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Chancellor named ‘Champion of Change’ Molly Mrazek mmrazek@uccs.edu

It’s easy to think that a little commuter university like UCCS could never actually make a difference. But Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak has recently been named a “Champion of Change” by the White House.

In September, ShockleyZalabak flew to Washington D.C. to contribute to a discussion with other college and university leaders about what they were doing to make a difference in their institutions.

Shockley-Zalabak described how she was there mainly to represent the Southern Colorado Education Consortium and went on to explain what their partnership is doing and how they are contributing to change in southern Colorado post-secondary education.

The Southern Colorado Education Consortium is comprised of 10 highereducation institutions in southern Colorado There are five community colleges and five four-year universities, UCCS being among them.

According to ShockleyZalabak, the 10 schools of the Southern Colorado Education Consortium have partnered together to increase the transferring of credit hours among community colleges and fouryear universities. They are also working to create more scholarships for students that transfer.

She also spoke of what they call a two-plus-two degree, where a student gets an associate degree and then transfers it to a four-year university and studies for two more years to earn a bachelor’s.

“I was excited because really, I was designated this [title] along with the University,” said ShockleyZalabak. “I was pleased

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that we were recognized for really trying to work in our community, and in rural Colorado to try to better the educational outcomes of this region,” she continued.

Shockley-Zalabak was unsure of the selection process, but believes she was chosen because of the visibility and outreach of the programs that are offered at UCCS. For example, the school is using video conferencing technology to help teach nursing at community colleges in Lamar, La Junta and Trinidad.

This honor will help the school in a number of ways. “It means that people are seeing the quality of our work, and it’s making a difference,” said ShockleyZalabak.

It will also help the school to be able to point to the fact that we have a “Champion of Change” when dealing with grant and philanthropy proposals.

Shockley-Zalabak believes that another reason she was selected is because she believes that students should be given every opportunity to succeed no matter what their background. “Somebody comes here, and if they work hard and they want to succeed, it shouldn’t be their economic background that predicts whether they can or not.”

“We’re really focusing on trying to expand opportunity and at the same time create some really good learning experience and we’re all working together to do that,” she continued.

Up next for the Southern Colorado Education Consortium are 30 college credit hours that will be offered in high schools.

These credits can be applied to a college degree and are designed to help high schools with their concurrent enrollment programs. These credit hours will begin to be offered in Fall 2012. S

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Bedbug infestation possible in the University Center Aaron Collett acollett@uccs.edu

Bedbugs are scourges that have recently resurfaced across the country.

News media have focused on the problem in New York City, where even office skyscrapers have been found with bedbug infestations.

Now, UCCS has discovered an infestation of these parasites on campus.

A female student, who has remained anonymous, noticed a bedbug on her backpack while in a math class on Oct. 4. She reported that she had previously spent some time in the game room of the University Center.

The game room was then blocked off with a plastic sheet and a space heater was brought in. As far as anyone knows, this was the extent of the treat-

ment that the game room received.

A janitor in the building, having heard a rumor that there were bedbugs in the game room, went to Jeff Davis, the director of the University Center, to ask him about this possibility.

“It made me angry, because I can end up taking that stuff home,” the custodian said. “I’m a custodian; I can go over there to vacuum, not knowing what I’m vacuuming, and carry it home to my house.”

The custodian said that Davis was dismissive, quoting him as saying that the process was “precautionary.”

No extermination service was called, and Davis performed the inspection himself. Davis said, “From what I’ve seen in previous infestations, when I looked, we didn’t have an infestation.”

When asked about the

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exact treatment, Davis said, “Three heaters that are rated to 140 degrees ran for all night. The maintenance staff put it up after the building closed, and then took them down when they came in in the morning.”

Anybody who was near the pool tables on Tuesday, however, saw the game room closed off all day.

Bedbugs were also seen in Centennial Hall, room 201, also on Oct 4. Orkin was called to perform an inspection and extermination, which confirmed the presence of bedbugs, and they treated for them in that room only.

Orkin provided the college with receipts detailing the steps taken. These receipts, filed by Facilities, state that the inspectors found two bedbugs and then treated the room chemically.

Orkin was not asked to

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do any inspections of other locations on campus, nor were they asked to treat any other area of campus for possible bedbug infestations.

This is not the first time that UCCS has experienced bedbugs. Over the summer, one of the dorms had an infestation, but that issue was quickly dealt with by Orkin.

Stephanie Hanenberg, the director of the Student Health Center, when discussing how often they have to deal with bedbugs on campus said, “We get bedbugs about once a year.

They’re not that common.

They are getting more common across the country, though.”

According to the Mayo Clinic website, bedbugs are parasites that feed on the blood of mammals, most often humans. They Continued on page 2...

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Bedbugs (continued from page 1) Counseling Center offers resources also report that infestation rates are highest where there are a high number of different people passing through – hotels are a good example. So are college dorms.

According to the Mayo Clinic website, bedbugs were mostly eliminated in developed countries after World War II due to the widespread use of DDT, a strong pesticide.

However, since the banning of DDT, bedbugs have made a comeback, especially as international travel became more common.

According to the Mayo Clinic, bedbugs are vulnerable to temperatures above 120 degrees, so

sticking clothing into a dryer for an hour on high will get rid of them on clothes and bedding. In the same way, packing your clothes and bedding into a plastic bag and leaving them in the car for a day will also work, as long as the temperature inside the car reaches 120 degrees.

They are also vulnerable to temperatures below freezing. This means that during the winter, you can leave your stuff outside all night to kill them (assuming, that is, that you are willing to have your clothing frozen solid).

Infestations of bedbugs are notoriously difficult to get rid of for many reasons. The Mayo Clinic

Bedbugs feed on the blood of mammals.

website noted that female bedbugs can lay over 200 eggs in her 10-month lifetime.

Freshly-laid eggs are next to impossible to see, as they are very close to transparent. If one fails to kill all of the eggs and adult bedbugs, they can and will go into hiding.

According to bedbuginfo.com, bedbugs can live for up to 18 months without a food source. Also, only six percent of bedbug infestations are successful after only one treatment.

The CDC does not classify bedbugs as a public health threat, as they are not a known vector for any communicable disease.

Some local and municipal health departments have taken steps to curb outbreaks, but El Paso County is not among them.

The El Paso County Health Department does have a “Bed Bug Facts” page on their website, which gives common treatments and biological information about these pests, as well as the recommendation to hire a professional exterminator.

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Maggie Olague molague@uccs.edu Counseling is not for the weak and the crazy, as myth would have you believe. Though anyone can seek help at the Counseling Center if they are experiencing depression or other issues, or just if they need someone to talk to.

But individual therapy isn’t the only available option available at the Counseling Center: A variety of interactive workshops and presentations disperse valuable information to students, and are hosted throughout the fall and spring semesters.

Director of University Counseling Center Z. Benek Altayli said, “They are addressing issues they think most people have on their mind.”

One such issue is test anxiety. Test anxiety workshops are available once a month and are hosted by Univer-

sity Counseling Center Staff Clinician Susan Swank.

Swank teaches different strategies to calm the nerves before a test. Breathing exercises will relax a racing heart and thinking positive helps control test anxiety, Swank said.

The next test anxiety workshop will be held on Oct. 12 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the University Center, room 309.

Along with the workshops, UCCS graduate students working in the Counseling Center host presentations on topics of their choosing. Topics vary each semester, based on who is presenting.

The next presentation will be covering healthy eating on a budget. The cost of healthy food seems daunting to college students when they can easily order fast food from the $1 menu.

KrisAnn McBroom, who will be giving the presentation, said, “I

want to give students ideas on what’s good for you and not expensive.”

Part of this is being aware of which foods are in season, how to budget and breaking old habits, McBroom explained.

The “Healthy Eating” workshop will be on Nov. 3 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the University Center, room 303A. Altayli explained that skills are given to students at workshops and presentations, but it is up to the student to practice the skills over and over again to see an improvement.

All workshops and presentations are free.

The University Counseling Center is always welcome to new ideas for workshops and presentations.

