Vol 126 no 44 october 20, 2016

Volume 126, No. 44

Thursday October 20, 2016

OPINION

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Trump, Clinton square off in final presidential debate Members of Colorado State Universtiy Democrats watch the debat on Oct. 19, 2016. PHOTO BY BROOKE BUCHAN COLLEGIAN

By Stuart Smith @notstuartsmith

The two leading candidates for the President of the United States, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, took to the stage for the third and final time Wednesday night on their quest for office, moderated

by “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace.

The debate covered topics relevant to becoming president, but also delved into questions regarding the scandals that have followed both candidates throughout their campaigns.

Some of the topics discussed were appointments to

the Supreme Court, the Second Amendment, abortion, Medicare and Social Security funds, immigration, the economy and international hot spots.

One of the later questions asked of Trump was whether he would accept the result of the election if he lost.

Recently, he has repeated-

ly said that the election is being rigged in Clinton’s favor leading to his running mate Mike Pence coming out on Sunday to say that they would definitely accept the result of the election.

However, Trump answered by saying that he would look at it at the time and that he would say whether he will accept it at

the time, keeping the country in suspense.

The first question of the night pertained to the Supreme Court and how each candidate wants justices to affect the country.

“I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on see DEBATE on page 6 >>

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Panel to discuss sustainability and science in upcoming election

By Hailey Deaver @autumn_hail

On Tuesday, Oct. 25, the school of global environmental sustainability at Colorado State University will host a panel discussion about the upcoming election and the implications of sustainability and science.

The panel will take place at Avogadro’s Number located at 605 S. Mason Street from 5-6:30 p.m. on Oct. 25. The event is free to the public.

The panelists will discuss the differing opinions between current republican and democratic priorities.

They will also discuss how this election is unlike past elections in the treatments of environmental and scientific issues by the parties.

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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.

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

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Campus resources offer healing for survivors of violence

By Michelle Fredrickson @mfredrickson42

Violence is a reality of life for many college students. Between 20 and 25 percent of women in college experience a form of sexual violence, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. And, according to the Department of Justice, only around 20 percent are reported to police.

“Most, if not all, of the women I know have experienced some sort of violence or harassment,” said Vanessa Paz, a counselor with the CSU Health Network who specializes in sexual and relationship violence.

CSU provides resources for sexual assault survivors regardless of the route they want to take. Many survivors feel more comfortable utilizing confidential resources before going to the police, as a confidential resource will help empower the victim without necessitating an investigation.

One of the first university assistance hotlines for survivors of violence, the Victim Assistance Team (VAT), at CSU has been in existence since 1975. It began as a service for victims of sexual

assault but the hotline expanded three years ago to include all forms of interpersonal violence.

In the hotline’s first year it served three survivors. In the past year it served 450, doubling the calls from the previous year, said Casey Malsam the assistant director of victim services in the Women and Gender Advocacy Center.

Malsam has been in her position for 5 years and has had a passion for feminism and social justice her entire life.

The increased number of survivors served is probably not due to an increase in assaults happening, Malsam said.

“The fact that our Cleary numbers and the numbers of survivors coming into our office are higher means that we’re doing something to show that we are going to believe survivors, and that we’re a safe place to talk about what’s going on with them,” Malsam said. “I don’t think (assaults are) happening more. I think (if) universities (are) reporting they have one or two sexual assaults a year, then there’s something going on at that university that says that they are not a safe place to report.”

The increase in assaults in recent years could also be due to sheer increase in student body numbers, and to better marketing by the VAT. Students in any campus bathrooms have likely seen flyers promoting the VAT. In recent years the WGAC has also integrated more with new student orientation, including giving a presentation on consent and ending rape-supportive culture. At the end of each presentation, Malsam said, students are asked if they identify as a primary survivor of sexual assault and/or are a support for someone close to you who is a survivor of sexual assault.

Sixty percent of students respond ‘yes’ to one of those questions illustrating the prevalence of violence in college students.

However, police reports of sexual violence are dramatically lower, which Paz said emphasizes the importance of confidential resources.

Because VAT is confidential, volunteers can assist survivors without having to report the crime to authorities. This service allows survivors to have a resource without filing an official report unless they want to.

The VAT has approximately

50 volunteers at any given time, with 25-30 actively volunteering this semester. Training to be a confidential reporter is extensive in order to provide maximum security to the survivors.

“They (volunteers) are stu-

“I decided to volunteer because I identify as a survivor of rape and I know first hand the impact it can have on people. I thought volunteering would be a good way to fight back against the rape culture that left me a victim.”

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dents, they are faculty, they are staff; all of whom are welcome to take our training to become a volunteer,” Malsam said.

One student volunteer, Meaghan Booth, has been with the

VAT for two years and found strength in the WGAC’s ability to make a difference and combat a culture that supports sexual violence, she said.

“I decided to volunteer because I identify as a survivor of rape and I know first hand the impact it can have on people,” Booth said. “I thought volunteering would be a good way to fight back against the rape culture that left me a victim.”

The training is 45 hours spanning the fall semester – the same length as a class. Some students take it for three credits, she said. They meet three hours once a week to learn how to be most effective and useful to the survivors.

The training is designed to prepare volunteers for all experiences they might have while working in this program.

“It really is a hands on training, so when they’re taking calls as a volunteer, they know how a police officer might talk about this because they’ve talked about it with a police officer,” Malsam said. “They know what the hospital looks like because we’ve been to the hospital. All of see HEALING on page 6 >>

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NEWS Thursday October 20, 2016

Governor John Hickenlooper to host town hall on campus Friday

By Erin Krigger @littleEkrig

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper will host a town hall and governmental expo on campus Friday.

The town hall will occur at 1:30 p.m. in the Lory Student Center Grand Ballroom D on Friday, Oct. 21.

Hickenlooper will be accompanied by his cabinet members for the town hall.

The town hall will occur at 1:30 pm in the LSC Grand Ballroom D Friday Oct. 21.

During the free public event, Hickenlooper and Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne will deliver remarks. Cabinet members

will follow the Governor with presentations on topics including higher education, transportation and the state budget.

The I-25 corridor, alternative transportation, state funding and tuition, scholarship funding, as well as short and long term budget predictions are among the topics expected to be covered. A question and answer session will follow Hickenlooper and Lynne’s remarks.

The state budget has been a topic of concern in recent CSU Board of Governors meetings.

The amount of money the state allocates towards higher education will determine how much CSU will increase tuition next year, CSU President Tony Frank said during an interview with the Collegian.

The campus community and general public are invited to attend the free event however, those interested in attending must pre-register online by Thursday, Oct. 20.

Additionally, from 12-3:30 p.m. in the LSC Ballroom Lobby informational booths with information on various departments within the governor’s administration will be set up for the public to view.

Erin Krigger can be reached news@collegian.com

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Disability dialogue addresses anxiety

By Nataleah Small @NataleahJoy

In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month Colorado State University held a series of disability dialogues throughout October. The dialogues came in the form of presentations, workshops and exhibits that focused on different elements of disability in the workplace.

On Wednesday Cindy Sharpe and Sara Freeman, faculty members in the Department of Occupational Therapy, hosted the workshop “Understanding Anxiety in the Workplace and Strategies to Support Health.”

The purpose of the workshop was to provide employers and employees the necessary skills to identify, address and mitigate anxiety in the workplace.

Sharpe and Freeman said that anxiety effects 18 percent of the U.S. population and is one

of the most common mental illnesses. “(Anxiety) is a normal part of the body’s reaction to a stressor,” Freeman said.

Freeman also said that anxiety is especially prevalent among college students.

“Students identify that 80 percent of them experience anxiety in college life because it is a huge transition and there is a lot going on,” Freeman said. “So it is very normal for students to feel anxious.”

Freeman said that when a person experiences anxiety, the body’s biological response is to engage the sympathetic nervous system, better known as a fight or flight response. When this system is engaged an individual can experience many symptoms, including pupil dilation, fast and shallow breathing and increased heartbeat.

Freeman said that the

body releases a cascade of hormones,but the brain cannot tell the difference between a perceived threat and an actual threat.

In order to disengage the sympathetic nervous system an individual must engage the parasympathetic nervous system to become calm and regain their composure, Freeman said.

To address anxiety in the workplace Sharpe and Freeman offered a variety of techniques and resources to manage stress.

They suggested that individuals set aside time during the workday to de-stress. They identified exercise, tracing mandalynths, the practice of square or box breathing, yoga and group relaxation techniques as methods for reducing anxiety.

They also said that when an employee chooses to disclose their anxiety to an employer it is important that employer shows concern, supports the employee

with specific performance feedback, and help match an employee’s temperament to specific job responsibilities.

