Vol 127, no 71, 2017

OPINION

Vol. 127, No. 71 Tuesday, December 5, 2017

HEROIN INJECTION SITES A STEP FORWARD PAGE 5

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RAMS BUILD CAMARADERIE IN THE POOL PAGE 10

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STRESSED? TRY ESSENTIAL OIL. PAGE 14

County opioid use rises with national health crisis

Data from 2015 shows a rise in opioid deaths in Colorado according to data from the Center for Disease Control, Colorado Department of Health and Larimer County Coroner.

INFOGRAPHIC BY MEG METZGER-SEYMOUR COLLEGIAN

By Austin Fleskes @Austinfleskes07

As of late October, the opioid epidemic in America has officially been labeled as a national public health emergency by President Donald Trump, who said this generation can “be the generation that ends the opioid

epidemic,” according to an article by CNN. The opioid epidemic reaches all the way to Larimer County, where heroin use has risen steadily and caused overdoses and arrests to increase, according to Lt. Joe Shellhammer of the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, and the upcoming commander

of the Northern Colorado Drug Task Force.

Shellhammer said that he witnessed a dramatic upwards, curve of opioid abusers in recent years and said that overdoses happen weekly, if not daily, while arrests for possession occur almost daily.

The most common opioid

use in Larimer County, according to Shellhammer, is heroin with OxyContin and morphine sulfate a distant second.

“Since about 2014, a lot of our drug trends have gone down,and shortly after have begun to skyrocket,” Shellhammer said.

“Where we are now ... is getting to be unbelievable.”

Opioid drugs can be broken into three categories when looking at abuse and overdoses: Illegal opioid drugs, synthetic opioids and prescribed opiate painkillers.

The most well known and most used illegal opioid is heroin, which is a highly addictive drug see OPIOIDS on page 4 >>

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NEWS Tuesday, December 5, 2017

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Police report series of fraudulent checks, scams

By Matt Bailey @matnes1999

The Colorado State University Police and Safety Department tweeted Monday morning warning people about fraudulent checks and scams that have recently been reported.

Since the beginning of the fall semester, at least six reports of scams have been reported to CSUPD, according to Dell Rae Ciaravola, the senior communications coordinator at CSU’s Public Safety Team.

“Several different tactics are

Opioids >> from page 1 where overdoses can cause shallow breathing, coma and eventually death. In an article written by CNN, the national amount of heroin users increased from an annual 404,000 users in 2002 to 948,000 users in 2016, as well as a 533 percent increase in heroin overdose deaths.

The most common synthetic opioid is fentanyl, a drug similar to morphine but 50 to 100 times more potent, according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse. In a prescription form, fentanyl can be seen in Actiq, Duragesic and Sublimaze. Street forms of fentanyl or fentanyl-laced heroin include drugs such as Apache and China White, among others.

The final category of opioid drugs are prescribed opiate painkillers, which are quite common and include products such as OxyContin, Vicodin, codeine and morphine. These painkillers “act on opioid receptors in both the spinal cord and brain to reduce the intensity of pain-signal perception,” according to NIDA. Over the last 16 years, the number of opioid deaths in the United States has quadrupled, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reported that from 2000 to 2015, over half a million people died from drug overdoses with roughly 91 people dying daily from an opioid-related overdose.

The national trend of opioid usage can be refelcted in statistics from Colorado.

According to the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, a total of 259 people died from prescrip-

used in these scam attempts, including unsolicited contact by email, replying to “for sale” ads on Craigslist and making unsolicited offers of employment, claiming to have discovered the potential victim’s email address or resume on CSU student employment lists,” Ciaravola wrote in an email to the Collegian.

In one scam attempt, the suspect contacted a student and offered to purchase a large amount of product from her in connection with her legitimate network marketing business, according to Ciaravola.

The majority of these scammers use common-sounding pseudonyms or anonymous email accounts.

“Funds are often found to have been deposited into accounts outside the U.S. or wired to third-parties, some of whom are unwitting, and victims of scams themselves,” Ciaravola wrote. “In recent scam cases where suspects have been identified, they were not affiliated with CSU.” The CSU Public Safety Team advises people to be aware of these scam emails by recogniz-

tion opioid drug overdoses alone in 2015 compared to 205 homicide deaths. CDHCPF also reported that while the number of opioid-overdose deaths decreased by 6 percent in 2016, the number of heroin-related deaths increased by 23 percent that same year.

While the numbers in Colorado match the national statistics, the total number of opioid-related deaths in Larimer County has grown in recent years, according to the 2016 annual report put out by the Office of the Larimer County Coroner Medical Examiner.

