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Snow and CSU President Tony Frank have a tenuous rela-tionship, much like the Grinch and Christmas. Every time there is a half-decent snow, we imagine that President Frank rolls his eyes and laughs maniacally as he deletes hundreds (nay, thousands!) of emails begging for a snow day. We, the student body, may need to change our approach.

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Black IceWith lots of snow, comes lots of ice. And every day mobs of students drive, bike and walk across � elds of the stu� on their way to campus. How many slips and slides will happen if classes aren’t canceled?

New Ways to Ask Tony Frank for a Snow Day

If It Snows, � ey Will � row

ABOVE: Dan Smith dodges a snowball during an intense snowball fi ght near Allison Hall yesterday afternoon. Smith is a freshman graphic design major.

LEFT: Undeclared freshman Frank Denny adds snow to the top of the fort constructed by himself and friends from Newsom Hall on the IM fi elds Sunday afternoon.

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By BAILEY CONSTASThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Saturday morning, the history of motor vehicles ap-peared to be on display at the Motorsports Engineering Re-search Center in Fort Collins as a handful of students sur-rounded a Formula SAE car, and an all-electric car.

Side by side, students in the Ram Racing club and the EcoCAR 2 Project stood in a

garage to build cars. Today, a nationwide program will launch in the center of this Mecca of technology.

Today at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, CSU will be helping to launch the fi rst-in-the-nation initiative to establish an electric vehi-cle deployment community.

A student project called EcoCar 2 will be at the launch.

See CARS on Page 5

Imagining the future of autosStudents building electric cars

Virtual classes bring in real money

CSU silent on stadiumfunds

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By KATE SIMMONSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

As of now, CSU students

and the Fort Collins commu-nity are in the dark about how much money has been raised in the fundraising effort for the $246 million on-campus stadium.

According to Ann Kaplan, survey director at the Coun-cil for Aid to Education, a “silent phase” is the norm in big fundraising campaigns. Administrators work behind the scenes, collecting money from large donors before ask-ing the public for additional donations. This process usu-ally lasts about one to two years, Kaplan said.

“There’s always a period in which the university is talking to supporters before they an-nounce (anything),” Kaplan said. “When they do they will already have a large amount of the gifts donated to get the fundraising campaign run-ning.”

According to CSU’s Ex-ecutive Director of Public Relations Mike Hooker, the CSU Board of Governors es-tablished October 2014 as the designated time they wish to receive a report from Presi-dent Tony Frank about where the fundraising effort stands.

“That is really the signifi -cant date that we are aiming towards,” Mike Hooker said in an email to the Collegian. “We will announce updates as we reach milestones, but there is not a timeline set for those announcements.”

October 2012 Tony Frank announced his decision that the university would begin ex-ploring the possibility of

See FUNDS on Page 5 BribesGrovelling and begging clearly isn’t working. We need to change our approach. Namely, � nd out what Tony Frank likes to drink and send him a “compli-mentary” bottle of it.

Little Children’s

Smiles� ere is noth-ing that melts the heart of a miserable miser like the smiles of little children hav-ing fun in the snow. Nobody can resist that, right? Unless Frank’s heart is a Grinchy two sizes too small.

By CORRIE SAHLING and AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The last decade has seen people transition a large part of their lives to the digital world –– from shopping to fi nding old friends,to the per-fect job, a large percentage of the population has come to see the Internet as an integral part of their lives.

Not surprisingly, many students in higher education are opting to take their learn-ing into the digital realm.

A 2011 study by the Bab-son Survey Research Group, an organization that tracks trends in higher education, found exponential growth in the number of students taking online, or “distance” courses.

The study found that over six million people and nearly one-third of all students in higher education were taking at least one online course.

At CSU, this trend is re-

fl ected in the amount of stu-dents enrolling in the univer-sity’s online component: CSU OnlinePlus.

In the fi scal year of 2012 enrollment topped out at 10,500 unique students, with 5,300 students enrolled in 14,892 credit courses.

“Enrollments in credit courses is our most important metric,” said Hunt Lambert, the associate provost of con-tinuing education.

Likewise, between 2010 and 2013, revenue increased 53 percent from $21.9 million to a projected $33.5 million.

To enroll in a class using OnlinePlus, the student must fi rst be accepted into the university, just like any other CSU student must do. Last year, people from every state and 34 countries were taking courses through the program. Unlike CSU Global which is a separate entity within the CSU system, CSU OnlinePlus is contained within the CSU

Fort Collins campus. Taylor Jackson, a senior

biological and chemical en-gineer, has taken two classes through CSU OnlinePlus. Last summer, she enrolled in a 300-level course through CSU OnlinePlus while working a full time job. She said it made her life easier to take it online at her own pace and the level of learning was the same as the in-classroom experience.

This semester, she has an online course in addition to full credit hours. Her only complaint is she had to pay full tuition for the three extra credits when she was already enrolled full time at the uni-versity.

“I think online is better for the stuff I’ve used it for be-cause it’s very scientifi c and a lot of memorization,” Jack-son said. “I don’t have to be in class and learning it. It’s been a lot better to learn it at my

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“It’s an environment that doesn’t let you sit there and go into a powerpoint fog.”

Hunt Lambert | associate provost of continuing education

Engineering students work on their EcoCar 2, a project that originates from the Department of Energy and General Motors. The fully electric car is help-ing America secure its energy for the future.

