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Jury awards no damages in sexual harrassment lawsuit

By Collegian Staff @CSUCollegian

Editor’s note: This article contains sensitive information regarding sexual harassment and mental health issues.

A jury determined that actions taken by Colorado State University against a former assistant professor who reported a claim of sexual harassment did not qualify as retaliation in court Aug. 28.

The six jurors unanimously agreed that Christina Boucher, a former computer science assistant

professor at the University, was partaking in protected activity, an Equal Employment Opportunity commission law which prohibits punishing employees for asserting their rights to be free from employment discrimination when she reported a claim of sexual harassment in October 2014.

Boucher filed a lawsuit against the University June 15, 2017, claiming she faced retaliation and was forced to resign from her position after reporting to Computer Science Department Chair Darrell Whitley and Dean of the College

of Natural Sciences Janice Nerger that professor Asa Ben-Hur sexually harassed her.

According to court documents, the harassment is said to have started during summer 2012 before Boucher started working at CSU, saying computer science professor Asa Ben-Hur would stare at her chest and backside.

The lawsuit alleges that, before Boucher reported being sexually harassed by Ben Hur to Whitley and Nerger, she received two positive performance reviews from Whitley in March 2013 and March

2014.

The jury did not determine that the University engaged in materially adverse action, which is any action that might deter a reasonable person from engaging in protected activity.

In a statement from Progressive Promotions, a media company who partnered with Boucher’s case, Boucher said she hopes that this “heartbreaking setback” does not stop other women from speaking out.

“This trial gave me an opportunity to expose the toxic climate for

women in the computer science department at CSU and to tell my full story about how CSU administrators ran a campaign of retaliation against me, in effect punishing the victim for reporting sexual harassment,” Boucher said in the release.

Boucher said the trial and the events leading up to it left an impact on her family as well as her physical and mental health.

“What happened to me was wrong and I wanted to stand up for what is right. Of course I had hoped

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New tech to make downtown parking more predictable, easier to pay

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Downtown parking can be a time-consuming game of luck and chance, especially if you’re looking for a free spot on the street. So the City is bringing in a technology overhaul to help address it.

In line with the 2017 Fort Collins Downtown Plan, the City will be installing pay stations and sensor technology in both the Old Town and Civic Center parking garages and about 3,000 on-street parking spaces downtown over the next few months, said Seth Lorson, City transit planner. The complete project will cost $1.2 million.

Pay stations will replace the gate system in the parking structures, according to the City website.

Part of this is because the garage gates have been breaking down about once a week, trapping drivers inside, Lorson said.

“We have to bring a staff member out...to come and fix it and let them out but that really should be unnecessary,” Lorson said.

With pay stations, users will

simply park then pay at the machine. They will keep the same payment system: The first hour is free, then it is $1 an hour for every hour after that.

Sensors will also be installed at parking spaces to indicate if a space is available or not — green for empty, red for taken. Signs installed outside the garages will list how many spaces are available inside.

Lorson said, right now, Old Town experiences congestion and air-pollution problems when many people are making circles on the streets hoping to find free parking. The sensors should help with predictability by letting people know the parking availability beforehand.

The sensor and pay station setup is functionally identical to the technology currently used in the Colorado State University parking garages, except the City’s technology will connect to their FC Parking app.

Those who download and sign up on the app will be able to see the parking spaces available in sensored areas. Users can also pay through the app for their parking sessions, as well as extend their parking time. see PARKING on page 5 >>

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ASCSU President discusses current initiatives of administration

By Stuart Smith @stuartsmithnews

With the new semester’s syllabus week now over, the Associated Students of Colorado State University President is working towards his goals for the 2018-2019 school year.

Tristan Syron, the president of ASCSU, laid out to The Collegian what his administration plans to make progress on. “(ASCSU Vice President) Kevin (Sullivan) and I are 100% focused on external goals,” Syron said.

First up: tailgating. On-campus tailgating started last year with the inaugural season of the Canvas Stadium. Syron wants to make it more popular, and doesn’t hold back in his criticism of its past failures.

Syron estimates that the tailgates at each of last year’s gamedays only reached about 25% capacity, and wrote in a weekly report that last year’s student tailgates were a failure.

“Our goal was to redo it, so we started off with a new marketing approach,” Syron said. “We completely restructured how we did that. We got probably a thousand flyers out on the plaza, made some videos about it. I think it was good stuff.”

Trial Verdict

>> from page 1 there would be justice and I would be vindicated,” Boucher said.

“Nonetheless, I hope that the trial itself will have an impact on the climate for women at CSU and that in the future, CSU will deal with campus sexual harassment sympathetically, without blaming the victim.”

Mike Hooker, director of public affairs and communications at CSU, wrote in an email to The Collegian that the University is pleased with the verdict.

“CSU takes sexual harassment and retaliation laws very seriously,” Hooker wrote. “We thank the members of the jury for their careful consideration of the evidence that was presented at trial.”

Boucher, who was seeking damages for emotional distress, was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read because she had a flight to catch, her attorney Sam Cannon said.

Prior to Tuesday’s deliberations, Cannon argued that Boucher should be awarded $528,800 in damages to compensate for every hour Boucher thought about taking her own life – $100 per hour for 8 hours a day over a span of 661 days.

“I’m not happy with the verdict, but that’s what the jury says,” Cannon said. “We’ll move forward and evaluate our options and decide what to do next.”

Another battle the Syron Administration is fighting is replacing U+2 with Me+3.

The effort will begin with a study on U+2 that ASCSU commissioned last year.

Originally, Syron said, the survey was going to be done during the summer, but has been moved to September 6.

“The survey was supposed to go out in July,” Syron said. “I talked to Tony Frank and we successfully negotiated (it) to be moved to September, that way students would all be in town to fill out the survey.”

Canvassers will descend on neighborhoods and ask Fort Collins residents about their thoughts on U+2 next week.

ASCSU will be promoting the adoption of Me+3, which Syron believes will be better for all involved.

