Volume 126, No. 73 Monday, January 23, 2017
NEWS
CSU students attend Trump’s inauguration PAGE 3
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‘WE ARE ALL EQUAL’:
Participants gather outside the Denver Capitol Building during the Women’s March in Denver, Jan. 21, 2017. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN
Women’s March draws thousands, including from Fort Collins and CSU By Julia Rentsch @julia_rentsch
A crowd sporting thousands of pink hats strained bus routes and packed cafes in downtown Denver Saturday, chanting as they went “This is what democracy looks like!” and “This pussy grabs back!” About 100 thousand people converged on Civic Center Park to march in support of women’s rights, including members of the Colorado State University
and greater Fort Collins community. The Women’s March on Denver was one of over 600 sister marches organized in cities across the nation and abroad on the day following the inauguration of 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. Marchers gathered to protest Trump’s rhetoric and plans for policy change, and to demonstrate their support for human rights. Anna Davila, a CSU student studying interdisciplinary lib-
eral arts, said that she was motivated to join the march by a key issue: respect. “I feel like the current president doesn’t show respect to all cultures, and to all women, and just everybody, really. I just feel like he needs to be more respectful,” Davila said. She attended the event with Josh Gross of Broomfield, who said he was there in solidarity. “Words matter,” Gross said. Marchers carried a wide variety of signage that ranged from
In pictures: Women’s March on Denver PAGE 6
Watch the video of the march on our website: collegian.com.
the lighthearted to the serious: Some poked fun at the President’s characteristic combover hairstyle, while others communicated the holder’s support for concepts like inclusion and diversity. “This (march) is about things that affect everyone — it’s not just women, it’s all people,” said attendee Roberta Haber. “We want to show that all people have rights, we don’t want things changed, choice thrown out the window … We want everyone to see EQUAL on page 6 >>
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CITY
Hundreds turn out for liberal rally following inauguration By Rachel Telljohn @racheltelljohn
Two days after the inauguration, hundreds of students and community members in Fort Collins gathered at Rally for Our Rights, held at the Northside Aztlan Center. The rally, put on by Fort Collins for Progress (formerly Rams Against Trump) was designed to keep citizens involved in political issues during the offseason, as well as to keep them engaged and inspired. At its peak, the rally’s audience reached at least 200 attendees. The gym ran out of chairs and a sense of community felt tangible as many gave up their chairs or ensured that those who needed a chair had one. Shortly before the event was set to begin, a line queued up outside the gym, which surprised both the attendees and the hosts. Some carried with them signs left over from Saturday’s Women’s March in Denver. One organizer said she did not bring enough sign-up sheets for all the community members present. “I knew this was going to be big, I didn’t bring enough sheets
(to recruit more names),” said Suzanne Trask of the group Organizing for Action. “We’re here getting people to know that we’re still here.” Organizing for Action is a nonprofit group that advocates for issues on the agenda of former U.S. President Barack Obama. The group’s table hosted old Obama campaign signs, with “YES WE CAN” written by hand over top. “We’re now an issues-related organization,” Trask said. The organization has partnered with Colorado State’s School of Global and Environmental Sustainability to host events centered on climate change, an issue Trask said is a focus within the Fort Collins community. The most recent event, a panel discussion called Water in our Future, took place in November. Organizing for Action was one of about 30 groups tabling as attendees entered the gym as part of the Organization Expo, the first portion of the rally. Other organizations present included the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, Colorado’s chapter of the National Organization for Women and the
CSU freshman Olivia Nicholson holds the NoCo Herpetological Society’s Indian Rock Python named Smiles during Rally for Our Rights in Fort Collins, Jan. 22, 2017. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN
Northern Colorado Herpetological Society. “We need the youth, without any doubt,” said Deb James, president-elect of Colorado’s re-
newed NOW chapter. James, who will run unopposed this Tuesday for president of the NOW chapter and has worked to bring it back to Colo-
rado, stressed the importance of the involvement of the younger female generation. “You say ‘NOW’ and we know see RALLY on page 5 >>
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NEWS Monday, January 23, 2017
INAUGURATION
CSU students attend Trump inauguration in D.C. By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98
Juan Caro and Courtney Grubb, two CSU students, attended the presidential inauguration for Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Juan Caro, a member of the College Republicans at CSU and the Conservative Interest Group of Colorado, received the invitation to attend the inauguration for his work with Republican campaigns this past election season. “Every single person I’m here with worked on a campaign,” said Caro, who previously worked on the Darryl Glenn campaign. “We all came here to see this together, kind of as a reward for all our hard work … (and) to see our candidates that won, to visit them, to say ‘hi’ to them, and then come to the inauguration. I’d say about 70 percent of the group that we work with is here right now.” “It was a huge honor to be here,” Caro said. “It was great to have the Trump campaign and the Inauguration Committee provide us with such great tickets so that we could attend. It was a great ‘thank you’ from their campaign.” Caro said Trump’s victory signified a shift in American politics. “I think this is a fantastic Republican victory,” Caro said. “For me, it shows that you can be anti-establishment and still win. It shows that, although he is a very controversial man, I believe he is a modest man, and hopefully he is going to get done what he
promised in his speech. Hopefully, he gives the country back to the people.” Caro mentioned the presence of protesters as he left the inauguration. “Protesters have blocked off every major highway,” Caro said. “We can’t get out of D.C.” Caro also stated that a conservative was hit in the back of the head with a flag pole by a protester. Caro added that protestors shoved, punched, harrassed, and spit on people wearing “Make America Great Again” hats in a statement to the Collegian. Protesters were reported to have started demonstrating before the inauguration began. Nearly 100 protesters were arrested after damaging windows and cars, and throwing rocks at police near the inauguration ceremony, according to CNN. Courtney Grubb, a junior political science major, also attended the inauguration with her family and friends. Grubb said the opportunity to attend the inauguration was not one she wanted to miss. “For me, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Grubb said. “I don’t know if I’ll be able to do this again, so I just wanted to be able to witness history.” Grubb said she felt that she witnessed history in the making while attending. “It was thrilling (to be there),” Grubb said. “I knew this was history. Everything has been changing over the past couple