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NEW MEXICO HALTS CSU’S HOME WIN STREAK

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Community Briefs

CSU professor ranked top in the world

Bill Rankin, head of the Colorado State University College of Business De-partment of Accounting, has recently been recog-nized as among the world’s top professors in the field of experimental manage-rial accounting. According to a recent ranking system, performed by Brigham Young University, Rankin scored second in the world in two of the experimental categories in addition to scoring fourth in the third category.

The ranking was based off a pool of scholarly arti-cles, among which Rankin’s eight of many scholarly ar-ticles were chosen to be re-viewed for the ranking.

Cooking 101The Nutrition Center at

CSU is sponsoring a hands on cooking class this Thurs-day, Feb. 28t for beginners looking to start cooking healthier at home. The event costs $20 per person, or $30 for two and will take place in the Gifford Building, 502 W. Lake St., Room 237.

Through step-by-step in-structions, participants will work alongside the staff to learn the basic skills needed for cooking healthy at home. The Cooking 101 class will provide the ingredients, recipes, staff support and instruction necessary for boosting confidence in the kitchen.

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FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Johnson Elementary School fifth grader Nate Peeble directs a ping pong ball through hoops using a hair dryer at Little Shop of Pyshics hosted in the LSC main ballrooms this past Saturday. Created and maintained by a group of CSU science educators and science students, Little Shop of Pyshics is an array of flashing lights, magnets, funky illusions and more crazy fun that engages children and parents alike in learning the magic of science.

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CORRECTION

Due to a reporter’s error, in the Feb. 18 article, “Benefits of Bikram yoga explored by CSU professors,” it was incor-rectly stated that individuals involved in a health study par-ticipated in a SOMAX fitness test. In fact, they participated in a “submax” or submaximal exercise test. It was also misstat-ed that Katie Drobnitch is a CSU graduate student. In fact, Drobnitch is a university alumna. It was also misstated that the current yoga research found cardiovascular benefits. In fact, it was past research that identified increased flexibility, strength and balance. The Collegian regrets its errors.

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The fi rst thing you notice is the eye.

The size of a small tele-vision, and surrounded by a collage of 3-D color pat-terns that twist around the white pupil, the eye stares ominously at visitors as they walk into the graffi ti garden on the south side of the visu-al arts building on the CSU campus.

A courtyard enclosed by concrete walls has been turned into a constantly changing art project. Cover-ing the walls is a multitude of art and graffi ti work, each one refl ecting the unique style of the anonymous art-ist who contributed their ex-pertise.

The idea was developed in a class project within the art department where differ-ent groups had to advocate for the arts in some way. The graffi ti garden was created to raise awareness of the art form and to offer a chance for community members to artistically express them-selves on campus.

Other ideas included ad-dressing stereotypes, raising awareness of bulimia and anorexia in dancing and cre-ating a blog for new artists.

“Once the students started it, almost overnight people came in and added their own stuff,” said Ellie Moseman, associate profes-sor in the art department and instructor of the class in which the idea for the graf-fi ti garden was developed. “Even from week to week it has morphed and changed drastically.”

Leslie Sanders, a fresh-man art major whose group

came up with the idea, said her group of seven students wanted to focus on censor-ship in the arts.

She added that some people see graffi ti as a nui-sance or something that needs to be completely eliminated from urban ar-eas, while in fact high levels of artistry, time and talent are required to create what are oftentimes intricate de-signs.

“When people see graf-fi ti on the walls they think of it as ugly and negative,” Sanders said. “We wanted to show that graffi ti is a beauti-ful form of artwork.”

After writing up a pro-posal, which included guide-lines like no vulgarity and establishing paint boundar-ies, the idea worked its way up to department head Gary Voss, who quickly approved the graffi ti garden.

Arrows in the plaza lead-ing to the newly established graffi ti garden and word of mouth prompted artists to contribute their expertise to the project. Within two weeks, all the walls were cov-ered in art.

As time progressed, new artists would cover up prior paintings, creating an organ-ic environment that was in constant fl ux.

While some works of art like Michelangelo's “David” or paintings by Picasso and Rembrandt are intended to last indefi nitely, the origi-nal graffi ti garden’s time on earth was limited from the beginning.

On Monday, construc-tion begins in the courtyard where the graffi ti garden can be found. The space will be turned into a wing for a new electronic media curricu-

lum. The concrete walls will stay, but will be covered over and repurposed. A roof and fl ooring will be added, trans-forming the space into an indoor lab.

“One of the aspects of street art is it’s ephemeral and temporary,” Moseman said. “In a certain way it gives the piece itself a human ele-ment because it’s not going to last.”

The project turned out to

be so successful that plans are tentatively underway to create a new graffi ti garden somewhere around the art building.

“We were completely aware this was temporary,” Sanders said. “Because of the success, we plan on moving it to a different nook of the building.”

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

Graffi ti garden won’t last forever

Used spray paint cans lie covered in snow in front of the graffi ti garden outside of the Art Building.


“One of the aspects of street art is it’s ephemeral and temporary. In a certain way it gives the piece itself a human element

because it’s not going to last.”Ellie Moseman | Art department associate professor

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own pace.”Lambert said last year

$25 million out of $30 mil-lion generated through CSU OnlinePlus “landed back on campus,” with the surplus money being used to pay faculty that taught and designed the distance courses, and departments and organizations that supported distance stu-dents in any way.

“We pay our way and try to break even and have enough surplus to fund program development,” Lambert said.

He attributes the in-crease in enrollment num-bers partly to advances in technology; high band-width, new methods of de-livering online content and expanding global access to broadband connections have made online class-rooms easily accessible to wide swaths of the popu-lation.

