Vol127, No. 121 Monday, April 9 2018 by The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Vol. 127, No. 121 Monday, April 9, 2018

NEWS

OPINION

ANTI MUSLIM INCIDENTS REPORTED ON CAMPUS

REALISTIC SOLUTION TO PARKING

SPORTS

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RAMS LOSE LEADING SCORER

Softball team holds sit-in to protest unequal facilities By Mack Beaulieu @Macknz_James

Members of the group “For Your GenderTainTment” perform on stage Sunday night in the Lory Student Center for the annual Drag Show hosted by PRISM. This year’s theme was “Geek vs. Glam” with all proceeds going to the Pride Resource Center. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN

CSU Drag Show geeks out on glam By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98

Student and professional drag performers came together Sunday evening, dressed in either geeky or glamorous attire, for the Geeks vs. Glam drag show in the Lory Student Center Grand Ballroom. The show, which is organized by the student organization PRISM, featured nearly 30 student and professional drag performers, with a special performance from Raja Gemini, the season three winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Hosts Vivica Galactica and

Evelyn Evermoore educated the audience about gender identity and the differences between cosplaying and dressing in drag. Gemini said the identity of Raja Gemini is not separate from her identity as Sutan Amrull, which is Gemini’s birth name. “Drag for me is not a character. I’m not a separate entity,” Gemini said. “Raja is not a different person. Raja is just Sutan with different clothes on.” At the start of the show, Hosts Vivica Galactica and Evelyn Evermoore announced that they wanted the spring

semester drag show to raise $200 more than the previous show, which was around $1,400, to go towards programming for the Pride Resource Center. By the end of the night, audience members had donated $2,000. Delray Echohawk, the copresident of PRISM and codirector of the drag show, has worked for the drag show since his freshman year, making the “Geeks vs. Glam” drag show his last. “It’s nice to be relieved of all this responsibility, but it’s also been the most important thing to me that I’ve done during my full four years here at CSU,” Echohawk said. “Being

involved with the drag show my first semester, seeing it and being involved was my first time seeing drag ever, so I think even seeing how diverse of an art form that is.” Jame Fuerte, a sophomore dance and nutrition major, performed in the student group, For Your GenderTainMent. Fuerte said performing in the drag show has allowed him the opportunity to perform and have fun. “I continue coming back for the support that I get from all of my friends, and for the opportunity to be surrounded by people who are open minded see DRAG SHOW on page 13 >>

The Colorado State softball team staged a sit-in at the Indoor Practice Facility at 3 p.m. Friday to protest inequality in practice facilities among teams at the University. The team’s main focus is the lack of equality between men’s and women’s sports at CSU. Instead of hosting the New Mexico Lobos, due to snowy weather, the Rams’ softball team hosted a sit-in that ran during the CSU football team’s spring practice. The softball team showed up early, began a player-organized practice and waited for someone to tell them they had to leave. The team protested that they had nowhere to practice when the weather turned ugly, like Friday. “Our coach came in with three executive athletic administrators,” senior outfielder Hayleigh Evans said. “They just let us talk to them and we basically told them every reason why we were doing it. For equality, not just for softball but for women in general. For future generations, we want to see a change and what’s going on is not okay.” Evans specifically mentioned those women’s teams which are not tied to any men’s sports. “This isn’t about the football team,” Evans said. “This is about equality for women’s athletics, we don’t have a place to practice when we need it …. One thing we’ve noticed is that when a women’s sport gets better equality, it’s because it’s attached to a men’s sport … The men got it, so that’s why they have to reciprocate it.” see SIT-IN on page 8 >>

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FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Nate Whitehead, a worker for the CSU General Grounds Maintenance team changes a sprinkler in a flower bed outside of the Rec Center on campus. Whitehead’s job consists of maintaining the north dorms area as well as the sprinkler and irrigation systems around campus. “I’ve been told there are thousands of sprinkler heads throughout campus” Whitehead said. As sprinklers are only replaced if faulty, the replacement of this sprinkler is due to it spraying away from the flower bed and into the walkway of pedestrians. PHOTO BY MATT BEGEMAN COLLEGIAN

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NEWS Monday, April 9, 2018

CAMPUS

CSU athletics uses Eco-Products disposables for games By Ty Betts @TyBetts9

Eco-Products, a Boulderbased food-disposables company, helps clients become environmentally responsible with cups that cannot be recycled. Certain cups can, however, be composted, and Colorado State University athletics has started to use Eco-Products disposables to help attain a vision of zero waste at sporting events. Eco-Products supplies some of the cups at the new on-campus stadium. They also sponsored two zero waste basketball games at CSU by selling and donating compostable disposables, Sarah Martinez, Director of Marketing for EcoProducts, said. However, selling compostable forks, straws and cups is not all Eco-Products does. “We want to help our customers keep that compostable cup out of the landfill,” Martinez said. Eco-Products does this by providing free sustainability consulting, which could mean training staff, working with composters or designing signage, Martinez said.

Maggie Gilman, a member of the Zero Waste Team at CSU, worked closely with the processing of Eco-Products materials. If sorted correctly at a sporting event, an Eco-Products cup will end up at the CSU foothills campus composting facility. “They break down really awesome,” Gilman said. “They also add structure to the compost and allow air to breathe through it.” Composting cups also means less recycling that has to take place, a system that Martinez said has become problematic. “There is a huge problem with recycling as we know it,” Martinez said. “Economically it often just doesn’t make sense. The cost to capture material, sort it, and then find buyers is just really challenging and often can’t compete with using virgin material.” Martinez said there needs to be more companies making products with recycled content, but, as of now, the demand for recycled plastic just is not enough. Martinez also noted the number of plastic varieties also makes

recycling a challenging process. At CSU, Gillman said creating formal contracts specifying what disposable products vendors at sports games can use would help limit what ends up in a landfill. Gilman also said incorporating more partnerships with companies like Eco-Products will need to take place to reach zero waste. Creative services manager for Eco-Products, Kate Bennett, said Eco-Products not only provides disposables for the CSU stadium but also to the baseball stadiums for the Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins and restaurants including Snooze, Chipotle and Garbanzo. “We try to be a sustainability partner, not just someone selling cups,” Bennett said. While Martinez said EcoProducts is the largest foodservice packaging brand exclusively dedicated to environmentally focused products, they are nowhere near the scale of other disposables companies. “Compared to the large Solo cups of the world, we’re a speck,” Martinez said. Price is certainly one factor

