Vol. 128, No. 127 Monday, April 29, 2019

Vol. 128, No. 127 Monday, April 29, 2019

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ARTS & CULTURE

Tony Frank emails 1,000-page manifesto to students

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The crowd and police at the January 1970 demonstration against Brigham Young University in Moby Arena. PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

Notable moments of CSU history

1969-70: The Rolling Stones, protests rock Moby Arena

By Ravyn Cullor & Dorina Vida @CSUCollegian

Over its 150-year history, Colorado State University has seen triumphs and tribulations.

Hidden within archival photos and aging copies of The Collegian are stories of cultural movements, moments in history and the lives of students.

Moby Arena has seen some of CSU’s most notable historical moments. Below are just two of the events that took place in its halls and on its court.

The Rollings Stones rock Moby Arena As Colorado State University nears the end of its 149th year, The Collegian looks back at some truly remarkable moments in the University’s past. One particular night

of remembrance was Friday, Nov. 7, 1969, when The Rolling Stones played a concert at what was then called the Moby Gym. According to archive staff, who aided The Collegian in obtaining information from CSU’s University Historic Photograph Collection, $35,000 were paid to have the British rock band come and play a single concert for the University. This concert also marked the opening

night of one of the band’s many U.S. tours.

According to archive staff, the opening acts were Terry Reid and B. B. King. One review of the show said that B.B. King stole the show while The Rolling Stones were only average. A different reviews praised the Stones and said that King and his band were too commercialized.

According to archive documents, the appearance of The Roll-

ing Stones at CSU can be accredited to American rock concert promoter Barry Fey. Fey booked the band’s tour before he was able to get a venue in Denver, all of which were booked at the time. As such, Fey decided to approach the program director at CSU about renting out Moby Gym.

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Plasma Canvas, a punk band that describes themselves as loud, catchy and abrasive, performs at Hodi’s Half Note Friday night for the 11th annual FoCoMX. Plasma Canvas is based in Fort Collins and spread a message of inclusivity. READ THE STORY ON PAGE 13. PHOTO BY JULIA TROWBRIDGE COLLEGIAN

overheard on the plaza “He’s just got this ‘I eat my own a**’ kind of attitude.”

“Crap is still copyrightable.”

“It’s 2019. You can do whatever you want.

You’ll only get stoned in 50% of America.”

“No one’s cute enough to excuse racism.”

Have you recently overheard something funny on campus? Put your eavesdropping to good use. Tweet us @CSUCollegian and your submissions could be featured in our next paper!

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Take Back the Night sheds light on prevalence of campus sexual violence

By Delaney Allen @DelaneyAllen0

Although daunting, the stage overlooking the Sutherland Community Garden Thursday night was a safe and judgment-free space for survivors to share stories of their sexual assault.

The annual Take Back the Night event, coordinated by the Women and Gender Advocacy Center and Campus Feminist Alliance, returned to Colorado State University to conclude Sexual Assault Awareness month.

“I think we’re doing a good job of trying to expose that sexual violence happens and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s a tremendous barrier for obtaining a degree,” said Monica Rivera, the director of the WGAC. “We really are serious about student success, so we need to be talking about sexual violence and the impact it has.”

The event started with a “speak out” in the Sutherland Community Garden at the Lory Student Center. Survivors of sexual violence could choose to tell their stories on stage to the crowd.

After the speak out, attendees marched from campus to

Old Town Plaza, where they listened to keynote speaker Emma Sulkowicz, a former Columbia University student famed for their art project, “Mattress Performance.”

“Mattress Performance,” as Sulkowicz explained, was partly a senior-year project and partly in response to how Columbia discredited their allegations that they were sexually assaulted by another student.

“I was terrible at acting like the broken victim they wanted.”

EMMA SULKOWICZ KEY NOTE SPEAKER

Sulkowicz said Columbia University found their perpetrator “not responsible” after they reported the assault. Unsatisfied with the decision, Sulkowicz began to carry an extra-long twin mattress everywhere they went on campus.

“Mattress Performance,” Sulkowicz said, is a metaphor.

“I felt like I was metaphorically carrying the weight of the rape everywhere, so I did it with a mattress,” Sulkowicz said.

“The work was clear because it was straightforward.”

Sulkowicz ended up carrying the mattress for nine months, the duration of their senior year, and even into their college graduation ceremony in 2015.

Now, Sulkowicz is widely known as a performance artist and anti-rape activist.

Sulkowicz said, in the eyes of a university, the best way to prove your innocence as a survivor is to demonstrate that you had no agency.

Sulkowicz said they were instructed to shift their story into a version where they were “terrified” and “couldn’t move,” adding insult to injury. Sometimes, as a survivor, this version isn’t true, and revealing that you still have some agency can discredit your story.

“Though I’m an okay performance artist, I’m a terrible actor,” Sulkowicz said. “I was terrible at acting like the broken victim they wanted.”

Sulkowicz said their story was widely disregarded and misrepresented in the media.

“One headline at the time read, ‘Emma Sulkowicz carried her mattress everywhere she went in order to get her rapist expelled.’ I did not make ‘Mattress Performance’ in order to get him expelled,” Sulkowicz said. “I made it because I knew he wouldn’t be. I’d been taught

that art is self-expression.”

In a famous photo distributed by Getty Images, Sulkowicz carries the mattress alone, with two students walking behind them. Sulkowicz said that photographers would dissuade passersby from helping them carry the mattress for a more candid photo opportunity.

However, contrary to what the pictures may show, Sulkowicz said that people would often assist them with carrying the weight of the mattress.

RESOURCES ON CAMPUS: ■ Resources on CSU campus for

survivors or secondary survivors of sexual violence include the Victim Assistance Team.

■ Students can call the hotline at 970-492-4242 or meet with an advocate directly during regular business hours.

“The photos make it look solemn and grave, which in many ways it was, but people often overlook how silly it was for me to be carrying a mattress,” Sulkowicz said.

Sulkowicz further explained that the project was not meant to punish or shame their perpe-

trator, but rather to shed light on the emotional and mental weight carried by survivors of sexual violence.

“Women supporting other women is so important,” said Claire Hawkins, a community member who attended the event. “I have friends and family members who are survivors, and I want them to know that their experiences matter and they are heard if they want to be.”

Hawkins said that spreading awareness around the pervasiveness of sexual violence is an important step in supporting survivors.

“We are marching through the streets with a police escort.

People are noticing that,” Hawkins said. “Maybe one person was impacted by this today, and that’s what’s really important.”

