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By AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

One CSU student and ap-proximately 300 community members fi lled the the Lory Student Center theatre last night to hear best selling au-thor, Washington Post con-tributor and senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, E.J. Di-onne, talk about the relation-ship between politics and reli-gion on the fi ftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.

Presented by the Theolo-gian-in-Residence Program, the lecture was the fi fth of sixth in a three-month speaker series: “The Second Vatican Council 50 Years later.”

Called “the most impor-tant religious event of the 20th century” by John O’Malley, a Jesuit priest and University of Georgetown professor, the Second Vatican Council was a three year council held in Rome in 1962 by the Catholic Church that would set a course for the church in modern times.

“It put everything on the

table for the Roman Catho-lic Church,” said CSU History Professor and President of TIR Jared Orsi. “Liturgy, theology, relationships to other Chris-tian denominations and rela-tions to other non-Christian faiths.”

The council produced a set of documents which revolu-tionized the Catholic Church and had effects that extended to the rest of the world. One of the more notable impacts was it created open dialogue between different religions. It also created more freedom, openness and tolerance within the Catholic Church.

“There were statements on religion, religious liberty and self-determination, ending any sense you could be Catho-lic and anti-semite,” Dionne said.

He added that for a long time Catholics had held the Jews responsible for the death of Christ.

As a journalist, Dionne was able to cover the monumen-tal visit of Pope John Paul II to a Roman synagogue in 1986,

where he prayed and spoke about the need of religious tol-erance.

In the fractured social and political climate we live in, the ideals of open dialogue and ac-

ceptance that came out of the

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HuntingTennessee hunters beware –– hunting in moving vehicles is illegal unless you are wheel-chair-bound. No doubt the state legislature is trying to be fair to the hunted animals and in-clusive to those with disabilities.

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By KATE WINKLEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

A self-titled “diverse workaholic,” Carol Dollard is a utility engineer, fi re-fi ghter and sustainability guru, and whatever she is working on at the mo-ment is her favorite thing.

Engineering has been a lifelong passion. Growing up during a time of oil embargos peaked Carol’s interest in alternative energy, which continues to-day in her work as an energy engineer with CSU’s Facilities Management.

“My mom always teased me that I was going to be an engineer from the time I was about ten. My dad was an engineer and I just always grew up around engineers, and I’ve always been motivated to do that,” Carol said.

She and her family moved to Rist Canyon in 1983, and within the next year Carol joined the Rist Canyon Vol-unteer Fire Department, where she volunteered for the past 30 years and is

now a fi re captain. Carol is a confi dent, “top-notch”

fi refi ghter, according to Bob Gann, Fire Chief of the RCVFD. Gann said he can count on Carol to appropriately carry out duties and lead teams appropri-ately and safely.

“She’s the kind of person you want to have on a fi re. She can handle a num-ber of roles and she can do all those well, whether its running a crew or dealing with the public. It’s a multifac-eted job and she can do all those jobs,” Gann said.

During this summer’s High Park Fire, she and many other fi refi ghters were evacuated from their homes, only to return to the area to help combat the blaze.

The RCVFD imparted knowledge of the terrain, community and resources that became a valuable asset when fed-eral fi refi ghters arrived to help.

“It’s rewarding when we can help out members of our community,” Carol

said. “This summer obviously was sort of an epic summer for the fi re depart-ment, and it was one of those times where you felt all of those hours of training really paid off and you were able to return something back to the community.”

Eight of the RCVD fi refi ghters lost their homes during the summer and their willingness to continue to serve other community members inspired Carol.

Balance is key to being a fi refi ghter, according to Gann. Knowledge and the ability to apply it to practical situations, whether actively fi ghting a fi re or recog-nizing limits and focusing on safety.

“What being a fi refi ghter does is bring you a connection with reality, en-gineering or science can sometimes be somewhat disconnected from practi-cal matters of executing project or re-search,” Gann said. “What fi refi ghting

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Carol Dollard is an award winning energy engineer at CSU, also the captain of the Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department. NICK LYON | COLLEGIAN

Workaholic Loving it&

CSU engineer leads double existence

By AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Waiting to rendezvous with a military convoy in Osh, Kyr-gyzstan, CSU alum and Peace Corps volunteer Raul Moreno watched as a city of 232,000 people burned to the ground.

Rioters sprinted by — Moreno vividly remembers one carrying a bow and arrow — as the sound of gunfi re rang through the streets. Suddenly, in the midst of the chaotic scene, Moreno found himself at gunpoint.

While hunting down mi-nority Uzbeks, the occupants of a sedan driving through the chaos spotted the car Moreno was in and turned around for further inspection.

A masked man jumped out of the car with a Kalashnikov rifl e, yelling and demanding to know if any Uzbeks were in the car.

“If any of you are Uzbeks, we will kill you all,” he cried.

“No, no just Americans,” said the driver of the car con-taining Moreno and other American aid workers.

The trigger man yanked open Moreno’s door.

“We locked eyes, his glit-tery, angry and undecided,” Moreno said.

