Vol 126 no 39 october 12, 2016

Volume 126, No. 39

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CampusView: CSU on Trump

Wednesday October 12, 2016

Gian Clavell returns

Free speech on the plaza

Students agitated by controversial cardboard wall The “Free Speech” Wall on the CSU Plaza. PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS-MAY COLLEGIAN

By Stuart Smith @notstuartsmith

A “free speech wall” was built out of recycled cardboard boxes in the plaza by Colorado State University students who support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump around noon on Tuesday.

Various amounts of students filtered in and out of the area, but in general there were around eight or nine Trump supporters and fifteen students who were

unhappy about the wall. By the end of the demonstration, there were around 75 people around the wall.

Even though the builders of the wall are supporters of Trump, they said that the wall was for everyone to express themselves.

“It’s just a free speech demonstration,” said Juan Caro, an organizer of the demonstration.”The Democrats have a presence on campus every day...

They have a Trump piñata...

They’re hitting a presidential

candidate with a stick. It’s free speech... they have the right to do that.”

The first boxes of the wall had pro-Trump writing on them, but almost immediately a Clinton supporter hung a sign on the wall saying “Love Trumps Hate.”

At one point, a woman wrote on the wall, “your fame is not an excuse to grab my pussy.” Another woman wrote, “don’t grab my pussy.”

In response, Emily Faulkner, one of the builders of the wall

wrote, “Bill Clinton is a rapist.”

Caro said that the purpose of the demonstration was to express conservative student’s right to free speech on the plaza.

“We should have a free speech demonstration, so we had one for Trump,” Caro said. “We were bothered by the Trump piñata, but we do understand it is their first amendment right, and we thought we would just exercise our first amendment right.”

Despite this, many students were agitated by the wall and

that it was put up by supporters of Trump.

Erica Lafehr, a third year Sociology and Ethnic Studies major, began a debate with the Trump supporters who were there, going through a slew of talking points about racism and immigration.

“White people don’t want to do the labor that is done by undocumented immigrants,” Lafehr said. “Do you want to go pick strawberries out in California in see WALL on page 4 >>

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CSU students play with their dog, Daisy, in the sunken field by the Lory Student Center. PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS-MAY COLLEGIAN

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Q: What drew you to student media?

A: My family has always been really big on reading, and that has continued with me.

My house is filled with literally thousands of books, and they have all been read. In high school, that love of reading turned into a love of writing, and I decided while applying to college that writing is what I want to do with my life. I figured getting experience early would be a good idea, so I signed up for the Collegian as soon as I got the chance.

Q: What are your favorite hobbies?

A: I love running, hiking, and camping, and have been getting into climbing recently too. Basically, if it involves being in nature, I probably love it.

Q: What is something unusual about you?

A: Despite growing up less than ten miles from the beach, I’ve never gone surfing.

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A: A dun stallion, according to Pottermore.

Q: Best joke you know?

A: I would tell it, but it could easily take up an entire page of this paper, and nobody wants that. I’ll just say that I have a well-sized collection of long jokes, and if you find me in the plaza and ask, I’ll gladly take a half hour out of my day to tell you one.

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A 34 year-old man was arrested for the for Second Degree Burglary, Third Degree Burglary, Possession of Burglary Tools and Violation of bail Bond Conditions.

On Sunday Oct. 9, Richard Rader was taken into custody in Fort Collins after police responded to a call at 6:02 a.m. The informant reported seeing a man burglarizing a business in the 1600 block of Laporte Ave. Police arrived in an attempt to observe the burglar who was later identified as Rader.

Rader attempted to flee the scene but was halted by officers, at which time he fled back into the building and refused to come outside.

Rader would not speak with officers and the SWAT team was called in to assist. When Rader attempted to flee the scene again, SWAT used chemical agents (pepper balls) to prevent Raders escape. Approximately 2.5 hours later, officers took Rader safely into custody. During the incident, some residents around the businesses were evacuated.

Before this incident, Rader had been arrested in Fort Collins on Sept. 7 for a Burglary occurring in August.

He was booked into Larimer County Jail and posted bond on September 9th. He is awaiting court for those charges.

Anyone with additional information about the October 9 incident is encouraged to contact Detective Bryan Vogel at 970-416-2392.

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NEWS Wednesday, October 12, 2016

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Red Whistle Brigade begins Feminist Fridays

By Miranda Moses @mirandasrad

Last Friday, the Red Whistle Brigade opened up the Women and Gender Advocacy Center’s doors even wider to invite CSU students to Feminist Fridays, a new open-forum talk series created for and by students.

While most students know about the Red Whistle Brigade from freshmen orientation when the student group presented about consent using skits and humor, the organization is constantly working and putting on projects all over campus throughout the year. These projects include facilitation and presentations for residents at their specific dorms, flash mobs, a zine and a Relationship Violence Workshop series during this month for Relationship Violence Awareness Month.

Feminist Fridays is one of the newest projects to come out of The Red Whistle Brigade. The idea of the talk series is to create a safe, brave space for students to come and discuss their thoughts regarding feminism and how it applies to their lives. The first session’s theme was simply feminism. Facilitator and Red Whistle Brigade member Bailey Schmidt encouraged attendees

to discuss what their own definition of the term meant to them and also how it is perceived on CSU’s campus.

“People of all identities are welcome to come in and talk freely about issues that are going on campus related to the topic or issues in their life or in the world,” said Schmidt, who is also one of the founders of the new series. “It’s very open.”

