Volume 126, No 95 March 1, 2017

Volume 126, No. 95

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

NEWS

Why the free Plaza books?

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The CSU basketball team mobs sophomore Prentiss Nixon after their win over the Wyoming Cowboys. Nixon made the game, winning three points in the final moments. The Rams defeated the Cowboys 78-76. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT JERGE COLLEGIAN

Moby Madness: Rams win thriller to sweep Border War

By Eddie herz @Eddie_Herz

For the second consecutive game Colorado State delivered in the final seconds to earn a victory and CSU fans stormed the court.

Only three days after Emmanuel Omogbo hit a 3-pointer to beat San Diego State, the Rams once again pulled some late-game magic.

Sophomore Prentiss Nixon hit a game-winning three with five seconds remaining to beat Wyoming 78-76 on senior night in front of 7,883 fans at Moby — the largest crowd of the season.

“I made the shot for these

two dudes (Emmanuel Omogbo and Gian Clavell),” Nixon said.

“We’ve worked hard all season.

Gian fouled out and someone had to take the shot and the ball came to me with 12 seconds left on the clock. I just jumped up and stuck it.”

The shot came after Wyoming’s leading scorer, Justin James, hit a 3-pointer to give the Cowboys a one-point edge with 10 seconds left.

“There really is something about this team that is special, more special than any team I’ve ever had,” head coach Larry Eustachy said. “They just find a way to win. It took a couple great plays by both teams to make it

such an exciting game. There is something about this group, they may be destined. Through everything we’ve been through, all the negativity, all the ups and downs, it never broke us. It never even bent us.”

The regular season sweep over Wyoming marks the first time since 2013 that CSU has won on both sides of the border.

The last time the Rams swept the Border War they were a single-digit loss team competing for a Mountain West crown.

Similarly, the win over the Cowboys gives the Rams a halfgame lead over Nevada for first place in the Mountain West.

CSU is now 21-9 overall and 13-4

in Mountain West play.

“I thought that was another great game,” head coach Larry Eustachy said. “I’d like to say we didn’t play well, but we did. Give Wyoming all the credit, I’m not sure we should have won that game. They played extremely well and we knew that no lead was insurmountable for them.”

CSU began the game on a 14-2 run, making five of their first seven attempts from the floor.

Colorado State continued to roll in the early stages of the game and led by as many as 16 with 10:41 remaining in the first half.

Aside from their efficient 62.5 percent clip from the floor see MOBY on page 8 >>

OPINION

Trump: the only person to trust PAGE 6

A&C

UCA to open play on Hitler PAGE 11

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COLLEGIAN.COM Wednesday, March 1, 2017

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Katie Beth Kaylor, junior psychology major, and her boyfriend Paul Braford, sophomore computer sciences major, enjoy a sunset together before the snow returned earlier this week.

PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS MAY COLLEGIAN

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NEWS Wednesday, March 1, 2017

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CITY

Fort Collins for Progress gains momentum with small staff, but big plans

By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98

Andrew Bondi, Dani Stringer and Lacey Brunmeier of Fort Collins for Progress had known each other for only 36 hours prior to the start of the Peace and Solidarity rally on Nov. 12 that drew a crowd of over 1,300 people.

Fort Collins for Progress, formerly Rams Against Trump, has hosted numerous rallies and marches since the election of President Donald Trump.

Bondi, Stringer and Brunmeier took over the group after the person who initially created Rams Against Trump left the organization of the first event up to them. Rallies and marches have been reactions to the federal government and to the local policies.

Stringer, the Marketing and Public Relations Chair of Fort Collins for Progress, said the name change reflects the values

of the organization.

“The reason it’s ‘Fort Collins for Progress’ and not ‘Fort Collins Against Trump’ is because we really want to be positive and not focus on Trump himself, but focus on the community at large who may be negatively impacted by this administration,” Stringer said. “If we focus on those people instead of of focusing on the person I think that’s a much more positive approach and more effective in the long run.”

Before the Peace and Solidarity rally Stringer said the group did not expect the organization to gain momentum like it has.

“We hadn’t really thought about this being anything,” Stringer said. “But we had so many people at the (peace and solidarity) rally wanting to get our information and wanting to give us their information that we realized that this has to be something-that it needs to become something.”

Jake Knebel, an activist with Fort Collins for Progress, stands with his Colorado flag during the “To Immigrants With Love” event on the plaza.

February 8, 2017. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN

Jeff Young and his daughter Leilani came to “show their support for all immigrants” along with an estimated 200 other protesters during Fort Collins for Progress’ rally in Old Town. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN

The organization currently has nine people as chair members and normally has 30 regular volunteers at their events.

According to Brunmeier the Planned Parenthood rally had around 200 volunteers.

Bondi, the Membership Services and Outreach Chair, said Fort Collins for Progress has allowed members of the community to become more politically engaged with their local and state governments, such as encouraging members of the community to voice their opinions about the Northern Integrated Supply Project at the city council meeting on Feb. 21. “(Fort Collins for Progress) gives us the ability to react to everything instead of what just comes out of the Oval Office,” Bondi said. “We’re also dealing with the things that are coming out of the Senate and Congress and all the way down here.”

Andrew Bondi, Lacey Brunmeier and Dani Stringer of Fort Collins for Progress pose for a picture after their “Represent Us, Cory!” rally. PHOTO BY FORREST CZARNECKI COLLEGIAN

Bondi said the group encourages community activism because he was not politically engaged until recently.

“I’ve been here for nine years and I’ve never gotten active until recently because I never felt like see PROGRESS on page 14 >>

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NEWS Wednesday, March 1, 2017

CAMPUS

CSU Greyrock literary journal defunded by ASCSU

By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98

The Board for Student Organizational Funding of the Associated Students of Colorado State University decided not to fund the Greyrock Review for their upcoming publication.

The Greyrock Review, a literary journal that showcases undergraduate creative writing works, asked BSOF to pay $860, with $800 going towards funding the printing fee of the journal.

BSOF funded the printing fee of the journal last year for its 2016 edition.

BSOF, which is responsible for granting student organizations funds to host events, considered the printing fee capital expenditure, defined in the BSOF Bylaws as “anything with more than a one-time use.”

BSOF does not provide funding for items considered capital expenditure.

Michael Wells, the ASCSU Director of Finance and Chair of BSOF, said the board believed the journals had the potential to be used again after the event.

“The reasoning behind that

from one board member was ‘this journal contains literary value that could be presented on throughout the course of the year, therefore providing more than a one-time-use,’” Wells wrote in a statement to the Collegian.

Wells goes over the updated bylaws with student groups and meets with them to help them be more successful when presenting to the board so they may receive funding.

According to Wells the board voted to fund the $860 requested, but the $800 allotted to the printing fee would need to be allocated to something within the confines of the BSOF Bylaws.

Baleigh Greene, the managing editor of the Greyrock Review, said the journal declined BSOF’s offer to allocate funds for the journal’s release party event because it would be unnecessary. “(Wells) said...they’d be happy to get another speaker or more marketing, but really it was a $50 fee for the event and the speakers are going to be the students themselves, so we’re not paying them at all,” Greene said. “He was essentially offering us $50, so we said, ‘we appreciate

it, but that is not what we need right now. We really need this journal to be printed because if it can’t be printed, we can’t have the event.’”

Greene said the Greyrock Review team was disappointed with BSOF’s decisions because they have been working with Wells since the beginning of the semester to understand the application process and secure funding. “(Wells said) ‘sometimes clubs have to go through this several times and this was funded for your event before so it shouldn’t be a problem,’” Greene said.

Greene submitted an application and received suggested edits from Wells the following week, then resubmitted it with changes. When Wells sent the application back to Greene again, he informed her that the printing fee might be considered capital expenditure and the two groups discussed what that meant.

