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Wall Street protests hit home

National Coming Out Day more successful each year Jay Kim jkim@uccs.edu

Photo by Ariel Lattimore

A protester stands on the corner and protests while passing cars honk their horns in support of the Occupy Wall Street Colorado Springs movement.

Mark Petty mpetty2@uccs.edu

Four weeks ago, a movement started in New York.

For the first couple of weeks, many of the national media outlets largely ignored the story. The movement has been gaining momentum through coverage by ordinary people on social media websites like Facebook and Twitter.

Now in its fourth week of protests, the media has focused in on the story.

The Wall Street protests are seen by some as understandable fallout from the economic crisis that the world is currently in.

Dale Deboer, Chair of the Department of Economics at UCCS, said he believes the economic situation is too big to blame on any one political party.

“Most in America have felt the strain of our current economic situation, and the first bailout was initiated by the Bush administration,” he said.

“Politicians are wasting

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a perfectly good crisis.

Right now is the time to fix some of the issues that lead to this. A crisis like this could give a good law legs.”

Deboer said he doesn’t feel that we should expect the same kind of recovery that we had in the ‘80s but remain cautiously optimistic about the future.

He explained that there are things that a student can do in order to weather out this recession.

Deboer advised students to “be flexible, be able to move to where the jobs are, be prepared to take a less desirable job if it allows for mobility, and learn a foreign language.”

Most importantly, Deboer urged students to “save your money. Don’t buy the newest item just because it’s new.”

The overall message of the Wall Street protesters seems, to many outsiders, incoherent at best. Several students at UCCS, when asked about the protests, were not able to articulate specifics as to what the protests are about.

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cause’s website, “Occupy Wall Street is a horizontally organized resistance movement employing the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to restore democracy in America. We use a tool known as a ‘people’s assembly’ to facilitate collective decision making in an open, participatory and non-binding manner.

“We call ours the NYC General Assembly and we welcome people from all colors, genders and beliefs to attend our daily assemblies.”

Eric Verlo, an activist and organizer for Coloradans for Peace, acknowledged that the situation is complex and would like to see an increase in awareness.

“The first thing we want to do is just get people thinking and talking about the issues,” Verlo said. “We’re looking to young people, because young people are looking to the future.” Verlo added he would encourage the youth to throw away their economic textbooks.

Verlo used words such as “redistribution”

and believes we are using the earth’s resources inefficiently. He said the movement is purposefully leaderless in order for a message of the entire collective to be developed.

Verlo imagines a perfectly democratic society in which politicians are no longer needed: Citizens would simply vote from their home computer on every issue, eliminating the need for politics – or at least, eliminate the incentive to help the wealthy.

Verlo said that what he would most like to see is an end to banks making money by sitting on it.

“Money is meant to be circulated, not hoarded,” he said, adding, “It’s about loving your fellow man.”

Verlo would like to make it illegal to make interest on bank loans. It’s unclear whether or not banks would find another way to make their money in Verlo’s ideal market system.

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Rainbow flags and several tables occupied the upper plaza last Tuesday, where students and faculty gathered in celebration.

National Coming Out Day (NCOD) takes place on Oct. 11 every year as part of National Coming Out Week. In addition, the month of October is recognized as LGBT History month, which observes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements.

NCOD was founded in 1988 Robert Eichberg and Jean O’Leary.

“National Coming Out Day is a celebration of the people to come out,” said Cedes Allen, a student and volunteer with the LGBT Resource Center on campus.

Allen, who went to Sand Creek, said that the GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) at her high school had no funding or support. Fellow volunteer Sam Tappes said her high school, Discovery Canyon, didn’t even have a GSA. Tables at this year’s NCOD housed SPECTRUM (UCCS’GSA), the Colorado Springs Pride Center, PAGE (a gender expression group), the LGBT Resource Center on campus and Faculty Pride. The Anthropology Club and Asian Pacific Islander Student Union also had tables in support.

The Pride Faculty table played videos of National Coming Out Day stories of students.

Reception for National Coming Out Day has been mostly positive, said Hector Flores, president of SPECTRUM, who has

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noted an increase in popularity within the past two years, partly due to faculty support.

“I’ve never seen so much faculty support,” said Tappes. She added that the faculty stepped up and were accepting and willing to help.

Linda Rankin, a health and wellness coordinator who works at the Colorado Springs Pride Center, the hub for LGBT in Colorado Springs, informed students of counseling services available. Her job, she said, is about “letting people know there is a place for them to talk.”

Special guest Shane Windmeyer, founder and coordinator of CampusPride.net, which is a national online network for LGBT student leaders, spoke with select faculty and students during a dinner prior to an open speaking engagement in Clyde’s.

During the dinner, Windmeyer informed those present of current statistics, including that one-fourth of LGBT students, faculty and staff encounter harassment, and a majority of those consider leaving their campuses.

He spoke on the significance of being visible and “coming out” as a campus in support of LGBT issues. “How can students and staff be expected to come out if high-level administration aren’t out?” he asked.

Questions for Windmeyer addressed issues of safety and what might be done to change the overall climate of campus, which according to the CampusPride, is currently very low.

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Wall Street protests (continued from page 1) Pelosi are starting to take notice. Activists such as Verlo aren’t impressed.

Verlo stated, “They [the politicians] are only interested because it’s theater.”

Verlo acknowledged his willingness to be arrested to defend his right to free speech and considers himself a firm believer in the Constitution. On Oct. 10, over 100 protesters were arrested in downtown Boston.

The Wall Street movement appears to be just warming up with protests now being held in every major city. Organization is being facilitated by groups such as Anonymous and Ad Busters.

Occupy Together, an

additional movement, states that it “exists solely to help organize, publicize, and support the growing number of communities that are showing support for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

We don’t have any other agenda outside of this. We stand by the developing mission of Occupy Wall Street, but we are not representatives for Occupy Wall Street” Rallies in support have recently been held in Denver and demonstrators have been seen at Acacia Park.

Beth Binion, student and Matrix Center nonprofit intern, said of Occupy Together, “It’s a great opportunity to get

back to grassroots activism, but also a great example how things like social media can be used to make change and not just a place to tell people you’re going to get frozen yogurt.”

“I support anything that encourages meaningful conversations among citizens. We forgot for a while that in order to change things we need to talk to each other,” she added.

“People are thinking, people are moving, people are talking in ways they haven’t in a while. It’s encouraging and humbling.

They have the power. All they have to do is educate themselves enough to do it.” S

National Coming Out Day (continued from page 1) things we are doing,” Anthony Cordova, director of the MOSAIC office said of the talk. “It would be nice to work more with people like Shane.”

UCCS has no shortages of places for support.

People are more than welcome to come to SPEC-

TRUM meetings. Meetings are held in the ROAR Office every Sunday at 5:30 p.m. “[We] provide information and an open forum,” said Flores, who would remind students that Ally Week, a time to celebrate those who support the LGBT communi-

ty and their rights, is Oct. 17 to 21.

Students can also go to the LGBT Resource Center in MOSAIC. There is usually someone there, and they are open all the time. S Catherine Jensen contributed to this article.

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Chancellor to interact with students April Wefler awefler@uccs.edu

Many students often find themselves wondering about current issues on campus.

There might be specific questions that they want answers to – for example, they might be curious or confused about housing or class scheduling, or they might have heard that the administration is planning to expand the Recreation Center and have questions about the expansion.

They may not have even heard about the Rec Center expansion until now.

If you are one of these students, you’ll want to check out Student Conversation with the Chancellor, hosted by Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak.

Shockley-Zalabak plans to discuss these and other current issues on campus, as well as directly address any questions students might have.

According to Tom Hutton, director of media relations and internal communication, the agenda for this session will include informing the students about the new housing on cam-

pus, discussing the expansion of the Rec Center, and covering class scheduling.

Students will then have the opportunity to ask the Chancellor their own questions in an open forum.

“I think mostly she wants to do some listening,” said Hutton. “Finding out what’s on people’s minds – What are you thinking about?

What are your concerns? I think she sees it very much as a listening opportunity.”

“I know she is a believer in getting back to people and responding to people directly and honestly. This is sort of an extension of that philosophy to go out and let people ask questions and let them hear a straight answer,” he continued.

The Chancellor thinks it is important to hear from the students on what they need or want on campus.

