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KYLE FEIT'S JOURNEY BACK TO DIVISION 1 BASKETBALL CHRIS FAHRENDORF • COLLEGE TIMES

fter playing for ASU basketball for three years, averaging just 2 minutes per game across 14 appearances, former walk-on Kyle Feit was not satisfied. After careful consideration, he knew he had to make a bet on himself. According to Feit, at ASU, he never had a fair chance on the court to prove he could be a successful Division 1 basketball player. So, in the summer of 2020, he entered the transfer portal. But with no guarantee there would be a season due to COVID-19, Feit decided to return to ASU. Once again after the 2020-21 season, Feit entered the transfer portal, but he did not receive Division 1 offers. According to Feit, former and current ASU coaches told him they viewed him as a Division 2 player. He questioned the advice he was getting as he chose to play his next season at Indian River State, a junior college. “When I posted I was going to junior college, a lot of people said I was done and counted me out,” Feit says. “Sometimes in life you have to

take a step backward to take a step forward.” Although Feit was taking a step back in terms of competition, he says he believed it was necessary to go to a school that would give him the opportunity and playing time to show that he belonged as a Division 1 player. “There was a mutual understanding that this was an eight-month business trip. I’m here to go one year, get film, win, prove myself and go onto the next level,” Feit says. “It was kind of like I help you win and you help me get looks.” Feit delivered on his promise of helping the team succeed. He finished this last season averaging 12.3 points per game while shooting 46.5% from three for the No. 2-ranked NJCAA team in the nation. He also made 112 threes, good for most in the nation by a junior college player. Heading into the season, Feit knew he was ready to have a breakout year. According to Feit, he has been in the gym nightly since his first day at ASU to improve his game. He says he believes his work ethic prepared him for his best season. “The confidence was being built

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from all the work that I put in,” Feit says. “When you study for a test really well, you know you’re going to go into the test confident. I got to

the point where I walk into any gym and I feel like I’m the best shooter in the gym.” Feit says his consistency is what attracted Division 1 coaches. By the end of the season, he received between 15 and 20 Division 1 offers. Although Feit says it felt good to prove his doubters wrong, something else was more important. “Part of it is proving myself right and not necessarily everyone wrong,” Feit says. “People that doubted me and people that didn’t give me a chance or believe in me are fuel to my fire.” After visiting multiple schools, Feit connected with New Mexico State and its new head coach, Greg Heiar, who coached against Feit last season at Northwest Florida State College. “Coach Greg Heiar was at Wichita State with Landry Shamet and Fred VanVleet,” Feit says. “In my college decision, what went into it was, yeah, I want to have a good college career, but who’s going to set me up in a position where I can make money after college? Coach Greg Heiar has those connections, and I feel like I can be an NBA player out of New Mexico State.” CT

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11 THINGS ABOUT LGBTQ+ PRIDE MONTH ANNIKA TOMLIN • COLLEGE TIMES

une is known as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and arriving at this celebration was a road of ups and down. Here are 11 facts about its history.

11. MOTHER OF PRIDE Brenda Howard, a Bronx-born bisexual woman, organized the Christopher Street Liberation Day March. She’s hailed as one of the 20th century’s leading voices in bisexual rights and equality. Her outspokenness led to multiple arrests for civil disobedience.

10. GAY RIGHTS BEFORE LGBTQ+ PRIDE MONTH In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, founded the Society for Human Rights in Chicago. It was the first documented group to campaign for gay rights in the United States.

9. TRANSGENDER PRIDE FLAG American trans woman Monica Helms created the transgender flag in 1999. Displayed first at a Phoenix Pride event in 2000, the flag boasts light blue stripes for boys, followed by pink stripes representing girls and white in the middle for those who are transitioning or consider themselves having a neutral or undefined gender.

8. OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION In 1999, President Bill Clinton was the first to sign an official proclamation declaring June Gay & Lesbian Pride Month. He repeated it in 2000. Presidents George. W. Bush and Donald Trump did not submit an official proclamation, although Trump did acknowledge the month in a tweet. On June 1, 2011, President Barack Obama declared June to be LGBT Pride Month and to recognize bisexual and transgender individuals. President Joe Biden dubbed it LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

7. NOT ALL PRIDE HAPPENS IN JUNE Several Southern states hold Pride parades in the fall to take advantage of the cooler weather. Others hold their events around National Coming Out Day on October 11.

6. THE RAINBOW FLAG Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag in 1978 following a request from gay politician Harvey Milk. The new flag marked a separation from the Nazi-based pink triangle. The original design of the rainbow flag included eight colors

— hot pink/sex, red/life, orange/ healing, yellow/sunlight, green/ nature, turquoise/magic, indigo/ serenity and violet/spirit. Now the flag only has six colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple).

5. CHICAGO BIRTHPLACE OF GAY PRIDE PARADE While the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March in New York is widely considered the first Pride parade, it actually occurred the day after the Chicago march. Both events were commemorating the Stonewall riots that happened the year prior.