He said that letting students pack more people into living spaces will create space for more non-students to live in the area as well.

“You’re actually concentrating the parties into less,” Syron said.

“And you’re helping out the market by letting community members have (a larger share in the rental market).”

Another campaign promise that Syron intends to pursue is reforming the parking system on Throughout the events leading up to the trial, CSU denied Boucher’s allegations. Hooker previously told The Collegian the University did not take adverse action against any employee based on Boucher’s allegations.

Boucher filed a lawsuit against the University June 15, 2017, claiming she faced retaliation and was forced to resign from her position after reporting to Computer Science Department Chair Darrell Whitley and Dean of the College of Natural Sciences Janice Nerger that professor Asa Ben-Hur sexually harassed her.

According to court documents, the harassment is said to have started during summer 2012 before Boucher started working at CSU, saying computer science professor Asa Ben-Hur would stare at her chest and backside.

The lawsuit alleges that, before Boucher reported being sexually harassed by Ben Hur to Whitley and Nerger, she received two positive performance reviews from Whitley in March 2013 and March 2014.

During the trial, which began Aug. 20, Boucher claimed the treatment affected her, while witnesses such as BenHur and Nerger disputed Boucher’s allecations.Throughout the trial, the University asked the jury to consider Boucher’s psychiatric well-being.

During the plaintiff ’s final argument, Cannon said that there was direct and indirect evidence that Boucher was retaliated

campus.

Syron called the parking meters in the LSC and Morgan Library parking lots “unethical advertising.”

“They’re on between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., at $1.75 (an hour),” Syron said, adding that the meters made “about 12 grand off of about 3000 people between 4 p.m. and 7 a.m.,” when parking is not enforced.

The parking signs around the lots say that parking is only enforced during the day, but Syron thinks the small print is not enough.

“They did say they would resign it, that way we can really emphasize that it’s free (after 4 p.m.),” he said.

Ideally for Syron, the machines would be turned off when parking permits aren’t being enforced.

There is also a new CSU parking app that tells where open parking is available in the parking garages on campus. Currently, it can’t count surface-level parking lots, but Syron hopes that by the time he leaves that either the groundwork will be starting or is already done to where students can see available parking in the Library and the LSC. Syron is also considering eliminating freshman parking on campus.

“Almost every other university in the country doesn’t allow (it),”

ASCSU President Tristan Syron discusses his goals for the upcoming school year. PHOTO BY AJ FRANKSON COLLEGIAN

he said.

With the reduced congestion from freshmen cars parked on campus, more parking spots would be opened up for commuters with the possibility of lowered parking costs.

“We’re still looking into it and getting all the numbers, but (it)

seems like we’re moving away from that,” Syron said. “I don’t think they’re going to do it but I’m still fighting for it.”

The first ASCSU Senate meeting will be held Aug. 29 in the ASCSU Senate chambers at 6:30 p.m.

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

Former Colorado State University assistant professor Christina Boucher testifies during a trial in a lawsuit against Colorado State University Aug. 24. PHOTO COURTESY OF TIMOTHY HURST THE COLORADOAN

against by CSU, which included a negative third-year evaluation, differential treatment of Boucher compared to other professors and non-compliance with University policy regarding sexual harassment claims.

Cara Morlan of the Colorado Attorney General’s office delivered the closing argument on behalf of CSU, arguing that the University’s actions were not in violation of University policy and were a result of Boucher’s behavioral issues.

The University cited several incidents identified by Whitley and Nerger as warning signs prior to Boucher’s report of sexual harassment, including interactions with the Denver Zoo over a grant, an alleged refusal to teach life

sciences students and a disagreement about a letter of support for a National Science Foundation grant application.

In the closing minutes of the defense’s argument, Morlan described Boucher as an employee who lashed out whenever she perceived any criticism.

The defense also questioned Boucher’s credibility, arguing that her allegations were inconsistent and had constantly shifted over time.

In Boucher’s response, she expressed her feelings on the proceedings of the case.

“For the last seven days I have had to endure CSU’s counsel calling me a difficult, unpredictable and dishonest woman,” Boucher wrote. “This sort of ‘gaslighting’

is a common way to discredit accusers.”

Hooker wrote it is important to differentiate between Boucher’s allegations in her complaint and comments to media organizations compared with evidence introduced at trial.

“The jury’s decision is consistent with the findings of the CSU Office of Equal Opportunity, which had previously investigated Dr. Boucher’s complaints and determined that no university policy had been violated and that there was no sexual harassment or retaliation against Dr. Boucher,” Hooker wrote.

The Collegian Staff can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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>> from page 3 It is currently available for free in the Apple App Store or Google Play.

The pay stations will also allow people who paid with credit cards to receive a text when their time is running low with the option to extend their time.

Old Town parking garage closed Aug. 20 to help install these changes, as well as for regular sealant maintenance.

It is timed to reopen Sept. 1 in time for Labor Day, Lorson said.

Civic Center parking garage will also go through rolling closures of 75-100 spaces closed for sensor installations throughout this fall. It will have no full closures and a completion date is unknown, Lorson said.

On-street sensor installations will require closing around 100 spaces at a time for 24 hours, according to the City.

The project begins the week of Sept. 10 and should be complete by the end of October. Installations will happen in six phases, one for each area.

The City is still evaluating the implementation schedule for this technology, however, and will not be launching it fullscale right away, Lorson said. The changes are significant and will require some trial time to make sure the technology works and to educate the public about them.

For example, the pay stations in the parking garages will require users to insert license plate number even if they are only parking for one hour. They will not be charged for that first hour, but if they do not register for a parking session, they will get a ticket.

“Pay and you will receive an hour free,” Lorson said. “It’s really about messaging because if we say ‘first hour free’ then it’s very challenging for people to wrap their heads around that they have to do something first.”

Lorson looks forward to improvements from the technology though, especially the parking data the sensors will provide.

The parking turnover and usage data will be used to inform new policies such as Payto-Stay, which would allow users to pay for more time once their free two hours of street parking are up, and extended enforcement of that two-hour limit. Currently, it is only enforced until 4 p.m., Lorson said, but they anticipate extending it until 8 p.m. to increase turnover during the busy dinner time.

