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Sherman Alexei is an award winning writer and filmmaker raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington, and was the keynote speaker at the CSU Diversity Symposium.

His list of work includes:

A new daycare facility for children has opened in Morgan Library

By MOONIER SAID The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Four years ago Amber Dejmal had her first child as an undergrad at CSU and realized there were no resources on campus to help her succeed as a parent. That’s when Dejmal got the idea for Ram Kidz Village, a daycare to help studentparents.

This daycare center has opened on the second floor of the Morgan Library to cater to parents like Dejmal, especially those who desire to finish their degrees while tending to their child’s needs.

“Morgan Library allows student-parents to have a block of time to while their children can also participate in educational activities,” said co-founder Amber Dejmal.

Dejmal went on to cofound the Student Parent Group, which was able to rally its members “along with Morgan Library and the Adult Learner and Veteran Services offices,” Dejmal said. “We were able to create a change.”

The Adult Learner and Veteran Service Office (ALVS) went to the Student Fee Review Board for the necessary funding.

They successfully lobbied for a $3.69 student fee increase, which helps pay for the facility, materials and staff for Ram Kidz Village.

As a result, student parents only need to pay an initial

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THE RAM KIDZ VILLAGE What: The Ram Kidz Village Day Care open house When: Sept. 25, 4 to 7 p.m.

Where: Second floor of Morgan library

Movies of Sherman Alexei Smoke Signals

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Sherman Alexie, writer and co-producer for the movie “Smoke Signals”, talks at the annual Diversity Symposium in the Lory Student Center Tuesday night. Over 40 different session spread over three days will make up this year’s Symposium.

Diversity symposium: standing room only Alexie keynote draws crowd of 800 attendees

By KATE SIMMONS The Rocky Mountain Collegian Sherman Alexie, renown author, filmmaker, poet and recipient of countless awards, spent much of his speech as the keynote speaker for the 12th annual CSU Diversity Symposium talking about d**ks.

With a comedic tone, Alexie discussed issues facing Native Americans and minorities to an 800-person audience Tuesday night. In retelling a story his grandmother told him about an Indian man who put his penis in everything, Alexie communicated a more complex issue.

He asked the audience, which packed the Lory Student Center Theatre and overflowed into the East Ballroom, why native studies classes do not teach students native stories about d**ks.

Alexie explained that after interviewing tribesman, Puritan anthropologists decided which of their stories to tell.

“The editing and censorship of In-

dian stories has happened from the very beginning,” Alexie said. “Our stories were immediately controlled by non-natives.”

White anthropologists decided how native stories would be told, Alexie said. The censorship Native Americans experience is not exclusive to their experience.

“There are talking d**k stories in your cultures that they don’t want you to hear,” Alexie said. “We don’t have a monopoly on talking d**k stories.”

It was a speech that attendees said helped open their eyes to different perspectives.

“I liked how he made you think differently about Native Americans and how they’re viewed as people by non-Indian people,” said Fort Collins resident Karla Iron after watching his speech.

There are about 500 self-identifying Native Americans on campus and 180 that are incoming, according to Leslee Lovato, an assistant director in the Office of Admissions.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE What: Diversity Symposium Workshops When: All day Wednesday and Thursday beginning at 9 a.m.

Where: Lory Student Center For a complete list of workshop topics and times visit: www.diversity.colostate.edu/symposium/program.aspx

“I think it’s really neat CSU is bringing in someone who’s such a well-known Native American,” said Nicole Kenote.

The senior biomedical science major is a peer mentor and tutor at the campus Native American Cultural Center.

“He talks about normal things.

Life on a reservation and what it’s like in the normal day to day,” Kenote said.

“It’s neat that he helps by letting people know about the real nature of life, not the Hollywood version.”

“The keynote always gets more publicity,” said Rod Higgins, assistant to the vice president for diversity. “But See DIVERSITY on Page 3

Space in free-weights room at rec center can feel cramped

By AUSTIN BRIGGS The Rocky Mountain Collegian Two-and-a-half years after the student Recreation Center underwent a $32 million, 75,000 square foot expansion, many students who use the facility to lift weights are often times finding themselves bumping elbows in what can feel like a cramped environment.

During peak hours, the weight room on the second floor next to the track often times has weightlifters milling about or standing in line as they wait patiently for a piece of equipment to open up, students who use the facility said.

The rec center saw 865,118 visits in between August 2011 to August 2012 . That’s up almost 190,000 visits from Aug. 2010 to Aug. 2011, which reached about 653,650.

