best way I can describe it,” Ruiz said.

This team did get hit in the mouth, and they had no answer for the punches Wyoming was throwing at them. Last week, the Rams found themselves down early and often, but they continually found a way back into the game.

This week, Wyoming stunned the Rams with 14 quick points off of CSU turnovers, and the team had no way to respond. There would be no crawling back in this game.

“We got whipped in all three areas,” Bobo said. “Special teams, offense and defense.”

Yes, even in special teams, including the punting game, an area where the Rams seemingly held every advantage. Two spectacular special teams plays from Wyoming downed Ethan Wood punts at the CSU 1-yard line, while CSU’s Hayden Hunt shanked a 14-yard punt in the third quarter that ended up leading to a Wyoming touch-

down. It was that kind of night for the Rams.

The most frustrating aspect for this team could have been what stud running back Brian Hill and the Wyoming running game was able to do against this Rams’ defense. After missing at least 20 tackles last week in Minnesota, the defensive emphasis all week was to lock down Hill and the Cowboys rushing attack.

But when the Cowboys lined up and continually fed Hill and senior Shaun Wick, the Rams were left grasping at air. By the time all was said and done, Wyoming had picked up 269 yards on the ground, with Hill responsible for 166 on his own.

Even though Wyoming’s 14 points off of turnovers might have put this defense in a hole early, it was a hole that the Rams had plenty of time to dig themselves out of. But the hold just kept getting deeper.

CSU has now been handled easily by their two biggest ri-

CSU running back Izzy Matthews attempts to jump over Wyoming defenders. PHOTO BY ELLIOT JERGE COLLEGIAN

vals this season by a margin of 82-24. Saturday night’s game may not have been like the listless offensive performance that CSU put up against Colorado, when quarterbacks Nick Stevens and Faton Bauta combined to go 12-29 passing for 63 yards, but it still was not nearly good enough.

“We moved the ball, you could look at hey, we got yards, but the bottom line is getting points,” Bobo said. “It’s executing, and we are not executing at a high enough level.”

The Rams out-gained the Cowboys 481-434, and quarterback Collin Hill threw for 370 yards on 23-41 passing, but the team only had 17 points to show for it.

The biggest problem? For much of Saturday night’s game, the Rams simply could not get out of their own way.

“Every time, every loss,” Ruiz said about the team shooting itself in the foot. “Every loss we look at the film and see how many touchdowns we left on

the field by our own.”

Whether it was a Marvin Kinsey fumble, Hill’s interception, dropped balls from the receiving corp, or missed field goals, when this team had opportunities to score points, it could not execute.

Last week, the team left plenty of points and opportunities on the field in the 31-24 loss to Minnesota, but that was against a Big Ten opponent in a hostile environment, in a game in which the team fought until the very end.

This was the Border War at home, and the same kind of response was not there on Saturday night.

This team wanted a chance to start conference play off the right way, but now, it looks like a team still trying to find its way five games into this season.

With Utah State and Boise State coming up in the next two weeks, the search will be expedited.

Eric Wolf can be reached by at sports@collegian.com

ARTS & CULTURE Monday, October 3, 2016

Renowned anthropologist discusses ‘human beginnings’ in speech at LSC

By Matthew Smith @CSUCollegian

“Archaeology is frickin’ pathetic,” said professor Robert Kelly during a speech on his new book “The Fifth Beginning” at the Lory Student Center Friday.

Kelly described archaeologists digging around and maybe finding a few bone fragments, pottery shards or even just seeds.

Ask those archaeologists what language these people spoke or what their religion was, and they will not usually be able to give an answer, he said. But, as a mentor once told Kelly, it is not about what you find, it is about what you find out.

After more than forty years in the field, Kelly was ready to share what he has found out with the rest of the world.

Kelly is a professor of archaeology at the University of Wyoming. He has written more than 100 books and articles on the subject, including a popular introductory textbook used in departments across the country.

With this new book, “The Fifth Beginning,” Kelly hopes to put to paper his perspective on the history of human evolution and its future in a compact form digestible by laymen.

His book begins with descriptions of the four previous human “beginnings” or cultural transformations. If the history of humanity was a movie, these would be the plot twists, Kelly said.

The first beginning was the origin of technology, the first uses of tools.