Sharpe said that it is best to be encouraging and helpful when addressing someone with anxiety. She said regardless of whether or not a coworker discloses that they have anxiety, it is important to “create a supportive environment that is open.”

Sharpe and Freeman listed a variety of apps to deal with stress in the workplace such as Calm, Breathe2Relax and Personal Zen. Freeman said she recommended these apps because they help promote mindfulness by focusing you on the moment.

For members of the CSU community Freeman specifically recommended the counseling center, the Center for Mindfulness, part of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, and You@CSU as resources to help

students de-stress and address anxiety because they are very accessible.

For more information on how to address anxiety Freeman said that students and faculty members should contact the Center for Community Partnerships, within the Department of Occupational Therapy.

To participate in the final Disability Dialogue, and learn more about the resources the university has to offer, individuals can attend the presentation, “Disability Awareness and Enhancing the Workforce Through Inclusive Practice.”

This presentation will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 26 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Lory Student Center, rooms 308 to 310.

This event will be free and open to all students, staff and faculty at the university.

Nataleah Small can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Tony Frank presents 2018 budget draft to ASCSU

By Gabriel Go @rgabrielgo

Colorado State University President Tony Frank presented a draft of the Fiscal Year 2018 Education and General budget to the Associated Students of Colorado State University on Wednesday night.

The early budget proposal is a static inflationary-only budget which assumes that state support, tuition and salaries increas only by the rate of inflation with no other change.

Because the proposal only displays the rate of inflation it is intended to serve as a “blank slate” point of discussion for future versions of the budget.

“That’s about a $19 million budget… there’s about $9 million of revenue that comes from that inflation-only tuition increase,” Frank said. “On this budget there’s about $1.4 million that comes in if the state of Colorado were to increase their funding at the inflationary level.”

Frank also discussed the budgetary consequences on financial aid if expenses were to

react only to inflation.

“There’s $4.2 million dollars in financial aid… As tuition goes up there’s a certain amount of money that goes into the financial aid pool,” Frank said.

Other models of the 2018 budget include projections for 3 percent and 5 percent increases in tuition with varying levels of state funding.

These budget models define a zero percent increase of state funding as a flat rate state funding neither increases or decreases.

According to the 3 percent tuition increase model, CSU is projected to have $26 million in revenue if state funding were to stay the same, compared to $29 million if state funding increases by 2.5 percent.

If tuition were to increase by 5 percent, CSU’s projected revenue would amount to $29 million.

“The one thing I’m confident about in all these budgets is that none of these will be the final answer we’ll come up with,” Frank said about the projected figures.

“The next step in the budget process will be that the Department

of Higher Education will turn out their recommend budget in the first week of November. That budget will have the governor’s recommendations for higher (education) funding. We’ll use that budget (which) comes out in November to refine a scenario to bring back to the (Board of Governors) this December.”

While cuts will also be made across the University’s various departments Frank assured the student senate that the administration will hold people across the University accountable for trying to game the system of cuts.

“If someone’s saying, ‘if I have to take a cut, then I’m going to eliminate four sections of this important gateway course that affect pathways to graduation ... because I know (the) university administration won’t accept it, therefore I’m going to get out of my cut,’” Frank said. “Not that anyone’s done that at Colorado State University, but we do watch pretty carefully that no one plays games with the system.”

Frank also thanked the student government for their role in

Colorado State University President Tony Frank speaks to ASCSU Senate about budgets on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016.

PHOTO BY KASEN SCHAMAUN COLLEGIAN

representing the student voice in these decisions.

“I hope what you will always hear, whether we agree with each other on every single issue or not,

what you should expect to hear from members of my administration is thanks,” Frank said.

Gabriel Go can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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News Thursday, October 20, 2016

>> DEBATE from page 1 the side of the American people not on the side of the powerful and wealthy,” Clinton said. “(The Supreme Court needs to) stand up for the rights of women, stand up for the rights of the LGBT community (and) stand up against Citizen’s United.”

Trump’s reply focused on protecting the Second Amendment and Roe v. Wade, saying that he would appoint judges who were sure to protect the Second Amendment and who were also pro-life.

Another focus was on the economic plans of the two candidates, and how they would improve the economy.

Trump said that his plan would involve a lot of free trade, and that the country would have much more free trade than it does today.

“We’re bringing our jobs back,” Trump said. “We’re going to cut taxes massively, (and) we’re going to cut business taxes massively.”

Trump continued his economic policy proposals by referencing his business.

“If we could run this country the way I’ve run my business, you would be so proud,” Trump said, adding that even Clinton would be proud of him.

Clinton had a much different plan, with hopes to keep working people from living below the poverty line and investing in the middle class.

“When the middle class thrives, America thrives,” Clinton said. “(We will) raise the minimum wage, because people who work full time should not live in poverty … (and we will) make public college debt free for fam-

ilies making less than $125,000.

We invest from the middle out, the bottom down, not the top down.”

Then, the two were asked why they are fit to be President, despite the allegations against both of them. Candidates delved into a discussion of the accusations of rape and sexual assault against Trump in the past weeks.

Trump claimed the allegations were debunked, and said he believes Clinton got them to step forward. He said if it was not her to ask them to come forward, then he claimed they came forward to get ten minutes of fame.

“Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger… (but) it’s not just about the women; he never apologizes for anything,” Clinton said in response to his denial of the accusations.

Moving on to the national debt, moderator Wallace asked why both candidates are sticking with their plans when both would increase the national debt’s percentage of the GDP from anywhere between 86 percent and 105 percent.

Trump replied by saying that he would bring the nation’s GDP up from 1 percent to 5 percent, and that he would not use political hacks to negotiate trade deals.

Clinton said her plan would not add a penny to the national debt, and that she wants to invest in the people of the country and their families.

The final question of the night involved Medicare and Social Security, and how each candidate would approach both entitlement funds running out in the 2020s.

“I’m going to cut taxes, we’re going to grow the economy, it’s

going to grow at a record rate,” Trump said.

Clinton responded by claiming she would expand benefits.

“We need to put more money in the Social Security fund… I will not cut benefits, I will improve benefits.”

Leading into the debate, Clinton led in nearly every general election poll, with leads ranging from 3 percent to 9 percent. Trump was ahead in just one of the polls compiled by RealClearPolitics, and was leading by one point.

In Colorado, a RealClearPolitics poll average had Clinton leading Trump by 8 points, 46 to 38, compared to earlier this month when they were tied at around 44 percent of likely voters each.

Election day is on Tuesday, Nov. 8. There are five Voter Service and Polling Centers in Fort Collins: Larimer County Courthouse Elks Lodge Christ Center Community Church Council Tree Covenant Church Lory Student Center at Colorado State University Other ballot drop-off locations can be found on the Larimer County website, larimer.org

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

INFOGRAPHIC BY DOUGLAS HAWKINS COLLEGIAN

25% of women college students will be sexually assaulted

20% will report to the police

>> Healing from page 3 which is in an effort to make things easier for a survivor to seek resources.”

The class meets the 30 hour training requirement for volunteers to work with sexual assault survivors, and the 15 hour requirement for volunteers to work with domestic violence survivors.

“The most impactful moment in the classroom was learning that, as an advocate, our job is not to suggest resources that we would use or that we think are best, but rather to give the victim/survivor all the resources available to them so they have the freedom of choice,” Booth said.

Volunteers with the VAT work in pairs to run the 24/7 hotline, and are available to talk, help survivors through navigating resources, and even to meet in person if the survivor requests. Although most interactions are held over the phone, the volunteers are trained to go with survivors to the hospital, the police, and to support them in any way.

The WGAC also supervises the complementary piece to the VAT, which is the violence prevention side. Staff members of the WGAC put on programs designed to teach consent, to have honest conversations about interpersonal violence, and to discuss rape-supportive culture – the culture that allows a rapist to be convicted, but not spend much time in jail in order to avoid having a significant impact on him or her.

“Why is this law okay to break and not go to jail for, but other laws aren’t?” Malsam asked.

While they have received some pushback from individuals not taking these sessions seriously, Malsam said the overwhelming majority of the work they do has been positive.

Counseling & CSU Health Network The VAT works with another confidential resource, the counseling services offered by the CSU Health Network. Paz said counseling has around 70 counselors on staff, which is a substantial number.

Students get five free counseling services before a charge is applied, and group counseling is always free.

“Counseling provides a safe place to make sense of things that don’t feel like they make a lot of sense,” Paz said.

One imperative aspect of counseling for assault survivors is allowing the survivor to take the lead on the sessions.

By taking control of when the sessions happen and what happens inside each session, the survivor can take back control of the situation, which can help in aiding recovery from a crime that took all control away from the survivor, Paz said.

