Volume 126, No 90 February 21, 2017

Volume 126, No. 90

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

OPINION

Get your ESA lab out of my lab PAGE 6

Temple Grandin, longtime professor at Colorado State University, was recently inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame.

Temple Grandin to be inducted to National Women’s Hall of Fame

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By Willis Scott @willisscottnews

Renowned Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin, Ph.D., will soon join the ranks of Madeline Albright, Susan B. Anthony and Amelia Earhart.

The animal science expert’s achievements have roped a place in the National Women’s Hall of Fame. The prestigious organization will officially induct her in September 2017.

“I’m really honored, and there’s a lot of other pioneers there,” Grandin said. “You know, being a pioneer, lots of times, is not easy.”

According to the National

Women’s Hall of Fame, the Hall was established in 1969 in Seneca Falls, New York to house the contributions of distinguished American women. Seneca Falls, where the first Women’s Rights Movement was held, is the birthplace of the American Women’s Rights Movement. The Hall’s mission statement is “Showcasing great women…Inspiring all!”

Grandin revolutionized the meat production industry with her designs for effective and ethical animal handling practices.

Early in her career, Grandin said she thought she could fix everything by engineering better facilities, but she soon found that making improvements to a meat packing plant’s management is

equally important.

In 1999, she introduced a scoring tool to access the quality of meat packing plants’ killing and handling of livestock. Meat producers had to meet what she calls “traffic rules” of the plant.

She trained plants for McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King on the scoring tool.

“If you didn’t shoot 95 percent of the cattle dead on the first shot, you failed the audit,” Grandin said. “If you had more than three cattle out of a hundred mooing and bellering when you were handling them, you failed the audit. It was outcome based and simple numbers. And that really worked.”

In addition to her work as a

proponent of farm animal welfare, she has made contributions to the treatment of children with Autism. Dr. Grandin was diagnosed with Autism when she was two-years-old. She explained that Autism is a spectrum that affects many people in different ways.

“Autism varies from Einstein to Steve Jobs to Thomas Edison to half the programmers in Silicon Valley to famous artists to someone who can’t dress themselves,” Grandin said.

She said the important thing for educators and parents to do is develop the area of strength for people with autism. “(Their area of strength) see FAME on page 4 >>

SPORTS

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NEWS Tuesday, February 21, 2017

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CITY

ACLU of Colorado discredits proposed no sit-lie ban in Fort Collins

By Rachel Telljohn @racheltelljohn

The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado wrote a letter asking the city of Fort Collins to abandon the proposed sitlie ban. The letter was sent last Thursday, following a coffee chat with the city about the proposed ordinance held Wednesday morning.

The letter calls the ban “outrageous, cruel and absurd.”

The ACLU of Colorado cites the ban as specifically targeting the homeless population, which holds the potential to violate First Amendment rights, according to the letter.

“We’re hoping to persuade the city that the ordinance should not be adopted,” said Mark Silverstein, legal director for the Colorado branch.

Silverstein explained that when an ordinance, such as the one proposed, targets a specific population it becomes a legal problem—it can have First Amendment or due process issues attached to it.

The proposed ordinance would allow any individuals in the downtown area—the same boundaries as the current smoke-free ordinance—to sit on a bench for only one hour at a time, according to an article in the Collegian. It would also prohibit lying or sitting on sidewalks or leaving personal items on benches, the ground, etc. The ordinance would be in effect from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day

and would also apply to transit centers and restrooms owned by the city.

Silverstein said the way the ban appears makes an individual pushing a shopping cart on the sidewalk seem illegal.

In the letter, the ACLU of Colorado explains they have always opposed legislation that would criminalize those experiencing homelessness, but that the proposed ordinance is one of the worst in terms of its focus on those populations.

The letter calls into question concerns community members shared last Wednesday morning, such as how would the one hour sitting part to the ordinance be enforced or how the ordinance will be equally enforced.

Another recent city proposal would cost Larimer County up to $150,000 a year in order to purchase jail beds for repeat municipal offenders or potentially someone ticketed more than one time from the proposed no sit-lie ban. The letter cites the other proposal as costly, in addition to also being cruel and absurd.

Community members and the ACLU letter raised the concern of developing better programs in the city in order to deal with issues of homelessness.

All cities should address the underlying problems of homelessness rather than attempting to sweep it out of sight, as if people without a home have no

Andy, a homeless man living in Fort Collins, sits along the sidewalk in Old Town. If given the chance, he would go back to school to study photography. The “No sit-lie” ban would allow individuals in the downtown area to sit on a bench for only one hour at a time and prohibit lying or sitting on sidewalks. PHOTO BY RYAN ARB COLLEGIAN

right to live, the letter reads.

Fort Collins will host an open house Thursday, Feb. 23

at 6:30 p.m. at the Northside Aztlan Center to further discuss the proposed ordinance.

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

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NEWS Tuesday, February 21, 2017

CAMPUS

CAMPUS

Asian Pacific American Cultural Center to host conversations about culture, oppression

“You Are Welcome Here” posters celebrate environment on campus

By Haley Candelario The Asian Pacific American Cultural Center will hold weekly roundtable conversations called Chai to Understand.

The conversations will center around heritage, identity, culture and oppression, and will occur every Wednesday at 5 p.m. in the APACC office in the Lory Student Center’s room 333.

Amanda Thompson and Syd Sahota, co-facilitators for Chai to Understand, said the discussions are a revamped version of APACC’s Tea Time discussion series.

According to Thompson, the student and professional staff members held weekly Tea Time discussions about controversial topics and how those themes apply to both historic and current events.

The weekly discussions will vary between planned topics and open discussions, Thompson said. Previous planned discussions focused on the paral-

lels of Islamophobia and how Asian Americans were treated in World War II, and what it means to be a student of color living in the residence halls.

Sahota said another planned discussion they are hoping to have will be about the impact and legality of slurs and derogatory imagery used in popular media, representation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the media and being a multiethnic individual.

Sahota said the discussions are important since they bring awareness to Asian and Pacific Islander culture.

“I grew up with a strong sense of identity surrounding my culture and heritage, and celebrating identities is part of how I was raised,” Sahota wrote in an email to the Collegian.

“Bringing awareness around our history as well as celebrating our culture is something I feel is important, empowering and necessary.”

Sahota said the discussions will bring awareness to Asian

American and/or Pacific Islander identities.

“We don’t talk a lot, if at all, about Asian American and/or Pacific Islander identities,” Sahota wrote. “Our histories are largely erased and if they are discussed, they are not presented accurately.”

Thompson hopes the discussions will encourage students to learn more about the history and culture of Asian Pacific Islander identities.

“I think it’s important to be aware of what has happened in the past and what is still happening now many years later,” Thompson wrote. “Hopefully these discussions will leave individuals empowered and inspired to learn more about Asian Pacific Islander identity and culture.”

Thompson and Shatoa encourage all Colorado State University students to attend the discussions.

