Rocky Mountain Collegian, August 20, 2012

By ALLISON SYLTEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The decision was supposed to be made in May. And then in August. And now, the fate of CSU’s proposed on-campus stadium won’t be decided un-til the October 4-5 CSU System Board of Governors meeting.

“There was never a hard deadline,” said CSU Spokes-man Kyle Henley. “It just be-came a more thorough pro-cess, and the committee just wanted to look at more infor-mation.”

The Stadium Advisory Committee (SAC), which was formed earlier this year, was initially charged with pre-senting CSU President Tony Frank with a recommendation whether or not to move for-ward with an on-campus sta-dium.

Over the course of the SAC’s process, giving Frank a recommendation morphed into conducting a feasibility study. During the committee’s fi nal meeting on Aug. 9, com-

mittee co-chair and university Vice President for Operations Amy Parsons said an on-cam-pus stadium is feasible.

But Frank said he still had reservations about moving the project forward. His biggest concern was whether or not he was willing to dip into CSU’s

general fund to subsidize fund-ing shortfalls in the event that private donations and naming rights aren’t enough to pay for the estimated $246 million un-dertaking. If approved, the sta-dium could be open by 2015.

“I don’t intend to be hur-ried in my decision, nor do I

want it to dominate our uni-versity discussion as it has come to,” Frank said.

According to a study from the market analysis and fund-ing sources subcommittee, the amount of private support for the stadium could total any-where from $45 to $220 mil-

lion. Committee chair and Vice President for Advancement Brett Anderson emphasized that fundraising will not begin until Frank makes a decision about the stadium’s future.

During the Aug. 9 meeting, the SAC also discussed the po-tential fate of Hughes Stadium. In a study conducted by the design and best practices sub-committee, it was determined that, in order to keep Hughes operable, more than 40

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By ANDREW CARRERAThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Summertime for the cam-pus student government is tra-ditionally dead. But the 2012-2013 Associated Students of CSU administration is the sec-ond group of student legisla-tors who’ve bucked this trend, working on issues like student loan interest rates and Ram-Ride’s effi ciency during the past three months.

“Historically, ASCSU would’ve been lucky to have either the president or the vice-president –– let alone both –– over the summer on campus or even in the offi ce,” said last year’s student body president, Eric Berlinberg.

His administration was among the fi rst to meet regu-larly over the summer to get a head start on ASCSU projects, before courses could distract from student government work.

“You’re elected to serve stu-dents, not take a vacation and then serve students,” he said.

It’s new thinking that this year’s elected offi cials hoped to implement during their tenure.

For example: the interest rate for Stafford loans –– fed-eral fi nancial grants to help undergraduate and graduate students pay for their educa-tion –– were set to double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent over the sum-mer.

ASCSU President Regina Martel issued 50 position pa-pers to Colorado’s congres-sional delegation and others about the issue, lobbying them on the importance of keeping the rate low.

Martel also held discus-sions with RamRide’s director, Becky Ewing, about how to run the program effi ciently despite having a small staff. Buying a new dispatch system was a suggestion.

Student government also spoke with Fort Collins city of-fi cials about a proposed social host ordinance, which “pun-ishes people who provide a

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By CHRISTOPHER BOANThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Thousands of recent high school grads, transfer students and interna-tional students arrived in Fort Collins this week, as CSU’s Ram Welcome program kicked off the start of the year.

The program, which aims at help-ing the record 5,300 enrollees adjust to the fast-paced college lifestyle, helped fresh-faced students like Ruby Rodriquez and Danae Lemieux settle into their new digs on campus between Thursday and Sunday.

Rodriquez and Lemieux took part in the festivities associated with the program, which they said helped them relax.

“All in all I have really enjoyed the program,” Rodriquez said. “I think it helps us get focused, and is a good ex-perience.”

Lemieux agreed with Rodriquez’s assessment of the program, though she noted her relative dislike of the icebreaker games, which she said were awkward.

“For the most part the program has been fun,” Lemieux said. “Those ice-breaker games were the most awkward moments, but other than that, every-thing’s been great.”

This year’s program is charged with helping the school’s largest incoming class, which orientation leaders said has given them an added challenge, though they said it’s been a great group overall.

“The energy and excitement sur-rounding this group has been in-credible. It gives you a huge sense of pride,” said orientation leader and sophomore psychology major Zach Lucero.

Orientation leaders Vanessa Ybarra and Morgan Caron said their favorite part of Ram Welcome was a speech by CSU President Tony Frank.

“Listening to [Frank’s] speech at the convocation yesterday was amaz-ing,” Caron, a senior sociology major, said. “The level of enthusiasm when he talked, and the immediate respect shown for him was very memorable for me.”

Another moment that both Ybarra and Caron mentioned was the feeling of unity shared by the class, which add-ed to the experience.

“The immediate unity shared by the class as a whole was incredible,” Ybarra, a sophomore equine science major, said. “My third group called me Dora, and we truly bonded over that connection.”

Another Ram Welcome memory

that stuck out to Caron was a fl ash mob performed during the carnival,

which featured a “wobble,” or choreo-graphed dance.

“Watching the group do the wobble together, combined with the fl ash mob at the carnival, were the moments that I will remember,” Caron said. “It’s go-ing to be amazing to watch this group change CSU, and I look forward to seeing the change that they will make here.”

Collegian writer Christopher Boan can be reached at [email protected].

Ram Welcome ushers in new crop of studentsKenny Lindquist, 5, and mother Ardith prepare to move Kenny’s brother, Erik, into Parmalee Hall Thrusday afternoon. The Lindquists have experi-

KELLY KEEN | COLLEGIAN

Program aims at helping 5,300 freshmen adjust to college life

New admin.active over summer vacation

ASCSU

RamRide, student loan projects on agenda

Waiting for an on-campus stadium decisionCSU President Tony Frank’s initial parameters for the stadium:

It will not be built on open green space, including the intramural fi elds

It will not be placed in front of signifi cant existing view sheds so as to protect views of the mountains

All recommendations must take into consideration the stadium’s impact on university neighbors

State appropriation, tuition, fees or taxes will not be considered as

STADIUM PARAMETERS

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No guaranteesCSU walk-on offensive lineman dreams of D-1 success

theSTRIPCLUB

The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff and designed by Design Editor Kris Lawan.

While the debate rages on over CSU’s pro-posed on-cam-pus stadium, we here at the Col-legian scoured the country for the top-5 worst college football stadiums in the country based on appearance, fan turnout and tradition.

Top 5 worst stadiums

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THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891

No. 5Hughes (CSU)Let’s face it: CSU football is far removed from its glory days at this point. We play football in a small, outdated 32,500 seat cement stadium and it reaches half capacity on the best of days.

No. 4Folsom Field(CU-Boulder)

While the stadium itself is beautifully nestled against the Flatirons, students are forced to buy their tickets, and in exchange, they get a subpar product on the fi eld. Talk about a rip-off.

No. 3Jonah Field at War Memorial

Stadium (Wyoming)

For starters Wyoming’s football stadium is located in Laramie. It’s small, old and could get blown over at any second.

No. 2Wallace Wade

Stadium (Duke)

I know what you’re thinking, “Duke has a football team?” Yes, but nobody would know it due to its roots as a basketball powerhouse. Apparently the fans forgot too because the stadium has gotten smaller since it was built in 1929.

No. 1Roos Field(Eastern

Washington)Roos Field’s red turf might make it visible from space, and that’s not a good thing. It seems like a desperate attempt to look stylish like Boise State’s “smurf turf,” but they failed...miserably.

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FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Fort Collins resident Aiden Johnson, 8,

climbs a rockwall at the annual St. Joseph

Church Picnic at St. Joseph Elementary School in Old Town Sunday afternoon.

The picnic included refreshments as well

as multiple play areas for the kids and offered church members a fun Sunday afternoon get

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The CSU Department of Athletics is holding a meet and greet for student ath-letes, coaches and fans to-night from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Ram Town at Hughes Stadium.

Coaches Tom Hilbert (volleyball), Jim McElwain (football) and Art Siemers (cross country), as well as Athletic Director Jack Gra-ham, will be in attendance.

In addition to meeting both coaches and athletes, attendees will have the op-portunity to win CSU ath-letics tickets and gear. Tick-ets for the event cost $10 for Alumni Association and Ram Club members, $20 for nonmembers and is free to Junior Ram Club members. To RSVP, call (970) 491-4601.

Douglas Miles artwork now on display in LSC

Artwork by internation-ally renowned artist and Apache Skateboards founder Douglas Miles is now on dis-play in the Duhesa Lounge located on the third floor of the LSC.

Miles’ work, which is shown on a number of me-

diums, often combines icon-ic Native American imagery with contemporary and pop culture.

The show, titled The Awakening, opens today and runs through Nov. 9.

CSU educational video selected as �nalist for media awards

The CSU volunteer pre-cipitation network, called the Community Collabo-rative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, has been named a finalist in the Best Short Pro-gram category of the inau-gural Jackson Hole Science Media Awards.

Discussing the water cycle, the short film, named “CoCoRaHS Presents: The Water Cycle Community” was co-created by CSU and Noah Besser. The Science Media Awards Competi-tion is part of the larger Jackson Hole Film Festival, which features 280 films, 450 categories and 18 indi-vidual awards.

Winner of the Best Short Program category will be announced at the Denver Museum of Nature and Sci-ence Sept. 6.

