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Now that Disney has purchased Lucasfilm and is planning to release Star Wars Episode VII in 2015, the thoughts of Star Wars fans are casting around for other science fiction series’ to fill the Alderaan shaped hole in their hearts.
By Skyler Leonard The Rocky Mountain Collegian Following a controversial opinion by the supreme court on campaign finance laws in 2010, Colorado has a constitutional amendment on this year’s ballot that would direct the congressional delegation to propose and support campaign finance limits. Amendment 65 attempts to change campaign finance by instructing elected officials to introduce and pass a federal constitutional amendment that would allow for campaign finance limits. “The ultimate goal is to get big money out of our elections,” said Daniel Katz, director of the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG). Although no formal opposition has been made to the amendment according to the Colorado Secretary of State website, there has been criticism from those who believe the amendment will actually limit free speech. “Amendment 65 is a blank check for government censorship of political speech and goes vastly beyond what would be something more precise to reverse the Citizens United case,” said David Kopel research director of the Independence Institute. The amendment addresses Citizens United v. The Federal Election Committee, a controversial supreme court decision that found money to count as free speech and corporations as people who have a right to practice free speech. The Citizens United ruling has changed the political environment. With the inclusion of super PACs, corporations and various individuals able to make substantial contributions to campaigns, this year’s election is on track to triple the amount of money spent during the 2008 election, according to Katz. Steve Justino, the co-chair of Move to Amend, a group looking to amend the federal constitution to overturn the Citizens United ruling, said the case was a very bad tipping point for America. “I don’t think it is an See Amendment on Page 3
amendment 65 Instructs Colorado representatives in Congress to propose and support legislation limiting campaign contributions
Supporters say:
The amendment sends a message that money in politics should be limited. Passing 65 in Colorado would be a first step in changing the U.S. constitution.
Opponents say:
A ballot measure cannot force elected officials to vote for laws and policies. The amendment could lead to limits on organization’s and individuals’ free speech.
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Jared Woodrow chooses not to celebrate Halloween because of his religious beliefs. Being a Muslim, Woodrow says there is no connection between the holiday and his country and religion.
Halloween not a holiday for everyone Religious, personal reasons stop students from celebrating By Emily Smith The Rocky Mountain Collegian
On Halloween
Halloween may seem like a harmless holiday for kids to dress up and trick-or-treat and for college students to go to costume parties, but many students don’t celebrate the occasion for personal and religious reasons. Graduate student Justin Marks, a mathematics doctoral candidate, is one of them. “It doesn’t encourage deepening of relationships within the family, or friends for that matter, like Thanksgiving and Christmas do,” Marks said, who identifies as a Christian. Marks said he trick-or-treated as a kid in costumes like dinosaurs or trains, but refrains from celebrating Halloween now because it doesn’t have a meaningful tradition behind it in Christianity, such as Christmas celebrating the birth of Jesus and Easter celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. “Currently, the dominant tone of Halloween in our culture is a celebra-
Nearly 120 million American children and adults dress up in costumes. More than 35 million pounds of candy corn are sold annually. 72 percent of American adults report handing out candy. 46 percent of American adults carve a pumpkin.
