Volume 126, No 104 March, 23, 2017

Volume 126, No. 104

Thursday, March 23, 2017

OPINION

Virginity needs more importance PAGE 7

Campus West businesses unsure they can outlast construction The construction on Shields Street has been a problem for local businesses such as Momo Lolo Coffee House and the Village Vidiot.

PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN

By Stuart Smith @notstuartsmith

With construction of the underpass on Shields Street, businesses on West Elizabeth Street have been affected in different ways.

Momo Lolo, a coffee shop on West Elizabeth Street, saw a sharp decrease in business due to the construction.

“Normally, from year to year, we get an increase in business (of 10 percent) that has been reliable the entire six years we’ve been here,” Colin Garrity, owner of Momo Lolo said. “This year we’re below last year. I would guess that (sales are down) probably 15-20 percent.”

Garrity had to take on other jobs in order to prevent the shop from closing and is unsure if he will be able to stay in business until August, when the underpass is expected to be completed.

“I’ve taken outside work to bring in additional cash to keep

us afloat,” Garrity said. “It is the difference between making and losing money.”

The Waltzing Kangaroo, just five doors down from Momo Lolo, has been affected by the construction, “in weird ways,” according to its employees.

“We get busy at different times,” said Georgia Sinclair, one of the employees. “The lunch rush happens later now.”

According to Kevin Olson, another employee of the store, said they have experienced less foot traffic due to a lack of parking spots as a result from the construction.

“A lot of time what we’ll see is cars driving by and they’ll be looking in the parking lot for spots, and it’ll be all full because of the construction,” Olson said.

“They’ll do another loop, look in, and then they’ll just leave.”

However, Buy Back Games, located on the north side of Elizabeth Street, has not been negatively affected by the construction, said owner Vic Galey

“We’re actually doing better than average right now,” Galey said. “I couldn’t begin to tell you why… I was not expecting it to go this well. I was expecting no one to show up (during construction) and for us to be dead.”

Galey believes the reason for Buy Back Games’ continued success is because they are on the north side of West Elizabeth Street, while all of the construction has been on the south side.

“Gamers will go through a hell of a lot to get their games,” Galey said.

Local video rental store, The Village Vidiot has not seen continued success either, despite being located on the north side of the street.

While Buy Back Games targets a younger demographic with video games, the owner of The Village Vidiot said his customer base has dwindled as a result of the construction on Shields Street.

“It’s very destructive to tear up a corner that’s all retail,” said

Scott Shepperd, the owner of The Village Vidiot. “The less retail you have, the less revenue the city gets.”

Shepperd said his business is being doubly hurt by the construction at College Avenue and Prospect Road.

“Only a third or a quarter of my customers live (near the store), the rest of them live elsewhere,” Shepperd said. “You have people coming up from Loveland on College, and they hit there and go, ‘Oh hell.’”

Many of those customers are older in age as well, and Shepperd is feeling the lack of business from them.

“I’ve lost all my older customers, everybody over 60, because they can’t figure out a way to get here,” Shepperd said.

A result in this lack of business is a strain on the business and keeping its lease.

“We were just unable to keep up,” Sheppard said. “You just can’t keep up when you’re down see SHIELDS on page 6 >>

SPORTS

CSU offense still clicking PAGE 15

A&C

Student starts EDM record label PAGE 18

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FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Colorado State University student Luke Stark, seeking an Environmental Engineering degree, practices his slacklining skills on Tuesday afternoon near Laurel Street.

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“Protect the environment! Because water makes beer”

“I gave up sex and french fries for Lent.”

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NEWS Thursday, March 23, 2017

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ASCSU ELECTION

ASCSU campaign: Nick Bohn and Tristan Syron

By Rachel Telljohn @racheltelljohn

Time is of the essence for the Nick Bohn and Tristan Syron campaign for the upcoming Associated Students of Colorado State University student body elections.

The two have campaigned on the Plaza this week with signs that read, “It’s Time for You.” “It’s time for students to be put first,” Bohn said. “It’s time for a Middle Eastern cultural center.

It’s time for parking to be figured out. It’s time for whatever students want.”

Bohn said there is no problem too big that it cannot be tackled by their campaign and no problem too small it is not worth the time.

Bohn and Syron both bring experience in ASCSU to their platform and wish to focus on openness and transparency with the organization as it relates to the rest of the student body.

“The age of you (the student body) is in, and the age of us (ASCSU) is over,” Syron said.

Bohn said he feels it is up to them to make sure every single

Vice presidential candidate Tristan Syron. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BOHN SYRON CAMPAIGN TEAM.

person on campus knows someone within ASCSU and that it is their job to go out and engage with the students.

Bohn is the director of outreach at ASCSU, and has changed the position since he has held it.

Bohn sees his position as getting more students involved on campus and encouraging collabo-

ration between on campus clubs.

Bohn gives tours of the ASCSU office when people walk in and ask what the office is. He attributes many of the new senators to those who have just walked into the office.

Bohn has worked to make sure ASCSU is a presence for multiple clubs on campus, who might not have had an ASCSU member come to their meetings before.

“You’re my job. I love you.

You’re what I care for,” Bohn said of the clubs and students on campus. “It keeps me up at night.”

Bohn’s running mate, Syron, said the presidential candidate is not kidding when he says it keeps him up at night: Syron said he receives emails from Bohn about new ideas at 3 a.m.

Syron is an associate senator for college of liberal arts in ASCSU. He said he has been offered a senator seat many times and turned it down, because he only views it as a resume booster. His concern is about getting individuals from his college involved in the college council and in ASCSU. Every single senate and associate senate seat has been filled

Nick Bohn, presidential candidate.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BOHN SYRON CAMPAIGN TEAM.

under Syron, current president of his college council. Representation for the college is a priority for him.

Within ASCSU, Syron sees himself on all sides of the spectrum in terms of paperwork, or the bills ASCSU has written and passed on the senate floor. “(Bohn and I) have a lot of

different interests. Between the two of us and all the different boards we sit on, we (cover) a wide scope,” Syron said.

Their platform As vice president and president, both Bohn and Syron plan to stay involved on campus.

Much of their campaign platform is built off their involvement with students on campus and listening to what those students want. They said their platform continues to grow as students continue to bring them ideas as the pair campaign on the plaza this week.

“We have so many policy ideas they couldn’t even fit on the bulletin board,” Syron said.

Student concerns range from support for international students to parking to innovative technologies to the new stadium to student fees.

“There’s a huge stigma around student fees. No one really knows where they go,” Syron said.

Part of the transparency the pair wants to bring to ASCSU is a way for students to log on and see where their money goes within see ASCSU on page 6 >>

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NEWS Thursday, March 23, 2017

SCIENCE

CSU-partnered cannabis study finds industry safety standards inadequate

By Hailey Deaver @autumn_hail

A study on the Colorado cannabis industry has found that nearly half of the workers in the industry have received little to no health and safety training.

According to the study, “Work and Well-Being in the Colorado Cannabis Industry,” 23 percent of workers surveyed never received any health and safety training, and 23 percent said they had either one or sparse training.

“Work and Well-Being in the Colorado Cannabis Industry” is a project and study that was researched by Kevin Walters, Gwenith Fisher, Liliana Tenney and Kurt Kraiger. Walters is a graduate student at CSU in the industrial/organizational psychology field, a trainee in occupational health psychology.

Fisher is Walter’s advisor for his work on researching positive aspects of the work environment.

Walters created a blog post on thecannabisindustry.org to reach out to people for the survey. The study surveyed 214 cannabis workers in Colorado.

The report, According to The National Cannabis Industry Association found that a large portion of cannabis industry workers have received little to no safety and health training in their workplace.

A majority of cannabis in-

75% of workers have health insurance, but no benefits from their employer 23% of workers did not receive any health and safety training 23% of workers received very little or sparse health and safety training

dustry workers are male, caucasian, below the age of 30 and have some level of college education, according to the study. Most workers made less than $35,000 annually. Approximately two thirds of the workers in the cannabis industry are medical card holders. Approximately 78 percent of the workers used cannabis on a daily basis.

About 75 percent of workers reported having health insurance, yet most employees said their employers did not provide health insurance benefits. Retirement benefits were offered to 20 percent and other benefits were offered to 25 percent of workers.

The study found that many on-site injuries and health issues were caused by pesticides and other chemicals. About 23 percent of the workers claimed that

they did not receive health and safety training on the job, and several workers reported having skin irritation, eye irritation and headaches or dizziness.

