Volume 126, No. 100 March 9, 2017

Volume 126, No. 100

Thursday, March 9, 2017 NEWS

A woman’s place?

On strike PAGE 4

SPORTS

CSU women’s run comes to an end

Safeway cashier on 40 years of employment at local branch

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Tony has been working at Safeway for 40 years and now works at the new location on Harmony Road. PHOTO BY CORY BERTELSEN COLLEGIAN

By Cory Bertelsen @Becoryp

Fort Collins community members have been entering and exiting Tony Espinoza’s life and checkout lane for 40 years.

Until its recent closure, Espinoza worked as a food clerk and checker at the Safeway in Old Town.

“I worked at the Safeway in Old Town for almost 40 years,”

Espinoza said. “I started working there the end of my junior year.”

When he was first hired, Espinoza said he planned to work at Safeway for one year and quit upon graduation.

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would end up working at the store for this long,” Espinoza said.

Espinoza said he is a proud student and graduate of Colorado State University with degrees in

Spanish language and literature.

“I used my Spanish during each shift I worked at the downtown store,” Espinoza said.

“There was an international flair at the Safeway in Old Town.”

When Espinoza started working at Safeway, he said Fort Collins was a smaller community and the University was about half the size it is now.

“When I started Safeway, it was one of the best paying jobs

and best benefits you could have in this community,” Espinoza said. “It still is.”

In addition to working at Safeway, Espinoza is a teacher.

“I have taught for many years in the Poudre School District,” Espinoza said. “I teach mostly intermediate and advanced classes in the international baccalaureate program and at Front Range Community College.” see SAFEWAY on page 22 >>

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Two CSU students named as finalists for Truman Scholarship for public service

By Mikaela Rodenbaugh @mikarodenbaugh

Colorado State University students Francis Commercon and Kiloaulani Ka’awa Gonzales were recently named as finalists for the prestigious Truman scholarship.

Both juniors, and Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology majors, the pair were named finalists in recognition of their outstanding academic and service records.

The scholarship, which was founded in the name of 33rd President Harry S. Truman, only selects between 55-65 scholars yearly for work in public service and offers an award of $30,000 to the graduate institution of the recipient’s choice. Selection is extremely competitive.

“I think I heard this year they got about 750 applications from across the Nation,” Commercon said.

Kiloaulani Ka’awa Gonzales is one of twoTruman scholarship finalists who plans to work in the public sector upon graduation. PHOTO

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They are both hopeful that they will be selected for the award in the hopes of fostering successful careers in public service after graduation. “(The scholarship) is open to all junior undergrad students so you apply early but the funding does not get released until you start your graduate school,”

Ka’awa Gonzales said.

Mary Swanson, the representative on campus for the Truman scholarship, said that helping these students financially is one way to help ensure that public servants are recognized for their good deeds.

“Working in the public sector can be very challenging and the greatest rewards are almost always non-monetary,” Swanson wrote in an email to the Collegian. “The Truman Foundation provides scholars with a network of like-minded individuals who, like President Truman, understand that public service, while vital, is unglamorous work.”

For both Commercon and Ka’awa Gonzales, the scholarship funding for graduate-level education will help each student to achieve their future goals.

Ka’awa Gonzales is applying to the graduate programs at both the University of Hawaii and the University of Puerto Rico,

Francis Commerçon, one of the two finalists from CSU for the Truman Scholarship, will interview with the Foundation’s Regional Review Panels Friday, March 17th. PHOTO BY BROOKE BUCHAN COLLEGIAN

whereas Commercon plans on applying to Cornell University.

Since the application process includes a policy proposal section, both Ka’awa Gonzales and Commercon note that the process has helped them to think critically about their future goals.

Ka’awa Gonzales said that his background as a Hawaiian and Puerto-Rican student of color, as well as his leadership activities, informed his choice to focus on education and conservation after graduation.

Ka’awa Gonzales is currently: the president of the national collegiate organization MANRRS, Minorities and Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences; a resident assistant in Summit Hall; and a student coordinator for El Somos Rams, a freshman leadership retreat for Hispanic/Latino/a first-generation students. To stay sane with such a busy schedule, Ka’awa Gonzales also plays volleyball four evenings a week.

“In college, there’s one million paths you can take and one million different directions you can stretch yourself, but due to the time constraints, you’ve really got to hone in on what you want,” see TRUMAN on page 6 >>

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Campus groups look for change post-election Dreamers United brings a voice Conservative interest group to expand: on campus and beyond to undocumented students

By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98

When hundreds of students wearing white shirts filled the Plaza on Nov. 14, they came to rally in support of undocumented students.

Though one of the largest campus rallies of the year, the event was hosted by a group early in its conception: Dreamer’s United.

Anarely Marquez-Gomez, the Media Relations Chair of Dreamers United, explained that the organization started as a way to bring together undocumented students.

“Our co-founders, Brittany Gutierrez and Victor Fuentes Sangabriel, realized there really isn’t a place for undocumented students to come together and talk about their common experiences,” Marquez-Gomez said.

Dreamers United became an official student organizatiom this spring semester, though it started during the fall 2016 semester. The organization did not seek to an official status to protect the identities of other undocumented students.

“It was really word of mouth because it is such a sensitive issue,

and we don’t want the information getting out to people who are going to be against us,” Marquez-Gomez said.

Marquez-Gomez said the group’s faculty advisor, Elias Quiñonez, who works with the ASSET Students and undocumented students on campus, was able to tell more students about the organization which brought in more members.

Although Dreamers United hosted the ‘To Immigrants With Love’ event following President Donald Trump’s travel ban order, Marquez-Gomez said the event was not a response to it.

“We had been planning the event before the refugee ban came into place, but once (it) came into place, we saw how important it was to have that,” Marquez-Gomez said. “The message that had been politically sent out was that we didn’t belong and that as an immigrant, we weren’t wanted. It wasn’t intended to be political by any means.

It was meant to show the human side of things and share some positivity” Marquez-Gomez said Dreamers United is not a political organization, and the group is not affiliated with any politi-

By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98

Dreamer’s United Media Relations chair Anarely Marquez-Gomez poses for a picture. PHOTO BY CJ

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cal party. The goal of the group is to provide a support network for undocumented students or for students who might have families that are undocumented.

“This isn’t about politics. We don’t identify as a left group or a right group,” Marquez-Gomez said. “It really is just about the human side of things, and we’re really just trying to bring awareness on campus about issues that do face undocumented students on campus without making it (a) political agenda of ‘us versus them.’”

Haley Candelario can be reached at news@ collegian.com

Students on college campuses are too used to the leftist viewpoint, according to Juan Caro, the chair of the Conservative Interest Group of Colorado.

The organization, which angered students in October 2016 for building a ‘free speech wall’ on the plaza, started as a way to get more representation in the Associated Students of Colorado State University.

“I realized that there was one conservative (Sam Laffey) who was very well-spoken, but wasn’t getting any traction,” Caro said. “His arguments were strong, his points were valid (but) he was just getting ignored and disrespected by student government.”

Caro felt Laffey was the only member of ASCSU voicing the conservative argument when he joined the senate in late 2015. He said he joined Laffey and recruited members to ASCSU who would build more opposition within the senate Caro said lacked debate.

Caro said the namesake of the group came from members Timothy Miller, Landon Wright,

Sam Laffey and Caro asking for cigarette breaks to discuss how to debate bills they opposed.

“We started calling ourselves the CIG Caucus because we’d go outside for cigarette breaks,” Caro said. “We would be faced with a bill and we didn’t have the numbers to shoot it down (so) ... we would go outside to smoke a cigarette ... and say, ‘hey how do we debate this bill?’”

Caro said the extra time allowed the group to organize ideas about how to debate the bills, and they would occasionally decide to leave the senate meetings to break quorum. Breaking quorum prevented ASCSU from being able to continue the meeting.

Caro said many members of the group decide to focus on academics after the Diversity Bill passed and did not return for Pineda Soraca’s administration in order to focus on Colorado legislation.

“We realized we could do a lot more for the people of Colorado by leaving student government and focusing more on real issues (like) going to city hall and speaking on U+2 for instance,” Caro said. “We don’t want to be involved in student government.”

The group plans demonstrations and protests, such as the ‘free speech walls’ they assembled on the plaza in October 2016 and Febuary 2017, to expose students to conservative values.

“The first wall we built was an absolute disaster,” Caro said. “The second time we built the exact same wall was an even worse time to build it. We picked a day when there was an immigration protest, so we built a wall, and the message that sends is definitely a lot more controversial than the first time we built a wall. People reacted so much better to the wall the second time because it wasn’t the first time they were exposed to us and that opinion.”

Caro said the Conservative Interest Group hopes to apply for a 501(c) (4) and be a conservative voice on the CSU campus, so more students are accustomed to conservative values.

“We need to start bringing these perspectives on college campuses, so students get accustomed to them and start reacting to them better,” Caro said.

Haley Candelario can be reached at news@ collegian.com

POLITICS

Students push for legislative change on International Women’s Day

By MQ Borocz @MQBorocz22

Colorado State University Students and members of the Fort Collins community gathered yesterday for International Women’s Day and to participate in A Day without a Woman.

This year, the same organizers for the Women’s March on Washington made International Women’s Day A Day without a Woman, which was meant to highlight the socio-economic importance of women and the discrimination women and

gender non-conforming people face. Yesterday, participants campaigned for women’s rights on the CSU plaza and representatives from CSU Democrats and the National Organization for Women spoke.