In 2016, 49 people died of a drug overdose, with 39 deaths related to opioids, compared to 2013 when 67 people died from a drug overdose, with 37 deaths being opioid-related.

While the total number of drug-related deaths has dropped in recent years, the trend of opioid deaths has continued. According to statistics from the Larimer County Coroner’s Office annual report, the number of illegal drug overdoses has increased while the number of prescribed overdoses has dropped.

The drop in prescribed opiates is related to a set of guidelines outlining how prescribed opiate painkillers are distributed to those who need them.

The Colorado State University Health Network follows a very strict set of guidelines for how they give out opiate painkillers, according to Dr. Kathy Waller, the director of general medical services for the CSU Health Network. “(The) Health Network follows a set of guidelines from the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies called the Policy for Prescribing and Dispensing Opioids,’” Waller said. “These recommendations apply to all prescribers, and advise use of the lowest effective

dose and quantity. Similarly, the American College of Emergency Physicians recommends the ‘lowest practical dose for a limited duration.’ We are very judicious about prescribing opioids and generally give only low doses and small amounts for acute pain.”

For students on campus affected by opioid use, they can reach out to CSU Health Network at 970-491-7121 and get in touch with Director of Psychia-

ing common elements.

Common elements in scam emails, messages and posts often, but not always, consist of broken English and spelling, punctuation and syntax errors.

“Scam emails routinely appear ‘too good to be true’ from the onset, including inflated offers on Cragislist with no negotiation or face to face contact, lucrative employment offers for very little actual work or suspicious offers to deposit funds with no legitimate employment relationship,” Ciaravola wrote.

Ciaravola wrote that she en-

couraged people to consider the nature of the email: If an email, message or post seems too good to be true, or if it involves funds transfer, refunds or gift cards, it is virtually always a scam.

Additionally, CSU Police and Safety explained in the tweet published this morning that any offer of employment or offer to purchase an item that involves depositing a check or sending funds or gift cards to a stranger is a scam.

Matt Bailey can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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try Services Dr. Irena Danczik.

Students can set up a consultation meeting where they will discuss a process of future evaluation, follow-up structure and additional rules of the clinic as well as about medication use if appropriate.

Shellhammer said that those who need to use prescription opiate painkillers use the minimum amount prescribed and educate themselves on the addictive nature of opioids, so

that people can take charge of their own health.

“Once control is lost and you have gone from oxycontin and taken your first dose of heroin, that is a gigantic leap and it is really hard to stop that,” Shellhammer said. “The risk for no reward is unbelievably awful.”

Austin Fleskes can be reached at news@collegian. com.

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Police arrest man for CSU forecast team underestimated sexual assault on child early hurricane levels, data shows

By Austin Fleskes @Austinfleskes07

The Fort Collins Police Department announced that they arrested 54 year-old Terrence Paul Triffet on four charges of sexual assault on a child, according to a police report by Fort Collins Police.

After detectives investigated reports of sexual abuse that occurred in Fort Collins over several years, police arrested Triffet and booked him in the Larimer County jail.

Triffet currently lives in Loveland and previously resided in Longmont, where he was a host for foreign exchange students.

Police urge any who have been victimized or may hold any information about Triffet to contact Detective Siobhan Seymour at (970-416-2195) or sseymour@fcgov.com. People can also contact Crime

Stoppers of Larimer County at (970-221-6868).

TRIFFET WAS ARRESTED FOR THE FOLLOWING CHARGES: ■ Sexual Assault on a Child

class 4 felony

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tern of Abuse Class 3 felony – 2 counts ■ Incest Class 4 felony ■ Distribution of Child Exploitative Material Class 5 felony

Those who call may remain anonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward.

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Professor to receive humanitarian award

By Natalia Sperry @Natalia_Sperry

The United Nations Association of Northern Colorado will recognize Colorado State University professor Brett Bruyere with its 2017 International Humanitarian Award for his service in connecting Northern Colorado with sustainable development efforts in the Samburu Women’s Village in Kenya.

The award will be presented Dec. 10 on International Human Rights Day at the Council Tree Library at 3:00 p.m. The event is open to the public and will also feature a silent auction with the proceeds benefiting the Samburu Youth Education Fund and the refugee school in Kenya that the UNA-NOCO chapter has adopted.

Bruyere, an associate professor of environmental communication, co-founded the Samburu Youth Education Fund, which provides access to secondary schools for youth from the Sambaru region. Its mission is to provide equitable opportunities for Samburu youth to enhance their leadership development and problem-solving skills through educational scholarships and civic involvement opportunities, according to the organization’s

website.

The Samburu are a tribe of nomadic pastoralists who live in North Central Kenya, according to UNA-NOCO. Thanks in part to Bruyere’s efforts, the women in the village have brought in revenue from their bead work. Bruyere’s work focuses on collaborating with local communities and universities in east Africa in sustainability planning, environmental education and training of conservation professionals.