“No Uzbeks,” Moreno said in Kyrgyz, his voice catching.

The gunman got back in the sedan and seconds later they were gone.

“And at that point the whole situation is reduced to just inhuman terms,” Moreno recalled of the incident. “It

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Why one CSU alumni questions the Peace Corps

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L.A. v. Moths

In Los Angeles, it is forbidden to hunt moths if they happen to be under a streetlamp. It is unclear why L.A. has this law, althwough if they were introduced to Colorado’s Mill-er moths they would probably change their minds.

Dionne shares a message of unity in a divided world

Washington Post contributer E.J. Dionne speaks at the Lory Student Center Theatre on Tuesday night.AUSTIN SIMPSON | COLLEGIAN

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Community Briefs

CSU works with MIT on entrepreneurship program in Africa

Entrepreneurs in Africa will draw from Fort Collins expertise with a new pro-gram through CSU’s College of Business.

In conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSU is working to provide “market-based solutions” for entrepreneurs to develop their businesses, according to a press release.

The new program, which will begin in Nairobi, Kenya, is part of two already exist-ing programs at CSU: Sus-tainable Enterprise MBAs for Africa (SEMBAA) and the Global Social and Sustain-able Enterprise MBA (GSSE MBA).

The United States Interna-tional University is partnered with CSU in the initiative.

“Our goal is to build this program with USIU so that at scale it will operate based on tuition revenues from students across East Africa,” said Carl Hammer-dorfer, whose Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Enterprise manages both the SEMBAA program and

the GSSE MBA at CSU.

Be green; be more like Aldo Leopold

The Rocky Mountain Re-search Station will be show-ing “Green Fire: Aldo Leop-old and A Land Ethic for Our Time” to inspire students to become a part of today’s generation of natural re-source stewards, according to a press release.

The showing will take place in Room 131 of the Be-havioral Sciences Building, with doors opening at 6 p.m. and starting at 6:30 p.m.

“The film provocatively examines Leopold’s think-ing, renewing his idea of a land ethic for a population facing 21st century ecolog-ical challenges,” the release stated. “Green Fire draws on Leopold’s life and expe-riences to provide context and validity, and explores the deep impact of his think-ing on conservation projects around the world today.”

After the film ends, its co-director, Dave Steinke, will host a question and an-swer session. CSU Prof. Rick Knight and doctoral can-didate Jed Meunier, who is

the eldest great-grandson of Leopold, will join him.

Seminar explores the Politics of Fracking

Both lauded as a future energy source and contro-versial for its potential envi-ronmental impact, few ener-gy extraction processes have as contentious a reputation as hydraulic fracturing.

On Wednesday, CSU Political Science Professor Charles Davis will address the public policy discussion surrounding the process, better known as “fracking.”

In a one hour seminar, beginning at noon in Lory Student Center room 214-216, he will discuss deci-sions made by local officials in gas-rich states regarding fracking. According to Davis, fracking has become a polit-ical question of “jobs versus the environment.”

The seminar is part of the Environmental Gover-nance Working Group’s In-termountain West Seminar Series. It is free and open to the public.

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By CASSANDRA WHELIHANThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Waking up before the sun rises to lie in a fi eld of tall grass for hours at a time, while mimicking the sound of ducks and patiently wait-ing for them to take fl ight with a shotgun in hand is just one of the many hunting scenarios taking place this fall.

“Hunting — the thrill. My heart races and I give myself a motivational talk. Hiking out 12 miles without people, a place where ATV’s (All Terrain Vehicles) can’t go. I shoot to kill but if that doesn’t work, I shoot them in the head,” said Paul Hladick, a CSU alumni.

“But you hope for a clean kill. I gut and quarter the animal and pull the meat on plastic sled and put the hindquarters in my metal frame pack. Hike out with a couple hundred pounds of meat pulled along.”

From shooting ducks with a shotgun to elks with a bow or rifl e, the ways to hunt are endless. The reasons, however, are rooted in sus-tainability.

“I don’t do it as a sport. I shoot to eat it. I try to be sustainable,” Hladick said. “I don’t believe in ATV’s when hunting. I think there is something to be said about being in nature and total sol-itude.”

Another reason peo-ple are so passionate about hunting is because they like knowing where their meat is coming from.

“I am a harvest hunter. I shoot to eat what I kill,” said Dan Kleinholz, a CSU alumni.

The Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife (CDPW) is in charge of regulating hunt-ing, which works to main-tain sustainable and ethical hunting practices.

“All hunting is popula-tion control. They give out

a certain number of tags,” Kleinholz said, referring to the licenses the DOW pro-vides, which regulate the number of deaths for a given animal species.

The division must also keep tabs on poaching in Colorado through a point system, similar to the one in place to regulate driving. If one accumulates enough points, they are sidelined from hunting for a certain number of years.

“Being an agriculture school, I would say that 60 percent of people hunt here. A lot of people grew up on farms,” said Dan Hughes, a CSU graduate. “I grew up in a large hunting based community. I was a little kid when I would go out with my dad.”