Schmidt hopes for the talk series to evolve as attendance rises, creating an environment that feels less like a lecture when someone is telling people what to think but more student led.

The idea of the program is to provide a space where students can participate in open discussions and bounce ideas off of one another naturally, opposed to a space where ideas are led in one direction by facilitators.

The founders of Feminist Fridays used other Student Diversity Programs and Services office’s talk series for inspiration for their own work. The Red Whistle Brigade members attended the Black/African American Cultural Center’s (B/AACC) “Real Talk” and Resources for Disabled Students’ (RDS) “Disability Dialogues” and took notes on the structure and inclusivity of these programs.

Author Manuel Ramos to speak for National Latinx Heritage Month Thursday

By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98

Author Manuel Ramos will present a talk on cultural writing for National Latinx Heritage Month on Thursday, Oct. 13 at 6 p.m. in the Lory Student Center Ballroom D. Ramos’ presentation, “What is Chicano Noir?” is sponsored

by El Centro as a part of National Latinx Heritage Month. Ramos’s speech at the Lory Student Center will be the final event of National Latinx Heritage Month.

Kevin Omana, Program Events Coordinator for El Centro, said that in past years, National Latinx Heritage Month held several events centered around a principal theme, such as heritage in 2014 and culture in 2015.

Omana said this year’s theme focuses on identity, which Ra-

mos will discuss in regards to his literary career.

“With Manuel, his conversation as a keynote speaker comes down to the Chicano identity,” Omana said. “He’s going to talk about (Chicano Noir) as a whole, what it pertains to in terms of other culture, how it came about in the early ‘80s and ‘90s.”

Omana said that Ramos will also talk about topics such as how Chicano Noir drifted from its origin and became the romanticization of narcotics and Chicano’s involvement in narcotics to what it is today.

“He’s also going to talk about the challenges of being a Latinx writer within the community, so what it means for him to have to prove himself… as a literary expert,” Omana said. “Then, he’s just going to (talk) about the see AUTHOR on page 4 >>

Although the first Feminist Friday’s attendance was meeker than anticipated, those who did attend produced a discussion that touched on a wide range of topics under the feminism theme. Students were given a chance to hear diverse perspectives from students who have experienced feminism differently.

Sophomore transfer student Emma Griffin-derr attended Feminist Friday and had her first experience with the Woman and Gender Advocacy Center.

“I love Feminist Fridays,” Griffin-derr said. “I was a little nervous to come because I didn’t know if people would be here because in some feminist spaces, people don’t show up, but I was so excited to see that people come [to the WGAC] and have good conversation. I think this space is really awesome and important.”

Students talked about how different parts of Colorado tend to perceive the ideologies of feminism differently, how this relates to diversity and how Colorado stands in terms of diversity compared to other states. Attendees also theorized whether or not today’s mainstream feminism is really open and applicable to everyone in all diverse

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walks of life, including people who identify as men.

Feminist Fridays will continue on every first and third Friday of each month. The theme for next talk is “Let’s Talk About Sex” and will commence on Oct. 21.

“The title says it all,” reads the flier for the upcoming forum. “Let’s get together and talk about sex in a sex positive environment.”

The Red Whistle Brigade hopes for a bigger turn out than last Friday by getting more fli-

ers out the students and advertising the event on social media.

Each event will be located in the Woman and Gender Advocacy Center inside of the Lory Student Center, beginning at noon and officially ending at 1 p.m., although Red Whistle Brigade members will be available afterwards to answer any further questions from the discussion. The program emphasizes that all people of all identities are welcome.

Miranda Moses can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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NEWS Wednesday, October 12, 2016

California condor chick’s flight from nest marks milestone for recovery program

By Paul Rogers

Mercury News Service

In a milestone for the recovery of the California condor, a condor chick has hatched in the wild, survived and flown out of its nest at Pinnacles National Park for the first time since the 1890s.

The bird, a female born in April, is not the first chick to be born in the 12 years since condors bred in captivity were re-introduced to the 26,000-acre park, about 80 miles south of San Jose.

But she is the first to survive long enough to leave the nest and begin the path to adulthood, a major step for North America’s largest bird as it continues a slow-butsteady path from near extinction.

“It’s significant,” said Steve Kirkland, a biologist and California condor program coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

“Self-sustaining reproduction in the wild is the primary goal.”

California condors, whose wingspans can reach 9 feet, once ranged from British Columbia to Mexico. But because of habitat loss, hunting and lead poisoning, the majestic birds’ population dwindled to just 22 nationwide by 1982.

In a desperate gamble to stave off extinction, federal biologists captured all remaining wild condors in 1987 and began breeding them in zoos. The birds’ offspring have

>> WALL from page 1 the fields all day?”

Other phrases on the wall included: Proud Deplorable Female Lives Matter Build that Wall!

Minority Lives Matter Walls don’t work #FreeMilo What did Harambe know?

Hillary for Prison 2016 At various times, the wind in the plaza picked up enough to knock down the wall, to which some students responded by vandalizing the wall.

The first time the wall fell, one student ran up, stole a box, and then ran away from the wall as quickly as he could.

Another time, several students came up to wall and started jumping on it, crushing the boxes, preventing them from being reused in the wall or any future one.

been gradually released back into the wild.

Today, things are looking up for the condor.

