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President Obama to visit CSU campus By Matt Miller The Rocky Mountain Collegian Reports say President Barack Obama is visiting Colorado State University Tuesday. Although he could not confirm 100 percent, John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, said it was his understanding that Obama would be coming next week. “I think he would choose Colorado and Larimer County because this area is ground zero for his election,” Kefalas said. “I think it’s critical that CSU stu-
dents support him as well.” Democratic sources close to the Denver Post confirmed that the president is to have a rally on campus sometime after 7 p.m. on Aug. 28. According to CSU political science professor John Straayer, a visit from Obama to Colorado is a logical choice since it is a swing state in the coming election, and Larimer County in particular is an important area to visit. “If you’re going to come to Colorado why not come to Larimer County?” Straayer said. “It’s one of a handful of
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pivotal counties. And while you’re here why not come to the intellectual center of the county.” Straayer said that talking points for a visit from Obama would likely focus on the importance of higher education, with CSU being a logical venue. “One of the things that’s occurred of course in recent years is there’s been a shrinkage in public support of higher education, but at the same time everyone agrees that higher education is critical to the future of the country,” he said. Obama spoke at CSU in 2008 as a
presidential candidate, and according to Straayer, the campus gave him an “extraordinary reception.” The College Republicans at CSU were unable to be reached for comment. Content Managing Editor Matt Miller can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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President Obama is visiting our campus Tuesday, and that’s pretty cool, but we’re in danger of forgetting an important fact: some real-deal politicians are from our great state. So let’s take a minute to remember some notable politicians who call(ed) “the higher state” their home.
Politicians born in Colorado Gerald Ford
Though born in Nebraska, Ford owned a vacation home in Beaver Creek for nearly a quarter century until his death in 2006. The current owner attempted to sell the property in 2011 for $10 million, but was never sold.
Construction State University Reviewing the 19 building projects around campus By Kate Simmons The Rocky Mountain Collegian CSU students return each semester to a campus that continues to be renovated, revitalized and added on to. “CSU is always looking at ways to improve and upgrade the educational experience for students,” said Cass Beitler, project manager and assistant director, in an email to the Collegian. The Morgan Library and Parmelee Hall renovations and additions were completed over the summer. The Lory Student Center Theater and Harthshorn parking lot were two other construction projects completed before the fall term began. Work on Moby Arena continues and construction planners are aware of the challenges presented while working on a building that is still fully functioning. “It was a very challenging project because we need to continue construction and continue events in the same space,” said Mike Rush, university architect and building official. “Revitalization to Moby Arena is going to have a great visual impact and relieve a lot of functional challenges in the building. It was a very challenging project so there’s something to be said for getting through that.” Work on the north concourse is expected to be completed by the volleyball team’s home opener
Friday while the south side should be done by the start of the conference basketball season. Durrell’s expansion project started August 20, 2012 and will be completed in May of 2013. The building will have a “greatly improved dining facility with six dining venues on the second floor and improved student gathering space for study, relaxation, activities and meetings at Durrell lower level with improved access to the building,” Beitler said. A 600-bed housing facility will also be extended in the Durrell Center. “The new and revitalized facilities readily accommodate student enrollment growth,” Shelly Carrol said. “A number of projects revitalize existing buildings. Many of the subject buildings were originally constructed in the 1960’s.” Rush echoed Carrol’s concerns. “The majority of buildings on campus were developed during the 60s and many of them need attention electrically, mechanically and aesthetically,” he said. Additions to the Braiden and Parmelee residence halls were done by adding a fourth floor to an already existing building, Rush said. By adapting an existing building and improving it by adding energy efficiency to the exterior wall brings the 40 to 60 year old dormitories up to date. It is also See construction on Page 6A
The full list Completed construction projects:
Parmelee Hall, addition and renovation Morgan Library, addition and renovation Lory Student Center Theater, revitalization Corbett Hall, exterior revitalization and roof replacement Braiden Hall, lounge Moby Arena, additions on the north side and concourse renovation Harthshorn parking lot, replacement Alder and Spruce Hall, renovations
John Kerry
Sen. Kerry was born Dec. 11, 1943 at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colo. Soon after, though, he and his family abandoned the state and moved back to their original home of Massachusetts. Kerry then lost the state to George W. Bush in the 2004 election.
Scott Walker
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Edwards Hall, expansion SRC pool, exterior wall
Continuing construction projects:
Engineering II, construction through June 2013 Moby Arena, additions and renovations, construction through May 2013 Equine Reproduction Lab, Foothills campus construction through March 2013 Addition to the Behavioral Sciences Building, construction starts in November and will last through September 2013 Durrell Dining Center, revitalization, construction starts in August and will last through May 2013 Lory Apartment, deconstruction to accommodate Academic Village North, August 2012 through October 2012 Academic Village North, January 2013 through May 2014 Lory Student Center, additions and revitalizations, construction starts December 2012 and last through August 2013 Mason Street Corridor, construction starts in October 2012 and will last through spring/summer 2013
Born in Colorado Springs, the recall-surviving Walker recently gained national renown for his “Wisconsin budget repair bill,” which substantially altered the collective bargaining process for the majority of public employees in Wisconsin.
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Fort Collins jobs in a troubled economy Student jobs in Fort Collins not necessarily impacted by low unemployment rate By Elisabeth Willner The Rocky Mountain Collegian With a lower unemployment rate than many cities in the nation, Fort Collins might seem like an ideal place for college graduates to look for a job. But the low rate doesn’t necessarily mean that students can find local jobs after graduation, according to CSU economics professor Martin Shields. “The unemployment rate is lower for people with an education, but the job search
is often longer for people with a college degree,” Shields said. In May, research conducted by Shields and sponsored by the Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce showed that during the course of the recession, the Larimer County unemployment rate has been lower on average than elsewhere. Currently, the national rate is about 8 percent, while Fort Collins is just above 6 percent. CSU students have indirectly contributed to the economic situation, since their presence in Fort Collins keeps
demand for goods and services high. They also support the university, which is a stable employer for many local community members, Shields said. “Unemployment rates are significantly lower in places with universities than elsewhere,” he said. CSU is the top employer in Larimer County, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE). Just how much the overall employment statistics in Larimer County apply to job pros-
pects for students is less clear. Shields said that competition in the current economy is intense, and that while students work for less money and bring fresh ideas, experience sometimes matters. “Right now, it’s a very competitive job market and somehow you have to distinguish yourself,” he said. Shields’ research does not break down the overall employment rate of students as compared to other workers, See Jobs on Page 7A
Resources Unemployment statistics
National average: 8.3 percent National average for workers 20 years and older: 7.7 percent Fort Collins average: 6.7 percent Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2012
Job resources on campus
The Career Center Location: Lory Student Center Phone: (970) 491-5707 Website: www.career.colostate. edu Helps with resume building, interview skills and career counseling.
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This notable Republican political consultant and strategist was born in Denver and raised in Sparks, Nev. He was senior advisor and deputy chief of staff under George W. Bush, who in his 2004 victory speech referred to Rove as “The Architect” of his successful campaign—thanks Karl. The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff and designed by Design Editor Kris Lawan
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Fire fighters use a chainsaw to cut holes and ventilate a midnight house fire Monday night in the 2600 block of Lodi Court. The fire claimed the life of the 64-year-old resident and was determined an accident.
Community Briefs Students with concealed carry permits get segregated at CUBoulder
Guns will be banned in all CU-Boulder and CU-Colorado Springs dorms and students with conceal carry permits will be segregated into a special residential area, reports the Denver Post. The paper quotes school officials saying they believed less than one percent of their campus actually possesses the weapon permit.