One of the ways in which women and their allies were encouraged to participate in A Day without a Woman was to strike.

Kait Casaus, a senior majoring in Human Development and Family Studies said she was on strike in honor of International Women’s day and that she wanted to engage with people about

feminism.

“My goal for today is to have productive conversations with people about what feminism means and how we can work to prevent some of the injustices (women face),” Casaus said. “I think in having conversations and being present on campus we can de-stigmatize feminism.”

One of the injustices women face globally is the lack of full reproductive rights, according to supporters of the Global Health, Empowerment and Rights Act, a bill introduced in the United States Senate in January. The

Global HER Act seeks to permanently repeal the Mexico City Policy.

This policy, also known as the global gag rule, was first introduced under the Reagan Administration and was reinstated and expanded by President Donald Trump in January. The current policy requires that in order to receive any kind of global health funding from the United States, foreign non-governmental organizations must not perform or promote abortion using funds from any source, including non-U.S. funds.

Haley Rattcliff, a junior Health and Exercise Science major and a member of CSU Democrats said she showed up to show support for the Global HER Act and for women’s rights. “(This bill) is giving women the right to choose so they have more autonomy over their own bodies, which is really important,” Rattcliff said. “(CSU Democrats) supports all women regardless of other identities.

We’re just here to show support.”

According to a Vox article the policy will also likely restrict see WOMEN on page 6 >>

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CSU sustainability panel discusses effects of EPA cuts

By Drew Smith @dc6smith19

In response to the budget cuts the Environmental Protection Agency is facing under the Trump Administration, the School of Global Environmental Sustainability held a panel Wednesday night to discuss the changes that may occur.

The panel was open to anyone, and there were over 100 students, staff, former staff and community members in attendance at Avogadro’s Number.

Several questions were targeted to what changes will be made without the EPA operating in full swing.

According to panelist Robert Duffy, with the department of political sciences, the cuts have been heavily focused on data collection, regulation enforcement, climate and clean energy programs.

“It’s important to remember that the president can propose anything he wants, however, there may be pushback from democrats and republicans looking to protect programs that aid their constituents,” Duffy said.

“So nothing is a done deal.”

Several students that attended the panel were concerned about how these cuts would limit their future research capabilities and if there will still be a field for them to do research in.

“The data that has been collected is critical to where we are now,” said Jennifer Peel, a guest panelist and professor in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences.

“There is a monitoring system across the U.S. that we use in our studies that have proven invaluable to show that there is causal evidence that emission is impacting health,” Peel said.

“This is a valuable resource that has the potential to go away.”

Other members of the audience inquired if there are other institutions that would be able to provide the same types of research data that the EPA provides.

“There are several institutions that collect large amounts of data,” said Delphine Farmer, guest panelist and professor in the Department of Chemistry.

“NASA is amazing at collecting data from satellites and ground mapping.”

Farmer said there are other

agencies around the world that are collecting data on particles and pollutants in the air.

“Unfortunately these are also government agencies and are at risk for loss of funding,” Farmer said. “It’s difficult to find different organizations state by state because there is not one cohesive unit organizing the quantity and quality of that data.”

Farmer believes that graduate students all over the country are capable of continuing research set by professional scientific institutions.

“Students could definitely manage this; the problem resides in the lack of funding,” Farmer said.

Several Fort Collins residents were concerned with the world would look like without the EPA in place.

“You would start to notice that anyone with Asthma or a preexisting respiratory condition are going to have more problems and hospital visits,” Peel said. “Then you would notice regression over time, with no enforcement pollution rates will rise and there will be dumping of oils and other chemicals.”

Others at the panel asked what they could do individually to increase advocacy and create conversations with those who do not agree the environment is an issue.

Panelist Robert Young, a research scientist with the Center for Contaminant Hydrology, said that the public may not become concerned with environmental issues until it is too late.

“When rivers or oceans are on fire and an increase in cancer starts affecting communities, that’s when there will be a concern and a need for restrictions that the EPA provides,” Young said. “Until health concerns are driving people’s lives, economics and money will come first.”

Diana Wall, the director of SoGES, believes that initiating conversation and providing themselves as resources are crucial steps to further progress.

“I think people forget why we make rules about the environment: We cannot have lead in our water, pollution in our air and we don’t want people sick,” Wall said. “We forget that what the EPA does is monitor all of this for us.”

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

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NoCo Hemp Expo 4 Announces Artists & Activists Tent, Concert and After Party Details Thursday and Saturday night concerts bookend two full days of programming designed specifically for artists and activists Loveland, CO – The NoCo Hemp Expo, the largest hemp-centric event in the U.S., has announced details of its opening and closing concert events, as well as programming highlights from the Bluebird Botanicals Artists & Activists Tent. Thursday night’s kickoff concert (March 30th) is at the Aggie Theater in Fort Collins. Saturday night’s (April 1st) Honor the Earth after-Expo concert is at Avogadro’s Number in Fort Collins. The Artists & Activist Tent will be part of the Expo on March 31 and April 1 at the Ranch Events Complex located off I25 in Loveland, CO. “Particularly given the current political climate and the long-standing bias at the federal level against hemp, the involvement and passion of the public through art and activism has Marco Benevento been and is still vital to the cause of advancing the industry,” said NoCo Hemp Expo Founder Morris Beegle. “We have more work to do, and we want to educate and involve more people, as well as recognize and celebrate the successes and accomplishments we’ve achieved to this point in time.”

The NoCo Hemp Expo 4 kickoff concert at the Aggie Theater is Thursday, March 30 at 204 S College Avenue. Doors open at 8:00 pm, with Colorado favorites Musketeer Gripweed kicking things Musketeer Gripweed off at 9:00 pm, followed by the adventurous, uncompromising and inspiring Marco Benevento takes the stage at 10:45 pm. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 day of show at ticketfly.com.

On March 31 and April 1 at the Expo arena, visit the Artists and Activists Tent sponsored by Bluebird Botanicals on Friday from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm and on Saturday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Tickets to the Expo and access to the Artists & Activists Tent, can be found online at nocohempexpo.com/ticket-sales/.

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Saturday Highlights: 10:00-10:15 am - Gemma Ra Star - Earth Blessing and Song 10:15-11:00 am – Marcus Ginon, RoseBud White Plume - First Nation / Water Protectors 12:00-12:30 pm - Marc Ross - Corporate Responsibility and Community Engagement 12:30-1:00 pm - Steve Hoffman - Hemp, Regenerative Agriculture and Climate Change 1:30-2:00 pm - Nikki Florio - Buds and Bees: How Hemp Helps Save Pollinators 3:30-4:00 pm - Ed Lehrburger - Biorefining the Future Music throughout the day by Dave Beegle with special guests including Aviva Vuvuzela.

Saturday night’s Honor the Earth Post-Expo Concert is at Avogadro’s Number from 8:00 pm to 1:00 am.

Colony Funk will perform with special guests, including Aviva Vuvuzela from Aviva and the Flying Penguins. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Tickets for the after-Expo concert can be found at avogadros.com.

Major sponsors of NoCo Hemp Expo 4 include CBDRx, offering vertically integrated hemp extract services to the industry; EnerHealth, offering hemp-based supplements and nutraceuticals; and Sub Zero Extracts/Nature’s Love, offering extraction technology to the industry.

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ASCSU postpones bill on personal attacks, looks toward election season

By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98

A bill written in response to increased personal attacks within the Associated Students of Colorado State University was clarified by Senator Lawrence Horowitz Wednesday night.

The bill, authored and presented by Senators Horowitz, Isabel Brown and Tess Holoman at the previous senate meeting, proposed a way for members of ASCSU to deal with ad hominem attacks.

The authors of the bill said that an ad hominem attack is when one’s character is attacked for their actions or voting.

The bill would create a panel consisting of one member from the three branches of ASCSU and an advisor to streamline handling cases of attacks and complaints within ASCSU. The process currently files an individual’s complaint immediately with the judicial branch, then a hearing is held. Consequences, including impeachment, are determined following

>> TRUMAN from page 3 Ka’awa Gonzales said. “For me, it’s been about understanding that what I’m doing in undergraduate school is just laying the foundation for my future.”

For Commercon, who is completing an honors thesis project on biodiversity in Southeast Asia, his experience abroad helped direct him towards his passion of helping developing countries in wildlife conservation efforts.

In addition to his major in Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Commercon also has a double major in Biological Science with a minor in Chinese.

Commercon traveled to China where he served as a main point of contact between a nonprofit conservation organization and the local people.

Additionally, Commercon teaches English to students in China via webcam, studies Mandarin rigorously and helped to found the CSU Field Ornithologists club, which brings together a group of student bird-watchers on weekends.

He said that the Truman

the hearing.

Horowitz clarified that the bill was not written in response to ad hominem attacks in the senate body this year.

“A lot of people think that certain things have been said on this floor this year that led to this,” Horowitz said. “The bill started being written over winter break due to matters in the executive branch, not the legislative branch.”

Horowitz further explained that the legislative body of ASCSU is included in the bill for ad hominem attacks that occurred when the Diversity Bill, which created senator positions for the seven diversity offices, was presented.

“It does include senate because of what happened last year, but please keep in mind that this has nothing to do with anything anyone has said on this floor,” Horowitz said. “Everything is good there, but we do want to create that kind of next check for the judicial and executive branch, as well as the legislative.”