A majority of workers reported having back pain or discomfort in the hands, wrists or fingers every day for at least a week in the past year. For three consecutive months or longer, 36 workers out of 214 surveye reported coughing and 34 reported bringing up phlegm.

The report had several recommendations to improve the cannabis industry: Cannabis businesses should reference the Guide to Worker Safety and Health in the Marijuana Industry in order to base inform their safety procedures.

Cannabis businesses should repeatedly have required safety trainings for all employees, that cover general health safety with ergonomics, emergency preparedness and cannabis hazards involved with growing, cultivating, trimming and selling cannabis.

Cannabis businesses should teach their workers about accident investigation, conflict management, tobacco cessation, workplace violence, OSHA record-keeping and injury and illness prevention.

Cannabis businesses should provide health insurance for their employees.

A CSU-partnered study on the Colorado cannabis industry found that nearly half of the workers in the industry received little to no health and safety training. PHOTO BY JAMIE RANKIN COLLEGIAN

Cannabis Trainers, founded by Marueen McNamara, provides training for safe and responsible sale of cannabis in accordance with Colorado state legislation. Cannabis Trainers also provides communication and leadership training, conflict management and customer ser-

vice training.

If there are questions about the study or the report, Kevin M. Walters can be contacted at kevin.m.walter@colostate.edu. A simple breakdown of the report can be found at this link.

Hailey Deaver can be reached at news@collegian.com.

CAMPUS

Colorado State graduation and retention rates rise

By Sam Aniello @SBAniello

Graduation rates are on a gradual rise, and retention rates of freshman Colorado State University students are above the national average of 70.9 percent, with 85 percent of students make it past their freshman year according to CSU institutional research.Additionally, rates of academic probation have been declining.

“Retention means persistence from the freshman to sophomore year,” said Dr. Alan Lamborn, vice provost for undergraduate affairs. “We are tasked with an all-university plan to increase persistence to graduation and to reduce the attrition rates

of historically underrepresented groups.”

In 2015, freshman enrollment rates at CSU hit an all-time high with 4,737, an increase of nearly 9 percent from 2014. Not only was this the largest incoming class on record, but it was also the most racially and ethnically diverse.

“Students are responsible for their own success, but institutions have the other piece of the puzzle,” said Dr. Paul Thayer, associate vice president for student success.

Lamborn said there was a discrepancy between enrollment and retention rates.

“Rapid increases in the ability to get people into college

wasn’t translating into increases in the ability to get people to complete college,” Lamborn said. “Efficiency to graduation has also increased, and this presents an opportunity to get a lot more people graduated more expeditiously.”

The above average trend also reflects in the undergrad graduation rate, with 65.2 percent of students graduating in three to six years.

Lamborn and Thayer agreed that students who are first generation degree-seekers who come from less financially secure families and are of minority populations traditionally arer at a disadvantage when it comes to earning a degree.

“The number of ways that life can get in the way if you’re still hanging around for five or six years is greater for people whose safety net at home isn’t so strong,” Lamborn said.

University exit surveys show that reasons for student drop out range between academic, financial or personal. Regarding financial reasons, Lamborn said every student makes many calculations about their current situation as well as the perceived benefit of his or her education.

Thayer said students need to find a purpose, connection and engagement within the institution to fully receive the benefit of education.

The 2015 CSU enrollment

was 32,236. A total of 27,566 were on-campus students, while the remainder are a mix of online programs, study abroad or University employees.

CSU institutional research said CSU Board of Governors expects enrollment numbers to exceed 35,000 by 2020.

“What being college ready means is not being ready to succeed with no help on day one, but capable of finishing if the students, administration, faculty and staff work cohesively to change the student’s ability to be successful and change the University’s ability to support the student,” Lamborn said.

Sam Aniello can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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SCIENCE

Prairie dog colony euthanized in Loveland for new county building

By Jym Cox @jym2233

Larimer County has begun the controversial process of building a new county building in Loveland that has eliminated a prairie dog colony.

The county building will be located on the corner of East 1st Street and Denver Avenue in the City of Loveland. The prairie dog colony of roughly 250 lived on that plot of land, and the County was faced with removing the animals.

Early March, the County began using a lethal method to remove the prairie dogs after months of relocation discussion.

Northern Colorado Prairie Dog Advocates (NCPDA) worked with both the Prairie Dog Coalition of the Humane Society of the United States and the County to make an attempt to relocate the prairie dogs. The two groups spoke at public meetings with the City of Loveland Planning Commission, the Open Lands Advisory Board and the Larimer County Commissioners.

The County had a strict deadline with the contractor to begin building, and so the advocates had a narrow window of

time to find a new home for the animals. “(The County Open Lands) have a long standing policy of not relocating prairie dogs on our open spaces because they have a tendency to leave the property and populate neighboring properties,” wrote Steve Johnson, the Larimer County Commissioner, in an email to the Collegian.

The County asked the advocates to find private landowners who would take the colony onto their land.

“We were willing to pay them to move the animals to a suitable habitat if they could find a place,” Johnson wrote. “They could not.”

The NCPDA approached suitable property owners within the County as to whether or not they would take the prairie dogs onto their land, but could not find any who were willing.

“When we were unsuccessful in trying to find private land, (the county) declined to do anything else and moved forward to kill the colony,” wrote Ashley Waddell, a representative for the NCPDA an email to the Collegian.

Waddell wrote that she is disappointed with the outcome.

“I feel such a connection to this place and our wildlife, and it breaks my heart to know that our public servants don’t share these Colorado values,” Waddell wrote.

Noelle Guernsey, a representative of the Prairie Dog Coalition, says the group is similarly disappointed.

“Unfortunately, the responsibility of securing land for a release site was put on local citizens, whereas it would have been great to see the County working proactively to provide or help secure a release site for their wildlife on their land,” Guernsey wrote in an email to the Collegian.

The cost of the removal was around $16,000, and the cost to relocate would have been $20,000, according to a report by 9news.

“For just a bit more we could have moved them and allowed them to thrive, helping so many other wildlife species in the process,” Waddell wrote.

Both groups of advocates preferred that prairie dogs be relocated rather than euthanized because of their ecological benefit.

Waddell emphasized the re-

A prairie dog colony of roughly 250 animals were euthanized in early March by Larimer County in order to build a new county building.

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cently reintroduced black-footed ferret population to the Soapstone Prairie as a reason to keep prairie dogs thriving.

“What many people don’t realize is that the ferrets are endangered in the first place because of prairie dogs being killed,” Waddell wrote. “A ferret’s diet is over 90 percent prairie dogs, so in order to ensure the success of this recovering species, we need to continue to save prairie dogs too.”

Guernsey supported this position.

“Prairie dogs are a keystone species, which means that they play an important role in prairie ecosystems that includes nine wildlife species that depend on prairie dogs and over 100 other species that are associated with the presence of prairie dogs,” Guernsey wrote.

Guernsey mentioned that the citizens in Colorado are wor see PRAIRIE on page 6 >>

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NEWS Thursday, March 23, 2017

CAMPUS

ASCSU personal attack bill fails, bill on budget cap introduced

By Haley Candelario With a vote of 0-23-6, the senate bill to regulate ad hominem attacks within the Associated Students of Colorado State University failed at Wednesday night’s senate meeting.

The bill, authored by Senators Lawrence Horowitz, Isabel Brown and Tess Holoman, proposed the bill which would create a panel comprised of one member from three branches of ASCSU and an advisor to handle cases of personal attacks and complaints within ASCSU. The authors, who were absent Wednesday night, cited the presentation of last year’s Diversity Bill as one of the major reasons Senate Bill #4616 was created.

The senate body voted to discharge Senate Bill #4616 from the Internal Affairs Committee with a vote of 24-2-3.

Senator Isaiah Martin urged the senate body to discharge the bill from the Internal Affairs Committee because the bill has been moved from every committee within ASCSU for the two weeks prior to spring break.

“This bill has been here for almost a month,” Martin said.

“Going to every committee for those two weeks that it was in there, there has not been any adjustments that say how certain things will be accomplished.”

Martin urged the senate body to vote “no” on the bill because it was too broad.

“The bill within itself is still too broad for different issues,” Martin said. “As well as the fact that there is still so many different aspects of this bill that aren’t very conducive to the overall goal for it.”