If a student wishes to live on either campus, however, they are allowed to do so after storing their weapon with the police. The Boulder Daily Camera reported Monday that Jerry Peterson, chairman of the Boulder Faculty Assembly, plans to cancel class after if he becomes aware of a student bringing a gun to class. On Tuesday, CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano issued a statement to the university faculty saying that professors “do not have the right to shut down a class or refuse to teach” under those
circumstances, reported the Daily Camera.
New coach for men’s golf named
Men’s golf at CSU can compete among the top 20 in the nation with the help of new coach Christian Newton, said university athletics director Jack Graham on in a statement on Tuesday. Newton was previously an assistant coach at Georgia Tech, where he has been since 2007. The 10-year coaching veteran was named the na-
tion’s top assistant coach by the Golf Coaches Association in 2011, and has experience overseeing the development of 13 All-Americans and 17 all-conference selections as well as coaching the nation’s top eight collegiate golfer’s during the international Palmer Cup. “It’s a dream come true to work at such an amazing institution like Colorado State,” Newton said in a statement. “After meeting with Jack Graham it was apparent that this is the type of atmosphere in which I would like to work. I can’t thank him enough for this
incredible opportunity. My family and I could not be more excited to start this new chapter in our lives.”
CSU women’s basketball announces 2012/13 schedule
The CSU women’s basketball announced its 2012/13 schedule Tuesday. The team will face eight teams from last year’s postseason. Head coach Ryun Williams scheduled five teams that reached last season’s WNIT. CSU will play San Di-
ego State and Fresno State in Mountain West Conference play — both of which qualified for the NCAA tournament. CSU is going to play 15 games at home, highlighted by games against Montana State and Denver. “We are very excited about the upcoming season,” Williams said in a press release. “We are thrilled to be playing 15 home games in a raucous Moby Arena. This strong competitive schedule will provide our team with great challenges and opportunities to grow throughout the year.”
Correction Correction: In the caption of the photo that appeared in yesterday’s article, “Fire management transitions,” Ben Mullen was mistakenly described as attempting to stop the activities of CSU forest services. Ben Mullen was not affiliated with this article. The Collegian regrets this error.
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Undergraduate research receives a bump CSU center to house 20 scholastic programs While cranes and bulldozers have been changing the face of CSU with multi-million dollar construction projects, a university professor has been working with students and staff renovating the last historic space on campus to create a new center to facilitate student research programs. That space is tucked away in the back of historic Johnson Hall, a 6,000 square-foot space covering two floors is entering the third and final stage of a years’ worth of renovations. The center will house 20 different research programs once completed in October. Mark Brown, director of CSU’s Office for Undergraduate Research and Artistry who has been overseeing the renovations, said that funding was raised entirely through private donations and indirect cost recovery out of grants. “The university hasn’t spent any money on this; nothing taken out of tuition or the general fund,” he said. Brown estimates the total cost to be around $100,000. “The space was originally used to build theater sets when Johnson Hall was home to the University Performing Arts Theater,” he said. “It was a disaster. The
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walls were flaking, the floors were covered in inches of glue, paint and who knows what else,” Brown added, who’s also a faculty member in the Department of Clinical Sciences. “There’s been a lot of sweat equity and piecing together funding to make this happen,” said Mike Palmquist, associate vice provost of Learning at TILT. Palmquist explained the center was built so students and professors could have a place to get together for academic work. The name of the new center, Johnson Commons: A TILT Center for Undergraduate Research, Artistry and Engagement, “says that this is for everybody, it’s inclusive,” Palmquist said. “I expect students will be defining how this space is used.” Physics and math senior Nicholas Kaufhold is the co-
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ordinator of the Sciences of Life program and will be setting up shop in the new space. His organization is focused on bringing students and professors from different disciplines together to network and collaborate on research projects — something he hopes will become commonplace in the new center. “That’s the whole point of being an undergrad, is to meet new people and get involved in interesting, fun projects,” Kaufhold said.
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Brown said he’s most excited about what is on the walls of the new center. “The walls are covered exclusively in artwork and research posters produced by undergraduate students at CSU.” Senior Reporter Austin Briggs can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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Teach us about the real world
By jason kincaid
Some of us are hatchlings, just beginning college, while others are preparing to swim out from the comfortable CSU estuary and join the big fish in the rough, unforgiving open sea. What kinds of things do we really need to know about that ocean before we're thrust headlong into it a short time from now? It goes without saying that a quality education costs real money; all of us will pay for school, one way or another. And while we will undoubtedly gain countless skills and develop useful habits throughout our scholastic journey, most of us will be completely ignorant of the intricate dance that we will be expected to have miraculously perfected upon the completion of our collegiate habitation. I'm referring to processes like paying off student debts incurred during the most expensive tuition era to date, looking for work in today's increasingly scant job markets and taking those critical steps toward evolving into autonomous individuals who can thrive in the so-called "real world." This kind of information needs to be relayed to students in a way that encourages genuine praxis, rather than by some theoretical, effete internet brochure or in lengthy agreement terms. Thus, I'd like to see a mandatory course at CSU, which would be taken during the junior or senior year, to give students the tools to handle these issues once they've had a few years to decide what they want to study. I'm not suggesting a course to help you get through college, like the required Composition 150, but a course that specifically enables you to navigate the post-college, post-support independent world. This would be much more beneficial to the average student than some of our current requirements, like basic math courses, since most students will graduate college with some amount of debt. With a little bit of anticipation and foresight, we, as students, can greatly reduce the stresses of transitioning from school life to adult life. This holds true regardless of one's major or career plans—we will all be expected to make adjustments once we have that coveted sheepskin. I understand that universities like to keep curriculum relatively open
and nonrestrictive, but academia's primary concern should be to prepare posterity by developing in us a practical sense of responsibility, confidence and the wherewithal to face the challenges of tight budgets and supersaturated employment pools. This proposed course would be aimed at precisely that goal. Before attending college, I would not likely have considered this to be an important issue, but one conversation opened my eyes to the necessity of such an educational course. My best friend recently graduated from a liberal arts college in North Carolina, and when I asked him about the overall experience, his first response was surprising. Rather than reflect on the friendships forged, the memories made or the knowledge gained, he immediately expressed a valid complaint. He said something to the effect of "I can't believe how little they taught me about what to expect of life after college. They offered me these loans and told me that I'd be able to get my choice of a job to pay them off, but there is a disconnect between what I know and what life demands now that I'm a debt-ridden college graduate in a slumping economy." He alleged that most of the friends he graduated with are feeling the same thing, and he suggested that a delayed requirement course would have enabled them to avoid a good deal of the stress they are experiencing. I have not yet graduated, but I can certainly learn from the experiences of others. My own education has cost a significant amount of money due to out-of-state tuition, and I have accepted and spent more than a few thousand dollars in loans. At this juncture, I admit that the reality of those loans seems to be on par with the reality of Monopoly money. But some day soon, I'll get a letter or an email from a remote and impersonal agency asking me to begin making loan payments of real money, not Monopoly bills. In all honesty, I don't know as much as I ought to about what that process entails. Given the inevitability of this forthcoming collection day for any student who accepts a loan, I feel that colleges are somewhat obligated to install a financial planning and job market maneuvering course into their curriculum that focuses on paying back student loans and techniques for finding employment. Jason Kincaid is a junior philosophy major. His column appears Wednesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian.com.