During the Colorado State vs. Air Force game, junior Maggie Gilman sorts compost from recycling material in one of the bins at the oncampus stadium on behalf of the Zero Waste Team. PHOTO BY BRANDON MENDOZA COLLEGIAN

that gives Solo Cup Company an advantage in this industry, but there is one benefit to compostable foodware that may give Eco-Products an edge for clients who are committed to diverting waste from landfills. “If you’re at a game and you eat half a sandwich, you don’t eat all your fries and you have nacho cheese on your nacho

tray - the average fan isn’t going to spend a lot of time separating out the food and putting it into a different bin,” Martinez said. “But with compostable packaging, a commercial composter will take the packaging and the leftover food.” Ty Betts can be reached at news@collegian.com.

NEWS Monday, April 9, 2018

CAMPUS

CRIME

Better Together Day aims to bridge Student excluded for gaps between differences on Tuesday threatening behavior By Matt Bailey @mattnes1999

By Matt Bailey

Various cultural organizations and clubs will provide students, faculty and staff the opportunity to talk and reflect on their differences this Tuesday on the Plaza at Colorado State University. The event, “Better Together Day,” will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Better Together Day” is an opportunity for students, faculty and staff from a variety of beliefs to bridge gaps across their differences, according to Better Together Day’s event Facebook page. Students of different religions, cultures and spiritual beliefs are encouraged to come out to the Plaza and partake in the event by sitting down with other students and getting to know each other. The event will feature free coffee and tea, as well as games and a photo booth.

A Colorado State University student who displayed threatening behavior was recently excluded from campus for making generalized violent threats towards the CSU community and schools, according to a campus-wide email sent out Thursday afternoon by the CSU Police Department and Public Safety Team. Joshua “Yeshua” Jackson, a junior studying preconstruction management, has been charged with verbally accosting people earlier this week, a bias-motivated crime and engaging in physical violence while in police custody. These charges are connected to his exclusion from campus, which means that Jackson is not legally allowed on campus or any University-owned property. Jackson was in training to become a disk jockey at 90.5 FM KCSU, the student-run radio station of Rocky Mountain Student Media Corporation, and had been in the RMSMC offices this past week to complete his DJ training, according to an email from Hannah Copeland, the general manager of KCSU. Copeland wrote in an email to The Collegian that Jackson was in training to be a DJ at KCSU and has volunteered at

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Student volunteers of the walk out hold hands and lead the crowd in a moment to raise awareness of the victims of the Parkland shooting. PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS MAY COLLEGIAN

Better Together Day at CSU is a part of a nationwide project started by the Interfaith Youth Core, a national nonprofit that works towards bringing people of different faiths, worldviews and traditions together. The IFYC chose the color blue to represent this year’s Better Together Day.

This event aims to enlarge the shared multi-faith and belief family tree at CSU, according to Better Together Day’s event Facebook page. Its goal is for people to see that being different is a good thing. Matt Bailey can be reached at news@collegian.com.

CAMPUS

University Village apartments staff addresses anti-Muslim incidents By Matt Bailey @matnes1999

A string of five anti-Muslim incidents directed towards residents and staff at University Village occurred over the past two weeks, according to an email sent to University Village and Aggie Village residents by Apartment Life staff. Two emails regarding these incidents were sent out to UV residents from Director of Apartment Life Christie Matthews, University Village Resident Manager Zobaida Ben Musa and International House and University Village 1500 Resident Manager Karina Brum, which was then forwarded to Aggie Village residents by Elle Herner, the office program coordinator of Aggie Village. An email sent out on March 30 addressed the first three biasmotivated incidents, and an additional email regarding the two bias-motivated incidents that occurred since the release of the first email was sent out today. The first three incidents that occurred last week involved accusations of aggressive verbal behavior and inappropriate

gestures targeted towards Muslim residents and staff at UV. A UV resident and CSU student has since been identified by authorities as being held allegedly responsible for these incidents and will be subject to appropriate action as well as a review by the Student Resolution Board, Apartment Life staff wrote. Since then, two more antiMuslim incidents have occurred. These incidents were explained in fuller detail in the most recent email sent to UV residents. The first of these two biasmotivated incidents, which occurred on Saturday, involved a Muslim staff member who was addressed by a UV resident with biased and inappropriate language. The resident responsible for this incident has been identified and the incident is currently being addressed by staff. The second bias-motivated incident occurred Monday evening in which a Muslim resident and her father received “harsh, angry, ethnically-biased statements and treatment on a city street in front of UV following a traffic altercation,” Apartment

Life staff wrote. Fort Collins Police Services responded to this incident since it occurred on a city street, and the suspect has since been identified as a CSU student. This incident is also currently being addressed. In their emails, Apartment Life staff reminded UV residents that the behavior of the suspects responsible for these incidents is not acceptable in the CSU community, calling the incidents “heartbreaking, inappropriate, and contrary to CSU’s Principles of Community.” Anyone who witnesses bias incidents should call CSUPD at (970) 491-6425. Bias incidents can be anonymously reported at supportandsafety.colostate. edu/incidents-of-bias, or anonymously called in at (970) 491-1350. University apartment residents are asked to report bias-motivated incidents to Apartment Life staff. Anyone who is concerned about someone in the campus community can also use the Tell Someone website to make an anonymous referral. Matt Bailey can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Joshua “Yeshua” Jackson, a junior at Colorado State University, has been excluded from campus and Universityowned property due to threatening behavior and generalized threats of violence toward schools and the CSU community. PHOTO COURTESY OF

THE CSU PUBLIC SAFETY TEAM

KCSU in the past. Jackson is described as being 6’1” and 160 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. Anyone who sees Jackson on or by campus, which includes University Village housing in the Campus West area, is encouraged to immediately call or text 911, or call CSUPD’s non-emergency phone number at (970) 491-6425. Matt Bailey can be reached at news@collegian.com

CAMPUS

Steven Lim to discuss the “Impact of AsianAmericans in the Media” By Audrey Weiss @audkward

