Vol. 128, No. 35 Wednesday, September 26, 2018

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Vol. 128, No. 35 Wednesday, September 26, 2018

OPINION

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ARTS & CULTURE

Kavanaugh allegations show why victims don’t come forward

Olivia Nicholson is more than just a hitter

UCA celebrates 10 years of performing arts

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Colorado State University has earned many sustainability rankings this year. They were named first for public engagement and second for campus engagement in the 2018 Sustainable Campus Index. However, some students believe there is still work to do. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN

CSU sustainability ranks high Students want more support from the University for projects

By Samantha Ye @samxye4

Colorado State University now has a slate of rankings to back-up their reputation of sustainability, but some students wish the University’s actions would do the same.

CSU has earned a host of high sustainability rankings this year, including first place

for public engagement and second place for campus engagement in the 2018 Sustainable Campus Index, fourth place in the Sierra Club’s official magazine “Cool Schools” ranking and placement on The Princeton Review’s 2019 Green Honor Roll.

The Princeton Review, the SCI and the Sierra Magazine collaborate to streamline the

types of data schools need to collect and submit for these rankings.

Most of that data can be found in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System report, from which CSU is currently one of only four institutions worldwide to hold a platinum rating.

“The underlying STARS ranking helps to highlight areas where we shine (and) areas where we have room for growth,” wrote Carol Dollard, CSU energy engineer, in an email to The Collegian. “Higher ed institutions compete for students. We know our students appreciate the efforts we are making toward improving sustainability on campus.”

Although the rankings are concerned with the processes of the University, they also look closely at how students interact with campus sustainability initiatives.

At CSU, the University especially values and supports student involvement when it comes to making the campus

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Translation Day highlights needs for translations services

By Samantha Ye @samxye4

When thinking of translating services, many may default to the simplistic word-by-word dictionary translations of Google Translate. While sometimes overlooked, the real-world field has far more to offer, as encapsulated by the daylong symposium on the subject.

“International Translation Day 2018: Translation in Colorado Today” is the first such translation symposium hosted jointly by the Office of Language Access for the Colorado Judicial Branch and the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department of Colorado State University.

Event co-organizer Silvia Gallego said this is a topic which needs more awareness, not just in general but specifically at CSU and with the local communities or immigration organizations.

“Hopefully we have more of those (community) attendees at future events because I really think that it’s very important for them to know that there are people working to try and improve their situations, working to have better translation services and to help them in their daily lives,” Gallego said.

At CSU, a large number of students have families who do not

speak English well or at all, and a lack of campus translation services hinders their ability to understand the University system, Gallego said.

In the community, many people in need of those services may not realize the extent they are already available, Gallego said.

“If they know more about this reality, they will also be more able to ask for those services and advocate (for) themselves,” Gallego said.

On the last event of the day, four translation/interpretation professionals discussed the growing, changing dynamics of the field and how their work can bridge cultural gaps.

Panelists included Ann Michels, healthcare interpreter; Benn Rocha, managing court interpreter; Adele Lonas, volunteer translator and interpreter for Alianza Norco and Fuerza Latina; and Rosa Aguilar, former Language Services Coordinator for Aurora Public Schools.

The diversity of professionals demonstrated the need for interpreters in everything from medical to judicial to educational fields.

While that makes for some distinct differences in how the interpreting is done, all four agreed the field is growing for the better.

“There’s a growing awareness for the need for interpreters and

translators, and there’s a growing acceptance and appreciation of bilingualism and multilingualism and seeing that as a positive reality,” Lonas said.

This includes institutions requiring or issuing official certifications before hiring translators and making those services more accessible, particularly in the judicial system.

However, that also demands a growing awareness of how social capital and literacy can affect the effectiveness of interpretations and the interpreter’s role, Lonas said.

In areas where more outreach is still needed for translation, Rochas said forums like the symposium are important to finding unmet gaps of community need, and CSU working toward obtaining a graduate certificate program for translation and interpretation is an important step.

Lonas said showing appreciation of other languages on campus would inspire more interest in the topic. Allowing different languages to just be without the need to translate into English would encourage greater acceptance and awareness.

It is also about awareness of those languages in the community.

“If you build it, they will come,” said Beth Angel, event co-organizer. “(That’s) in the sense of: you can

Graduate student, Adele Lonas, talks about her experiences as a translator at the Translation in Colorado Today event held in the Morgan Library Event Hall. PHOTO BY MACKENZIE PINN COLLEGIAN

sit there and pretend you don’t have a Mandarin community...but the minute you add Mandarin to signs and provide those services, a Mandarin speaker’s going to come.”

Spanish, Vietnamese and Mandarin are common languages always in need of translators, the panelists said. The judicial system is seeing a growing number of Ethiopian, other African languages and languages from the Middle East as well, Angel said. And there will always be less common languages which need translating.

The panelists advised budding

translators to start with community volunteering and going through training to gain confidence before approaching institution.

“You have to have a very clear boundary between your compassion and the professional ethics and integrity,” Lonas said. “Because you can very easily feel for the person you’re interpreting for but you’re not going to do any service for that person if you’re not maintaining a clear concept and idea of...those professional ethics.”

