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the STRIP CLUB RamRide is a good thing to have around, especially as mid-term weeks start to get more and more intense and having a few drinks on Friday becomes more and more appeal- ing. However, the RamRide vans are not the most exciting cars to be driven around in. So, we’d like to suggest: COLLEGIAN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ursday, September 20, 2012 Fort Collins, Colorado Volume 121 | No. 32 www.collegian.com THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891 The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff and designed by Design Editor Kris Lawan. Out for revenge Utah State hoping to atone for last year’s double-overtime loss PAGE 8 An in depth breakdown of where your tuition goes | Page 5 DeLorians How cool would it be to be driven around in a DeLorian? There is not a soul alive that has not heard of Back to the Fu- ture — and not a single person who has not at some point imagined being in Marty McFly’s shoes. Besides, the dizzi- ness and nausea that comes with excess party- ing can then be excused as a side effect of being too close to the Flux Capacitor. Batmobiles This should be a no-brainer. It’s a freakin’ BATMO- BILE. In addition to being an incred- ible ride for the people who call RamRide, it would make the whole “traffi c” problem a lot better. Given that the Batmobile from the most recent Batman movie is basically a tank, nobody in their right mind would get in RamRide’s way. A Tardis Okay we know that this is not “technically” a car, but bear with us. Sure it’s just an old-timey British police box, but it’s a lot bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, so it can hold infi nitely more people. Since it too is a time machine, it can simultane- ously exist in multiple places at once so it can’t ever “technically” be late. Cars we’d like RamRide to use POLITICAL SCIENCE SUPERSTARS CSU political science professors provide expert opinion for the media Blane Harding talks CSU diversity PHOTOS BY KATIE THOMPSON | COLLEGIAN By KATE WINKLE The Rocky Mountain Collegian The New York Times, the Denver Post, National Public Radio, the Wash- ington Post and Al Jazeera descend on CSU political science professors with questions about every aspect of the state of the political climate. “In 2008, we were kidding at one point with the public relations people that I think we had done interviews with reporters on every continent ex- cept Antarctica,” said Robert Duffy, the political science department chair. Calls and emails inundate the political science department in the months leading up to the general elec- tion, and the requests mainly filter to three professors: John Straayer, Kyle Saunders and Duffy. Now the professors are gearing up for what Saunders calls “political sci- ence’s World Cup:” the November elec- tion. As the race gets closer the amount of media contacts increases to a frenzy. “There are times, especially during October and November of a presiden- tial election year, when it can get a bit crazy …but, even then, it’s still a lot of fun to talk about these topics,” Saun- ders said in an email to the Collegian. “One of the main reasons I chose this career was to educate people; working with the media is just another way of providing that service to people who want to learn about politics.” Each professor has his own area of expertise, and often refer the media to one another when contacted, accord- ing to Straayer. The 2008 election was a phenome- non that produced a deluge of media at- tention in Colorado, according to Straay- er, most notably because it was the site of the Democratic National Conven- tion. Typically, election years produce a steady stream of inquiries that arrive ei- ther directly to the professors or through CSU’s Public Relations department. Straayer likens the media’s discov- ery of expert sources to a chain letter. “Pretty soon you get one, two, three, four, five reporters calling you and your name pops up in USA Today or the New York Times or public radio and other people in media look at your name and put you in their rolodex,” Straayer said. “You do what you do and if peo- ple quote you and other people need a quote you end up on their call list.” At the height of 2008, Duffy said he and Saunders received 8 to 10 inquiries per week, and Straayer received many more. This year Duffy receives about two to three inquiries per week, although that likely will increase as the election nears. “They still come and they’re going to keep coming,” Straayer said. Balancing one public duty with other commitments like teaching and research can be tricky, according to Straayer. Reporters would sometimes stop by his home to get an interview in 2008, and he had to learn to avoid phone calls right before class so he could focus on teaching. This year it is more manageable. “Reporters’ deadlines don’t always mesh with your own schedule and so you need to find a way to navigate that,” Duffy said. Though media attention can prove tiresome, it’s part of the job description of a professor, according to Straayer. “I’m happy to do it. It’s my obliga- tion to do it. Is it some I started out look- ing for? No, not particularly,” Straayer said. “The world is better off, the United States is better off, if people when they engage in public activities such as vot- ing they know what they’re doing. If we can in any way help to inform the pub- lic, I think that’s a good thing.” Politics Beat Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at [email protected]. By CARRIE MOBLEY The Rocky Mountain Collegian In order to combat a lack of students utilizing RamRide Return, the Associated Stu- dents of CSU is hosting an en- tire week of events dedicated to student outreach. The program — which drives students back to their cars on Fridays and Saturdays and is in its second year of operation — has seen con- sistently low numbers every weekend. In the last two week- ends, RamRide Return ser- viced 18 students. RamRide was used by 515 students. Starting Sept. 23, the week of events is intended to edu- cate students on the benefits of using RamRide Return, ac- cording to RamRide Director Becky Ewing. “We really want this week to be about marketing the pro- gram and letting students know about the resources that are provided to them,” said Beau Loendorf, deputy director of RamRide Return. “We mainly want to focus on the education component this week.” Why would so many stu- dents take RamRide to get home on a Friday or Saturday and then not take RamRide Re- turn to get back their cars the next day? “I think there are a lot of misconceptions about what RamRide Return is. We have some students thinking that it costs money and not wanting to take it because of that,” Lo- endorf said. “In reality, its just like RamRide, but during the day. Its free for everyone.” Some students, however, consider it a matter of conve- nience to not use the program. “I’ve never used RamRide Return,” said Audrey Heintz, a biomedical sciences student. “That’s mainly because it’s just easier to have a designated driver out of your group of friends to drive you there and then drive back instead of go- ing through all that.” The first day of the week will be spent targeting Greek Life organizations in order to educate their members about the service. The second day will be dedicated to teaching the SLiCE office and various other student organizations about the service. The next step, Loendorf said, is to target the residence halls. “If we get the freshman in- volved with using and knowing about the program now, they will use it for the rest of their college career,” he said. Other events for the week will include a booth on the Lory Student Center Plaza, in which the department will survey students and get feed- back on the program, and visit classrooms to talk to students before their classes begin. A RamRide Return flyer will also be