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

>> FAME from page 1 could be computer science, it could be engineering, it could be art, it could be music,” Grandin said. “Build on the thing they are good at.”

Grandin said people commonly ask her if she would choose not to be autistic if she could make that choice.

“Autism is an important part of who I am, but it’s not my main identity,” Grandin said. “Being a college professor, a researcher, a designer – my career is my identity. I want to see kids that are different who might have a mild autism diagnosis, ADHD, some kind of learning problem, dyslexia - I want to see those quirky kinds of different kids get out there and be successful.”

The cattle production industry was male dominant when she began her work in the 1970s. She was the first woman to milk cows at the Arizona State University dairy farm.

“They didn’t even have a ladies’ room, I had to use the men’s room,” Grandin said.

She said that while there are many women working in the meat industry today, wom-

en were only found in the secretary’s office when she started.

“Being a woman in a man’s industry in the early 70s was not easy,” she said. “One of the things that motivated me was I wanted to prove I could do it.

And, a woman had to be better than a guy.”

Grandin fought to make her mark among the cowboys that harassed her. In one instance, a plant’s cowboy foreman put bull testicles on her car.

“People who are suing for sex discrimination now is nothing compared to some of the stuff I’ve been through,” Grandin said. “See, I’d get hired by the manager, and (the lower management) didn’t like this nerd girl coming in on their turf, and that’s where I had a lot of the trouble.”

She wants to see kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder find careers they can be satisfied and successful in. She also wants to see them make real world change.

“I’m concerned that students today are too abstract,” she said. “They’re growing up in a world where they’ve never done anything practical.”

Grandin recalled ruining a sewing project when she was in high school, because she cut the fabric and hastily and made a mistake.

“I learned that you’ve got to be more careful,” Grandin said.

“The practical world doesn’t always work. And, if you haven’t done things in the practical world, you have really unrealistic expectations about things being perfect and it’s never going to be perfect. We can work on making it better.”

She insisted that students get career-relevant internships. Her mother set up her first two internships for her.

Grandin said that internships allow students to discover their interests.

“One of my students had no experience with cattle - got out here and found out she loved cattle, but you don’t know until you get exposed to them,” she said.

Grandin recommended students look at the websites of the departments and try new things while in school.

Willis Scott can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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By Rachel Telljohn @racheltelljohn

Posters which read, “You Are Welcome Here,” popped up all over campus last week, partly in celebration of Valentine’s Day. The posters were designed by the Office of International Programs at Colorado State University, as a way of conveying a kind message to the student body for Valentine’s Day. “It was a message to get out right at this moment,” said Mike Hooker, executive director of public affairs and communications.

Hooker said it is not only a message from OIP, but a message from student affairs as a whole. The message relays what CSU is about, which is hosting a safe environment where students can come and learn.

Students being welcome on campus is not a new idea or program, according to Hooker. OIP simply wanted to look at Valentine’s Day and what it represents, and send a caring message to students.

International students are serviced by OIP and Hooker said it is important for those students, who come travel from another country to CSU for an education, to know they are welcome on campus.

The message is not exclu-

sive to international students, however. Hooker said the message should be the same for all students, which is that they are welcome at CSU, CSU supports its students.

Hooker attributed the posters to being central to what OIP is all about. The posters felt like the right message to convey on a day such as Valentine’s Day. OIP helps foster international activities via teaching, learning, research and engagement on campus, according to the office’s website. Their mission is accomplished through programs and services in the hopes of bringing international experiences to all on the CSU campus. OIP also services international students studying at CSU. Programs throughout the semester include informational sessions on studying abroad or events such as Tea and Talk, which promotes an friendly environment in which to learn about Chinese culture.

Hooker said he is unsure if more will follow the posters from last week. However, Hooker also said there is potential for further elaboration, as the idea of “You Are Welcome Here” embodies OIP’s approach to students and campus as a whole.

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

OPINION Tuesday, February 21, 2017

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COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

The abandonment of gender roles killed healthy relationships Holly Spease @HollySpease

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.

One of the most common conversations I have had with fellow millennials is how hard it has become to develop meaningful relationships in college. Men and women blame the opposite sex for being superficial, promiscuous and afraid of commitment. Though these issues may be true, the people complaining about ‘hook-up’ culture are the same people perpetuating the issue. Social media such as Tinder, Bumble and Hater have not become popular by themselves.

These shallow platforms are designed to make meeting the opposite sex easy and are used by the same people who complain about them. The creation of ‘hook-up’ culture has destroyed modern-day relationships and can be traced back to the death of gender roles.

Over time gender roles have been discouraged, thus

destroying the foundation for a traditional relationship. Society continually tells women that they should become more independent and that relying on a man is demeaning. Yet, men and women should not be equal coexisting individuals; they should be dependent upon one another.

Each sex has different strengths that contribute to a relationship.

Although some people think that biology doesn’t determine personality, men naturally contain more testosterone and women contain more estrogen. Testosterone leads to more muscle mass and higher levels of aggression, and in a relationship, these biological features translate into the role of protector and provider. In contrast, women contain more estrogen which directly affects serotonin levels, therefore their mood. Thus, women are usually more emotionally cognizant which would translate to the caretaker of a relationship.

This creates a balanced bond, where the woman wants to love and take care of her partner and in return, her man protects and provides for her. When men and women are discouraged from fulfilling these roles, problems begin. I should add that this does not mean the genders are unequal. Both roles are equally important in a healthy relationship.

Today’s females are told to

be fiercely independent, which changes the dynamic of relationships. Men are not sure if they are supposed to ask a girl to dinner, pay for their food or hold open their door for fear of being sexist. Men and women do not know how to act anymore, and this can be traced to this sexual ‘revolution.’ This has led to the acceptance of pre-marital sex, porn and society overall spreading the idea of embracing one’s sexuality. Thus, people have become comfortable with casual sex and talking to multiple partners at once, along with the decline in men and women searching for a lifelong partner.

The result is dating chaos.

Since there are no traditional roles in society, no one knows how to act. Is this person just trying to casually hook up or is there potential for dating? Are we just really closed or do they want to become friends with benefits?

Did that kiss mean anything or are they secretly texting four other people? Everyone has a different goal for dating and traditional relationships are no longer valued. Two people may like one another, but it is uncool to admit having feelings for someone. Taking risks and asking people on dates is rare because people don’t know what the opposite sex is looking for. People use social media and texting to

hide behind a screen and secretly find out the intentions of someone they are attracted to. Asking someone to dinner is an anomaly; people are forced to text and have a ‘thing’ for months before they can even consider going on a date. Additionally, because people no longer prioritize finding their life partner, they are only concerned with finding someone they are attracted to. So social media like Tinder and Bumble allow men and women to quickly filter through people they do and do not find attractive without any consideration of personality. They can quickly meet people from the opposite sex but leave them just as fast. A man may really enjoy his time with women, but because the ‘grass is always

greener’ and he can quickly find a new girl, and the relationship will never have a chance to grow.