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venue for underage drink-ing to take place,” said former ASCSU Director of Governmental Affairs Chase Eckerdt in April, ac-cording to student senate minutes.

“Instead of regulating providing alcohol to minors, they regulate you provid-ing the venue for it to take place,” the minutes said. “A group is attempting to bring it to Fort Collins. If you are having a party and people

20 or under are there, you could face a misdemeanor charge.”

Martel’s efforts focused on, “kind of making sure that if things like that do come up we’re included in those con-versations,” she said.

Building relationships with key members of CSU’s administration is key to suc-cessfully implementing the student government’s agen-da, said ASCSU Vice Presi-dent Joe Eden.

Eden met with univer-sity president Tony Frank,

as well as the CSU System’s new chancellor, Michael Martin, over the summer to discuss initiatives ASCSU initiatives.

“I think Chancellor Mar-tin is going to be absolutely a really great team member with us,” Eden said. “He’s certainly one of the first ad-ministrators I’ve ever seen really legitimately care for student concerns, and I hon-estly believe that.”

News Editor Andrew Car-rera can be reached at [email protected].

ASCSU | Building relationships

STADIUM | Project controversialContinued from Page 1A

projects would be need to be completed over the next 10 years, totaling $30 million.

Adding another 17,000 seats to the already 32,500 seat stadium would cost be-tween $90 and $105 million.

“[Hughes Stadium] is still categorized as being in fair condition, and it has a lot of components that are still new,” Parsons said.

The deliberation pro-cess about the stadium has been controversial since its inception. Save Our Stadi-um: Hughes was created by a group of Fort Collins com-munity members in opposi-tion to the project, and an-other group, called Be Bold, was soon created in its sup-port.

On July 30, Frank hosted an open forum where the public could express their

opinions on the controver-sial project. It lasted for four hours.

“The day may come when we need a new sta-dium,” Jerry Galvadon, a former employee of CSU athletics, told the Collegian during the meeting. “Right now, we’re not ready for it.”

“People are very pas-sionate on both sides,” said Ryan Wulff, a stadium supporter and member of CSU’s Ramclub. “Both sides believe the other is the vocal minority.”

Editor in Chief Alli-son Sylte can be reached at [email protected].

$246 MILLION: The estimated cost of the stadium$30 MILLION: The amount needed to keep Hughes operable for the

next 10 years40: The number of projects needed to keep Hughes operable540: The number of households near CSU that offered input to the

Stadium Advisory Committee10,000 - 17,000: The number of people the committee believes

would walk or bike to the on-campus stadium172: The number of stories the media has written about the stadium

proposal since Jan. 1$40 TO $220 MILLION: The amount of private funding the commit-

tee believes the stadium could generate640,000 SQ. FEET: The proposed size of the stadium$3 TO $4 MILLION: The cost of deconstructing Hughes Stadium117: The number of pages in the feasibility report the SAC gave Frank

BY THE NUMBERS

“Historically, ASCSU would’ve been lucky to have either the president or the vice-president — let alone both — over the summer on campus or

even in the o�ce”Eric Berlinberg | former ASCSU president

The McClatchy Tribune

For more than three de-cades, Ben Isaacs worked as a Pullman porter, one of the uniformed railway men who served first-class passengers traveling in lux-urious sleeping cars — a much-coveted job for Af-rican-Americans between the 1870s and late 1960s.

Isaacs, a charismatic centenarian who was be-lieved to be the oldest surviv-ing Pullman porter, died of kidney failure Wednesday at his home in Victorville, Calif., according to his brother, An-drew Isaacs. He was 107.

Andrew Isaacs said his brother, who in his later years went blind, was hos-pitalized Aug. 10 and re-leased a couple of days later.

“His kidneys shut down,” said Isaacs, 89, who lives in Sacramento, Calif. “In three weeks he

would have been 108.”Born Sept. 8, 1904, in

Kansas City, Kan., Ben Isaa-cs was one of five children of Breckenridge “B.R.” Isaacs, a butcher, and Cora, a school teacher and beautician. An-drew Isaacs said his brother graduated from the local Sumner High School, which educated black children.

Straight out of high school in the early 1920s, Isaacs landed a job with the Atchison, Topeka and San-ta Fe Railway. He labored “in the shop where they worked on steam engines,” Andrew Isaacs recalled.

While working for the Santa Fe, Ben Isaacs fell ill with pneumonia. His em-

ployer sent him to a hospi-tal in Albuquerque, and he remained in New Mexico for a couple of years before relocating to San Diego and then to Los Angeles in 1929, Andrew Isaacs said.

By then, Ben Isaacs had married a girl from his hometown, in what would be the first of at least four marriages in his lifetime, his brother said.

In Los Angeles, Isaacs found work as a chauffeur. But his life-changing plum assignment came in April 1936 when he began work-ing as a Pullman porter, according to the Chica-go-based Newberry Library, which keeps data on Pull-man employees.

The Pullman Palace Car Co. was founded by George Pullman in 1867 and was most famous for develop-ing the railroad sleeping car. The company primarily hired African-Americans, many of whom were elevat-ed to middle-class status by their jobs.

In a 2010 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Isaa-cs fondly recalled his days on the trains. Though chal-lenging — at times he would service up to 50 berths — the job opened up Isaacs’ world.

“I just kind of liked trav-eling around and seeing the country, and helping peo-ple,” he said.

Andrew Isaacs said that passion for adventure stuck with his brother, who in lat-er years bought a trailer and took it on road trips across the country.

Ben Isaacs gushed

about encounters he had with the rich and famous, such as prominent silent film actresses Anita Stewart and Gloria Swanson, while working as a porter. His said his favorite celebrity he met was cowboy singer and ac-tor Roy Rogers.

Ben Isaacs “was a people person,” said his granddaugh-ter Regina Dobbins. “You never heard him say any-thing negative. He was very kind-hearted … sentimental.”

Dobbins said Isaacs also “loved music and dancing.” He kept a collection of 45-rpm vinyl records that in-cluded tracks from jazz pia-nist Count Basie and singer Ella Fitzgerald.

Isaacs retired from the railroad in December 1968, records from the U.S. Rail-road Retirement Board show.

Records kept by the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Chicago had recognized 102-year-old Lee Wesley Gibson of Los Angeles as being the oldest living Pullman por-ter, until Isaacs — born five years earlier than Gibson — came forward in 2010.

Andrew Isaacs said his brother’s wish was to be cremated and to have his ashes buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles alongside Alene, his last wife of more than 20 years.

Besides his brother, Ben Isaacs is survived by a daugh-ter, Dolores White of Pomo-na, Calif.; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; 12 great-great grandchildren; and two great-great-great grandchildren.

Ben Isaacs, oldest Pullman porter, dies at 107 in Calif.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian | Monday, August 20, 2012 3A

Most people in this day and age should know there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

When you apply for a customer rewards card or promotion that gives you a few dollars off your purchase each week, there’s a reason you fill out a pamphlet with your name, number, address, gender, income bracket and whatever other minute detail of your life a corporation thinks it can get you to surrender.

All that data that is being collected will be utilized by the corporation and then sold to other corporations in an effort to squeeze every last cent out of a customer. Most people (myself includ-ed) are by and large okay with making such Faustian bargains because hey, why not save a couple of bucks every week?

At the best you might get some use-ful coupons mailed to your house once every week and at worst a telemarketer might get a hold of your number and bother you a couple nights a week until the number gets blocked. Nothing too serious, right?

Well it’s 2012, and the people respon-sible for data mining have stepped up their game. No longer are juicy nuggets of data simply being observed and noted.

These days the people that analyze

these vast amounts of data are devel-oping more sophisticated and more ac-curate algorithms to fully capitalize on our everyday subconscious habits and desires. Data mining is obsolete, viva la data smelting.

For example, a New York Times ar-ticle revealed that after careful analysis, Target has developed an algorithm to de-tect whether or not a shopper is expect-ing a child to be born soon based solely on shopping habits, to the extent that Target can guess before anyone around the mother-to-be even realizes she’s pregnant.

Obviously Target isn’t just giving out crib coupons out of the goodness of their heart though. Expecting a child is one of the events in a human’s life that notice-ably affects all of their shopping habits, and Target is trying to be the first one that these people latch onto when their hab-its shift.

This strikes me as an unacceptable predatory business practice. Some peo-ple may be inclined to disagree, saying this is just how capitalism works. But just because something isn’t illegal doesn’t make it ethical.

Look at it in a different context: what if some company discovers a cer-tain shopping pattern for people that have recently been divorced or are going through a bout of depression? At these low points in people’s lives, all of a sud-den they’re receiving ads for ice cream or single bed sheets.

Maybe they want these items, maybe they need these items, but at the same time you essentially have a company discovering that a human being is at an unstable point in their life, mentally and emotionally compromised, and then using it as an opportunity to push more crap into their life and strongly influence

their future decisions. All without the customer even being aware of the pro-cess.

Not to mention, on top of all this, cus-tomers barely have any access to the data that has been gathered on them. There is no legal framework in place to guarantee that the average citizen can access the in-formation companies have gathered on us, let alone one to ensure that it is easy and efficient.

Even the F.B.I has the decency to let the average citizen of this country re-quest a copy of their own profile. I’m not saying make these entire databases transparent to the whole world—as that undermines the point of data smelting in the first place by removing the economic advantage that incentivizes it in the first place—and there are some interesting trends and patterns to be observed (even if there are some that shouldn’t be acted upon).