Those plans have no schedule yet, however. The focus now is getting the basic technology installed and the public informed.

“If we can put this technology in place...then there’ll be less driving (and) less frustration,” Lorson said. “Really, that’s one of our main goals is to create greater predictability and options for people downtown.”

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

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McConnell’s Senate continues to rapidly confirm Trump’s judges

By Sahil Kapur Bloomberg News

The Senate reached a deal Tuesday to swiftly confirm seven of federal district court judges, helping President Donald Trump put an enduring stamp on the U.S. judiciary.

The latest confirmations mean Trump, with the help of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has already confirmed 60 judges to the courts _ including 33 district court judges, 26 appeals court judges and Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

They will shape U.S law for generations, as most are in their 40s or 50s. They were chosen with input from the Federalist Society, a group of conservative judicial advocates who want to curtail the federal government’s powers. Liberal groups have countered that Trump’s judges will endanger economic regulations, civil rights laws, health care access and women’s reproductive rights.

The seven newly confirmed judges are Terry Fitzgerald Moorer in Alabama, R. Stan Baker in Georgia, Charles Barnes Goodwin in Oklahoma, Barry W. Ashe in Louisiana, James R. Sweeney II in

Indiana, Susan Paradise Baxter in Pennsylvania, and Nancy E. Brasel in Minnesota.

Eight more of Trump’s district court nominees are set for confirmation next week, said McConnell’s deputy chief of staff, Don Stewart. Acting on the judicial nominations was one of the primary reasons the Republican leader scrapped the Senate’s annual August recess.

“In August alone, the Senate confirmed another 15 judges _ with eight more locked in for next week.

These are judges who will be in place for decades,” Stewart said in an email.

Democratic leaders came under fire from party activists for consenting to fast-track votes when they had the ability to force procedural votes and slow down the confirmations.

“Mitch McConnell is in the middle of stealing the federal courts for conservatives, and Democrats continue to bring a butter knife to a gunfight,” said Brian Fallon, executive director of the progressive judicial group Demand Justice and a former spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. “It is hard to think of a more pathetic surrender heading into the Kavanaugh hearings.”

The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin a hearing Sept. 4 on Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to replace retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Liberals have mobilized in an attempt to block his confirmation.

The GOP has only a narrow 50to-49 margin in the Senate and Republican-allied outside groups are buying ads and putting pressure on Democratic senators running for re-election in states where Trump won to back Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

The unanimous consent agreement on the nominees meant no senator objected. A Senate Democratic aide said the party’s leaders allowed the votes to go forward because Republicans already had the votes to confirm the nominees, and the deal allowed vulnerable redstate incumbents to return home to campaign before tough midterm election races.

McConnell said in an interview in December that reshaping the U.S. courts under Trump had been the proudest achievement in his Senate career of more than three decades.

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UC Irvine professor resigns after allegation of sexual misconduct

By Matt Pearce Los Angeles Times

Ron Carlson, an American author who has led creative writing programs at two major universities, has resigned from the University of California, Irvine after being accused of sexual misconduct with an underage student when he was a teacher at a prestigious Connecticut boarding school in the 1970s.w Carlson, who has published stories and reviews in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times and other high-profile publications, became director of the fiction program for masters students at UC Irvine in 2006 after holding a similar position at Arizona State University.

The reported allegations against Carlson involve his tenure as an English teacher and dorm adviser between 1971 and 1981 at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn.

In a report released Aug. 17, Carlson was one of seven faculty members named and accused of “substantiated reports of sexual misconduct.”

The Hotchkiss School had commissioned a law firm, Locke Lord, to investigate former students’ allegations of sexual abuse.

Students and teachers both lived in dorm-style quarters at the campus.

The report said that in the mid-1970s _ about the time the formerly all-male school first allowed female students to enroll _ Carlson was the “dorm parent” of

a female “lower mid” student, the school’s equivalent of a 10th-grader. (The report did not identify the students.) Carlson was in his mid20s at the time.

The student found Carlson “charismatic and viewed him as a sort of father figure,” the report said, and after Carlson invited her to his dormitory apartment one evening, he kissed her unprompted.

The report said Carlson continued to kiss and fondle the student for the remainder of the school year when they were alone.

In one instance, Carlson “digitally penetrated her vagina” before another faculty member knocked on the door of Carlson’s dorm apartment, the report said.

After a falling out, the student confronted Carlson about his “sexual misconduct toward her,” according to the report, which said the student told a friend and another Hotchkiss faculty member about Carlson’s conduct in the years after she graduated.

Carlson, through an attorney, declined to be interviewed for the school’s inquiry, according to the report. Carlson did not respond to the Los Angeles Times’ messages seeking comment.

Carlson’s resignation from UC Irvine was announced internally Monday in an email to faculty members of the English department, who were not given a reason for his departure.

“He had been mulling this course of action for some time, and the decision was his, and his alone,” Michael Szalay, chairman

of the English department, wrote in a message to staff obtained by the Times.

“Ron has been an integral part of our department for many years, and his extraordinary generosity and diligence have shaped our renowned MFA program especially in countless ways,” the message continued. “Please join me in wishing him the very best in his future endeavors. Ron, you will be missed.”

When contacted by the Times, the university acknowledged the Hotchkiss allegations and suggested they played a role in Carlson’s departure.

“We first heard about the report when it was made public through the media several days ago, and are disturbed by the conduct it described,” the university said in a statement. “Upon learning about the report, we accepted Professor Carlson’s immediate resignation.”

The university said there had been “no formal reports of similar conduct during his employment” at UC Irvine.

A spokesman for Arizona State University said that “there was nothing in (Carlson’s) file that indicated there had been any complaints about him” during his tenure there.

Carlson and his work have been featured multiple times in the Times, and he wrote nearly a dozen book reviews for the newspaper between 1992 and 2010.