Next came the origin of culture, or as Kelly would rather call it, the origin of the capacity for culture. This is when people started to conceive notions about how the universe should operate. The first artworks like cave paintings were direct results of these notions, as people saw the world operating in ways they did not understand.

Twelve thousand years ago was the third beginning, the origin of agriculture. Hunter-gatherers did not move around as much and started trading their crops with other stationary groups.

This sedentation evolved into the fourth beginning 5,000 years ago, the origin of states.

Farmers decided they would rather deal with bureaucrats and pay taxes, Kelly joked.

The classical theory of archaeology ends here with the things we can discover today. But Kelly looks toward the future.

What will the archaeologists of tomorrow discover? Kelly sees

a fifth beginning at around the year A.D. 1500. After this year, shipwrecks pop up in every ocean. The genetic distribution of our species changes as people migrate across the globe. Trace elements in our bones, coming from our diet and used to determine a fossil’s geographic origin, become unreliable after 1500 due to globalization; we eat avocados from Guatemala and oranges from Florida. All of the indicators of a major shift in human society are present, Kelly claimed.

If we are living in the fifth beginning of human evolution, then what big changes are coming our way? Kelly likes to imagine trying to explain the moon landing to the first hunter-gatherers. Where do you start? Yes, people walked around on that, and they got there on an exploding metal tube because a leader in a democracy said he would do it with everyone’s tax dollars.

There is a lot to unpack in that sentence. We are like those poor hunter gatherers, hopeless to comprehend the scale of change civilization is set to undergo.

However, Kelly does give some predictions.

“I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow,” reads the inscription on Tutankhamun’s tomb, now a sort of motto for archaeologists and historians.

Extrapolating trends can help us know what to expect in the future. As the nations of the world continue to align in trade deals and organizations like the United Nations, Kelly says it is not unreasonable to one day have a single government control the entire planet. He also notes that war has steadily been becoming more and more expensive, nearly to the point where it has ceased to be a viable option to solve problems with. Capitalism necessitates cheap labor. Where will all the labor go when there aren’t any developing countries left? Capitalism as we know it will definitely disappear, Kelly claimed.

All of this change, unlike the beginnings of the past, will be intentional. For the first time ever, we as a species can decide what happens next, rather than let change just happen to us as it did to the first farmers.

Kelly is a self-described optimist. He sees the future not as something to be afraid of but something to be hopeful for because the future is whatever we make of it. The future is ours to construct.

Matthew Smith can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com

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University Symphony Orchestra strikes a chord with “Passion and Pyrotechnics”

By McKenzie Moore @CSUCollegian

The University Symphony Orchestra filled the Griffin Concert Hall with the sound of Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms on Sept. 29 and 30. The audience leaned back and let the programmatic music - that is, music composed roughly in the 1800s that is intended to evoke a specific visual in the listener’s mind - carry them away into a realm of emotion, beauty and history.

The crowded concert hall included community members, CSU faculty and a large number of Music Appreciation students there to analyze the performance and write an essay for the class. The line to enter the concert hall before the doors even opened extended to the back of the room and wrapped around the opposite wall. The vast number of patrons received a stellar performance featuring some of the best musicians from the University.

The first part of the concert was a performance of “Coriolan Overture, Op. 62” by Ludwig van Beethoven. It introduced the energetic and emotional nature of the concert that followed with powerful and precise music that varied in tempo and dynamics.

It switched between minor and

major keys -- in other words, between “happy” and “sad” sequences of notes -- to elicit different responses in each of the individual audience members.

The musicians in the orchestra skillfully flew through complex runs and jumped between high and low notes to create an emotional atmosphere that elicited visual responses unique to each audience member. This is a trademark of Beethoven, a notorious musical rule-breaker who preferred to compose music that broke out of traditional classical structures to create a strong response in the audience.

The next part of the concert highlighted Caleb Hudson, Julliard graduate and new trumpet professor at Colorado State.

Hudson is also the newest member of the Canadian Brass.

Hadyn’s “Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major” featured the orchestra as accompaniment for the solo trumpet who stood in front by the conductor’s podium, playing all of his music memorized. Hudson played an array of quick, chromatic runs with a soft and pure sound that requires a great amount of skill and dexterity. The concerto was comprised of three movements: “Allegro,” a lively opening piece; “Andante,” a calmer and slower movement with variations of the original

theme; and “Finale, Allegro,” which returned to a fast tempo to finish out the concerto on an upbeat note. The entire concerto depicted a generally positive emotional state by playing in primarily major keys.