The renovated swimming area was open for its first full

year from August 2011 to August 2012, drawing larger crowds to the facilities.

"Any time after 4 p.m., it's going to be crowded," said junior economics major Zach Vonthum as he pointed to the rack of dumbbells. "A lot of times that whole rack is empty and you have to wait for equipment."

On any weekday afternoon, about 40 to 50 athletes can be found pumping iron in the weight room. Students stake out areas along the back wall, between aisles and around the various weightlifting machines to curl, press and push stacks of weights and dumbbells. When someone is finished with a bench or piece of equipment, it’s quickly taken over by someone else.

“It can get bad,” said Cody Baker, a sophomore business major. “Sometimes you’ll leave for like half-a-minute then when you come back someone

REC CENTER ATTENDANCE Aug. 20, 2012 to Sept. 2: 45,906

Sept. 3, 2012 to Sept. 16: 38,474 July 1, 2008 to June 31 2009: 520,884 (pre-renovation) Sept. 1, 2010 to Aug. 31 2011: 653,651

Sept. 1, 2011 to Aug. 31 2012: 865,118

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Freshman David Beiswenger lifts at the student Rec Center Tuesday afternoon.

Many students feel that the weightroom is over-crowded.

will have grabbed the bench you were using."

When deciding how to upgrade the facility, rec center Executive Director Judy Muenchow said they hired consultants, received input from stu-

dents, looked at what industry standards were for a university the size of CSU and looked at their budget to best determine how to allocate the money for different areas when the rec center was being renovated.

Restrictions on expanding onto CSU’s "Green Corridor" –– the patch of fields that run west from the Lory Student Center to Shields Street –– limited the footprint that the renovated building could make as well.

The facility was built to accommodate a student population of 30,000 to 32,000 students, Muenchow said.

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This 1998 movie featured an all Native American cast, and featured Alexei as a writer and co-producer.

The movie follows two Native American men as they drive across the country to retrieve the ashes of one’s estranged father.

The movie is sentimental and funny all at the same time, and offers a clever glimpse into Native American culture.

The Business of Fancydancing

This 2002 film featured Alexei as a director and writer. The movie centers on a Native American man who must reconcile the traditions of his childhood on the reservation with his outside life in a multi-racial relationship with another man. The themes of cultural assimilation and stereotyping are clear throughout.

Sonicsgate

Alexei appears as himself in this documentary detailing the exodus of the Seattle Supersonics, which were tragically relocated to Oklahoma City.

Himself a fan of the former Seattle NBA team, Alexei is interviewed for the documentary.

The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff and designed by Design Editor Kris Lawan.

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FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Students create miniparks in Fort Collins On Sept. 21 in Fort Collins, the international design event known as PARK(ing) Day will be rung in with CSU students converting car lots to small parks, according to a university press release.

“Our students got inspired,” said Kelly Curl, an assistant professor of landscape architecture at CSU in a statement. “This is a fantastic opportunity for students to bring concepts about parks to our town. I’m very excited to see where this will go.”

About a dozen students will work with approximately five spaces near Mountain Avenue and Linden Street.

PARK(ing) Day began in San Francisco, when in 2005 an art and design studio encouraged people to reimagine the way streets were used.

CSU’s accredited landscape architecture undergraduate program is rare in the west, according to the release. It is the only one that exists in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Montana.

Anti-on-campus stadium group conducts its own feasibility study Two months after CSU released a 124-page study detailing whether it’s practical to build a proposed on-campus stadium, S.O.S. Hughes announced that it will also release a financial study of the stadium’s revenue projections.

The anti-on-campus stadium group will unveil its findings on Sept. 24 at 2:30 p.m. At 7 p.m., a second presentation will be made. Both will take place in the CSU Lory Student Center Cherokee Park room.

Dr. Joel Maxcy, a sports economist from Temple University, will review the

“financial viability and local fiscal impact on the proposed stadium, ” according to a press release.

Maxcy’s expertise in sports economics includes antitrust, regulation and labor policy.

CSU’s Emily Roering leads Women’s Golf McGuire Invite

In the final day of round play at the Branch Law Firm/ Dick McGuire Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, CSU’s Emily Roering went from 75th after day one to rank in the top 50.

After the final day, Roering placed 49th at the UNM Championship Golf Course.

“I am happy with the way Emily finished the tournament today,” said interim head coach Susan Jennings in a news release. “She was determined to play well.”

Roering, a redshirt junior, had her first under-par round of the season and hit 10 out of 14 fairways and 14 out of 18 greens.