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Freshmen remember, it’s okay to be afraid Arrison Stanfield @OddestOdyssey

Editor’s Note: All opinion section content reflects the views of the individual author only and does not represent a stance taken by The Collegian or its editorial board For many, college can be a greatly anticipated time of freedom and exploration. No longer under the watchful gaze of one’s parents, it is possible to authentically and independently explore what it means to be oneself. To many others, coming to college feels much more daunting and it is perfectly normal to feel overwhelmed. It is okay to be afraid.

Many first-year students fear similar things: being away from family, increased responsibility, fitting in and finding a group of friends. Fourth-year animal science major Maddie Bloom remembers her own share of difficulties coming to Colorado State University. “My parents dropped me off and

then drove 800 miles home and I was here alone,” Bloom said.

“It was a lot to make new friends and get integrated into college.”

The struggle to cope with practical matters, while wrestling through feelings of isolation is an issue that many students deal with. It may feel strange that one can enter a university of tens of thousands and still feel terribly alone.

The first year of college can also be a time to confront issues that are important and personal. According to a study published in the Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences, firstyear students are in a “vital moment of transition and adjustment,” where there can be a high presence of “symptoms related to existential identity and decision making.” Many firstyear students are just trying to find an answer to that perennial question of, “who am I and what should I do?”

This feeling is considered a normal component of ”emerging adulthood,” a period in life in which one is too old to be considered a child but too young to be considered a functional

adult. There is no better way to describe the first year of college.

A time when one is old enough to go to war and yet too young to drink; mature enough to pay taxes, yet not responsible enough to rent a car. Both empirical data and personal experience appear to agree on at least one thing, college is a confusing, exciting and frustrating time for nearly everyone involved.

So it’s okay to feel anxious about college, half of new students deal with the same issue, it might as well be considered a ‘rite of passage.’ It is okay to feel alone starting out in a new place, with new people, new foods, new bills and a newly found appreciation for caffeine.

It is perfectly normal to feel underprepared, overworked, outclassed, insecure, anxious, nervous, out of place and unwelcome. College is not just the freshman 15 and overhyped parties. It is more than awkward introductions, heartbreaking goodbyes and secretly despising the person who took your unofficial assigned seat.

For about 1-in-3 people, college is the time they meet the

COLLEGIAN COLUMNIST

Poudre School District sets good example Leta McWilliams @LetaMcWilliams

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

It isn’t news to most people that teachers aren’t getting paid as much as they should.

Last semester, there were marches in Denver and Fort Collins to bring awareness to the lack of funding for public education and show support for an increase in teachers’ salaries.

Since these marches, the Poudre School District has announced that teachers’ salaries will be increased for the 20182019 school year, setting a great example for other school districts across the state of Colorado.

Colorado has a history of undervaluing its teachers.

In 2016, Colorado was ranked last in the nation for providing teachers with a competitive wage. In the nation, public school teachers receive an average annual salary of almost $56,000, while the average in

Colorado is only about $52,000.

To put this into perspective, the average Colorado living wage, or the wage that is high enough to maintain a normal standard of living, is almost $54,000. This means that on average, teachers in Colorado aren’t making the amount of money they need to in order to afford a normal standard of living.

The PSD is increasing their teachers’ salaries, which is a step in the right direction for all of Colorado’s school districts.

For the 2018-2019 school year, teacher salaries at the PSD will start at $37,948, which is a $1,379 increase from the previous school year. Though it’s not great, it’s progress.

This is great news for education students at Colorado State University. There are many students at CSU pursuing degrees in education in over 15 content areas. Though the phrase, “I’m not looking for a high paying job” is common among these students, districts like the PSD are paving the way for future educators to receive the pay they deserve, one high above the average living wage.

Some would argue that paying teachers more isn’t a priority.

I was horrified to hear the argument in one of my classes that

teachers shouldn’t be paid more because the emotional satisfaction of their job is payment in itself. Though the job has satisfying qualities, being a teacher is both emotionally and physically exhausting. The average teacher works about 50 hours a week, the majority of which is standing on their feet and speaking to an audience that may not want to be there.

Teachers have to teach as well as entertain students enough to keep their attention, all while being watched by parents and upper management.

It’s a high-pressure job, and it needs to be recognized as such.

I encourage anyone, especially those pursuing a higher education, who thinks otherwise to remember that without teachers, it’s highly likely you wouldn’t be where you are today.

All students at CSU should care about how much teachers are being paid, and they should be excited about an increase in their annual salaries. Teachers are the backbone of our education whether they’re primary school teachers or college professors. Without good and well-respected educators, our education would be obsolete.

Leta McWilliams can be reached at letters@collegian.

love of their life. College is a time of potential and opportunity, a chance to become articulate and powerful in a way that few have the privilege to pursue.

It is a time to let go one’s childish ways, and develop a new and mature identity as someone of competence and creativity. It is a time to become more than what you are and to confront the world in all of its terrible splendor.

If you are freaked out about beginning your career in higher education do not worry. At the end of his senior year of high school, first-year student Sam Gruenhaupt recalled feeling like he had to “buckle down and figure out what I want to do.”

Sam stated that he dealt with the anxiety of starting college by “deciding to stop worrying so much because I realized it was going to happen and there were a lot of people here to help me.”

Data shows that his experience is strikingly similar to that of many other students entering university, and there are resources available to all those struggling to make sense of this new period in life.

SDPS offices offer students of different racial, ethnic, and ability-related identities a place to meet people like themselves and build community. The career center can assist students in finding work, polishing their resumes, and thinking through what exactly they can do with their degree.

Resident assistants are available in the residence halls to assist new students in finding peers, managing challenging course loads and exploring ideas they may be confronting for the first time. The new CSU Health and Medical Center is available to meet a plethora of student medical needs without having to leave campus.

The first year of college is uncharted territory. It’s a wild new expanse to map and explore.

It is a chance to chart out one’s destiny and bring it to fruition.

That’s a frightening thing, and maybe that is okay. As Nelson Mandela once said, “courage [is] not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

Arisson Stanfield can be reached at letters@collegian. com.