“For us to succeed, our politics must be one of positivity, hope, and faith of people’s ability to change,” Sulkowicz said.

“Mattress Performance taught me that feminism should be just as groundbreaking as it is bridge-building, as stoic as it is compassionate, as serious as it is creative, as sad as it is joyful and as terrifying as it is adventurous, playful, and fun.”

Delaney Allen can be reached at news@collegian.com. Ravyn Cullor contributed to this report.

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History >> from page 1 Not wanting to take any financial risks, CSU agreed as long as they received money from both rent and gate payment. The athletic department got $1,000 for rent and $5,000 from their cut of the gate receipts.

Fey received another bill following the performance from CSU, this time charging him $6000 for the extensive clean-up and damage repair required as a result of the concert.

The archives staff provided The Collegian with another document: an invoice calculating the cost of the damages done to Moby Gym. Damages included removing cigarette burns from the gym floor, costing a $2,200 refinishing fee; $3,000 going to replacing the floor tarp; and $600 in damages to doors, windows, paints and restrooms.

There was great contention over the disputed money.

Archive staff said there were

months of legal negotiations that followed the presentation of the bill to Feyline Productions. The staff added it was generally said that a long-term distrust of the CSU administration was held by Barry Fey and other major concert promoters as a result of this.

According to archive staff, Fey said he would never bring another major band to CSU because of the way he and the band were treated by leaders in the athletic department. Other promoters have heard of his problems and shy away from CSU too.

The Rolling Stones mandated that no photographs be taken of the event, as such, The Collegian was unable to obtain any visuals from the concert.

1970 protest of BYU at basketball game leads to violence, 15 arrests On Feb. 5, 1970, an unapproved peaceful protest at a Colorado State University versus Brigham Young University basketball game erupted into violence and led to the arrest of 15 protesters, according to CSU’s archive staff and archived copies of The Collegian.

The protest was in response

to racist policies of the Mormon Church, which runs BYU, and followed a number of similar protests and game cancelations lead by San Jose State, according to a November 1969 Collegian article.

An Associated Students of CSU resolution asked the school to cancel the game with BYU, according to a Jan. 29, 1970 article. But Athletic Director Perry Moore declined to take action, stating that cancelation may lead to expulsion from playoffs.

“We here at CSU feel that since we are a state-owned school, believing in constitutional equality, we shouldn’t support a school that has racial discrimination,” said co-author of the resolution Pat Clisham.

According to Collegian articles, students from ASCSU, the Black Student Alliance and other groups tried to arrange a peaceful halftime protest with University administration twice, both times being told that the BYU Pom Pom Girls were already scheduled for half-time.

The night of the CSU vs. BYU games, the Pom Pom Girls were interrupted by 110 protesters, most of whom were reportedly Black, taking to the court, chanting and

waving signs. A group of 20 Fort Collins Police Department officers was sent onto the court in helmets and body armor and armed with nightsticks to break up the protest, according to archives.

“We here at CSU feel that since we are a stateowned school, believing in constitutional equality, we shouldn’t support a school that has racial discrimination.”

PAT CLISHAM CO-AUTHOR OF RESOLUTION

At this point the protest became violent, breaking into fights and resulting in a photographer from the Rocky Mountain News being knocked unconscious by a “large piece of iron” which was thrown onto the court. At one point, a flaming object was reportedly thrown onto the court, which caused no damage, and a number of slogans were scrawled on the floor in felt-

tipped marker. he FCPD drove the protesters through the southeast doors of Moby Arena, some reported shoving and hitting the protesters and arresting eight demonstrations, all of whom were white and one of whom was a woman, according to the archives.

CSU President A.R. Chamberlin responded to the protest by banning signs from athletic events and demanding a further investigation into who participated in the protest.

“People attending athletic contests are guests of the University and are here for the purpose of enjoying the announced athletic event,” Chamberlin said in a Feb. 9, 1970 edition of The Collegian.

“They are not here to partake or be subject to any demonstration.”

The investigation leads to a total of 15 arrests, some of which lead to convictions and sentences of 15-30 days in jail, according to the archives.

Ravyn Cullor and Dorina Vida can be reached at news@ collegian.com.

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CSU researchers predict less active 2019 hurricane season

By Emily Girschick @EGirschick

While it may not affect those in Colorado, Colorado State University researchers are actively looking into the coming hurricane season.

In their annual hurricane forecast, CSU researchers have predicted a less active upcoming hurricane season for the Atlantic. According to the published forecast, 13 named storms and five hurricanes, two being major (category 3, 4, or 5) are predicted. The average number of hurricanes is 6.4, with 2.7 of them being major.

The current forecast is preliminary and an expectation of what this year’s hurricane season will look like. The team responsible for the forecast is headed by Phil Klotzbach and includes Michael Bell, an associate professor on the CSU Tropical Meteorology Project, and graduate research assistant and Ph.D. student Jhordanne Jones.

“While we can predict the overall level of hurricane activity over the whole season with some skill, our forecast cannot be used to predict the location or intensity of individual storms,” Bell wrote in an email to The Collegian.

The prediction is the result of a combination of three models: a statistical model that accounts for oceanic and atmospheric predictors, an analog model that compares the current conditions to historical hurricane seasons and a dynamic model which is a combi-

nation of a numerical method and the statistical model.

As the hurricane season approaches and reaches its peak, the forecast will be updated.

“Current conditions show a very weak El Niño event…but we also have fairly cool Atlantic sea surface temperatures, which is also not favorable for hurricane activity.”

JHORDANNE JONES PH.D. STUDENT

“We update the forecast again at the beginning of the hurricane season in early June, and update again in July and early August,” Bell wrote. “We also do two-week forecasts of hurricane activity during the most active part of the season.”

There are two main environmental factors that make hurricane seasons more or less active. These factors are the El Niño event in the Pacific and the surface temperatures of the Atlantic. The weaker the El Niño event and the cooler the ocean surface temperatures, the less likely a hurricane season is to be active.

“Current conditions show a very weak El Niño event … but we also have fairly cool Atlantic sea surface temperatures, which are also not favorable for hurricane activity,” Jones said.

“As El Niño forecasting continues, the weak El Niño event will either continue or develop into a stronger El Niño event, and so we’ve maintained that there will be low hurricane activity this season”.

The annual hurricane forecast is presented by Klotzbach at the National Hurricane Conference every year in April, which is part of how the forecast is distributed. Although this hurricane season is predicted to be calmer, residents of hurricane-prone areas should still prepare for the season adequately.