As of Dec. 31, there were 435 California condors in the world, an increase of nearly 20-fold over the past 30 years. Of those, 268 live in the wild, and 167 live in captivity in places where they are bred and hatched, such as the San Diego Zoo. Wild condors live in Central California, where 82 birds split their time between Big Sur and Pinnacles; in Southern California, mostly around Ventura and Santa Barbara counties; in the Grand Canyon and Utah; and in Baja, Mexico.

Last year, for the first time since the recovery effort began, more condors were born in the wild, 14, than died in the wild, 12. Scientists hope to one day remove the birds from the endangered species list, as has been done with other iconic species such as the bald eagle, gray whale and peregrine falcon.

Condors have successfully been born in the wild, and left the nest, a process known as fledging, in Big Sur, Southern California, Arizona and Baja Mexico. But until last week, it had not happened at Pinnacles in 120 years. Park officials are keeping the location of the nest confidential so visitors don’t disturb the birds.

“She is staying near the nest, doing lot of practice flights,” said

At one point, a student walked up the wall as if to write something, but instead pulled out a pair of scissors and started cutting up one of the boxes.

While it was only a couple of people that were either vocally for or against the wall, most of the several dozen students gathered were there to see what was going on.

Bronson Torres, one of the attending students, said he was initially against the plaza free speech wall, but his opinion changed after watching the demonstration.

“At first I hated (the wall) because I thought it was just a metaphor for Trump’s wall... but an hour later I love it,” Torres said. “I think it represents CSU very well because there’s such a diversity of opinions here, unlike some other colleges.”

Caro said that there are plans to try and build a wall at other campuses around the state, and that he hopes to do so at CU Boulder and University of Northern Colorado.

“This is not to agitate people, this is to encourage discussion, debate, and open conversations,” Caro said.

Stuart Smith can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Rachel Wolstenholme, condor program manager at Pinnacles. “Her parents will help her learn how to fly and where to feed and how to interact with the other wild birds out there.”

Of six condor eggs at Pinnacles since 2010, some didn’t hatch.

Others were eaten by ravens, while another bird did hatch but hurt her wing and was taken to the Los Angeles Zoo. Lead poisoning remains the main threat to condors, scientists say. Condors eat dead deer, wild pigs, ground squirrels and other animals that hunters or ranchers may have shot, ingesting lead fragments.

In 2013, over the objection of the National Rifle Association and some hunting groups, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law banning all lead ammunition in hunting in California starting in 2019. Groups such as the Ventana Wilderness Society, a nonprofit organization helping to oversee condor reintroduction in Pinnacles and Big Sur, have handed out nonlead ammunition to ranchers and hunters. That, said Kelly Sorenson, executive director of the group, has resulted in a decline in lead poisoning deaths in recent years.

“Shooters who have switched to nonlead ammunition have made an invaluable contribution to the health of all scavenging wildlife,” Sorenson said.

Briefs from McClatchy Tribune

>> AUTHOR from page 3 general experience he had as a writer, how his experience coming through CSU impacted him in writing in terms of his writing genre, why he chose to write Chicano Noir… He’s really going to try to emphasize that Latinx identity and how that impacts his writing.”

Additionally, Omana talked about Ramos’s integral role in acquiring support for the Latinx community while attending CSU. “Manuel Ramos is a CSU alumni who was here prior to the start of Project Go,” Omana said.

Project Go, according to El Centro’s website, was developed in 1969 as a way to incorporate the needs of ethnically diverse students and students from low income households in the University. Project Go aims to encourage them to continue with their post-secondary education and provide financial assistance and academic support.

“He was one of the two very inspired activists along with Paul Chambers,” Omana said. “They both demanded more support and services for (the) Latino community here at CSU.” Omana stated that at the time Ramos and Chambers attended CSU, there were only 50 students who identified as Black or Af-

rican-American and 65 students who identified as Latino.

“There were no support services whatsoever,” said Omana. “(Ramos) felt very passionate about that, and it was through his vigorous involvement that the University decided to start Project Go, which (was) the precursor to the seven diversity programs offices we have today.”

Ramos majored in political science at CSU and graduated with honors in 1970. He then finished his law degree at University of Colorado Boulder. Following his education, he practiced law by starting his own practice with David Vela, another CSU and law school alumnus.

In addition to his career as an attorney, Ramos is the author of several crime fiction novels and has taught Chicano literature at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His debut novel, “The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz,” received critical recognition by being awarded the Colorado Book Award and the Chicano/Latino Literary Award in addition to being nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award.

Collegian reporter Haley Candelario can be reached at news@collegian. com.

Left, Audrey Kang, 3rd year student speaking against Trump at the protest. PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS-MAY COLLEGIAN

OPINION Wednesday, October 12, 2016

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CampusView: Would Donald Trump be a good president?

Opinions for: Donald Trump has said terrible things, but none of them would ruin our economy or destroy our country as the election of Hillary Clinton would. There is clear documentation of Hillary’s dishonesty and unworthiness. She has lied continuously about the Benghazi Attack and her State Department e-mails on her personal server. Hillary makes false promises to everyone to get their votes; Trump makes no false promises. Hillary says that she will raise taxes when elected; Trump will lower taxes.

Hillary has said in private that she wants open borders.

This huge influx of immigrants will strain our healthcare, school, housing, and welfare systems, if not bankrupt them altogether.

Open borders will also allow the continued flow of felons, drug traffickers, and gang members

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into the United States. Trump will seal our borders from these bad illegal immigrants.

Hillary says publicly she will restrict Wall Street from bad behavior, but privately she tells them that they are the best in deciding their own restrictions.