But if my name and social security number are attached to points of data resting on a hard drive platter I want to know just what the heck company’s see of me. More importantly, I want the power to say, as a citizen and a customer, “these points of data are wrong and should be fixed.” Or even better, “I want this information about me purged.”

I may not need to or may not want to exercise my right, but there should be some pathway in this country to stand up and say “I am not a collection of in-formation, to be mined, processed, and exploited like a draft horse. I am a human being damn it.”

Hamilton Reed is a senior comput-er science major. His columns appear Mondays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected]

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In light of the continued de-bate about CSU’s on-campus stadium, and in anticipation of a final decision about its fate by October, the Collegian Editorial Board would like to begin this semester by supporting the pro-posed on-campus stadium.

The process the proposal has gone through—with plenty of input from a passionate and vocal community—has made it much easier for the administra-tion to approach this project in a reasonable and professional manner. This feedback will be essential in helping them ad-dress the issues that have been raised regarding the stadium.

While Hughes Stadium and tailgating are iconic memories that have been a part of the fab-ric of this university for so long, it is time to create some new memories, and time for CSU to increase its national visibility

and sense of community.Our university is only ex-

pected to get bigger, and the es-timated cost of $100 million to add another mere 17,000 seats to Hughes stadium hardly seems

worth it when the estimate for a whole new stadium comes in at roughly $246 million.

Most universities have an on campus stadium, which studies have shown can have a positive correlation to student recruit-ment. Additionally, the econom-ic benefits of having an on-cam-pus stadium are worthy. The minor headache that may be as-sociated with the influx of traffic that will occur on game days.

While we understand the con-cerns about how exactly the uni-versity will pay for it, we wholly believe that if its privately fund-ed, without taking away from academic funding, there’s no rea-son why it shouldn’t go forward. We’ll work to ensure that CSU President Tony Frank remains vigilant to his promise not to use tuition, fees or tax dollars for the project.

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What The Red & Black taught me

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YOUR TWO CENTS

“We’ll work to ensure that CSU President Tony Frank remains vigilant to his promise not to

use tuition, fees or tax dollars for the

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The Collegian staff spent almost all of last week in our offices in the Lory Student Center basement, spending long hours in training sessions, planning meetings and on the phone with sources, all as part of an effort to put out the best possible product for our first week of school.

Meanwhile, students at the University of Geor-gia were fighting for the survival of their own stu-dent newspaper, The Red & Black.

Last week, almost all of The Red & Black’s staff re-signed from the paper be-cause of decisions made by the paper’s governing board severely limiting student control. This included pro-moting the editorial adviser to an editorial director with prior review over all content, and increasing the role of the paper’s professional staff in production.

If this wasn’t enough, the higher-ups at The Red & Black also decided to limit the number of stories that made it into the paper that were critical of the universi-ty and other institutions, in exchange for content they rendered more favorable.

While discussions on Friday between Red & Black staffers and the paper’s governing body demoted the editorial director back to an adviser and eliminat-ed prior review, The Red & Black’s fight to be an in-dependent student media institution is far from over.

And it also raises a far larger question: Why is it important for a student media organization, like the Collegian, to be inde-pendent? After all, some of you are probably think-ing, if our adviser had the power of prior review, and all we did was write “good” content, some of our mis-takes would have never seen the light of day.

A short answer is that independent student me-dia organizations exist to be “learning laboratories.” Learning cannot exist with-out the freedom to make mistakes, a power that stu-dents would not have had under The Red & Black’s new system.

“The CSU football team would be a lot better if Peyton Manning could be the quar-terback,” said Larry Stew-ard, the president of Rocky Mountain Student Media Corporation, the Collegian’s parent company. “But the development process is the hallmark of what we do.”

“I don’t think you can fully learn what it means to be a journalist until your decisions have real impli-cations,” said Mike Hum-phrey, the Collegian’s jour-nalism adviser.

It’s true. Any decision this paper makes this semes-ter will entirely rest on my shoulders. And it will come with a steep learning curve. It will mean sleepless nights, and it will almost certainly mean that I will inadvertent-ly make a mistake that pisses at least one person off. But I would not want to have it any other way, because I know that when I leave this basement, I’ll have an edu-cation that I could never get in a classroom.

But beyond learning, I think that student media has another role: Giving students at the university a voice, and advocating for students in a way that an-other media organization, like the Fort Collins Colora-doan, can’t.

And you can’t have a voice unless you’re entire-ly independent, especially when you’re on a college campus.

After all, CSU is essen-tially one giant marketing machine. From the clean-cut, polo shirt-clad tour guides to our image as a “green” university, every-thing that you think you know about CSU has been as carefully cultivated as everything that you think you know about any cor-poration.

The university, like any other organization trying to make money, wants to shy away from any press that can make it look bad. That’s why the Collegian isn’t directly affiliated with the university (although we do receive roughly $520,000 from the Associ-ated Students of CSU). We need to have the power to be a watchdog, something we couldn’t do if anyone with a vested interest in the university had prior review.

I don’t think the Colle-gian would ever face the hurdles that students at The Red & Black faced last week, in part because we have a financial incentive. Our funding from ASCSU comes with the caveat that we have to be entirely stu-dent run, whereas, as far as I know, The Red & Black had no such agreement.

Regardless, it’s worth it to take a moment, and treasure the Collegian’s in-dependence. No one read this column before it was published other than my student editors, and that’s the way it should be.

Because although this newspaper has made some mistakes, it’s far better than the alternative.

Editor in Chief Allison Sylte is a senior journalism major. Her column appears Mondays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

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BY CHRISTOPHER BOANThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Hundreds of fresh-faced business students huddled inside Clark A101 on Friday to listen to how important it is to practice their discipline with a conscience.

New York Times best-selling author Stephen M.R. Covey delivered a speech called “Smart Trust and the Speed of Trust” as part of the College of Business’s “Ethics Matters” boot camp.

“We’re going to focus on ethics, and doing things the right way,” he said. “The es-sence of business is in build-ing relationships, and you can’t have a good relation-ship without trust.”

Covey explained the need for a business climate that is based on trust and collaboration, ideals he said were at the center of suc-cessful companies.

The event was an intro-duction to business ethics for CSU’s new freshmen class studying business.

Covey frequently asked the audience to complete simple exercises with those that sat around them, with the goal of connecting with the crowd. He also analyzed a peril facing industries, which he called “a crisis of trust.” People currently have lower amounts of trust in others than in previous times, which he said were detrimental to business, he explained.

“We don’t want to accept it as reality that people don’t trust others,” Covey said. “We know that if you take away trust, the world grinds to a halt.”

Covey’s hour-and-a-half long speech concluded around the two main com-ponents to trust in busi-ness—credibility and behav-ior—that he said are crucial to successful relationships.

“Credibility is the foun-dation for trust, and we need to behave in ways that cre-ate trust,” Covey stated. “To build credibility you must have character.”

The throngs of students

and their parents in atten-dance were shuttled to Rock-well Hall once the author’s speech concluded. The sec-ond half of the event consist-ed of several question and answer sessions with the fac-ulty of the business school to further discuss the necessity for ethics in business.

Mary Beth Lewis, who serves as a professor of ac-counting at the school and as the director of Daniel’s Fund Ethics Initiative –– which aims at increasing ethical practices in today’s business culture –– dis-cussed the troubling rise in unethical business practices over the past decade.

Lewis discussed the rise in unethical business prac-tices during the past decade, and the growing need for trust in the workplace.

“Finding high trust in your employees is key to suc-cess,” she said. “Something’s gone wrong in the business world; in the last 10 years it feels like greed and corrup-tion has increased. I want to help you all change the ethics of the business world.”

Lewis called on the stu-dents to do things differently than those like Enron’s Ken-neth Lay, who served time in prison for unethical business conduct. The events fi nished with a required nine-question

survey and an honor pledge that made the group swear to conduct business in an ethi-cal and trustworthy way.

“I challenge you to think differently, to think ethically,” Lewis said in her conclusion. “If your actions lead to front page stories in the Denver Post, the Coloradoan, the New York Times or any other major paper, then don’t make them.”

CSU freshman Gabri-el Brull sat in on Lewis’s speech, and said the discus-sion and event was a posi-tive experience that will help guide him in the future.

“This experience was life changing, it will defi nitely help

me in the business world and in college,” Brull said. “I want to be an ethical superstar.”

Collegian Writer Chris-topher Boan can be reached at [email protected].

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Best-selling author Stephen M.R. Covey speaks to a full lecture hall of CSU business students during the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Leadership Symposium on Business Ethics in Clark A101 Friday afternoon. Covey spoke on ethical issues and the importance of trust in business.

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“We don’t want to accept it as reality that people don’t trust others.We know that if you take away trust, the world grinds to a halt.”

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BY KATE WINKLEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Go to college. Gain 15 pounds.

The phenomenon of the “Freshman 15” is a common college stereotype, said Brit-teny Stuard, the Nutrition and Residential Dining Ser-vices employment manager.

“The magic number ’15’ isn’t necessarily true,” Stuard said. “I have read studies that show it is closer to 5 (pounds), but it is all relative really. I have met students that have gained weight during their first year and those that have lost weight. I think it really de-pends upon each individual and their lifestyle.”

Awareness of potential pitfalls is essential for pres-ent and future health, Stu-ard said. Correlations exist between weight gain and chronic diseases and de-creases in self-esteem, focus and energy levels are also linked to weight gain.