The days of staring at a 60-minute pre-recorded video of a classroom lec-ture are gone.

Instead, online classes today force students to ac-tively participate through-out the lesson. If the all-knowing algorithm de-tects a student is not pay-ing attention, it will send a reminder to the distracted student.

“Today the term is ‘en-

gaged learning,’” said Lam-bert. “It’s an environment that doesn’t let you sit there and go into a powerpoint fog.”

CSU differs from many other online programs in that the curriculum and content is designed inside the academic units and departments on campus, compared to other online programs that usually hire third party developers.

The Institute for Teach-ing and Learning (TILT) has a team of 10 that works with faculty who will be teaching CSU OnlinePlus courses. The faculty de-signs the courses, and TILT develops them for online delivery.

Each year, TILT de-velops around 75 online courses.

This setup allows the department to be nim-ble and responsive to the needs of the distance pro-gram.

“To make them good you have to work hard. It’s really easy to design a bad online course,” said Mike Palmquist, associate vice provost of TILT. “You want to engage your stu-dents, give them challeng-ing assignments; you want them to spend time on the course.”

Senior Reporter Austin Briggs and Collegian Writ-er Corrie Sahling can be reached at [email protected].

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As someone who belongs to neither the Republican nor the Democratic party, I find it easy to objectively watch arguments between the two.

I’ve seen many “open-minded” liberals rant and rave about how awful “close-minded” conservatives are. “We are accepting of all peo-ple!” they cry. “Regardless of race, class, sex, gender or religion — we are culturally inclusive of everyone! We don’t judge!”

I find it disappointingly ironic when these same “open-minded” people begin discussing their views on restrictive firearm measures and what they think about gun owners.

When people who back weapon bans discover that I support gun ownership, they usually respond one of two ways: Either they will angrily accuse me of being an unreasonable right-wing gun nut who thinks everyone should be packing heat all the time, or they uncomfortably murmur something about how they’re “not trying to jeopardize my Seconnd Amendment rights, but just think that only the po-lice need guns.”

This is parallel to when someone angrily declares that all Muslims are violent killing Jihad machines, or assert how they’re “not homophobic, but just think that only straight people have the need to get married.”

These are comments that are made by people who greatly misunderstand a culture that is different from their own. These comments are founded in ignorance.

To someone who believes Islam is a religion that encourages violence, my advice would be to attend a mosque and to have a respectful Q&A with an Imam. To someone who thinks members of the LGBTQ com-munity shouldn’t have the same opportunities as their heterosexual peers, I would suggest visiting an LGBTQ resource center and striking up a meaningful dialogue about why there are people fighting for such causes.

To someone who dismisses gun-rights advocates as paranoid, pro-violence crazies, I would encourage a visit to a firing range and to have a discussion with those activists about what “gun ownership” means to them and why they are fighting to protect their right to do so.

Before being qualified to make judgments of a culture, you must understand that culture. You cannot simply trust in popular representations of a group of people. Those sorts of assumptions and stereotypes are hasty, misinformed, dangerous ways of thinking.

Last week, four gun-control bills passed through the Colorado House. One of those, HB 13-1226, would ban concealed carry on Colorado university campuses. I vehemently oppose this bill. I have already laid out details as to why I support campus concealed carry in my previous article, “A right to life and a 2nd Amend-ment right to defend it.” The fact that CSU has allowed concealed carry since 2003 and has not had a single problem with gun violence in all that time is one major reason why.

Why has CSU been so safe, even with students and staff carrying potentially dangerous weapons? I believe it is due to the positive culture surrounding guns in the Fort Collins community.

I do not consider myself a member of gun cul-ture. But I have taken the time to have open-minded conversations with members of that culture. After just five minutes of speaking to a gun owner, they will be more than happy to spend the time to teach you how to safely handle, unload and discharge a firearm.

Gun owners keep a close watch on one another, ensuring all other gun owners are being safe. They do not tolerate those who are handling their firearms ag-gressively, stupidly or are not obeying protocol in some other fashion.

It is a culture founded on safe, responsible owner-ship.

And gun owners are beyond happy to introduce new people to these concepts and explain their ideolo-gy in depth.

So, if you view those who support concealed carry as a bunch of crazy paranoid gun nuts, I invite you to instead imagine them as belonging to a culture that you just don’t fully understand yet.

Then allow yourself to be open-minded to learning more. Because relying on stereotypes isn’t just insen-sitive; it robs us of a chance to imagine the world (and the people in it) as complex.

It’s easy to peg people who support concealed carry on campus as crazy gun nuts. It’s easy to peg Muslims as crazy murderers and gays as destroying the sanctity of marriage.

But an easy argument is just not the same as a good, educated argument.

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

So far there have not been any details on exactly how much money has been raised for our new on-campus stadi-um or where that revenue will come from. Right now, the CSU student body and the broad-er Fort Collins community are completely in the dark about the progress being made on the stadium.

While CSU students’ pocket-books are not going to be affect-ed by the stadium, students and the community will be directly affected by what will eventually be done with the stadium. If the funds are actually raised to begin construction, students will have to deal with the adverse effects of the construction for as long as

it continues. If funds are not raised in two

years, however, the adminis-tration is planning to suspend

efforts toward raising funds for construction, and instead refo-cus efforts toward making neces-sary updates to Hughes Stadium.

Either way the student body has a right to know what prog-

ress is being made toward reach-ing the fundraising goals for the stadium, and right now it feels like we’re being left out of the conversation.