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High Plains Intermountain Center researches agricultural safety

By Audrey Weiss @Audkward

Northern Colorado is the 9th largest agricultural producer in the United States, so it may not come as a surprise that Colorado State University has a whole center dedicated to it.

The High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety works to fund and research the most important agricultural needs, said Stephen Reynolds, director of the HICAHS center.

Reynolds said this program oversees many different initiatives, from providing leadership to forging partnerships in surrounding states.

But HICAHS is not only based in Colorado.

“HICAHS has been around since 1981 … at CSU,” said Whitney Pennington, outreach coordinator for HICAHS. Pennington said there is a total of 11 Ag Centers located in different states which oversee different divisions.

Sustainability >> from page 1 green, according to Dollard and Tonie Miyamoto, co-chair of the President’s Sustainability Commission.

“Students are telling us that sustainability is important to them, so it’s important to do it, measure it and then share the results,” Miyamoto said.

CSU’s commitment to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, for example, was a student-led initiative. So were the ideas to make the campus bee-certified, to allow the University to consider fair-trade production in their purchasing and to develop the campus ski bus.

“That’s probably my favorite part of my job is to have students who are really passionate and have great ideas, and seeing those ideas funnel into proposals and then pilot projects and permanent systems on campus,” Miyamoto said.

“I think on our campus, students really feel empowered.”

Of course, student-led means initatives develop from the bottom-up, and those initiatives come with their own hurdles.

“I think it definitely takes some effort to be involved in environ-

HICAHS is funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which is operated by the Center for Disease Control. A large portion of the staff, including the administration, is part of the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at CSU, according to their website.

The organization is currently working on three main projects, all centered on improving safety in agricultural workspaces, Pennington said.

One of these projects is a program intended to improve safety on dairy farms by training managers to promote safety.

“The idea of the training is to help them improve leadership skills, and improve safety overall,” Pennington said. “By establishing a background of safety or a culture of safety, it will filter down into the entire workplace.”

In addition, the group is developing foldable rollover protective structures, or FROPS. Pennington said these mental institutional change on a college campus, and it’s hard for a university to make it easy,” said Maggie Gilman, founder of the Zero Waste Team.

Gilman pointed to the lack of a central sustainability department at CSU leading to dispersed, department-based efforts which students cannot easily tap into.

SIERRA “COOL SCHOOLS” RANKING (TOP 10 OUT OF 20) 1 University of California, Irvine 2 Green Mountain College 3 University of New Hampshire 4 University of Connecticut 5 Colorado State University 6 Arizona State University 7 Dickinson College 8 University of Massachusetts 9 Amherst Seattle University 10 California State University Hank Stowers, a fellow ZWT member and director of health for the student body on the Associated Students of CSU, said forming even the ZWT has been an uphill

structures drastically decrease the number of fatalities on a farm due to tractor rollovers.

HICAHS intent is to make these bars easier to use so farm workers are more inclined to use them properly and as needed.

Their final project aims to educate youths working on farms, so a standard for safety is implemented from the ground up.

“The idea of the training is to help them improve leadership skills, and improve safety overall.”

WHITNEY PENNINGTON OUTREACH COORDINATOR FOR HICAHS

“A lot of our work is focused on safety culture in the work populations,” Reynolds said.

“We also have a stronger focus on the equipment and machinery side of things.”

Additionally, the organiza-

tion has done research on respiratory diseases and zoonotic diseases, such as E. coli and salmonella.

“The industry is now stepping up and taking responsibility, and we’re working with them,” Reynolds said.

In order to determine which projects HICAHS funds, the six states within their division meet annually to discuss to most pertinent issues facing the Agricultural community.

The group also asses the program itself to decide which initiatives are working, and which are not.

As far as HICAHS’s place on campus, they are seeking out students with an interest in agricultural safety to join their program. Pennington said they currently have a Ph.D. student working on all-terrain vehicle safety.

“We have a pilot research program, so if there are (students) who are interested in ag safety and health…we do have an annual grant for that,” Pennington said.

The grant is open to anyone in the United States, but preference is put on students in the region.

Pennington said the program is meant for junior faculty or students.

“We want them to be successful in our program,” Pennington said. “(Then) they have the experience to be more successful when competing for more competitive grants.”

Regarding the center’s goals, Pennington said they hope to continue to engage stakeholders and take in ideas for the most important issues pertaining to the agricultural communities from agricultural producers, farmers and anyone else falling on the ag spectrum.

“Instead of being an ivory tower, we really try to engage the people in the industries that we are working with,” Reynolds said. “We try to listen to them in terms of…what are their issues and needs.”

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

2018 Sustainable Campus Index Rankings (CSU) Impact Area

2018 Placing

2018 Score (%)

Public Engagement

First

97.6%

Campus Engagement

Second

98.8%

Research

Third

100%

Curriculum

Eighth

94.4%

Purchasing

Tenth

88.7%

battle. Although the University has not been their enemy, they have not always provided the resources necessary to seriously take care of their waste.