Society of Women Engineers to host an Evening with Industry

Engineering students looking to network their way to the top should look no further than the Evening with Industry slated for Wednesday, Sept. 26.

This bi-annual event, sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers, will enable burgeoning engineers (and those with related majors) to network with employers the night before the Career Fair.

The event lasts from 5 to 7 p.m., and will take place at the Rio Grande Restaurant in Old Town. No registration is required.

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Visits to rec center drop as semester progresses

work so much so it’s hard for me to make it here as much as I’d like.”

He added, “it’s always nice not to have the crowds” at the end of the semester.

The other high usage time of year is the two weeks before spring break.

“That’s not surprising.

People want to do what they can to get in shape and look good if they’re going on vacation,” Frye said. “After spring break, the numbers really drop off through the rest of the semester.”

Frye explained that he hears many students, especially freshmen, comment that the Rec Center is free to use. That’s not the case, he said. Students pay mandatory fees every semester that goes towards the Rec Center.

“Just because they don’t pay upfront doesn’t mean that they’re not paying for it,” Frye said. “Our goal is for every student to find something about the program that interests them and to use the facility. Having all this in one area on campus is a rarity.”

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the workouts then see how hard it is and start to lose interest.”

Workout partners Mac

Dohm and Zack Dickerhoff both said they try to use the center four or five times a week but as the semester

stretches on homework and a job make this a tough commitment to keep.

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seeing the CSU community and our commitment to diversity excites me even more,” Eighteen workshops came before Alexie’s speech, which concluded the first day of CSU’s annual Diversity Symposium.

The three-day event, centered around a theme of “Access, Attainment and Responsibility,” will feature sessions led by CSU graduate students, faculty and Fort Collins community members focused on a different aspect of diversity on campus.

“It’s not just preaching to the choir,” said Mary Ontiveros, vice president for diversity and chair of the diversity symposium committee. “Many people don’t know what it’s about but they have the courage to go through the doors and come out having learned something.”

The events are open to the public. There’s no charge, no registration and attendees are encouraged to come and go at their convenience.

Ontiveros said the symposium allows participants to ask questions in a safe environment.

Audience members watch as Sherman Alexie speaks in the Lory Student Center Theatre Tuesday night.

Alexie had an overwhelming crowd turnout and the theatre ended up being standing room only. (Photo

by Hunter Thompson)

“People want to know but are scared of being labeled ignorant or racist and they don’t know how to ask sensitive questions,” Ontiveros said.

The symposium provides a forum for those sensitive subjects to be explored in a safe environment. Workshops will cover topics ranging from arab culture at CSU to the natural hair movement. Ontiveros hopes the environment the symposium provides to the community in these three days will extend to the rest of campus.

“Ideally, the whole campus would be a safe zone for questions,” Ontiveros said.

On Tuesday, Alexie shared experiences from his own academic environment that prompted him to be the first of his family to pursue an education outside the reservation.

Alexie recounted a day he was in math class on the reservation. His mother’s name was the first name in the book. After realizing he was being taught from a 33-year-old textbook, he decided to go to high school off the reservation.

He told the audience about his first day at the “blonde school.” He remembered being terrified as he crossed the street toward his future classmates

and he realized they were terrified too.

“Crossing that street was my Atlantic Ocean and that school was my Ellis Island,” Alexie said. “I was a first generation American to the United States. We’re indigenous to the land but I was the first generation into the culture.”

“I was the 47 percent. I was the little Indian kid with alcoholic parents with huge, lopsided glasses walking down the street thinking: ‘I can’t wait until the government takes care of me,” Alexie said.

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first so that’s why there’s so many people but it dies down,” said Dohm, a senior political science major. “I

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Senior journalism major Nick Henley performs a pull-up at the Campus Recreation center Tuesday afternoon. As the year progresses, less and less students show up to work out at the rec center.

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The first few weeks of each new semester brings swarms of students to the CSU Recreation Center with aspirations of being able to work out regularly and stay in shape the rest of the year.

Reality sinks in as the semester progresses and coursework, jobs and other obligations push out the time for physical fitness, Rec Center officials said.

“The busiest time of year for us is at the beginning of fall semester,” said Rec Center Associate Director Cody Frye. “As the semester goes on numbers start to drop a bit, although there’s an uptick once the weather gets colder.”

Card swipes confirm the trend, according to the Rec Center. The first two weeks of class this semester saw almost 46,000 visits, while the second two weeks saw approximately 38,000 visitors enter the Rec Center.

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Indefinite Detention is Unenforceable So far the administration is unwilling to say, which either means that they are including everyone, or they are not planning on enforcing the NDAA.

