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Vol. 127, No. 134 Tuesday, May 1, 2018

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FIGHT BACK AGAINST ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

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Fort Collins Furries Local group responds to alt-right allegations ILLUSTRATION BY SAMANTHA SHEPARDSON COLLEGIAN

By Henry Netherland @NatherlandHenry

Editor’s Note: Some subjects who are quoted in this article are anonymous for privacy and safety concerns.

Being a member of the furry community comes with automatic stereotypes of sexual deviancy and social isolation. Recent accusations of ties to the alt-right are making things worse.

Furries are people who have an affinity for animals with physical

human traits like bipedalism and body structure. Members of this subculture typically create fursonas for themselves, which are essentially alternate personas in the form of an animal. These fursonas can be expressed through art, digital avatars or life-size fursuits that can cost up to several thousand dollars.

In 2017, the Fort Collins furry community was brought under a microscope from national publications like “Rolling

Stone” and “Vice” due to alleged connections between a local furry social group known as the Furry Raiders and the alt-right movement.

Fort Collins resident, Lee Miller, who also goes by the fursona Foxler Nightfire, is the leader of the Furry Raiders. Miller is a controversial figure in the furry community, even warranting his own page on WikiFur, a furry’s version of Wikipedia.

Allegations against Miller

began in 2016 when he started wearing a red armband with a black paw in the center with his fursona. For some, it strongly resembled the same armbands worn by the Nazis during WWII. Despite allegations, Miller denies any political affiliation with the alt-right.

“The Furry Raiders, as a group, the administration team does not have any connections with alt-right or neo-Nazi,” Miller said. “Now I cannot say that

every member is perfect. I do not ask everybody, ‘Oh, what’s your political leaning?’ ... Overall, the group is very apolitical. We’re more interested in anthropomorphics.

We’re obsessed with that, so we try to stick with it.”

Looking back on the situation now, Miller said he still sees the allegations as being blown out of proportion.

“At the end of the day, when

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CAMPUS

CSU SafeWalk aims to get more use, works toward creating app

By Audrey Weiss @audkward

Labs, classes, clubs and events at Colorado State University can last hours after the sun sets, leaving campus community members to walk to their destinations alone after dark.

The SafeWalk program was established in 1993 with the goal to provide students with a safer option for traveling on campus, and has continued to provide its services since. Last year SafeWalk was used on 523 occasions, and this year that number has increased to 604 occasions thus far, Chief Scott Harris wrote in a statement to The Collegian.

“SafeWalk was established . . . to provide a service to the community in assisting students, faculty or staff a safe option of reaching their destination during the hours of darkness,” Harris wrote.

While the program intends to bring their services to all campus community members, students use it most often.

Specifically, freshmen are the largest demographic.

Campus Service Officer Alex Smith said he thinks

this is likely because they are typically unfamiliar with the campus.

“If you’re newer to campus and you don’t quite have all the knowledge of where everything is, you might be a little more hesitant to venture out,” Smith said. “Whereas professors have been here a long time and they kind of know where they’re going, so they don’t have the same concerns someone newer might have.”

Corporal Dustin Vanzant said he thinks this may be related to the community thinking SafeWalk is specifically for students.

“It’s kind of perceived as this thing for incoming freshman … so I think it’s kind of related to perception,” Vanzant said.

Regardless, the officers try to pick the safest route for whoever utilizes the service, Smith said.

A trip begins with a person making a request by calling the SafeWalk phone number, giving their name, location, destination and a description of their appearance to help the officers identify them, Harris wrote.

Once CSOs arrive at the location, they then select either the user’s preferred route or the safest and fastest possible route. From there, officers walk the user to their destination.

Smith said the officers have an approximate radius of three blocks outside of the campus but will make exceptions as necessary.

Smith said two officers are on duty between 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the summer and 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. during the school year.

SafeWalk sees spikes in requests depending on several factors, though they tend to see more calls during the fall semester than the spring, Vanzant said.

“We do notice that anytime there’s an incident, whether locally, on campus or even in the nation, (the number of calls) really spikes,” Vanzant said.

As far as their goals for the future, Vanzant said the SafeWalk program is currently working with a team from one of the upper-level computer science classes to create an app which will carry out the dispatching process.

Vanzant said the

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department is struggling to carry out this change.

“To be able to create an app to integrate with our dispatch system is the biggest hurdle we have,” Vanzant said.

In addition, Vanzant and Smith said they hope to see more people, including faculty and staff, utilize the SafeWalk

service.

“We love that people are interested in it, and we want it to be used,” Vanzant said. “It’s just a program out there for everybody.”

Audrey Weiss can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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SCIENCE

UC Berkeley professor discusses intersectionality in environmental justice

By Jorge Espinoza @jorgeespinoza14

Colorado State University’s Environmental Justice Working Group hosted Kathryn DeMaster, an assistant professor of agriculture, society and environment at the University of California, Berkeley, to discuss the intersectionality of food and social justice on Monday evening.