given to every person who takes RamRide home this weekend. “This program was a great idea in order to help students get back to their cars,” Loen- dorf said. “Its downfall is that no one knows about it.” ASCSU Beat Reporter Car- rie Mobley can be reached at [email protected]. RamRide Return to host week of events to boost numbers RamRide Return is a service pro- vided in conjuncture with RamRide to drive students back to their cars the morning after being driven home by RamRide The program is a fee-funded service that is free to all students It operates on Saturday and Sunday from 8 to 11 a.m. WHAT IS RAMRIDE RETURN? “If we get the freshmen involved with using and knowing about the program now, they will use it for the rest of their college career.” Beau Loendorf | (deputy director of RamRide Ride Return) ASCSU By ELISABETH WILLNER The Rocky Mountain Collegian At the end of the spring 2012 semester, Blane Harding, the director of Advising, Re- cruitment and Retention for the College of Liberal Arts, re- tired from CSU to become the Director of the Office of Multi- cultural Affairs for the Univer- sity of Kansas. Thursday, Harding will return to CSU to present “50 years in 50 minutes,” a history of the Lory Student Center as a gathering place for social jus- tice advocacy, tragedies and celebrations. His presenta- tion will take place in the LSC Theatre from 12:10 to 1 p.m. as part of the annual CSU Diver- sity Symposium. Harding received his mas- ters in history at CSU and worked at the university for 21 years, beginning as a professor and moving on to the dean’s office. He is also a diversity and multicultural consultant and serves as the National Chair of the National Academic Advis- ing Association’s Multicultural Concerns Commission. Before leaving for KU, Harding spoke with the Colle- gian about the state of diver- sity at CSU. The following is a shortened version of the inter- view. Collegian: What is the state of diversity at Colorado State University? Blane Harding: [There is a] need to diversify the presi- dent’s cabinet. If you take a look across all of the deans and all of the chairs, how many diverse deans and chairs do we have? We have two diverse people in the cabinet: one is a part-time position and the other is the Vice President of Student Affairs … How many black faculty members do you think we have on cam- pus? Probably 13 to 14. This semester (spring 2012) alone, three black faculty members are leaving the university… We don’t have to go into names, but I could name nine faculty administrators that are African American that have left this in- stitution in the past five or six years. Nine. We only have 14. See HARDING on Page 3 John Straayer: Colorado politics, legislature and energy policy expert Kyle Saunders: Political parties, political behavior, elections, public opinion, issues and research expert Robert Duffy: Politics, natural resources and energy policy expert
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theSTRIPCLUB
RamRide is a good thing to have around, especially as mid-term weeks start to get more and more intense and having a few drinks on Friday becomes more and more appeal-ing. However, the RamRide vans are not the most exciting cars to be driven around in. So, we’d like to suggest:
COLLEGIANT H E R O C K Y M O U N T A I N
� ursday, September 20, 2012Fort Collins, Colorado Volume 121 | No. 32
www.collegian.comTHE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891
The Strip Club is written by the Collegian staff and designed by Design Editor Kris Lawan.
Out for revengeUtah State hoping to atone for last year’s double-overtime loss
PAGE 8
An in depth breakdown of where your tuition goes | Page 5
DeLoriansHow cool would it be to be driven around in a DeLorian? There is not a soul alive that has not heard of Back to the Fu-ture — and not a single person who has not at some point imagined being in Marty McFly’s shoes. Besides, the dizzi-ness and nausea that comes with excess party-ing can then be excused as a side effect of being too close to the Flux Capacitor.
BatmobilesThis should be a no-brainer. It’s a freakin’ BATMO-BILE. In addition to being an incred-ible ride for the people who call RamRide, it would make the whole “traffi c” problem a lot better. Given that the Batmobile from the most recent Batman movie is basically a tank, nobody in their right mind would get in RamRide’s way.
A TardisOkay we know that this is not “technically” a car, but bear with us. Sure it’s just an old-timey British police box, but it’s a lot bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, so it can hold infi nitely more people. Since it too is a time machine, it can simultane-ously exist in multiple places at once so it can’t ever “technically” be late.
Cars we’d like RamRide
to usePOLITICAL SCIENCE
SUPERSTARSCSU political science professors provide expert opinion for the media
Blane Harding talks CSU diversity
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ever “technically” be late.
By KATE WINKLEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
The New York Times, the Denver Post, National Public Radio, the Wash-ington Post and Al Jazeera descend on CSU political science professors with questions about every aspect of the state of the political climate.
“In 2008, we were kidding at one point with the public relations people that I think we had done interviews with reporters on every continent ex-cept Antarctica,” said Robert Duffy, the political science department chair.
Calls and emails inundate the political science department in the months leading up to the general elec-tion, and the requests mainly fi lter to three professors: John Straayer, Kyle Saunders and Duffy.
Now the professors are gearing up for what Saunders calls “political sci-ence’s World Cup:” the November elec-tion. As the race gets closer the amount of media contacts increases to a frenzy.
“There are times, especially during October and November of a presiden-tial election year, when it can get a bit crazy …but, even then, it’s still a lot of fun to talk about these topics,” Saun-ders said in an email to the Collegian.
“One of the main reasons I chose this career was to educate people; working with the media is just another way of providing that service to people who want to learn about politics.”
Each professor has his own area of expertise, and often refer the media to one another when contacted, accord-ing to Straayer.
The 2008 election was a phenome-non that produced a deluge of media at-tention in Colorado, according to Straay-er, most notably because it was the site of the Democratic National Conven-tion. Typically, election years produce a steady stream of inquiries that arrive ei-ther directly to the professors or through CSU’s Public Relations department.
Straayer likens the media’s discov-ery of expert sources to a chain letter.
“Pretty soon you get one, two, three, four, fi ve reporters calling you and your name pops up in USA Today or the New York Times or public radio and other people in media look at your name and put you in their rolodex,” Straayer said. “You do what you do and if peo-ple quote you and other people need a quote you end up on their call list.”
At the height of 2008, Duffy said he and Saunders received 8 to 10 inquiries per week, and Straayer received many
more. This year Duffy receives about two to three inquiries per week, although that likely will increase as the election nears.
“They still come and they’re going to keep coming,” Straayer said.
Balancing one public duty with other commitments like teaching and research can be tricky, according to Straayer. Reporters would sometimes stop by his home to get an interview in 2008, and he had to learn to avoid phone calls right before class so he could focus on teaching. This year it is more manageable.
“Reporters’ deadlines don’t always mesh with your own schedule and so you need to fi nd a way to navigate that,” Duffy said.