This project will be some-thing that will affect this cam-pus and its students for years to come. In the time that it will take to drum up financial support for the stadium, there is plenty of time to reach out to the student body and the community sur-rounding CSU.

To make the leap from a pro-cess that was promised to be open and transparent, to one that is the complete opposite does not make any sense and was not what was promised to us.

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Exhaustion, in every sense of the word, defined me.

This was the sixth straight day I had spent in the hospital with my terminally ill father. By 2 a.m., every morsel of comfort had es-caped my body. For an hour I stared at

his chest as it rose and fell — I thought maybe if I concentrated hard enough it would never stop. Finally, I could not handle any more and I stepped out of the room to get a glass of water just around the corner.

What happened next changed my life.

It was my turn to spend the night in hospice with him while the rest of my family found rest at home. As I was walking back to the room I heard the sound of my father violently chok-ing. Panic set in as I sprinted past the nurse’s station and found my dad struggling for air as he choked on his own bloody vomit.

I rushed to raise the head of his bed with the remote. As my father’s body rose to a position capable of expelling vomit properly and obtain-ing air, he opened his eyes wide like the moon, tears streaming down his face as he gave me a look I will never forget. I saved his life. That was the last time my daddy ever looked me in the eyes.

Hours after the nurses cleaned up the mess and dispensed his dose of pain medicine he fell into a coma and passed away at 11:32 that morn-ing.

Blood was the reason my father would wake up, without complaint, in the early hours of the morning to give me a bottle when I was a baby. Blood was the reason he worked as hard as he did, without question, to provide for me for 21 years. Blood was the reason he would stay up until ridicu-lous hours of the night until I returned home just to say “good night” and “I love you.”

I was his daughter, and that meant blood — the deepest connection two humans can share.

I believe, however, that brother-hood exists beyond the confines of a biological blood tie.

Why were my friends willing, at the drop of a hat, to bring my family food for weeks at a time, smother me with warm hugs, build me up with words of encouragement, sit with me as I sobbed relentlessly and drive 40 minutes to pray over me after working for 12 hours?

The answer is blood. These people made the decision to adopt me in their heart as their own blood tie. They sustained me in my most dire hours of need.

My father’s life and death taught me an important lesson — we put those we love, albeit family or friends, before ourselves — sacrificing com-fort, time and tears in order to make

sure none of our brothers are gasping for air.

My blood comes from the Unit-ed States, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and India. My blood speaks English, Arabic, Kurdish, Persian and Hindi. My blood identifies as Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Atheist, Buddhist and Catho-lic. When my brothers and sisters are choking, I will run to their side, lift their head and treat them with the dignity and love they deserve — no matter race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

Stepping back into reality after my father’s death has left me swelling with hope from my experience, yet speechless in response to the selfish-ness and hatred I witness on a daily basis.

This imbalance needs to change. If we choose to keep ignoring the sounds of choking, we are intention-ally allowing our fear of differences be the reason a fellow human being is left without a brother to raise his head for air.

For what makes us human? Is it our anatomy — flesh and blood? Or rather, the vast potential for empa-thy over intellect, the aptitude of brotherhood beyond blood and rising above all, the capacity to love another beyond self.

Editorial Assistant Brooke Lake is a senior international studies major. Her column appears every Monday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

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The project comes from the Department of Energy and General Motors. They asked universities around the country and in Canada to put together a senior design project that is related to hy-per-electric vehicles.

“They gave us a blank slate and asked what does CSU think the future of the automotive industry will look like,” said Thomas Bradley, the faculty advisor for the EcoCar 2 project and assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

A group called Securing America’s Future Energy is a group of CEOs and others who are national security ex-perts, according to Bradley.

“They want to improve America’s energy security for the future,” Bradley said. “They went on a nationwide search to determine a loca-tion that had all of the right ingredients to launch an elec-tric vehicle effort, so basically we can see if we can develop enough infrastructure, sup-port and education to make

electric vehicles.”The group chose Fort Col-

lins out of anywhere else in the nation.

“We have very progressive city and municipal utility. We have a long history of being at the forefront of various utilities technologies,” Bradley said.

The launch Monday is beginning at CSU because of the variety of projects involv-ing vehicle electrification. According to Bradley, housing and dining services at CSU is putting in new technology, and the business school has electric vehicle charges.

“This is the first time we’ve announced that we have a new role in a national electri-cal project,” Bradley said.

The EcoCar 2 project incorporates a national ini-tiative and CSU students to provide an educational expe-rience.

“The great part is that this is absolutely integrated with CSU students’ education. We have opportunities at every turn for students to get in-volved in developing the tech-nology and getting involved in the organization and to add to

their education,” Bradley said. “It’s just all a part of CSU’s edu-cation and research mission.”

Allison Kotewicz, a senior engineering student, is one of the only women on the Eco-Car 2 project and is on the storage energy team.

“What we’re doing is transforming how we use energy. It’s good to have a hands-on training about what engineering really is about,” Kotewicz said.

“It’s the car of the future, something that you’d buy (in) 10 or 15 years,” said Jake Buch-er, a mechanical engineering graduate student and team leader. “It’s our idea and con-ception of what they’ll be like.”

The goal was to reduce emissions and use fuel cells as energy so that no emissions would be released.

“It encompasses every point of building a car,” Buch-er said. “It’s funded by Argon National Labs and General Motors. We have direct path-ways to big companies for our future relationships.”

Another group related to mechanical engineering at CSU has been around since

1996: Ram Racing. “We’ve had our time here

for sure. We were a senior design project up until 2009 when we were a senior de-sign project and club,” said Jonathon Nagel, business and marketing director for the or-ganization, which has around 20 members.