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No pass for ASAP concerts ASAP has sought to provide diverse and affordable events that both entertain and enrich the CSU experience. Their featuring of Cobra Starship, however, is a far cry from the glory days of the organization— which featured legends such as The Rolling Stones and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. For starters, who picked Cobra Starship and why? The choice of the band should be decided by the student body—the ones footing the bill—not the whim of the ASAP organizers. ASAP, in an email to the Collegian, indicated that this year’s performers were picked based on market research conducted on the plaza and a 2011 student survey that indicated there would be
interest in genres other than hip hop. So with those narrow parameters of any other genre
For starters, who picked Cobra Starship and why? The choice of the band should be decided by the student body—the ones footing the bill—not the whim of the ASAP organizers. but hip hop, ASAP was able to make an informed decision about which acts to spend the
$160,000 event budget on—a budget made up mostly of student activity fees. So far, ASAP has sold approximately 300 tickets since they went on sale in August—a far cry from ASAP’s goal of selling 6,500 tickets to CSU students and 1,500 general public tickets. Making ASAP’s goal, however, would only bring in $98,000 in ticket revenue, leaving the event with about a $60,000 deficit—in the best-case scenario. A hefty price tag for an event that CSU students still have to pay for out of their own pocket, as well—unlike some past events, like the Ludacris concert two years ago. Let’s hope Cobra Starship has enough bang for your buck, CSU.
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Tea Party’s victory is Occupy’s failure
By Caleb Hendrich
Believe it or not, the Occupy Wall Street movement is still going on. The deafening media silence that has fallen upon the Occupy movement is largely due to the fact that they have lost the all-important attribute of relevancy. The Occupy movement was big when it first started because it was relevant and new at the time. Thousands of protesters flooding into New York City’s Zuccotti Park was something that this country had not seen for a long time—which gave them an unrelenting spotlight and allowed them to dominate the media cycle for months. After the novelty wore off, however, they fell into anonymity, without having any substantive impact on the American political process—unlike the Tea Party, which went into decline after they had scored an enormous political victory in the 2010 Congressional elections. This is a shame because Occupy’s messages against corporate influence in the government and general government unresponsiveness are important messages to have in modern American political discourse.
To regain the kind of influence that they had last fall, the Occupy movement is going to have to adopt the one defining difference between themselves and the Tea Party—they need to get political. What I mean by this is fairly straightforward. Occupy Wall Street is not a political party. They do not have a unified political identity or any cohesive political goals. Occupy Wall Street also does not identify with any one particular party or allow any sort of outside party influence. Nor do they actively pressure specific candidates to pursue a particular policy goal. The Tea Party had this in abundance. The Tea Party actively campaigned for Republican candidates and actively showed up for Republican political rallies. They also had a very specific list of policy goals in mind, such as repealing the Affordable Care Act, and aggressively reducing the size of government. They had candidates, they had a party to work for and they had a clear objective to work toward. It all paid off in the 2010 election, which swung both a majority of state legislatures and the House of Representatives heavily to the right. This is something that Occupy needs to adopt. They need to start getting aggressively political. They need to start backing a party, whether that is the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, an existing independent third party or starting a party of their own. They need to start backing candidates or forwarding their own candidates. This makes them both relevant and important in the story of the 2012 election. The movement has a lot of things going for it. They have a lot of good messages, and a lot of people identify with those messages; people that are very angry and eager to change this country. The Occupy movement just needs to do
something with those people and all of the passion that they have. People are passionate about the things that Occupy stands for; they just need to have an objective that they can use that passion to work for. Otherwise, the Occupy Movement is just going to drift away from the public mind and be lost forever, remembered only as a massive movement of drum circles that annoyed everyone for a few weeks in 2011. So Occupiers, go and do something with your movement. Don’t just loiter in private parks. Don’t just camp out and play your drum circles. Get political, get people elected, get your message out. Find people to elect, whether or not they are mainstream candidates (Republican Buddy Roemer was one of the few candidates to actually visit an Occupy movement, look him up!) or people that you elect from your own ranks. Get that media spotlight back onto yourselves. Make the candidates pay attention to you. The Tea Party was able to do it; They focused their passions and they got results. Occupy Wall Street is more than capable of doing the same. You are a populist movement—a movement from the people and made up by the people. You say that you are the 99 percent, but nobody is going to believe that for a second if you are irrelevant to the process. Unfortunately, you have to play the political game in order to get things done in this country. The Tea Party did it and you can too. So get relevant, get political and achieve what you set out to do in the first place. 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
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The Rocky Mountain Collegian | Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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Junior environmental engineering major Rachel Acker, right, studies with Alexa Garfinkel, the activities director of the Society for Women Engineers, in the Internet Café Tuesday. Acker and Garfinkel represent the record breaking cohort of women interested in Engineering at CSU. Photo by Erin Mross
Psychological anxieties coming more from parents than peers By Sean Meeds The Rocky Mountain Collegian As Colorado State’s incoming freshmen class enters college, they are facing claims that their generation faces more pressures than those before them, according to CSU Health Network psychologist Mark Benn. “There is far more pressure on this generation of students to be having sex, abusing drugs and alcohol, acting violently,” Benn said. “There’s also this pressure coming from the illusion that everyone’s doing it, when studies have shown that that is not the case.” Despite modern pressures, some incoming students are still feeling confident about their abilities to function and socialize at CSU. Danielle Fritz, an incoming freshman who grew up in the Fort Collins area, said that she doesn’t see her old high school classmates the same way today. “The social realms that existed in high school are gone,” Fritz said. “The people I grew up with have changed.” Even some freshmen completely new to Fort Collins have an optimistic view of the people around them. “I see the people around here as friendly and I see myself less critically since coming up here to school,” Stephen Tullberg, a freshman business administration major said. Fellow freshman Bo Nilson also said he has become less self-conscious since coming to campus. While the students seem hopeful about entering college, some parents still have their concerns about the new
stresses that students face. According to Benn — who is also the father of a senior political science major at CSU — the threat of someone walking into a classroom with a gun is a new threat that students face today, something that he “never feared” as a student. He also noted that there is more pressure for students to “get their parent’s money’s worth” with rising tuition costs. Benn stressed that students should understand the real world experience that college can present. “Anyone who is under the impression that college is not the ‘real world’ is truly doing themselves a disservice,” Benn said. “We have everything on campus that people in the real world experience. Anxiety, stress, pressure to have sex — students should know that they don’t have a monopoly on worry.” Gary Fritz, father of Danielle Fritz, also expressed his wish to “impart all his knowledge” on his daughter before she left for college. “I hope that she makes the right decisions,” Gary said. “But I also know that she’ll make friends easily, that she’s got a good idea of where she is, what she’s doing, and I hope all of that will cross over into the future.” Regardless of whether students are worried or optimistic about starting a new chapter at school, according to Benn, it’s all a matter of testing the waters. “They’re swimming in a new aquarium,” Benn said. “And they’ll realize that the water’s different than before.” Collegian Writer Sean Meeds can be reached at news@collegian.com.