UNA-NOCO is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building understanding and support for the ideals of the United Nations among American people.

Its educational and humanitarian campaigns are intended to give people the opportunity to have a strong influence at a local level.

“This is a proud moment for us,” said Bob Jeffrey, president of UNA-NOCO and sponsor of the annual award, in a press release from UNA-NOCO. “... We have the opportunity to highlight a local citizen who is helping achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.”

Natalia Sperry can be reached at news@collegian.com.

By Samantha Ye @samxye4

The activity levels of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season were considerably higher than what was predicted by Colorado State University’s Tropical Meteorology Project forecast team.

In their 2017 seasonal hurricane forecasts summary and verification report, authors Philip Klotzbach, research scientist, and Michael Bell, associate professor from the department of atmospheric science, attributed above-average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic and reduced levels of vertical wind shear, or the change of wind direction and speed with height, in creating a season defined by devastating hurricanes such as Harvey and Irma.

“The 2017 hurricane season was extremely active,” said Klotzbach in an article by SOURCE. “Overall, our predicted numbers from our early July and August issue dates for named storm and hurricane formations were relatively close to what was observed, but our early season predictions and our predictions for integrated metrics such as Accumulated Cyclone Energy were far too low.”

The forecast team’s first extended range seasonal forecast, issued in April, projected below-average hurricane activity in

the Atlantic basin, based on predictions that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation would transition to either weak or moderate El Niño conditions by the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season.

According to SOURCE, El Niño conditions include increased levels of vertical wind shear, which “tear apart” developing hurricanes.

But, the dynamic and statistical models for El Niño did not materialize. Instead, La Niña conditions developed, reducing vertical wind shear.

As a result, the April report underestimated hurricane activity by a significant amount, projecting only 11 named storms, four hurricanes and two major hurricanes. According to the final report, the observed season had actually 17 named storms, 10 hurricanes and six major hurricanes.

Of the six major hurricanes, both Harvey and Irma made landfall in the continental United States, the first time since 1851 that two category-four hurricanes hit the nation in one year.

The second extended range seasonal forecast, issued in June, came closer with 14 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes, after factoring in diminishing prospects of an El Niño and a warming Atlantic.

The forecast team continued to refine their forecasts with July and August updates, increasing activity predictions with each. According to the final report, the six consecutive two-week forecasts issued August through October — the peak months of the Atlantic hurricane season — generally verified well.

Combinations of precursor signals such as ENSO, Atlantic sea surface temperatures and sea level pressures among others, can create forecast potentials of around 50-60 percent. The forecast team has 70 years’ worth of such data to go off of, which they consistently adapt to new forecast schemes.

“Keeping up with the changing global climate system, using new data signals, and exploring new physical relationships is a full-time job,” the authors wrote in the final report. “Success can never be measured by the success of a few real-time forecasts but only by long-period hindcast relationships and sustained demonstration of real-time forecast skill over a decade or more.”

The Tropical Meteorology Project will release their first outlook for the 2018 hurricane season Dec. 13.

Samantha Ye can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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OPINION Tuesday, December 5, 2017

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COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

Denver is taking the correct approach to solving opioid epidemic Spencer Reed @sbreed14

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The state of Colorado is undoubtedly facing a massive opioid crisis.

Heroin related overdose deaths have steadily been increasing in Colorado over the past decade, and there’s no indication that this trend will come to an end any time soon.

The Denver City Council has recognized this and recently made propositions in favor of semi-private locations where heroin users could legally get their fix.

The thing is, drug abuse will always be an issue. In order to stop abuse, targeting the source of that misuse is the first step. However, the source of drug use and subsequent addiction is a problem rooted in the lives of the disadvantaged.

Drugs have commonly been used as an escape. When there is no real escape from the scenario that some people are given, they turn to narcotics as an outlet.

In essence, removing drug addicts from the streets would require society to delve into the many reasons why people choose to do drugs in the first place. This is why Denver is making the right decision in proposing provisions that would make semi-private heroin booths a legal practice.

The environment of these heroin-friendly locations would be safer and cleaner than the common places where users generally choose to indulge. Just last year, 20 people were found dead in Denver public parks, alleys, or bathrooms as the result of a heroin overdose. If offered a safe place to go, opioid users would be less-likely to overuse in public spaces.

Legal heroin clinics would likely have the same aesthetics of a common doctor’s office, according to The Denver Post.

These institutions would have staffers with jobs intended to ensure the safety of the clients who come in. They would hand

out clean needles and perhaps distilled water as well. The provisions would still allow users to bring their own drugs to inject, though.