Vaisala announces donation of new weather radar equipment to CSU By MQ Borocz
engineering professor V. Chandrasekar. “It’s an exciting opportunity to teach our students Vaisala Inc. announced and further our research.” today that they are donatWeather radar equipment ing brand new weather radar like the C-band radar consists equipment, a C-band radar, to of a parabolic dish that spins Colorado State University. around and sends waves into Vaisala is a company who the atmosphere. The waves, manufactures environmen- which travel at the speed of tal and industrial measure- light, bounce off of hydro metement equipment and has been orites such as ice or water partiworking with CSU to config- cles and travel back to the dish. ure a C-band radar specifi- The radar equipment uses the cally for the university. The signals to measure the amount C-band radar will be used by of such particles in the air. the College of Engineering, Unlike some other weather the Department of Electrical radar equipment, the C-band and Computer Engineering radar uses dual polarization, and the Department of Atmo- which splits the signal sent spheric Sciences, according to out into the atmosphere into Scott Sternberg, president of a horizontal wave and a vertiVaisala in the U.S. The C-band cal wave. This allows scientists radar will allow scientists and and researchers to better deresearchers to determine the termine the type of particles in type of precipitation in the at- the air, water droplets or snow mosphere and to predict severe or ice particles. weather. “The idea is that a water droplet falling squishes out like a pancake, so if you bounce a horizontal radar wave off it “(We) are pleased to you get a strong signal. If you bounce a vertical wave you get a contribute a C-band weaker signal,” Sternberg said. weather radar to “But a snow particle is more support the world-class like a little snowball so you get research going on there, an equal response.” According to Sternberg, taking the art of weather Vaisala and CSU have a long radars into yet unseen history of collaboration in furthering and promoting scienlevels of performance tific research. An example is and significance.” their support of CO-LABS, a KJELL FORSÉN non-profit organization that VAISALA CEO promotes the importance of basic science and federally funded research laboratories in Colorado. Sternberg currently sits as chair and CSU vice pres“We highly respect the ident for research, Alan Ruefforts and achievements of dolph is also on the board. VaisCSU´s faculty and students,” ala also conducts an internship wrote Vaisala CEO Kjell Forsén program for CSU students in in a press release. “(We) are Louisville and according to pleased to contribute a C-band Sternberg, 10 percent of Vaisaweather radar to support the la’s workforce are CSU alumni, world-class research going on including Sternberg himself. there, taking the art of weather He and Vaisala hope that radars into yet unseen levels of donating the C-band radar to performance and significance.” CSU will give students access The C-band radar is small- to a piece of equipment they er than other radar equipment, wouldn’t have normally had acwhich allows it to be transport- cess to as well as provide future ed around the country or the opportunities. world. “Our wish is not just to give “The radar can travel with CSU a piece of hardware, it’s to us to international areas where give CSU an instrument that we haven’t been able to bring will be critical in a number of radars to before, opening im- research projects going forportant possibilities to mea- ward in the future,” Sternberg sure weather-related phenom- said. ena in new locations,” wrote MQ Borocz can be reached CSU electrical and computer at news@collegian.com. @MQBorocz22
Courtney Grubb attended the inauguration with friends and family. PHOTO COURTESY OF COURTNEY GRUBB.
months since he was elected, and it was just inspiring to be able to be in his presence and listening to him give his speech after he was sworn in.” Grubb said that, during Trump’s inaugural speech, she believed his administration would return the government to the people. “I felt like he was going to go through with a lot of his promises that he’s made to us, and especially noting that the middle class was not going to be forgotten again,” Grubb said. “This administration is going back to the people. It’s not to the rich. It’s a government of the people, by the people and for the people.” Haley Candelario can be reached at news@collegian.com.
Juan Caro, pictured on the far left, attended the inauguration with other campaign workers. PHOTO COURTESY OF JUAN CARO
CAMPUS
NEWS Monday, January 23, 2017
CRIME
Fake 911 call results in officer-involved shooting, suspect in critical condition By Erin Douglas @erinmdouglas23
Fort Collins Police shot a suspect outside of a home near Rocky Mountain High School Saturday morning as a result of what has now been confirmed as a fake 911 call. Austin Snodgrass, the 24-year-old suspect who is now in critical condition, called 911 at 8 a.m. from his residence on the 1600th block of Hastings Drive to report that there was an intruder in his home stabbing his roommate. When two officers arrived on the scene, Snodgrass, who at the time officers believed to be the fabricated intruder, exited the home holding a gun.
Officer Matthew Brede fired several shots, striking Snodgrass. Brede was wearing a body camera at the time of the incident. It was later found that Snodgrass was holding a fake gun when he exited the home. The weapon was a pellet gun replica of a Walther handgun. Detectives later contacted the alleged stabbing victim, Snodgrass’ roommate, and found that he was unharmed and was not in the home at the time of the 911 call. Snodgrass was transported to Medical Center of the Rockies and is in critical condition. Neither officer was injured in the incident. Contrary to Snodgrass’ 911 call, there was no sign of disturbance found in
the home and no one else was home at the time of the incident. Brede has been placed on administrative leave in accordance with FCPS policy regarding officer-involved shootings. Breed has been with the agency since 2011, and previously served as a state trooper with the Wisconsin State Patrol. The 8th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team was activated to investigate the incident, and anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact Sgt. Heffernan at (970)416-1985. Erin Douglas can be reached at news@collegian. com.