To show the intersectionality of environmental justice and social movements, DeMaster’s discussion centered around the Chicanx grape boycotts, the Black Panther’s “Free Breakfast for School Children” program and the revival of indigenous foods as part of the protests against Dakota Access

Pipeline. DeMaster said these movements were effective at bringing a diverse range of voices to the forefront of environmental social justice.

“I think that social movements are the only ways we create significant social change,” DeMaster said.

“Each of these movements decommodified food, used food for a vehicle of social change that directly forced the government to make social change and used food as a way to nourish resistance to give people a sense of the way the goals of their movement intersect with other groups.”

DeMaster said that the Black Panther’s “Free Breakfast for School Children” program was started in response to issues of food insecurity in the African American community at the

time, and it was successful at bringing light to those issues and creating social change.

DeMaster also said that the Chianx grape boycotts were effective because they highlighted the issues that the workers were facing at the time in regards to working in grape fields, and without those boycotts there wouldn’t have been change.

Ultimately these movements gave marginalized groups voices in environmental justice spaces in which they have been historically excluded from, DeMaster said.

Assistant Professor for the department of sociology Stephanie Malin said this event was important because it highlights the importance of intersectionality within environmental social

movements.

“All these different ways that people can experience inequality through their environments or not having a seat at the table in terms of making decisions about how their land or their water is used can have a lot of implications on their health and their quality of life,” Malin said.

DeMaster said when it comes to environmental justice, it’s important to have intersectionality to allow everyone to be apart of the discussion because it allows for a diverse range of voices to promote social change that helps all identities rather than just one.

“For one thing it’s an issue of power. When any group is dominating the discourse, having one group in power

means that one perspective is going to hold sway,” DeMaster said. “There is so much that it lost when you don’t include a diverse range of voices.”

DeMaster also said it’s important to decommodify food because it would allow for societies to think about food as a universal right for everyone, rather than food as a tradable item. By doing so, DeMaster said there can be more intersectionality when it comes to environmental justice movements.

“We won’t solve the biggest problems in the world, like climate change, widespread pollution or social injustice if we center them around one identity,” DeMaster said.

Jorge Espinoza can be reached at news@collegian.com.

INTERNATIONAL

Twin blasts in Afghan capital kill at least 26, including at least nine journalists

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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

26 people were killed as a result of the explosions in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Monday. At least nine of the victims are journalists who had arrived to report on an initial blast and were apparently targeted by a suicide bomber, officials said.

The attacks occured a week after 60 people were killed while waiting at a voter registration center in the city. This has underlined mounting insecurity despite repeated government pledges to tighten defenses.

Hours after the attack in Kabul, a suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, killing 11 children studying in a nearby religious school, police said.

“These attacks caused untold human suffering to Afghan families,” said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the top UN official in Afghanistan.

“I am furthermore outraged by the attack which appears

to have deliberately targeted journalists,” he said in a statement.

The attacks in rapid succession were a grim reminder of the strength of both the Taliban and Islamic State’s emerging Afghanistan branch to wreak violence despite stepped up US air attacks under Trump’s new policy for the 16-year-old war.

Taliban militants, fighting to restore their version of strict Islamic law to Afghanistan, announced their usual spring offensive last week and there has been heavy fighting in several areas of the country since.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the two blasts in the capital, which killed at least 26 people, including four police, and wounded 49 seriously, Hashmat Stanekzai, a senior police official, said.

The Afghan Journalists Safety Committee said nine journalists were killed in Kabul, the worst toll for media workers in a single attack in the country.

Najib Danish, a spokesman for the interior ministry, said

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a suicide bomber appeared to have posed as a media worker and blew himself up where reporters and rescue workers had gathered.

“We know that a suicide bomber pretended to be a reporter. He showed his press card and stood among journalists before blowing himself up,” Danish told Reuters.

‘Very Dangerous’ Working Environment Afghanistan was already considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, with at least 20 killed last year. Last week, unidentified gunmen shot a journalist in the southern city of Kandahar.

In a separate incident, Ahmad Shah, a journalist who worked for a local language service of the BBC and for Reuters, was shot dead in the eastern province of Khost, officials said.

His death was confirmed by the BBC but there was no indication of any connection with the Kabul attack, the most

serious on the Afghan media since 2016, when seven workers for Tolo News were killed in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

Eight of the journalists were from Afghan outlets: two reporters from the Mashal TV, a cameraman and a reporter working for 1TV, three reporters from Radio Azadi and one from Tolo News, the AFJSC said.

The French news agency Agence France-Presse said its chief photographer in Afghanistan, Shah Marai, was killed.

A Reuters photographer was slightly hurt by shrapnel.

“Journalists were doing their job when a suicide bomber killed them, such attacks prove that the working environment is very dangerous now,” said Rahimullah Samandar, a senior member of the AFJSC. The reporters had arrived to cover the initial blast in the Shashdarak area close to buildings of the National Directorate of Security intelligence service and near to the US embassy.

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were waiting some distance away near the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, when the second explosion went off just as people were entering the government office.