As a result, millennials are having sex even before the first date.

The common complaint that there are no good people left in the world and chivalry is dead is all true. This problem arose because men and women abandoned traditional relationships for a movement that brought sexual liberation and all the consequences that accompany these “freedoms.” People have come to value looks and sex above all else, resulting in high divorce rates and the abandonment of marriage altogether. Instead of

see GENDER on page 7 >>

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OPINION Tuesday, February 21, 2017

HEAD TO HEAD

Emotional support animals should get the same respect as other disability animals Shay Rego @CSUCollegian

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.

Emotional support animals should be considered service dogs with all the same benefits. Service animals are companions that help their owner to perform daily tasks that they could not otherwise perform. An emotional support animal is more than just a pet, it is an aiding mechanism which helps a person be the best version of themself. However, laws regarding the two vary tremendously and restrict where one can bring an emotional support animal.

By definition, a service animal is any dog or other common domestic animal individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability. An emotional support animal is a companion that a medical professional has determined provides benefit for an individual with a disability. Both definitions mention a disability, but no limitation to the type of disability. Disabilities can be anything physical or mental which limits a person’s movement, senses or abilities.

Most people commonly think of service animals performing tasks for the physically disabled, such as the deaf. Service animals also perform tasks for a person diagnosed with PTSD. PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, is a condition characterized by mental and emotional distress after experiencing a terrifying event and is a mental disorder much like anxiety or depression.

However, emotional support animals are given for people who have mental disorders. To discrimi-

nate one mental disorder against another is unjust.

If a service animal can be administered for one type of mental disorder, than a service animal should be able to be administered to all.

By law, service animals are allowed to go anywhere the public is normally allowed. When inquiring about a service animal, only two questions may be asked: is this a service animal, and what task(s) was it trained to perform? On the other hand, emotional support animals are not allowed everywhere their owner is, and in most cases, are treated like any other dog. While it is true that the animals’ amount of training differs greatly, that is perhaps something that the government should change since emotional support animals seem to affect their owners just as greatly as a service dog.

The biggest issue people have with this argument is that obtaining an emotional support animal is so easy and a power so abused it’s almost a complete joke. After taking a stratified survey, only one in four dogs on campus provided legitimate service to their owner, yet the other three dogs still wore service vests. This may only be a sample size, but it is a very good example of the dogs that wear service vests on school which are not actually service animals by definition. Yes, there are admittedly people simply buying a vest online to put on their dog as an excuse to bring it to campus. That is ethically and morally wrong, no argument against that.

There have also been many instances where people have obtained emotional support animal verification to simply be able to bring their dog on a plane.

The list of immoral and irresponsible acts related to this abuse in power goes on and on. These are perfect examples of the few ruining it for the many who could potentially benefit from an emotional support animal being with them everywhere.

Service animals are

trained to perform specific tasks as to mitigate a person’s disability. In the instance of a blind person, the animal assist in directing its person. Emotional support animals can help calm someone in social situations and overcome fears that they could not otherwise handle on their own, thus allowing them to live a healthy and normal lifestyle. If a person with terrible anxiety were invited to a concert, that person might normally say no because of large crowds of unknown people. But if they had an emotional support animal, they might feel more inclined to say yes and be able to live their life as full as possible without anything holding them back. While there may be differences between the extremes in types of disabilities and their need for aid, it does not mean that one disability is more deserving than the other. People can experience such crippling depression that they can’t leave their house, and that is by no means living a normal life.

While the power of obtaining an emotional support animal is commonly abused, it is simply because of the lack of regulation and requirements for having one. If laws were changed to have requirements similar to that of a service animals, then emotional support animals would only be administered to those who genuinely need them to live life. Emotional support animals should also be required to undergo special training just as service animals do. Both emotional support animal and service animal laws could be more constricted. For instance, service dog vests should be available only through doctors administering the animal. Or people should have some simple form of ID proving the requirement for a service animal.

No matter how the system decides to work through it, emotional support animals and service animals should be classified equally.

Shay Rego can be reached at opinion@ collegian.com.

HEAD TO HEAD

Emotional support animals should NOT get the same respect as other disability animals Allec Brust @burstyyy

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.

I am not one to disregard mental or physical disability. If one’s state of body or mind requires a service animal to function, they have that right. People with disabilities should be able to have aid because they cannot function without it. The merit of service animals and their owners is tainted when a person reduced to their anxiety feels the need to take their emotional support animal with them wherever they go. Emotional support animals should never be allowed in the classroom.

Shaming anxiety, depression or any other mental disability is not my goal. These are real mental issues people go through, and as someone who suffers from anxiety I get the appeal of having a furry companion by my side in the classroom. However, it’s just a ridiculous concept. Just like most of the population, I recognize my anxiety and do not allow it to define me. If you actual-

ly feel the need to have an animal to emotionally support yourself, congratulations, you just bent your knees to your mentality.

Having a dog is cool and is a proven to boost morale and endorphins, but that doesn’t mean you need a pooch following you around disrupting others.

You do not need an animal to support you emotionally throughout your day at school unless diagnosed by a doctor.

Last year I sat in a lecture hall with not one, but four adorable pups lying about the lecture hall. As cute as they are, I don’t need a retriever barking in the corner during my anthropology lecture. It doesn’t need a lot of context: having your animal in a lecture hall is distracting and rude. If every person with anxiety or depression was walking around with Lassie on their hip, every second of the day our lecture halls would be filled with dogs.

Do not compromise the learning of others because you ‘need’ an animal to emotionally support you.

Not only is it distracting to 75 or more students, but it’s insulting to those with actual disabilities who need service animals.

A blind or deaf person assigned a service dog deserves that right and should not have to bear insult from it. Yes, have your emotional support dog… at your house and in your

personal life away from the classroom. Personal comfort shouldn’t come at the cost of diminishing the abilities of others.

You do not need an emotional support animal.

It is a comfort, a luxury that many can never have.

Don’t play into the oh-so redundant ballad of the ‘snowflake’ generation.

The reason why millennials are looked at as weak is because we look to comfort as a buffer for everything.

An emotional support animal is a Band-Aid, not a solution. Go ahead and get a dog if you need it emotionally, that is your right.

It is not your right to disobey university policy and infringe upon the learning of all your classmates. That is weakness.

If CSU were to allow emotional support animals in classrooms it would be a zoo. So many people have disabilities and are able to control and work with them without disrupting others. Dogs basically make everyone happy, and of course most would benefit from having a dog around them 24/7.

Having an emotional support animal in the classroom infringes on other students’ abilities to learn, insults the purpose of service animals and makes you a weakling.

Allec Brust can be reached at opinion@ collegian.com.

NOPE DOPE Having school on President’s day.

Free beer.

All the stupid people revving their engines like they’re cool.

The plural of octopus is octopuses but the plural of cactus is cacti. #WhatIsEnglish Condescending professors.