The bill was moved to inter-

scholarship application process challenged him to apply his skills in a new way, because he had never written a policy proposal before, and it forced him to look at conservation with a broader approach. “(Before), all I had been thinking about is the conservation project, like, ‘How do we get on the ground here and reduce illegal hunting of this animal?’ Or, ‘We need to stop de-forestation over here,’—But, it made me take a step back and look at the larger picture,” Commercon said. “(The policy) creates a better environment for those kinds of nonprofits to work.”

Though the Truman scholarship is particularly competitive, Swanson said she has high hopes for both Ka’awa Gonzales and Commercon.

“The Truman Foundation often states it would give scholarships to every finalist if it could and is regretful it must choose between students,” Swanson said. “That said, I think our students are the very best and I hope they win.”

Mikaela Rodenbaugh can be reached at managingeditor@collegian.com.

nal committee at the conclusion of the previous senate meeting and remains in internal committee before it will be voted on by the general body after spring break.

E-Days $12,400 funding request approved The senate voted to approve more than $10,000 from the Board for Student Organization Funding to fund the annual E-Days event for the College of Engineering.

The College of Engineering requested $12,400, which is more than the $10,000 limit from BSOF for the event. According to Section 805 of the ASCSU Constitution, if a request from an organization exceeds $10,000, the allocations from BSOF must be ratified by the senate through a bill, and an itemized budget must accompany the funding requests.

ASCSU election season to start after break Vice President Mike Lensky made announcements regarding the upcoming ASCSU election for the 2017-2018 President and Vice President.

>> WOMEN from page 4 women’s access to contraception, HIV prevention and treatment services, maternal health care and Zika Virus prevention. When the policy was reinstated under President Bush, studies found that the rates of unsafe and illegal abortions increased abroad.

Students and community members asked people on the Plaza to sign petitions against the policy throughout the week. According to Julia Eddy, organizer for Change Corps in Denver, over 1,000 signatures have been collected so far from the CSU community. They plan to send the petition to Sen. Cory Gardner to show the people’s support for the Global HER Act. The vice president of the Northern Colorado chapter of the

Members of the ASCSU Senate listen to guest presenter, Duane Hansen, during Wednesday night’s meeting. Hansen spoke to the body about his campaign for the 5th district of Fort Collins City Council, which includes CSU. Hansen is a former ASCSU senate member.

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Lensky reminded candidates planning to campaign for presidental postions, Speaker of the Senate or senator positions, that they are not allowed to bring election materials into the ASCSU office or campaign within the office.

“It’s a campaign violation, and you will get kicked out (of the race) if you campaign inside

National Organization for Women, Jean Wyrick, also spoke yesterday on the Plaza. The local chapter is still being officially established, but the national organization is the largest official non-profit organization working for women’s rights in the U.S., according to Wyrick.

Wyrick said that in over 20 countries around the world, which does not include the U.S., International Women’s day is recognized as a holiday. “(In those countries) women are told how strong, wonderful and capable they are, and it’s wonderful,” Wyrick said. “But, more than that, it’s a call to action.”

Wyrick said NOCO NOW will fight for the organization’s six core issues: reproductive justice, ending violence against women,

Students show their support on Women’s Day by displaying signs.

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the office,” Lensky said.

Candidates for the upcoming ASCSU elections will be announced Friday, March 10. Candidates can start campaigning after 8 a.m. on Monday, March 20 and will conclude Wednesday.

April 5 at 4 p.m.

Haley Candelario can be reached at news@collegian.com.

economic justice, LGBTQ rights, racial justice and a constitutional gender equality amendment. She also said that Colorado residents should call Sen. Cory Gardner on a regular basis.

Over 30 people gathered in the Plaza to listen to Wyrick speak and several others remained there throughout the day in honor of International Women’s Day and a Day without a Woman.

Connor Stanley, a previous graduate student of political science at University of Colorado in Boulder, said he would like to see more men show up to events regarding women’s rights.

“Supporting each other is not gender exclusive,” Stanley said.

“I’m here to support (Casaus), I’m here to support my mom, my sister, every strong amazing woman in my life, even if I don’t talk that much today. Today is not my day to talk.”

Eddy Hall is hosting an activist training from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. today in room 382 of the Lory Student Center for those who would like to get more involved in the fight for the rights of women and gender nonconforming people. NOCO NOW is also holding a meeting on March 21 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Fort Collins Mennonite Fellowship.

MQ Borocz can be reached at news@collegian.com.

OPINION Thursday. March 9, 2017

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Microaggressions are harmful, but sensitivity is a bad look for all Jayla Hodge @Jaylahodge

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

We have all heard the term “snowflake,” as it is thrown about often and used as an insult in today’s political conversations. Snowflakes are considered people that can’t look past their emotions or own personal views and those that get easily offended instead of looking at facts.

Millennials have been titled ‘generation snowflake’ and there is some truth to that. Millennials have a hard time handling views that differ from their own and have petty grievances that go as far as boycotting certain companies because they don’t like their commercials.

This term, while being partially accurate, is also extremely dangerous, because it is dismissive of actual offenses and microaggressions. The phrase

‘sensitive snowflakes’ is used like a curtain to hide behind because as long as no one is being overtly racist or blatantly mean, then they can’t be blamed for offending someone else. This is wrong, because while the line between what is overly sensitive and actual offensive varies, there are some basic notions our society generally agrees upon as being inappropriate and susceptible subjects. Race, sexuality and religion are considered hypersensitive subjects because of their historical significance each of them had in this country.

When Trump calls a black supporter “my African American,” the African American community isn’t being “too sensitive” because it’s not politically correct, they are upset about the decades of being owned by white people and being seen as property, and to have this same notion of ownership being displayed by former presidential candidate.

The friend that got upset about people saying “that exam raped me” isn’t being too sensitive because he or she doesn’t like rape jokes, they’re being empathetic towards sexual assault survivors who probably don’t think jokes or comments like “grab them by the pussy” are funny.

While millennials notoriously complain about iPhone char-

NOPE DOPE When you’re leaving the LSC and the parking lot is full so people start following you to get your spot but you can’t remember where you’re parked.

Mini chocolate liquor bottles. #It’sAThing

When people put passwords on their quizlets.

Completed test banks for study guides.

Renting a boat for Horsetooth Getting a doughnut

Last paper before spring break

ger cords breaking easily and being offended about the design on Starbucks’ cups does qualify as being oversensitive crybaby snowflakes, it only applies when our generation gets caught up in minor first-world problems.

Being an African American woman, I’m not being a “snowflake” when I get uncomfortable about white people dropping the N-word. Even if the word was said without a hard ‘R’ and in a jokingly fashion, saying ‘my nigga’ as a white person is still racist because historically it was created in a racial context. Yes, black people say it, but that’s because it’s in a different context and is meant as a way that connects marginalized people, especially during the horrific experiences some endured together. Said out of that context, it is a word white Americans used as an insult to Blacks. I am not being sensitive, I am being offended. The same sentiment applies in many different subjects that are often brushed off.

This is an example of a microaggression. Most people don’t even know what a microaggression is, which is even worse.

They are bigotry personified, and considered the new form of racism. The definition is: “a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority

or other non-dominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype.” I hear microaggression comments every day from “you don’t sound black” to asking non-white students “do you speak English” or assuming they are foreign. It may not seem like a big deal to white people, but to minorities it keeps us stereotyped and assumes we are not assimilated citizens, creating a divide between us and the majority.This is something to be sensitive about.

Calling someone out or simply informing them that these comments are offensive not only makes people get defensive, but causes the person being offended to get hit with the ‘you are just overly sensitive’ label. It defers the blame of whoever is being offensive and ignorant to the person being offended by saying “it’s your fault what I said offended you because you are too sensitive,” making it hard for the offender to understand when they might have crossed the line, and has actually said something racist or flat-out fucked up.

I agree that it can be hard to even make a comment about the weather without seeming to stir someone else up, and it’s impossible to simply enjoy your Starbucks drink without people

complaining about the color or design on the cups. While we are a generation that celebrates being petty and argumentative, we are not a generation of people being too sensitive. Millennials are just more socially aware and accepting of cultural and lifestyle differences, and we care more about these differences than generations before us.

It’s not an argument about being more politically correct and not trying to hurt people’s feelings, but supporting the fundamental value of respect and owning up for when we are being rude or ignorant.

So next time someone gets offended or upset about something, think before disregarding them as simply being sensitive.

Racism and sexism are things we should be sensitive about. Dropping derogatory terms like ‘fag’ and ‘nigga’ are things we should be sensitive about. Making a rape jokes or the belittlement of sexual violence is something we should be sensitive about. Insulting someone’s religion are things we should be sensitive about.

Sensitivity and care towards these issues does not make you a snowflake, it makes you a decent person.

Jayla Hodge can be reached at letters@collegian.com

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OPINION Thursday, March 9, 2017

COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

Why we should show up for CSU basketball

By Mack Beaulieu @CSUCollegian

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

The Women’s and Men’s basketball teams are both competing in the Mountain West championship this week. The women played in the semifinals last night at 7:30 and unfortunately lost a close game against Boise State. Today the men play at 7 p.m. against Air Force.

Given their success and the relative strength of the conference, it’s time we started to recognize the two a little more.

Regardless of the results of the Mountain West tournament, both have already done enough to earn our attention.

After a sterling 2015-2016 season in which the Lady Rams only lost two games and earned an NCAA bid, they earned a one seed in the Mountain West

tournament. It wasn’t quite as easy as their undefeated conference play last year, but they still excelled all year.

