Volume 126, No 76, January 26, 2017

Volume 126, No. 76 Thursday, January 26, 2017

OPINION

Left no party of tolerance PAGE 14

SPORTS

Protesters gather outside CU’s mathematics building where Milo Yiannopoulos is set to speak to call attention to his notorious history of beating LGBT individuals. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN

Hundreds protest Milo Yiannopoulos at CU Boulder, three arrested, one injury

By Erin Douglas @erinmdouglas23

BOULDER - Dressed in all black, armed with signs such as “Stop funding hate speech” and chanting “No Trump, No KKK, No fascist USA,” around 200 people protested the presence of Milo Yiannopolos on the University of Colorado campus Wednesday night.

Yiannopolos, a controversial conservative figure and editor of Breitbart news, is known for his rhetoric against feminism, the Black Lives Matter movement and the LGBTQ community. His events on college campuses are typically accompanied by pro-

tests, and most recently ended in violence at the University of Washington when a Yiannopolos supporter shot and wounded a protester.

On the CU campus, a heavy police presence and about 30 counter protesters joined the large crowd that formed outside of the Mathematics building from about 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Counter-protesters sported “Make America Great Again” hats, and one individual held a sign that read, “Feminism is cancer.” In addition to the general protesters, about 30 graduate mathematics students protested the use of their building for the event, and held signs that

read “Mathematicians against division,” and “Math is for everyone.”

Doors to Yiannopolos’ speech opened at about 5 p.m.

Around 50-70 people were outside in line, and the lecture hall was reportedly full for the speech.

Police presence from CU Police and Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office began to increase as the crowd of protesters did, and eventually authorities wore riot masks and formed a line towards the protesters. The presence of riot gear appeared to incite the protesters further, and the crowd began to chant, “Who do you serve? Who do you protect?”

“I understand it’s a safety precaution but really the police provoke more than anything,” said Anastasie Moise, a CU business sophomore.

While the protest remained mostly peaceful, one arrest occurred at about 7 p.m. when a protester refused to comply with police and abide by venue rules, which included prohibiting face coverings, bags and weapons.

Law enforcement arrested a male and female on charges of assault at 9 p.m. They were each given a ticket and later released.

There was reportedly one injury during the protest, but the injured party left the scene see PROTEST on page 6 >>

Eustachy’s 100th win PAGE 16

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Encounters of the third kind PAGE 18

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Kwon Atlas and Duane Hansen to run for Fort Collins office positions

By Logan Crizer @logloc19

Colorado State University alumni, Kwon Atlas and Duane Hansen, announced their intentions to run for office positions in Fort Collins in the upcoming city elections for city council and mayor.

Both alumni announced their intentions to run, with Atlas running for mayor, and Hansen running for city council.

Atlas will run on a platform that focuses on what he considers four key areas, which include housing, business, transportation and impact. Affordable housing, ending U+2 and reducing homelessness were a few of the priorities concerning housing that Atlas has set out to achieve.

According to Atlas’ press release, he recognizes the disparities that exist in Fort Collins for low-income residents and students concerning housing.

Likewise, Atlas also wishes to improve transportation conditions and small business diversity within the community.

Atlas wants to create a robust

economic atmosphere where businesses thrive and a “Transportation Neutral City” that has plenty of options for clean energy transportation, and lighter congestion throughout the community.

Atlas studied economics, politics and business while he attended CSU. Finding a passion for social justice and activism during his college career, he became the president of The CSU Undeclared Leadership Council and a ASCSU senator.

Atlas was also awarded the Bruce E. Smail Diversity Award for his work on the ASCSU Diversity Bill.

Hansen will run for city council on a similar platform that consists of affordable housing, multi-modal transportation, business and public empowerment.

Believing that the entire community should be engaged in the advancement of Fort Collins, Hansen hopes to turn engagement into momentum to create innovative problem-solving.

According to Hansen’s press release, “the status quo is no longer serving the people of Fort

Collins—we need to bring in fresh perspectives to issues and this will only be accomplished with an engaged and empowered public.”

To accomplish his platform, Hansen wants to invest in transportation infrastructure, affordable housing availability and community involvement to maintain a sustainable economy.

Hansen served for a total of six years on student government during his college career.

He also was a part of CSU’s student fee review board, which oversaw $54 million in student fee funds.

“I was inspired to be a leader in the community, and I want to share that inspiration with others,” Hansen wrote.

Logan Crizer can be reached at news@collegian.com. (top) Duane Hansen outside of the ALVS office. PHOTO COURTESY OF JORDAN LANHAM.

(bottom) Kwon Atlas, the author of the ASCSU Diversity Bill, waits to speak to senate after the final vote last year. PHOTO BY ABBIE PARR.

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CAMPUS

Budget hearings discuss tuition increases, new student programs

By Stuart Smith, Haley Candelario, Hailey Deaver @notstuartsmith @H_Candelario @autumn_hail

University officials discussed possible tuition increases, new faculty and new programs Wednesday at the Colorado State University budget hearings for the 2018 fiscal year.

Draft Budget for 2018 Fiscal Year Provost Rick Miranda stated that the Board of Governors, the Joint Budget Committee and the Governor’s Office are most interested in determining the percent increase in price of undergraduate tuition. According to Miranda, the budget analyst for the Joint Budget Committee determined that if CSU did not receive state funding, the university would need to stay within a 7 percent increase of tuition.

Miranda noted that the analyst, however, now proposed only a 3 percent increase in tuition.

Miranda discussed the Western Undergraduate Exchange program that most non-resident students use to pay for tuition. Miranda noted that WUE offered more money than CSU’s merit-based award programs this past year. For next year, however, Miranda said WUE would be less reward-

ing than the best of the merit-based non-resident scholarships, and the programs are now similar. If WUE was removed, those students would then be eligible for merit-based scholarships already in place. Miranda added that CSU would still be giving merit-based scholarships in order for non-resident students to attend CSU. Council of Deans The Council of Deans accepted proposals from specialized colleges for new programs and faculty members. The College of Liberal Arts requested to add a faculty member to advise the Center for Public Deliberation to assist Martin Carcasson. The English department requested a non-tenure track faculty member to take a position as an associate director in the composition program.

The Anthropology department proposed two new degree departments for a doctorate in anthropology and a bachelor’s degree in geography. Miranda said it is more likely the bachelor’s degree in geography will yield a positive return on the investment, but CSU will have to invest resources to create a Ph.D. program in anthropology.

The College of Natural Resources proposed to hire two

tenure track faculty to address cross-cultural issues in Natural Resources. Miranda said natural resource programs are less diverse than they need to be, both in terms of students and faculty.

Miranda said the natural resource programs are not attracting a diverse set of students to the professions and curriculum.

Proposals The Women and Gender Collaborative proposal is a presidential initiative that started in 2016 to improve campus culture around gender. The initiative plans to make CSU the best place possible for women and increase opportunities of education and engagement. The initiative receives a grant from First National Bank and an anonymous donor. The proposal is asking a total of $51,516 .

The public safety committee created a proposal to create a new dispatcher position and new police officer positions.

Most universities have 500-700 students per police officer. At CSU, there are about 1,000 students per police officer. They are looking to hire and train five new officers, get a lease for another vehicle and hire another dispatcher. This proposal is asking for $531,612, including money for a new vehicle and yearly

salaries for the new position openings.

The Registrar’s Office requested equity adjustments to improve retention rates with their employees. Employees specialize in technical software for websites such as RamWeb and FamWeb. Employee training has made it difficult to replace employees since it is specialized and requires specific knowledge. The proposal asked for $25,600 for employees. An additional $10,000 is being asked for training Registrar’s Office and Financial Aid Office employees.

SLiCE’s President’s Leadership Program asked for $38,400 to expand the program. The program had 29 students, and now numbers exceed 150 students.

The PLP trains students in leadership values and potential and is designed around values, leadership and diversity. The money for this proposal compensates the teachers in the program and expands the program.