Ram Racing includes students from all years and majors; by the time the stu-dents are seniors they are well versed in building a car that runs on ethanol as their fuel source.

“We receive a small bud-get from the university; it would take $70 thousand to $100 thousand to build one of these cars,” Nagel said. “So we work hard for sponsor-ships and are mostly privately funded.”

Ram Racing is one of the most competitive motor sports program in the state according to Nagel.

“We’re really involved start to finish, all of us,” Nagel said.

Collegian Writer Bailey Constas can be reached at [email protected].

CARS | Ft. Collins has right ingredients


building an on-campus stadium, and he said he envisions the facility doing more than hosting football games.

“A well-maintained sta-dium located on the main campus, now with de-cades of tradition behind it, would be a great benefit to the university, providing a familiar venue for athlet-ics, graduations, freshman convocations, band days and other large events. And so, with that long view in mind, I support our mov-ing forward to attempt to build such a facility,” Tony Frank wrote in an email to CSU students.

When the decision was made last October to begin the fundraising process, it was made clear to the pub-lic that the funding for the stadium will come exclu-sively from private donors — no money from tuition, student fees, taxes or state funding will go into the project.

According to CSU’s website, several donors have already expressed interest in supporting the project.

Other universities have had similar fundraising campaigns for on-campus stadiums, including Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Baylor’s stadium is cur-rently under construction and officials plan to have the stadium complete for the fall of 2014.

According to Baylor’s Executive Associate Ath-letic Director, Nick Joos, all but 10 percent of the $250 million fundraising ini-tiative was paid for by do-nations. Bonds and a city contribution from a tax increment fund paid for 10 percent of the project.

While Baylor could not disclose specifics of their fundraising information, the McLane family provid-ed the largest capital gift in university history to fund the stadium project.

According to Hooker, the fate of CSU’s on-cam-pus stadium lies in how much money can be raised from private donations.

“When President Frank gave the green light to start fundraising efforts he also said that in two years we need to know that there is financial sup-port to move forward with construction, otherwise the university will need to suspend the campaign and start making some of the necessary investments and updates at Hughes,” Hooker said.

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

FUNDS | All from private donations

Amy Parsons, Vice President for University Operations, discusses possible sites for the on-campus stadium at the Stadium Advisory Committee at the Hilton Thursday in March of 2012. Funding half of the stadium, around $125 million, will be the order of Athletic Director Jack Graham and his team to receive from private donors.

HUNTER THOMPSON | COLLEGIAN

By ISABELLA HEEPKEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The CSU College of Ag-riculture is working to do its part in the fight against hun-ger.

The university recent-ly donated 3,500 pounds of dry pinto beans to the Lar-imer and Weld County food banks. The beans and other recent fresh food donations have been made possible by research done to improve crop varieties, according to Coleman Cornelius, the di-rector of communications of the College of Agriculture.

“I personally felt proud that our students and re-searchers were harvesting this food and providing it to families in need,” Cornelius

said of the donations made this past growing season.

The beans were grown on 19 acres for Dr. Mark Brick’s Dry Bean Breeding Project at CSU’s Agricultural Research, Development and Education Center located north of Fort Collins. Brick is a professor in the soil and crop science department.

Brick and his team be-gan making their annual do-nation nearly 20 years ago. Geoff Upson, a grad student in the mid-90s, suggested that they donate a portion of their crop rather than plow it under and allow it to go to waste each season, Brick ex-plained.

This year, the beans were made available for donation through the work

of Brick and Barry Ogg, a colleague. The two enlisted help to have the beans har-vested and then cleaned by Northern Feed and Bean in Lucerne, Colo. to insure the beans were ready for consumption, explained Brick.

The beans will be sep-arated into more manage-able rations and distribut-ed through the food bank’s many non-profit agencies and food programs, accord-ing to Karen McManus, the food resource manager at the Food Bank for Larimer County. Most of the beans will be distributed through the “Emergency Food Assis-tance” program, which pro-vides food immediately to those most at risk.

Donations through ag-ricultural research are only one way that CSU helps sup-port the local food banks. Food collection programs, including Cans Around the Oval and Food for Fines, help supply the shelter with non-perishable goods, ac-cording to McManus.

“We value our relation-ship with the CSU com-munity and appreciate the support we receive from stu-dents and staff,” McManus said.

Information about how to support the Food Bank for Larimer County can be found on its website, food-banklarimer.org.

Collegian Writer Isabel-la Heepke can be reached at [email protected].

Beans really are the magical fruit

BY SUSAN KING and RENE LYNCHThe McClatchy Tribune

LOS ANGELES – Austria’s “Amour” is one of the tough-est movies of the year to watch but also one of the most compelling and re-warding. On Sunday, the harrowing drama about an elderly married couple struggling to cope when the wife suffers a stroke was honored with the Oscar for foreign language film.

“Amour” is also nomi-nated for four other Oscars, including best film, director and screenplay for Michael Haneke and actress Emman-uelle Riva.

Meanwhile, “Life of Pi” continues to defy expecta-tions. The fable-adventure about a young man and a tiger sharing a life raft af-

ter a ship wreck has earned nearly $600 million world-wide.

And now it has two Os-cars – and maybe more – to show for the leap of faith it took to bring the bestselling book to the big screen.

Ang Lee’s film head-ed into the 85th Academy Awards with 11 nominations, including best picture and director. It’s snapped up two Oscars, for cinematographer Claudio Miranda and for its stunning visual effects.