“Most people will graduate before they see a new building or something like that, but that makes their opinions valuable,” added Hutton.

Drew Johnson, a junior business major and member of the Chancellor’s Leadership Class (CLC), is planning to attend.

“I think the benefit to students is that they can see

what’s going on and maybe be inspired to get involved with the campus community,” he said.

“There’s a lot of opportunities here and maybe going to something like that will be a catalyst for wanting to get involved with a club … or maybe some other organizations on campus that are highly involved.”

Johnson added, “As students, we’re the clients or the customers, and the more interest we show in what’s going on, then the more say we have as to how things develop. Students have a lot of power to make change on campus, and the first step to getting involved and making change is knowing what’s going on.” S Matt Sidor contributed to this article.

The Lowdown What: Student Conversation with the Chancellor When: Thursday, Oct. 20 2:30 p.m.

Where: University Center 302

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The Dream Act resurfaces on 2012 ballot Every year, approximately 65,000 immigrant students in the United States graduate with high school diplomas, according to immigrationpolicy.org.

Due to their status as immigrants, however, they are unable to make use of in-state tuition rates, state and federal grants and loans, most private scholarships and the ability to legally work their way through college.

The DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) is a legislative proposal that was first introduced in the Senate on Aug. 1, 2001, and most recently, on May 11.

According to dreamact.org, with the Act, “qualifying undocumented youth would be eligible for a six year long conditional path to citizenship that requires completion of a college degree or two years of military service.”

If it were to come to Colorado, it has the potential to increase the number of students coming to UCCS instead of having to go to another state where they are legally able to consider the possibility, according to Edwardo Portillos, assistant professor of sociology, whose research focuses on immigration policy, primarily in Arizona.

Currently at UCCS, students may

get private scholarships or participate it would provide the opportunity for in the Western Exchange. Though we more students of diverse cultural and have students who are members of both economic backgrounds to enrich camof these, Portillos is unsure of students pus and student culture.” who are illegal on campus.

“It would also provide an incenSimilar legislation was shot down tive for undocumented high school in Colorado’s state legislature in 2010, students to do their best and work tobut that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t wards a bright and productive future in be a continued which they focus on imcan fully migration, said contribute It would allow undocuPortillos. to their mented kids to attain legal He has been communiaware of the ties, cities status and live freely and Act since its and to the without fear in the only origins in discountry as country they have known. cussion 10 a whole,” years ago. she added.

“There has Opbeen hope for the last seven or eight ponents of the Act argue that it is years that it will pass,” he said. “un-American” and would take educaElena Lacayo, Immigration Field tion away from U.S. citizens. Lacayo Coordinator for the National Council countered that it “would be a boon to of La Raza (NCLR) said that NCLR colleges and would be very positive urges passage of the DREAM Act. for this country. It would allow kids NCLR is an active member of the who call the U.S. their home to fully United We Dream Coalition, which co- integrate and truly make it a home for ordinates grassroots and online efforts them. It would allow undocumented to advance the passage of the DREAM kids to attain legal status and live freeAct. ly and without fear in the only country NCLR has been involved in the they have known.”

DREAM Act since it was first introThere was another attempt to grant duced in 2001, she wrote in an email. immigrants the chance at higher eduThe Act, Lacayo said, “would be cation in Colorado. Senate Bill SB11beneficial for all higher institutions as 126, Advancing Students for a Stron-

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Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs dies

Steve Jobs is considered a technological genius by many.

Molly Mrazek mmrazek@uccs.edu The world has lost arguably one of the most technologically influential individuals in the world. On Oct. 5, Steve Jobs, the cofounder, Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc. died of respiratory arrest, ending a years-long battle with pancreatic cancer.

“Without him, we would have no personal computers. It’s kind of the passing of one of the technological geniuses of our time,” said Mike Sonderby, UCCS sophomore and iPhone owner.

Mike Maynard, a junior majoring in biology who relies heavily on a portable mp3 player said, “I believe the technologies that he and Apple pioneered were crucial to the development and advancement of many other products and technologies that I do rely on every day.”

Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in the late ‘70s.

Everyone remembers Jobs as spearheading important technological advances at Apple; however, many do not know that he was adopted at the age of five.

He also only ever attended one semester

of college at Reed College and then audited other classes from the school; he never graduated with a degree.

He is quoted as saying during his commencement address at Stanford University that a calligraphy class he dropped in on was very influential in designing the fonts that would later be used in the Mac computers.

In 1985, Jobs was removed from his managerial duties at Apple due to a disagreement with the board of directors; he resigned shortly thereafter.

He then founded NeXT Inc, and with backing from billionaire Ross Perot, created the Unix-based NeXT workstation. When Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, NeXT was bought out by them and the NeXT platform became the foundation for OS X, Apple’s latest iteration of the Mac operation system.

Jobs was also very prominent at Pixar studios when it was in its early stages and is even credited as an Executive Producer of their first movie, Toy Story.

He originally became involved with Pixar when he bought it as a small part of Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division. He was also vital in the acquisition of Pixar by Disney studios in 2006.

In August, Jobs shocked the world by resigning as CEO of Apple in order to focus on his health. After his death, Apple released the following statement on their website: “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

“Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor.

Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.” S

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Catherine Jensen cjensen2@uccs.edu

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ger Economy Tomorrow (ASSET), would have provided immigrants with the opportunity to pay in-state tuition.

The bill died in the House in April.

The bill was projected to raise up to $1.28 million a year in tuition revenue for state colleges, according to a report in Education News Colorado.

Twelve states — California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Utah, Washington and Rhode Island — have laws allowing the children of illegal immigrants to receive in-state rates if they meet certain requirements, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

“We would like to see a re-surfacing of these issues. We need to have discussions on this campus about students coming here. We have a commitment to diversity and that means students who have come from other countries,” said Portillos.

Portillos would remind students to keep an eye out for a resurfacing of the Act in 2012 and that through the Dream Act, “we are not rewarding criminals at all. These are students that can make important contributions to society, they are smart kids who have stayed out of trouble and they want an opportunity. They just need to be given the opportunity to be given that dream.” S

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October 17, 2011

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Best Kept Secrets Aaron Collett acollett@uccs.edu According to vitalstatistics.info, the record for the longest continuous standup routine was set by John Martin in 1993. Strangely enough, the record for the most jokes told in an hour was set by someone different. While you probably won’t see any record-breaking comedy routines there, Loonees Comedy Corner is the local spot to hit up your funny bone.

Loonees Comedy Corner is a Colorado Springs fixture, having been around for almost 20 years. Up until about five years ago, it was Laff’s Comedy Corner and was located on Circle Drive.

It is now located on the corner of San Miguel and Academy Boulevard.

Loonees headlines up-andcoming comics as well as well-known names, with shows Thursday through Saturday.

Loonees has a college, military and ladies night on Thursdays. Women and anyone with a college or military ID get in for only

$2. In fact, you don’t even need to be any of those things yourself — anyone in a group with a woman or with a college or military ID will also receive the discount.

Eric Hawkinson, one of the owners said, “Pretty much everybody that comes in gets in for the $2.” Make a reservation, though — Thursdays tend to be a full house.

The venue has started reaching out to a more unique, college-centric crowd by adding an 18

Jay Kim jkim@uccs.edu Most would consider a surprise donation in itself a blessing. But finding over a dozen pieces of undiscovered artwork by a local artist inside of the building after a surprise donation to the Heller Center made it that much better.

“They found a cache of sculptures and ceramics we knew existed from pictures but had never seen the actual piece,” said Perrin Cunningham, director of the Heller Center.

The artwork of the building’s namesake, Larry Heller, was found late last month when workers opened the attic crawl space of the Heller guesthouse, after an anonymous donation funded the start renovation project.

Heller gained local

fame for many reasons, especially for his set design and character acting work at the Alexander Film Company Studios, his unique art and his willingness to try new things.

Painting, bronze sculptures, tile art, pottery, photography and metal were some of the painting styles that Heller embraced. His art medium wasn’t the only thing that set him apart from other artists.

On the Heller website, it boasts that “Heller transcended the artistic fashion of his day and pursued his own unique, whimsical vision…his paintings were anything but highbrow.”