Hundreds of people have been killed and wounded in a series of attacks in Kabul since the beginning of the year, despite President Ashraf Ghani’s offer in February for peace talks “without preconditions.”

In the southern city of Kandahar, where NATO-led forces operate out of a big air base, 11 children were killed and 16 wounded when a suicide bomber drove his explosiveladen van into a foreign-force convoy, police said.

The 11 children who were killed were studying in a nearby madrassa, or religious school, said Matiullah Zhman, a spokesman for Kandahar police.

In addition eight members of the NATO-led Resolute Support coalition were wounded, the force said.

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CAMPUS

Computer scientist named department chair

By Charlotte Lang @ChartrickWrites

Colorado State University’s College of Natural Sciences will be welcoming the new Chair of the Computer Science Department this summer.

Craig Partridge, the chief scientist for networking research in Raytheon BBN Technologies, hopes to bring his knowledge and experience to the University.

He will be filling the role previously held by Darrell Whitley, who served as the chair for 15 years, College of Natural Sciences Dean Janice Nerger said. “(Whitley) has been an exceptional leader over the years, but decided he wanted to return to the faculty at the end of his current term and focus more on his research and teaching,” Nerger said. “This provided us an opportunity to hire a new chair. We conducted a national search for his replacement and attracted an exceptional pool of qualified applicants from across the country.”

Nerger said the chair’s position is “expected to provide dynamic leadership conducive to departmental excellence in research, instruction, and outreach.”

Partridge was chosen to fill the role as a result of his experience and reputation in the field.

“Dr. Partridge has an impressive track record of research and service to computer science in general and to the networking community in particular,” Nerger said.

This track record can be found in his history and interests with the subject, as shown in his descriptions of entering the field.

“I studied computer science for fun as an undergraduate,” Partridge wrote in an email to The Collegian. “The great advantage was that I could skip pre-requisites if I thought I could do more advanced work, and by my senior year I was taking graduate courses and was also a teaching assistant in a computer science course.”

Partridge continued this fascination in the subject, joining a research company called Bolt, Beranek and Newman— now known as BBN and existing as part of Raytheon Corporation— after his graduation.

Partridge said BBN had just turned on the internet for

the US government and was looking for employees to teach programming. As the internet was still new, Partridge had the chance to use his research to fix real problems.

“I still like working that way today,” Partridge wrote. “Look into the future, anticipate challenges, and try to fix them.”

Partridge’s experience also extends to teaching. In the 1990s, he served as an adjunct professor at Stanford. There, he worked on revising and expanding the networking course offerings. Other places he’s taught for include the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan.

Patridge wrote that his experience with choosing to look ahead and solve problems will come with him to the University.

“There are plenty of problems the computer science department, with help from our dean, needs to solve and I am here to help that effort,” Partridge wrote.

Partridge also wrote about the necessity of computer science in the workplace, explaining the growing requirement for advanced computing skills across a wide range of jobs. His main focus was on STEM, the social sciences and the humanities.

Partridge wrote that, for many non-computer science students, this results in the 100-level computer science courses not being enough.

Instead, he wrote, one or two 300-level courses are needed.

“In a perfect world, the 300-level course would be tailored to each major,” Patridge wrote. “Customizing our offerings would require revising and enhancing our curriculum and hiring more teaching staff. That is expensive and we have to find a way to either get the resources or make it less expensive.”

Nerger expressed confidence in Partridge’s role in the University.

“Dr. Partridge will bring to CSU his extraordinary experience in the industry and his national reputation as one of the leading intellectual forces behind wireless networking and spectrum access, highspeed networking, and Internet protocols,” Nerger said. “We are fortunate to have recruited him to CSU and I look forward to working with him when he arrives this summer.”

Charlotte Lang can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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OPINION Tuesday, May 1, 2018

COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

Fight back against antibiotic resistance Michelle Fredrickson @mfredrickson42

Editor’s Note: All opinion section content reflects the views of the individual author only and does not represent a stance taken by The Collegian or its editorial board.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are on the rise globally.

One woman made headlines last year when she died from an infection resistant to all known antibiotics, and other bacteria are being found globally with strong resistances as well.

Everyone must be aware of this issue and take individual and community steps to stop it from getting worse.

Antibiotics are natural or synthetic substances that can kill bacteria, which are one of the major causes of disease.

Unfortunately antibiotics don’t work against viruses, the other major cause, but antibiotics are still one of the most powerful medical advancements of all time.

However, the more bacteria are exposed to antibiotics, the more likely it is that they will begin to develop antibiotic resistance. When an antibiotic

kills all the bacteria except the ones with some natural resistance, those resistant bacteria are the ones that go on to reproduce. This eventually creates a strain of ‘super-bugs’ that cannot be treated with antibiotics.

Some of the most famous antibiotic-resistant bugs are MRSA and C.Diff, which was recently publicized in John Green’s book “Turtles All The Way Down.” However, the CDC estimates that more than 23,000 Americans die every year as a result of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Antibiotic resistance is a risk every time a person takes antibiotics, which is why overuse of antibiotics can be so dangerous. Before antibiotic resistance was discovered to be such a major threat, it was common to prescribe antibiotics for everything on the assumption that even if it didn’t help, it wouldn’t hurt.