“It might be an inactive season, but we always tell people that they should prepare as if there might be an active season because it only takes one storm to hit you (in) order for everything to be turned upside down,” Jones said.

As for Colorado being landlocked, this proves to be no difficulty for researchers, and might even help them. Most of the data used for research is obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting. Data is collected from radars, satellites and NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters where planes are sent directly into storms. This information is put into the aforementioned models.

“Being in Fort Collins does not make it difficult to do hurricane research, and has some advantages due to our proximity to the National Center for Atmospheric Research and

The remains of destroyed structures continue to littler the beach side of U.S. Hwy 98 in Mexico Beach, five months after Hurricane Michael made landfall in the small coastal community.

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(NOAA) facilities in Boulder,” Bell wrote. “Another advantage was articulated well by (professor) Bill Gray, who started the CSU hurricane forecasts, said that, ‘Storm surge can’t get you at 5,000 feet’”.

Gray started the annual CSU hurricane forecast and was a vital part of its continued success until his death in 2016. His original research is still used today and is part of the annual forecast. The forecast is a combination of years of previous research.

“A lot of this research is based on research that Dr. William Gray and Dr. Phil Klotzbach did way back when. Dr. William Gray’s research started in 1984 and that is also when our forecasts started,” Jones said. “It is a massive team effort and there have been a lot of students who also contribute to this effort over the years, so this is really a multi-year research effort.”

Emily Girschick can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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CSU business seminar runs ad campaign for nonprofit

By Emily Girschick @EGirshick

A group of Colorado State University students is currently working with a non-profit to help them sign up volunteers and gain advertising experience.

A new, experiential CSU business seminar is running the advertising campaign for non-profit organization Partners Mentoring Youth, which provides mentors to youth facing challenges in northern Colorado.

“The class is very new so we are just laying the groundwork for more advertising seminars to come,” wrote Brayan Montes, who is part of the Research and Campaign Book team and a senior business administration student, in an email to The Collegian.

Currently, the College of Business has limited opportunities for students to gain experience in advertising, which is why the advertising seminar aims to pave the way for future experiential seminars.

“This is an experiential class that is offered through the College of Business and we are ex-

cited to see more of this,” Montes wrote.

Kathleen Kelly, the professor of the seminar, reached out to Partners Mentoring Youth because of their need for student volunteers.

“Professor Kelly reached out to see if our organization had a need for a marketing project, and we determined that a mentor recruitment drive would be an incredible project that would give CSU students experience with marketing for a community nonprofit organization, while also benefiting Partners by bringing in volunteers,” wrote Vanessa Lewis, resource development director for PMY in an email to The Collegian.

The advertising seminar is comprised of nine students who work in three teams: Research and Campaign Book, Creative and Event Planning. The main goal of the advertising campaign is to sign up more volunteers for Partners Mentoring Youth, with a goal of 100 new volunteers. The campaign will be implemented via social media, event planning and a “personal selling campaign in the greek system”.

“With Dr. Kelly’s guidance and expertise we are develop-

Partners Mentoring Youth Resource Development Director Vanessa Lewis sits in her office April 12. “It’s been super interesting to really get fresh eyes on a lot of our marketing,” Lewis said. “We have a variety of connections to CSU, but it’s such a big institution. Figuring out other channels to reach out to students and let them know about our volunteer opportunities is really great.” PHOTO BY ANNA VON PECHMANN COLLEGIAN

ing and testing advertisements that would encourage someone (to) want to volunteer with PMY,” Montes wrote.

Partners Mentoring Youth’s mission is to provide mentoring to youth in the community who would not otherwise have

mentors to look up to. Every volunteer mentor undergoes a training process and spends an academic year engaging with a local child.

“We hope that this campaign helps connect more CSU students to our mentoring vol-

unteer opportunities. Many university students are looking for ways to engage with the Fort Collins community and to make a positive difference for the next generation,” Lewis wrote.

Emily Girschick can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Wife of Sri Lankan bombings ringleader among survivors of fatal raid

By Anthony David dpa

Police in Sri Lanka said on Sunday the wife of the suspected ringleader of the Easter bombings was among the survivors of a police raid in which 12 people were killed when three suicide bombers blew themselves up.

The wife of Mohammed Zaharan, the man believed to have led the suicide bombings that left more than 250 people dead in the capital Colombo, also survived the raid with her 4-year-old daughter, police said.

The father and two brothers of the suspected ringleader, who blew himself up in a Colombo hotel, were also among the 15 killed, including six children, during the raid on a house in eastern Sri Lanka on Friday night.

Police said they have since arrested another 48 suspects, including the brother of two of the suicide bombers, in island-wide searches over the weekend.

The brother was found hiding in a house close to where the suicide bombers lived in the Colombo suburb of Dematagoda. Their parents are also in custody.

“Two more ( ... ) persons directly involved in the bombings and their family members have been arrested,” police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said.

In response to the attacks, authorities have meanwhile announced a ban on all kinds of clothing that cover the face and prevent identification, such as niqabs and burqas.

A statement from the office of the president, which did not directly refer to Muslim female garb, burqa and niqab, said the ban on

face coverings was being introduced from Monday under new regulations brought under a state of emergency.

Two local extremist groups with foreign links have been accused of the bombings, and local intelligence agencies believe that the militants involved in the attacks were trained by foreigners.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in a statement that armed forces and police continued to find more weapons and explosives, and arrest people with links to the Easter Sunday bombings in three churches, three luxury tourist hotels and two other locations throughout the country.

A week after the Easter bombings that targeted worshippers in the island’s capital, most Christian churches across Sri Lanka cancelled services on Sunday due to security reasons.

The head of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, held a Mass restricted to clergy, but made arrangements to have it broadcast live on television and radio stations.

“Two more ( ... ) persons directly involved in the bombings and their family members have been arrested.”

RUWAN GUNASEKARA POLICE SPOKESMAN

A brief mass was held for a limited congregation outside St Anthony’s church in Colombo, where one of the suicide bombers blew himself up last Sunday. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and

Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was among those who attended it.

Following the deaths of 12 people and three suicide bombers during the Friday raid on a house in Samanthurai, about 225 miles east of the capital, a military spokesman said no military personnel or police suffered any casualties.

Islamic State had previously claimed that 17 police officers were killed or wounded by the extremist group’s militants on its Amaq mouthpiece.

A curfew was enforced in Samanthurai and two surrounding areas to facilitate security operations. A night curfew, which has been introduced in the rest of the country, will not be imposed on Sunday, police said.