The men’s team earned a two seed in a season that had plenty of drama and mostly finished strong, despite their loss to one- seed Nevada last Saturday. Their two best players have both been through a lot. Everyone knows the tragic story about what Emmanuel Omogbo has been through and Gian Clavell has obviously had struggles of his own.

Despite what you may think about Clavell, the mental strength that the two have shown in overcoming their obstacles and leading their team can’t be understated. They both have a future getting paid to play basketball, even if it’s not in the NBA. Clavell would have a harder road getting there, being that he’s a guard, but Omogbo’s size along with his shooting ability gives him more hope. Their recent past and its reflection

on their character will have opposite effects on those chances. If they don’t make the NBA though, both will be playing in some of the top pro leagues elsewhere.

That’s the beauty of D-1 men’s college basketball; if they play their cards right and don’t mind traveling, then most of them have a chance of going pro somewhere. According to the NCAA, a whopping 32 percent of division one basketball players from the 2015 class played pro-ball somewhere in their first year after college. There are anywhere from about 4,100 to 5,200 players in the NCAA at any one time. There’s no limit, but most teams keep 12 to 15 players and there are 343 teams.

Let’s assume the rest of the world has 5,000 people who could play at the D-1 level; including the NBA and other pro leagues. If this was true, it would mean that our men’s teams players are literally one in three quarter-million peo-

ple. It may not be, but it’s probably give or take 100,000 or so.

The women’s numbers must be better than that as not every country that has men’s leagues has women’s leagues. They may not choose a career in the sport, but our ladies are probably close to being one in a million.

The sheer ability of our teams and your free tickets to see future pros are just a couple of the reasons to follow.

Another reason? I’d consider myself a basketball super fan and I’m sorry, but I’ve only seen a couple of games.

I have a busy schedule, but I also have a TV. I’d kill to be at their level, I’m still trying to get better at basketball, there have been times where I could fill out almost every NBA roster, so if people like me don’t watch then who will?

This is a call to everyone who grew up a major college sports fan. When you sit down and watch major-conference teams, they all had to do the work to get there. May-

be some of them started out the best, but teams change conferences all the time. If we’re ever going to be in a major conference, then part of that is having a faithful fan base.

We just missed a chance at helping turn the Big 12 into a twelve-team conference again. Supporting the basketball teams is probably the second biggest step in getting there after the football team getting much better (like Boise State better).

The basketball program is already good and has a lot less ground to cover in competing with the major conferences. By showing up for them we could all help be the start of a new tradition that might one day put CSU in the national spotlight.

Mack Beaulieu can be reached at letters@collegian. com.

OPINION Thursday, March 9, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A response to a disparaging letter about Women’s Day

By Sean Waters

Instructor, Department Of English

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

Dear Editor, Emily Faulkner claimed that the Day without Women protest was “utterly pointless because it is protesting something that doesn’t exist,” namely the wage gap between men and women. I beg to differ, and I invite Faulkner and those who believe the wage gap is a myth to check out the facts (yes, facts, not feelings) behind her easy-todisprove claim.

Faulkner claimed that women earning 77 cents to the man’s dollar could be explained by choice of major. The Collegian’s nice graphic showed that men are the majority in the best-paying majors (such as Petroleum Engineering), and

that women are the majority in the worst-paying majors (such as Social Work). This graphic, and her logic, sorely misses the point: wage gaps exist within each of these professions.

Just Google “gender wage gap by occupation,” and you will find scores of credible sources that prove that the wage gap is real. The Wall Street Journal found that “Women earn less than men in 439 of 446 major U.S. occupations.”

Within the field of petroleum engineering, for example, The Wall Street Journal found that women earn 82 percent of men’s pay; in Financial Advising, women only earn 62 percent to their male counterparts (talk about an old boys club).

These exhaustive and wellsourced statistics are corroborated by other independent studies done by Fortune, Fast Company, Business Insider and others… hardly ‘misguided liberal’ publications.

So before anyone else lumps feminists together and claims that they are ‘man-hat-

ing,’ or ‘ridiculous,’ they might consider some basic research to get their facts straight.

Even better, it might also help to realize that feminism is not a one-size-fits-all movement; Wikipedia lists nineteen types of feminisms.

People march for different reasons.

Faulkner’s misguided article, ironically, showed the need for the protest to exist as a form of education. Apparently, even at a university, more people need to know that the playing field is still uneven, especially in STEM fields. We ought to consider why and how we might work together to build stronger opportunities for young women in 439 of the 446 major occupations the United States. Maybe the strike isn’t the answer, but at least it’s starting larger conversations.

Letters can be sent to letters@collegian.com.

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SPORTS Thursday, March 9, 2017

TRACK & FIELD

Rockhold is on the move for a NCAA championship

By Eric Wolf @Eric_Wolf5

The last couple of months have been a wild ride for Cole Rockhold.

The Colorado State cross-country distance athlete is in the midst of a historic season that has seen its fair share of broken barriers and broken records.

In early February, Rockhold ran the sixth-best mile time in the country this season and qualified for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Nationals in College Station, Texas this weekend.

Since then, all Rockhold has done is punched his ticket to the sub-four minute mile club, claimed an individual conference title, broken a conference record and qualified for a second event at Nationals.

This indoor season’s accomplishments may read like a grocery list, but there are still a few items left to add before it is all said and done.

Breakout It is not like Rockhold was slow before this season.

He was a highly targeted recruit coming out of high school in Independence, Missouri, and the redshirt sophomore showed promise in his first two years on the track for the Rams.

Take a meet in April last season at the Mount SAC relays in California, where in the first 5,000 meters of his career, Rockhold finished his heat with the third-best time in school history.

To make that race even better, Rockhold ran the last third of the event with only one shoe on.

But that was just a highlight.

His early seasons at CSU were marked by injuries.

“That’s kind of been Cole’s Achilles’ heel,” CSU distance coach Art Siemers said. “Staying healthy has been kind of the hardest part for him, but now he is learning his body and he is learning what he can do. Now that he can stay healthy, that consistency is starting to show.”

Rockhold stresses that his success simply comes from that consistency. It may be a boring answer, but staying off of the training table and stringing together months of hard mileage without injury is where the subfour speed comes from.

Four minutes That consistency carried him to the University of Colorado’s new indoor practice facility on Feb. 3 for the CU Open.

The Rams ran on the track three weeks earlier, and Siemers and assistant coach Scott Dahlberg knew that with the right conditions, the mile at the CU Open could be one with national qualifying implications.

Dahlberg acted as a “rabbit” for the first 800 meters of the race, setting the pace, while Rockhold followed three of CU’s strongest athletes into the finish line in fourth place. Four out of the six best times in the country in the mile this season come from that race alone. After altitude conversions, Rockhold’s time of 3:57.19, (sixth in the country) was more than enough to guarantee a spot at Nationals.

Going into that race, qualifying for Nationals was the goal, so Rockhold may of had that, but he was not satisfied.

On national leaderboards, his time reads three seconds under the almost mystical barrier of four minutes in the mile. But there is also an asterisk next to it — the altitude adjustment. While science tries to make up for changes in altitude across the country, the science is not exact, leaving a certain stigma around adjusted times.

It did not take long for Rockhold to do something about that asterisk. Only one week later, at the Husky Classic in Seattle, Rockhold ran a 3:59.55 in the mile.

He became only the second athlete in CSU history, the other being CSU national champion miler Bryan Berryhill, to run under four minutes in the mile, and Rockhold was not even supposed to run the mile at that meet.

“I wanted him to run the 3K, but I knew how important (the mile) was and I knew he was in good shape,” Siemers said. “When

“All year, I have been thinking about the mile and had my eyes set on the mile at Nationals.”

COLE ROCKHOLD CSU CROSS-COUNTRY ATHLETE

you are in really good shape, you have to have a little bit of luck because you have to be in the right race.”

To top if off, Rockhold was hit with tonsillitis that weekend.

Siemers labelled Rockhold as “holding on for dear life,” in that race because of impaired breathing.

Sick or not, Rockhold broke the barrier, and he did it at sea level. There would be no asterisk this time.

“It just made it real,” Rockhold said. “There is a stigma around altitude adjusted times and that’s what we usually get — altitude adjusted times. So to have that time in Seattle at no elevation, to get it was just really special.”

Cole Rockhold runs 4:03.12 in the mile (altitude converted time of 3:57.12) in Boulder, ranking Cole on the national leader boards for the mile. PHOTO BY MATT BEGEMAN COLLEGIAN

Special might be an understatement in the running community, or even society as a whole, when it comes to going sub-four in the mile. It is a round number that almost everyone can associate with excellence in the discipline, whether one is at the Olympic Games or gym class in elementary school.

“Honestly, no kid grows up putting in all the work in middle school and high school thinking about winning a conference title, but most runners do dream when they are putting that mileage in when they are younger, about breaking a four-minute mile,” Siemers said. “Every runner thinks about breaking the four-minute mile. It is still a magical barrier, and its kind the niche everybody wants to get on their belt.”

Choices He may have hit the sub-four mile at sea level, but his adjusted time set in Boulder in February had Rockhold on a direct line to the mile at the NCAA Indoor Nationals.

Then, the Mountain West Indoor Championships came around, and suddenly things were not so cut-and-dry for Rockhold.

Though he has his mile times, the coaches believe Rockhold’s best event, both potentially and even currently, is the 3,000 meter run.