Hillary will continue the federal government control over much of our lives so that she can continue to control of our country’s wealth and power. Trump will make changes which give the control back to the PEOPLE. -Paul Ellis

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AGAINST

If you’re more offended by what Trump has said than what Hillary has done, you are part of the problem. Trump is an asshole, but Hillary is a straight up criminal. Not only should she not be running for president, she should be in prison.

-Anonymous

Election season is upon us. CampusView will now be oriented towards the election until November 8th.

That being said, would Hillary Clinton make a good president?

Why or why not?

Opinion against: How can a person with literally no political experience make a good president?

How can a person who didn’t pay taxes for almost 2 decades make a good president? How can a person who claims to be a great business man yet lost almost a billion dollars in a single year make a good president? How can someone who is endorsed by the KKK make a good president? How can a person who is the physical embodiment all of the negative racist, sexist, ableist, etc. Ideologies in this country make a good

president? I could go on and on, but I’ll stop there for my sanity.

Trump does not have a single redeemable quality. He should not be president.

-Haley Justino If Trump is president, other countries will stop doing business with us. We will be seen as a joke to other countries. Not to mention the fact that he is a terrible role model - he’s a bully, a liar, a fraud, and a chauvinist that should make men and women equally as mad.

-Anonymous

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Democrats have created Donald Trump as a protest vote for conservatives Taylor Tougaw @ttougaw

Donald Trump can say whatever he wants without losing voters. I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. The actions of the the protestors in front of the Trump event yesterday on the Colorado State University campus have solidified the fact that many of those who are voting for Trump are not doing so entirely in support of the candidate, but as a silent protest against the lunacy of the left.

Yesterday, Oct. 11, a symbolic wall was erected on the plaza with statements saying “Build that wall!” and “Hillary for prison!”. The wall intended to garner a strong reaction, and that is what it got. Hundreds of students surrounded the wall in an attempt to express their disdain for Trump and his followers. As was intended, the wall created a lot of dialogue. I stood outside the wall protest and watched the events that unfolded in order to gain a better understanding of the dynamics that permeate each side of the candidate’s supporters and detractors. At first, many of the protestors engaged in very civil debate. In fact, I watched three men argue with a Trump supporting female over the pitfalls and poor laws regarding abortion. After they had concluded, everyone shook hands and told one another that they still respected each other, despite their conflicting beliefs.

What was great about the wall was that it was erected as a free speech wall, meaning that anyone, regardless of political affiliation, could write whatever they wanted on it. Of course, this meant hateful things were written, but for the most part, it remained civil and dialogue based.

That didn’t last long.

When the college democrats and other protestors of Trump heard about the ability to slather their opponents wall with whatever they wanted, they showed up in force to dowse the wall in ‘Love Trumps Hate’ posters and other deep, insightful commentary such as “Suck my dick Donald Trump.” They used their posters to cover the words that others had written on the wall in support of Trump. An older lady at the event intentionally covered the Trump flag during a photo attempt while grabbing a

female Trump supporter without her permission. She then proceeded to tell another young lady that she could only pet her dogs if she promised to vote for Clinton. When the young lady said no, she was told she couldn’t touch the woman’s dogs.

It gets better: At one point, amidst the personal slurs form both sides, some young woman burst through the crowd and, with a sharp implement, completely ripped apart and slashed a box that read “build that wall.”

She then ran away from her cowardly act by saying “Fuck all ya’ll” and flipping off the crowd. After this, the wall was completely knocked over by protestors.

Where is the dialogue? Where is the tolerance?

“The actions of the leftist protestors is exactly the kind of thing that makes people want to vote for Trump.”

The actions of the leftist protestors is exactly the kind of thing that makes people want to vote for Trump. Julia Borowski, a prominent Libertarian author and anti Trumper, stated in a video that “If you block traffic during a protest, I’m for whatever you’re against. I do not want to like Trump, but they make it so hard.” This is the sentiment that Trump voters are following: If you act like an idiot, then they are going to support whatever you are against. If you are so weak that words offend you and make you literally cut them off of someone else’s property, then they are going to support whatever you are against. That behavior is not acceptable and makes others want to act in the opposite fashion.

While I’m sure that that girl and all her little buddies are

high-fiving each other and laughing about what she did, the rest of the campus saw that and resolved to vote for what she acted against: Donald Trump.

Conservatives at Colorado State don’t generally protest the way that these college leftists chose to do. Of course you have campus preachers and Planned Parenthood protestors, but those people are religiously motivated instead of politically, and are also not students. To put it in perspective, college democrats have had a pinata of Trump at their booth for weeks, if not months, now. A pinata is generally used as an object to be beaten and split open until the insides come out.

What protests came out of that?

What conservatives stole the pinata or knocked it down? None.

When asked why there were no protests over the Trump pinata, one College Democrat member said “well, you should get organized then.” Another real clever zinger that probably has a bunch of people laughing, while ten more people that heard that have decided to vote for Trump in protest of their hypocrisy.

Of course the violence and protest go both ways and I’m not insinuating that they don’t.

Trump followers beat up Clinton followers, while Clinton followers assault and egg Trump followers. Neither side is blameless.

Right now, I am drawing attention specifically to the Colorado State campus. What is true, as exemplified by the wall protestors, is that the left reacts much more violently. On that same day, there was a booth for reproductive justice as well as an LGBT ‘coming out day’ booth in the exact same area at the exact same time.

Where were the conservatives protesting that? Where were the protestors knocking over their property? There were none.