For more information about presentations and workshops, call 255-3265 or visit the University Counseling Center in Main Hall, room 324. S

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What to know about FERPA Catherine Jensen cjensen2@uccs.edu

All students have a right to privacy, and students should know what steps to take if they feel like their privacy has been violated.

Laws like the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) are in place to protect the privacy of student education records.

The federal law prevents student information from being posted or spoken of in a public forum without the written consent of the student.

When the comment, “Don’t forget the 5 IF

you have from me!!!” appeared beneath a Facebook post about trouble with credit hours, a student, who wishes to remain anonymous, feared it was a violation of his FERPA rights.

The professor involved said the comment was a “continuation of banter among friends” and that “a one minute phone call would have cleared this up.”

David Moon, associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs who was made aware of the situation and spoke with the professor in question said of the comment, “Since it wasn’t an actual class and

wasn’t an actual grade, it wasn’t a real FERPA violation. I think this is more an issue of how social media can create an environment where miscommunication is easier to happen.”

If students encounter what they feel may be an issue, Moon said, they should begin by speaking with the professor.

“This almost always resolves it,” he said. “Sometimes complaints even stop at the dean, so up the higher administration ladder, we never hear about them.”

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Students may also seek out the Ombuds Program for assistance. An Ombudsman is a person selected to serve as an intermediary between two parties.

Ombuds is a resource on campus which provides, “students, staff, administrators, professional staff, and faculty with voluntary, informal, neutral, confidential, third-party assistance in resolving University issues, concerns, or conflicts,” according to the Ombuds page on the UCCS website.

“It’s tough because we

are in a viral environment and the use of third party applications like Facebook, Twitter and email. I would recommend it staying out of the curriculum.

Delivery of some things should be done through means of University control,” said John Salnaitis, director of Enrollment Management/Registrar.

Times have changed in regard to the way information is displayed. Salnaitis said, “The registrar used to be the gatekeeper. Now anyone with the University is responsible for disclosing information and it should be kept off limits.”

He added an increased reliance on electronic

sources as opposed to paper ones means that information has the potential to be accessed by more people.

Students will be further informed of the move away from hard copies to email in the spring, he said.

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Freedom Financial Services Expo Center benefits UCCS Mark Petty mpetty3@uccs.edu

The story of the Freedom Financial Services Expo Center began in late 2007 when the national aerospace defense company, TRW, approached UCCS about a 128,000 square foot building on N. Nevada Avenue between Winters Drive and Fillmore Street.

TRW had used the space to manufacture defense products until the early ‘90s. It sat vacant for almost 10 years after TRW

abandoned the building.

The building was considered a “bargain sale gift” at the low price of $2.8 million, which bought 13 acres and two buildings.

The university immediately made money on it by leasing it as commercial storage space, according to Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance Brian Burnett.

Since the purchase of the TRW building, the Phil Long Expo Center near Chapel Hills Mall was sold in October 2010 and turned into a church, leaving a vacancy and a need

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An HBA home and remodeling show took place in the Expo Center Sept. 29 through Oct. 2. for an expo center in Colorado Springs, according to a recent release in KOAA News.

The city opted not to purchase another expo center and instead left it to private industry to fill the void.

The Board of Regents approved a loan to renovate the TRW facility. A 10-year loan of $3 million was granted to UCCS by the CU Treasury.

Within six months, the building was transformed into a suitable building for

the numerous shows and gatherings that will now be held there.

The Home Builders Association (HBA), a nonprofit organization that builds homes for the community, signed a five-year contract to manage the building.

“UCCS and the HBA are two nonprofits coming together to fill a community need,” said Burnett. “This is UCCS being bullish in order to make the community better.”

The naming rights to the

building have been purchased by Freedom Financial Services for the sum of $50,000 per year.

This money was added to the bottom line since the naming rights were not figured into the original budget. The building shall henceforth be called the “Freedom Financial Services Expo Center.”

Events for the Expo Center are currently being booked. The website is already promoting upcoming events including an out-ofstate college fair, holiday

food, a beer fest and even a gun show. For a complete list of events, visitfreedomexpocenter.com.

The Rocky Mountain Gun Show is scheduled for Nov. 5. As Burnett stated, “Loaded weapons are prohibited at the gun show.

This is consistent with the university’s weapon policies of having no loaded weapons on campus.”

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For the past 60 years, Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity has been the gold standard for physics. One part of this theory that has been widely accepted is that the speed of light is the absolute speed barrier of the universe — that it would require an infinite amount of energy for any particle with mass to travel at light speed.

But that speed limit appears to have been broken.

Scientists at the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Tracking Apparatus (OPERA) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) performed an experiment that seemed to contradict the theory of special relativity.

Based in Italy and Switzerland respectively, these labs produce and measure neutrinos, which are notoriously hard to detect. These almost massless particles were known to travel very close to the speed of light.

When the physicists checked the results of their tests, they got a shock: The neutrinos had arrived at their sensor 60 nanoseconds

faster than light would have. This is contradictory with Einstein’s theory of special relativity which states that the speed of light is an absolute barrier.

Since the experiment three years ago, scientists have been working to find error with their calculations.

The scientist’s skepticism regarding their own result is completely understandable.

That skepticism is shared by most of the world’s physicists, according to Dr. James Burkhart, chair of the UCCS physics department who said, “I think that when all is said and done, that they will find that there’s no violation of the speed of light. There’s something about their experiment that will show that light would have traveled just as fast or faster.”

Dr. Robert Camley, a physics professor, disagreed that it would cause such a large shakeup.

He said, “It would not overthrow all of physics. Physics is a discipline that builds on stuff.

When Einstein came up with the theory of relativity, it didn’t overthrow all of Newton.”

Special relativity has been shown to be consistent in many, many other experiments. Camley

said, “There have been hundreds or thousands or maybe millions of checks of Einstein’s theory.”

Not the least of these experiments involves the supernova, whose light reached Earth in 1987, referred to as Supernova 1987A. About 18 hours before the light from the supernova reached Earth, several labs detected a burst of neutrinos. At first glance, this would seem to support the fact that neutrinos travel faster than light.

Burkhart said, “Although light got here later than the neutrinos, it was only a little bit later, and could easily be explained by the fact that the light was slowed down by adjacent dust clouds.”

Additionally, if the OPERA results are correct, the time difference would not have been 18 hours, but almost four years.

If the results from this experiment are confirmed, it will mean a huge shakeup for the entire worldwide physics community.

Burkhart said, “More than likely [what students are] going to have to learn is to rethink causality. But that’s fundamental to human existence. The cause comes before the event, no matter who is looking at it.” S

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Paul Miller named one of the ‘Top 100 Most Influential People’ Ryan Adams

radams3@uccs.edu From working with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to jumpstarting the UCCS Professional Golf Management program, Dr. Paul Miller with the College of Business has had his fair share of accomplishments and success in his life.

That long list now grows even longer with Miller’s recent nomination by the business magazine “Accounting Today” as one of America’s “Top 100 Most Influential People,” a list which includes the likes of President Barack Obama and many others who have made significant impact on the nation.

Although Miller might not have “President” in front of his name, he does

have a lengthy history in the accounting world.

According to Miller, the funny thing is, he didn’t even want to be an accountant when he entered college. He was into something entirely different.

“I came from a long line of engineers and my family was a big engineering family,” Miller said.

“Sophomore year, though, I made a big change. I was at Rice University and became more and more attached to the professional standing of accounting. I liked the challenge that it brought and decided to switch my major to accounting, never looking back,” he added.

After Rice University, Miller went on to get his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, a school considered by many to

have the top accounting program in the country.

Miller then went on to teach at the University of Utah, where he was exposed to leaders of the field.

“While I was teaching in Utah, I got invited to work for the FASB, which is the Financial Accounting Standards Board, in Connecticut.

I moved my family out there and worked for them for about a year and half,” stated Miller.