More women in College of Engineering Increases by 63 percent garners national award By Erik Carman The Rocky Mountain Collegian The College of Engineering is set to produce more female engineers than ever before, with a 63 percent spike in the number of women in its programs. That’s because of an enrollment initiative taken up by the university in 2007, said CSU Director of College Strategic Communications, Kathleen Baumgardner. “We had hit a low in terms of incoming freshmen women,” said Baumgardner. “The percentage of our undergraduate women was below the national average.” She added that those numbers changed after the engineering department began an initiative to recruit more women. This involved hiring several Engineering College ambassadors and student
employees to help other students learn about engineering and to help female classmates understand the different opportunities they could seize with an engineering degree. “We want them to ask the question, ‘What is engineering and why could this be a good fit for me?’” Baumgardner said. She explained that different aspects of engineering appeals more to women in particular, such as improving the environment and improving human health. The college’s initiative garnered national attention from the Women in Engineering and Advocates Network (WEPAN), which recently awarded CSU the Women in Engineering Initiative Award. The honor recognizes an outstanding project or initiative that serves as a recruitment model for other
Story Highlights Female enrollment for the College of Engineering was below the national average in 2007 CSU’s Engineering Department has grown in female students by 63 percent since an initiative to recruit more women began in 2007 CSU was awarded the Initiative Award by Women in Engineering and Advocates Network (WEPAN) organizations. The men in the College of Engineering don’t seem to mind the change either, said biomedical mechanical sophomore and engineering ambassador Evan Siebenmorgen. “It’s nice to have a different perspective, because a lot of things from a man’s perspective is a lot different than a woman’s,” Siebenmorgen said. “Having women
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Youth vote critical in 2012 presidential election By Kate Winkle The Rocky Mountain Collegian Eyes glued to the television screen, Steven Day and his dorm mates waited with bated breath as votes trickled in. The delegate count reached 270 and Summit
Hall exploded with cheers. Students ran up and down the hall in exuberant victory laps, celebrating Barack Obama’s historic presidential win. Fast forward four years, and this political excitement has returned with 75 days
until the next general election. As Nov. 6 draws nearer, Colorado State will become a place of discourse for the presidential race, complete with political rallies, speakers and even Harold and Kumar on campus. “As cliche as it sounds, there’s more at stake in this election,” said Samuel Starr, membership director and liaison for the College Democrats of Colorado. “People are investing more money and more time into it... it’s certainly worth spending time this year in politics.” Like all election years, students can expect raging debate in the coming months between political lines, especially on college campuses, which provide a unique opportunity for political expression. According to their presidents, both the CSU College Democrats and College Republicans at CSU plan to hold informational meetings, have a presence on the Lory Student Center Plaza, and bring speakers to campus. In 2008, then-Presiden-
tial candidate Barack Obama spoke at CSU, and this year Herman Cain will travel to CSU Oct. 10 on his “College Truth Tour.” “It’s important to keep the youth vote in play,” said Kelsey Maez, President of CSU College Democrats. “In the last election it was fairly easy, this year it’ll be more difficult.” Young voters turned out to the polls in historic numbers in 2008, according to Jeff Cook, a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Political Science Department. He cited George W. Bush’s unpopularity and Obama’s historic candidacy as reasoning for youth enthusiasm in the last presidential election. While all general election years tend to have an increased voter turnout and media prominence compared with non-election years, this year’s election is something to pay special attention to, according to Brad Dick, President of College Republicans at CSU. “There’s more division in this election. Voters have a more defined choice on
what America they want to see. There’s a bigger difference between both candidates,” Dick said. This presidential election will differ from the last in a variety of ways. Obama is an incumbent president, and because of the status of the U.S. economy he is on the defense, said John Thompson, a CSU political science graduate. “In 2008 the financial collapse just happened. It was a pivotal election in a favorable position for Obama. This year job numbers are stagnant, and not a position of strength for Obama,” Thompson said. On all areas of the political spectrum, student involvement locally and nationally is essential, according to Maez, especially as the election continues. “It’s a hands-on learning process,” Maez said. “It makes you feel connected, that you’re not just a number and what you do really does affect what happens.” Politics Beat Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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Projects improve energy efficiency, functionality Construction | Continued from Page 1 beneficial to add onto already existing structures so new projects do not take up any of the existing open space on campus. “We see a dramatic improvement to the campus aesthetic through continuity of form and material qualities. The projects also greatly improve the energy efficiency and functionality in these existing structurally sound buildings,” Carrol said. “After revitalization these facilities will continue to sustainably serve the university for many years to come.” One of the projects designed to improve the cam-
pus aesthetic is the Academic Village North project. It will completely transform the north side of campus along Laurel St. Landscaping improvements will be added at the Towers, Durrell, Corbett, and Rockwell residence halls. “In the Academic Village North project we are deconstructing a 1940’s building to greatly increase development density. This project accommodates a living learning community on the north side of campus,” Carrol said. “This deconstruction and redevelopment allows us to not only continue to preserve the existing open and green spaces, but also
create new ones.” University Facilities Fees and University Reserves pay for these construction projects. “Bear with us,” Rush said about the continuing construction on campus. “If you look at the projects we’ve completed like the Behavioral Sciences Building, it was really embraced by the campus community and it adds to the aesthetic of campus. We try to accommodate construction and make it as painless as possible but there is always obvious inconvenience.” Senior Reporter Kate Simmons can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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Football continues to search for playmaker at wide reciever By Cris TilleR The Rocky Mountain Collegian With the end of fall camp in sight there remains a question mark at a position that plagued the Rams for much of the 2011 season—wide receiver. CSU struggled to effectively utilize its wide outs last year resulting in just 184 passing yards per game, No. 90 in NCAA Division-I football. Only one receiver ranked in the Rams’ top four pass catchers. Of the team’s 208 receptions, just 81 were completed to receivers, something new offensive coordinator Dave Baldwin plans to change. “The versatility of using multiple personnel groupings... should help us in that,” Baldwin said on CSU’s media day. “I think Mr. Law has probably had the best summer of any of the wide outs. He’s taken great leadership. He’s finishing his drills. He’s catching the ball well. I think Marquise can be a big-time player for us, a playmaker.” Law has been described as a playmaker in the preseason for three years, but the production on gamedays has been difficult to find. He to-
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talled only three receptions for nine yards and no touchdowns in seven games in 2011. Criticism came early and often for Law and he had a hard time blaming his naysayers. “I think it was fair because people didn’t see the production and they expect the production,” Law said. “We weren’t in situations that we were able to produce and we didn’t. It’s fair to get all of the criticism. But I think it’ll be different this year because we have guys that are going to work hard. Everybody is trying to make it happen.” “Everybody” includes sophomore Thomas Coffman, senior Lou Greenwood and former defensive back Dominique Vinson. Greenwood led all wideouts in receptions, yards and touchdowns, while Coffman posed as the Rams’ deep threat at 26 yards per reception last season. Young players in the mix have made an impression on coach Jim McElwain this fall as well. “I was really happy to see Charles Lovett out here. He had a rib kind of thing and
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he’s fought through that... so that tells me a lot about him,” McElwain said Tuesday. “Lee Clubb came out and had a really good day today, so some of those guys are steppin’ up.” Former NFL wide receiver and new position coach Alvis Whitted might just bring the type of experience and leadership the receivers have been looking for. “I look up to him big time. I’m always trying to nit-pick his brain to see what I can learn for myself and get all types of tips,” Law said. “ He’s a great guy, so I just try and take everything I can from him and encourage the younger guys to take everything they can from him because this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
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Wide reciever Marquise Law (9), makes a catch during practice. Law is one of the receivers expected to make an impact in 2012.
Progress has been hard to measure throughout fall camp because McElwain doesn’t believe any player truly reaches the level of expectation a coach holds for him.
“I get these ‘are they where you want them to be (questions).’ No, because I don’t think you ever get there,” McElwain said. “You never arrive. It doesn’t matter where
you’re at, what team you’re on and who you are. It’s what you do today that matters.” Sports Editor Cris Tiller can be reached at sports@collegian.com.
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but nationally, the unemployment rate is slightly lower for the college age group. In July, the national unemployment rate for the 20 and older age group was 7.7 percent. In Fort Collins, students can find employment after graduation with large or growing companies. Otterbox, an electronics accessory company founded in Fort Collins, hires a large number of students as employees because of its proximity to CSU, said Kelly Richardson, a media relations specialist for the company.