tion of death and horror, which are characteristics of Satan, versus life and peace, which are attributes of Jesus and the things truly worthy of celebration,” Marks said. Marks said Halloween seems like an excuse for many people to get drunk and be promiscuous, both of which are behaviors he thinks are wrong. Marks said there isn’t much that draws him about Halloween, making it easy for him not to celebrate it. Senior health and exercise science major Rebecca Schwarz doesn’t celebrate Halloween either. Schwarz explained that in her reli-
gion, Judaism, there is a different holiday called Purim which Jewish people celebrate by dressing up in costumes and traveling to others’ houses to give them candy. Purim is usually celebrated in February or March, she said. “I can’t speak for all Jews, but most religious Jews will refrain from celebrating Halloween due to its pagan roots,” Schwarz said. The roots of Halloween and the various traditions that go along with celebrating it have been said to come from several different sources, from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain to the Catholic holiday of All Hallows Eve which takes place before All Saints’ Day on Nov. 1. Schwarz grew up not celebrating Halloween and never trick-or-treated as a child. “I did celebrate Halloween my first year up here at CSU,” Schwarz said. “It wasn’t quite as wholesome as I expected it to be, given that my See halloween on Page 3
Celebrating nine years of safe rides home By Carrie Mobley The Rocky Mountain Collegian
Amid all the midterms and papers due this week, another event occurred –– the celebration of the ninth year of RamRide and the first year of RamRide Return by the Associated Students of CSU. Since its creation in 2003, the program has given 174,038 safe rides home, according to ASCSU President Regina Martel. That’s an average of about 200 rides per night of operation. “RamRide has come such a long way,” said Becky Ewing, director of RamRide. “It’s grown not only in terms of usage, but also in staff, community support, cars and the amount of students who know about it. It has literally grown
in every aspect possible.” RamRide began in an apartment off campus, according to Ewing. The program initially rented cars for every night of operation until it became clear that it would be more cost-efficient to purchase vehicles solely for RamRide’s use. “In the beginning, the program was completely run by the RamRide and ASCSU members,” Ewing said. “They literally worked it every single weekend just to get it started, but after that it really started to grow.” Today, RamRide has its own office in the Lory Student Center, a 19-car fleet and eight paid employees. “Its really become part of our campus culture,” said Emma Lanham, a veteran
Celebrate Ramride Since its creation on Oct. 24, 2003, RamRide has: Provided 174,038 safe rides Expanded to a 19-car fleet Added a RamRide Return program to return student to their cars the next day
RamRide volunteer. “A Lot of the CSU alumni in my hometown think it’s great that its not only still here, but that it has grown so much in the last few years and really become part of who we are.” ASCSU also celebrated the first birthday of RamRide Return, an initiative implemented by the last ASCSU administration. In its pilot year, the program has seen consistently low numbers –– a trend
that some site as an attribute to the natural growing pains of a new program. “It’s grown a lot in the last year, but it’s still in its early stages,” Ewing said. “It has a lot of growing left to do … this year will play a heavy role in determining its growth and how sustainable it will be for the years to come.” The celebration included free cake for passers-by on the plaza, free t-shirts and informational fliers promoting RamRide Return. This year’s birthday celebration was low key, according to Ewing, but for RamRide’s 10th birthday, she said, the department won’t hold anything back. ASCSU Beat Reporter Carrie Mobley can be reached at news@collegian.com.
Foundation
Isaac Asimov is regarded as the King of Science Fiction. Spanning hundreds of years, and incorporating hundreds of characters, Foundation is the sci-fi equivalent to “Game of Thrones”... with less sex.
The Pendragon Adventures
A story of dimensional travel, the Pendragon Adventures centers around teenager Bobby Pendragon, who gets plucked out of his normal existence to fight against a megalomaniacal lunatic.
Old Man’s War
A story of an elderly man’s mind transplanted into a young man’s body to fight a war is rife with creative cinematic potential. The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff.
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Community Briefs President Barack Obama to make a campaign stop in Boulder on Thursday
President Barack Obama will be once again make a stop in colorful Colorado on Thursday, just five days before the election on Nov. 6. Obama will deliver remarks at the Coors Event Center in Boulder at 4 p.m. on Thursday. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for entrance. One ticket per person will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to one per person. Tickets are available by the UMC Fountain Area of the CU-Boulder Campus, as well as the Obama for America offices on Pearl Street, Baseline and South Boulder Road in Boulder.
Celebrate Halloween with an Organ Extravaganza!
Tonight will be a “spook-tacular” evening in the University Center for the Arts. That’s because this Halloween marks the seventh annual Halloween Organ Extravaganza, which will feature terrifying pieces like Bach’s “Toccata” and “Fugue in D minor” — known by
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some as Halloween’s unofficial theme song. The concert, which will be performed on the world-renowned Casavant organ, will feature costumed performers, including CSU organ professor Joel Bacon, organ students and numerous special guests. Tickets are $7 for CSU students, $1 for youth and $12 for adults. There will be concerts at 7 p.m., 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. in the Organ Recital Hall in the UCA.
CSU men’s golf team currently in fifth place at Pacific Invitation
The CSU men’s golf team currently holds sole possession of fifth place out of 12 teams at the Pacific Invitational, with a two-day total of 553 points. “We just kind of kept pace with everyone else,” head coach Christian Newton said. Kansas State University sits alone in first place, followed by Brigham Young University, Pacific University and the University of California-Davis. To follow live scoring of the tournament, visit www. golfstat.com as well as @csumensgolf on Twitter.