While on the FASB, Miller worked with people from the SEC who were also impressed with his work. Four years later, Miller found himself in Washington D.C. as a faculty fellow for the SEC. “When I worked for the SEC, I was a step above where I was before. I now oversaw the FASB for the

SEC and enforced rules that the SEC set out for me,” said Miller.

After the SEC job, Miller wanted to get back into teaching accounting instead of enforcing rules about accounting.

“I like the intellectual challenge of accounting, but I like communicating accounting to people who don’t know much about it,” he said. “Being a professor, I could do that for my students.”

Miller came to UCCS in 1988. “I was brought in by the UCCS College of Business to be an accounting professor and to help the college grow into what it has become today,” said Miller.

“From all my years here, the College of Business and UCCS have grown into the most successful institutions in the

state and in the nation as well,” he furthered.

While teaching at UCCS, Miller also started writing columns for “Accounting Today.”

“I had an established reputation as an accountant, and in 1996 wrote a paper on the ethics of accounting,” he said. “The editor of “Accounting Today” saw it, found it interesting, and decided that I, along with my co-author from the paper, would be a good fit for his magazine.”

Miller is one of the most popular reads in the magazine, according to a recent survey in the magazine.

“I have always taken a stand against the IASB (International Accounting Standards Boards) being ingrained into our policies and standards in the United States,” he said.

“We criticize a lot in our columns and dare to say things that leaders and other people wouldn’t normally say.”

Miller has many things to be proud about with this nomination, but he said teaching students will always be his favorite part of accounting.

“The students are what make my job fun, well, besides having Fridays off,” he said.

“Seeing such rare students come here in need of an education in business, either through the PGA Golf Management program or just the College the Business is something I know I can help them with,” he furthered, “I love seeing what they can become and where they end up as a result of mine and others educating them.” S

to use.”

“Since UCCS owns property from University Hall to all along N. Nevada, they contacted us to see if we wanted to build an arena in that area, which would be a great marketing scheme for the restaurants and shopping areas of the University [Village],” furthered Reynolds.

The Urban Renewal Authority, according to Reynolds, wanted to know what was being built, the layouts of the buildings, the design of the athletic complex and the overall cost of the project.

“The concept or idea that is in the preliminary stages is that we would have our whole athletic department move down to this new athletic complex,” said Reynolds.

“We want it to house a lot of our athletic teams, especially those that don’t have their own facilities, like the track team, in one area and this new athletic complex would do that.

“The idea is still in the conceptual stages though and it could be a few years until we go into deeper detail with it,” Reynolds furthered.

Athletic Director Stephen Kirkham agrees.

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become more competi- well as the growing in- still in the conceptual a company that specialtive before we talk about tramural programs. stages, Reynolds wants izes in college strategic building a new athletic “Our track team has to get the word out about planning, will be there to complex,” he said. grown vastly in the last what exactly will be present what exactly the “UCCS competes couple years and so has in the facilities master facilities master plan will in one of the toughest our intramural program,” plan. include and entail for the NCAA Division-II con- he said. “We are going to “On Oct. 13, we will future.” ferences in the nation, need facilities or a facil- be hosting a public foThe forum will take and if we can have our ity soon to house these rum for students and the place at 6 p.m. in room athletic teams start win- programs so they don’t surrounding community 116 of the University ning conference cham- have to go elsewhere to to come to and see what Center for those who are pionships and doing big practice or compete.” we our planning,” he interested. S things, I think that is Although the idea is said. “Ayers Saint Gross, when the idea of a new athletic complex would be considered,” he continued.

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Master plan for new athletic complex unveiled Ryan Adams radams3@uccs.edu

As student enrollment has started to ramp up over the past few years, the administration team at UCCS is preparing to handle the rise with the unveiling of their new strategic plan in 2012.

The overall plan has 14 parts to it, covering a wide range of topics from academics to student life to athletics.

One of its parts is the Facilities Master Plan, headed by Gary Reynolds, executive director of Facilities Services.

Included in that plan is the idea of building a new athletic complex on N. Nevada Avenue near the Four Diamonds sports fields.

The idea of building a new athletic complex for UCCS has always been in the strategic plan, but this time around, the idea is a little bit different.

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‘New Girl’ flourishes on fall TV season block Molly Mrazek mmrazek@uccs.edu Mix a quirky, nerdy girl with an apartment of three guys, and comedic genius is the result. This fall’s TV season on Fox implements this formula in “New Girl,” its new series starring Zooey Deschanel.

Deschanel plays Jess, a peculiar schoolteacher, who through a hilarious incident involving nudity, discovers her boyfriend in the arms of another woman.

She then has to quickly find a new place to live. So she finds three

guys who were looking for a roommate (through Craig’s list, where else?) and moves in.

These three guys are Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Coach (Damon Wayans, Jr.).

Nick is a bartender nursing a six-month-old broken heart, Schmidt is a frat boy-like character who frequently has to put a dollar in the “douche jar” and Coach is a personal trainer who doesn’t know how to talk to women nicely.

Can you feel the laughs already?

The guys embark on a mission to help Jess move on after her break-up, while Jess becomes the Dirty Dancing-watching, random noise-making, womanly influence in

their lives.

She confuses them at first but they grow to love her. In fact, they go and rescue her when she gets stood up and sing “Time of My Life” in front of a crowded restaurant to make her feel better.

But it got a bit confusing when in the second episode, another actor named Lamorne Morris, who plays a character named Winston, replaced Coach.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Wayans’s other show, “Happy Endings,” was picked up

by ABC, making him unavailable for “New Girl.”

However, the second episode did not miss a beat when it came to laughs and the sexual politics between men

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The jazz clubs of Chicago and New York have become legends. The smoky bar, the jazz or blues singer crooning away… it’s the stuff of movie magic.

Those movie scenes

were based on real places, and we have such a place right here in Colorado Springs.

Motif Westside is a traditional jazz club located in the heart of Old Colorado City. It has live music every night with blues on Thursdays and jazz on

Fridays and Saturdays.

Bar Manager Marty Henning said, “The atmosphere is like an old Chicago-style cigar bar, though we don’t sell cigars. Just that old, jazzy, ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘40s, bluesy thing.”

Local musicians are of-

ten featured. About once of the staff has an opinion a month, Motif has musi- about the food. cians from the Air Force Sarah Helfrich, a waitAcademy Band play. It ress, said, “The steak and rarely has big name bands. potato is the bomb.”

Instead, independent muOther staff favorites sicians will simply come include skewered Salmoto the club and play to- rejo Shrimp, the seared gether.

Asian Salmon, and the Andy and Heather Der- all-vegetable sandwich, rigan and Steve Draper The Panini. opened Motif in June Henning said, “It’s the 2010. It has greatly in- sort of place a bunch of creased in popularity people can come in, order since then and sells out on a bunch of plates and all almost every night. eat off of everything.”

Reservations are highly Motif also boasts a full recommended if you want bar, featuring a decently to avoid an exceptionally sized wine list, and severlong wait. al beers This is by the The steak and even more bottle. potato is important It has than with several the bomb. many othspecialer popular ty marrestaurants, as the venue tinis, the most popular of has an indoor seating ca- which is the English Cupacity of only 48 people. cumber.

The patio can only seat This refreshing drink is 40. cucumber infused vodka The food here is Tapas shaken with diced cucumstyle, or small plates. Mo- bers. tif has weekly specials, as The venue’s most rewell as a regular menu. All cent addition is a series of

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Live music is featured every night at Motif Westside.

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Zooey Deschanel stars in the new series “New Girl.”

Motif Westside

Best Kept Secrets Aaron Collett acollett@uccs.edu

and women.

It’s certainly not unique in premise, as it follows the same sitcom equation as shows like “My Boys,” “Dharma & Greg,” “Will & Grace,” “Big Bang Theory” and even “Friends.” All of these shows explore the friendships between men and women.

But this show had me laughing from beginning to end; therefore, I have high hopes for it.

It will be interesting to see where it goes from here; I predict a possible love story already happening between Jess and one of the roommates.