>> RALLY from page 3 what it is,” James said. “(But), we’re not doing it for us.” James said the group holds values similar to those of other groups and individuals present at the rally, including reproductive rights for women. “If you come join us, you’ll feel better,” James said. Delana Maynes, of the ACLU of Colorado, also expressed the value of involvement. “I think everybody should sign up on our website,” Maynes said. Maynes was the first speaker to open up the panel portion of the rally as the expo wound down. She reiterated the idea that the ACLU is not just fighting for rights on the national level, but on the local level as well. Maynes said the group helped to stop Denver police from using social media to track the location of activists. Following Maynes, Andrew Bondi, of Fort Collins for Progress, spoke about the purpose of the organization and how a community can make a difference. Andy Boesenecker, of the Mustard Seed House, was the last to speak prior to the introduction of the panel. Boesnecker briefly addressed a variety of issues — climate change, health care, public education, rights for
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women, for people of color, for the LBGTQ community and for immigrants and refugees. “Now is the time for justice. (We) are here and not going away. We need you now. Get involved get loud,” Boesenecker said. Members of the panel, who volunteered their time to come to the rally, were John Kefalas, a Democratic state senator; Joann Ginal, state representative; Kristin Stephens, City Council member; David Trask, Poudre School District board member; Mara Brosy-Wiwchar, outreach director for congressmen Jared Polis; and Steve Johnson, Larimer County commissioner. The crowd thinned as the panel wrapped up the rally. Questions were submitted to a table prior to the panel taking the stage. Many of the questions asked addressed similar issues the organizations tabling were there to address, such as climate changeas it related to property rights and oil and gas companies, the Affordable Care Act, funding for teachers and public education, and how to protect LGBTQ rights under the current administration. “Nice that you’re all here, wonderful turnout,” Kefalas said. Rachel Telljohn can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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>> EQUAL from page 1 have the freedoms that everyone is entitled to. Everyone.” Fort Collins resident Hank Stowers emphasized that his participation in the march was motivated by a variety of issues, but importantly that of solidarity with people of all ethnicities, races, sexual preferences, religions, abilities and social classes. “Women comprise the largest population of oppressed people on earth, and this mass rejection of the patriarchy by municipalities across the United States and other nations is a strong reminder that feminism has more inertia and support than any opposing forces,” Stowers wrote to the Collegian. “Inaugurating a chauvinist, sexually violent president was certainly a catalyst for this protest, but the issues addressed extend far beyond the inauguration.” Many signs carried by marchers referenced a video unearthed during Trump’s campaign which depicted him speaking lewdly about women and contained the now-infamous phrase “grab them by the pussy.” Bright pink beanies knitted so as to resemble cat ears — aptly named “Pussy Hats” by an activist group that began knitting and distributing them — were a common sight. “It’s supposed to help make us more visible as we’re marching, but it’s really supposed to be a way for people to contribute without having to protest,” said Tina Dickinson, a marcher sporting a salmon-colored hat. Many march participants had a common grievance: the incoming Presidential administration.
“I feel like this administration is not going to address (issues) and in fact they have sent a message that is opposite of what I feel,” said Kathy Dorman, who completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s at CSU. “The rhetoric against women … is terribly crude and disrespectful. I think women’s rights are Americans’ rights.” Others said their motivation to join the march was not necessarily political. Sarah G., a CSU graduate who declined to give her last name, said that she attended the march because she is “very generally in support of women and all humans.” The principles of intersectionality and inclusivity were emphasized by many marchers and were included in the march’s official mission statement, which specifically named “immigrants of all statuses, Muslims and those of diverse religious faiths, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities (and) survivors of sexual assault” among their focuses. Controversy emerged earlier this week, however, over the march’s status as inclusive to all women. Requests from anti-abortion groups to be officially included among the more than 400 official partners of the march were reportedly denied by march organizers. Emily Faulkner, president of CSU Students for Life, said that her group had not attended the March on Denver due to a prior commitment to attend the 13th Annual Walk for Life in San Francisco, which occurred the same day. She said, however, that
her group would have “absolutely” attended the March on Denver, regardless of the controversy, had they not planned ahead to attend the Walk for Life. “I think that when they excluded pro-lifers it really made me angry, but we would have gone to the walk anyways in solidarity with other pro-lifers,” Faulkner said. Most march attendees expressed positivity about the event, citing the larger-than-expected turnout and peaceful nature of the demonstration. “This is so heartwarming,” said 77-year-old Geoff Bruce, who marched alongside his wife, Harriet Hall, wearing a gray and pink cat-eared hat. “Isn’t it marvelous how one person who hates has unified so many people? “I’m a female today; I am a feminist,” Bruce said. Julia Rentsch can be reached at editor@collegian.com.
Emily and Jared Oubre showed their support of love and women through their participation in the Women’s March on Denver. PHOTO BY JULIA TROWBRIDGE COLLEGIAN
Parade leaders pass the Convention Center during the Women’s March. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN
A march participant helps lead the parade through Denver. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN
The Women’s March on Denver progresses down 15th street. PHOTO BY JULIA TROWBRIDGE COLLEGIAN
OPINION Monday, January 23, 2017
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In a shocking turn of events, Democrats suddenly support small government INAUGURATION
Taylor Tougaw @ttougaw
If you’re anything like 100% of my social media friends, then you watched the inauguration on Friday with an impending sense of foreboding and despair. You’re also probably certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Trump will ruin this country and drive everything we’ve worked so hard for into the ground.
I have a newsflash for you: The president doesn’t have the kind of power that you think he does. At least, he’s not supposed to. If you’re still feeling a sense of terror surrounding the next four years, there might be a reason for that. I have a newsflash for you: The president doesn’t have the kind of power that you think he does. At least, he’s not supposed to. If you’re still feeling a sense of terror surrounding the next four years, there might be a reason for that. That reason is the fact that the power of the executive branch has increased in power exponentially over the last eight years. President Obama created an executive branch so powerful that Trump can walk right in the front door and suck all of that power up. For the past roughly seventy years, Republicans have been yelling at Democrats not to increase the power of the government. Any government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away. Also, for the past seventy years, Democrats have told Republicans to kiss their asses. Here’s a quick history lesson summed up so fast that all of my history and political science professors will wish they had my