We now know that this is not true.

This is a looming, scary problem as more and more bugs take on properties like MRSA, and infections that would previously be easy to get rid of become difficult to treat. It is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous emerging public health threats,

and something that will soon become a deadly problem.

Things are not, however, hopeless. There are things people can do to slow down and even prevent antibiotic resistance from becoming so frightening.

“The world is heading towards a postantibiotic era in which common infections will once again kill.

If current trends continue... This may even bring the end of modern medicine as we know it.”

DR. MARGARET CHAN DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

First, if the doctor wants to try other methods of treatment prior to prescribing and antibiotic, be patient and cooperate with them. They are not trying to stop their patients from getting better – they are trying to stop antibiotic resistant pathogens from getting stronger.

The WHO is pushing all

nations to decrease antibiotic use drastically, because over the past century we have overprescribed antibiotics to a harmful extent. The CDC estimates that 1 in 3 antibiotics are prescribed unnecessarily, so doctors are encouraged to try other remedies first.

Second, don’t take antibiotics not prescribed to you by a doctor, and always finish every course of antibiotics you take.

Most antibiotics courses last for about ten days, and after about six or seven the patient may start feeling healthy again. It’s easy to stop taking the antibiotics as soon as you feel better, and many of the Colorado State University students I’ve talked to have admitted to doing this, but this is actually promoting resistance. This means more bacteria will survive and will pass on resistance to the next generation, and even across classes of bacteria.

If you take antibiotics that weren’t prescribed to you, it can be dangerous because not all antibiotics are the same – different antibiotics treat different things, and different dosages are prescribed for different illnesses. Additionally, taking leftover antibiotics will never be a full course, and this

is harmful for the same reasons as not finishing the antibiotics the first time around.

Finally, use your voice.

Antibiotic resistance is not an issue that should toe party lines, because everybody will face the consequences sooner or later. Let lawmakers know that this is an issue you care about, and encourage steps to fight back.

For example, no new antibiotics have been developed anywhere for nearly 30 years, because creating any new drug is extremely expensive and the payoff is very low, so there is no real incentive for a for-profit company to spend the money to develop antibiotics.

At the current prescription rates, any new drug would buy us an additional two years – a short timeframe, perhaps, but still worth investigating as doctors are already reducing prescription rates.

By taking personal steps to combat this frightening trend, and by encouraging lawmakers and leaders to step forward and make the topic a priority conversation, antibiotic resistance doesn’t need to take modern medicine back to the dark ages.

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

NOPE DOPE Having to work inside all weekend.

Being outside all weekend.

Forgetting all your deadlines.

Grad parties.

Writing a 30-page paper the night it’s due.

Finally being able to wear sundresses again.

Forgetting to check the weather before leaving your house.

Wearing clothes that are great conversation pieces.

Being way too literal as a person.

When your friends send you the study guide for a final exam.

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TRACK & FIELD

Rams make final stop before Mountain West Championships

By Mamadou Balde @ mamadoubalde62

On their final trip before the Mountain West Championships, the Colorado State track and field team competed at the 7220 Invite, which was hosted by the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

Kicking off action in field events was Uche Obinnah who set a personal best in the men’s high jump to win the event.

Obinnah cleared a height of 2.11 meters which currently ranks fourth on CSU’s all-time outdoor list. In the women’s high jump, McKenzie Wright set a season best by clearing a height of 1.76 meters. Marlee Brown set a personal best in the women’s horizontal jump by lunging a distance of 5.62 meters. Brown now ranks 19th on CSU’s all-time indoor list.

“I was really pleased with how we competed today,” assistant coach Ryan Baily said.

“Uche (Obinnah) and McKenzie (Wright) competed very well in the high jump. I was proud to see the improvements in each of those events today, and excited to see that we’re headed in the right direction heading into conference.”

Continuing her impressive freshman season was Jasmine Chesson who set a personal best in the women’s 400 with a time of 53.81. Chesson’s time

earned her first place in the event and moves her up to third on CSU’s all-time list. Jessica Ozoude came in second for the Rams with a time of 53.84, a new personal best. Ozoude’s time ranks fourth on the all-time list.

Finishing fourth in the 400 was Michelle Gould, who also set a personal best with her time of 55.92. Gould’s time ranks 15th on the all-time list.

Emma Kratzberg took the crown in the women’s 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:00.84. Kratzberg’s time is 12th on the all-time list. Darius Smith placed second in the men’s portion, finishing as the top collegian with his time of 51.99. Smith’s time ranks 13th on the all-time list.

Austin Blaho set a new personal career best for the fourth consecutive meet in the men’s shot put. Blaho registered a mark of 17.95 meters to win the event. His mark moves him up to sixth on the all-time list.

In the women’s shot put, Maria Muzzio took the top spot with her mark of 14.93 meters.