After a short intermission, the conductor addressed the audience and explained the background and history of the final part of the concert, Brahms’ “Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90.” The orchestra played through bits and pieces of the movement to demonstrate what the audience should listen for in the full symphony. The symphony was composed by Johannes Brahms in 1883 , and is allegedly about his relationship with a singer named Hermine Spies.

The four movements outline the emotions associated with a summer relationship: giddiness and euphoria, peaceful content, melancholy and uneasiness, and finally angst and anger. Each movement consisted of a theme that varied and repeated itself throughout the symphony. The orchestra created an atmosphere where everyone could sit back and let the music sweep their emotions into the past. Many MU-100 students paused their note-taking to just listen to the visual music the Symphony Orchestra had spent weeks working hard to create.

The orchestra played vastly differing themes, tempos, keys and dynamics, creating an interesting blend of musical literature that jumped between emotional states. The concert gave many patrons a new understanding of an entire history and culture from a particular musical time period, both through the performances and with help from the

conductor’s brief explanation of why the composer created the music a certain way. “Passion and Pyrotechnics” opened the orchestra’s performance season on a positive note, paving the way for more eye-opening performances throughout the year.

McKenzie Moore can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com

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Nataleah and the Nation: Syrian Refugees

By Nataleah Small @NataleahJoy

He is running, but he can’t seem to escape the white dust.

It fills the air and surrounds him, embraces him, sticks to his clothes and hair. Home, where his mother taught him to read, his father taught him their religion, his sister taught him arithmetic, his grandma told him happy stories and his grandfather taught him about the war, this place of comfort is now destroyed. The soot in his lungs is all that is left of the four walls he once claimed as his own.

He is running, but where can he go? A young boy from Aleppo. A dark, Muslim body underneath a global microscope. A face projected on CNN. The reason the blonde news anchor sheds a tear on national television. A nameless, bloody face, a young Syrian refugee. Where can he go?

Who will take in a young body that represents everything they are afraid of? You know nothing about him, but you assume you know what he is capable of.

He is an icon, but he never asked for fame. He is suddenly part of a global crisis, an international conversation that he was never invited to. He is a symbol

of freedom and oppression, the West and the East, humanitarianism and hatred, peace and violence. He is caught in the middle of a dichotomy, a struggle that no child should have to face on their own. He stands behind the shoulder of a spokesperson but is never asked to share his story.

He is an icon, but unlike other world figures, few have a place for him to stay. A face with so much screen time. The repercussions of terrorism look good on film. That will show them!

Look at the beauty, power, and purity of the West. We don’t raise terrorists, we fight them. We are winning. But where will he stay?

Who will open their borders, their homes, their schools, their hearts, their minds to a child that is the victim of oppression?

A city cloaked in dust helps our political agenda. Keep the war on the other side of the river, the sea, the ocean. Show us your face, but don’t force us to help you.

He is human, but you reduce him to a poisoned food. A bag full of peanuts--but what if ten are poisoned? A bowl full of Skittles-why didn’t the company mark the ones that are dangerous? You are afraid, it is understandable.

Fifteen years ago, twin skyscrap-

ers fell. Bombs during marathons, bombs in our pipes, murderers in our nightclubs. You have reason to be afraid. But you are not the only one with things to worry about. You are not the only target. He is a target as well.

His country, his home, and his body have become the landscape for political unrest. The two of you share a common enemy.

He is human, he is complex and fragile. But he is viewed as a small grey body among a sea of bodies. His humanity has been forgotten. And is this how democracy tastes when it is spoon fed at the end of a rifle? Is this how love feels when your religion and your people are deemed as dangerous and threatening? Help restrained by fear seems more like apathy.

He is forgettable if he is a contained threat. You are up in arms when you hear his story, but you forget his existence at the end of a news cycle.

He is running, but he has no place to go. He is an icon with few of the privileges. He is human, but we seem to have forgotten. *Inspired from viewing an image of a young Syrian refugee on the streets of Aleppo.

Nataleah Small can be reached at blogs@collegian.com

Today: Oct. 3

Semester at Sea 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., LSC 322 Join us for a meeting filled with information on Semester at Sea opportunities.

Music: Guest Artist, Gerry Pagano, Trombone 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., University Center for the Arts Come enjoy the musical performance of Gerry Pagano on the trombone!