Siemers says Rockhold gets faster the longer he goes, and with that in mind, Rockhold scratched the mile at the MW championships. Siemers wanted a competitive opportunity to test his theory about Rockhold in the 3,000

meter.

The decision turned out pretty well for Rockhold and the Rams, as Rockhold took first in the 3K (around 1.8 miles) with an adjusted time of 7:54.48. Rockhold was followed by teammates Jefferson Abbey, Grant Fischer and Jerrell Mock, as the Rams took the top-four spots in the event — an outcome that proved crucial to the team’s overall conference title.

Rockhold and his teammates also all came in under the previous Mountain West record in the discipline, leaving Rockhold as the conference record holder in the event.

After that race, Rockhold sat in the 17th spot in the event in the country, just one spot away in qualifying for Nationals in his second event.

Again, the coaches and Rockhold had a choice to make. If the opportunity presented itself, Siemers wanted to run Rockhold in the 3K at Nationals because he believes that is Rockhold’s best race, and that it is the toughest race to run at altitude — something Rockhold is plenty used to.

“If he wanted to run the mile and the 3K I would let him and if he wanted to run just the mile I would let him,” Siemers said. “We communicated what he thought, he listened to what I thought, and then we made the best decision.

After he heard what I had said, he called me back and said ‘coach, scratch me out of the mile if i make the 3K.’” Rockhold made the 3K when a higher-ranked athlete in the event scratched out. Now, Rockhold is running in the National

championship of the 3,000 meter run Saturday evening.

“I just look at it like a blessing,” Rockhold said. “All year, I have been thinking about the mile and had my eyes set on the mile at Nationals. My skill set is better suited for the 3K because I have the strength of running at altitude everyday. I have that endurance. I have been doing mile and 3K workouts all year.”

When Rockhold won the conference title, he did so while lapping athletes the last 600 or so meters. Siemers thinks Rockhold has a lot more in him than that time set at conference. The coach is eager to see what a fresh Rockhold can do in one championship race against the best distance runners in the country.

“I was stoked to qualify for two events and pick my best one,” Rockhold said. “I am really excited. I think it will be a huge weekend for the team. We have a lot of guys going. I’m going to go down there with team in mind and try and score as many points as possible.”

Rockhold gets a shot this weekend to put another mark on what has been a historic season, both personally and for the CSU men’s track team which has the potential to score the most points at Indoor National Championships in program history.

The opportunities are here now, but if the last few months are any indication, Rockhold is only getting started.

Eric Wolf can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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SPORTS Thursday, March 9, 2017

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Boise State knocks CSU out of MW tournament in semifinals

By Justin Michael @JustinTMichael

LAS VEGAS — In a game featuring the previous two Mountain West Tournament champions, the Boise State women’s basketball team defeated Colorado State 65-61 in the semifinal Wednesday night, marking the end of an iconic Mountain West run by seniors Ellen Nystrom and Elin Gustavsson.

The duo led CSU to become the first program, men’s or women’s, to win four straight regular season championships in Mountain West history.

Following the victory, Boise State head coach Gordy Presnell and the Broncos players had nothing but praise for Colorado State and the Swedish duo of Gustavsson and Nystrom.

“I thought it was a great game between two teams that are pretty evenly matched,” Presnell said. “They’ve had great games for the last two or three years.

And most of the time Colorado State has come out on top in real close games.”

Pahukoa echoed similar statements.

“Colorado State has been a powerhouse in our conference since I’ve gotten here,” Pahu-

koa said. “And anytime you can steal a win from them it’s a good feeling. They (Gustavsson and Nystrom) have had amazing careers. They have been the best players that I’ve played against in the game of basketball...They’re amazing. Their team is amazing, their coach is amazing. We knew it was going to be a tough one. Colorado State is a team you have to play your best game, they won’t beat themselves. We knew we had to come out and play our best game.”

An emotional Ryun Williams (CSU head coach), explained what coaching the Swedish duo has meant to him, how much he will miss the duo of Gustavsson and Nystrom and what the praise from their rival meant to him.

“These two—this duo right here, they’re special,” Williams said. “They’ve won a lot of games.

But I wish the whole league could just know Ellen and Eli, just know them as people, not as basketball players, but just know them as human beings. They would be even more impressed with these two.”

Led by senior guards Brooke Pahukoa (11) and Yaiza Rodriguez (14), who combined for

CSU team stats: Bench points: 14 FG percentage: 36.8 Points in paint: 22

Boise team stats: Bench points: 27 FG percentage: 43.3 Points in paint: 24

25 points and eight assists, the Broncos picked up their ninth consecutive victory and second over CSU this season, primarily by making a living behind the arc.

“Boise was outstanding,” Williams said. “It’s a really good college basketball game. I think you saw two talented teams out there and you saw kids on both sides that didn’t want to lose. You saw a lot of really neat plays and special plays being made. They just made a few more than us tonight.”

Boise State made 50 percent of their three’s on the night (1020), including a red hot fourth quarter in which the Broncos

Colorado State University takes on Boise State University during the 2017 Mountain West Conference Women’s Basketball Championship at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, NV. PHOTO BY TIM NWACHUKWU NCAA PHOTOS

went 7-of-8 from three point land and 63 percent overall. Three of the seven 3-pointers were made by freshman Riley Lupfer, who totalled 15 points points in the fourth quarter alone—seven more than her season average of 7.8 points per-game.

“We got Lupfer’d in that fourth quarter,” Williams said.

“She was outstanding. We tip our hat to Boise. They beat us tonight.”

The loss for Colorado State

will place them in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament as regular season winners of the Mountain West. Who CSU will play and where is yet to be determined.

Boise State advances to the 2017 Mountain West Women’s Basketball Championship final.

The game will be played Friday on Friday, March 10, at 1 p.m. MT. Justin Michael can be reached at sports@ collegian.com.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Colorado State to play Air Force in MW tournament quarterfinals

By Justin Michael @JustinTMichael

After picking up their first win away away from Clune Arena on the season, the No. 10 Air Force Falcons will take on the No. 2 Colorado State Rams in the quarterfinal of the Mountain West Men’s Basketball Championship Thursday night.

Following the victory, Air Force junior guard Jacob Van spoke of what it meant to the team to finally get a win away from their home court.

“I think it means everything,” Van said. “If we had to win one game away from Clune I’d want it to be this one because it builds momentum going into the next one. And we have the confidence now, and we’re not looking behind us, we’re looking

ahead of us.”

The meeting between the service academy and CSU is the second of the season, with the Rams winning the first matchup handily 85-58 on Jan. 7. Playing without leading scorer Hayden Graham, the Falcons had no answers for Ram offense or Gian Clavell, who finished the day with 28 points.

In total, the Rams have beat the Falcons 11 straight times, which is not lost on Graham. “(Colorado State is) a good basketball team,” Graham said following Air Force’s over Wyoming. “They’re aggressive.

They play full speed all the time.

They’re a tough team. Over the years we haven’t been able to (beat them) —they’ve had our number. This year we’ve kind of made some changes that we beat

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And this year it’s been up and down, but this is the year to make some stuff happen. And I don’t want to be done.”

On Jan. 7, CSU led for all but 2:51 in the game and after taking a 33-28 lead into the break.

Colorado State came out in the second half to route the Falcons, shooting 63 percent (17-of-27) from the floor and 56.3 percent (9-of-16) from the 3-point line.

On the day, the Rams would

make a season-best 14 3-point attempts, nine of which were made by Clavell or Emmanuel Omogbo.

After upsetting the Cowboys Tuesday, Air Force head coach Dave Pilipovich explained that stopping the senior duo would be an uphill challenge.

“He is so talented,” Pilipovich said of Clavell. “He can score different ways. He can shoot it so deep. He plays with unbelievable passion for the game. We may try to find him in the hotel tonight and lock him down a little bit and keep him there until Friday so he doesn’t show up tomorrow. In all seriousness, our effort has to be on him.”

Pilipovich continued on Omogbo, “When those guys shoot it and miss it, who gets it?

Omogbo. He’s an unbelievable

player, he’s so confident to gain offensive rebounds, and kick it to his teammates. It’s going to be a big challenge. They’re second in our league to the last game of the year, they’ve won 20 games.

They’ve done some incredible things. They’re a really good team. I think they’re an NCAA tournament team. We’re going to have to be very good tomorrow to overcome some of the things they do well.”

Colorado State and Air Force will tipoff in the quarterfinal of the 2017 Mountain West Men’s Basketball Championship Thursday at 7:00 p.m. MT. The game can be seen on CBS Sports Network.

Justin Michael can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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SOFTBALL

Rams look to continue win streak in second Colorado State Classic

By Austin White @ajwrules44

Riding a six-game win streak, Colorado State softball will play host to the second Colorado State Classic of the year.

Maine (1-4) and Wisconsin (15-2) will be in Fort Collins for the second Colorado State Classic II this weekend. Maine is the defending American East champion and Wisconsin is currently ranked No. 25 in the USA Softball poll and is receiving votes in the coach’s poll.

Sophomore catcher Amber Nelson will look to continue her dominance at the plate. She has hit five home runs on the season and leads the Rams (11-4) in batting average (.462), slugging

percentage (.897), on base percentage (.593) and RBI (18). Nelson is coming off a game against Northern Colorado in which she went 3-for-4 with a home run, two singles and three RBI. “She is just a little bit more consistent this year as far as her approach to the plate,” head coach Jen Fisher said. “She is still very young but she is doing a great job.”