Though media attention can prove tiresome, it’s part of the job description of a professor, according to Straayer.
“I’m happy to do it. It’s my obliga-tion to do it. Is it some I started out look-ing for? No, not particularly,” Straayer said. “The world is better off, the United States is better off, if people when they engage in public activities such as vot-ing they know what they’re doing. If we can in any way help to inform the pub-lic, I think that’s a good thing.”
Politics Beat Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at [email protected].
By CARRIE MOBLEYThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
In order to combat a lack of students utilizing RamRide Return, the Associated Stu-dents of CSU is hosting an en-tire week of events dedicated to student outreach.
The program — which drives students back to their cars on Fridays and Saturdays and is in its second year of operation — has seen con-sistently low numbers every weekend. In the last two week-ends, RamRide Return ser-viced 18 students. RamRide was used by 515 students.
Starting Sept. 23, the week of events is intended to edu-cate students on the benefi ts
of using RamRide Return, ac-cording to RamRide Director Becky Ewing.
“We really want this week to be about marketing the pro-gram and letting students know about the resources that are provided to them,” said Beau Loendorf, deputy director of RamRide Return. “We mainly want to focus on the education component this week.”
Why would so many stu-dents take RamRide to get home on a Friday or Saturday and then not take RamRide Re-turn to get back their cars the next day?
“I think there are a lot of misconceptions about what RamRide Return is. We have some students thinking that it
costs money and not wanting to take it because of that,” Lo-endorf said. “In reality, its just like RamRide, but during the day. Its free for everyone.”
Some students, however, consider it a matter of conve-nience to not use the program.
“I’ve never used RamRide Return,” said Audrey Heintz, a biomedical sciences student. “That’s mainly because it’s just easier to have a designated driver out of your group of friends to drive you there and then drive back instead of go-ing through all that.”
The first day of the week will be spent targeting Greek Life organizations in order to educate their members about the service. The second day
will be dedicated to teaching the SLiCE office and various other student organizations about the service.
The next step, Loendorf said, is to target the residence halls.
“If we get the freshman in-volved with using and knowing about the program now, they
will use it for the rest of their college career,” he said.
Other events for the week will include a booth on the Lory Student Center Plaza, in which the department will survey students and get feed-back on the program, and visit classrooms to talk to students before their classes begin. A RamRide Return fl yer will also be given to every person who takes RamRide home this weekend.
“This program was a great idea in order to help students get back to their cars,” Loen-dorf said. “Its downfall is that no one knows about it.”
ASCSU Beat Reporter Car-rie Mobley can be reached at [email protected].
RamRide Return to host week of events to boost numbers RamRide Return is a service pro-
vided in conjuncture with RamRide to drive students back to their cars the morning after being driven home by RamRide
The program is a fee-funded service that is free to all students
It operates on Saturday and Sunday from 8 to 11 a.m.
WHAT IS RAMRIDE RETURN?
“If we get the freshmen involved with using and knowing about the program now, they will use it for the rest of their college career.”
Beau Loendorf | (deputy director of RamRide Ride Return)
ASCSU
By ELISABETH WILLNERThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
At the end of the spring 2012 semester, Blane Harding, the director of Advising, Re-cruitment and Retention for the College of Liberal Arts, re-tired from CSU to become the Director of the Offi ce of Multi-cultural Affairs for the Univer-sity of Kansas.
Thursday, Harding will return to CSU to present “50 years in 50 minutes,” a history of the Lory Student Center as a gathering place for social jus-tice advocacy, tragedies and celebrations. His presenta-tion will take place in the LSC Theatre from 12:10 to 1 p.m. as part of the annual CSU Diver-sity Symposium.
Harding received his mas-ters in history at CSU and worked at the university for 21 years, beginning as a professor and moving on to the dean’s offi ce. He is also a diversity and multicultural consultant and serves as the National Chair of the National Academic Advis-ing Association’s Multicultural Concerns Commission.
Before leaving for KU, Harding spoke with the Colle-gian about the state of diver-sity at CSU. The following is a shortened version of the inter-view.
Collegian: What is the state of diversity at Colorado State University?
Blane Harding: [There is a] need to diversify the presi-dent’s cabinet. If you take a look across all of the deans and all of the chairs, how many diverse deans and chairs do we have? We have two diverse people in the cabinet: one is a part-time position and the other is the Vice President of Student Affairs … How many black faculty members do you think we have on cam-pus? Probably 13 to 14. This semester (spring 2012) alone, three black faculty members are leaving the university… We don’t have to go into names, but I could name nine faculty administrators that are African American that have left this in-stitution in the past fi ve or six years. Nine. We only have 14.
See HARDING on Page 3
John Straayer: Colorado politics, legislature and energy policy expert
Kyle Saunders: Political parties, political behavior, elections, public opinion, issues and research expert
Robert Duffy: Politics, natural resources and energy policy expert
2 Thursday, September 20, 2012 | The Rocky Mountain Collegian
Community Briefs
FORT COLLINS FOCUS
Freshman Evan Kiesow does a wallride at Northside skatepark Wednesday afternoon. With the winter weather fast approaching, Fort Collins residents are doing everything they can to stay active outdoors.
DYLAN LANGILLE | COLLEGIAN
Free comedy routine hits campus
Students looking to laugh on Thursday can see Omid Singh and David Mer-heje’s comedy show on ste-reotypes and culture,.
On his website, Singh is described as, “an established stand up comic with vary-ing degrees of facial hair, all of which are intimidating to the white man… with a level of charm most used-car salesmen dream of, he
is the perfect guy to bring home to meet your mom...if your mom wasn’t scared of Al-Qaeda.”
He and Merheje can be seen at the Lory Student Center Theater from 7 to 9 p.m. The event is free, host-ed by ASAP.
Pedal power includes free food
There are many benefits to riding a bike, like better
overall health, sustainable independence and chain grease smudges up and down your legs. Today there’s one more benefit to add to that great list – free food.
Hosted by the CSU Campus Bicycle Advisory Committee, Bike for Break-fast provides free breakfast to cyclists every Thursday morning during Septem-ber.
Head to the oval today between 7:30 and 10 a.m. to grab free breakfast, cour-tesy of the CSU Campus Bi-
cycle Advisory Committee and the event’s sponsors. Information regarding bik-ing around Fort Collins and two-wheeled safety will also be provided.