Martin noted the disagreement surrounding the bill on personal attacks since some members of ASCSU did not think it was relevant.

“There has been a lot of disagreement with this bill,” Martin said. “There has been a lot of thought that this bill doesn’t really need to be had because there are already ... ways that these problems could be solved.”

Martin said that some of the dissent came from what some senators perceived to be a lack of developed processes for the bill.

Associate Senator Bayler

Shubert agreed with Martin that the senate should vote “no” on the bill, also noting that it was too broad.

“While I do believe that the idea behind this bill was valiant, I do think that it’s even too broad for what the individual authors were perceiving,” Shubert said. “They even said in committees that they wrote it broad so it could be condensed down. The committees aren’t able to do that with the amount of dissonance within committee.”

While the bill regulating personal attacks within the senate did not pass, another bill was introduced Wednesday night: Vice President Mike Lensky read a bill he and President Daniela Pineda-Soracá authored that would change the budget cap for ASCSU. The bill would account for the removal of the Transfort contract and salary increases across campus in Article III Section 302. The bill has been sent to the Internal Affairs Committee and will be voted on in the coming weeks.

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

>> ASCSU from page 3 the organization. Syron advocates for a pie graph on the website to easily detail where fee money goes. Both want to see more of the money students pay spent on the students themselves.

Their platform also entails reworking the current bylaws in place for clubs to receive funding through ASCSU. They feel more funding will lead to more events and more student involvement.

Syron voted to bring immigration lawyers to campus, in light of recent national events.

Bohn is currently advocating for a Middle Eastern Cultural Center and plans to continue to do so next year.

“I think there is a need for it,” Bohn said. “(Students that identify as Middle Eastern) need a center where they can feel safe.”

Bohn and Syron want to use technology to help students as well, with ideas such as creating an app for CSU students in order to buy and sell items like books and furniture.

Parking and the new stadium are topics the team say they are ready to tackle head on.

Syron is not a football fan, while Bohn is excited for the new stadium. The pair want to look at tailgating from the perspective of all students and make sure compromise happens.

“That’s what I really like about us. We disagree on a lot.”

Syron Syron said that Bohn separates himself from everybody else. Syron said anyone can explain why the status quo is the way it is, but that Bohn is here to say how the status quo can be challenged.

“My passion is other people’s passions,” Bohn said. “My energy is for CSU as a whole.”

Bohn and Syron both have a history of their involvement leaving a lasting legacy.

“We don’t just come in with ideas. We come in saying, ‘This is what we’re going to do,’ and (we have follow through),” Syron said.

Bohn, as a hall council president last year, imple-

mented waffles available all day at the dining halls and volleyball courts put in outside of Westfall and Durward.

Syron, on the College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Leadership council, has organized service outreach and canvassing for a local city council candidate and handed out donuts donated in Clark A. Syron is currently in collaborative works to design a new Clark building, after seeing the response to the Clark video from earlier this semester.

“We’re here to bring the energy. There is no amount of work we’re not willing to put in.

We’re willing to give absolutely everything we have to the students of CSU,” Bohn said.

Bohn continued to reiterate that it is the time for students on campus to have their voices heard, particularly by the Bohn-Syron campaign.

“What do you think it’s time for on campus?” Bohn asked.

Rachel Telljohn can be reached at news@collegian. com.

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>> SHIELDS from page 1 40 percent, or so. We had a couple days last week that were remarkably low.”

Shepperd explained the situation using hypothetical, but very possible, numbers.

“If you have an average day of $500 during the week - and suddenly you do $227, $189, $319 - that’s a tremendous drop,” he said. “And, if you do that for 10 or 15 straight days, your checking account is empty, and you’re in trouble. And, that’s happening.”

While most of the other stores in the surrounding area are hoping that they will stay afloat long enough to outlast the construction, the Vidiot has taken a different approach. Instead of letting whatever happens happen, Shepperd has set up a fundraising page online, and has a donation jar on their front desk.

“I was resigned to the fact that it’s time to close the Vidiot if I can’t service the place, I have a lease,” he said. “I didn’t want to do that. I want to do this at least five more years.”

Shepperd said the donation jar has helped the business tremendously.

“Since we started (the donations), people are making their way here, and we have been up every day since Monday of last week,” Shepperd smiled. “It’s been wonderful.”

But, Shepperd still is not sure if it will help completely.

“Will it keep going? I don’t know,” he said.

Shepperd said he was angry about the whole situation in general, especially at CSU - he said he feels that the University has disregarded the entire collection of shops on Campus West and their parking.

“They’re doing an underpass which a lot of us don’t understand the need for,” Shepperd said. “We know why you want one: because of the stadium. But, I’ve been here 24 years total, and at no point has CSU ever cared about our parking, or the lack of parking on Thursday night, Friday night or Saturday night.”

Construction of the underpass at the intersection of Shields and Elizabeth will continue, and is expected to finish in August, before the start of the 2017-2018 academic year.

Stuart Smith can reached at news@collegian.com.

A donation bowl in the Village Vidiot, one of the businesses being affected by the Shield’s closure. PHOTO BY BROOKE BUCHAN COLLEGIAN

>> PRAIRIE from page 5 worried about the future of prairie dogs across the state.

“We receive weekly, often daily, calls and emails from concerned citizens throughout the prairie dog range that are watch-

ing colonies disappear from the landscape, including concerns about this colony,” Guernsey wrote.

Jym Cox can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Plots of land near Lemay Avenue and Buckingham Street are devoid of prairie dogs, with only empty borrows remaining.

PHOTO BY FORREST CZARNECKI COLLEGIAN

The Rocky Mountain Collegian | Thursday, March 23, 2017

COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

Virginity is more important than society thinks Holly Spease @HollySpease

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.

In recent years virginity has been under attack by feminists.

They argue that it is sexist, unhealthy, and anti-gay. Last week, Allison Danish wrote an article entitled “Virginity is a social construct,” where she compared sex to chewing gum, claiming that losing one’s virginity is nothing more than inserting genitals in another person’s body. If that is all sex is good for then she surely contradicts herself when she admits that although losing your virginity doesn’t mean “a reduction in human value,” having sex for the first time is “is special and important.” No matter how much feminists, atheists and modern society may argue, having sex is a big deal. Although there are religious reasons behind the concept of virginity, there are also secular reasons why people might not want to be so cavalier about losing their V-card.

Usually, saving one’s body for marriage is most important to religious men and women. I cannot speak for every person or religion, but as a Christian, there is something beautiful about only having sex with one person.

When God created the world He intended men and women to marry; in Genesis God declares that married couples become one flesh and they should “[b] e fruitful and increase in numbers.” The closest someone can ever be to another, and the only way to create another human is when couples make love. That is something that should not be passed off as simply inserting genitals into another. In the Bible, God uses King Solomon to write the book “Song of Songs,” which describes the development of a beautiful relationship.

The first three chapters describe the growth of their God-honoring love, which leads to marriage, and eventually describes their sensual and romantic nights together. When a couple lies together in marriage, there is nothing to be ashamed of. God

actually encourages couples to make love, which is why the act is so pleasurable. Sex is a gift to married couples and is meant to be emotional and loving. In verses six and seven Solomon says, “Love is as strong as death” and “[m]any waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away.” This is the ideal form of love, as described in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, and what so many people long for but cannot find because they are too obsessed with physical pleasure.

Some may argue that King Solomon is a hypocrite, and we should not listen to Song of Songs because later in life he slept with many wives. Yet this actually strengthens my point, because the more wives, sex and worldly pleasures Solomon sought after, the further away from God he became. He was never as fulfilled as he was with his first who he describes in “Song of Songs.” Too often the emotional aspects of a relationship are deemed unimportant; our generation glorifies casual sex, friends with benefits, and one night stands. Yet, lying together with the one you love, who values your personality and relationship with God over your body, who sees only you in a room full of people, where if a child were conceived it would be a blessing not a curse. That is the kind of love virgins are waiting for.

Many people say that men and women ‘lose’ their virginity, which is completely missing the point. One is not ‘losing’ anything, rather they are giving themselves to another. By waiting for your spouse, you are saying “I want to give you everything that I am,” and you’re allowing yourself to be vulnerable.

Viewing virginity as a gift rather than a loss is another reason why virginity is so much more than a social construct.