Steven Lim, Buzzfeed Junior Video Producer, has worked on numerous video projects ranging from his “Worth it” series, to his videos pertaining to the AsianAmerican experience. Lim will be joining Colorado State University during Asian Pacific Islander and Desi American Heritage Month to discuss the “Impact of AsianAmericans in the Media.” The event will take place in the Longs Peak Room of the Lory Student Center on April 10 that 5 p.m. Lim has worked for Buzzfeed since 2015 and has since racked

up millions of views, including those pertaining to his identity as an Asian-American. For example, Lim’s video, “Things Bilingual people do,” has over 6 million views. In addition to Lim’s discussion, events hosted by the Asian Pacific Cultural Center will include Blasian Narratives on April 12, UndocuAPIDA: Know Your Rights on April 16 and An Anti-Colonist Response to End Sexual Violence on April 23, along with other events occurring over the course of the month. Visit the SOURCE website for more information on these events and others. Audrey Weiss can be reached at news@collegian.com.

NEWS Monday, April 9, 2018

CITY

Fort Collins selects new police chief By Meagan Stackpool @meaganstackpool

The City of Fort Collins Police Department selected Jeffery Swoboda as the new police chief. Swoboda’s first day is June 4. The selection process began when Police Chief John Hutto resigned on May 12, 2017. Retired Aurora Police Chief Terry Jones took over as Interim Chief May 13. Jones will continue to serve until Swoboda starts this summer. During the selection process, Swoboda was a front runner. He spent two and a half years serving as police chief in Elgin, Illinois. In a news release, Swoboda spoke highly of his new position in Fort Collins. “I am very excited and humbled to be chosen as the Fort Collins police chief,” said Swoboda in the release. “I am looking forward to working with the community and the highly committed staff to reach the clearly stated goal of making Fort Collins the safest city in the country.” The interview process was extensive. City Manager Darin

Jeffrey Swoboda, when he was a candidate for Fort Collins police chief, emphasizes the importance of transparency on a police force and was recently elected to chief. PHOTO BY FIELD PETERSON COLLEGIAN

Atteberry commented on the amount of time spent with Swoboda, vetting him for the position. “In approximately 20 meetings with his Elgin Police Department colleagues, representatives from city hall, the mayor, city manager, the media, community organizations and neighborhood groups, I learned about his commitment

to service, his passion for excellence and his ability to hold all to a high level of accountability” Atteberry said in the release. Atteberry has been helping the City find the next Chief. “I am thrilled to offer this position to Chief Swoboda, as it is clear he is the top candidate for Fort Collins,” Atteberry said. Meagan Stackpool can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Rams Remember Rams CSU Community Remembrance Ceremony The campus community is invited to a candlelight ceremony Tuesday, April 10, 5 p.m. honoring CSU students, faculty, staff, and retirees who passed away this academic year. George Angleton Parviz “Paul” Azari Brian Paul Becker David C. Belshe Paul E. Bengford Camille Ann Blue Bert L. Bohmont Karen L “KB” Brigham Betty L. Burk Daniel Ryan Carrier Sharon Powell Cooper S. John Dackawich Finnegan Robert Daly David Stanley “Stan” Eitzen Norman Allen Evans W. Don Fronk

Jack R. Fenwick H. Howard Frisinger II Anthony “Tony” Mark Garcia Henry Lewis Gholtz Peter Mandel Hall Michael James Hanna Richard Thomas “Dick” Hill Douglas Carl Hittle Jonna Marie Isaak Meredith Maureen Jesser Eric Neil Kudlow Amelia “Amie” Lehman Rachael Maureen Max Danny “Dan” James McGrew Jennifer Gwyn McLain Savannah Leigh McNealy

Julius George Nagy Joshua Donald Nathan Daniel Miller Ogden Darrell Bruce Perkins Robert “Bob” Eliot Pierson Ernest A. Salas Neva Van Cleave Shadley Herbert Noval Sandifer Austin Patrick Sherwood Rodney Kenneth Skogerboe Melissa Ann Trifiletti Evangelos C. “Evan” Vlachos Clare Marie Wilber Joshua Marlow Williams

The 15-minute ceremony will be held on the north steps of the Administration Building and will include a reading of the names – along with time for silent reflection. The Danforth Chapel will be open until 6 p.m. as a quiet place for personal contemplation.

OPINION Monday, April 9, 2018

GUEST COLUMNIST

A realistic solution to CSU’s parking woes Josh Silva @jsflix

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 editorial board. Almost every student has first-hand frustration with the parking situation on Colorado State University’s campus. Complaints surrounding the pricing of permits and citations as well as the lack of convenient spaces are well-known and welldocumented. Parking on campus is an issue plaguing universities across the country, as various students have written. The University has taken some steps to modify the parking model in response to complaints, including reducing certain rates and opening parking garages, but backlash persists. While it may be tempting to expand on this criticism, a more constructive approach would be to look at how best to address the

issue—an approach that is easier than it sounds. Administrative fixes On the administrative side, CSU must be transparent, not just with pricing and availability of parking, but also with the governance of the parking model and how the decisions that shape it are made in the first place. Under Colorado law, the University parking program must be self-funded, meaning that no tuition or fee revenue can go towards parking. As a result, “staff, faculty, students and visitors pay for parking in one of three ways: buying a permit, paying a meter or paying a fine.” In terms of pricing, CSU strives to ensure that parking permits are “competitively priced with [its] peer institutions.” CSU publicly lists the prices of its permits online, unlike the University of Colorado-Boulder. Short-term parking rates are also publicly available. This model is managed and overseen by the Parking Services Committee, which is made up of 12 people, six of whom must be students. However, while the