Heller owned the house from 1930 until 1999. In May 1997, the property was deeded to the CU Board of Regents, which envisioned using it for an

art studio, classes, retreats, conferences and exhibits showcasing Heller’s art.

The Heller House, which is north of the Four Diamond Sports complex on Austin Bluffs and Academy, was founded in 2002 but officially opened in 2004.

Formerly known as Yawn Valley, the property was modified a little to follow regulations and law, but for the most part “maintaining its original design and historical spirit,” according to Ron Fitz’s “Communique” article.

Heller House is open for the public viewing.

Anyone who is interested in seeing the art of Larry Heller can visit its new address, 1250 North Campus Heights, or email Cunningham, the director of the Heller Center for Arts and Humanities, at pcunning@uccs.edu. S

Loonees Comedy Corner and older show. The Friday night late show at 10:30 p.m. is now 18 and older, instead of the standard 21 and older. The 18-20 crowd has its own section in which no alcohol is served.

Loonees has had some hilarious headliners in the past. The first week of August, it had “Ben Roy Rated ‘R,’” a Denver-based comic who has been making waves after performing in Montreal at the Just For Laughs Festival, one of the biggest comedy events in the world.

Photos by Alex Gradisher

Loonees Comedy Corner provides entertainment, comedy.

Just last Thursday, it had Don Barnhart. Barnhart is a comedy hypnotist who has been making a name for himself in Las Vegas with his self-titled comedy hypnosis show.

From Oct. 20-22, the venue’s headlining performer will be John Novosad, aka “Hippieman.”

He is a Colorado native and has appeared on “The Late Late Show” with Craig Ferguson and has also written a screenplay titled “Hippieman: The Movie.”

This comedy club is

owned by Eric and Patrick Hawkinson. They are a father and son team, who bought the club from the previous owner, Larry Lee. Larry Lee had run the show for the past 15 years, and in the words of Eric Hawkinson, “He was just burned out.”

Lee is now employed at the club as the general manager. Lee said that he was impressed that they kept him on as manager — they actually cared enough about the club to keep the “old guard” around for some continuity. S

The Lowdown What: Loonees Comedy Club When: Thurs. 8 p.m.

Fri. to Sat. 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

Where: 1305 N. Academy Blvd.

How much: $10 entry, $2 ladies, college and miltary More Info: Drinks and food start at $3.95

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October 17, 2011

How to make a pinhole camera at home Shandi Gross sgross@uccs.edu

Every cell phone produced in recent years is equipped with a digital camera to capture every Facebook-worthy moment. But before the digital age, photos were actually captured on film.

In the 200 years that photography has been around, it has changed drastically.

You can revisit the past, though, by making a cheap, easy pinhole camera. It has no moving parts or a lens, just a body and a tiny opening.

With something so simple, you can make amazing pictures (even

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. Cut a hole in the middle of your canister. Make this hole bigger than a pinhole but smaller than your piece of flat metal.

without using Photoshop).

This is what you’ll need: One light-tight canister, such as an oatmeal can or an empty shoebox. For this example, I am going to use an old Slim Fast can.

You also need flat black paint (not glossy or shiny), a piece of thin flat

metal, like aluminum foil or a carefully cut out piece of a soda can, a small pin or sewing needle, a pair of scissors or an Xact-o knife and photographic paper.

Most of these things can be found around the house, and photographic paper can be bought at camera stores for pretty cheap. RC paper is easiest and cheapest.

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. Paint your canister a flat black. The flat black absorbs light and prevents it from bouncing around and ruining your photo. Be sure to paint the lid on the inside and the outside.

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Paint it all over. Be sure that your canister is light tight, meaning that its completely black inside so that no light can possibly get in there.

6. Make a small shutter to cover the hole until you’re ready to take your picture. Just use something simple like a small strip of electrical tape or a small piece of dark paper that is hinged so it can be opened and closed over the pinhole.

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You must have a completely dark room for this last step. You can use a safe light, which is just a 15 watt bulb in a lamp, pointing away from you, covered with a few layers of red. This will help you see, but won’t expose your photographic paper.

Cut your paper to fit inside your canister, and place it on the opposite side of the small pinhole. You can use scotch tape to stick the paper in place if need be. Close up the lid and the shutter tightly.

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Yay! You’re ready to disposal and they stink, take a picture of some- which means you would thing! Find a flat and need proper ventilation. steady surface to put your There are, however, camera on. Then open the lots of natural, homemade shutter and step back. recipes for developer and Exposure times will fixer that you can use. be different for each pho- There’s one on frugalto. Use a longer time for indoors or cloudy and a shorter time for a sunny day. Count off the seconds in your head.

On average, seven to 12 seconds will do the trick. Close the shutter and you’re done!

Now, don’t make a darkroom out of the dorm bathrooms; if you are a photography student, the photo lab on campus is reserved for you.

If you aren’t a photography student, however, anywhere safe and dark with a water supply and some counter room will suffice to develop your photo. The actual chemicals can be bought in a camera store, but they require special The final pinhole camera shot.

4.

While the paint is drying, make the pinhole in the metal piece. Place something like a magazine under the metal piece so you don’t stab yourself with the pin.

Take the pin, and very carefully poke a tiny hole in the center of the metal piece. Don’t push the pin all the way through or the hole will be too big and too much light will get in.

5.

After the paint is completely dry, glue the metal piece to the canister over the hole you cut. Cover the hole completely and be sure that it’s sealed light tight, as well. I recommend super glue, but you can use any type of glue as long as it will stick securely. Let the glue dry completely.

photographer.com. Click on downloads at the top of the page and the recipe will be at the bottom of the page.

The recipe involves using coffee and vitamin C. You can also look up how

to develop a photo online for developing times.

Or, you can become best friends with a photography student and have them do it all for you.

Good luck and be safe! S

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October 17, 2011

GoCA to unveil second part to ‘Ways of Knowing’ exhibit Leslie Randolph lrandolp@uccs.edu

When we think of location, most of us probably think about a geographic point or an address. We seldom think about location beyond its textbook definitions.

The Galleries of Contemporary Art expands upon the meaning of place and location with their newest exhibit, “Ways of Knowing.” “‘Ways of Knowing’ explores the paths we take and methods we use in defining and experiencing place. Place is an amorphous entity: Hard to define because it is personal, comprised of memories, mapping points and cultural cues,” stated the website for the Galleries of Contemporary Art. The exhibit has two parts. The first part features artists Rori Knudtson and Laleh Mehran.

It started Oct. 7 and will continue until Dec. 16. It is in the downtown gallery, located in the Plaza of the Rockies off Tejon Street.

Knudtson has a Norwegian background and made a video piece that follows the story of three Norwegian men who experience the landscape of Arctic Norway.

“You experience the landscape and learn about it through their experi-

ence,” said Daisy McConnell, director of the Galleries of the Contemporary Arts. “It’s a very hostile landscape,” she added.

Mehran has created a machine that draws into a large trough of black beauty sand. “It is programmed to draw this really beautifully, perfect geometric pattern. It draws this pattern in the sand repeatedly over the entire surface,” said McConnell.

She added, “It also has a motion sensor and so when people come in the room, the machine gets sort of irritated and makes it go off its track a little bit and the drawings become less perfect. We had a whole class of 30 students in there and the drawings became really, really bad.”

The second part of the exhibit features artists James Griffioen and Yumi J. Roth. The reception and opening day will be Oct. 21 and this part of the exhibit will also run until Dec. 16 at the gallery on campus.

Griffioen left a law career in San Francisco and moved his family to Detroit. He has done a series of photographs that document the city of Detroit, which has decreased in population by almost a million people in the last decade.

“His photos document

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that and they’re really haunting in some ways.

He doesn’t see it in a way where this is all negative.

He really sees it as the wild coming back into the urban,” McConnell said.

Roth is a sculptor who is based in Boulder, Colo.

A documentation of her work related to the idea of how people get around in foreign cities without knowing the language will be shown in the gallery.

She also makes objects, like traffic cones out of unique materials.

“She really specializes in making objects out of materials that don’t really make sense,” said McConnell.

McConnell encourages all students to attend this exhibit as well as the Places Lecture Series, every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Nov. 17 in the Centennial Lecture Hall. S

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Photos by Shandi Gross

Top: Artist Rori Knudtson’s installation at the Plaza of the Rockies shows the landscapes of Arctic Norway. Bottom: Laleh Mehran created this pendulum that draws a pattern in a tray of sand. The drawings become more irregular as more people enter the room.