HEROIN RELATED DEATHS IN COLORADO IN 2016 ■ 228 total deaths ■ 74 deaths occurred in Denver

specifically ■ 20 deaths occurred in secluded areas such as alley ways and bathrooms

There is no place in the United States where heroin use is legal, even at a supervised level like Denver City Council has proposed. However, cities such as Seattle and San Francisco are currently ahead of Denver in their plans to make legal supervised heroin use a reality.

These American cities are trying to follow in the footsteps of cities in Canada and Europe, which have experienced lower opioid related deaths after the incorporation of their su-

pervised injection sites. Seventy-five studies testing for a link between an increase drug use or crime with the legal semi-private heroin use were reviewed. The studies came back showing no relationship.

This would appear to be a win-win—less people will lose their lives to heroin use, and the well-being of others will not be in jeopardy. Considering that over 220 people overdosed from heroin in the state of Colorado last year, with 174 occurring in Denver, it makes sense for Denver City Council to propose such measures.

Moving forward, Denver is set to open a pilot site after a 10-member legislative committee voted unanimously in favor of the supervised location. Denver City Council president Albus Brooks paid a visit to Vancouver, British Columbia, to grasp a better understanding of their injection clinic. Vancouver’s clinic was the first to open in North America. Denver’s pilot site, and the visit made by Brooks, are an effort to solve some of the harshest questions facing Colorado’s own opioid emergency.

The discussion on wheth-

er Denver will be opening semi-supervised heroin clinics will be picked back up in January. A regular session will be held by the General Assembly, where the issue will be addressed directly.

The opioid crisis in Colorado exists without question.

One clinic with a goal to reduce harms associated with drug use, the Harm Reduction Action Center, is located across the street from the state Capitol. This clinic alone collects around 3,500 used syringes every morning. Legal heroin clinics could not only help clean the streets of used needles, but also help Denver’s overdosed opioid users.

It cannot be overlooked that the opioid situation is a state-wide issue, and other communities throughout Colorado could be taking the measures that Denver City Council are planning to put forth.

Taking into account that Fort Collins is exponentially growing, Foco could very well be the next home to opioid related deaths if precautions aren’t taken.

Spencer Reed can be reached at letters@collegian. com.

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OPINION Tuesday, December 5, 2017

COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

High flu rates should urge Coloradans to get vaccinated Michelle Fredrickson @mfredrickson42

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A total of 210 people have been hospitalized with the flu in Colorado this year, and flu season is only a quarter of the way done.

This is more than three times the amount of people who were hospitalized for flu last year. This time last year, only 64 people had been hospitalized. The experts are concerned that it will be a severe season. The best thing anyone can do to avoid this possibly deadly disease is get vaccinated.

The cause of these excessive hospitalizations is attributable to several factors like the virulence of the strains this year, but there is one thing people can do about it - get their flu shots. Coverage this year is still low.

There are several reasons people don’t get their flu shots – they don’t see it as important, they don’t think they have time or they believe the false rumors about the safety of the flu shot.

Let me clarify some of those issues. Flu shots are important.

Yes, you do have time; it hardly takes a minute. And, the safety of the flu shot has been proven again and again and again.

What is the flu?

Many people understandingly get confused on what exactly flu is. This is because what people refer to as the stomach flu is actually completely a different disease from the real flu. The vomiting stomach bug often called ‘the flu’ or ‘the stomach flu’ isn’t the flu at all. It’s just an unfortunate stomach virus that usually passes on its own in a few days.

The actual flu is short for influenza, a much more serious disease than what people generally think of when they think of the flu. It’s not always characterized by vomiting, which is what people typically associate with the flu. Influenza is much more than that – it’s a high fever, it’s a nasty cough, and it’s whole body pain. It lasts much longer than a stomach bug. The actual influenza virus

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can last for weeks, and it can be fatal. No student can afford to be on their back for weeks, let alone afford a hospitalization.

There are many different varieties of influenza, and scientists predict the strains we’ll experience each flu season by a strong global surveillance, watching disease movements and trends. Every flu shot includes a vaccination for at least three different strains.

Can I get the flu from a flu shot?

No. A common misbelief is that people can get the flu from the flu shot. This is actually completely impossible. The type of virus contained in a flu shot is either inactive – that is, a dead virus that is incapable of causing disease – or without an actual flu virus at all. It is absolutely impossible for the vaccine to give a person the flu. This has been proven in many studies as well, in case the design of the shots wasn’t enough.

The people who use personal anecdotes of getting sick after the flu shot probably have an entirely different respiratory illness, or they were exposed to the virus beforehand. Viruses take a few days to incubate in the body before symptoms

show, so it’s very likely a person who got sick after getting the flu shot had been infected a few days prior.