University is transparent with pricing and operations of the parking model, information on this committee and its decision-making process is not easily available to the public or community members who are unable to attend meetings. Most students are probably completely unaware such a committee exists at all. As a result, students cannot contact their representatives on the committee or apply to be on the committee, and those who wish to be well-informed on the rationale behind difficult decisions find themselves in the dark. If students were able to obtain this information, the impact would be highly beneficial. The increased transparency, in theory, would insure against a selection bias in membership on the committee in terms of philosophy and experiences. Additionally, in the event of a controversial decision being made by the committee, students would be well-informed and feel a greater sense of personal ownership of it. Increased transparency may not result in substantially different policies being enacted,

but it would provide the student body with a healthy avenue to express concerns and angst. Student-side fixes The fixes mentioned above will have an extremely limited impact if students are not engaged with the process. On the student side, students of diverse perspectives must show up and play an active role in the governance of the parking model, regardless of whether they are officially part of the Parking Services Committee. As the ASCSU election demonstrated, parking is an issue that galvanizes students. During the election, which saw a record number of students vote, both the Syron-Sullivan and the Brust-Winchell campaigns made “ethical parking” a plank of their platforms, framing parking shortages and pricing as a moral issue for students. Of course, in terms of the University’s carbon footprint, questioning the relevance and merit of focusing on parking is perfectly valid. To its credit, the University has mainly been able to balance parking availability with promoting sustainability and alternative transportation on campus as a form of demand

management. Due to these efforts, the majority of students now use an alternative form of transportation to get to campus, though driving is still the number one choice. However, while many students are highly supportive of an aggressive and deliberate push toward public transit, many are also concerned that this push may have gone too far. While the logic for discouraging parking might be sound, the University still needs to address the concerns of students who feel squeezed, as they cannot afford parking passes and are unable to take public transit due to their commute. It is also the responsibility of these students to have a presence in the meetings that shape decision-making in this area. Students representing both sides of the argument must be well-informed and consistently engaged in order for them to have a chance to shape the debate for the future. If students are upset about parking on campus, they must vocalize it. Josh Silva can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

NATIONAL

Schools need to keep students safe, not act like thought police By LA Times Editorial Board Los Angeles Times

These are difficult days for schools as they try to figure out how and when to discipline students for misbehavior, disruption, bullying and other actions. Social media has further complicated the matter, blurring the lines between behavior on campus, where schools clearly can set rules, and behavior off campus, where it is not so obvious that they can. As unclear as the lines might be, though, several recent cases show a disturbing willingness among schools to leap over them: In Houston, a student was suspended last fall for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. That’s just ludicrous in this day and age; it’s been accepted for decades that students should not be compelled to participate in the pledge against their will. The student is suing, and we hope she’ll win. In Nevada, a high school student used foul language during a phone call to a congressman’s office to argue for stronger gun control. The

office then complained to his school, and the boy was suspended. But what right does the school have to punish a kid for speaking his mind, even rudely, on a public policy issue when he’s not in school? In New Jersey, a school district adopted a policy that banned students from being in possession of guns—off campus as well as on. But really, shouldn’t it be obvious even to strong supporters of gun control that a school can’t punish students for engaging in a perfectly legal activity— such as going to a firing range with their parents—after school hours? After an outcry involving two students who supposedly did just that, the school district said this week that it is modifying the policy so it no longer covers legal gun use off campus. What could these school officials be thinking? Then there’s a whole separate series of controversies over clothing. In 2015, a school pulled a student from class and reprimanded her for wearing a T-shirt saying, “Nobody knows I’m a lesbian.” The school argued

that the shirt was “offensive and distracting,” before being forced—rightly—to back down. Still, the next year, shortly before the 2016 presidential election, a student at a Florida school reportedly was told she would have to change out of her anti-Hillary Clinton T-shirt or go home for the day. She chose the latter. Schools (and occasionally courts) appear to need repeated reminders that students have a right to express their opinions, including unpopular ones, in school and out. It can get complicated because schools do have a right to step in when the language is truly threatening or disruptive. But school administrators too often have confused controversy with disruption. Some students might not like what they see on another student’s T-shirt. They might even find it offensive. But they don’t need to be sheltered from controversy or offense. Chances are they’ll talk about it, debate it, argue over it— and that’s a good thing. School authorities also should keep in mind that girls are not being “disruptive” by

wearing leggings to school, and it is not their job to prevent boys from being “distracted,” an excuse that many a principal has used over the years to place restrictions on clothing. Schools have a right to set dress codes within reason, but pretending that girls are responsible for the behavior of boys sets an unacceptable double standard. (Then there was the Houston school that threatened kids with three days of suspension if they joined students across the country in walking out of class for 17 minutes in response to the school shootings in Parkland, Florida. That may not have infringed on any constitutional rights, but it was certainly an excessive reaction.) Even more dicey are situations in which students misbehave off campus. A Bay Area high school rightly disciplined students for being involved in racist posts in which photos of students at their school, all female and almost all people of color, were shown with nooses drawn around their necks. These

images go beyond expressing opinions or simply being offensive; even though they were created off campus, they are intimidating, if not downright threatening, to people at the school. But it’s difficult to believe that the New Jersey school district mentioned above thought it had the right to regulate students’ target shooting off campus under completely legal circumstances. Or that the Nevada school believed it could punish teenagers for using foul language outside of class that was not directed toward anyone at the school. There are certainly difficult decisions to be made from time to time about free speech on school campuses, but these cases weren’t complicated. School officials have a responsibility to keep their students safe and learning on campus, but no one hired them to be the police of controversial personal expression or of student morality. Content pulled from Tribune News Service.

OPINION Monday, April 9, 2018

SERIOUSLY

Expired milk sends Syron-Sullivan campaign member to hospital By Ethan Vassar @ethanvassar

Editor’s note: This is a satire piece from the Collegian’s opinion section. Real names may be used in fictitious/semifictitious ways. Those who do not read editor’s notes are subject to being offended. Victory celebrations for Tristan Syron and Kevin Sullivan’s election as president and vice president of ASCSU quickly turned from excitement to concern as one of the members of their campaign team was hospitalized after drinking expired milk. In celebration, the pair, as well as members of their campaign team, chugged milk as if they had just won the Indy 500. Unfortunately, the sweet taste of victory turned sour for one of the members of the campaign team. “We think one of our milks with a late April expiration date may have been switched out for one which expired in March,” said a Syron-Sullivan spokesperson. Foul play is certainly an option and campus police are looking into it.

NOPE DOPE Newspapers getting gutted. #JournalismIsDying

Finding out that your final semester project is less work than you expected. Dance parties with yourself.

Group projects.

Being so hungover you want to die.

Supporting your talented friends when they are showcasing their talents. #ProudFriendMom

Freaking out your cat.