Having everything due this week sneak up on you.

New pants.

Octopuses.

Lot of new memes popping up.

Snapchatting your coworkers during meetings.

OPINION Tuesday, February 21, 2017

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COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

Personal pronouns are important Maddie Wright @maddierwright

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.

Personal pronouns are becoming increasingly relevant and important in today’s society. You may have received an email or heard someone introduce themselves using pronouns. For example, “Hi my name is Maddie, I use she/her/hers pronouns.”

This all stems from LGBTQ and specifically transgender rights becoming stronger and more prevalent.

As a privileged, cisgender person who identifies as the same gender they were assigned at birth, it is easy to dismiss this and think pronouns in the grand scheme of things do not matter very much. However, to a large community, it is very important. “[Pronouns] get at the very core of who we are and what we want and how we know humanity, belonging and validation,” said Emily Ambrose, the assistant director of the Pride Resource Center. “They are at the crux of the human condition.”

Using the correct pronouns towards someone is a sign of respect and allyship. It shows that we are a safe space to those in the trans and non-binary, those who do not identify as male or female, community. Not only that, but it is a part of human decency. “[When someone uses the wrong pronouns] you feel really invisible, like they’re not seeing you as you are which can be very alienating especially among people you consider friends and classmates,” said Andy Auer, who uses they/them/theirs pronouns.

New responsibilities fall onto cisgender people. This ultimately includes educating yourself, accepting others and learning how to apologize.

“As someone who is cisgen>> GENDER from page 5 looking for the girl with a “fire Insta” or swiping right for the hottest guys, millennials should aspire to find people who reflect their core values. Someone who is reaching towards the same goals in life and has similar morals. Men should not fear being labeled as sexist if they hold the door for women, and females should not feel like they

dered, it’s up to me and my responsibility to educate myself and to understand better and as much as I can via experience of and the empathy that come with wanting to represent others how they want to be it would be a few,” Ambrose said.

As far as educating oneself, use all your resources offered to us in the 21st century. Ambrose cites Google as a powerful tool for this. Similarly, practicing is a very important thing and is what will normalize this concept.

“I know we are most uncomfortable with unfamiliarity, so the

“If—and when—there is a misstep or a mess-up, apologize and move on.

It’s not something that needs to be focused on.”

EMILY AMBROSE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE PRIDE RESOURCE CENTER

more familiarity that can come with using they/them/theirs as a singular term, the more practice the more fluid the more natural it can become,” Ambrose said.

It is also important to recognize that mistakes will be made but the embarrassment that comes from using incorrect pronouns should not shy one away from using them and interacting with non-cisgender people.

“If and when there is a misstep or a mess up apologize and move on it’s not something that needs to be focused on,” Ambrose said. “To engage upon differences means that mess ups will happen but it’s a commitment to knowing better and doing better in the next time.”

It can be a little nerve racking if one does use the wrong pronouns because ultimately we do not want to offend others but through practicing this and breaking old habits, mistakes are bound to happen.

“I think the biggest thing though is that a lot of cis[gender] people get really scared if they mess up,” Kai Wagner said, who are betraying gender equality if they make their man dinner. Relationships should be about give and take, and the search for a partner who you can cherish emotionally and physically. Until society stops obsessing over sex and their hatred for gender roles, healthy relationships will cease to exist.

Holly Spease can be reached at opinion@collegian.com.

uses he/him/his pronouns. “If you catch yourself and correct yourself it’s fine.”

“Odds are we aren’t pissed at you just ‘hey that’s not quite right, try again,’” Auer said.

There is so much we can do as allies and community members to make all community members feel included.

“It’s kinda a new concept for a lot of people of like ‘what do you mean I can’t assume people’s gender by looking at them,’” Auer said.

Auer even goes on to cite their own experience with people us-

ing incorrect pronouns towards them.

“I get a lot of ‘if I just looked at you I’d assume you were a girl’ and I’m like ‘I know and that’s kinda the problem because that’s not who I am’ so it just kinda don’t make assumptions about people’s identities,” Auer said.

Making assumptions about one’s gender and pronouns are at the root of the problem but is also one of the hardest things to overcome. For example, we traditionally associate beards with men and lipstick with women. But that is not always what happens and it

should not be assumed.

“Trying to change the way you conceptualize strangers [is important]. Which is both easy and hard,” Auer said. “Easy in that it’s nothing out loud that you ever have to do but hard in that changing your thought patterns is one of the most difficult things, especially if it’s someone you know who is changing their name or changing their pronoun or trying out new pronouns. It’s changing that habitual thought pattern.”

Maddie Wright can be reached at opinion@ collegian.com.

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TRACK & FIELD

No longer stuck, Lorenda Holston has come full circle

By Eric Wolf @Eric_Wolf5

Lorenda Holston hated Colorado State.

Four years ago, when everything was different, she hated everything about it. It was a life of spinning wheels and spilled tears.

But that was then.

Now, the senior holds a different attitude. She can talk about that past with a smile because she no longer feels stuck.

Now, she is only moving forward.

Out of Place Holston came to CSU from Fayetteville, Georgia for a chance —a chance to get away from home and a chance for an education. She did not have the means to pay for school on her own, and nobody in her family had been to college before her.

In fact, Holston was not even planning to run track in college, but when CSU offered her a scholarship she signed up.

It was not long before she started having second thoughts.

“When I first got here, I was completely out of my element,” Holston said. “Nobody looked like me, nobody talked like me.

I struggled academically, athletically, socially and psychologically. Anyway you could struggle, I struggled.”

Freshman year was full of tears and doubt. She came here to run, but she could not find her place on the track.

Holston had never truly been a part of a track team before. In high school, she was just faster than everyone else and all she had to do was show up. She had no idea of how demanding, both physically and mentally it was to be a collegiate athlete.

So in the one place she should have felt home—on the track—she felt lost.

“My freshman year, my mindset was this is new and I’m scared so I’m just going to hate this thing because I can’t fix it or I can’t change it,” Holston said.

Nothing could go right. She wanted out, but she had nowhere to go.

“This was my only option, I didn’t have any other options,” Holston said. “So I had to switch my mindset to, ‘okay you are kind of stuck here so what are you gonna do now.’”

As a sophomore, after a year of pain, things started to run around.

Her coach, Karim Abdel Wahab, saw something in her.

He saw a hurdler. So going into her sophomore year, Holston switched events.

“I noticed she had a great

natural range of motion, flexibility, and mobility,” Wahab said. “(I saw) a lot of stuff that I did not see as a sprinter and we started from zero teaching her the hurdles.”

It was not the only switch she made as a sophomore. She came to CSU as a Health and Exercise Science major. She was an athlete, and she thought it was her only option.

But then she failed kinesiology, and she knew it was not for her. When she switched her major to communications with a minor in sociology and loved it. She finally figured out how to decide what was best for herself.