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DECA encourages entrepeneurship at UCCS April Wefler awefler@uccs.edu

The DECA club and its president William Townsend have something in common: They’re both new to campus. “We’re both a work-in-progress,” said Townsend.

DECA, or Distributive Education Clubs of America, was created to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship around the campus and community.

“I was a founder of DECA on-campus. I did it last year and for a couple of years in high school. I made it to nationals and all

of my officers have high school experience where they have also been in nationals,” said Townsend.

DECA is a marketing and entrepreneurship club but is open and applicable to every major. Its members participate in national conferences and work on building their connections.

Each member is given a topic and subject area of interest. Then members act out real-life scenarios that they would expect in that area in the marketing world and are judged by people knowledgeable about that subject area.

“I’m a poli-sci major

and I’m tied into business ethics or business law,” said Townsend. DECA is pushing for nursing as a topic, which has a hospitality simulation, or human resource management.

“Entrepreneurship ties into everything,” noted Townsend. “Basic management skills that could help people.”

Although DECA is notably a high school club, there is a collegiate organization. The high school DECA has over 100,000 members; collegiate DECA has about 50,000 but is expected to grow.

“Just in our region

alone, they’ve added on 12 colleges and I think if we can get it established in UCCS, we can be one of the best in the country,” said Townsend.

“If we establish the tradition right away, we can have a winning tradition that will help us carry into competition when collegiate DECA becomes bigger.”

Member Lauren Sawyer is also new to campus and DECA. “We didn’t have a DECA club in my high school, and I chose business as my major, so I wanted to see what DECA was and it gives you insight into how the business

world plays out,” she said.

Sawyer opted to be a business major for the job opportunities it would provide in the future.

Next semester, members will travel to Salt Lake City to compete in a national DECA competition, but right now they’re still coming up with events.

“We’re working on our master plan and it essentially dictates that we’ll work with schools in the state,” said Townsend.

DECA will be working with local high schools, like Liberty and Discovery Canyon, to judge their events and explain marketing to the high school

members. Next year, the club plans to have dances and conferences.

Unlike most schools, Colorado Collegiate DECA doesn’t have a state chapter. “I’m in the process of chartering that chapter. We’ve been talking to the Western VP, DECA chapters throughout the state,” said Townsend.

DECA meets the third Wednesday of every month in UC 122 at 6 p.m.

“It’s a low-commitment club but high reward,” Townsend said. More information about DECA is available on the national website, deca.org. S

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Emma Crawford Coffin Races to return to Manitou Maggie Olague molague@uccs.edu

Local musician Randy Reames may have summarized the annual Emma Crawford Coffin Races best in the song that he penned in Crawford’s honor: “Who’ll stop her coffin, sliding down the hill, gliding through the streets of Manitou? Racing through the neighborhoods, waving at the crowds. Maybe you can wave at Emma too!”

On Oct. 29, you can wave to 56 versions of Emma at the 17th annual Emma Crawford Coffin Race in downtown Manitou Springs.

The President of the Denver Hearse Club, Zachary Byron Helm will lead the parade of hearses and coffins in a flame-throwing hearse at 12:15 p.m. The coffin races will proceed after the parade at 1 p.m.

Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce’s Media and Special Events Director Floyd O’Neil has limited entries to 50 teams, and six teams for the fire department division. There are 11 teams on the waitlist hoping to compete.

One of UCCS’ fraternities, Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) will be participating in their first Emma Crawford Coffin Race and will be volunteering as crowd control.

SAE Rush Chair and Assistant Pledge Educator, Aaron Novy said, “Our pledges are building it as a class project, we full-member brothers are helping them, but it’s their teambuilding activity.”

Pledges will pick the theme of the coffin. Novy thinks the theme will be related to SAE colors, purple and gold.

SAE’s strategy to win on race day is to have the lightest person be Emma and the four strongest to push the coffin.

Novy said, “We think this would be a great way to get our name out to

the community and show UCCS SAE’s can have a good time in a dry family event.”

Crystal Park Volunteer Fire Department has been practicing for the last two weeks. They are hoping to beat their rivals, Manitou Springs Fire Department.

Two teams at a time will push their coffins 585 feet, or the length of two football fields, as fast as they can in hopes to take home a trophy. Most teams finish in under a minute.

One team from last year, The St. Pauli Guys, stopped in front of the judges, drank a beer and continued their race in 47 seconds.

The top four teams with the fastest times will compete in two heats to take home a first, second or third place trophy. Teams who don’t win a trophy still have a chance to win the Best Emma, Best Coffin Design and the Best Costume awards.

In the fire department division, the team with the fastest time will win the traveling trophy and bragging rights.

O’Neil said, “As much fun and quirky it is, several teams take it very serious.”

Photos courtesy of Manitou Chamber of Commerce

Top: Denver Hearse Association President Zachary Byron Helm shows off a flame-throwing hearse. Middle: Manitou’s annual coffin races are held in memory of Emma Crawford. Bottom: The Manitou Springs Fire Department and their Emma competes in a past coffin race.

Before O’Neil took over the event in 2005, a team filed a complaint about the race. The day after the race, organizers measured the course and found one lane was shorter than the other lane. Since then, both lanes are measured to be the exact length.

O’Neil said about this year’s race, “It will be bigger than ever. It’s going to be phenomenal.”

O’Neil explained, “It

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ties into the Halloween celebration, but it is not a Halloween event.” The coffin races are to honor Emma Crawford.

During the late 1800s, Crawford moved to Manitou Springs to be with her fiancé William Hildebrand and for the healing powers the mineral water possessed. They had hoped the water would heal her tuberculosis.

Her dying wish was

to be buried at the top of Red Mountain. In 1891, she passed away and her fiancé, family and friends fulfilled her last wish.

In 1921, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company reburied her remains on the south side of the mountain. The company didn’t bury her remains as well as it thought; her casket came racing down the mountain later that year.

No one claimed Crawford’s remains.

The city of Manitou Springs gave Crawford an unceremonious burial in an unknown resting place.

The Historical Society raised enough money in 2004 for a tombstone.

O’Neil said, “The tombstone is not near the body.”

O’Neil has speculations why the remains and tombstone are separate, but the reason is unknown. S

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UCCS presents ideas for new Master Plan

October

Molly Mrazek

mmrazek@uccs.edu The words “master plan” often have sinister connotations, with images of evil overlords dreaming up their master plan for world domination. But rather than world domination, parking, communication, and preservation were the themes of the night at the Facilities Master Plan public forum.

On Oct. 13, UCCS hosted representative Kevin King of a Baltimore-based architectural and planning firm Ayers Saint Gross. He was here to discuss with faculty, staff, students and UCCS’ neighbors in Eagle Rock and Cragmor Village about the updates in Facilities’ master plan.

The master plan is the overall strategy for the expansion of the University. It is a small piece of the strategic planning process, which includes academics and student life among other subjects that will be presented to the CU Board of Regents in April of 2012.

The purpose of this forum was to present the ideas of the master plan to the audience and get feedback before it got too far in the planning stages.

According to King, the issues with the current way the campus is arranged are detrimental to a growing student body.

First, the transportation with the shuttles is a problem because they have to fight with traffic on public roads and this can be very inefficient.

Also, there simply is not enough room in the University’s current buildings for the forecasted growth: There is not enough classroom space, and there is not room for student life or on-campus residency.

The master plan will propose more buildings on the north side of campus and on the east side between

University Hall and the core of campus.

One of the bigger issues that was stressed was the lack of physical connectivity in the campus.

One possibility for expansion is to have the pedestrian spine stretch the entire length of campus property, from University Hall all the way to North Nevada Avenue near Pulpit Rock.

Discussed in more detail was the idea of expanding the north end of campus right off of North Nevada. King stated that buildings on the north end could be used for things like a performing arts center, an arena, academic use, research, university support offices, university outreach and student housing.

King also made clear that they have no interest in destroying the site’s natural features, but rather creating things that compliment UCCS’s unique views of the mountain, as well as take advantage of geological and environmental benefits.

After the presentation, there was about an hour of question and answer with many concerns coming from the neighbors of UCCS as well as students. Some feel that the more pressing issue that should be addressed is parking.