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Richard Lugar, who led arms-control pacts in Senate, dies at 87

By Stephen Miller Bloomberg News

Richard Lugar, a six-term Republican senator from Indiana whose foreign-affairs and farm-policy dealings with Democrats represented a bygone era of bipartisanship, has died. He was 87.

The Lugar Center, a Washington-based think tank founded by the senator, said Lugar died peacefully on Sunday. The cause of death was complications from CIDP (chronic inflammatory demylinating polyneuropathy), a neurological disorder.

Lugar led Senate confirmation of treaties with the Soviet Union limiting nuclear weapons during the 1980s. After the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991, he and Democratic Senator Sam Nunn led the legislative effort to demolish weapons of mass destruction in the successor states.

Serving in the Senate from 1977 to 2013, Lugar was twice chairman of its Foreign Relations Committee and often traveled abroad on diplomatic and fact-finding missions.

“Our nation and our world are safer because of this statesman,” President Barack Obama said in awarding Lugar the Medal of Freedom in 2013. “And in a time of unrelenting partisanship, Dick Lugar’s decency, his commitment to bipartisan problem-solving, stand as a model of what public service ought to be.”

Anti-Tariff Senator On domestic policy, Lugar was the rare senator from a farm state who opposed agricultural subsidies, and from a manufacturing state who was against trade tariffs.

As chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee in 1996, he was

father of the so-called Freedom to Farm law that eliminated many government subsidies and regulations dating from the 1930s.

Wedding his agriculture and foreign-policy concerns, Lugar was an early supporter of federal research on ethanol, a gasoline substitute produced from corn, a major crop in Indiana.

“Farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes,” Lugar said in a 2005 speech.

“Our nation and our world are safer because of this statesman.”

BARACK OBAMA FORMER PRESIDENT

Originally elected as a conservative, Lugar developed a reputation as a moderate Republican with no qualms about working with Democrats on legislation. In 2007, he and then-Senator Obama cooperated on the Lugar-Obama proliferation and threat reduction initiative, aimed at preventing terrorists from getting weapons such as shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.

Lugar lost his bid for a seventh Senate term in 2012 when a challenger with strong Tea Party support defeated him in the Republican primary election.

Eagle Scout Richard Green Lugar was born on April 4, 1932, in Indianapolis, according to his Congressional profile. His parents, Marvin Lugar and the former Bertha Green, farmed more than 600 acres outside of Indianapolis.

Young Dick Lugar became an Eagle Scout and sold war bonds door-to-door, according to the 2012 biography “Richard G. Lugar: Statesman of the Senate” by John Shaw. He graduated first in his high-school class but lost when he ran for senior class president.

In 1954, Lugar earned a bachelor’s degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He won a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Pembroke College at the University of Oxford in England.

From 1957 to 1960, Lugar served in the U.S. Navy, where he became an intelligence briefer to Admiral Arleigh Burke, then chief of naval operations.

American Power “Burke was a mentor for me on how America as a world power makes a difference,” Lugar told his biographer.

Back in Indianapolis, Lugar managed the family farm and helped run a food-machinery business. He served on the school board and, in 1968, he was elected to the first of two terms as mayor.

His major accomplishment was merging Indianapolis with its wealthier suburbs, expanding the population by 50 percent and the area by a factor of four. He claimed the enlarged city would be better able to address challenges and fund operations, according to his biography.

Lugar was widely touted as President Richard Nixon’s favorite mayor, and Indianapolis received millions in federal block grants under the administration’s “New Federalism” program. He campaigned around the country for Nixon and delivered a keynote address at the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. After losing his first run for the U.S. Senate in 1974,

U.S. President Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana in the East Room at the White House on Nov. 20, 2013 in Washington, D.C. Lugar died Sunday, April 28. He was 87. PHOTO BY OLIVIER DOULIERY ABACA PRESS/TNS

Lugar encouraged speculation that he might run for president in 1976, according to contemporary news accounts.

Instead, he ran for the Senate again and won that year.

Presidential Bid In 1996, Lugar sought the 1996 Republican nomination for president, sporting the slogan “Nuclear security and fiscal sanity.” He struggled in early primaries and withdrew in March.

His 36 years in the Senate ended after Richard Mourdock, a Tea Party conservative, beat him in the 2012 Republican primary. In de-

feat, Lugar issued a statement excoriating the hard-right governing philosophy as “reflexive votes for a rejectionist orthodoxy and rigid opposition to the actions and proposals of the other party,” according to a New York Times article.

In retirement, he opened the Lugar Center, focused on global food issues and weapons of mass destruction.

Lugar was married to the former Charlene Smeltzer. They had four sons, Mark, Robert, John and David.

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Rabbi says synagogue gunman’s weapon jammed, preventing ‘a blood bath’

By Julia Wick, Sarah Parvini & Doug Smith Los Angeles Times

The rabbi wounded in the shooting at the Poway synagogue Saturday said the bloodshed could have been much worse had the gunman’s weapon not jammed.

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, speaking in an emotionally charged news conference Sunday in front of the Chabad of Poway, described the attack, which left one woman dead and he and two other people wounded.

He said the gunman opened fire, fatally wounding longtime congregant Lori Kaye, 60, and blowing off one of the rabbi’s fingers. Both of his hands were in bandages Sunday.

Goldstein said he feared the gunman, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, would enter another room where a large group was gathered for a memorial service or go out to where a group of children were playing.

“The best we can do to combat this is to grow, build, and be stronger, stronger and stronger.

We need to battle darkness with light.”

RABBI YISROEL GOLDSTEIN RABBI

But “miraculously, the gun jammed,” he said. At that point, an off-duty Border Patrol agent gave chase and fired on the gunman has he sped away in his car.

“It could have been a blood bath,” Goldstein said. “I don’t want to think of it.”

The rabbi said he had previously asked the Border Patrol agent to come to the temple armed, hoping that would provide an extra measure of protection.

Authorities arrested the suspected shooter, John T. Earnest, who they believe was motivated by hate and, a month ago, may have tried to burn down a mosque in nearby Escondido.

Investigators were checking the authenticity of an anti-Semitic screed the 19-year-old Rancho Penasquitos resident allegedly posted online before the 11:20 a.m. shooting.

The letter states a willingness to sacrifice “for the sake of my people.” The manifesto talks of planning the shooting, saying it was inspired by the gunmen who killed scores of people at a Pittsburgh synagogue and two New

Zealand mosques.