“We changed my major and we changed my event and that’s when I actually started hurdling,” Holston said. “I was happy at school. I was excited to come to practice because I was learning something new, so I believe that was the switch, or the ‘ah- ha’ moment, where it was like, ‘this is new and it’s okay.’”

After that, Holston was not scared of change. She had a new lease on life, and a new lease on the track.

Out of Nowhere That new lease on track started as a disaster.

“We had so many races when we started running the 60-meter hurdles her sophomore year when she could not even make it to hurdle one,” Wahab said. “She would stutter out of the blocks it was a disaster.”

Not much went right for Holston her first indoor season as a hurdler. As one of the few track athletes with a full-scholarship, she had a lot to live up to, and she was not doing it.

“I remember crying every meet because it was like, ‘I do not have anything to prove to my coach of why I should be here,’” Holston said. “On paper, I suck.

Literally, I don’t have a time or anything to show people that what I am doing is something great.”

But something happened that sophomore year. During outdoor season, she found her stride. After less than a year of hurdling, she made it to the second day of NCAA regionals in 2015. She was one of the top-24 hurdlers in the Western NCAA region.

“I was not even expecting to make it to day two,” Holston said. “But it was like, oh crap, this is real. It was awesome. It was a moment where I just thought anything was possible.”

Her junior year outdoors, she did even better. At a meet in Texas in April of 2016, Holston ran what she thought was a terrible race. She cried. Then, she found

out she broke the school record in the 100-meter hurdles and she cried even more, but with different kinds of tears.

She upped the school record again when she took third place at the 2016 outdoor conference championships.

She always felt at home outdoors—like that is how track is supposed to be run. But inside, she could not put together a complete race.

Her 2016 indoor season was the same story of struggle. At the indoor conference championships last season, she sat in sweatpants during the finals of the 60-meter hurdles wondering why she was still competing.

So she put indoor on the back-burner. After her school-record breaking 2016 outdoor campaign, her and Wahab had a plan going into this 2017 indoor season. Holston was going to focus fully on getting out of her start and making it through hurdle four. If she could treat indoor season like an extended practice and correct her mistakes, she would blossom in the outdoors.

But then something funny happened. In her first 2017 indoor meet at the University of Colorado, Holston broke the school record in the 60-meter hurdles. The next meet she did it again. The third meet? Same story.

On Feb. 10 in New Mexico, Holston broke it for a fourth time. Her time of 8.06 set at that meet is not only the school record, but the Mountain West record. If that was not enough, she is going to NCAA indoor nationals this March.

Not bad for an athlete who was just trying to make it through indoor season.

“Heading to Nationals was not part of my plan coming into this indoor season,” Holston said. “I never would have expected that. My plan was to just fix the first four hurdles because that’s where I struggle outdoors.”

“There were a lot of tears her sophomore year and junior year indoors,” Wahab said. “She did not even make the conference final last year, and now she is the conference record holder.”

Holston says that when she first started hurdling, she could not understand why Wahab had her doing it. In the beginning, she knew little outside of failure.

Now, she realizes the vision.

“I trusted my instinct and I trusted her talent—more than she trusted it,” Wahab said. “It’s the truth. Coaches see something that athletes do not see yet.

In her case, luckily I was right.”

Going forward “Now I am here four years

The Mountain West Indoor Track and Field Championship held at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, NM. PHOTO BY JUAN LABRECHE NCAA PHOTOS

later,” Holston said as she looked out across the Glenn Morris field house with a smile.

She graduates in May. She just got accepted to graduate school at CSU. She has indoor conference championships coming up where she will be the favorite in the 60-meter hurdles. Two weeks after that, she is headed to College Station, Texas for NCAA indoor Nationals.

She has come a hell of a long way.

Wahab tells a story from early on in her sophomore year back when it was all uncertainty for Holston. When Holston came back from Georgia after the summer, he asked her why she came back. It was a very stressful environment for her. He knew quitting was a possibility.

“Basically, she told me she did not want to be lazy and hangout at home and not have a future,” Wahab said. “She willingly decided to commit to her future and it’s been amazing ever since.”

Holston says she knew where she was going if she was not at CSU—nowhere.

But, she has found somewhere to go. When she looks back on her struggle, she finds that it molded her into who she is today.

She wants to go to graduate school to pursue a master’s degree in student affairs and higher education. She sees a future in player development.

About turning her life around her sophomore year, Holston said, “I made that decision by myself, but if I would have had help, I think that I would have had that decision making moment a lot sooner.”

Holston felt like she was on her own far too often in the midst of her struggle. She’s making it

her purpose in life to make sure that other student-athletes have the help she did not have.

“I want to be in a position where there is someone there who has experienced it, and has knowledge behind it and can help people go through it,” Holston said. “Essentially what I want to do is create programs for students, or student athletes, around those tough subjects of homesickness, misplacement, diversity and inclusion.”

Today, she mentors a small group of athletes and students, trying to guide them through campus and build identities outside of sports.

She has been there and done that.

Now, she is a far cry from the lost freshman who came to CSU mostly because she was given money to go to school.

“My journey has been…so unique,” Holston said. “Every year, there has been some type of growth in a different aspect of my life whether it be athletically, socially, academically or physically.”

She says, she sometimes looks back on where she has come from for some extra motivation and perspective.

But that is only sometimes.

She has a different focus now.

“I don’t like to look too far back because I feel like it’s not over yet and I don’t want to get stuck reflecting on that and miss out on what I’m doing now,” she said.

Holston was stuck before, but that is not what defines her.

What defines her is where she is now. A place where hatred became happiness.

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

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SPORTS Tuesday, February 21, 2017

COLLEGE SPORTS

Front Range athletics need more accountability Justin Michael @JustinTMichael

Storming the field with your classmates after a victory over a rival, taking your children to see a game at the alma mater, communities rallying together through tough times, the reasons we love college athletics are endless.

One of the biggest reasons we love sports is that they possess the unique ability to bring people together, allowing us to escape the frustrations of our everyday lives through an electric atmosphere that can only be felt on a college gameday.

Unfortunately, far too often people forget that at the end of the day these are just games and when the final buzzer sounds,

those real problems still exist.

More importantly, we as a society must remember that being dominant on the field does not give anyone a pass for poor behavior on or off the field.

In 2017 the University of Colorado, Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado all had negative headlines surrounding their athletic departments at some point, proving that it is not just the big-time programs like Baylor or Penn State that can cross the line.

According to a report released by Sports Illustrated on Feb. 3, CU officials knew of domestic abuse allegations regarding assistant coach Joe Tumpkin, yet still promoted the defensive assistant to defensive coordinator for the PAC-12 Championship game against Washington. Tumpkin has since resigned from his position.

A recent report from the

Associated Press found that former UNC men’s basketball coach B.J. Hill completed coursework for players, had assistants complete coursework for student athletes and provided impermissible benefits to players from 2010-2014.