In the women’s hammer throw, the Rams were led by Kelcey Bedard, who won not only the hammer throws but discus as well. In the hammer throws, Bedard set a mark of 60.70 meters to win the event.

She spun her way to a mark of 51.94 meters to win the discus.

The Rams took the top-three

Middle distance runner Blake Yount strides down the home stretch of the track during the 800 meter race in Greeley on Sunday April 15th at the NOCO Challenge meet. Yount went on to win the race by 10 meters. PHOTO

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spots in the women’s hammer throws with Bedard, Linnea Jonsson and Aimee Larrabee.

Jonsson placed second in the event with a mark of 60.65 meters. Larrabee placed third with a personal-best mark of 60.40 meters.

“I was very happy with how we competed today,” coach Brian Bedard said. “I thought

we responded really well after last week, and it helped that we had really good weather. We’re peaking at the right time, and we had a lot of lifetime bests up there. I’m excited about what I saw. A lot of good things happened, and that’s what you hope happens in this sort of meet. Our coaches and our athletes are pretty fired up

today. We had a solid week of training – I liked the intensity and focus we came out with.”

Next up, the Rams will compete at the Mountain West Championships from May 9-12 in Fresno, California.

Mamadou Balde can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

TENNIS

CSU tennis falls in opening round of conference tournament

By Michelle Gould @ michellegouldd The Colorado State women’s tennis team traveled to Boise, Idaho for the 2018 Mountain West Tournament at the Appleton Tennis Center on April 26. Despite their best efforts, the 11th-seeded Rams came up one point short of an upset win over sixth-seeded Boise State.

Tensions were high as CSU battled Boise State in doubles to begin the match.

“My personal mindset and the teams’ mindset was to play to win,” junior captain Emily Kolbow said. “We didn’t want to hold anything back and I don’t think we did. Everyone was excited for the match and had a lot of energy.”

To begin the day, sophomore Alyssa Grijalva and freshman Priscilla Palermo battled Anja Dokic and Wiktoria Nosek in doubles, ultimately losing to the Broncos, 6-3. Kolbow and

her partner, sophomore Riley Reeves, competed at No.2 against Wilhelmina Palmer and Lilian Poling. The duo came up short as well, giving the Broncos the initial team point heading into singles’ play.

After Palermo’s singles loss at No.1 against Anja Dokic, 6-2, 6-1, the Rams were determined to get back on the board.

Freshman Emily Luetschwager clinched a close victory against Palmer, 6-4, 6-3, giving her teammates confidence in their own singles matches. The rookie ends her season with 20 singles win, the second-most on the CSU roster.

Grijalva followed in Luetschwager’s footsteps, claiming her 21st singles victory, the most on the team.

The Compton, California native dominated in her singles match against Hanna Kantenwein, defeating her, 6-1, 6-1.

To tie the match up,

Kolbow rallied against Nosek, eventually clinching the victory with a score of 7-6, (9-7), 6-3. This win boasts Kolbow’s singles win total to 10 on the season.

Boise State’s Nancy Menjivar fired back to secure an addition point for her Broncos’ teammates against Emma Corwin in a three-set rally at No. 6.

The fate of the match took place on court five with Riley Reeves’ match against Vanessa Timm.

Timm defeated Reeves in the first set, 6-2, however, Reeves used this as fuel to come back and win the second set, 6-4. The would-be upset win was pitted in the final set, both squads spectating the match with one eye open.

After a strong battle, Timm ultimately won the match for Boise over CSU. “I am really proud of Riley’s fight in singles,” coach Jarod Camerota said. “That’s a tough

The CSU Tennis team gathers around after the doubles match to prep talk and get ready for the singles matches that are about to begin.

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spot to be in and there’s a lot of pressure when you’re playing the last match on the court.”

CSU ends their season with the most wins in a season since 2004, sporting a record of 11-2.

“We fought very hard and I am so proud of this team,” Camerota said. “We continue to

improve and I am very pleased with our effort tonight.”

The Rams’ roster lists no graduating seniors, showing growth and promise for the next upcoming year.

Michelle Gould can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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CLUB SPORTS

CSU men’s club lacrosse falls short against top-seeded Utah

By Junior Guerrero @ juniorg45

The CSU men’s club lacrosse team took on No. 1 Utah in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Conference Tournament Saturday in search of an upset win against the top-seeded Utes, a game in which their efforts came up short.

As the game began, the Rams got off to a rough start.

The Utes scored three goals in the first six minutes of the game. With the Utes having home-field advantage and a three-goal lead early, the momentum was on the side of the favorite.

The Utes would add another goal with four minutes left in the first quarter. Down four goals, senior attacker AJ Stewart continued what he has been doing all season long and hit the back of the net, putting the Rams on the board and making the score 4-1, Utah.

Although the Rams scored, the Utes came back and got another goal, bringing the tally to 5-1 after the first quarter.

With all the momentum on the Utah side, the Utes began to run away with the game. They added another five goals in the second quarter making the score 10-1 at half.

Nothing went right for the Rams in the opening half, with halftime being a regrouping

opportunity.