“We went in again to the office to talk to him and he said ‘we want to fund the event, (but) we just can’t do this,’” Greene said.

“This really is not a capital ex-

The Greyrock Journal at Colorado State University did not recieve funds from BSOF for this coming year. PHOTO BY MICHEAL BERG COLLEGIAN

penditure. We’re getting rid of every single one of (the journals).

We are just asking for printing.”

Greene said that the Greyrock Review understands that BSOF has specific requirements, but is disappointed that they could not receive funding this year like they did last year.

Wells said funding for student organization events is not guaranteed from year to year since criteria can change.

“A major change from last year’s bylaws to this year’s bylaws was the addition of the definition of capital expenditure,” Wells wrote. “This may have played a factor in why the board was more aware and alert to this being a ‘capital expenditure’ in this year’s decision as it was not clearly defined last year.”

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

CAMPUS

New bill in Colorado senate would eliminate free speech zones on college campuses

By Stuart Smith @notstuartsmith

A bill on the floor of the Colorado state senate would prevent public universities and colleges from designating certain areas on their campus as free speech zones.

According to the wording of the bill “a public institution shall not designate any area on campus as a free speech zone or otherwise create policies that imply that its students’ expressive activities are restricted to a particular area of campus.”

Instead, free speech would be allowed on all parts of a campus and public institutions would not be allowed to subject a student to disciplinary action as a result of his or her expression of free speech. The bill would not allow students or faculty and staff to disrupt previously scheduled or reserved activities in a portion or section of the student

forum at that scheduled time.

As reported in the Collegian several weeks ago, the bill was passed through the Education Committee unanimously after two CSU students visited Denver and testified in favor of the bill.

Few Colorado state legislators responded for comment and all but one of those who did said that they were in support of the bill. Representative Kimmi Lewis from Colorado’s 64 district wrote in an email to the Collegian that while she is in support of the bill, the Constitution already guarantees the freedom of speech. Lewis said colleges that stop free speech should have their funding stripped.

Representative Joann Ginal of Colorado’s 52 district, and a resident of Fort Collins, did not give an exact position on the bill, but did say, on the face of it, it seems like a good idea.

“The recent election has raised tensions and passion,”

Ginal wrote in an email to the Collegian. “So there are naturally more discussions about the meaning of free speech.”

Ginal brought up the questions that she thinks about when considering free speech zones.

Questions like “is the rest of campus immune to the First Amendment?” and “does it enhance the safety and integrity of our college campuses?” are important to her when thinking about how she will vote on the bill. She also will take into account the testimonies of experts, professors and students of universities when deciding on the bill when it crosses her desk.

The president pro tempore of the Colorado State Senate, Jerry Sonnenberg, also voiced support for the bill.

“Some of our institutions of higher ed are working to encourage open discussions and thoughts, teaching students to think on their own,” Sonnenberg

wrote in an email to the Collegian. “We also know of instances where students have been penalized for expressing opinions that differ from teachers and that is… unacceptable.”

Sonnenberg cited University of Northern Colorado as an example. Several years ago UNC formed a Bias Response Team whose stated intention was to act in response to incidences of bias-motivated behavior on campus, according to the Greeley Tribune.

The Greeley Tribune’s article continued, “beyond educational conversations, Bias Response Team members … sought to ‘strengthen’ a professor’s teaching by censoring what that professor [could] cover in class, and…advised another professor not to discuss some sensitive issues at all to avoid offending students.”

The actions of the Bias Response Team gathered numer-

ous complaints from students and staff alike and UNC eliminated the team in September of 2016.

Another incident involving free speech on a Colorado campus was the protests at CU Boulder when media personality and public speaker Milo Yiannopoulos visited the campus for a speech, angering hundreds of students who protested his being there, resulting in 3 arrests and 1 injury.

Juan Caro, CSU student and chairman of the Conservative Interest Group of Colorado, is a big supporter of the bill.

“I think the bill is fantastic, we absolutely need to restructure how we treat free speech on campus,” Caro said. “We should all be discussing and debating issues that are fundamental to our democracy…but it’s not always going to be an easy discussion to have.”

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

NEWS Wednesday, March 1, 2017

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CAMPUS

CRIME

TooFar Media passes out free books on Plaza

Man arrested for possession of 19 pounds of marijuana after house caught fire

By Drew Smith @dc6smith19

TooFar Media, a company that aims to distribute new forms of art to college campuses, passed out a free book called Arms from the Sea at Colorado State University last week.

The novel, written by Rich Shapero, aims to reinvent the novel by integrating music and visuals, said Emily Danziger, director of experiential marketing at TooFar Media. TooFar Media has produced a total of four books. Danziger said each book has its own art collection and soundtrack. All of the visuals can be found on an the company’s app and relate to certain passages in the books. The soundtracks are all original and recorded specifically to align with the text as well.

“It’s art for art’s sake,” Danziger said. “The purpose of these projects are to reinvent the novel. They fuse fiction with music and stimulating visuals that coincide with the novel.”

Danziger said representatives were passing out the book in order to expose students to the project.

“Because this is a new project we are trying to get as many people exposed to the new art form as possible,” Danziger said.

“College students is a large audience that our product would be enjoyed by and that’s why we are touring several campuses.”

Carter Cashion, a senior English major, was interested enough to give it a read.

“The fiction itself was pretty simple, it was mostly abstract

images and what I thought to be sexual references,” Cashion said. “It reminded me more of a day dream, there wasn’t any concrete imagery.”

Cashion said he thought the author was describing himself in an abstract way.

“I wasn’t really sure what to take away from it,” Cashion said.

Danziger said there is another novel in production and the music is currently being recorded. Rich Shapero, the author of the book, was unavailable for comment.

“For some reason, I’ve always wanted to live in a different world,” Shapero wrote on his website. “My thoughts always get warped toward a place and a state that I imagine is better than the one we’re born into.”

Shapero wrote on his website that he has no commercial motive for distributing the book.

“I want people to see what I’ve done,” Shapero wrote. “I’m like a street musician playing for whoever might have the interest to stop and listen.”

Cashion said targeting college students is not the strongest marketing strategy.

“It doesn’t sound like a strong plan, but hey, I ended up with a book,” Cashion said. “It’s cool that they tour college campuses, but I’m not sure how they afford to print all of these books.

I feel like they may not be taken seriously handing out free copies. For me to go out and buy the book I would need a little more than this.”

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

Student enjoys free book handed out on the plaza. PHOTO BY TONY

VILLALOBOS MAY COLLEGIAN

By Jenn Yingling @jenn_yingling

A man was arrested Saturday for possession of over 19 pounds of marijuana after his house caught on fire earlier last week.

Larimer County depu-

Jason Heimann was booked in the Larimer County Jail after he was found in possession of 19 pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LARIMER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

ties responded to the fire last Wednesday afternoon to assist Poudre Fire Authority at the 600 block of Eric Street in Fort Collins. The fire began on the rear deck of the home and was extinguished by the firefighters, according to a Larimer County Sheriff ’s Office press release.

While investigating the fire a firefighter pointed out the possible presence of marijuana concentrate in the garage.

Jason Heimann, who was a resident of the home along with a woman and three children, was interviewed by the deputies. After returning with a search warrant the officers seized 3.63 pounds of marijuana concentrate and 19.02 pounds of marijuana.

An arrest warrant was issued for Heimann as he could not be located during the seizure. Officers searched throughout the Fort Collins and Loveland area as well as in locations in Ault and Windsor.

Heimann posted $20,000 bond and was released on Feb. 25.