There’s also a plethora of hilarious storylines to choose from when you put men and women under the same roof as friends. S

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art events called Creative Palette. Motif is working with Canvas Uncorked to “offer a unique pairing of culinary experience and professional art instruction,” according to the Motif website.

No art experience is needed for this event.

Reservations are required, as seating is limited. The $40 price tag includes appetizers, one drink and art supplies. S

The Lowdown What: Motif Westside When: Thursday - Saturday, 4 p.m. - 11 p.m.

Where: 2432 W. Cucharras How much: Food starts at $12 Drinks start at $4 Creative Palette: $40 per person More Info: motifwest.com 635-5635

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Second Intersections Film Festival to springboard displacement discussion Sara Horton shorton@uccs.edu To see films that have yet to be released in the United States, you would probably have to travel to a European film festival.

This year’s Intersections Film Festival, or IFF, presents a three-day opportunity to see such films on campus and at the Fine Arts Center for free.

IFF features all awardwinning films like “For a Moment, Freedom,” a story about three groups of Iranian refugees that has yet to show in the United States.

It will also feature films that have not received wide U.S. distribution, such as “Pomegranates and Myrrh,” which follows a newlywed woman who is forced to choose between her love for dance and her imprisoned husband.

The festival began in October 2009, an opening that Professor and IFF Executive Curator Carole Woodall described as “insanely successful” with almost 250 people at opening night and 804 total festival attendees.

Because of its 10 to 11 months of planning and theme-related research, IFF is held every other year.

This year’s theme is displacement.

“Displacement can be the loss of one’s home due to war, imprisonment or occupation,” said Woodall.

She added that displacement could also apply to feelings of alienation while in a foreign land, but IFF generally highlights displacement via occupation.

The subjects of displacement are primarily Palestinian and Turkish.

Opening night will be Oct. 14 at the Gallery of Contemporary Art (GOCA) at Centennial Hall with free food from Heart of Jerusalem.

“Amreeka,” a chronicle of a single mother who leaves the West Bank for a better life in a small Illinois town, will be the first film to set the theme for what Woodall described as an “interesting

and hopefully vibrant discussion” on displacement.

“Amreeka is relatable.

Hopefully it will make people look at their neighbors differently,” said Woodall.

She commented that IFF speaks to UCCS’ mission of racial inclusiveness.

She also expressed the hope that the festival would help dispel systematic racism and stereotypes of Middle Eastern people, especially after Sept. 11.

To encourage more audience participation, two speakers will be present at almost every screening.

Woodall called IFF’s interactive mode of presentation “a wonderful forum to start dialogue,” as opposed to a lecture or straight screening, where people have the opportunity to listen but cannot always provide feedback or ask questions.

Among the scheduled speakers is Joe WeismannHorther, who will make comments on opening night.

Weismann-Horther is integration program supervisor for Colorado Refugee Services Program, which is under the Colorado Department of Human Services and UN High Commission of Refugees.

Woodall said WeismannHorther will help make displacement real at a state and local level.

“We want to take an intense, politicalized issue but take politics out of it,” explained Woodall. “And how to do that? Through film and conversation.”

The festival has gained more community partners: Heuberger Motors, the Colorado Springs Independent and the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado are a few.

The Gay and Lesbian Fund has set up a challenge fund for IFF, which will match contributions up to $500 dollar for dollar; donations via the festival’s website are encouraged.

“Each film will prompt a different kind of inquiry,” said Woodall. “Go see them all! It’s free and open to the public.” S

The Lowdown What: Intersections Film Festival Where: Oct. 14 and Oct. 15: Centennial Hall #203 Oct. 16: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

When: Oct. 14-16 How much: Free More Info: uccs.edu/~iff facebook.com/IntersectionsFF

Photos courtesy of Ustura Films

These scenes are from “Pomegranates and Myrrh,” which will be screened at the second Intersections Film Festival. This film follows a newlywed woman who is forced to choose between her love for dance and her imprisoned husband.

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olorado Springs residents may not wait for the magic pumpkin to bring them treats or use one as transportation to the ball, but this time of year pumpkins are still used for both traditional and out of the ordinary treats.

-Leslie Randolph

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Great Harvest Bread Company 1466 Garden of the Gods Rd., Suite 148 Great Harvest Bread Company also has their share of pumpkin treats. They offer Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake Bread year round.

“That one doesn’t go away because it’s so popular,” said owner Ainley Jewell.

“The first year we owned the bakery I took it off the menu because I thought it was seasonal, and I had people at the door with pitch forks, figuratively speaking,” Jewell added.

Other products they offer include Pumpkin Yumpkins, which are a cake roll with cream cheese filling, chocolate chips and pecans; pumpkin swirl bread; pumpkin nut spice bread; pumpkin bars; pumpkin pies; pumpkin cookies and a pumpkin spice latte.

These products are offered in the last quarter of the year during October, November and December.

“Every Friday, we do a baker’s choice and this last month, we did the Pumpkin Swirl Bread as an introduction [to October] and we sold out really early. We were out by two in the afternoon,” Jewell said.

Bristol Brewing Company 1647 S. Tejon St. Bristol Brewing Company is offering its famous Venetucci Pumpkin Ale for the fourth year in a row, which will be distributed to local liquor stores the week of Oct. 17, and it will start sales on Oct. 18.

The Pumpkin Ale usually sells out within 24 hours, said Laura Long, the Bristol Beerocrat for the company.

The company uses real pumpkins to brew the ale from the Venetucci Farm, south of Colorado Springs near Fountain.

“100 percent of the profits go back to the farm,” said Long.

Bristol Brewing Company tested 22 ounce bomber bottles of the ale recently and opened the sales at noon. All 80 cases were gone by 1:30 p.m. “It’s phenomenally popular,” added Long.

Glacier Ice Cream 5160 N. Nevada Ave., Suite 100 Glacier Ice Cream, located in University Village, offers a pumpkin gelato and pumpkin ice cream.

It does variations on those as well, such as pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin fudge and pumpkin ginger snap. Glacier also has a pumpkin spice latte.

Bestsellers include the pumpkin cheesecake gelato, pumpkin fudge and pumpkin pie ice cream. “[It’s like] if you took pumpkin pie and added some extra milk and froze it in an ice cream machine. It tastes like pumpkin pie,” manager Mike Van said.

“People really, really love the pumpkin. I managed to get some pumpkin a little early this year and people tore through it. I mean, like, one or two days and it was all gone.”

The pumpkin is usually out until the end of November, so customers can have access to it for a couple of months. However, the pumpkin items are a huge hit. So, if you want your chance, it’s best to come early to satisfy your craving.

Glacier offers a 10 percent student discount, and if you buy coffee and ice cream, you can get 20 percent off your coffee purchase.

If you have access to an oven, you can even make your own pumpkin bread: Dry ingredients: ½ tsp. baking powder 2 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. ground cloves 1 tsp. nutmeg 1 tsp. cinnamon

4 c. flour 1 tsp. salt 3 c. sugar Pecans and raisins

Wet ingredients: 4 eggs ½ c. water ½ c. oil ½ c. margarine 1 15 oz. can pumpkin

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

First mix sugar, eggs, water, oil, margarine and pumpkin.

Then add dry ingredients. Place dough in bread pan and bake for 45 to 60 minutes.

There are so many different pumpkin treats around the Colorado Springs area that it won’t be hard to get your pumpkin fix this Halloween season. S

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The March and bonfire to kick Homecoming week promises off Back to the Bluffs to be success Maggie Olague molague@uccs.edu

For the past two years, UCCS students have shown their school spirit by marching in a sea of black and gold to Four Diamonds to support the women’s and men’s soccer game.

Now it’s that time of year again.

The third annual March will start off in the Summit Village housing quad.

OSA has 400 free T-shirts to give out to students at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 12.

Marching will begin around 4 p.m. Students will be led to the University Village to get free food and then back to Four Diamonds for the UCCS women’s and men’s soccer game against rival CSU Pueblo.

Assistant Director of Student Activities Mitch Karstens is expecting 500 to 600 students to march to Four Diamonds and cheer UCCS’ soccer teams on.