�ird-graders to descend upon CSU’s ag research center
CSU’s cattle, sheep and horses will be centerpiec-es to local third graders’ big
field trip of the school year, according to a university press release.
The 12th annual “Ag Adventure” will take place at the university’s Agri-cultural Research, Devel-opment and Education Center on Sept. 26 and 27. The 2,000 Poudre School District students will be taught “livestock nutrition, soil complexity, erosion control, meat safety and climatic needs” by about 200 student volunteers in the College of Agricultural
Science, according to the statement.
“We hope students will take away the message that their food doesn’t come from the grocery store, that they will have an under-standing of the breadth of agriculture,” said Marshall Frasier, a professor in the CSU Department of Agri-cultural and Resource Eco-nomics, who oversees Ag Adventure.
-- Collegian Staff Report
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Collegian: Have any been replaced by black faculty members?
Harding: Not that I know of. People who are leaving now, I don’t know who’s go-ing to replace them. But Fred Knight left last year he’s the only African American his-torian the History Depart-ment has ever had. They didn’t replace him with an African American historian — they’re just not teaching African American history.
Collegian: Have we lost any other classes by losing diverse faculty?
Harding: We’ve lost a number of diverse faculty and a lot of people say you lose diverse faculty because the community is not di-verse. I’ve been here for 21.5 years. To me there is some validity to that. You’re bring-ing some diverse faculty members in, but the com-munity isn’t very diverse, but how are you supposed to get the community diverse if you keep losing diverse fac-ulty members?
They have to have sup-port programs for them. They have to have the ability for them to see that they can rise in the ranks. If they’ve got aspirations of being in the administration or aspira-tions to be a chair or a dean, they’re looking around say-ing, there’s no chair or dean that looks like me. What are the chances that I’m going to be the fi rst one here? Not very good.
So you think it’s partly the community — what are the other causes?
Harding: I think it’s partly the community. It’s mostly the administration... We wanted INTO — we got it in a second. We wanted the stadium — how much money have we spent do-ing a feasibility study on the stadium? Or doing debates and town hall meetings on the stadium? The presi-dent has an interview with some guy, he’s impressed with him — he’s the new AD [Athletics Director]. He nev-er applied. He’s never been an athletic director in his life. If the president wants something to get done, he can do it. Those three things indicate that when he wants something, it gets done, but when he wants to diversify, he hires a part-time diversi-ty vice president.
I know his intention was to make it full time, but the problem was it started out part time. That’s the prob-lem. So to wait two years be-fore it goes full time — you didn’t wait two or three years before the VP for research or the VP for faculty affairs or the VP for undergraduate studies or the VP for out-reach — they were full time from the day they assumed that job. What makes the VP for diversity different?
You said that the reason they did that was because of resistance. Who was resisting?
Harding: I don’t know ex-actly because nobody would say exactly. I would just say it was resistance from cer-tain pockets of campus that didn’t believe we need to spend the money during economic times to hire a full-time VP of diversity.
Yet, we spent over a million dollars to get INTO –– and INTO, this is a com-pany that has been trying to get universities in the Unit-ed States to buy into their program and they’ve been around for a while. We’re only the third university to sign a contract with them. Oregon State and I think Florida University were the other two. So why haven’t other people done this? Why haven’t other people coughed up a million and a half dollars? Those questions aren’t being asked.
One of the arguments for the stadium is that private donors would invest in building it. Do you think that there would ever be private donors that would be willing to fund diversity?
Harding: I don’t think private donors should fund diversity. Football is an ex-tra-curricular, external ac-tivity. If you want a good football team, fi ne. Get do-nors to fund it. Diversity is something that impacts every single student, ev-ery single employee on this campus. It should not be externally funded. It should come out of the adminis-tration. It should come out of our budget. It’s not an add-on. Football is an add-on. The new stadium is an add-on. Diversity is not. It’s ingrained in everything that we should be doing.
What are some other areas that you see room for im-provement?
Harding: I think that
students in this university (need diversity training)... Somebody that’s going out into a real world needs to understand diversity. En-gineering has really start-ed doing something that I think is amazing, especially for an engineering depart-ment. They have what are called PLI’s (Profession-al Leadership institutes) and their students have to attend those in order to graduate. I’ve done two presentations for them on diversity, because they know that their engineer-ing students need to under-stand diversity if they’re go-ing to be effective at what they’re going to do in that workplace.
Just having those things would be highly effective. Having a diversity require-ment to graduate — so in-stead what do we have? We have a global and cultural awareness requirement that you had to take. You can take plants and civilizations and fi ll your global and cultural awareness requirement and never have to take a diversity course at this institution and graduate.
Is there anything else you want to add?
Harding: One thing I want to make sure that you understand … is that I didn’t do this interview because I’m trying to bad mouth CSU or I’m trying to say CSU is a poor institution, because it’s not. CSU is a fantastic insti-tution. Students that come here get an outstanding ed-ucation, go on and be very, very successful, but I see they’re dropping the ball on diversity.
There’s other things that we do as an institution that are awesome, but when it comes to diversity, we’re just two or three steps behind ev-erybody else.
There’s no need for us to be there. Especially with the people we have on this cam-pus that are dedicated to this campus and dedicated to this university and have been dedicated to this uni-versity for years and years throughout most of their ca-reers…
It’s difficult for me to say about an institution that I love, but if the insti-tution is going to change somebody’s got to start the conversation.
News editor Elisabeth Willner can be reached at [email protected].
HARDING | Colorado State is losing diverse faculty, not replacing them
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RamRide — for those of you who don’t yet know — is an organiza-tion run by volunteers who give free rides home from parties to drunk students.
Yes, it is exactly as free and awe-some as it sounds. No gimmicks, no tricks — and no, it’s not a trap to lure in unsuspecting underage drinkers. You don’t have to pretend you’re so-ber, either. Everybody knows you’re drunk and RamRide doesn’t care.
The majority of CSU students know of this late night ride and have used it extensively. RamRide has provided more than 160,00 rides since it began on Oct. 24, 2003.
What most students aren’t aware of, however, is RamRide Return — which, as of yet, has not seen the same participatory success as Ram-Ride.
RamRide Return is similar to its
predecessor, but instead of driving you home the night of the party, they
drive you home (or back to get your car from the party) in the morning.
As amazing as a free ride the morning after festivities sounds, not many students are using it.