Heimann turned himself in at the Larimer County Jail on Saturday and was booked on the following allegations: possession with intent to distribute between five and 50 pounds of marijuana possession with intent to distribute between 2.5 pounds and 25 pounds of marijuana concentrate extraction of marijuana concentrate using hazardous substance child abuse reckless endangerment possession of drug paraphernalia

Jenn Yingling can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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OPINION Wednesday, March 1, 2017

COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

Believe me, Trump is the only one telling the truth

By Zane Womeldorph @zwomeldo

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

We live in a terrifying age. Our country is nearly overrun with murderous immigrants. Our inner cities are crime-ridden war zones.

Terrorists are waltzing through customs, hell-bent on slaughter.

Our borders are more porous than a fence made of tissue paper and illegals are streaming through to leech us of our tax dollars.

Thank Zeus for our savior, The Man With the Answers. Only The Donald can solve what ails us. He will build a massive wall to keep out all the scary Mexicans and somehow it won’t cost a cent.

He will personally sniff out all the world’s terrorists and smite them with righteous fury. He will tickle the magical orange being that lives on his head and, in a puff of wondrous sorcery, all the endemic, structural problems that have caused the manufacturing sector of our economy to wither away

over decades will simply vanish.

The rest of the world will quake and pee their sissy, European pants when the Donald comes to town. All treaties and trade deals will be rewritten to grossly favor American interests.

Bad countries like Iran and North Korea will abruptly stop with their evil intentions. We will hold hands and kiss with the Russians and, together with ur new best friend Putin, he will usher in an unprecedented time of utopian wonder.

All this, and much more.

American will be great again.

What a time to be alive.

That is, of course, unless the evil media gets in the way. Spreaders of lies, enemies of the American people, “the media” must not be trusted. The only sources of true information are the words that come out of the president’s and his friends’ mouths.

And the tweets. Never forget the president’s tweets. Anything typed by those hallowed, tiny hands is a fountain of unadulterated truth so pure it might as well have been divinely inspired. And who’s to say it wasn’t?

Fact-checkers? More like truth rapists. Investigative journalism, packed with verifiable

sources and the so-called facts? I’d rather gas-mask Satan’s farts than read that swill.

Anything negative about the Trump administration you may have read in the glorified pieces of toilet paper also known as the failing New York Times or the Washington Post must be immediately disregarded. Banish those thoughts from your memories, friends. Those words were nothing more than leftist propaganda meant to tarnish our glorious leader.

Concerned about the “fact” that several members of Trump’s campaign, including the remarkably temporary National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, were in contact with Russian intelligence or other members of the Russian government? FAKE NEWS. Weirded out by Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s angry insistence on Trump’s first day in office that the crowd at his inaugural address were the largest in history, despite seeing the photos that clearly depicted a crowd much smaller than “largest ever?” Don’t be, peons. It’s called Photoshop.

Worried that your Obamacare benefits will soon be moot and that details on its’ supposedly amazing

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replacement program have been entirely non-existent? Nonsense.

It’s like Christmas; the less you know about your gifts, the greater the surprise.

Scared that Trump’s never-ending foreign policy gaffes make us look like weak idiots who know nothing about international politics? Or that competing statements by the president and his cabinet on topics such as our commitment to NATO will confuse and concern our allies and embolden our enemies? Phooey!

Just drink this Kool-Aid a calm your silly little self.

Any ideas like the ones above are aberrant lies inserted into your

brain by the media. Questioning our leadership is damn near traitorous, and no true American would take the word of these liberal rags over that of our savior and his coterie of billionaire geniuses.

The future is bright, my fellow patriots, just as long as we all swallow the official line. So purge your media diet of anything not saturated in Trumpian adulation, wrap yourself in your American flag and sleep tight. The Donald is here, and pretty soon this garbage dump we all live in will be great again.

What a time to be alive.

Zane Womeldorph can be reached at opinion@collegian.com.

COLLEGIAN COLUMNISTS

The aftermath of DAPL and its implications Alex Stettner @alexstetts

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.

On Thursday the main encampment blocking the Dakota Access Pipeline was evicted and evacuated. In recent days other surrounding camps have also been cleared. At this point most people are gone from any camp that is close to the construction sites. For all intents and purposes the physical fight is over.

The indigenous and other supporters had been there for almost a year without injuring or attacking any police or army force. Simultaneously they were met with several militarized and violent actions throughout their time at the camps.

The way these events have unfolded will have widespread implications for our future in

energy sources and how we treat marginalized communities.

America’s addiction to oil is aggressive and unique around the world. We consume the most oil and at a staggering rate compared to other states, even those we consider “developed.” The construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline indicates, to me, that this addiction is far from being satisfied. This is a terrible situation considering the turning point we are at in climate change mitigation.

As for the treatment of marginalized communities, I can only see it worsening. There were so many clear videos documenting the assault on water protectors, where they were clearly peaceful. America has had a terrible history in regards to the treatment of Native Americans (and these events show the continuation of that), but I fear that with how there was so little reaction on the behalf of non-natives, this behavior will be encouraged.

I went to Standing Rock in October. I wasn’t there long, but it was long enough to be a learning experience.

I left with an incredible amount of hope. The people

there were so passionate, convicted and engaged. The support from media coverage, donations from all over the world and the immense physical presence of people from all walks of life made me convinced that this movement would be successful, not to mention the verbal support from my peers when I came back.

What I neglected to consider is the ability of the American people to ignore, turn a blind eye or maybe just not care about the assault of indigenous peoples’ rights and the environment.

There are so many clear videos of the security forces aggressively attacking water protectors and yet there was no action, no punishment for those police forces.

Witnesses, and a friend of mine who was there the night frozen water cannons were used, reported that they had intentions to kill. All in the name of oil, which continues to poison our air, water and land.

This situation and how it has unfolded has deeply disturbed me. If you are at all concerned about the environment or human rights, you should be disturbed as well.

Alex Stettner can be reached at opinion@collegian.com.

NOPE DOPE Showing up to class more prepared than your classmates so your professor gives you more time. You’re telling me I could have napped!?

When the internet is almost all down because of Amazon Services.

Having so many emails in your inbox you can’t keep track of anything.

When you try and eat healthy but end up binge-eating fries at 2 a.m.

Sun already melted all the snow.

Losing 8 lbs when you poop.

When you get to watch a movie in class.

When your classes are cancelled.

Getting hid in the head by a random frisbee.

Cream cheese danishes.

OPINION Wednesday, March 1, 2017

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SEX COLUMN

Sexually transmitted infections suck @allison_danish

Is it treatable? Yes, you can kick chlamydia to the curb with antibiotics.

Possible complications: If left untreated, it can cause infertility in folks with uteruses.

Sexually transmitted infections, more commonly known as STIs, are an unfortunate—although often preventable—side effect of being sexually active.

STIs come in many flavors, so let’s dig in.

Bacterial STIs: Some of the most notorious STIs are caused by single-celled organisms of the not-so-friendly variety, the most common of which is chlamydia. Don’t be fooled, chlamydia is not a pretty name for a newborn girl-child.

Rather, it’s an infection that makes peeing really unpleasant for around 1, 570, 000 people in the U.S. Symptoms: Painful urination and discharge from vagina, penis or anus are the most common.

Some people will not experience symptoms at all.

The second most common bacterial STI is gonorrhea, which has earned the friendly moniker “The Clap,” named after early methods of treating the infection.

Symptoms: Painful urination and abnormal discharge are the most common symptoms, although testicular pain and lower belly pain can be experienced too.

Gonorrhea can also be asymptomatic.

Is it treatable? Yup. Gonorrhea, an infection affecting around 270,000 people in the U.S., can be treated with antibiotics.

Possible Complications: Although gonorrhea can create a whole host of complications, the most common include infertility caused by Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and, potentially, epididymitis. Gonorrhea can also have drastic consequences for newborns.