2) Indefinitely detaining people is logistically impossible

By CALEB HENDRICH

I just want to make one fact perfectly clear. I am a civil libertarian. I believe quite firmly that the Federal Government does not have a place in regulating my personal life, behavior or activities (within reason).

The government has no right to infringe upon anything listed in the Bill of Rights. They are not permitted to tell me what I can or cannot say (within reason). They are not permitted to tell me what religion I should be (if any).

They are not permitted to hold me for an indefinite amount of time without a fair, public and speedy trial for no reason at all.

I am against the provision National Defense Authorization Act that permits the government to detain American citizens indefinitely.

I am also a skeptical thinker; I spend a lot of time speculating about things like this, and what their ramifications would be if they actually happened the way people say they will happen.

Because of this, I believe that even though the injunction against the NDAA was stayed by an appellate court judge yesterday, it is still not something to throw our hands up in despair over.

The idea of the government using this to arrest everyone is actually never going to happen, simply because it is unenforceable. For a couple reasons:

1) It is really vague The contested provision in the NDAA permits the government to indefinitely detain anyone who “who ‘substantially supported’ al-Qaida, the Taliban or ‘associated forces’”, which is so vague that some believe that the government will use this provision to imprison everyone who disagrees with it.

Given that there are whole lot of people out there who disagree with government actions regardless of what it is doing, there will be a whole lot of people that need to be arrested.

And what counts as “substantial support”?

Journalists are notably left out of the language in the bill, so does that mean that journalists are now providing support to the enemies of the US? What about bloggers?

Or YouTube videos? Or Facebook posts? What about peace protesters? Who exactly is included in here?

Here’s the thing, imprisoning people takes a whole lot more than simply holding them in a cell.

These people have to be fed, clothed, and sheltered from violent inmates. The US already has a chronically overpopulated prison system, and the influx of these new dissidents will severely strain an already overstretched system.

Even if more prisons are built, we are still talking about hundreds of thousands of potential inmates.

This has the detrimental effect of A) increasing the amount of money needed for prison upkeep and B) decreasing the number of taxpayers that can pay to support said prisons.

Either way, indefinitely detaining Americans will be a huge drain on the country. They just do not have the room or the money to imprison everyone.

OUR VIEW

Concealed Carry Eludes Us The Our View traditionally voices the Collegian Editorial Board’s unanimous opinion on an issue represented in the current day’s paper, but today that tradition is being foregone thanks to the issue of concealed-carry.

The topic of concealed-carry — and, specifically, whether it should be banned on campus — has a heated history at CSU. Concealed weapons were nearly banned in 2009, but after vocal student opposition, chose to remain one of the few college campuses allowing the practice.

It became clear during the planning meeting for this section that there would be no unanimous opinion concerning concealed-carry, and the conversation became more passionate than it has at any other time so far this school year.

There are valid arguments for and against concealed-carry on

“There are valid arguments for and against concealedcarry on campus, but it’s important to keep the discussion respectful and civil.” campus, but it’s important to keep the discussion respectful and civil.

On one side is the issue of citizens rights; that without justifiable

cause there is no reason to strip an individual of their right to carry a firearm, especially when the law says otherwise.

The argument against concealed-carry is equally valid; that shootings on college campuses — such as the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting that left 32 dead — provide little incentive to welcome firearms onto university property.

With such entrenched and well-supported arguments, it can be easy for the discussion to quickly escalate when both sides refuse to listen to the other. But in order for this debate to progress, the rhetoric needs to be kept civil.

If not, the conversations can end in (at best) both sides offending the other or (at worst) the same violence that neither side advocates.

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3) Remember: It is still in the courts There are three steps in the life of a court case. It is first brought to the district courts, then sent to the appellate court on appeal, and then it heads up to the Supreme Court. So far, the NDAA has only gone through two courts, and the decision to uphold the law has been appealed.

Given the blatant unconstitutionality of the law (which is not hyperbole, it breaks the first and fifth Amendments), the Supreme Court is not likely to ignore this case.

This means that there is still a chance that it can be struck down.

In the unlikely event that the Supreme Court upholds the NDAA, there is still the problem of logistics and legal vagueness to overcome.

Which is why I am not wailing that freedom has died and the US is now some sort of Big Brother-1984 style government.

Instead, I am going to keep an eye on the issue until it comes to its end.

I do not believe that the NDAA will pass the constitutional hurdle in the Supreme Court. I also do not believe that the government will attempt to imprison every American Citizen indefinitely for the reasons I have stated above.

Let’s all calm down and see how this plays out.