“How does a 19-year-old teenager have the audacity, the sickness, the hatred to publicize such anti-Semitism in his manifesto? How does he come here to a house of worship?” the rabbi said.

During the news conference, Goldstein said Kaye was a close family friend who had recently attended his daughter’s wedding.

Kaye was a former banker who helped Chabad of Poway finance construction of its campus.

Kaye “had unconditional love for all,” he said.

When the gunman fled, Goldstein said he saw Kaye lying on the floor, her husband trying to provide aid.

“In my own interpretation, Lori took the bullet for all of us,” Goldstein said.

Goldstein called the gunman a terrorist and said that he could not succeed.

“The best we can do to combat this is to grow, build and be stronger, stronger and stronger,” he said. “We need to battle darkness with light.”

He also said he was grateful for the huge outpouring of local support and thanked President Donald Trump, who he said called and spent 10 or 15 minutes speaking with him on the phone. Goldstein said Trump shared condolences with him and brought him great comfort.

The violence came exactly six months after a gunman killed 11 people and wounded seven during Saturday morning Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and underscored concerns about rising incidents of anti-Jewish hate.

Anti-Semitic incidents around the nation have been increasing since 2013, with the biggest all-time annual jump coming in 2017, when the tally climbed 57 percent to 1,986, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The majority of those incidents were harassment, which rose by 41 percent to 1,015 incidents, including 163 bomb threats against Jewish community centers and synagogues.

Vandalism rose by 86 percent to 952 cases. The number of physical assaults fell from 36 to 19.

Goldstein called on people to send a message.

“Go to your synagogue. We need to fill up those rooms. We need to show them that terrorism will not prevail,” Goldstein said, urging even the Jews who haven’t been to synagogue in a long while to show up next weekend in solidarity.

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Opinion | Monday, April 29, 2019

SERIOUSLY

Tony Frank sends 1,000 page manifesto as last email to campus

By Austin Fleskes @Austinfleskes07

Editor’s note: This is a satire piece from The Collegian’s opinion section. Real names may be used in fictitious/semi-fictitious ways. Those who do not read editor’s notes are subject to being offended.

As Tony Frank begins the process of leaving his current role as Colorado State University’s president, his final email to campus has certainly cemented his legacy.

Already known for his long emails sent to students and faculty throughout the year for various reasons, Frank set a precedent with his final email to campus: a 1,000-page manifesto detailing his life, his presidency and his aspirations for the future.

“I knew that my standard email of about seven lengthy paragraphs just wasn’t enough for my last one,” Frank said. “I knew that if I really wanted to make a name for myself in the eyes of the Colorado State community, I had to do something above and beyond. And by god, I think I have done just that.”

Frank said that work on the manifesto began in late 2018 when he announced he would be stepping down as CSU’s president. He added that he spent more than a few late nights perfecting his work.

When asked about why he decided to send it in an email to campus, Frank said it would be “against his brand” to do anything less.

“I knew that my standard email of about seven lengthy paragraphs just wasn’t enough for my last one.”

TONY FRANK UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT

“I connect with the campus most effectively through these emails,” Frank said. “So if I were to do anything else besides email it, it would be completely against everything I have built thus far.”

However, when emails hit the inboxes of students and faculty the general consensus was a lack of interest.

“I mean, I usually skim these emails, but this one I skimmed even harder,” said sophomore health and exercise science major Angela Garrickson. “It is certainly a power move but I don’t think anyone really cares.”

Garrickson is not the only that shares this lack of interest. Derek Henderson, a senior studying English, said that he had no idea that Frank even sent an email, as most of Frank’s

Outgoing Colorado State University President Tony Frank sends out his final email to students, staff and faculty: a 1,000-page manifesto expressing his hopes and dreams in extreme detail.

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emails are sent to his spam box.

Frustrated with the sheer lack of community interest, a disheveled and visibly frustrated Frank took to the plaza to hand out laminated copies of the manifesto in hopes that the campus community would want to pick up one of the threepound copies.

“My only question is how

much did he pay to print that?” asked Emily Warner, freshman civil engineering major. “I avoid single-page flyers like the plague on the Plaza, so you know there is no way in hell I am picking up a brick of text like that.”

After being ignored for several hours, Frank said that his next move is to nail the manifesto to the door of all buildings

on campus to try and spread his message.

“I just want people to read all my hard work,” Frank said. “So if I have to be this University’s Martin Luther to get people’s attention, then I will.”

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

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Sports | Monday, April 29, 2019

SOFTBALL

CSU softball takes series over San Diego with senior day walk off

By Junior Guerrero @juniorg45

After an emotional and bitter sweet final home series against San Diego State, the Rams are one win away from securing their second Mountain West Championship and tying the best record in CSU softball history.

The series kicked off Friday as the Rams looked to take care of business on their home field one last time. The Rams started early, scoring four runs in three innings. They continued their offensive tear, adding three more runs in the fifth inning and eventually ending the game with a walk off home run in the sixth.

The Rams took game one in a 9-0 run rule finish and looked to continue the success on Saturday in game two.

Game two got off to a slow start for the Rams. The Aztecs jumped out to an early 2-0 lead after two innings. The Rams knotted the game at 2 with a run in the third and fourth innings.

In the fifth inning, the Aztecs regained the lead with three runs and jumped ahead 5-2. Not only were the Rams down in the game, but they were also down a player. Junior Corina Gamboa left the game after getting hit in the face with the ball off the bat of an Aztecs player. Freshman Kaitlyn Cook took over at third base and made an immediate impact.

Not only did Cook field the ball and throw the runner out on her first play in the game, she also picked up her first career hit in the sixth inning that scored a run.

Down by two runs in the seventh inning, the Rams fell short of a comeback, only pushing across one run. With the series tied 1-1, the Rams looked to finish the Aztecs off in game three.

Sunday was senior day at Ram Field. Seniors Amber Nelson, Bridgette Hutton, Danni Klein, Isabella Navarro and Lauren Buchanan were honored on the field before the game. This would be that last game they would play in front of their home fans in Fort Collins and they planned to go out with a bang.

“Celebrating this senior class was something that we were all looking forward to,” Klein said. “Being together and celebrating what we’ve accomplished was really awesome.”

After some back-and-fourth in the first four innings, the game was tied 3-3. Both teams kept each other in check in the fifth and sixth innings until the Rams came up to bat in the bottom of the seventh.

Cook stepped up to the plate looking to finish the game. The crowd got loud due to the magnitude of the situation. Cook lined the ball to center, scoring a run and ending the game.