“There’s a lot of empowerment that comes with that,” Paz said.

Interpersonal violence is one of the more common concerns she sees come through the doors of counseling, after very common things like anxiety and depression, Paz said. She said people often feel afraid, ashamed or embarrassed about what has happened to them. Counseling can help deal with these emotions.

Additionally, because counseling is both a confidential service and part of the CSU Health Network, records from counseling sessions are protected by confidentiality and by HIPPA. “Everything is incredibly confidential,” Paz said.

In many cases, working with survivors of interpersonal violence, Paz said counselors will refer the student to also seek help with the WGAC. There are other resources available for bystanders concerned about a situation as well. Paz recommended the Tell Someone line, which she said has seen a lot of use.

“It offers a really accessible way to communicate concerns,” she said.

Supporting Survivors All of these programs work in tandem with CSU’s REFRAME campaign, which was launched last year. This campaign has reached out to students to ‘reframe’ common misconceptions surrounding sexual violence, and has been well received by the community. The university and workers in all organizations have these programs in place to help survivors.

Overall, helping combat rape culture is a complicated issue, Booth said.

“It comes down to a lot of things,” Booth said. “More supportive faculty, greater awareness of consent, more clubs and organizations addressing the problems in their organizations, and fostering a culture of support when victims ‘come out’ as survivors of sexual violence.”

She hopes people will educate themselves about sexual assault and realize how impactful it can be on a college campus. Booth also encouraged students to seek counseling to help ensure they are getting the care they need, a sentiment echoed by Paz. “Doing this job is one of the most exhausting, draining, and sometimes disheartening activities I could be involved with,” Booth said. “Being a survivor myself, it can be triggering to hear other people’s stories and be constantly reminded of how pervasive rape is. But, knowing how necessary the work the Victim Assistance Team does is all I need to keep going when it gets hard.”

Michelle Fredrickson can be reached at news@collegian.com.

OPINION Thursday October 20, 2016

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Tougaw: Who won the third debate?

Taylor Tougaw @TTougaw

Plot twist: in a surprising turn of events,it turns out that republicans are for 2nd amendment rights and Democrats are against it. Republicans are against abortion and Democrats are for it. Trump wants to put in republican justices to the Supreme Court and Clinton wants to put in Democrats. Trump wants to build a wall to keep immigrants out, Hillary thinks that is stupid.

Here is another shocker: Trump wants to lower taxes and Clinton wants to raise them. Is any of this new to anyone? Who just read any of that and was honestly shocked? I’ll wait.

If you are familiar with boxing or MMA you will know that when two fighters come down to the last minute and nobody is the clear winner, both fighters will swing for the fences in hopes of getting that last second

knockout punch.Last night was the third and final presidential debate of the 2016 election and I expected blood. Good thing it does not matter what I want because what we got instead was the most boring three-peat of the past debates.

Do not get me wrong, I know that this makes sense for both candidates. Better to play it safe.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, that makes watching the debates (and writing a summary of who won) less exciting than it could have been. That being said, I must give major props to the moderator. The questions asked tonight were tough and he did not let either candidate slip away from them. Instead of recapping every little thing each candidate said that you already know, I am going to pick out some of my personal highlights and pick a winner at the end.

The first question was the best question. Both candidates were asked who they would fill the supreme court with (wow, a policy question!). Unsurprisingly, Trump said he would put in conservative justices and Clinton said she wants liberal

justices in there. No surprises here. What made this such an important question is that, for potentially the first time in American history, all three branches of government are up for grabs at once. The presidency and Congress can go either

Both sides had good quips and retorts, but the fact that Donald refused to say he would potentially admit defeat is too worrying to ignore. way, but whoever wins the presidency will control the makeup of the Supreme Court. This is an extremely important topic

for potential voters to consider, and I encourage each one of you to think about this during the election.

The Supreme Court question led directly to the next hard hitting question of abortion. I did not think any moderator would touch this but touch it they did. They were also asked if they would overturn Roe V. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling in favor of abortions. Again, no surprises here, but overturning a landmark Supreme Court case is no easy feat. Having the conviction to do so (or not to do so) reflects how they each think they can fill the Supreme Court.

I should jump out here and address when Secretary Clinton was asked about her recent Wikileaks scandal. Wikileaks has slowly been releasing many of Clinton’s emails which contain damaging and extremely shady practices. When asked about this Clinton did not try and address the things that Wikileaks was releasing. Instead, she tried to cover it up by saying that it is an extremely grave concern that foreign governments are hacking us and we do nothing

about it. She is totally right about that: being hacked by a foreign government should be our utmost concern. However, right now, the public wants to know what the hell she was thinking when writing some of those (borderline illegal) emails.

If her only answer is “well it is a bad thing that somebody found them,” then we have a problem.

Not a good look for Hillary.

Speaking of ‘not a good look,’ Trump was asked a tough question as well. Chris Wallace, the moderator, asked Trump “ nine women have come forward and said that you either groped them or kissed them without their consent.Why would so many different women from so many different circumstances over so many different years, why would they all in this last couple of weeks make up....”

Tough question, tough answer. To make it worse, Trump replied by saying “I don’t even know those women.” Unfortunately for Donald, he is on video in the days prior to the debate saying that those women were not attractive enough for see TOUGAW on page 9 >>

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OPINION Thursday October 20, 2016

Brust: I’m voting in this election, and you should too Allec Brust @Brustyyy

In response to my colleagues’ column “I’m Not Voting; You Shouldn’t Either” which was posted earlier last week I believe not voting is truly an inadvisable move.

First, voting is literally the only civic duty we have to the government. It is the only voice we as the people have in choosing those who run our country.

Not only that, but we have the ability to vote when many countries do not. As a woman I feel very strongly about this.

Why would you take the inkling of power you have in the future of our country away?

Second, a lot of people believe that elections only effect the presidential decision. False.

The elected party also has a huge effect on policy making and decisions in the other branches of government. For instance, if you are a republican it would be in your best interest to vote for Trump because the president is in charge of appointing supreme court justices. Since there are going to be five open supreme court seats after the upcoming election you should probably

vote to avoid a majority democrat supreme court for the rest of your life.

One issue with this election in general is that people are voting solely on their opinion of each candidate’s personality.

We all need to step back and look at the issues each candidate is going to address. For me, this means I need to set aside my biases against the candidates and focus on potential changes that will impact where I live and my own quality of life.

The election is happening.

There is nothing we can do about it at this point, except vote.

There is a lot more that defines a candidate other than their personality which a lot of uneducated voters tend to forget. If you really cannot get past either candidate’s persona, focus on the issues they will address, that is what matters. Yes, Trump is a racist, sexist, pompous idiot

and Clinton’s opinions change like the wind; that is the reality of the candidates we have to choose from, so might as well look a little deeper into what they can do for us.

DeHerrara’s explanation of how awful our selection of candidates has been this year is spot on. I too am embarrassed by the undeniable inadequacy of both candidates to run our country.

I too believe neither candidate will benefit our country. I hate the candidates. I believe Trump is a racist, xenophobic, sexist asshole. I believe Hilary Clinton is a liar and should be in prison.

I do agree with DeHerrara on multiple issues he addressed in his column. Undoubtedly, our Republican and Democrat candidates are both awful choices.

The election process failed us all this year. However, that doesn’t matter anymore; either Donald Trump or Hilary Clinton will be our next president, period.

Not voting is not a noble move. It is not smart, it is not a trendy and cool thing to do, and by not voting you are failing your country and taking away your own freedom and right to vote.

Your opinion on the candidates does not matter anymore.

The election is happening. There is nothing we can do about it at this point, except vote.

Allec Brust can be reached at opinion@collegian.com

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People canceling on you and not letting you know.

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Arguing about whether it’s hot or cold outside.

The presidential debates are over.

Ballots have been mailed but not yet delivered.

OPINION Thursday October 20, 2016

>> TOUGAW from page 7 him to grope. Not a good look for Donald.

Trump did turn this around, however, by pointing out the surprisingly untouched fact that, for all of her talk about women’s and social rights, Hillary Clinton has taken a ton of money from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, countries where gays are murdered publicly and women have next to zero rights. If she was really for social justice and women’s rights why would she accept this money? No response from Clinton.

Perhaps the most terrifying part of the night and the one we should all be paying attention to came near the end. I will put here, verbatim, what Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump: “But sir, there is a tradition in this country, in fact one of the prides of this country, is the peaceful transition of power and that no matter how hard fought a campaign is, that at the end of the campaign, that the loser concedes to the winner, not saying that you are necessarily going to be the loser or

the winner, but that the loser concedes to the winner and that the country comes together in part for the good of the country, are you saying that you are not prepared now to commit to that principle?”