These past two weeks (not in-cluding Thursday nights), RamRide was used by 515 students. Only 18 used RamRide Return.
Hopefully, as more students be-come aware of RamRide Return its services will see much higher de-mand. Since there are not as many volunteers available this year, it’d be wasteful to stretch RamRide’s re-sources for a scarcely used program.
If RamRide Return continues to see low rates of participation from students — then perhaps RamRide, the students and even the volun-teers would be served better by fo-cussing on the night program and force students to fend for them-selves the morning after.
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By SARAH ROMER
Classes CSU should consider offering
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Certain CSU students want to be a Mile ‘High’
I have found through my infinite wisdom — aka absolutely nothing — that some people on campus don’t seem to understand a few things.
And since I’m sick this week, and therefore my creativity has been sucked away by the evil Mr. Platy-pus Man who feeds off of creative ideas and en-ters the world through the burning portal now known as my throat, the best I could come up with is the obvious.
So what is so obvious to me that some people can’t seem to figure out? I would be happy to tell you! Or write to you, since my voice sounds like gravel meeting a tree chopper.
CSU, I propose the fol-lowing classes for the bet-terment of the campus:
What are pants?This philosophical
question comes as the weather starts to turn fa-vorably toward leggings for girls, and low riding pants for boys — so the course would address such issues as follows.
Ladies, leggings are not pants. If I can see the out-line of your hoo-ha, you need to be wearing some-thing over it.
Gents, do you know where low-riding pants comes from? Jail. That doesn’t make you hardcore. It means you were some-one’s ... special friend. It’s an invitation. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that, but I’m pretty sure maybe some people just don’t know what bag-gy pants imply. Maybe I’m wrong on this, though. In which case, CSU just got more fabulous.
This course will also cover the basics on how pockets shouldn’t be seen hanging below the line of your shorts.
What forms of media are valuable?
This course is very des-perately needed because of the confusion there seems to be with certain popular movies.
“Twilight”? Is that real-ly what you want your life to be like? Let’s ignore the poor quality of the writing and contrived plots. I ad-mit, sometimes that can be fun.
What I can’t ignore is how anyone would want a boyfriend who stalked them, broke into their house to watch them sleep,
is as abusive as Edward was that time he left for Bella’s own good or what-ever, and most of all — boring. All they do as a couple is talk about how attracted to each other they are and how he wants to rip out her jugular … wow, romantic.
You know what a better movie would be to want a relationship from? “Game of Thrones”.
Okay, it’s not a mov-ie. But it is still one of the best things to come on a screen for years. You know what happens in “Game of Thrones”? Everything. And there are dragons — which I would put money on a fight against vampires any day.
Why you might as well tattoo “freshman” on your face.
High school is high school. You are in college now. Welcome.
For upperclassmen, you know this. But remem-ber way back to when you were a new freshman? You were an idiot. We all were.
First of all, freshmen al-ways try to bike in the first snow. And by saying this I might be ruining some people’s fun of laughing at the freshmen. To them I will apologize and will say that not many people will read this anyway so there will still be some freshmen to laugh at.
Freshmen, no one cares how hardcore you are. The more you try to prove it, the more you are a freshman. I’m sorry to tell you this, but it is for your own benefit.
How not to beat a dead horse.
I get that everyone wants their opinion to be heard. But there comes a point in the real world, where no one cares any-more. What was that? My opinion, you say? Shut up. I get paid for this.
This mostly applies to the stadium. People have spoken. It was nice to get an opinion out there, sure, but not only does it repeat the same thing said over and over, but I highly doubt the admin-istration really cares what you think. They are going to decide based more on what they want.
How to respond to “Do you have a minute?”
I believe it’s Jim Gaf-figan who jokes about how nothing is more uncom-fortable than when some-one wants to talk to you about Jesus.
Obviously, aid is needed on how to avoid questions like this that lead to those uncomfort-able times.
Sarah Romer is a se-nior electrical engineer-ing major. Her column appears Thursday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].
On a recent stroll to class, I had my thoughts about the meaning of life interrupted by a scraggly looking gen-tleman asking if I would please sign a petition to legalize marijuana. The ex-pression on his face when I responded in the negative was, to say the least, a look of surprise.
I am assuming that this fellow and others like him come to our campus because they believe it harbors a con-siderable population of people who enjoy their cannabis. And they are ab-solutely correct.
I used to believe — perhaps rather naively — that the people who used drugs were a fringe minority. Surely not the people that I knew in my life were spending their free time getting high. Sadly, I must say I have discov-ered quite the opposite about a decent amount of people.
In fact, the use of marijuana has be-come so prevalent, particularly among college students, that you would be hard pressed to not discover it is be-ing done somewhere in your vicinity
throughout the day.Turning to a bit of personal expe-
rience will prove my point. I recently walked into a bathroom on campus and a guy had taken so many hits that the putrid smell and his eyes gave him away even before he had a chance to say he had to hit one be-fore class.
Even more evidence that points to a big number of campus cannabis con-sumers was a recent house party that I attended. A very diverse crowd of peo-ple were there, including athletes, guys from a frat, and even a self-professed super Catholic. And guess what? Yeah that’s right: They all took turns “smok-ing a bowl” as they called it.
I guess a significant number of col-lege students just want to have a Mile High, high.
Taking into account the decent amount of people that just little old me has seen smoking, it is easy to see why the old scraggly man was hunting down signatories on a college campus for his beloved petition to legalize possession of marijuana.
Honestly though, is this not just a tad bit sad? People are looking to us — who are supposed to be the builders of the future — but our only contribution is a pledge to legalize pot.
It really seems that this issue has been given way too much attention for how really insignificant it is. Fort Collins voted to close dispensaries last year, yet the fight in the local commu-nity will not go away.
While it is true there is something to be said for fighting for a cause you believe in, but do you really want to be remembered as the person that made
it legal for people to possess drugs? I think there are nobler causes to be championed and conquered.
There was a generation of Ameri-cans known as “The Great Generation” who fought off Nazi’s and Japanese, who created the American superpower, and fired up the strongest economy in the world. But we may legalize marijua-na possession with Amendment 64, so I would say we are a great generation too, yes?
I am a strong believer in the free-dom of choice and of free will — so if you want to smoke weed and adopt that type of lifestyle that is just fine. But do not make the mistake of think-ing that legalization of marijuana is a triumph of the community. It certain-ly isn’t going to win anyone a Nobel Prize.