Tomorrow: Oct. 4 Zika Virus - A Global Threat 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Lory Student Center 374-378 Come join an in depth discussion about the Zika Virus, how it is influencing headlines and modern medicine.

This Week:

Cans Around the Oval - CANstruction October 5, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., LSC Plaza

Homecoming Parade October 7, 4:30 p.m., Howes Street

CSU Football vs. Utah State >> ALLURE from page 9 experiences not making a team.

Coach Timmons had to convince me that I was a miler. I realize now when I look back that God gave me a talent, and that led to some really exciting miling throughout Kansas and throughout the world.”

Once Ryun and Webb accepted their fate as milers, they quickly fixed their gaze on the sub-4-minute mile. For Ryun, it didn’t matter that Englishman Roger Bannister had already become the first man to do it. For Webb, it didn’t matter that Ryun and many others had already done it.

“When you haven’t done it, there’s sort of an aura about it,” Webb says. “I think that’s the reason why there’s this mystique.

Even though it’s been done so many times since then, just like Mount Everest has been climbed many times, there’s still that draw. It’s still Mount Everest.”

When Ryun became the first high school runner to follow in Bannister’s footsteps, he became an instant household name. A year later, he would set the world record, and Sports Illustrated chose him the 1966 Sportsman of the Year.

“Miling had a special place,”

Ryun said. “It hadn’t gone to meters. You had an opportunity to be identified with something a lot of people can identify with. At some point, you walk a mile, you drive a mile, you run a mile.”

Ryun’s celebrity would eventually propel him to Washington, D.C., where he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years.

Webb’s celebrity sent him to the “Late Show with David Letterman” as an 18-year-old.

“It’s so surreal to me now,” Webb says. “I had some buildup locally, it’s not like I had never done an interview on TV or hadn’t had a lot of newspaper articles, but how can you prepare for David Letterman? I’m like, ‘This is awesome, dude.’ “ Webb has always tried to fulfill the promise he showed as that teenage wunderkind.

“It changed the course of my life forever,” Webb says. “I’ve sort of been riding that wave.”

The line under Memorial Stadium continued to grow for an hour as Jim Ryun signed autographs and posed for pictures.

Ryun, who will turn 62 later this month, understands that his accomplishments meant a lot to many. He asked each person who approached for their name

and tried to have a conversation.

Ryun was supposed to finish at noon, but he was still signing at 12:15.

Ryun’s popularity on Saturday showed that the mile’s mythology is still intact. But the scene was nothing like the 1972 KU Relays, Ryun’s last. That day, 38,000 people showed up to watch him.

“As it got closer to the mile, they were having a real surge at the ticket window,” Ryun says.

“It was a very special time in our country’s history.”

When Ryun finished his appearance, he walked onto the track where Alan Webb would run in front of a few thousand people at most.

“It’s a different time,” Webb says. “Track isn’t what it was before.”

Still, Webb is striving to leave an even greater mark on the sport. He will not waste his gift.

He is a miler.

“I kept thinking I was a distance runner,” Webb says. “I kept trying to do it. For whatever reason, I just always gravitated back to the mile. I love it.”

Entering the final lap, Webb trailed Peter Van Der Westhuizen. But Webb blew by him on see ALLURE on page 14 >>

October 8, 8:00 p.m., Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium

Upcoming Events Cans Around the Oval - Can Collection October 12, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Oval

CSU Volleyball vs. Nevada October 13, 7:00 p.m., Moby Arena

CSU Ethics Colloquium Series October 14, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Eddy Hall

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>> CORGIS from page 1 2. Sully, short for Sullivan, dressed a gypsy: Sully was quite obviously having a great day. The outfit idea came when one of his owners was cleaning and found this old halloween costume, which coincidentally was the perfect size for a corgi. She was even wearing an outfit to match with Sully.

3. Halo dressed as a taco: Halo’s owners said they chose this outfit because they love tacos. Their other dog has a hot dog costume, so of course, it was only fitting that Halo’s costume was a taco.

4. Wilbur dressed as a Broncos fan: The very photogenic Wilbur was relaxing in the shade after a long day of walking around Old Town. His owners decided he would wear this outfit for the day not only because they are Broncos fans, but also because his planned stegosaurus costume was too hot. Planned or not, Wilbur looks adorable, and his owners said this is one of his favorite outfits to play around in.

outfit and won the doggie beachwear contest.