Some people do have mild reactions to a shot. The most common is just soreness.

While the possibility of a severe reaction does exist, it is extremely rare and usually occurs very soon after vaccination, so treatment is accessible.

Why get flu shots?

It’s important to get a flu shot because it protects people from the likely strains of the flu.

But it’s important to get them consistently, every single year.

The body produces antibodies to the killed virus in the shot. This produces an immunity that, for a healthy person, can last for years.

So once a person has been vaccinated against one strain of the flu, they will be protected against that strain for a long time. There are just a lot of strains of the flu, which is why it’s important to get a flu shot every year.

In my undergrad, I interviewed a doctor about the importance of getting flu shots.

He told me a story of the 2008 swine flu pandemic, when the H1N1 strain hospitalized and

killed people. Many students were being admitted for the flu every day. But he realized that people who had been vaccinated several years ago weren’t getting sick. He went back and checked the records of the flu from that year, and realized they were protected by the flu shot they got years earlier.

This illustrates why it matters to consistently get a flu shot. It can provide protection not only this year, but sometime down the road as well.

Where can I get a flu shot?

Students with the CSU health insurance can stop by the new medical building and get a free flu shot. Students on any other insurance can get their flu shots for free at most pharmacies and drug stores like Rite Aid and Walgreens. It is easy, nearly painless, and well worth it to protect students against an illness that could put them out of school for two weeks at best, and kill them at worst.

Stop the excuses and go get that flu shot. It might just save your life.

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

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SPORTS Tuesday, December 5, 2017

SWIM & DIVE

Rams build team camaraderie for second half of season

By Tyler Johnson @TylerGjohnson20

Beginning in October and running through the NCAA championships in March, the college swimming season is one of the most grueling schedules in college athletics.

With such a long schedule, the hundreds of hours of practice can become dry and monotonous. Luckily, Colorado State head coach Christopher Woodard and the rest of the coaching staff have devised some ways of keeping practice light and make sure the athletes are having fun.

“This week we are starting

Ram Rally,” Woodard said. “Two or three of our athletes will lead the team in a hype up.”

This hype up has taken several different forms in the past including songs, cheers and poetry. In addition, the team also participates in something called “winners circle” every Thursday.

This give the swimmers a chance to give recognition to each other for accomplishments both in and out of the pool.

These activities are intended to help the swimmers mesh and become a closer unit. This is all in preparation for the second half of the season starting after winter break. The first half of the season saw a young Rams

team struggle to gain consistent traction.

More importantly, though, it also saw the emergence of the future for the women’s swimming and diving team.

Sophomore Marie Goodwin has been a bright spot for the team all season including her performance against Houston for which earned her Mountain West Swimmer of the Week recognition. In the meet, Goodwin won three individual events, scoring 27 of the team’s 122.5 points.

Going into her second year, Goodwin has become more comfortable in the pool, ranking in the top three in the Mountain

West in many of her events.

“Freshman year was all about learning,” Goodwin said.

“How to be a college student and how to be a student-athlete.”

Goodwin was quick to complement her teammates for the leadership they all bring to the team. Whoever is having the best day will take on the duty of making sure everyone is trying their best.

“I think the captain in our group, Ida (Donohue), has done a really great job this year of keeping everyone positive,” Goodwin said. “Also, Tonicia Thomas has been a vocal leader for us this year. She has really been able to get us hyped up.”

After finishing the fall portion of their schedule, the Rams will enter winter training, which starts now and extends until their next meet against Fresno State, San Diego State and New Mexico in California on Jan. 8.

This training can be a taxing time for swimmers as they spend some of their winter break in the pool training instead of at home with family. However, with a supporting coaching staff and strong team leadership, the Rams hope to be ready for a strong second half of their season.

Tyler Johnson can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

CSU swimmer during the butterfly event. Colorado State swam against University of Denver Saturday afternoon. PHOTO BY ERICA GIESENHAGEN COLLEGIAN

HOCKEY

CSU club hockey drops two at home to UNLV

By Evan Grant @EGrantSports

The Colorado State club hockey team faced tough competition over the weekend against No. 12 UNLV, dropping two games to the Rebels.

The first game did not go the Rams’ way as they struggled out of the gate against the Rebels. UNLV scored a goal early on in the first period and the Rams were never able to recover or gain any momentum back from that.

Following the first goal, UNLV scored two more during the first period to take a 3-0 lead at the end of the period.

The second period did not change fortunes for the Rams.

After even play left the teams scoreless for the first half of the period, UNLV slid one past CSU’s goalie. UNLV added another goal before the end of the period to take a 5-0 lead into the break.