Singer Shirley Bassey, who made her Oscar debut Sunday night, received the night’s first standing ova-tion, for her performance of her classic 1965 hit “Goldfin-ger” during the ceremony’s celebration of 50 years of James Bond. The age-defy-ing 76-year-old Welsh singer was appropriately decked

out in a strapless, curve-hug-ging gold gown with match-ing full-length gloves.

In other honors, Chris-toph Waltz took supporting actor for his performance as a bounty hunter in the slavery western “Django Un-chained,” and Anne Hatha-way won supporting actress for her role as the doomed prostitute in “Les Misera-bles.” Disney’s “Paperman” won animated short, while Disney / Pixar’s “Brave” won animated feature film. Mark Andrews, one of “Brave’s” directors, wore a kilt on-stage to accept the honor for the film, set in Scotland. Jacqueline Durran won cos-tume design for the period romance “Anna Karenina” and the Oscar for makeup and hairstyle went to Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell for “Les Miserables.”

Live-action short went to “Curfew,” directed by Shawn Christensen, and “Inocen-

te,” directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, won documentary short subject. Director Malik Bendjelloul’s “Searching for Sugar Man,” about the quest to find out what happened to a 1970s singer named Rodriguez, won best documentary.

Oscars host Seth Mac-Farlane did the impossible Sunday night as he kicked off the 85th Academy Awards: He made Tommy Lee Jones smile.

MacFarlane – and his raunchy sense of humor – was an edgy choice for the Oscars but came across as poised and confident as the show began. And while some feared that “The Family Guy” creator and “Ted” director would turn a scathing laser beam on others, he largely turned it on himself.

“It’s an honor that ev-eryone else said no,” Mac-Farlane joked about being asked to host the show.

Hathaway wins, ‘Amour’ wows, ‘Pi’ surprises‘Argo’ wins Best Picture in 85th Oscars


BY HALEIGH HAMBLIN The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Saturday night must have felt like deja vu for the CSU women’s basketball team.

Traveling to the Pit to take on 13-11 New Mexico, the Rams came in on a two-game win streak against Air Force and UNLV.

It seemed like it was just yesterday that CSU played New Mexico at home and fell to double digits in the second half in January. The Rams lost 56-71 to New Mex-ico in Albuquerque, which dropped their record to 9-16 overall and 5-7 in the Moun-tain West.

In both games against the Lobos, the Rams fell af-ter a strong fi rst fi ve minutes and were unable to counter the defi cit in the second half.

CSU trailed 9-10 with 15:53 left in the first half,

but New Mexico went on a 9-3 run over the next two and a half minutes to estab-lish some breathing room.

Looking for a comeback with 3:45 left in the second half, CSU could not over-come the 65-50 defi cit and ended up 15 points down.

New Mexico made 48.2 percent of its shots from the fi eld compared to the Rams’ 35.4 percent.

“I thought we answered really well,” CSU coach Ryun Williams said. “They were shooting like crazy.”

Sophomore Antiesha Brown lead the Lobos with 16 points on the night on 6-11 shooting.

Giving a lot of credit to New Mexico and their explo-sive drives on offense, CSU looks forward to their next game on the road against MW No. 2 Fresno State.

“We didn’t score consis-tently in the second half,”

Williams said. “I am proud of the team ... (they) need to work on offense and defense in the upcoming game.”

Freshman Caitlin Duffy scored 17 points to bounce

back from a nine point showing in the team’s ini-tial meeting. She hit four of eight shots from behind the arc and had three re-bounds.

“I wish I could have hit a few more,” Duffy said. “To-ward the end of the season it is nice to grow and make those extra shots, but it is a lot better to win.”

New Mexico now moves to a 14-11 overall record and 6-6 in conference play, con-trolling the fourth spot in the league standings.

Next, CSU will travel to Fresno State to take on the second place team in the MW.

“Tough teams ... need a tough mentality,” junior Sam Martin said. “(We) need to look past this.”

Women’s Basketball Beat Reporter Haleigh Hamblin can be reached at [email protected].

6 Monday, February 25, 2013 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Loss at the Pit follows similar scriptGAME BREAKDOWN

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A lack of offensive out-put cost the CSU softball team its fi nal two games of the Mary Nutter Classic Saturday.

The Rams fell to Vir-ginia 7-1 and Syracuse 4-2 while only managing 12 combined hits in the two games.

Virginia jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the fi rst three innings while freshman pitcher Emma Mitchell recorded 11 strikeouts in a complete game victory.

CSU left eight runners on base in its loss to Syra-cuse and gave up all four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning on three walks and an error.

The Rams will play at home for the fi rst time March 1 in the Colorado State Classic.

Hurdler bests own MW record

CSU junior Trev-or Brown continued his dominance of the men’s 60-meter hurdles, win-ning his third consecutive Mountain West title in 7.77 seconds, a confer-ence record.

Brown owned the previous record of 7.84 seconds, and fi nished .15 seconds in front of his nearest competitor.

As a team, CSU fi n-ished fourth in the men’s team competition and seventh in the women’s.

“We had some bright spots and things to be excited about, but with event areas where we don’t have anyone in the fi nals, that’s a disaster on the last day,” CSU coach Brian Bedard said. “Our staff is really disappoint-ed. We’ve got to get better and work with what we’ve got now. We’re a better outdoor team.”

— Collegian Staff Report

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in attendance Saturday, CSU’s third consecutive sellout and fourth during the streak.