Celebration broke out on the field as her fellow teammates swarmed her, lifting Cook into the air as if she was a trophy. It was bittersweet that on senior day a freshman rose to the occasion to lift the Rams to a win.

“Celebrating this senior class was something that we were all looking forward to.

Being together and celebrating what we’ve accomplished was really awesome.”

DANNI KLEIN SENIOR OUTFIELDER

“I had a good feeling when Kaitlyn was coming up to bat and I knew something good was going to happen,” Nelson said.

“She works so hard and she deserves it … It’s great to see the future of this program and it’s going to be fun to watch her play in a couple of years.”

This group of seniors had played for each other every single time they’re on the field.

They consider each other family rather than teammates.

“It’s been a great ride… We really bond well together and we want the best for each other,” Buchanan said. “It’s been awesome to have the support and belief in one another.”

The group has great chemistry, despite their differences.

That has helped them lead the team this year.

“We definitely have amazing chemistry,” Hutton said. “We all lead in different ways and that’s what makes this team go round. We have each other’s back and we come out here and work hard everyday.”

The seniors are proud of the work they have put in as a team and for each other.

“We’ve left our blood, sweat and tears on that field and I’m so proud of my teammates,” Nelson said. “They’re like my sisters and we can count on each other for everything.”

After the successful home stand, the Rams will head to Boise, Idaho to take on the Broncos next weekend. They look to lock up the Mountain West and top the team’s best record in history.

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

Bridgette Hutton winds up fora pitch during the game against San Diego State. The Rams beat the Aztecs in a walk-off to win the weekend series 2-1. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN

Amber Nelson dives to tag an opponent out at home plate during the game against San Diego State. The Rams beat the Aztecs in a walk-off to win the weekend series 2-1. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN

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Sports | Monday, April 29, 2019

DENVER NUGGETS

Nikola Jokic’s magnificence propelled Denver past San Antonio

By TJ McBride Mile High Sports

What Nikola Jokic has been able to accomplish in his first ever playoff series is truly remarkable.

He posted video-game like stat lines game after game and carried the Denver Nuggets to their first playoff series win in a decade.

If you ask Michael Malone, Denver beating the Spurs in seven games just bolstered Malone’s already incredibly high opinion of Jokic.

“It has only strengthened my belief that he is a future Hall of Famer, he is an All-NBA player, and he is an MVP candidate,” Malone explained just under two hours before Game 7 tipped off when reflecting on Jokic’s greatness in his first-ever playoff series. “First time in the playoffs and this guy is going out there and playing at an unbelievably high level.

“I think we learned that Nikola Jokic is a special player. I knew he would play well, but I did not know that he would average near a triple double in seven games.”

Jokic did not just flirt with triple-double averages over Denver’s seven-game series against the Spurs, but actually ended up averaging a whopping 23.1 points, 12.1 rebonds, and 9.1 assists per game.

The only other player in NBA history to reach those averages over a full playoff series was Oscar Robertson 56 years ago.

As if that wasn’t enough, Jokic had a plethora of other incredible accomplishments as well. He joined Robertson, Charles Barkley, and Magic Johnson as the only players in NBA history to score 43+ points, grab 12+ rebounds and dish out 9+ assists in a single playoff game. Additionally, Jokic’s 14 assists in Game 1 were the second-most assists by a center in playoff history behind Wilt Chamberlain, who had 19 assists in a single playoff game in 1967.

Last but not least, in Game 4, Jokic became the only player in NBA history to accumulate 29 points, 12 rebounds, and eight assists without turning the ball over in a playoff game.

Simply stated, Jokic dominated and carried the second-seeded Nuggets past the San Antonio Spurs in hard-fought seven-game series. Now, the Nuggets are heading to the second round of the playoffs for the first time in 10 years because their Serbian Stallion carried them there.

“For a young player in his fourth year in his first playoffs, how confident does he look? How under control and poised does he look?”

Malone asked rhetorically. “He is playing like the best player in this series.”

There were many questions surrounding the Nuggets first-time

All-Star as Denver headed into the postseason, but in just seven games, Jokic not only answered those questions, but also silenced all doubters.

His offensive play style did not just translate well to the playoffs, but actually became even more lethal that in the regular season.

Then Jokic emerged not just as the engine to Denver’s offense, but also as their most consistent and productive two-way player. It did not matter if it was LaMarcus Aldridge, Jakob Poeltl, Rudy Gay, or anyone else on the Spurs roster that Jokic was defending; he had arguably his best seven-game stretch of defensive basketball of his career against San Antonio. Then, as the cherry on top, Jokic played at least 36 minutes in all but two games and never played less that 32 minutes. He actually ended up playing a massive 44 minutes in Game 7 to carry Denver to their series-sealing win.

“I think we learned that Nikola Jokic is a special player. I knew he would play well, but I did not know that he would average near a triple double in seven games.”

MICHAEL MALONE DENVER NUGGETS HEAD COACH

“We ask him to do so much so 44 minutes in itself is pretty remarkable in a Game 7 for a guy who has never played this many games,” Malone explained after Denver’s 90-86 win in Game 7. “Then you think about how much we ask him to do offensively and defensively.

Being the center piece of our offense — a guy that makes plays for everybody throughout the night — and defensively, he is guarding every pick and roll or in the post.”

As the series progressed, it became increasingly clear that the Nuggets were going to need Jokic to carry the load for them. Murray’s inconsistencies plagued Denver’s losses while the likes of Gary Harris, Will Barton, and Malik Beasley struggled to produce as they did in the regular season.

Because of that, Malone had to lean on his superstar center to carry the Nuggets to the promised land despite the fact that Jokic had never been in the playoffs before.

That led to Malone playing Jokic a career-high 44 minutes in a non-overtime game.

“I started questioning myself a little bit to start that 4th quarter,” Malone said as he reflected on how much he relied on Jokic to play big minutes in Game 7. “He missed his first three shots and I said, ‘you know what, maybe I should have

gotten him out and got him a quick break because maybe that fatigue is starting to kick in’, but then I said, ‘I cant take him out; I have to keep him in the game,’ becase even when he is not making shots, he has a tremendous impact on the game.

He creates space for everybody else. Great players make all of the other players around them better and that is what Nikola does every night. That is what we needed.”

Despite Jokic being as exhausted as he has arguably ever been in a basketball game, he continued to battle. Yes, his shots were not falling, but he continue to fight on defense, create open shots for his teammates on offense, and most importantly, became the sense of stability that the young Nuggets roster needed in such a high-stakes game.