Although many people choose not to have sex for religious reasons, there are many secular reasons to remain a virgin. Since the sexual revolution, society has passed off sex as something that is casual, healthy, and purely physical. Magazines and blogs rave about different sex positions, seduction, and idolize sex. Though sex was created for pleasure, there are many negative side effects from casual hookups. In a study by “Psychology Today,” individuals participating in casual sex have low levels of self esteem, felt less satisfied with their life and were see VIRGINITY on page 10 >>

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Education should not be treated like a business Jayla Hodge

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.

President Trump released his budget proposal last week which presented a bleak impression of how his administration wants to handle our country’s education system. He proposed to cut more than $9 billion dollars from the Department of Education.

Political views aside, there is something objectively and morally wrong about this part of the proposal.

This proposal goes against our basic American values. We use education to foster opportunities and knowledge as a gateway to ‘The American Dream’.

Limiting our education and school systems limits the potential of our country’s future. Our current education system is not only lacking, but is also considered a failing system. Additionally, the U.S education system is low in its ranking, behind many other developed countries.

The budget proposal is not official and functions as a blueprint. It makes it clear where our administration’s priories lie, and they are not in the best interest of the majority of Americans, nor our education system.

The proposal talks about cutting Teacher Quality federal spending, which would remove 4 billion dollars in grants for teacher training and 1.2 billion for summer and after school programs. The Trump administration stated that these programs

are “not effective, that duplicate other efforts and they do not serve national needs.” They are completely wrong. These programs are invaluable, especially to many working class families and lower income areas.

These areas not only receive less funding but are considered “high risk.” Students in these areas are at a higher risk for dropping out which means they are more likely to be incarcerated or unemployed. Often found in rural areas or inner cities, these districts are at a disadvantage, and the average teachers are often unprepared for the special challenges these students present. Teacher quality programs help train these teachers and decrease the likelihood of them quitting these schools. They also provide teachers that are equipped to handle these situations and that can foster successful relationships and safe learning environments for these at risk youth. Many working class and single parent households depend on after school programs so children have a safe and beneficial place to go if their parents have to work and can’t afford private after-school care.

These families and students are crucial to our country’s future and economy. We need to build thinkers and a new generation of educated adults to join the workforce and jobs left behind by the dying off baby boomers.

These are not minds our country can afford to lose.

The Trump administration and policymakers are not technically ending these programs, they just propose to end federal spending towards them. Do not let this fool you; many districts rely on this money and the related grants to keep these programs going because they cannot fund them alone.

The education budget proposal also wants to cut funding to many D1 school districts. Schools and districts that are the most in

need of funding will now be getting less. Low income, disabled, and non-traditional students, who are the most vulnerable, will be the most affected. This is not the road to making America great again.

The proposal, like the administration and an extremely unqualified Education Secretary, Betsy Devos, is in favor of School choice and Voucher programs.

These programs would direct federal money to go to charter schools and privately funded independent schools, meaning that these programs will be taking resources and funds from public schools that are already struggling and will be used to help parents offset the cost of private school tuition. The idea is that it will help parents who want their kids to have a better education than their local school districts provide. Instead of just improving those public schools, it helps privatize education.

This proposal, while effecting K-12 schools the most, will

have substantial effects on colleges and universities as well.

It wants to significantly reduce federal work study and completely eliminate Supplementary Education opportunity grants (SEOG), which offer need based aid to around 1.6 billion low income undergraduates every year. In a time where it is already extremely difficult to pursue higher education and get a degree, this proposal will make it impossibly harder for many students around the country that rely on those grants.

Our education system should be a non-partisan issue, and policies over education should not be divided between political parties or towards “privatizing education.” Its not about politics, but about doing what’s best for our nation’s children and youth. The budget proposal is too general and does not adhere to the needs and characteristics of the individual school districts that make up our public education system.

A better option may be to return policies, in regards to education and the systems budget, to states and local communities because not all school districts are the same or have the same needs. Policy makers and folks in Washington are making it clear they do not see public education,low income districts, or working class families as priorities. Our education system is in strong need of reform, but Trump’s proposals are not only unimaginative, but will overall be more detrimental.

Schools and our education system should not be treated like a business. Education is not about making money but creating opportunities. If we are ever truly going to make America great and help our country excel, we need to invest in education and provide the resources to ensure that all the young minds in our classrooms can prosper.

Jayla can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

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>> VIRGINITY from page 7 overall more lonely and less happy than individuals who did not have casual sex. Hookups also significantly increased men and women’s distress levels. Despite the popular belief that hookups relieve stress, both men and women reported less satisfaction from hookups with a stranger rather than romantic partners.

Additionally, after the sex liberation movement in the 70’s, divorce rates doubled in ten years and now millennials are postponing marriage longer and longer.

Additionally, Dr. Short reported in his journal “To Be or Not to BeA Virgin,” that premarital sex has many scientifically proven negative side effects. He reports that couples who had sex before marriage were more likely to have extramarital affairs, they are more likely to marry someone based on sex rather than personality, are less satisfied with their sex life during marriage, and overall are less satisfied with their partner.

Not only are there negative psychological impacts, but people engaging in casual sex are susceptible to disease. According to, Dr. Ray Bohlin the sexual revolution increased the amount of people infected and created new sexually transmitted diseases, and today there are 25 different kinds. One in five Americans between the ages of fifteen and fifty-five have

an STD and 12 million Americans are newly infected each year. Virginity is not just something that society arbitrarily prescribes value to. Sex is important, and the more casual it becomes, the more society crumbles.

Saying that sex is nothing more than a social construct and that “it’s human nature to create meaning from the seemingly meaningless” is clouding the impact that premarital and casual sex has on society. I am not saying that everyone should be virgins and that people who already lost their V-card are horrible people, but there is a reason that people abstain from having sex. It is not because women think men will like them more, or because they have waited so long that they are just too afraid to have sex. It is because giving yourself physically to another human for the first time is important, and even Danish admits to this. There are proven harmful effects from sleeping around which is why sex should not be treated so casually. Being a virgin is something to be proud of. Saving one’s body for their lifelong partner and sharing the most intimate human interaction with one person is healthy for the mind and body, which is why virginity is so much more than a ‘social construct.’

Holly Spease can be reached at opinion@collegian.com

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CrossFit is a complete bastardization of fitness Lauren Willson @LaurenKealani

Editor’s Note: The views expressed in the following column are those of the writer only and do not necessarily represent the views of the Collegian or its editorial board.

Since its initial 2001 gym opening, CrossFit has amassed an enormous following. As recently as 2015, the exercise program and fitness philosophy was reportedly being used in over 13,000 gyms, and between 2 and 4 million individuals identified as CrossFit affiliates. However, despite CrossFit’s popularity, many often neglect the sport’s illogical foundation, deleterious social dynamic, and altogether dangerous nature. CrossFit is by no means the first fitness fad to come with risks—there are diets that tell you to eat cotton balls for god’s sake—but the inherent hazards of this program seem to so greatly outnumber its benefits so much so that I question whether it can honestly be advertised as a fitness regimen.

According to its official website, CrossFit is an exercise program “designed to improve fitness and health” by using

“constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity.” The term “functional movements” refers to multi-planar, multi-joint actions that can improve one’s biomechanics in certain situations. Some FMs may be sports-specific, such as kicking a soccer ball or swinging a baseball bat, while others are more generalized, like running or performing a biceps curl.

The CrossFit program was developed by former gymnast Greg Glassman, and not only does the regimen incorporate elements of gymnastics, but it also emphasizes Olympic weightlifting movements (i.e. snatches, cleans, and jerks) and aerobics, primarily in the form of high-intensity interval training.

Adherents to CrossFit follow what is known as a Workout of the Day (WOD), posted every morning on the program’s website. Nation- and worldwide, thousands of individuals participate in these workouts, which are typically led by a certified CrossFit coach (certification requires little more than attendance at a 2-day course). Participants can also complete the workouts by themselves.

WODs vary greatly in the exercises they include; one day might consist of pull-ups and squat snatches, while the second entails nothing but 800m intervals of running, and the third a brutal circuit of deadlifts, wall-

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ball shots, rowing, and handstand push-ups. If these workouts seem to have no consistency or structure, that’s because they don’t. By its nature, CrossFit is designed to be “constantly varied,” so the body never becomes used to performing exercises in the exact same order.