Kleinholz added, “To be an ethical hunter: one shot, one kill.”

Collegian Writer Cassan-dra Whelihan can be reached at [email protected].

Left to right, Colorado State Junior Kyle Sardi, Alumnus Tyler Nicely, and Senior Sam Wigand show the results of their duck hunting day resulting in 7 species and a banded mallard being shot.

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Thrill of the kill: CSU alums ready for hunting season

ENGINEER | Dollard led energy conservation e� ortContinued from Page 1

does tends to focus atten-tion to clarify what’s import-ant and what’s not, what’s short-term tactical and long-term strategic, so those skills are very useful in all walks of life.”

Utility work at “the lit-tle city we know as CSU” can sometimes compare to fi ghting fi res in the imme-diacy of accomplishment, according to Carol. However, other parts of her job require long-term work where a fi nal sense of accomplishment is delayed.

As the Energy Program Manager for Facilities Man-agement, Carol works with CSU on its carbon emissions and energy effi ciency pro-grams, participates in com-mittees and pursues grants

for the university. Carol was instrumental in instigating the 30 acre, 5.3 MW solar farm at the Foothills campus in 2010, according to Steve Hultin, Director of Facilities Management.

Hultin hired Carol in 1999 because of her expertise in engineering and energy, as well as her work in the com-munity. Since then, Carol has carried the torch of promot-ing sustainable projects with-in Facilities Management.

“She has a wealth of knowledge and experience and she’s sort of a good think-er, she can see the forest through the trees and set the tone and direction and just lead by example,” Hultin said.

Carol has been one of the leading voices for ener-gy conservation on campus, according to Gene Ellis, as-

sistant director of facilities management. Additionally, Carol’s relationships with the City of Fort Collins, Platte River Power Authori-ty, Xcel Energy and others in the industry helped CSU cre-ate a communication with outside entities and opened doors in the realm of energy savings, building effi ciency and utility rebates.

Sustainability, howev-er, does not stop with Car-ol’s work. By utilizing solar hot water and solar electric technology, she and her hus-band are working towards net-zero energy use for their low-impact home. Although sustainability is a goal where people approach zero but probably will not reach it, it is still worth working toward, according to Carol.

Carol’s commitment to

CSU’s green initiatives as well as her own use of sustainable practices impressed Hultin.

“What I like about Car-ol is she practices what she preaches: she lives green,” Hultin said.

In addition to working for CSU and as a fi refi ghter, Carol guest lectures for the Construction Management Department and volunteers with the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program. While she may be busy, all her involve-ment comprises important aspects of her life.

“It’s an important part of how I get enrichment out of life, and so it’s not that I con-sider it a sacrifi ce, it’s part of what makes me feel fulfi lled as a person.”

Senior Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at [email protected].

VATICAN | Washington Post contributer says U.S. should challenge culture war myth

“I want to argue the politics of the culture wars is incompatible to both words and spirit of the Second Vatican Council.”

E.J. Dionne | Washington Post contributer

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Second Vatican Coun-cil are something we need to be aware of, Dionne said. He spent the evening talking about the need of unity and harmony in a divided world and singled out the culture wars as a something we’d be better off with if “we chal-lenged the culture war myth.”

“I want to argue the pol-itics of the culture wars is incompatible to both words and spirit of the Second Vat-

ican Council,” Dionne said. He used an example of

president Obama and con-servative Republican Rick Santorum as two people having seemingly incompat-ible worldviews agreeing on the importance of families to the economy and society.

Dionne also spoke at length on the history of communitarianism in the United States as one of the defi ning characteristics of our democracy and the need to retain that philosophy in

modern times. Joel Sholtes, a graduate

student in the civil engineer-ing department, came to the lecture with his wife, Kari, after seeing it advertised at school and hearing about it on NPR. They both came away from the lecture im-pressed with the seemingly liberal thoughts of a devout Catholic.

“I do appreciate having a political-minded theologian on campus,” Kari Sholtes said.

“That fl ipped my head, you think older, rich and white as being very conser-vative.”

Paul Hartigan drove from Erie to attend the lecture. He said he’s already attended oth-er lectures related to series and was especially looking forward to hearing Dionne talk.

“What he had to say was really very timely because of the elections,” Hartigan said.

Senior Reporter Aus-tin Briggs can be reached at [email protected].

By LESLEY CLARK and DAVID LIGHTMANThe McClatchy Tribune

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama assured labor unions and liberal organizations Tues-day that he’s fi rmly com-mitted to letting tax cuts for higher incomes expire as scheduled at the end of the year, even as con-gressional Republicans accused him of refusing to propose a specifi c plan to settle a looming budget crisis.

Obama met with the labor and liberal groups for an hour at the White House, his fi rst extended meeting with anyone from outside his administration since he won re-election a week ago. He told them he’s committed to raising taxes on higher incomes as he negotiates with Con-gress on avoiding the “fi s-cal cliff” of automatic tax increases when Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of the year and automatic spending cuts negotiated during last year’s debt cri-sis kick in.