“Anytime your best player has that kind of poise and leadership, that will definitely help the younger guys out,” Malone explained.

“When things aren’t going our way and they can look to him and they see calmness under pressure and under duress, that is a great thing to have and that is how leadership is shown in many different ways and that is why Nikola is a leader for our team.”

So what is it about Jokic that has allowed him to so effortlessly step into the rigors and pressure of the playoffs and thrive? That question is not easily answered, but the most simplistic way to explain it is that, to Jokic, basketball is just basketball. For him, every game is the same and that calmness is as unique as his transcendent passing ability.

“I think it speaks to Nikola’s greatness,” Malone stated when asked about Jokic’s ability to thrive in his first playoff series. “I think it speaks to him never being afriad of the moment or never being overwhelmed. Like he always says, ‘it is just basketball’. Weather it is regular season Game 54 or it is Game 7, at the end of the day, it is just basketball and that is how he approaches it.”

Now, with his first playoff series under his belt, it is becoming more and more obvious that Jokic’s potential ceiling as a player is still unknown and unquantifiable. He is 24-years-old and already has put together three legendary playoff games while putting up averages over a seven-game series that have not been seen in 56 years.

Regardless, the one fact that is known is that Jokic is not just ready for the spotlight, but flourishes in it.

“You don’t know what is going to happen come playoff time and he has risen to the occasion and beyond,” Gregg Popovich said.

“He is magnificent. Magnificent. I’ll just leave it at that.”

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Arts & Culture | Monday, April 29, 2019

EVENTS

Students raise oppressed voices with R.E.D Zine and mixtape

By Lauryn Bolz @LaurynBolz

The fourth edition of R.E.D. (rebel, empower, dismantle) Zine, released in conjunction with a mixtape, aims to strike down oppressors and lift underrepresented voices on campus.

A release party was held April 24 at the Ramskeller to celebrate the hard work that was put into both the zine and mixtape. Musicians, poets and artists featured in this year’s editions performed and spoke about their experiences that inspired their art.

Organized by the Red Whistle Brigade, the R.E.D. Zine is an anti-oppression mini magazine that supports student voices through different mediums of art.

“This is one of our most diverse zines ever,” said co-editor and cover artist V Bellinger.

“We have people who have submitted their art, their poetry, and we have people who have submitted edited photography.

There’s a lot of great stuff in there.”

“We don’t talk enough about the things people go through when it has to do with racism, sexism, ableism, and all those -isms.”

V BELLINGER CO-EDITOR & COVER ARTIST FOR THE R.E.D ZINE

The zine started as a creative space for survivors of sexual assault, but last year submissions were opened to anyone on campus who feel the weight of oppression in their everyday life.

“We felt like it was just too linear,” Bellinger said. “We would get a lot of submissions that didn’t have to do with survivorship, and it felt weird to turn them down or say they couldn’t be in the zine because they weren’t survivors.”

Since expanding the theme for the zine, Bellinger feels that they can cover a wider range of issues that affect CSU students, on campus and out in the world.

“For me as a person of color at CSU, I think (CSU) is basically a microcosm of America, we like to think that nothing is wrong, but under the surface there’s a lot of things wrong,” Bellinger said. “We don’t talk enough about the things people go through when it has to do with racism, sexism, ableism and all those -isms. So we give people a space to submit the things that they made for themselves in collective with other

Sad Uwu performs their song “The sheer feeling of being unwanted,” at the R.E.D. zine and mixtape release party April 24 at the Ramskeller.

Organized by the Red Whistle Brigade, the R.E.D. zine is an anti-oppression mini magazine created to support student voices though different mediums of art. PHOTO BY COLIN SHEPHERD COLLEGIAN

people sharing their stories with the rest of the campus.”

By keeping the submission guidelines so open, R.E.D. allows students to share their voices and experiences in any way that they feel comfortable.

Keiko Friar, an interdisciplinary liberal arts major, has found that they can best share their experiences with their mental health through poetry.

“I feel like poetry conveys feeling a lot better and doesn’t have to fit within grammatical conventions,” Friar said. “It breaks away from the colonial, proper english we’re taught.”

When Friar was asked by a member of the Red Whistle Brigade to submit their poetry, they pulled from their archive,

which had mostly remained private. Friar read their poem “Ideations” at the release party. It was only the second time they had read live.

“I wrote (‘Ideations’) when I was really depressed,” Friar said. “Poetry is really important to my healing process.”

In conjunction with the zine, the Red Whistle Brigade also released a mixtape that featured a collection of diverse student voices. The mixtape was organized and produced by Red Whistle Brigade member Peter Constas.

“I’m super into music, and I thought I could bridge my passions for social justice and music through this project,” Constas said. “Music is such

an important medium for this kind of stuff. Some things that you want to say about a certain experience can’t be expressed through the written word.”

To create the mixtape, Constas reached out to his friends in the music community that inspired him.

“Fort Collins has an amazing music scene,” Constas said.

“I got in touch with all the artists I thought would be awesome for this mixtape. I know a lot of them very personally, and when I hear their music I’m enthralled by it. The folks that are on this mixtape really have something to say, and it’s been a privilege to provide a way that they can say what they want to say.”

The zine and the mixtape create a diverse body of artistic work that support and uplift people that face oppression at CSU. “We say we want to uplift your voice about anything in your life with something that has come from you,” Bellinger said. “Art as a medium, no matter what genre it is, is important to share because it is a way for us to get to know the students on our campus without having to have those difficult conversations. By putting that art into a zine that is now being put out into the world they have the possibility of impacting or connecting with another person.”

Lauryn Bolz can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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Arts & Culture | Monday, April 29, 2019

MUSIC

Eleventh annual FoCoMX highlights local music scene

By Julia Trowbridge @chapin_jules

Downtown Fort Collins was flooded with music enthusiasts this past weekend.

From the Aggie Theatre to the rooftop of Illegal Pete’s, the Fort Collins Music eXperiment (FoCoMX) presented over 300 bands at over 30 venues April 26 and 27. For the 11th annual festival, venues were packed with approximately 7600 people, including attendees, artists, volunteers and sponsors according to co-founder Greta Cornett.

“Every year we’ve done FoCoMX since year one, the biggest fear internally is that it’s never going to be as good as the year we just had, and every year it gets better for a number of different reasons,” Cornett said.

“Last year for year 10 it was just epic. It was amazing, the weather cooperated which is always a challenge in April, so many things went right last year that we were like, ‘I don’t think we’ll ever top it,’ and then last night we were like, ‘Okay, this topped it.’”