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“If you’re looking for someone older and more mature, I’d suggest using the Facebook page because the people who see those are usually students in the same mindset, in the same place in life.” Erin Brady | Sophomore biology major
As winter nears, students begin roommate hunt By Kate Simmons The Rocky Mountain Collegian As the fall semester passes its halfway point, many CSU students are searching for roommates and places to live for the upcoming term. “You might choose them (roommates) because you like them, not necessarily because they’re the best roommate match for you based on your preferences,” Jeannie Ortega, director of Off-Campus Life said. “I’ve seen best friends move in together and become worst enemies because they didn’t really know about this person’s cleanliness or opinions about sharing.”
Off-Campus Life provides students with a one-stop-shop to help students survive in their first step into the world. The office helps students find a place to live, groups to carpool to campus with, party registration, legal services and Roommate Roundup. “We’re the premiere site for students to find housing, specifically for CSU students,” Ortega said. Many students however use venues other than Off-Campus Life to find living arrangements. Caroline Ogg, a sophomore engineering science major, said she thinks Off-Campus Life is helpful but she thinks
most students don’t think to look there so she decided to look where many students frequent almost daily: Facebook. Most of the CSU graduating classes have pages on Facebook and many clubs and organizations also have pages. The Facebook 2015 group page has more than 3,500 members. Students use the social media site to ask fellow students about everything from teacher recommendations to ask for concert tickets and Harry Potter book loans. Every few posts are about living situations off campus –– either students looking for roommates or advertising places to live.
Ogg has noticed a lot of people using Facebook to find roommates but she wishes there was something more. She thinks someone should make a Facebook page specifically to help students find other students to live with. “So much of the roommate search is word of mouth,” Ogg said. “If there was a place where you could find a list of people who meet your criteria that would be awesome.” Erin Brady, a sophomore biology major, said she and her other roommates made an ad on Craigslist to find a new roommate. Brady described the people who responded to their ad
Emergency rescue and recovery By Michael Muskal and Joseph Tanfani The McClatchy Tribune
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The eastern portion of the nation turned to emergency rescue, recovery and resupply Tuesday even as meteorologists warned that the danger from super storm Sandy will continue as the massive system works its way through the country. Sandy churned about 120 miles east of Pittsburgh and was moving toward the Great Lakes and Canada, carrying winds of 45 mph and pelting rain or snow across an area stretching from Lake Michigan to Maine. At least 38 deaths were reported by The Associated Press. More than 8 million people remained without electricity. Manhattan remained paralyzed with hundreds of thousands without power and its subway system shut, portions flooded. About 80 homes were destroyed by fire in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens. The Jersey Shore has suffered “incalculable” losses, Gov. Chris Christie said, with aerial photos showing widespread flooding, sand and water inundating street after street of homes. Snow and blizzard conditions pummeled West Virginia on Tuesday, knocking out power and closing roads. “I don’t want anyone to think the event is anywhere near over,” National Hurricane Center Director Rock Knabb said Tuesday afternoon. He echoed a warning also delivered by President Barack Obama during a trip to the Washington headquarters of the Red Cross. “This storm is not yet over,” Obama said. Obama will visit hard-hit
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The Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, New York, was devastated by Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.
New Jersey on Wednesday, the White House announced, where he will view storm damage and talk to residents and first-responders. He will travel in the Garden State with Christie, a GOP surrogate for presidential challenger Mitt Romney. Both Obama and Christie have insisted that dealing with the storm and its aftermath trumps any politics even in a presidential election year. Obama stressed a mustdo idea of dealing with the recovery. “Do not figure out why we can’t do something. I want you to figure out how we do something,” Obama said. “I want you to cut through red tape; I want you to cut through the bureaucracy. There is no excuse for inaction at this point. I want every agency moving forward to make sure we are getting the resources where they are needed as quickly as possible.” During the telephone briefing, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate stressed that federal officials had moved supplies, including food, medicine and generators to help
hard-hit areas such as New York and New Jersey. Obama also granted major-disaster declarations to New York and New Jersey without a full federal assessment, clearing the way for quick grants to individuals hit hardest by the storm, Fugate said. Rescues have taken place through the Northeast. But New Jersey, first hit when Sandy made landfall, was the scene of dramatic rescues as crews in boats pulled people out of two flooded towns: Moonachie, near the Hackensack River, and nearby Little Ferry, N.J. More than 800 people were stranded in Moonachie after the surge sent water over a berm in the town of 2,700 about 10 miles northwest of Manhattan. The town was under 5 feet of water in just 45 minutes and some residents clung to rooftops, officials said. At least one body was recovered in the city of Hackensack, upstream from the main flood area, officials said. Houses in Little Ferry were swamped when the storm drove 4 feet of water onto the streets.