Allison Danish

However, sometimes bad things happen and that’s okay. People who have STIs still live normal, sexy, fulfilling lives, and their STI status does not define them. Just remember to stay open, honest and informed. And above all, safe skiddlypooping, everybody.

then presents as a weird, spotty rash that can be accompanied by fever. After the secondary stage is a latency period where syphilis chills out and there are no symptoms. Then comes the tertiary stage, often years later, which can and often does affect major organs, resulting in death.

Is it treatable? Yes. Syphilis is entirely treatable with antibiotics during the primary and secondary stages, but tertiary syphilis can be more difficult to treat.

Possible complications: Most notably, syphilis can affect the brain and nervous system at any

stage. Neurosyphilis can cause a number of symptoms including behavior changes, paralysis, and dementia.

Fun fact: The infamous gangster Al Capone suffered from neurosyphilis. Adolf Hitler and Christopher Columbus are also suspected to have had syphilis.

Syphilis also has a dark history involving the United States government, not just distant figures of the past. The highly unethical Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment involved observing untreated syphilis without see INFECTION on page 14 >>

Bluemoon Cappuccino Finally, syphilis is the least common of the bacterial infections, but has the spookiest and most notorious past.

Symptoms: Syphilis comes in three stages; primary syphilis is usually marked by painless sores called chancres (pronounced shanker) around the site of infection (genitals, mouth, rectum/anus). Secondary syphilis

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SPORTS Wednesday, March 1, 2017

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Colorado State women fall in second edition of Border War

By Colin Barnard @ColinBarnard_

The second installment of the Border War was not friendly to the Colorado State women’s basketball team, as they lost to Wyoming 56-49.

Although the team has already secured the No. 1 seed in the Mountain West tournament, the performance was less than enthusing for the Rams (22-7, 14-3 MW). Despite the seemingly minimal margin of victory for Wyoming (20-8, 12-5 MW), the Cowgirls dominated throughout, leading by double-digits for the majority of the evening.

Elin Gustavsson led the Rams with 14 points, though she did not score for the final 15 minutes of the game. Sofie Tryggedsson’s 12 points, including three three-pointers, kept the Rams close late in the game. Ellen Nystrom also added 10 points.

The Rams came out ice cold from the field, scoring just four points in the opening quarter.

The Cowgirls would take that lead and run with it, at one point

>> MOBY from page 1 in the first half, the Rams also took care of the ball. CSU turned the ball over four times in the opening 20 minutes and did not commit a foul within the first 12 minutes of the first half.

The Rams coasted for the majority of the first half, looking poised for an easy victory to close out the season at Moby. However, Wyoming stormed back.

The Cowboys went on a 13-1 run over a 4:29 span to take a 68-67 lead with 5:19 remaining in the second half. The dunk by Alan Herndon to complete Wyoming’s run gave the Cowboys their first lead of the game.

“In the second half we kind of picked it up defensively. There is no way they should have came all the way back,” Omogbo said.

“But we give them a lot of credit, they’re a pretty good team. In the conference tournament they’re going to be really dangerous.”

With 1:01 remaining and the Rams clinging to a one-point lead, CSU leading scorer Gian Clavell fouled out for the first time this season. Clavell finished with 17 points on 6-of-17 shooting from the floor.

“I fouled out and let my emotions just go,” Clavell said. “I just wanted to win the game so bad, but that’s why we have a team. We are

pushing the lead to 20 points early in the second quarter.

“I think it was our mental approach to start the game, it’s that simple,” head coach Ryun Williams said in a statement.

“We weren’t as ready to play as we needed to be. We had seven shots at the rim in the first quarter, seven. That just tells me that we weren’t ready to score the basketball. We had some really nice opportunities to start that game, and you just have to convert.”

Natalie Baker led all scorers with 18 points and converted 7-of-9 attempts from the freethrow line. Free throw attempts, or lack thereof for the Rams, were crucial in this one.

Wyoming got to the line 19 times compared to just five attempts for the Rams. Though some of those attempts came down the stretch when the Rams were intentionally fouling, the Cowgirls controlled the tempo for much of the first half, forcing the Rams into uncomfortable situations.

The Cowgirls also outre-

bounded the Rams by 13, an uncharacteristic trend for the MW champions. This allowed Wyoming to set up their motion offense, something Williams has praised in the past. Movement from the Cowgirls, especially late in the shot clock, caused fits for the Rams.

“We had some break downs, and sometimes they found the right kids on our team that have a hard time defending some of that motion,” Williams said.

CSU played a much sounder second half of basketball, cutting the lead to single-digits on multiple occasions and outscoring the Cowgirls by seven. But after falling behind by so much in the first half, the deficit was too high to overcome.

Having already won the conference, the game provided Williams an opportunity to try some new lineups before conference play. Freshman center Anna Dreimane, who usually plays only in the closing minutes, saw action in the second quarter.

No starter played all 40 minutes, and only Hannah Tvrdy played

CSU sophomore Callie Kaiser drives to the hoop against Fresno State earlier this season. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT JERGE COLLEGIAN

more than 30 minutes as Williams worked in his bench more often than usual.

It also served as a reminder that tournament play will feature a much more physical brand basketball “We could be in this situation next week,” Williams said.

“We’ve been in that situation before, how are we going to re-

spond? We need to be more aggressive, that’s the bottom line.”

The Rams will finish up the regular season on Friday night in Moby Arena against Nevada.

On Senior Night, Elin Gustvsson and Ellen Nystrom will be honored for their illustrious careers as Rams. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.

Colin Barnard can be reached at sports@collegian.com.

a team together and we have each other’s backs no matter what.”

“I fouled out and let my emotions just go. I just wanted to win the game so bad, but that’s why we have a team. We are a team together and we have each other’s backs no matter what.”

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Prentiss Nixon finished with a team-leading 23 points. Nixon was particularly hot in the first half, scoring 18 points and converting 8-of-10 attempts from the floor.

Emmanuel Omogbo notched his 18th double-double of the season with a 13 point and 12 rebound performance. The double-double was also his 13th in conference play, setting the single-season Mountain West record. Redshirt freshman Nico Carvacho scored 10 points and collected 10 rebounds to earn his

CSU sophomore Prentiss Nixon drives past Wyoming Cowboy defenders during the second half of the game.

The Rams defeated the Cowboys 78-76. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT JERGE COLLEGIAN

second career double-double.

The Cowboys made 12 threes in the contest. Hayden Dalton led the way by making five and scoring 17 points total.

CSU will play for the MW regular season championship

on the road in their season finale against Nevada on Saturday. The Nevada game will tip off at 6 p.m.

MT on Saturday and can be seen on ESPN3.

“It would be exciting to bring the first conference title in 27

years,” Omogbo said. “It would be pretty good, but then again we are just going in there and playing our game. We aren’t worried about anything else.”

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

SPORTS Wednesday, March 1, 2017

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SOFTBALL

Snow forces postponement of CSU home opener

By Austin White @ajwrules44

Softball and Colorado weather do not mix well.

Colorado State’s home opening game against the University of Northern Colorado was canceled Tuesday after it started to snow during the announcement of the lineups. The teams were able to play the top half of the first inning, but the two head coaches met at the plate with the umpires in the bottom of the first and decided to delay the game. Sophomore Amber Nelson had just walked to load the bases with no outs for the Rams.

Head coach Jen Fisher said that the game could be made up when UNC comes back up to Fort Collins on April 11 and the two teams would play a double header that day, but an official schedule is yet to be determined.

After a 20 minute weather delay the game was postponed due to poor playing conditions. In true Colorado fashion the snow stopped and the sun was back out 30 minutes after the postponed announcement, but the snow had

“They are so used to this that they just have to have fun with it.”