“Based upon location, it is a very high percentage of our employment,” she said. In general, Otterbox’s revenue has grown by 3,300 percent during the last three years, allowing it to steadily hire new employees even throughout the economic downturn, Richardson said. Still, employment opportunities for students depend on what positions are available. “But with a company like Otterbox, it is growing really fast. We have available positions for young professionals starting careers,” Richardson said. The City of Fort Collins,
which is the seventh largest employer in Larimer County according to the CDLE, does not keep data on how many students it hires. But Susan Jordan, a recruitment specialist for the city said that “a full spectrum of jobs” from executive to entry-level are available depending on what opens up over the course of the year. “Unlike maybe corporate hiring, we don’t recruit at a particular time of the year for particular kinds of jobs,” Jordan said. “We fill jobs when they are vacant.” In other industries, the current kinds of jobs that are open are not necessarily helpful to students. Manu-
facturing has a lot of available jobs, for instance, but the kinds of jobs available may not require a degree, Shields said. He also emphasized that even though the local economy is doing better than elsewhere, students should be prepared to move since it’s not big enough to absorb them all. “(Fort Collins) is a small place and doesn’t necessarily provide a lot of opportunities,” Shields said. “Bigger cities attract college graduates.” News Editor Elisabeth Willner can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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Kennedy Center welcomes CSU student By Lianna Salva The Rocky Mountain Collegian
Graduate student Michael Toland might have gotten his big break playing a football player, but he was first discovered during his skillful role as a cockroach. That’s because during the spring semester of 2012, Colorado State hosted the Region Seven Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and as part of it, reopened their performance of “The Kafka Project,” which originally debuted during the 2011 fall semester. “It was certainly a terrific festival. They hosted a great week of theater and made us feel very welcome,” said Gregg Henry, the artistic director for the Festival, in a phone interview with the Collegian. Shortly before seeing “The Kafka Project,” Henry had a conversation with University of Texas MFA student Alex Hinderaker about his new play “Colossal,” the story of a dancer turned football player. Hinderaker envisioned real football players in his production, but
Henry had a different approach, choosing to look for trained actors instead during his time at the Festival. “I was looking for physical dexterity and physical bravery. I was looking for someone who wasn’t afraid to use their body to communicate,” Henry said. He found it in senior theater major Michael Toland’s performance as Gregor Samsa—the main character in “The Kafka Project”—, in which the character has been mysteriously turned into a giant cockroach. Henry invited Toland to The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. to be a student performer in the MFA Playwright’s Workshop this past summer. The workshop allowed MFA students from around the country to test drive their plays before making a professional debut. “It completely blindsided me,” Toland said. “I saw the letter from Gregg Henry and I never thought anything like that would ever happen to me, least of all before I graduated.” This is the first time university
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students were brought in to work with equity actors for the workshop, according to Henry. Toland, a native of Fort Collins and Poudre High School alumni, has been acting since age 11. For seven years he worked with Debut Theatre Company in Fort Collins as well as in high school theatre. “I saw the power of theater, the ability to make an audience laugh and that’s when I said this is what I want to do for the rest of my life, and I’m going to make it happen,” he said. Toland has been an active member of CSU theatre both in main stage shows and through the student led productions of the Young Producers Organization. Last year, he wrote the script for organization’s first film, “Covert Vector.” “He makes a physical commitment to acting that most actors are afraid to do,” said Dr. Walt Jones,
director of “The Kafka Project” and head of the CSU Theatre department. “He was in my advanced acting class a year ago, and he shows a stunning and startling commitment to acting without any vanity. He’ll do whatever it takes.” Toland was assigned to the play “Colossal” because of his physical theatricality during his performance of “The Kafka Project,” specifically his insect-like movements that shocked the audience when they realized he was working without any nets or harnesses. “Colossal” was not only an opportunity to gain experience, but also to get a first hand look at what the professional acting world was like before he graduated, Toland said. “Knowing that in the professional world they are not afraid to stop and take an active role in shaping the character, I think that
is a very phenomenal lesson and is something I want to apply to whatever I do next,” Toland said. “The university theater system can only go so far talking about work methods and professionalism. When you put them in a group with professionals they get the proof,” Henry said. Now that Toland is back at CSU, he is ready to use what he learned in D.C. to the fullest extent. “It’s like a homecoming. I’m looking forward to trying even harder and applying everything I learned to go beyond what I am now,” he said. After graduating, Toland is interested in acting for the stage as well as doing voice over work, in which he has a great passion. “I don’t want to be famous, I just want to work doing something I love, which is acting,” Toland said. “You must always strive to improve, and I’ve tried to adopt that idea to always improve in my acting. I think that’s the way to be successful.” Staff Writer Lianna Salva can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.
Cobra Starship, Breath Carolina to perform at Ram Jam By Nic Turiciano The Rocky Mountain Collegian Since they went on sale Aug. 20, roughly 300 tickets have been sold for this year’s Ram Jam, the annual fall concert presented by ASAP, according to CSU iBox. Headliners for the concert are New York dance-poppers Cobra Starship, while Denver group Breathe Carolina and Fort Collins band the Echo Chamber will provide opening support. And according to Cory Kerns, a sophomore agricultural business major, it’s a show that will be much more exciting than last year’s, which featured performers B.o.B and Sean Kingston. “In comparison to last year’s lineup, it’ll be an improvement,” Kerns said. “Last year was a terrible live show. Cobra Starship will be more high energy.” The concert, which will take place Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. on the intramural fields east of the Campus Recreation Center, costs $10 for CSU students and $22 for the general public. Tickets can be purchased at the LSC iBox. This year’s performers were chosen based on marketing research conducted on the plaza and a 2011 student survey that indicated interest in genres other than hip hop, which has dominated previous shows, ASAP said in an email to the Collegian.
ASAP could not verify how many students responded to the survey. The budget for the show, according to Vincent Ybarra, co-concert coordinator for ASAP, is $160,000 and is funded primarily through student activity fees. The price tag includes marketing, production, security, band payment and hospitality. In an email to the Collegian, ASAP stated that the goal is to sell out the show, which is 8,000 tickets in total. The secondary goal is to match the sales of last year’s show, which was 5,300 tickets sold. ASAP hopes to reach their goal by selling 6,500 tickets to CSU students and 1,500 general public tickets. That would result in a total of $98,000 in ticket revenue—not including complimentary and promotional tickets—if ASAP meets its goal. “With our funding it’s not necessarily that we are breaking even or making a profit. It’s about providing entertainment,” said Lindsay Brown, co-concert coordinator for ASAP. “Cobra Starship is selling out tickets for $80 plus and we can’t charge that to students, so to be able to offer students entertainment at a price that is reasonable for a college student is very important to us,” Brown said. Ybarra later scaled the figure from $80 for a typical Cobra Starship show to
roughly $35. But the lowered price tag isn’t incentive enough for Jade McCarl, a junior biology major, who said that Cobra Starship’s perceived lack of name recognition is a motivating factor in choosing not to attend the show. “I think (ASAP) should bring bands that are popular. I want to say ‘oh, I know that song,’ and be able to
sing along with it,” McCarl said. And while McCarl wishes Ram Jam featured different acts, the process of finding a band can be very complicated, said Loren Martinez, the concert coordinator for ASAP during the 2010-2011 school year. “There’s a number of things that go into choosing,” Martinez said. “We looked at surveys, met with student groups, researched
what was hot in the music market and compared our budget to groups that we could afford, who’s touring and who’s available.” “There’s tons of info that goes into it. I can tell you that the current group has probably been working on this since last year,” Martinez said. Entertainment Editor Nic Turiciano can be reached at NTuriciano@collegian. com
The Concert Performers: Cobra Starship, Breathe Carolina and the Echo Chamber Where: Intramural field East of the Campus Recreation Center When: Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. How Much: $10 for students, $22 for general public Tickets Sold So Far: Roughly 300 Concert Budget: $160,000 Projected loss: $62,000