“We are in the midst of urban search and rescue. Our teams are moving as fast as they can,” Christie said during a televised news conference. “The devastation on the Jersey Shore is some of the worst we’ve ever seen. The cost of the storm is incalculable at this point.” Christie then left for a helicopter tour of the region. The barrier islands in the southern portion of New Jersey were cut off, said Christie, citing beach erosion, flooded and sand-crusted houses and heavily damaged amusement park rides. The worst of the storm seemed to spare Atlantic City, the aging resort and home of the state’s gambling industry. At the height of Sandy, much of the city was underwater. But by Tuesday morning, the waters had receded and most of the streets were clear. Houses showed missing shingles or blown-down rain gutters, but there was little evidence of widespread structural damage. Some of the city even had power. The 12 hotel casinos remained closed, but even the city’s Boardwalk mostly was unscathed, except for one section at the north end that was already supposed to be demolished. The cost of Sandy’s damage could exceed $20 billion in repairs and perhaps another $30 billion in lost business over the days that much of metropolitan New York was an isolated ghost town, according to early estimates. Lower Manhattan, which includes Wall Street, was among the hardest-hit areas after 14-foot surges of seawater rolled through the empty streets, setting a record. Wall Street, closed for two days, was expected to reopen for trading on Wednesday.
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exaggeration to say that we are not in a functional democracy,” Justino said. Those that support Amendment 65 see it as mitigating the impact of money on the democratic process. “We think it is a very powerful message coming from Colorado, given we are a swing
state in this election,” Katz said. But to some, like Kopel, the amendment is very dangerous because of how broadly it can be interpreted. “Sixty five is an order to all of Colorado’s officials to enact laws that limit campaign speech, but it doesn’t provide any specifics about what kinds of laws,” Kopel said. “So it is in essence giv-
ing them an order to vote for any law restricting political speech during elections.” For the group Move to Amend, the broad text of the amendment creates confusion and weakens the stance against Citizens United. Yet, even though they do not stand in proposition of the amendment, they still want people to vote in favor of 65
because it will further the debate on campaign finance. “Move to Amend thinks that Colorado voters should vote for it to get that discussion going, but when it comes to the amendment our position is nonnegotiable,” Justino said. Collegian Writer Skyler Leonard can be reached at news@collegian.com.
as “iffy.” From her experience, people on Craigslist were generally older and Brady didn’t feel comfortable living with anyone she interviewed. “Be careful and cautious as you approach finding a roommate through Craigslist,” Ortega said. “It’s so open there can be scams that exist out there and we don’t want students to be in situations where they are being taken advantage of financially.” After Craigslist failed to match them with a roommate, Brady and her housemates checked the Class of 2015 Facebook page. “If you’re looking for a college student, I’d suggest using
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the Facebook page because the people who see those are usually students in the same mindset, in the same place in life,” Brady said. “If you’re looking for someone older and more mature, Craigslist would work but it depends the type of person you’re looking for. Craigslist didn’t work for us because we weren’t looking for that kind of person.” Student Life Beat Reporter Kate Simmons can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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understanding of Halloween was that it’s a kids’ holiday.” Jared Woodrow, who identifies as a Muslim, said he doesn’t celebrate Halloween because there is no connection between Halloween and the country he lives in nor the religion he practices. Woodrow, a senior criminal justice major and president of the Muslim Student Association, celebrated Halloween up until the year he became a Muslim. “After that, I decided that since it was not celebrated by our Prophet nor is it con-
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nected to any real –– however tenuous the ties may be –– scriptural connection to the Old or New Testament, if I want to dress up as Boba Fett –– which I may do –– I don’t need an excuse to do so,” Woodrow said. Woodrow said he felt Halloween was little more than a “Hallmark holiday.” “It is a waste of time and money,” Woodrow said. “Which the American capitalist system is all too prepared to wring out for every dollar that can be mustered.” Collegian Writer Emily Smith can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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Sin taxes and civil liberties: A matter of scale
By brian fosdick