4. COLLEGE STUDENT CHANGES TUCSON LAW College student Richard Heakin was an openly gay 21-year-old who came to Tucson from Nebraska to visit friends for a gay Pride event on June 6, 1976. Shortly after leaving the event at Stonewall Tavern, Heakin was beaten to death by four teenagers who were tried as juveniles and only received probation until they were 21. Following the court results, the city became one of the first in the nation to add sexual orientation to its anti-discrimination laws the following year.

3. LGBTQ UPRISING BEFORE STONEWALL RIOTS A group of LGBTQ individuals, led by several transgender women, pelted officers with doughnuts, coffee and paper plates at Cooper Do-Nuts in Los Angeles in May 1959. The group was fed up with being mistreated by the police.

2. PRIDE WASN’T ALWAYS CALLED ‘PRIDE’ At its beginning, Pride events were more militant and often referred to as marches attached with common phrases such as “Gay Liberation” or “Gay Freedom.” As militancy decreased in the ’80s and ’90s, events moved toward a parade structure and the “Pride” language making it more of a celebration.

1. STONEWALL RIOTS On June 28, 1969, police raided Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, other village lesbian and gay bars, and neighborhood street people fought back when the police became violent. The riots lasted until July 3, becoming widely recognized as the event that transformed the gay liberation movement. CT ECOLLEGETIMES.COM | JUNE 2022 5

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FROM THE DORMS TO THE STUDIO

ASU ALUM MARCUS REARDON PILOTS THIS MODERN ALEX GALLAGHER COLLEGE TIMES

arcus Reardon had been studying sports journalism at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and living in Taylor Place in Downtown Phoenix when a conversation changed his life. “I remember there was a very pivotal conversation I had with someone on my floor where I asked him, ‘What kind of music do you listen to?’ And he said, ‘I don’t listen to music. … I’m a sports guy,” Reardon recalls. “I realized very quickly that the people at the top of the sports journalism world are people who literally wake up in the morning and their first thought is sports, and I’ve just never thought like that.” Reardon was different. At the top of his mind was music. As students rehearsed scripts or watched sports religiously, Reardon confined himself to his dorm to make beats and hone his craft as a rapper. After graduating ASU in 2015

with a bachelor’s degree in sports journalism, Reardon began chasing his passion for music. Through the connection of his cousin Thomas, he met Tim “Timo” Willsey — who graduated ASU in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in sustainable energy, materials and technology — and Sean Whiteman — an alumnus of Mesa Community College. Veterans of the local music scene, Willsey and Whiteman were looking to start a new project that Reardon’s vocal style suited. “I wanted to make a change,” Whiteman says. “I was ready to get away from metal music and really heavy stuff. I was looking for something new that hadn’t been completely explored yet, and I figured the best way I’m going to hit that route is at least start with a rapper, get him to learn how to sing, and then go from there.” The band buckled down with Reardon handling the vocals, Willsey producing backing vocals and programming, Whiteman

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serving as the group’s stickman, and Tre Scott shredding the strings. The Mesa-based band recorded and toured under several names beginning in 2016, including Without Feeling Weird and Project Marcus, before settling on, in late 2018, This Modern — a name that Willsey feels encapsulates the band’s variety of sounds juggled within its tracks. “Based on our style of music, it’s very rap-rock-infused fusion,” Willsey says. “We have no genre limits to do whatever we want, and it sounds modern.” The band’s single “Everyone’s Miserable,” which hit the airwaves in April and addresses contemporary topics, exuded just that. “‘Everyone’s Miserable’ is really a song of the times,” Reardon says. “You turn on the news, misery; you turn on the radio, misery; and it seems like everyone’s miserable. Whether it’s financially or otherwise, everyone’s struggling. The economy’s crazy, there’s war, a pandemic, and everyone is miserable.”

Despite the depressing nomenclature of the track’s lyrics, it offers an upbeat musical score that overwhelms the somber lyrics and provides hope for the listers. “The instrumentation is an interesting dichotomy that makes you feel good,” Reardon says. “I wanted to make you smile and almost giggle at the fact that everyone is kind of miserable.” Because of this, Reardon reiterates that the song is a glimmer of hope, not solely about a somber time in history. “It’s not a song intended to make you write sad or down about your state of the world,” Reardon says. “It’s actually the opposite. It’s a glimmer of hope.” Looking to the rest of the summer, Reardon and Co. hope to release one more single and plan to utilize their home studio to record acts like Futuristic and the Color 8. CT

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NUMBERS ANNIKA TOMLIN • COLLEGE TIMES

An avalanche can travel up to 80 miles per hour. Fog is when you can see less than 1,000 meters away, while mist is seeing farther than 1,000 meters. A hippo’s lips are nearly 2 feet wide. The can opener was not invented until 50 years after the invention of canned food. General Electric is the only company remaining from the original Dow Jones index of 1896. A dumbbell has 362 times more germs than a toilet seat. Junk mail in the United States destroys 100 million trees a year. Henry Heimlich used the Heimlich maneuver for the first time at 96 years old in 2016. 66% of millennials in the United States have no money saved for retirement. The cuckoo in the world’s largest cuckoo clock weighs 330 pounds.

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