You used to be able to stroll up to the gates and grab a ticket 10 or 15 min-utes before game time and get a decent seat.

Now to get that same spot you need to pick up a ticket days in advance, likely waiting in line with a legion of other fans, and get to the arena poten-tially an hour early and wait outside, practically fighting for real estate in the arena.

That desperation, that dedication from the fans, has created a home envi-ronment that they and the players can be proud of.

Both Eustachy and his players have regularly talk-ed about the importance of the fan support, and in particular the student sup-port, to getting where they are today.

But on Saturday, Eustachy felt like his team didn’t hold up their end of the bargain.

“I feel bad, and I apol-ogized to our fans and our students, because we had the kind of atmosphere that we have been talking about tonight,” he said. “I feel like we let them down. I feel like I let them down. I promise we’ll do better.”

I’m certain he and his team will follow through on that promise.

Coming off two of the most gut-wrenching losses of the season, there’s no

doubt this team is hurting, but Eustachy has preached the mantra of “don’t get too high, don’t get too low.”

They want to get back in the gym, get back on the practice fl oor and get back into another game to move on and get back to the physical, punishing brand of basketball that has defi ned the Rams this season.

New Mexico out-toughed CSU in Moby on Saturday. It’s not likely that will happen again.

Yes, the 27 game win-ning streak is over, but the Rams can start another one Wednesday.

I almost feel sorry for Fresno State.

Sports Editor Kyle Grabowski can be reached at [email protected].

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (02/25/13). You’re a student as well as a teacher this year. Keep your schedule and budget, and fi nances work out. Home is where your heart is for the fi rst six months, and a move, remodel or family addition is possible. Art, travel and romance fi re your creative passions.

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

ARIES (March 21-April 19) ––7–– Love can help you grow. Postpone a meeting with friends and get to work. Diversity plays an important role in your long-range plan. You don’t have to explain a thing.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ––7–– Consider the consequenc-es, as the possibility for mistakes is high ... but don’t let that stop you. Through playfulness and creative thinking you can work it out. Add romance.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ––7–– Draw energy from those who love you, and refl ect some back so that the relationship’s sustainable. Add an exotic ingredient to the recipe and a gener-ous dash of optimism.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) ––9–– The money is following you, so you must be doing what you love. Avoid wasting a lot of en-ergy ... It’s easier than you think. Instead of watts, burn calories, smartly. It takes compromise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ––8–– You may have to choose be-tween love and money now. Consider carefully and choose, remembering that money can’t buy you love. You can always make money tomorrow.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ––9–– Your efforts are being recog-nized, and you’re only getting hotter. Navigate through today’s maze with ease. Make changes as needed. Feel the love you generate. Let it sink in.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ––7–– Take time for private medita-tion as often as possible. Love insinuates itself into your life, but don’t ignore other obligations. Your social life takes a turn. Move quickly to avoid shortages.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ––8–– Keep up to date on the latest information, but don’t get sidetracked from goals. Possi-ble confl icts may appear for the next two days. Call ahead to avoid running all over town.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ––9–– There’s a detour ahead. Enjoy the adventure and mystery of the uncertainty (this is pos-sible). Don’t believe everything you’ve read. Let go of the fl uff. Keep on budget.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ––7–– Review fi nancial arrange-ments to increase income now and over the next month. Keep focused to fi nd opportunities, and get plenty of rest. Be gracious toward a jerk or, even easier, just ignore him.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ––9–– It’s getting interesting. Put your money where your mouth is when it comes to work. Get out of the way of your own success. Don’t overanalyze it. Build a solid foundation.

By QUENTIN SICKAFOOSEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Losing at home isn’t a common occur-rence for the CSU men’s basketball team.

But the effort from New Mexico guard Kendall Williams was the driving force that carried the Lobos past the Rams 91-82 Satur-day, snapping CSU’s 27 home game winning streak and handing the Rams their fi rst loss in Moby Arena since Nov. 19, 2011.

Williams posted 46 points, 30 of them coming from behind the arch, setting a Mountain West record of 10 three-pointers made in a single game.

“We just gave him open looks early, he got hot and was just feeling it for the rest of the night,” senior guard Wes Eikmeier said.

The fi rst two minutes of the game were scoreless, then the high scoring shootout be-gan. Both teams combined for 55 fi eld goals and nine lead changes before CSU entered halftime with a 41-38 lead.

“Anytime you score 82 points you should never lose a game,” CSU coach Larry Eu-stachy said. “I thought it was pretty plain and simple, I thought the tougher team won, give New Mexico all the credit. Steve Alford had his team ready to go. We had no answer for them, we couldn’t stop them.”

As the players returned from the break, the pace of the game accompanied them. Eikmeier, who had only seven points in the fi rst half, tallied 11 more in the opening four minutes of the second half.

After grabbing a six-point edge over New Mexico with 6:40 left to play, CSU went cold. The Rams spent the following three minutes going 0-5 on their possessions, allowing the Lobos to go on a 14-2 run that silenced the crowd of 8,745 and would award New Mexico the conference victory.

“You can’t have the third team (in RPI) in the

country out-determine you and have a chance, I don’t care if you’re playing on Mars, let alone in your home court building,” Eustachy said.

Saturday was the second time in three games that the Rams have allowed an oppos-ing player to score 45 points or more, after letting Michael Lyons score 45 in the road game at Air Force last weekend.

“Right now it’s not about winning or los-ing, it’s about playing better. If we execute better and play our game, we’re going to win,” senior guard Dorian Green said. “We played just as poor against Air Force and won. Give New Mexico credit, they are the better team and more physical. We have to get better.”