I respect what Greg Glassman, CrossFit founder and former gymnast, was trying to accomplish with this. He was probably jumping on the antiquated idea of “muscle confusion,” which asserts that adding variety into your workout prevents stagnation in strength, power, and endurance. Unfortunately, muscle confusion has proven to be an ineffective method for such goals.

Instead, most experts (coaches, physical therapists, exercise scientists, etc.) implore athletes to utilize a method known as progressive overload, wherein stress (i.e. weight) placed on the body gradually and consistently increases over time. By alternating periods of heavy lifting (work) with periods of lighter exercise (rest), the body is exposed to an appropriate amount of strain for muscle breakdown while also being given ample recovery time to repair the damaged tissue into stronger muscle fibers.

It is progressive overload which allows PowerLifters to deadlift three times their body-

weight, and Olympic lifters to snatch two-and-a-half times their own mass. But even for the non-elite, average gym-goer, this method has been shown to improve overall endurance, strength, agility, and even bone and joint health.

But CrossFit, rather than stressing progressive overload, glorifies an ever-changing, non-routine approach to fitness.

Why? In all likelihood, Glassman, who trademarked CrossFit into a for-profit fitness brand, wanted to make his product as appealing and interesting as possible. Most people aren’t enticed by the idea of doing the same movements and following boring old training programs that aim to improve strength, solely because they aren’t as zesty as, say, a Zumba class.

Glassman clearly recognized this: if you’re going to market a fitness program and make it profitable, you have to make it interesting. I doubt Glassman achieved greatness as an athlete by practicing a different gymnastics routine every single day. But, as stated earlier, this is essentially what his program touts: constantly modified exercise. As stated so aptly on the CrossFit website: “Our specialty is not specializing.”

CrossFit’s dismissal of progressive overload and scientifically supported training routines is dangerous. It’s downright idiotic to think you can improve fitness

when you’re constantly changing your routine. That’s like trying to find a cure for a disease by taking a handful of twenty different drugs. You could potentially feel a little better, but you’ll have no idea what caused that improvement, and therefore won’t be able to replicate the beneficial action.

Conversely, you could also feel a lot worse, and besides, who the hell would take twenty different drugs at once? No sane person would.

I’m not discounting the fact that a lot of CrossFit participants are in great shape. Chances are, however, that these individuals have been performing the prescribed exercises (with proper form) for years, while increasing intensity at a reasonable, consistent pace. On top of this, the best CrossFit athletes usually follow a strict diet and consistent gym routine to which most working individuals cannot adhere.

Followers of CrossFit also know that the program is characterized by an uber-competitive social dynamic. During workouts, participants are often in a race against the clock to complete their prescribed exercises as quickly as possible. When taken in a class setting, a CrossFitter is bound to encounter individuals who take the sport so seriously—and so desperately want to be the fittest—that such people might enter the gym with see CROSSFIT on page 22 >>

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SPORTS Thursday, March 23, 2017

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FOOTBALL

High hopes for offensive talent entering spring

By Eric Wolf @Eric_Wolf5

After the first day of spring practice for the Colorado State Rams, a buzz hung in the air.

There were hints of it during Monday’s spring football opening press conference, when coach Mike Bobo and offensive coordinator Will Friend talked about CSU’s offensive development in the third spring under the staff.

“It is year three - really threefourths of your team - all they have known is us,” Friend said. “I guess a good way of putting it is there is no question we are ahead right now than we have been every spring since we got here.”

Spring football information: Practices left: 11 Scrimmages left: 3 Green and Gold game: April 22 Where: Lagon Field Time: 1 p.m.

That excitement not only comes from how players are understanding the offense, but who those players running the offense are.

Honorable mention all-conference quarterback Nick Stevens is back leading an offense that averaged 520.6 yards per game over the last five games of the regular season and finished as the second-ranked passing offense in the Mountain West at 244.5 yards a game.

What Stevens and the coaching staff hopes — and expects to have — is a wealth of talent on the outside, especially with wide receivers Michael Gallup and Olabisi Johnson.

“It’s definitely exciting,” Stevens said about the potential of his

offensive players. “I think we definitely have those guys. Obviously the returners like Detrich (Clark), Mike (Gallup) and Bisi (Johnson) are displaying their ability right now, but we have some other guys who are the newer guys who are also stepping it up.”

Gallup was the star on the outside last year, finishing the year with 1,272 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns, but throughout the season, Bobo said that he did not think Gallup hit his full potential.

With a full offseason under his belt, there is a sense that Gallup is getting closer to hitting that mark. “(Gallup) was wanting to get extra work in just about everyday in the offseason before we started spring ball and obviously we did not have that time last year,” Stevens said. “I think he definitely has some ways to go, but he is reaching that potential and getting closer and closer to that everyday and showing that on the field.”

“Last year was a confidence booster, and I mean I just kind of rolled with it,” Gallup said. “This year, I have to be able to do the same things, but better. If I just do my part, hopefully it comes out good for everybody.”

Gallup’s development can only further boost a wide receiving corp that returns Johnson, who set a school record with 265 receiving yards in CSU’s Potato Bowl loss to Idaho, along with senior Detrich Clark and sophomore Anthony Hawkins, who both figure to fit into CSU’s passing offense much more this season.

“There’s no reason we should not be one of the best receiving groups in the nation,” Johnson said. “I think we have a lot of talent at the position like Detrich Clark and Anthony Hawkins; they are getting better at their craft. Mike had a great season last year and he is just building on

CSU wide receiver Olabisi Johnson finished 2016 with 28 receptions for 613 yards and four touchdowns. PHOTO BY LUKE WALKER COLLEGIAN

Michael Gallup was named to the first team All-Mountain West after posting 70 receptions for 1164 yards and 11 touchdowns in the regular season PHOTO BY JAVON HARRIS COLLEGIAN

that. We look good.”

Johnson, who is riding the confidence off his bowl game performance into this season, is not shy in talking about the playmaking potential of this season’s receivers.

But with what some of the players have shown last year, and with a year of playing together under their belts, there is good reason for the players to think that the 2017 season should bring even more explosiveness.

If there was any reason to think that the talent on the outside would lead to any selfishness when it came to who was making the plays, Johnson and Gallup were quick to dispel that notion.

“I think we feed off of each other,” Johnson said. “(Gallup) always talks about how he loves when all of his receivers are (getting the ball), not just him. He is not a selfish guy at all. He loves when everyone is doing good; I love when everyone is doing good.”

“If one of my other teammates is scoring just like I want to be, I love it just the same as me scoring,” Gallup said. “Just to see how those guys are coming up and just playing on the same level as everybody else and being involved...I just love that.”

It is only spring, and it will take months to actually see how all of the offensive potential will play out, but for now, expectations are high.

Even after just one day of spring practice, it looks like things are heading in the right direction for the more experienced offense.

“Coach Friend was talking about coming off of today, that we are going to look really good in the perimeter of our offense,” Johnson said. “We saw it in practice today. There was a lot of good energy coming from everybody.”

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

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TRACK & FIELD

CSU set to begin outdoor season after recordbreaking indoor season

By Eric Wolf @Eric_Wolf5

After a historically successful indoor season, the Colorado State track and field team is set to open up their outdoor season this Saturday as they host the Fum Mcgraw Invitational.

“All of the coaches alike and especially (head coach) Brian Bedard, we get really excited for outdoor season,” assistant coach Ryan Baily said. “Bedard gets all of his throws back and we get a chance to debut in some events that I feel like we are really strong in outdoors. I know we are excited about the outdoor season, both men and women.”

The Rams are coming into the outdoor season after the men’s and women’s teams took home the conference title at the Mountain West indoor conference championships at the end of February.

“Tasting what a conference championship is like provides a lot of motivation for everyone,” CSU junior Hunter Price said.

“I think everyone now realizes,

if they didn’t already, how good this program can be, and we will have everyone 100 percent invested this outdoor season.”

Coming off of the indoor team titles, expectations are high, but that is a standard already set by the track team. The men’s team won the outdoor conference title in 2015 before finishing third last season. On the women’s side, CSU is aiming for a third-straight outdoor conference title.

“I think winning the indoor conference meet is great for our confidence as a team, but we always compete to win,” CSU senior and multi-event athlete Josh Cogdill said. “Whether we win the indoor season or not, I expect us to compete with the same attitude.”

On the individual side, the Rams sent seven athletes to NCAA indoor nationals two weeks ago — five men, two women.