Information Technology, Facilities and University Operations asked for a new time management tool that would assist the University and campus with tracking and managing time, which would cost $165,000.

Another proposal integrat-

ed the final phase of a fire alarm system across campus, costing $126,910.

It was also proposed that the University create a small business liaison program — currently, CSU has no such program, meaning it is not in compliance with the United States Small Business Administration’s Small Business Program, which could result in fines. Funding for this proposal would start at $111,542 to pay for one employee, one assistant and a subscription cost to a business classification database.

A Risk Management and Insurance committee proposed to create a one-time payment to replace the batteries of defibrillators on campus. Replacing them would prevent a situation where a defibrillator is needed but unable to be used. Another proposal from Risk Management and Insurance is someone to handle situations of University employees being injured on the job, to both treat them and prevent it from ever happening. This would require one fully-salaried employee, costing $81,800.

Stuart Smith, Haley Candelario and Hailey Deaver can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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ASCSU urges professors to not print paper syllabi

By Rachel Telljohn @racheltelljohn

Students may not have received a paper copy of their syllabi at the start of the term.

Associated Students of Colorado State University prompted campus faculty not to print their syllabi, advocating for a greener campus and stating that students do not use the paper copies beyond the first day.

English professor Zach Hutchins received an email before the semester began.

“I got an email directly from a student representative of student government. To my knowledge, it was sent to all the university faculty,” Hutchins said.

Tyler Siri, director of academics for ASCSU, said it was his idea originally. “(ASCSU) sent it out as an email to all of the department chairs (at the end of last semester) ... to decide if they would send it out to their faculty members,” Siri said. “Different departments have different needs. A lot of departments don’t have the bigger classes which are the problem (because they’re printing out hun-

dreds of copies).”

Siri said he reached out to different student groups and people around campus to see if they actually use paper syllabi. He worked inside ASCSU to figure out the exact language to present to faculty to gauge the reaction.

The idea was proposed to Faculty Council for ASCSU before it went through to the senate. Siri said a resolution was decided on in place of enacting a policy change, which he described as an uphill battle with little reward.

“I don’t know if pushback (against the idea of online syllabi) is the right word. Dismay might be a better characterization,” Hutchins said. “First of all, I don’t think students (in my classroom) had any idea that ASCSU had adopted this policy. From verbal reactions and the downcast looks about the room, it became pretty apparent that (my students) were missing the paper syllabi.”

Siri said the recommendation from students, as opposed to an official policy, aligns with students and ASCSU’s vision of the university - to be more sustainable.

“We felt it was a beneficial recommendation,” Siri said. “(We) want to cut down on the mass amount of printing.”

Hutchins expressed his desire to use resources responsibly.

“I don’t dream of slaughtering trees myself,” Hutchins said.

He explained the necessity of paper syllabi within the English department.

“I can imagine that there are classes where a (syllabus) might (be) less detailed than the ones that I tend to put together,” Hutchins said. “Students are probably less likely (to read the syllabi carefully) if it’s not provided to them.”

Siri said print syllabi are used as a contract, so that students understand what the class entails as they go into it.

“For the majority of classes, that’s not exactly necessary.

Most faculty members are perfectly capable of doing it online,” Siri said.

An online syllabus allows faculty flexibility with the course schedule, as they can easily reschedule assignments and exams, according to Siri.

“Periodically throughout

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the semester, I’ll ask students to refer to the (syllabus) and it’s been my experience students pull them out of their folders - (the syllabi) are annotated or they have underlined or highlighted things,” Hutchins said.

“I don’t think there are many instances in which students just toss the syllabus without devoting the attention to it.”

Siri said that members of ASCSU said professors generally accepted the recommendation. However, ASCSU has yet to receive direct feedback from

any students outside the organization.

After the negative response of his first class, Hutchins printed out paper copies of the syllabus for his following class that day.

“They’re really valuable course documents,” Hutchins said. “It’s the sort of thing that you want to have a paper copy of.”

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

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ASCSU discusses solidarity with Standing Rock Reservation

By Rachel Telljohn @rachaeltelljohn

The phrase “in solidarity with Standing Rock” has encircled campus over the past few months and worked its way into the Wednesday night senate meeting for the Associated Students of Colorado State University.

A resolution, promoting solidarity with the protesters of the North Dakota Access Pipeline after incurred violence, was read for the first time on the senate floor.

The resolution was authored by two ASCSU senators, Jennifer Murray, college of Liberal Arts, and Connor Cheadle, college of engineering. “(The resolution) doesn’t necessarily do anything,” Cheadle said. “It announces our support.”

Murray prefaced her introduction of the bill.

“I know I haven’t updated (the bill) since the ruling on Tuesday. I don’t want to make this political at all. This is not a political issue. This is an environmental, a human rights issue,” Murray said.

Senator Isaiah Martin explained that the bill should

involve the Native American Cultural Center before its second reading in the senate, because of some of its language.

Martin explained the language was somewhat harmful.

“We can (write) this (bill) in a way that we not only help our the Standing Rock community, but our own community here,” Martin said.

Edward Kendall, speaker protempore, informed the authors they should consult NACC regarding the bill as well.

“I was actively trying to get the NACC office involved (with the writing of the bill), but they never replied,” said Murray.

“This is not a political issue. This is an environmental, a human rights issue.”

JENNIFER MURRAY ASCSU SENATOR

A gallery member of the NACC, was present in the gallery Wednesday night.

“We have students who are deeply affected by this. It hurts. It’s a constant reminder of the historical trauma, the oppression,” she said.

“I do believe (it is the job of this body to echo the voice of students),” Murray said.

Many in the general body raised concerns about how a resolution in favor of protesting the pipeline would color ASCSU as biased towards one group, or another or involve the group in polarizing political issues on campus.

“It is not the duty of (the ASCSU senate) to take a political stance. It is our duty to announce the feelings of the student body ,and announce ourselves as part of the community,” Cheadle said.

Murray said she had not considered how the legislation would be received within the student body as a polarizing issue.

“It’s against the treatment of the protesters (not against pipeline itself),” Murray said.

“I wrote this more in response to the violence against the protesters. I’m not meaning to have this legislation be

A Standing Rock Protester holds a sign up outside the Hillary Clinton’s Get the Vote Out at New Belgium Brewing on November 4, 2016. PHOTO

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politically charged.”

Vice Presient Mike Lensky explained that historically, ASCSU has used resolutions to show support of various political movements on the local and national levels.

“Resolutions before have dealt with political natures. As a body, that’s what resolutions are for,” Lensky said.

According to the ASCSU bylaws, a resolution will be read once through on the senate floor, then go to a committee hear-

ing. The committee is either the most relevant to the resolution, or is a committee that has not yet heard the resolution. The resolution then goes back to senate for another reading and a vote.

“This bill isn’t directly against the pipeline,” Murray reiterated. “It’s against (the pipeline) being routed through native territories … and the violence against the protesters. It’s not outwardly against the pipeline.”

Rachel Telljohn can be reached at news@collegian.com

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>> PROTEST from page 1 before medical personnel was able to respond to them, according to CU Boulder Police spokesman Scott Pribble.

As Yiannopolos continued his event inside, the crowd of protesters grew and pushed up against the building, forcing authorities to put up crowd gates at the perimeter. At one point, protesters began to burn “Make America Great Again” hats and a Nazi flag.

At the end of the night, protesters began to disperse around 9 p.m. when attendees of the Yiannopolos event began to exit the building. Some protesters remained outside the venue, while others began to march towards a highway intending to block the road. The protesters blocked a portion of the highway, causing a small collision, and then dispersed.

Yiannopolos was invited by College Republicans and Turning Point USA to speak on the CU campus. CU administration approved the request to host the controversial figure despite the chancellor writing to a concerned student that they heard from many people asking them to cancel the event.

“As a public institution, the University of Colorado respects freedom of speech, and we may

not refuse Yiannopolous an opportunity to speak when a student group has invited him to campus,” wrote CU Chancellor Phil DiStefano in an email to a concerned student. “We have consistently said that Yiannopolous does not represent the University of Colorado’s ideals, and we will continue to denounce his tactics.”