Finally, according to the Coloradoan, a 2013 investigation of the Colorado State men’s basketball program, completed by the University, led former athletic director Jack Graham to believe he had grounds to terminate men’s basketball coach Larry Eustachy for the way he treated players. Eustachy was instead placed in an anger management program and ultimately given a multiyear contract extension.

Even more disheartening than the fact that three public institutions would all make the news in less than a calendar month for these types of incidents, is the fact that some fans do not seem to grasp the seri-

ousness of the situation, and in some cases, have even tried to justify the behavior or attack the media source bringing the news to their attention in the first place.

Now this has not necessarily been how the majority of sports fans along the Front Range have reacted, but there certainly have been enough that have reacted this way to raise some red flags.

Looking at CSU specifically, there was significantly more outrage at the timing of the report than the content it possessed. Essentially Ram fans were angered more by the fact that a negative report came out regarding their first place basketball team than they were with the disturbing allegations regarding the program’s coach.

When the Tumpkin report originally surfaced, Buffs fans did not respond much better, widely referring the piece as a “hit job” against their recently

revived football program.

Whether you believe the schools handled the situation properly or not, one thing that will always remain true is that the issues presented needed to be presented. Bringing attention to these issues and challenging academic institutions to be better is not something to be ridiculed, but rather encouraged.

If you are more upset with the fact an issue was exposed than you are with the programs that did wrong in the first place, take a hard look in the mirror because you are part of the problem. If we ever expect the culture to change within collegiate athletics, accountability is the first step and the Front Range can use its fair share.

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

ARTS & CULTURE Tuesday, February 21, 2017

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COLLEGE

CSU responds to #dresslikeawoman

By Emma Turner @EmmaTurner1228

Recently a White House staffer publicly claimed that President Donald Trump likes women who work for him to “dress like women.” While the story itself did not gain too much ground in the headlines, its internet response did. This statement sparked controversy among many female-identifying individuals who felt it was an attack on the diversity and value of women. Others claimed that it made sense to maintain a White House dress code for everyone who works there to uphold a standard of professionalism.

Female critics of this idea began using social media to showcase pictures of themselves with #dresslikeawoman.

Female soldiers in uniforms, doctors in scrubs and ladies in religious attire showed that their everyday actions as women and their corresponding clothing makes them feel every bit as beautiful and empowered as any other stereotypical women’s wear does. So what does it mean to look like a woman in America?

There has been specific meaning given to dressing like a woman throughout American History. Dr. Carrie Pitzulo, an American History professor at Colorado State University weighed in. Pitzulo has been teaching at CSU for a year now and has her degree in American History with a focus in women, gender and sexuality. She feels that there has been an expansion rather than transformation of the perceived role of women in the United States. The core has not changed in terms of women being nurturers and primary caregivers of children, but extra layers have been added. Now, it is commonly accepted for women have full-time careers and provide for their household as well. These roles may continue to shift,“slowly but surely men are taking on greater domestic responsibility,” which

“I believe that dressing like a woman means wearing what makes you feel confident and beautiful.”

KAT ROCHA CSU AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS AND SOIL AND CROP MAJOR

was historically seen as women’s work, Pitzulo said.

Women’s roles, as well as historical events, have had great and direct impacts on the image of the American woman. Pitzulo cites early 20th century women suffragists. These women who protested and fought for women’s right to vote, often wore all white as a sign of purity and moral leadership in the movement.

Many speculated that Hillary Clinton made clothing choices along her 2016 presidential campaign trail that aligned with this trend. For instance, she wore all white at both her nomination at the Democratic National Convention and at the inauguration of President Trump.

The 1920s brought that right to vote for women and with it a new-found sense of freedom. This liberation brought a new style to fashion. The image of the American woman was that of a “flapper.” Flappers appeared with shorter hemlines, straight-cut silhouettes and short hair. These changes were made to de-emphasize curves and the ideal hourglass shape of the Victorian era. Some women even bound their chests to achieve a more androgynous look.

By World War II the U.S. experienced fabric shortages as supplies were shipped overseas to aid war efforts. At this point, women’s silhouettes became more streamlined. The period after the war was a largely conservative time.

This brought the “Christian Dior” look. Cinched waists were popular and reflected a very maternal woman that matched the view in that era.

The look today’s culture perceives as womanly is in many ways reflective of what it has always been. It is feminine, and usually includes makeup, long hair, larger breasts, hips and rear ends, Pitzulo said.

Women’s bodies and body types have gone in and out of fashion.

Today many visualize women in a hyper-sexualized, objectifying way. Pitzulo sees a different future for the image of the American woman however. She visualizes an “activist woman, not necessarily hyper-feminine, a woman of color, still comfortable in her womanhood and femininity” and in the best sense—politically conscious.

She feels that there are aspects of society that are already celebrating that image.

CSU students have their own view on what it means to dress like a woman.

“My typical go-to is skinny jeans and a T-shirt,” said

Caroline Cutchall, a third-year liberal arts major. “That is how I would dress like a woman because I identify very strongly as a woman. I couldn’t imagine wearing a dress every day, which I think is the more stereotypical ‘dress like a woman’ type of thing.”

“There’s no one definition of what dressing like a woman is.

For me it depends on my mood and how I want to present myself.”

CHEYENNE HARGROVE CSU SOCIAL WORK MAJOR

“There’s no one definition of what dressing like a woman is,” said second-year social work major Cheyenne Hargrove.

“For me it depends on my mood and how I want to present myself. It has a lot to do with how you’re feeling and what your personality is.”

“I believe that dressing like a woman means wearing what makes you feel confident and beautiful,” said Kat Rocha, a fourth-year agricultural business and soil and crop science major. “For me, that is usually my favorite pair of cowboy boots, nice jeans and a nice blouse. On occasion and when the situation calls for it, I bust out heals and a cute dress. I do not think you need to wear a dress to dress like a woman because as women we can rock all sorts of clothes.”

She understands the basic premise that women working in the White House should be dressing professionally, as should men. Taken out of context, the original claim can be interpreted in different ways, Rocha said.

Dressing like a woman looks very different at various points in U.S. History and for different individuals. The claim that the president wants his female staffers to look a certain way led to a major campaign of positive and empowerment of women. Pitzulo concludes that the hashtag is an example of women and girls coopting what might have been an insult to fight back and take part.

Emma Turner can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com

Today:

Real Talk: Cultural Appropriation

4:00 p.m.

LSC Room 335 An examination of the meaning of Cultural Appropriation while examining if African Americans culturally appropriate the African culture.

Tomorrow:

Evening with a Holocaust Survivor

6:30 p.m. lSC Main Ballroom This year’s Evening with a Holocaust Survivor will feature Ms. Fanny Starr, who miraculously survived the hells of several Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. For the past 40 years, she fought Holocaust denials by sharing her firsthand testimony of torture, slave labor, and mass murders. Ms. Starr, now 95, will share her extrodinary story of survival, tragedy, and hope.