“Weight gained in freshmen year usually stays on and continues to increase each year of col-lege because of bad hab-its,” said Melissa Wdowik, director of the Kendall An-derson Nutrition Center. “The pitfalls are numer-ous — having to buy new clothes, feeling uncom-fortable or insecure, and the inevitable health risks of high blood pressure, di-abetes and heart disease which occur in the 20s, not just in older adults.”

Dining halls, with their all-you-can-eat options, the prevalence of vending ma-chines and coffee shops, and access to fast food can cause students to overload on food, according to Wdowik.

Additionally, snacking

in between classes or late at night because of unstruc-tured mealtimes can add to unnecessary calorie intake.

“Some students don’t eat when they are stressed but more often, they tend to eat more,” Wdowik said. “They may open a bag of chips to get them through their homework or keep getting up to snack to put off finish-ing a paper. The food is both a comfort and a distractor, which feels like it is helping.”

The dining centers’ Eat Well program promotes good nutrition choices through informational table cards, food labeling, bro-chures, nutrition stations and healthy tips to encour-age students as they select their food, according to Stu-ard.

“Tired of mayo on your sandwich? Try hummus as a condiment in its place!” boasts one of the placards.

Nutrition is only half the

battle to avoid weight gain. Exercise is equally essential, and the Campus Recreation Center provides classes and a variety of fitness opportu-nities that students can take advantage of throughout their day, according to Assis-tant Fitness Director Diane Bornhoft-Blanch.

“We have a lot of hours; if you can, schedule it into your day and make it a part of your schedule. You don’t ditch out on academics; don’t ditch out on exercise,” Bornhoft-Blanch said.

She noted that the Rec-reation Center is extreme-ly busy at the beginning of the year, but student use tends to taper off a little as students’ stress levels and workloads increase.

“If students are more involved, stress levels go down,” Bornhoft-Blanch said. “The more involved they stay, the better for them.”

Politics beat reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at [email protected].

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By Tom LasseterMcClatchy Newspapers

BEIJING _ A Chinese court on Monday handed down a suspended death sentence for Gu Kailai, the wife of fallen Chinese pol-itician Bo Xilai.

The widely expected outcome for Gu, who was found guilty earlier this month of killing a British businessman, will most like-ly mean a long prison term _ an outcome that both helps to calm one of the biggest political controversies to hit China in decades and avoid possible outcry over an ex-ecution. It’s customary in Chinese law for suspended death sentences to be con-verted to incarceration after two years.

Although official agen-cies had not yet reported the sentence on Monday morning, a lawyer for the family of the dead Brit-on, He Zhengsheng, con-firmed the development to Western newswires outside the courtroom.

The verdict leaves open the far thornier question of how the Chinese Com-munist Party will han-dle Bo’s case. He was not mentioned during Gu’s seven-hour court delibera-tion on Aug. 9, and the only public pronouncement about his fate so far was an April state news item say-ing that Bo had been “in-volved in serious discipline violations.”

Until the beginning of this year, Bo was widely seen as a strong candidate for the nation’s Politburo Standing Committee, the apogee of power in China. The son of a Communist

Party elder and the boss of the sprawling city of Chongqing, Bo’s political fortunes went into freefall after his former police chief fled to a U.S. consulate in February. That recently de-moted police official, Wang Lijun, reportedly aired alle-gations that Gu had killed British businessman Neil Heywood in a Chongqing hotel room last November.

The case against Gu was seen as closely choreo-graphed by the Commu-nist Party. The timing of the proceedings, and the con-troversy surrounding Bo, is particularly sensitive given a change in the majority of standing committee seats slated for later this year in a once in a decade transition of power.

Prosecutors in the eastern province of Anhui said that 53-year-old Gu murdered Heywood after a feud over a land project, for which Heywood was to act as a proxy for Gu. When the deal went bad, the prose-cution said, Heywood, 41, demanded a large payout and threatened both Gu and her son.

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By CRIS TILLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Freshman Kevin O’Brien took a huge leap of faith when he decided CSU was the best fi t for him.

O’Brien, a native of Katy, Texas, came to Fort Collins in pursuit of a dream—a chance to play Division-I football. He traveled 1,176 miles with no scholarship, no guarantees and no certainty.

That’s the life of a walk-on football play-er. Nobody knows who you are, where you came from, and frankly, they don’t care.

“It’s a big risk. It’s defi nitely a big risk,” O’Brien said. “I would have been heartbro-ken (to not play football). This is what I love,

I played for seven, eight years. You got to take it. If you really want something so

bad you got to take a risk, take the leap.” After playing high school football

in Katy, a suburb of Houston, O’Brien enrolled at the University of Incar-

nate Word, a small Catholic school in San Antonio.

UIW’s football program was created in 2009, and was smaller than O’Brien’s high school. He was going to play football, but playing

for a small program left a hole he felt needed fi lling.

“(UIW) wasn’t what I was looking for. Coming from a Texas high school, it just wasn’t a real college experience,” O’Brien said.

On the advice of a friend he chose to transfer to CSU, which offered a rebuild-ing program with a new, open coaching staff and an engineering school.

New football coach Jim McElwain emphasized a desire for size along

both the offensive and defensive lines after being hired the pre-

vious December. At 6-foot-3, 268 pounds O’Brien fi t the

mold. “If you look back,

Sonny (Lubick) built his teams on walk-ons,” McElwain said. “They

are an important part of any program.”

O’Brien was one of several walk-on players invited to join the team, which he

attributes to putting above and beyond effort into everything he does on the fi eld.

“I committed myself and that’s what got me on this team,” he said. “I was blessed with size, but it helps to show the coaches you real-ly want to be here, this is the place you want to be and you want to play for this team.

But making the team was hardly the end. It was just the beginning. There’s a playbook to learn, getting to know teammates and ev-eryday overcoming the fact that as a walk-on the future is never certain.

It’s a day-to-day process, but during fall camp O’Brien has earned the respect of his teammates.

“You got a lot of respect for these guys because you’re not getting free school to do it, you got to pay for everything,” center and team leader Weston Richburg said. “There’s defi nitely a lot of respect from me for Kevin for what he does especially playing offensive line because this is a tough position.

“I got all the respect in the world for that kid because I don’t know if I would do that if I was him.”

Earning respect from fellow players is one thing, but impressing the coaches is another.

O’Brien benefi ts from being familiar with the offense as he ran a similar style in high school, with the biggest differences coming from a terminology standpoint.

“There’s no difference in how the walk-on guys are treated from anyone else,” McEl-wain said. “Kevin comes out here every day and works his tail off applying his craft.”

While the end goal of every walk-on is to eventually earn a scholarship, O’Brien has a more immediate objective, one shared by his teammates and a testament to the solidarity of mind—help the team win in whatever way possible.

“Personally I’m just looking to better this team, whether that be I get on scholarship or I don’t, whatever I can do to make this team better,” O’Brien said. “I’m just trying to work my way up, get myself better as an offensive lineman and hopefully four years down the road I’m there at the top (of the depth chart).”

Sports Editor Cris Tiller can be reached at [email protected].

By CRIS TILLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Freshman Kevin O’Brien took a huge leap of faith when he decided CSU was the best fi t for him.

O’Brien, a native of Katy, Texas, came to Fort Collins in pursuit of a dream—a chance to play Division-I football. He traveled 1,176 miles with no scholarship, no guarantees and no certainty.

That’s the life of a walk-on football play-er. Nobody knows who you are, where you came from, and frankly, they don’t care.

“It’s a big risk. It’s defi nitely a big risk,” O’Brien said. “I would have been heartbro-ken (to not play football). This is what I love,

I played for seven, eight years. You got to take it. If you really want something so

bad you got to take a risk, take the leap.” After playing high school football

in Katy, a suburb of Houston, O’Brien enrolled at the University of Incar-

nate Word, a small Catholic school in San Antonio.

UIW’s football program was created in 2009, and was smaller than O’Brien’s high school. He was going to play football, but playing

for a small program left a hole he felt needed fi lling.

“(UIW) wasn’t what I was looking for. Coming from a Texas high school, it just wasn’t a real college experience,” O’Brien said.

On the advice of a friend he chose to transfer to CSU, which offered a rebuild-ing program with a new, open coaching staff and an engineering school.

New football coach Jim McElwain emphasized a desire for size along

both the offensive and defensive lines after being hired the pre-

vious December. At 6-foot-3, 268 pounds O’Brien fi t the

mold. “If you look back,

Sonny (Lubick) built his teams on walk-ons,” McElwain said. “They

are an important part of any program.”

one of several walk-on players invited to join the team, which he

TAKING THE LEAP

By ANDREW SCHALLERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Through the fi rst two

weeks of implementing new offensive and defen-sive schemes during fall training camp, the CSU football team and new coach Jim McElwain have embraced a somewhat simpler approach to fi nd-ing success on the football fi eld in preparation for their Sept.1 season opener against CU-Boulder.

“This has been a camp on these guys that they’ve never gone through, from all the things we’re asking them to do throughout ev-erything,” McElwain said after the second scrim-mage of the fall on Satur-day. “I think what they’re starting to understand is if they take care of those type of things, the game really is easy, so I think they’re starting to get it.”

A key to the success of the Rams and McElwain’s new offense this season will be quarterback Gar-rett Grayson, who has been working on mastering the system since the begin-ning of spring practices in March.