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stuck to the outfield, making it too dangerous for the teams to be out there.

All day leading up to the game it was around 40 degrees with no snow, which meets the temperature requirement of at least feels like 32 degrees for first pitch. It was poor timing for a team that has endured their fair share of weather postponements and cancellations.

Last season the Rams were able to play only one conference series on the scheduled date and it was the last series of the year.

But the Rams will not let the annoyance of Mother Nature get them down as they still danced and had fun in the snow as they placed

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the tarp down over the field.

“They are so used to this that they just have to have fun with it,” head coach Jen Fisher said about the team’s playful attitude towards the bad weather. “We had a good warm up, good batting practice and a good first inning.”

RAM

The Rams will not have to wait long to truly open up Ram Field as they host the Colorado State Classic I this weekend March 3-5.

They welcome in Idaho State, Buffalo and Penn State to the three day tournament. The Rams’ first matchup will be against Penn State

on March 3 at 1:30 pm MT. The forecast calls for temperatures in the high 50s and low 60s with no real chance of precipitation, something the Rams have been waiting on for a long time.

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

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ARTS & CULTURE Wednesday, March 1, 2017

MUSIC

CULTURE

Thundercat continues to intoxicate listeners with new album “Drunk”

CSU students respond: Are expectations of college students too high?

By Zach Bermejo @zach_bermejo

Drunk.

That is how you may feel listening to the new Thundercat album of the same name.

Thundercat—real name Stephen Bruner—intoxicates listeners with sultry bass riffs and choruses with hypnotic eeriness.

It is somewhat his trademark sound despite being a relatively new solo artist on the scene.

However, this album expands a little bit more on the funk and hip-hop aspects of Thundercat’s multi-genre fusion.

The 23-track album features a multitude of different artists, such as Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa and even Kenny Loggins. This strong musical diversity alone is more than enough for the average listener to spend time picking apart.

Most of the tracks center around themes of drinking, partying and the destructive emotions that come with. Smooth and fleeting instrumentals, of which there are plenty, complement these dark themes but also hide some of the album’s absurd and oddball personality.

The track “Friend Zone” is a hip lamentation of non-reciprocated romantic feelings. In it Thundercat sings of playing video games such as “Diablo III” instead of wasting time being friends with a girl who will not sleep with him. It is truly a song that will resonate with many people, for better or worse.

“Them Changes” and “Drunk” focus on the regret of sharing yourself with someone and resorting to alcohol to drown away the problems, while “Walk On By” has both Thundercat ruminating on loneliness and Kendrick Lamar contemplating his wrongs in life.

Then there are the tracks that dismiss the super depressing themes entirely and are just goofy fun. “A Fan’s Mail (Tron Song Suite II)” is another tribute to Thundercat’s actual cat, Tron.

Another track, titled “Tokyo”, takes on the form of a fast-paced ode to anime and all the things Thundercat finds great about Japanese culture.

From track to track you really do not know what you are going to get. Sometimes the songs bleed through one another with swirling and airy melodies,

sometimes the songs make you want to dance and sometimes the songs are unavoidably goofy.

Bottom line, should you listen to it? Yes. “Drunk” is a welcome addition to Thundercat’s discography. It continues building upon the same genre-fusing sound that fans have come to love and it offers more of the artist’s odd personality. Much like a friend who is drunk off their ass, the album weaves in and out of coherent story-lines, but is consistently entertaining.

When the album does focus on the tribulations of drinking and partying, the lyrics can be deeply introspective, but not without an ample amount of comedic levity. With so much random stuff going on it is easy to say that the album can not settle on a solid foundation.

However, that is arguably the intention. The troublesome themes Thundercat sings of are highly relatable to a college-aged crowd who are perhaps also struggling with an ambiguous sense of self.

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

By Adelayde Dahlin @addsss_

College students are at a difficult and stressful time in their lives, told to choose a major and a future career and just to get going. The question is though, are we setting students up for failure? Are they crumbling under the pressure of it all?

College has become an ideal over the years, telling students they must go in order to succeed in life, much like them being told they need to make a plan once they get there. In fact, many majors at Colorado State University require students to take a seminar class under that major their first year when most students make a four-year plan so they can stay on track to graduate.

They are also given the opportunity to hear from other students who are succeeding in that major and who have internships, volunteer work and jobs under their belt. This has been proven to be a helpful tool; however, it may also give students an unrealistic expectation. No student learns the same way or works at the same pace and this may be perceived as one of the pressures weighing on the students to do and be something they are not prepared for or want.

Having a four-year plan might prepare each student to graduate on schedule, but it does not guarantee that they will know what to do once their schooling is over.

Caitlyn Everett, a sociology major who is graduating in May, is unsure of what she will be doing after graduation and she is okay with that. Currently she is just “throwing out different lines,” Everett said.

She hopes to work ideally with NGOs and nonprofits, but has

no specific plan.

“Being dead set on one specific thing after you graduate could be limiting yourself,” Everett said. “I’m sure what I do right out of school I won’t be doing in 20 years.”

Laney Flannigan, a senior English major is in the same boat as Everett.

“I want to teach English in foreign countries for a few years after graduation,” Flannigan said.

Flannigan changed her major after two years at CSU. “Go in one direction and if you don’t like it, try something else you’re passionate about,” Flannigan said.

“You’re still young.”

Junior biology major Morgan Osborn knew where she wanted to be in ten years but she realizes that life plans tend to change, Osborn said.

Having always wanted to be a vet, but after having to go through the trials of cost, pressure, competition and time, her plans may be heading in a different direction.

“I want a stable career to support myself,” Osborn said.

No matter what she ends up doing, her “biggest fear is failure. Coming in as an older student I don’t think younger kids are ready, the expectations of students coming in after a year and knowing what they want is crazy.”

Students at CSU demonstrate that it is okay for some students to change plans and be unsure about their futures while in college.

“College has taught be a lot, outside of school and in school,” Osborn said. “I don’t think it’s for everyone, but if you think it’s something you should do then you should.”

Adelayde Dahlin can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

ARTS & CULTURE Wednesday, March 1, 2017

MOVIES & TV

EVENTS

What you missed from ‘The Voice’ season premiere

By Adelayde Dahlin @adsss_

“The Voice” is back for the show’s 12th consecutive season, this time with celebrity coaches Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Alicia Keys and Gwen Stefani and host Carson Daly.

The show started back in April of 2011 and has continued throughout the years with a new season every spring and fall; the show has even already guaranteed a 13th season this upcoming fall. It has had mass success as a television show and singing competition and has won several awards including a few Emmys.

“The Voice” has kept two of its original coaches throughout each of the seasons so far, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, and has had eight other returning coaches spread throughout the show over the years. These coaches include Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Shakira, Usher, Pharrell Williams, Gwen Stefani, Alicia Keys and Miley Cyrus.

The “blind auditions” that judge each contestant are what make up the premiere and the first few episodes of the show.

From there they then have the “battle rounds,” “the knockouts” and the “live shows.”

Each season of the show has had other gimmicks as well, such as being able to steal contestants, having celebrity mentors that always include big names who are current in the music industry and now each coach being able to choose two contestants to join their team from the popular app Snapchat.

The appeal of the show though has always seemed to come from being about “The Voice” due to the coaches not being able to see the artist while they are auditioning, having only their singing talent to base their decision on.

However, the show seems to have lost its way since the first few seasons. It appears to be more and more about the coaches each year rather than the artists whom they are teaching. One example of that this year is the producer’s focus on Blake Shelton’s and Gwen Stefani’s new relationship. It was already referenced multiple times throughout Monday night’s episode and that was only the premiere. We can guarantee to have a lot of that coming this season. This may be why the show appears to be less talked about each year al-

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though the ratings still seem to be there. I used to hear people talking about it in class or while hanging out throughout the earlier seasons and now no one seems to care as much.