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ATHLETICS

Deciphering finances of the NCAA is no simple task

By Mack Beaulieu @Macknz_James

Every year, the NCAA’s athletic department releases revenue reports to dispel any concerns there might be about corruption or misappropriation of funds in college athletics.

As it stands now, an outsider’s understanding of how universities and the NCAA interact will never satisfy someone who has questions about university spending. Just looking at what information is most readily available to the public only raises more questions.

Colorado State University’s Deputy Director of Athletics Steve Cottingham acknowledges that athletics is one of the most scrutinized areas of University spending and reports are available because of that.

“Athletics is probably the most transparent and scrutinized of anything,” Cottingham said. “No college publishes a report like this.”

To understand the reports, you would have to be an accountant or someone intimately integrated into the everyday minutia of an Athletic Department.

Still, not being able to clearly understand how a public institution runs its finances can be unnerving.

One thing that is important to understand about those aforementioned reports is that while they only reflect the athletic department’s revenues and expenditures, they are a University effort. They’re supposed to reflect all the earning and spending that ultimately benefits athletics, even if the contribution came from another unit on campus.

There are no easily available documents that show exactly where athletic money flows into the University’s overall budget, as shown in accountability reports. That may be the biggest detriment to understanding athletic finances and trusting where money is spent.

The University does, for example, release a 678-page breakdown of its financials. But that’s 678 pages to decipher that most of the public does not have the time for.

CSU and other universities put out yearly accountability reports and athletic department revenue reports, which are put together under NCAA guidelines, mainly for the purpose of transparency on tuition

and athletic spending.

“The money that people see in TV contracts or what coaches make,those are the numbers that I think lead people to maybe question whether players should be paid,”Cottigham said.

“But all those dollars and cents are in this report, there’s really no other way to say that... ” STEVE COTTINGHAM CSU DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

It’s not hard to see why that is. Many reports say that NCAA revenue now exceeds $1 billion, but at least one report claimed the NCAA made $2 billion in revenue and $1 billion in actual profit in 2010 off of intercollegiate athletics. More close to home for CSU, Canvas Stadium took in about $13.1 million net income in its first year. Officials at Colorado State maintain those numbers as misleading.

“The money that people see in TV contracts or what coaches make, those are the numbers that I think lead people to maybe question whether players should be paid,” Cottingham said. “But all those dollars and cents are in this report. There’s really no other way to say that.”

Cottingham dove further into the issue, specifically regarding men’s basketball.

“Almost all of the NCAA’s revenue comes from the men’s basketball television contract,” Cottingham said. “That basically funds the running of the NCAA and their staff, the other 30 or so championships. None of them cover their own cost.”

One of the essential questions among this issue is where profits from athletics go if they do not go into athletics. With Canvas Stadium’s net income returning a $4.6 million surplus, where does it go and where is it shown in relation to the University?

“Basically, $3 million (of the surplus) went to stadium reserve... essentially putting it into a savings account for the future,” Cottingham said. “We moved an extra $1.1 million back into athletics ... and $500,000 back to

the broader University to use for academic purposes.”

Although that’s reassuring, it brings us back to the question of where that $500,000 will be shown in the school’s overall budget.

None of the answers given by the athletic department really answered that question. That being said, it’s not surprising that the average person can’t grasp these points with what’s currently and easily available out of an almost $1.15 billion dollar budget.

“With any complex organization, to some degree, you’ve got the 50,000-foot view,” Cottingham said. “You’ve got to drill down and keep going down to ‘til you’ve got to your question and there’s no shortcut really to do that.”

Along the same lines, Director of Public Affairs for CSU, Mike Hooker added his own explanation of the confusing figures.

“When things are complicated, it’s reasonable to look in a broad sense,” Hooker said. “You understand how your car works to a degree, but somebody else down the street might be able to go deeper. Your knowledge may be good for explaining general things. That’s why there are different levels to these reports. It’s the intro to the owner’s manual versus the repair guide.”

That all makes a lot of sense but dealing with so much money is another reason it makes sense to scrutinize as well. Dealing with so much money and only giving it a very general overview helps make corruption possible.

That’s not to say corruption is happening at CSU, but the possibility exists at any university and our current system of reporting.

While those doing the accounting, like Cottingham, may very well see no room for scrutiny and trust that money is spent responsibly, it still makes sense for the public to raise these types of questions until everybody’s clear on the way funds are spent.

Taking that thinking one level further, maybe a report mapping out how the University’s overall budgets and athletic budgets interact would earn the NCAA and its universities less scrutiny. As it stands right now, it’s just hard to see proof from 50,000 feet up Mack Beaulieu can be reached at sports@collegian.com

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SOCCER

CSU soccer opens their home schedule with mixed results

By Adam Williams @AdamJ_Williams

Colorado State soccer continued their season in split fashion last weekend, starting against cross-state foe Northern Colorado on Friday.

The first half was dominated by the Bears who almost solely kept the ball in CSU territory and had several chances to score. UNC’s freshman forward Lexi Pulley had a shot go off the post and goalkeeper Hunter Peifer had a diving save to hold off another goal.

Peifer made an incredible jump to get a hand on a shot that would have gone in had she not gotten a finger on it.

“I don’t mind a few posters on my end, I was just excited to get the one with my fingers,” Peifer said.

After the first 20 minutes, the tables turned thanks to subtle changes amongst the team.

“Our communication really helped things settle down,” Peifer said.

CSU continued to build momentum, which culminated in the first goal of the game on a penalty kick by Caeley Lordemann in the 43rd minute of the first half.

The Rams came out in the second half and quickly added to their lead with a goal by Ally Murphy-Pauletto. “(Taylor) kicked the perfect ball across and all I had to do was tap it in,” Murphy-Pauletto said.

Only six minutes later, UNC

senior Maddie Roberts sent a shot past Piefer on a penalty-kick goal that resulted from a CSU handball.

The game finished 2-1 with the Rams ahead, giving the Rams their first win of the season after beginning the year with a pair of draws.