Registering for the classes you want to take.

When people say you can’t do math because you’re too pretty.

Never having to register for classes again. #Graduation

Kevin Sullivan, Tristan Syron and their campaign team celebrate their winning of the ASCSU presidential election by chugging milk on April 4.

PHOTO BY COLIN SHEPHERD COLLEGIAN

“It is frightening to think that someone could take student government so seriously they’d attempt to poison someone,” said campus policeman Paul Blart, “But we’re looking into it.” Accusations flew back at the Syron-Sullivan campaign following the allegations of foul play. “50 million Americans are lactose intolerant,” says the spokesperson of another campaign. “This guy may be one of them and was peer pressured into drinking the milk. Or he’s doing it for the press.”

Another campaign fired shots at the SyronSullivan campaign as well. A spokesperson said, “This was karma. The Syron-Sullivan campaign ostracized thousands of lactose intolerant CSU students by drinking that milk. Do we really want such intolerant people in office?” Thankfully, the unfortunate member of the campaign is expected to make a full recovery. We at The Collegian will be sure to keep you up to date on the situation. Ethan Vassar can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

Exploring the Needs of Third Culture Kids DR. JODY DONOVAN

Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs, Dean of Students and Co-Chair of the SAHE Graduate Program

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SPORTS Monday, April 9, 2018

MEN’S BASKETBALL

CSU loots Drake’s coaching staff in hopes of comeback season By Austin White @ajwrules44

Last year was comeback season for Drake. No not the rapper, but rather the Bulldogs of Drake University who improved their win total by 10 games, the seventh biggest turnaround in the NCAA. Leading that charge was Niko Medved, a former CSU assistant who started his Ram career the same year “Comeback Season” was released by Drake in 2007. The now five-year veteran head coach said take care to Drake and is returning to the views of Fort Collins to help turn around an 11-win Rams team. Medved will not be alone; he is bringing his squad to CSU for a comeback season of their own. Nothing will be the same for Drake, as Dave Thorson, JR Blount and Ali Farokhmanesh will all join Medved at CSU after coaching under him last year as Bulldogs. Thorson goes back the farthest with Medved as the 23year veteran coach of DeLaSalle High School in Minnesota met the new Rams leader on the Minnesota Golden Gophers’ staff back in the 1990s. Medved was a student manager/assistant on the team; Thorson was a fellow assistant. After coaching the Gophers, Thorson found himself at DeLaSalle and created an unforgettable high school career by winning a state-record nine championships, including sixconsecutive titles leading up to his final year there in 2017. He

then joined Medved last year at Drake to help turn the Bulldogs into a postseason squad. “Dave is a person I have known and admired for a long time,” Medved said in a statement. “He is a tremendous coach and person and was one of the most successful coaches in Minnesota high school basketball. He brings that wealth of knowledge and character to our program here and I am excited to have him here at Colorado State as he will be a key part of achieving our goals.” Up next is Blount who has been around success for most of his young career. The LoyolaChicago graduate first started his career as an assistant for the University of WisconsinStevens Point in the 2009-10 season where the Pointers won the Division III national championship.

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Assistant coach ■ Dave Thorson: Assistant coach The itch to play still lingered for Blount who went overseas to play a season in the British

CSU’s new basketball head coach Niko Medved fields questions from the media during a press conference to officially announce his new position with the University. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN

Basketball League before coming back state-side to coach at Saint Leo University. The Lions made it to the Divison II NCAA Tournament all three years with Blount and won the program’s first-ever conference championship in 2012-13. Blount then joined the Drake staff in 2014 as director of basketball of operations before moving back to the sideline in the 2016-17 season and then stayed on under Medved last year. As for Farokhmanesh, the story of his Northern Iowa Panthers team knocking off the

No. 1 overall Kansas Jayhawks in the second round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament will most likely always proceed him. The guard scored 16 points and nailed the most iconic shot of the match with a game-clinching 3-pointer with only 34 seconds to go. Following the Panthers’ first-ever Sweet Sixteen run, Farokhmanesh played four seasons across Europe before returning to America as the director of player relations and development at Nebraska. He oversaw offcourt responsibilities for the Cornhuskers’ players through

mentoring programs and also directed on-campus recruiting operations. After three years in Lincoln, Farokhmanesh joined Medved at Drake and will now be coming to Fort Collins to take the sidelines in Moby Arena come fall 2018. With his guys in place, Medved hopes to return the Rams to that one big dance and maybe get some really big Mountain West Championship rings along the way. Austin White can be reached by email at sports@collegian. com.

SOFTBALL

Sit-in >> from page 1 CSU hasn’t had a baseball team since the early 90’s, and Evans cited that the softball team’s facilities haven’t been updated since then either. The softball team is putting together a strong season and has a critical Mountain West matchup set to resume Saturday after being snowed out on Friday. “We’re in our season and we have big games coming up,” senior pitcher Kaylynn Pierce said. “We’re getting gypped out of our time. When we go into the IPF (Indoor Practice Facility), it’s the second best we can get.” The softball team has been forced to move from selforganized practice sessions, even for intramural sports, something players cited as a disregard for their needs.

“It becomes an issue when football comes in and we have to go to an aux gym,” freshman outfielder Jordan Acosta said. “We want to be respected as a team and as a program at this school and the fact that we get our practice time gypped in season, it’s not acceptable, it’s not equal and it’s not fair. That was the point of today. We have big games coming up, we’re a good program, and we deserve to be treated like it.” This isn’t the first time the team has lost practice time due to weather. “We almost didn’t even have practice because we had nowhere to go,” Evans said. “This has happened more times than we can count.” A Title IX report released last year found, that in 2015, universities nationwide spent about twice as much on men’s athletics than they did women’s. The CSU softball team has a long history of fighting for

The Colorado State softball team cheers on a teammate up to bat against UNC on April 11, 2017 at Rams Field. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT JERGE COLLEGIAN

women under Title IX. In 1992, after monetary issues were the reason for cutting the softball and baseball teams at CSU, the Rams’ successfully fought for reinstatement of the softball

team with the argument that women were disproportionately underrepresented in athletics at CSU. It has become something of a landmark case in interpreting Title IX law.