GO Abroad Info Session: Semester at Sea

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Rockwell Hall West Come learn about Csu’s partnership with Semester at Sea, what it’s like to sail the voyage, and hear multiple student’s perspective of why Semester at Sea might be the right program for you.

This Week:

Engineering Career Fair

Feb. 23rd, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Engineering career fairs are open ONLY to students and graduates of Colorado State University. Students from all CSU colleges are welcome to attend

Fort Collins Startup Weekend

Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m.

Rockwell Hall West One weekend is all it takes to learn how to make your dreams a reality. Pitch idea. Form team. Launch company. It's that simple. Be a part of the first Fort Collins Startup Weekend! No previous experience required. Engineering, Computer Sciences, Business/Non-Technical, Design fields encouraged to participate!

Old School Funk Night

Feb. 24, 7:00 p.m.

LSC Ballroom A Enjoy some old school music from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and early '00s – dress to impress, there will be a costume contest for each decade! Featuring DJ Kent Washington.

Upcoming: Exploring Majors Fair

Feb. 28th, 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

LSC Ballroom A

ACT Human Rights Film Festival: A night in Denver Mar. 1st, 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Sie Film Center 2510 Eat Colfax Ave Denver, CO 80206

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ARTS & CULTURE Tuesday, February 21, 2017

FORT COLLINS LIFE

Farm to foam: Beer in Fort Collins

By Sarah Ehrlich @SarahEhrlich96

When people think Fort Collins, they think of people riding their bikes and drinking beer, maybe even at the same time.

This city takes pride in its residents’ love of nature, and the many craft breweries and distilleries create a livelihood and sense of community here, which is unique compared to other places.

The economy and culture of Fort Collins as well as all of Colorado has relied on many types of agriculture, specifically fermentation. Fermentation not only creates alcohol products, but also breads, cheeses, yogurt, pickles, meats and many more common foods everyone loves to indulge in. Lucky for people who wish to feed others in an enticing way, they can enroll in the Fermentation Technology and Science major here at Colorado State University.

This major is a unique opportunity few universities have, and CSU is the perfect candidate to teach students about fermentation, with companies such as New Belgium Brewing and Odell Brewing that are more than willing to lend a helping hand to educate.

This program covers every aspect of fermentation, from the science of yeast and bacteria, to understanding a complex market. This major has a variety of professors and teachers including CSU alumni and adjunct professors from Fort Collins breweries.

The Associate Director for the FST program Jeff Callaway’s first intention was not fermentation, but rather pathology. After some time, Callaway grew an interest for not just the “bad” organisms but the goods ones too, such as the yeast and bacteria that help ferment food.

“The goal is to teach students the hard and soft skills and information they need in the industry,” Callaway said. “So that when they show up, they’re not total newbies and can be far more valuable in production.

It’s about exposing them to the range and depth of each step of the process.”

On-site experience is a big component in having success in fermentation, but the FST

New Belgium has grown immensely in size and continues to set the bar for craft beer. Here, hundreds of thousands of bottles are ready to be packaged and sent on their way. PHOTO BY SARAH EHRLICH COLLEGIAN

program aims to teach students every level of production in controlled lab and classroom settings. A tremendous amount of science goes into the process of beer making, as well as quality control and marketing aspects.

So how is beer made anyway?

The whole process is referred to as “farm to foam”: taking raw materials grown on a farm and making them into the delicious brews we know and love.

Callaway explains the first step is mixing the malt grain, usually barley, with warm water, making a substance called sweet wort. The wort is then boiled and sterilized when hops are introduced to the mixture. Historically, hops act as a preservative, but they are also a bittering agent.

“It balances out the strong sugary backbone of the wort,” Callaway said. “You can’t tell there’s hops in well balanced beers, but there’s a strong presence in IPA’s and other brews,

which have become pretty popular. Where and how you add hops affects the whole flavor of the beer.”

What used to be sweet wort is now called hops wort, and it is boiled and cooled to be sterilized.

Yeast is added to snack on the sugars of the wort, and then the most important components of beer is created: alcohol and carbon dioxide. From there the beer can be aged or refined for various amounts of time and is then packaged and shipped, ready for any beer lover to consume.

The overall process of beer making is like brewing your favorite cup of tea, and people have been doing it for centuries.

“There’s miles of nuance here to do this consistently and to do it well, but the whole process is fairly simple,” Callaway said. “It has been done for ages and beer may have been the reason people civilized.”

Callaway also tells me types of beer also depend on the water profiles of where they are

being made. Fort Collins and the surrounding area is fortunate enough to have soft, mineral-rich water suitable for beer brewing. The UK are making porters, and across the pond in Ireland, stouts are being made because those are more suitable for the harsh water profiles these countries have.

Students can learn this process from professionals with years of experience and passion who are right in town. Jeff Biegert of New Belgium has been brewing for 25 years and has won countless awards at brewing competitions and knows the importance of beer for Colorado’s economy and culture.

New Belgium specifically bottles about one million bottles of beer a day to be sent around the country and even the world, and continues to be a leading supporter in sustainability and research.

“I think craft beer’s success comes from the grassroots movement and the outdoors

mindedness Colorado has,” Biegert said. “People here love being able to buy their beer local, and having fresh and unique flavors to choose from.”

Biegert says he will never forget the first time he tasted a great craft brew, where you usually had to search far and wide for, but now could find in any small town in Colorado.

“The camaraderie and collaboration this industry brings is another reason craft brewing is so successful,” Biegert said.

“Everybody is interested at least from the technology side about making great beer. If we didn’t have great beer, this industry would be exhausted.”

In short, life is too short to drink cheap beer. Fort Collins and the Front Range are thriving from the endless craft breweries making their mark in our state’s culture and hopefully making a mark in your decision to buy and be Colorado proud.

Sarah Ehrlich can be reached at news@collegian.com

ARTS & CULTURE Tuesday, February 21, 2017

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ALEC REVIEWS MUSIC

The Unlikely Candidates release high-energy E.P.

By Alec Erickson @CTV_ace

The Unlikely Candidates built a respectable following with their first extended play “Follow Your Feet” just four years ago. Now the band has finally released their second E.P. “Bed of Liars,” and it is full of energy and catchy songs that will most likely get stuck in your head.

“Bed of Liars” is a six-track record that clocks in around 20 minutes in length. From front to back this E.P. only knows one pace: fast. Right from the getgo you know what you are getting into. We still hear a lot of

elements that made “Follow Your Feet” so popular. From catchy drumbeats to great guitar riffs, “Bed of Liars” is mixed pretty well and there is a lot of fun to be had listening to it.

Musically you have to acknowledge just how much more rounded-out The Unlikely Candidates’ sound is starting to become. They are finding a pace and rhythm that seems to suit them pretty well for the most part, and they are running with it. Just listening to tracks like “Your Love Could Start a War” we hear the influences of their last E.P., but with some tasteful new elements. The band is ex-

perimenting, but not enough to the point where you can not recognize them anymore.