And what did Trump say?

Did he say, “yes, I’ll honor the outcome”? Nope. Instead what he said was “what I’m saying now is I will tell you at the time.

I will keep you in suspense, okay?”

This could be one of the most potentially horrifying things that has ever come out of a pre-militaristic coup-leader’s mouth since Leon Trotsky was ice-picked. Clinton was right to point out how terrifying this sentiment could be.

This debate was the same old same old that we have seen.

Both sides had good quips and retorts but the fact that Donald refused to say he would potentially admit defeat is too worrying to ignore.

I give this one to Hillary.

Taylor Tougaw can be reached at opinion@collegian. com

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Hayden Hunt going beyond the punt

By Eric Wolf @Eric_Wolf5

Coming into 2016 there were plenty of question marks surrounding the Colorado State football team. The punter was not one of them.

Everybody knows Hayden Hunt can punt. That is what happens when a runner up finishes for the 2015 Ray Guy award after a season in which he downed 24 punts inside the 20 while holding up a 46-yard average.

He has come to be known as “a weapon” because of what he is able to do in the field position game. It is enough for a punter to stand out so much that he gets a nickname like that, but for a punter to have an impact on a season quite like Hunt has had this season well, that is unheard of.

Kicking wise, Hunt’s numbers do not quite match last year’s output, but he is still one of the nation’s best. Hunt was named the Ray Guy punter of the week in the Football Bowl Subdivision for his effort last week in Boise when Hunt punted seven times for a 43.9-yard average and downed four of this punts inside the Boise State 20-yard line.

“His ability to punt and flip the field is always huge (in a) field position game when you are playing a team like Boise last week,” coach Mike Bobo said.

“Being able to flip it constantly and pin them inside the 20. I don’t care how good of an offense you are, if you have to go that far you are going to usually make some mistakes.”

“The weapon” came into the game to help out his defense with his usual punting prowess, but it is what Hunt was able to do at the end of the game that really stood out.

Recovering an onside kick is improbable and recovering two in-a-row might as well be impossible, but it is exactly what the Rams were able to do on Saturday night because of Hunt’s foot.

“He went one of the best onside kicks we had ever seen on Friday,” Bobo said of Hunt practicing the onside kicks. “We usually practice it both ways, but he hit such a good one Friday that we were like, alright that’s it, go to the next drills. And then low and behold we have to kick two of them on Saturday.”

“Looking back at it now, I’ve hit a lot of those hits in practice and I have worked a lot on them,” Hunt said. “It obviously pays off when you put in hard work. Like my dad always says, people aren’t lucky. The harder you practice the harder you work the luckier you get and it worked out that way.”

Hunt’s not ignorant, he

Colorado State University punter Hayden Hunt (49) winds up to punt the ball against Colorado on Friday, Sept. 3, 2016.

PHOTO BY KEEGAN POPE COLLEGIAN

knows a lot of things have to happen perfectly with the kick and after the kick to recover it.But he is a guy who is pretty confident in his onside ability, and it showed on Saturday, when he almost single handedly put the Rams in a position to win that game.

The Rams would not recover the third one, and if there had to be a fourth one, well the team would be out of luck, because as Hunt said. “You never prepare to kick three onsides in a game, let alone four.”

The team just happened to have the right number ready to go on Saturday.

And then you add in the fact that Hunt is fourth in the team in yards per carry at 6.0, and leads the team in passing efficiency and completion percentage all of that production coming on fake punts.

For the year, Hunt is two-fortwo on fake punt conversions.

He said he has been nervous on two punts in his life: his first punt in a bowl game and his first one at CSU. Those are easy for him.

Fakes, not so much.

The pass came in the fourth quarter against Minnesota with the CSU offense desperately in need of a spark. Trailing 34-17

and facing fourth-and-five from the CSU 30, Hunt hit safety Braylin Scott over the middle for a 29yard gain. The Rams would go on to finish that drive with a touchdown to pull within seven, but ultimately lose the game 31-24.

“The first one, throwing the ball I felt a lot more comfortable.” Hunt said. “All I have to do is fake the punt and throw the ball, it’s a five-yard dump pass.”

The run came with the Rams facing a fourth-and-six from their own 39-yard line trailing Utah State 21-10 in the second quarter. After picking up the first down Hunt would have to come out later in the drive after the offense could not keep the ball moving. This time though, the Rams would go on to win the game.

Everyone knew he could punt, and Hunt himself had talked up his arm before this season started, but the run probably came as a surprise to some.

“That was a little more sketchy for me just because of the design of the play where you know the punter is trying to outrun guys who run 4.3’s or 4.4’s (40-yard dash times),” Hunt said.

“So that was a little different. It wasn’t the touchdown that we

wanted to get but it worked out great. I was nervous as hell for that run play.”

“I’d be lying if I said I was not nervous for those two fakes just because it was a totally different situation,” Hunt continued. “I know I’m an athlete but when you are on the field with guys who are the athletes of athletes, it is a little bit different. Punting is fun, easy, no stress. Fakes are a little different.”

For the record Hunt does not know how fast his forty time truly is, he is just hoping it falls under the five-second range.

But Hunt was a big story for the Rams coming into the season, and with that came Ray Guy expectations, yet somehow, he has been able to raise his profile even higher; pretty good for a kicker.

“I wasn’t expecting this kind of challenge for this year,” Hunt said. “Just for myself in general and offseason I’m like ‘I got to have a better year of punting, just a better year of punting to make our team more successful.’ It turned out that God gave a different path where I have to convert fake punts and do onsides.”

For Hunt it was nice to get an

opportunity to go out and contribute even more to the team.

It was an opportunity he never had before. Hunt said that when former special teams coordinator Jeff Hammerschmidt was in charge, “he kept the fakes far away from me.”

Maybe Hunt’s just trying to show Hammerschmidt what he was missing out on in all of this.

And Hunt said he is not done. There are a few more onside possibilities and “fake punts in the bag” that just might be brought out at some point this season.

“I really enjoyed the opportunity that I have to bring a new element that can help our team win,” Hunt said. “I think it has helped our team win or just change momentum. (It’s) just a new weapon, a new type of thing that the other team has to look for than just a guy punting. I’ll take every opportunity there is to get our team in a better position to win.”

And, do not worry, at the end of the day he still wants to be the best punter in the country. That is the priority.

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

SPORTS Thursday October 20, 2016

Opponent spotlight:

UNLV Rebels

By Eric Wolf @Eric_Wolf5

UNLV Runnin’ Rebels (3-4, 2-1 MW) All time series: CSU leads 15-6-1 The Colorado State Rams head to Las Vegas on Saturday to take on a UNLV team that can boast something this season that the Rams cannot: two wins in conference play. The game is shaping up to be pivotal for two teams vying for postseason play as a win in this game puts either team just two games out of a bowl berth, but coach Mike Bobo’s main focus is still putting together a four-quarter football game. Another shot comes Saturday.

“We are looking forward to putting together a complete game,” Bobo said during Monday’s game week press conference. “Everybody understands what’s out there if you win X numbers of games, but that’s something that we won’t be talking about as a program.”

Offense: The Rebels started the year with former Nebraska Cornhusker and juco transfer Johnny Stanton at quarterback, but after an injury sidelined the junior in the team’s week four win over Idaho, the Rebels turned to redshirt freshman Dalton Sneed. In his first career start in the team’s week five win against Fresno State, Sneed threw for 129 yards and one touchdown, and showed he had some ability with his legs, running for 147 yards and a 91-yard touchdown that went down as the longest in school history.

Though Stanton is now healthy and ready to return, Sneed will remain the starter.

For the season Sneed has thrown for 423 yards and three touchdowns on 30-56 passing, while running for 264 yards on 38 attempts.

The UNLV offense runs through a ground attack that ranks third in the run-heavy Mountain West conference at 247.7 yards-per-game. The two-headed threat in sophomore Lexington Thomas and freshman Charles Williams lead that rushing attack. Thomas ranks fifth in the conference with 601 total rushing yards to go along with eight touchdowns, while Williams has spelled Thomas effectively, running for 419 yards on 72 carries.

“They have a very good offense,” Bobo said on Monday.

“They know how to run the ball, they do a lot of run-pass options,

they have been scoring a lot of points, so it will be a big challenge for us defensively.”

Deep threat Devonte Boyd returns on the outside for the Rebels. Boyd was a preseason first team All-Mountain West selection and so far, he is living up to that billing. Boyd has caught 26 balls for 421 yards, good for 16.2-yards per reception, along with four touchdowns.