In addition to hosting over 300 bands, the festival also featured a showing of the 53:14 film festival.

Jesse Nyander, creative director of New Trash Media and a participant in 53:14, said the screening went well and he hopes that more people come to screenings like 53:14 at FoCoMX to support the film community in addition to musicians.

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“Regardless of what song was playing or what the video was like, there was just humongous support from everyone that was there and from other filmmakers,” Nyander said. “Afterwards everyone was like, ‘Oh I loved what you did there,’ and we just nerd-ed out with each other. I think that’s really important to do as a growing community.”

Cornett, who also performed in multiple bands at FoCoMX, said that seeing the future generation of music in the younger performers was one of her favorite part of the event.

“That’s part of the fun of FoCoMX, people come out and they’re excited about their community and their scene, and I think that’s important, and I feel like all the performers, all the musicians that perform through

The Colorado State University School of the Arts is hosting the Virtuoso Concert Series featuring soprano vocalist Tiffany Blake at 7:30 p.m. Solo engagements of hers have included appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Missouri Symphony Orchestra, and Opera Fort Collins. She has also held operatic roles in Otello, Faust and Carmen.

Brandon Whalen performs with the band My Body Sings Electric at the Aggie Theatre April 26 during FoCoMX.

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the weekend feed off that energy,” Cornett said. “You see some of the best shows ever that you’ll get from local bands at FoCoMX.

It’s just really cool and really special.”

Julia Trowbridge can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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Arts & Culture | Monday, April 29, 2019

MOVIES

‘Avengers: Endgame’ finishes a story 11 years in the making

By Graham Shapley @shapleygraham

Spoiler Warning: There will not be spoilers for the “Avengers: Endgame” ending, but spoilers for the previous Avengers title, “Infinity War” is required for context.

“Avengers: Endgame” is a tough movie to define, because it feels less like a single film and more like a payoff to over a decade of filmmaking.

It’s rare that a movie comes out which has so much homework required. “Avengers: Endgame” is the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a franchise which has been so ubiquitous and ingrained in society that it’s hard to remember a time when two to three quality superhero flicks

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The MCU kicked off in 2008 with Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr as the incomparable Tony Stark, and continuing on for 11 years with more planned for the future. Chris Evans signed on as Captain America shortly afterward, and as the universe expanded, it created a whole cinematic canon all its own.

Although not every prior film is required to understand “Endgame,” the film expects that viewers know these characters and their arcs. The proper Avengers films, plus “Captain America: Civil War,” are all that a viewer would need to understand what’s going on, but in order to catch every last bit of character arcs and motivations, almost all of the films improve upon this one.

The film picks up roughly where the story left off in “Infinity War,” when The Avengers were beaten by Thanos. The antagonist snapped his fingers and half of all living beings in the Universe were killed off unceremoniously, wafting off into dust particles. Like

most people predicted, this left the Earth hoplelessly destroyed. The movie puts the focus on the main six Avengers: the aforementioned Tony Stark and Captain America, plus Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk, Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, and Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye.

With several of the Avengers dead, the only thing that the heroes can do is track down Thanos and try to undo what he’s done.

After the chaos that “Infinity War” left off on, the original Avengers aren’t exactly the dignified heroes we’re used to seeing. Iron Man, after almost dying in space and being rescued by Captain Marvel, is thin and frail– a ‘stark’ contrast from his usual arrogant attitude.

Captain America, the usual leader and optimist of the group, loses confidence in the attempt to bring half of Earth’s population back and encourages people to move on.

Thor is back in Asgard and is an alcoholic who plays video games, becoming an unrecognizable version of himself. Black Widow, the most hopeful of the group, is still

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other Marvel films, this is required viewing. “Endgame” is the payoff to an 11-year cultural phenomenon, and another film like it isn’t coming any time soon, especially with the failure of other cinematic universes at getting off the ground.

Marvel has pulled off something that only they could. Whether you’re tired of their lineup or you’re a super-fan, it’s worth seeing what their “Endgame” is.

If you can go in a packed theatre filled with other people laughing and crying along with you, all the better.

“Endgame” is the end of an era: it may not necessarily hold up on its own, but with everything that came before, it’s truly something special.

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Graham Shapley can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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Nancy Black test or challenge. You may discover an insider advantage.

Follow an elder’s sage advice.

Envision winning.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — 7 — Get out and explore.

Wander, trek and investigate.

Discover unexpected treasure.

Friends help you advance.

Share your journey with someone fascinating. Visit a loved one.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — 8 — Take advantage of a golden opportunity for a rewarding benefit. Collaborate for shared gain. Together, you can pull in a nice harvest. Save for something special.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — 7 — Talk strategy with someone you respect and admire.

An intriguing idea warrants attention. What could be possible? Come up with a coordinated plan.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — 8 — Keep to your physical and health routines. A dream seems within reach. Luck follows good work. Practice to provide the best results you can.

trying to hold what is left of the Avengers together to keep society running. While many of the other Marvel characters slowly begin to band together throughout the film, “Endgame” emphasizes the original Avengers characters to tie all the stories together and create a sense of nostalgia for everyone’s favorite superheroes.

Despite being three hours long, the movie actually breezes by.

“Endgame” moves at high speed, with few detours.

Even the standard criticisms of the Marvel formula are hard to apply to “Endgame:” the idea that there are going to be no real consequences are dismissed relatively early in the movie, and even though the majority of movie-goers predict that the good guys are going to win in the end, the cost of their victory provides a sense of tension. The status quo is going to change almost certainly, it’s just a question of how much.

Should you see it? Yes. Let’s be honest, if you wanted to see it, you already have. If you were on the fence but enjoyed the

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —

7 — Enjoy the game without taking expensive risks. You may find yourself holding a fabulous hand. Relax, and engage with talented players.

Have fun.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — 6 — A domestic vision can be realized. Imagine your place the way you want it.

What would it take? Assess family needs and desires.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — 8 — Creative inspiration sparks when least expected.

Take an idea, and run with it.

Get advice, but make your own decisions. Express your vision.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — 8 — Extra silver becomes available. Stick to your budget and plan. Keep your objective in mind. Tap into a secret source. Discover nice perks and benefits.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — 9 — Take charge. You’re energized and ready to make changes for the better. Good planning increases your holdings. Completion leads to new status. Power on.

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Monday, April 29, 2019

Sudoku

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle 25 Altar promise 26 Five __: burger chain 28 Key with one flat: Abbr.

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