A quick turnaround, the Rams took on the University of Northern Iowa in their second game at home two days later. The Rams came out strong against UNI and created multiple chances to put the ball in the back of the net as took 7 of their 16 shots early and had two corner kicks that set up excellent chances but were unable to convert any of their opportunities.

At the half, the game remained scoreless. The Rams came out of halftime and took full control as Northern Iowa could not get possession in the CSU zone for any meaningful period of time thanks to great defensive backline play and Peifer’s ability to cut balls off and advance them to her teammates.

Tensions ran hot in the 55th minute as CSU’s Hannah Gerdin went for a ball that was up in the air. She and UNI’s goalkeeper Jami Reichenberg collided in mid-air sending both girls to the ground and causing the referee to give Gerdin CSU’s second yellow card.

Shortly after the encounter, Murphy-Pauletto had one of the best scoring chances of the game in the 60th minute when she got the ball at midfield and headed it forward to herself as she ran the sideline. She passed her defender

Alex Lanning tries to steal the ball away from a UNI player during the first half of the game on Aug. 26. PHOTO

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and got loose for a shot but missed high.

“I shot it too early. I got over excited and should have shot it on the ground,” Murphey-Paulleto said. “It went up in the air, one on one with the keeper (and I) should be able to finish those opportunities.”

In the 86th minute of the game, UNI’s Sophia Conant had her teams’ only shot on goal of the second half. She dribbled the ball deep into the CSU zone and kicked it to the right side of the net for the

only goal of the game.

“It was just speed and people were tripping over the balls and we just got a little disorganized and fumbled, and she just had a curve and no one was ready for that.” coach Bill Hempen said, “They stuck one in at the very end, what are you going to do? This game is just so unforgiving.”

In the waning moments, CSU fought hard to move the ball into the UNI zone for a chance at a goal along with Hempen making substitutions to get goal scorers in

with hopes of evening the game.

Following the game, Hempen reflected on the loss.

“You are going to have emotional ups and downs,” Hempen said. “We had a handful of chances that we couldn’t stick, and we hit the bar three times today.”

CSU now has two weeks to prepare for their next matchup as they face Eastern Washington on Friday, September 7 at home.

Collegian Sports reporter Adam Williams can be reached at sports@ collegian.com.

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Broncos Mailbag: Ranking several rookies in order of 2018 impact

By Ryan O’Halloran The Denver Post

Denver Post Broncos writer Ryan O’Halloran posts his Broncos Mailbag weekly during the season.

You can pose a Broncos- or NFL-related question for the Broncos Mailbag here. Follow Ryan for more daily updates on Twitter.

Pre-draft I was hoping for two, maybe three big contributors coming from draft picks. Now I see six. Bradley Chubb, of course, and both receivers (Courtland Sutton/DaeSean Hamilton) and Royce Freeman. I also count Su’a Cravens and Jared Veldheer as both were acquired with draft picks. I may go out on a limb and count Phillip Lindsay, I know he’s a UFA, and Josey Jewell as well.

And significant contributor is defined as playing a position and not just special teams. Sure some of those may be reaches and Cravens hasn’t seen the field yet, but that is what I predict. What are your thoughts about this class?

John Elway needed a 2017 Saints

like draft and I think he landed it.

Joe, Sacramento, Calif.

You reviewed it pretty well -- a lot of rookies will see a lot of playing time this year and will be expected to make a lot of plays.

The Broncos definitely needed a good draft just to fill up the depth chart cupboard since they didn’t do much in veteran free agency.

The Broncos seem to hang on to guys they draft a little too long when the productivity isn’t there.

Devontae Booker is average in every respect and Isaiah McKenzie still can’t hang onto the football.

Do you see the Broncos moving on from some bad draft choices any time soon?

Peter, Thornton The big “bad” draft choice they could move on from is 2016 first-round quarterback Paxton Lynch. It’s time to cut that cord and say, “Hey, it didn’t work out.”

As for Booker, they feel he still has a role in the backfield even with the arrivals of Freeman and Lindsay. I floated before camp the possibility of dealing Booker if he fell down the depth chart, but he remains the 1B option and

the Broncos probably want somebody with NFL experience in that meeting room.

Are the Broncos kneeling this year during the national anthem?

Bill, Tooele, Utah For all three preseason games, linebacker Brandon Marshall and receiver Demaryius Thomas have retreated under the stadium stands during the anthem. No player on the sidelines has taken a knee. I don’t expect any player to do that in Week 1, either.

Denver picked up Adam Jones and Alexander Johnson and I want to know why. Can this team handle the weights of their off-the-field problems going into the season? I don’t like these moves.

James, Grand Junction Judging by my email inbox, you’re not alone in being disappointed with the signings of Johnson and Jones. The Johnson signing, a short time after he was acquitted on a rape charge, didn’t generate much negative buzz locally because he was an unknown.

But Jones’ signing riled up some fans. His off-the-field dossier is as

long as a football fielded and at 35, who knows how much he has left in the playing tank.

I know you’re asked this every week, but is Paxton Lynch going to be on the team at the start of the season? The kid has not looked good at all this year (or last year, for that matter). It’s time to cut our losses and move forward in a new direction.

Connor T., Colorado Springs I do get that question every week and every week, it is a legitimate question. Lynch has struggled throughout the preseason but his 1-2 defenders have pointed out that he is playing with backups and third-team players.

To which I say, so what? I think it’s time to part ways.

Who’s going to be our punt and kick returners this year?

Please don’t say Isaiah McKenzie...

Mike, Denver Well, I’m going to say it, Mike ... all signs indicate McKenzie will be the punt returner. He had the touchdown against Minnesota earlier this month and has been the first-time-up punt returner

in all three games. I would give Phillip Lindsay some reps back there against Arizona, though.

On kickoffs, Lindsay has been the first guy up so that would be my prediction there.

Everyone’s been raving about Phillip Lindsay, but which other players have you been impressed by? Personally, Josey Jewell’s play has my attention.