I have read a lot of articles in the Collegian over the years that I’ve marked as questionable in taste, but I have to admit, the guest column written last week by Tyler Drum is the winner of the Most Poorly Thought Out Column of the year award. While I sympathize with the fact that the government is indeed not your real dad and he can’t tell you what to do, putting sin tax on the scale of depriving people of basic human rights is a little much. Let’s step back for a moment and look for the reasoning behind the respective laws that you mentioned. Sin tax is derived from the idea that these luxury items are harmful to the body and therefore, by making the choice to purchase them, people should be forced to pay a little extra. That is to say, when people are blowing smoke in your face and spreading harmful chemicals, you can at least take solace in the fact that they have to pay a little more for slowly killing themselves and everyone around them. Soda has seen much the same problem as America is a notoriously overweight nation due to the prominence of advertising and the lack of education given to younger children on how to control their diet. The tax there serves the purpose of encouraging people to treat their bodies and other people with some decency, but still giving them the option to choose what they want. Now, a whole group of people that can’t get married because of their sexual orientation –– that’s a bit different. See, instead of having homosexuals pay an extra dollar for their wedding, they just can’t marry. There is no choice involved there; it is banned on the bases of religious beliefs. You know, religion, that thing that all American’s agreed from the getgo should not have the power to dictate policy. There is no logical basis for this law other than bias. It’s the same logic that was used to make sure colored people couldn’t vote for most of the United States’
existence, or to turn women into second class citizens. If you honestly think that making luxury items cost a little more money is comparable to people taking away your human rights, I don’t even know where to begin with the mental gymnastics that you must be going through trying to justify that statement. Even looking at the bills cited in the column makes me wonder if you’ve read them. The land appropriation bill has nothing to do with “your” land. It is set to define what dictates blighted land, which I doubt that you own, and whether it can be used for urban renewal. The bill that disallows minors to talk on their cell phones while driving is, at worst, common sense. I get that you want to call your BFF Jill while you’re driving, but it has the possibility of causing harm — not only to you, but to others around you — when you drive your car into the back of someone because you just had to engage in small talk while on the road. The last bill you referenced is the most mind blowing of the group, as it is set to give tax breaks to solar energy funding. If you haven’t been living under a rock for, well, your entire life, you know that the energy crisis is a clear and present danger to the economic independence of this country. The bill aims to support alternative sources of energy in Colorado; something has to be done if we want to see growth in these sectors. Good thing we don’t already give tax breaks to oil companies who are providing temporary, unclean energy. Oh, wait. Paying fifty cents more for your Coke is not the same as taking away your basic human rights. People telling you to drive safely and consider the wellbeing of those around you when you smoke is not “controlling your life.” Also, voting for one of the two parties in a two party system is a joke. If you really want to see revolutionary change, start a revolution. If not, don’t pretend your politician is going to make things different. It’s the same bureaucratic nonsense we’ve been fed from the start and I can promise you at the end of “business as usual,” you may be able to actively harm those around you more, but you won’t feel any freer. Brian Fosdick is a junior journalism major. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@collegian. com.
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Use the force, Disney Lucasfilm has gone to the Dark Side. On Monday, it was made public that Lucasfilm, the studio behind Star Wars and Indiana Jones, has been purchased by Disney for a cool $4.05 billion, picking off the smaller cinematic company easier than Luke Skywalker bullseyes womp rats in his T-16 back home. According to Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger, the studio plans to release a Star Wars film every two years starting in 2015, as well as further integrating the beloved franchise into Disney’s theme parks (please let there be a pod-racing ride!). Disney has swooped in to ex-
ploit the Star Wars series faster than the Millenium Falcon can make the Kessel Run — less than
“Maybe teaming up with Disney’s almost limitless resources could really benefit the Star Wars story and give us fans ‘a new hope.’” 12 parsecs, to be exact. This is a double-edged lightsaber. Six companies in the U.S. control 90 percent of the media.
Disney is one of them. Adding Lucasfilm to a portfolio that already features ESPN, Pixar and Marvel studios only makes Disney more powerful; what was once a small moon is turning into a massive, laser-wielding space station. But hey, there’s always a bigger fish! After all, it’s not like Lucasfilm was some small studio. And we all know that “The Phantom Menace” kind of sucked. Maybe teaming up with Disney’s almost limitless resources — even though they’re a bunch of scruffy-looking nerf herders — could really benefit the Star Wars story and give us fans “a new hope.” Is Lucasfilm our only hope? No. There is another...