Save your outrage, because you may need it later.

Editorial Assistant Caleb Hendrich is a senior political science and journalism double major. His columns appear Wednesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian. com.

“Limitng ourselves to enjoying charachters that are just like us robe us of personal gorwth. Limiting the growth of an individual limits the growth of the society that person is contributing to.”

Imagine me complexly, embrace a new identity in art

By ANNA MITCHELL

This past week in my Gay and Lesbian Literature class, we read the short but enthralling novel “Giovanni’s Room” by African American author James Baldwin. The protagonist of the book is a blond-haired caucasian gay man. During our in-class dialogue, a question was posed: Can a person of one race successfully write a novel in which the main character is of another race?

The debate became a bit heated.

Most of my peers seemed as though they felt like it is not their job to limit what another writer can and cannot write about. But the question seemed to cause a sense of disquiet among the students.

As a class, we more or less overall agreed that Baldwin was effective at writing as a white character. Personally, I don’t think I would have known the book was penned by an African American if there hadn’t been a picture of Baldwin on the cover and if we hadn’t further discussed it in class.

But is it different when a member of

an oppressed group (in the case of “Giovanni’s Room”, an African American) taking on the perspective of the oppressing group more acceptable?

Should people of color be allowed to write as whites, but not the other way around?

This question itself, of course, is fundamentally racist (yes, caucasian is a race, even if we don’t treat it like one).

But it’s still a valid concern — media portrayal of people of color is traditionally not that great. It’s simply too easy in media to revert to stereotypes instead of actually working to accurately represent the struggles and triumphs of another individual.

Those who argue that we cannot and should not write about what we don’t know have some good reasons to think this. A member of the oppressing group will never fully understand the struggles of the oppressed.

But I say that all people not only should be allowed to write from the perspective of another race, but it should be encouraged to write from that standpoint.

In fact, I don’t think this question should be strictly limited to race. It should be inclusive of gender and sexual identity, religion, socioeconomic status and any number of identifiers that shapes and define who we may be as individuals within a culture.

We cannot grow as individuals if we do not strive to be empathetic of people who are different than us.

Art should be about expression, but it should also be reflective of the human condition. Not all humans are alike. If we write in a world where every character is just like us, we are lying

about reality and we will never cultivate an understanding of others.

Limiting ourselves to enjoying characters that are just like us robs us of personal growth. Limiting the growth of an individual limits the growth of the society that person is contributing to. By not working to truly understand the struggles of another, we are doing ourselves a disservice as both a single person and as a society as a whole.

I’m hardly a creative writer. But it would be a good thing if I — as a white Christian middle class American woman — set out to write a novel from the perspective of a rich Pakistani Muslim man. Could I be successful at truly understanding this character? Probably not. Few authors could do this successfully, simply because it’s very difficult to write about things in which you don’t have experience.

But so long as the author truly put forth effort to write in a way that is not merely representative of stereotypes but instead truly determined to understand the perspective of someone else, I support this practice.

It’s an exercise in imagining people complexly.

Understanding someone different than you is the first step towards tolerance of that person. Tolerance is the first step towards total acceptance, and with acceptance compassion can follow. If we don’t work to be empathetic of one another, we will never truly get along.

Anna Mitchell is a junior liberal arts major. Her columns appear Wednesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian.com.

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By CARRIE MOBLEY The Rocky Mountain Collegian A new pass system designed to increase online readership of the “New York Times” among college students is now available at CSU, according to student government chief of staff Robert Duran.

The pass, which is provided to students at no extra cost, is a part of the current collegiate readership program and has been introduced by the Associated Students of CSU in order to give students better access to the newspaper and all the resources it provides. A student must enter in their CSU email address at the newspaper’s website in order to claim a pass for 24 hours straight.

There will be 340 passes allotted to CSU per day. Duran said the number directly correlates with the number of print copies picked up daily.

“There will be about 300 passes allowed per day because that’s the number

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ASCSU is extending its newspaper readership program to include online passes to the “New York Times,” while also providing “USA Today” in news stands around campus.

of newspapers that students here at CSU read in the print version,” he said.

“We just wanted to make the online version as available to students as the print version.”

According to Duran, CSU is one of the first universities able to try out the new deal.

“This passes system is really to help students access news and be more aware of the world around them,” Duran said. He added that the partnership will also provide CSU with more opportunities to bring better programming and guest speakers to campus.

Other newspapers provided under the collegiate readership program include “USA Today” and the “Denver Post.” All papers under the program are provided to students free of cost.