Between the women’s and men’s soccer games,

UCCS Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak and the CSU Pueblo President will announce the winner of the Silver and Steel Award.

The competition was created six years ago between UCCS and CSU Pueblo.

Points are added up from sporting events between UCCS and CSU Pueblo.

An extra five points is added to the school whose athletes have a higher overall GPA. The school with the most points will win the Silver and Steel Award.

UCCS is undefeated and has won the Silver and Steel Award all six years.

All of the awards are displayed in a permanent display case in the Gallogy Event Center.

The bonfire will be held after the men’s soccer game in Four Diamond’s Lot 12.

The bonfire will start at 9 p.m. and festivities will run until midnight.

For the past two years the bonfire has been canceled. OSA Event Coordinator Tyler Siskowic said, “It will not be cancelled

[this year].”

UCCS’ Electrical Services and Facilities are setting up six-foot-tall bonfire built out of pallets.

Karstens said, “We have two years of pallets saved up.”

Clubs will be hosting their own events at the bonfire. Kappa Sigma will be doing a balloon pop for prizes, OSA will be giving out s’mores and other clubs will be hosting water pong and handing out hot chocolate and candy.

Siskowic said, “As long as all the clubs stand by what they say they will do, it should be a lot of fun.”

Students will be able to park in Four Diamonds the day of the bonfire, but a certain portion of the parking lot will have to be cleared by 4 p.m.

Students marching down to the game won’t have to worry about marching back to campus. Shuttles to and from Four Diamonds will be extended an extra hour.

Karstens said, “It will be awesome and it’s a lot of fun.” S

Mark Petty mpetty3@uccs.edu

In an effort to make this year the best Homecoming ever, the Office of Student Activities has been working tirelessly.

This year’s Back to the Bluffs Homecoming has been coupled with the Family, Friends and Alumni Weekend.

“The OSA [Office of Student Activities] has been working very hard. No single person can take credit.

[Homecoming] was really a team effort,” said Mitch Karstens, assistant director of Student Activities.

It all kicks off with a march down Austin Bluffs that begins at Summit Village on Oct.14 at 3:30 p.m.

The Silver and Steel soccer games will follow, where Chancellor Pam ShockleyZalabak will award the trophy.

UCCS has repeatedly won the Silver and Steel competition. The athletic contest is scored not only by winning athletic events, but points are also awarded for academic

success of the athletes.

Another highly anticipated event is the bonfire. The bonfire at Four Diamonds could draw a crowd of 600 to 700 people and is especially anticipated because the burn ban has been lifted this year.

The bonfire will have free food, games and fun, including a Playstation 3 connected to a 20-foot video screen.

On Friday at 5 p.m., Clyde, a real mountain lion, will make an appearance at Clyde’s sports bar, and then catch the volleyball game at 7 p.m.

Finally, sit back and laugh at 8 p.m. as you watch a performance of the Bovine Improv Group from Denver, performing at Berger Hall.

The group is sometimes compared to “Whose Line is it Anyway?”

Also, make sure you get your tickets for the “Night in Vegas” formal on Saturday from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Singles are $10 and couple tickets are $15.

The night will include dancing and Vegas-style gaming.

Tickets can be acquired and cashed in for prizes at the end

of the night.

There are also many events going on from Oct. 14 to 16 for family, friends and alumni. You can take a motherdaughter self-defense course, hike and explore the bluffs surrounding campus, take a campus tour and see a lecture on Disney by Hollywood writer, producer and director Bob Garner.

It all ends Sunday with Family Day. Kids are invited, as there will be rides, games and other fun activities for all ages.

Links to all of the events scheduled can be found at the Office of Student Activities website, uccs.edu/osa/index. html.

A quick survey can be filled out on the website in order to let OSA know what activities you like. You can not only help mold the events that happen on campus, but you can also win prizes just by taking the 10-minute survey.

“At UCCS you should never have to say, ‘I have nothing to do,’” states OSA on its Facebook page. With Back to the Bluffs, there are plenty of activities and opportunities to participate. S

Spotlight

Club

Mock Trial prepares for regional competition Jay Kim jkim@uccs.edu

Groom predicted that the group will improve this year.

Ramsay added, “I’m leading the team, so I think our whole mentality While law proceedings may not sound will be different.”

He plans to use what worked last like fun to some students, Mock Trial Club President Philip Ramsay ventures year, while finding what didn’t work and trying new approaches. to disagree.

Tomlinson said that Mock Trial, “is a “I mean, it’s fun,” he said. “It’s a difsocial group, actually.” Practices usualferent kind of fun.”

He became president of the club this ly consist of socializing at the beginning of each meeting beyear after joining a year fore focusing on the before, when it finished 9th at a regional mock It’s a really fun issues at hand.

Having just retrial competition at experience, even cently gotten a case, Washburn University if you are not Mock Trial is curin Topeka, Kan. rently reviewing it Though they hadn’t into law. and preparing the initially made it, they prosecution side. were asked to nationals after another group dropped out. Due to And for the students daunted at the financial and time constraints, the club prospect of joining late, they don’t have to worry. had to decline.

It doesn’t take too much to catch up Washburn University will likely host this year’s regional competition as well, and students are still able to join. Witness positions require only knowing he said.

David Tomlinson, a Mock Trial wit- respective affidavits and are a position ness and one of three returning mem- more akin to acting.

“Join us in the UC 126 and we’ll bers, the others being Ramsay and Vice President Jeffrey Groom, said of this up- get you into the mix,” said Ramsay, also coming regional competition, “[We’re] warning, “and commit to this. You can’t definitely going to win this. I’m really come once in a blue moon. Come every week. We need commitment and dedioptimistic.”

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The Mock Trial team sets up a crime scene where someone is dead, witnesses are in shock and the police are either taking notes or arresting the murderer. cation.”

Tomlinson added that meetings can generally last from 5 p.m. to 7 or 8 p.m.

If that seems daunting though, Groom assured students that, “it’s a really fun experience, even if you are not into law.”

While members are not required to be involved in law, a yearly $100 fee is required.

“It helps pay for the case, travel, registration and court room supply fees,” said Ramsay. Regionals begin in February. S

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Editorial

Social media: Love it or hate it, it’s here to stay -Scribe Editorial Board

The rapid pace of technological changes in our society is something our generation has embraced since we were old enough to peck our fingers on keyboards. As we’ve grown older, we have embraced each new innovation rapidly and with open arms, especially those that make the learning process more efficient.

We use laptops to take notes during lectures, because it’s faster and keeps us organized. We use our cell phones to record the professor’s lecture, because playing it back later is like having the professor personally tutor you before an exam. We buy e-books instead of textbooks, because a Kindle is a lot easier to carry around campus than 50 pounds of paper.

But the different ways in which technology intersects with higher education have always been something of a hot topic, especially when it involves the dynamic between faculty and students.

Recording the professor’s lecture with your phone is one thing; using it to check your email and text your friends for the entire hour and 20 minutes of class time is another thing entirely.

Texting during class should be a no-brainer for everyone, but what about Facebook-friending your professor, boss, or some other kind of authority figure?

These kinds of questions can be difficult to answer as the traditional concepts of privacy continue to be stretched in new and different ways.

To some, platforms like Facebook may be seen as an extension of the brick-andmortar learning experience, allowing the conversation with faculty members to continue beyond lecture hours and even beyond the end of the semester.

To others, it’s a line that simply shouldn’t be crossed between educators and students, lest they lose any sense of professional decorum in the classroom.

In these cases, it is our generation’s responsibility to simultaneously define and administer these new and continually-evolving rules of digital etiquette.

All these cutting-edge intersections with technology have arguably made our educational experience a better one, filled with novel ways to learn and exchange

information across campus and around the world.

The sheer amount of data available at our fingertips within microseconds has transformed our generation’s learning process into the fastest-paced process in the history of civilization.

But with these new tools come new questions and new responsibilities for their appropriate use.

It’s not sufficient to argue that social media shouldn’t have any place in formal education; it’s already made its incursion into the classroom, having been deeply entrenched within the daily routines of these new students, and there’s no turning back from that now.