For example, Gilman said CSU purchases many compostable materials, creating a “facade” of lowwaste, but provides few compost receptacles. A compostable cup sent to a landfill will break down no better than a normal, biodegradable cup, a waste of the ingenuity which went into making it compostable.

The ZWT now collaborates with University events, including home football games, to provide compostable materials and waste

sorting, and they are also working on providing basic compost bins in every campus building. Their efforts were even lauded in the 2018 Sierra ranking.

Ultimately, the most important initiatives are being taken on by students, Stowers said.

“We’ve had to recognize that CSU is a space for us and we have to take the responsibility to use that space in a way that we see fit,” Stowers said.

Luckily, CSU’s sustainability promotions bring in students who are passionate about environmental issues. Many students say the University’s sustainability efforts actually influenced their decision

to choose CSU, Miyamoto said.

It has contributed to a good community and culture of environmental awareness on campus, Stowers said, and if CSU wants to fulfill the image of sustainability they present, they need to start giving more support to student-led sustainability organizations.

“They need to stop working within their own bureaucracy and start giving students the power to take the charge on that,” Stowers said. “Because we’re the generation that’s going to be impacted so we know what matters the most.”

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

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News | Wednesday, September 26, 2018

NATIONAL

Attorney for second Kavanaugh accuser has history working sexual assault cases

By Elise Schmelzer The Denver Post

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is the latest name added to Boulder attorney John Clune’s long list of high-profile men his clients have accused of sexual assault.

Clune has represented women who reported being sexually assaulted by a wide variety of celebrity athletes, including Kobe Bryant, Heisman-winning quarterback Jameis Winston and professional baseball player Johan Santana.

Now Clune is representing Deborah Ramirez, the Boulder woman who told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her and thrust his genitalia in her face in the early 1980s when they were at a dorm party at Yale University, which they both attended.

Kavanaugh, who is a judge with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has vehemently denied the allegation. He already had been accused by another woman of sexual assault when the two were in high school.

Clune and his coworkers at Boulder law firm Hutchinson, Black and Cook are widely recognized as some of the best attorneys for cases involving sexual assault and Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex at colleges and universities.

Clune did not respond to several requests for comment Monday by The Denver Post, but one of his partners at the firm said Clune is particularly well-suited to represent Ramirez. Baine Kerr is not counsel for Ramirez, but he and Clune have worked on numerous cases together over the past five years and are well-versed in the challenges of handling litigation in the public eye.

“I don’t think there could be a better lead counsel for Debbie than John,” Kerr said.

Working outside the courts While Ramirez’s case so far falls outside the parameters of Title IX, Kerr believes the firm’s experience guiding victims through university reporting and investigations will help the Boulder woman navigate what’s to come.

The federal law requires universities to investigate sex crimes if they are reported.

Sometimes those investigations can lead to hearings or quasi-trials outside the criminal and civil legal system in

which people representing the school hear from all sides of a reported incident.

Ramirez’s case is similar, Kerr said, because so far it has taken place outside criminal and civil court. Instead, it likely will play out in government committees and hearings.

“There’s always the issue whether to testify or not and how public to be,” he said.

“That’s going to be very parallel.”

Kerr declined to comment on how Ramirez’s case came to Clune and their firm, but said he first learned of it Sunday night. Former Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett initially represented Ramirez, and spoke to The New Yorker for its article, but transferred the case to Clune.

Kerr said Clune’s experience with nationally known cases will help him guide Ramirez through what is so far a somewhat unclear future.

“All of these sexual assault cases overlap with what Debbie is going to need,” he said.

Like in any case involving a report of sexual assault, Clune will have to protect Ramirez’s reputation, Kerr said. He also said that the fact Ramirez did not come forward independently and was instead sought out by The New Yorker helps her case.

“That’s hugely important when you look at who is more credible,” he said.

Clune and others at the firm will attempt to shield Ramirez from the media and the “retraumatizing glare of publicity,” he said. They will attempt to keep her safe, like they did for the woman who said Winston raped her. “(The attacks) were at a high pitch then, as I’m sure it will be in this case,” Kerr said.

High-profile cases Clune joined Hutchinson, Black and Cook in 2013 after years at his own firm and a stint as a prosecutor in Eagle County.

Clune’s experience as a criminal prosecutor who worked on a number of sex-crimes cases was an important asset to the firm, Kerr said.

Before he joined the firm, Clune took on basketball star Bryant in 2004 after a 19-yearold woman said the celebrity sexually assaulted her in Edwards, Colorado. The criminal charges against Bryant were dropped, but the Los Angeles Lakers star later settled the civil suit filed by Clune for an undisclosed amount.

In 2015, Clune and his coworkers at the firm filed suit against Florida State University, alleging the school did not properly protect a former student who reported she was raped by Winston. The football player settled the lawsuit in 2016 – also for an undisclosed amount – and he now plays quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Clune also filed a Title IX lawsuit against Baylor University in 2017 on behalf of a former student who said the Texas university’s football program encouraged female students to have sex with recruits and players and fostered a party culture.