“I feel as comfortable as I can,” Grayson said. “But I still feel like I can make reads quicker, stuff like times when I’m holding the ball too long and I’m still not hitting guys like I would want to be. But I feel like knowing the plays and knowing where people are going to be, I feel like I’m good to go.”

Defensively, the Rams feel confi dent in their abili-

ty to make big plays despite losing defensive starters Mike Orakpo, Nordly Capi and C.J. James during the off-season.

During Saturday’s scrimmage, without the help of injured defen-sive backs Momo Thomas (hand) and DeAndre Elliott (ankle), the defense record-ed 8 sacks and 5 intercep-tions as a unit.

“One of the things

that Coach (McElwain) preached about was fami-ly,” defensive back Bernard Blake said. “And our lead-ers and our starters, they have done a tremendous job in helping getting the young guys ready, so now that those guys went down, there are opportunities for other guys to step up.”

In addition to Thomas

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By KYLE GRABOWSKIThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

It was a once in a life-time summer for the CSU volleyball team.

The Rams visited France and Italy on a Euro-pean tour, and senior mid-dle blocker Breion Paige was selected to the U.S. Women’s National Volley-ball A2 Tournament.

They played six match-es total in Italy, three in the country’s southern region, one near Rome and two in Milan against the Italian Ju-nior National team.

“We all grew a lot closer as a team. We learned dif-ferent styles of playing and it made us better,” redshirt sophomore setter Deedra Foss said.

The team trailed the Italian Junior Nation-al Team 2-0 in their fi nal match of the tour, but ral-lied in the last three sets to win the match.

“It was great to watch.

That team is very good, and we went into playing with a different ball, in a weird environment, in a weird facility, and played really well,” coach Tom Hil-bert said.

Overall CSU fi nished the volleyball section of their tour 6-0, but also en-joyed the bonding experi-ences of travelling through Europe as a team.

“The whole theme of our trip, that we even talk-ed about before we left, was that this is a once in a lifetime experience,” se-nior opposite hitter Dana Cranston said. “We’re nev-er going to be here again doing this tour with our team, so I think we didn’t take it for granted. We used the team bonding moments and the games to enhance our connec-tion together.”

The volleyball summer wasn’t yet over for Paige, however, as she competed in the U.S. Women’s Nation-

al Volleyball A2 Tournament in early July after the team returned from Europe.

Athletes not selected to U.S. Women’s National Vol-leyball team with collegiate eligibility remaining were eligible for the program, and Paige was one of 48 players to attend.

“I feel really blessed,” Paige said when she was selected in June. “I just have to thank God, because it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experi-ence, and not everyone gets the chance to do this.”

Her team of 12 won the gold medal at the tour-nament despite fi nishing round robin play with the

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Taking a simpler approach

Rams spend summer abroad in preparation for 2012 season

“� is has been a camp on these guys that they’ve never gone through, from all the things we’re

asking them to do throughout everything.”Jim McElwain | head coach

Starting quarterback Garrett Grayson gets loose during warmups on Tuesday Aug. 14. Grayson and the Rams have focused on fi xing the little mistakes over the course of fall camp.


The CSU volleyball team practices in Moby Wednesday Aug. 16 in preparation for the upcoming season. The Rams enter the 2012 season ranked No. 25 in the AVCA preseason poll.


Name: Kevin O’Brien Class: Freshman Position: Offensive

line Height: 6-foot-3 Weight: 268 pounds Hometown: Katy,

PLAYER PROFILE

European Tour: May 18-28 6-0 overall record Visited Italy and France Won two matches against

AT A GLANCE

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and Elliott, running back Chris Nwoke (ankle) and tight ends Blake Jones (knee) and Jake Levin (concussion) were held out of Saturday’s scrimmage, while wide re-ceiver Charles Lovett left the scrimmage early after sus-taining a rib injury.

McElwain stressed after the scrimmage that most of the injuries were not serious and if this were a game this week, only Levin would be held out.

The Rams that do take the field against CU-Boulder will need to work on mini-mizing penalties and turn-overs, two areas that McEl-wain has focused on during the off-season.

CSU struggled with what McElwain called “unforced errors” Saturday, turning the ball over five times and committing various pre-snap penalties throughout the day.

However, CSU still showed improvement from being one of the most-pe-nalized teams in Division-I

football last year. “Let’s put it this way,

we wouldn’t have been the 98th-most penalized team in the country based on how we played (Saturday),” McEl-wain said. “We did have two offsides, actually two on the offense and two on the de-fense in some hard-snap sit-uations, which is just a lack of focus. I mean those are unforced errors that good football teams don’t make.”

It’s the smaller details that the Rams have been fo-cusing on in fall camp, lead-

ing the team to focus more on what they can do correct-ly than what mistakes their opponents will make.

“We shouldn’t concern ourselves with whoever we’re playing,” McElwain said. “We should concern ourselves with taking care of the things that we control and that’s how we play, how we communicate, how we pay attention to detail and how we execute.”

Football Beat Reporter An-drew Schaller can be reached at [email protected].

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lowest possible seed. “It was such a blessing

playing with those girls and competing with them. Them pushing me and working with new coaches is really great to bring back here to CSU,” Paige said.

Now the Rams will have to put together what they learned over the summer in their fall camp. The team reported for practice Aug. 8, and

will play its first game Aug. 24 at home against Virginia.

“It makes a lot of two-a-days a lot easier having that connection already, and then it’s already really strong so the new players can feed off of that,” Cran-ston said. “It kind of takes some pressure off them, which I think helps a lot.”

Assistant Sports Edi-tor Kyle Grabowski can be reached at [email protected].

FOOTBALL | Rams working on the ‘little details’ in preparation for season opener

VOLLEYBALL | Building chemistry in camp

By Laura KingThe McClatchy Tribune

KABUL, Afghanistan _ They’ve been cut down while working out in makeshift gyms, as they bedded down for the night in remote com-bat outposts, after shrugging off heavy packs and sweat-soaked body armor when they returned from patrol.

At the height of this dusty summer, American troops are dying at unprec-edented rates at the hands of their Afghan allies. And both sides are struggling to explain why, even as they search for ways to stem what are known in military par-lance as “insider” attacks.

This month, at least 10 U.S. troops — including a U.S. service member shot Sunday and five members of America’s elite special-oper-ations forces slain earlier — have been killed by Afghan police, soldiers or civilian workers at military instal-lations. As of Sunday, that accounted for a stunning 32 percent of the 31 American military fatalities in Afghan-istan reported thus far in Au-gust by the monitoring web-site icasualties.org.

Aside from the devastat-ing emotional blow dealt to families of the slain service members and the effect on morale in field units, insider shootings have wider-rang-ing repercussions. They have provided a propaganda bo-nanza to the Taliban, and could threaten a linchpin of the Western exit strate-gy: training Afghan securi-ty forces in preparation for handing over most fighting duties to them by 2014.

The military says only a very small share of insider attacks are carried out by Taliban “sleepers” in the po-lice or army. But that opens the way to a perhaps even more alarming conclusion: that the majority of the as-sailants are undertaking what are effectively sponta-neous, self-assigned suicide missions, because many in-sider shooters are killed on the spot in return fire.

The military says it is working to address the threat. Changes in recent months have included the posting of armed Western troops — so-called guardian

angels — to watch over oth-ers in mess halls, sleeping tents and gyms. Last week, the American commander of the NATO force, Gen. John Allen, ordered that NATO troops across Afghanistan keep a loaded magazine in their weapons, even when on base.

Earlier this year, an Army captain at one base de-scribed an informal buddy system at his base of troops signaling each other to keep a close watch on armed Af-ghans nearby, especially if one of their comrades was diverted by some task.

“ ‘Shona-ba-shona,’ OK,” the captain said, invoking the “shoulder-to-shoulder” slogan of the NATO force and its Afghan partners. “But also: ‘Eyes on, all times.’ “

In public, Western mili-tary officials in Afghanistan have consistently sought to play down the overar-ching significance of such attacks, describing them as an occasional violent anomaly in an otherwise effective and mutually re-spectful working relation-ship between Afghan secu-rity forces and the NATO troops training them.

“Every day, you have 500,000 soldiers and police working and fighting side by side _ you talk to these guys, and they tell you they are building trust and friend-ship,” said Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz, a spokesman for NA-TO’s International Security Assistance Force, referring to the approximate com-bined numbers of Afghan and Western forces.

But disquiet is being ex-pressed in high echelons. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told reporters in Washington last week that he was “very concerned” by the recent spate of insider attacks, and he called Presi-dent Hamid Karzai over the weekend to talk about the need for tougher selection standards for the Afghan armed forces.

How to guard against such attacks is the subject of considerable debate in mil-itary leadership circles, be-cause overtly heavy-handed measures can send a signal to the Afghans that they are not trusted, which can be taken as an insult. And in

traditional Afghan culture, perceived insult can swiftly lead to exactly the sort of vi-olence the attacks represent.

Efforts on the Afghan side include embedding undercover intelligence offi-cers in some battalions, and stricter scrutiny of recruits, including the collection of biometric data to compare against a database of known insurgents. Some observers, though, believe the safe-guards built into the recruit-ment process, including the requirement that village elders vouch for those who want to join the army, are routinely bypassed in many provinces.

“It all goes to the vetting process, to the hurry the in-ternational community is in to produce soldiers,” said Daoud Sultanzoy, a former member of parliament and broadcaster.