CSU has now dropped two consecutive

matchups for the fi rst time since December.“I think we got caught up in being on post-

ers, all that. I think we forgot what got us on the posters,” Eustachy said. “We all need to do better, and we will.”

Saturday’s result drops CSU to 21-6, 8-4 MW while improving New Mexico to 23-4, 10-2 MW and a two game lead on top of the conference.

“I believe in this team, make no question about it, I believe in them. But you ask me to get a Ouija board or a crystal ball and I can’t tell you how they’re going to respond,” Eu-stachy said. “It’s hard to handle success; it’s a great life lesson for these guys.”

Men’s Basketball Beat Reporter Quentin Sick-afoose can be reached at [email protected].

Dorian Green’s voice barely rose above a whisper in the press conference following CSU’s 91-82 loss to No. 16 New Mexico Saturday.

His usually confi dent, full de-livery occasionally faltered as he tried to come to terms with and explain what had just happened.

As he spoke, a single tear formed in the corner of his left eye closest to his nose.

It trickled down his face as the press conference came to a close and, that said more than his words could.

This one hurt. It meant more to this team than the three players sitting in front of the assembled media allowed themselves to say.

They took pride in winning 27 consecutive home games, and losing in an environment like Moby on Saturday shocked their systems a little bit.

It’s understandable. When you expect one outcome for 461 days and 27 games, the opposite can be jarring.

The last time CSU lost a home game, current coach Larry Eu-stachy sat on the opposite bench.

Peyton Manning still played for the Indianapolis Colts and was recovering from neck surgery.

Katy Perry and Russell Brand were still more than a month away from divorce fi lings.

Of CSU’s 27 straight wins, 16 were by at least ten points.

Only one game came down to the fi nal possession, a 65-64 thriller over CU-Boulder on Nov. 30, 2011.

Moby held its collective breath as Buffs guard Nate Tomlinson’s last second three point attempt sailed through the air and fell harmlessly to the hardwood.

More than anything, the streak became a symbol of CSU’s basketball renaissance in recent seasons.

Moby became a full-fl edged fortress for the Rams rather than a holiday road trip for Mountain West opponents.

Only 2,275 people wit-nessed CSU’s last loss against Southern Miss.

A full throated 8,745 were

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Junior business major Scott Hall sits in defeat after the CSU men’s basketball home loss against New Mexico Saturday in Moby. Hall got in line at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in order to get tickets for the game.

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End of a streak, not the world

THE BIG GRABOWSKI

Pierce Hornung, right, leaps for the ball in the fi rst half of the basketball game against New Mexico on Saturday in Moby Arena. The Rams lost to the Lobos 91-82.


By TYRUS CODERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

It was a record-setting weekend at the Mountain West Swimming and Diving Championships in San An-tonio over the weekend.

Overall, the Rams fi n-ished 7th in the team com-petition, while San Diego State won the tournament. Boise State and Wyoming rounded off the top three.

Senior Breann Fuller and freshman Erika Stock led the way for CSU, setting school records in their events.

Fuller began the fi nal day of competition with a record-breaking swim in the preliminary round of the 200-meter backstroke. With a time of 1:54.40, she bested her own Mountain West and school record by nearly a sec-ond and a half.

In the 200-backstroke fi -nal, Fuller placed 3rd in a race

that was decided by less than three-tenths of a second. The fi rst place time in the fi nal did not surpass Fuller’s record from the preliminaries.

“It was a bittersweet mo-ment for me. It was incred-ible to break the record in the morning, but it was also humbling to get beat in the fi nals,” Fuller said.

Freshman Erika Stock broke out in her fi rst MW Championship, setting two school records in the 400 Indi-vidual Medley and 200-meter breaststroke.

“This weekend’s results were shocking to me be-cause I overcame an injury at the beginning of the sea-son to get here. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I certain-ly wasn’t expecting my best times,” she said.

Stock’s performances in the 400 IM and 200 breast-stroke earned her an 11th and 9th place fi nish, respec-

tively. She will look to build on her strong performances going into next year.

“This year, the experience was all kind of new to me. Looking ahead, I want to do better,” Stock said. “Now that I know what to expect from swimming at the collegiate level, I want to beat my best times. I want to win races.”

The 100-meter breast-stroke was perhaps the most successful race of the weekend for the Rams swimmers. Stock and senior Kelly Matthews posted the 2nd and 3rd fastest times in school history.

Fuller’s storied career will not be soon forgotten by CSU. And leaving won’t be easy for the four-time MW Champion and four-time MW academic award winner.

“Seniors usually get burnt out in this sport. Not me. I am going to miss waking up for practice every day, training hard, and sharing laughs with

my teammates,” she said.At the end of the day, the

league’s coaches honored Fuller with the Senior Rec-ognition Award for her out-standing career as an athlete and student at CSU.

“Standing up there with the seniors, I got very emo-tional,” she said. “There have been a lot of ups and downs to my career, but I feel extremely blessed.”

Swimming Beat Reporter Tyrus Coder can be reached at [email protected].

School records fall in San Antonio

“It was a bittersweet moment for me. It was incredible to break the reord in the morning, but it was also humbling to get beat in the finals.”

Breann Fuller | senior backstroker

SWIMMING

1. San Diego State - 7342. Boise State - 5753. Wyoming - 5094. UNLV - 4445. Nevada - 3906. New Mexico - 2967. COLORADO STATE - 2768. Fresno State - 2579. Air Force - 211

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