The lawsuit claimed that at least 31 Baylor football players committed at least 53 acts of rape between 2011 and 2014.

Before Clune joined the firm, Kerr and others represented a woman who said that University of Colorado football players raped her at a high school football party in 2000. The woman originally did not want to testify in criminal court, but said a few years later she would speak. A judge later ordered that the Arapahoe County district attorney file charges against the players, though the state Supreme Court later overturned that decision.

Kerr also represented two women who said they were sexually assaulted by football players and recruits in 2001, and filed a suit against CU, claiming the school created an environment that was dangerous to women. The women won a $2.85 million settlement in 2007 following a scandal that ultimately cost the university’s president and the Boulder campus’s chancellor and athletic director their jobs.

As far as Kerr knows, the firm is the only one in the country that has a dedicated Title IX unit.

“Probably nobody else has the numbers and the resources and years of experience that we do,” he said of the six attorneys in the group.

Clune is charming and disarming, Kerr said. While he puts his clients first, Clune is rarely sharp-edged or aggressive toward others, which will be an asset as he navigates national politics.

“I think that’s ideal for the supercharged partisan atmosphere we have here,” Kerr said.

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Opinion | Wednesday, September 26, 2018

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Nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, has been accused of sexual assault by two women.

Christine Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, said he attempted to rape her in high school. Deborah Ramirez, originally from Boulder and an undergraduate classmate of Kavanaugh at Yale University, states they were at a party when he exposed himself.

Despite these accusations, where one was documented in her therapists notes, many politicians and even President Trump have come out in support of Judge Kavanaugh.

The rise of the #MeToo movement illustrates the fact that as long as we continue to demonize those who report sexual misconduct more than we do those who actually commit it, a culture of violence and misogyny is unavoidable.

Many believe that when a sexual assault occurs, it is evidently in the victims best interest to come forth with an accusation as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, it usually comes down to a game of he-saidshe-said, which is partly due to widespread misconceptions about false reports and the nature of sexual assault in general.

More often than not, the assault occurs between two people who know each other. It sometimes take a period of processing for a victim to realize there was an assault.

The #WhyIDidntReport movement is trending on twitter in response to President Trump’s criticism of Ford and Ramirez waiting so long to come forward. Many victims have used this as an opportunity to explain the implications that kept them from speaking up and reporting their sexual assault experiences.

People are often accused of falsifying their claims, but this inherently disregards the fact that most do not want to be known as a person who was sexually assaulted. They do not want to constantly recount a traumatic experience and have people visualize them in that vulnerable situation. Especially when it is for a system that continually fails victims.

The allegations and issues surrounding Kavanaugh are certainly familiar to Colorado State University. Last June, Christina Boucher, a now former professor in the Department of Computer Science, filed a lawsuit against the University and three professors on the grounds of discrimination

after coming forward with her story of assault.

Boucher claims her performance reviews were dealt a blow after reporting her assault. Boucher was routinely left out of important meetings headed by her assaulter, including meetings related to her research and her graduate student advisees, as well as being removed from a student’s thesis committee.

Boucher said this affected her ability to perform her job, which her assaulter used against her as a means to give negative reviews and subsequently derailed her from gaining a tenure-track position.

This is all too similar to the persecution that Ford and many others have faced since choosing to tell their story. Ford has dealt with harassment, threats, online impersonation and has even been forced to move her and her family out of their home.

This not atypical. People who speak up about their assault, even someone like Terry Crews, former NFL linebacker, are hesitant to share their story in fear of backlash.

In order to move past this culture of violence and misogyny we have surrounding sexual assault, we have to take the responsibility upon ourselves to change how victims and asaulters are viewed.

Madison Thompson can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh smiles while meeting with senators on July 11, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. PHOTO BY OLIVIER DOULIERY ABACA PRESS/TNS

physics lab success

While struggling with their experiment on measuring electric potential, Abby Griffith and her two lab partners were stunned when Daisy, her six-month-old golden retriever training to be a service dog, heroically jumped to the rescue.

“She was a total pro,” said Cody Richards, one of Griffith’s lab partners. “She had all the steps down, knew where to plug everything in... She even guided us on the write-up. It

was like she knew exactly what to do somehow. We were totally speechless.”

The service dog’s handler couldn’t say for sure what had led to her miraculous actions, but she did have a suspicion that a mishap at home that morning might be connected.

“Daisy got into my backpack this morning and got a hold of my physics lab manual,” Griffith said. “It was pretty badly chewed up and the pages for today’s experiment were completely gone.”

Griffith said the mishap was a good opportunity to further Daisy’s training, but she feared that she and her lab partners would be completely lost without the manual.

“It’s an invaluable resource.

I can’t even tell you how often we prop up pieces of equipment with it, or use it to write on when there’s no space on the desk,” Griffith explained.

“Plus the bright yellow cover is great for flagging down the TA when we get stuck,” Richards added.

“I guess something about consuming the lab manual really did the trick,” Griffith said with a bewildered shrug. “I never would have guessed.”

The TA for the lab section was not available for comment as she was too busy figuring out how to enter the service dog’s grade into Canvas.