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In Colohiovadinaconsinstan we trust
By Caleb hendrich
In a little less than a week, the majority of the American electorate who has not voted early or sent in a ballot by mail, will flock to polling places across the country to cast their ballots for either President Barack Obama or for his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. It is at about this time that many news outlets across this great country of ours will begin to start classifying various sections of the map as “Democratic” or “Republican” leaning. They do this in large part to try and predict how each state's votes in the electoral college will determine who “wins” the election. Inevitably, once all of the dominos fall on Election Day, someone, somewhere is going to start complaining about how unfair the Electoral College is. It happens on both sides. Liberals complained in 2000 when George W. Bush won more electoral votes than popular votes. Conservatives complain that states like California and New York give an unfair advantage to Democrats. And someone will inevitably belly-ache about it after the conclusion of the 2012 election. In this election it is not hard to find
something to complain about, and the Electoral College is a very easy target. With every state save six or seven completely locked up, the candidates are focusing almost all of their efforts in an amorphous area which I am calling “Colohiovadinaconsinstan.” Colohiovadinaconsinstan is made up of the key contested states in this election: Colorado, Nevada, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin and Florida. From an electoral votes standpoint, these states make up about 104 votes, which makes up about a quarter of the total votes in the electoral college. In other words, only about 25 percent of the country is deciding the election. That does sound admittedly unfair (provided that you forget that on any given presidential election only 60 percent of the voting population actually votes, optimistically). But it does not make a cogent argument for nixing the Electoral College, because the alternative is actually even more unfair. If the Electoral College is removed, then the presidential elections will be decided by popular vote. While it might not sound like a bad idea, this is actually monumentally unfair to the electorate, because all of a sudden the only places that actually matter in an election are the cities with the largest populations. All of a sudden, instead of the amorphous grouping of states of Colohiovadinaconsindiastan deciding the election, the deciding areas will be New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, and San Jose. If the combined opinions of six or seven states deciding elections is unfair, then having only 10 cities deciding elections is monumentally unfair. Which is why the Electoral College needs to stay in place, and why
small states will continuously advocate against getting rid of it (as they always have). As a Coloradoan, I do not want people in New York, or Texas, or California deciding who becomes president. As a Coloradoan, I like that my state actually gets to have a significant say in the election. I sure as hell do not want candidates to ignore my state because we only have nine electoral votes. I like it that my state can be a deciding factor in the most important election that our country holds. Do I think that winning the electoral college but not the popular vote is unfair, yeah. But it is much, much better than small states like Colorado being completely ignored. This is why, in the spirit of the Great Compromise which created the House of Representatives and Senate, I will support the established institution that gives the small states the power to sway elections. It is not perfect by any means, but then again what system is? It is a choice of what is most fair. Not everyone lives in California, New York, and Texas. Those three states should not be the ones that decide who is president. I would much rather have Colohiovadinastan be the deciding factor in an election. This is the United States of America, emphasis on the “states.” Fifty states. Not three. Fifty. Everyone’s say matters, no matter the size of the state or the number of people in it. I support the Electoral College, because it gives me a voice that matters in the election. 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.
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The Rocky Mountain Collegian | Wednesday, October 31, 2012
ELECTION
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05 COUNTDOWN
Candidate Romney vs. ObamaContrast
A LOOK AT IMMIGRATION BACKGROUND By KATE WINKLE The Rocky Mountain Collegian While the economy has been the overarching theme of this election season, the estimated 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. have still provoked differing opinions from President Barack Obama and Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney. Here’s what the two candidates have to say about immigration: Politics Beat Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at news@collegian.com.