The Rebels went on to score one more goal in the third period to seal their 6-0 win over the Rams.

“We had a slow start we were never able to recover from,” CSU head coach Jeff Degree said. “They’re a very skilled team and a very fast team, but I feel that the game was closer than what the score indicated.”

The second game was a much closer battle between the two teams.

UNLV opened up the scoring in the game with a goal in the first period to take a 1-0 lead. CSU responded with a quick strike from Alec Orme to tie the game 1-1.

Following Austin Ansay’s return from penalty, CSU forward Ben Joseph gave the Rams their first lead of the weekend with four minutes left in the first period.

Only a minute later, however, UNLV responded to tie the game 2-2 at the end of

the first period.

The Rams and Rebels exchanged goals in the second period, beginning with a tally from Ansay before UNLV tied it again before the end of the period.

CSU started the third period with a power play, but were unable to capitalize on the advantage during that time. When the power play ended, UNLV took control of the momentum and scored two more goals on CSU to wrap up a 5-3 victory.

“We played a very strong game,” Degree said. “I was pleased with the way we played, our effort was great, but the power plays killed us.”

With their two losses this weekend, CSU sits at 7-14-20 on the season. They have a long break before returning to the ice on Jan. 18 to play the University of Arkansas at the EPIC Center in Fort Collins.

Evan Grant can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

CSU prepares for crucial road trip against Arkansas, Oregon

By Eddie Herz @Eddie_Herz

The Colorado State men’s basketball team will begin its final road trip of nonconference play on Tuesday with the first of two difficult road games.

Fresh off a significant 7263 victory over in-state rival CU, the Rams (4-4) will face two Power Five opponents in the span of four days. CSU’s upcoming road trip will begin with a Tuesday night matchup against Arkansas, kicking off a home-and-home series between the Rams and Razorbacks. Following the Arkansas contest, CSU will head to Eugene, Oregon to conclude its road trip against the Oregon Ducks.

Arkansas and Oregon are each coming off successful seasons in which both programs won at least one game in the NCAA Tournament.

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The Razorbacks returned their second and third leading scorers from last year’s March Madness run in Daryl Macon and Jaylen Barford. In addition, Arkansas welcomed back fifth leading scorer Anton Beard.

After losing its top player, Dusty Hannahs, and leading rebounder, Moses Kingsley, the returning trio of seniors previously mentioned are now Arkansas’ go-to players.

Barford, Macon and Beard have paved the way for the Razorbacks from a scoring standpoint, contributing 54.4 percent of Arkansas’ scoring per game. Each of the three seniors is averaging at least 12.3 points per game.

Freshman forward Daniel Gafford has made an immediate impact for the Razorbacks as well. Gafford is averaging 11.7 points per game and is leading Arkansas in rebounds, with an average of 5.7 per game. Gafford was a four-star recruit prior to the season and cracked ESPN’s

Top 100 incoming freshmen list at 47th overall.

The Razorbacks began the season 4-0 before dropping two of their last three games to fall to 5-2 overall. Arkansas suffered a 91-65 defeat to 6-1 Houston on the road in its last game.

The Razorbacks and Rams have never faced each other.

While beating Arkansas would provide CSU with its largest resume-building win of the season so far, the Razorbacks enter as heavy favorites in front of their home crowd.

Currently, Arkansas is a 16.5-point favorite over the Rams.

Three days after playing Arkansas, CSU will head to the pacific northwest to face Oregon on Friday night.

Similar to Arkansas, the Ducks began the season by winning four straight before scuffling as of late.

Boise State defeated Oregon on its home court last Friday to snap the Ducks’ 46game home winning streak.

The loss also handed Oregon its second straight loss and third in its last four games. The Ducks now sit at 5-3 overall.

Oregon lost an immense amount of key pieces from its deep NCAA Tournament run last season, during which the Ducks lost to North Carolina in the Final Four.

The Ducks’ four leading scorers from the 2016-17 season (Dillon Brooks, Tyler Dorsey, Chris Boucher, and Jordan Bell) are now all on NBA rosters. The four players accounted for 67.6 percent of Oregon’s scoring last season.

Boucher and Bell were the Ducks’ leading rebounders, as well.

Dylan Ennis, who averaged 10.9 points per game last season, also graduated after last season. The most significant contributor from last season that returned to Eugene is Payton Pritchard, who averaged 7.4 points per game last season.

Prichard is now the leader of Oregon’s inexperienced squad. The sophomore guard is leading the team in both minutes played (32.6 per game) and scoring (16.4 per game). Prichard has gotten a lot of help from a player very familiar to CSU, New Mexico transfer Elijah Brown.