Many explanations have been floated for Afghans turning their guns on mem-bers of the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization force: stress, battle fatigue, personal antagonism, cul-tural misunderstandings, copycat psychology, heat-of-the moment disputes in a society where arguments are often settled with a Kalash-nikov.

The phenomenon is so pervasive that the killings have their own evolving nomenclature. Previous-

ly, the military called them “green-on-blue” attacks, a color-coded reference to Afghan and Western forces. Now the preferred, more en-compassing term is “insider threat,” stemming from the fact that assailants have in-cluded not only uniformed police and soldiers, but ci-vilian members of the Af-ghan security apparatus, or simply someone with access to a coalition base, even in a low-level capacity.

The Taliban movement has noted the rising num-ber of insider shootings with ill-concealed delight, boast-ing of having infiltrated all branches of the Afghan se-curity forces. In the past, the Taliban leadership claimed responsibility for virtually every such attack, but lately the group’s publicity ma-chine often cites individual initiative by those without links to the insurgency.

“Our fighters are in the ranks of the police, army and intelligence service, but there are also some who carry out attacks on foreign troops only because they are Afghans and Muslims and act on their religious obliga-tion to protect their coun-try from invading forces,” said Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the group. “It is an indication of utter ha-tred against the foreigners.”

Motivation for the at-tacks remains opaque in

many instances, either be-cause the shooter is killed or manages to escape, in some cases with the suspected collusion of local authori-ties. Family members gener-ally shed little light on what might have caused a relative to turn his gun on Western mentors.

“He had very good re-lations with the foreigners, and he was trusted and liked by them,” said Shamsullah Sahrahi, a tribal elder whose policeman son, Assadul-lah, stands accused in an insider attack this month in Helmand province. Lo-cal officials said Assadul-lah had invited a group of U.S. Marines to one of the nighttime meals that obser-vant Muslims eat during the dawn-to-dusk fasting month of Ramadan, where three were shot dead and a fourth wounded.

Among Afghans, partic-ularly those serving in the security forces, the reaction to news of yet another in-sider attack can vary. Some express genuine-seeming shock and sadness; others voice fears that the assaults will accelerate the Western pullout and leave them un-prepared to take on the Tal-iban alone; others suggest that foreign troops bring it on themselves.

“It’s not good when these things happen,” said

a 21-year-old Afghan army recruit waiting in line at a Kabul military induction center. “But well, maybe it’s because of the Koran burning,” a reference to the accidental incineration of Muslim holy books by U.S. troops in February, which set off days of deadly rioting.

Higher-ranking Afghan officials are much more likely to offer an unequiv-ocal condemnation of the attacks, sometimes in florid terms. “I wish I could open up my chest and show the pain I feel in my heart,” Col. Mohammad Akbar Stan-ikzai, an intelligence officer at the Afghan army’s recruit-ment headquarters in Kabul, said when asked about the phenomenon.

Some analysts believe part of the problem is the sheer longevity of the war, now in its 11th year. In the conflict’s early stages, such attacks were an extreme rar-ity.

“I wouldn’t say it’s nor-mal, but I think it’s under-standable in a war situation which is lasting for more than a decade,” said Fabrizio Foschino of the Afghan Ana-lysts Network. “The conflict has been becoming worse, nastier — and the presence of foreign troops doesn’t seem in the eyes of many Af-ghans to have brought posi-tive changes.”

Afghanistan ‘insider’ attacks pose threat to West’s exit strategy

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By Bailey ConstasThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The Saturday before classes can be spent relish-ing the last shred of summer by doing things like hanging out with friends, hiking or sleeping very, very late into the day.

But for Nikki Mazarin, a junior art history major, the last days of summer were spent helping those who suffered from the devastat-ing High Park Fire.

“I studied abroad in Ita-ly and got back this summer and was left with a daunting thought of what to do with the rest of my life,” Mazarin said.

That daunting thought then matured into the idea of an art show promoting artist’s work, coupled with a silent auction of specific pieces to help the victims of the High Park Fire.

The event, dubbed Art Doing Its Part, took place

in Mazarin’s Asian-inspired backyard equipped with a koi fish pond, wine and, of course, many pieces of art.

Artwork was displayed throughout the yard with nine specific pieces up for bidding. The bidding ended at 6 p.m. on Saturday night, the last night of the show.

Approximately 30 peo-ple bid and around 50 were in attendance. In total, the event raised approximately $300 between the auction items and donations, Maza-rin said.

“It was a cool way to help out Nikki and our ma-jor,” said Graham Hendrick-son, a senior art education major.

All of the funds earned, which included bids as well as cash donations, went toward the American Red Cross.

Mazarin started orga-nizing the auction in June.

“The hardest part was getting the nitty gritty to-gether, but specifically

wrangling of the artists,” Mazarin said.

The artists were pulled from the CSU program, Art in Italy, which was com-prised of 15 to 18 students lead by Michael Fenton, the faculty advisor for the trip.

“Standing in front of the art you’re learning about gives you a completely new perspective,” said Mazarin, remembering her trip to see Michelangelo’s David.

“All of the artists went to Italy and we wanted to share our talents with each other because there’s some-thing we all share,” said Lily Chaffee, junior art history major and participant in the show.

With such a large expe-rience shared between the artists, Duncan Marks, a senior fine arts and graph-ic design major, wanted to share this connection for the benefit of others.

“It was a nice way to stay in contact with each other and do some good

for the community,” Marks said.

Mazarin explained that the auction not only gave her experience putting on an art show and helping the community, but helped art-ists figure out approximate-ly how much their pieces could go for.

The show also provided Mazarin with a way to find where she wanted to go with the rest of her studies and career.

She didn’t know that she wanted to be an art major until her senior year of high school when her art teacher mentioned the idea to her.

She then combined her love of humanities with her love for art and became an art history major.

“I love it still,” Mazarin said.

Entertainment Reporter and Diversity Beat Report-er Bailey Constas can be reached at [email protected]

Art Doing Its Part paints a connection between students and those in need

Paige Schreckengast, a senior art major, leaves Art Doing Its Part Saturday. The silent auction was organized by CSU student Nicki Mazarin to benefit victim’s of the High Park Fire.

NIC TURCIANO | COLLEGIAN

LEFT: Mairead LaJeanesse, left, Evie Waterbury, center, and Delia LaJeanesse view the art for auction at Art Doing Its Part Saturday.RIGHT: Nicki’s mother, Judy Mazarin, sits outside the gate to her backyard with the list of participants from the auction’s two days of bidding Saturday. “I wanted to give my daughter the opportunity to put her talents to work in the service of others,” Mazarin said.

NIC TURCIANO | COLLEGIAN

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LOS ANGELES—“To-night Show” host Jay Leno is taking a significant reduc-tion in pay and roughly two dozen staffers are being let go as part of a major bud-get restructuring at the late-night talk show.

Although “The Tonight Show” remains the top-rat-ed late-night program, from a financial standpoint it is only break-even, according to a person familiar with the economics of the show.

One reason for that is that the production budget of the show was not reduced when Leno moved back to late night after his ill-fated stint in prime time during the 2009-10 television sea-son.

Leno’s current salary is between $25 million and $30 million and he volunteered to take a cut if it would save some jobs. A person close to the network thought Leno’s new salary is likely around $20 million. Bruce Bobbins, one of Leno’s spokesmen, declined to comment.

In a statement later Bob-bins said, “Jay’s foremost concern is for the wonderful

people who work for ‘The Tonight Show.’ He did what was necessary to ensure their well-being.”

While an NBC spokes-woman declined to com-ment on the situation, the job losses are said to be be-tween 20 and 25 people and many other senior staffers also agreed to pay cuts.

The weekly budget for Leno’s prime time show was approximately $2.3 million and it stayed there when he returned to late night and Conan O’Brien was sent packing. The budget now will be closer to $1.7 million, which is in the range of what it was during Leno’s previous late-night stint.

Leno is not the first late-night host to agree to a sal-ary reduction. In 2009, CBS restructured David Letter-man’s deal and reduced his salary and the budget of the show.

Whether NBC will look to other areas to make addi-tional cuts is yet to be deter-mined. Earlier this year, the network trimmed its mar-keting and promotions staff.

News of the cuts were first reported by Deadline Hollywood.

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Ryan makes point at Fla. retirement community By JON BUSDEKERThe McClatchy Tribune

THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Presumptive Republican vice-presidential candi-date Paul Ryan brought his 78-year-old mom to The Villages, Fla., on Saturday to make a point about Medi-care.

During his speech at the sprawling retirement com-munity northwest of Orlan-do, Ryan said his mother, Betty Douglas, has depend-ed on the government pro-gram for more than 10 years. It was promised to her and millions of today's seniors, and it won't go away for now.

But Medicare needs changes, he said, and he plans on engaging the oppo-sition on how to reform it.

"We want this debate. We need this debate. We will win this debate," he said to a cheering crowd.

One week after being chosen as Mitt Romney's running mate, Ryan, 42, headlined the campaign event at Lake Sumter Land-ing, which included an ap-pearance by country music artist Lee Greenwood.

Ryan's stop at The Villag-es — which straddles Lake, Sumter and Marion coun-ties — was the first time the seven-term Wisconsin rep-resentative has appeared in Florida since becoming the presumptive vice-presiden-tial candidate.

An adoring, invigorated crowd of thousands — many dressed in patriotic-themed shirts, dresses and hats — arrived early to see Ryan. Several waved homemade signs, including one that read "Romney/Ryan: Amer-ica's Comeback Team."