Katie Lindberg can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

NOPE

DOPE

By Katie Lindberg @quantumCatnip

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.

Fort Collins - Students in a physics laboratory at Colorado State University yesterday witnessed a stunning twist on the age-old “my dog ate my homework” tale.

“I guess something about consuming the lab manual really did the trick, I never would have guessed.”

ABBY GRIFFITH STUDENT

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Sports | Wednesday, September 26, 2018

FOOTBALL

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NFL needs to implement college overtime

Receivers Johnson, Williams added to Biletnikoff Award Watch List

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The NFL is as fan-driven as a professional sport can be. Without any fans, the league would not exist.

That is not to say fans like everything about the current state of the game though. For example, a whirlwind of complaints has surfaced since the NFL adopted a new roughing-the-passer rule. As a result, the NFL will most likely look into tweaking the rule.

Another element of the game that has stirred negative outbursts this year and previous years is the tie.

Most fans can agree that allowing a game to end in a tie is both pointless and irritating. The NFL needs to consider getting rid of the outcome completely.

A tie is non-existent in the MLB. Teams will play through the night and even pick a game back up in the morning if necessary. There never have and never will be a tie in the NBA. The NHL adopted a shootout at the end of an overtime period before the 2005-2006 season to exile the tie once and for all.

This leaves the NFL as the only major American professional sports league that still allows a game to end in a draw.

Why has every other sport steered elsewhere? Because ties do not resolve anything and simply waste fans’ money.

Ironically, that is especially true for the NFL considering there are only 16 regular season games and eight home games. Popular online ticket reselling website Vivid Seats reported in 2017 that the average price to attend an NFL game has increased six percent annually.

Vivid Seats noted that the average price to attend any regular season game was $169, a number which has increased since. Even preseason games can cost nearly $100 depending on the team. A ticket for the New England Patriots versus Kansas City Chiefs game in 2017 cost fans an average of $692.

Attending an NFL game is a rare occasion for most when taking the price and high demand into

account. From a fan’s perspective, attending a game that ends in a tie may be even more frustrating than seeing your team lose. This is because ties raise an unnecessary “what if” question that could have easily been answered with the continuation of the game.

Sure, ties are still decently rare to come by. But, through three regular season weeks in 2018, there have already been two. The gap of talent between teams is growing thinner each season. With that being the case, ties are becoming even more likely.

NFL overtime has the potential to be the most exciting aspect of the game for fans. But, the NFL is doing overtime completely wrong.

Professional football includes some of the world’s best athletes.

But at the end of four quarters, even those athletes are exhausted. Driving down the length of the field and putting together a productive drive is hard enough in regulation. Doing so when they are nearly out of energy in overtime is too much to ask.

This is why the NFL should implement a variation of collegiate overtime in order to require less energy of players and ultimately expel the tie.

In the NCAA overtime, a team starts at the opposing team’s 25yard line to begin the extra period. After the first team’s offensive drive, the opposing team gets a chance to score in the same scenario. Whichever team is on top at the end of the two drives is named the winner. If the score is tied, the two teams start over in another overtime period.

This would be great for the NFL because it would be extremely exciting for fans, though starting at the 25 would be a little unfair for defenses considering the capabilities of the average NFL offense.

Instead, an offense should be required to start at its own 45-yard line. Needing 25 yards to get into acceptable field goal range and 55 yards for a touchdown is not too much to ask from both an offense and defense. This essentially means an offense needs around two first downs to put themselves in scoring position.

The tie is useless. It leaves both fans and players unsure of how to react after a game. Applying this revised overtime plan will give attending fans their money’s worth, while simultaneously being more ideal for NFL players.

Eddie Herz can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

By Eddie Herz @Eddie_Herz

As a result of a pair of productive starts to the 2018 season, Colorado State football wide receiver’s Olabisi Johnson and Preston Williams have been named to the Biletnikoff Award Watch List.

The award is given annually to recognize the best receiver in Division I college football. Currently, there are 61 total players on the list.

Johnson and Williams have been the seldom bright spots in what has been a losing start to the season for CSU. Williams, a junior who transferred from Tennessee before the 2017 season, ranks second in receiving yards in the FBS with 511.

The 6-foot-4 wideout has found the end zone four times this season and leads the Rams with 39 receptions.

Williams has already notched three 100+ yard receiving performances this season, including a career-high 188 yards on nine receptions against the University of Hawaii.

Johnson, a junior who has worked his way up in Coach Mike Bobo’s system, also resides in the top 10 in receiving. The Lakewood, Colorado native’s 436 receiving yards are the 10th best in the FBS. The senior has scored four touchdowns this season as well and has accumulated over 100 re-

Wide Receiver Preston Williams runs up field after making a catch against the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors in the first quarter of play at Canvas Stadium on August 25. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT JERGE COLLEGIAN

ceiving yards in both CSU’s first and most recent game. Johnson has already tied his career-high in touchdowns set in 2016 and is well on his way to setting a new career record in receiving yards.

Johnson’s current high in single-season receiving is 613, which he set two seasons ago.