Brown averages 12.9 points per game for the Ducks and has scored at least 14 in each of his last three games. Brown is just one of three transfers that has seen success on Oregon

Prentiss Nixon (11) and Nico Carvacho (32) celebrate after a basket during the second half of the Rams’ 72-63 win over Colorado. PHOTO BY JAVON HARRIS COLLEGIAN

so far this season. The other two are Georgetown transfer Paul White and Illinois State transfer Mikyle McIntosh.

White and McIntosh have consistently contributed in their first years of eligibility with the Ducks. White is averaging 11.7 points per game followed by McIntosh at 8.4.

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The Arkansas game will tip off at 6 p.m. MT on Tuesday and can be seen on SEC Network.

The Rams and Ducks will begin at 8 p.m. MT on Friday night and will be televised on Pac-12 Network.

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LYRIC MOVIE REVIEW

‘Three Billboards’ is a dark, engaging battle Dance Capstone Concert

By Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri @dudesosad

In “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri,” life is an ongoing war.

Battle lines are drawn. An already fragmented community is further disrupted, and while these ideas of struggle further the movie, these battle lines make it hard to explore character.

The movie’s protagonist is Mildred Hayes, a single mother, played by Frances McDormand.

Hayes lives in the fictitious community of Ebbing, Missouri. She lost her daughter, Angela, seven months ago to a combined rape and murder. On top of that, Angela was set on fire. Hayes is angered by the ineptness of the local police department in investigating the case. The department is headed by the dying Chief William Willoughby, played by Woody Harrelson.

Hayes decides to rent out three decrepit billboards outside town. She turns them into a form of protest. Each one reads, respectively, “Raped while dying,” “And still no arrests” and “How come Chief Willoughby?”

This is a seemingly mild action for Hayes. Hayes’ speeches are laced with invectives. Hayes and the other characters also rely on violence as a form of defense and empowerment. And there is sig-

nificant backlash from a community in which Chief Willoughby is popular.

Some of the violence is easily predictable, such as the billboards being burned. In other cases, it provides dark, unique and sometimes comic fodder. In one scene, Hayes drills a hole in a dentist’s finger after he makes remarks about the billboard situation.

But that is nothing compared to the bigoted, inept Officer Dixon, who enforces justice his own way. In one revealing scene, truncheon in hand, Dixon goes into an ad agency. He beats the owner and throws him out the window.

The owner’s crime? Renting Hayes the billboard space.

Dixon is particularly symbolic of the movie’s reliance on tropes.

Characters are all too frequently villainous. Stereotypes abound.

This is particularly true of the police force. When characters redeem themselves, these changes lack utter credibility. They feel contrived. I specifically wanted to see more development with regard to Chief Willoughby. He is a character with fascinating contradictions.

On one hand, Willoughby is determined to defend his territorial imperative.

Yet Willoughby also takes his daughters fishing and jokes about Oscar Wilde with his wife. His

impending death is a powerful antagonist, but its effects could have been further explored.

How did Willoughby’s fate shape his tenure as police chief?

How did it impact his initial interactions with Hayes? Developing these themes could have made for a stronger movie.

Another failing of the movie is its unwillingness to explore Hayes’ relationship with her daughter before she died. While Angela might be dead, she strongly informs her mother’s actions in the present.

However, we get only one poorly executed flashback scene.

Should you see this movie? If you like dark, comical fare.

In the scene, mother and daughter argue over the family car. Angela wants to take the car but Hayes refuses, telling Angela to walk.

“I hope I get raped on the way,” Angela says. Of course, we know what ultimately transpires. This feels like the heavy hand of the screenwriter at work.

That alone summarizes the movie’s focus. More focus on the backstories of Ebbing’s people would have made for compelling material. This is a movie with immense power and potential, but it surrenders to clichés instead.

Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com

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By Ashley Potts @ashleypotts09

Watching a dance concert is a great way to take your mind off finals.

Students in the dance program at Colorado State University will put on the fall edition of the Dance Capstone Concert this weekend.

The dance capstone requires students to choreograph and perform a solo piece, lasting four to seven minutes, and a group piece, lasting eight to 12 minutes.

The students must also select the costumes, music and theme for the show.

The concert will feature the three students graduating this semester. Shannon Gerney, Emily Kaiser and Julianna Williams constructed this show from the ground up and chose the theme “Places Between.”

The theme reflects the transition and change of moving from one phase into the next, as they are preparing to do upon graduation.

“As a graduating senior, I’m very much in an in between place,” Gurney said in a press release from the dance program.

“I’m still a student, but at the same time, I need to look toward

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The performances will take place Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the University Center for the Arts. Tickets are free for CSU students. For more information visit smtd.colostate.edu.