job: The United States started off in what we call the ‘orthodox’ years, meaning that the trust in government was small, and the federal government remained roughly equal in power to state governments. In constitution law, we call this time period the era of dual federalism, meaning again that the federal and state governments work in tandem with another, just as the founding fathers intended. Then, everything suddenly changed in the 1930s. This little thing called the Great Depression smacked the United States right in the face, and government flipped on its head. Now, we enter an era know as ‘the middle years,’ or in other words, ‘this is so crazy we can’t think of a better thing to call it.’ In constitutional law, we call this the era of cooperative federalism. In a nutshell, the power of the federal government, from the thirties to the seventies, explodes. This is when Franklin D. Roosevelt takes over, and we see the creation of an alphabet soup of new federal agencies. This is also when we get the creation of federal welfare programs, Social Security, and other benefits to society like the Civilian Conservation Corp. These programs had a lot to do with what brought the United States out of the Great Depression, and aimed to keep us from ever going back. Now, in the early 20th century, we are seeing a return to the orthodox views of a dual federalist government; one that is smaller and less intrusive in people’s lives. However, recent abuses of power in the executive branch have started giving many Republicans cause for concern. As noted in my coworker Allec Brusts’ column, titled The Power of the Executive Branch has Increased Dramatically, and this is Cause for Concern, the use of presidential signing statements has increased dramatically during the last sixteen years. A signing statement is when a president effectively writes their own, personal interpretation of a law when they sign it. The American Bar Association has stated that this “undermines the rule of law and our constitutional system of separation of powers.” President Bush was infamous for using an asinine amount of signing statements, which caused massive congressional and legal outrage. When Obama campaigned for his presidency,
he railed against Bush using signing statements, sayings things like “It is a clear abuse of power to use such statements as
a license to evade laws that the president does not like or as an end run around provisions designed to foster accountability. I
will not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted see DEMOCRATS on page 8 >>
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>> DEMOCRATS from page 7 instructions as enacted into law.” Well, to say it succinctly, he’s a liar and a hypocrite. Obama has employed signing statements many, many times. Why wouldn’t he? He came into an office that actively supported it, and a congress and public that didn’t care anymore. Bush had given him the ultimate present: a job where Obama could walk in the front door with all the power that it had taken Bush eight years to get. It would actually be more ridiculous, logically speaking, for Obama to voluntarily give up that power than it would be to use it. Now, Obama has done the same thing for Trump. I used the example of signing statements because its easy to understand, yet relatively harmless. To put it in more terror-inducing terms, think about this: The country absolutely demonized Bush for engaging in two long, costly wars that killed innocent civilians and cost us trillions of dollars. Obama campaigned on the pledge that he would end the wars in the Middle East. Weirdly enough, eight years later, we still have troops in Iraq (that Obama doubled). On top of this, Obama has used the CIA to conduct military style drone strikes in countries that we aren’t even at war with. If you’ve ever been scared of your president, let this sink in: Obama was at war all eight years of his presidency, and used a non-military entity to drop bombs on potentially civilian targets in countries we aren’t even at war with, yet was still awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize. If this doesn’t sound like an absolutely terrifying overstep of executive power, then go live in the Soviet Union, because that is absolutely insane. Now, Trump gets to walk right in that front door. All of the power that Obama piled up in his presidency is now being handed into the lap of Donald Trump with a nice, pretty little bow. Power only expands; it never recedes, and Trump has absolutely zero incentive to voluntarily shrink the power of the executive branch. If I had to guess, the only thing he will do is expand his power even more, just like Obama did after Bush. If you think that the incessant wars and ludicrous pay-or-be-punished healthcare plans were too much, then we’re all in for a world of hurt when Trump does whatever he wants on an even larger scale. Take executive orders as another example. Executive orders are a power that is vested to the president absolutely nowhere in the constitution, yet they let the president act as if he is the legislative branch by letting them bypass the debate process that precedes a bill. One horrifying example of this is when Japanese Americans were placed into internment camps under Franklin D Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor. Executive orders had dropped dramatically since the days of FDR’s reign, due to the shift from a cooperative federalism ideal back to a dual federalism idea. However, at the height of his office, FDR issued over 3,500 executive orders, pushing one a day. While the usage has dropped considerably since then, the door has been left open for a president to be able to make executive orders at a rate of almost one per day. How many do you think Trump will make? He’s already used one in his first day in office. So for those of you dreading Trump’s presidency, you only have yourself to blame. You’ve been warned for years that the government should not have too much power. Now, you created that power and put it right in the hands of your worst enemy. Congratulations, you played yourself. Taylor Tougaw can be reached at opinion@ collegian.com.
NATION
Trump’s recycled campaign speech made no effort to bring Americans together Los Angeles Times
No one expected Donald Trump’s inaugural address to join John F. Kennedy’s in the annals of presidential oratory. His own advisors telegraphed that the speech would be brief and “workmanlike.” But they also signaled that the new president would outline a vision for the country. That’s what we were hoping to hear after Trump was sworn in as president, along with some words of reassurance for Americans who are apprehensive about his ascension to the Oval Office because of his divisive and ugly campaign rhetoric. What the nation got instead was a recycled campaign speech. President Trump, like candidate Trump, offered absurd oversimplifications (“The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed across the entire world”) and made promises that will be impossible to keep (the “carnage” in American cities caused by gangs and drugs “stops right here and stops right now”). The speech was a virtual Greatest Hits of Trump campaign cliches, from “America First” to “America will start winning again, winning like never before” to, of course, the climactic closing in which the president pledged (you guessed it) to “Make America great again.” It would be unreasonable to expect Trump to abandon those themes, which, after all, served him well in the race for the White House. But his first speech as president offered him
the opportunity to acknowledge, as his advisors and Cabinet appointees recognize, that governing requires more than slinging slogans and that no president can magically end crime or eradicate terrorism. Instead, he stayed defiantly in crass campaign mode.
A larger problem with the speech was Trump’s failure to reach out in more than a perfunctory way to the millions of Americans who not only didn’t support him but also were offended and even alarmed by his comments about immigrants and racial minorities. A larger problem with the speech was Trump’s failure to reach out in more than a perfunctory way to the millions of Americans who not only didn’t support him but also were offended and even alarmed by his comments about immigrants and racial minorities _ not to mention women, who are expected to descend in droves on the capital Saturday for a protest march. He seemed to be directing his remarks almost exclusively to the “forgotten men and women” he had cultivated on the campaign trail, the ones eager to roll back the clock to a time before globalization and
automation wiped out manufacturing jobs and demographic changes altered once-homogeneous communities. He did speak of healing divisions, but in the context of creating a “new national pride” that would subordinate rather than respect differences. He cited “that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag.” What Trump fails to see in this vision of inclusive patriotism is that not all Americans share the glorious freedoms he celebrates, at least not to the same extent. Missing in the speech was any recognition that he has a responsibility, especially given his divisive campaign, to bring Americans together. In his victory statement on election night, Trump showed an awareness of the importance of such outreach. On that occasion, he said: “Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division” and pledged that “I will be president for all of Americans.” Friday’s speech would have benefited from such a gesture. If Trump governs effectively _ a big if, based on all that we’ve seen of him so far _ it will matter little that he delivered a hackneyed and unmemorable inaugural address. Still, this speech offered the new president a unique opportunity to reintroduce himself to the American people. He squandered it. Content from Tribune News Service.