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More Republicans urge Todd Akin’s departure despite slim poll lead By Lisa Mascaro The McClatchy Tribune WASHINGTON—As GOP candidate Todd Akin continued to defy his party’s leadership to campaign for the Missouri Senate, rank-andfile Republicans intensified calls for him to step aside and tea party groups began drafting replacement candidates amid worries his “legitimate rape” comments are defining the Republican Party. Akin shows little signs of relenting before Tuesday’s 5 p.m. Central Time deadline in Missouri to withdraw from the ballot. The Akin campaign produced a new ad, touted overnight polling in his favor and pledged in a fundraising appeal that he was working to defeat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill. “I’m in this race to the end!” Akin said. The ramifications of the Missouri congressman’s candidacy could be broad, especially among women and independent voters who are the most sought after this election cycle. Democrats have already
dubbed the anti-abortion provision in the emerging GOP platform the “Akin plank,” as the draft being written Tuesday by party leaders in Tampa declined to include exceptions for cases of rape or incest, as our colleagues wrote. And as more Republican candidates are asked if they share Akin’s views, the reaction reveals that the six-term Missouri congressman is not alone in the anti-abortion flank of the party. Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa, a leading conservative and abortion foe who is in a tight re-election battle, told a local television station he was unfamiliar with pregnancies resulting from statutory rape. “I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” said King on a Monday interview with KMEG-TV. “And I’d be open to a discussion about that subject matter.” Republican senators who fear that their party’s chances of taking the majority in the chamber could be
“Congressman Akin does not speak for the limited-government movement, and should remove himself from the political arena as swiftly as possible.” Matt Kibbe | FreedomWorks, President damaged by an Akin candidacy urged him to step aside. “Akin’s comments are totally offensive,” said Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., a rising party leader, said in a tweet. “Akin should step aside now.” Missouri’s Republican senators past and present issued a joint statement urging Akin to withdraw. “We do not believe it serves the national interest for Congressman Todd Akin to stay in this race,” said the letter from Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt as well as past Republican senators John Ashcroft, Kit Bond, John Danforth, and Jim Talent. “The issues at stake are too big, and this election is simply too important. The
right decision is to step aside.” Sen. Olympia Snowe, R- Maine, called Akin’s comments “repugnant” and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., said they were “offensive,” as both called for him to step aside. Missouri had been the GOP’s top chance to defeat an incumbent Democratic senator as they seek the three or four seats needed to gain majority control of the chamber. The tea party group FreedomWorks PAC launched an effort to draft John Brunner, the millionaire GOP businessman who narrowly lost to Akin in a brutal three-way primary earlier this month. “Congressman Akin does not speak for the limited-gov-
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night by Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling had Akin leading McCaskill 44-43, virtually unchanged from previous polling, even though 75 percent of voters called Akin’s comments “inappropriate.” “Todd Akin still has a very decent chance at winning the Missouri Senate race,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “Voters were appalled by his comments about abortion, but not so much that they decided to vote Democratic when they were previously planning to support the GOP. This looks like it will be a closely contested race if Akin stays in.” Election rules in Missouri give candidates until 5pm Tuesday to withdraw from the race. After that, a court order would be needed to withdraw, no later than Sept. 25. In both cases, the state GOP would choose a successor candidate. Akin’s camp appears at this moment to be banking on that later deadline. Even as supporters pulled promised ads, with a little over $500,000 cash on hand in Akin’s account he could campaign on his own for some time.
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard star in new film BY JULIE HINDS The McClatchy Tribune TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The slim woman curled up in a chair inside a Traverse City hotel lobby looks impossibly fresh-faced for the rushed day she has just had. “I literally landed two hours ago and I leave in about an hour and a half,” says Kristen Bell, who’s spending a day off from filming her latest movie in Pittsburgh — an indie called “The Lifeguard” — and attending the Traverse City Film Festival. But Bell, a Michigan native, is enjoying getting to see her mom and other relatives. She knew she was home when her driver for the festival asked permission to give her a hug — a very Midwestern thing to do. Those Michigan roots are an important bond she has with her fiancé, Dax Shepard, another native of the state who costars with her in “Hit & Run,” the quirky, rollicking road movie
that she came to the festival to introduce. “I think that the upbringing here, there’s something so solid about it and so tangible, versus the sort of chameleon lifestyle you’re able to live in Los Angeles,” says Bell, who shot to stardom with the TV series “Veronica Mars” and has appeared in comedies raunchy (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) and romantic (“When in Rome”). “We’ve stuck to our roots; I think it is what bonded us initially. We’re both intensely frugal. We both grew up around gearheads. We’re both kind of liberal hillbillies. We were more similar than we realized because of growing up 20 miles from each other.” “Hit & Run,” which opens Wednesday, was written and codirected by Shepard and is laced with Detroit connections in a subtle way. First, there’s the car that’s essentially a star of the movie, a 1967 Lincoln Continental that he’s owned for 12 years and bought in Detroit from a friend.
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Death of Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi likely to affect conflicts in Somalia, Sudan By Alan Boswell The McClatchy Tribune ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi, who during 21 years of repressive rule transformed his nation into a regional powerhouse, has died of an unspecified illness, depriving the United States of a key ally in the battle against al-Qaida-affiliated rebels in Somalia. News of Meles’ death in Brussels late Monday broke here early Tuesday after weeks of rumors surrounding the 57-year-old prime minister’s prolonged absence, including persistent conspiracy theories that he had already died. His ruling party moved quickly to quash speculation of an internal power struggle over who would succeed him, and the capital remained calm, if subdued. Government spokesman Bereket Simon said Meles’ deputy prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, would serve as the country’s leader until 2015 elections. Meles’ Tigray rebel movement took power in 1991 from what had been a Soviet-backed regime. Over the next two decades, Meles aligned his country with the United States and became a major influence in the volatile Horn of Africa and the wider African continent
as well. The African Union is headquartered in Addis Ababa, and the capital under Meles became a hub for conferences and events made possible by a Chinese-fueled, state-led construction boom. His death is likely to have an immediate impact on conflicts in Somalia and between Sudan and South Sudan, both ongoing crises that are near the top of U.S. policy priorities in Africa. Ethiopian troops late last year invaded Somalia, and Kenya — which also invaded Somalia last year — is negotiating with Ethiopia on how Somalia will be governed if and when al-Shabab, al-Qaida’s Somali affiliate, is driven from Kismayo, its last stronghold in the country’s south. But it is Sudan and South Sudan where Meles’ personal engagement might be irreplaceable. Meles is the only regional leader to maintain strong relations with both Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir. Meles often personally mediated meetings between the two foes. “If Meles is not engaged, there will be less Ethiopian involvement in the problems of Sudan and South Sudan,” said David Shinn, a former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia, describing Meles’
role in the region as “outsized.” Condolences poured in from throughout the world. Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan praised Meles and offered “hope that his successor will continue to be a driving force on a wide range of issues.” President Barack Obama praised Meles for his “service for peace and security in Africa, his contributions to the African Union, and his voice for Africa on the world stage.” Former President Jimmy Carter praised Meles for a commitment to improving living conditions in Ethiopia, citing a long list of accomplishments, from increasing crop production to battling a range of diseases that included river blindness and malaria, to training 30,000 health extension workers, mostly women, to deliver health services to rural communities throughout Ethiopia. Meles’ apparent successor, Hailemariam, may find it difficult to gain enough internal support to hold the position permanently. Unlike Meles and most of the regime’s northern elite, Hailemariam is from southern Ethiopia. He is also the first Protestant to lead Ethiopia, where the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Church remains a powerful force.