It helps the RBI numbers to have senior shortstop Haley Hutton batting in front of Nelson. Hutton has started all four years at CSU and currently has the best career batting average ever for a Ram. The preseason All-American honorable mention is continuing

her collegiate success this season with a .348 batting average and .500 on base percentage. She has also been an anchor for the defense and pitchers to rely on.

“When you have a shortstop like Haley Hutton I would just throw it up there and not care,” Fisher said after the Rams perfect 5-0 record last week in the first Colorado State Classic.

Nelson and Hutton will look to continue their success at the plate against Maine’s Erin Bogdonavich, the American East Pitcher of the Year last season. Bogdanovich led her team to the conference title with a 3.05 ERA and a 10-5 record. She struck out 74 batters compared to only 32 walks in almost 120 innings

of work. This season, Bogdanovich holds a 7.24 ERA in two games started and four total appearances.

“We try not to get (the team) overthinking or really looking at those numbers because you could have false positives, you could have false negatives,” Fisher said.

The numbers would suggest the season has been a struggle for the Black Bears as they have only one win and have scored 13 runs in five games.

“I think our sport is one that lends itself to ‘you’ve seen this type of (pitcher) before’ so I think the whole preparation piece is more just drawing similarities,” Fisher said.

The Rams will be looking for similarities when they play Wisconsin (15-2) on Saturday and Sunday, hoping to upset a top ranked opponent. The Badgers have dominated early on in their season with a positive 68 run differential.

Utility senior Chloe Miller has been at the forefront of the Badgers offense with a .473 batting average which easily leads the team. Miller also leads in runs with 16 and brought home 51 runs last season which is tied for the most ever in a season for Wisconsin.

Wisconsin also has two other batters hitting above the .350 mark, one of which

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Hamm shines for CSU in loss to Boise State

By Eddie Herz @Eddie_Herz

Despite an earlier exit than Colorado State anticipated due to a 65-61 loss to Boise State, Myanne Hamm’s performance against the Broncos in the semifinals of the Mountain West Tournament was a noticeable bright spot for the Rams.

Hamm scored 14 points and collected three rebounds. The guard was particularly efficient from 3-point range, converting 4-of-7 attempts. Hamm’s 14 point performance is the second most she has scored in a game in her CSU career, trailing a 16 point outing against Fresno State.

Hamm also matched her career high in field goals made and 3-point field goals made in a

game, hitting four a piece.

Besides significantly contributing in CSU’s most important game of the season, it’s worth noting that the majority of Hamm’s points came at crucial points of the game.

In the fourth quarter, Hamm made both 3-pointers she attempted. The first broke a 40-40 tie with 9:09 remaining in the game. The second three came when Riley Lupfer and Boise State had begun to seriously shift the momentum towards the Broncos. Hamm made a three to tie the game at 48 with 6:45 left.

“I’m really proud of Myanne (Hamm),” head coach Ryun Williams said. “I’m proud of our whole team, the way we just kept making plays. We’d get down.

We’d answer. And we’d get up and

Boise would answer. Myanne was a big part of that. She played with such great confidence.”

With the graduations of Elin Gustavsson and Ellen Nystrom, two of the best players in CSU history, performances similar to tonight from Hamm could be crucial for the Rams’ success.

“If you were to see Myanne game one this year, and and where you see her now, you have to be so, so proud of that young lady,” Williams said. “Her confidence just as a basketball player and as a young lady has just really, really grown. And that’s what the game of basketball can do for somebody. She’s a more confident player off the floor, as well, because of what she’s done.”

As a redshirt freshman last season, Hamm’s time on the

floor was sparse. The Poudre high school graduate played in only eight games during the 2015-16 season. Within Hamm’s 38 total minutes last season, she scored 17 points for an average of 2.1 per game.

This season, Hamm has been much more involved in the Rams’ game plan. The Fort Collins native played in 30 games and earned one start during the 201617 regular season. Hamm went from averaging 4.8 minutes per game last season to 15.9 minutes per game this regular season.

Besides Wednesday night’s loss to Boise State in the Mountain West Tournament, Hamm scored in double-figures five other times this season. Hamm has also knocked down at least three pointers in five games not

Myanne Hamm stats: Points: 14 Rebounds: 3 Minutes: 20

including tonight.

As the Nystrom and Gustavsson era at Colorado State comes to a close, Hamm has the opportunity to help fill their shoes.

Hamm and Colorado State will play in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament as winners of the Mountain West regular season. The location and opponent of the game is yet to be determined.

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

FOOTBALL

CSU football set to host Arkansas in 2018

By Justin Michael @JustinTMichael

For just the second time in school history, Colorado State football will host a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), as the University of Arkansas will travel to Fort Collins for a game in the new on-campus stadium on Sept. 8, 2018, the schools announced Wednesday.

“This is exciting for our foot-

ball program and for our fans,” head coach Mike Bobo said in a statement. “Being able to bring an SEC opponent to Fort Collins speaks to the growth of our program and also speaks to the impact our new on-campus stadium is already making. We want to challenge ourselves in our non-conference schedule and also bring those quality opponents to our home field and our

fans.”

The meeting between the Razorbacks and Rams marks the first time since an SEC school made their way to the Front Range since Mississippi State in 1981 and is the first of two meetings between the teams in as many years; CSU will travel to Fayetteville during the 2019 season.

Additionally the schools will

meet on the hardwood, as the two schools signed a home-andhome deal to play in basketball over the next two seasons as well, which was announced last spring.

“Arkansas is a wonderful addition to our home schedule in 2018 and reinforces our trend of securing high-profile non-conference opponents,” Athletics director Joe Parker said of the

opportunity. “We are thrilled to have the Razorbacks in Fort Collins as we transition an originally agreed-upon guarantee game into a home-and-home series.”

The Rams and Razorbacks have met three times in football previously, (1974, 1979 and 1990) –all were played in Little Rock and won by Arkansas.

Justin Michael can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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Off-season full of activity for Colorado State

By Colin Barnard @ColinBarnard_

After finishing up regular season play at the end of October, preparations for the 2017 season were already in full swing for Colorado State women’s soccer.

Head coach Bill Hempen and his staff spent most of the year recruiting the players that would be part of this year’s signing class.

Given the limits that club teams place on their players, however, it was not necessarily easy to do so.

“Right now we’re in that transition in Colorado going from club soccer to high school soccer,” Hempen said. “Some of these clubs let the kids play high school soccer and some of them don’t, so we’re kind of all over the board. A lot of the clubs will play on Sundays, and we’ll go watch them. Then we’ll try our best to catch as many high school games

>> CLASSIC from page 16 being the two-time FirstTeam All-Big Ten selection Kelsey Jenkins. She led her team in eight different offensive categories last season and led the conference in walks. She reached base safely in 38 consecutive games as well. “(The pitchers) have to continue change speeds and control timing,” Fisher said. “They are all more effective when they do that and again they have to play defense.”

Freshman Kaitlyn Menz and senior Kirsten Stevens have been effective from the pitching circle, boasting ERA’s of 0.59 for and 1.10, respectively. Stevens was a transfer last year for Wisconsin after winning the Southern Conference Pitcher of the Year award at Mercer in 2015.

“We are in this mode where we are beating teams that we as coaches expect to beat so I think we have been trying to convince this team that if they do things right … we should beat some of those (high ranked teams),” Fisher said. “It’s really us against the game. It’s are you going to pitch well, hit spots, play defense, run the bases well and do your job at the plate?”

The Rams will play Maine at 3 p.m. Friday and follow it up with a doubleheader Saturday with Wisconsin at 12:30 p.m. and Maine at 3 p.m. The weekend will wrap up Sunday at 11:30 a.m. against Wisconsin.

Austin White can be reached at sports@collegian.com

as we can, both up here in Fort Collins and down in Denver.”

The eight-player recruiting class features three forwards, three midfielders and two defenders. Five of the eight are from Colorado, including Fort Collins’ own Bailyn Furrow.

As with any incoming class, that spells the end for Colorado State’s seniors from a season ago.

But the departure of these seniors is a bit more poignant than usual.

This will be the first year that the Rams will not have a player from their inaugural roster in 2013. As the team enters a new age, Hempen is confident that his players have what it takes to move forward.

Although they lost plenty of experience from a season ago, the Rams incoming seniors have all been with Colorado State for the previous three years without any transfers. Paired with the ad-

ditions from this year’s recruiting class, Hempen and the Rams are excited for what is to come.

“There was a lot of groundwork to be laid,” Hempen said.

“The kids that graduated last year took a big leap of faith. I think we’re in a good spot with the kids and the program right now. I’m looking forward to adding the rest of the recruiting class.”

Since returning from winter break, the Rams have been hard at work. Due to NCAA restrictions, the team was limited to two hours per week spent training together. Hempen certainly made the most of it, as he found a way to combine having fun and teaching.

“We basically split them into two teams and have competitions two hours per week,” Hempen said. “Some of it is physical, some of it is mental, some is soccer oriented. Last week we

CSU’s Bridgette Hutton (13) pitches during a game against Buffalo on Friday, March 3rd. PHOTO BY FORREST CZARNECKI COLLEGIAN

did advantage vs. disadvantage, which is basically playing a player down or a player up. So we try to challenge them and make it interesting for them so they have to constantly think about what’s going on out there. It’s a good teaching time of the year for us.”