Flanked by an Ameri-can flag and a state of Flor-ida flag, Ryan opened his 20-minute speech by asking

the crowd to greet Douglas, who lives part time in Lau-derdale-By-The-Sea. Ryan then began by saying Ameri-ca has a choice.

"We want to deserve vic-tory so that when we win, we have the mandate and moral authority to stop kicking the can down the road and get this country back — on track," he said, wearing khaki pants and a blue-striped polo shirt.

"This is no ordinary elec-tion," Ryan said.

A large banner sign be-hind him said, "Protect and strengthen Medicare," a cru-cial theme of his speech to the mostly 55-plus crowd. Meanwhile, an airplane cir-cled above the event with a banner that read "Paul Ryan: Keep Your Hands off Our Medicare."

Ryan focused on Medi-care seven minutes into his speech. He said older Amer-icans, including his mother, have planned their retire-

ments around the program."We have got to keep

that guarantee," he said.But to save Medicare,

Ryan said it must be reformed for his generation and be-yond. Ryan has called on the introduction of a voucher program in which individuals can shop for coverage.

Ryan contrasted his plan to leave the program in-tact for current seniors with President Barack Obama's plan, which Ryan said would

take decision-making power away from seniors to a panel of 15 bureaucrats.

Mary Sharpe, an Obama supporter from Lady Lake who attended the rally, said she's concerned about Ryan's plan: "I don't want anything to happen to my Medicare."

Sharpe, 69, added that she trusts the Democrats to take care of the program cre-ated under Lyndon Johnson in 1965.

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spokesperson criticized Ryan in an email, saying the congressman didn't tell se-niors at the rally "that if he (Ryan) had his way, seniors would face higher Medicare premiums and prescrip-tion-drug costs, and would be forced to pay out of pock-et for preventive care."

Though Medicare took up the bulk of Ryan's speech, he also touched upon Rom-ney's leadership, the nation's debt, jobs and the economy.

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan greets supporters after delivering remarks at a rally in The Villages, Florida on Saturday. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)

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SEATTLE — The U.S. Department of Justice has taken over the prosecutions of an Oregon white-suprem-acist couple accused in last fall’s three-state crime spree, alleging their crimes — in-cluding the slayings of an Everett, Wash., couple — were aimed at promoting and funding a movement to “purify” and “preserve the white race” through murder.

A 24-page, 15-count in-dictment unsealed in Port-land, Ore., on Friday names David Joseph “Joey” Peder-sen, 32; Holly Ann Grigsby, 25; “and others” in a conspir-acy that included research-ing and gathering the names of prominent Jewish leaders and organizations in Seattle, Portland and Sacramento, Calif., to identify potential targets for elimination.

It claims that Pedersen, when he was arrested with Grigsby in Yuba City, Calif., driving the car of one of their four alleged victims, had prepared a “press release” to alert the media to the kill-ings and their purpose. Ac-cording to the indictment, Pedersen had already identi-fied his first “Zionist” target and had obtained the gun he intended to use to commit the crime, although it does not name the alleged target.

Prosecutors allege Ped-ersen and Grigsby funded their white-power move-ment with credit cards sto-

len from their victims, and used their stolen cars to trav-el from one state to another.

In Snohomish County, Wash., the pair is accused of killing Pedersen’s father, David “Red” Pedersen, and stepmother, Leslie “Dee Dee” Pedersen, on Sept. 26 in Everett. They’re also ac-cused of killing two men in Oregon and California in the following week.

Grigsby told police they shot the Oregon man “be-cause his last name made them think he was Jewish,” according to charging docu-ments. The California victim was black.

After their arrests, Grigs-by and Pedersen expressed white-supremacist beliefs in media interviews. According to court documents, Pedersen has a tattoo of a swastika on his chest above his heart and an image of Adolf Hitler on his stomach. The initials “SWP,” for Supreme White Power, are tattooed on his neck.

The indictment exposes Pedersen and Grigsby to a possible federal death pen-alty — a decision that will be made by Attorney General Eric Holder, according to a news release from the Port-land U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Pedersen is already serv-ing life without parole at the Monroe Correctional Com-plex after pleading guilty to the slayings of his father and his stepmother. Grigsby is facing trial for the homicides in Snohomish County Supe-rior Court.

However, Snohomish County Prosecuting Attor-ney Mark Roe said Friday he will dismiss the state charges against Grigsby now that the federal indictment has been issued.

Roe had already said publicly he would not seek the death penalty against Pedersen or Grigsby.

Roe said consolidat-ing the cases under a fed-eral racketeering and organized-crime conspir-acy prosecution will prove “much more humane for everyone involved, and far more efficient” than a piece-meal approach, with each state taking its turn.

“A three-state prosecu-tion up and down the West Coast could take a decade or more,” Roe said. “I can’t imagine a series of more ag-onizing road trips for every-one involved.”

Grigsby’s attorney, Peter Mazzone, said Snohomish County prosecutors had al-ready decided not to seek the death penalty against his client, and he hopes for a similar conclusion from fed-

eral prosecutors.Grigsby is set to appear

before a U.S. magistrate in Seattle on Monday. Peders-en’s federal arraignment has not been scheduled.

Roe said the federal gov-ernment will be able to pres-ent far more evidence under its theory of the case, which al-leges conspiracy, racketeering and crimes under the Racke-teer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), claiming the couple were in-volved in a criminal enter-prise aimed at furthering their white-supremacist beliefs.

For example, Roe said, he would likely not be al-lowed to present a jury with evidence of the other two slayings in which Pedersen and Grigsby are accused, in Oregon and California, be-cause they occurred after the killings in Everett.

Both Grigsby and Peder-sen also face a series of fire-arms-related counts, includ-ing using a gun in a crime of violence that resulted in a death, that carry stiff man-datory-minimum penalties in the federal system.

Justice Dept. takes over prosecution of Ore. white supremacist couple accused in killings

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEYThe McClatchy Tribune

JANESVILLE, Wis. — In September 2008, as Wall Street was roiling with ca-lamity, Rep. Paul D. Ryan was facing another loom-ing disaster back home.

A General Motors plant, the lifeblood of his home-town, was set to close. The huge Suburbans and Tahoes from the Janesville production line were no longer in vogue. The aging plant was to stop produc-tion by Christmas — unless Ryan and other Wisconsin officials could save it.

Ryan, then the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, flew to Detroit to cajole GM executives. For more than an hour, he and other of-ficials made a PowerPoint proposal that mixed union concessions with unprece-dented state and local tax breaks for GM.

“We put an enormous package on the table,” said then-Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, a Democrat, of the state-led effort.

Two years later, as chairman of the budget committee, Ryan became known for another Pow-erPoint presentation — a slide show on the federal government’s ballooning debt. In that pitch, Ryan touted his budget plan, which includes a vow to “end corporate welfare.”

Now Ryan’s plan and his salesmanship have helped him become GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s running mate. The choice has thrilled conservatives who view him as a symbol of unwav-ering fiscal austerity and delighted Democrats who see him as a radical ideo-logue.

Neither characteriza-tion fits Ryan’s effort to save the GM plant in his district. Despite his paeans to free markets, Ryan vot-ed for $14 billion in emer-gency federal loans to help bail out the auto industry during the waning days of the George W. Bush admin-

istration.Ryan was closely in-

volved in a task force that helped craft two incentive packages with large state tax breaks for GM, and per-sonally lobbied GM execu-tives to accept the bids.

“I would say Con-gressman Ryan did what a good member of Congress would do for his district,” Doyle said. He added that like many other Republi-cans, Ryan made sure to “complain about the so-called stimulus and bail-outs while also lining up to make sure their districts were getting taken care of.”

Ryan’s record of seek-ing federal money for his district came under close scrutiny last week after he denied and then ac-knowledged requesting money available under the $789-billion stimulus bill passed by Congress in 2009. Ryan had voted against the bill, and de-cried it as wasteful. In a statement Thursday, he said constituents’ requests for stimulus funds “should have been handled differ-ently.”

A Ryan aide, who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue, said that although Ryan’s proposed budget plan promises to take the federal govern-ment “out of the business of picking winners and losers in the marketplace,” he makes a distinction between what is appro-priate for the federal and state governments. Ryan believes states are free to compete for business as they see fit, the aide said.

At the September 2008 meeting in Detroit, Ryan helped pitch a $224-mil-lion proposal that included roughly $50 million in state enterprise zone tax credits, local government grants worth $22 million, and ma-jor contract concessions from the United Automo-bile Workers union local.

But it soon became clear that the future of Janesville — and all of GM — hinged on federal intervention.

Ryan fought to bail out GM plant

“I would say Congressman Ryan did what a good member of Congress

would do for his district.”Jim Doyle | former Wisconsin Gov.



By Alex Steinmetz The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Every year, it’s the same schedule of events.

Each freshman is given a matching t-shirt, breakfast is packed neatly into a brown bag and given to every stu-dent to eat together on the lawn and they stay with their orientation groups as they walk single fi le down to the Plaza.

And while they try to remember which building is the Clark Building, what time they are supposed to be at various events and the way back to their dorms, some freshmen students said they are trying to figure out where they are going to fit in best.

“Sure, some of it is goofy, but without it I wouldn’t know where to go,” unde-clared freshman Kayla Sher-man said.

Others didn’t appreci-ate the experience of the welcome events as much. Freshman Jane Olsen said she felt like she was being herded around through the group.