PANAMA CITY –– This city's Old Town, protected by man-made 25-foot stone walls built more than three centuries ago, has been likened to New Orleans' French Quarter –– but better. Along its streets, strollers find gourmet bistros, working brothels, decayed churches and boutique hotels with bougainvillea spilling from balconies. Founded centuries ago on a tiny peninsula jutting into the Pacific Ocean, Old Town has been wracked by disease, ravaged by fire and in recent years revived into a destination. In 1997, the United Nations declared Panama City's Casco Viejo –– or Old Town –– a World Heritage Site, a distinction that marked it as a historic resource for the world. Panamanians celebrated it as a draw for tourism. Now the district is the scene of a new tussle. A proposed ocean causeway that would girdle Old Town has brought to the fore the issue of whether nations have a duty to ensure preservation of areas that have been deemed part of the world's heritage. In short, does Panama owe it to humanity to guarantee Old Town's essential character? The tug of war pitting forces for development against those for preservation has parallels elsewhere in the world, most recently in the German city of Dresden, with its opulent baroque palaces and gardens. Old Town was the heart of Panama City for nearly three centuries, a fusion of Spanish, French and U.S. architectural styles with a slight Caribbean vibe. While some buildings date to colonial times, many were built between 1898 and 1930. The World Heritage designation by UNESCO noted that Old Town is less a collection of colonial-era buildings than a pastiche of neoclassical and French architecture that "lends it a special quality that oth-
er colonial cities in Latin America lack (with the exception of New Orleans, where the quality of architecture is markedly inferior)." "It's the only walled Spanish city on the Pacific side of the American continent," said Tomas Mendizabal, an archaeologist. Many Panamanians first heard of plans that would affect Old Town early last year, when a Brazilian construction conglomerate, Odebrecht, won a $776.9 million contract to build a tunnel under the area to relieve traffic woes. Residents voiced alarm, saying they'd heard nothing about the plan. Then Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli changed the project, settling instead on a lengthy six-lane bridge 200 yards offshore from Old Town. That alarmed experts from UNESCO, who demanded to know what the government was doing to protect Old Town, warning that it might put the site on an "endangered" list and even yank the World Heritage designation, a move the U.N. body has undertaken only twice before, in Germany and Oman. Banners condemning the road project now hang from some buildings in Old Town, and a popular resistance movement has grown. "They have 30,000 members, which is really not insignificant in a place like Panama City," said Bonnie Burnham, the head of World Monuments Fund, a nonprofit group based in New York that works to preserve cultural monuments and sites. State-purchased television ads promoting the project now fill the airwaves, and the Martinelli government has added a class-struggle overlay to the proposal, saying the road project will ease life in El Chorrillo and Barraza, traditionally restive working-class neighborhoods. The ads appear to be aimed at undercutting investors who've given a recent upscale patina to Old Town, diminishing a repu-
tation for crime that began after wealthier residents moved to suburbs, beginning in the 1930s. "I'm against using social class as an argument in the debate," said Rosina Ynzenga, a Spaniard who runs the Karavan Gallery in Old Town. Martinelli, a supermarket tycoon, hopes that the viaduct will be one of his legacy public works projects, along with a $1.8 billion subway system for the capital. The project has been far from transparent, though, raising questions about what further development plans might be secretly on the drawing board. The Martinelli government denied any connection to a professional promotional video that appeared on YouTube a year ago showing plans to fill in part of the shallow ocean near Old Town to create land for high-rise buildings. "This has become a highly politicized issue," said Edilia Camargo, a former UNESCO official who lives in Panama City. "We see ads every day that say, 'Let's go with the Coastway project. " Most countries cringe at the prospect of losing a World Heritage site. But Panama may be following the path of Germany, which brushed off the loss of Dresden as a World Heritage Site. Dresden officials built a four-lane bridge across the Elbe River, affecting the vista of palaces, monuments and parks in the city center. A majority of residents supported the bridge to relieve congestion, shrugging off criticism by UNESCO, which took away its World Heritage status in 2009. Neither Martinelli nor his spokesman responded to queries about the project. A government website said the causeway would rest on pylons, ensuring that tides aren't disrupted, and would include a bicycle lane and recreational areas. "It will also make possible a panoramic view of the historic San Felipe district from a new marine perspective," it said.
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More hip-hop artists support gay rights By Scott Gold The McClatchy Tribune AMARILLO, Texas — It’s well after midnight in a parched corner of Texas known as the buckle of the Bible Belt, down the road from the Jesus Christ is Lord Travel Center, which is just what it sounds like: an evangelical truck stop. In the back of an empty strip mall, an up-and-coming hip-hop artist with the self-assurance and billowing locks of Samson is shooting a video. His hair is up in a tidy bun and he’s enduring a second hour of makeup transforming him into the likeness of a gender-bending woman, all of which makes more sense once you know that Adair Lion began his career by destroying it. Hip-hop has been described as the heartbeat of urban America, but for years, it had an open secret — that heart was brimming with hate. Rap was one of the most reliably homophobic arenas in American pop culture. Its stars casually tossed off references to stabbing gays in the head or shooting them in the crotch. Rappers felt compelled to devise a catchphrase to give themselves cover while saying something nice about another man — “no homo,” as in: “That’s a cool shirt. No homo.” It was not exactly a world where an aspiring star would break in with a song declaring that gays should be out, proud and embraced — while calling out the industry’s biggest names for failing to say the same. Earlier this year, that’s what Lion did. On “Ben,” a single from his upcoming album, he rapped: “The Bible was wrong this time. ... Gay is OK — the No. 1 thing a rapper shouldn’t say. I said it anyway.” Friends told him he was committing career suicide. He feared they were right. Then, a strange thing happened — nothing. Nothing bad, anyway. Across the board, hiphop is having a change of heart. Either in song or in interviews, one headliner after another — the mogul Jay-Z; Jayceon Taylor, better known as Game — has thrown his support behind the gay community. Last year, Calvin Lebrun, a noted hip-hop figure known as Mister Cee, pleaded guilty to loitering after he was caught receiving oral sex from another man in a parked car; 50 Cent, who once suggested in a Tweet that gay men should kill themselves, stood publicly by his side. Most notably, Frank Ocean, a member of hip-hop collective Odd Future, released a letter in July declaring that his first love had been a man. Ocean’s stock soared. Among those who supported him was the rapper and producer Tyler, the Creator — who had, a year earlier, released an album that disparaged gays. As for “Ben,” the song went viral, racking up tens of thousands of hits on YouTube. Lion’s songs have landed on taste-making radio stations and websites. His calendar of live performances is filling up — and now
includes appearances at gay pride festivals in Memphis and his hometown of El Paso. Lion, who is not gay, believes his song lives up to the finest tradition of rap. “What hip-hop does is talk for people who don’t get to talk,” he said one recent morning in his studio. “And if you think about it that way, ‘Ben’ is the most hip-hop thing I’ve ever heard.” Long before he became known as the rap star Murs, Nick Carter grew up on the hardened streets of Mid-City Los Angeles. There, he experienced a curious phenomenon. Amid all the problems — violence and addiction, substandard education, a rotten job market — “you’d rather be a lot of things other than gay,” he said. “Some people would rather their son be in jail, or a drug dealer, than be gay,” he said. The relationship between urban communities and homosexuality is complex and sometimes secretive. Murs, who is not gay, believes it began in church pulpits — sometimes the only “positive centers” in the communities, he said. In many of those churches, the message is clear and absolute: Homosexuality is a sin. In May, after President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, some of the most vociferous criticism came from African-American and Latino religious leaders. California’s black and Latino voters delivered heavily for Obama in 2008 — while providing crucial support for the state’s same-sex marriage ban. Those same communities were the bosom of American hip-hop; homophobia had become entrenched in rap music. Rap stars tried to explain it away. They were just storytellers, they said, rapping in the voices of characters. Calling someone gay, they insisted, had nothing to do with sexual orientation; it had merely become a synonym for weakness. The protestations were difficult to reconcile with the reality of the music. The late Eazy-E, known as a godfather of gangsta rap, had one song about raping a woman at gunpoint, then discovering the woman was a cross-dresser. “Put the gat to his legs,” Eazy-E rapped, “all the way up his skirt.” A Tribe Called Quest referred to gays as “filthy,” “weak” and “gross” — in one song, devoted entirely to rejecting a gay friend. “Hate fags?” Eminem sang. “The answer’s yes.” But in recent years, the wall between the insular hiphop world and the rest of pop music began to crumble. Rappers traded in baggy jeans for skinny jeans and skateboards, and started collaborating with indie artists. Kanye West ditched the “gangsta” business for thoughts on consumerism and religion, and reached the pinnacle of the rap world while wearing pink and brown argyle sweaters and speaking out against homophobia.