Whether Amendment 64 passes or fails, it isn’t all that important in the long run. The same people will use marijuana regardless. Hopefully we can stop focusing on this issue and move on if just for the fact that scraggly look-ing men won’t interrupt you for an in-significant cause.
Women’s rights, funding for NASA — these are things that I would proudly put my John Hancock on. These causes are noble, and funda-mentally important. Whether you can get high as a kite is not, because let’s face it — drugs really don’t promote anything great.
Res Stecker is a junior internation-al studies major. His columns appear Thursdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].
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By KATE SIMMONSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
The university’s tobacco policy is being revisited by student government offi cials seeking public opinion on whether smoking should be banned from CSU.
The philosophy depart-ment is hosting a debate on the issue on Thursday in Clark A room 205 at 4 p.m.
According to Audrey Purdue, Associated Stu-dents of CSU director of health, the debate will help open a conversation about whether banning tobacco use on campus is something students, faculty and staff would support.
But not every student thinks the topic deserves this much attention.
“I would say there aren’t enough smokers here for it to be an issue,” said senior biology major Katie Ear-
ixson. “Especially living in Colorado you’re aware that most people don’t smoke so I think most people try to be respectful about it.”
Senior wildlife biology major Kate Rentschler dis-agreed.
“I would defi nitely sup-port the ban,” Rentschler said. “I think they should still have designated smoking areas on campus but it’s al-ways really obnoxious when you’re walking by Clark and Eddy.”
The conversation about whether CSU should ban tobacco use on campus started in 2010 when ASCSU received complaints from students about on-cam-pus smoking. They sent the student body a survey and collected data about wheth-er students would support banning tobacco use on campus.
Two years later, ASCSU
Director of Health Audrey Purdue connected with CSU Health Network and distrib-uted a similar survey last spring that included stu-dents, faculty and staff.
“There’s so little a survey can tell you,” Purdue said. “It only represents a snapshot of campus.”
The survey results will be made public at the end of September and Purdue will begin presenting the findings to different coun-sels on campus.
“I want every single per-son I present this to to take it back to the entity they’re involved with on campus,” Purdue said. “I want the whole campus involved in making this decision.”
According to Purdue, possible next steps include researching what places on campus are most affected by on-campus smoking. Areas like residence halls and con-
gested walkways between buildings will be given spe-cial attention.
If the fi ndings push the university to ban tobacco, CSU would join a trend on college campuses across the country. There are cur-rently 774 campuses across the country that are entirely smoke-free. 562 have tobac-co-free policies, according to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation.
Smoking causes 11 dif-ferent types of cancer, car-diovascular disease and lung diseases. Second-hand smoke can cause bronchi-tis, pneumonia and asthma, according to Andrea Coryell, assistant director of Alcohol and Other Drugs Health Ed-ucation and Prevention Ser-vices at CSU.
“We hear from many students that they plan to quit when they graduate,” Coryell said.
Second-hand smoke can cause fl are ups in pre-existing conditions like asthma, Coryell said.
“Tobacco smoke is dan-gerous not only to the smok-er but also to those around them,” Coryell said. “There is no safe amount of second hand smoke.”
According to Coryell, cig-arette fi lters actually speed up nicotine absorption.
“Filters make cigarettes
more addictive,” Coryell said. “Even smoking only on occasion can cause harm to your body.”
One student pointed to a caveat in the debate.
“Technically it’s a pub-lic university, so it’s like a public space,” said senior conservation biology major Michelle Smith.
Senior Reporter Kate Simmons can be reached at [email protected].
Should Colorado State University ban tobacco?Student government hosts debate on restricting smoking
The CSU Health Network offers a program to help students quit smok-ing, which includes free one-on-one counseling sessions.
Counselors meet with students to discuss steps they can take to quit, how to stay on track, and the importance of having a good support net-work, according to Andrea Coryell, a CSU Health Network offi cial.
“It is more helpful to meet one-on-one than it is to do a program online by yourself,” Croyell said. “There are group classes available in the county of Fort Collins and students can always contact the Colorado Quitline but the same services are offered on campus for free so why not take advantage of them?”
For more information, visit health.colostate.edu/pages/resources/tobacco.aspx.
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By CARLA RIVERAThe McClatchy Tribune
LOS ANGELES — Cali-fornia State University trust-ees on Wednesday approved a plan to raise tuition 5 per-cent next year should a No-vember tax measure fail and trigger deep funding cuts to the 23-campus system.
The Board of Trustees, meeting in Long Beach, vot-ed 11-3 to approve the plan with faculty representative Bernadette Cheyne, student representative Jillian Rud-dell and state Superinten-dent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson opposed. The board’s fi nance commit-tee had approved the reve-nue-raising plan Tuesday.
Failure of Proposition 30, backed by the governor, would trigger a $250 million funding cut to the Cal State system. The 5 percent tuition
hike — equal to $150 per se-mester — would raise an esti-mated $58 million in revenue for 2012-13, offi cials said.
Beginning January 2013, annual undergraduate tui-tion at the system’s 23 cam-puses would rise to $6,270, not including school-based fees, books and other costs.
A small group of student protesters attended the meet-ing, chanting “No Cuts, No Fees, Education Should be Free.”
Trustees also approved a plan to increase per-unit costs for nonresident stu-dents by 7 percent, from $372 to $399.
Proposition 30 would raise billions of dollars to help close the state’s budget defi cit by temporarily in-creasing sales levies and in-come taxes on high earners. Some of the revenues would be dedicated to K-12 schools
and colleges.If the measure passes,
Cal State would forego the January hike and also roll back a 9 percent tuition hike that took effect this fall and was expected to raise $132 million in revenue. The sys-tem would have to refund tuition checks, grant tuition credit and recalculate fi nan-cial aid packages for most of its 412,000 students.
But it would receive $125 million in state funding as part of next year’s budget as well $50 million this year in one-time revenues from an extended education reserve fund.
Cal State offi cials said a midyear funding cut would devastate the system, with about 20,000 qualifi ed stu-dents turned away, 5,500 class sections slashed and 1,500 faculty and staff reduc-tions.
Cal State’s trustees approve possible 5 percent tuition hike
The California State University Board of Trustees met on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 in Long Beach, Calif., to discuss contingency plans if Proposition 30 fails in the November election. A handful of Cal State students were on hand to protest a potential hike in fees, including Sarah Garcia, 19, of El Serano, California.