The team left its sit in to cheers of, “Go women!” Mack Beaulieu can be reached at sports@collegian.com

SPORTS Monday, April 9, 2018

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Prentiss Nixon to transfer from CSU By Colin Barnard @ColinBarnard_

Colorado State guard and leading scorer, Prentiss Nixon, will transfer from the men’s basketball program. Nixon announced the news via Twitter Friday afternoon. Nixon is the second player to transfer from the program this offseason after guard Kris Martin announced his transfer late in March. Nixon will finish his career as CSU’s 20th all-time scorer, eclipsing 1,000 points as a junior last season.

Nixon has been an integral part to the Rams in each of his three seasons with CSU. He played 31 games as a true freshman, earning seven starts and north of 15 minutes of action per game. During the 2016-17 season, Nixon became a fulltime starter on a 24-win team that finished runner-up in the conference tournament. He also earned All-Mountain West Honorable Mention honors. In an injury-riddled 2017-18 season, Nixon led the Rams in scoring at 16.1 points per game. Knee and ankle injuries forced

Nixon to miss seven games during the season. A longtime advocate of former head coach Larry Eustachy, Nixon voiced his support for the coach throughout the season. Nixon’s immediate eligibility will depend on his ability to obtain a waiver from the NCAA in regards to his transfer. If he does obtain a waiver based on a “specific, extraordinary circumstance,” Nixon will be eligible to play for another school in the 2018-19 season. Colin Barnard can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

Prentiss Nixon (11) stands off against Utah State during the Mountain West Tournament on March 7. PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS COLLEGIAN

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SOFTBALL

Rams take series from New Mexico after sit-in By Mack Beaulieu @Macknz_James

After holding a sit-in last Friday to protest inequality in practice facilities between the sports who have men’s teams and those who don’t, the Colorado State softball team brought its strength back to the diamond this weekend to take two of three games from the New Mexico Lobos. The Rams’ started off slow on Saturday, managing only three runs and eventually losing in extra innings to start the series. The next two games went much better for the Rams as they run-ruled the Lobos in both while combining for 20 runs and nine extra-base hits, cooling any worries that the protest could be a distraction for the Rams. “They’re feeling like they have to make a lot of compromises all the time,” coach Jen Fisher said. “I think it galvanized them, but they’ve been that way … It’s just another example of them banding together. They’re really on the same page all the time, but we also have to try and not be distracted by it … They want to have an opportunity to do work, I don’t think they’re asking for much fluff.” Bridgette Hutton was strong throughout the first game, but like a few other games this season, she couldn’t completely hold the Lobos down while the Rams struggled to get runners across. The Rams scored a run in the bottom of the first as Lobos pitcher Jensen Main struggled with her control. Two walks, a hit-by-pitch and a single helped the Rams get one early, but Main calmed down and the Rams cooled off from there. The Rams got two more runs in the top of the fifth to make it 3-1, but couldn’t get Hutton any more support from there. What would have been a 3-1 gem for Hutton unraveled in the top of the seventh as the Lobos pushed across two runs with two outs to bring the game

Sunday

Lauren Buchanan slides into home plate during the Rams’ game against the University of New Mexico on April 8. The Rams beat the Lobos 12-4. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN

to extras. After giving up two more runs in the tenth, Hutton was saddled for the loss on a day where the Rams were 3-for13 with runners in scoring position. The bats woke up in the next two games as both Alison Petty and Hutton got plenty of run support. Petty started the second game on Saturday and threw her first complete-game shutout of the season while recording seven strikeouts. Meanwhile, the Rams’ offense showed none of the issues it had in the first game and drove in runners in every inning but the fourth. Haley Donaldson, who supplied one of the lone RBIs in the first game, continued a hot weekend with a single in the first that scored Sarah Muzik after an error from right field. Six of the Rams’ RBIs came from batters 3-6. “It helps me being in the

Monday

Tuesday

third spot because, LB, Madi, Sarah, whoever’s in front of me take a lot of hacks and take a lot of pitches,” Donaldson said. “So by the time they come to me the pitcher kind of makes a mistake. All the hitters before me do their job, just taking as many pitches as they can from the pitcher.“ The 8-0 win was one of Petty’s best starts of the season. For a team that has relied on Hutton and Kaylynn Pierce on the mound, the Rams are starting to run into the fortunate problem of having plenty of capable pitchers on their staff. “I think our pitching staff has been super patient and really supportive of each other,” Fisher said. “It’s limited Larisa (Petakoff ) a little bit because Alison’s been doing a good job. It’s that old adage, ‘One person doing well doesn’t mean the other person isn’t doing well too.’”

Wednesday

Finally, in the third game, Hutton was back on the mound to try and seal the series victory. This time, the Rams gave her reason to relax as they pushed across nine runs in the first two innings. Donaldson started the scoring with a two-run homer in the bottom of the first and Hannah McCorkhill began her best day of the season with a single that drove in two runs to make it a quick 4-0 lead. The Rams got their next five runs with help from the Lobos in the second as CSU only recorded two hits to do so. One of them came from McCorkhill who already had four RBIs at that point. The game became out of reach for the Lobos, who lost 12-4. One of the Rams’ best hitters last year, McCorkhill has struggled in her senior year, but Sunday was a bright spot her and the Rams hope will continue.

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“What we see out of Hannah is a great deal of leadership and fight,” Fisher said. “She’s managed to stave off the frustration and do what the team needs her to do … I can’t say enough about her leadership and how tough she’s being.” McCorkhill echoed her coach’s comments in her own. “It’s just a matter of being here for four years,” McCorkhill said. “I think by just continuing to keep a strong mental game and having more confidence at the plate then things should start to look up from here.” McCorkhill and the Rams will try to keep their hot streaks going at the University of Utah from April 13-15 as they take on the Utes in a three-game series that will be aired on the Mountain West Network. Mack Beaulieu can be reached online at sports@ collegian.com.