“President Obama to-day strongly reiterated his steadfast commitment to ensuring that the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent fi nally end Dec. 31 and to protecting the mid-dle class in the process,” said Justin Ruben, execu-tive director of the liberal group MoveOn.org Politi-cal Action.

“The president, like we are, is committed to preserving the tax breaks for the middle class and making sure that rich people pay their fair share,” said AFL-CIO

president Richard Trum-ka. “We’re very commit-ted to making sure that the middle class and workers don’t end up pay-ing the tab for a party that we didn’t get to go to and the president is commit-ted to that as well.”

Trumka and several other attendees, including National Education Asso-ciation president Dennis Van Roekel, wouldn’t di-vulge details, including whether Obama talked about issues that some lib-erals oppose — including raising the eligibility age for Medicare.

Ruben sidestepped the question of Obama’s posi-tion on Medicare, praising him generally but noting that his group’s 7 million members would fi ght to protect Medicare and other entitlements from cuts.

“We also appreciate that the president again promised not to balance the budget on the backs of the middle class and the poor,” Ruben said in a statement. “And our members are committed to defending Medicare, Medicaid and Social Se-curity from any benefit cuts as part of a budget deal.”

Obama plans to meet with business executives Wednesday and congres-sional leaders Friday at the White House. Republi-cans Tuesday signaled they want to see more specifi cs from the president, and re-iterated their staunch op-position to any change in tax rates.

Almost everything else, though, appeared to be up for discussion, and they want Obama to go fi rst.

Obama assures liberals he’ll raise taxes on wealthy

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At about nine p.m. on November 6, I joined many Americans in heav-ing a massive sigh of relief. Election season was officially over. I was ready to move on to discussing a topic oth-er than politics: Virginia Woolf nov-els, Doctor Who episodes, the weath-er, anything.

But this weekend I had the in-credible opportunity to be a part of the 2012 Students For Liberty Colo-rado Regional Conference hosted by University of Denver’s Young Amer-icans for Liberty chapter. I joined nearly 100 other students and adults in a full day of thought provoking speakers, networking opportunities, and stimulating political discussion. The entire event was free of charge, from my awesome new t-shirt to the drinks during the after-event social.

Despite being the first year such a conference has been hosted in our fine state, thanks to the hard work of a lot of people it was a tremendous success. I learned so much about our Constitution and human rights, discovered internship opportunities and got to hear tremendous panels and speakers.

Each of the speakers explored a different idea in relation to liberty.

Trevor Burrus discussed the impact of zones of autonomy; Michael Huemer talked immigration rights; Robert Mc-Namara spoke on libertarian litigation and the Institute for Justice; Alexandre Padilla argued for economic education; Craig Biddle described Objectivism; and Jon Caldara called citizens to take ac-tion.

But despite each representing a dif-ferent liberty-related issue, all of the speakers had similar messages which I would like to share with you.

No one person should have too much power over any other life.

Entrepreneurship and innovation need to be embraced, not discouraged.

The absolute best thing you can ever do is educate yourself. Do your abso-lute best to open your mind and explore problems and solutions.

Learn about your Constitution, learn about your rights. Learn about the roles these should play and the roles they ac-tually do play.

While they may be a huge factor in what happens with our country, don’t fix political success and failures with the person in charge.

The key to change is making infor-mation available at a low cost — both in the form of time and money.

It’s alright to shake things up if it pushes the ball in the right direction.

Be an idealist. If something is worth fighting for, fight for it. Don’t be discour-aged by what other people are and aren’t doing.

Ideas matter. They have power.Individuals matter. They too have

power.Embrace camaraderie. An idea may

start with one person, but no one person can push that idea forward on their own.

That last idea is something I tend to avoid. I identify as terribly introvert-ed, and don’t tend to do a good job of connecting with strangers. But after this

weekend I realized that I need to get over my inhibitions and start getting involved in the ongoing dialogue being held in a community of like-minded people.

With this motivation, on Monday night I attended the weekly meeting of CSU’s Young Americans for Liberty. The people in attendance were engaging and open to discussion, and I was blessed to come on a day when guest Tisha Casida was speaking, a small business own-er who recently ran for Congress as an independent on a pro-liberty platform and the obstacles she has had to over-come with both.

I look forward to next week’s meet-ing, even when it means stepping out-side of my comfort zone.

Even with the presidential election being over, I encourage all my readers to also get connected and network with people who have similar political dispo-sitions.

Libertarian, Republican, Democrat-ic… it doesn’t matter to me. You have power as an individual, and have even more power as a group. Don’t ignore po-litical affairs because even if you don’t take an interest in politics, politics will take an interest in you.

You might as well be a step ahead in the game and get educated and orga-nized.

I hope to never force a political agenda on anyone, but I really encour-age everyone to research the speakers I listed (including Casida) and become better informed on the topics these ex-perts advocate for. Then start a dialogue with those around you on what you have learned.

Get inspired and do something about it.