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By AMANDA ZETAHThe Rocky Mountain Collegian
You might encounter double nose rings, eyebrow piercings and a wide variety of noticeable tattoos in the 10-minute passing period between classes while walk-ing around campus.
Body adornment has become extremely popular in recent years, especial-ly among today’s genera-tion. People get piercings impulsively, as a form of self-expression and it often represents a rite of passage among college students.
“We cater to young and old, but we focus on the college demographic,” said Shane Thomas, piercing ex-pert at Covenant Tattoo.
Thomas has been pierc-ing professionally since 1995 and has seen the body modi-fi cation community evolve. It was underground in the early 2000’s, but has recently sur-faced as a popular activity.
“In 1997, I thought it was just a fad,” said Chad Williams, head piercer and manager of Tribal Rites.
He claims it became popular once people saw piercings in MTV music videos, especially in an Aerosmith video. Williams quickly realized that it could be a lucrative business. On any given day, he can do be-tween 10 to 40 piercings, re-ceiving anywhere from $20 to $60 per piercing.
Fort Collins is unique in
this sense, because most shops only do three to fi ve piercings a day, according to Williams.
“Fort Collins is kind of an anomaly,” he said. “Pierc-ings are really popular in Colorado, but in Fort Collins more than anywhere else.”
K&K Piercing in Boul-der, for example, does one to 10 piercings per day.
Williams is from Con-necticut, where piercings are uncommon. He based his shop in Fort Collins because it is a different atmosphere.
“Because campus is central in Fort Collins, there is always an abundance of customers,” said Brandon Leimgruber, a retired pierc-er at Freakshow.
CSU students have a va-riety of piercing shops from which to choose. Because piercing culture is so promi-nent in Fort Collins, the stan-dards of each shop signifi -cantly increase. Most shops are certifi ed by the Associa-tion of Professional Piercers.
Customers ask for a va-riety of piercings when they come in. They can range anywhere from a naval to a tongue or dermal piercing on any given day.
The most common piercings these days are the cartilage of the ear, the na-val and the nose. Piercings are much more popular among girls as well.
“If I had to guess, about 98 percent of my clients are women,” Williams said.
Men still enter the shop,
but they are interested in slightly different piercings, mainly their ear lobes. These days, it is more socially ac-ceptable for men to have piercings and for the uncom-mon piercings to resurface.
“Two years ago, the double nose ring would be unheard of and now it’s ev-erywhere,” Williams said.
Its popularity among col-lege students is partly due to their newfound freedom and a strong sense of curiosity.
“Piercings are easy to hide and not as drastic as tattoos,” Leimgruber said. People also use piercings as a way to dif-ferentiate themselves from other college students.
“Adornment is used to help people express them-selves in positive ways,” Thomas said.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t a negative stigma asso-ciated with piercings and tattoos, according to Fort Collins piercing specialists. They are not only uncom-mon on the east coast, but in most corporate jobs as well. The workplace doesn’t take too kindly to visible piercings and tattoos.
Thomas thinks that, thankfully, “piercings and tat-toos in society are evolving.” They no longer shock the general public –– people of our generation are the driving force of the expanding social acceptance of piercings.
Student Life Beat Reporter Amanda Zetah can be reached at [email protected].
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Redistribution of wealth fuels campaign’s divideBy STEVEN THOMMAThe McClatchy Tribune
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney moved Wednesday to broaden the presiden-tial campaign into a debate over the redistribution of wealth from one group to another, a move aided by the release of a recording of a young Barack Obama sup-porting that goal.
Born of Romney’s need to pivot out of the brou-haha over a recording of his own remarks, the move nonetheless highlighted a fundamental question over spending that underlies the election choice between Obama and the Democrats, who favor an expansive role for government, and Rom-ney and the Republicans, who want to curb the gov-ernment’s role.
The debate over how much to tax some Ameri-cans and how much to give to others is hardly new, dating at least to the birth of the progressive income tax a century ago and the New Deal creation of a gov-ernment safety net for the needy in the 1930s.
But it comes now at a time when the number of American households receiving help from the government has jumped — and the issue drives the biggest wedge between Democrats and Republi-cans in an already polar-ized electorate.
It was aggravated by the release of a video showing Romney earlier this year disparaging the Americans who receive government
help, and then a recording of Obama in 1998 saying he supported the idea of redis-tribution of wealth.
“Under President Obama, we have a stag-nant economy that fosters government dependency,” Romney said in an op-ed article Wednesday in USA Today. “My policies will cre-ate a growing economy that fosters upward mobility.”
His running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, was more pointed.
“Mitt Romney and I are not running to redistribute the wealth, Mitt Romney and I are running to help Americans create wealth,” Ryan said at a rally in Dan-ville, Va.
They were referring to the recording released this week of Obama talking about government spend-ing while a state senator in Illinois.
“The trick is fi guring out how do we structure gov-ernment systems that pool resources, and hence facil-itate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody has a shot,” Obama said.
Though he does not now use the term “redis-tribution,” Obama does broadly embrace the idea of government marshaling money from others to help the needy. “We’ve got some obligations to each other,” he said this week on CBS’s “Late Show With David Let-terman.”
“And there’s nothing wrong with us giving each
other a helping hand.”Government spending
to help people has shot up over the last three decades, through administrations of both political parties.
By one measure, 49.1 percent of Americans lived last year in a household that received some govern-ment benefi ts, according to a study of census data by the Wall Street Journal. That was up from 30 percent in the 1980s and even from the 44.4 percent in the third quarter of 2008.
Some get checks from programs such as Social Se-curity and Medicare, which are fi nancially supported by payroll taxes from younger Americans.
Others get checks or help from programs tied to income, such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing assistance. About 92 million Americans, nearly one out of three, lived in a house-hold receiving those types of government help in 2009, according to the census.
One of the fastest growing programs is food stamps, now issued to near-ly 47 million Americans. Spending for food stamps has more than doubled over the last four years to a re-cord $76 billion.
That increase was driv-en in part by the recession and the drop of incomes since then. Also, eligibility or benefits were expand-ed, under both parties, in 2002, 2008 and 2009.
The spike in food stamp costs has stymied Congress, where a dispute between the House and the Senate
over how to cut back has stalled the farm bill.