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SPORTS Monday, April 9, 2018

FOOTBALL

Offense struggles as defense shines in first scrimmage of spring By Luke Zahlmann @lukezahlmann

After a year in which a highflying offense was unable to make up for a suspect defense, the tides have shifted through the first scrimmage for Colorado State football as their defensive stoppers stole the show on Sunday. A first half dominated by the defense and their exorbitant energy, with an offense in shambles, the Rams produced four turnovers in the opening half alone. The trio of quarterbacks for CSU were unable to separate themselves from the pack, as they failed to truly take the lead role. “We need somebody to take charge of the offense,” coach Mike Bobo said. “That’s gotta come from the quarterback position. I thought all three had some bright spots.” Highlighted by a scoop and score by Richard King as well as an interception by Anthony Hawkins, the defense led the way through ball hawking. A year after converting to corner, Hawkins appears to be embracing his role and beginning to excel early on in spring practice for the Rams’ defense. “First time in a while we’ve had that kind of energy on defense,” Bobo said. “The offense kind of (got) smacked around and kind of went into a shell, didn’t realize we’ve gotta go back out and pull the ball down and try to execute the next series.” Bobo says the trend has

been present in many springs throughout his career. The defense, though running bland schemes, was able to penetrate early and often with King being the main benefactor. A bright spot on the offensive side, the Rams’ stable of running backs showed their might. With a bullying running style, each of the Rams’ four main backs found success, including returning stalwart Izzy Matthews. Matthews accounted for nearly 100 total yards with his lone touchdown coming through the air. Rashaad Boddie led the stable with 88 yards on 18 carries, as well as a touchdown. “Our running backs ran extremely hard,” Bobo said. “Darius May, Izzy, Marvin, Rashaad Boddie, all four of those guys ran extremely hard. They’re gonna bring a physicality to our offense.” Miscommunication up front and a limited effectiveness blocking outside hindered the offense as a whole with earlyseason bugs being brought to light in game action. The line allowed a total of five sacks on the afternoon. On the defensive side, Tre Thomas led the team in tackles with 14, with fellow lineback Josh Watson not far behind with 13 on the day. The Rams’ next scrimmage will take place next Sunday as they look to push forward on the offensive side of the ball while keeping their momentum rolling on the defensive side. Luke Zahlmann can be reached at sports@collegian.com

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FOOD AND DINING

5 beers you should try this spring By Evan Vicchy

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Hello spring, and hello day drinking. It’s time to move away from those dark isolation ales and move into light and fruity beer that’s reminiscent of spring time. Here are five beers that capture the spirit of the season: Rupture Fresh Grind Ale (Odell Brewing Company) Will Thomas, bartender at Avogadro’s Number, said Rupture has a fresh taste. “It’s light bodied, has a smooth finish and has a slightly floral aftertaste,” Thomas said. “It’s reminiscent of an IPA, but the bitterness doesn’t linger. Usually, an IPA will hit the back of your tongue with its bitterness, but Rupture will be slightly bitter and then go down smoothly and not feel as dense.” Juicy Watermelon (New Belgium Brewing Company) Juicy Watermelon is the perfect beer for a cool spring evening. The watermelon isn’t instantly tasted on the first sip, but after multiple gulps, the watermelon infused beer comes to life with fruity flavor laced with notes of wheat. Juicy is the perfect way to describe this delectable ale. The more you drink, the more developed the succulent goodness becomes. Almost Summer Ale (Horse and Dragon Brewery) As an American Light Ale, this beer lives up to its name.

Glasses with Odell’s ‘Rupture Fresh Grind Ale’ logo inserts sit on a table at a beer pairing event hosted by Mainline Ale House. PHOTO BY OLIVE ANCELL COLLEGIAN

The Mayor of Old Town bartender Joey Piemonte describes this brew as light, crispy and subtly fruity. “There is also a malty biscuitlike flavor on the initial sip,” Piemonte said. “All around, this is fairly light, but jammed with flavor.” Horse and Dragon Brewery is native to Fort Collins and knows how to hit the high notes of the spring season here in northern Colorado. Cherry Wheat (Samuel Adams) This wheat beer unravels the grainy flavor and unveils the tart cherry. It’s fruity, flavorful and tender. Because it’s a wheat beer, the already easy going flavor allows the cherries brewed into the batch to let their sweetness take over and blend with the

already present flavors of the wheat. This gives the beer a distinctive taste you can only find in the spring time. Levity Amber Ale (Odell Brewing Company) Some beer lovers tend to lean towards a more hearty ale to crave their sunshine thirst quench. Bria Andress, a senior studying journalism and media communication at CSU, prefers to drink Levity Amber Ale. “It’s not as watery as lighter beers out there,” Andress said. “It’s malty but not so much so that it’s overpowering. It’s like a nice balance of maltyness and hoppyness. It has a medium bitter flavor that is perfect for chugging on hot days.” Evan Vicchy can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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ARTS & CULTURE Monday, April 9, 2018

EVENTS

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to this kind of thing,” Fuerte said. “It’s not every day that you get to dress up and be in heels and perform without being discriminated against.”

Sophomore music education major Kelci Hartz and sophomore zoology major Erin Carlson performed under the name Boyz/ Two Men. Hartz said she has been involved in the drag show during previous semesters, but the Geeks vs. Glam show was her second time performing. “Since I’m kind of a performing person, … it was another cool

performance outlet, plus I’m a part of the LGBT community, so it was another outlet for that,” Hartz said. “I’ve got to meet a lot of cool people through it … (and) it’s a really good inclusive way for anyone who wants to perform to be who they are.” Carlson said she always wanted to perform and decided to participate this semester. “It’s a really cool show because

everyone is just trying to make everyone have fun,” Carlson said. “It’s not super competitive … it’s a really positive environment to be kind of weird in.” Echohawk said he encourages everyone who is unsure about going to the drag show or who has not been during their time at Colorado State University to go. “I feel like a lot of folks who have been or have a really positive

experience are really excited to go back, but I think a lot of folks who have never been are kind of skeptical,” Echohawk said. “I really encourage those folks to take that time out of (their) Sunday evening to just go see parts of it … I promise them they will not be disappointed. I went, and it blew my mind, and I haven’t left it since.” Haley Candelario can be reached at news@collegian.com.