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“Reaction” is one of the tracks that really deserves some attention. This is what seems to be the most rounded out track by The Unlikely Candidates and is

what constantly brings me back to listening to this E.P. again and again. This is a song you will be tapping your foot along to with no problem.

Lyrically we are not getting as much life advice as “Follow Your Feet,” but we are seeing the band deal with relationships, and not particularly the best of relationships. Tracks like “Violence” tackles abusive relationships and “Call My Name” goes on the defensive. “Bed of Liars” really tackles its subject matter well.

What really sells it is vocalist Kyle Morris’ delivery.

Every track has a much more mature feel about it than “Fol-

low Your Feet” did and that is something to really be appreciated with this E.P. Should You Listen To It?: Yes! It goes without saying, but I will say it anyway, “Bed of Liars” is an exceptional E.P. The Unlikely Candidates are really starting to define their sound and place in popular culture which, for an indie band, is a big deal. Now is a great time to start getting invested, and here is to hoping that soon enough we will get a full record.

Alec Erickson can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com

MOVIES & TV

The Lyric keeps bad movie culture alive in Fort Collins

By James Wyatt @jwwyatt2295

What does six dollars on Saturday night get you at the Lyric Cinema Café? Well, a really bad movie.

See, on one Saturday night of every month, Fort Collins’ very own Lyric Cinema Café hosts Bad Movie Nite. It is a night dedicated to celebrating truly horrific films. The catch is that the Lyric does not announce what film is going to be screened. Every show is a surprise, and you never know

what straight-to-VHS piece of garbage is going to be projected on the big screen. Kind of like a bad movie holiday or something.

You may ask: why would anyone pay six bucks just to watch something that is going to be awful? Well, what you are buying with those six precious George Washington’s is a night of magic.

Bad movie magic. I am sure we can all think of a great movie that has made an immense impact on our lives, changing how we look at the world and cinema itself.

But there is something about

bad movies that may just be even more powerful than just perfect pictures.

Bad Movie Nite is an occasion that brings all different types of people together in one place to mock and make fun of films that have truly gone awry.

Spectators are encouraged to make commentary on their own “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”

No one is going to get shushed here.

However, these movies are not the normal type of bad like “Paul Blart Mall Cop.” The ones

shown at the Lyric are the cream of the crop when it comes to cheap effects and cheesy acting.

Usually, you can bet on seeing some rubber suit monsters hastily made zombies or some type of ridiculous looking alien on screen. Most of the films have

not even been shown in theaters, only showing up in thrift store movie sections.

Before each showing, the Lyric shows clips of movies from Bad Movie Nites’ past all in anticipation for the upcoming see MOVIE NIGHT on page 14 >>

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ARTS & CULTURE Tuesday, February 21, 2017

FOOD & DINING

The best cheeseburger in Fort Collins: Big Al’s vs. Stuft

By Mareena Winchell @mareenaaaa_

Cheeseburgers are a classic, never-go-wrong type of food, an apology to all the vegans and vegetarians out there. It is important to realize that cheeseburgers are very hard to mess up. There are specifically two restaurants in Old Town that are known for their burgers and fries. The real question is, between Stuft and Big Al’s, which one gives the people the best bang for their buck?

You are probably asking yourself now, “where would you even begin to judge a cheeseburger?” but that already has been answered. First off, an important characteristic of judging the quality of a cheeseburger is the meat-to-bun ratio.

Secondly, the customer service at these restaurants are just as important. Lastly, the overall quality of the burger.

Now you are probably wondering, “how was this experiment handled in a non-bias way?” Well, burgers from both restaurants where ordered in the exact same style: bun, meat, cheese and last but not least a side of ketchup.

Stuft It is noticeable from the moment you walk in that Stuft is all about gourmet burgers.

This restaurant is classified as more of a “fancy” burger joint.

Stuft burger, to say the least, was great. But there was not a noticeable amount of cheese on the burger. After having to take off the top bun to see if cheese >> MOVIE NIGHT from page 13 flick of the night. The reel shows clips of cult movie fan favorites like “Samurai Cop,” “Kingdom of the Spiders,” “The Dallas Connection,” “Chopping Mall” and many more.

On the Saturday Feb. 18, I attended a screening where a crowd of filmgoers and I saw a movie called “Terror Squad.” Released in 1988, “Terror Squad” is about a group of terrorists that attack the quaint town of Kokomo, Indiana. Why Kokomo of all places? Who knows? Even characters in the movie marvel at the absurdity of attacking such an unassuming town.

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Cheeseburger ordered at Big Al’s. PHOTO BY MAREENA WINCHELL

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existed, there was. A critique of this restaurant burger would be that if a cheeseburger is ordered, it must look and fit the part of a cheeseburger by first glance.

A positive aspect of this burger was its thick burger. On the meat-to-bun ratio, Stuft takes the win. The customer service at Stuft was very professional, and everyone who worked there seemed very happy to be there.

For an almost $8 burger, I think that the burger was not up to par.

Sadly, the burger was prettier to look at than to eat.

Big Al’s Walking into Big Al’s the entire atmosphere makes you believe you are no longer in Northern Colorado. Big Al’s is more of a laid-back, nonchalant hang-out spot compared to Stuft.

The price of the burger from Big Al’s ended up being a little over five dollars and it was worth

every penny. Surprisingly, it looked like your picture-perfect cheeseburger. It talked the talk and walked the walk, meaning it looked like a cheeseburger and tasted like it was worth way more than five dollars. The meatto-bun ration was a little lower compared to Stuft, but the overall quality of the burger was off the charts. Also, the customer service at Big Al’s was very comforting and helpful, these workers constantly had a smile on their face.

At the end of the day, all cheeseburgers are delicious, once again an apology to the vegans and vegetarians who still decided to continue reading this, but if you are looking for a bang for your buck, Big Al’s is your goto burger place in Old Town.

Mareena Winchell can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com

the audience would let out a remorseful “oh” or shout “whoa” if a death was particularly surprising.

The terrorists in the film’s lead Kokomo’s finest on a police chase that runs an absurdly long time as the sequence is by far the longest one out of any part in the film. It is the chase that never ends, and we see water towers and factory chimneys fall, helicopters explode and countless causalities are left in the streets.

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of it all was just how great everything looked. All of the stunts were very impressive and a lot of work went into creating massive destructible set pieces for the movie. In a way, a lot of “Terror Squad” was pretty enjoyable.

The characters were hilariously one-dimensional stereotypes of teenage characters as the movie tried its best to emulate the “Breakfast Club” but with a whole lot more death.

It is the Lyric that has continuously made an environment for film-snobs to gather and share a bad experience with each other. In what theater is the audience actually expected to shout and provide its own commentary? Bad Movie Nite is just another event that solidifies the Lyric Cinema Café’s place in the film-lover community.

James Wyatt can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com

The Dealio: The Lyric Cinema Cafe, located at 300 E. Mountain Ave., hosts Bad Movie Nite every second Saturday of the month for $6.

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