“Utah came out with more intensity,” freshman midfielder, Grant Breeden said. “We made some errors early and they capitalized and got a lot of momentum.

Coaches did a great job of preparing us, but as players we didn’t execute.”

With the third quarter underway, the Rams continued to struggle to score. Despite getting opportunities to score, the Utes defense and goalkeeping held the CSU attack at bay.

Utah added two more goals in the third quarter, with a similar two goals in the fourth quarter to make the score 141. Even though the Rams were down a huge margin, they fought hard until the end, similar to what they have done all season.

Breeden gave the Rams their second goal as he found the back of the net with three minutes left in the game.

Stewart scored his second goal of the game with two minutes to go to make the deficit 143. Breeden followed with yet another goal of his own in the final minute of the game to bring the final score to 14-4.

The final horn sounded and the game came to an end.

The Rams fought through adversity all season long and they stood together as a team and kept fighting through

The Rams celebrate a goal against Metro State. The Rams beat the Roadrunners 18-6 in the first scrimmage of the season on Feb. 3. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN

thick and thin. This showed how close they were and how much they much they wanted to succeed.

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with each other… It was a great learning season for everyone and next year we will be better off.”

Although the season did not end the way the Rams wanted, there are many positives to take away from

this season. They are excited to get back to work and come back stronger as a team next year.

Junior Guerrero can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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MOVIES

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ combines best of Marvel Universe into one epic movie

By Ty Davis

@ tydavisACW

In 2008 my cousin John took me to see Iron Man in theaters.

For a whole week, John could not stop talking about how good it was. Despite my skepticism, I reluctantly agreed to go see it while it was still in theaters and thus a new obsession began.

In 2012 I watched “The Avengers” and my ideas of how the movie world operated changed forever. In 2014 my best friend and I went to see “Captain America: Winter Soldier,” which forever changed my perception of superhero movies, and in 2016 I saw “Captain America: Civil War” and it felt like my family had been torn apart.

I tell you this because the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a part of pop culture that has been inextricably interwoven into not only in my life, but the lives of others. Never before has a franchise been so large and ubiquitous that a large number of people can say it’s a noteworthy piece of their lives.

After 10 years of continuous releases, the MCU’s relevance to the world has transcended its impact on the film industry to become an important part people’s individual histories.

After 19 movies I should not have to explain why Marvel movies are good. Endearing and iconic characters, competent directing and editing, tight and efficient plot, straightforward story with an emphasis on character etc. etc.

The main difference here is it takes all the usual aspects of a Marvel movie you’ve come to expect and turns it to 11. The movie honestly does feel like the word “War” part in the title.

From the first minute of the film, you understand how much of an overwhelming force Thanos and his disciples really are. They’re brutal, cold, calculated and they showcase it every moment they are on screen. It gives a sense of real danger this time, forcing every character to scramble and prepare themselves for the ensuing onslaught.

Watching the characters scramble through the various

sub-plots, as said sub-plots weave in and out of each other, instills an overall sense of anxiety that elevates the villains from plot obstacles to realistic threats.

All this tension makes twoand-a-half hours fly by without a second thought. I honestly forgot to take notes because I was so enthralled by what I was seeing.

Juggling so many characters around never allows the movie to grow stale for even a second.

“Infinity War” has so much ground to cover, lingering on one plot for too long would be an active detriment to the overall movie.

Luckily the filmmakers knew how to balance their time well.

This time the movie’s focus is extremely dedicated to characters and their interactions, and with such a huge cast of varying personalities, how could it not. Luckily all of the on-screen chemistry works in spectacular fashion. Each character feels true to their personality and each pairing seems to play out more or less how those interactions would go. Special mention needs to be made to the back and forth

between Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man and Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange, who steal the show in what is probably the most dynamic and entertaining pairing in the whole movie.

Yes, “Infinity War” will pull at your heartstrings. By the end of the movie, I didn’t do anything but stare blankly at the screen.This is a critical moment in the MCU and even the characters know it.

The actors really put everything they could into giving some of the most emotional and impassioned performances seen throughout the MCU. For as much as I will laud this movie for months or even years to come, it is not without flaw. With such a huge cast there were always going to be some characters that fell by the wayside. We haven’t seen Captain America and the crew for almost two years now, but the movie treats them as though they just stepped out for a quick smoke. Actually, there a lot of major characters who get less screen time than most such as Black Panther, Cap, Bucky, Falcon, Black Widow, etc.

I know Marvel sort of exemplifies the practice of combining serious action with jokes but I think they take it one step too far in some cases. Just because you shouldn’t take things too seriously, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take anything seriously.

When I sat in that theater I knew it wasn’t going to be like all the other times. It felt like I was on a collective couch with a community of people. I’ve never heard so much clapping at so many different points in a single movie. It wasn’t just a movie: it was an event.

We were clapping, cheering, falling over with laughter; we were hollering at the screen and the amazing thing was no one seemed to mind because we all had that same unmistakable excitement and revelry for the culmination of a decade’s worth of attachment to these characters and their journeys.