Defense: The UNLV defense returned eight defensive starters from one of the worst statistical defenses in the conference last season. The Rebels have certainly improved defensively since last season but still rank eighth in the conference in scoring defense at 30.9 points per game. On average the Rebels give up 163 yards per game on the ground and 250.4 through the air.

Last season the Rebels were one of the worst teams in all of college football in getting to the passer, as the team finished the season with only nine total sacks.

This year, nine different players on the Rebel defense have recorded at least one sack, while the team as a whole has eleven sacks through seven games.

The rebels defense runs through the linebacker corps, especially through the senior duo of weakside linebacker Tau Lotulelei and middle linebacker Ryan McAleenan. McAleenan is the most experienced returning player on the UNLV roster with 27 career starts and he ranks third on the team with 50 total tackles.

Lotulelei leads the team with 61 total tackles to go along with 8.5 tackles-for-loss and 1.5 sacks. “(Defensively) I see guys understanding what they are trying to do,” Bobo said of the UNLV defense this season. “(They are) playing with a little more confidence, and playing more aggressive in the run game. Their Will linebacker (Lotulelei), I think he is a really really good football player.”

Senior safeties Kenny Keys and Troy Hawthorne have also played big roles for the Rebel defense this season. Hawthorne sits second on the team in total tackles with 59, and has one of the three Rebel interceptions this season, while Keys is fourth on the team in tackles with 32.

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

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Freshmen maturing fast for CSU volleyball

By Michael Roley @michael_roley

It was well-documented in preseason camp that the CSU volleyball team would be young and reliant on several freshman to make sizable contributions.

Fast-forward 18 matches, and the class listed next to their names on the roster still reads “freshman,” but the rate at which several of them have adjusted to the collegiate game, combined with the impact they have had, is one of several main reasons why the Rams are currently 7-0 in Mountain West conference play heading into tonight’s away match against San Jose State.

Head coach Tom Hilbert has mentioned how much freshman setter Katie Oleksak has matured in her decision-making since the first few weeks of the season. Oleksak sits fourth in the NCAA, averaging 11.72 assists per set and has directed a Rams attack that is fifth in the nation in hitting percentage at .305.

But, beyond Oleksak, several other youngsters have accelerated the maturation process and are doing a lot to aide CSU in its pursuit of another conference championship. Olivia Nicholson

is hitting .290 and averaging 2.28 kills per set while also tallying 1.83 digs per set.

In her first two collegiate matches, Nicholson hit .562 with nine kills and nine digs in the opener against North Dakota State, and then followed it up the next night with a double-double consisting of 12 kills and 13 digs against St. Mary’s.

Defensive specialist Amanda Young has been making strides, which became most visible when she recorded a season-best 10 digs in a win over UNLV on Oct. 8. And, middle blocker Paulina Hougaard-Jensen, who has played sporadically so far this season, provided a nice lift with eight kills and four blocks in a sweep over San Jose State on Sept. 24.

“What’s important in the college game has come to them very quickly,” Hilbert said. “That primarily revolves around them reading things better, adjusting to the speed, and keeping errors down. Those three things are what they’re doing.”

Young stated that the biggest obstacle she had to overcome was indeed the speed at which the game is played, and the promptness she needed to react

Colorado State University Freshman Olivia Nicholson (3) gets ready to return a serve against Nevada.

PHOTO BY KASEN SCHAMAUN COLLEGIAN

with on defense.

For fans, it may come as a surprise to see these first-year players mature quickly in a short amount of time. But, for the players, it might have just been

a natural occurrence and a result of the upward trajectory the team has been on since the commencement of conference play on Sept. 22.

“It’s just something where

you adapt as you go I guess,” Young said. “Sometimes you don’t even realize the growth that’s occurring as you’re playing.

We came back after not playing see VOLLEYBALL on page 16 >>

AMERICA’’S RACIAL KARMA Coming through the Mists of Ignorance Larry Ward, PhD & Peggy Rowe, PhD

Thursday, October 20 Lory Student Center, Room 382 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm An evening addressing America’s legacy of racial promise and dysfunction from a unique, relevant and powerful perspective based on mindfulness practice and Buddhist Psychology. Join in and explore our cultural conditioning and the paths to healing and transformation. Drs Ward and Rowe are senior teachers in Zen Master and activist Thich Nhat Hanh’s Community for Mindful Living.\ This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Sponsored by the Zen Club at CSU with funding from ASCSU and Peaceful Heart Sangha

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Soccer looks to play spoiler in final home weekend

By Colin Barnard @ColinBarnard_

Make no mistake about it, CSU soccer has plenty of fight left in them. Behind the leadership of head coach Bill Hempen and the attitude of the entire Rams team, the club believes they still have much to prove in

the remaining three games of the 2016 season.

Last weekend was not kind to the Rams as the injury bug that has already forced Janelle Stone and Alex Lanning to miss time late in the season struck once again with injuries to Hannah Gerdin and Beth Plentl.

Colorado State University Kaija Ornes (11) dribbles the ball down the field in the game vs. UNC earlier this season. PHOTO BY RYAN ARB COLLEGIAN

Despite dropping both matches CSU’s goal has not wavered in the slightest. That same mental fortitude has trickled throughout the program and keeps the team focused on the task at hand.

“We still have something to prove to ourselves,” Hempen said. “I’ve had the conversation with our captains about it and our captains want to play to win.”

Although conference tournament aspirations are bleak the Rams can still have quite an impact on the Mountain West Conference. The second place San Diego State Aztecs kick off the weekend on Friday afternoon.

The defending regular season

MWC champions and preseason favorites come into Fort Collins looking to jump UNLV for first place in the conference. After a slow start, the Aztecs heated up in conference play and come in having earned points in seven of their eight conference matches.

Sunday’s matchup against New Mexico is a crucial game for MWC standings as the Lobos sit two points behind the Wyoming Cowgirls for the sixth and final spot in the conference tournament. With the current tournament teams separated by just seven points, the Rams have the ability to make some serious noise this weekend.

“I told the kids that we can still have an impact on the conference,” Hempen said.

“Whether it’s people getting in, not getting in, where they’re seeded in the conference. So we can have a say.”

The other driving force for the remainder of the season is a personal one for the Rams.

History has not fared well against their three remaining opponents (San Diego State, New Mexico and Wyoming).

They have the ability to reverse that trend this weekend.

“We have zero results against those teams,” Hempen see SOCCER on page 16 >>

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>> VOLLEYBALL from page 14 in Moby for a while and it’s like ‘Wow we got a lot better in the short time we were on the road.’

I know I feel a lot more comfortable on the court than I did at the beginning of the year.”

Hilbert said that they have been working diligently with Young on her defensive technique. Similarly to any freshman in that position, she has had a tendency to become eager and charge at balls.

She undoubtedly had her best match of her young college career against UNLV in helping CSU lock down an important win over the Rebels. The key to her success that night, Hilbert said, was patience.

“We’ve been working with Amanda for a long time on some defensive technique things and not charging at balls,” Hilbert said. “I think she stayed back and was patient against them (UNLV). Once it happens one time you figure out ‘I don’t have to charge in to make plays. I can stay back and watch the game.’”

Staying patient certainly helped, but Young also said she got a pep-talk from senior libero and back row mate Cassidy Denny, who walked in her shoes three years ago when she started at defensive specialist as a freshman. Coincidently, Denny recorded her season-high for digs her freshman year with 15 against UNLV too.

“Cassidy has been very supportive,” Young said. “She was talking to me before the match and she told me how proud she was of my hard work. And she said ‘I know you’re going to have

a big match and in my freshman year the match against UNLV was my season high for digs’ and that just sat with me.”

CSU began the season with a bit of a rocky start, at least by their standards with a 6-5 record in non-conference play that included a four-match skid in early September. The Rams seem to have found a rhythm now though, winning seven straight to begin conference play.

For both Young and Nicholson, who are both from Nebraska, the matches where things really started to click came at different times. For Young it was after the CU match, Nicholson the four-set win over UNLV. “For me personally, I think the match where it all came together was UNLV,” Nicholson said. “I finally saw our hard work, our defense, and our competitiveness show up and I think that set a high standard for the rest of conference play and that we can compete at that level.

During that fourth set, the competitiveness and intensity from everyone on that court and on the bench was incredible.”

“I think the match where it clicked and we had to stop using the excuse of being young was after the CU match,” Young said. “We got done with that and it was like ‘Yeah we put up a good fight but we’re not getting the results we want.’ After the match we came into practice every day and the culture in the gym was different and since then it has gotten a lot better.”

Michael Roley can be reached at sports@collegian.com

>> SOCCER from page 15 said. “We’ve only lost to them.