The show has become overdone and overproduced like many singer competitions that have come before, such as “American Idol” and “The X Factor.” The thing is though, the talent is still there.

After only one episode you know there are some special artists performing in this competition. Three of which are JChosen, Johnny Hayes and Stephanie Rice, all who have stories just as powerful as their voices. JChosen was the first artist of the night, performing the classic “Sexual Healing” by the late and great Marvin Gaye.

JChosen stole the show with his strong vocals and enthusiasm throughout his performance. His persistence to be a singer was highlighted prior to his performance as well as his work with special needs kids. He got a four chair turn to acknowledge his talent, ultimately shocking everyone, and he ended up choosing Team Gwen.

Hayes is a returning artist from the previous season who had not gotten any chair turns, but this time he got two. He sang “Try a Little Tenderness” and wowed the crowd and the judges. Hayes had such a great style to his voice, with a great song choice and ultimately earned his spot on the show and his spot on Team Adam.

Stephanie Rice earned her spot on Team Gwen after a two chair turn and an inspiring story. She sang an emotional rendition of “Piece by Piece” and showcased her sultry and smooth voice. The 27-year-old shared that she was disowned by her pastor father and the rest of her family after coming out at age 18. She showed this emotion and strength throughout her whole performance and looks to be a great contender in this competition.

The talent is there in “The Voice;” there were many artists who auditioned in the premiere with so much great singing ability and talent. If you can get past the Hollywood aspect of the show then it is a good one to watch; however, the Hollywood aspect is a large part of it, although so is the talent and the artists’ stories.

Adelayde Dahlin can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

UCA’s ‘Resistible Rise of Arturo UI’ premieres Friday

By Nicole Towne @nicole_towne21

“The Resistible Rise of Arturo UI,” which will take the stage this Friday at the University Center for the Arts Studio Theater, takes a satirical perspective on the reign of Adolf Hitler and sets the story in Chicago during the gangster era of Al Capone.

The play was written in 1941

by Bertolt Brecht, a German poet and playwright, while he was in exile from Germany and awaiting an American visa. Brecht wrote the play in response to the rise of Hitler.

Despite being written about 75 years ago, it still has relevance today, said Director Walt Jones.

“The [U.S.] presidential administration is a lot like the one that is talked about in the play,” Jones said. “In fact, there are lines in the play that are right out of the newspapers today.”

The play, as it was written in 1941, discusses immigration, fake news and failing newspapers. It combines slapstick comedy with crime and a fight for power. It utilizes performance qualities as introduced by the works of the Marx Brothers and

Charlie Chaplin.

“It is a mash up of all of those things, pop culture from the 30s and 40s in the U.S.,” Jones said.

What sets this part from other productions is the dynamic relationship between the actors and the audience. The production is presented in a style inspired by the German Cabaret.

The audience is seated at tables with actors sitting behind them, performing in front of them and moving past them.

The play demands a presentational quality and is an in-yourface type of show, Jones said.

The audience does not sit behind an invisible wall in this play, but instead is interacted with.

“The audience is definitely a character in the play,” Jones said.

There are 12 cast members who play 40 roles. The role of Arturo Ui is played by junior theater performance major Zach Rickert.

This is Rickert’s sixth CSU production, with previous performances including “Noises off ” and “Boy”.

Taking on the role of Arturo Ui, who is essentially Hitler, has been challenging and required a lot of time invested both inside and outside of rehearsals, Rick-

ert said.

“The [character] is an ego manic for sure,” Rickert said. “He really wants to be in control. He wants to be in charge. He wants to make things better for himself… he doesn’t really care who he has to throw by the wayside to do that.”

Creating the show has been a collaboration among the director and cast, Rickert said.

It has given the cast the opportunity to use creative experimentation instead of step-bystep instructions.

“We have a lot of really talented cast members creating this show,” Rickert said. “I’ve been really lucky with that.

Walt is a brilliant director and he’s always great to work with because he knows what he wants, but he lets us have the freedom to experiment.”

“The Resistible Rise of Arturo UI” premieres Friday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. There will be evening shows on March 4, 9, 10 and 11. There are afternoon performances March 5 and 11. Tickets are free for students and it is recommended to purchase tickets in advance as seats are limited.

Nicole Towne can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com

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ARTS & CULTURE Wednesday, March 1, 2017

ART

Art meets science at the Curfman Gallery

By Ashley Potts @11smashley

The Curfman Gallery in the Lory Student Center has opened its doors again. This time the work inside may not necessarily be what is expected of an art gallery.

The 10th annual Art and Science Exhibition debuted on Feb. 21. This exhibition is put on by the College of Natural Sciences and the Department of Art and Art History within the College of Liberal Arts in an effort to co-mingle their seemingly very separate disciplines. They took to heart the words of Leonardo da Vinci, who said, “study the science of art and the art of science “I absolutely love botanical illustrations and that naturalistic style that also serves as a sort of diagram,” said art major, Kenna Aukamp, whose piece is featured in the show. “I have a bunch of friends who are science majors and I picked their brains about a way that I could integrate harder sciences in with a more biological subject. They gave me a bunch of ideas relating to fractals and the Fibonacci sequence, so that’s how I ended up with my idea of a Nautilus. I wanted to get that idea of the spiral and the Fibonacci ratio that shows up

CSU student, Emily Pantoja, and a friend look at a photographic work in the Art and Science Exhibition in the Curfman Gallery. PHOTO BY ASHLEY

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everywhere in the natural world and tie it into the kind of animal forms that I like to paint.”

The university-wide exhibition features works in all media forms. More traditional paintings, drawings and photographs are featured as well as microscopic photography, videography and even grown crystals on an ordinary spoon. Subject matter ranges from actual images of microscopic cells to sewn in bacterial cultures, from telescopic photographs of the galaxy to a

painted exploration of the zodiac star signs. All of this to show that art can be found anywhere and that anything can function as creative inspiration.

“I’ve always loved science, it’s so fascinating and beautiful,” Aukamp said. “I watch ‘Planet Earth’ and documentaries like that all the time. It’s very inspiring to me. It blows my mind how many beautiful, incredible things happen in our natural world and how complex organisms can be.”

Art and science are typically

A student looks at a work depicting the “Thirteenth Zodiac” at the Art and Science Exhibition in the Curfman Gallery. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN

seen as very separate. They have even been described as being controlled by two separate parts of the brain. This exhibition encourages the blurring of the hard line between the two and collaboration between areas.

Aukamp said she think she will continue to pull inspiration from science even though she painted her piece “Nautilus” specifically for this exhibition.

“This exhibition acknowledges and celebrates the wide range of creative output found

A guest examines a pottery based work in the Art and Science Exhibition in the Curfman Gallery. PHOTO BY AENEAN LACINIA COLLEGIAN

in the juxtaposition of art and science,” said the College of Natural Sciences in the call for entry, and that theme is very persistent through all of the works in the gallery.

The works will be on display now through March 24. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from noon until 7 p.m.

Stop by for more information or follow @csulscarts on Instagram and Twitter.

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

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MUSIC-

So much more ‘Weird’ to cover: Parody master Yankovic stays a step ahead of an industry shift as he plots new, seriously silly moves

By Randy Lewis Los Angeles Times

Nearly 40 years ago “Weird Al” Yankovic began building his fan base the old-fashioned way: radio.

Yankovic would send tapes to disc jockey and comedy song expert Dr. Demento, who gave air time to Yankovic’s early parodies of the Knack’s then-chart-topping new wave hit “My Sharona” (recast as “My Bologna”) and Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” (as “Another One Rides the Bus”).