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SPORTS Monday, January 23, 2017
TRACK & FIELD
BASKETBALL
Records keep falling for CSU track and field By Eric Wolf @Eric_Wolf5
The Colorado State Rams indoor track and field team kept its momentum this weekend as the team continued to re-write the program record book at the Deloss Dodds Invitational in Manhattan, Kansas. All CSU senior sprinter Lorenda Holston did last week at the Potts Invitational in Boulder was set the two fastest times in program history in the women’s 60-meter hurdles, running a time of 8.18 in the preliminaries and an 8.23 in the final en route to winning the event. On Saturday, Holston upped the ante even more, running an 8.15 in the finals to break her own school record and win the event in meet record time. Holston now holds the three fastest times in CSU history in the event, and she also claimed first place in the women’s 60-meter run on Saturday with a time of 7.51. “What I like about Lorenda’s time of 8.15 is that historically, it’s been a mark that makes the NCAA Championships,” CSU sprints and hurdles coach Karim Abdel Wa-
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hab said. “We’re very happy, but we’re not satisfied yet. The goal is to continue to progress, contend for the conference title and work toward a better rank at the NCAA Championships.” Holston was not the only athlete breaking records at the meet, as junior shot putter Mostafa Hassan added another honor to his already illustrious career when he set a meet record with a 65-1.5 to win the men’s shot put by over 6-feet on Saturday. And the Rams swept the shot put events when senior Aaliyah Pete hit her best mark of the year with a 54-6.75 to take home first place in the women’s shot put event. “Considering Mostafa (Hassan) just got back from Egypt and was blasted from travel, I thought he responded very well to competition,” CSU head coach Brian Bedard said. “We’re working on some things with him technically that requires him to be a little more relaxed - and he got a little amped up - but I obviously thought he did a good job. Lorenda had a big day, moving up in the NCAA standings. Aaliyah Pete obviously had a big day too, so we had some real highlights.”
Other Rams with solid meets included senior Josh Cogdill and junior Nick Kravec, who went 1-2 in the men’s heptathlon. Cogdill won the event with a score of 5,217, while Kravec ended Saturday’s competition with 5,107 points. Junior Hunter Price took the weekend off from heptathlon action and led the Rams to a 1-2-3 finish in the men’s 60-meter hurdles. Price ran a 8.14 to win the event, while Jalen Hunter finished just behind Price with a time of 8.16. Teammate Jace Horak completed the CSU sweep, running a time of 8.33 in the finals. In the women’s pole vault, junior Stephanie Bess finished tied for first with a mark of 12-2, while freshman Aliya Simpson hit a personal best mark of 11-8 to take home third place. Bess’s 12-2 now sits as the eighth-best mark in CSU history. Colorado State track and field will be back in action Feb. 3 in the CU Invitational in Boulder, Colorado and also the New Mexico Collegiate Classic and Multis in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Eric Wolf can be reached by email at sports@collegian.com.
Swedish duo leads Rams to fifth straight victory By Colin Barnard @ColinBarnard_
After multiple games in which Colorado Sate had to rely on one of its second options, the Swedish duo of leaders Elin Gustavsson and Ellen Nystrom carried the Rams to a lopsided 74-43 victory over Utah State. In one of the most complete victories of the season for the Rams (14-5, 6-1 MW), Gustavsson recorded her third double-double with 22 points and 12 rebounds, one shy of her career-high. Nystrom added 20 points of her own and fell one assist short of a double-double. Perhaps the most remarkable part of the two’s performance was the combined 18of-23 shooting paired with just three turnovers. “We are leaders of this team and we want to show that,” Gustavsson said. “We want to show our leadership on the court, too, as well as off the court. I think tonight we were able to do that.”
That efficiency carried over to the rest of the team as well, as the Rams shot 57 percent from the field and 42 percent from behind the arc. The majority of open looks were set up by impressive ball work as the team assisted on an incredible 24 of their 30 field goals. “We are getting better chemistry,” Nystrom said. “We know where each other are at, because we have a pretty new team compared to last year. We kind of just need to figure each other out and I think right now, it feels pretty good and it’s fun to play.” Rachel Brewster, Utah State’s leading scorer, opened hot with eight quick points and two made three-pointers. Leading 18-13 after the first ten minutes of play, the Rams took off in the second quarter, outscoring the Aggies 21-2. The two points mark the best defensive performance from the team in any quarter this season. see SWEDISH on page 10 >>
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SPORTS Monday, January 23, 2017
BASKETBALL
Omogbo earns 10th double-double of season in win over Utah State By Justin Michael @JustinTMichael
The Colorado State men’s basketball team took their frustrations out on the court Saturday night, ending a two-game losing skid with a 64-56 road victory over the Utah State Aggies. In a game which the Rams never trailed, CSU (12-8, 4-3 Mountain West) won with a gritty defensive effort and smart, unselfish team basketball on the other end. Emmanuel Omogbo shined in the victory, leading the team in scoring and picking up the 18th double-double of his career (20 points, 16 rebounds). Omogbo’s 10 double-double’s this season leads the Mountain West. His presence is vital to this team on both ends of the floor and the senior did a nice job at putting himself in a position where he could stay on the floor and help
close out the victory. “We had some good days leading up to today,” CSU head coach Larry Eustachy said in a statement. “When we started the Fresno State game, we got the tip and Prentiss (Nixon) flipped it back with one hand to J.D. (Paige) and the rest was history. Today he snapped it back to him. We are talking about maturing an inch at a time and I thought we showed great poise until the very end and that’s just immaturity trying to mature. But what a win.” Along with a strong performance from Omogbo, the Rams guards also played a big role in the victory by protecting the basketball. Gian Clavell, J.D. Paige and Prentiss Nixon combined for just three turnovers while contributing a total of 38 points. After being blown out by the Bulldogs Wednesday night, Saturday night’s victory was
huge for a Rams team that has struggled to do the basics over the last couple of games. Tonight, the Rams were able to get back to what they do best, which is playing strong defense and owning the post. The Rams out-rebounded the Aggies 4137, while holding them to 37 percent shooting from the field. Colorado State has won the rebounding battle in 12 of their 20 games this season, going 10-1 in those contests. The win over the Aggies is just the second of Larry Eustachy’s Colorado State tenure and first since March 7, 2015. The win also puts the program at one game above .500 in their 115-year history (1,228 - 1,227). Colorado State will take the court again this Wednesday, when they host the San Jose Spartans (9-8) at Moby Arena. Justin Michael can be reached by email at sports @collegian.com.