So we still have the opportunity to do something that we haven’t ever done before.”

On top of that, the team is still capable of their best finish in conference play to date. Sitting at four points, the Rams are one win away from recording their most conference points in a season and two wins from achieving their best overall record.

In order to accomplish that, the team will continue to rely on the leadership and resilience from its six seniors. Entering the final home games of their college career, that headship figures to

be on full display when they take the field Friday.

“In conversation with them, they are steadfast,” Hempen said. “I’m grateful to all of those kids. All of them have special spots in my heart, mostly because…they never really wavered. Their spirits are high, their integrity is unbelievable. If all else fails, we are gonna try our rear-ends off and no one is ever gonna have a cake walk against us.”

The final weekend at home begins on Friday Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. at Lagoon Field against San Diego State.

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

CU Buffs’ Alex Kelley stepping up after challenging offseason

By Brian Howell

Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.

Despite starting every game during the 2014 and 2015 seasons and being a leader on a roster full of veterans, Alex Kelley’s job was hardly secure coming into the year.

Seven games into the season, Colorado’s senior center is having his best season and solidifying a much improved offensive line for the Buffaloes (5-2, 3-1 Pac-12), who visit Stanford (4-2, 2-2) on Saturday.

“He’s done an excellent job with us this year,” CU head coach Mike MacIntyre said.

“He and the quarterback are the key to us going fast. He is able to get us up there, get the calls out quick, see it and go with it. Alex has played really well for us.”

A fifth-year senior from Oceanside, Calif., Kelley started all 25 games the previous two years, but was challenged in the offseason by offensive line coach Klayton Adams to get better.

“This last year and last offseason was pretty rough for me; just a few family things and a few different issues,” Kelley said. “But, (Adams) really challenged me and I kind of had to just buckle down. I realized I have one more guaranteed season of football left. My goals and dreams are still out there to go try to play pro, but I was kind of at a pass -- I could slip away and not be able to reach those goals or I could continue to persevere and try to reach those.”

CU had no shortage of options if Kelley could not step up.

Senior Sully Wiefels was ready to battle for the starting job.

The Buffs love the potential of redshirt freshman Tim Lynott -- who has been starting at right guard this season. Even junior

guard Jonathan Huckins gave center a shot and impressed Adams with how well he did.

“Going out there and realizing that I have to bring 110 percent every practice, that really helped me become what I am today and helps me become better every day,” Kelley said.

With the Buffs going to a more up-tempo offense, they needed the 6-foot-2, 310-pound Kelley to be in better shape.

The Buffs also needed him to be more consistent with his snaps, because there were times last year when Kelley would almost skip his shot-gun snaps back to the CU quarterbacks, who had to lean down to pick up the ball. A couple of times, the quarterback went to a knee to pick it up, causing a negative-yardage play.

“The center’s first and foremost job out of anything is to get the ball to the quarterback,” said Kelley, whose father, Karry, lettered four times as a CU lineman from 1976-79. “When you can’t do that, doubt starts to creep in your mind.”

There’s no longer any doubt.

Kelley is in better shape and he’s been consistent with his snaps.

“I’ve dropped down a few more pounds from last year, and I actually changed up my snapping style,” he said. “That kind of came out of necessity. I messed up one of my fingers on my snapping hand during fall camp, and I kind of grew used to it and I got really good at it, and everything has been good. I haven’t really had any mishaps.”

Seeing Kelley play well is satisfying for MacIntyre, who knows how much Kelley means to the Buffs, and how much the Buffs mean to him.

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said. “Off the field, the type of person he is, the type of charisma he has and he has that infectious love for CU. That’s extremely important, especially as we’ve been trying to build this. As we keep building it, he’s a big, important part of that.”

Last year, the Buffs had a bit of a revolving door at offensive line, mostly due to injuries, and that was a big factor in the team struggling up front.

This year, the Buffs have used some line rotations to their benefit.

“As many plays and as fast as we play, if they get worn down, we’re not going to be effective,” MacIntyre said. “When you can play guys that have played a lot and be able to rotate in some and not miss a beat, which we haven’t, that’s good.”

In a 40-16 win against Arizona State on Saturday, the Buffs used Huckins for 24 snaps at guard to give Gerrad Kough and Lynott some rest. Huckins also played 28 snaps in relief during a victory against Oregon State.

“When we can rotate him, that keeps us fresher,” MacIntyre said. “Those guards, we pull them a lot, and if we can keep them fresh, they pull better, they stay on the blocks better, they get around quicker.”

Aaron Haigler, who has played 215 snaps this year at tackle, will miss his second game in a row with a knee injury. The Buffs hope to have him back for the UCLA game on Nov. 3.

Stanford has a 6-3 edge in the series with the Buffs, including 3-0 since CU joined the Pac12 in 2011.

From 2011-15, the Buffs were 3-17 against the Pac-12 North division, but they are 2-0 against the North this season.

Briefs from McClatchy Tribune

ARTS & CULTURE Thursday October 20, 2016

The last presidential debate: What really mattered

By Morgan Smith @MDSFilms

As I settled into my pajamas, assembled my routine dinner of day-old, half-empty sprite and a mostly-empty bag of weekold tortilla chips and prepared to write a Collegian article on the third presidential debate, I thought to myself, “how is it even possible that I’m still single?”

Donald Trump looked significantly frightened when he walked on stage and found himself face to face with his worst nightmare: the stay-puft marshmallow man with a blonde mom haircut. Trump had a significant hurdle to climb in this debate considering that FiveThirtyEight gave him a 12.6% chance to win the election. But we all remember the famous Star Wars quote, “never tell me the odds, because they’re rigged by elitist left media, wrong, wrong, bigly wrong.”

Trump only sniffed a few times this debate so either he got off the cocaine in anticipation of the drug test he called for, or his campaign has run itself into the ground so hugely and tremendously that an orange brother cannot even score a hit of blow from the soon-to-be walled borders to Latin America.

America’s darling Ken Bone seems to have failed in his mission from God to quell

Donald Trump talks to members of the media, directing them to show how many people are in attendance at a rally in the Budweiser Event Center on Oct. 3, 2016. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT JERGE COLLEGIAN

the violent rhetoric of the debates. Trump just got more and more vicious while Hillary sat back, staring into the audience and daydreaming about finally finishing the advent calendar counting down to the presidency she made while still in the womb.

Chris Wallace really laid down the law at the beginning of the debate when he told the audience not to make any noise and to be respectful of the position one of the candidates will soon occu-

Hillary Clinton addresses a crowd after becoming the Democratic nominee. PHOTO BY NEALL DENMAN COLLEGIAN

py. We were all then immediately treated to a super-bowl style montage of Trump and Clinton delivering their essentially patented insults at each other over inspirational fight music.

My roommate and I decided that Hillary must wake up late at night screaming and sweating, saying, “I’M NOT WRONG. I’M NOT. YOU’RE WRONG, DONALD,” then proceeds to get a tall glass of milk from the fridge by her private server (like we all do).

Trump also drank a whole lot of water during the debate, and if I’ve learned anything from all of the free restaurant water I nervously drink on dates when I have nothing to say, Trump himself must be in some hot water. At least he will go back to normal two years from now, and when reporters ask him about the election, he will just smile his charming smile and say, “what election? I never did that. That’s been debunked.”

The funniest thing about this article is that, in our pop-media hungry world, these little details are actually what mattered.

The truth of either candidates’ statements makes no difference to anyone anymore. Only headlines, insults and rumors can convince voters. These debates are just the equivalent of two professors trying to teach one class at the same time, except neither of them say anything, only pander to their sides.

Morgan Smith can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com

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The freshman negative 15 is a real thing at CSU

By Grayson Jestice @graysonjestice

Food is essential for survival and there is a plethora of options at the CSU dining halls.

The food is available so why not eat as much as you possibly can before you get sick? Those who believe in the idea of the “Freshman 15” may find this surprising, but there are students that have limited themselves to a certain amount of meals and are losing or maintaining their weight due to diets, nutrition plans or severe laziness that prohibits them to get up and go eat. This phenomenon is taking shape as the “Freshmen Negative 15.”

An important part of the college experience as a first year or freshman student is eating at the dining halls on campus. Freshmen sign up for a specific meal plan and can take advantage of

the food provided by the University or they can choose not to use all of their meal swipes.

The myth that college freshmen gain fifteen pounds when they first come to college seems like it does not apply at CSU.

“I am on the 14 meal plan per week and I usually have like two meals leftover,” said Chance Wright, a first year student

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studying business.

Wright does not use all of his meal swipes because he is working on maintaining his current physical appearance and does not want any uneasy calories in his new diet. But, Wright did say his favorite thing in the dining hall is the unlimited chocolate milk.

