The Rocky Mountain Collegian, Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Page 1

REFLECTIONS

PAGE 10

FRESHMAN ART ON DISPLAY IN LIBRARY

HOT OFF THE ICE

CSU DEFEATS CU IN SWEEP THE RO CKY MOUNTAIN

NEWS | PAGE 6

Fort Collins, Colorado

RANKED REMATCH AZTECS FACE MOBY

SPORTS WEDNESDAY

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

MADNESS TONIGHT

COLLEGIAN IAN

Volume 121 | No. 101

www.collegian.com

THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891

Do you know how to learn math?

STATE OF THE UNION

Paul Nolting discusses how to achieve success By ALEX STEINMETZ The Rocky Mountain Collegian A professor walks in and says, “Math test today, good luck!” Cue the fear. For some students, testing in general creates a level of unease. Math testing on the other hand can cause a level of panic that leads to inability to pass the class. On Tuesday, Learning Specialist Paul Nolting visited Colorado State University to discuss strategies for everyone to be able to facilitate learning in order to achieve success. There were workshops throughout the day for professors, students and tutors. Nolting began to work on ways to maximize learning while finishing his doctoral degree. “I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation in 1987 on helping students who had failed algebra one to five times. I was the first person to do the research on helping those students,” Nolting said. Nolting went on to write a few books and became a nationally recognized speaker. He has traveled throughout the world discussing success strategies. “I never planned to write books or do any of this. I was

STRIP CLUB

The State of the Union address was last night, and in it, the president made a lot of high flying promises for the next four years. For some, it was inspirational. For others, it was disastrous. But really, it was slightly disappointing. A lot of things were left out.

Things the president should have included NASA CHARLES DHARAPAK | McCLATCHY TRIBUNE

President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

Students and Professors react

Obama on State of the Union: ‘We can fix this’ By ANITA KUMAR and LESLEY CLARK The McClatchy Tribune

By CORRIE SAHLING The Rocky Mountain Collegian President Obama spoke to the nation in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. The president addressed what he plans to achieve in the next four years of his second term as president. “I thought it was a very powerful speech, but it’s always just words first before anything happens. So you have See REACT on Page 7

KEVIN JOHANSEN | COLLEGIAN

Elaine Branjord (left) and Maria Logsdon (right) enthusiastically watch President Obama hold the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Branjord hosted a democratic watch party at their residence in Fort Collins.

WASHINGTON _ President Barack Obama returned to the unfinished business of a still struggling economy Tuesday night, outlining a second-term agenda with proposals designed to create jobs, expand the middle class and spur financial growth. "We can fix this and we will," the president said repeatedly. In his annual State of the Union See OBAMA on Page 7

See LEARN on Page 6

New club brings fair trade to CSU Fair Trade University hopes to bring awareness to CSU

“It’s a way to bond with my family and friends who share the same religion as me.” Jordan Cruz | junior health and exercise science major

Catholics observe Ash Wednesday

By TAYLOR PETTAWAY The Rocky Mountain Collegian As CSU’s newest student organization, Fair Trade University is looking to bring change to not only the CSU community, but to groups all over the world. The club’s president and founder Lindsey Earl hopes she and fellow members can organize projects around campus to help CSU students become more informed about fair trade and about the products they buy. “It is important in a capitalist society that people buy things, but they don’t always know where those things come from,” Earl said. “If it’s made unethically then you are supporting that. By looking at chocolate and coffee, people don’t look at how it is made, and it is usually made from slave labor and that isn’t good.” “It’s like voting,” Earl said. “I would rather put my money towards something made ethically.” According to the World Fair

the

ERIN MROSS | COLLEGIAN

President of the fair trade student organization, Lindsey Earl, holds up one of the protest slogans “When you buy, you vote” Monday morning in Sweet Sinsations, who sell fair and ethically traded coffee.

Trade Organization, fair trade is defined as “a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade.” “CSU is deliberate in wanting our community to be characterized by ethical behavior,” Suzanne Kent, Fair Trade University advisor, said. “For example: we have the code of conduct with academic integrity and multiple efforts to help the environment. It is basically ethical consumption.” The group is planning

CONTACT President Lindsey Earl: lingra@ rams.colostate.edu

to collaborate with the CSU Bookstore to encourage the vendor to buy their clothing from Alta Gracia, a company out of the Dominican Republic that makes fair trade clothing. According to Earl, schools like Notre Dame and Yale have similar arrangements with See FAIR on Page 5

By MATT GABRIEL The Rocky Mountain Collegian

LENT

Millions of people today will don blessed ashen crosses on their foreheads. The symbol marks the beginning of Lent, the Christian observance of the 40 days Jesus Christ spent secluded in the desert where he consumed no food or water and denied Satan’s temptations, as taught in Christianity. Easter is always 46 days after Ash Wednesday. Lent is the season leading up to the holiest week and holiday in Christianity — Easter — which also focuses on the sacrifices of Christ during his life, death and resurrection. Traditional observances change between denomi-

Ash Wednesday Services on and around campus today: 8:00 a.m. John XXIII Center (next to Route 34) 10:00 a.m. LSC Grey Rock Room 12:00 p.m. Danforth Chapel 2:00 p.m. LSC Grey Rock Room 5:15 p.m. John XXIII Center

nations and some don’t observe Lent as a season in their liturgical calendars, but most major American denominations do observe. Typically, individuals give up a vice or pleasure that is personal to them for the entirety of the 40 days. See LENT on Page 5

The space race got a stirring mention in the speech, but nary a word of specifics. What should we expect from the new space race? Will he accomplish a moon colony? Where are the answers, Mr. President!?

Marijuana How exactly are your policies going to change now that pot is legal in Colorado? Are there going to be changes? Are you going to crack down hard? Or will we be seeing you in Boulder soon?

Student Debt Rates were mentioned, reforms were mentioned, all well and good. However, most of us can’t help the economy without first removing the anchor of student loan debt from our necks. How about some relief here! The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff.


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.