Tim, Lakewood Jewell has a team-best 13 tackles in the preseason and one sub-plot to watch early in the year is if the Broncos try and get him on the field in certain packages. A few other guys who are a little off the radar: Safety Dymonte Thomas has 10 tackles and played well as the sub-package sixth defensive back against the Redskins. Defensive linemen Zach Kerr and Shelby Harris have been active in the run game and also as pass rushers.

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MOVIES

How a USC student came to redefined Racism in the ‘70s and a Coldplay song in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ today connect in Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’

By Randall Roberts Los Angeles Times

After chemistry class on a recent weekday, sophomore Katherine Ho sat at an outdoor table in USC Village and shared the chain of events that made the pre-med student’s rendition of Coldplay’s “Yellow” appear during the climactic scene in the boxoffice topping movie “Crazy Rich Asians.”

As students pass on scooters, skateboards and foot, Ho describes “a series of surprises” that led to her voice being featured in the film.

Her story involves a singing camp, a tip from a former teacher, a series of February rehearsals in a freshman dorm and a big reveal, all in service of a song about a hue with meaning that extends far beyond its place on the color wheel.

Sung in Mandarin, Ho’s “Yellow” moment in the movie wasn’t a foregone conclusion.

Its placement sparked active behind-the-scenes conversations in the music department on the intricacies of language and lyrical intent. Licensing the song even required a personal plea from director Jon Chu to members of Coldplay that spoke to the history of Asian representation in pop culture. For her part, Ho was one of dozens vying to cover “Yellow.”

A first-generation Chinese American from Woodland Hills, Calif., the 19-year-old is a lifelong singer who has performed on the NBC singing competition show “The Voice.” She is also minoring in songwriting at USC. Says Ho, “It’s really cool that this word _ yellow _ and the song have a deeper meaning past just the plot of the film.” She and her friends, she adds, “were never that proud to call ourselves ‘yellow.’ It definitely had a lot of negativity associated with it.”

The chance to shift its meaning came in February. Ho received a text from a former voice teacher asking whether she’d “be down to submit a demo for an unnamed film and TV project,” she says.

“He was looking for a young girl who could sing Mandarin.” Ho grew up in a Mandarin-speaking household, and “Yellow” was one of her favorite songs.

She got to work.

Despite the fact that she was starting her second semester as a freshman _ and was already overwhelmed with studies _ late one night, she got her dad on the phone to perfect the Mandarin lyrics for “Yellow,” working line by line through meanings and inflections.

“I actually fell asleep at the piano and woke up the next morning and recorded it before class,” Ho says.

Ho auditions for a lot of stuff, so she filed the session in her memory

By Graham Shapley @shapleygraham

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bank and returned to her biology classes. When she found out she got the job, she still didn’t know how it would be used. She was told to show up at a Burbank studio, but it wasn’t until about an hour before the session that the studio team called to tell her the song was for “Crazy Rich Asians.”

Her reaction?

“I freaked out in the car with my dad, who was there to help me with the dialect stuff,” Ho says.

“After I found out it was going to be played at the very end of the film, it freaked me out even more.”

That ending song was one of a number that Chu and music supervisor Gabe Hilfer had contemplated when brainstorming the movie-ending sequence. Hilfer says that after Chu suggested the Mandarin version of “Yellow,” the scene locked into place.

Given the word’s loaded, oftderogatory meaning, Hilfer recalls “spirited conversations about it in post-production just to discuss, ‘Is that something we should be concerned with?’ It was not something that slipped under the radar.”

Released in 2000, Coldplay’s vaguely structured lyrics offer ample opportunity for interpretation, Ho says. “For me, the song’s about taking a risk. Not really knowing for sure whether or not this love is going to pay off and being very hesitant. But in the end, you go for it, and you are brave.”

For “Crazy Rich Asians” director Chu, “Yellow” resonated as a kind of anthem, he wrote in a letter to Coldplay after the group initially declined its use in the film.

Penned to the individual members of the band, Chu’s note, which was provided to The Times by Warner Bros., describes the song as “an anthem for me and friends (that) gave us a new sense of pride we never felt before.”

The words, he said, offered such “an incredible image of attraction and aspiration that it made me rethink my own self-image.”

Ho said that after she read Chu’s note, she felt the song even more deeply.

“I could almost quote the letter now because I’ve read it so many times,” she says.

Ho’s voice resonated with the production team.

“The second we heard it, Jon loved it,” Hilfer says. The team had debated hiring an established artist to handle the rendition, but that didn’t seem necessary. Hilfer recalls them concluding that “the song is already famous, so why don’t we just get somebody who’s incredibly talented?”

A few days later, Ho was in the studio, and a few months after that, she and a friend went to an early screening. During the exuberant closing scene, she heard herself “put a Mandarin twist on one of my all-time favorite songs.”

Throughout the movie, she also saw images of the China she knows and loves through her and her family’s annual trip to Beijing to visit her grandparents and extended family.

The way “Crazy Rich Asians” navigated those familial ties was especially resonant, Ho says.

“Traditionally, Asian people put family first _ and in America, it’s about finding your own passion.”

Referring to the stereotype of strict, success-focused Asian mothers, she adds: “I feel like ‘tiger moms’ are portrayed very negatively in the media. This movie shows that the love of an Asian parent does seem very strict at first, but it comes from a place of deep love.”

Her own parents aren’t so strict.

“It’s actually kind of ironic,” she says. “A lot of people think it’s my parents forcing me to be pre-med. But my parents are actually more happy if I did music, because they think that’s who I am. They’re definitely 100 percent supporting me in music. But I’m just very passionate about biology and health care, so that’s why I’m pursuing the biology track right now.”

Now she says she’s onto a new challenge: “the whole what-to-dowith-my-life thing.”

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“BlacKkKlansman,” the latest film from acclaimed and controversial director Spike Lee, is deeply uncomfortable to watch, which is exactly the point.

Anyone familiar with Lee’s work knows that he tends to focus on race relations as a theme, and “BlacKkKlansman” is no exception for obvious reasons.