Times have changed.

On-demand services have arguably supplanted radio, and Dr. Demento, whose real name is Barret Hansen, jokes that the reaction today to Yankovic is a little different than it was back in the day.

“Now, the response is ‘My God, is he still around?’”

Not only is Yankovic still going strong—his most recent album, 2014’s “Mandatory Fun,” debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. pop chart—but he’s out to experiment. As the music industry transitions from album sales to streaming, Yankovic, now free of his record deal, is questioning what it means to be a veteran independent artist in 2017.

“My record contract is over, and I’m not anticipating signing a new one,” he said.

He’s at work on a major career retrospective, one that will be released under a crowdsourcing-like model, and he says he envisions the future Yankovic to become a primarily singles-based artist.

“I’m not saying the album is a dying format or that it’s not a valid medium,” he said. “But for me it always held me back a little bit.

I know that sounds a little ironic after coming off a No. 1 album.

But I have to stay true to what I think is the best way for me to get my material out.”

Chief among his concerns: the shelf life for a comedy song in the age of YouTube.

“It’s been frustrating in the past to have an idea for a song, then to write it and record it, and then have it sit in the can for a year until I have 12 songs to release all at once,” he said. “In today’s culture, where people have a short attention span and there are 10 million people on YouTube doing song parodies and funny material, things age pretty badly, and very quickly.

“For me to be competitive at all,” he continued, “I think it behooves me to think more of myself as a singles artist going forward.”

First, though, Yankovic, who lives comfortably with his wife— photographer Suzanne Yankovic —and their 14-year-old daughter, Nina, in the Hollywood Hills, is hard at work again, this time helping Sony Legacy compile a career-spanning box set, titled— what else? —“Squeeze Box.”

“Humor is such an important part of the human experience. I just don’t know why showcasing it makes people think, ‘You’re not a real artist.’ Artists who inject humor into their music run the risk of being labeled a ‘joke’ band.”

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It will be housed in a replica of one of his signature accordions.

The 16-disc collection will gather all his original studio albums, from 1983’s “’Weird Al’ Yankovic” through “Mandatory Fun,” plus a bonus disc of rarities, a 100-page book of photos and other “Weird Al” ephemera.

Those albums have sold more than 9.2 million copies in the U.S. since Nielsen Music began monitoring retail sales in 1991.

The way “Squeeze Box” is being rolled out is reflective of a new era in the music business.

Sony Legacy is assembling it via its PledgeMusic.com direct-to-consumer wing, which functions like a crowd-sourcing site. PledgeMusic has begun taking orders for the set with a target release date of this fall. This ensures that production will be able to keep a close pace with consumer demand.

Yankovic says the project was Legacy’s idea.

He quickly disperses any suspicions on the part of his visitor that all this looking back meant he was ready to slow down.

“I’m not retiring _ at least I hope I’m not,” he said with the easy laugh that punctuates many of his comments. “I like to think I’m going to continue to be active. But this seemed like a good demarcation, it seemed like the end of an era.”

Kid with talent It’s now been a bit more than 40 years since the four-time

Grammy Award winner from Lynwood started seeping into the public consciousness, all thanks to an original song, “Belvedere Cruising,” which he wrote about his family’s Plymouth Belvedere, and mailed in 1976 to L.A.-based radio-show host Dr. Demento.

So what was it about “Belvedere Cruising” that caught Hansen’s ear?

“There was a line in that song, ‘There’s something about a Comet/That makes me want to vomit,’” said Hansen, who still assembles a weekly show spotlighting “funny music” for Internet radio on his website. “He was referencing all these different car models and why they can’t compare to the Belvedere. That line woke me up. I thought, ‘This kid has some talent.’ He sent me another song, and then another, and they just kept getting better and better.”

It led to a 1982 record deal with the Columbia-associated Scotti Brothers label.

Over the ensuing decades Yankovic would amass an authoritative body of seriously silly work. Many of his songs have tweaked the overarching seriousness of the entertainment world while also demonstrating a canny grasp of what is au courant in the pop music world at any given time.

The Doors’ drummer John Densmore praised Yankovic’s pastiche of the iconic L.A. rock group’s sound and look as “very amusing” in his song “Craigslist,” which is taken from his 2011 album “Alpocalypse.”

More recently he even pulled off the unlikely feat of bringing grammar and sentence structure into the forefront of pop music with “Word Crimes,” his sendup of Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’ ubiquitous “Blurred Lines.”

Yankovic’s catalog, though it relies on skewed takes of popular hits, also offers essentially a snapshot of pop trends. Don McLean, Michael Jackson, Nirvana, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift are among the many acts who fell in Yankovic’s crosshairs.

He’s usually received the greatest attention for his individual song parodies, but he also has crafted smart pastiches in the styles of specific artists such as Brian Wilson (“Pancreas”), Bob Dylan (“Bob,” a song consisting completely of palindromes) and L.A. art-pop duo Sparks (“Virus Alert”).

Sparks founding member Ron Mael said this week, “He makes me laugh and who can explain his immense popularity

“Weird Al” Yankovic is photographed at the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Party, on Feb. 11, 2017 in Los Angeles. LA TIMES

not only within our shores, but in non-English-speaking countries like Japan? Freaky.”

His brand of parody is generally considered legally safe under the 1st Amendment’s free speech protections and “fair use” interpretations of U.S. copyright law, but Yankovic still prefers to work with the permission of the artists whose songs he tweaks. That’s meant he has skipped Paul McCartney, Prince and Eminem, all of whom declined to give permission when he approached them with parody ideas.

On the other hand, some artists are more than willing. He credits Madonna for suggesting the idea of turning her 1984 hit “Like a Virgin” into “Like a Surgeon.”

Humor’s importance Today, Yankovic has outlasted many of the acts he lampooned —lovingly, for the most part—including Survivor, Men Without Hats and the Police. Not bad for a novelty act; except maybe don’t use that word around him.

“It is novelty, but that’s sort of a derisive term, or at least it’s used that way a lot,” he said. “(It’s) generally considered the domain of one-hit wonders, which is something I’ve been fighting since I signed a record deal.”

As far as Yankovic is con-

cerned, musicians who incorporate humor into their work in a big way are often marginalized.

“Humor is such an important part of the human experience,” he said. “I just don’t know why showcasing it makes people think, ‘You’re not a real artist.’

Artists who inject humor into their music run the risk of being labeled a ‘joke’ band.

“I wear that label proudly, of course, but it’s sad to me that other artists will hide the lighter side of their personality, or their sense of humor, because they’re afraid that it’s going to get points marked off their grade.”

Novelty or not, Yankovic is genuinely excited about moving into a new phase of his career, one that embraces the technological changes that have flummoxed many in the music business.

“For the first 15 years of my career,” Yankovic said, “everybody was looking at me and going, ‘When is he going away? He was supposed to last like 15 minutes.’

“It took me up until, gosh, probably the beginning of this century to get to the point where people decided ‘Oh, I guess he’s going to stick around for a while.’”

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>> PROGRESS from page 3 there was a place that I could plug in to get connected and get a good idea of what’s happening,” Bondi said.

Brunmeier, the Events Coordination Chair of Fort Collins for Progress, said she has developed a strong relationship with city officials, which helps the organization hold rallies and marches.

“I’ve really gotten connected with the city officials and (have) been able to teach other organizations (how to organize a rally),” Brunmeier said.

The organization recently helped Fort Collins Girl Gang host the Planned Parenthood rally.

Brunmeier said Fort Collins for Progress has received praise from the Fort Collins Police Department for organiz-

ing peaceful rallies which has improved the relationship between the two groups. “(The Fort Collins Police Department has) said, ‘We know you can put on a good event and so we’re trusting you’ which has really been important to us,” Brunmeier said.