Signs protesters carried included: “This is not normal” “Stop funding hate speech” “Delete Alt Right” “Just because Milo hates himself doesn’t mean you have to” “Zero Tolerance for Fascism” “Fascism 101 with Prof. Milo” “Punch Nazis” “Queer Rage”

The CU Chancellor wrote that the university may not refuse a speaker based on a disagreement with his or her view-

points, but several students expressed disappointment with their university.

“Universities are supposed to be safe, not safe-space in a PC way, but actually physically safe for students,” said Blake Marcelle, one of the earliest protesters to arrive. “So, I think it’s wildly irresponsible of CU to bring this person in knowing that there will most likely be violence.”

Similarly on the CSU campus, the Students for Life group invited a pro-life speaker, but were denied because they applied for money under a diversity grant. The group is currently suing CSU for violation of free speech.

A small group of CSU students traveled from Fort Collins to participate in the counter-protests, organized by the Conservative Interest Group, an organization spear-headed by Juan Caro, a conservative CSU student who campaigned for Donald Trump during the presidential election.

Sarah Bruce, a CSU communication studies senior, participated in the counter-protest and was at one point shoved in the middle of a large crowd when she asked the protesters to explain what she described as derogatory comments towards her.

“It’s their right to be angry, it’s everyone’s right to be an-

CSU Student, Juan Caro, poses for a picture while counter protesting with his sign which denounces those against the event.

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gry,” Bruce said in response to the protesters. “… At some point I’ve started to really just wonder when we’ve all lost reverence for one another in the midst of politics because I don’t think politics is worth it. … It’s just very interesting to me to see the way the first amendment has been mutilated to only include the voices that people want to hear.”

However, other protesters said they did believe that the counter-protesters had a right to be there, but that they did not agree with their cause.

“I think (the counter pro-

testers) have a right to what they have to say, but their kind of glib attitude towards the real oppression and disenfranchisement that people feel, particularly marginalized people, is indicative of the privilege that they possess,” said Eric Bliss, a resident of Denver who traveled to Boulder to protest. “Hateful rhetoric like the kind that Milo spews has no place in communities like Denver and Boulder where we embrace diversity, compassion and difference.”

Erin Douglas can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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Blog post lands Sacramento State professor on Fox News, prompts barrage of hate mail

By Diana Lambert The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento State history professor Joseph A. Palermo set off a conservative firestorm after writing that people who deny climate change “shouldn’t be allowed” to use social media, GPS-directed drones or nuclear weapons.

“I’ve always believed that people who dismiss science in one area shouldn’t be able to benefit from science in others,” he wrote Dec. 27 on the Huffington Post website. “If Trump and his cohort believe the science of global warming is bogus then they shouldn’t be allowed to use the science of the Internet for their Twitter accounts, the science of global positioning for their drones, or the science of nuclear power for their weaponry.”

Palermo began to receive hate mail when conservative websites ran stories about the column. He subsequently agreed to appear on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News because he wanted to clear up a misconception that he wanted Trump censored, he said.

The next five minutes weren’t exactly what he had expected.

“I am assuming you were speaking not literally but figuratively about Trump being banned from Twitter,” Carlson said. “I don’t imagine as a professor you are in favor of banning people from expressing themselves. But what point were you trying to make?”

Palermo said he was trying to make a rhetorical point. “It was uncontroversial of me to accept the science of climate change that 98 percent of the world scientists believe is true. No amount of ideology will change the physics of that,” he said.

Carlson repeatedly asked how Palermo came up with the 98 percent figure.

“Are you a scientist or have you polled scientists?” he said.

“How did you get that figure?”

Palermo fumbled for answers, mentioning the Pentagon, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and California’s governor and state Legislature.

Palermo said he wasn’t prepared to defend climate change when he came on the show. “I’m the one who walked into it because I brought up 98 percent,” he said Friday. “The reason I couldn’t quote it was because I’ve read it in like 50 places.”

He said he received 50 negative emails and blocked 200 people from his Twitter account after they sent various messages, including one suggesting that he commit suicide and another saying he is lower than vermin, he said.

Palermo forwarded some of the email to Laura Dunham, an associate producer for “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

“On a personal note: I’m so, so sorry about the hate mail,” she responded. “Those emails you forwarded me were filled with very cruel and ugly things. I hate to see that.”

A Fox News staff member said no one was available to comment on the Palermo appearance.

The segment gave conservative bloggers another run at Palermo.

“The Daily Caller and The Blaze said I got owned by Tucker Carlson,” Palermo said.

He said former students have praised him for his performance, and climate blogger Peter Sinclair and science writer Shawn Otto came to his defense.

“In my bubble, it has been very positive,” he said.

Despite everything, Palermo said he would go on the show again. “What I’m thinking is that we are entering a rightwing dominance in Washington and people like me _ even if we take some abuse _ we need to jump into that bubble any way we can.”

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Death rate from cancer down 20 percent since 1980, but clusters of high mortality remain

By Melissa Healy

The Los Angeles Times

The mortality rate linked to cancer is falling nationwide, but worrisome pockets of deadly malignancy persist _ and in some places have worsened _ in regions throughout the country, according to the first-ever county-by-county analysis of cancer deaths across the United States.

The death rate attributed to various types of cancer declined 20 percent between 1980 and 2014, according to research published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. During that time, the number of cancer deaths per 100,000 Americans dropped from 240.2 in 1980 to 192 in 2014.

Cancer, the No. 2 cause of death in the United States, has long been tracked by health officials. But existing databases have largely measured such statistics on state or national levels.

That can mask cancer trends that cross state borders, or that bubble up in geographically limited “hot spots.” It can also obscure associations with environmental exposures, ethnic settlement patterns or health behaviors like poor diet that may be unique to a single county or

shared only with its near neighbors.

The new tally of close to 20 million cancer deaths over 35 years offers a more fine-grained view of cancer’s toll. It gives local and county officials _ who design and carry out most of the nation’s public health campaigns _ the data they need to detect or respond to trends within the populations for which they are responsible.

The steepest decreases in cancer mortality were seen in counties that hug the urban centers of both coasts and in pockets scattered throughout the Intermountain West.

In the heart of the Rockies just west of Denver, Colorado’s Summit County led the country in beating back cancer. Home to ski resorts and a single hospital, Summit County had the lowest rate of cancer deaths in both 1980 (130.6 deaths per 100,000 people) and 2014 (70.7 deaths per 100,000). That drop of close to 50 percent was bigger than just about anyplace else in the country.

From Imperial County in the south to Humboldt County up north, virtually all of California’s coastal counties saw steep and steady declines in deaths from

cancer over the 35 years studied. Those improvements spread inland throughout the state, but were particularly impressive in many of the state’s northern and central counties.

The study also casts new light on a nationwide rise in deadly liver cancers; a worrying increase in fatal kidney cancers in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana; and a mysterious spate of testicular cancer deaths among men in California’s San Bernardino, Imperial and Stanislaus counties.

In Kentucky’s northeast corner, where coal mining and other industries have collapsed, the picture was particularly grim.

More than 20 counties there, and scattered throughout Appalachia in neighboring West Virginia, Tennessee and Ohio, saw rates of cancer mortality rise between 20 percent and 46 percent, largely driven by cancers of the lung, colon, pancreas and liver.

Owsley County in Kentucky, the nation’s poorest, where roughly 42 percent live in poverty, saw the nation’s largest increase in cancers of the trachea, bronchus and lungs _ a near doubling between 1980 and 2014.

The rate at which men died of

prostate cancer in Owsley County also saw one of the nation’s steepest increases _ 25 percent _ in the same period.

In counties scattered across the Northeast states, steep declines in smoking rates during that 35-year stretch drove down relatively high death rates from cancers of the respiratory system.

In 2014, lung, trachea and bronchus cancer deaths remained among the nation’s highest in counties inhabited largely

by Alaska’s native population.