Others were worried about the impact of this expansion on the natural land currently undisturbed and the neighboring subdivi

sions like Eagle Rock.

“I came in open to what they had to say, which was the purpose [of the forum]. Some of my concerns were addressed, some weren’t. My main concern is that it’s so vague, so open to change,” said Kyle Rodman, a UCCS senior.

Another worry among students and neighbors was the amount of effort put toward communication. Students asked what the plan was for incorporating their voices into the Master Plan.

One neighbor said the university was doing the bare minimum in terms of communicating with neighbors. “I don’t think they wanted many people here,” he said.

According to Executive Director of Facilities Services, Gary Reynolds, UCCS is required by state law to update the master plan every 10 years.

However, because of the overwhelming growth in the campus population, they were forced to revisit it early.

For more information about the master plan, students can look at the Facilities Services website at uccs.edu/~facsrvs/site/masterplan. The presentation slides from Ayers Saint Gross will eventually be uploaded there. S Photo by Alex Gradisher UCCS’ N. Nevada land

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Property exchange opens up North Campus Nate Siebert msiebert@uccs.edu

The Regents of the University of Colorado, on behalf of UCCS, have recently negotiated a property exchange with Colorado College that frees UCCS of a deed restriction that the Regents and Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak said have been an obstacle to developing portions of its land.

The roughly 300-acre Trembly Property, which sits just east of North Nevada Avenue and south of Pulpit Rock, is composed of three parcels of land that were deeded to CU in 1978 by Dr. Virginia Trembly.

The deeds to those parcels came with a reverter clause, a restriction stating that if the land should be used for any

commercial gain or profit, the land and its title would go to Colorado College.

But on Aug. 17, the Regents transferred UCCS’ 480-acre undeveloped Howard Property near Jefferson, Colo. to CC in exchange for CC’s release of its interest in the Trembly Property.

“Essentially,” said Brian Burnett, vice chancellor of administration and finance, “the reverter clause doesn’t exist anymore.”

According to Kyle Hybl, member of the CU Board of Regents, CC’s release of the reverter eliminates any uncertainty about CC raising issues with future uses of the Trembly Property and enables the university to engage in public-private partnerships, which he said no one in 1978 would have expected to be such an integral part of how higher education gets funded today.

Map created by Nathan Jones

Above: An ArcGIS rendering of the current Trembly property owned by the school (in blue) and the city of Colorado Springs’ Urban Renewal Plan (in orange).

“We needed the reverter clause gone,” said Shockley-Zalabak, noting that the state of Colorado no longer funds the University’s construction projects like it did in 1978 when the Trembly Property was deeded to CU. When asked what – in the absence of the reverter clause – protects the land from being used in a way inconsistent with Trembly’s wishes, Hybl responded that donor intent is protected by “the commitment of the institution to honor donor intent. Individuals and organizations and institutions honor donor intent all the time without a contractual obligation to do so.”

Upper Right: Dr. Virginia Trembly

Jill Tiefenthaler, president of CC, responded similarly, saying, “We would trust our colleagues at UCCS to be good stewards of the gift, as we would be good stewards of a gift that we received, and I have full expectation that that will happen.”

Trembly passed away in 1990. Her daughter, Susan J. Watts, said that Trembly “was promised this land would be the most beautiful university in the country.”

Watts said she is not opposed to the property exchange so long as it allows UCCS to better use the land it received from Trembly, and so long as the land isn’t used for the commercial gain or profit of private entities.

With UCCS in the middle of creating its Facilities Master Plan, it is not yet clear how the Trembly Property will be used. However, at the most recent Facilities Master Plan public forum, a presentation

by Ayers Saint Gross — the Baltimorebased architectural firm helping to create the plan—indicated that the property may include a performing arts center, an athletic arena, university support offices, and student housing.

The Trembly Property sits within one of the city’s urban renewal zones, and the current website of the Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Authority says it plans for a research and development campus on the Trembly Property which “would include a range of office, light industrial and research and development products with supporting commercial space.”

Past planning documents from the Facilities Services department also include plans for a research park to be built on the Trembly Property.

Copies of the Howard/Trembly property transfer agreement as well as the deeds for the three Trembly Property parcels are available for viewing in the UCCS Archives at Kraemer Family Library. S

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“Nefarious” challenges common beliefs about prostitution Sara Horton shorton@uccs.edu

Director Benjamin Nolot and friends were teaching songs and dances to a classroom of Cambodian girls when Nolot realized they were being watched.

A few feet away, a man glared into the classroom from the street. The man was a pimp waiting to chauffeur one of the children to a client.

Though slavery was abolished in the United States in the late 19th century, it continues to thrive within U.S. borders and beyond.

What’s more, UNICEF estimates almost two million people in the international sex trade are children.

“Nefarious: Merchant of Souls” is the first of three documentaries from Exodus Cry, a human trafficking abolition organization, that unearths the seedy underbelly of human trafficking and modern sex slavery.

It isn’t easy to watch but is still a documentary to see to become educated about the sex industry,

a subject barely discussed in classrooms.

For an hour and a half, Nolot and crew explore Moldova, Amsterdam, Cambodia, Thailand and Las Vegas.

Although the cultures of each location vary, one variable remains constant: The sex trade is booming.

Human traffickers, posing as employers at shopping malls and other businesses, advertise fake jobs to kidnap female Maldovans.

Because many of the targeted women are orphans, they are often never heard from again after they are forced into the sex trade.

In case someone does open an investigation, organized crime and corrupt government officials work together to conceal disappearances.

Then, just as I am rethinking how choice applies to the sex trade, Nolot interviews former American prostitutes.

One woman decided to start selling herself after she watched Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman.”

Another, Annie Lobert,

initially enjoyed prostitution because she felt powerful.

To be fair, both women later admitted their early perceptions of prostitution were shallow and misguided.

Lobert has even started Hookers for Jesus, an organization that helps Las Vegas prostitutes.

While it makes a point to emphasize that not everyone has a choice in the sex trade, “Nefarious” also reveals there is at least some truth in that certain people have more free will than others.

Regardless of their motives for dabbling in prostitution, none of the women deserved any of the horrific experiences that they recalled for the camera, most of which moved me to tears.

When the women could not turn to their families or anyone else for help as prostitutes, many of them found the strength to quit in God. Although I’m relieved these women found some way to stop their selfdestruction, the church should not have been their only available solution.

Not to mention the countless number of people who cannot find help, such as the Cambodian girls who are regularly sold to Western clients.

Human trafficking, despite its continual growth, continues to be a taboo

topic in conversation and prostitutes are written off as whores who can only help themselves.

“Nefarious” ignites the first spark of a muchneeded conversation on why this rationale is incorrect.

Sex trade victims deserve for us to reevaluate how prostitution is defined, as it is nowhere near as clear-cut as we would like to believe, and to as “Nefarious” points out, prioritize human life before pleasure. S

room and lives completely in that room with no knowledge of what grass feels like or that there are other children in the world.

This is what happened to Ma and Jack in the novel “Room” by Emma Donoghue. Voted “Best Book of the Year” by the New York Times, “Room” is an intense read. I started reading it on a rented eReader and I couldn’t put it down.

Every chance I got, between classes, at home or before bed, I was reading

“Room.” The story is told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack and it begins on his birthday.

His mother, Ma, gives him a birthday present and they go about their perpetual routine of reading children’s books, jumping on the bed, watching a little television, taking a bath, making food and just trying to tackle the boredom.

There’s one other character named Old Nick. He comes every few nights to the room at exactly 9 p.m. to visit Ma. Jack has

to stay out of sight in the wardrobe.

Can you tell that something is off here yet? One day, Ma makes Old Nick mad, so he turns off the electricity to the room.

They can’t cook anything, watch television or turn on the heater.

That’s when Ma tells Jack an important story: She was kidnapped by Old Nick when she was 19 and has been forced to live in the room for the past seven years.

And Ma can’t take it anymore. She comes up

with a plan to smuggle Jack out of the room to go get police and rescue her.

He’s never been outside before and had always thought that the room was the entire world.

Until then, he thought that everything outside of the room was outer space, and all the people he saw on television weren’t real or lived on a different planet.