Additionally, Johnson and Williams were recognized during the offseason by NFL.com. NFL Media draft analyst Lance Zierlein included both receivers on his top-10 wide receivers to watch list.

Williams checked in at ninth while Johnson was listed as seventh.

The Rams will face San Jose State University on the road after a bye this week. The Spartans are 0-3 and rank dead last in the FBS in passing defense, allowing an average of 391.7 yards through the air per game. Look for Johnson and Williams to continue their productivity when CSU takes the field next.

Eddie Herz can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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Dubbed a Swiss army knife by many of her teammates, junior Olivia Nicholson is showing her overwhelming versatility in and out of Moby Arena.

Nicholson was recruited as an outside hitter, one that received several accolades in high school including Associated Press All-State First Team in Nebraska. Since her opening year, she has been forced to adapt.

Whether it is shifting over to libero for Colorado State volleyball to replace fellow junior Amanda Young or making her way through the world of wildlife in zoology.

With star outside hitter, redshirt sophomore Breana Runnels taking the lead in hitting, Nicholson has become a player that embraces several skill sets. A shoulder surgery was another factor in Nicholson’s position switch. “(Coming in) we knew she’d be an all-around player,” Coach Tom Hilbert said. “She can play the whole game. She sees the game, she’s a much better player when she’s just reacting.”

That reaction time has given Nicholson the ability to even make up for 2017 Mountain West Player

of the Year, junior Katie Oleksak when opposing teams seek the setter out on defense. That, along with her naturally soft hands when handling the ball is something that has paid off for the Rams.

“It’s very comforting to see her (in the back) and know that she is a good setter,” Oleksak said. “She (is good with) her hands, she is a good communicator, and when I get the first ball, she always steps in.”

An ability to make her way through each position for the Rams in her career has forced the CSU coaches to ensure she is on the court at all times. That presence, though sought by the staff, is one that has not been without speed bumps.

A hitter and defensive specialist by trait, Nicholson’s presence has been missed by the team in her absences. As a player that has missed five games per year in her Rams’ career, Nicholson is no stranger to adversity.

“Last year was pretty difficult to not play in games,” Nicholson said. “Sometimes (starting), sometimes not, I think mentally that was really hard for me after starting (for so long).”

Whether it was a concussion, a shoulder injury, or another various ailment, Nicholson has dealt with

the Rams’ training staff often. Last year, she was forced to miss ten games, nearly a third of the year, due to her aforementioned shoulder surgery.

The conditions do not stop Nicholson from contributing when she’s forced off the court though as her teammates rely on her for strategy and motivation.

That boost comes both in the form of game planning and extra work in their studies.

Her father, Alex Nicholson, was a science teacher in both middle and high school, instilling a work ethic in the textbooks that rivals her love of volleyball.

The love of learning has propelled Nicholson to not only a Nebraska State Athletic Association Academic All-State honor in high school, but also a pair of Mountain West Academic All-Conference awards in her two full years in Fort Collins.

As a team leader, Nicholson has even made it a point to help her teammates find the same academic success. Empathy for others is something the coaches think will take her a long way after she graduates.

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The UCA’s 10th anniversary reflects on collaborative success

By Julia Trowbridge @chapin_jules

From humble beginnings scattered around the Oval to the old Fort Collins High School, the University Center of the Arts at Colorado State University allows for the arts to collaborate and flourish.

For their 10th anniversary, the UCA hosted an open house on Sept. 23 to showcase some of the current projects created in the space. Although the UCA is newer than most of the buildings on campus, it has fostered creativity and collaborations among many departments.

“Art can serve other disciplines. The connections are just limitless. We try to make the museum not just (about) visual arts, but to show how the visual arts can serve everything.”

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“Music, theatre, dance, (and) design all happen in this building,” said Jennifer Clary, director of communications for the UCA. “Everyone has a different perception from a different area that they’re passionate about, and a different use of the building.”

Before the UCA, the music, theatre and dance departments were scattered around the Oval and other buildings currently hosting Administration and The Institute for Learning and Teaching. The build-

ings weren’t well suited for the growing number of students and advancing technology of the performing arts.

“We couldn’t really function as a department collaborative because everyone was in their own space,” Clary said. “The spaces were not up to par from the state of the art technology and even comfort, like air conditioning (standards). There wasn’t room to grow and to fully be who we could be.”

The UCA provides 15 theaters and practice spaces, one exclusively for dance, as well as the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art and the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising. Between large performances and smaller events, the UCA presents around 300 performances a year, said Peter Miller, the events manager for the UCA. “There’s a large population of Fort Collins that don’t know everything that’s going on over here,” Miller said. “We have patrons all the time that come for one thing and don’t have any idea that we have these other performances.”

With placing the performing arts in one building, the departments can easily collaborate on different projects and respond to the art around them.

According to Clary, projects include dance classes performing in response to art pieces in the Museum of Art, dance and orchestral groups performing together and operas where vocalists and the orchestra perform together.

The UCA also tries to collaborate outside of the arts.