Ashley Potts can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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FORT COLLINS LIFE

College student’s guide using to essential oils

By Sarah Ehrlich @sarahehrlich96

Winters in Colorado are notoriously harsh.

The dry air and icy temperatures do a number on your skin and emotional wellbeing.

A solution to those winter blues is essential oils, an alternative remedy more people are picking up on.

Kassie Nelson, a senior health and exercise science major at CSU, is a long-time user of essential oils and has found them useful for many maladies such as nausea, insomnia, pain, colds, asthma and depression. She uses peppermint, lavender, vetiver, orange, eucalyptus and many other oils, she said.

“I can use peppermint oil instead of my rescue inhaler for asthma because it is just as effective, but I’m not inhaling steroids, so it’s so much better for me,” Nelson said.

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For general health “Thieves” is a popular blend consisting clove, lemon, cinnamon, eucalyptus and rosemary. This blend was made by grave robbers during the 14th Century plague who needed something to protect their bodies from the scents of death. Since it is 2017 and there is no plague in sight, you can use this oil to combat respiratory and digestion problems, inflammation and stress.

For stress and studying Reading the same line in your textbook over and over with no retention means it is time for rosemary. This oil helps with concentration and memory, and is backed up by many scientific studies. Have writer’s block or need to cram for a test? Citrus scents can help with creativity, staying calm and helping you stay awake for late nights and dreaded 8 a.m. classes.

“This oil is very mentally stimulating,” said aromatherapist Leesa Balik of Golden Poppy Apothecary. “If you’re run down or need to feel good about yourself, citrus oil is both calming and uplifting and can help in stressful situations.”

For sleep Sleep is a college student’s best friend, but sometimes stresses of life can make it hard to slow the brain down and fall asleep. Foresttype scents tend to help bring you back down to Earth so you can properly recharge and reconnect.

Frankincense calms the mind and improves your body’s natural healing process, which equals a healthier sleep. Cedar is cost friendly and supports healthy

Essential oils can be used topically and aromatically. Because they are so potent, it is not recommended to ingest directly, but rather ingest them in tea form. Golden Poppy Apothecary offers many shelves of special tea blends, shown here. PHOTO BY SARAH EHRLICH COLLEGIAN

function of the pineal gland, which releases melatonin. This scent tends to be harsh, so mixing with lavender, another sleepy-time oil, is a popular remedy for insomnia.

For skin problems Living in the West brings cold and dry months that can take an effect on skin health. Salus Bath and Body employee Miriam Taour recommends hemp lotion to help. Hemp has an essential fatty acid that is similar to human skin lipids and is great for

moisturizing.

“Hemp lotion is a great base to add any type of essential oil you want to it,” Taour said. “This gives you a bit of aromatherapy without taking a lot of time out of your day.”

Pesky breakouts are a sign of stress, sleep deprivation or hormonal imbalance—things college students tend to deal with the most. Tea tree acts as an antiinflammatory while clary sage can help balance hormones. It is

important to remember these oils are concentrated and should be diluted with a favorite face wash or oil.

Because essential oils are natural, most people do not realize the power of them in that they are sometimes just as effective if not more so than pharmaceuticals.

Research is important here, and Fort Collins is a great point of reference for natural medicine.

Sarah Ehrlich can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

have your attention. Slow to avoid roadblocks and barriers; sidestep them or wait.

Handle urgent deadlines, and postpone the rest.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — 8 — Listen closely to your partner. Avoid automatic reactions, and allow time to cool irritations. Avoid timesucking arguments, and handle what’s happening now.

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concerns for later. Clean and organize your space, and settle into it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — 7 — Engage in private conversations to refine public statements. Writing projects provide satisfying results, although distractions could slow progress.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — 9 — Focus on short-term financial goals. Strategize and plan. Share resources within your networks. Figure out how to get what you need with what you have.

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— Relax and enjoy peaceful moments in privacy. Meditate on where you’ve been and where you’re going. Do what seems right, even if nobody else knows.

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— 7 — You may encounter blocked roads in your exploration. Slow down and look around to discover alternate routes. Sometimes deviations can provide hidden treasure.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — 7 — Focus on short-term financial objectives. Make sure your family has what’s needed.

Think outside the box. Stay in communication. Share, barter and trade.

7 — Collaborate with friends to go further. Focus on community efforts for benefit now. Handle urgencies and leave long-term planning for later.

— 8 — Professional puzzles

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — 9 — There’s plenty of work. Postpone what you can to focus on immediate priorities. Guard your health and well-being while keeping (or changing) your promises.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

— 7 — Relax, and take it easy.

Don’t give up if what you try doesn’t work. Anticipate obstacles. Exceptional patience may be required.

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