Jack comes through, eventually bringing police to rescue them both while Old Nick flees. Jack and Ma are taken to a psychiatric hospital. Here, the whole world descends upon them, including Ma’s lost family, who has to accept Jack, despite his controversial upbringing.

Ma and Jack have to come to terms with the existence of the world and where they fit into it.

Author Emma Donoghue stated on the book’s website that she got the main part of her research online, reviewing cases over the past years of kidnappings, children born into captivity and forced imprisonment.

While reading “Room,” I also did research on these things, learning of women who have been imprisoned for over 30 years. A recent case of kidnapping such as this is the story of Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted at the age of 11 and kept in captivity for nearly 20 years.

It’s still hard to believe that people have the psychological ability to treat others this way.

The only problem I had with the novel was Jack’s speech patterns. Within the book, he is highly developed for a five-yearold, knowing words such as omnivorous, but he doesn’t know words like vomit or heat.

I also would have liked a more distant perspective, learning what was happening through Ma’s eyes as well as Jack’s, but “Room” still provides valuable insight to a disturbing reality.

If you would like more information about “Room” or Emma Donoghue, visit the author’s website at roomthebook. com. S

Photo by David Vasquez

Las Vegas is one of the cities examined in this documentary about the sex industry.

‘Room’ tells unnerving tale of abduction Shandi Gross sgross@uccs.edu

Imagine living for seven years in a locked room that is about 11 square feet. You have things like a television, stove, fridge, toilet and bed, but nothing else.

No human interaction, no sunlight, no fresh outdoor air, nothing that makes the world real.

Now try to imagine having a young boy in that room.

He was born in that

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Editorial

An open letter from the Scribe to our neighbors To our neighbors in the Cragmor and Eagle Rock neighborhoods:

the question for a whole lot of us. At this point, we simply cannot stop parking in your neighborGreetings from The hoods. They’re our streets Scribe! We were pleased as much as they are yours. that so many of you took That said, we know you the time to come to the Fa- live there, and we want to cilities Master Plan public be respectful of your space. forum on Thursday. Af- We’ll tell as many students ter hearing some of your as we can not to park in concerns, and after airing front of your driveways or some of ours, we feel that mailboxes. But please tell us your interests and the in- what else we can do to make terests of students overlap our presence more tolerable. in some interesting ways. Second, like you, we Of course, we are not in worry that not enough efthe position to speak for the fort is being put into seekentire student body, and we ing our input. We want can at this point speak only our voices to be heard and for ourselves. However, included in the Facilities we’d like to think that most Master Plan, and we know of our fellow students would you want to be heard, too. echo what we say here. If the interests of deWe suspect that there are velopers and university a number of things that stu- administration are not dents and university neigh- questioned and balanced bors have in common. First by those who actually use of all, we don’t want to be that space, there is little parking in your neighbor- hope that that space will hood any more than you be transformed into somewant us to be parking there. thing with broad appeal.

Believe us, if it was The space that is now even remotely afford- being called North Campus able to park on campus, is beautiful, and we want it more of us would do it. to stay that way. But as you But at $165 a pop for can see from this week’s just one semester, parking feature (pages 8-9), that permits are simply out of beautiful space is also con-

tested space.

The interests of those who are deciding how to use that land are not necessarily our interests. The last thing we want is a bunch of big box stores this side of Nevada.

There are already too many of those on the other side.

We hope that articulating some of these common interests might give each of our groups a stronger voice in communicating what we actually want North Campus to look like.

To that end, we would love to include your voices in this newspaper. A letter to the editor might be the perfect place for you to express some of your concerns to students as well as university administration.

Some of us are in this for the long haul, and we know that most of you are, too.

So, send your thoughts to scribe.eic@gmail.com.

We’d love to hear your plans for how students and neighbors might work together to keep us all from losing what’s amazing about these bluffs.

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Letter to the Editor - I would like to thank the Scribe for informing students of the bedbug infestation that seems to be making its way across campus.

For the students who spend a significant amount of time in the University Center, Centennial Hall or who live on campus, we can only hope there will be some immediacy to the way in which this problem is dealt with.

Unfortunately, it sounds as if the problem is largely being ignored.

As the bedbug problem increases (since it doubtlessly will, as it has across the country), the University seems to be ignoring the fact that this is a problem that students, staff and faculty will be taking home with them. These pests are hitchhiking their way into our homes and invading our beds.

It’s more than just an inconvenience.

Bedbugs are parasites that can leave rashes, welts, hives and scars across the skin of those who are allergic to them.

Bacterial infections, systemic poisoning and anemia can occur even in those who don’t show physical reactions.

Add to these the stigma attached to living in a home infested with bedbugs, or the anxiety and insomnia that can go along with being a victim of such attacks, and it’s easy to conclude that this isn’t the harmless creature some would like us to believe.

Orkin’s website suggests that thorough vacuuming and laundering of fabrics and furniture can assist in preparing for treatment. This isn’t a solution, but it is a forward step to assisting exterminators in getting rid of the pests.

Unfortunately, given the state of much of the upholstered furniture on campus, it seems little has been done in the way of laundering any area where students may rest.

Putting up plastic sheets and turning

on a space heater — the “precautionary” process taken by the administration — isn’t a treatment either.

While heat can kill bedbugs, the likelihood that a MacGyver-ed heat treatment of plastic tarps, duct tape and space heaters can actually heat an entire room to over 120 degrees is highly unlikely.

This isn’t simply a situation of a single student spotting a single bedbug on her bag. As the article explained, there was an infestation in the dorms over the summer, and Orkin “confirmed the presence of bedbugs” in Centennial Hall 201.

Where one bug is found, there are more.

Orkin should have pointed out the fact (as they have on their website) that “bedbugs can infest a rather wide area.

In order to completely eradicate a bedbug infestation, the entire dwelling must be inspected thoroughly and treated with appropriate materials.”

Inspecting and treating a single room isn’t enough—the entire dwelling must be treated. Otherwise, the infestation will just move to the adjoining rooms, buildings, furniture and people.

I would encourage UCCS administration to be proactive in the treatment and extermination of bedbugs on campus. At this time, the campus is at risk of becoming a breeding ground — a focal point to an infestation that can spread across the city.

If students, staff or faculty would like to avoid bedbugs in Centennial Hall, room 201 may be safe, but that seems to be the only safe place on campus.

If anyone would like to avoid bedbugs in their home, spending time on campus may not be an option.

Jeremy Remy Senior, English

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Free speech suppressed in favor of political expedience

Aaron Collett acollett@uccs.edu Almost a year and a half ago, 11 college students from Orange County, Calif., were arrested for protesting a speech given by Michael Oren, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States. They stood up, shouted a slogan or two, and were peacefully led out of the room and arrested.

Now, a year and a half later, 10 of them have

been convicted of “conspiracy to disrupt a meeting.”

That’s right. Little did you know that that whispered, giggling conversations with your friend right before you shot a spitball at the teacher was a crime. This is one of the most ridiculous violations of free speech that I’ve ever heard. When American politicians are heckled, they continue their speech.

Sometimes, they’ll engage with their hecklers, though this is not generally recommended (it gives the heckler validity).

But the Israeli Ambassador needs police to arrest protesters at his speech? Really? Sounds like he’s used to being surrounded by yes-men and can’t handle some good old American disagreement.

This was a travesty

of the court system in so many ways. The lead investigator and three assistant district attorneys were actually removed from the case before it went to trial because they had broken rules of finding evidence. Specifically, they got access to privileged communication between a defendant and a lawyer.

Yes, the students were disruptive. In fact, they were disruptive at a college event.

Hmm, I wonder what happens when you’re disruptive at a college event….. Oh, right! You go to jail!

Wait, no, that’s not what happens. You get academic probation, or suspended or whatever.

Regardless, the school disciplines you in some way. They don’t call in the cops; they don’t press charges…unless, of

lucky you have me.)

Gem number one: Find your lobster. The story of Ross and Rachel will go down in sitcom history as one of the most complex and romantic love stories of all time.

In the second season, Phoebe tells Ross that he and Rachel are meant to be because “she’s your lobster!” According to Phoebe, lobsters find each other and mate for life and then walk around the tank holding claws.

Although they fought it for quite some time, everyone knew that Ross and Rachel were made for each other. They had a kid for heaven’s sake!