The film focuses on a fictionalized version of real-life events that took place in Colorado Springs circa 1979. John David Washington plays Ron Stallworth, the first Black police officer in the city, and becomes a member of the intelligence division. He contacts the Ku Klux Klan through telephone after seeing an ad they had taken out in the paper, introducing himself as a white man who has an interest in joining.

Stallworth recruits his white and Jewish coworker Flip Zimmerman, played by Adam Driver, to pose as him and infiltrate the Klan in his place. The narrative drips with tension as the Klansmen gear up for cross-burnings, making idle chatter about the terrorist attacks they could pull off. All the while, the threat of being found out hangs over Stallworth, Zimmerman and the investigation.

In any other context, this might seem like some heavy stuff, and there are scenes that are intensely uncomfortable to watch. The film is carried by intelligent writing, excellent cinematography and a score that sets the tone perfectly in the style of Blaxploitation films from the 1970s.

There were brilliant performances from both the Klan members and the good guys. The film has a sense of humor, poking fun at the racists’ malformed belief systems, while not straying away from how genuinely horrendous the things they say and do are.

White supremacy is an ideology followed by people who have great potential to become radicalized.

The film argues that it is easy to dilute racism’s presence in America

by portraying it as so ignorant that it might become humorous. While “BlacKkKlansman” revels in jokes found at the expense of bigots, it also shines a light on how truly dangerous these people can be.

To drive this point home, Lee makes several parallels to recent real-world events. Actor Topher Grace gives a face to David Duke, the formal grand wizard of the KKK, who was involved in the events portrayed and is still a major player in white nationalist circles.

Familiar phrases to those who have followed modern politics crop up and the film ends on an all-too-real note, which I will not spoil here, leaving a packed theater silent.

By virtue of being set in Colorado, another distressing layer reveals itself: In the nearly 40 years after the events of the film, hatred is still living here. The Southern Poverty Law Center found that there are 21 separate hate groups operating in Colorado in 2018, including the KKK. Additionally, slavery is still technically legal in Colorado after a ballot measure failed to pass in 2016. A new amendment proposing the same prohibition on involuntary service will be on the ballot this year.

Should you see it: Yes. “BlacKkKlansman” is a thought-provoking film that I highly recommend to anyone who has an interest in the state of race relations in the 1970s and in the modern day. Reading the book

by Stallworth, “Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime,” on which the film is based, is better for a truer, non-Hollywood story.

Although the overlying message that racism is bad certainly seems like a no-brainer, seeing the onscreen connections to contemporary America creates and imparts a belief that these obvious statements must be made once more.

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

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EVENTS

Stay cultured: 5 CSU music, theatre and dance productions to see this fall

By Claire Oliver @claire_oliver21

This semester the University Center for the Arts is hosting several noteworthy concerts and productions free for Colorado State University students.

The shows are performed by students, with the exception of several guest performers, and showcases the wide variety of talent here at CSU. The shows range from plays put on by theatre students to concerts performed by the music performance students.

Here are five performances that students may want to add to their calendars this fall.

1. University Symphony Orchestra 10th Anniversary Concert Sept. 2021, 7:30 p.m., UCA Griffin Concert Hall This show is a great option for classical music lovers.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the opening of the UCA. The University Center has hosted the College of Music, Theatre and Dance since 2008 and provides world-class facilities as well as performance spaces for the college’s

students.

The concert will feature Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6.” Some of Tchaikovsky’s other compositions include pieces for famous classical ballets including “Swan Lake,” “Sleeping Beauty” and most notably “The Nutcracker.”

The concert will also include an original piece by resident composition faculty Jim David who wrote the piece to celebrate the 10th anniversary.

2. “The Laramie Project” Sept. 28-30 and Oct. 4-7, 7:30 p.m.

Matinees on Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 2 p.m., UCA University Theater On a heavier note, CSU Theatre will be performing Moisés Kaufman’s thought-provoking play “The Laramie Project.”

The play is a collection of interviews recorded by Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project of people in the town of Laramie, Wyoming a year after the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay student at the University of Wyoming. In 1998, Shepard was beaten, tied to a fence and left to die outside of Laramie. He was taken to Pou-

The University Center for the Arts holds concerts including the University Symphony Orchestra 10th Anniversary Concert. COLLEGIAN

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dre Valley Hospital, where he died six days later from severe head trauma.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Shepard’s death.

Fort Collins was affected from the events that took place that day and the story is still a powerful anecdote to advocate for basic human rights and to fight against hate crimes.

This show is not for the faint of heart and is a collection of real dialogue spoken by real people. It promises to be an emotional and moving performance and is something theatergoers will definitely want to see.

3. Fall Choral Showcase Concert Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., UCA Griffin Concert Hall This showcase will feature song selections from the four choral ensembles at CSU. The four ensembles include Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, University Chorus and Men’s Chorus.

The Chamber and Concert choirs are both audition based choirs and are open to anyone at CSU. 4. Fall Dance Concert Nov. 9-10 7:30 p.m. Matinees on Nov. 10 at 2:00 p.m., UCA University Dance Theatre This fall dance concert is full of debut performances from new faculty members and incoming dance students. The show will focus on the choreography of Salvatore Aiello, who was popular in the ‘60s and ‘70s for his modern approach to ballet.

New faculty members Madeline and Matthew Harvey will make their Colorado debut on the stage. The new director of dance at CSU, Emily Morgan, will make her UCA debut at the concert as well.

5. Big Love Nov. 9-11 and Nov. 1517, 7:30 p.m. Matinees on Nov. 11, 17, 2 p.m., UCA Studio Theatre For those that love a good comedy, CSU theatre’s “Big Love,” written by Charles Mee, might be the show to see. The show is a farce, or fast-paced comedy, that centers around three women fleeing Greece to avoid arranged marriages.

The show will keep audiences laughing with the crazy dialogue as well as the wild twists and turns throughout. The real question seems to be, “is love worth it?”

Claire Oliver can be reached at entertainment@collegian. com

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