>> SWEDISH from page 9 “Early on in the first quarter, we lost Brewster a couple times,” head coach Ryun Williams said. “And then I think we got familiar with how they were trying to attack. Our defensive rotations were a little more spot on. We arrived to a shooter a little more on time. We changed the angles in which we played it a little bit, which I think slowed them down.” Callie Kaiser also reached double-digits, scoring 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting. Her defensive pressure created turnovers throughout that second quarter, as she finished with three steals in 29 minutes of action. “The biggest thing is, we were active. Once we start getting touches, and our kids feed off of that, then we become extremely disruptive.” Again, Williams relied on a seven-player rotation for the majority of the game. Though Sofie Tryggedsson was dressed, it may have been for more precautionary reasons as she did
not play. Jordyn Edwards and early-season starter Veronika Mirkovic both remained sidelined. Still, Saturday’s game may have been the best basketball that the team has played all year. When healthy, they can only continue trending upwards. “We really understand how we have to play under control,” Williams said. “There seems to be a patience, we’re not throwing the ball all over the gym. This is about as solid as we’ve played. But we need to continue to get better, this can’t be the tip.” The Rams will now travel to San Jose State to face the Spartans in a rematch of the team’s most exciting game this season. In their matchup on January 4th, Ellen Nystrom and her 32 points carried the Rams to victory in an overtime thriller. Tip-off is set for 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Colin Barnard can be reached by email at sports @collegian.com.
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SPORTS Monday, January 23, 2017
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SWIM & DIVE
TENNIS
Senior day ends in defeat for CSU swimming and diving
Rams bounced by Buffs at home to begin spring season
By Tyler Johnson @TylerGJohnson
Colorado State swimming and diving fell to Mountain West rival Wyoming 173.5-126.5 Saturday at the Moby Pool as the team honored their seniors. “It is never fun to lose, but I believe we have made steps in the right direction,” CSU swim and dive head coach Christopher Woodard said. “Hopefully this rivalry will be back to where it was a few years ago.” In a poolside presentation before the meet began, Colorado State honored their nine senior members: Jenna Beaury, Teagan Griffith, Allie Jacobs, Meg Loyd, Gabby Morely, Elizabeth Prasse, Karin Roh, Emily Williams and Bailey Williamson. The 2016 graduating class has worked to earn degrees representing seven different majors. “To see that growth and maturity and setting standards for the classes after them has been so important,” Woodard said about the graduating class. “We owe them a debt of gratitude and I hope when they finish that they have smiles on their faces and that they remember this fondly.” The meet did not end the way CSU had hoped for their seniors, but the loss did not prevent some personal victories. Sophomore Haley Rowley took first in three individual events (500 & 1000 freestyle, 200 IM), as she totaled 27 points for CSU. “That 100 backstroke, I believe, is her best duel-meet time ever and it certainly is if you
include altitude-adjustment,” Woodard said about Rowley’s performance. “I know she was hurting down at the end, but she pulled out the win. I’m very proud of the way she swam.” In addition to Rowley’s standout performance, sophomore Tonicia Thomas won the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:02.79, while junior Rowan Hauber won the 100 backstroke via a time of 56.04. In the diving pool, the Rams were unable to break through against the Cowgirls. In the 1-meter event, freshman Madison Gess finished 4th with a team-leading score of 244.13. In the 3-meter event, sophomore Nicole Sisco was able to finish 3rd with a total score of 256.65. The Colorado State Women’s diving team will travel to Colorado Springs next weekend to participate in the Air Force Academy Diving Invitational. As the Rams’ season starts to come to an end, the ladies are preparing for the Mountain West Conference Championships in College Station, Texas. “These girls are chomping at the bit to get to the championship, and compete against some of the best,” Woodard said about the team’s excitement for the postseason. CSU will be looking to build off an 8th place performance in last years’ event. The teams will wrap up the regular season with a duel meet February 1, against the University of Northern Colorado at the Moby Pool at 5:00 p.m. MT. Collegian sports reporter Tyler Johnson can be reached by email at sports@collegian.com.
By Austin White @ajwrules44
The Colorado Buffaloes came into the Fort Collins County Club and took care of business against the Colorado State Rams, winning the match 7-0 as the Rams started out their spring season with a loss. It started with the doubles matches where the Rams No. 3 squad of Riley Reeves/Solene Crawley were defeated 6-1 by the Buffs’ Annabelle Andrinopoulos/ Ilana Oleynik. The No. 2 squad did not fair much better as CU’s Nuria Ormeno Ruiz/Chloe Hule took home the match 6-3 over CSU’s Celine Voss/Madison Porter. “We didn’t fold,” CSU head coach Jarod Camerota said. “There were several matches in which we fell behind early but fought back and took the next set. I was pleased to see the way we battled.” The doubles matches count as one total point for the overall match, meaning after the two losses by the Rams, the third match between the two No. 1 squads was stopped early in the best of three setting. The Rams duo of Emily Kolbow/ Alyssa Grijalva was leading 5-3 over CU’s Louise Ronaldson/ Jeannez Dan-
iel at the stoppage of play. In the singles matchups, sophomore Kolbow was in the first seed against Ormeno-Ruiz, who is currently ranked 77th by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and has three wins against ranked opponents this season. Despite Kolbow’s serving struggles, she held a 4-3 lead in the first set before the mistakes caught up to her and costed her the last three games and the first set 4-6. An impressive run down of a ball that went over Kolbow’s head in the corner resulted in a momentum swing on game point to tie the second set at two games a piece. However, Ormeno-Ruiz took the winning point to secure the match 4-6, 4-6 which resulted in a frustrated Kolbow tossing her racquet across her side of the court. The match of the night came in the second flight between freshman Grijalva and CU’s Daniel. The first set went to Daniel 6-2, but was filled with long rallies. Grijalva rode her emotions to a 6-3 second set win to force the deciding third set. With CSU down 3-0 in the overall match, Grijalva needed
to win the third set in her match for CSU to have any chance of winning the best-of-seven series. Grijalva fell down 4-1in the set and seemed to be out of it, however she rallied to tie it the set and try to keep the Rams hopes alive. Daniel went on to take the next game hold serve to go up 5-4. In the final game, Daniel sent two shots down each line of the court that Grijalva had no chance of returning, clinching her match win 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 and the overall match for CU. The rest of the Rams squad was not able to secure a victory, but there were some positives to take away from the 7-0 shutout by the in-state rival. “It’s early and we’re young,” Camerota said. “We have a good team and I think we’ll continue to get better. We had some ups and downs today, but that’s to be expected. As long as we continue to get better, we’ll be fine this year.” Colorado State will be back on the court next in Wisconsin against the Milwaukee Panthers on Jan. 28. Collegian reporter Austin White can be reached by email at sports@collegian.com.