WHAT THEY PROMISED* ROMNEY
OBAMA
“Immigration reform is not just a moral imperative, but an economic necessity as well. Immigrants with advanced degrees start companies, create jobs and drive innovation at a high rate. … We can find common ground here, and we must. We owe it to ourselves as Americans to ensure that our country remains a land of opportunity – both for those who were born here and for those who share our values, respect our laws and want to come to our shores,” Romney said at a speech to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials June 21, 2012. “Enforce the law, welcome legal immigrants and attract the best and brightest:” Implement immigration strategy to bolster the economy, ensure security, keep nuclear families together and address illegal immigration Grant permanent residency to foreign students who obtain advanced degrees Speed up process of temporary work visas and create an effective mandatory employment verification system
“It makes no sense to expel talented young people who, for all intents and purposes, are Americans. They’ve been raised as Americans, understand themselves to be part of this country. To expel these young people who want to staff our labs or start new businesses or defend our country simply because of the actions of their parents or because of the inactions of politicians,” Obama said at a speech addressing immigration in the Rose Garden June 15, 2012. Make immigration policy more “fair, efficient and just:” As a second-term priority, work with Congress to pass comprehensive bipartisan immigration reform Focus immigration enforcement on those who endanger communities, and de-emphasize low-priority cases like students, veterans, citizens and military families Opposes Arizona’s S.B. 1070 that requires police to check immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion someone is undocumented
WHAT THEY DID* ROMNEY
OBAMA
2004: Vetoed a bill offering in-state tuition benefits for undocumented immigrants 2003: Opposed a bill that would grant driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants 2006: Signed a pact with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to give specially trained Massachusetts State Troopers the authority to enforce federal immigration laws
2010: Urged Congress to pass the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act Failed to advance in the Senate Would have let young people brought to the US as children earn citizenship through military service or higher education
*Information provided by each candidate’s campaign office and public records
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California’s Brown has yet to pick a central sales pitch By MICHAEL J. MISHAK and ANTHONY YORK The McClatchy Tribune
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Jerry Brown still has not settled on a central sales pitch for his tax-hike initiative, even though support is shaky and Election Day is fast approaching. He has said at turns that Proposition 30 is about fixing Sacramento, supporting local schools and creating jobs. At recent campaign stops, he has said the measure would help stabilize the state budget — even though ads in favor of it say the billions of dollars in new taxes will flow only to schools and cannot be touched by Sacramento politicians. On the stump, Brown emphasizes that most of the tax increases will affect only the wealthiest Californians. The campaign ads make little mention of that. The mixed messages underscore the Democratic governor’s struggle to persuade skeptical taxpayers to open their wallets and provide fodder for a well-financed opposition to plant doubt among voters. A recent University of Southern California Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll showed support for the proposal slipping below 50 percent for the first time. The shifting “creates uncertainty and makes voters head in the ‘no’ direction,” said John Matsusaka, president of the Initiative & Referendum Institute at USC. Californians have not approved a statewide tax increase since 2004, when they voted for a levy on those making more than $1 million to pay for expanded county mental health programs. “It’s hard to find the right phrases, the right words,” Brown said, speaking to reporters after a San Francisco
campaign event last week. “Everybody’s so afraid to mention that taxes are even involved. We walk on eggshells.” From the outset, Brown had pitched his initiative as part of what he called a “balanced approach” to closing the state’s budget gap. He had already cut billions of dollars from government programs. With polls showing that voters were most likely to approve taxes to help schools, he said the new levies on sales and upper incomes would help him balance California’s books, stave off education reductions and fulfill his campaign pledge to restore fiscal sanity to Sacramento. As he traveled the state to promote his plan in the spring, he hammered home that point. “My goal is to balance the budget,” the governor said repeatedly. He cast his initiative as “far superior” to a separate tax measure by civil rights attorney Molly Munger because that proposal, Proposition 38, would send most of its new revenue to schools but would not fill the budget hole. By summer, Brown had changed tactics. Rocked by a financial scandal at the parks department and ill-timed legislative pay raises, the governor co-opted Munger’s education message — and even mimicked her advertising, which vilified Sacramento and focused on government accountability. He aired television spots featuring teachers who argued that the new money would go directly to classrooms. Another ad stars the state controller, an elected official, asserting that “Sacramento politicians can’t touch the money.” But the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office has
said “future actions of the Legislature and the governor would determine the use of these funds.” Some political analysts said the campaign ads tarnished the governor’s reputation as an honest broker in the polarized Capitol. “Brown’s credibility was the most precious commodity that campaign had, and they’ve degraded it,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican consultant who helped former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger craft messages for a series of ballot measures in 2005. Brown’s opponents have seized on the contradictions, airing ads that cast Proposition 30 as “just another misleading budget gimmick by Sacramento politicians.” And since most of the governor’s ads do not mention where the new money would come from, anti-tax activists are filling the vacuum, focusing on the quarter-cent hike in the state sales tax. Some of Brown’s allies lament that he has failed to capitalize on the most politically potent part of the initiative: The new income taxes would fall on individuals making more than $250,000 a year or couples earning more than $500,000. That message could help reverse flagging support from Democrats, more than a third of whom say they’re undecided or won’t vote for the measure, according to the latest USC Dornsife/Times poll. “People who are in the top 2 percent can afford to pay a bit more. We think it’s really a powerful message,” said Rick Jacobs, chairman of the Courage Campaign, a liberal advocacy group that backed the idea of a “millionaire” tax before abandoning that plan in an agreement with Brown. “The campaign has made another choice.”