So far, the “New York

Times” is the only newspaper to encompass a print version alongside an online version in their partnership with the university.

Students, though, don’t all agree that this program will increase readership to the “New York Times.”

“I don’t generally read the ‘New York Times,’” said Ciera DiBello, a junior human development and family studies major. “It tends to be more politically oriented and I don’t like to follow politics. I’m not sure how many people will get use out of this.”

Other students, however, are attracted to the possibility of cutting down on paper and being able to access the newspaper through their smartphones.

“I think it’s a great resource to get people to be more informed, especially if people can use it on their phones,” said Molly Alli-

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son, a junior biomedical sciences major. “It will save paper and be more green. I never see people carrying around a hard newspaper, but I always see people looking up news on their phone.”

ASCSU Beat Reporter Carrie Mobley can be reached at news@collegian. com.

She explained that it’s a challenge deciding how to allocate space so all the different user’s needs are met.

“We tried to make the best decisions for the amount of money and space we had," Muenchow said. “It really all comes down to the budget and how much money you have to spend.”

Many students had mentioned feeling intimidated using a big weight room with the heavy lifters, Muenchow said. To accommodate those users, other weightlifting equipment was spread out over two floors and intermixed with cardio machines.

For students who spend most of their time at the rec center in the free weight room and feel conditions are a little tight, the future holds

some promise. Rec center officials are considering adding more weight-lifting equipment to the area on the second floor that overlooks the pool.

Live webcams are also in the process of being installed so students can log in at home and see what conditions are like in each area before heading to the gym.

In the meantime, the one thing everyone can agree on to avoid the peak hour rush is to try to fit your workout in before 3 or 4 p.m.

"We time it specifically to avoid the crowd," Baker said of him and his workout partner, chemical and biology engineer Michael Maher.

"Early morning is really the best time to come."

Senior Reporter Austin Briggs can be reached at news@collegian.com.

U.S. ending joint patrols with Afghan

By LAURA KING Los Angeles Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — Across Afghanistan, at combat outposts in the wind-scoured desert and the jagged mountains, it was daily routine: A small group of Afghan police or soldiers and Western ground troops would gather their gear and set out together on a foot patrol or a village visit.

Until now.

In its most sweeping response yet to “insider” shootings that have seen 51 Western troops killed this year by Afghans in uniform, the NATO force is halting, at least temporarily, joint patrols and other smallunit ground operations by Afghan and foreign troops unless specifically approved by a high-ranking regional commander, military officials said Tuesday.

The move calls into question what has been the centerpiece of the Western exit strategy: that foreign forces would train Afghan counterparts by working closely with them in the field, with the aim of readying the Afghan police and army to take the lead in fighting the Taliban by 2014.

Western officials sought to portray the move as a relatively minor adjust-

ment to the relationship with Afghan allies. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force “remains absolutely committed to partnering with, training, advising and assisting our (Afghan) counterparts,” it said in a statement.

But three junior NATO field officers in different parts of Afghanistan, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter, said the order would dramatically alter the tenor and tempo of activity. Before the directive, Western officials had touted the fact that up to 80 percent of missions were partnered operations involving Western and Afghan troops. Already, there is concern that without American and other Western troops to bolster them in ground operations, some Afghan units will balk at setting out alone.

Officials said the decision was prompted not only by insider shootings, which have accounted this year for about 15 percent of the NATO force’s fatalities and seriously eroded trust between Afghans and Westerners, but also by the trailer of the crude anti-Islam film that has triggered furious anti-American protests across the Muslim world.

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ELECTION

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Defining the ‘47%’:

48 COUNTDOWN

Candidate Romney vs. ObamaContrast

Who’s not paying taxes and why

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A LOOK AT GUN CONTROL BACKGROUND

By KATE WINKLE The Rocky Mountain Collegian Gun issues were once again pulled to the forefront in Colorado with the summer Aurora movie theater shooting.

Although candidates and voters want to uphold the Second Amendment, outcry at the availability of assault weapons often clashes with gun use in other capacities.

“It tends to be a very polarized issue,” said Kelly Schick, a junior applied mathematics major. “Some say guns are good and shouldn’t be regulated. Others say guns should be highly regulated and essentially banned.”

Politics Beat Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at news@collegian.com.

WHAT THEY PROMISED* ROMNEY

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“We need a President who will enforce current laws, not create new ones that only serve to burden lawful gun owners,” said Romney at the National Rifle Association Convention April 13.

“We need a president who will stand up for the rights of hunters, sportsmen and those seeking to protect their homes and their families.”