But these same counties also saw some of the nation’s steepest declines in such deaths between 1980 and 2014.

The study also revealed two striking pockets of cancer death: one along the Mississippi River and the other across the South and into the industrial Midwestern states.

Nationwide, deaths attributed to non-Hodgkin lymphoma remained steady at 8.3 per 100,000 people. But from 1980 to 2014, they increased by 28 percent to 74 percent in a cluster of counties in West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and southern Ohio, and by similar margins in a belt of counties stretching from Alabama through South Caroli-

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High rates of fatal breast cancers in women and prostate cancers in men _ as well as cancers of the pancreas, colon and rectum in patients of both genders _ clustered tightly in counties lying alongside the lower Mississippi River in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. That region ranks among the nation’s highest in obesity, poverty and lack of health care access.

Indeed, the authors of the JAMA study suggested that obesity and poor diets have contributed to surging cancer deaths in many of the nation’s cancer hot spots.

Where cancer deaths have declined, they cited the power of better treatment and, in several cancers, of earlier detection.

One cancer trend, however, was evident virtually across the country. The new report finds that death rates from liver cancer have risen almost 88 percent between 1980 and 2014, from 3.6 to 6.8 per 100,000. Three-thousand sixty-nine counties - out of a total of 3,142 - saw significant increases in liver cancer death rates, and many of the counties on the West Coast and in New Mexico and west Texas had much larger increases.

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ENTERPRISE Thursday, January 26, 2017

Rising rent leads to rising food insecurity for students

By Michelle Fredrickson @mfredrickson42

John Sneddon was a student at Colorado State University studying biochemistry, and his path through his education was fraught with challenges. He lived with a disability on a fixed income that could not cover cost of living, and tried to continue school through a period of homelessness while living with bipolar disorder. And, on Dec. 20, 2016, he died.

About a year before his death, he told a CSU journalism student, “I was published in an academic journal at CSU, and I can’t afford housing as a disabled student. I was a student at CSU and I was fighting homelessness as a student. I was going to finish school, but I can’t do it without housing. I’m on a fixed income, and even if you do work, then you can’t afford housing. This is

a real issue. I’m disabled, and I can’t even find a place. There is no affordable housing here.”

Student homelessness and student food insecurity is a problem faced by many college students nationwide. FAFSA estimates around 58,000 students in the country are homeless, and though numbers specific to this region are not available, Rams Against Hunger estimates 10-12 percent of CSU students experience food insecurity.

The total homeless population in Fort Collins is around 290 individuals, according to estimates by the homelessness awareness group, Homeward 2020. There are many homeless shelters in the area that work together to provide enough beds to keep the homeless individuals sheltered. Many of these shelters are affiliated with religion, including Fort Collins Rescue Mission.

Hannah Baltz-Smith, the Northern Colorado community and events specialist for the Fort Collins Rescue Mission, said that she has never personally interacted with a CSU student who was seeking their services and she does not think there are many homeless college students in the area. Most of the students she works with are volunteers, especially from within the Greek system.

Baltz-Smith added that they exist to provide aid to anybody experiencing need, and said CSU students experiencing food insecurity were welcome to come to their free daily dinners, which are served at 5:30 p.m. at their location on Jefferson Street. In fact, between Fort Collins Rescue Mission and the local Catholic parish, all three meals are provided on a daily basis for people experiencing need.

At CSU, Rams Against Hun-

ger works to help students through times of food insecurity by providing CSU Housing and Dining meals for students who do not have the resource to buy food. They do this through monetary donations and agreements with Housing and Dining Services. Though, Jen Johnson, assistant director of the program, said demand for their assistance far exceeds supply.

“There’s more need than what we can accommodate through the program at this point,” Johnson said. The program employs professional fundraisers to try to keep expanding.

Johnson said the root causes of food insecurity are many and varied, but noted that cost of living is certainly affecting the quality of life for many people.

Rent has been on the rise as the population of Fort Collins, and the enrollment at CSU, booms. Between 2014 and 2016,

average rent increased by hundreds of dollars, according to an article published by The Collegian in September. And as of late 2016, the average rent for an apartment in Fort Collins is $1279.14, compared to $837.15 in 2010.

Michael Carolan, a professor in the department of sociology, researches the relationship between social factors and food security issues, and cited cost of living as a contributor to the food insecurity problem.

“I’d say the biggest (or at least one of the biggest) reason for food insecurity among the student population at CSU, in addition to the above risk factors, is the rental market,” Carolan said. “If you’re already from a low income household, that’s a debilitating expense.”

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“Though, rising cost of living is not exactly helpful,” she added.

Her opinion that social inequities play into this issue is backed up by scientific research, and shown in the statistics of students using the services provided by Rams Against Hunger.

Of the recipients of Rams Against Hunger, people of color and first generation college students are very over-represented, compared to the university as a whole. 73 percent of students who receive aid from Rams Against Hunger are students of color – this group accounts for just 19 percent of the total university demographics. Over-represented as well are first-generation college students, who account for 74 percent of recipients. Women account for 57 percent of the recipients, while just over half of CSU is female.

Carolan said this was consistent with recent research.

Households with incomes near or below the poverty line, women and men living alone, and Black and Hispanic headed households are all some risk factors for food insecurity. “Among these groups, the rates of food insecurity are substantially higher than the national average,” he said.

Research shows this is a result of ingrained social inequality. Structural racism refers to a systemic problem ingrained into society, rather than specific actions of individuals. A movement to combat this problem is referred to as ‘food justice’ by scholars. According to a 2012 article published in the American Civil Liberties Union journal, the issue of systemic racism negatively impacts healthy food access as well as affordability for people of color, as a pay gap exists between people of color and white people. The article argues that institutional racism creates a cycle of low wages, which leads to food insecurity among people of color.

Baltz-Smith, who has worked for Fort Collins Rescue Mission for nearly two years, said cost of living, health crises, and bad relationship breakups are the main factors she has seen contributing to someone seeking out services. Health care is prohibitively expensive without insurance, and a health emergency can easily cause someone to become homeless. In relationships, domestic violence sometimes plays a role when one partner leaves the relationship and no longer has somewhere to go.

The shelters in the area work to help the homeless individuals get back on their feet, whether this means providing a place to stay while searching for a steady job, or working with traffick-

ing victims to build soft skills.

The homeless community is primarily made up of men, unlike the food insecure community at CSU, which is more than half women.

At the City Council meeting Monday, legislation was put forward that is deemed by some to be discriminatory against the homeless population, which led to a protest on the stairs of City Hall. The proposed ordinance would make it illegal to sit or lay in public places, and to store personal property in public places. It is also designed to curb panhandling.

This is not the first time Fort Collins has come under fire for discrimination against the homeless community – the City was sued by the ACLU in 2015 for a law punishing panhandling.

Students can volunteer at the local shelters. The winter and summer months are both the most dangerous times and the times when the shelters are most understaffed, Baltz-Smith said, because student volunteers leave town over breaks.

John Sneddon’s situation led to homelessness and food insecurity, and prevented him from finishing his college career.

Those interested in helping individuals like John in the Fort Collins community can donate to Rams Against Hunger and to community homeless shelters online.