Moral of the story, find your lobster and stick with it.

Gem number two: When in doubt, sarcasm is key. Everyone needs to take a lesson from Chandler on how to diffuse a potentially awkward situation by inserting a hilarious one-liner.

Also, sarcasm is an excellent defense mechanism. For example, the friends were sitting around a table quietly after an awkward conversation had just ended, so Chandler said, “So, the Ebola virus… that’s gotta suck, huh?”

See what I mean?

Chandler was able to

make light of an uncomfortable situation by saying something humorous.

Gem number three: How to pick someone up.

Simple, you walk up to them, look them up and down and then say, “Hey, how you doin’?”

Gem number four: The meaning of true friendship. This lesson comes from many different examples throughout the show: A true friend will pee on your leg for you if you can’t bend that way and you got stung by a jellyfish.

A true friend will kiss you if you’re going to an audition and are not used to kissing other men.

A true friend will buy you a chick and a duck.

A true friend will let you know if you jog like an idiot.

A true friend will sing Lionel Richie with you after a break-up.

A true friend will dance around with a turkey on their head to make you feel better.

Friends ran for 10 years, from 1994 to 2004. Any show that didn’t have the right factors the way “Friends” did would not have lasted that long.

Unfortunately, none of the actors in the show have gone on to do any-

course, that speaker happens to be the Israeli Ambassador, apparently.

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, in an interview with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, accused the students of having “violated the First Amendment rights of the speaker and the hundreds gathered to listen.”

That’s ridiculous.

First of all, only the government can violate someone’s right to free speech. That’s right, I am not able to violate your First Amendment rights, and you are not able to violate mine. Only the government is able to do that.

Second, how would you violate someone’s right to free speech when that person wasn’t speaking, and wasn’t planning on speaking? Doesn’t that just make them quiet?

Apparently, Rack-

auckas believes that the First Amendment protects your right to be silent in silence.

Finally, the Ambassador actually did finish his speech. How did they prevent him from speaking?

They interrupted him for a moment, sure.

But you know who interrupted him more? The head of the UC Irvine Political Science Department, Mark Petracca, who felt that his scolding the student body was more important than letting Oren continue.

I will admit, though, that Petracca’s ranting and raving at the student body was pretty funny.

The protesters themselves are a little disappointed in the media storm. They had looked at protests in Chicago, as well as protestors at President Obama’s speeches and saw the same thing —

protestors getting thrown out of the meeting and nothing else.

The primary difference here was that the speaker was the Israeli Ambassador, and many of the protestors were Muslim students.

Joseph Haider, the third student to stand up in the meeting, said that the students really wanted their message out. He said that they felt that the message had gotten lost in the media storm.

The protest was really about the bombing of Gaza residents a year and a half before the protest took place. That is the reason that they have endured so much hardship for the past 18 months.

That is the message that they want to get out – that no matter who commits them, war crimes are war crimes, and should be treated as such. S

Why ‘Friends’ is the best sitcom of all time

Molly Mrazek

mmrazek@uccs.edu Before Jennifer Aniston had all that drama with Brad and Angelina, before Courtney Cox had botox, before Matt LeBlanc had gray hair, there was a show called “Friends.” The idea is so simple, and the premise is pure brilliance: Three guys and three girls living in New York City – that’s all there was to it.

I learned everything I need to know in life from that show; everything from love to what to do if you get stung by a jellyfish. And I will share with you some gems that have gotten me through some difficult times.

You see, I am (well, I consider myself to be) the foremost expert on “Friends,” seeing that I own all 10 seasons and have watched it from beginning to end a number of times. (You’re so

Comic by Arno thing as extraordinary as “Friends.” Courtney Cox, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc have tried a couple other TV shows, but nothing nearly as successful.

David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow have also tried some TV shows and movies but aren’t heard

from very often. Jennifer Aniston is the only A-list star; however, she always plays Rachel Green.

She’s never in any period pieces, fantasy or other films that would make her step out of her norm.

With all that in mind, I’d like to leave you with

one final piece of wisdom from “Friends” that I use as a philosophy for dealing with any relationship: “I’ll be there for you, when the rain starts to fall. I’ll be there for you, like I’ve been there before. I’ll be there for you, ‘cause you’re there for me too.” S

October 17, 2011

Life on the Bluffs

Did you know?

- Julianne Sedillo, jsedillo@uccs.edu

Did you know that the library was renovated in March, 2001 with the help of a $4 million grant from the El Pomar Foundation? The CU Foundation, the Colorado State Construction Budget and student fees also contributed to the cost of this project. If you walk through the library, you can see evidence of the construction. Just a few steps east of the stairs, a metal strip across the ground marks the boundary between the old library and the new. This renovation project turned the Kraemer Family Library and Information Technology Services into the El Pomar Center. S

Campus Chatter: Student Involvement

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UCCS has been called a “commuter campus.” In other words, much of our student body does not actually live in the on-campus residences.

Does this affect our student body involvement? Some students have opinions about this.

Nancy Hoist Graduate Student, Public Administration Do you feel that UCCS has an involved student body?

I feel that a lot of the involvement comes from the students that live on campus, and the students that work on campus, too. They’re here more often, so they get to see all of the events that are happening and going on. I think it would be hard if you were purely a commuter student to get involved, because you would just come on campus, and then leave. If you weren’t involved with clubs, it’s hard to reach that group; it’s hard to advertise to them.

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Do you feel that the college does a good job advertising its events?

I think they do a really great job advertising. Especially over the years, they’ve really developed from just putting up flyers around campus to those huge banners at the Rec Center and around housing, and even up by Dwire Hall sometimes. I think they’ve really developed it along the way. They send out mailers and stuff, too.

What could the college do to help students be more involved?

I think it would help to reach out more to the commuter students, and do more events tailored to them specifically. Not like I really know what those events would be. It’s helped to do concerts and stuff; it’s really out there. Like the Decemberists, they’re a huge band, you know. It helps bring more of the community and commuter students when you do larger events, not just like food on campus; they’re not going to go to that.

William Townsend Freshman, Political Science Do you feel that UCCS has an involved student body?

I think that students at UCCS are really interested in clubs and extracurricular activities, and the OSA does a lot to support that.

Invisible Joe

What could the college do to help students be more involved?

I think if they maybe encouraged club participation a little more, that maybe would help the club environment, but I do think they do a pretty sufficient job as it is.

Meral Sarper Junior, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Do you feel that UCCS has an involved student body?

I’d say that they are involved when they get into college, and as they get older, sometimes they stop being as involved. And then the commuter population that we have tends not to be as involved because they usually just want to go back home after they are done with school, and they don’t usually do activities, I’ve noticed. So it’s about half and half, I think.

Do you feel that the college does a good job advertising its events?

Yeah, definitely, especially OSA and SGA, and then the individual clubs have a lot of opportunity to advertise, so I think that it does have really good advertising.

Photo by Robert Solis

Invisible Joe is a sensitive guy—here he is, spending time with his significant other.

Just look at the contentment on her face.

What could the college do to help students be more involved?

Maybe more incentive, especially for students who are commuter students, figuring out what they want in events. I think they do that with the student involvement survey, but just trying new things all the time. I think it’s kind of hit or miss; you just got to keep trying new things and test the waters and see what works. I’d say more incentive is really helpful. S

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30 days without Facebook Leslie Randolph lrandolp@uccs.edu You know that saying, that it takes 30 days to break a habit? Well, to all the people who have ever said that, I just proved you wrong.

I went for 30 days without getting on Facebook, but you wouldn’t be able to tell. It’s like I never left. I’m back to the same old routine of getting on Facebook 10 times a day.

Nothing has changed.

Still, there was one thing I realized about Facebook. OK, a few more things than just one. I’ve known this for awhile, but I feel going without it reiterated the following points: Facebook users are ridiculous.

My friends would constantly ask if I’d seen their posts on Facebook or the new layout. Well, now that you mention it, nope I haven’t. Trust

me, I didn’t feel left out, but for some reason my friends liked to guilt me into not being up on the Facebook news.

Second, friends don’t need to check in with each other every day. I don’t need to know where you are, and honestly, I don’t care, especially when you’re with me.

I don’t need to know that you are in love with your boyfriend so very, very much with that dumb <3 mark. That is not, I repeat, not, a heart. That is a less-than sign and a 3.