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Train derails, tumbles from bridge near Baltimore By Laura J. Nelson The McClatchy Tribune A coal train derailed and tumbled from a bridge in Maryland early Tuesday morning, crushing cars in a nearby parking lot and killing two women who were on the tracks, officials said. Just after midnight Tuesday, 21 of the train’s 80 cars flipped over on a bridge in Ellicott City, Md., about 12 miles west of Baltimore. Some cars spilled coal across the town’s Main Street, and seven cars fell onto vehicles in a county-owned parking lot nearby, Howard County Police Department spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn told the Los Angeles Times. “All you could see was train cars tumbled every which way and coal every-
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further, saying the National Transportation Safety Board had taken charge of the investigation. NTSB officials arrived Tuesday morning and dispatched a team of rail investigators to examine the circumstances and cause of the crash, including taking measurements and photographing the scene, spokesman Eric Weiss said. The train operators also will be interviewed. Pictures released by the NTSB show a jumble of wheels, axles and train cars in a heap to the side of the railway tracks. Investigators looked for a so-called “black box,” a crash-resistant device that records data about train controls and performance. Information from the box could include pictures from a for-
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Nyad ends what could be her final try at Florida-Cuba swim By Amy Hubbard The McClatchy Tribune LOS ANGELES — It seems like yesterday Diana Nyad was doing swimmingly. It was yesterday. But Tuesday morning, the sexagenarian swimmer was pulled from the waters of the Florida Straits, about 50 miles short of success. Just over a year ago, Nyad was halting another attempt to swim from Cuba to Key West, Fla. Last year, ocean swells, shoulder pain and asthma did her in. This year, it was storm squalls and jellyfish that foiled the veteran long-distance swimmer’s fourth attempt at the 103-mile swim. Wednesday, Nyad turns 63, and she was hoping to celebrate by completing the swim Tuesday. On Monday, Nyad representative Mark Sollinger told NBC’s “Today” show that things couldn’t be going better for her. But showing how much things can change in a day when you’re swimming
without a shark cage in the open ocean, he reportedly said Tuesday that Nyad had been pushed off course by an “extremely difficult” Gulf Stream. Nyad’s website posted a simple message at 7:42 Tuesday morning: “Diana has been pulled from the water. We’ll have more information as it becomes available.” As the Los Angeles Times reported in 2011, the swim has been successfully done — Susie Maroney accomplished it in 1997. But Maroney swam in a shark cage and completed the crossing in an eyebrow-raising 23 hours, 47 minutes. Nyad had been shooting for about 60 hours. Nyad shunned the shark cage but did have some protection from the shark-infested waters between Florida and Cuba — she was followed by kayaks with underwater electrical shields that emitted a frequency intended to repulse sharks.
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LOS ANGELES — As one of the most prolific directors in Hollywood, Tony Scott’s death leaves a quartet of high-priority projects in limbo. Among them was the anticipated sequel to the 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun” that became a cultural touchstone and launched Scott’s Hollywood career. It had taken years to get the movie even close to being made due to the complexities of reuniting Scott with star Tom Cruise and producer Jerry Bruckheimer on a concept all three would endorse. The picture was to focus on the world of drones in modern aerial combat. Its backers, Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions, had hoped to start shooting the sequel early next year and release it in theaters in 2014. There were three other projects also vying to get Scott behind the camera this coming winter. But, the day after news of Scott’s apparent suicide spread throughout Hollywood, none of the studios behind these endeavors had any clue how and wheth-
er to proceed without the filmmaker who had championed them. The other films on Scott’s to-do list were “Narco Sub,” about the underwater transport of drugs from Latin America to the U.S.; “Lucky Strike,” about a DEA agent forced to run a mission with a drug dealer which potentially was to star Mark Wahlberg and Vince Vaughn; and a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 Western “The Wild Bunch.” Those involved in his pending projects said there was no sign in the last several weeks that the 68-yearold Scott’s energy for filmmaking was flagging or that he was suffering from the kind of depression that could lead to suicide. “We had a meeting just two weeks ago and he was burning with the excitement of creating stuff,” said Tom Rothman, chairman of 20th Century Fox, the studio behind “Narco Sub” and “Lucky Strike.” Adam Kolbrenner, who manages “Narco Sub” screenwriter David Guggenheim, painted a picture of a filmmaker who continued to throw himself into his work, adding that there had been “no hiccup” in communication between Scott and the
principals on the project at any point over the last few months. Bruckheimer, who has collaborated with Scott on six films including “Top Gun,” declined to be interviewed about Scott and the fate of “Top Gun 2.” On Friday, the producer traveled with Scott and Cruise to the naval air station in Fallon, Nev., 70 miles east of Reno, according to a public affairs officer at the base. During their half-day visit, they met with the commanding officer and talked to other officials to learn more about the modern U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program, more popularly known as TOPGUN. In a prepared statement, Bruckheimer said Monday, “I was shocked and devastated to learn of Tony Scott’s death. He was not only a brilliant filmmaker but a wonderful man and dear friend. He was thoughtful and warm and had an irrepressible sense of humor. I was fortunate to have worked with him for 30 years ... Tony was a true original and he will be terribly missed by everyone who knew him.” It is also unclear what will become of “Narco Sub,” a movie Scott had been de-
veloping with Guggenheim, the writer of this year’s crime drama “Safe House,” starring Denzel Washington. For the last eight months, Scott and his producing partner on the film, Simon Kinberg, had been working to refine Guggenheim’s script. “He’d worked out the human story, and now he was working on the machines,” Kolbrenner said. The fourth planned endeavor on Scott’s slate was a remake of director Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch,” the 1969 Western that starred William Holden and Ernest Borgnine. It was being written by Brian Helgeland, who previously worked with Scott on the movies “The Taking of Pelham 123” and “Man on Fire” and won an Oscar for 1997’s “L.A. Confidential.” It remains to be seen if other directors will step in and continue Scott’s work on any of the projects. Sometimes the death of a key player makes it impossible for movies in development to continue. In similar instances, it is not unprecedented for another filmmaker to pick up the mantle, as Steven Spielberg did on the movie “A.I.” after director Stanley Kubrick’s death in 1999.
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7 Maker of Opium, initially 8 “Unfaithful” Oscar nominee 9 Money in the bank: Abbr. 10 Curmudgeonly cries 12 Cleaning aid 13 Best Buy buy 14 Shows the way 17 “Hurry up!” 22 Okla., before 11/16/1907 23 “Good one!” 26 Square, money-wise 27 Sit for a spell 28 Juicer refuse 29 Mayberry boy 30 Napa equipment 31 Back-tied sash 32 “Breaking Bad” cable channel 33 Place to start a hole 37 Kind of verb: Abbr. 38 Bite with un aperitivo 41 Cantankerous 44 Belly laugh 46 Yours, to Yves 47 Chain with Market Fresh sandwiches 49 Lead-in to bad news 50 Silicon Valley’s Santa __ 51 Deejay Casey 52 Like a wallflower 53 Madrid month 54 Ask for more Money? 55 PC key 56 Shout between ships 60 London hrs.
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