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ARTS & CULTURE Monday, January 23, 2017
LOCAL EVENTS
Chinese Spring Festival Gala celebrates new year at Lincoln Center By Sarah Ehrlich @CSUCollegian
The Lincoln Center was home to colorful performances by students from Colorado State University and the Southwest University of China Saturday night to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The celebration attracted many people who learned about the Chinese culture and the importance of the Lunar New Year with the help of students from the Dance, Music and Theater school of CSU, the Confucius Institute of CSU and students from the Southwest University of China. “In China, the spring festival is the celebration of the new year,” said Wei Gao, associate provost CSU’s Chinese program. “It is the most important holiday of the year in our culture, a time for family and friends to come together. Opening speeches were made by various department heads of both CICSU and Southwest University of China, read in
both English and Chinese. “We aim to further the research, collaboration and professional exchanges among CSU and Chinese universities and research institutes,” said Wang Xiaohan, a representative from the CICSU. “We also wish to promote Chinese culture and language in northern Colorado and CSU.” Before the performances began, Mayor Wade Troxell made an appearance and expressed his excitement for the Chinese Spring Festival’s growth every year. “What a treat for us to have such talented friends from Southwestern University of China and here on campus,” Troxell said. “Fort Collins benefits immensely through partnerships such as this so we can enjoy events like this one tonight.” The performances began with a folk music ensemble. They performed tranquil and peaceful songs like “Overture of Spring Festival” and “Blooming Flowers and Full Moon.” Members of the ensemble were dressed in
beautiful traditional costumes, and they playing the guzheng, pipa and other various string and woodwind instruments. Twelve more performances followed, featuring traditional songs and dances. Students of the CSU Dance, Music and Theater Department put on impressive choreography while three male singers Zheng Maoping, Liu Chunping and Peng Zhaoxiong performed “Song of Yangzte River” and “Cloud of Hometown.” These songs captured the feeling of missing home. One of the last performances was a female duet titled “Ballet in Spring” sang by Xue Yudan and Chen Yukun. Dancers dressed in pink costumes twirled around them. It was truly an empowering and strong performance given by talented women. The celebration was refreshing, and it brought the audience a new appreciation for a beautiful culture. Sarah Ehrlich can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.
CAMPUS EVENTS
Traditional Chinese folk concert brings unique music and culture to CSU By Mckenzie Moore @CSUCollegian
One day after their performance at the Lincoln Center, students from the Southwest University of China performed at the Oan Recital Hall in the University Center for the Arts on Sunday afternoon. CSU students and Fort Collins community members crowded into the non-ticketed event to see the unique performances and accompanying culture. The group presented fourteen different musical acts that showcased various instruments from Chinese arts, information for which was presented on a large screen onstage. The Folk Music Group performed at the very beginning and very end of the concert. Each of their pieces, “Busy Transport of Grains on Horsebacks” and “The Great Joy,” blended an array of instruments for a lively and fastpaced musical experience. The equally shrill and calming timbre of Chinese instruments provided a new sound that most of the audience had never heard before. The performances featured each student on their respective instrument, allowing the audience to hear the diverse sounds of both wind and strong instruments.
The group then split up for an arrangement of solos, duets and small group performances. Instruments such as the dizi, a Chinese flute dating back more than 4,500 years, the yangqin, a hammered dulcimer performed at the UCA both solo and in groups, the suona, a double-reeded horn, and the pipa, a complex string instrument with 30 frets showcased traditional Chinese folk music. Some of the acts portrayed a melancholy mood with slow pieces in minor keys while others kept a lively pace with flying notes. Each of the performers demonstrated their skills, making impossibly complex pieces seem effortless. While many of the performances depicted serious tones with a focus on musical skill, others brought comedy and amusement along with them. “Picking Jujubes,” performed by Chen Li, combined playing the suona with whistling and frantically switching from one instrument to another. Even the more “amusing” acts still showed a remarkable level of deftness in the musicians. The concert also featured two solo soprano singers and a trio of tenor singers, all of whom
were accompanied by Chen Ruoxu on piano. Each performer or group brought a different element to their piece, including gestures, small props and extravagant outfits. The extraordinary vocal range of the singers paired with their precise yet expressive performance styles communicated the strong emotions written into the music. The vocal acts ranged from slow and peaceful to lively tunes reminiscent of western opera. Before the final piece of the concert, Director of the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Dan Goble presented two of the group’s professors with the official titles of Professors of Music at Colorado State University. In addition to providing the UCA with a unique performance, the concert celebrated the partnership between CSU and the Southwest University of China. The students even invited the audience to visit them in China. The concert gave a new perspective to both the performers and the audience members and graced the UCA with a unique experience. Mckenzie Moore can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com.
The Folk Music Ensemble performed on beautiful wood carved instruments. PHOTO BY SARAH EHRLICH COLLEGIAN
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CULTURE & COMMUNITY
Best signs from the Women’s March on Washington By Maegan Garcia @maeganngarcia
Feminists gathered in many cities over the weekend to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump and his proposed policies that would violate the rights of women, people of color and LGBT people around the world. Not only women but people of all genders came out to protest the rights of all people in the name of social justice. During the protest, people expressed their opinions in many different ways; the most popular form of expression, however, was through signs. Here are some of the best signs that were seen at Saturday’s march:
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The protest was originally started to bring attention to Donald Trump’s opposition of women having the right to choose to have an abortion. This sign that @yumnadel tweeted perfectly sums that up with a clever take on one of the most popular songs about girls of all time. Girl’s don’t just want to have fun, they want access to affordable birth control.
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This photo of a young boy tweeted by @ellievhall quickly went viral. Many people were extremely happy to see such a young boy understand that “boys will be boys” is never an excuse to disrespect a woman.
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Although the protest’s name suggests that it was only organized to protest for women’s rights, this is far from the truth. People came out to support the rights of all minorities including people of color. Aja Naomi King, an actress and known Black Lives Matter activist, tweeted these photos of herself.