Anna Mitchell is a junior liberal arts major. Her columns appear Wednesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

It is fair to say that No-vember can be a tumultuous season. Every two years, there is an election of varying inten-sity right at the beginning of the month. Afterward, there’s Thanksgiving –– a time during which we all buy a metric ton of food to celebrate coming together and having a good time. Or, if you are a retail executive, it is to remind ev-eryone that Christmas is just around the corner.

Just when America thought that it had sur-vived “The Great Ad Blitz of 2012” (otherwise known as the 2012 general election) it must ready itself for the on-set of the Christmas Market-ing Offensive.

Thanksgiving has really lost a lot of its meaning in the modern era. It has been reduced to more or less the starting pistol shot of the Christmas shopping frenzy. Thanksgiving is almost an inconvenience for commer-cial America.

It is not hard to look for evidence of this impatience. Christmas decorations ar-ound Fort Collins started to go up in Old Town in late October. Hobby Lobby dug their Christmas merchan-dise out of storage a bit ear-lier than that. And they are not the only ones.

Consumers led by Con-sumerist.com made a decent attempt last year to shame retailers into preventing what they call “Christmas Creep,” or the steady incur-sion of Chrismas items into stores well before December. The website’s editor, Chris Morran, told ABC in Octo-ber 2011 that he had seen Christmas decorations go on sale as early as July and August.

It’s not surprising that retailers are trying to do this. Christmas is easily the big-gest time of the year for re-tail, with many major outlets reporting sales well into the billions. No one is arguing that Christmas is a very prof-itable time of year.

That is totally fine. Hell, I do not have a problem with people capitalizing on the spirit of the holiday at all! Yay capitalism and all that. But do they really have to try and push Christmas into the summer months in order to milk as much money out of the season as possible? I know the economy is not in the best possible shape, but come on! Do we really need to enact John Hodgman’s

“Emergency Christmas” plan and make everyday Christmas from here un-til the economy is better?

It might be extreme-ly obsessive compulsive of me to want this, but is it too much to ask that we keep our seasonal holidays in their respec-tive months? October is reserved for trick-or-treating, dressing up and watching scary movies. November is for stuffing myself silly with food and being thankful for what I have. And December is for buying gifts for my family and visiting my grandparents, and ex-tended family.

In short, October is for Halloween, November is for Thanksgiving, and December is for Christ-mas. Period. It makes sense this way. No need for unnecessary confu-sion, or unnecessarily in-censed OCD sufferers.

It is not like retail-ers are going to be los-ing money if they keep Christmas in December. Americans are hellbent on getting those seasonal discounts, if past Black Fridays are anything to go by. It is hardly difficult to get us to come out en masse to buy things from you in December; we literally crawl over, stab and trample one another to get to what you want to sell us.

The phrase “Shut up and take my money” is very apt in this circum-stance.

So please. There is no need to start blitzing us with ads this Thanksgiv-ing. We know that Christ-mas is coming and we know that you are eager to sell us whatever we need at a discount rate. Please let us actually en-joy our turkey (or tofur-key for you vegetarians out there) in peace. Let us actually be thankful for what we have this year, as opposed to being thank-ful that we decided to eat with the television and radio turned off and the internet disconnected.

We only just barely got through the general election with our sanity intact (well, most of us anyway). Political ads are awful enough without the barely-concealed threat of an avalanche of Christ-mas ads just around the corner. The cure for a solid year-and-a-half of sleazy mudslinging is not an onslaught of cheery Christmas advertising.

Editorial Assistant Caleb Hendrich is a senior political science and jour-nalism double major. His columns appear Wednes-days in the Collegian. Let-ters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

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didn’t matter, anything that I could say in that moment other than ‘We’re just Amer-icans’ might not have saved us, right? If we were Uzbeks we were going to be gunned down.”

A short time later, More-no and the other aid work-ers were airlifted out of Osh and to the relative safety of a compound in Bishkek.

That was the end of the his experience with the Peace Corps.

Moreno had come to CSU in 2008 to teach, write and get a master’s degree in creative non-fi ction. Prior to that, he had worked at Na-tional Public Radio in Wash-ington, D.C for four years.

“I was looking to enter a kind of long form journalism in creative non-fi ction...” Moreno said. “I was feeling a bit tired by the daily grind of journalism at the public radio network I was working at in D.C.”

Part of the appeal of CSU was the Peace Corps Mas-ters International offered to graduate students. Students accepted into the program spend a year at CSU taking classes, then leave for 27 months to volunteer over-seas and return to fi nish their graduate degree and write a thesis related to their time in another country.

Moreno had entered the Peace Corps hoping to make a small difference in the world.

“I think I was ambitious, I saw myself a bit of a humani-tarian at that point, that I was going to do some good in the world,” Moreno said.

He ended up leaving during a harrowing evacu-ation after his region erupt-ed in ethnic rioting that left hundreds dead and dis-placed an estimated 400,000 people from their homes.

The experience left him not only questioning the role of the Peace Corps in sending young “greenhorn” volun-teers into what he referred to in a blog post as an “en-chanting but volatile coun-try,” but also grappling with the fact that two local drivers who helped get American aid workers evacuated ended up losing their lives in the vio-lence that overtook southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010.