The Museum of Art is looking to bring in an electromagnetic sculpture in January, and is bringing in Brian Jones, the director of the Little Shop of Physics, to analyze the piece,

Broadway veterans Patty Goble and Noah Racey coach acting students through a scene during the musical theatre workshop at the UCA’s 10th Anniversary Open House Program. PHOTO BY AJ FRANKSON COLLEGIAN

said Lynn Boland, director of the Museum.

“Art can serve other disciplines,” Boland said. “The connections are just limitless. We try to make the museum not just (about) visual arts, but to show how the visual arts can serve everything.”

Departments in the UCA look to collaborate with the community in addition to other departments. The dance department hosts outreach events that show dance students other career paths and give the community an opportunity to

dance, said Emily Morgan, a dance professor at CSU.

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“It brings an art form that is often considered an elite art form to the community and it shows that actually, we can all dance,” Morgan said. “And

there’s opportunity for everybody and dance.”

Over the next 10 years, the UCA hopes to increase collaboration between departments, Fort Collins’ interest in the arts and is looking to add a new musical theatre major.

“I would like to think that in the next 10 years that even my grandest hopes and dreams are surpassed by what’s possible from the collective energy of this space,” Boland said.

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

MOVIES & TV

Season 5 of ‘Bojack Horseman’ shows toxicity of entertainment industry

By Elena Waldman @WaldmanElena

In a time where the most prominent waves of the #MeToo movement have melded the current cultural moment labeled the “post-Weinstein Era”, the new season of Netflix’s “Bojack Horseman” could not be truer.

Returning for a fifth Netflix season on September 14th, the show brings back many recurring themes, such as mental health, drug abuse and the corruption of the entertainment industry. The newest season focuses more on the nuances of Hollywood’s dark side.

Based on the titular char-

acter Bojack Horseman, a washed-up celebrity still coasting off his success on a popular ’90s sitcom, the series has never shied away from mature subjects. In season one, Bojack is gradually revealed as a much more damaged and vulnerable individual. Many of the same struggles Bojack has faced throughout the series are still central to his character; his abusive childhood, struggle with alcoholism and inability to settle with his terrible life decisions have instilled in him a concoction of self-loathing and depression.

In season five, things briefly start to look up in the “Bojack Horseman” universe. Starring in a new fringe crime show ti-

tled Philbert, Bojack finally has a bit of direction. His current closest friend and memoir-writer, Diane, is adjusting to life as a recently divorced woman. His former best friend, Todd, has embraced his asexuality and once again found himself in a much higher professional position than he is qualified for. Princess Carolyn, Bojack’s manager, has embraced the idea of being a single mother.

As the season progresses, the lighthearted premises fade into much harsher societal truths. It doesn’t stray away from the show’s notorious format of deconstructing conventional television through self-deprecating humor and

cheeky pop culture references.

It does, however, pull back the curtain of irony to reveal its core message: popular culture has significant influence over society, and if the people working within it lack integrity, the results can be damaging.

Diane, the token ‘woke’ character of the show and often the voice of morality, brings up the point that mainstream media has the power to normalize certain behaviors or ideologies. The show within the show, Philbert, is a nod to many television shows and movies today that use the pretense of ‘conveying real-world problems’ to exploit rape culture, violence and drug abuse for shock value.

The show forces the characters

to ask whether or not building meaningful narratives around characters who display toxic behaviors is justifiable.

Should you watch it? Yes. Bojack is essentially an irredeemable character, and yet the audience empathizes with him because we know why he’s so terrible. The same could be said about the culture the show operates within. Philbert, a product of the same industry that allows violence and sexual assault to thrive, is Bojack Horseman’s own self-reflection.

Elena Waldman can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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MOVIE REVIEW

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Prince’s ‘Piano & a Microphone 1983’ ‘Sierra Burgess is a Loser’ rewards jealousy showcases his musical brilliance and bad behavior

By Randy Lewis

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By Ashley Potts @ashleypotts09

Even though you probably should have stopped watching them in high school, cheesy romantic comedies are supposed to be fun and make you feel good. They aren’t supposed to make you angry, but ‘Sierra Burgess is a Loser’ made me angry.

The new Netflix original film had a lot of promise. It stars Shannon Purser, better known as Barb from “Stranger Things,” as Sierra Burgess.

Noah Centineo also plays a leading role as Jamey, after suddenly becoming the internet’s boyfriend after starring in “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.”

The casting pair seemed exciting at first. I thought Purser was finally going to get justice for her fate in “Stranger Things” in the form of a cute boyfriend. I suppose that is technically what happened in this film, but it ended up feeling a lot less like rom-com justice and a lot more like a cheap consolation prize. Let’s start at the beginning.

The premise of this movie is exactly what the title says.

Sierra Burgess is a loser. She’s the stereotypical high school nerd. She wants to get straight A’s, plays flute in the marching band, wears glasses and sweaters with animals on them and gets made fun of by the popular girls.

At first, it seems like she’s strong and confident. Her parents preach self-esteem and she claps back at the petty retorts thrown at her in the girl’s room. I was really prepared to love Sierra Burgess, and was in for some self-love and taking no sh*t from haters. But it fell apart quickly.