He wasn’t the only young person to march. This photo of a young girl holding up a sign that says, “Coach once told me that I ran like a girl, and I said if he ran a little faster he could too” was tweeted by @vicariouslyv. Maegan Garcia can be reached at entertainment@ collegian.com
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ARTS & CULTURE Monday, January 23, 2017
CULTURE & COMMUNITY
Local Trump campaigner shares perspective on conservative feminism By Randi Mattox @randi_mattox
Hundreds of thousands of feminists marched for equality over the weekend, but not all of them fit the mold of a what it means to be a liberal feminist. Some feminists identify more closely with an ideology that made a comeback during the 2016 election season with commentary from Republicans like Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and other feminists who view social problems through a right-winged lens -conservative feminism. Conservative feminism is a belief system that takes the traditional definition of feminism and aligns it with conservative ideals. “It is believing in the Constitution’s wording of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and making sure that every American can pursue the American dream in a free market economy,” said Sara Andreas, a Colorado GOP Field Organizer and Colorado State University senior political science major. Andreas spent the last election season working to elect Donald Trump at the Larimer County campaign office in Loveland. Conservative feminism began in the early 1900s when conservatives began participating in the first wave of feminism. Andreas said that the ideology has evolved with the times but has remained true to fundamental conservative beliefs.
Conservative feminism is a belief system that takes the traditional definition of feminism and aligns it with conservative ideals. “Throughout the decades, we’ve seen changes in our nation, we’ve gone to war, we’ve come back from war, we’ve written new legislation that changes the social and cultural parameters of what it means to be an American, and with that the ideas of feminism have changed,” Andreas said. “Wherever our culture goes, that is where feminism goes, but conservative feminism has always been closely aligned with conservative and libertarian values.” Although conservative feminism is not a new concept, many people are not familiar with its ideologies and mistakenly assume that liberal feminism rep-
resents all feminists. Andreas broke down some key social issues and detailed how they would be viewed from a conservative feminist viewpoint. Abortion Andreas said conservative feminism and liberal feminism most drastically differ on the issue of abortion. “When I say I believe in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I believe that every individual, born and unborn, has the right to life without restriction,” Andreas said. “I believe that just like any other demographic group, the unborn is guaranteed the same civil rights that each living American is granted.” Liberal feminism and conservative feminism’s differing opinions about abortion was a point of controversy this weekend when New Wave Feminists, an anti-abortion group based in Texas, was denied participation in the Women’s March on Washington. Birth Control Although conservative feminists are against abortion, Andreas said women should have access to pregnancy prevention methods. “Everything I believe in with conservative feminism goes back to believing in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and I believe having good access to birth control is a personal liberty that if an American chooses to use birth control or other methods of contraception they should have access to that.” Family Leave Based on the conservative principle of limiting the government, Andreas views family leave, which is paid maternity leave for both men and women, as a social problem that should be determined by the private sector. “A woman who has given birth needs to stay home from work with that child during the first beginning months of their life because of the physical process they just went through, but family maternity leave should be left to the private sector,” Andreas said. “I don’t believe the government has any right to make the determination whether a private business should grant that family leave or not.” Free Speech Andreas said conservative feminism strongly endorses the First Amendment but differs from some traditional feminists on the idea of “safe spaces,” which she defines as a place where people can discuss their
ideas in safe environment. “Our nation has not made progress by feeling safe all the time,” Andreas said. “New ideas make us uncomfortable. As a conservative woman on a college campus, I would like full access to my First Amendment rights to bring forth new ideas that may challenge some individuals’ opinions.” Gun Rights Andreas said conservative feminists support the Second Amendment because it gives women the ability to protect themselves. “I am a woman who is a survivor of sexual assault, and it’s something that has been a huge driving factor in my pursuit to spread the message of conservative feminism,” Andreas said. “Being able to carry a weapon to protect myself against a future attacker is entirely empowering, and it gives me peace of mind and lets me pursue my dreams in college and stay in school when there are times when I felt like maybe campus was too unsafe.” LGBT Rights Andreas said conservative feminism supports LGBT rights because the ideology supports constitutional rights for all people. “This may differ from a traditional conservative view, but this is where we are headed,” Andreas said. “Conservative feminism is believing in the Bill of Rights regardless of their sexual orientation. It’s not my business what someone is doing in their bedroom, so why should the government have any business in that either?” Gender Roles Andreas said conservative feminism supports women in the workplace and works to advance women’s place in the business world by limiting government restrictions. “As feminists, we are always talking about breaking the glass ceiling, and how I see the glass ceiling truly being broken in our time period is by removing restrictions and government regulations on small businesses and decreasing cost of taxes and the general cost of owning businesses to encourage more female entrepreneurship,” Andreas said. The Wage Gap Andreas said conservative feminism acknowledges the wage gap but believes women should be responsible for bridging it. “We know that we are still not in wage terms equal to men,
but when I look at that it motivates me to grow my personal wealth more to reap the benefits of the free market and to pursue entrepreneurship and opportunities that will help me climb the ladder in some companies,” Andreas said. “It takes every woman going out and saying ‘I’m going to be CEO of this company by the time I’m 40,’ or ‘I’m going to start my own company.’ It takes determination to equal the pay gap.” Andreas said women should focus on taking action by themselves because the ideology is against government interference in the private sector. “I don’t believe that the government should have any involvement in the private sector with regard to wage or affirmative action type things,” Andreas said. “It (the wage gap) is a systematic disadvantage, but it’s not one that the government can solve. The only ones who can solve this are women in the workforce by becoming more educated to be able to acquire a higher skilled job.” For the next four years, conservative feminists, like President Trump’s pick for United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and other feminists who will be working to further women’s rights from a conservative view point, will be making choices for our country and leading the conservative feminist movement from their positions in our
Colorado State University senior Sara Andreas poses for a portrait last week at the Lory Student Center. Andreas, a feminist who is very passionate about politics, worked for the Donald Trump campaign this year. PHOTO BY FORREST COLLEGIAN
new government. Andreas believes that will move our nation forward. “Big government hurts women in a variety of different ways,” Andreas said. “A big and boisterous government that is going to have more involvement in our life limits every American regardless of gender. If we have less government involvement in our life, we have more room and space to achieve prosperity and the American dream.” Randi Mattox can be reached at news@collegian.com
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