The Rams are currently in their third week of 20-hourper-week training sessions. Going through April 22, this is the time of year that players focus on gaining the strength that they will use throughout the season.

Until spring break, the Rams will spend four days per week in the weight room with a focus on raising their core strength so that they can begin fall season at a better starting point. After using the first of five designated playing dates for the spring two weekends ago, the Rams’ exhibitions will heat up following break.

“A couple weekends ago, we

had an event in the indoor facility,” Hempen said. “Air Force was here, Northern Colorado was here, Denver was here and Regis was here. We played literally all day long. We split our group into two teams and one of our teams made the final. That’s the first time we made it to the final of our own event, so we were kind of excited about that.”

The spring season concludes on April 22 as the Rams will host CSU-Pueblo at Lagoon Field in a day full of activity for Colorado State athletics.

“One of the cool things this year is, by suggestion of the football team, they said ‘Why don’t we do a double-header?’

So they’re playing on the Lagoon at 1 and we’re playing at 10:30 before the football game on the same field,” Hempen said. “So that will be a lot of fun.”

Colin Barnard can be reached at sports@collegian.com

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FOOD & DRINK

New Belgium celebrates 20 years of brewing sour beer

By Max Sundberg @jmaxsun

New Belgium Brewing Company has debuted the 2017 edition of its original sour beer, La Folie, celebrating 20 years of brewing sour beer this month.

The brewery first launched its wood beer program in 1997 with La Folie, its interpretation of a Flanders-style sour brown ale.

The sour beer craze that has swept the craft beer industry in the past few years can be partially attributed to the introduction of La Folie, said Shannon Arledge, a liquid center representative at New Belgium.

“La Folie is heralded as the beer that started it all,” Arledge said.

According to Arledge, though the style has been produced in Europe since the 1300s, it has only had a real presence in America for about 25 years.

Now, the style is booming.

“In the past five years, America’s drinking of sour beer has skyrocketed,” Arledge said.

Morgan Bergine, also a liquid center representative, said she thinks the reason for La Folie’s popularity stems from its broad appeal.

“Beer geeks might drink it because they like its complexity,” Bergine said.

Since the introduction of La Folie, the brewery’s blending team has continually refined its

methods of tasting, analyzing and blending the beer.

Every year, Eric Salazar, New Belgium’s Wood Cellar Manager, and Lauren Salazar, New Belgium’s Sour Beer Blender, coordinate a blending of beer from various oak barrels called foeders.

“We’ve been blending and experimenting with sour wood beers for two decades and as the name La Folie implies it’s always with a touch of eccentric madness,” said New Belgium Spokesman Bryan Simpson.

La Folie, French for “the folly,” is synonymous with lack of good sense or foolishness.

The aging process begins by adding New Belgium’s brown lager called Oscar into massive French oak foeders previously used in winemaking. The beer ages for one to three years before use.

On a monthly basis, a panel of validated tasting experts taste the various foeders and make note of flavors and other changes in the beer. The sours are also scientifically analyzed in a lab on-site.

“Lauren (Salazer) has notebooks from like 20 years ago with notes about the beer,” Arledge said.

Barrels are handpicked for blending of the various aged beers by Lauren Salazar based upon the tasting notes and an idea of how the beer has tradi-

tionally tasted in the past.

“We combine multiple barrels based on continual tasting to create a combination that is just right,” Simpson said.

But the barrels are never fully depleted, according to Arledge. The two original oak barrels have contained some of the same Oscar that was first added in 1997, giving the blenders a rich palette of flavors with which to mix beers.

Today, New Belgium has a forest of 65 foeders that vary in size and shape. The size and surface area within them determines how long it will take for the beer to acidify, Arledge said.

According to the brewery’s website, the 2017 La Folie is a sharp, tart sour ale full of green apple, deep cherry, dark chocolate and tannin-like plum skin notes. The beer is 7 percent alcohol by volume and is only available in 22-ounce bombers and on draft.

As for pairings, Arledge suggests a baked rich brie, topped with cherry chutney and served with crispy crostini. According to Bergine, La Folie plays well with any red meat or charcuterie.

For more information on the history of New Belgium’s sour beer program, visit newbelgium.com.

Max Sundberg can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com.

New Belgium has a vast room filled with 65 French oak foeders used to produce sour beer.

PHOTO BY MAX SUNDBERG COLLEGIAN

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MUSIC

Red Fang to perform at Aggie Theatre Friday

By Johnny Rhein @jonnyrhein

Red Fang “Only Ghosts.” PHOTO COURTESY OF RED FANG.

shows for more than just my dad and friends. Even though it’s been so long since I’ve lived in Fort Collins, I still have friends there, and it still has that feeling of home.”

Red Fang is well known for their creative and hilarious music videos directed by Whitey McConnaughy. The video for “The Meadows” is a montage of close-up shots of the band viciously devouring steak and seafood at a classy restaurant.

“We ate way more than we should have,” Beam said. “I actually wasn’t really eating meat at the time, but the steak was so good I couldn’t bring myself to spit it out. I felt real weird afterward.”

In January 2014, Red Fang had the opportunity to play on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

“My reaction was to not even believe it,” Beam said. “(Letterman) is obviously important to the history of latenight talk shows and one of my favorite late-night hosts. To have the opportunity to play on his show before he retired is hard for me to believe sometimes.”

Joshua Leasure, a die-hard fan, has seen Red Fang play seven times including in Fort

Collins, Denver and in the intimate setting of someone’s backyard at an unofficial show during South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.

“Their show is energetic and heavy with lots of satisfying stoner riffage,” Leasure said. “They clearly enjoy being on stage and show an everyman character that makes them seem very relatable. I love Red Fang shows because to me, they’ve never stopped feeling like a great band that you discover in somebody’s backyard on a lucky day.”

Aaron Cleveringa is another Red Fang fan, but this will be his first time seeing the band perform live.

“I love the music first and foremost,” Cleveringa said. “Also, they are a band that does not take themselves too seriously; their videos are pretty awesome and non-conformist. I am very excited about the show.”

Red Fang will be playing Aggie Theatre this coming Friday, March 10 with special guests Big Jesus. The show starts at 7 p.m.

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Aggie Theatre has a killer lineup this month including metal band Red Fang who will grace the stage Friday. The band is touring in light of their new album “Only Ghosts” that came out late last year.

Red Fang is comprised of guitarist and vocalist Bryan Giles, bassist and vocalist Aaron Beam, lead guitarist David Sullivan and drummer John Sherman.

Hailing from the Portland, Oregon metal scene, Red Fang has been touring vigorously all over the world since they began in 2005.

Initially influenced by Led Zeppelin and Metallica, once the band got together, Beam turned to influences like Nirvana and Soundgarden.

Beam said before he started playing bass, he played a variety of instruments.

“I started as a kid playing piano,” Beam said. “I was the strange kid that actually requested piano lessons from my parents in third or fourth grade. Then I picked up the saxophone in fifth grade and started playing guitar when I was 15.

I started playing bass once I moved to Portland.”

According to Beam, Red Fang was putting out self-released extended plays and touring before they released their first album “Red Fang” in 2008 on Wäntage. Shortly after their self-titled debut, they signed to Sargent House and then switched to Relapse where they remain to this day.

Beam said the songwriting process is a collaborate effort among the band.

“For actually finishing songs, it’s definitively collaborative,” Beam said. “Bryan is the most prolific as far as shitting out riffs, and then we all massage them until we can turn them into songs.”

Red Fang is no stranger to Fort Collins. Beam said he went to junior high and high school in Fort Collins. The first time he played at Aggie Theatre was with his high school band in the summer of 1991. Since then Red Fang has played at various venues in Denver.

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CONCERTS

Frangel López Ceseña wins CSU Concerto Competition

By Mckenzie Moore @mkenziemoore172

Three Concerto Competition finalists competed against each other March 7, each playing a unique solo with the Colorado State University Sinfonia. Frangel López Ceseña on violin, Joe Jones on marimba and Julius Hochmuth on cello introduced three concertos to the audience from a diverse range of composers. After the finals, the CSU Sinfonia treated Griffin Concert Hall to a Mozart Symphony while waiting for results.

Jones came in third, Hochmuth placed second, and López-Ceseña ultimately swept the first-place title with his unique and technically challenging performance.

The competition began with “Sugaria” by Eric Sammut featuring Jones on marimba. With a complex and lively solo in front of softer counter-melodies in the chamber orchestra, Jones effortlessly flew through multi-octave runs. The piece, in three un-

named movements, bookended a more mellow piece featuring the marimba without accompaniment for the first measures.

“One of the challenges of this performance was balancing the orchestra with marimba,” said Director Wes Kenney. “It’s more of a subtle instrument, and we had to work on finding the right volume for each instrument to really make it stand out.”

López-Ceseña on violin took the stage for the second segment of the concert playing “Fratres”

by Arvo Pärt. The minimalistic piece featured discordant notes and rapid temp changes. It created a strange and mystic mood as it developed a particular melody line and returned to its main theme throughout the piece.

“Very few people know the composer of the piece,” LópezCeseña said. “The best part of this experience was being able to bring that music to the public because most of them have probably never heard it before.”

As the final competitor of the night, Hochmuth presented

“Cello Concerto No. 1 in Eb op.

107” by Dmitri Shostakovich.

The three-movement piece featured a complex melody in the cello solo. Dynamic contrast increased intensity throughout the performance and counter-melodies in the chamber orchestra created an ominous mood in the minor key.