This is why people are using Trump as an outlet to express their complete disdain with the actions of the left. They might not like Trump at all, but they support whatever these radical protestors are against.

Im not advocating that this is a good idea or that I, in any way, support this way of thinking, but I am telling that it is happening.

I don’t think that Trump will win this election, but this sentiment will travel far beyond this election. If you keep driving that wedge deeper and deeper, it will be impossible to remove.

Taylor Tougaw can be reached at opinion@collegian. com.

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Cans Around the Oval - Can Collection 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Oval Drop-off Day! Bring all of your Food and Monetary Donations to Oval for collection. We will weigh all of your donations and load them up for the Food Bank of Larimer County.

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LGBT History Month Keynote Speaker: Robyn Ochs: Beyond the Binary 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., LSC North Ballroom Explore the landscape and how we “map” sexual orientation.

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

Engineering Exploration Day October 15, All Day, LSC

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SPORTS Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Gian Clavell is the heartbeat of CSU basketball

By Justin Michael @JustinTMichael

Gian Clavell is the undeniable leader of CSU basketball.

The fifth-year senior guard from Puerto Rico has transitioned from being a sixth man that provided an offensive spark to being one of the key scorers and most valuable leaders for Larry Eustachy’s Rams.

Despite all of Clavell’s success, the guard has battled a variety of injuries and had to play through quite a bit of adversity, but he is excited for a fresh start in 2016.

Since the guard transferred to CSU from Northwest Kansas Technical College, he has been playing through various ailments, including a labrum injury that has plagued him since arriving in Fort Collins. For the first time in his collegiate career, Clavell is one hundred percent healthy and is ready to prove that he is one of the best players in the Mountain West.

“There’s no doubt, I feel like I am the best player in the conference,” Clavell said. “I have confidence in myself. I am fresh. I am 100 percent. I mean, I have been playing injured since I got here, but I kept playing though it.”

When healthy, or at least healthy enough, Clavell has been a deadly jump shooter that plays an integral role in the Colorado State offense. Before breaking a bone in his non-shooting hand and missing most of last season, Clavell was putting up video game type numbers in the first ten games of 2015, averaging 20.8 points, 6.9 rebounds, and 3.2 assists in 36.9 minutes per game.

After being granted a fifth season of eligibility by the NCAA last May, Clavell is ready to make his return to the court healthy, but also with a new perspective on the game. Clavell may have only played in 10 games last season, but while rehabbing, the eccentric guard learned a lot about being a vocal leader for the team.

All last season, Clavell could be heard screaming out encouraging words and tips based on what he was seeing from the sidelines. Now, he will look to apply some of that knowledge on the court.

“It made me see the game differently,” Clavell said, referring to being on the sidelines last season. “I see it completely different now. I see some spots on the court that I did not see when I was playing. I’m looking to have my biggest year, so it’s really good.”

Not only is Clavell looking to post his best individual season, but more than anything, he wants this team to compete for a conference championship and believes the team has both the skill and mindset to do so.

“We have a chip on our shoulders, even the new guys,” Clavell said. “They want to win. They feel like people were kind of making fun of us for having a bad year last year. Even though we had a winning season, it was still 18-16. So people were like ‘Oh, you’re going to that team?’ Okay, yeah sure, I am going to that team, but we are going to prove them wrong,” Clavell said about wanting to prove doubters wrong.

This is the closest team Clavell has been apart of at CSU, and the way he raves about his teammates proves exactly how close they are and that it is not just a blind statement he is giving to the media. Clavell is as genuine as it gets and that is really what makes him such an excellent leader for this team.

“It is hard for one person to be that leader for 14 other guys, like it is hard for everyone to listen to (Gian), but over time everybody really gained a lot of respect for him and he is doing a great job leading this team,” transfer guard Devocio Butler said.

When CSU lost Clavell last season, they did not just lose a scoring threat, they lost their oncourt emotional leader. Getting a player like Clavell back is invalu-

Colorado guard Josh Fortune, right, tries to tip the ball away from CSU guard Gian Clavell during last season’s game against CU. PHOTO BY ABBIE PARR COLLEGIAN

able because his teammates trust him to produce when his number is called and know he will make the open pass if somebody is in better position.

Butler raved on his teammate.

“I love having Gian on the court, because the stats he puts up, it creates so many opportunities for us,” Butler said. “Everybody is going to be so focused on Gian. It just opens up the offense for everybody, so I love that he is back.”

“Gian is going to do his thing, everyone knows that. Just look at last year,” sophomore Prentiss Nixon said. “He is going to do his thing, but everybody else is going to do their thing too. One game he might score 10 points. One game he might score nine. He has no problem with that.”

Seeing the trust and respect Clavell has earned from his peers is a testament to how hard he has worked since transferring to CSU in 2014. A hard worker on and off the court, you can feel his passion for the game when he speaks on it and his basketball IQ is as high as anyone’s in the league.

If anybody deserves to have a successful season, it is Clavell.

The leader of the Colorado State basketball team will look to help the program do something it has never accomplished — win the Mountain West.

Justin Michael can be reached by email at sports@collegian.com

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After going into halftime down a pair of scores, Mike Bobo’s Rams could have easily folded and accepted defeat to a talented and physical Utah State team. They could have given up again when Collin Hill went down with a knee injury trying to make a big play in the third quarter. Instead, this team dug deep and outscored the Aggies 21-0 in the second half on their way to a 31-24 homecoming victory.