The question we have to answer is, to what extent should we utilize social media in a rigorous academic environment?

It’s a question no one quite has a good enough answer to, and one which faculty and students will probably be debating for years or even decades to come.

But keeping the debate open is an inherently good thing, because it means that we are paying close attention to all of the many ways that changing technology is affecting our traditions and institutions, both positively and negatively.

Yesterday’s Friendster is today’s Facebook, which is tomorrow’s...well, who knows? How future students will choose to interact is about as easy to predict as it was 10 years ago when social networking platforms barely even existed.

We can easily imagine a future class in which the professor, while going over the syllabus for the new semester, reiterates his strict policy requiring students to keep all brain microchips and augmented reality contact lenses switched firmly in the “OFF” position during lectures.

The reality is that technology will always encroach upon higher education, and that’s not an inherently bad thing. What’s important is that we always maintain the discussion of its ramifications, rather than blindly accepting or rejecting them outright. S

Aaron Collett acollett@uccs.edu

them would be hired by FedEx or UPS as those companies expand to fill the gap left by the much larger USPS. That’s not to say that a shutdown wouldn’t be a horrific blow to the economy, but it wouldn’t immediately put all of the post office employees into unemployment.

Another option is for the Postal Service to be run with a modicum of intelligence. Post office labor makes up a whopping 80 percent of the USPS budget.

That is insane, especially considering their competitors, FedEx and UPS, spend about 40-50 percent of their budget on labor. The reason for this is that postal workers have unionized.

And boy, have they ever. The post office is not allowed to lay off workers or lower their wages.

This means that every year, even if the post office breaks even, the next year they have to make a profit, just to pay their workforce and break even again. No private company would run its business this way.

The primary issue for this is that unions have outlived their usefulness.

The Postal Service is a titanic waste of money The Postal Service is in trouble. They have less to do, and they have to pay more to do it. The Postal Service is creaking under the weight of too much debt and a moronic management policy.

The recent United States Postal Service (USPS) budget crisis showed the

country what a mess the Postal Service has become. The Postmasters and the Postmaster General are begging Congress to allow them to take comprehensive reform so that the Postal Service can stay solvent for at least another couple of years.

Meanwhile, the unions are having a fit because some post office branches have had to close, and Postal Service manage-

The Postal Service may sieze to exist.

ment is talking about canning Saturday mail delivery.

Oh, no! You mean that underperforming branches of a business have to be cut so they’re not a drain on the entire business?

That’s crazy talk!

What would happen if the post office shut down?

Well, the first consequence would be the loss of every single USPS employee’s job. However, many of

Photo by EraserGirl

When they were first formed, they helped to fill the huge need for worker advocacy.

Unions are directly responsible for many of the labor laws that we have today. But now we have the laws — the unions have done their job.

They are now a relic that causes more problems than it solves. If the laws are protecting you from being exploited or abused at your workplace, and those laws are being enforced, you don’t need an advocacy group trying to milk the system for every penny that it’s worth.

Also, the Postal Service is required to fund the next 75 years of retirement benefits over the course of 10 years.

That’s stupid.

On the one hand, you have an organization that is groaning under the weight of too much labor cost, and barely breaking even (and sometimes straight up posting losses).

So then you add another huge liability to their debts, especially something as ephemeral as funding retirement for a freaking 75 years? That goes beyond stupidity.

Not only that, but the

money that they pay into that retirement fund isn’t even earmarked for them.

It’s in a general account, which multiple government agencies pull out of.

So, let me get this straight: You are requiring me to pay 75 years’ worth of services over 10 years, but when I pay you, you put the money into the joint account that your entire family shares.

Sir, I am not a fool.

Except, that’s exactly what the government has done with its entirely idiotic Postal Service management.

One could even argue that the Postal Service itself is a relic. It’s posted a 22 percent drop in mail volume since 2006, mostly attributed to the rise of email.

Very few people actually send letters anymore. We no longer have a need for a postal system as comprehensive as the USPS. And with the popularity of the “green” movement, a move toward an entirely online letter system would be incredibly popular.

Now, that would require the United States to actually have a meaningful online policy, but that’s a subject for another day. S

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‘Is your son a purple tissue box?’ and other ridiculous questions

Another informative and useful app has hit the Android market. Between destroying the fortresses of greedy pigs and forgetting how to navigate your own city, the “Is My Son Gay?” app can ease any mother’s “should I accept my child” woes.

Answer “yes” or “no” to just 20 stereotype-laced questions, and for only $2.69, all those questions keeping you up late into the night can be answered.

The app was originally published in French, but for those of you who can’t remember anything from your eight years of French

his best friend. These things happen. It is more and more usual in these times to maximize pleasures without taboo.”

“You do not have to worry; your son is not gay.

So there are chances for you to be a grandmother with all the joys it brings.”

“No need to look the other way! … He is gay! … ACCEPT IT!” Developers Enneme Moi responded to public outcry by saying, “This app was conceived with a playful approach. It is not based at all on scientific research...

Through humor, ‘Is My Son Gay?’ and the forthcoming novel have the sole objective of toning down/ improving the situation and helping mothers to accept their sons’ homosexuality.”

Somehow this statement doesn’t quell the fire for me.

The app may be making fun of the stereotypes it is addressing, but it still leaves out the part about how harmful they are.

My question is, once this highly scientific ‘gaydar’ technology determines that the child you are too

afraid to actually talk to is gay, does it tell you how to proceed? Does it give you a list of the options many gay youth face after coming out? Does it say: Now that you have been enlightened you may: Drive your child out of the home after which he will be homeless Call him demeaning names and tell him he is going to hell until he commits suicide Allow him to stay in your home but remain unsupportive when he comes home from school having been beaten up for something he cannot change about himself.

Accept that he is no different than he was before, be mindful of the fact that he can one day adopt children (if he even wants them) and love him...because he is still your child.

Whether based in some “truth” or not, negative stereotypes are something to be taken seriously. Stereotypes are automatic and exaggerated mental pictures that we hold about all members of a particular group.

Stereotypes are so

rigid, we tend to ignore or discard any information that is not consistent with the stereotype that we have developed about the group in question; they present views that are distorted and demeaning, devaluing, limiting and hurtful to others.

In some cases, people who are repeatedly labeled in negative ways will begin to develop feelings of inferiority. Sometimes, these feelings of inferiority can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies that perpetuate the stereotype.

Stereotypes can also foster feelings of hate

There are better ways to ‘Keep A Breast’

Molly Mrazek

mmrazek@uccs.edu October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

When I was in high school, it was a popular trend to get a pink hair extension to commemorate this. People have also shown their support by sticking pink ribbon magnets to the back of their car or by walking in the Susan G. Komen for the Cure marathon.

More recently, however, the Keep A Breast foundation has released bracelets that proclaim “I (heart) boobies!”

While the general idea behind the bracelets is admirable, and the fact that any profit made

from the bracelets goes towards cancer awareness is excellent, the bracelets are abused and inappropriate.

The foundation claims to be trying to reach a younger audience, and at the same time bring a certain amount of awareness to a younger demographic. So apparently, the only way to reach us is by putting something loud and vulgar on a bracelet. Is this how they really think of us?

Well, they were spot on. It worked; boys and girls everywhere are wearing the bracelets. But I have to wonder, are they really wearing them in support of breast cancer awareness, or if it’s just because a big, fat, “BOOBIES” is displayed across their wrist?

I think it’s the latter.

Jump on the bandwagon, everyone! Forget the pink ribbon, the pink tshirts; let’s do something to really disparage our generation!

Because guess what, when people see those bracelets, they don’t think, “Oh hey, look at that! That nice young person is supporting breast cancer awareness.

That’s neat!”

No, they think, “How offensive! That teenage hoodlum is wear-

I’m sure many more.

I’ve even heard of people trading colors, as though they are generation Y’s new adult version of the Pokemon card.

For $3.99 on the website, loserkids.com, you can get yourself a bracelet.