“We’ve seen all these at-tacks on the American embas-sies, the consulates in North Africa and the middle east in September,” Moreno said. “I think a lot of that has brought to light once again … we don’t always know how the presence of American culture, good, bad and ugly, is playing out in oth-er parts of the world.”

During the initial train-ing sessions that all Peace Corp volunteers go through, which he described as being of a "mixed quality," More-no said he noticed warning signs that volunteers fresh

out of college may not have thought through what being abroad might entail.

“The main thing I found worrying being in those ini-tial training sessions,” More-no said, “was that the peo-ple around me were kind of more excited about being in a foreign place than realizing the geopolitical dynamics that were underway.”

Assigned to work in the city of Osh, which he called “the jewel” of southern Kyr-gyzstan in early June 2010, Moreno was to live in the city for two years, teach En-glish and gather material for his master’s thesis in creative non-fi ction when he re-turned for his fi nal semester in graduate school at CSU.

That fi rst week in June, Moreno recalled, was spent getting to know his host fam-ily, visiting their cherry farm and getting set up at the uni-versity where he’d be teach-ing for the next two years.

The initial calm was bro-ken by a minor earthquake the night of June 10.

That night and into the next morning, long simmer-ing tensions between the ma-jority Kyrgyz population and minority ethnic Uzbeks boiled over. The city quickly descend-ed into riots and bloodshed.

The ensuing violence would eventually reduce much of the city to ruins. Widespread rape, murder, beatings and armed street fi ghts took place in the days afterwards.

After being picked up by local drivers hired by the American embassy, More-no and 10 other aid workers were dropped off at a safe house in Osh.

The group spent two long days there as sympa-thetic neighbors smuggled bread and tea to the fright-ened Americans.

Fighting raged on in the streets as the smell of burn-ing vehicles and buildings fi lled the air. Gunfi re was heard constantly throughout the day, and at one point the looters sent rocks through the windows of the house with the aid workers inside, prompting the group to bar-ricade the windows with mattresses to repel a possi-

ble Molotov cocktail attack.Eventually two cars

showed up with local drivers hired by the American em-bassy to get the volunteers to an airfi eld to be evacuated out of the province.

Driving through the city in a car packed with other volunteers, Moreno saw that the Osh had turned into a “warzone,” with ambulances screaming back and forth, buildings smoldering, riot-ers running past the car car-rying weapons, machinegun fi re and military vehicles set-ting up roadblocks.

After an armed standoff with rioters, Moreno and the other aid workers were rushed to two helicopters and then taken to the air-port where they made their way out of the province and eventually back to the Unit-ed States.

The two drivers who had picked up the American aid workers from the safe house ended up losing their lives in the ensuing violence. Kyrgyz-stan’s interim president at the time, Roza Otunbayeva, said upwards of 2,000 people may have died in the clashes.

While Peace Corps of-fi cials declined to talk spe-cifi cally about security pro-cedures or the events in Kyrgyzstan, Emily Dulcan, director of press relations for the Peace Corps, wrote in an email to the Collegian that the agency has “country specifi c action plans” in the event of an emergency and that those plans were imple-mented in Kyrgyzstan.

“If a situation arises in-country that poses a po-tential threat to volunteers, Peace Corps responds imme-diately to assess the nature of the threat and respond in a manner that maximizes vol-unteers’ safety and wellbe-ing,” Duncan said.

While Moreno acknowl-edges the mission to evacu-ate the American aid workers was successful, he feels that with the cell phone network down, no GPS, a group of greenhorn volunteers mixed with more experienced PC volunteers with no assets and having to rely on local fi xers whose motives were not en-

tirely clear, that a lot was left to chance and could have easily turned out differently.

“I am not sure that is the right way to get Peace Corps volunteers out of a sticky sit-uation,” Moreno said. “I think in that moment when we were kind of facing peril we were expecting the Marines to descend from helicopters.

Back in the United States, Moreno began the process of trying to make sense of what happened in Kyrgyzstan.

“I wanted to fi gure out how I was going to come to understand what I had just experienced,” Moreno said. “It was a scary four months that wound up with two lo-cal guys killed. And I am not sure they were killed for good reasons or if their lives were lost in an effort that I was proud of.”

Moreno spent two months travelling from Seattle to Las Vegas, interviewing former volunteers about their reasons for going into the Peace Corps.

He realized that many new volunteers may not fully understand the moral and ethical considerations of what being an American overseas might entail.

“It's important for the vol-unteer to think long and hard whether they're going to be comfortable being an exten-sion of American foreign pol-icy in a place or community that probably has a history of colonization by a western power and possibly violent civil war," Moreno said.

He came back to CSU in fall 2010 to work on his the-sis. His adviser in the English department, Sarah Sloane, spearheaded an effort to get Moreno an instructorship and graduate teaching assis-tant position for the rest of the time he would be at CSU.

“He’s a good writer, a good thinker and a good person who got caught in conditions beyond his con-trol,” Sloane said. “He’s one of the very fi rst graduates of the creative non-fi ction program and he’s doing us proud.”