Michelle Fredrickson can be reached at news@collegian.com

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OPINION Thursday, January 26, 2017

COLUMNIST

Violent protesters showed that liberals’ tolerance is limited Holly Spease @HollySpease

“Move along, fuckboy;” “you have betrayed your own race.” These are just a few of the vulgar statements shouted by protesters lingering outside CU’s math building, where the controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos held his event Wednesday night. These protesters lined the grass behind a row of police officers and were strewn in all black, wearing gas masks, bandanas, and combat boots. They were hoisting black flags and signs with sayings such as “Queer Rage” and “Punch Nazis,” and continually chanted, “No Trump. No KKK. No fascist USA.” In contrast, a small coalition of conservative students were holding a counter-demonstration no more than five feet away. They were wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, and holding signs proclaiming, “Trump IS your president” and “taxation is theft,” while chanting “U.S.A.” Although seemingly civil at first, the protest soon turned hostile when a male in all black holding an “ANTIFA” poster began yelling at police officers that they were protecting fascist, racist, sexist, homophobes, while using intimidation. The protestor continually, and rhetorically, asked “Who are you protecting?” This incited a response from counter protestors who chanted, “blue lives matter” and debates blew up across the crowd. Juan Caro and Sarah Bruce from Conservative Interest Group and Caucus of

Colorado, were repeatedly targeted by these protestors. Caro stood amid a group of protestors holding a sign saying “Liberals Stole 3 of our signs, and 50% of our income,” the sign was violently ripped out of his hands after three previous posters had been torn, and the crowd swarmed him. Bruce was not holding any signs, and were only responding to reporters, yet had her hair pulled and protestors began to chant, “cry white girl, cry!” I walked into the protestors crowd trying to get anyone to talk to me, and when asked my first question a man responded “fuck you and the media” and flipped me off, followed by girls shouting “they are so fucking stupid” and I was immediately pushed back into the line of police officers.

The protestors linked arms and began walking forward towards the event center pushing back officers and conservative demonstrators. Attendees of Yiannopoulos’ lecture had to be escorted into the building by officers, could not bring any bags, were required to walk through metal detectors, along with various other security measures.

Minutes after the lecture began ticketholders to the event had their email addresses leaked, and received a message stating “We know who you are, tonight we will know your faces. The identities of attendees will be released to the public on a list of known Neo-Nazi sympathizers.

We do not tolerate fascists.”

Boulder police and SWAT were on the scene in riot gear escorting people out of the building following the speech as protestors shouted, “get the red hats!” as they stalked attendees.

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until then. Although it was not nearly as serious as the protest at UW where bricks were thrown and someone was shot, or at UCLA where attendees had to be evacuated because of a bomb threat. This experience was still hostile, violent, yet eye-opening. Hundreds of people came to this event to protest Yiannopoulos, because they said he made students feel unsafe, their rights were going to be taken away, and because the speaker did not reflect their values. These protestors were so convinced that they were right that they would shout over anyone who tried to engage them in discussion.

That’s when it dawned on me, these people do not want open discussion or free speech.

Nor do they care that it is a first amendment right violation to

ban Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking on campus. The only thing these protestors want is to shove their liberal ideals down the throats of anyone who will listen, and the minute a counter view or diverse opinion is shared they blow up. They use ad hominems to try and demonize conservatives instead of debating. Instead of welcoming diverse thought and speakers onto campus, they try and ban anyone who does not agree with mainstream leftist thought.

These protestors use safe spaces and cry sessions as a way to coddle each other and insulate themselves from diverse beliefs.

They do not debate; they attack and then retreat and hide.

In addition to intolerant protesting they use violent rhetoric and undignified signs and behavior to spread their views.

Yelling at police officers, dressing up in gas masks, and holding posters full of ad hominems is not going to convince conservatives and libertarians to change their views. Protestors lecture people about spreading kindness and acceptance, while they spew hatred and violence. In order to rally people behind a cause they have to use rational means and welcoming actions. By yelling and insulting people you will not change their views, it will only fuel their hatred and isolate them further in the opposite direction. Using violent protest, while insulting anyone with an opposing view, and banning discussion is the last way to spread tolerance and create a following; the protest at Milo Yiannopoulos’ event proves this.

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

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BASEBALL

Colorado Rockies experience Fort Collins and Colorado State during Winter Caravan Tour

By Justin Michael @JustinTMichael

Part of the 2017 Winter Caravan, a quartet of Colorado Rockies players stopped by CSU for a meet-and-greet event Wednesday afternoon at the Lory Student Center.

The event allowed community members and students to get autographs and take pictures with Carlos Estevez, David Dahl, Gerardo Parra and Tom Murphy.

Prior to the meet and greet, players and members of the Rockies organization took a tour of the soon to be opened on-campus football stadium. One Rockies employees present was assistant director of community affairs Dallas Davis, who is recognized more around Fort Collins for his record-setting years as a wide receiver for the Rams (1997-2001) during the Sonny Lubick era.

“During the planning meetings (for the tour), I got excited because I get to come back home and show our guys

what takes place an hour north of where they are normally located,” Davis said. “For our players, it is hard for them to get too far outside of Denver, so any time we can get them out in the community, especially the community I grew up in and went to school, it is a blessing for me.”

Davis described the new home of Colorado State Football with one word, “amazing.”

He explained how he had seen the stadium here and there, but this was the first time he had an opportunity to get out of the car and take it all in.

“The players had not been on campus before,” Davis said.

“These guys live in different areas of the country and in the world, so when they come to Fort Collins and are in awe when they see something like the new stadium, the new student center, some of the academic buildings.

So CSU is definitely on the map and are going to continue to be in our clubhouse.”

A pair of the Rockies visiting Colorado State for the first

time included outfielder David Dahl, and catcher Tom Murphy.

Prior to signing autographs and making many little Rockies fans’ days, the pair discussed their offseason.

Murphy spends his off-season hunting on the East Coast while Dahl goes home to Houston, where he trains during the winter, but both admit the majority of their time is spent preparing for the upcoming season.

With just weeks until the team reports to Arizona for spring training, both Dahl and Murphy are excited to get back to the grind under new manager Bud Black.

“I’m looking forward to playing with him (Black), I’ve heard a lot of great things,” Dahl said.

“I think it is going to be a little different than last year, but it is just a very exciting time for the Rockies.”

Murphy is also looking forward to the new year, echoing similar thoughts to his teammate.

“Once games start, that

Rockies Players Tom Murphy and David Dahl sign autographs in the LSC yesterday. PHOTO BY SARAH EHRLICH COLLEGIAN

is, when you realize what you worked on during the off-season and how it is going to transfer, what needs to change, and what you need to still do to prepare for the season,” Murphy said.

After leaving the Colorado State campus, the Rockies held a

private lunch at the Rio Grande Mexican Grill for season ticket holders from the northern region, donors and various Colorado State employees, including head football coach Mike Bobo.

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

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Clavell and Omogbo carry CSU over San Jose State, Eustachy earns 100th win

By Eddie Herz @Eddie_Herz

An efficient night of shooting helped lift Colorado State to an 81-72 victory over San Jose State while giving head coach Larry Eustachy his 100th career victory at CSU. The Rams converted 28-of57 (49.1 percent) shot attempts, good for their second best mark from the field this season against Mountain West opponents.

Previous occasions in which CSU (13-8, 5-3 Mountain West) sniffed 50 percent from the floor were in victories against UNLV (48.5 percent) and Air Force (50 percent).

“We played with each other pretty good and I’m glad we stayed consistent,” senior guard Gian Clavell said after the game.

Clavell led the Rams to their fifth Mountain West victory by contributing 24 points and earning his third double-double of

the year with 12 rebounds. The 6-foot-4 guard went 10-19 from the floor and scored 17 in the second half.

While Clavell carried the Rams in the second half, Emmanuel Omogbo did so in the first half. Omogbo scored 12 points and collected 8 rebounds in the opening 20 minutes. Despite fouling out with 3:56 left in the game, the senior finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds for a third consecutive double-double and his 11th of the season.

“It’s not a big thing, fouling out, because I know they are going to finish out the game strong,” Omogbo said.

The scoring duo of Omogbo and Clavell took turns shouldering the load for CSU. “In the first half I was on and led the team,” Omogbo said. “In the second half he (Clavell) was on and I told him don’t even give

me the ball anymore, just keep shooting.”

In addition to the big nights from Omogbo and Clavell, the Rams had three other scorers who shot at least 50 percent from the floor.

Sophomore Prentiss Nixon went 5-10 from the floor and scored 17 points. J.D. Paige also made the most of limited shot attempts, scoring 10 and converting two of his four shots.

Nico Carvacho got in a groove as well, scoring 10 points and making each of his four field goal attempts.