Ty Davis can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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EVENTS

‘Urinetown’ entertains, enchants with a stunning set and strong ensemble

By Claire Oliver @claireoliver_21.

The name “Urinetown” may cause some confusion, but the new Colorado State University production of the hit Broadway musical is fun, hilarious and entertaining.

The show takes place in a small town that has been affected by a 20-year long drought.

Because there is a limited water supply, the public amenities are being regulated by the U.G.C or Urine Good Company. The public has to pay to urinate, which is hard for those in the working class.

The show centers around Bobby Strong, a custodian at one of the public amenities, and Hope Cladwell, the daughter of Mr. Cladwell, the owner of the U.G.C. The two stand as starcrossed lovers who help to stir up a rebellion against the U.G.C. for the overpriced bathroom fees.

The humorous script is a parody of several different Broadway shows including “West Side Story” and “Les Miserables.”

The score jumps from different genres, making it easy to stay interested and engaged throughout the performance.

There are also underlying political messages throughout the show. The errors within both capitalist and socialist societies are examined during the performance, with song and dance of course. The message seems to say that one is not better

Furries >> from page 1 you’re in a furry world where everything is fantasy based, this character, Foxler only exists as much as I make it exist,” Miller said. “It shouldn’t have that much significant meaning. ...With the political climate, it was just kind of the wrong time.”

Miller was also accused of bestiality after blogging about a puppy online, and he was accused of child grooming when he was dating a 17-year-old. A Facebook post condemning the relationship was made public, sparking the accusations.

In response to the allegations of bestiality, Miller has publicly denied any participation.

“When it comes to the claims of bestiality, it was a lot of stuff that was taken out of context from my LiveJournal a decade and a half ago,” Miller said. “I was just writing a bunch of random stuff, and I made some comments about my dog kissing my face. I just got a new husky puppy, and

than the other and that capitalism and socialism, in their purest forms, ultimately do not work for human interests.

Jake Cuddemi, a junior theatre performance major, stands out as Bobby Strong.

His strong voice and endearing performance make it easy for the audience to support the rebellion from the get-go. His nemesis Mr. Cladwell, played by junior theatre performance major Bruce Gammonley, is formidable and terrifying and was one of my favorites. Gammonley’s rendition of “Don’t Be The Bunny” was as catchy as it was disturbing.

The anti-hero of the show, Ms. Pennywise, an appropriate name for the queen of the sewer system, was played by Charlotte Nickell, a senior theatre performance and human development and family studies major. Whenever she was on stage, she captured the audience with her grimace and plunger. Nickell put on a performance that did a wonderful job capturing the sincerity as well as the hilarity of the show.

The ensemble was easily the best part. Each number with the entire cast brought a new vibe and each cast member had a welldefined character. The ensemble showcased members like Kalie Lanik, who hobbled around in a brace, and Zack Rickert, whose character was a vindictive sociopath.

The set, designed by senior technical theatre major Shay Dite, was stunning. The whole it was licking my face and I wrote a LiveJournal about that. And that pretty much led me into that category.”

In response to the accusations of child grooming, Miller said that when he was 22, he was dating a 17-year-old, which he said was legal in the state the relationship took place in. Miller said the girlfriend’s mother and her mother’s boyfriend at the time did not approve of a relationship.

The mother’s boyfriend made a public Facebook post about the relationship. However, no charges were filed.

Miller said the Furry Raiders originally began as a group of friends who met through the online virtual world, “Second Life.” These online interactions eventually spread to in-person activities such as skiing and snowmobiling. Currently, the group size has expanded to 600 online members, some of whom live in Chile, Honduras and various European countries. A good portion live in the Colorado area, however.

Because of increased internet access, the subculture has exploded in recent years according to a 2017 article from

Theatre production major Charlotte Nickell portrays Ms. Pennywise, a begrudged amenities worker in Colorado State University’s production of “Urinetown.” PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN EISELE COLLEGIAN

city looked run down and the small details like the shoes hanging from strands of lights and clouds of fog coming from the gutters added to the entire atmosphere. The costumes were fantastic as well, as the colors yellow and red were incorporated into the ensemble costumes as

the rebellion began.

There were a few moments in the first act where most lyrics from the songs got lost because of so much happening on stage. But in numbers like “Run, Freedom, Run” and “Snuff That Girl,” the timing was great and the ensemble really knocked it out of

the park.

Should you see it: Yes The show is really enjoyable.

My sides hurt after the show and it was a great way to relax and take a break from studying for finals.

Claire Oliver can be reached at entertianment@collegian.com.

Inverse. While there is not an exact number of self-identified furries currently living in the United States, the data shows some of the most popular furry conventions can attract over 7,000 attendees.

One Fort Collins resident who wishes to be referred to by his fursona, Embers, discovered the fandom during his adolescence. “(I began to identify as a furry) around 2006, when I was just entering high school,” Embers said. “That was when I inadvertently learned about furries and figured out what I was. However, I didn’t really dive into the community until my senior year of high school and college.”