According to the

ing a bracelet that says ‘boobies’!”

The bracelets don’t come in just pink either. They come in blue, black, white, green, and

site, the bracelets are not to be purchased or sold online for the consumer’s own profit on sites like EBay because that’s “not cool

and aggression, like the way LGBT youth are three times more likely to commit suicide for being bullied or disowned.

How about an app called, “Are You Dumb as Dirt” or “Are You a Homophobic Mom?” It will only need one question: Did you download the “Is My Son Gay?” app?

If the app is accurate, I’m a gay son at least once a week. Wait until my mother finds out.

(Since this article was written the app has been taken down).

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Catherine Jensen cjensen2@uccs.edu

class, some of the most absurd go something like this in English: “Does he pay close attention to his outfits and brand names?” “Does he like football?” “Before he was born did you wish he would be a girl?” “Does he have a tongue, nose or ear piercing?” “Does he spend time getting ready before being seen in public?”

“Have you asked yourself questions about your son’s race?” “Are you divorced?”

“In your family, is the father absent?”

You are divorced and you let your son get a piercing!?

What kind of parent are you?

And questions about your son’s race? Did you sleep with the milkman, or did he never win ribbons during elementary school field day?

Possible results for questions that tell you nothing about anyone include: “Your son is a normal young man: Modern and concerned about taking care of himself, assuming some feminine habits while maintaining his attraction to girls. However, he may have already had some homosexual experiences with

or authorized;” the fact that people are selfish enough to try and make a profit on something that’s supposed to benefit a good cause is just appalling.

To save yourself money on shipping and handling, you can buy them at Zumiez!

Catching on to the fad, Spencer’s has released its own version of the “I (heart) boobies!” bracelet, with a bracelet that states, “Boobies make me smile.”

This tasteless display is made even better by the mission statement shown on the Spencer’s website:“Mission: Kick Cancer’s Ass.” At least the profit they make on these bracelets and other similar products goes to the Keep A Breast foundation.

There has also been quite a controversy in middle and high schools in states like South Dakota, California and Wisconsin, with students going so far as to sue

their school for their first amendment right to free speech when their school has banned the bracelets.

I would like to know how these bracelets bring awareness, anyway. Is there a little sheet that comes in the package that informs people how to check for lumps? Or how to eat more nutritiously to prevent breast cancer?

Sure, it is a glaring reminder of breast cancer, but everybody knows about it, either way.

I am not against bringing breast cancer awareness to younger age groups. I am, however, against belittling a whole generation and making them seem foolish because they would wear a bracelet that says “boobies” on it.

So, I say, let’s bring awareness by wearing pink and participating in the marathons and walks that foundations put on.

Throw away the tasteless bracelets; if you really believe in what the Keep A Breast foundation is doing, just donate money straight to them. S

Life on the Bluffs

October 10, 2011

Campus Chatter

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Story by Aaron Collett, acollett@uccs.edu Photos by Robert Solis

Campus life certainly has its pros and cons. Funding and other resources, both natural and social, get distributed unevenly; this causes there to be beauty and vibrance in one place but not elsewhere and funding for some projects but not others. What do the students here think of this campus? What are the ups and downs of campus life at UCCS? Jonathan Archer Junior, Computer Science What is your favorite place on campus?

The computer lab in the Engineering building because I can do my programs there or goof around on the internet.

What is your least favorite part of campus life?

The long bus ride here.

In what way could UCCS improve the most?

How about computers in the Engineering building’s classrooms? That would really help.

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Ramona Kimmett Senior, Organizational Communication What is your favorite place on campus?

The Rec Center because it’s not in class and it’s recreational.

What is your least favorite part of campus life?

Finding parking.

In what way could UCCS improve the most?

Administration, just being more organized with things.

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Adrian Lovera Freshman, Criminal Justice What is your favorite place on campus?

I think Clyde’s is pretty sweet.

What is your least favorite part of campus life?

I think the worst part of being on campus is, up in Alpine, we’ve got to take out the trash. We’re on the fourth floor, so we have to go all the way down and then go to the dumpsters to take our trash out. In Summit, they have bins on each floor. I think it would be easier if there were bins on each floor in Alpine.

In what way could UCCS improve the most?

I think that [Clyde’s] could get information out about events better. Once, earlier this semester they had a karaoke event. I had no idea that was going on until we walked in. I think they could do something about that, like put mail in our mailboxes about it.

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Abbie Lewis Junior, Business/Marketing What is your favorite place on campus?

Probably the third floor of Dwire, because I like it better than the library for studying, and the view is just awesome.

What is your least favorite part of campus life?

I would say that everything is pretty good. I never lived in the dorms, so I don’t know about that. I really don’t have any negative things to say about campus life.

In what way could UCCS improve the most?

Make bigger parking lots because parking is a joke here.

Danielle Workman Junior, Nursing What is your favorite place on campus?

Clyde’s. It has a great atmosphere.

In what way could UCCS improve the most?

I would say more funds directed toward learning resources, like the Science Center, the Writing Center, that sort of thing. S

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Champ of change to empty pockets Duke of Void thescribblepage@gmail.com In accordance with her new title, “Champion of Change,” Chancellor Pat Smokely-Zalawack will be collecting change at the mountain lion statue, a university effort to start saving for the future.

Plans to hollow out the statue and convert it into a mountain lion bank are well underway, and students can expect to be able to dispose of pocket change in no time.

Money will be gathered and divided among caring for Clyde, school tuition and other campus projects as necessary, according to Joe Handey in Facilities Services.

Columbine may even see renovations in the next 50 years.

“This is a symbol of our resilience,” Zalawack said, “As the statue of the mountain lion fills, so will our pride and the belly of our mascot. We are proud to find resourceful ways to keep tuition down.”

The Chancellor added that she is excited to become a more visible presence through this project. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at noon, she is expected to be outside the statue collecting change herself.

Pocket change of all kinds, including pennies and foreign currency, is welcome, and students can follow the sound of the large bell the Chancellor will be

ringing.

“It will be like, Christma…I mean… charity season all year round,” she chuckled.

Sophomore Sam Lazy said in anticipation of the first collection coming up next week, “I did always want something to do with my extra change. I’ve taken it to those change converter things at King Snoopers before, but they always charge you. This is a sweet way to just get rid it.”

“I’m excited to meet the Chancellor and see her work in action!” beamed bright-eyed freshman Sally Eager. “I didn’t know she was even here before.”

Some, like Handey, though looking forward to the plans, are less than excited about what it will take to move the mountain lion of coins to a secret location on the other side of the bluff from which it will be collected each month.

“It’s going to be very heavy and we will have to make sure and replace it before students need to hold free speech meetings without permits, so we will have to be quick,” he said.

To aid in the moving process, the University will be purchasing a new state of the art crane, complete with wings, to transport the lion.

The slot for money, according to officials, will also be sealed each night, and a new position has been created for a night staff guard. A resume can be attached to the listing on Sean’s Place under, “guard needed to watch the mountain lion — not a scam!” S

Invisible Joe

October 10, 2011

Ways to make tuition money

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Eat only ramen noodles, ever.

Use water fountains for your ramen.

Cook your ramen with the sun.

Hustle the campus pool tables.

Dig for buried treasure.

Find change in couches.

Save rent by sleeping in the ROAR office.

Sell your body parts to feed Clyde.

Raise the price of the “crop” growing in your closet.

Start charging your roommate’s mom.

- Aaron Collett

Did You Know?

- Julianne Sedillo, jsedillo@uccs.edu

Did you know that before UCCS was a university, it was a tuberculosis sanatorium? In 1964, Dr. George T. Dwire donated 82.5 acres of land on the southern hills of Austin Bluffs to the University of Colorado. On this land, four cottages, a storage house, a garage and three buildings – Main Hall, Cragmor Manor (now Cragmor Hall) and South Hall (the former nurses’ quarters which have since burnt down) were already built. When the first classes commenced a year later, however, conditions were dismal Hospital beds, vials of blood and other health service equipment were scattered amongst the makeshift classrooms. You can still see remnants of at least one of the old buildings at the base of the bluffs behind Dwire Hall. S

Visit us at Photo by Robert Solis He is an average, invisible Joe. Here he is spending time with some of his fraternity brothers.