“With Nico it just has to do with his confidence and working on his game all the time,” Omogbo said. “There are going to be some mistakes because he’s a redshirt freshman, but we can live with that. We can definitely live with him getting a lot of offensive rebounds for us and getting us extra shots.”

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Rams knock off San Jose State, move into tie for 1st place in MW

By Colin Barnard @ColinBarnard_

Wednesday night was the epitome of a three-woman show as the Colorado State women’s basketball team defeated San Jose State 68-56.

Elin Gustavsson, Stine Austgulen and Ellen Nystrom combined to score 60 points in an otherwise disheartening offensive performance for the Rams (15-5, 7-1 MW). Paired with the first conference loss from the Wyoming Cowgirls, the Rams are now tied for first place in the Mountain West.

Gustavsson’s season-high 26 points led the way as she pulled down 10 rebounds for her second consecutive double-double.

Nystrom added 17 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists while Austgulen scored 17 on an efficient 5-of-7 shooting.

The first half for the Rams went as smooth as they could have hoped for, giving them a commanding 45-16 lead at the break.

The Spartans were held scoreless for the first eight-plus minutes of the second quarter as the Rams stymied the conference’s leading

scorer, Dezz Ramos.

“It was maybe the best half we’ve played,” head coach Ryun Williams said. “That 20 minutes was exceptional, and not just offensively. Yeah we made a lot of shots and had really good passing and execution, but defensively we were really good and active.

We did a tremendous job on Ramos and never really allowed her to get in the flow.”

The Rams defense came into the game ranked fifth in the nation in points allowed per game, and showed that throughout the first half. The Spartans were forced to take three-pointers at a higher rate than they are used to as they finished just 8-of-36 from three-point range.

Nystrom’s continued development as a scorer was on full display in the first half. More often than not, she was able to receive the ball on the elbow and put herself in a great location to score in the post or find an open teammate for an easy basket.

Gustavsson imposed her will in the paint all evening long, scoring with ease on the less physical Spartan forwards. Her 26 points came steadily throughout the

game and mark her second consecutive 20-point outing.

As has been the case many times this year, the Rams relied on the contributions of a third player in addition to that of Nystrom and Gustavsson. Austgulen and her sharp shooting proved to be detrimental to the Spartans as she scored all but two of her 17 points from beyond the arc.

“It was nice to get Stine going tonight,” Williams said. “I thought she did an outstanding job of catch and ready. “It seems like we’ve always had that third wheel with Elie and Ellen lately stepping up, and tonight it was Stine.”

Despite the win, the second half was not nearly as sound as the Rams would have hoped for.

They were outscored 40-25 and struggled from the field. But when they play as well as they did in the first half, it’s going to be tough for any team to beat them.

The Rams now return home to Fort Collins for a bout against San Diego State. Tip-off is at 2 p.m. on Jan. 28.

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

Senior Gian Clavell drives to the hoop past a San Jose defender during the first half on January 25, 2017. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT JERGE COLLEGIAN

CSU trailed the Spartans 27-24 with 4:28 remaining in the first half after a jumper by Jaycee Hillsman. However, CSU answered with a crucial 9-0 run to build a six-point lead.

The Rams led San Jose State 33-29 at the break and opened the second half on a 7-0 run. The 16-2 run by the Rams over a 6:17 span was key in the victory.

“I thought we grew a lot over a 40 minute period,” head coach Larry Eustachy said. “We were very concerned with this game because with San Diego State coming you could look ahead.

I thought our team did a good job of not and understanding

who they were playing.”

The win marks Larry Eustachy’s 100th victory with Colorado State, something he says he does not think about.

“It really doesn’t carry that much significance to me,” Eustachy said. “I had a lot more fulfillment watching this team fend off San Jose State late and play some great portions of the game and watch guys mature right in front of me.”

The Rams continue their conference slate on Saturday Jan. 28 in San Diego against San Diego State at 4 p.m. MT. The game can be seen on CBS Sports Network.

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

BASEBALL

Hutton named preseason AllAmerican honorable mention

By Chad Deutschman @ChadDeutschman

Senior Colorado State shortstop, Haley Hutton. was named a Honorable Mention Preseason All-American by Fastpitch News, the organization announced Wednesday.

A three-time All-Mountain West honoree, Hutton holds the leading batting average in Colorado State Softball history at .394. In 2016, Hutton led the Mountain West in on base percentage at .525, which rankedher 33rd nationally. She also fin-

ished the season ranked second in the conference (8th nationally) with seven triples, third in batting average (.411) and had a career-best 15 stolen bases.

Hutton’s .411 batting average in 2016 made her the lone player in Colorado State Softball history to have multiple .400-plus hitting seasons. She hit .413 as a freshman in 2014.

In her March 5 game against Idaho State, Hutton became the first CSU player in over a decade to record an inside-the-park home run. Hutton led the Rams to an 11-2 record in March last

season — which put the team over .500 on the season — while hitting .415 with a .732 slugging percentage.

Hutton ended 2016 with 17 multi-hit games, while also being a reliable glove in the infield with 124 defensive assists (5th in the Mountain West).

Colorado State will open the 2017 season Feb. 10-12 in Austin, Texas for the Texas Classic with a five-game weekend against Maryland, Texas and Minnesota.

Chad Deutschman can be reached by email at sports@ collegian.com

CSU shortstop Haley Hutton was the Rams’ best batter in the non-conference season during 2016. PHOTO BY JACK STARKEBAUM COLLEGIAN

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ARTS & CULTURE Thursday, January 26, 2017

CULTURE & COMMUNITY

CSU student and professor share UFO sighting experiences, urge others to believe

By Zoe Jennings @zoe_jennings4

Jacob Sphatt never really believed in aliens.

“I was not really sure if I believed in UFO’s or not,” said the senior, studying civil engineering at Colorado State University. “But, after this, there is no other explanation for it.”

According to Sphatt, he was letting his roommate’s dog out around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18 when he saw “a group of fluorescent green lights in the form of a chevron.” He saw the Chevron for about five to 10 seconds at approximately four blocks south of CSU’s campus.

“There were five to seven lights in the formation and were first seen 20 to 30 degrees above the horizon,” Sphatt said.

“I was looking south when I first sighted them, and watched them move north, almost directly overhead.”

The event was quick as the Chevron, which shifted into a straight line, started accelerating and gaining altitude, disappearing when it reached 40 to 50 degrees above the horizon looking north without making a sound, according to Sphatt.

“The lights appeared relatively small, but much larger than a star,” Sphatt said. “The individual lights were round, with a hazy edge and appeared to be about 1/6 the size of the moon.”

Sphatt said he has a good understanding of directions, physics, optics and trigonometry, which allowed him to determine that this flying object was not a plane.

“I just know if it was something like a plane, or something that low going that quick I would have heard something,” Sphatt said.

Sphatt urges others who may have seen the UFO to report their sighting to the National UFO Reporting Center. If anyone reports a similar experience it will be compiled together in the database, making it a more relevant occurrence, according to Sphatt.

“I was totally coherent when it happened,” Sphatt said.

“It was on a weeknight. I didn’t think anything crazy would happen, just letting the dog out before bed, and then I just saw it.

My roommates were up, and I immediately told them about it, and they were just as freaked out as me. The guy that I reported it to said that they had been getting some common reports significant to that, not from the area necessarily, but it has been a common occurrence

recently.”

Sphatt is not the only member of the community with an extraterrestrial experience. Scott Christensen is an art professor at CSU, and he has also experienced an alien encounter in 2014, and a sighting in October of 2016. After his first encounter, Christensen has dedicated a lot of time to researching aliens and UFOs. As an active member of the Mutual UFO Network, he attends conferences as well contacts prominent researchers studying alien activity such as Michael Salla of exopolitics.

“For me, it happened because of that direct encounter,” Christensen said. “It had just never been more than entertainment except since then, and even today, I have already been researching, every single day.

That’s the biggest change.”

Christensen said this big change has made a significant impact on his life.