While Moreno said the experience has left him "a bit more jaded, a bit more cau-tious about the role of Amer-icans overseas," he remains hopeful about other programs, like the Global Health Service, that sends doctors and highly trained people to areas where Peace Corps is operating.

“That’s an example of bet-ter trained people, I think, do-ing more advantageous, more valuable work in places that really need it,” Moreno said.

After graduating from CSU with a masters degree in creative non-fi ction in summer of 2011, Moreno is now teaching and working on his doctorate degree at the University of South Da-kota.

Senior Reporter Aus-tin Briggs can be reached at [email protected].

By TAYLOR PETTAWAYThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

How did CSU stu-dents Keenan Bender, Gar-rett Hayes and Perez An-sah-Mensah react to a media landscape they perceived to be overly negative? They cre-ated more media, of course.

Determined Nation, a monthly magazine founded and managed by the trio, seeks to inspire its readers through positive motivation, said Bender, director of mar-keting and co-founder.

“Lots of publications fo-cus on sex, drugs, alcohol and parties [in college],” Bender said. “It’s just in all media and we wanted to shed a light on the more aca-demic side [of college].”

This kind of positivity can also entertain and inspire, added co-founder and Editor in Chief Garrett Hayes.

“We want to bring the stories that highlight the people who others don’t think about and show how underrepresented people are,” he said. “We want to represent the underrepre-

sented.”Once a month, the mag-

azine comes out featuring stories on various commu-nity members or events around the Fort Collins com-munity, with topics ranging from music to sports to food to fashion. The magazine can be found in the Lory Stu-dent Center by Sweet Sinsa-tions and in magazine racks all over campus.

One issue, which focused on music, followed hip-hop DJs to see what drove them. According to Hayes, it was interesting to see why they wanted to be rappers and to see their growth and de-velopment and to see them reaching their dreams.

“We write about the struggles and journeys of different people and the struggles of successful peo-ple,” Hayes said. “It is fi lled with inspirational stories that somehow better the reader.”

“It is about anyone who has a dream that they are pursuing,” Hayes added.

“Determined Nation” started August 2011, with the three co-founders, Bender,

Hayes and their partner Pe-rez Ansah-Mensah. The three friends wanted to be entre-preneurs and wanted to start a magazine to uplift students.

“This magazine is a spear-head,” Bender said. “It’s our microphone to give our mes-sage out. We aspire to inspire.”

For Determined Nation reader and Bender acquain-tance Kaiti Taylor, the mag-azine is important for her to read because of the content it covers.

“It’s a different magazine on campus where it talks about things around,” Taylor said. “I am a Fort Collins na-tive and I like seeing about the community. [The maga-zine] is quirky and fun to read while still being serious.”

Through the last year however, the magazine has turned into more than just a publication, according to the founders. It has turned into a movement.

According to Bender, the three founders have held events, such as partnering with ASAP to host Cruise Con-trol, thrown parties, and made T-shirts to give to students.

“It makes me feel like we are making a difference,” Bender said. “To see some-one walking with [our] “I am the movement” t-shirt, someone I have never met, it makes me feel like we are doing something big.”

According to Hayes, they target college students be-cause they believe that stu-dents are the ones who need the most positivity, and are the most inspirational peo-ple, even if they don’t see it.

“Students get discouraged and less motivated,” Hayes said. “To look and see some-one and see that they have the same hopes and dream, and think ‘I can do that too’.”

Collegian Writer Taylor Pettaway can be reached at the [email protected].

Local magazine determined to inspire nationStudent-generated “Determined Nation” dares students to dream big

Determined Nation can be found in the magazine racks near Sweet Sinsations in the LSC

Circulation: 1,000 copies Print cycle: monthly Number of issues printed so

far: 12

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CORPS | Moreno: Americans should consider ethics before going overseas

Raul Moreno attends a wedding near Osh, Kyrgyzstan, days before inter-ethnic violence in June 2010 left hundreds dead and parts of the city’s minority neighborhoods in ruins.

PHOTO COURTESY OF RAUL MORENO


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By QUENTIN SICKAFOOSEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Just 48 hours between performances would be enough to bother most peo-ple — the CSU women’s bas-ketball team would not fall into this category.

CSU was still fresh off its Sunday loss when it took on the University of North-ern Colorado Tuesday night in effort to fi nd its fi rst win. Fortunately for coach Ryun Williams and his team, they found what they were look-ing for with a 56-43 victory.

“This feels better than Sunday,” Williams said. “Our kids were determined to not let them score, so I’m really proud of the effort and the contribution from every-body. It was a total team ef-fort.”

The team effort started early, as CSU was the fi rst on the scoreboard on a jumper that sank from senior for-ward Meghan Heimstra, matching her game total from Sunday only 1:36 into the game.

“We all did a lot better tonight with confi dence, and more poise, and just took control,” Heimstra said.

CSU went into the lock-er room with a comfortable 27-17 lead over UNC, but it quickly vanished when the Bears came out swinging in the second half on a 6-0 run before Williams could call a timeout.