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Golf team continues to show its talent Ryan Adams radams3@uccs.edu

Coming off of a superb and dominating win in Nebraska, the Mountain Lions golf team was hungry for their second consecutive tournament victory.

Every shot in golf counts, though, and only one stroke separated UCCS from the eventual winner, number-threeranked Chico State.

Being down five shots after 27 holes didn’t help the cause, but the team fought hard and clawed their way back with four solid rounds of golf on the second day of the Grand Canyon Invitational in Litchfield Park, Ariz.

The Mountain Lions finished at a total score of 860 with a number of players breaking par and a couple more hovering around it.

Coach Phil Trujillo thought that this was a good tournament for the team, even though they didn’t start off the way

they wanted to.

“We did a good job fighting back, but came up one shot short of a win,” stated Trujillo.

“We were five shots down after the first 26 holes so that didn’t help but overall, it was a very good tournament for us. We played it under par and played well as a team,” he furthered.

Although the team stayed at second the whole time at Wigwam Golf Club, they had some pretty stiff competition to deal with.

Chico State, ranked number three nationally, had four players shoot under par in the first part of the day on Monday, opening up a lead of 10 shots on the Mountain Lions.

Coach Trujillo wasn’t too surprised. “Chico State who has been bouncing from the number one to number two in the Nation since last year, shot 10 under par in the first round and made it tough on us,” he said.

But the Mountain Lions played well on the

first day, too.

Juniors Spencer Biersdorff and Grant Dean both shot scores of 69 (three under par) and 72 to finish the day at in a tie for third place at 141.

“We beat them in round two of Monday to cut the lead to five and round three on Tuesday, but needed one more shot to tie them,” stated Trujillo.

“I felt good about our chances of winning going into the final round because I know we’re a strong finishing team and they [Chico State] are not,” he furthered.

Solid Tuesday rounds led by junior Edward Delashmutt (two-under par), Biersdorff (one-under), Dean (even par), and junior Kevin Witte (oneover) brought the team closer to Chico State, but the team couldn’t make the most of some great scoring opportunities and came up short.

“We didn’t make the most of finishing on a par five that was playing down wind and that’s what hurt us in the end,”

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Junior Edward Delashmutt fired a two-under par round on Tuesday to lead the Mountain Lions to a second place finish. said Trujillo.

The positives of the tournament far outweighed the negatives, though, as Biersdorff ended up taking second place individually with a total score of four under par.

Dean finished right behind him at three-under, Delashmutt finished

in seventh at one under, while Kevin Witte ended up at 220 and senior Mitch Buchner finished at 235.

The team also will likely move up in the national ranking with their win in the RMAC/NSIC Crossover and the second place finish at the Grand Canyon Invitational.

The team was ranked 23rd before the tournament and their consistent play should lead to a big jump in those rankings as the fall season comes to a close.

The team plays their last tournament Oct. 10 and 11 at Raccoon Creek Golf Club in Littleton, Colo. S

Jack Quinn Irish Alehouse and Pub hosts weekly running club Matt Rigby mrigby@uccs.edu

For most restaurants and bars, patrons typically experience sports in the form of watching an important game on TV or participating in a sports fantasy league; however, the Jack Quinn Irish Alehouse and Pub sponsors a weekly running club.

Formed with a mentality of “socializing, and not getting drunk,” according to club founder Ryan Shininger, the club may be a potential outlet for UCCS students looking for a downtown activity that includes physical activity, free food – namely, free pasta, bread and salad – and meeting new people. It takes place every

Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

The club was created in 2006 and may have set the standard for other running clubs attached to commercial establishments, such as the recently created running club at University Village on Nevada.

The Colorado Springs Independent has the best records regarding the origins of the Jack Quinn’s running club. They said “Quinn’s Running Club was born, fittingly, over a boilermaker (typically a shot dropped into a beer). At the Tejon Street pub one night, word made it to coowners Bill and Donna Sasz that it was [Ryan] Shininger’s 25th birthday.

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Members of Jack Quinn’s running club.

Photo by Robert Solis

da transplant an Irish Car Bomb.

As he talked with them, Shininger mentioned his surprise that no bars here sponsored a running club, like the one he had belonged to when he lived in Pensacola.”

Continued from the Independent, “The Saszes said they’d support one, if Shininger would take the lead in putting it together. So he found some freeadvertising outlets, and visited pre-existing running clubs and the Colorado Springs Young Professionals Group.

“Meanwhile, Quinn’s general manager, Ivette Gallegos, took care of some details: the time, the place and the post-run refreshments.”

When the club’s first event took place in in June of 2006, Shininger and Gallegos were looking for 20 or so runners to attend, but nearly 70 came out and ran with the club.

By the end of the summer, word had spread, and 300 runners had become regulars.

Over its five-year history, the running club has always exceeded expectations.

As of today, more than 18,000 people have participated in the Jack Quinn’s Running Club at least once. During the summer months, it’s normal for around 1,200 people to attend Jack Quinn’s on Tuesday night.

The 5,000-meter run begins

at Jack Quinn’s, then heads up toward Colorado College and runs along the Monument Valley Park stream.

At Uintah Street, the course goes around CC to Cascade Street and back down Cascade for a return to Jack Quinn’s, which is located at the corner of Tejon and Colorado in downtown Colorado Springs.

If one gets lost, there are plenty of runners to follow.

A couple times a year, the

club runs at the locations of it sponsors. Despite the various race locations, the running in the club is free, and there’s no commitment required.

Runners that participate ten times overall qualify for a free Jack Quinn’s T-shirt.

For more information, students are encouraged to visit jackquinnsrunners.com for more information, announcements, and history of Jack Quinn’s and its running club. S

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Cross country team eyes regional success

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Mike English leads UCCs with an 18th place finish.

Tyler Bodlak tbodlak@uccs.edu On Sept. 24, the UCCS men’s cross country team ran to an eighth place team finish at the Erik Anderson/Runners Soul Invitational in Spokane, Wash.

Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference foe Colorado Mines took home the team championship.

Running their first fulllength, 8,000-meter race of the season, junior Mike English was the top finisher for UCCS, coming in at 18th overall.

Team captain, Michael Johnson, finished 45th overall in a time of 25:50.

The other team scorers were Oliver Williams in 56th, William Edwards in 77th, and Sam Feldotto with an 88th place finish.

Competing against three nationally-ranked Division II teams, as well as a solid Division I team (Gonzaga), head coach Mark Misch was pleased with the re-

sult.

“At race time it was almost 90 degrees, which was a record-high temperature for Spokane,” said Misch. “We train in the morning here, so it is never even remotely close to as hot as it was there.

We went there to get on the national course and get a feel for the environment and they did a great job.”

Run on the same course as the national championship meet, the Erik Anderson/Runner’s Soul Invitational gave the team a taste of what to expect should they make it to nationals.

But in order to enjoy a return trip to Spokane, the Mountain Lions will have to advance through the toughest regional meet in the country.

Held in Denver on Nov. 5, the top six teams from the regional meet will each earn a ticket to the national championships.

In a region where a single point might be the difference between making a trip to nationals or staying

home, being familiar with the regional course could be a huge factor.

Fortunately for UCCS, their next race (Metro State Invitational) will be held at the same location as the regional meet. Despite a few meets between now and Nov. 5, Coach Misch is solely focused on preparing his team to run their best at the regional meet.

“We’ve got a long way to go. At the end of the day, the only meet that counts is the regional championships,” said Misch.

“We want to do well at the conference meet, but we can’t use all of our energy at the conference meet. It’s an important meet. We always want to do well there, but it does not get us to nationals,” he furthered.

UCCS will run again on Oct. 8 for the Metro State Invitational, followed by the conference meet on Oct. 22 and the regional meet on Nov. 5. The national championship meet is on Nov. 19. S

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