Bondi and Stringer said that the support of the community, as well as Brunmeier’s relationship with city officials and the Fort Collins Police Department, has allowed the organization to host events, like the immigration march, on short notice.

Fort Collins for Progress expected a couple hundred people to attend the immigration march but over two thousand people attended.

“The police didn’t think that it was going to be what it

>> INFECTION from page 7 informed consent in African American men in rural Alabama over the course of 40 years in the prime of the 20th century. Although valuable information was gleaned from the studies, many of the men involved in the study died of syphilis and numerous women and children were subsequently affected as well.

What have we learned? If you’re going to get an STI, get a bacterial one. At least they’re treatable.

But try not to get syphilis.

ital herpes generally only causes mild irritation and does not really lead to infertility or life-threatening illness.

Symptoms: Small sores or blisters on or around genitals, anus, or mouth. Symptoms can also be so mild that they may go unnoticed, or may not be nonexistent.

Is it treatable? Treatable, yes.

Antiviral medications do exist to help shorten or prevents outbreaks and can also be used to help alleviate symptoms. However, genital herpes cannot be cured. Once you’ve got it, you’ve got it for good.

Fun fact: HSV is in the same family of viruses as Epstein Barr virus (Mono) and chicken pox.

Possible complications: Although generally rare, genital herpes can leave people more susceptible to other STIs because of the open sores. There is also a potential risk of meningitis and urethritis, inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord and inflammation of the urethra, respectively.

Viral Infections: Viral STIs range from harmless to downright frightening.

Let’s take a look, shall we?

Human papillomavirus, more commonly known as HPV, is the most common STI in the United States, viral or bacterial.

Symptoms: Warts, and you don’t get them by kissing toads. Depending on the strain, the warts can pop up anywhere from your head to your genitals to your toes. HPV can also be asymptomatic, allowing for unwitting transfer of the virus.

Fun fact: the papilloma virus that infects rabbits causes horn-like growths on the animal’s head, birthing the Jackalope myth.

Is it treatable? Treatable, yes.

Curable, no. HPV is generally ‘cleared’ by the immune system, but can persist in the body indefinitely.

Possible complications: Multiple strains of HPV have been found to cause cancer (most notably, cervical cancer), so it is important that young folks (that means you) ask their doctors about the vaccine.

Genital herpes (HSV-2) is the second most common viral STI and tends to earn shudders as it has gained more attention in popular media. However, gen-

The last viral infection on the list is the one that has received the most lip service of any of the STIs: HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).

Symptoms: The first sign of infection presents as flu-like, with a fever and a sore throat. Then the person will be asymptomatic (though contagious) for years as HIV and the immune system duke it out. HIV eventually wins out by hijacking important white blood cell machinery. From there the disease progresses to full blown AIDS, in which individuals are susceptible to life-threatening secondary infections.

Fun fact: Contrary to popular beliefs from the 1980s, HIV/AIDS is a primarily heterosexual disease.

Is it treatable? Yes, to a degree.

“It’s good to be able to come together and put events together to incorporate issues that people don’t necessarily know how to plug into.”

LACEY BRUNMEIER FORT COLLINS FOR PROGRESS

turned out to be,” Bondi said.

“There were two officers on duty at the beginning and they ended up calling in for backup because 45 minutes before the event there were already 150 people there.”

Bondi said Fort Collins police have advised the group to pull permits and communicate

There are antiviral therapies that help slow the progress of the disease and that can prevent at-risk goups (such as those who have partners with HIV) from being infected. However, these treatments are super expensive and generally inaccessible to the third world, limiting the reach of their benefit. Gene therapy is also a hopeful avenue for treating HIV/AIDS. Possible complications: As previously stated, progressing to AIDS leaves the body open to opportunistic infections such as pneumonia. Because the body’s immune response is severely hindered, folks get infections more often and to a greater degree. These opportunistic infections are the leading cause of death for people with AIDS. What have we learned? Viral STIs cannot be cured and HIV/AIDS is scary, please don’t get it.

Although this certainly does not exhaust the list of STIs, crabs and trichomoniasis being other particularly notable infections, here’s a cursory overview of what could go wrong when you get down. Just as in other areas of life, interacting with people and the environment can sometimes make you sick, so it’s important to be smart and protect yourself.

Be sure to get yourself and your partner(s) tested, stay up to date on vaccines, get diagnosed and treated for STIs early and use condoms and dental dams when you make whoopee.

However, sometimes bad things happen and that’s okay.

People who have STIs still live normal, sexy, fulfilling lives, and their STI status does not define them. Just remember to stay open, honest and informed. And above all, safe skiddlypooping, everybody.

Allison Danish can be reached at opinion@collegian.com.

with police more so that the organization can continue hosting rallies.

According to Brunmeier it takes about 20 business days for city officials to pull permits, but Fort Collins for Progress has never given the city that much time. Brunmeier said city officials have approved the organization’s request to host rallies since they have developed the plans for events.

Stringer said Brunmeier’s relationship with the police and city officials has allowed Fort Collins for Progress to host their own events and help other organizations. “(With the Planned Parenthood rally)...if Lacey didn’t have the relationship she has with them they probably would have pulled the permit because it was at risk of becoming over

capacity,” Stringer said. “But they told her personally, ‘because it’s you, and we trust you, we’re allowing it to go forward.’”

Fort Collins for Progress hopes to continue to keep the community politically engaged by hosting more events. Their upcoming events include general meetings for residents to meet candidates in the upcoming city council and mayoral races.

“It’s good to be able to come together and put events together to incorporate issues that people don’t necessarily know how to plug into,” Brunmeier said. “We’ve become that hub of who to come to when they want to know how to take action.”

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

Daily Horoscope Nancy Black

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY

(03/01/17). Fortune smiles on your family this year, especially after May. Discipline benefits your career. Introspection and planning this August lead to breakthroughs in your health and labors. After December, collaboration pays off. Together, you can accomplish anything.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — 9

— You’re full of profitable ideas today and tomorrow. Slow down and avoid accidents and breakage. Find clever efficiencies. Spontaneous actions can have long-lasting consequences.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — 7 — Check your course before speeding up. You make things look easy over the next two days. Act quickly, without spending recklessly. Appearances can be deceiving.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — 6 — Slow down and finish things up today and tomorrow.

Clarify directions, plans and arrangements. Record a vivid dream or idea. Consider what would be required.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — 7 — Rely on your team over the next few days. Plan and organize before launching into action. Spontaneity could get expensive. Define your vision.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — 9 — Reassess what needs to get done, and take charge today and tomorrow. Prepare for examination. Enlist an imaginative partner. Together, you can achieve amazing things.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — 8 — Educational seminars, classes and journeys prove valuable today and tomorrow.

Take time for long-range planning to avoid expense and risk. A surprising development requires adaptation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — 8 — You’re more patient with finances over the next few days.

Focus on practical objectives.

Pay bills and resist the temptation to spend frivolously.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — 7 — Collaborate to get things done over the next few days.

Negotiate and compromise to strike a fair bargain. Navigate unexpected circumstances.

Review options before choosing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — 8 — Keep your exercise routines today and tomorrow.

You’re building long-term strength. Consider your health from a new angle. Sometimes the best move is standing still.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — 7 — Relax and enjoy time with loved ones over the next two days. Avoid risky business, despite emotion or temptation. Consider consequences. Let advancement occur naturally.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — 7 — Stay home and lay low over the next two days. Enjoy a practical, domestic phase.

Conserve your resources.

Make repairs early to avoid unexpected costs.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — 7 — Write and plan over the next few days. Research and edit. Don’t deplete resources. Organization allows for smooth action. Something bitter mellows with time.

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