“Because of our (indoor nationals) performance, it takes the squad to another level,” Baily said. “It raises the bar for all of

the other athletes and they do perform better. They practice better and they compete better, it changes them. So that is a positive thing that happened indoors.”

The Rams may have set the tone for Mountain West track and field in February, but it was no easy task.

The men’s team secured the indoor conference title by only six points over second place Air Force Academy, while the women came away with a three-anda-half point win over the University of Nevada.

“Winning the two titles indoors mean that we have a target on our back,” Price said. “Other teams came close to taking that victory from us and will be working that much harder to see us fall. We need to make sure we stay a step ahead of them.”

The rest of the Mountain West might be gunning for CSU’s spot, but the Rams have enough firepower to make sure dethroning them will not be easy.

On the men’s side, indoor National Champion in the shot

put, Mostafa Hassan, should once again figure prominently in the conference and national championship race during outdoors. Hassan won the indoor national title by over four feet, placing him in the driver’s seat in the shot put this spring.

The CSU distance team sent three runners to indoor nationals in Jerrell Mock, Grant Fischer and Cole Rockhold. Rockhold and Mock won individual conference titles in the 3,000 meter and 5,000 meter runs respectively, while senior Jefferson Abbey finished second in the 3,000 meter at the conference championships.

The four runners make up the core of a CSU distance unit primed for continued success this outdoor season.

Cogdill is the two-time defending conference champion in the decathlon and he won the Mountain West indoor title in the heptathlon this year, while junior Nick Kravec finished second. Unforgotten in that group is Price, who finished in fourth place in the heptathlon at NCAA

indoor nationals.

Leading the women’s team into outdoor season is senior Aaliyah Pete, who is looking for her fourth-straight outdoor conference title in the shot put.

Pete, who finished in 13th place at NCAA indoor nationals, also won the indoor conference title in the event in February.

Senior Lorenda Holston, the school-record holder in the 60 and 100 meter hurdles also made a trip to nationals two weeks ago. Holston finished third in the conference in the 100 meter hurdles at last year’s outdoor championship meet, but her stellar indoor season this year could translate into an even bigger jump come when the outdoor season comes.

Another athlete to keep on eye on is senior Emily Romo.

Romo is the two-time defending champion in the conference in the indoor 400 meter dash, and she won the outdoor title in the 400 meter in 2015 before finishing second last season.

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

SOFTBALL

CSU looks to rebound against San Diego State

By Austin White @ajwrules44

Colorado State will look to rebound in conference play this weekend after dropping two of three games to Boise State in their last series.

The Rams (13-9, 1-2 Mountain West) will welcome in San Diego State (17-11, 1-2 MW) for their first home conference series of the season, March 24-26.

CSU comes into the series after struggling against Boise State, falling 8-5 to the Broncos Sunday, where all eight runs for the Broncos were unearned. The Aztecs come to Fort Collins after a 1-2 weekend against Fresno State where they won the final game of the weekend.

Defense was an issue over last weekend for the Rams as they held a 5-4 lead in the fifth inning in that 8-5 loss to the Broncos. Four runs were scored in the fifth inning by the Broncos in which the Rams helped them load the bases with two outs by

giving up three errors. CSU finished the game with five errors.

Pitching also proved to be of concern for CSU, as the Rams have struggled to prevent runs in the past seven games. CSU is 2-5 in those games. Larisa Petakoff, Bridgette Hutton, and Kaylynn Pierce all had at least one complete game shutout in the first Colorado State Classic, but then all struggled in the second Classic against Maine and Wisconsin.

Pierce and Petakoff both had sub 2.00 ERAs before the Maine and Wisconsin matchups, but after the trip to Boise State, Pierce has a 4.00 ERA and Petakoff has a 2.29 ERA. Wisconsin was able to mercy-rule the Rams 16-0 on March 12 and the Rams’ first matchup with Boise State ended in a 10-3 loss.

Head coach Jen Fisher is looking for the pitchers to get back to how they were performing early in the season.

“The pitchers have to understand what they did so well (in

Colorado State University’s Lauren Buchanan (21) keeps her eye on the ball during a game against Buffalo on Friday, March 3rd at Colorado State University. PHOTO BY FORREST CZARNECKI COLLEGIAN

the first Colorado State Classic) and repeat that performance,” Fisher said.

The offensive duo of senior Haley Hutton and sophomore Amber Nelson have been consistent from the plate. Nelson leads the Mountain West in batting average at .491 and Hutton

is 11th at .397. Nelson also leads the conference in slugging percentage ( .964) and on base percentage (.633). Hutton is tied for fourth in runs scored with 24, with Nelson hitting behind her in the lineup.

“Amber, when she gets good hits that helps all of us,” Hutton

said. “It helps the team…everybody is doing their job and if everybody is doing their job it is one well-oiled machine.”

Nelson’s eight home runs also lead the conference, most of which have been hit to opposite field. Nelson bats left-handed, and all of her home runs have been hit to left field or left center fence.

“I am a lot more confident,” Nelson said. “Not just at the plate but also behind the plate catching.”

The sophomore slugger has been playing well behind the plate with four throw outs and has only allowed one passed ball.

Hutton matches her on defense as well by making either diving plays or showing off her arm strength throwing runners out at first. Hutton does have eight errors this season though, which is second on the team.

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CULTURE

Global Village Museum’s ‘Egypt: Gift of the Nile’ presents collection of artifacts

By Matt Smith @latvatalo

Right at the entrance to Old Town sits a small, inconspicuous gallery called the Global Village Museum, and it may be the most criminally unrecognized attraction in all of Fort Collins.

For five years, the independent and non-profit museum has been a premiere showcase of international folk art. Its galleries include textiles, crafts and sculptures produced by cultures from around the world. In the main gallery, the Global Village Museum presents exhibits highlighting a unique aspect of global cultural art, such as last year’s “Nativities Around the World.”

Running now through June 17 is the exhibit “Egypt: Gift of the Nile.” This gallery presents a wide perspective on the art of Egypt, both ancient and modern, while also teaching its history and culture. Its items are all provided by over 30 Northern Colorado enthusiasts and collectors who have traveled far and wide to supply this unique nexus of world folk art, a point of pride for Outreach Coordinator Leisa Taylor. “(The Global Village Museum) is a link between Northern Colorado and the world,” Taylor said. “Come to our corner, and see the world.”

Artifacts within “Egypt: Gift of the Nile” include ornate papyruses, cartouches, camel saddle bags, jewelry, modern Islamic art and replicas of the Rosetta Stone and ancient religious paraphernalia. Most items also include a more detailed explanation of its cultural significance, such as a description of the mum-

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mification process or ancient mythology.

The Global Village Museum is a favorite among Poudre School District students.

Kids on field trips can try on authentically styled costumes, go on scavenger hunts and create their own cartouches with their names in hieroglyphics.

The museum also hosts a music room with unique global instruments for all to enjoy.

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Permanent items on display include the Hall of International Textiles, a gallery of woven wall hangings showcasing the weaving traditions of cultures from around the world. In a separate room lies the Village Arts Gallery, another permanent exhibit of donated artifacts and fine art with an emphasis of the cultures form Africa, Asia and Oceania.

On March 25, special guest Joni Teter, Fullbright Scholar and Egyptophile, will give the speech “What Came Before: Egypt’s Roots in Neolithic North Africa.” Teter will explain the origin of civilization along the Nile as it came about due to migrations spurred on by gradual and massive climate change.

Next on the Global Village Museum’s agenda is April 7’s Fort Collins Gallery Walk, an open house for the “Gift of the Nile” exhibit with outdoor music provided by the trio D’ACCORDion. And, April 11

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marks the museum’s Sixth Birthday Open House, running from 2-4. Check the Museum’s website for more information about upcoming events.

While less stately than the Museum of Art in Old Town, the Global Village Museum is as interesting and unique as it is educational. Nowhere else in North-

ern Colorado can such a showcase of the diversity of cultural art be found.

Matt Smith can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

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PROFILES

Student starts new independent record label for electronic music

By Zach Bermejo @zach_bermejo

Elijah Petty wants to make a name for himself within the electronic music scene. That is why he created his own independent record label, Glass Eye Records.

Though the label is still in its infancy, Petty has large goals for its future.

“I just wanted to have a central place to release my own music,” said Petty, who is in his second year of studying communications at Colorado State University.

The label was created about a month ago, and the music released under it will be what Petty says is “alternative electronic dance music.”