“I am on the 21 meal plan, and I use all of my meal swipes, sometimes going to the express.

I try to eat as much as I can,” said Matt Green, a first year student also studying business.

Green enjoys eating the Mexican food and the items from the Mongolian Grill. He likes to enjoy the vegan options that are provided in the dining halls, and the only time he did not use all of his meal swipes was when his mother came to visit and she took him out to dinner.

Although he uses all of his meal swipes Green said, “I have maintained my weight since I started college.”

Has the Freshmen Fifteen become a myth, or do we just happen to attend one of the healthiest colleges with the most outdoor activity and exercise options in the country?

Cameron Wolf, a first year student studying construction management, said he enjoys consuming the Szechuan wings and the mini corn dogs that the dining halls provide for the students. Wolf looks forward to eating these foods after he finishes a long, hard day of being an adult with actual responsibilities. Wolf is on the 21 meals a week plan.

“I usually have a couple swipes left at the end of each week,” Wolf said. “I feel like I have lost weight. My pants are getting looser from all the walking around between classes.”

The myth that college freshmen gain fifteen pounds when they first come to college seems like it does not apply at CSU. The majority of students are constantly walking, biking, playing sports, lifting weights, running, swimming, hiking and stressing out, so all of the fat and calories that are consumed that day are quickly burned off because of the rigorous activities that go along with being perfect students attending a healthy and happy school.

Grayson Jestice can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com

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ARTS & CULTURE Thursday, October 20, 2016

Local Oktoberfeststyle beers and where to get them

By Max Sundberg @jmaxsun

With nights getting colder and the colors outside changing, its time to say goodbye to Summer and hello to Fall in Fort Collins.

For beer lovers, that means Oktoberfest.

The Front Range of Colorado has been referred to as the “Napa Valley of beer.” Yet, with most breweries in the area primarily producing American style ales, variety still abounds.

Every fall, many of our local breweries adhere to a very old German tradition by brewing a Märzen, or Oktoberfest style lager.

The typical Oktoberfest contains roughly 5.0-6.0 percent alcohol by volume, is dark copper in color, has a mild hop profile.

The Oktoberfest festivals and the Märzen style not only serve to celebrate the Fall season, but also allow breweries around the world to showcase their take on the centuries old style.

Its Bavarian origins can be traced back to before the 16th century.

With so many breweries in the area making their own unique versions, it can be difficult to choose the right beer to celebrate the Fall season.

That said, here are a few of our top picks for local Oktoberfest style beers: Fort Collins Brewery Oktoberfest This beer was the 2015 recipient of a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival. It has a clear copper body, with flavors of toffee, caramel and sourdough, with a sweet and bready aroma.

It has an ABV of 6.0 percent, and is available from August until the end of October. According to the brewery’s website, it pairs well with a grilled bratwurst, as all Oktoberfest beers would.

Left Hand Brewing Company Oktoberfest Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing offers an Oktoberfest with toasty malt flavors up front, with a spicy, yet clean finish. It has a glowing orange-amber color with and aromas of toasted bread and a hint of sweetness and light hop herbalness. At an ABV of 6.6 percent, it has a creamy mouth feel and a characteristic Okto-

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berfest biscuity all around flavor.

Odell Brewing Company Oktoberfest Odell Brewing Company’s Oktoberfest pours a clear, bright red bronze color. It has a malty aroma, but more of a hop kick than the traditional Oktoberfest. The beer has a traditionally malty up front flavor, with an untraditionally hoppy bitter finish. Like the others, it has a strong bready flavor that is characteristic of an Oktoberfest. This beer sits at an ABV of 6.1 percent.

All of these beers may be found in most Fort Collins liquor stores.

The Oktoberfest style has its roots in a festive celebration that was established in October of 1810 by Prince Ludwig of Bavaria.

In an unprecedented act for nobility of the time, Ludwig invited the general public to join in celebration of his marriage.

Some 40,000 Bavarians attended.

Since then, the annual tradition has evolved into a celebration of the Fall season and the traditional Oktoberfest style beer.

The annual celebration of Oktoberfest takes place on the first week of October in Munich, Germany, but smaller celebrations are also held around the world, including last month’s Fortoberfest here in Fort Collins.

Max Sundberg can be reached at news@collegian.com

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Halloween costumes to throw together in less than an hour

By Ashley Potts @11smashley

Finding the perfect Halloween costume can be hard. Some people start planning in July and have everything figured out down to the most specific details. But, for most college students, that is usually not the case. Between homework, projects, midterms, eating and sleeping, costume planning gets put on the back burner.

Here are ten super simple ideas for costumes you can throw together quickly with things you probably already own: Zombie This Halloween classic can be thrown together relatively quickly. All you need is a white t-shirt and red paint or markers. Do your best to recreate blood spatter on the shirt. You can also rip it a little for dramatic effect. You can get really creative with this idea as well.

You can be a zombie doctor, a zombie ballerina, a zombie princess or whatever you have on hand. And, if you are well versed in special effects, get out the makeup and create fake wounds and bruises to really scare your friends. To complete the outfit, mess up your hair, get your face a little messy and maybe wear some ripped jeans or tights. You can also add fake

blood around your mouth and walk around moaning about brains for the night.

Burglar If you have a striped shirt laying around somewhere, you are already halfway done with this costume. Pair the shirt with black pants and shoes. Find a plain bag and paint or tape on a big money sign so it is clear you mean business. If you have time, you can even create a black mask to hide your identity using felt or some other black fabric.

Charlie Brown or Linus Everyone knows Charlie Brown and Linus love Halloween. To be Charlie, find a yellow t-shirt and add his telling black zig-zags to the middle using black paint or duct tape. This look can be completed with shorts and loafers. If Linus is more your style go for a red t-shirt with thin black stripes. Pull it together by messing up your face a bit and carrying around your security blanket for the night. Bonus points for turning this into a group costume.

Scarecrow Everyone has a flannel in their closet (or two, or ten…).

Put one on and button it up for instant scarecrow vibes. Pair it with jeans or overalls and a good pair of boots. This costume really benefits from faux stitches and

patches makeup done with eyeliner and maybe some exaggerated rosy cheeks. If you have an extra minute, find a straw hat, add some straw fringe for effect and maybe a decorative crow if you are not the scariest of scarecrows.

Between homework, projects, midterms, eating and sleeping, sometimes costume planning gets put on the back burner. Here are ten super simple ideas for costumes you can throw together quickly with things you probably already own.

Wind up Doll You are bound to be the only one in this costume even though it is so easy to create. Dress up in your best toy doll attire, be it a dress and tights or a suit and tie. Cut the iconic shape out of cardboard, and fix it to your outfit with tape, glue or safety pins.

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Add some spooky makeup to take this costume to the next level because dolls can go from cute to creepy real fast.

Beanie Baby This is the perfect spin on the typical animal costume. Take those animal ears and add a simple heart-shaped tag made from cardboard to make for something super cuddly. Paint your cardboard heart red and add “ty” in white for a blast from the past. It is versatile enough to fit any animal costume you can think of or even your dog if you are so inclined.

Garden Gnome A basic blue t-shirt and red construction paper can create the perfect garden gnome. Make a cone out of red paper and wear it on your head. A plain blue shirt will do or you can get creative and add a belt with a big buckle in front. Take it one step further and adorn your costume with cotton balls for a beard and big bushy eyebrows. Stand still in the lawn and maybe no one will notice you.

Strawberry, Pineapple or Carrot This costume was very popular last Halloween and for good reason. Green construction paper and a headband arranged like a stem can turn any plain t-shirt into your favorite fruit. Wear it with a red shirt to be a strawberry, a yellow shirt

to be a pineapple or even an orange shirt to be a carrot. Small details like black seeds or triangles for texture can be added as well so no one will have to ask what you are. You can go for a dress, an oversized shirt, or a regular everyday tee for this costume, so hopefully it will not cost you much.

Cactus Along the same lines, you can turn a green t-shirt into the perfect cactus costume.

Fix some white yarn strands to make yourself look pokey. You can add pink and yellow yarn pom poms as well to make it look like you are blooming. This look is best achieved with a long sleeve so that you can pose your arms in perfect cactus form for your Halloween photo. If you’re really ambitious, you can even continue the look with green sweatpants and become a full saguaro.

“She doesn’t even go here!”

How many “Mean Girls” jokes can you make before it gets old?

The limit does not exist. Find a plain hoodie, and pull it tight over your head. Add some sunglasses, and you are set. Make yourself a sign with white paper and a sharpie so you do not have to scream the line over and over again.