There is a difference.

I changed my relationship status as a test shortly after I returned to using Facebook and my friends starting freaking out. They wanted to know who I was dating and why I didn’t tell them about it.

Well, I guess I didn’t tell them about the relationship because it doesn’t actually exist! It aggravates me that rela-

tionships have to be “Facebook official” now.

I also hate the people who post about how awful their lives are and then the next day they post how completely happy they are. Bi-polar statuses are the worst. Pick a mood, happy or sad. Stop wigging out. I’m sure life is not that bad.

But mostly, I hate people who post about how ridiculous their friend’s statuses are. Hypocrites.

You post just like everybody else does. You are guilty, too. Heck, so am I. I am probably the hypocrite of hypocrites, but at least I admit to it.

Being without Facebook made me realize I wasn’t missing anything, except all the things that annoy me so much when it comes to using it. If anything, I’m more annoyed by Facebook now than I was before. Maybe I should just stop using it all together.

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Sport Management program a huge success Ryan Adams radams3@uccs.edu

In America, we love our sports, worshiping our favorite teams and stars. But for every touchdown scored or every jaw dropping swing of the golf club, there are dozens more working diligently behind the curtains.

Without them, the multibillion dollar sports industry would not exist.

UCCS wants to ensure that its students have a shot at some of these off the field, yet vital, careers.

Headed by Director Eric Olson and Internship Coordinator Charlene Boudreau, the UCCS Sport Management program has duplicated the success of the

PGA Golf Management program and is fast becoming one of UCCS’ most popular majors.

“There are about 300 Sport Management programs in the country.

One hundred of those have a business background, and only 11 of those are AACSB accredited. UCCS is one of those 11,” said Olson.

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is earned by only 5 percent of the world’s business schools and Olson believes that is a big advantage for the program’s students.

“If students cannot find the job they are looking for with their sports management emphasis, having an AACSBbacked business degree is something students

can fall back on Continued on page 15... until they find a job they are looking for,” said Olson.

Olson, who is also a professor of marketing and strategic management, believes that the program is one of the best in the country.

“The UCCS Sport Management program is set up as a program of distinction. It is a small, high quality, and focused program that has very high standards,” he stated.

In addition to the AACSB accreditation, The United States Olympic Committee and their national governing bodies play a role in the success, as well as the existence of the program.

Boudreau, the pro-

gram’s internship coordinator, who spent 14 years working with USA Swimming and USA Figure Skating athletes, said she believes that having the USOC so close is vital to the success of student internships and the program as a whole.

“In our program, having such a great relationship with the USOC in Colorado Springs has allowed us exclusive access to internship experiences with some of the most influential people in the world,” said Boudreau.

Besides interning with the USOC, students have scored internships with professional sports teams in Colorado, as well as international soccer teams in England.

A student in the program is even doing an in-

ternship with the English Premier League team, Everton Football Club, according to Boudreau.

“Because of our great connections, we can send a lot of students to different places and that is what I think draws students to come to the UCCS Sport Management program,” she said.

The UCCS Sport Management program will be graduating its first class in the spring of 2012 and both Olson and Boudreau believe that the program has become a quick success in its short three years of existence.

“We are fortunate to have such a good relationship with the city of Colorado Springs, the Athletic Department of UCCS, as well as the UCCS community it-

self,” Boudreau said.

“We feel it is a big deal to prepare students for the business of sport because it is such an extremely demanding industry. Being given the opportunity to bridge the gap between performance and administration is so unique and I appreciate it every day,” Boudreau furthered.

Olson echoed this sentiment, “It is great to be a part of something that has a huge impact on the world and that is such an exciting industry.”

For more information on the program, students can visit the PGA Golf Management/Sport Management suite, located on the third floor of Dwire Hall to pick up information or schedule an appointment to speak with Olson or Boudreau.

Volleyball comes home in need of some wins Matt Rigby mrigby@uccs.edu

There really is no place like home. In the midst of a five game losing skid, the team returned home to the Gallogly Events Center for a seven game home stand, badly in need of some wins.

The comforts of home proved to be the right medicine, as the lady Mountain Lions swept rival CSU-Pueblo on Thursday night. Former CSU player Megan Koop led UCCS with 11 kills.

Head coach Kevin Barnett was pleased with the win. “We had some good passing,” said Barnett through gomountainlions.com.

“Our side-out percentage was really, really high.”

“It’s really good to be home,” added Barnett. “It’s good that we went out here and got it done.”

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Lions also played games on Oct. 14 against Adams State and Oct. 15 against Western State.

Following the game against CSU-Pueblo, UCCS stands at 10-9 overall and 5-5 in RMAC play. Only the top four teams in each division will advance to the RMAC conference post-season tournament.

From there, four or five RMAC teams will move on to the NCAA regional tournament.

Currently, the lady Mountain Lions are on the outside looking in, sitting sixth in the east division. Overall, the lady Mountain Lions are ninth in the conference standings.

The remainder of the home stand will continue with a non-conference game against Ursuline College from Ohio on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m.

The lady Mountain Lions will then host three critical conference games, starting with Regis on Friday, Oct. 21

followed by Metro State on Saturday, Oct. 22.

The string of home games concludes with Senior Night on Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. against Colorado Mines.

The Mountain Lions probably need to win all of their upcoming games to have any chance of advancing to post-season play, as UCCS is currently on the wrong side of all the key tie-breakers.

According to the official conference standings found at rmacsports. org, Nebraska-Kearney is currently on top of the east division with a 9-1 record. Colorado Mines is in second at 8-2, and Metro State is third with a 7-3 record.

UCCS will be on the road for its final three games, at Colorado Christian on Oct. 29, at Nebraska-Kearney on Nov. 4 and at Chadron State on Nov. 5. The RMAC conference tournament begins on Nov. 10, if UCCS qualifies.

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Rec Center considers expansion

Logan Page takes the Rec Center Expansion Survey.

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Circulated amongst the student population, the Rec Center has put out a survey asking students about their current Rec Center usage, which new amenities they It’s not easy to get swoll when you have would like to see and whether or not they to stand and wait at the one squat rack for would support a fee increase in order to 20 minutes, while the skinny kid using it make expansion a reality.

The survey will be available through the struggles with his 50 pounds.

As the student population at UCCS week and students who did not receive an continues to increase, the effects are easy email are encouraged to visit the Rec Cento spot. Along with housing and parking, ter website (uccs.edu/~campusrec), where a button can be found the Recreation Center has been feeling the We want this to be a on the front page.

“At this point, we squeeze, as well. student driven process, are very much in a Built five years ago, the Rec Center is because this is going feedback and informaalready having trouto be the student Rec tion gathering stage.

We’ve put out this surble meeting demand, Center. vey and are trying to prompting officials to gauge whether this is begin exploring opsomething that students tions for expansion.

“During our peak use hours, the fitness are interested in. If so, we’ll keep moving floor gets really crowded. We’ve been along with it. Otherwise it will drop,” said getting a lot of feedback from people say- Gaden.

“We’ll also have several open forums ing it’s too crowded, or there isn’t enough equipment,” said Rec Center Director Matt and focus groups for students to show up and provide input. We want this to be a stuGaden. “We’re a popular place.”

Compared with rec centers at schools dent driven process, because this is going with similar enrollment, UCCS’ is vastly to be the student Rec Center,” he added.

Right now, all options for expansion are undersized. Based on guidelines by the National Intramural and Rec Sports Asso- still on the table, with possibilities includciation, a school the size of UCCS should ing outdoor fields, a more spacious fitness have around 100,000 square feet of floor floor, racquetball courts and a larger climbing wall. space.

With a sprawling tract of land to its name, UCCS has 54,000. “In an expansion, we’d like to get close to that 100,000 num- UCCS has potential for almost unlimited ber, but until we have a chance to really growth. New housing is in the works and flesh this out with some numbers, it’s very a shift toward a more residential campus is on the horizon. conceptual,” said Gaden.

As more students flock to the bluff, the . Expansion is far from a done deal. Because an upward hike in tuition will be the Recreation Center will have trouble meetchief financial driver of construction costs, ing their needs in its current state. But a Gaden wants students to play a large role in change is not going to happen without your voice. S expansion discussions.

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