The popular cheerleader, Veronica (Kristine Froseth), blows off Jamey, the star quarterback, by giving him a fake number which turns out to be Sierra Burgess’. He starts

texting the number thinking he’s talking to Veronica, and Sierra flirts back letting him think she’s Veronica, not some “loser.” The whole premise is weird, creepy and would obviously fall apart quickly in real life. But, for the sake of silly love stories, I’ll let this part slide.

Sierra and Veronica end up bonding over catfishing Jamey, despite the fact that they used to bully each other. That was the only part of the movie I didn’t hate. They managed to overcome their differences and become friends. Veronica stood up for Sierra when the other popular girls kept insisting she was a loser, and they supported each other. There was even a slight eyebrow makeover.

This is what made the rest of the movie sting so much.

Veronica had great character development from mean girl to friend. She went along with the dumbest catfish scheme to ever exist and was the wing-woman every girl needs.

In one fell swoop, Sierra Burgess went from being a loser to being a straight-up a**hole.

Jamey kissed Veronica, because that’s who he thought he’d been talking to the whole time, and Sierra lost it in a jealous teenage rage.

The movie ends with everyone forgiving Sierra and her getting the guy and going to homecoming with the quarterback. But I’m not buying it.

She didn’t deserve that happy ending, or at least not so easily.

Should you watch it? Nope.

Sierra turned into the worst character. I no longer wanted her to get the guy and I wouldn’t blame her friends for never making up with her.

In an undisclosed event, she betrayed girl code, lied and blamed everyone but herself.

I’m all for second chances, but they are never earned as easily as they are in this movie.

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

The Firesign Theatre comedy troupe once released an album aimed at upending expectations and assumed knowledge. It was titled “Everything You Know Is Wrong.” Such a phrase comes to mind with the arrival of “Piano & a Microphone 1983,” an intimate recording from Prince’s vast archive of unreleased material.

A fitting subtitle could be “Everything You Know About Funk Is Wrong,” thanks to a couple of flatout stunning solo performances on this session.

This is not the Holy Grail of lost or shelved Prince albums – that presumably would have to involve one of his stellar bands such as the Revolution, the New Power Generation or 3rd-eyegirl, collaborators integral to his most fully realized recordings.

But for the committed fan, this collection of nine tracks clocking in at around 34 minutes opens a window on just how much the Purple One could pack into a song with just 10 fingers and a voice, with periodic rhythmic assists from one or both of his ever-restless feet.

The revelations start with “17 Days,” which previously surfaced in a full-band arrangement released on the 1993 triple disc “The Hits/B-Sides” compilation. The solo version here is an eye-opener.

For nearly 6 minutes, even

without the slippery bass, the throbbing drums or the propulsive rhythm guitar of the full band version, Prince sacrifices none of the infectious dance-ability of that performance. In fact, with the tempo bumped up a few BPMs, it feels more energetic.

The power he pumps into the piano keys is visceral, and he adds scintillating jazz riffing that fuels and propels the song’s basic twochord structure. It also appears as if he’s still clearly working out the lyrics (“The rain comes down, down, down” is repeated throughout, and punctuated with a vocalese rainbow of syllabic accents and interjections.)

Similarly, “Strange Relationship,” which appeared on his 1987 album “Sign O’ the Times,” is full of sultry rhythmic urgency, thanks to his inventive, syncopated piano accompaniment and every-other-beat foot stomps. It’s another demonstration that Prince could have been a world-class jazz pianist if that had been his prime objective.

Moviegoers who have caught Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” already have had the opportunity during the film’s closing credits to hear Prince’s exceptional reading of the 19th century gospel song “Mary Don’t You Weep.” It’s a remarkable fusion of gospel, soul and jazz, his liquid falsetto taking the song’s plea for understanding soaring into the musical stratosphere.

The version here of “International Lover,” which had appeared a year earlier on his “1999” album, is freer rhythmically, slowed down and more confessional, veering more into the open-ended expressiveness of jazz than the pulsing R&B treatment of the studio version.

Additionally, a year before “Purple Rain” appeared in finished form as a scorching soulrock ballad, Prince sat at the piano as if he were in a cabaret in the wee hours that Frank Sinatra always favored.

“Cold Coffee and Cocaine,” one of two previously unreleased songs, takes the performer back to hard jazz funk, with the artist flashing more great piano licks and an unerring rhythmic drive as he riffs on the two titular subjects in which he expresses no interest in having.

The album concludes with “Why the Butterflies,” another song still looking to emerge from its formative cocoon, but already rich with rhythm and romantic yearning in its DNA. This release from Prince’s estate is tightly focused and doesn’t fall into a “something for everyone” category. But for those who want an unadulterated glimpse into just how brilliant Prince could be all by his lonesome, “Piano & a Microphone 1983” delivers a mighty convincing exhibition.

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Steady home improvement supports your family. Shared accounts gain unexpectedly. Community projects get satisfying results this summer.

Domestic renewal this winter comes before a team hurdle propels you into a valuable professional opportunity.

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Acknowledge broken promises, and create new possibilities. Restore love, respect and affinity.

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