White House press secretary Jay Carney sidestepped questions Wednesday about Obama’s comments supporting re-distribution of wealth, sug-gesting it was all part of a “desperate” attempt by Romney to change the sub-ject from his own recorded comments.
He said that Obama “believed then and believes now that there are steps we can take to promote oppor-tunity and ensure that all Americans have a fair shot if they work hard.”
However, few federal programs require work. And Carney referred to popular programs such as Medicare and Social Security, which mostly target the retired and the elderly. He did not mention federal programs aimed at the poor or work-ing poor.
Ultimately, what Carney was trying to avoid was a de-bate that is one of the most divisive in U.S. politics.
In a recent survey, the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found 65 percent of Democrats believe the government should spend more to help needy people even if it means more debt, while 20 percent of Repub-licans feel the same way. That 45-point gap is among the widest between regular people who call themselves Democrat or Republican.
Concluded Pew: “There already were sizeable parti-san gaps … these differenc-es have widened consider-ably.”
“I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody has a shot.”
Barrack Obama | U.S. President
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By ANDREW SCHALLER The Rocky Mountain Collegian
Over the last few years, the CSU football team has experienced some tough losses, but they pale in com-parison to what Utah State has gone through.
Eight of the last nine games Utah State has played in have been de-cided by one touchdown or less, but the Aggies have a flair for the dramatic, winning six of those eight games.
Playing in highly com-petitive games every week makes the victories sweet but the losses, like last week’s 16-14 loss to Wisconsin, es-pecially painful.
“This is a tough-minded crew,” Utah State coach Gary Andersen said. “All I hear is ‘Oh, another tough loss,’ but I guess the way I look at it is we won six of eight in the last seconds. I’m very proud of them.”
Last year when the Rams traveled to Logan, Utah, Utah State stayed
true to form, losing a dra-matic game to CSU in dou-ble overtime when running back Robert Turbin was stopped at the goal line on a two-point conversion at-tempt, giving the Rams a 35-34 victory.
This year, Utah State is looking to return the favor in Fort Collins.
“We know they’re a good team, they’re coming in here to win,” CSU quarterback Garrett Grayson said. “And obviously they wanna pay us back for what happened last year. We beat them at their place and they’re trying to come in here and beat us at ours.”
When Utah State makes its 31st trip to Fort Collins this weekend, it will be the last time the Aggies play CSU as an out-of-conference op-ponent because Utah State joins the Mountain West starting in 2013.
Preparing for a future conference foe and re-bounding from a heart-breaking, last second loss last week makes the game on
Saturday one Utah State will not overlook.
“Is this an important game? It’s a huge game for us,” Andersen said. “It’s a team that beat us last year, it’s a future conference op-ponent. It’s on the road and we haven’t won on the road yet this year. Roll those things all up and this is a big football game.”
It’s a big game for CSU too.
The Rams have said they feel this weekend will provide them with the chal-lenge of playing against a fundamentally sound foot-ball team while trying to stop their current losing streak at two games before heading into conference
play Sept. 29. In order to do that, the
Rams need to shake off their sluggish start to 2012 to avoid another 3-9 season.
While the last two games have been diffi cult for the Rams, CSU coach Jim McEl-wain maintains that — de-spite the early struggles — there are reasons for op-timism looking ahead at the rest of the season.
“It hurts,” he said of the back-to-back losses. “And these kids are starting to understand that taste and don’t like the taste. Now, I’ve seen some building and seen some guys that are really putting forth the effort to make it right, but when (that’s) all they’ve known for so long, that’s hard.
“But I’m gonna say this — our foundation is strong and you know, I’m really looking forward to some-thing good happening to these guys.”
Football Beat Reporter An-drew Schaller can be reached at [email protected].
Quarterback Chuckie Keeton: 62-91, 701 yards, 6 TD, 1 Int.
Running back Kerwynn Wil-liams: 48 rushes, 201 yards, 1 TD
Safety Brady McKade: 23 tackles, 5 solo, 1 TFL, 0 sacks
Linebacker Zach Vigil: 22 tackles, 5 solo, 2.5 TFL, 1 sack
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Utah State poses a major challengeShaquil Barrett, 56, pushes away Oscar Molina-Sanchez, 67, of Utah State at the game last year in Logan, Utah. The Rams face Utah State this year at Hughes Stadium, trying to get back to 2-2.
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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (09/20/12). A new three-year phase of research and communication develops, and two eclipses smile upon your career this year. Keep to your budget, and your nest egg grows. Nurture friendships. Water your garden with love and constancy.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easi-est day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) –– 6 –– Enter the adventure ... watch out for surprises and potential collisions, and advance to the next level. Watch the big picture for the next few days. Being thrifty is a virtue now.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) –– 8 ––Don’t move your money around. Others look to you for advice, but you don’t need to give it all away. Project a refi ned image. It’s okay to ask ques-tions. Schedule carefully.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) –– 7 –– Don’t let anybody pres-sure you into doing anything. Take your sweet time to do what’s right, and negotiate where needed. Keep communica-tion channels open.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) –– 9 –– Your ideas are fl owing well now. Focus on your work today and tomorrow. Think a bit more about what your partner wants. Romance may be involved.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — You’re very per-suasive and extremely creative now. Don’t be fooled by imi-tations, no matter how real they look. Have a good time, but don’t max out the credit cards.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) –– 8 –– You don’t have to do it all, but you can provide the information needed and be a hero. Open your heart to your family now. Plan a quiet evening at home with people you love.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) –– 7 –– Let the love games begin! Sharing intimacy and appreciation is more important than winning the gold. Get in touch with those who want to hear from you. Suspend criticism. Offer encouragement instead.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) –– 9 –– Your past work speaks well for you. It’s all right to bask in the glory, but don’t lose your perspective just to get more. Creativity is required when answering tough questions.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) –– 6 –– You’re extra charm-ing, and you like it. Welcome any challenges, and don’t give up. Creativity is required and readily available. Ideas are ev-erywhere. Use them.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) –– 8 –– Put off procrastina-tion for a few days, at least. Absorb the deeper meaning of the new information that impels a change in plans. Plug a fi nancial leak. Exercise restraint.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)–– 8 –– Your popularity in-creases. Friends think you’re great, but don’t take them for granted. Consider your own points for a debate. It’s not a good time to shop, as it could crash your cash fl ow.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) –– 8 –– Advance your career today and tomorrow, with a little help from your friends. Don’t throw your money away until after now. You can han-dle a tough interrogation.
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