“My life got changed, and I was just in my backyard,” Christensen said. “I look at it from all these ways and think sometimes I just wish I could go back to before the accident. You get into things that are so beyond. Even the physics of what I saw is beyond.”

According to Christensen, his world view shifted after his first encounter. He dealt with this change by being open to his family and fellow faculty members about his experience.

“I’m always willing to talk about it,” Christensen said. “And, I don’t apologize for it, but what other people do with it is sort of open.”

Christensen displayed an exhibited featuring art he had created inspired by his UFO experience. He has made no effort in creating an alien research group at CSU due to the complications that would bring up with the parents of students, according to Christensen.

“Some people find it interesting to a point, but then I have to stop because they get to a point when they get uncomfortable, even my family,” Christensen said.

According to Christensen, when looking at the circumstances of his encounter, he takes note of other alien activity that has occurred in Colorado and surrounding states, including the Phoenix Lights phenomenon, Roswell UFO incident, cattle mutilation in the Colorado Springs area and the location of the Air Force in the area. Other states in the area are educating about alien activity on Earth, Christensen said.

Jacob Sphatt’s schematic of his UFO sighting PHOTO COURTESY OF JACOB SPHATT.

“Arizona has had so much information about this,” Christensen said. “It is changing their education. If you went to the University of Arizona, you would find someone to talk to about UFO information. It would be open and accepted.”

At CSU, according to Christensen, there is no real community of people who are interested in the research of aliens. He goes to organizations such as the Mutual UFO Network, exopolotics. org and UFO.org to reach out to other people who have interest or experience with these phenomena.

“Those have been great,” Christensen said. “I recommend joining an organization after an encounter or sighting because they are so helpful, and it does give you a way to find qualified information and evidential information.”

Sphatt said he wishes there were more of a community around alien encounters at CSU. “I think a lot of people believe in aliens, and a lot of people have probably seen something too but just haven’t come forward or just don’t want to come forward,” Sphatt said.

Although Christensen’s research is mostly solitary due to

the lack of community around it, he finds it to be a unique spiritual outlet.

“I think that’s why in some ways it’s this real inspiring research, but I just have this feeling that it just doesn’t go anywhere except for me,” Christensen said.

“And, in some odd way I am trying to use that for my own benefit in a very humble, private connection to the almighty grace. So, it couldn’t come back to the more simpler thing that all of us have to deal with in some way.”

Through his extensive research, Christensen has drawn some possible conclusions about the future of “Earthling’s” relationships with aliens.

According to Christensen, disclosure, or the act of making secret information about aliens known, will be the “biggest event of the millennium,” whether the information is disclosed by the aliens, or by “Earthlings” is up for debate.

“It isn’t that disclosure isn’t happening, it is happening, but along the way there will always be these forces of non-disclosure or disinformation or misinformation or downright lies in order to keep it boxed up for some people who would not be able to accept it for whatever reason.

When the aliens would want to disclose, then it happens. I could be a mouthpiece for folks who want to have this information out there.”

According to Christensen, there is some debate on whether the general public is ready for full disclosure of this information.

“I think there are definitely some facts that are not known by the general population,” Sphatt said. “I think the government is holding back some information probably.”

Historically, Hollywood, more specifically within the scifi genre, has served as a platform for artists to represent their creative take on aliens. This subtle integration into culture is both helpful and detrimental to full disclosure. “(Movies) help us digest these things in a way,” Christensen said.

“The difficulty is going to be taking the veil away from the sci-fi genre and just saying well this has actually happened, and then what?”

Sphatt advises those who want to learn more about aliens to be more aware of their surroundings, “keep looking up at the sky, and off of their phones.”

Zoe Jennings can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com

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Virtuoso concert features vibrant horn soloist MUSIC

By Mckenzie Moore @mkenziemoore172

The first Virtuoso Series concert at the University Center for the Arts featured horn soloist John McGuire with Joel Bacon and Tim Burns accompanying on piano. The second movement also featured John Seesholtz as a narrator.

The concert began with “Konzert fur Waldhorn in E flat” by Christoph Forster in three movements: Con discretion, Adagio and Allegro. Bacon began the piece with a lively piano intro, and McGuire came in with fast-paced horn runs and jumping octaves. The two bounced off each other, the piano softening during horn features and McGuire stepping back from the stand during piano features.

For the second movement, the music switched to a slower pace, but changed from a minor key to a major key multiple times. After the downtempo ballad, the steadily swift third movement reintroduced complex runs in both instruments. The horn rapidly jumped between low and high notes, which requires a great deal of

control with the mouthpiece and years of skill development.

The second piece was, as McGuire described it, “a bit of an experiment.” Seesholtz stood at the front of the stage and recited poetry in German, then sat down while McGuire, with Tim Burns accompanying on piano, played a musical piece that portrayed the emotions spoken in the poetry.

The first movement, “On My Sweetheart’s Wedding Day,” began with Seesholtz’s voice carrying dread and malaise across the hall. The accompanying music featured drawn-out, melancholy horn and a desperate-sounding pairing. Seesholtz used his voice in “This Morning in the Fields” to mimic the sound of birds chirping and portrayed the general feeling of optimism and brightness written into the poem. McGuire and Burns then launched into a major key with high trills, and a fast, upbeat tempo. Seesholtz shouted half of “I Have a Burning Knife” before the music presented a stormy piece filled with discord, anger and pain. At the end of his recitation of “My Sweetheart’s Blue Eyes,” Seesholtz faded into a contented whisper. McGuire and

Burns closed the act with a slow, major-key piece that ended on a peaceful high chord.

McGuire introduced the piece “Nocturne” by Traci Mendel as one very close to his heart; the composer had presented him with the handwritten manuscript of the piece as a birthday present. The discordant notes of the contemporary solo started as low and ominous, later calling for a mute in the horn for a more strained sound. The piece resolved some chords but left others open, creating a unique sound that added a modern element to the concert.

The final piece of the concert was a well-known horn solo by Richard Strauss called “Concerto in E flat, op. 11” in three movements: Allegro, Andante and Allegro. The first movement brought a flamboyant march style with soaring high notes, runs and swelling crescendos.

The second movement presented a ballad with enormous dynamic contrast, and victorious resounding notes that

Dr. John Maguire performed on January 24, 2017. PHOTO BY JACK

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harmonized with the piano accompaniment.

Finally, the last movement of the night depicted equal senses of thrill and resolution with fluctuating tempos and rhythms. The syncopation in the piano accompaniment decorated the brisk arpeggios in McGuire’s horn part. Both instruments would change dy-

namics, and burst in and out of the piece.

With a pounded chord on the piano, and a slammed high note in the horn, the concert concluded to enthusiastic applause from the Organ Recital Hall.

Mckenzie Moore can be reached at enterainment@ collegian.com

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A guide to 2017 music festivals MUSIC

By Adelayde Dahlin @addsss

It is nearly impossible to get through the spring semester without hearing all about the music festivals your friends are attending, and seeing their “candid” photos plastered all over social media. It is hard to deny the little twinge of envy we all get when we see and hear about everything we think, we missed out on. So, if you are tired of experiencing the inevitable jealousy, here is a preview of 2017’s music festivals you can start planning for now: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Location: Indio, California Dates: April 14-16 and April 2123 Price: $400 This festival is always the big elephant in the room when your friends have tickets, and you do not. It is the overpublicized celeb fest where you can see artists on and off the stage. This year’s lineup includes names like Radiohead, Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, DJ Snake and Lorde. As an added bonus, you get to hang out in the California desert for the weekend and spend an ungodly amount of money to do it.

This year’s festival is already sold out, however, you can always find tickets for resale.

Hangout Music Festival Location: Gulf Shores, Alabama Dates: May 19-21 Price: $289 If you are all about partying on a beach while seeing some of your favorite artists, this is the festival you want. You will get to see Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Twenty One Pilots, Chance the Rapper, Major Lazer, DJ Snake, Weezer and a lot of other big names. Plus, this little gem of a fest is still somewhat underrated, and we all love being the first to know about things. General admission for three-day passes are still at the starting price of $289, and their site has a list of suggested housing options on the beach.