I criticized this team heavily for losing to Wyoming at home.

Not because the Cowboys had not held a lead against the Rams for three years and not because the Cowboys were coming off an embarrassing loss to Eastern Michigan, but because the Rams were genuinely the better team and just were not ready for the big moment.

Saturday was a completely different story. Utah State came out fast with their run-heavy offense and looked like they were going to be able to move the ball with ease all night, but

credit defensive coordinator Marty English for being able to make the necessary adjustments to keep this team in the game.

There is young talent on this team but a lack of execution defensively and inconsistencies offensively hurt the Rams through the first five weeks of the season CSU completely shut down the Utah State offense in the second half and executed at a level that we have not seen this defense perform in the past.

The defensive line was able to get consistent pressure without blitzing, linebackers were able to make plays and the secondary shut down the Aggies air attack.

Kevin Davis did what he does on a weekly basis, which is make plays. The linebacker recovered a fumble forced by cornerback Tyree Simmons and intercepted Aggies’ quarterback Kent Myers in the fourth quarter to secure the Rams victory.

On the other side of the ball, the offense was able to capitalize when given opportunities to score and those two factors were really what made the difference against the Aggies. Against Utah State, CSU made plays on both sides of the ball when it mattered most. As I said before, a lot of the credit goes to the defense, but Nick Stevens also deserves high praise for coming in to lead the team to victory after being on the sidelines for over a month.

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Stevens was poised and made good decisions with the football, while the offense was able to rely on the rushing attack of Izzy Mathews and Dalyn Dawkins. Stevens played poor against CU and his benching was justified, but it should not be forgotten that Stevens led the Rams to a bowl in 2015 and earned second team all-conference honors.

If Stevens plays like he did

in the second half of last season, the Rams will be in a position to compete for bowl eligibility again in 2016. After defeating Utah State last weekend, this team is technically still in position to compete for a Mountain West Championship but reaching a bowl would definitely be a success for this young Rams team.

Boise State will be a tough opponent this Saturday, but

the Rams have a pair of winnable games after with UNLV and Fresno State. Saturday is a chance for the Rams to reestablish themselves with Stevens as their leader and see how they fair against a talented Broncos squad, before CSU enters the most important stretch of the season.

Justin Michael can be reached by email at sports@ collegian.com

CSU quarterback Nick Stevens (7) gets ready for the snap against Utah State University on October 8th at Hughes Stadium. PHOTO BY JAVON HARRIS COLLEGIAN

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CSU volleyball attack clicking from all directions

By Michael Roley @michael_roley

The CSU volleyball team’s attack is lethal, and it can come from a number of different directions.

This season, CSU is hitting .298 as a team, which ranks eighth highest in the country and have hit above the .300 mark in eight matches. Five different Rams have reached the double-digit mark in kills at some point this season.

Not surprisingly, Sanja Cizmic and Jasmine Hanna are leading the way on the outside.

Cizmic is averaging 3.24 kills per set and is hitting .271. Hanna is at 2.83 kills per set and a .256 percentage.

Then at the other attacking positions, Alexandra Poletto is hitting .378 and Kirstie Hillyer .396 at the middle blocking positions. Freshman Olivia Nicholson is hitting .267 on the opposite outside.

It was apparent during the preseason that the attack would be a major strength for the Rams, but now that they are 16 matches and five conference matches into the season, it’s crystal clear that they have a

Perhaps the potential of the offense was most on display Saturday evening in Las Vegas. good thing going offensively.

“We’re attacking at a high level,” head coach Tom Hilbert said. “There’s things we need to improve upon but we’re attacking the ball at a high level.

I think we are improving which not every team improves the second half of the season and that’s a good season.”

And although it is the hitters and middles that are finishing off each point, usually with exclamation points, the effectiveness of the attack often centers around setter Katie Oleksak. The freshman is currently fourth in the nation, averaging 11.78 assists per set. In a match on Sept. 22, she recorded 59 assists, the highest total in a four-set match in CSU program history since the NCAA implemented the 25-point rally scoring system.

Oleksak has grown in her understanding of when to put the ball where and to who. And with the number of weapons the Rams have, getting each of them the amount of touches they need is not much of a challenge for her anymore. And she is learning that even if a hitter is having an off-night, keep feed-

ing them the ball.

“Earlier in the year it might have been a challenge but right now it’s not,” Hilbert said. “She’s getting people the ball. We talked right before conference started about making sure that people don’t cool off. Sometimes if somebody’s not playing well and you get completely away from them they may never get it back…She can’t decide ‘I’m not connecting with someone’ and not set her. You have to continue to work through it and she knows that and she’s been doing a nice job of making that happen.”

But for Oleksak, her connections and chemistry with the hitters has already made for a formidable attack, and this should only increase as time goes on. And for right now, she’s pretty thrilled to have a variety of places to put the ball and know that it’ll turn into a point on the scoreboard more times than not.

Junior Sanja Cizmic sends a spike over the net to awaiting Fresno State players. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT JERGE COLLEGIAN

“It’s just nice to have hitters that I can rely on at every position,” she said. “I think that helps spread out the offense and it makes it easier for them to get kills.”

Perhaps the potential of the offense was most on display Saturday evening in Las Vegas.

The Rams frankly dominated UNLV in the first two sets. They hit .536 in the first set and .720 in the second while taking both sets in rather lopsided fashion.

Of course, it’s unrealistic to believe they will hit like that often, but it did give the team a little taste of what can happen when they’re hitting on all cylinders.