EVENTS

CSU fashion show, ‘Spectrum,’ dazzles with student designed apparel By Claire Oliver @claire_oliver21

The fashion department stepped out to center stage with this year’s vibrant and dazzling fashion show, “Spectrum.” The passion, talent and charisma of the design students were showcased Friday at the Lincoln Center. The show featured 24 different collections from senior design students ranging from urban to children’s wear as well as a collection of donated parachutes turned couture created by students in the junior draping class. Each year, the fashion show title is selected by the students who put on the show last year. Karalyn Jones, an apparel and merchandising major and one of the directors for this year’s show, was in the class that selected the name last year. Jones thinks the name not only embraced the variety of colors and textures but the spectrum of styles amidst the senior class. “We decided on Spectrum just because there’s a whole spectrum of colors and just a wide variety of talent and aesthetics and creativity,” Jones said. “So we just thought that spectrum was a good name to encompass all that.” Not only was the name represented in the clothes on stage but by the lighting and stage design as well. With each new collection, a new mood was set on stage with lighting and sound. The music was always upbeat, and it was hard not to stand up in the crowd and start dancing as the models walked to center stage. Skylar Richardson, a senior journalism and media communication major, was another director of the show. “Spectrum speaks to the diversity of not only the show but of the models, the garments, the stage and the potential that the show holds,” Richardson said. The show was completely sold out. The audience was also not afraid to showcase their enthusiasm for the designers

Emily Vittorio models an outfit designed by the junior draping class. The outfits in the collection were all made with repurposed military textiles. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN

and models. DeAnza Banuelos, a theatre performance major, modeled three different collections during the show. Although Banuelos has had other modeling experience, “Spectrum” was her first CSU fashion show. “The people in the fashion show have been so welcoming and warm,” Banuelos said backstage during intermission. “And the audience was clapping the whole time out there which is wonderful because you never know what they will do.” For other models like Caroline Foster, a junior business management major, the show was a completely new experience. “It is going really well,” Foster said after the first half of the show. “The walking isn’t bad but some of the outfits are pretty scandalous like the bathing suit so that made me a little nervous.” Despite this, all the models walked with a smooth and confident air, and there were no wardrobe malfunctions during

the entire show. The show was supplemented with a small performance by a local acapella group called, “Bassic” who performed two songs after intermission.

“Spectrum speaks to the diversity of not only the show but of the models, the garments, the stage and the potential that the show holds,” SKYLAR RICHARDSON SENIOR JOURNALISM AND MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS MAJOR

After the show the collections were judged by guest judges; Tiana Nelson, a CSU alumna; Brian Guiducci, another CSU alumnus who has worked for top name brands such as Vogue and Allure; Anabella Poletti, a CSU alumna and a designer in Fort Collins and

Heather Okimoto, the editor of Denver Style Magazine. The award for outstanding designer went to senior apparel and merchandising major, Nicole Pink. Her designs were largely inspired by the architecture in Paris. Pink studied abroad there last summer and wove that experience into her designs. “(The French) have certain rules in terms of keeping historical architecture protected, so they still have hundreds and hundreds of years old buildings right next to really new ones,” Pink said. “I loved seeing the juxtaposition between that and how the historical ones have a very art nouveau and organic kind of shape and kind of decorated style to them while the modern ones are very geometric.” Pink said she tried to include that in her pieces. “I tried to use some very structural shapes and some very sharp edges and combine them with very soft and flowing edges,” Pink said. “I used delicate

details such as lace and tulle and things to kind of create that juxtaposition within the design itself and the collection itself.” Pink is currently interning at a New York-based company called Lela Rose. The company produces bridalgowns and other women’s wear. Pink is another name on the long list of CSU students who are really working their way up in the world of fashion. “It has been absolutely fantastic,” Pink said. “It has been a dream job to be out there, and I feel right at home.” The show was a testament to the hard work and dedication of the design students here at CSU. “I think a huge thing is that the whole thing is put on by a class and it’s not a class like out a textbook, you’re dealing with real money and real people,” Jones said. “And it’s all student run and that alone is really cool to see.” Claire Oliver can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

ARTS & CULTURE Monday, April 9, 2018

EVENTS

ACT Human Rights Film Festival kicks off with hard-hitting student short films By Ty Davis

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Colorado State University’s Eddy building was a place for enlightenment and inspiration last Thursday night. The third annual ACT Human Rights Film Festival kicked off with a presentation of eight student films from across the country. Each year, the festival showcases various documentaries focusing on human rights issues across the world. This year’s student shorts cover a range of topics such as sexual assault, immigration, domestic abuse and war. “We have animation, cut outs, traditional animation. . . We have films touching on issues of domestic abuse and sexual harassment,” said Scott Different, professor of film and media studies at CSU and host of the presentation. “These are weighty big themes, and yet they’re all conveyed succinctly within four

or five minutes. I could not do that. I’m so in awe of what students are doing these days.” The eight finalists were selected by judges Usama Alshaibi, Dr. Kit Hughes, Dr. Evan Elkins and Anchitta Noowong. The audience was shown the eight selections chosen by the judges for this year’s presentation, including the following: “Paris,” directed by Mauricio Jauregui, “Blue,” by Maryam Farahzadi, “Badlands Bloom,” by Atiyeh Hess, “The Bird Painter,” by David Eisenstandt, “Domestic Violence PSA,” by Gillian Copeland, “Grit,” by Blake Sepe, “Mija,” by Sophia Stills and “Unspoken,” also by Sepe. First place went to Jauregui for “Paris,” a non-linear story about a drummer after experiencing sexual assault at a party. Second place went to Farazhadi for her cut-out animation “Blue,” partially based on her experience as an immigrant in the United States. After the showing, the host and judges Skyped in the first and

second place winners for a Q&A session open to the audience. Each director revealed what inspired them to make their films, why they chose their filming styles and how they achieved the effects they did. This year, the film festival will be taking a particular look at themes of civil disobedience, despotism, democracy and immigration, due to the recent elections both here in the United States and abroad. “I think the presidency of Trump and the conflict in Syria and issues around the #MeToo movement has definitely triggered and inspired filmmakers across the world to make work that speaks to those issues,” Alshaibi, assistant visiting professor at CSU, said. The remainder of the film festival will take place in various locations over the course of the week, with several encore showings. Ty Davis can be reached at Entertainment@collegian.com.

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Deadline to submit classified ads is 4pm the day prior to publication. To place an ad call 970-491-1683 or click “Classifieds’ at Collegian.com.

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