So, grab 15 of your closest friends and have an adventure of a lifetime.

Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Location: Manchester, Tennessee Dates: June 8-11 Price: $325 plus fees What sells me on Bonnaroo is that it is only about an hour away from Nashville, so you can really make your road trip experience worth it. Not to mention that their lineup did not disappoint this year. Some of the biggest names include U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Weeknd. Tickets start at $325, but they do offer reasonable car camping prices and other deals,

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Sasquatch! Music Festival Location: Gorge Amphitheater, Washington Dates: May 26-28 Price: Unknown Have you ever seen the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington? Look it up, and the photos just might convince you to book a trip. The view is breathtaking, and the lineup is pretty breathtaking too. It includes

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Pixar gets shut out of animation race; ‘Zootopia’s timeliness amplified by Black Lives Matter movement

By Jen Yamato Los Angeles Times

The Oscars invited a wide ranging class of 2017 animation film nominees to the party Tuesday, from acclaimed studio hits “Moana,” “Zootopia” and “Kubo and the Two Strings,” to Swiss stop-motion drama “My Life as a Zucchini” and the dialogue-free Studio Ghibli offering “The Red Turtle.”

But Pixar, whose “Inside Out” took home the animated feature Oscar last year, found its “Finding Dory” left swimming on the sidelines _ drawn out of the race in a rare shutout for the CGI juggernaut.

That’s good news for the five contenders, which represent a diverse breadth of style, story and size, making the animation category one of the hardest races to predict come Feb. 26.

Disney Animation made a strong showing with two critical and commercial hits now vying for the animation prize. Pacific Islander girl-power tale “Moana,” directed by John Musker, Ron Clement and Osnat Shurer, also earned a song nomination for the soaring anthem “How Far I’ll Go,” penned by EGOT-chasing “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Disney’s “Zootopia,” about a female rabbit who defies her haters, doubters and a class-divided society to become a police officer, heads into the Academy Awards with a Golden Globe win under its hat and a sense of timely urgency that continues to grow in stature. Will it be the first “woke” movie for kids to take

home an Oscar?

The film, from co-directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore, explores the kinds of social inequities _ gender, racial and class bias _ they saw unfolding during production in the national conversation as police killings of African-American men sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

“I remember saying, ‘This is exactly what we’re talking about with this movie,” Howard told the Los Angeles Times Tuesday morning. “It was emboldening.

We felt like we really needed to do this topic justice, because it wasn’t just a theoretical that we were playing out onscreen.”

Focus Features’ handsome 3-D stop-motion picture “Kubo and the Two Strings” is another strong contender. Hailing from Oregon-based Laika Studios (“Coraline,” “ParaNorman”), it is just the second animated feature to additionally earn a nomination for visual effects since Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” in 1994.

“Kubo’s” Asian-influenced visual aesthetic and story have been met with critical praise.

But the casting of primarily white stars _ including lead actor Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes and Rooney Mara _ to voice its Japanese characters has drawn robust fire from the Asian-American community.

A year after #OscarsSoWhite, in spite of increased accolades for black filmmakers and performers, issues of representation and inclusion will con-

tinue to be hotly debated until and beyond Oscars Sunday. And director Travis Knight, who has attempted to deflect those accusations of whitewashing, has yet to win over his toughest critics. “(I) think that things can get easily simplified when you’re talking about diversity in a binary way,” he told the Wrap in August. “A lot of nuance gets lost when you reduce this complex matter to a hashtag.”

Seamless cross-cultural blending is on display in the quiet and exquisitely drawn fable “The Red Turtle,” a dialogue-free, hand-animated fantasy from Dutch-British animator Michael Dudok de Wit. The French-Belgian-Japanese co-production between France’s Wild Bunch and Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli tells the story of a shipwrecked man who creates an unexpected new life for himself on an island deserted of everything but wildlife.

The category is rounded out by another European entry with art-house appeal: “My Life as a Zucchini (Ma vie de Courgette),” a colorful stop-motion nominee with playful visuals hailing from France and Switzerland.

Director Claude Barras spent three years just prepping his film about a young boy who loses his parents and goes to live in an orphanage. It took six years to complete the film _ “a lonely six years,” he joked via telephone from Switzerland. “Hopefully the next one comes together more quickly,” he continued.

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Tom Brokaw to narrate a Discovery TV documentary about sustainability

By Amy Kaufman

The Los Angeles Times

PARK CITY, Utah - On Friday, Tom Brokaw was in Washington, D.C., helping to lead NBC News’ coverage of President Trump’s inauguration. Less than 24 hours later - as thousands of women marched through the heart of Park City midsnowstorm to protest the new administration—the veteran newscaster touched down in Utah to promote a documentary at the Sundance Film Festival here.

Culture shock much?

“I’ve been doing this for a long time, and that one was —to put it lightly—unique,” the 76-year-old said of the inauguration.

“Most presidents who deliver State of the Union addresses try to do something that is lyrical, poetic and historically contextual. He did not. It was another campaign speech — which was his intention. He’s going to run the White House as if his campaign never stopped.”

Sipping a diet soda, Brokaw had just traveled from the airport to a local Ruth’s Chris Steak House, where he joined David Zaslav, president and chief executive of Discovery Communications, and Rich Ross, president of the Discovery Channel, to discuss “Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman.” That’s the new movie Discovery has at the festival, which explores people who are finding sustainable ways to live off the land and sea.

The film is part of the company’s renewed focus to “stand up for the environment and animal extinction,” said Zaslav. After working with Bro-

kaw for more than two decades at NBC, the executive reached out to the journalist to see whether he’d be interested in narrating the documentary.

“As the chronicler of the Greatest Generation—which at its heart was about people standing up for a greater good —I thought he was the perfect voice,” Zaslav said.

Brokaw, who has a ranch in Montana, has long been interested in environmental preservation. He was raised near large farming areas in South Dakota and grew up fishing on the Missouri River. And while he’s in Utah, he’s staying with Robert Redford, the festival founder who was largely responsible for the creation of this year’s New Climate program focused on environmental films.

Brokaw said he agrees with the documentary’s overall message of conservation— advocating practices such as notill farming—and believes that anyone who suggests we ought to stop eating animals or farming altogether is an extremist.

“That’s crazy. You’ve gotta have a sustainable economy,” he said. “You can’t just say, ‘We’re not gonna do that.’ You have to have enlightened environmentalists who say we can have what we want, but we have to manage it more skillfully.”

“We’re not trying to scare people,” Ross added of the film, which will run on the network in August. “We look to educate or enlighten people and show them there are options. If you leave people hopeless, we are doing a tremendous disservice.”

Zaslav paused and leaned toward Brokaw. “Tom,” he said, taking a serious tone, “when you

think about the obligation of our generation — whether it relates to what’s going on with animal extinction or what’s going on with climate — what is the obligation and what is the path?”

“What I think we can do, having lived through what we’ve seen,” Brokaw began, “is to say to (the millennial) generation: Look at the quality of life. You don’t have to be abusive and use everything. The quality of life can be more satisfying to you emotionally and intellectually and even physically if you do something. You feel better if you do the right thing.”

As for Trump—who has said he believes climate change is a hoax—Brokaw remains hopeful that the president may change his stance on global warming.

He maintained faith in Rex Tillerson, the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil and Trump’s choice for secretary of state, to say “it’s real.”

“I know him, and for a long time, Exxon Mobil knew that global warming was real but did not surface it. He was the first CEO who said, ‘It’s real. We have to say that.’ That’s very strong,” Brokaw said.

“One of the things I learned early on is that at this stage in a new administration, it’s very hard to know for certain what’s gonna happen. So I developed something called the UFO theory: the Unforeseen Will Occur.

But (Trump’s) gonna find getting in the Oval Office that he’s no longer on the campaign trail and he can’t go out and say whatever he wants to ... . He doesn’t have a lot of currency at this moment.

He’s got the core group.”

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