“You can’t expect to play like that all the time,” Hilbert said. “Especially with a team this young, and it showed in the third set but it’s good to see. It shows a little bit of the future and lets them know they can play at a high level.”

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ARTS & CULTURE Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Norah Jones returns to her roots with new album ‘Day Breaks’

By Zoe Jennings @CSUCollegian

Norah Jones returns to the piano-filled jazz songs of her debut album “Come Away with Me” with her new album “Day Breaks.” Released on Oct. 7, the album is a cozy return to the artist we all fell in love with.

The album starts out with “Burn,” a sultry lounge song with poetic lyrics. The song tells a story with lines like “the plot begins with you and me in dark lit rooms. Your cigarette cuts through. I wear it like perfume.”

The album is about 50 minutes long and includes nine new songs and three covers. Departing from the guitar-based, country sound of Jones’ latest albums, she plays the piano throughout the album in her

sixth studio album.

Jones has maintained her critically acclaimed status. She has won nine Grammys, including Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, among others.

The irresistible old-style song “And Then There was you” was one of the best songs of the album. As she playfully sings, her voice is showcased beautifully in the song.

Renowned musicians in the jazz world appear on the album including drummer Brian Blade, organist Lonnie Smith and saxophonist Wayne Shorter.

The album’s title track “Day Breaks” is beautifully haunting with its gentle piano chords and a jazzy saxophone solo that ends the song. The message is melancholy; Jones laments, “it keeps

raining in my heart.”

The album includes three covers. Jones covers “Fleurette Aficaine (African Flower)” by famous jazz composer and musician Duke Ellington, “Don’t be Denied” by folk rock musician Neil Young and “Peace” by jazz pianist Horace Silver.

Jones’ song “Flipside” was partly inspired by jazz musician Les McCann’s 1971 “Compared to What.”

Released in August, “Carry On” was the first single to be released off the album. The song is reminiscent of the sound of her debut album “Come Away with me.” The nostalgic music video shows Jones on the piano in the home of an older couple dancing and cooking.

Final score: 4/5 “Day Breaks” is a solid jazz record that satisfies the fans

that loved Jones’ debut album “Come Away with Me.” The album has a cozy feeling, and the music is good. Norah Jones has successfully maintained her status as a jazz musician over six albums with relatively consistent critical acclaim and reception from fans. Although she has achieved greatness with her music through building a consistent sound, she does not experiment or improve much, maybe because she does not have to. With her new album, Jones remains relevant while coming full circle and reminding us all why we first fell in love with her.

Jones is currently touring the U.S. and Europe. To see her tour dates, visit norahjones. com.

Zoe Jennings can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com

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Dave Matthews performs inspirational concert at Clinton rally in Denver

By Zoe Jennings @CSUCollegian

Dave Matthews, front man of popular folk-rock jam band Dave Matthews Band, put on a free concert to drum up support for presidential candidate Hilary Clinton and her vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine in the swing state of Colorado.

Held at the National Western Complex in Denver, the rally began at 1:30 p.m. on Monday Oct. 10 with appearances from Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, Denver’s mayor Michael Hancock and vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine.

Bennet came out before the concert at about 12:45 p.m. to give a brief speech stressing the importance of voting in Colorado and attesting to the nice character of Kaine, who is Bennet’s personal friend.

Mayor Hancock told the crowd a story about how a young Hispanic boy came to him crying because he feared that if Donald Trump were to be elected his parents would be deported to Mexico. Hancock told the crowd he promised the little boy Trump would not be elected.

Before Matthews’ performance, several other people spoke about their experiences of being undocumented immigrants in the United States. A transgender speaker told the crowd that they had a big stake in election in terms of LBGQ

rights.

After the introductions, Matthews, with his signature mischievous smile, came onto the stage with acoustic guitar in tow. “I wanna get this out of the way,” Matthews said before playing one of his most popular songs, “Ants Marching.”

“I’m an immigrant,” Matthews said. “I didn’t come to take anybody’s jobs. I came to work.”

Matthews is an immigrant from South Africa and lightheartedly joked about the stereotypes that are often attached to immigrants who live in the U.S. Matthews pointed out that the crowd is standing on “colonized ground.”

Matthews played songs from many of his band’s albums although the band members were not at the concert.

“It’s different to be alone,” Matthews remarked about his solo performance. “I kind of like it.”

Matthews played songs from his older albums including “One Sweet World” from his 1993 album “Remember Two Things” and “Don’t Drink the Water” from his 1998 album “Before These Crowded Streets.”

Matthews was able to entertain the crowd with his extensive vocal range and his typical screams and sound effects along with his talent for playing the acoustic guitar.

Matthews played “Loving Wings,” which has been released on six of Dave Matthews Band records. Matthews first played the song at the Pepsi Center in Denver in 2002.

Matthews also played one of the band’s new unreleased songs called “Samurai Cop.” It was apparent during the show that Matthews is a true performer and thoroughly enjoys playing music.

The crowd cheered when Matthews played the popular song “Satellite.” The acoustics of the complex made the song sound full.

Matthews closed out the set by wishing for a world “with less bombs and more peace.”

Matthews told the crowd that it almost seems silly nowadays to want peace. He never explicitly told the crowd to vote for Hilary Clinton but seemed to be more interested in promoting the ideas that the campaign has promised to accomplish in the office.

After the performance, Tim Kaine came onto the stage and immediately praised Matthews for his humanitarian efforts including his Bama Works fund that donates to Charlottesville area nonprofit organizations.