6. George Jones dressed as “Dr. George Jones, DVM”: George Jone’s owners said that his outfit was created to raise awareness for dog diabetes. It was great to see that people were able to use the gathering as a way to raise awareness for important topics, especially when it comes to making sure that all dogs are healthy and taken care of.

7. Rhodo dressed as reggae shark: At first, I wasn’t sure why the dreadlocks were paired with a shark outfit, but his owners explained that the costume was inspired by a song from a YouTube video by The Key of Awesome called “Reggae Shark.”

8. Georgy dressed as a tootsie roll: Georgy’s owners got the inspiration for her name from the 1966 movie “Georgy Girl.” She may have been a bit camera shy, but she was friendly and adorable nonetheless.

5. Fergus dressed in a Hawaiian shirt: Fergus was very friendly and energetic while sporting a colorful Hawaiian-style shirt. His owners said he once went to a pool party while wearing this same

>> ALLURE from page 9 the final straightaway and finished the Glenn Cunningham Invitational Mile in first place with a 3:58.9. Van Der Westhuizen came through with another sub-4 time of 3:59.54.

“It’s still cool to see that number,” Webb says. “You know, 3:50-whatever.”

As for Ryun, his record will stand for another year. Ryun found Webb after the race, shook his hand and posed for yet another picture. He wished Webb a

good season.

“He said good job, keep it going, don’t stop,” Webb says.

Certainly, Webb has no intention of stopping.

“It’s the one thing in life I know I’ve got the answer to,” Webb says. “That’s something I can kind of hold on to. I’ll be honest ... I can take solace in knowing that, when it’s done, I did everything I possibly could to get myself as high as I can go.”

On Saturday, he climbed Mount Everest once again.

9. Gary, Gracie and Gretta dressed in their Halloween costumes: These three energetic pals all sported different but equally cute outfits for the day. Gary wore a hamburger; Gracie was a loofah; and Gretta showed off a spooky and adorable skeleton dress. They are all ready for the halloween season.

Daily Horoscope Nancy Black

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY

(10/03/16). Polish your presentation. Spring social changes lead to surging physical and intellectual vitality. A romantic turning point next autumn comes before new possibilities inspire a group project. Nurture your roots for thriving.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

10. Dakota and Kimber dressed as American flags: Dakota and Kimber weren’t afraid to show off their stars and stripes. Their owners had an interesting story about the inspiration behind these outfits. The owners said they met when they became stuck at an airport in Japan during 9/11, and because of that, they have always been very patriotic.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — 9 — Collaborate to grow your joint finances. Teamwork makes a difference. Abundance is available.

Share resources, experience and talent. Make agreements, and schedule actions.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — 7 — Negotiate and compromise to get a deal that works for both.

Collaborate on a new assignment. Sort out resources, and sweeten the pitch.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — 8 — Slow to avoid accidents and finish faster. There’s plenty of demand for your attention. Keep cool, and the intensity passes.

Appreciate what you have. True love is revealed.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — 8 — Look at things from a new perspective. Follow a strong attraction. Put your talent to work.

Combine delectable flavors, visuals, fragrance and music to express your love.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — 6 — Home and family have your attention. Share concerns with someone you trust. Solutions may require physically moving things around. The gentle

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approach works best.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — 8

— Turn on your creativity. Walk outdoors for inspiration. Listen to music and poetry. Think in terms of color, rhythm and style.

A partner spurs you to action.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — 8 — Review the budget to get clear on expense priorities. Research new methodologies. Cajole someone into paying up. Keep the faith. You can accomplish great things. Follow through.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — 9 — You know what you want and how to get it. Entertain a personal dream. A loved one spurs you on. Leap over fences. It could be magical.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — 6 — Clean, organize and plan your steps and goals.

Strengthen foundations for later action. Stay sensitive to a loved one’s wishes, while remaining true to yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — 7 — Your friends are your inspiration. Have fun together.

You don’t have to start from scratch; build on what others have started.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — 8 — A professional opportunity tempts. Persistent actions are required. Prepare materials, and apply yourself. Polish your presentation. A friend can teach you what you need.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — 8 — Sate your curiosity. Get adventurous and explore.

Make harmony a goal with your partner. Achieve a new level of understanding together. Improvise. Adapt as you go.

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