Another resident involved in the community who wished to be referred to as Zander, his fursona, said he was attracted to the subculture because he saw it as a form of self-expression. “(It) was the chance to express myself in a different way or maybe a chance to have an ‘ideal’ me,” Zander said. “I see my ‘sona as myself but different.

Usually whatever qualities I’m striving for to better myself as a human.”

A series of bi-weekly meetings that ended in 2014 called the Front Range Furmeets were held at a local resident’s home in Fort Collins. Zander said there would be around 40 members in attendance every meeting. Currently, the meetings are on an indefinite hiatus, Embers said.

Aside from the inner-circle drama, openly expressing one’s interest in the hobby itself carries its own baggage. Even the less controversial members of the subculture face judgement from outsiders, sources said.

In one instance, Zander said he overheard a conversation between two women before a chemistry test.

“I quickly realized they were bashing a furry they had in lab,” Zander said. “They saw his phone background was his fursona and proceeded to make all sorts of disgusting comments, making fun of furries and his appearance. ... They didn’t even know the person standing behind them was me, the boyfriend of the person they were talking about.”

Often times, members are labeled as sexual deviants by the public, but many members say

the hobby goes beyond just sex.

“The largest misconception about being involved is that it’s all about sex, or sexual in nature: a fetish,” Embers said. “Being a furry is all about embracing this furry alter ego and having an interest in anthros. The reality is that furry has a sexual side because sex itself is a part of human nature, and when you’ve got a number of men and women who have a desire to sexually express themselves it’s going to happen.”

Despite the controversies surrounding the group and Miller, members of the Raiders are willing to defend their organization. Jake Kovar, who also goes by his fursona Flare Tigersnow, said the portrayal of the group is entirely inaccurate.

“I do feel that the Raiders have been misrepresented,” Kovar said. “You’ll hear that they are a neo-Nazi group, which isn’t true. I’ve yet to come across that kind of activity within the community. I think that it was misrepresented because of the armband Foxler wears, which was blown way out of proportion.”

Henry Netherland can be reached at entertainment@.com.

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RECREATION

Horsetooth reservoir offers a wide variety of outdoor activities

By Carson Lipe @carsonlipe

If Old Town is the beating heart of Fort Collins, then Horsetooth Reservoir is the buttocks; used mostly for rest and relaxation.

Viewed through many different lenses, Horsetooth can be a binge-drinking hotspot or the location for an afternoon swim, but when the classic activities become mundane and repetitive, Horsetooth must not be forgotten. There is enough entertainment at the reservoir to keep one occupied year-round. In fact, there are so many things to do there that some of the activities go unnoticed.

Scuba Diving At 1,900 acres of water, opportunities for wet sports in the reservoir are innumerable. Aside from the fishing, waterskiing, boating and swimming, there are plenty of places to go scuba diving. Although the reservoir is used as mostly a training and beginner’s dive site, anyone is welcome to dive in the various areas. The main areas set aside for diving at the reservoir are the South Bay and Lower Sunrise seven days a week, while Dixon,

Orchard and Quarry coves are reserved for weekday diving.

Be sure to review the rules and regulations of Horsetooth before diving, as diving alone or without a diver’s flag posted in the vicinity will net you a $50 fine.

Camping Some days at Horsetooth are so fun, you don’t ever want them to end. Luckily, there is a possibility to extend your stay overnight at a plethora of camping sites. Overnight areas can be reached by foot, camper or boat. Boat-in camp sites are plentiful, allowing you to pull your boat right up to your personal wilderness hotel room. Reservations are needed April-October, but anytime before or after that, campsites are available on a first-comefirst-serve basis. The Inlet Bay and South Bay areas have showers and facilities for those who want to clean up before bedding down.

Bouldering The bread and butter of Horsetooth reservoir is sometimes hidden in plain sight.

Modern American bouldering, a form of climbing, is considered by many to have gotten its start at Horsetooth and with hundreds of routes and problems, it is no surprise.

Areas like “the torture chamber” once gave worldclass climbers such as John Gill and Jim Holloway a place to hone their skills, while beginner climbers can find plenty of bouldering problems to fit their experience level.

Again, be sure to take note of which areas are on and off limits for bouldering as hopping on the wrong rock can incite another $50 fee from the park officials Whatever your fancy, there is something to do at Horsetooth for everyone.

Whether it’s a backdrop for some quality time with friends and family, or a place you go to knock out a workout, it can be agreed upon that this is the outdoor pinnacle for recreation in Fort Collins.

Visitors of Fort Collins would be doing a disservice to skip the scenery of the roughly 2,000 acres of public land located around the reservoir, so make sure to bring any guests for at least a car-lap around the water. This summer, if you find that you’re bored of your everyday routine, try partaking in one of these niche activities for just a day. You might even discover a new hobby.

Carson Lipe can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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EVENTS

Cinco De Mayo cooking class promises good food, tequila in preparation for the holiday

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Cinco de Mayo is a time for celebration.

This Friday, May 4, the Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center is hosting a Cinco De Mayo cooking class on the Colorado State University’s campus in Gifford 237 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The class costs $75 per pair.

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