As Kaine spoke, Matthews sat on the stairs and stared at Kaine for his entire speech.

Kaine started out his speech talking about the second presidential debate. He described

Clinton’s performance in the debate as “steady as a rock” and insulted Trump’s performance.

“I’m glad she added me to the ticket,” Kaine said about his nomination as the vice presidential candidate for Clinton.

During his speech, Kaine addressed several issues that seemed to be targeted for a Colorado audience including climate change, equal rights, affordability of college and progressive values.

Kaine continued the theme of the event about immigrant acceptance by comparing the diversity of people in the U.S.

“We are a beautiful tapestry because everyone adds the beauty of life,” Kaine said.

Kaine labelled the Democratic Party as the underdog party.

“We’re kinda underdog people,” Kaine said. “I’m the underdog until I’m the winner.”

To close out his speech, Kaine stressed the importance of voting in Colorado, calling it a “critically important state.” He told the crowd to go to iwillvote. com and to volunteer for the Clinton campaign.

Zoe Jennings can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com

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Lyric Movie Review: “Birth of a Nation” passionately

explores a dark chapter of American history

By Samuel Perrine @CSUCollegian

There is no denying that Nate Parker, writer, director and Star of “Birth of a Nation” put his creative heart and soul into his directorial debut.

The ambitious historical drama follows a young slave minister named Nat Turner who led a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. The rebellion resulted in the deaths of around 60 whites and over 200 blacks in retaliation. Turner himself was caught and hung after two months on the run. The film was highly praised at this years Sundance Film Festival and was bought by Fox Searchlight Pictures for a record $17.5 million. There was some con-

troversy surrounding the film as well, with Parker’s past and shots at the perceived divisiveness of the film.

The story opens with Turner as a young boy, the son of two slaves, being brought up in Southampton, Virginia, on a cotton plantation. He and his mother have been told that Nat will grow up to be “a prophet” and that he holds the signs of his ancestors. Nat’s father is caught stealing food by slave catchers and disappears from his life. Nat shows a natural affinity for books and is taught to read by Elizabeth Turner, (Penelope Ann Miller) matriarch of the plantation. Elizabeth gives him a bible and sets him on the path to become a man of God.

The story then transitions to Nat’s life as an adult on the plantation, and his affinity for preaching is noticed by Elizabeth’s son Samuel (Armie Hammer). Samuel, with his family in debt and in danger of losing his farm and family status, begins making Nat preach to slaves all over the county to ease any thoughts of rebellion among the slaves and to collect a fee to maintain the Turner plantation.

Great care is taken in showing Samuel’s reluctance to use Nat in this way, and great care is also taken in showing his downward spiral of complicity with the system that has propped up his family for generations.

This is where the film and script hit their stride and drive

home the uncomfortable truths of the time. Parker delivers a powerful performance as he preaches to the tortured slaves of the county to “obey their masters in all things from the good and kind to even the harsh masters.”

“Birth of a Nation” provides a gut wrenching display of humiliation and oppression. A scene in which a slave on hunger strike

has his teeth removed by a hammer and is force fed is particularly excruciating.

Nat’s horror and rage simmers until his wife, Cherry, (Aja Naomi King) is raped by a group of white men. This is a turning point for Nat who begins to plot retaliation for his wife for the increasingly disconnected and see MOVIE on page 14 >>

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>> MOVIE from page 13 abusive Samuel and for the system which keeps him oppressed.

It is here where the film reaches its apex, and unfortunately, its stumbling block. The rebellion begins with several violent sequences which seem to revel in their grind house feel without the necessary direction to stay focused on the films central messages. A bloody decapitation sequence with barely a word spoken of it is a particular offender.

For first time director Parker, the rebellion itself seemed to be the largest challenge of the script and the film. The actual Nat Turner rebellion contained enough material in only the violent action to warrant a film all its own, yet in “Birth of a Nation,” it is barely 20 minutes long and is burdened by an overlycliche Braveheart-like final clash, which sees the rebels put down brutally by the U.S. army with Turner himself narrowly escaping.

After this, the film picks itself back up, and the script returns to its usual consistency.

Turner speaks one more time with his wife and turns himself in but not before being mobbed and beaten by an angry crowd.

In the films final sequence, Turner is hung in front of a cheering crowd. As he dies, he looks toward the sky where an angel looks down upon him in the form a black women. Meanwhile, a young boy who betrayed Turner’s rebellion looks on. The scene transitions to the same boy fighting for the Union in the Civil War. The last few minutes of the film are largely a return to good form after the rocky portrayal of the rebellion,

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though, it too is plagued by a few amateurish cliches. A butterfly sitting on the body of a hanging black women is particularly indulgent as a symbolic visual.

Final Score: 7/10 Though marred with issues in direction and pacing in it’s last half, the raw passion and acting performance of Parker help propel “Birth of a Nation”

to becoming a foremost film on the indie circuit with perhaps an Oscar nod.

“Birth of a Nation” will be showing at the Lyric Cinema Cafe, located on the north side of Old Town through October 13th.

Samuel Perrine can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com

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Strategize and plan moves in advance. Avoid travel or fuss. Slow down and consider.

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Assume more responsibility. There may be a test or challenge. Envision a dream or fantasy job.

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Expand your territory. Rebellions could flare up. Imagine how you’d like things to turn out. Discuss ideas.

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Play games and share tricks.

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Kindle some romance. Talk about what you love.

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