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The Rocky Mountain Collegian | Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Sandy’s damage worse than Irene, far from Katrina By KEVIN G. HALL The McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Residents along most of the East Coast on Tuesday began cleaning up the wreckage left behind by Hurricane Sandy, and it was immediately clear that all Americans will get slapped with the astronomical bill for the late-season storm. “One of the big lessons here is there is going to be a very large gap between the insured losses and the total direct losses, and the overall economic losses due to Hurricane Sandy,” said Cynthia McHale, director of insurance services for the business advisory firm Ceres. The insured losses from Sandy are initially estimated by Ceres and others to come between $5 billion and $10 billion. That’s a fraction of the total losses, however, since damage from flooding and Sandy’s storm surge would be covered not by the private sector but rather by the National Flood Insurance Program. Only a small percentage of homeowners — 5.6 million policies nationwide last year — are thought to actually have the federally provided insurance
coverage. That means taxpayers may be on the hook for a lot of the disaster assistance as well as the low-interest rebuilding loans given to residents and businesses in affected states along or near the East Coast. “All of society is going to be affected by this,” said McHale. Americans also will feel Sandy’s effect on gas prices, which are likely to spike for a short period as a result of the storm forcing refinery shutdowns and disrupting gasoline deliveries along the East Coast. Sandy shut down the New York Stock Exchange on Monday and Tuesday, the first time weather has closed the symbol of American financial might for two consecutive days since 1888. Leaders of the exchange announced Tuesday afternoon that trading will resume Wednesday morning at normal hours, although with the subway system and schools closed in New York it wasn’t clear who would come to work and how they’d get there. Initial estimates of broader economic losses range from $20 billion to $50 billion, although these num-
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“We’ve got to change the culture. In my opinion, if we’re going to go to the next level with this team, that’s what we need to do.” Larry Eustachy | Basketball Coach
New basketball coach creates culture of effort By Kyle Grabowski The Rocky Mountain Collegian New CSU coach Larry Eustachy said he cares more about his team’s mindset on the court than the X’s and O’s of basketball. He states and restates that “the offense will take care of itself,” and the Rams need to recommit themselves in terms of effort on the defensive end and hustle plays. “We’ve got to change the culture. In my opinion, if we’re going to go to the next level with this team, that’s what we need to do,” Eustachy said. CSU played against someone other than itself in Sunday’s 87-67 win over Metro State, and despite the 20 point win, the team acknowledges it still has a long way to go. “We have to improve drastically over the next few weeks before we play Montana — we’ve just got to get tougher,” senior forward Pierce Hornung said. When CSU defended Metro State the “right” way,
the Roadrunners shot 19 percent from the floor, but when the team didn’t defend the “right way, Metro State made 65 percent of its shots, according to Eustachy. “We just have to buy into that this is really what wins games,” Eustachy said. “What I’m selling is, no matter how bad we shoot, we can win games, and that hasn’t been the case because of a lack of depth.” Eustachy has taken advantage of the depth on his team by ratcheting up the intensity of his practices and holding the team more accountable for its mistakes. “Right now, we’re in better shape than we’ve ever been and we practice with no out of bounds,” senior guard Wes Eikmeier said. “Every drill we do if no one’s on the floor going after a loose ball, we’re running for it, we’re paying a price.” The Rams’ coaching staff will take advantage of their depth not by giving their players more rest, but by extending their playing time in games and demanding a higher level of effort during
those games with the expectation of more rest later. “The body can take a lot, it’s just how mentally tough are you to serve it out,” Eustachy said. “I’m big on that, it’s a mental thing more than a wear-down physical thing. That’s what I think we really lack.” CSU will have one more opportunity to test its mettle against another team before the Nov. 9 opener against Montana when the team travels to New Orleans Friday to scrimmage with Tulane. The NCAA allows teams that play only one exhibition game to travel and play a scrimmage against another team as long as it is completely closed and not publicized at all. “We’ve got seven practices left before we play a really good Montana team and we certainly won’t play our best,” Eustachy said. “These guys are going to get better and we’re just not going to be our best early.” Assistant Sports Editor Kyle Grabowski can be reached at sports@collegian. com.
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