Right now, Petty is the only person connected to the label. He is trying to network with other local musicians and would like to release some of their music under Glass Eye. Petty said he chose the name of the label because he liked how it sounded, but also because he personally thinks a lot about how flawed people’s perceptions are.

“The glass eye symbolism is just meaning lucidity and clear vision,” Petty said. “It does not really apply to the music that is on the label. I just like concept.”

Two tracks have been released under the label titled “Make Them Count” and “Just for Tonight.” Everything in the songs were produced by Petty including the lyrics and vocals.

Though Petty has mostly been solo in this musical endeavor, he did tour with the Colorado Springs-based metal band Roots

Like Mountains this past summer. Petty played bass, which was something he was unfamiliar with before joining the band. He is a guitarist but had to teach himself to play bass in the two months before going on tour.

One of the main reasons Petty joined the band was because of his love for metal music. However, once the band’s tour was over, Petty was unsure of what his primary interest was. When he joined Roots Like Mountains, Petty had to put aside his hobby of producing electronic music. It was something he had been doing for about four years until that point. Quitting the band allowed him to go back to producing and pursue it like he is today.

Now as a solo artist, Petty’s music is undoubtedly categorized as electronic dance music, or EDM for short. However, he says that he still maintains elements of rock and metal music. The reactions so far to his songs on the label have been generally positive.

“Some of my friends like (my music),” Petty said. “Definitely everybody has been more of a fan of the more electronic stuff because I don’t have many friends that are as into as the metal and punk stuff as I am.”

More songs are planned to be released before the month ends.

One of them will be a dubstep track and the other will be a single from an extended play that will debut this summer. Many more songs are still in various stages of production.

“When I write, I usually write the lyrics (and music) completely separately,” Petty said. “I’ll come up with lyrics and write (music)

that doesn’t have any idea what lyrics are going to go (with it).”

Though Petty can sing and play guitar, he said that he is most comfortable making music electronically. Typically when he sets out to make music, everything is composed electronically in studio.

After that, Petty goes back to add in his own voice and guitar playing.

One of the people who has recognized Petty’s talents is Max Carter, a sophomore psychology major at CSU. Carter met Petty last semester while living in the dorms and they bonded over their similar music tastes.

“He is crazy knowledgeable when it comes to producing,” Carter said. “I remember once we were sitting in his dorm room and I asked him a simple question about (production) and he gave me this super long, in-depth answer. He just knows so much about producing. I think that really comes across in his music.”

Carter, who is also pursuing a minor in film, is working on producing a music video for one of Petty’s songs. According to Carter, the video will be released in conjunction with the EP this summer.

“The video is more about a political statement than anything else,” Carter said. “It just tries to emphasize the oversaturation of the media.”

Petty said he hopes to book a show at the Aggie Theatre in Fort Collins soon and get his music noticed. Until then, those that are interested in following his music can do so on Facebook and SoundCloud.

Zach Bermejo can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

Elijah Petty poses for a portrait. Petty started a record label to begin a career in the electronic music scene.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MAX CARTER.

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Odell Brewing to host kickoff party for ACT Human Rights Film Festival

‘All Grown Up’ provides unique perspective on classic coming-of-age story

By Sarah Ehrlich @SarahEhrlich96

Odell Brewing will host a kick-off and release party for the ACT Human Rights Film Festival Tuesday, March 28 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m at their taproom. The brewery has even created a special brew named 2017 Screening Session IPA, created exclusively for this film festival.

The party will offer chances to win festival tickets and t-shirts, and there will be free food, live music, a virtual reality film demo and the announcement of who the festival’s closing guest will be, according to the festival’s website.

This film festival was organized by the media and visual culture section of the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. According to a press release, the weeklong festival will feature the most critically-acclaimed and recently released international documentary films about important social topics such as women’s rights, war and genocide, immigration, LGBTQ rights and race and class issues in America.

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Where: Odell Brewing’s Tap Room These films are not usually shown in wide release and will feature five films that will make their first premier here in Colorado at the festival. In addition to viewing documentaries, festival-goers will have the chance to interact with directors and film subjects during post-screening discussion sessions with people including Razia Jan, a founder of one of the first Afghanistan schools for girls, and Johanna Schwartz, director of “They Will Have to Kill Us First,” a film about musicians in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subsequent music ban.

This film festival will be held April 14-21 and will close with the Oscar-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.”

More information can be found at www.actfilmfest.org Sarah Ehrlich can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com.

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Sex, drugs and gender roles.

If anything can be taken away from “All Grown Up,” the new novel by Jami Attenberg, it is these three themes. Published on March 7, the author of “The Middlesteins” returns with a novel about self-discovery and finding a place in the world.

The protagonist of the book, Andrea Bern, tells her story of being 39, unmarried and childless in New York City. As a failed artist, Bern is trapped in a constant struggle of wanting love and a family.

While her friends and family members are having families of their own, Bern seems to be stuck in place.

Bern is a character plagued with family issues, pained past and inner demons that prevent her from obtaining marriage and children.

Instead, she stays on a path of drug-use and one-night stands, all the while facing her personal issues and battling her troubled past.

This is a book to sit back and relax with. At 142 pages, “All Grown Up” is a simple and easy read. The physical length is not the only thing that makes it quick. Right off the bat, the

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The racy themes in the book may be reason enough for a reader to re-consider choosing “All Grown Up.” The book deals with heavy problems such as death, drugs and abuse. It also has some pretty sexual scenes that can become a little too detailed at times. All of these things, however, make up who Bern has become and makes the reader better understand her troubles.

It is often hard to sympathize with Bern. The reader may want to yell, “Get over yourself!” while reading the book due to Bern’s tendencies to only care about herself. Bern has mo-

ments where her unwillingness to grow up makes her very hard to sympathize with, but that is the point of the book - to watch her grow.

“All Grown Up” goes beyond the typical story of a distraught young person facing the big bad world. This is a story of a grown women learning what it actually means to grow up. Bern must deal with the world even if that means letting go of the things that make her happy. Throughout the book, Bern finally begins to understand what life is supposed to be and what is important to her. Attenberg tells her story in a humorous and heartbreaking way.

Should you read it? Maybe.

Intense themes and points where the main character is hard to like make “All Grown Up” a different kind of read, but it is still worth a try. In the end, Bern is a relatable character.

Though she is older than the typical college student, everyone can relate to the feeling of being lost and wanting to find their place in an overwhelming world. We all are figuring out what we want while facing the inevitable and somewhat scary reality of growing up.

Megan Hanner can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com.

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Greek Sings raises money for charities with karaoke competition

By Ashley Potts @11smashley

The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority came together Tuesday night to raise money for their philanthropies. This was more than just a fundraiser though, it was a night full of karaoke and dancing.

Alpha Tau Omega member, Titamus Hubert, explained the rules of the karaoke competition and that the winners would be chosen by judges scores as well as crowd reaction.

“At the end of the night, the winner will either get letters made by Alpha Tau Omega and painted by Kappa Kappa Gamma or a $50 gift card,” Hubert said.

The night consisted of a wide array of performances. While some were better singers than others, there was no shortage of entertainment. The songs performed ranged from rap songs like “Ice, Ice Baby,” “Colt 45” and “Bust a Move,” to Taylor Swift and the Backstreet Boys. Other favorites were songs from “High School Musical,” Justin Beiber, the Spice Girls and the throwbacks like “Stacy’s Mom.” There was even a brief performance of a song from “Spongebob Squarepants.” Colorado State University acapella group The RAMblings even stopped by for a few quick songs to top off the night.

“All proceeds will be going to Reading is Fundamental and Boys & Girls Club of Larimer County,” said Emily Schmalz, a Kappa Kappa Gamma member.

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The Boys & Girls Club of Larimer County has a similar goal of improving education for children. Their mission is to “enable all young people to reach their full potential as productive,

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In the end, Luke Goforth took third place for his performance of “Ice, Ice Baby,” Sabrina Romero took second for skillfully rapping “Bust a Move” and Nick Bohn won first for his rendition of Drake’s “One Dance,” which was preformed with complete dance moves.

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‘Shots Fired’ puts a dramatic twist on police shootings of unarmed teens

By Greg Braxton Los Angeles Times

In a small North Carolina town, a white mother grieves.

Her teenage son, a college student, has been shot and killed in a confrontation with a black sheriff ’s deputy. Her tears fall on the suit she is ironing for him to wear in his coffin.