No additional laws to restrict Second Amendment rights Expand access and opportunities for hunting and shooting Defend the right of individuals to protect family, home, property Enforce existing laws and punish criminals who misuse firearms

“We recognize the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation –– that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage,” Obama said at the National Urban League Convention July 26. “But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals; that they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities.”

Enforce current laws pertaining to weapons Strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Prevent criminals from purchasing firearms by checking record before gun sales Prevent mentally unbalanced individuals from obtaining guns

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2003: Increases Massachusetts’ gun licensing fee from $25 to $100 2004: Renewed Massachusetts assault weapons ban: Extended term of firearm identification card and license to carry firearms from four to six years 90-day grace period for holders of firearm ID cards and licenses to carry who have applied for renewal Created Firearm License Review Board to review denied applications 2005: Designated May 7 as “The Right to Bear Arms Day”

2008: Supported renewal of the federal assault weapons ban during campaign Took no action as president 2009: Signed the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 An amendment added allowed concealed and loaded weapons in national parks 2009: Approved bill making it legal to bring guns in checked Amtrak baggage Unloaded weapons must be declared 24 hours prior to travel Weapons must be locked in hard-sided containers

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WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s controversial claim that 47 percent of Americans “pay no taxes” and are “dependent upon government” is an overstatement that put his presidential campaign on the defensive Tuesday as it scrambled to explain what he meant.

His comments came to light this week in a secretly recorded video of the Republican nominee speaking at a fundraiser in May. He made the comments while explaining how his campaign would not try to win over staunch supporters of President Barack Obama.

After media outlets began talking about the comments, Romney hurriedly held a news briefing Monday night. He said that his words “were not elegantly stated,” but he refused to back away from them.

“I’m sure I can state it more clearly and in a more effective way than I did in a setting like that, and so I’m sure I’ll point that out as time goes on,” he said.

The claim that nearly half of Americans pay no taxes is based on a 2011 finding from the Tax Policy Center, a joint tax research arm of the centrist Urban Institute and center-left Brookings Institution. The center reported in 2011 that 53.6 percent of an estimated 164 million U.S. households paid some federal income taxes, while the rest — actually 46.4 percent — paid none.

More than 76 million households paid no income taxes last year, according to the Tax Policy Center. But about 60 percent still paid federal payroll taxes that support Medicare and Social Security, said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the tax center. Many also paid federal excise taxes, along with state and local sales,

property and income taxes.

“So it’s not that they’re not paying any taxes,” Williams said. “It’s just that they’re not paying federal income taxes.”

The reason, he said, is that more than 38 million, or roughly half of the 76 million households that paid no taxes last year, simply didn’t earn enough to have a tax liability under the current tax code.

In a July 2011 blog post, Williams cited as an example a married couple with two children who earn less than $26,400.

“Their $11,600 standard deduction and four exemptions of $3,700 each reduce their taxable income to zero,” he wrote.

But it isn’t just low-income households that pay no federal income taxes, Williams said. He estimated that 1,400 millionaires didn’t pay federal income taxes in 2009, with many likely taking advantage of foreign tax credits or charitable donations to lower their tax liability.

“These are things that people do to lower their tax rates,” he said.

Apart from the more than 38 million households that paid no taxes because they didn’t earn enough, the other half of the 76 million without federal tax liabilities are mostly low- to moderate-income families that benefited from special tax deductions targeting specific populations.

Nearly two-thirds of these households — 28.3 million — are made up of seniors and low-income families with children.

In fact, nearly 17 million elderly households paid no federal taxes last year because tax laws allow them to exclude municipal bond interest and some Social Security benefits from their taxable income, Williams said.

Another 11.6 million low-income families with children paid no income taxes because they benefited from the child earned income and child care tax credits, which erased their tax liability. The Earned Income Tax Credit is the nation’s largest anti-poverty program and helps pull the incomes of more than 5 million families over the federal poverty line each year.

The tax credit is just one example of Congress using the tax code to provide financial support for families.

The tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush, which targeted billions in tax relief for wealthy Americans, also canceled out the tax liability for 7.8 million low- and moderate-income families as well, according to a 2004 study by The Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan tax research group.

In 2010, Romney himself saved $2 million in income taxes because his capital gains income was taxed at a lower rate, Williams said.

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Child care allows for more study time

FOOTBALL

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Continued from Page 1 cost of $15 per semester if they wanted to use the facilities for an entire semester.

“We have hired people with the most experience with kids, who are CPR certified and have made sure to do thorough background checks,” said Program Coordinator Marjorie Moss.

Senior accounting major Amanda Visscher said she had a very strict study schedule since her babysitters can’t stay late.