“Shostakovich is such difficult music, especially for woodwinds and soloists,” Kenney said.

“The students wanted to take on the challenge and it really made the experience great.”

While judges discussed placement, the CSU Sinfonia played “Symphony No. 40 in G minor K. 550” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a familiar four-movement performance.

The lively theme varied its tempo throughout the first movement, then drifted into a waltz-sounding second movement with a heavy woodwind feature. An articulated and brief third movement gave way to the final piece of the night, “Allegro assai.” The movement used

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‘Born a Crime’ offers a unique look into the life of ‘The Daily Show’ host

By Megan Hanner @meganhanner48

“Apartheid was perfect racism.” This is the opening sentence of the second chapter in “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood,” a biography written by Trevor Noah.

Many know Noah as the host of Comedy Central’s hugely popular news satire program “The Daily Show,” and others may know him for his stand-up comedy.

“Born a Crime” focuses on the life of Noah at a young age when he was forced to carefully navigate the world around him as a child of a white man and a black woman. This was the inspiration for the title of the book. The book explains that in apartheid South Africa, relationships between people of the opposite race could result in multiple years in prison.

Right from the start, the reader is pulled into Noah’s world. The book starts off with his experiences as a young child living in apartheid South Africa.

Apartheid was a time in South Africa in which systematic and brutal separation of black and white people was enforced by the government.

Many fans may not know that Noah spent the first years

of his life indoors because his mother could have been sent to prison if he was seen, and he could have ended up in an orphanage. “Born a Crime” allows fans to learn about these various aspects of Noah’s life including poverty, racism, family, crime, love and how those experiences shaped him into the man he is today.

Not only do fans of Noah get a first-hand look into his life, but there are also opportunites to learn the history of the beginning and end of ther apartheid. The book teaches the reader about the multiple cultures within South Africa and how those cultures interact with one another. Reading Noah’s thoughts on the various ways race had huge effects on people and how they interacted with each other is eye-opening.

What is also striking about the book is how the subject matter and themes change. One minute, a reader may laugh out loud. The next moment, Noah’s words and heartbreaking life experiences may draw the reader to tears. This makes “Born a Crime” quite the emotional roller- coaster.

The only downside to the book is that it tends to skip around chronologically. It does

not just start at the beginning of Noah’s life and continue from there. Some chapters include memories from when he was in his early twenties, while the next chapter could focus on a time when he was a teenager or a young child. This however, does not detract from the reading experience. The book is divided based on subject matter rather than his age.

If a reader is looking for a book they can sit back with and enjoy over spring break, “Born a Crime” is a great one to consider.

Noah’s voice and tone throughout the book is calm and informal. He does not simply talk at the reader about his experiences and memories, he invites the reader to walk with him for the whole journey.

Should you read it? Yes! “Born a Crime” is an inspirational must-read for fans of “The Daily Show” and Noah. Most of us only know him for his comedy, but Noah has much more to offer than just his jokes. He has a wisdom about him that came from his childhood in a country where his very existence was considered a crime.

Megan Hanner can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com

opposing dynamics to return to varying themes and created a light timbre with diverse instrumentation.

“I love any work of (Mozart’s) in a minor key,” Kenney said in a press release regarding the famous piece.

“This was my first time performing as a soloist in the United States, which makes tonight very unique,” López-Ceseña said.

According to the concert’s program notes, López-Ceseña was born in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. He has performed in Mexico, Italy, Germany and France, and he currently holds the position of concertmaster in the CSU Symphony Orches-

tra.

“For a lot of the soloists, it’s their first time performing with orchestra accompaniment and in front of a crowd,” Kennedy said.

“It’s always interesting every year to see how they develop.”

The crowd gave the soloists and the CSU Sinfonia a standing ovation at the end of the night as the finalists embraced on stage and congratulated each other.

Performing the concert gave each of the Concerto Competition finalists an opportunity to refine their skills and gain new experiences in their music careers.

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FOOD & DRINK

Battle of the boba: Where to get the best boba in Fort Collins

By Mareena Winchell @mareenaaaa_

To all of the self-proclaimed boba-holics out there, Fort Collins has a couple places you need to know about. Teriyaki Wok, Oasiz Boba and Ku Cha House of Tea offer the best boba tea in town.

Boba, also known as “Bubble Tea,” is a drink that contains tapioca balls usually paired with tea.

Tapioca balls can make or break a boba drink. They are tiny, chewy balls with a delicate sugariness.

Tapioca balls can be paired with numerous teas or frozen drinks.

When it comes to tea, these boba locations offer two forms of tea with boba. The first type is boba milk tea. Boba milk tea has more of a silky-smooth consistency. The second type is iced tea, which has a lighter consistency.

Another option is to mix boba with frozen drinks. The slush form of boba has more of an icy, chewy consistency, and the snow form of boba has more of a creamy, Frappuccino-like texture.

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Teriyaki Wok Location: 829 S. Shields St. Teriyaki Wok should be at the top of your list when craving boba. Teriyaki Wok offers a lot of popular flavors like cookies and cream, spiced chai, starburst and piña colada. They also have more original favors like taro, vanilla, hazelnut and black or green tea.

Oasiz Boba Location: 128 W. Laurel St. Oasiz Boba has classic flavors like Thai tea, milk tea and taro tea. Oasiz also has unique and fun flavors like banana, avocado, pineapple and papaya. If you prefer softer and chewier boba, this is your go-to place.

>> SAFEWAY from page 1 June Marcisofsky, a fellow checker at the new Safeway on Harmony where Espinoza now works, has known Tony for the past 30 years.

“Tony is the best,” Marcisofsky said. “You could not get any better.”

When the store’s closure was announced, Espinoza said many customers and friends who had been shopping at the store for years showed friendly gestures and attitudes towards the employees.

“Each of the stores in town have their own personality,” Espinoza said. “The store I worked at had a very close-knit community between the customers and employees.”

Espinoza experienced the

community’s response to the Old Town Safeway’s closing first-hand.

“There was shock, anger and sadness when the store closed,” Espinoza. “The store had a unique presence in that location for 75 years. One of the things that surprised me were people’s random acts of kindness. People brought us cards, gifts and personal invitations. I was not expecting this; it was very heartwarming.”

Espinoza said he created many friendships working at the Old Town Safeway.

“We had people from all walks of life come through the store’s entrance in Old Town,” Espinoza said. “Artists, the elderly, homeless people. All very wonderful and unique people.

Ku Cha House of Tea Location: 128 S. College Ave. Try Ku Cha House of Tea for

a fancier option. This is a traditional Chinese tea house that serves over 150 loose leaf teas and boba. Ku Cha House of Tea offers to go cups that cost around $4. They have three very popular boba favors which include traditional milk tea, mango green tea and traditional chai tea.

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The clientele at the downtown store was a microcosm of the world.”

During Espinoza’s last couple of days at Safeway, he gave out hand-written thank you cards to some of the longtime customers he knew. The last sentence on each card ended with the phrase “from the bottom of my cart.”

Espinoza’s time with Safeway can be used as an example for current CSU students.

“If you find a job that you are passionate about, you will never feel like you have worked a day in your life,” Espinoza said. “When you find that job or career, find a company that has similar interests and values. You will grow personally and professionally together.”

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Across 1 Fish feature 5 Sporty sunroof 9 Impressionist’s métier 14 Mount between Pelion and Olympus 15 Bat mitzvah dance 16 “__ Theme”: “Doctor Zhivago” song 17 Done in a comprehensive plan?

20 Primed 21 Duffers’ dreams 22 Gamer’s game face 23 Criticize harshly 24 Emailed a dupe to 25 Darth, before he turned to the Dark Side 28 Postgrad challenge 32 Quarrel 33 Pit-__: heart sound 34 Target of annual shots 35 Tied up in a government program?

39 Useful Scrabble tile 40 Fairy tale heavy 41 Suez Canal ship 42 IBM’s chess-playing computer 45 To a greater degree

46 Singer India.__ 47 Word with candy or sugar 48 Book with tablets 51 Candle holder 52 The White Stripes, e.g.

55 Out in a classic sports car?

58 Veil material 59 Bolivia neighbor 60 “It follows that ... “ 61 Lid woes 62 Intervene, with “in” 63 Some game Down 1 Scads 2 Part of a chain 3 Atty.-to-be’s hurdle 4 System of connected PCs 5 Lockup, in slang 6 Carved symbol 7 “Warcraft” killers 8 Kung __ chicken 9 British school test 10 Annual Macy’s tradition 11 Q.E.D. word 12 Indian music style 13 North Sea feeder 18 Tigers Hall of Famer Al

THE SEA RABBIT THOMAS ROBERT

19 Move out 23 1% alternative 24 Have a jones for 25 Like football passes 26 “Scrubs” extra 27 Herbal flavor similar to licorice 28 __ citato: in the work cited 29 Case for Scully 30 Leafy healers 31 Canadian Alice with a Nobel Prize 33 Tell it to the judge 36 Refinement 37 Lunchtime tryst 38 Run out of gas 43 Get the canoe going 44 Savages 45 Bury the hatchet 47 Tight-knit group 48 Young newts 49 Cross off 50 Alternative to de Gaulle 51 Tech news site 52 Desperate 53 Sugar craving, say 54 Wrinkled-nose cause 56 Co. with brown trucks 57 Place to plant Yesterday’s solution

SUDOKU Yesterday’s solution

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