Across town, an African American mother grieves. She has buried her son who was killed during an incident that her friends have told her may have involved deputies in the predominantly white sheriff ’s department. But the circumstances of the case remain murky, and she has been quietly warned by officials not to speak out.

Both youths were unarmed when they were killed. But only one of the deaths—that of the white teen—has attracted the attention of the state government and the Department of Justice, which has dispatched an out-oftown prosecutor to the mostly black town to investigate before already simmering racial tensions explode.

The two fictional incidents are the focus of “Shots Fired,” Fox’s limited series premiering Wednesday that is dramatizing one of the nation’s most volatile issues: the rash of shootings of unarmed black men by white law enforcement officers.

“We just really wanted to

put a human face on this,” said writer-director Reggie Rock Bythewood, who created the series with his wife, writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood.

“We wanted to bring a level of humanity that we haven’t seen in stories because this is so politicized. Everybody goes to their corners and come out swinging.”

The 10-episode series stars Sanaa Lathan (“The Best Man”) as investigator Ashe Akino, who teams up with Special Prosecutor Preston Terry (Stephan James) for the inquiry. Both are African American, which doesn’t sit well with department honchos, including Lt. Calvert Breeland (Stephen Moyer from “True Blood”). Mack Wilds (“The Wire”) plays the deputy, Joshua Beck, who shot the white teen.

The cast also includes two Oscar winners—Helen Hunt as Gov. Patricia Eamons, who is in a tough reelection battle, and Richard Dreyfuss as real estate mogul Arlen Cox, who owns a privatized prison.

The project has been a personal mission of the Bythewoods, who separately and together have developed several successful films and TV series.

Gina directed 2008’s critically acclaimed drama “The Secret Life of Bees” and also wrote and directed the seminal sports film “Love & Basketball,” which starred Lathan. Reggie’s credits include co-writing the 2009 No-

torious B.I.G. biopic “Notorious” and producing the mid-1990s Fox police drama “New York Undercover.”

“Gina and I had been talking for some time about doing something in this space about the lack of trust between the community and law enforcement,” said Reggie. “We had been looking at doing a film about it.”

While the couple were doing their research, Gina was approached by both Imagine Entertainment and Fox Television Group Chairman and CEO Dana Walden, who was absorbed by the furor around the 2014 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., by police officer Darren Wilson.

“Dana saw the explosion that happened and wanted to do something in that arena,” Gina said. “She asked if we would be interested, and we realized that this would be an opportunity to do the show we want, tell the story we want, while also having the platform and the reach of television. We couldn’t pass it up.”

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“I think it would have been very easy for people to become desensitized if we had made it a black kid being shot by a white cop,” said Reggie.

Even though the topic of the tensions between law enforcement and minority communities is the main backdrop of “Shots Fired,” one of the main inspirations for the show was not directly related to police shootings.

Reggie recalled the moment in 2013 when he and his son, Cassius, who was 12 at the time, were watching live coverage of the verdict for George Zimmerman, the man charged with second-degree murder in the controversial shooting death of 17-year-old high school student Trayvon Martin.

“When the ‘not guilty’ verdict came in, we were both taken aback,” he said. “My son got very emotional, I told him to dry his eyes, then showed him a documentary about Emmett Till.”

(Till was the 14-year-old black boy brutally slain in Mississippi in 1955 after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted).

He added, “I told him how

the justice system works. I was the first time I talked to m 12-year-old as a man.”

Having the luxury of explor ing the issue in a limited serie rather than a two-hour film als afforded the Bythewoods the op portunity to look at the provoca tive issue from several perspec tives—one of the storytellin factors that impressed Lathan.

“The audience is goin to get the chance to sit at s many seats at the table,” sai the actress. “They will get t experience the feelings of th cop behind the shooting, hi family life and what he’s goin through. They’ll be able to se the feelings of the mothers, th prosecutor from the justice de partment. It gives a 360-degre view.”

The Bythewoods hop that “Shots Fired” offer much-needed insight for view ers.

“It feels good because we’r not sitting on the sidelines; w feel a true responsibility,” sai Reggie. “It’s like doing an au topsy.”

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>> CROSSFIT from page 11 the very intention of doing harm to their bodies.

These factors may push people too far past their limits. It’s good to feel challenged during a workout, but there is a difference between racing to run a mile with a friend and trying to deadlift 275 pounds faster than the ripped dude next to you. Because of the motivational yet highly competitive atmosphere, CrossFitters are constantly trying to outdo their fellow “teammates.”

And this brings me to my last point: CrossFit’s high risk of injury. Because the program incorporates so many different exercises, it is all too easy to commit the sin of improper form. Some exercises, such as the Clean and Jerk (an Olympic compound movement), can take years to master, not only due to their technical nature, but because of the amount of strength required to perform them correctly.

Some first-time CrossFitters don’t know the difference between a dumbbell and a kettlebell. They are most likely just starting out on their journey to

a better self, and do not have a considerable amount of muscle mass and strength. If these newcomers walk into a CrossFit gym and see other people throwing around weights like toys, they may falsely believe they are capable of doing the same.

Concerningly, despite the potential for injury and the need for extensive education on certain exercises, CrossFit assumes that either a) participants will take the time to learn proper form (most don’t), or b) decrease the weight if something feels wrong (most won’t).

A perfect example of the newbie-injury phenomenon is perhaps best demonstrated by the association between CrossFit and rhabdomyolysis.

Though rare, rhabdomyolysis is a potentially fatal condition that occurs when muscle rapidly breaks down. If the tissue cells are injured to a point in which they rupture, they release toxic substances into the blood that cannot be processed by the kidneys. If untreated, rhabdomyolysis can lead to kidney failure and death.

The high-rep weightlifting exercises that are a mainstay of CrossFit are the perfect catalyst for onset of this affliction, for they expose muscle tissue to extreme strain—repeatedly. The likelihood of developing “Uncle Rhabdo”—a mascot that unsympathetic CrossFitters use to personify the malady—is much higher for those who have not exercised for some time and suddenly decide to engage in strenuous exercise. Thus, many people may run the risk of rhabdomyolysis—and even death—if they exert maximum effort during their initial encounters with the CrossFit program.

As I said earlier, any exercise program has inherent risks. I’m not saying that if you try CrossFit, you’re going to die from renal failure. All I want to get across is that if you’re going to try a fitness regimen that prides itself on unproven methods, maniacal competition, and dangerous exertion levels, please, for the love of Uncle Rhabdo, educate yourself first.

Lauren can be reached at letters@collegian.com.

>> SOFTBALL from page 16 look to take advantage of their pitchers as all four SDSU pitchers hold ERAs north of three.

SDSU’s best pitcher has been freshman Marissa Moreno, who holds a 3.32 ERA, to lead her team and her 11 walks are tied for the third lowest in the Mountain West.

However, the numbers can lie as San Diego State still has senior Erica Romero pitching. In 2015, Romero was named to the All-Mountain West First-Team after leading the nation with 36 wins. This season, the senior has a 3.41 ERA with five wins and is in second in the conference in walks (nine).

The story for the Aztecs this season though has been their offense as they average 6.2 runs per game and have a run differential

of plus 57.

Sophomore Molly Sturdivant is leading the way with a .427 batting average — seventh in the conference — and the sixth most RBI (26). Junior Jenavee Peres is in third with 29 RBI and senior Sydnee Cable is in fourth with 28. Peres and Sturdivant are right behind Nelson for the home run lead as well as they are both one behind Nelson at seven home runs.

That run support has helped San Diego State through a challenging season as they have played five teams who were ranked at the time including a 3-2 victory over then No. 17 Utah.

The Aztecs also stuck around against No. 1 Florida State falling 6-4 to the Florida State Seminoles on Feb. 24.

The two teams have one

common opponent coming into the matchup as both teams defeated Weber State — CSU winning 4-0 Feb. 19 and the Aztecs winning 16-7 Feb. 12.

“We are playing loose, which I like as we begin conference play, but we need to clean up on defense,” Fisher said in a statement following the Boise State series. “We also need to be able to execute in all areas of our game and get everyone firing on all cylinders.”

Bad weather is in the forecast for the series, as Friday calls for rain or snow showers. As it stands now, game one is set for 4 p.m. Friday, game two at 1 p.m.

Saturday and game three at 12 p.m. Sunday.

Austin White can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

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