“My babysitters aren’t available at night so I have to do my homework whenever I have the opportunity late at night or during nap time,” Visscher said.

Visscher also believes there aren’t enough summer classes available –– a time when she would be able to do a lot of her school work because of condensed class-

es as well as the availability of more babysitting resources.

“I get out of class late on Tuesdays and Thursdays and having a daycare in the library would help me a lot. I think it’s a great idea,” Visscher said.

The Ram Kidz Village staff will be holding an open house Sept. 25 from 4 to 7 p.m. to have the CSU community meet the staff and see the space where it’s located.

“All students who have children are encouraged to use this program. Countless people have been working on this program for the last two years and we want to get student parents to utilize this new and amazing resource while also promoting literacy to the children of the student parents,” Dejmal said.

Collegian Writer Moonier Said can be reached at news@collegian.com.

NICK LYON | COLLEGIAN

Senior James Skelton hits North Dakota State QB Brock Jensen in the third quarter of CSU’s opening day game at Hughes Stadium. CSU will take on Utah State Saturday at Hughes Stadium, looking to pull its record to an even 2-2.

“When you’re going against a D-line like Utah State has, you’ve gotta get rid of [the ball] quick, and make it easy on the O-line.”

Garrett Grayson | quarterback

Rams offense looking for answers Utah State brings top-15 defense to Fort Collins

THE OPPONENT Utah State Defense

When the CSU offense and quarterback Garrett Grayson take the field Saturday night against Utah State, they will be challenged not only to put points on the board, but also to keep the sophomore quarterback off the turf.

Utah State comes into Fort Collins boasting the No. 15 ranked scoring defense in the country, and they do it by applying relentless pressure to opposing quarterbacks.

“That’s a big thing for us every week,” Utah State linebacker Zach Vigil said. “As a defense, we always want to pressure the quarterback.

Generally if the quarterback’s pressured, they’re gonna make poor decisions, and that’s gonna help us in the long run.”

Utah State’s success early on has come in part because of the confusion they cause opponents thanks to a complex defensive line scheme that attempts to trick quarterbacks into making big

mistakes.

“When you’re going against a D-line like Utah State has, you’ve gotta get rid of (the ball) quick, and make it easy on the O-line,” Grayson said. “That brings confidence in them, when you’re getting the ball out, they think they’re doing their job.”

So far in 2012, Utah State has held opponents to a 17 percent conversion rate on third downs, an area of particular difficulty for the Rams, who have attributed much of their early struggles on offense to their inability to convert on third down.

The Rams have been held to just a 27 percent conversion rate on third down, a trend they want to buck in hopes of getting their first home win of the season Saturday.

Much of the third down struggles for CSU has been because the Rams have gotten in third-and-long situations, which they can’t convert.

In last week’s 40-20 loss to San Jose State, the Rams

got into a third down and five or more yards on seven separate occasions, failing to convert on five of them.

The Rams will strive to prevent getting into thirdand-long situations with the help of running back Chris Nwoke, who will be making his return to the field Saturday night after sustaining an ankle injury in the second half of the Rocky Mountain Showdown in week one.

Nwoke was a key contributor for the Rams’ offense in 2011, leading the team with 1,130 yards and 9 touchdowns, while averaging over five yards per carry.

“He’s a great running back, good player, he does everything right,” said CSU offensive tackle Joe Caprioglio. “But also he’s a pretty good leader too, so on top of both those things, it’s always good to have him back.”

Having their star running back on the field again will be a major positive for CSU. But the biggest area of concern for the Rams and their offense so far this sea-

son has been the inability to put together long scoring drives on a consistent basis, despite their two touchdown drives of over 70 yards last week against San Jose State.

“It definitely helps us know that we can do it,” Caprioglio said. “But we’re definitely not happy with it until we can really start being consistent, and that’s our biggest thing right now is trying to get consistency.”

Football Beat Reporter Andrew Schaller can be reached at sports@collegian. com.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Circumstances shift, so use this to your advantage. Work progresses nicely, but may require a compromise. There could be a tough lesson involved. It’s useful.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Say hello to your creative muse. Your energy’s all over the map. Rather than trying to rein it in, discover where it takes you. Take notes.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Work and romance collide, and something you try doesn’t work, but you’re stronger for the effort. Get outside and move your body to let your mind rest.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- A romantic misunderstanding or barrier could turn into a new possibility.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Study trends and listen to considerations. Private concentration is productive. Learn from a recent loss. Grab a good deal. Be careful not to break anything. Old familiar love is best.

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