Ashley Potts can be reached at news@collegian.com

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Halloween night: then vs. now

By Camila Nadalet @camnadalet

When you are a child a lot of things excite you. From birthdays to new friends to puppies, it seems like children are always able to find some bit of positivity and happiness in everything.

Throw in a new costume and candy and you have one crazy, sugared-up, excited child.

Halloween as a kid was always one of the most fun and thrilling days of the year. It is a day where you get to dress up as the princess or superhero you know yourself to be at heart and go knocking at strangers’ doors accepting the candy they give you. Additionally, Halloween is that magical night in which mom and dad all of a sudden seem to not care anymore about sugar intake despite how much craziness is about to ensue because of it.

“The best part of Halloween for me was dressing up and going out with all my friends to collect candy,” said Christine Provencher, a Fort Collins res-

ident. “Afterwards, we would compare candy to see who got the most and the best, and then we’d just pig out until we felt like we were going to throw up.”

Watching a child on Halloween is pure happiness and innocence. Despite how heavy their bags get with candy or how far past their bedtimes it is, there is nothing but joy within their hearts for the fact that this is a wonderful night.

As we leave childhood in the dust and begin to grow up the very definition of Halloween changes. We reach an age where dressing up is not as cool anymore, holding mommy’s hand walking down the street is repulsing and, though deep down we still all want to trick-or-treat, we are simply too old to be able to get away with it.

So what is one to do on Halloween if not trick-or-treat and eat their weight in candy? Party and drink their weight in alcohol. Or, at least that seems to be the most widely known college expectation for Halloween.

Provencher said that Halloween has become “an excuse to party in as minimal amount of clothing as possible and not get judged for it.”

In college a lot of Halloween is about the partying, and the innocence that we grew up with is taken away. Now, instead of competing to see who has collected the most candy, it is who can throw the best party, who can get the most wasted without passing out or who has the least cliché of the slutty costumes.

This is not to say, however, that all college students have to go out and get trashed or have to dress inappropriately just because it is Halloween. There are some students that are not all about the party scene and prefer to do things a little bit differently.

Regardless of what you prefer to do with your Halloween as an adult, there is no doubt that things have changed since you were a little one. Even though the evolution of Halloween from childhood to now gets a generally positive reaction, there is

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something a little bittersweet about it, and there is no one to say whether one version of Halloween is better than the other because they are both fun and

exciting. What most people can agree on, though, is that they are both just undeniably different.

Camila Nadalet can be reached at news@collegian.com

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Nataleah and the Nation: Clowns

By Nataleah Small @NataleahJoy

In recent weeks, “creepy clowns” have been sighted across the country. There have been reports of clowns luring children into wooded areas, brandishing machetes in front of apartment complexes, wandering the streets both day and night, writing threatening Facebook posts, stalking school children and inciting fear in the hearts and minds of people they meet.

What may have started as a prank has grown into a national pandemic. According to the Coloradoan there have been reported incidences of clown sightings in twenty states since early September. Schools, news outlets and public officials have issued warnings about this unusual phenomenon, urging people to stay safe and be on the look-out for suspicious activity.

Although the majority of clown sightings have been labeled as pranks, they are no laughing matter. When people see news reports about clowns imaginations drift toward Halloween, serial-killers, horror films and nightmares. According to the BBC masked figures are unsettling because we are unable to read the individual’s body language or discern their true intent. This is what Sigmund Freud labeled as “uncanny:” something recognizable,

but slightly off, that makes the viewer feel uncomfortable.

With Halloween less than three weeks away people are terrified, and their fears are totally justifiable.

Although the celebration of Halloween is a national glorification of death, fear and the artwork of Tim Burton, it is widely considered a tame, friendly holiday. Children dress up as Disney characters, college students dress up as sexy versions of Disney characters and parents distribute candy while wondering how much longer Frozen’s Anna and Elsa will dominate the costume section of Party City. To top it off, November 1st is national half-price candy day (talk about non-threatening). Therefore, although this holiday has creepy roots, for the most part it is normally not a celebration that causes people to panic.

Perhaps it is the election that is causing so much unrest.

Exactly one week after national half-price candy day, American citizens will cast their votes to elect the next POTUS. To many, the orange clown running for office is far more frightening than the masked vigilantes luring people into back-country woods. Yet, I digress.

Although I consider this “creepy clown” pandemic unsettling I do not think these pranks are the biggest issue at stake. Oscar Wilde once said, “man is least himself when he

talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” It is more important to consider the motivations behind these incidents rather than the incidents themselves.

When the people who are causing these incidents put on a clown mask they are able to create chaos and violence without revealing their true identities.

The mask gives them a sense of empowerment, courage and audacity. By painting their faces white or wearing a creepy mask purchased at their local Wal-Mart, they are able to act fearlessly while provoking fear in their victims.

What we should be asking is why these individuals feel the need to empower themselves by terrifying others? Why have these incidents spread across the nation? What can we do to prevent something like this from happening again?

Arguably, the majority of the people dressing as frightening clowns are not clinically insane. They may be troubled pranksters that need an outlet for pent up aggression, but they have gained power and a following because their actions provoke some of our most basic survival instincts. They are acting out to get attention—we need to ask why they feel they have been deprived of this attention through other constructive outlets.

To be clear, I am not con-

doning the action of these individuals. I believe that it is wrong to gain attention through fear.

Yet, I believe that we should analyze these incidents from a different perspective. When these individuals put on a mask they feel untouchable. When we see these individuals hiding behind masks we forget that they are human when we are overcome with fear. When we vocalize our fears, they gain more power.

Although Halloween, the election season and the general unrest in the world are likely provocations for these clown incidents, we should take the time to consider what this means to us as students and citizens. As CSU senior Nicholas Montalbano wrote in his letter to the Collegian “we aren’t descended from fearful men.”

Things in the world may be

scary but there is no logical reason to live a life in fear.

Take necessary precautions to protect yourself when you feel threatened, but do not be overcome with an impending sense of doom. Clowns are scary, and they are making the news, but we must not forget that these are people hiding behind masks. They are frightening but they are human. Their actions are merely an extension of their personal struggles.

Therefore, this Halloween season do not be overcome with fear. Although there are a million things in this world to be genuinely afraid of, masked vigilante pranksters should not be at the top of your list.

Nataleah Small can be reached at blogs@ collegian.com.

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Unexpected developments reveal realities previously hidden.

Make modifications to support new circumstances.

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Study and practice. Go to the source for deepest understanding. Extend your reach.

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for current realities. Generate more income over the next two days.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — 5 — Your tranquility gets disturbed. Disagreements and errors can throw a wrench in the works. Slow down and review details. Take care of yourself before helping others.

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Costs may be high. Make plans and budgets. Take a creative tack. A roadblock requires careful navigation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — 6 — Tough questions confront a group endeavor. Keep your attitude positive. Address them one by one. You do not have to do everything. Listen to other views.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — 8 — A challenge tests your mettle.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — 7 — Work out a financial compromise with your partner today and tomorrow. Negotiate for terms you can live with. Cut entertainment expense.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — 7 — Come to an agreement with your partner over the next two days. You are smart and effective now. Collaborative efforts magnify what is possible.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — 7 — If you push too hard, expect breakage. Take especially good care of your body today and tomorrow.

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Lager, IPA, Brown, Pale, Seas 6pk- 12oz cans

750ml Peppermint Schnapps

Corona, Corona Light....$13.99

1.75L

12pk- 12oz btls

William’s Black... $17.99 Guinness Draught..........$12.99 Evan 1.75L 12pk- 12oz btls

Altos Tequila..$16.99 Wild Cider........................$12.99 Olmeca 750ml Plata, Reposado Sampler 8pk- 16oz cans

Rum............ .....$16.99 New Belgium’s Ciders......$6.99 Cruzan 1.75L White, Dark Side Trip Dry, Semi Dry Ciders 4pk- 16oz cans

Kegs 1/4 Barrels

Seagram’s VO............ ..$17.99

Bushmills Irish.............$14.99 750ml Whiskey

Odell Brewing.........................$69.99 Odell Isolation........................$82.99 Odell IPA..................................$85.99

Craft Cave Feature of the Week! Jagermeister............ ....$14.99 !!

NEW

Odell Brewing Jolly Russian

12oz btls

Kegs 1/6 Barrels New Belgium.............................$43.99 Fat Tire, Sun, Snap, Citradelic, and many more...

$8.49 While they last!

750ml

UV Vodka............ .........$13.99 1.75L Regular, Blue Rasp

Gordon’s Gin............ ....$12.99 1.75L

Canadian Mist.............. $11.99 1.75L Whiskey

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1.5L All Types ...................... $5.99