“We didn’t come out and guard with the same urgen-cy we needed to guard with, so we’re going to hold them accountable,” Williams said.

“We needed to just get set-tled down and grit our teeth on that end of the fl oor. The main thing of the timeout was start guarding again.”

The Rams listened to the message their coach sent out during the timeout, and fol-lowed it with an 11-2 run to

regain the cushion they had previously built themselves.

“I thought our kids re-sponded with a very deter-mined effort, and they cor-rected some of the defensive end that needed to be cor-rected,” Williams said. “Let’s be honest, we have some

limitations offensively, that’s how we are right now, so we have to defend.”

The positive response by the Rams allowed them to out-score the Bears in the second half, which pro-pelled them to the 13 point victory over their Northern Colorado rival.

The Rams pick up their fi rst win of the the Ryun Williams era running off only one practice since their debut loss. The quick turn around put pressure on their bench, which came through with fl ying colors.

“It feels good. It was a long time coming,” soph-omore guard Amber Ma-keever said. “I’m glad I could contribute to the team too, being that bench play-er coming off and making threes.”

Makeever hit 4-of-5 shots she put up from be-hind the arch, which allowed her to fi nish the game as CSU’s leading scorer with 15. Fellow bench partner Alicia Nichols also reached double fi gures with 11 points and four rebounds.

“I thought our bench was outstanding tonight,” Williams said. “They really picked us up when we need-ed picked up, so great win.”

Women’s basketball Beat Reporter Quentin Sickafoose can be reached at [email protected].

CSU bench propels Rams to fi rst win

Forward Meghan Heimstra goes for a lay up against the Northern Colora-do Bears. CSU beat the Bears 56-43 Tuesday night.

KEVIN JOHANSEN | COLLEGIAN

29 points 13 rebounds 56 minutes

BENCH PERFORMANCE

“We all did a lot better tonight with con� dence, and more poise, and just took control.”

Meghan Heimstra | Senior Forward

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL



By KYLE GRABOWSKIThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Tom Hilbert isn’t big on recognizing milestones, but he keeps on reaching ma-jor ones after picking up his 400th win at CSU.

CSU defeated North-ern Colorado 3-1 in Greeley Tuesday night, winning on the road for the fi rst time in non-conference play.

“My feeling is it should be recognized when we’re done because as we do it along the way I’m thinking about com-pletely other things,” Hilbert said. “I feel like I’m not pay-ing the type of respect to it that maybe it deserves, and I’d rather it be done at the end of the season or at the end of my career or when I’m dead.”

And No. 400 certain-ly didn’t come easily, CSU trailed in every set during the match, and rallied for a 28-26 win in the third set after fac-ing set point at 26-25.

“We’re learning how to be a good endgame team as a collective group, which is going to catapult us at the end of the season,” senior outside hitter Dana Cran-ston said. “It shows how clutch everybody is, and I think it’s cool that it wasn’t just one person.”

The Rams leaned on their senior leaders all night and they delivered when the match hung in the balance.

Dana Cranston, Breion Paige and Megan Plourde blasted 16, 14 and 10 kills to power CSU out of a 1-0 hole to three consecutive set wins to take the match.

“One of our main focuses was to establish the middles early to take some pressure off of our outsides,” redshirt sophomore setter Deedra Foss said.

Cranston had four kills

in the fi rst set, but just as many errors. CSU jumped out to an early 8-4 lead only to watch UNC claw back in it and win the set 25-21 behind four team blocks, which held CSU to a .139 hitting per-centage in the set.

“It was a product of us not attacking the ball ag-gressively, and the set loca-tion was bad,” Hilbert said. “But the other thing is Kelley

Arnold is good. You can’t go right at her and we did that too much.”

Arnold, a senior outside hitter, fi nished with two solo blocks and a match-high 24 kills.

The Rams rallied to win three consecutive sets after dropping the fi rst for the second consecutive match, and did so without the ser-vices of their senior libero

Izzy Gaulia, who missed the match with muscle spasms in her neck.

“I thought (fresh-man) Jaime (Colaizzi) was great,” Hilbert said. “I thought Michelle (Smith) made some great defen-sive plays and passed the ball really well.”

Hilbert’s primary goal for the rest of the week is keep-ing his team fresh because

they still need to play at Air Force on Thursday and at Boise State on Saturday.

“We’re going to have to take it really easy Wednes-day because there was a lot of volleyball played here tonight,” Hilbert said. “It is what it is. We’ve got to get ready for Boise and Air Force and do it in a way where we don’t stress our players out physically.”

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

Hilbert picks up 400th win 3-1 at Northern Colorado

400-103 record 16 consecutive NCAA tourna-

ment appearances Nine Mountain West titles Eight-time Mountain West

Coach of the Year

TOM HILBERT AT CSU

Colorado State Volleyball faces off against University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colo. Tuesday evening. The Rams defeated the Bears three games to one.DYLAN LANGILLE | COLLEGIAN

VOLLEYBALL

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