“I feel like I’m at summer camp, and at the end of the weekend I have to pack my bags and go home,” Olsen said. “Nobody seems so-cial or interested in making friends because we are all just here — doing the same things. We aren’t on our own yet.”

Pam Burger, an employ-ee at Rams Horn in the Aca-demic Village, said students looked like “deer caught in the headlights.”

“These kids just need someone to help them through the fi rst few days, because it can be hard,” said Sue Gardner, another Rams Horn employee. “I can take their cards, show them how it works, walk them through

the line and do my best to ‘mom’ them as they fi gure it out.”

Both Burger and Gard-ner said that, while Ram Welcome seems monoto-nous, it really is benefi cial as a way to make the transition into the college lifestyle.

Chris Rowland, a psy-chology professor, agreed.

“This potentially larger purpose of getting everyone integrated into the academ-ic culture early on may well be a positive thing in the long-term in helping stu-dents develop intellectual-ly,” he said.

But on the fl ip side, he said he understood how the monotony of Ram Welcome “can be seen as stripping people of their individuali-ty, and that might very well make some people uncom-fortable.”

Collegian writer Alex Steinmetz can be reached at [email protected].

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BELOW: Fire dancer Keile Altair performs at Ramapalooza outside of the Lory Student Center Friday night. Altair also performed for last year’s Ra-mapalooza event that includes a variety of events to welcoming the Freshmen class. Photo by Nic turiciano

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For students in CSU International Programs, Ram Welcome can be more than just an intro-duction to university life. It’s an opportunity to start to integrate with Ameri-can students.

Many of the interna-tional students are placed into Ram Welcome groups to get more comfortable with American culture, ac-cording to Ram Welcome leader Cole Brubaker, who had two international stu-dents in his group.

“They get to do a lot of the fun games with our group but also go to events like Target night with the international program they came with, they even have little guides they call ‘mappies,’ to tell them where to go or say to bet-ter communicate,” Bru-baker said.

Even though some of the local students may become bored with the constant ice-breakers used to learn

other people’s names and trivia, some international students said they enjoyed the moment for the sake of feeling more welcomed and part of the society.

“I liked how there were so many people in the group and how they made me feel like one of them,” said Eko Saputra, an exchange stu-dent from Indonesia.

Ha Tran An, a senior eco-nomics major from Vietnam, found Ram Welcome to be exciting and a little over-whelming.

Her transition to CSU life will be different from that of a typical college freshman. The plane ticket home is more than $2,000 round-trip and the fl ight is at least 20 hours long. She doesn’t fore-see any visits from family or friends during the school year.

Yichao Anix Zhang, a sophomore psychology ma-jor from China, shared the same views. The transition to academic life in the U.S. proved to be harder than ex-pected.

“I had all C’s fi rst semes-ter,” Zhang said.

Zhang was admitted to CSU right away, but some international students were not as lucky.

According to Tulsi Adhikari, the student coor-dinator for the international offi ce, all international stu-dents must meet the CSU English standard. If a stu-dent cannot do so, they will be conditionally admitted until they pass the Test of English as a Foreign Lan-guage (TOEFL).

He was able to adjust to American culture once he made some new friends, which he said helped his transition.

“It is easy to befriend people who are from the same continent,” Zhang added.

Monic Ikhsan from In-donesia put it differently.

“Even though it has been three days I’m feeling home sick,” she said. “So it’s nice to have my friends from Indo-nesia with me.”

Collegian writer Moonier Said and student life beat re-porter Amanda Zetah can be reached at [email protected].

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CAIRO — Hind Ali, 27, was among those who took to Tahrir Square and de-manded the end of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. She voted for his successor, former Muslim Brotherhood leader Mo-hammed Morsi, the nation’s first democratically elected president. And until this past month, she thought the days of demanding change were past.

But as she waited for sunset during the holy Mus-lim month of Ramadan, she wondered if there would be enough power to prepare a meal to break fast, to see the food in front of her, and enough water to drink. The days of protesting, she de-cided, were not over.

The 2011 revolution was a call for a better Egyptian government. But since the election and the end of the Mubarak regime, Ali said, she believes it’s time for a new revolution — one that demands the government bring back basic services like electricity, water and securi-ty.

A major protest over the Morsi government’s overall performance is scheduled for Friday. “If there were a protest for water and elec-tricity, I would join them,” Ali said, one day recently as she waited for the sun to set so she could eat. “Morsi’s face is bad luck for us. Since

he took over, the power and electricity keep cutting off.”

Ramadan, the holy month of fasting, has come to an end, with Sunday’s Eid al-Fitr celebration. It’s a month when Muslims to re-flect on what they have and how the less fortunate live.

This year, it has also been a reminder of what they have lost despite the prom-ise of democratic reforms. The month was marked by unprecedented electricity and water shortages, all as the average temperature was 100 degrees or higher. Those who went all day with no drink often had to scrounge for water in the evenings be-cause there also has been a shortage of bottled water.

Seeing their loved ones while enjoying the evening meal, or iftar, was a luxury for many Egyptians this Ra-madan season. Many ate in the dark.

At times the subways stopped, forcing fasting commuters to walk around the track under the scorch-ing heat. Security remained a problem. Hospitals closed to prevent burlaries. And despite stagnant wages and rising unemployment, food prices kept rising in a nation where the average worker earns $200 a month.

Ali’s mother, Fathya Saad, fretted that the cost of one kilogram of potatoes had climbed to the equiva-lent of 66 cents.

The government has blamed the electricity prob-lem on a 10 percent drop in electricity production and growing demand. At one point, Morsi’s prime min-ster, Hesham Qandil, the former minister of water and irrigation, urged fam-ilies to wear cotton and sit in one room to conserve energy, leading Egyptians to mock their new government rather than embrace it.

“It’s so important to re-duce electricity consump-tion. This year rationing is optional but in the long run it will be obligatory,” Qandil said at a a news conference.

Qandil also told resi-dents to call an Egyptian

hotline, which Ali said she has tried several times. But no one answers. Instead, she spent her fasting days sitting outside during power out-ages with neighbors since it was cooler than indoors. Sometimes, the family cooked iftar by candlelight.

Ali lives in Maasara, a Cairo slum near the impov-erished Helwan district, where thousands of resi-dents suffered daily with-out power. But she said her relatives in other wealthier districts often suffered from outages, even if they were shorter.

“Before the revolution, it didn’t cut off at all. But things are getting worse. When I went to Tahrir, I wasn’t thinking about services. I am now,” she said.

Ali liked to follow iftar by watching “Red Lines,” a soap opera produced specifical-ly for Ramadan. Among the plots was the water short-age, peppered with the tale of a police officer who acci-dentally kills his partner and then marries his partner’s widow, who did not know her new husband’s role in her first husband’s demise. When the power is not on during the first airing, Ali stays up late for the second showing, when power is gen-erally reliable.

While some are quick to blame Morsi, many in-cluding Ali, are convinced that technocrats who once served under Mubarak are purposely sabotaging the electricity to make the newly elected president lose popu-lar support. Yet their anger at Morsi appears to be growing.

Morsi “said he would do something for us. He fooled us,” Ali complained but then quickly added: “I think Mubarak’s men and some who were released from prison are provoking a crisis to put Morsi in an embar-rassing situation.”

Regardless, for Ali, the experience of the past month has soured her on democratic reforms.

“Where is the change?” she asked looking around. “Do you see it?”

Residents of the Cairo slum of Maasara near the impoverished Helwan district, enjoy electricity, which has becomea luxury during the holy month of Ramadan. Egypt has experiencedunprecedented power and water outages during the religious holiday.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (08/20/12). Where would you love to see yourself a year from today? Invent an inspiring future and set about achieving it. The groups and organizations that you play with open doors for you this year. Nurture and cherish your relationships.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easi-est day, 0 the most challenging.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) ––5–– Blend your ideas with those of someone significant and move forward. Provide ex-cellent service, even if it’s difficult. Wait to see what develops.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ––5–– When you focus on something bigger than yourself, you can make it happen. The end result goes public. Friends encourage you to lead them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ––6–– Out of the chaos comes something new and wonderful. Access your playful side and create magic. Compromise may be required, but assistance is nearby.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) ––7–– Take care of problems that could arise at home. Work out the kinks and follow through. It’s not a good time for love now, but things will turn out even better with patience.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ––6–– Don’t let this chance slip through your fingers. Now’s time to get into the books and profit. There’ll be time for fun later. You’re very expressive and your team is hot.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ––5–– Travel lightly and get far-ther than expected. It’s not always about winning the game, but about how much fun you’re having. Extra income is just gravy. Go hiking.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ––7–– You’re on top of your game. Score big despite slight opposition from your fears. Getting in touch with old connections helps achieve a home run at work.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ––5–– Don’t listen to the noisy monkeys in your head. Be cautious with love and money, but don’t take it personally or be dismayed. There’s possibility somewhere in there.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ––8–– Your friends help you in hammering out the details and surmounting the ob-stacles, but don’t forget to ask for assistance. Free up space for passion and love.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ––6–– For the next couple of days, it’s easier to focus on your career. Others may wonder how come you’re smiling even though it’s Monday. Demand quality information.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ––6–– Now’s the time to try new foods, explore new continents and discover something about yourself that you didn’t know before. Make room for passions as well.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ––5–– The information you gather comes in handy. List all the reasons it doesn’t work, and then make it work. Together you can create a break-through from the breakdown.

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